British Civil Servant

Vol 2 Chapter 551: 5-nation defense

Agriculture is the foundation of industry, and Britain also had the foundation after going through the agricultural revolution before it had the capability of the industrial revolution.

For most countries, this is a necessary condition. Countries like Australia can live well by virtue of certain advantages. After all, this is a minority.

The world is so unbalanced, just like the whole of Latin America without coal mines, they couldn't compete with the United States in the nineteenth century if they were exhausted. If this basic condition does not exist, no matter how hard you try, it is useless.

India is a country with weak agriculture. It has a standard monsoon climate. The biggest feature of the monsoon climate is instability. The rainfall fluctuates by one-third and one-third.

It can't be said that there are floods and droughts every year, but one of the two years will definitely turn around. Due to dimensional reasons, India has high rainfall and high evaporation. Most of the disasters encountered are droughts. Despite the fact that there seems to be a lot of annual rainfall, India is a water-scarce place.

China's natural conditions are far superior to India's. There is no such thing as India's good land for the Indians to be blind, and it is impossible for the Chinese to surpass the mainland of China.

Two-thirds of the arable land in India's agriculture relies on rainfall for irrigation. Once the southwest monsoon is abnormal, the crops harvested in autumn will suffer from a large area of ​​production reduction due to lack of water. The reduction in food production has led to rising social prices in India, so India's inflation is often directly linked to whether the southwest monsoon can be as expected.

India's total renewable inland freshwater resources are also only half of China's. India itself is in a relatively dry natural ecology. This drought at the source is not a man-made result, it is a natural occurrence.

In a country where food is threatened at any time, and the agricultural foundation is not solid, is it possible that there will be rapid development of industry?

No matter in any aspect, India's cards are far worse than China's. What Nehru and Indira can't do, Lao Xian can't do the same.

Although the climate of British Malaya is not friendly, the tropical rain forest climate is also much better than the monsoon climate of India, which depends on the sky. There is no way to do this. The only colony in the temperate zone in the hands of the United Kingdom is now called the United States.

And the U.S. is also regularly harvested by the Arctic cold snap, and the climate is just as volatile.

British Malaya is the only colony worth investing in so far.

On the steel issue, Pamela Mountbatten said it could bypass London and purchase steelmaking facilities directly from the United States. Alan Wilson agreed with this, "My dear, I have the power, you have the funds, and this half-million-square-kilometer colony will definitely become a source of wealth."

"It's also for the British Empire!" Pamela Mountbatten opened her mouth to fill in the loopholes in her fiance's words.

The two, actually three, and Princess Margaret returned to Kuala Lumpur together, and Pamela Mountbatten also returned to Paris to convene the French shareholders to discuss the exploration of Libya.

At the same time, Pamela Mountbatten also pays attention to the purchase of steel-making equipment, as well as the breeding pigs and seeds that her fiancé needs.

Although she is very busy, she is also very happy. The so-called close to Zhu is red and close to ink and dark. When she meets a man who likes to work, she also becomes a woman who likes to be busy.

"If you can talk to the Honourable Sea Lord, unsealing the Elizabeth and the Warrior and sailing to Malaya, I think the Sea Lord will also be very happy." Alan Wilson held Pamela Mountbatten's Body, a suggestion that is definitely not overdone.

"If it doesn't increase the burden on the military, I think it can." Pamela Mountbatten nodded. She didn't feel that her father had no such power. As a daughter, she knew her father very well and liked to intervene in the things she encountered.

"Leave the cost to me. I will make an account that can be accounted for by all parties." Alan Wilson pondered for a while, "If you want British Malaya to bear part of the military expenditure, it is best to do so as soon as possible. Good. Because Malaya is just getting better now, it is the most appropriate time to pass on the burden. Once there is a certain foundation, it will be difficult to do it.”

Alan Wilson remembers that China also discussed the establishment of high-speed rail. Many people believed that the cost of building high-speed rail was too huge for China at that time, and it should be implemented when the economy is more prosperous.

The opinion in favor of the establishment is that the construction cost will increase after the economy is good. When the labor cost is not high, it seems to increase the burden, but it will save money in the long run. In the end, China started building a high-speed rail network when it was not very wealthy.

Putting this matter on the British, it has become the basic exercise of my British, and the first-class technology has become second-class equipment.

Because saving money killed the heavy aircraft carrier, the light aircraft carrier was built with the idea of ​​​​sufficiency. As a result, a small amount of money was saved on the hull, but a lot of money was spent on the extremely fast updating equipment of electronic equipment.

In the end, the hull was too small, and spending a lot of money on renovations could not improve the combat effectiveness much.

