British 1986

"oh?"

Thomas looked at the disdainful look on Allen's face, and combined with what he just said, he had already guessed what the Excellency was doing when he went to the Russell family today. If he wanted to swallow up Swansea, then The Russell family is the so-called stumbling block.

Of course, this stumbling block may not be that big or uncomfortable, and it may not be difficult for you.

"Sir, what do you mean, how should I cooperate with you?" Thomas said, with a sinister smile on his lips.

"Humph, are you allowed to participate in matters between nobles?" Allen glared at Thomas fiercely. There were some things that he could let him know, but he could not directly participate. Although the Russell family seemed to him to be a bit of a no-brainer, But that was in his opinion, if it were Thomas.

It would be too easy for people to kill him. Ordinary people should not participate in disputes between nobles. They are not qualified enough.

"Yes Yes Yes"

Thomas's face turned pale, and he was shocked to realize that what he just said was too casual, and he quickly admitted his mistake.

"You are waiting for the end of the year to mention it in our Welsh Parliament. Aren't we cooperating with China on the construction results of our single management area in more than a year? Send some people there, sometimes it is not necessarily We can only invest in it, or we can let them invest in us."

"Them? They are so poor, what can they invest in?"

Although Carmarthenshire's economy is relatively not as good as that of Swansea, when compared with China, it is much better.

Let's put it this way, no matter how poor the people in Wales are, if they don't do anything without a job and just lie in bed every day and receive welfare subsistence allowances, they can still get a subsidy of a few hundred pounds a month. gold.

If you convert these pound exchange rates, they are worth several thousand Chinese dollars. Compare them with them.

The gap is huge. Over there, who can get thousands of dollars in salary by doing nothing for a month?

This kind of economic gap cannot be caught up in a short while.

Therefore, when Alan mentioned that Chinese people should come to Wales to invest, Thomas's head got big. He really couldn't think of anything that could attract people in Carmarthen Town.

The other party probably doesn't like it if it's a small industry, and the other party can't afford it if it's a big industry. This kind of feeling of not getting up or down is the worst.

"Um"

Allen narrowed his eyes and hummed.

These days, when it comes to that place, many people think that people are poor and look down on them.

But the reality is like this. It’s just like the person in a group of people who wears the worst clothes and doesn’t have anything of value when you look at them. It will indeed give people a bad first impression, but being poor doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t be poor. the benefits of.

"Don't always look at the top when doing things. Are you comparing Carmarthen to London? The current economic environment is not good. Let's talk about the people below. Can they still spend money as before?"

Thomas frowned and thought for a while, not understanding what Allen meant.

"Sir, I still don't quite understand what you mean."

"You."

Allen lit the cigarette, took a slow drag, and thought about the information he had read in the past few days.

It's almost time to summarize the half-year financial report. Allen has already learned some scattered information about some industries, such as his food delivery company.

Although the food delivery company has been expanding, Allen has not made much money and has to add money. However, in the first half of last year, the food delivery company did make a profit. Although it was not much, it was already a good sign.

However, after the pound crisis broke out in the fourth quarter of last year and lasted until the beginning of this year, the entire food delivery company returned to its old path of continuing to lose money.

The biggest reason is that the food delivery company has been expanding. By selling membership cards and saving a lot of money, Allen used the money to buy land for expansion.

But apart from this, another reason is that there are fewer people ordering takeout in general!

The reason is simple. Everyone has no money and their assets have shrunk. Now fewer people are willing to order takeout.

The number of food delivery sites is increasing, the number of delivery people is increasing, but the number of people ordering food delivery is decreasing. The conflict between these two items makes the financial reports of food delivery companies even more ugly.

Although he lost money, Allen can still grit his teeth and persevere because during this period, it is also cheaper for him to buy land!

This feeling of pain and happiness was uncomfortable, but he couldn't stop yet. If the company stopped, so many delivery workers would still need to be supported by him, and the company he had worked hard for for several years would go bankrupt in an instant.

