Rebirth of England

"What are you talking about?"

Dasha Zhukova and Bonnie came to the deck wearing towels, and she asked Abu.

"I was talking to His Highness the Duke about the club."

Having said that, in addition to these, Abramovich also took the initiative to talk about Barron's acquisition of Unocal. At this time, United Energy Group has publicly announced its participation in the acquisition of Unocal.

It seems that Abramovich also knows something about this matter. After all, he made his fortune by reselling crude oil. Later, after hooking up with Lao Ye, he and another Russian oligarch Berezovsky spent only 200 million US dollars. , bought the Sibneft Company worth more than 10 billion US dollars.

At the same time, Abu is also good at judging the situation and is very skillful.

This can be seen from the fact that after the current Russian strongman came to power, the oligarchs were exiled and exiled. Only Abu can remain standing.

Speaking of which, Abu’s identity is also very interesting. His father is Jewish and his mother is Ukrainian. He became an orphan when he was three years old and was raised by his uncle. Now he is regarded as a Russian oligarch— - This complicated identity seems to Barron, who has the memory of 19 years later... very interesting. After all, he was naturalized in Israel later in the original time and space, and it is simply full of hot spots.

"Bonnie and I also have a lot of topics to talk about, especially when it comes to fashion. I was surprised to find that our tastes are so consistent..."

Sasha Zhukova smiled and said to Barron and the others.

Speaking of which, the background of Abu's new girlfriend is not simple.

Zhukova’s father was a well-known Russian arms dealer and oil giant who later immigrated to England...

She grew up in the United States with her divorced mother and speaks fluent American English.

It is also worth mentioning that Zhukova’s ex-boyfriend is Russian tennis czar Safin, and the two just broke up this year.

But despite this, Zhukova and Abramovich have appeared as a pair, but Abramovich has not divorced his current wife at this time - the two will start a divorce battle next year, and in the end Abramovich obtained the divorce at a cost of 1 billion pounds. Got free.

Of course, as far as Barron knew, the final marriage between Abu and the famous lady in front of him did not last.

That was in his previous life and happened later.

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"Are you interested in fashion again, honey."

On the way back, Barron was in the car, holding Bonnie's hand and asking casually.

"Have you forgotten that I almost started a fashion brand with Victoria?"

Well, Barron sincerely believes that in terms of fashion, if Bonnie is interested, it would be more promising to cooperate with Dasha Zhukova than with Mrs. Beckham. At least as far as he knows, Zhukova The fashion brand launched by Wa and her Chinese friend is developing well, and she later took over the British fashion magazine "POP", which is also doing well.

This time, Barron gained something else from his meeting with Abu.

Abramovich once again invested 500 million pounds in his Caesar Fund. Although he was abroad and obtained a British visa, Abramovich still secretly controlled his properties in Russia, but the huge benefits he would receive gradually Transferred overseas.

After previously investing in the Mars fund, Abu felt the difference in this fund from Caesar Fund's operation of United Energy Group, so he also included it as part of his asset allocation.

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The Digital Future Building in London's East End was completed. Barron did not attend the opening ceremony, but he was still very concerned about the project.

In January, Caesars Fund established a Digital Future Investment Company to invest in local Internet technology companies in the UK. They successively bought 60% of the shares of the DailyVedio.com website, thereby investing funds to develop this video company. Share website.

At the same time, they also bought an old warehouse in the old city of London's East End, where the future London Technology City will be located, and built a Digital Future Building on the original site. This will serve as the incubation park of the Digital Future Investment Company and provide a platform for the British Internet. Startups offer help.

Now that the Digital Future Building has finally been completed, DailyVedio has also moved its headquarters here, becoming the first Internet company to settle in the Digital Future Building.

"Silicon Valley in the United States is the driving center of their Internet industry, and because of the sustained and healthy development of Silicon Valley, a large number of Internet giants have been produced..."

At this time, in the villa in Neverland, Barron talked about this matter with Finance Minister Brown:

"Compared with American and even Chinese companies, the development of the Internet in Europe can be said to be disappointing. Many domestic talents eventually chose to go to Silicon Valley for development. I also hope to change this situation, at least in the field of the Internet. We in the UK should make a difference, and these also need the support of the government."

"Currently, it has just started there and has not yet formed a large scale, so it is suitable for the government to intervene..."

Brown frowned slightly and said:

"But I also agree with your view that in terms of Internet technology, we also need to do our best to promote it, but we need an opportunity."

In fact, after Blair was elected Prime Minister in 1997, he hoped to change the image of Britain's old industrial empire and proposed the concept of "New Britain".

As part of the New Britain Plan, London is positioned to become a "creative city", and the East End of London, located between the West End and the City of London, has become one of the first choices for a creative city.

However, it was not until Cameron took office in 2010 that he formally proposed the slogan of developing the technology industry.

The plan at that time was that the government would create a series of technological innovation centers in the next four years to promote the development of the British high-tech industry.

In November of the same year, the government invested 400 million pounds to build the East London Technology City with the Silicon Roundabout as the core.

East London Technology City is defined as a technology cluster dominated by technology, digital and creative enterprises, and is the "Silicon Valley" of Europe.

However, in Barron's view, it is still a bit late to wait until 2010 before proposing the concept of London Technology City. By that time, I am afraid that the so-called London Technology City will only be too dependent on companies such as Google. , American giants like Facebook.

Therefore, when he talked about this matter with Brown this time, he still hoped that at least until he built the digital future incubator to a certain scale, after Brown took over the baton of power in two years, he could make financial and policy decisions there in advance. support.