British 1986

If you drink all this big bowl of soup, you will still be 1.8 meters standing, or 1.8 meters lying down?

Do you want to dig out the keyhole when you see it?

Allen endured the discomfort and took a slight taste. Unexpectedly, it tasted pretty good, with a sweet aftertaste and no fishy smell.

In this way, he lost the last bit of resistance. Although with his current physical condition, he did not need this kind of food to supplement his body, but as a man, whenever he heard about the curative effects such as aphrodisiac and delay, he would usually I can't walk, and I want to take a bite out of nowhere. Even a thin-skinned person will say that he has a friend who seems to need it. Can he take it away and give it to his friend to try?

After finishing the soup, it seemed like there was going to be another fierce battle in the evening.

July 5th.

Heung Kong Centre, Happy Valley Racecourse, in the grandstand corridor.

The official time for horse racing is from September to June of the following year. In the remaining months of July and August, there are basically no races in theory. These two months are used to maintain the lawn of the racecourse. , time to repair various facilities, and in addition, it will be temporarily used for other purposes, such as being used as a venue for holding large-scale events.

Wei Dewei accompanied Allen. The two of them were dressed in short-sleeved casual clothes. While explaining, they looked at several riders who were warming up and preparing.

These horses and riders are all raised by several wealthy local businessmen. They were specially invited by Wei Dewei to compete today.

Today's scene, theoretically speaking, was reserved by Wei Dewei. The entire venue was not open to the public. Only he took Allen to visit and play. Allen had come to Hong Kong several times. As the governor of Hong Kong, he was always in a hurry to entertain guests. , it seems that he has never fulfilled his duty as a landlord.

This time Allen could stay here for a few more days, and Wei Dewei tried his best to ask his secretary to arrange the itinerary.

Today, I am taking Alan to experience the horse racing atmosphere in Xiangjiang.

"Your Excellency, at this time last year, a disaster relief benefit performance was held here. Some local celebrities and singers performed a concert at that time, and the effect was quite good. Part of the charity money was raised and handed over to them."

Wei Dewei pointed to the field in the distance and introduced to Allen other uses of the racetrack during the offseason.

"oh?"

When Allen heard this, he became a little interested. When he mentioned donations, he thought of Americans, and when he thought of Americans, he thought of their stinginess.

Forget about comparing others, look at Xiangjiang, a small place like this. These celebrities in the early years, regardless of their character, had high ideological awareness. When our compatriots are in trouble, regardless of whether they are doing it to show their face, they will donate money anyway. , or a charity performance to raise money, it’s not ambiguous at all.

Internal entertainment year-on-year.

Forget about those who are no longer considered celebrities. They don’t give up their face for some traffic, let alone donating money. If they can pay taxes honestly, they are ideologically aware.

Allen looked at the field in the distance in front of him and squinted his eyes.

"Haha, Your Excellency, let's go over. The contestants are ready. Don't you want to take a gamble? Let's have some fun too?"

Wei Dewei just talked about it casually and turned around and didn't care anymore. What he cared about most now was that there was a horse off the field, which was his!

Horse racing is something that most people can't afford. Even wealthy businessmen with little assets can still afford it.

It is not allowed to play unless you are rich and wealthy, except for low-end people.

In the past, Wei Dewei definitely couldn't afford to play, but over the years, he has been fattened by Allen and received a lot of benefits. With spare money in his hand, he couldn't help but raise two horses, and Several riders poached from the British mainland are very powerful.

But he usually doesn't let his horse out of the competition, mainly because he is afraid that these people will flatter him and let him win deliberately.

Now that Allen is here, everyone plays in private, and then Wei Dewei starts to encourage Allen.

"Oh, I won't bet anymore, it's boring."

As Allen walked, he looked at the horse racing being prepared in the distance.

He usually doesn't touch gambling.

As the old saying goes, nine times out of ten you lose, where do you lose?

Many gamblers may think that they lose because of poor skills, bad luck, opponents, etc.

But what is the core of the problem?

Yes. Whether it is betting on horses, cards, or sports, these things are all human-controllable!

It is unwise to gamble with your own money when faced with things that are within human control.

This thing is not a matter of luck or bad luck at all!

