Chapter Seventy-Three: A Small Goal
Compared to the Bulfors shipyard in the city of Hamburg, the damage to the shipyard was not severe. Most of the cranes are in good condition, but they are in a state of stoppage, which can't help but Alan Wilson has some conspiracy theories, whether he deliberately stayed, ready to plunder technology, everyone knows that the British occupation zone is the essence of German industry.
While Alan Wilson was thinking this, the officers attached to the Navy were still taking pictures of the huge production base of the Bloomforth shipyard, and there were at least thirty unfinished Newmarket submarines lying on the slipway on the production line, but they would never get off the line.
Alan Wilson saw that these steel behemoths, part of the Black Technology of the Third Reich in the eyes of Dechui, could now only be the backdrop for the victors.
"How to restore normalcy in the British-occupied areas is an important factor in revitalizing the economy of the country as soon as possible." Alan Wilson was moved, not sympathetic to the fate of Germany.
Now the British Empire simply did not have time to adjust slowly as it was traditional, the time between World War I and World War II was too close, and the external environment was a smiling tiger and a great enemy of life and death. Now it is necessary to put efficiency first, as in the Soviet Union, otherwise, as the saying goes, time is running out for Britain.
"Alan, what do you think these submarines should do?" Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Scott asked with a move in his heart when he saw Alan Wilson, who was in a trance.
"The design drawings of these submarines were immediately found and sent back to London for study. As for these unfinished submarines, money is also needed to dismantle them, and money is also needed to continue to build them. It's just that one is not returning, and the other can try to find buyers. Alan Wilson frowned and said, "If we dismantle the weapon system and try to sell it to some small countries that have no production capacity, in exchange for a capital input, it is the best idea, of course, before we have to absorb the technology." ”
"I'm really optimistic, in fact, if we can really sell these semi-finished products, there are many benefits. It can solve part of the local unemployment problem, and it can also make a profit to relieve the economic pressure in the country, but who do we sell to? Lieutenant Colonel Scott shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Is it sold to Indians?" ”
"Hmm!" Alan Wilson nodded approvingly, saying that he was not joking, as long as the Indian princely states could afford it, what could not be sold was better than giving British warships to the Indians after the independence of British India. It would be better to give the Germans ships, at least when they run out of scrap and cannot be repaired.
"Well, these unfinished submarines will be left for now, but one thing you are right about is that we should search for the design drawings of these submarines and send them back to England now." Lieutenant Colonel Scott regained his composure, and the mention of Alan Wilson was only a joke.
Alan Wilson, who still receives wages in Hyderabad, is of course not joking, to be honest, although Germany has been destroyed, but it has the foundation of an industrial power, and British India is not completely devoid of industry, but it can also be determined that it is a purely agricultural country.
Don't think that the fact that there are many railways proves that the country's industrial base is good, and the reason why Britain built railways industriously in British India was entirely to improve the efficiency of plunder, to transport the good things out of British India, and to develop industry has nothing to do with it.
The combination of such an industrial country and an agricultural country reminds Alan Wilson of a term. Iraq's embargoed oil-for-food program. The oil-for-food programme was designed to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people under the United Nations imposing economic sanctions and arms embargoes against Iraq.
At first, Iraq was also unconvinced, but then it was also painful and happy? The essence of the oil-for-food program is to restore some people's livelihood to Iraq, which is in a state of collapse, but this is completely controllable. It's just that the situation of total collapse has become a boiled frog in warm water.
Once Iraq is slowly weakened, when the time is right, the United States will directly eliminate Saddam.
For the current British Occupation of Germany, there is really no difference between it and the colonies, if there is one, it is that the German citizens of the British Occupation Zone today do not have the rights as the Indians of British India.
Thinking about it this way, Alan Wilson suddenly felt that this was really a good thing, Britain was in the middle of the link, using the agricultural products of British India to restore order in the British occupation of Germany, and then using the factories restored by Germany to transport them to British India.
But the trade between British India and the British-occupied areas of Germany was controlled by the British, and the pricing power of the goods shipped from both ends was in India. This is much more cost-effective than sacrificing the lives of British citizens at home to restore calm to the German-occupied territories.
Britain, which dominates the trade in the middle, can also supplement itself in the middle.
"The Marshall Plan, the Molotov Plan, the British Empire will never surrender until the blood of the Indians is dried." Looking at the British soldiers in the distance, Alan Wilson was secretly ruthless.
Even if British India became independent, it would have to stand up for the British Empire. This Alan Wilson is uncompromising!
The first shipload of grain sent by Alim was the first stepping stone, if it could temporarily ease the tension in Hamburg. Who said that this could not be the beginning of a plan for Britain to come up with its own.
Alan Wilson didn't have much time to get a general idea of the British-occupied zone, and he was about to return to Berlin. "Now that there is a mountain of German weapons, and there are professional officers who have been through the world war for several years, you can inform the Lord Ali Khan of the situation here, and if he offers it in the next telegram, I can arrange for him to arrange the relevant matters." ”
"At present, there is still a large food gap in Europe, and a lot of help is needed from Maharaja Ali Khan. As the commissioner of Hyderabad, I will never let the monarch of Hyderabad suffer. That's all for now, I'm going back to Berlin. ”
Once a plan for trade between British India and the British-occupied territory of Germany had been drawn up, it would certainly not work here. The current strength of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in Berlin, and he has to go to Berlin to find an appropriate opportunity to make this idea come out naturally.
This two-way trade plan was in fact the same as the colonial policy of the British Empire, except that Britain was secluded behind the scenes, reconciling trade between the British Occupation of Germany and British India.
Moreover, the blood transfusion of British India to Britain could not be stopped, and on this basis, blood transfusions must be given to Germany. But at the same time, British India did not lose anything, as long as the German citizens could eat enough, the manufactured products were handed over to the British to be shipped to British India at a fixed price.
In this way, the price of industrial products that have been OEM by the British may be lower, and the original 100 things are now sold for 90. And the original price of British products was fifty, and now it is only ten dollars from the Germans, and all the profits in the middle go to the British.