Now even if he loses money, he has to continue to expand and look like this industry has a bright future. On the one hand, it is to stabilize people's hearts, and on the other hand, it is to support his deliverymen, who are private soldiers in disguise. Can't break up

But he lost too much money, became a good doctor after a long illness, and Allen also lost experience. In the current environment, he feels a little inexplicable familiarity. To put it bluntly, isn't it because people generally downgrade their consumption?

A person who used to spend money lavishly suddenly has a decrease in income. Then he must make compromises in terms of consumption. What should he do?

In the past, a meal cost one to twenty pounds, or even dozens of pounds more, but now you bring your own food!

In the past, I would buy a piece of clothing that cost dozens of pounds without batting an eyelid, and I wouldn't feel bad if I bought a pair of shoes that cost hundreds of pounds.

Now I only buy discounted clothes. Clothes costing twenty or thirty pounds a piece are not unwearable.

Just buy the cheap ones and make do, which is consumption downgrading.

In this environment, many low-end products in the past have a lot of living space. Some things that many people looked down upon in the past will now become very cost-effective things!

So whose stuff would be very cost-effective at a time like this?

Of course they are things produced in countries that were very poor in the past!

Today's Chinese people, no matter how poor they are, they still have to have food, clothing, housing and transportation, right?

So what are they wearing?

Dozens of Hua Yuan per piece?

What if such clothes were imported in large quantities, or a batch of cheap goods were ordered with special templates to extremely reduce costs, and sold in the UK or Wales?

Take ordinary short-sleeved shirts as an example. Even if the cost is 20 yuan, can they be made?

If you go there to buy it at this price these days, you can definitely buy it, even cheaper than this!

As long as there is foreign exchange, they will sell even if they lose money!

One or twenty Chinese dollars, how much does this cost in pounds?

Single digits, single digits of two or three pounds!

You can increase tariffs at will, but how much can you increase if they are doubled?

After excluding shipping costs, sales costs, etc., even if it sells for 9.9 pounds, you will still make money!

Of course, Allen is not purely doing charity. There is no need to lower the price to such a low price. It’s not like the British can’t afford it. Just raise the price a little, just a few pounds cheaper than the cheapest clothes on the market now. .

Not just clothes, but other daily necessities, as long as they are cheap!

After a while, when he has a TV station, he will promote it on TV and then set up a large supermarket in Llanelli to sell these things in one step.

If you want to mess with others, you have to make yourself look like that. You have to develop, right?

When it comes to economic development, Allen is really not very good at it. Being able to resell low-priced things is already his limit. His current industry requires money everywhere, so he can make a lot of extra money.

and swansea

Llanelli, who is close to them, will be in sharp contrast to them.

Allen is not good at economics, but he is good at troublemaking. If he wants to disrupt the public order in Swansea, shouldn't he just do whatever he wants?

If you can't compete with others, then everyone will compete with others. As long as you are worse than me, then I will look strong!

As long as Swansea slowly becomes chaotic, it can be operated.

What is the most important thing in Wales overall?

Stable, stable, still stable!

In the past, Wales was calm and no one would pay attention here, but what if Swansea's security index suddenly plummeted?

Will this attract people's attention?

By then, Carmarthenshire, next to Swansea, will naturally attract attention.

Swansea is so chaotic, why is there no chaos here in Carmarthen?

Because he, Mr. Allen, is in charge!

Because Carmarthen Town has good traditions and good public security!

This is the preliminary plan that Allen has come up with in the past few days. He will deal with them first and then wait until Swansea is messed up before taking another step. However, Allen generally does not do loss-making business, and the food delivery company has already caused him enough losses. .

So while messing up Swansea, he can make a little money and then force the Russell family away. This is the interest he charges.

When I think about the fact that in just twenty years, the Russell family has changed three earls in a row, and the family fortune is almost at its bottom, the Russell family is the one who can't bear the loss the most. With the character of Earl Conrad, if you scare him a little, this If the goods are not guaranteed, I want to run away.

Allen is not as big-hearted as his father. Since he plans to swallow up Swansea first, he must find a way to drive away the Russell family. However, under normal circumstances, nobles cannot fight each other with swords and guns, and can only play dirty tricks.

