Chapter 358 Big Shot

Poor Alan, he was toyed with by Mao Mei, mainly because the other party captured Alan Wilson's son. Every time he saw the hostage in Anna's hands, how could he have any doubts?

But this scene was particularly dazzling in Bokina's eyes. She had not noticed this before.

But this time the arrival of Alan Wilson made her truly realize that because of the birth of the child, the balance was inevitably tilted towards Anna's side.

In fact, life in Germany was not bad. After experiencing being co-sleeped, Alan Wilson wiped away his previous frustration and was confident to set off again, heading to Berlin to compete with the Soviets.

There will be local British diplomats in Berlin to meet him, and of course, agents from MI6 are also indispensable.

The sale of Rolls-Royce engines is far from being naive by the Labor government, but has deep considerations. Britain faces a financial Dunkirk.

Two world wars that occurred within a generation exhausted the empire's currency reserves. Britain urgently needed to increase exports to pay for reconstruction and social security costs such as housing, medical insurance, and pensions. Under this situation, the Labor Party won the general election.

British-made jet aircraft and jet engines are of course high-value-added high-tech products that are readily available, and they are exactly the export products that the British government urgently needs.

The Air Ministry has therefore put the latest jets on a list permitted for export without any specific departmental approval.

Although the imperial government is not as omnipotent as the Soviet government, it is still easy to stop the export of engines.

So far, there has been no official rejection. There is only one possibility: the cabinet wants the deal to go through.

Opposition also exists, and the first to come forward are mainly military personnel, who are worried that this will give potential enemies an advantage. Then a number of diplomats joined in, the most influential of whom was Prime Minister Attlee's close friend, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.

Why Prime Minister Attlee still approved of the deal in the end is because the jet engines were first exported to France before being sold to the Soviet Union. The current largest party in France is the French Communist Party.

With the current momentum of the French Communist Party, the cabinet believes that it is only a matter of time before the Soviet Union obtains jet engines. Instead of finally obtaining them from France, it is better to obtain them from the United Kingdom.

The most important thing is that the Nien engine that Rolls-Royce wants to sell is not the best technology in the UK. The next generation of jet engines is already in the research stage.

The military itself does not actually value the value of the Nien engine.

Alan Wilson believes that the reason why this deal was so stupid for Britain was because the Soviet military planes were flying brilliantly on the Korean Peninsula and embarrassing the Americans, which made this deal seem stupid for Britain.

The British representative in Berlin, whom Alan Wilson knew well, had been a regular negotiator at the Potsdam Conference before.

Ivor was also surprised to see Alan Wilson. The two had not seen each other for a long time. He also knew that his colleague had gone to work in British India again. The last time there was news was because of reports of an engagement in British India. Two photos appeared in the newspaper at the same time. The first was a photo of the engagement day, and the second was a classic scene of giving money in Paris.

The headline of that day’s report was, “The gentleman who saved French women found his own happiness today.”

At the same time that Alan Wilson arrived in Berlin, at this time in Bonn, Bokina was angrily scolding Anna that she could not fall in love with the minions of imperialism and must understand the mission of the two.

"Absolutely not. Of course I remember my promise to the motherland." Anna promised righteously, but she didn't take it seriously. She felt that this was Bokina looking for trouble and she was jealous of her having a child.

Yesterday, Alan Wilson was obviously more protective of her, and even praised her, saying that her face was even younger than her real age, almost like a minor, but her body was so coveted.

Alan Wilson, who had arrived in Berlin, did not know about the Dragoon sisters. He was drinking afternoon tea and asked about the current situation in Germany. It has been almost three years since the war ended, and time is healing the pain of the war little by little.

Today's Germany is occupied by four countries: the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Berlin, the German capital, is also divided into four occupied zones. Fortunately, the war is over and the German people can finally live in peace.

The halcyon days were not good days. Alan Wilson was not in Europe, but in British India, which had only a few winters a year. Of course, he did not know that Germany had just experienced the coldest winter in a hundred years.

All rivers and canals in northern and western Germany were frozen and therefore unnavigable.

The Elbe in Saxony was frozen, and so was the river in Hamburg, making it impossible to get there by boat. Germany's neighbors to the west and the United Kingdom are in a similar situation. Blizzards and wind-blown snowdrifts completely disrupted traffic in some places.

In Germany, the limited postwar transport operations were disrupted, reducing industrial production by a quarter at the beginning of 1947.