Although the gambling industry is very developed in the UK, those things are only aimed at ordinary people. Even if the upper class people play, they only want to have fun and just play a little bit. How can they expect to make a fortune from this kind of thing? some type of?

Allen remembered that he had read a novel about the novel written by a certain author. The protagonist traveled through time and became some kind of British aristocrat. He had become a fucking duke, and he actually had to pay inheritance tax by winning money from gambling.

this.

That's a Duke, not a cat or a dog.

How many duke families are there in the entire great elite?

More than twenty!

Everyone has a name. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to do such a thing?

Even though the Duke of Angus was as poor as he was, he never thought about making money through gambling to pay inheritance tax.

Of course, the inheritance he received from his father was not much at that time, so he did not need to consider paying any inheritance tax.

Mainly because of this method, it makes people unable to complain.

Whether it is a British gambling institution or a European gambling institution, behind these institutions, there are more or less wealthy businessmen, nobles, and consortiums involved.

A nobleman, or a duke, actually made money through gambling, and earned tens of millions of pounds in prize money.

this.

What is the difference between this and Mingqiang?

To put it bluntly, even if the servants of the family were to rob a bank directly, it would be better than gambling for winnings.

If the bank robbery is discovered, at most the official will be offended, and a servant will take the blame. At most, the noble who instigated it will be punished by the queen, and then the stolen money will be recovered.

But gambling, especially at the level of the top nobles, everyone looks up and down. You, a noble nobleman with status, just want to take it away from others by relying on some foresight and other cleverness. Ten million bonus?

The people who open gambling houses are not philanthropists.

No matter how hidden it is, it won't work!

Anyone who wants to make money in this way has never thought about whether the banker behind them is a fool?

The bookmaker needs to keep statistics on all purchases! Why would the dealer willingly give away money when he knew someone was betting on someone with extremely high odds?

Is it because he has a long life, or because he has more money for charity?

Whenever a bookmaker discovers a purchase record that has a very small chance but extremely high odds, the first thing it will do is check the purchaser. Even if it cannot be found, others will intervene in the game. Who will have trouble with money?

As for the "lucky ones" who occasionally win prizes in the media and news, hehe.

The banker may not care about making a small amount of money in a small way, but just look at the rest. If the leek has been cut for a long time, it needs to be given a huge amount of encouragement, right?

Gambling, especially in the UK, the higher your status is, the less likely you are to expect to make money with this thing, just have fun with it. Anyone who expects to make money from this must be in trouble or drinking fake wine. Just drinking fake wine is not enough, you have to drink industrial alcohol, several kilograms of it.

If you rely on a little cleverness to make a lot of money from other people's gambling, you have to make enemies with the bookmakers behind them. As much as you can make, they will make you spit out doubled.

All the nobles whose family status is not too low know the secrets here, and Allen also understands them, so...

Knowing that this was just for fun, he lost interest.

Allen hated the feeling of seemingly resigning himself to fate or being played.

Seeing that Allen was not playing, Wei Dewei was a little disappointed, but he did not complain. He led Allen and the two of them sat down in the area with the best view. Wei Dewei waved his hand to signal the surrounding men to stay away.

"Your Excellency, I had a conversation with Patten last night. What he meant was that I would stay for a while to help him stabilize the situation. When we encounter a situation that neither of us can control, I will ask you to come out. I’m going to send someone to take you around for a few days, what do you think?”

Allen sat down, stretched his legs, relaxed his posture and leaned back on the sofa, thinking for a while.

Patten, this old boy, is still trying to trick Wei Dewei into staying a little longer?

What on earth is going on?

"I didn't ask him what he was planning to do before I came here."

Allen pretended to be very casual and used Wei Dewei's words.

After all, the nobles no longer participate in politics. Although Allen is a noble member of the House of Lords, he tries to avoid asking these questions when he is out, just for fear of being caught by some uneasy and well-meaning little pickpocket. Tell him something.

But facing Wei Dewei, with their friendship, there was no need to be too subtle, just a little cliché.

"Him? Humph"

Wei Dewei snorted with great disdain. When he thought about the plans Patten told him last night, he felt extremely unhappy.

