At the same time there was the restoration of the British Occupation Zone, which had the Ruhr Zone, the heart of German industry. How important is the Ruhr area, if you take Germany as a whole in the First World War, the Ruhr area accounts for 59% of Germany's industrial capacity, and once the Ruhr area is destroyed, Germany is finished.

At that time, the other three major industrial regions in Germany, including the Silesian industrial region, accounted for only 41 percent.

Not to mention the fact that now the Saarland is occupied by France, and France is going to annex the Saar to France, and the Silesian industrial region is already owned by Poland.

For Germany in 1945, the Ruhr area was almost everything in Germany. As long as the British occupation zone could prosper, it would quickly affect the whole of Germany.

The general restorative development is not so fast, and if you want to quickly turn the situation around, except for the United States, which has deep pockets, you can only learn from the Soviet Union's wartime planning and development.

If history remains unchanged, the British Empire now has three years to independently carry out restorative production in the British-occupied territories.

If we take into account the independence of British India, there are only two years left, but if Alan Wilson can return to British India, he will do his best to postpone the independence of British India, which of course requires the cooperation of 100,000 British Indian civil servants.

As early as the Potsdam Conference, Montgomery, the commander-in-chief of the British army, who had received the title of honorary citizen everywhere, issued a "Letter to the German People in the British-occupied Zone," which pointed out: "The harvesting of crops must be carried out actively, the transportation facilities must be rebuilt, and the postal and telecommunications services must be restored." ”

"A number of industries must continue to operate. …… The German people shall obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and shall engage in the production of the necessaries of life throughout the region and the restoration of the economic life of the country. ”

It can be seen that this British-occupied zone, which has been part of Britain since the Yalta Conference, is also extremely important in the eyes of the London government. At present, the occupied territories are in a state of military junta, and in terms of efficiency, the military government should be the model that can best exploit this advantage.

The occupied territories of the Western Allies were free to move and move freely, but they were still not allowed to enter the Soviet-occupied territories. It was only in Berlin that there was nominally free movement between the Allied districts.

Since the British, American, and French occupation areas can move freely between each other, it depends on who can restore the occupied areas first, and the first to restore them will definitely form a siphon effect, which is the existence of the British occupation areas second to none in terms of population, location, and industrial indicators.

Alan Wilson also made a list of famous German companies during World War II, such as Krupp, Henschel, Mauser, Mercedes-Benz, Rheinmetall, Siemens, Bayer, Carl Zeiss, Thyssen, Messerschmidt, Volkswagen, Opel, and many others.

And now these world-renowned German companies are lying in the ruins of the Ruhr area, waiting for someone to save them.

These famous companies that supported the German war machine during the war also fell to the bottom in value at the time of Germany's defeat, and in Alan Wilson's eyes, even if it was gold panning in dung, the British occupation zone was the most valuable one.

In fact, Edward Bridges, the cabinet secretary who returned to London, was also planning how to be a good middleman.

Edward Bridges himself was not too interested in the dual-track system of prices.

But after Prime Minister Attlee came to power and revealed his views on the future status of British India, Edward Bridges began to really take care of the plan.

The reason why he finally agreed to send Yugoslav refugees to Rhodesia when he was in Germany was because he wanted to deter South Africa and make the Boers more honest.

South Africa is still nominally a colony of the British Empire, but after World War II, South Africa's attitude towards London seems to have changed subtly.

How are the world powers ranked during this time period? In fact, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and South Africa were ranked in the world's national strength in 1945.

It seems that the British Empire is still very powerful, occupying three of the top six places, but Canada will still remember a little incense, and no one knows what will happen to the Boers who have always been unruly.

While making the plan, Edward Bridges met with Prime Minister Attlee and held Montgomery's telegram, "Honorable Prime Minister, Montgomery's telegram mentions some proposals for the restoration of the British occupied zone. ”

"Oh, what good advice does our marshal have?" Prime Minister Attlee asked, scratching his smooth forehead.

Edward Bridges pushed his glasses and said unhurriedly, "At present, the British occupation zone is maintained by the British occupation forces and the released German soldiers, and the effect of maintaining order is very significant, but we must admit that there are not many ways for the military to restore the economy. So what Marshal Montgomery meant was that he wanted to establish a civilian government, but he couldn't rush it, because if we were looking for such civilians from Germany today, almost all of whom had worked for Hitler, we could not guarantee that these people could be trusted. ”

After listening to Edward Bridges' sang-like narration, Prime Minister Attlee nodded and asked, "Sir Edward, you mean that there is a lack of personnel management in the British occupation area now. ”

"That's right, Honorable Prime Minister." Edward Bridges said softly, "The situation in Germany now, every time there is a little delay, the Germans in the occupied zone will be in pain for a while, so I have a plan, the prime minister can look at it." ”

When Prime Minister Attlee looked at the plan, Edward Bridges explained to Attlee, "It's a phased plan. In the first phase, the commander of the military district, through his junta team, has assumed the responsibilities for the management of the junta. In the second stage, a group of regional administrative councillors should be trained to replace the commander of the military district as the head of the military junta. At the third stage, the commander of the military district ceased to perform his duties as the head of the junta. In the fourth stage, the junta's personnel will gradually give way to civilian personnel, and their number should be significantly reduced. ”

"When the four phases are completed, it is believed that the work of identifying German government officials who did not commit crimes during the war is over, and the British Empire can then hand over the work to the Germans."

The Cabinet Secretary's version of the fourth-order tactic, explained by Edward Bridges, was successfully passed by Prime Minister Attlee. Edward Bridges, who came out of the Prime Minister's office, immediately ordered, "Two thousand civil servants from various departments and local governments to be sent to Germany." ”