The supply of coal stopped, causing temporary closures of many businesses, factories, schools, authorities and other state facilities. The German people, who were already suffering from malnutrition, were now suffering from severe cold and hunger due to lack of urgently needed food.

This is also the reason why Pokina went to New Delhi. However, from Pokina's words, Alan Wilson, who has been staying in New Delhi, of course cannot intuitively feel what the situation is like in Europe.

Now that Alful mentioned the difficulties at the beginning of this year, Alan Wilson nodded thoughtfully. In fact, he still didn't feel much. If these bastards hadn't started two world wars, would Britain be where it is now? ?

"Perhaps the biggest dream of the Germans now is to have a unified government of their own." Eiffel finally said this.

"Unification? The Germans may be dreaming." Alan Wilson sneered twice and bet with his colleague, "Germany will never be unified again. Do you believe it?"

Alan Wilson feels that the European Community does not need the Big Three model, because once Britain, France and Germany are in one organization. It will cause conflicts with each other, because the triangle has stability. This is not true politically, but it is true from a national perspective.

He hoped that Germany would never be reunified. From the British perspective, the Soviet Union could do whatever it wanted to the future Democratic Germany.

If the Soviet Union could do this, even if it claimed that the Democratic Republic of Germany was more legal than the Federal Republic of Germany, he would support it with both hands.

There is another thing in Germany that has not aroused discussion, but is very symbolic, that is, Prussia no longer exists, and the Allied Supreme Council for Military Control in Germany officially ordered the abolition of the Prussian establishment.

The territory of the original Prussian state was incorporated into Poland and the Soviet Union, as well as the areas occupied by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The property of the former Prussian state government was divided between the Allies and the Soviet Union.

At the same time, the expulsion of the Germans has officially begun, and Germans from Eastern Europe are pouring into the Soviet-occupied areas.

From a personal perspective, Alan Wilson can express sympathy for the Germanic people of Eastern Europe, but considering that this country started two world wars, it can only be said that it was deserved.

While waiting for the Soviet representatives to arrive, Alan Wilson learned from Eiffel whether there had been any changes in Germany in the past two years. There were some changes, such as the currency war.

The Americans once wanted to ban the mixing of cigarettes and US dollars, so in 1946, they printed the currency of the US-occupied area specifically in the US-occupied area.

It can be directly exchanged with the US dollar. The Soviet Union found out about this, cracked the printing technology, and then frantically printed the currency of the US-occupied area to obtain the US dollar.

"But isn't the US-occupied area still issuing currency?" Alan Wilson was greatly surprised. Didn't he know that this kind of thing happened in Germany last year?

"That was the newly issued currency this year. Last year's set of currency only circulated for two months before a large number of counterfeit currencies suddenly appeared and a large amount of US dollars was cashed out. Then it was terminated by the Americans." Aifor shrugged. "This set is newly issued and so far it is quite successful."

The United States began helping Germany print a new currency. This currency was the West German mark that circulated until the emergence of the euro. This time the Soviet Union had no choice. Because the United States has adopted a large number of anti-counterfeiting technologies, the Soviets have always been weak in this regard. At that time, it was not that Germany had no goods, but that it did not appear in the market.

Without monetary support, everyone hoarded a lot of useless goods. But even if you don't use it, it still has value and is waiting to be realized. Stimulated by the new German mark, these goods began to appear. Since they could be exchanged for money, there was certainly no need to store goods that were not available.

Alan Wilson lamented that in this regard, Americans are still superior, and West Germany has already appeared. The Soviet-occupied areas still use the Reichsmark from the Third Reich.

On one side of the invisible dividing line, a train arrived in Berlin. Two people walked down slowly. One of the men was very surprised and kept chattering, "Shepilov, I don't understand, why do you want me?" Are you coming? I’m not a diplomat."

"But as an administrative official, you can come up with insights that will make my work easier." Shepilov comforted, "Ukraine's production and construction are extremely important to the motherland. We all deny this, and you are very attached to the local industry. Familiarity, so as to prevent the British from blackmailing us.”

"Okay, okay, now that you're here, I'll take it as what you said makes sense." Khrushchev sighed helplessly, "One thing I have to explain is that I definitely can't stay here for too long. There’s work waiting for me to finish.”

"Understood, it shouldn't take too long." Shepilov followed the other party's words calmly, "This matter has been discussed for a long time, and it should be time for the results to come out."