Although both of them are governors of Hong Kong, they have different backgrounds, different experiences, and different factions. In fact, as Allen thought, they are naturally contradictory, which is irreconcilable.

Wei Dewei is a moderate. He was appointed at the critical moment and came to stabilize the situation.

Later, he was pulled aboard the pirate ship by Allen, and his desire was aroused.

However, in the past few years that he has been in office, he has indeed tried his best to maintain stability and has not proposed any risky plans. However, the overall economic situation in Hong Kong has actually increased steadily.

Later, Wei Dewei got a little angry and wanted to drag Allen into something big.

We planned to renovate the airport, but it was shelved because the funds involved in the project were huge.

Later, the situation worsened a little, and Wei Dewei became a little unable to do what he wanted. He even invited Boss Cha to come to Xiangjiang. Only then could the group of people with ulterior motives be completely suppressed.

Now there is a peach picker, or a successor who is ready to disrupt all the results of his work over the past few years. Can he not be angry?

When picking him up at the airport, he didn't give Patten a good look.

The first plan proposed by Patten last night was to restart the airport renovation plan. He wanted to make a big profit!

And the plan is still to use the old airport renovation plan that Wei Dewei personally planned.

Wei Deweike could only look at the benefits of this, but he couldn't share it.

This made Wei Dewei even more unable to bear it.

I am suffering and suffering here, but it is better for this damn fat man to mess up the whole situation as soon as he comes and pick his own peaches!

With strong personal emotions, Wei Dewei told Allen these things in bits and pieces, and also complained about Patten.

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Chris Patten is very ambitious!

This was Allen's first thought after hearing what Wei Dewei said.

but

Seeing Wei Dewei's deep resentment towards Patten, Allen felt confident. Now...

It will be more convenient for you to mix it up.

"Weidwei, this is too miserable for you. You have worked so hard to run the Far Eastern colonies for the empire, and this is what happened in the end? How will London arrange for you to report on your work after you return to China?"

Allen followed Wei Dewei's words and acted like a green tea. He first stood on his side and recognized his contribution, and then

Let’s start talking about the pain points!

Allen likes to use this trick very much and it works repeatedly.

He had just used it some time ago, and now he was using it against Wei Dewei.

"Hey, Your Excellency, don't mention it."

When Wei Dewei heard Allen's inquiry, he sighed even more when he thought of the arrangements after returning to China to report on his work.

Although he has done quite well in Xiangjiang in the past few years, generally speaking, when he came here, he was just to maintain stability.

What is maintaining stability?

Nothing happens, nothing changes, it stays the same, transitions smoothly, no faults are merits!

but.

In just a few years, the situation has changed. Thatcher has stepped down, people have changed at the top, and policies have also changed.

Now Wei Dewei has no fault, but no merit!

In order to maintain stability, he had no merit. Because he had no merit, he was deemed to be incompetent. After he went back to report on his duties, what awaited him

It's almost like staying in the idle department for a while, and then basically retiring.

Directly marginalized from the Hong Kong Governor!

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Listening to Wei Dewei complaining again, Allen felt happy, but there was a little sympathy on his face.

"Hey, why don't you come to my place when you get back? I'll find you a job to support you in your old age?"

"!!!"

If it were another time and another place, Wei Dewei might have been very sad when he heard this, but now on this occasion, when Allen said such words, Wei Dewei subconsciously thought that this was Allen taking pity on him. .

He still has some dignity after all!

"Your Excellency. Thank you for your kindness."

Wei Dewei couldn't get angry, so he could only hold back the slight feeling of humiliation and turn his hatred towards Patten.

"Hey, since you don't want to go to my place, you have to think of a way in the future. You are only a few days away from leaving office. If you return to the mainland, you will have no chance."

Allen deliberately created a sense of urgency to further encourage Wei Dewei.

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Looking at Allen's sincere expression, Wei Dewei seemed to have grasped something for a moment, but then seemed to have grasped nothing.

Turning his head and looking around, he saw that several of his subordinates were far away from him. Wei Dewei moved towards Allen without leaving a trace and whispered: "Your Excellency, what do you think?"

He felt that Allen's words just now were not simple. But he couldn't figure it out, so he was going to ask for advice. What if this gentleman knew something inside and was ready to give him a hand because of their years of friendship?