British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1373: race against time

Alan Wilson knew the weakness of these countries, food! It can be said that the Middle East and North Africa are short of everything except oil. If there is no oil, the conditions in India are incomparable. Food is the biggest problem in these countries!

For these countries, food security is more important than anything else. If you don’t burn oil, you won’t die. If you don’t eat food, you will die. For Pamela Mountbatten, food was not that important.

If the power of food can be used to share the interests of these emirates and the United Kingdom, it will have a huge boost to Pamela Mountbatten's status, and how much food can be sold in a normal year.

"Honey, once the Bretton Woods system comes to an end, the currency at that time will not be the currency it is now. As for what currency is, currency needs physical support. Currency without physical support is a piece of waste paper. It is foreseeable that every Every year is the best year of the next decade."

"So serious?" Pamela Mountbatten's face became serious when she heard it, and whispered, "It's like a crown falling!"

"You can also say that." As the husband of the richest woman, Allen Wilson suddenly didn't know what to say, but thought about whether the metaphor of wife had a deep meaning.

In fact, it is very simple. The Queen of Sarawak is just a title, but Pamela Mountbatten really has a crown to inherit, the kind worn on her head.

Marshal Mountbatten is a descendant of Queen Victoria, and Queen Victoria was the peak period of Britain. Mountbatten promised the title to Patricia, but gave some iconic properties to his younger daughter for safekeeping, including a large crown.

This dazzling big crown is inlaid with diamonds in the pattern of clover and vines, densely packed into a gentle spire. Pamela's mum Edwina wore the tiara to important social occasions, including the coronation of the current queen in 1953.

Pamela Mountbatten was also taken aback by her husband's statement that every year is the best year in the next ten years, so she used the crown landing as a metaphor for this pessimistic prospect, "My dear, what are you going to do?"

"The emirates around Oman will become independent sooner or later. We cannot keep them in the state of protectorate forever. Of course we will talk about the garrison of military bases. But the binding of interests is inevitable. Some things are too early to say, but the United States Hundreds of billions of dollars have been issued, which is likely to bring about major inflation. The UK must prepare early."

Speaking of this, Alan Wilson changed the subject and began to express optimism again, "Of course, the crisis will pass sooner or later, but we must ensure that the UK has the ability to face the crisis alone. If other countries are asked to help, anyway, I don't want to have another Atlantic Charter .I don’t even know how much energy I wasted when I struggled out.”

"It won't cause the Great Depression, right?" Pamela Mountbatten sullenly said that the World War was triggered by the Great Depression, although he was just born at that time and has no memory.

"It's not that serious!" Alan Wilson said quickly when he heard that the instilled optimism wasn't enough, "It must be difficult for a while, but it won't affect you."

How did it have anything to do with the Great Depression? In fact, the great inflation in the 1970s was not as good as the one in the 21st century when the Sleeping King was in power.

Although the U.S. inflation at that time was more than 8 o’clock, and it was more than thirteen o’clock at the peak in the late 1970s, but the statistical standards of the two are different. At the time of Sleeping King, the United States no longer counted housing prices. One count includes real estate.

Don't underestimate this difference. In fact, real estate in large economies is an important indicator to support the economy. There is no exception at all. Since Americans live on the earth, they are no exception.

When Reagan came to power, he only muddied the dead water. He succeeded in suppressing inflation, but the U.S. economy remained stagnant. When Reagan stepped down, the U.S. economy began to stagnate again, but the disappearance of inflation was his achievement. If there were no inflation and rapid economic growth, the Soviet Union would have to collapse without a fight and give up its sphere of influence, and a certain big country would have lowered its head and concentrated on doing sweatshops, and the world would have had thirty years of stable development.

Sleeping King made it obvious that Russia would not disintegrate again, and there is no second country with the same organizational power as a big country to do sweatshops. What should the United States do? Another old method is World War. It depends on whether the city on the hill dares to start this option.

If it drags on, a certain big country is not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has almost no such thing as strategic determination. Reagan’s operation of robbing the poor and helping the rich makes people suspect that they can’t win and just admit defeat. It cannot happen to a certain big country. Competing with strategic determination The result is that you are uncomfortable and I am also uncomfortable. You say I have a cerebral infarction and I say you have a myocardial infarction. It depends on who gets into the intensive care unit first.

So because the Bretton Woods system is about to disintegrate and the inflation caused by the oil crisis, what is it? Alan Wilson doesn't think it's a big problem anyway, not as dangerous as the 21st century.