Using a few examples that have already appeared in the UK, he instilled this kind of thinking into his fiancée, Pamela Mountbatten nodded with conviction, "That is to say, the construction of heavy aircraft carriers is the best way to save military expenses? "

"Of course my dear, can the effect of the two Malta-class aircraft carriers be the same as the effect of the **** aircraft carrier? The aircraft is also getting bigger and bigger, and does the small aircraft carrier have enough space for the larger and larger aircraft to take off and land? "

Alan Wilson expressed his support for the construction of heavy aircraft carriers without thinking, saying that the real money-saving is to leave room for improvement on large aircraft carriers, rather than focusing on the small money on the hull.

"Looks like you should be Lord of the Seas?" Pamela Mountbatten knew all about Ellen Wilson's idea of ​​advising her father through herself. Awareness has also begun to advance by leaps and bounds.

Alan Wilson gave his fiancée a death stare, and Shi Shiran said, "In the final analysis, it's not enough to have no money. If there is a choice, I believe the cabinet doesn't want to cut military spending, so my work is still very important."

While Alan Wilson was exhausting the development of British Malaya, the garrison commander, Lieutenant General Billton, representing Great Britain and the Netherlands, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, signed a five-nation defense pact against the threat of flooding Indonesia with Greater Indonesiaism .

He only knew about it after Lieutenant General Bilton signed it. After all, they are the military's elite! Alan Wilson is an administrative commissioner, and the division of labor between the two is different, and there is no need for Lieutenant General Bilton to disclose.

However, Alan Wilson has a very obedient and well-behaved fiancée, so he immediately learned about it from his father-in-law.

According to the information provided by Mountbatten, this was in response to the Indonesian Sukarno regime, which was a threat to local security after independence, and only contacted the Netherlands and Portugal, which still have colonies in the region, as well as the stakeholders Australia and New Zealand, and adopted a joint response plan. .

In fact, the United Kingdom also considered whether to bring in France, which was fighting fiercely in Vietnam. However, considering that the French army itself was in a state of war, it would not be good to pull the United Kingdom into the quagmire of war after signing the agreement, so let it go.

The five countries will cooperate in defense; in the event of any form of armed attack or threat of force against British Malaya, Dutch Kalimantan, Dutch New Guinea and Portuguese Timor by external organizations or their support , the five governments will immediately consult to decide collectively or individually to take measures to deal with such attacks or threats.

The five countries will establish a local unified air defense system; establish a joint consultation committee, a joint air defense committee, and a five-nation joint force command.

"Five-nation defense?" Alan Wilson remembered that the United Kingdom signed a similar treaty with Singapore and Malaysia in the 1970s.

This 1950 edition of the Five-Nation Defense, which replaced Singapore and Malaysia with Portugal and the Netherlands, seems to be stronger, and of course it is Indonesia.

Of course, the target of prevention announced to the outside world is also a large country in the north. But Alan Wilson knows that Indonesia is the real object of defense.

This is a good thing. Alan Wilson's work has always been aimed at keeping the UK from going. The signing of the five-nation defense treaty can also shock Indonesia, which is in sight, and at least give British Malaya a sense of security.

Only with enough security can we develop well~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Anyway, he has never seen the economy of that war-torn country continue to rise.

A military agreement to bind Australia and New Zealand is also a good thing for the current UK. Don't feel that the five-nation joint defense that appeared 20 years earlier is useless. The UK in 1950 has the same strength as the UK in 1971. Differently.

Especially not long ago, the United Kingdom had just completed the hurricane operation and successfully acquired nuclear weapons. It turned around and promoted the emergence of the five-nation defense, which has an extremely powerful deterrent effect.

After going to the Indonesian affairs office and returning, Alan Wilson had a little more Indonesian newspapers in his hand, criticizing the subversive activities of the imperialist countries against Indonesia, saying that this was a containment strategy adopted by European colonists who were afraid of the development of Indonesia after independence.

"Containment is containment, if you are afraid, you can't talk about it." Putting down the newspaper, Alan Wilson picked up the phone and gave the work instructions of the Indonesian Affairs Office, "It was spread in Indonesia that the United States supported the appearance of the five-nation defense. You Whether he is credible or not, most people believe in conspiracy theories, and if they tell too many lies, they will always meet a few idiots."

Unsurprisingly, Jakarta was very angry with the five-nation defense treaty, which was in line with Alan Wilson's thoughts. Instead of being angry, he had to think about whether there was a conspiracy. The time has entered June, and the sun is burning like fire! It seems that Indonesia has nothing to do but anger, but the problem is not in Indonesia, but elsewhere.

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