Baudouin I was born in 1930 and has just turned thirty this year. The king of a constitutional monarchy does not have much real power.
It is foreseeable that once the Belgian Congo becomes independent, His Majesty the King, who already has little real power, will have even less say in politics.
Seeing such a young king, Alan Wilson couldn't help but sigh. There are some people in the world who were born in Rome, and some are destined to be just cows and horses. Although kings in modern society cannot be as powerful as they used to be, they still have no problem in living a wealthy life.
of.
I think Alan Wilson is still a few years older. He has gone through many obstacles along the way, and today he is just a mere deputy secretary-general. There is also the connection of the Mountbatten family at play, otherwise it would not be so fast.
At the Berlin Conference sixty-six years ago, European countries set the tone for carving up Africa and launched an attack on the last land in the world that was beyond European control. The main battle at the Berlin Conference centered around today's Belgian Congo.
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After more than three months of quarreling, King Leopold II of Belgium took advantage of the mutual disagreement between Britain, France and Germany to make the Congo a Belgian colony. This operation can be described as a model of diplomacy.
In the blink of an eye, sixty-six years have passed, and the world situation has undergone tremendous changes. Britain, France, and Germany, which were free to formulate plans to carve up the world, gave way to the United States and the Soviet Union. The Belgian Congo, the central issue of the Berlin Conference, has now reached the stage of independence.
when.
"The Americans must be very proud, right?" Alan Wilson glanced at Smith out of the corner of his eye. Otherwise, the Deputy Secretary of State would not have come all the way from Washington. He must have regarded the independence of the Belgian Congo as the collapse of the colonial system.
landmark event.
Lumumba, already the leader of the largest political party in Congo, also squeezed in surrounded by a group of representatives of the imperialist powers and expressed his welcome to the young King of Belgium. This scene was so out of place.
In solidarity with the imperialist powers, Alan Wilson followed the actions of Spencer, the French High Commissioner for Central Africa, ignoring the existence of the Congolese national hero while giving Smith a back-up.
"The Belgian Congo, which covers an area of more than two million square kilometers, is independent as long as it says it is independent? You French people and Belgians both speak the same language, so why don't you support Belgian suppression?" Alan Wilson said out of nine hundred years of closeness between Britain and France.
Relationship, sarcasm towards Spencer, where are you in France? Get into trouble...
Half of Africa is French territory. In a few decades, which city will have the most French speakers in the world? Paris? Not at all, it will be Kinshasa, the capital of Congo.
"The Belgians didn't say anything, so what can we say?" Spencer's face was full of helplessness. France's own colonies are now in dire straits, and they have no time to extend their hands.
With an expression full of excuses thrown at Spencer, Alan Wilson left the airport directly, not giving Smith a chance to talk to him. He had nothing to talk to the United States now. Communication was such a matter. The ambassador to the UK and the diplomats
The minister can talk whatever he wants. He is here to witness the independence of the Belgian Congo.
In the next few months, he will be like a ghost, floating over Africa. As of now, this year, Cameroon, Senegal, French Togo, and French Madagascar have become independent, all of which are French colonies.
In order to avoid the impact of the independence of the French colonies and protect the stability of the British African colonies, he probably has little time to care about other things this year. Instead, he is running around in British Africa to prevent a single spark from starting a prairie fire and protect the British colonial system.
a smooth response.
In one of the few luxury hotels in Kinshasa, Ingrid Bergman is like a good wife and mother, preparing a change of clothes for a senior British bureaucrat who is lying on the bed with his feet on the bed. A lady of the same status as his wife is absolutely genuine.
At this moment, the phone suddenly rang. The female CEO, who was afraid of disturbing Alan Wilson, hurried to answer it. The men's shirt she was wearing floated up due to this action, and a mysterious place loomed, "Who are you?"
The person on the other side of the phone was not surprised at all, "Mrs. Ingrid? I'm Grace, I'm looking for Sir Wilson."
"You typed the wrong number." Ingrid Bergman covered the microphone and glanced at the man who was sleeping with the universe in mind. The man's features were like a rocket launch site counting down, and she felt blushing just looking at it.
"Madam, I know he is here." Grace's tone was calm, "I will be there soon. I believe that when I arrive, I will definitely see a real British gentleman."
The phone turned busy, and Ingrid Bergman could only put down the phone and push the man awake, "Ellen, someone is looking for you."
Alan Wilson, who sat up like a clay sculpture and stared straight ahead blankly, nodded stupidly to show that he understood.
"Did you listen?" Ingrid Bergman pushed the man again, "He's coming over?"
"Dear." Alan Wilson, whose eyes finally began to regain focus, came to his senses, and targeted Ingrid Bergman's upper body downwards, and said the first words after waking up, "I don't feel the gust of wind."
What? Put on your clothes and talk."
Grace is an African local snake, and she naturally knows where he is. Others will not think this way, but Grace has met another female CEO, Hedy Lamarr, and she will be sure to catch Sir Wilson.
