Chapter 321 New Opportunities (Fourth update, please subscribe)
“I miss my son, bring him to take me home!”
Sometimes, things are more complicated than imagined smoothly.
On the third day after Margaret returned home, she sent this telegram.
“Actually, I have prepared a movie!”
After putting down the telegram in his hand, Li Yian said to himself.
The public opinion war in newspapers was just the first step. In order to win as much support as possible from the outside world, he even wrote a movie script himself, which mainly drew on the "Roman Diary" to tell their story. Revise.
The fairy tale between the princess and the king who became Cinderella will always touch people's hearts!
Even as for the starring role, Li Yian had already thought about it, it was Hepburn!
What a pity.
With a long sigh, Li Yian could only put away the script for the time being. Now, it was time to go to England to bring his wife home.
Of course, he is not just going to pick up his wife, more importantly, the confirmation of this marriage adds a guarantee to the future of Borneo, not only investment in Australia, but also many others matter.
For example, British technology. In this era, many British technologies are leading the world - such as the engine known as the "Industrial Crown". There may be some obstacles for a foreign company to introduce those technologies, but if What about a Canadian company?
Not only must we break into the circle of friends, but we must also break into the inner circle!
While Li Yi'an was preparing to go to London, the British Prime Minister also publicly expressed his support for Princess Margaret's marriage.
"The cabinet does not object to the marriage between Princess Margaret and King Li Nian of the Kingdom of Sarawak. We believe that divorce is against Christian faith..."
In fact, the Prime Minister's support is just the icing on the cake, After all, several major British newspapers had already conducted public opinion polls, and the results showed that regardless of the opinions of the church or the government, the vast majority of the people supported or respected Margaret's choice.
Of course, the Prime Minister's support is not meaningless - before making a public statement, he sent a top-secret telegram to the leaders of some Commonwealth countries, asking them to be unanimous on the issue of the princess's marriage. Agreeing that although Margaret no longer has the right to inherit the throne according to the law on royal marriage that began in 1772, she can still retain the title of princess and hold public office, and can continue to enjoy royal subsidies after marriage.
In this way, under Li Yian's careful planning, all roads were finally paved.
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The road to the UK is not long, but it does require a layover. After all, the entire flight takes dozens of hours. On the second day after leaving Borneo, the plane arrived in Tunisia. According to the plan, Li Yian will stay here for one night. , after all, the next stop is London.
After arriving in Tunisia, Li Yian was not idle. After handing the child over to the nanny, he got busy. After all, there were still many things to deal with. Moreover, Tunisia was also a transit point between Borneo and Europe. , more than 600,000 tons of machinery and equipment are also stored in the base in Tunisia.
Although the mountains of equipment were just exposed in the wilderness, thanks to the dry and drier weather in Tunisia, these equipment did not suffer any rust. Behind these machines, Li Yian walked and listened. Following Zhao Xiyong’s report.
“Now, with the restoration of order in Germany, we can no longer demolish factories as we did in the past, and out of consideration for restoring the German economy, the United States has also begun to prohibit us from demolishing in Germany. Therefore, I My suggestion is to transfer our people to Japan as soon as possible, and when demolition is possible, everything that can be moved should be evacuated as much as possible."
When it comes to work in Germany, Zhao Xi said. Yong's tone was full of regret, after all, the good days are gone forever.
"At the beginning, we were still very unfamiliar with moving. It was like a beggar entering a restaurant. He wanted to eat a little of everything, regardless of good or bad. Now to sum up, the key is core equipment, which is the most expensive. As long as we move it away, we can save a lot of money..."
This is experience!
This experience was gained from a year and a half of large-scale demolition in Germany. Some experiences cannot be learned without actual practice.
"So, now we must immediately devote all our efforts to Japan."
"It's time to change the target," Li Yian added after nodding in agreement.
“The situation in Japan is different from that in Germany. In Germany we are guests, in Japan we are the hosts. It’s okay to make more noise in Japan, but it is different in Germany. You can use these machines It’s not easy to transport them all out.”
If nothing else, just the equipment in front of us is an extremely valuable asset to Nanyang. In the past year and a half, How much machinery and equipment did the search team dismantle from Germany?
Numbers are no longer important. What is important is that with those machines and equipment, Nanyang has laid a certain industrial foundation. This is the most important thing.
“Looking back now, it always makes people feel a pity. There are countless equipment and factories. We almost had a chance to dismantle them at that time, but just a little bit, just like the original Wolfsburg Like the car manufacturing plant, we originally had the opportunity to dismantle some machines, but as soon as the demolition started, the British intervened. In the end, we only took away more than 200 machines and equipment. Now under the supervision of the British, Wolfs The Fort plant has returned to a production capacity of 1,000 cars per month. Because it is still under the supervision of the Allied forces, the workers do not have much spare production materials. Although the Volkswagen cars they produce are pre-war designs, But its performance is very good and it is very popular in the market. It is said that it has been sold to the UK.”
"Volkswagen car? From Germany..."
In Li Yian's mind, a famous car appeared almost subconsciously-Volkswagen.
Beetle!
It must be a Beetle!
Li Yian asked, thinking of the Beetle's astonishing output in history and even creating a leading automobile industry.
"Can they produce 1,000 vehicles per month now?"
"Yes, this is because the car manufacturing plant is under the supervision of the Allied forces and the supply of raw materials is insufficient. If there are enough raw materials, I It is estimated that the output can be increased at least several times. Alas, just thinking about not being able to dismantle the entire factory makes me feel a little pity."
Compared with Zhao Xiyong's pity, Li Yian is more concerned about the "Beetle", to be precise. Generally speaking, it should be Volkswagen, the company that produces the "Beetle".
Now Volkswagen is still under the control of the Allied Forces and should be under the control of the British military. In other words, it is an ownerless property.
Of course, it is not ownerless.
The current Volkswagen Company is an "undetermined property" under the supervision of the British military. After all, according to the principle of war compensation, that factory is the same as most industrial facilities occupied by the Allies. The official treatment method is basically to treat it as It was dismantled and sold off to compensate the Allies for their war losses.
It’s just that the UK doesn’t need it – now the UK’s domestic industrial production capacity also has a problem of excess. After all, after experiencing continuous expansion during the war and the UK’s use of imperial units, they have no interest in using the metric system. Of course I have no interest in the German machinery of the unit.
This is why industrial production in the British-occupied areas was the first to resume - because the British established the basic principle that large-scale demolition from Germany was not needed. Therefore, most of the factories in the British theater resumed production under the supervision of the British army, except of course the military industry.
“Okay!”
After running through all the information, Li Yian raised his eyebrows and chuckled.
"The opportunity is here!"
Isn't this just an opportunity? Companies under British supervision have a lot of room for maneuver. As long as they operate a little bit, there will definitely be additional gains.
“Opportunity?”
Zhao Xiyong said in surprise.
“Sir, what chance?”
Li Yi'an said proudly.
“Of course it’s a bargain hunting opportunity!”
(End of this chapter)