British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1378: currency reform

"It's not bad. Germany finally forgot about its Axis allies, and didn't go to the Japanese like an idiot." Alan Wilson took a deep breath, which was also a blessing in misfortune.

"Actually, Japan's economic aggregate is approaching that of the United Kingdom. It can be regarded as a powerful country." Pamela Mountbatten shook her head. It's just a pity that some things cannot be done.

"It's not because the population of Japan is twice that of the United Kingdom." Alan Wilson mumbled, "On the surface, Japan is indeed powerful, but this country has been reorganized by the United States. It is no longer a country internally, and many things are important to a country. In fact, Germany also has this problem. Germany’s luck lies in its different strategies in Europe, Britain, the United States and France. Germany still has some room to play. Just look at it, Japan will find it difficult sooner or later.”

Japan dare to disobey the United States? Financial loopholes were secretly discovered, and Japan quietly accumulated a little gold. Japan can do things in this category, but if it is to go further and realize its national power, it depends on how far the United States can allow it.

In fact, Japan has really tried its best to break away from the development path set by the United States. Many industries developed by a certain big country in the 21st century have been tried by Japan, and even achieved with the power of the whole country, but they were stopped by the United States at a critical moment.

It can be said that all technologies that can be transformed into strategic capabilities have been developed by Japan. Aviation engines, rocket engines, self-developed missiles, self-developed fighter jets, chips, hydrogen fuel, and large passenger aircraft have either been stopped or contained, and they have been contained. If not, replace the standard directly. Hydrogen fuel Japan is doing well, and the United States will directly change the track.

Now Allen Wilson is just using Malaya and Japan to carry out fixed-point sniping. When Japan really has technical strength and wants to improve, it will not be his turn to worry about Japan. The United States will tell the Japanese what is professional. Nothing comes in vain, the United States will not open its market indefinitely to feed Japan.

In fact, Allen Wilson really wants to understand one thing now, how much capacity is left in the so-called huge market in the United States.

If the capacity has peaked, it may be more difficult for South Korea to develop than the original history. If the market capacity remains the same, where is South Korea's position when Malaya and Japan compete for the market?

"Find an opportunity to talk to the emirates in the Persian Gulf and settle the matter of the food company. Then we can consider allowing the emirates of Qatar and Dubai to achieve nominal independence." Alan Wilson stretched his waist, "Retain the military base To maintain the circulation of the British pound, the UK can ignore other matters."

"Understood, do I count as dedicating myself to the supreme authority?" Pamela Mountbatten's phoenix eyes glanced, connoting the secretary-general of the cabinet who only spoke but did not work.

"Actually, I still have an aerospace project that I want to talk to you about." Alan Wilson stretched out his hand and squeezed his wife's little hand. The devotion to supreme authority can be demonstrated with practical actions.

Financial operations are naturally promoted by professionals. Alan Wilson's biggest goal at present is to promote the service of the Typhoon and create public opinion to protect the face of the British aviation power with the news that the Typhoon fighter is the first third-generation fighter jet to serve.

The news that the UK is about to enter service with its first third-generation fighter jet will certainly attract the attention of enemies and suspicious allies alike, but if public opinion is not created, a sleazy Labor government may slow down the emergence of classics.

Let the United States be content. If Alan Wilson didn't remember, he even wanted to clone the 18 carrier-based aircraft. Now he is waiting for the technology accumulation on Typhoon to be used in the Royal Navy.

He also spared time to check the progress of the composite armor. Alan Wilson didn't know to what extent the composite armor was considered qualified. Anyway, the scientists of the research institute thought it was not qualified. Warsaw Pact and NATO's armor power has always been useless, and it has always been at the bottom, so there is no need to rush to work hard.

Then I plunged into the achievements of semiconductors, not about riding a rocket with my sister-in-law, but actually visiting the staged achievements of semiconductor development. Computers have developed to the third generation.

Integrated circuit computer, the logic elements of the computer use medium and small-scale integrated circuits to replace the magnetic core memory with semiconductor storage devices, and the software is gradually improved by using pipelines, multi-channel programs and parallel processing technology, and various advanced systems such as time-sharing operating systems and conversational languages language, proposed modular and structured programming.

At the same time as mainframes were being developed, "minicomputers" began to appear, which led to the diversification and serialization of computer varieties, and the continuous expansion of application fields.

