British 1986

Li Zhi's expression was a little strange when he heard the story from Allen's mouth that so-and-so was the patron saint of Wales.

And now Allen actually wants to take her to visit this place, even to worship.

This made Li Zhi feel a little weird even more.

The current scene always gave her the feeling of a weasel giving New Year greetings to a chicken.

St. David's Cathedral was originally a very ordinary monastery. It was later renamed David's Cathedral because St. David was buried here after his death.

then

As people spread widely, just like Guan Sheng, David slowly became sacred, and the church was repeatedly expanded. After hundreds of years of renovation and expansion, it finally became St. David's Cathedral.

There are more titles like sacred and great.

The motorcade stopped at the entrance of the cathedral. Since Wales itself has a small population, although it is a weekend, there are not many people visiting St. David's Cathedral.

The surrounding environment of the entire cathedral is very quiet, and the vegetation is a bit wilting.

According to tradition, March 31st every year is St. David's Day in Wales. On this day, many Welsh people will wear daffodils or leeks to commemorate this day.

Most British people still have the habit of going to church on weekends, but...

Modern society is so fast-paced that few people can spare time to go to church every week.

People like Allen rarely go to church a few times a year.

He took Li Zhi, who was tightly wrapped in sun protection clothing, for a tour, and walked into the church with several people. Several clergymen inside who were responsible for the reception subconsciously twitched their faces when they saw Allen. .

Just a slight nod to Allen was considered a signal.

They didn't need to salute Allen, and they even felt a little disgusted with him.

Allen didn't take it seriously. No church in Wales would like the Hill family. Their job is to save the world, but their job is to kill the Welsh people.

Although

In the end, people are sent to heaven, and the results are similar. But people just don't like him, but they don't dare to say anything. Not kicking him out is the greatest respect for him.

As the overture played, the priest appeared and stood under the cross. The first thing he saw was Allen sitting in the first row. He had no prejudice against the earl. He looked at Allen and nodded slightly. .

Then today’s worship process began.

Li Zhi imitated Allen's example, put his hands on his knees, and sat upright, looking strange.

call

The choir enters to sing.

Then the pastor waits for the choir to finish before continuing with the next steps of prayer, confession, Bible reading, etc.

These steps took about fifty minutes and were very tedious.

Allen kept looking around with his peripheral vision and looked very serious.

Until another process begins.

Several clergymen held small wooden boxes and began to ask believers to donate!

What to do in ancient times, whether it was a roll of atonement or something like that, Allen didn't understand, but he knew this, it was the same as donating incense money to the temple!

He took out an envelope from his pocket and took out a stack of pounds. He counted twenty of them and handed them to Li Zhi. He whispered, "This is yours. Stuff it into the small box later."

"oh!"

The clergyman had almost reached Allen. When he was still one step away from him, the clergyman looked up and stopped. He looked a little embarrassed and did not dare to continue. Instead, he prepared to go to the next row to continue collecting. Money.

"???"

Allen's eyes widened. The most important thing for him to come here today is to donate money!

Before doing something important, it is the custom of Chinese people to find a temple and worship, don't worry about whether it works or not, just worship before we talk!

There is no such temple in Wales, so I can only make do with the largest church. Anyway, it’s all about money. When the time comes, St. David’s Spirit in Heaven will give you some face for the sake of pounds!

But now, this man with a donation box in his arms can't come over and doesn't want to accept his money from Master Allen?

How does this work?

Squinting his eyes, Allen frowned and said nothing, but stretched out his right hand and lightly hooked his index finger.

The clergyman gritted his teeth, took a few steps slowly with the small box in his arms, and walked to Allen with great reluctance.

"snort!"

With a cold snort, Allen stuffed twenty 50-denominated pounds into it, and then motioned with his eyes to the clergyman to continue walking and go to Li Zhi to continue collecting money!

Although there are £100 denominations now, the circulation rate of that thing is too low. The largest denomination in normal circulation on the market is only fifty pounds.

