Alan Wilson is of course happy about this, who wouldn't want to be friends with rich people. And due to the political situation in Malaya, a powerful monarch is also needed here.

First of all, Ali Khan has already experienced a change brought about by the retreat of the British army, and Hyderabad, which has been around for hundreds of years, has been annexed by India. If a similar option were to appear again, Ali Khan definitely did not want the British to retreat from Malaya again.

Therefore, the future monarch of Sabah must be a die-hard pro-British faction. The arrival of Ali Khan will give the pro-British elements in Malaya an overwhelming advantage, and Ali Khan's wealth will allow him to control the British colonial rule Great help.

With the help of such a Sabah Sultan, he believes that his transformation of Malaya will be greatly helped.

Thinking of this, Alan Wilson couldn't help but jump up, and the haze in his heart was relieved a lot because of the Berlin crisis. Sometimes a bad mood just needs good news to neutralize it.

As for the matter of the Dragoon sisters, Alan Wilson had already decided in his heart that he would find a suitable time to ask frankly and frankly, and he could not take a strong attitude towards women who had given up his feelings. If the Dragoon sisters deny being a spy, he might end up believing too.

In a good mood, after the Hong Kong Governor returned to Hong Kong, Alan Wilson chose to inspect the steel group in Sarawak.

Needless to say, the importance of steel to a country, the most basic, steel has a balance of performance and cost. Considering this balance, steel is almost the only option for a country's development.

All countries measure a country's war potential by steel production, which naturally has a reason.

The potential growth of steel in the UK has not grown much, and even the addition of high-quality iron ore in Australia cannot change the historical trend. Since Malaya is not far from Australia, the transportation cost alone has a huge advantage.

Any industry is a big user of water, and steel is no exception. The water resources in East Malaysia are actually on the Malay Peninsula in the west. Not to mention reliability concerns.

In fact, Alan Wilson is not greedy. He has formulated an absolutely suitable target template for British Malaya, and it is absolutely not unacceptable in theory. He decided to set the steel production target of Sarawak as Tangshan.

He felt that this goal was not excessive. After all, there were 600,000 employees in the steel industry in Tangshan. East Malaysia has a small population, but 600,000 employees are not a problem.

Once that goal is finally achieved, Alan Wilson, with Australian support, can take Sarawak off the ground.

"Eder, this year's steel production should reach 4 million tons. It's better to catch up with the mainland within five years. As for further things, I will talk about it later." Alan Weir, the East Malaysia Commissioner who accompanied him, discussed the possible Whether to achieve the goal of catching up with the British mainland in steel production within five years.

"Commissioner, will you be a little anxious, how to solve the sales problem?" Edel frowned and asked the doubts in his heart.

"You don't have to worry about that!" Alan Wilson chuckled. As for all the colonial capitals in British Africa, they were all included in the Real Estate Development Plan. Eder was not a commissioner and didn't know much about it.

If Edel knew his immediate boss, he would not want to benchmark against the mainland, but against Tangshan. Estimated too? It's nothing, how could an Englishman know where Tangshan is.

How can ordinary people think that the steel output of a city can be compared with that of a big country?

But what? How bold people are and how prolific they are. Since Tangshan can produce hundreds of millions of steel workers with 600,000 steel workers, Alan Wilson feels that the goal of 100 million tons of iron and steel industry in Sarawak is set at 100 million tons. Shouldn't be too much.

Alan Wilson gave important instructions on the development of iron and steel in Sarawak at the Sarawak Palace. It is the best choice for local development to focus on the development of large-scale iron and steel enterprises. Expand production capacity, increase regional concentration, and reduce production costs.

From a long-term perspective, the steel industry is irreplaceable. At this stage, no one can find an element that can replace steel equivalently. Therefore, from a long-term industry perspective, the steel industry has its own characteristics of development. But only companies with innovative consciousness and continuous improvement of product quality can survive.

In a larger sense, the good momentum of steel development also helps to stabilize the imperial preferential system, increasing the capital of the British Empire and other powerful countries to negotiate reciprocally.

The favorable situation now is that the production of Australian iron ore has gradually been on the right track. The Australian government's steel ban on the United Kingdom and its subordinate territories has been lifted, which will help the development of Sarawak's steel industry.

