The current situation in Britain is very dangerous. The aggressive Germany and Japan are southern Africa and the United States, which is launching a strong challenge to the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom.
It's becoming increasingly overwhelming.
The key is that the UK has its own problems.
When Britain is strong, these problems can be solved one by one and will not shake Britain's international status at all.
Just like Rock said, things are different now. When the world war broke out, having southern Africa was Britain's greatest luck.
So forcing southern Africa to leave the Commonwealth is the UK's biggest mistake.
Southern Africa left the Commonwealth in order to regain the Commonwealth market.
This original intention is definitely good, but British politicians have ignored an issue.
Now in the UK, even if it excludes southern African products from the Commonwealth, British domestic companies have lost the competitiveness to regain the Commonwealth market.
Compared with southern African products, British products are expensive and difficult to use. Even the British don’t like British products. Why should Canadians and Australians who have better relations with southern Africa choose British products?
Even Indians don’t like British goods.
Don’t underestimate India. Don’t think of India as a country with a population of 400 million. If you think of it as a country with 30 million slave owners and 370 million slaves, you will find that India is very
with potential.
Canada and Australia now have less than 20 million people combined, and there are still many poor people.
There are 30 million slave owners in India, with very high spending power.
The unsatisfactory performance of British products caused the UK to find that the situation seemed worse than before after expelling Southern Africa from the Commonwealth. After all, when Southern Africa was within the Commonwealth, the UK could obtain various products from Southern Africa at a relatively favorable price.
Industrial raw materials, as well as gold necessary to maintain the British financial market.
Now let alone gold, even the purchase of industrial raw materials needs to follow the market. The UK has suddenly become under great pressure.
Especially oil
Ten years ago, the UK still had several oil companies that could compete with oil companies in the United States and southern Africa.
Now that Anglo-American Petroleum is on the verge of bankruptcy, Royal Shell is struggling to survive, and the price of oil sold by Adam Company to the UK has increased by about twice as much as ten years ago. When Winston comes to southern Africa this time, one of his important tasks is to persuade
Rock lowers oil prices.
"Winston, you own shares in Adan Company." Roque disagreed with the price reduction. You are a shareholder of Adan Company. You don't want to make more profits for the company, but instead poach the company's corners. It's a shame for the shareholders.
“If Adan Company lowers the price, then I will find a way to persuade Congress to lower the tariff.” Winston did not want his own interests to be damaged.
Then the tax revenue of the British Empire would only suffer.
“It doesn’t matter. No matter how high the British tariffs are, all British people will ultimately pay the bill.” Rock is really not worried about this problem. The oil stick is very useful. The United Kingdom is not in a bad situation, but Japan is really miserable.
Even if the UK fails, it still has Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell. Japan does not have a single oil company and needs to import everything from the United States.
American oil companies are not charitable foundations. When doing business with the Japanese, they will never give up until the last copper is squeezed out.
But Japan has no choice but to import oil from the United States. Even if Japan's "Yamato" is built, it will not be able to drive it. With the development of technology, the more advanced the equipment, the greater its dependence on oil. Japan is also trying to find ways to break through southern Africa.
blockade of Japan.
The best way to break the blockade is to own an oil field of your own.
Japan is frantically looking for oil, but whether it can find oil depends on God's will. Japan has been around East Asia, and the only country with oil fields is East India, which makes the Japanese desperate.
It was during Winston's visit to southern Africa that things suddenly took a turn for the better.
On March 10, an oil field was suddenly discovered in Sarawak, a part of British Malaya. The news spread immediately, and countless oil companies swarmed in.
The most positive ones are definitely Anglo American and Royal Shell.
However, after learning the true situation, British American Petroleum and Royal Shell were very disappointed.
The newly discovered oil field is located in the inland sea near Sarawak. Although the difficulty of extraction is not high, the reserves of the oil field are not large, only 2.6 million tons, and have almost no mining value.
Here I have to say how abominable Adan Company is.
Addan's price for selling oil to the UK is cheaper than the oil produced by Anglo American and Royal Shell.
In order to reduce dependence on foreign oil companies, the British government formulated an oil subsidy policy and subsidized Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell.
Even so, Anglo American and Royal Shell are cautious about the development of new oil fields.
Although Adan Company's oil is sold very cheaply, it still makes huge profits.
The question then arises: Should oil fields like Sarawak be exploited or not?
If you are mining, you must invest in the construction of sea oil wells. This thing is time -consuming and laborious, and it is huge. Once the oil well is completed, if the Antan company announces the price reduction, the British and American oil and the royal shell will have no blood.