Alan Wilson was not too worried. He knew Grace's purpose. Northern Rhodesia had been concerned about the land in Lubumbashi for more than a year or two. He had been hearing about it for at least five or six years.
The relationship between the two is very fair. Grace knows who some of the ladies with the same status as Sir Wilson and his wife are. Alan Wilson also knows that Grace exports trans-oceanic agricultural products to the Americas and killed the Gold Coast independent leader and comedy master.
Chaplin, ethnic cleansing of black people in Northern Rhodesia, etc.
Of course, it is too early to tell whether Grace is reliable based on the above incidents. He still needs a certificate of nomination.
It’s just that I haven’t thought about which unlucky guy is suitable to be the candidate. The status can’t be too low, right? He has to be at the ministerial level. In fact, he already has a candidate for the unlucky guy. The minister who just made his father-in-law very unhappy has become a minister of federal affairs.
Minister.
Ten minutes after getting dressed neatly, Grace appeared at the door on time and knocked politely. Ingrid Bergman opened the door. Grace directly praised her, "Madam has been out of action for several years, but she is still so beautiful."
, is now a promoter of the development of world cinema."
Then he entered the room with his suitcase. As soon as he entered the door without saying a word, he took out the souvenirs of Northern Rhodesia. In the middle was a large piece of emerald, which exuded green reflections.
Northern Rhodesia is very rich in mineral resources, including gold, silver, copper, cobalt, lead, zinc, iron, manganese, nickel and other metal ores; phosphorus, graphite, mica, barite, marble and other non-metallic ores, as well as emerald, yellow
Gemstones, amethyst, aquamarine, malachite, garnet and other gem mines. Among them, copper, cobalt, iron, coal and gemstones are particularly rich in reserves.
Emeralds are a native product of Northern Rhodesia. An emerald as big as a fist can definitely make any woman crazy, not to mention causing a sensation in the outside world.
But this does not include Ingrid Bergman. The Gold Coast is the place where diamonds are produced. Even if the output is not to say that the output exceeds that of South Africa, it will definitely make diamonds less rare. Some time ago, Alan Wilson gave Ingram to
His diamonds filled Ingrid Bergman's handbag.
The female CEO looked like a real lady who had seen the world and was not dazzled by the green light.
"This must weigh one kilogram? The inside is in very good condition with no cracks at all." Alan Wilson looked at it with a smile for a long time, then pointed at the suitcase and said, "I'm not a woman, so I don't need these things."
"I believe the beautiful madam will need it. For us, this is almost like a stone, but for women, it is not the same." Grace took the madam route directly, "It's just some local products. I hope Sir Wilson can do it."
polite."
"I've never been polite to you." As he spoke, Alan Wilson locked the suitcase, pushed it to Ingrid Bergman's side without any fuss, and said to Grace, "Are you a little too hasty?
Are you here now?"
"I'm going to see the location team, you guys can chat slowly." Ingrid Bergman struggled to drag the suitcase away. It was not light, and she didn't know how Grace carried it here.
There were only two people left in the room, and the atmosphere became much more relaxed. Alan Wilson asked about the value of the souvenirs, "If such a large emerald and those gems are sold through formal channels in the United States, there may be millions of dollars in revenue."
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"Compared with Lubumbashi, this is very cheap." Grace said with complete concern, "We can expand to the Lubumbashi area according to the mining contract in Northern Rhodesia, and the Mountbatten Group will also get huge benefits.
The interests of the hotel. Recently, a Windsor Castle Hotel was opened in the capital, and it is well maintained, which is enough to prove Northern Rhodesia’s loyalty to the royal family.”
Alan Wilson tapped on the table, "If you can help me kill one person, you can basically confirm your loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen. This person is very annoying. He wants to interfere with the operations of the Overseas Assets Management Committee as soon as he takes office. Although this
It is also related to him, but this person's background is not trustworthy. If you can help me get rid of him and do as I say, Lubumbashi will definitely get it. You and I, the Slavs and the Mountbatten Group will all have good things.
s future."
"Who is it?" Grace held her head high. He didn't care about killing a hundred people.
"Baron Duncan Edwin Duncan Sandys, who has just been transferred from the Secretary of Defense to the Minister of Commonwealth Affairs. His wife is Churchill's daughter." Alan Wilson said while staring into Grace's eyes, "Risk
There are some, but because of this, after success, you and I will become extremely reliable when you look at me and I look at you."
The Overseas Asset Management Committee manages huge overseas assets, with a scale of 4 billion pounds. Even if Alan Wilson agrees, dozens of overseas high commissioners will not agree.
"I can't send people to England to kill people, right?" Grace thought for a moment and said, "It's not an easy place to escape."
"British Somalia is about to end its trusteeship period, and the minister decided to come in person." Alan Wilson lit a cigar. "Maybe it was the grand blueprint for disarmament that inspired him to change departments and create greater glory again."