"After we finish talking with Egypt, talk to the emirates of the Persian Gulf about equal interests." Alan Wilson said, "I'm all for your own good, just trust me, your husband won't harm you. "

"That's true!" Pamela Mountbatten nodded, thinking that it might make my sister-in-law's belly bigger.

Allen Wilson went to Whitehall in his spare time to see what he had talked about with Prince Munum, and whether the handover treaty could give Britain a guarantee. After all, the Suez Canal cannot be bypassed between the British mainland and Malaya. Guaranteed not to take it down, Britain will not let go so easily.

Ms. Anna came back from Bonn, just in time for this very critical time.

It’s funny to see a man of the same status as her husband who is obviously very concerned, but still pretends to be indifferent, “You dare not say that Malaya is so important. But do you really think that Britain can Preserve that colony forever?"

"I'm racing against time." Alan Wilson responded plainly, "Efforts may not necessarily pay off, and if you don't work hard, you will definitely lose."

A recent example of hard work not necessarily rewarding is France. What Alan Wilson was referring to was not the run on gold, but the problem of the colonies.

The introduction of Chinese to check and balance the local people to maintain the stability of the colony. Is this trick Alan Wilson's original idea? Even in this world, he is not original.

The first one to do this was France. The French colony was next to a certain big country. After the defeat of Japan, France had foreseen that the independence movement might come one after another. For this reason, France thought about how to quell the resistance after the war, so it decided to cooperate with Vietnam. Thousands of nightmares join forces.

At that time, the conditions offered by France were to set up free commercial and trade zones in Saigon and Hanoi. The rights and interests of Chinese businessmen in French Indochina were equal to those of French businessmen, and Vietnam was recognized as having a special economic status for a certain big country. Isn't this a step further than what Malaya is now?

This is almost close to the Sino-French co-management of French colonies, the distance between a certain big country and Vietnam, and France will definitely suffer in the long run.

A comparison shows that France’s original conditions were infinitely more relaxed than those of Britain today, but France failed, and Britain has not failed at least now. The reason is that Malaya is separated by the South China Sea, and Britain happens to be stronger than the navy. If it were also bordering, the UK would have already gone out today.

"A race against time? We are going to join forces with Britain!" Anna nodded, revealing the news to men of the same status as her husband.

"Huh? Didn't Germany support France's proposition at the previous Stockholm meeting and let the dollar depreciate by 100%?" Alan Wilson's spirit rose again when he heard that the head of the family.

"Americans evade this question. It seems that you are right. Americans are ready to smash the pot. Once the United States is ready, Deutsche Bank's 70 to 80 billion U.S. dollars will really become a credit currency, not gold that can be exchanged at any time .”

Anna sighed, if the Americans responded positively to France's proposition, Germany might not be able to make up its mind yet.

In the discussion in Bonn, it was supposed that France had the upper hand~lightnovelpub.net~ But the United States has no intention of tightening money at any point. How can this be done?

"It's still us in the UK who understand the United States." Alan Wilson laughed, financial hegemony is like taking drugs, and there is no way to quit with willpower. The United Kingdom is already very easy to talk about, because its national strength does not have an advantage over other powers, and it is really restrained when it uses financial hegemony.

It is different if it is the United States. The United States has an overwhelming advantage in the basic market of the free world, and its financial hegemony is much uglier than the United Kingdom.

The U.S. turned a deaf ear to France’s proposal that the U.S. dollar should depreciate and continue to be bound to gold. It’s not surprising to him at all. After a few decades, it will cost trillions and trillions. It’s impossible to reduce military spending. , There are so many dollars linked to gold, not to mention the binding of oil.

"Your choice is correct. If you don't do anything now, you won't even get gold." Alan Wilson praised, and the Germans made the right choice after all, "Now France has run on gold a few years ago. We ran out of ammunition in the process, and now it depends on our two countries, the Deutsche Bank Group has the largest US dollar reserves in Europe, and the London trading market is the largest international US dollar distribution center in Europe, and our joint efforts still have a good chance of winning."

"The Japanese also have a lot of dollars in their hands." Anna said, "What if Japan can take advantage of the opportunity?"

"Stop messing around, Germany has the occupation forces of the three countries, Japan can handle it with only one US military stationed in Japan, and Japan can't do anything." Alan Wilson glanced at her head. Could it be that this hairy girl was really assimilated by the Germans? Inherited the negative international vision of Germany?

"When Britain and Egypt have a good deal, we will study this matter carefully. Remember, as long as you make a decision, you must be firm when you do it."