Rebirth of the Super Landlord

After getting up the next day, Su Zhen had no interest in going to the interview anymore. The leading role had been decided anyway. Su Zhen didn't have the patience to interview all the roles one by one, so he made a phone call and found an excuse to leave the rest.

All the work was directly handed over to Shirley and Peter, and the other parties naturally had no objections to this.

Since there is no need to continue watching boring auditions, Su Zhen simply solved the servants and security issues in the manor today.

Because the manor is so big, and he and others do not live in the manor for a long time, hiring a servant will definitely require a manager, so Su Zhen plans to hire a housekeeper.

There was no need to go out, so he still called Citibank. Soon the other party recommended Su Zhen to a local brokerage company in Los Angeles. Soon the broker came to visit with information. In the end, Su Zhen chose a man in his fifties.

An old Chinese housekeeper, and made an appointment to meet him in the afternoon.

"Hello, Mr. Su, I am Wang Youxin." After meeting, the other party introduced himself in English. He was a very strong old man, tall and very energetic.

"Hello, was Mr. Wang born in the United States? You should speak Mandarin, right?" Su Zhen asked in Chinese.

"Of course, I came to the United States with my father when I was a teenager, so I can naturally speak Mandarin," Mr. Wang replied with a smile, "Because I didn't know that Mr. Su was from China, so I said hello in English."

"Oh? How do you know I'm from China?" Su Zhen asked curiously.

"Haha, few Chinese who grew up in the United States can speak Mandarin as fluently as Mr. Su," Mr. Wang replied with a smile.

Su Zhen thought about it. If you are a Chinese born and raised in the United States, no matter how fluent you are in Mandarin, you will still have a somewhat American English accent.

Through communication, Su Zhen learned that Mr. Wang's father was an officer in the Republic of China. After the civil war, his family moved to the United States and studied British butler courses.

"You don't need to call me sir, it's too foreign. Just call me by my name. I'll call you Uncle Wang." Su Zhen said, "If there's no problem, I'll ask Uncle Wang to be the steward of this manor."

"Of course I don't have any problem, but the etiquette cannot be discarded. I'll still call you young master." Uncle Wang said respectfully, but his meaning was obvious. There is a difference between master and servant, and he did not intend to compromise on the issue of title.

"Hey, it's whatever, the young master will be the young master," Su Zhen said helplessly. The British butler is not very good at this and is a bit rigid. "From now on, the security and daily management of the manor will be all handed over to you."

"No problem" Uncle Wang replied.

The people from the brokerage company sitting aside could only stare when they saw the two communicating in Chinese all the time, but it could be seen from Su Zhen's expression that he was very satisfied with Wang Youxin, which made him very happy.

After that, the contract was negotiated, and finally Wang Youxin was appointed as the housekeeper with an annual salary of 120,000 US dollars.

This is the standard income for a British butler. In fact, although Wang Youxin has been a butler for more than 20 years in the United States, although his ability is very outstanding, even better than most white butlers, because of his Chinese identity,

I didn't get along as well as I could, but now that I can get this job, I'm very happy inside.

After the agent left, Uncle Wang got into work. After looking at the entire manor, Uncle Wang quickly calculated the manpower needed for his family service team. Generally, a complete family service team for a traditional British butler.

Including tutors, cooks, bodyguards, gardeners, tailors, nannies, and domestic servants. Now except for tutors and tailors, other manpower is still indispensable. Chef Su Zhen thought about it and decided to hire two, one Chinese restaurant

For a Western restaurant, it is enough to hire only one long-term gardener. For nannies and domestic servants, due to the large area of ​​​​the home, about three people are needed to maintain daily cleaning and some housework. As for security guards, due to the need to work 24 hours a day in shifts, it is set as

Six people, which means twelve people need to be recruited.

In the end, Su Zhen was shocked when Uncle Wang reported the annual expenses for maintaining the operation of the manor. The first was security, because the original security equipment of this manor had been obsolete seven or eight years ago. If it needed to be replaced, it would cost dozens of dollars.

Thousands of dollars, plus the wages of hiring various personnel and the maintenance of manor facilities, etc., the initial cost will be nearly one million. Although the later costs will be saved, it will still cost tens of millions every year including labor wages.

One hundred thousand.

