Chapter 180: Building a New India

The British army in India was of different sizes at different times, during the Great Indian Uprising. Britain mobilized 500 British battalions from the mainland, equivalent to 200,000 British soldiers. During the First World War. The British garrison in India numbered nearly 70,000 men.

British officers and non-commissioned officers of the British Indian Army are also excluded. During World War II, the number of troops mobilized in India from the Dominions and the British mainland ranged between 300,000 and 500,000. This does not include British officers and British non-commissioned officers in the 2.35 million Indian volunteers.

At present, the British troops in India, like the British troops in various places after the war, are in the process of being evacuated, but there are still 100,000 British troops in British India, and Alan Wilson feels that 100,000 British troops are enough.

It can ensure the safety of 100,000 British Indian civil servants, don't look at the small number of British troops, and it is obviously relatively average in the Southeast Asian battlefield in World War II, but it does not mean that the British army really can't fight.

A certain part of the entire British army is still very good, but Britain, as a country focused on the navy, can only deal with wars below a certain scale.

As soon as the scale of the war exceeded the entire limit, the performance of the British army began to stretch its hips, and the British army had all the good traditions of the British Empire, such as selling teammates.

At least in the face of the Indians, Alan Wilson definitely had this confidence, he did not believe that 100,000 British troops would be annihilated in British India, and the top brass of the Congress Party and the Muslim League did not have the courage to do so.

The most important thing is that because of the disagreement on the treatment of the British India, London itself is now also at odds about what to do with the British India, but Alan Wilson and the civil servants of the British India can quickly agree on what to do.

The time to make decisions is certainly much faster than in distant London, and the return of Alan Wilson has made many people very happy. But this definitely does not include Mountbatten himself, who found that his daughter was becoming more and more disobedient.

Seeing her daughter's performance, if she thinks vulgarly, if Alan Wilson wants to do it for her daughter, her daughter will probably open her legs happily.

Fortunately, he had already heard some rumors that London intended to transfer himself to the Mediterranean Fleet, and when the time came, as long as he took his daughter away, he could stay away from this young commissioner's assistant who had returned from the killing.

Alan Wilson was so busy, of course, that he didn't know how malicious Pamela Mountbatten's father was towards him, and he was busy drawing his sword and looking around to see if there was any need to step up himself.

There are a lot of problems, but he doesn't necessarily need to go into battle in person, he can't weaken the pacifists, so the Duran line is not needed. The territorial dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan originated from the Durand Line, which was introduced in 1893.

Under British pressure, Afghanistan received a delegation from the British Indian Foreign Secretary Durand, and Afghanistan was forced to accept the Durand Agreement, agreeing to the Anglo-Russian arrangements for Afghanistan's eastern border and the British demarcation of Afghanistan's southern border.

At that time, Britain submitted to King Rahman of Afghanistan the Durand Agreement, written in English, which mainly demarcated the border between Afghanistan and British India.

Rahman was forced to relinquish his claims to Swat, Bajar, and Chitrar, and only to keep Asmar.

Accordingly, millions of Shitus were placed on the side of British India, which ceased to exist with the independence of India and Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan are once again locked in hostilities over the Durand Line.

Alan Wilson could not stab the pacifist congregations in the northwest, which would have emboldened the already dominant Congress Party, and above all, it would not be in line with the British Empire's tradition of helping the strong and the weak.

As for the McMah Red Line? This line has also been around for a long time, and there is no role for Alan Wilson. From his current position, it doesn't mean that he needs to be involved, just treat it as if he didn't see it.

The assistant commissioner is still more fond of cashing out, and after thinking about it, as the newly appointed assistant commissioner, I first contacted the British office on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Britain entered the subcontinent later than the Portuguese and the French, but came out on top, and in 1700 the East India Company annexed Kuchibahar in Bhutan and clashed with Bhutan, thus touching the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and establishing trade relations.

The current British representative to Tibet is named Li Jisheng, who has been a long-term representative since 1936. Li Jisheng graduated from Kibler College, University of Oxford, UK. He joined the Indian Ministry in 1930 and was posted to Bangladesh in the same year, and in the thirties he was the Deputy Governor of Tamruk, Midnapur District. During this period, he took advantage of his vacation to visit Sikkim and Pari.

He was then transferred to the Foreign Affairs and Political Department, a subsidiary of the Indian Office, where he became acquainted with the British Political Commissioner in Sikkim, Goode, and then became the British representative on the Tibetan Plateau.