And the oil fields in Sarawak only have a meager 2 million tons, so Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell really look down on it.
This situation greatly disappointed the British Malayan government.
Look at southern Africa. Although the oil fields in the Persian Gulf are making huge profits, Adang Company has not closed down the oil fields in East India. On the contrary, Adan Company has increased its investment in East India oil fields, bringing huge profits to the East India government.
profit.
The actions of Anglo-American Petroleum and Royal Shell hurt British Malaya. It was clear that a treasure house could not be accessed, and British Malaya had to find other ways.
At this time, a Japanese company entered British Malaya's sight.
Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell look down on the 2 million-ton oil field, but the Japanese covet it.
The reason is also very simple. Even if the UK does not exploit the Sarawak oil fields, it still has oil available.
The Southern African Oil Company has never done business with the Japanese and does not sell a single drop of oil to the Japanese, so there is no question of price increase or not.
Therefore, after Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell gave up the Sarawak oil field, within just one week, the colonial government of British Malaya signed an agreement with the Japanese oil company called Pan Asia Co., Ltd., authorizing Pan Asia Co., Ltd. to develop the Sarawak oil field.
Oil fields in La Viet.
This news spread to the Persian Gulf, arousing strong concern from Umbrella and Adan Company.
The current Persian Gulf, with Port Elizabeth as the center, has formed the world's largest oil producing area.
Needless to say, the Elizabeth Oil Field’s daily output has never been less than 100,000 barrels since the first day it was discovered.
The newly developed Najd Oilfield has a potential no less than that of the Elizabeth Oilfield, with estimated reserves of more than one billion barrels.
Look, this is why Anglo American and Royal Shell dislike Sarawak oil fields.
An oil field with a reserve of one billion barrels is called an oil field. Your mere 2 million tons is at best an oil barrel.
Moreover, the oil field in Key Neizhi is the same as the Elizabeth oil field. The cost of extraction is astonishingly low. If you drill a hole in the ground and install a faucet, the oil will flow out like tap water. The quality is so good that it can be used directly without any treatment. You say so
How else to compete?
With money, Southern Africans are also good at spending it. The Persian Gulf Squadron is the first of the four major squadrons in Southern Africa to be established. Port Elizabeth is even applying to become the third home port of the Indian Ocean Fleet in Southern Africa. Once successful, the Indian Ocean Fleet
The fleet's aircraft carriers may be deployed in Port Elizabeth for a long time, and by then the Persian Gulf will become the inner lake of Adan Company.
Now the coast of the Persian Gulf, including the land part of the Persian Empire, has become the sphere of influence of the Adan Company. Over the years, the Adan Company has spent huge sums of money to buy up all the land along the Persian Gulf. There are only a few left under the control of the Persian Empire.
It is a small port, and given time, the Persian Gulf may really be renamed Elizabeth Bay.
Or the southern Gulf of Africa.
After Japan began its military expansion, it was hated by all southern Africans.
This "hate" is different from the "hate" the French felt towards the Germans after Germany invaded the Rhineland.
After all, the Rhineland used to be German territory, and the French protested for a while and then lost interest.
After Japan’s military expansion, the most harmed people were the Chinese, and all Chinese people in southern Africa felt the same way.
“Find a way to prevent the Japanese from getting what they want!” Feng Ban from Adan Company was very angry. Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell were so unsatisfactory. If they captured Sarawak, the Japanese would have nothing to worry about.
“Why don’t you just take over?” Lu Shao from the Umbrella Company was also angry. What was obviously a simple matter was made very complicated, because it was all about money.
"You put it nicely. The colonial government of British Malaya had too much appetite and the price it offered was too high. I'm not stupid." Feng Ban shouldn't be taken advantage of. The million-ton oil field is the only one in British Malaya and
The treasures in Japan are all ignorant country bumpkins.
"Then what can I do? British Malaya did not offend our protective umbrella." Lu Shao was very embarrassed. Not only did British Malaya not offend our protective umbrella, but on the contrary, it responded to every request. Lu Shao was really embarrassed to fall out.
Don’t forget that without the cooperation of British Malaya, there would be no Changi Naval Base as large as it is now.
In the era of the Royal Navy, Changi Naval Base covered an area of only a few dozen hectares. Today, Changi Naval Base covers an area of more than 100 square kilometers, which is much larger than the Lion City.
“Don’t say you can’t get around the British colonial government of Malaya.” Feng Ban sneered. When did your umbrella company become so law-abiding?
"Haha, that's not a big deal." Lu Shao smiled with a simple and honest face. Anyone who knew him well knew that someone was going to be unlucky.