Su Zhen was quite speechless about this. No wonder in his previous life, he often heard that wealthy celebrities either sold their mansions or borrowed debt because they could not support the maintenance costs of their mansions. It is really difficult to maintain such high expenses without a stable and high income, let alone pay them back.

There's that disgusting property tax.

Fortunately, Su Zhen's pockets are still quite deep now, and he can afford the expense. Finally, he reluctantly wrote a check to Uncle Wang and handed over all the affairs of the manor to him.

After solving the problem of the manor, Su Zhen was ready to return to Harvard. Originally, he wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity to get closer to Charlize Dodo. Unfortunately, Liu Ru's urging call came first because he was about to arrive.

It was time for autumn enrollment in the United States, and Liu Ru urged Su Zhen to return to Illinois to finalize the enrollment matter.

Su Zhen had no choice but to obey the order and prepare to go back tomorrow. However, he did not forget his plane plan and planned to buy a plane for fun.

Originally, Su Zhen wanted to ask Citi about Gulfstream, the best private jet company he had heard of in his previous life, but Citi recommended Su Zhen to another aircraft manufacturing company - Boeing.

Su Zhen was very curious. Doesn't Boeing produce large business jets? Does it also build private jets? After learning about it, Su Zhen learned that Boeing was preparing to enter the private jet market in 1996 and established it in cooperation with GE.

Boeing Business Jets, using the Boeing 737 as a prototype, began the research and development of private business aircraft. Now the first finished product will soon undergo test flights, which is the famous Boeing BBJ series in later generations.

As for why Citi's customer service manager recommended Boeing, Su Zhen is not difficult to understand. Today's Citigroup is developing rapidly and has penetrated into the military industry, and Boeing is an important member of Citigroup.

However, when Su Zhen took a look, he saw that the price of this Boeing BBJ was quite high. Its estimated selling price was 30 million US dollars. This was still bare metal. Including interior decoration, it was worth 40 million US dollars. This made it very difficult.

Su Zhen, who had a little money in his pocket, secretly sighed. It seems that we are not rich enough. If we buy this plane, we will become a pauper again. I am afraid that I will not even be able to afford the crew. I will buy it as a decoration?

But it doesn't stop Su Zhen from taking a look when the time comes. If it's really good, it doesn't matter if he buys it. Anyway, several Internet companies under the investment company are preparing to go public. By then, selling off the shares of several companies with small potential can also make a big profit.

If you make a fortune, you won't really be able to afford it, but it's still too early now. This aircraft will not fly until September, and it will take several months to obtain various approvals.

Putting aside the matter of buying a plane for the time being, Su Zhen began to think about schooling. In fact, apart from universities, the educational system in the United States is similar to that in China, which is also twelve years. However, the difference is that in the precise sense, there are no junior high schools in the United States, only junior high schools.

Elementary school and high school. Although there is the word middle school in English, it is together with the elementary school. There are eight grades in total. It is not separated as a separate stage in China. High school has four grades. That is to say

The first grade of high school is equivalent to the third grade of junior high school in China, but the learning content and coursework are much easier than in China. The key is where to go to school.

It's not that Su Zhen doesn't want to go to school in Los Angeles, where there are so many beauties, but Su Zhen doesn't trust the ranch. Su Zhen knows that the ranch is his fundamental place. It was really fast to write novels and invest in movies and Internet companies before, but his knowledge is only

It lasted until the end of 2013, and it would be impossible to make big money in this way again, but the animal husbandry industry is different. As long as your Jade Card is still there, there is no possibility of the ranch losing money, and only the Jade Card can guarantee that your descendants will be able to do so.

It has continued steadily without decay.

Let’s talk about Chicago. Because American schools adopt small class sizes, the number of students in each school is generally around a few hundred to a thousand. A school with more than two thousand is already a very large school. Therefore, there are many schools in the United States. Only in Chicago

There are as many as 138 public high schools in the district, which is only in the urban area and does not include several districts around Chicago.

So Su Zhen was worried about which school to go to at first, but in the end he decided to forget it and just go to the high school in Harvard Town like Liu Shihua did. There was really no need to go to Chicago to go to high school.

Liu Ru meant that if Su Zhen went to school in Chicago, then he could take care of Su Zhen's life. But Su Zhen thought about it, the distance between the two places was not far, less than a hundred kilometers in total, and it only took one or two people to drive.

It’s only an hour, so it’s very convenient to meet each other. Besides, you can take care of yourself, right?