In this regard, Edel and the following civil servants expressed that they must understand the spirit of their immediate superiors, contribute to the cause of building the British Empire, deeply implement the spirit of the Whitehall meeting, and work hard, so that the British Empire ushered in rapid development.

"Modern life without steel is unimaginable. The things we take for granted in our lives, from houses, bridges, cars, airplanes to appliances, are either made of steel or produced with the help of steel. And iron ore is smelted. The core raw material for steel, we have Australia's help, there is no reason to fail."

Alan Wilson said this and glanced at his subordinates, "I believe that my colleagues working overseas will not be disappointed by you. We all believe that everyone is reliable."

Hearing the assurances from his subordinates on reliability, Alan Wilson nodded slightly. The reason why the steel industry was placed in Sarawak instead of the more populous Malay Peninsula is that the entire British Malay Eighty percent of Asia's coal resources are in Sarawak.

From the principle of the proximity of resources, it is a matter of course to place the steel industry in Sarawak. Now that both coal and iron resources are available, it will be very disappointing if the production capacity cannot be reached.

Does mining coal and steel need car transportation? This is also good for the British auto industry. It can promote the employment of the British auto industry. Based on the real estate development of the major colonies in British Africa, with British Malaya as the intermediate processing link, it will eventually promote the local high-end industry. demand.

It can be said that for today's UK, this is the best option. In fact, the United Kingdom has never carried out an industrial layout for a certain colony, not even British India. The industry of British India only meets some basic needs of India.

Britain's former imperial preferential system was essentially a method of local production of industrial goods and raw materials from the colonies, a very general way, without an industrial base in its hands. Originally, the United States held this role before World War I, but after World War I, the United States was no longer tame.

At this stage, Malaya does not need any clever development steps, and extensive development can solve big problems. After completing the steel and textile industries, accumulate a few years, then start the processing industry, and build an import and export system bit by bit. Basically not much worse than Japan.

Of course, in this process, the necessary supervision of the colonial government must not be relaxed, and every businessman is a natural comprador. Without the power of supervision, the vast majority of businessmen will only work in very basic industries, and will not think about investing funds in heavy industries with greater risks.

"Democracy is a stumbling block to economic development. We must not allow unreliable people to mix among colleagues." Alan Wilson repeated what he had just learned from the Hong Kong Governor in his own words.

Said that the stable development of Malaya, we must be alert to the proliferation of liberalism, but also to prevent the confusion of democratic political ideology. Only by combining the best of both worlds can Malaya become a reliable overseas base for imperial civil servants.

There is no need to pay attention to the United States now. The fundamental reason why the United States cannot even respond to the Berlin crisis is that the war in the Far East has not stopped, and it is bombarding Shangganling indiscriminately. After this round of fighting is over, the United States will have time to focus on other directions.

Days passed by Alan Wilson's industrious work, and he was coming out of this state at the end of October.

Because the glorious Sultan of Sabah, Ali Khan, landed in Penang and came to British Malaya under the rule of his good friend Alan Wilson. Alan Wilson immediately came out of the Kuala Lumpur Administrative Office to welcome Ali Khan's arrival.

Sometimes he felt that Ali Khan's life was absolutely full of legends. The basic trajectory of his life was that after he became the monarch of a British colony, he changed to another British colony to be the monarch.

After the two met ~lightnovelpub.net~ Ali Khan was very happy, and could hardly wait to see his new territory.

"Alan, it's really nice to see you, and seeing you in person makes me feel much more at ease. If you were in charge of British Malaya, I'm sure it would develop very well here." Ali Khan said on this day Smiles more than in the past year, speaks with sincerity, and keeps complimenting Alan Wilson.

"Respected Sultan, what is there to say about the relationship between us." Alan Wilson was also very polite, and he mentioned it carefully, "Maybe the development of British Malaya requires the help of a benevolent monarch with abundant financial resources."

"This benevolent monarch with abundant financial resources has arrived now." Ali Khan nodded his head and said, "I will make all the subjects of the territory rich, so that it will help for a long time."

"Long time is power." Alan Wilson nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Will Nehru notice you when you come here? Will he protest?"

"Don't mention this nasty person, I hope he will fall into a downfall in the future." Ali Khan said with a cloudy face.

"I'm sure it will." Alan Wilson was sincere and convinced.