As an earl, it is reasonable to donate a thousand pounds as a gift.

The pastor had a panoramic view of the situation in the audience. Seeing that Earl Allen had given so much, he smiled more gently. This time he met Allen's eyes with a smile on his lips.

After the main event was over, what was left was more than half an hour of other procedures, such as reports, blessings, etc. Allen read it patiently. Finally, when he left the church and looked at the time, it was already half past ten.

Rush home now just in time for lunch!

Highgrove Estate.

Today is the weekend, the princess went to church, and Charles went back to London.

In other words, there are no adults in the manor today!

There are only two noble little highnesses left.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, William wore a shorts shirt, high socks on his legs, and suspenders on his shorts. He was dressed like an English gentleman and took his stupid brother Harry to the stables.

There was no place to raise cattle on the manor, but he had to put his precious cattle in Charles's stable.

As a child, when you get a new big toy, you can't help but show it off.

And the only person William can show off to is his stupid brother.

Although William was not much older than Harry, after he had more contact with Alan, he thought that he was very mature, and it was inevitable that he looked down on his younger brother who often had snot.

Harry listened dumbly as William boasted to him about how big his new cow would grow!

Things like Indian bison, the maximum weight of an adult cow can reach more than one ton!

What is this concept?

An ordinary family car only weighs more than one ton!

Even some smaller hatchbacks weigh less than a ton!

And this is just the weight of a cow. When this kind of thing grows up, it will hit anyone and kill them as long as it runs.

Several servants brought the two young princes to the stable, where a servant was using a brush to wash William's calf.

"Did you see it? This is the new cow my cousin gave me!"

Harry looked at the black calf, not particularly envious. He didn't really like it, but...

My cousin never gave him anything!

Children have a tendency to compare, and William's behavior made him feel very unhappy.

"Lead out, lead out! I'm going to take Harry to ride the bull!"

William waved his hand and asked the servant to fetch the cow.

"No, Your Highness, this calf has not been trained yet and will fall on you!"

"Um?"

William squinted his eyes, looked at the people below and said, "Whether you have been trained or not is your problem! It's been a whole night, why haven't you trained yet?! It's really useless!"

When the servant heard William's words, the corner of his mouth twitched, not knowing how to refute.

This calf is said to be a calf, but it has already grown to more than 100 pounds. How can it be trained in one night? !

Besides, what time did you get back yesterday?

"Harry!"

William didn't know what he was thinking. He looked at the calf he had brought out, pointed at Harry next to him and said, "Do you dare to ride it? If you ride it, I will give it to you!"

"I"

Harry looked at the calf that was taller than him. Although he was not too sensible, such a big calf was scary to look at!

But after looking at his brother's eyes, Harry took a rare hard breath, sniffed, nodded and said nothing.

William looked happily at the calf brought over by the servant.

The black Indian buffalo has a slight bulge on the back of its neck. It has not yet grown horns, but the rough shape of what it will grow up to be can already be seen.

Several servants carefully surrounded the calf, fearing that the little guy would suddenly lose his temper and bump into the two ancestors.

"Get out of the way! Let Harry come!"

William stood behind and directed blindly. Although the servants looked embarrassed, they dispersed slightly around, leaving room for Harry to see what the young highness wanted to do.

Harry is still young

He doesn't know much yet and is at the stage of life where he plays around all day long.

Thinking about how people usually ride horses, I took out the small children's riding whip hanging from my waist, shined it on the calf's head, and hit it with a whip!

His operation not only stunned William and the servants who were watching, but even Maverick was stunned by the sudden twitch.

Time seemed to have stopped. The dumbfounded servants around him, as well as the two young highnesses in the room, were motionless.

The first one to react was Maverick!

This thing has a bad temper. It just came to a new environment. Someone gave it a warm bath early in the morning. It was happy at first, but then it was surrounded by a circle of people. Finally...