Anyway, the Russell family is not local. In the past, their family had to sell the estate and move from Cardiff to Swansea due to inheritance tax. Now they can move to Swansea because of instability and fear. Go somewhere else.

After hearing Allen's idea, although it felt a bit unflattering, Thomas still had to comply.

"Your Excellency, you mean to ask people from the Ministry of Commerce to recruit investment after you return?"

"Didn't we send an inspection team last time? This time we sent a purchasing team. By the way, you can contact the chambers of commerce in their coastal areas. Just let them know that we welcome them to come and do small business here."

"I understand, Your Excellency. I will start making arrangements when I get back."

"Um."

Allen stood up and talked about things in this kind of coffee shop. It felt quite good. It didn't have the depressing feeling of the study room at home before.

"Go, shoot down that seagull and give it to those kids!"

As soon as he walked out of the cafe door, Allen looked at the children in the distance who were still being walked by the rogue seagull, and then he directed a bodyguard to hunt the birds.

In Wales, even if it is a bird, as long as Mr. Allen can't bear to look at it, it will die!

The motorcade passed by the gate of the former old manor without turning, but continued straight ahead.

Ellen has now moved!

Further inside, this road is almost equivalent to a dead end road, which leads all the way into the protected area.

His new manor was built close to the east side of the reserve. For the sake of the entire manor's landscape, a large number of trees were cut down close to the edge of the reserve, which was regarded as encroaching on a bit of the reserve's land.

The new manor and the old manor were only a few minutes' drive away, only a few kilometers apart.

Even the general layout of the two manors is similar, except that the new manor covers a larger area, is more exquisitely designed, and has more modern internal buildings.

Far away.

Under the cover of night, illuminated by car lights, the outline of the manor wall in the distance gradually appeared. Unlike an ordinary stone building, the wall outside Allen's new manor, illuminated by the car lights, showed a kind of overall wall. There are little bits of dark orange light, like lava flowing through the wall.

This is the most expensive item added later, the full sodalite wall table decoration!

The surrounding walls of the manor, which covers an area of ​​hundreds of acres, are all decorated with this kind of sodalite material. Under normal circumstances, most of this kind of sodalite is blue or cyan, during the day Under normal circumstances, the appearance looks like pebbles. At night, or when you shine a flashlight directly on it, the inside of the stone will show blue stars, which is very transparent.

Some places also produce another kind of dark orange sodalite, which has the same effect as ordinary blue sodalite, but the color is different.

Compared to the faint blue color, Allen prefers this dark orange color like Mars. He has had enough of the gloomy atmosphere at home before. He likes bright rooms. The lights in the middle of the night are too bright. Domineering.

Even the exterior walls of the theme buildings inside his manor are decorated with sodalite.

This kind of stone reflects light instead of self-illuminating. Even the little bits of light will not make people feel dazzling. It is the kind of dark and hot light.

It is not cheap to process a piece of pebble-shaped sodalite into a building material suitable for wall exteriors. The cost of this thing is a bit expensive now, and some harmful substances will be produced during processing, but all these shortcomings , in front of its advantages, it seems not worth mentioning.

After this thing is processed, it is extremely fire-resistant and hard. After it is installed on the outside of the wall, the visual effect is also very impressive. On the exterior wall of the entire manor, there are spotlights shining on the wall every few steps. On the surface.

From a distance, the manor in the dark night looks like it is standing in the lava. It is both mysterious and domineering. Only a house like this is worthy of the residence of the famous Welsh overlord, Mr. Allen!

In the old manor, there was no cloister at the entrance to the hall. After all, it was a residence transformed from a battle fort, and the influence of the architectural form could not be changed. As a result, the previous front door of Allen's house could only be climbed up by a few steps, which was unattractive.

The main building of the current new manor is different. The lobby door is more than eight meters high. There is a semicircular corridor at the entrance, just like the lobby of many hotels, but the overall shape of Allen's new manor More like a palace.

The front door of the new home looks domineering, like that.

Hu Te led several servants and watched Allen get out of the car with a smile. The male servants also specially changed into new uniforms and looked more imposing than before in the old manor.