The main features are smaller size, fast speed, high precision, strong functions, and further reduction of computer costs. The software is developing towards serialization and diversification.

"It's still inconvenient. It's unrealistic to use this size for home office." Alan Wilson shook his head in front of Turing, and said to the father of computers in front of him, "This batch of computers still can't meet our standards, but It can be used for export, while continuing to update technology, I think this batch of computers can also be exported to engineering departments in Malaya, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.”

"Don't you need it locally?" Turing was a little disappointed. He has been bothering about semiconductors, and of course he still wants to serve the UK, not for other reasons.

"My friend, you know that after the camera appeared, the world's painting schools began to lean towards abstract style. The emergence of a new thing may subvert everything that is currently known." Alan Wilson made an analogy, when the camera appeared In the past, the painting in Europe also tended to be realistic, and the poverty of Van Gogh was an obvious example.

When Picasso appeared, the Western painting school had turned to abstraction because of the appearance of the camera. You can’t compare with the shutter of a camera in realism, so you have to change the track. The era has made Picasso famous.

Obviously, the current batch of one-man tall computers are not unusable, but they can only be used in various universities and government departments. Local promotion, because the size of computers under Moore's Law is obviously irrelevant to these one-person-high computers.

Now the most cutting-edge computers may fall behind in two years. Alan Wilson thought for a while and said, "I will let Xiangjiang and Malaya place an order to buy this batch of computers for public services. As for the local area, Let’s use a typewriter first. By the way, a batch can be sent to Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister will definitely agree, and I can fight for this expense.”

"Okay, what you said makes sense." Turing nodded, "But it always sounds weird that the most advanced computer is used in other places first."

"It's more than weird. Let the public know that they may think I know Hui, but in fact the public understands Moore's Law." Alan Wilson grinned. People in all countries are the same on this point, just want to If you want to take advantage and not suffer, you don't want to think about why you want to do this.

The so-called public domain naturally includes all areas of public service. The obvious one is medical treatment, which can be used in surgery, especially head surgery. In the past, visual surgery was **** and difficult to deal with.

It requires flipping a large chunk of the skull open, exposing the brain directly. The doctor first needs to find the mark on the surface of the brain, and then place his electrodes inside the brain. If the electrodes were placed deep, he would occasionally cut open the brain with a knife before inserting the electrodes into the ventricles.

These are complex processes that cannot be sloppy. The operation was long and arduous, and the patients never had a satisfactory cooperation.

Now, computers have changed all that. It enables you to precisely determine position in three-dimensional space. Initially, researchers in the Neuropsychiatry Laboratory and others in the field attempted to link the location of the ventricles to the structure of the skull. They use the eye socket, ear canal and sagittal suture to determine the location of the surgery~lightnovelpub.net~ Of course this is not feasible, because people's brains do not grow in the same fixed position in the head. The only way to determine which brain site lies deep in relation to other brain sites and whose logical landmarks are the ventricles, the fluid-filled spaces inside the brain. According to this new system, everything was determined to be connected to the ventricles.

It is best not to let the British citizens know about this, otherwise the local citizens find that the surgical techniques they enjoy are not as good as those in the colonies, and Whitehall will definitely find it difficult to explain.

On TV, Harold Wilson is impassioned in the House of Commons, explaining the significance of currency reform, changing the British pound to a decimal system, and now one British pound is equal to twenty shillings and one shilling is equal to twelve pence. In other words, one pound is equal to two hundred and forty pence.

Coins are divided into: quarterpence, halfpence, onepence, threepence, sixpence, one shilling, two shillings, half crown, which is two shillings and sixpence, one crown and fivepence.

The last time coins were minted was in 1967. In fact, most of the coins have been out of circulation. Only three pence and six pence are left to hinder the decimal reform of the British pound. When the circulation of small currencies is stopped, the British pound can already start the decimal system. Reformed.

"The Ministry of Finance said that this reform will promote the regulation of British imports and exports." Alan Wilson said to his wife, "In fact, there is still a plan to devalue the pound, but we haven't communicated well yet. After all, we also have to prevent the United States from being After the run on gold, the pound was pulled into the water. Although the oversupply of the pound is not comparable to that of the dollar, it is always right to be careful.”

"Using currency reform to promote devaluation, I have finally told the citizens in advance. Once the devaluation is announced at that time, I believe the citizens also have certain psychological expectations." Pamela Mountbatten nodded, "But it depends on the US dollar in the next two years. Performance."