Compared with the administrators of the eighteen provinces of British India and the fourteen princely state commissioners except for Alan Wilson himself, Li Jisheng's weight in British India is actually not large, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is indeed a place where birds do not. Alan Wilson would never go anyway.

The strategic position is important and can let people of insight go, and his wine bag and rice bag will not charge ahead. It's like the nationalists crying out to march into Siberia, while the northeasterners are moving south. Those who shout slogans go to the cold, don't move your mouth.

Having received an invitation from the new commissioner, Le Gi Sang, who was temporarily staying in Sikkim due to heavy snowfall, was overjoyed, and because the telegram was full of hints of possible promotion, he immediately set off for New Delhi.

In fact, Alan Wilson had no interest in this representative, and the biggest achievement of the other party should be that before World War II, he had fought wits and courage with the inspectors of the Third Reich on the plateau.

When the Third Reich expedition entered the plateau, the locals were familiar with the symbol, and the "*" or "swastika" has a special religious meaning in Tibetan Buddhism and the ancient Bon religion, and it can be found everywhere in the snowy regions. The symbol even won the favor of some of them, who believed that these people who had traveled thousands of miles to Europa might also be followers of the Dharma.

But the representative Li Jisheng had a intrigue with these Germans on the plateau that was unknown to the public.

Beyond that, there was nothing to be commendable, and Alan Wilson remembered as if after the independence of British India, Riggson had served the Indians, which was intolerable, and he could not allow the Indians to receive the legacy of the British Empire.

The British heritage around India, before the independence of British India, had to be cashed out in its entirety, so that the Indians could not receive it.

Probably because of the incentive of tobacco factory profits, there was no waiting for Christmas, and the chief executives and commissioners from all over the country had already flocked to express their appreciation for Alan Wilson's old age, and the fat administrators all said that they felt that this child was not a thing in the pool when Alan Wilson was still a commissioner in Hyderabad.

Alan Wilson, of course, expressed his modesty in response to this compliment, and at the same time presented the Royal Bank of Scotland with a certificate of deposit.

"Dear gentlemen, Sir Edward is pleased with the performance of all gentlemen in such a difficult time. In the post-war period, the determination of the gentlemen to stick to their posts was touching. The current local economic revitalization plan requires everyone to redouble their efforts. ”

Alan Wilson held up his glass and congratulated everyone, but also expressed his longing for British India, "I have been looking forward to returning to New Delhi all the time to work with you, and now I am finally back." ”

"Alan, to be able to get the appreciation of the cabinet secretary, the future must be unimaginable." After Alan Wilson expressed his longing for British India, the provincial governors also reciprocated, carrying bank deposit receipts, saying that everyone always hoped that Alan Wilson would return.

"This time I came back, naturally, out of the love of the British Empire for British India. With kindness to the many subjects of South Asia, return to the place where the dream began to build India. After a drink, Alan Wilson said, "We are going to build a new India for the benefit of all the subjects of British India." Make the pearl of the British Empire even brighter. ”

Then Alan Wilson said his plan to start a wave of construction in British India immediately, so that all Indians can feel a bright future?

"Why is that?" Burke, the Governor of the United Provinces, was a little puzzled, "What we should do is to transfer our wealth to Britain as much as possible, isn't it?" ”

"That's just one aspect!" Alan Wilson explained with a mild look, "And it's a very crude way, but there's a better way, and we've got an economic revitalization plan, and everybody knows that once it's done, the whole of India will be strong." But he couldn't do it at all! All the funds of British India were spent, and in the plan we embarked on all the works which cost a great deal of money. ”

"In agriculture, we need to ensure the demand of Europe, and I think cotton planting should be expanded next year, after all, the textile industry, as a labor-intensive industry, can solve the employment problem of many local citizens."

Alan Wilson spoke eloquently, expounding his glorious ideal of building a great India, and Nehru and Gandhi were all false fathers of the Indian nation.

The real father of the Indian nation is Alan Wilson, and if great India wants to be great again, it must follow his line.

When all the wealth accumulated in British India is spent, wouldn't it be nice for everyone to pat their butts and leave?

"I want all the provinces to have electricity, and we should build a dam here."

After a brief silence, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became lively, and the provincial administrators began to discuss what projects should be carried out in the places they managed, and there had never been a time when everyone was so interested in the development of India.