There was actually a little kid who whipped it with a whip, and it hurt a lot!

"Moo!"

The calf lowered its head and hit Harry with a sudden force. Harry was frightened by this scene. Fortunately, the servant next to him reacted quickly and took a step forward to block Harry.

"Protect His Highness!"

The crowd was in chaos, and with the servant's movement, the formation that had originally surrounded Mavericks was disrupted.

The calf found an empty space, got out of the crowd, and ran wildly into the distance without knowing the direction.

William watched the cow run away before he realized what was happening and shouted: "Catch the cow alive! Don't hurt my cow! Go ahead and catch the cow for me!"

The servant who had been standing behind William turned pale when he saw the direction the calf was running.

In that direction is His Highness's garden!

"Master, this is an economic research expert. He will be responsible for telling you about the island country's current economic situation and future trend predictions today."

"Um."

In the small reception room on the third floor of the manor, Allen was sitting on the sofa. He looked at the white-haired middle-aged man who came in and seemed to be of Indian descent. He nodded and signaled that he could give a lecture.

As a poor student, Allen is not interested in other studies, but he is only interested as long as it involves making money.

Today I invited an economist from Oxford University to give him a private lecture.

There are only a few days left before the U.S. stock market is hit by a thunderstorm, and Allen is ready to cram in and learn some professional knowledge.

The middle-aged man took a look at the living room, which was decorated like a private classroom. There was a small podium above, and a blackboard and projector at the back!

The man sitting on the sofa under the stage is now the Earl of Carmarthen, who is well-known throughout Britain!

In the impression of ordinary people, this person is very close to the people, very kind, and good-looking, which fits the public's imagination of aristocrats.

Now, he has also been invited to teach alone, which makes the middle-aged man even more emotional. Look

This is a nobleman. Although he has money, assets, moral character, and looks, His Excellency the Earl has to hire a tutor even on weekends!

He was born with a high starting point and still works so hard. This person is truly well-deserved for his current fame!

The middle-aged professor took a piece of chalk and wrote several chapter titles. He spoke eloquently from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, describing the economic situation of the entire island country.

In order to make it easier for Allen to understand, a lot of comparisons have been added, and Great Britain from different periods has been used for comparison, so that Allen can understand more easily.

"Your Excellency, the current economic situation of the island countries seems to be better than ours, but this is all a symptom."

"According to our statistics, their banks now have negative interest rates on cash savings!"

Allen blinked, negative interest?

In other words, if you deposit money in the bank, not only will you not get interest, but you will also have to pay the bank another interest?

Damn it

Who is still saving money?

"To stimulate consumption?"

"For such a purpose, although everyone is in an economic depression now, the more ordinary people and companies are in this period, the more they like to tighten their wallets and consume rationally or consume less. However, the market has shrunk and companies have been affected. The impact is also huge, which will have a chain reaction.”

The middle-aged professor nodded.

No wonder Sony is so wealthy. The feeling is that money will become less if left alone!

They can't just convert all their money into cash and put it in the company to watch.

But if you deposit it in the bank, interest will accrue every day - interest to the bank.

No one would be willing to do this!

Not to mention hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars, but what if it’s hundreds of millions?

How much interest will be paid on so much money in a day?

Might as well invest it!

Although there are losses and profits in investment, the money left in the bank will always be low!

There is only one way out, expand overseas markets and invest abroad!

"And ordinary people consume less. As profits decline, many factories will reduce their scale and close down due to cost considerations or other project considerations. This will happen sooner or later, but this is not without exception."

Glancing at Allen, the middle-aged professor wrote a word on the blackboard, internal competition.

"Internal competition?"

"Yes! Internal competition! Companies in the same industry are engaged in price wars, and the prices of goods are getting cheaper and cheaper! Or in order to increase sales, improve the quality of goods, increase the speed of upgrading, squeeze profits through various means of internal consumption, internal compete!"

"etc!"

Allen frowned, why did this word sound so familiar to him?