England 1986

Chapter 146 A Lively Day

Li Zhi had a slightly weird expression when he heard the story that so-and-so was the patron saint of Wales from Alan's mouth.

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

This made Li Zhi feel a little weird.

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

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

then
With the widespread spread of people, just like Guan Sheng, David gradually became holy, and the church was expanded again and again. After hundreds of years of renovation and expansion, it finally became St. David's Cathedral.

There are more titles such as sacred and great.

The convoy stopped at the entrance of the cathedral. Since Wales itself has a small population, although today is the 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 little wilted.

According to tradition, every March 31st 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.
The pace of modern society is so fast that few people can spare time to go to church every week.

People like Allen basically don't go to church a few times a year.

I took Li Zhi, who was tightly wrapped in sun protection clothing, for a tour, and walked into the church with a few people. The clerics in charge of the reception, when they saw Alan, subconsciously twitched .

Just nodded slightly to Allen, as a gesture.

They didn't have to salute Allen, and they even disliked him a little.

Allen didn't take it seriously either. None of the churches in Wales liked the Hill family.What they do is to save the world, but theirs is to kill the Welsh.

although
In the end, they all sent him to heaven, the results were similar, but they didn't like him, but they didn't dare to say anything more. Not kicking him out was already the greatest respect for him.

As the prelude played, the pastor came out and stood under the cross. He saw Alan sitting in the first row at first glance. He had no prejudice against the earl, and he looked at Alan and nodded slightly. .

Then began today's worship process.

Li Zhi imitated Alan's appearance, put his hands on his knees, and sat in a well-behaved manner.

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The choir enters to sing.

Then the pastor waited for the choir to finish, and then proceeded to the next step of prayer, confession, Bible reading, etc.

These steps took about five to ten minutes, very cumbersome.

Allen kept looking around from the corner of his eye, looking very serious.

until another process starts.

Several priests held the small wooden box and began to let the believers make offerings!
What to do in ancient times, no matter what the atonement roll or something, Alan doesn't understand, but he knows this, it's the same as donating incense money in temples!

He took out an envelope from his pocket and pulled out a stack of pounds, counted twenty and handed them to Li Zhi, and said in a low voice, "This is yours, stuff it into that little box later."

"Oh!"

The clergyman was already approaching Allen. When he was still a step away from him, the clergyman looked up and stopped. money.

"???"

Allen stared, the most important thing he came here today was to donate money!

Before doing big things, the habit of Chinese people is to find a temple to worship, don't care about whether it is effective or not, let's talk about it after worshiping!

Wales doesn’t have that kind of temple, so we can only find the largest church to make do with it. Anyway, it’s all money. When the time comes, St. David’s spirit in the sky will look at it for the sake of the pound, so it will give me some face!

But now, this Diao Mao holding the offering box can't come over, and won't take his money from Master Allen?

How does this work?
Squinting his eyes, Allen frowned, but without making a sound, he stretched out his right hand and hooked his index finger lightly.

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

"Humph!"

With a cold snort, Allen stuffed twenty £[-] bills in, and then signaled the clergy with his eyes to go on and go to Li Zhi to continue collecting money!
Although there are [-] pounds in denomination now, the circulation rate of that thing is too low. The largest denomination in normal circulation on the market is only [-] pounds.

As an earl, it is reasonable to donate [-] pounds with the gift.

The pastor had a panoramic view of the situation in the audience throughout the whole process. Seeing that Earl Allen had given so much, he smiled more gently. This time he met Allen's eyes, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

After the main event was over, there were more than half an hour of other processes left, such as reports, blessings, etc. Allen finished it patiently, and finally went out of the church to check the time. It was already 10:30.

Going home now for lunch!
Highgrove Manor.

Today is the weekend, the princess went to church for worship, and Charles returned to London.

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

There are only two noble highnesses left.

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

There was no place to raise cattle on the estate, but if he wanted to raise cattle, he could only put his precious cattle in Charles' stable.

Well, kids, they got a new big toy, so they have to show it off.

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

Although William is not much older than Harry, after getting in touch with Alan a lot, he thinks he is very mature, so he inevitably looks down on his younger brother who often eats snot.

Harry was dumbfounded as William bragged to him about how big his new cow would grow!
For 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 is only more than one ton!

Even some smaller hatchbacks don't even weigh a ton!

And this is just the weight of a cow. When this kind of thing grows up, as long as it runs up, it will kill whoever hits it.

Several servants brought the two young princes to the stables, and a servant was brushing William's calf with a brush.

"See! This is the new cow my cousin gave me!"

Harry looked at the black calf, not particularly envious, he didn't like it very much, but...
Cousin never gave him anything!

Children have a heart for comparison, and William's behavior makes him feel very uncomfortable.

"Lead out, lead out! I'm taking Harry for a bull ride!"

With a wave of his little hand, William asked the servant to lead the cow.

"No, Your Highness, this calf hasn't been trained yet, it will fall to you!"

"Ok?"

William squinted his eyes, looked at humanity and said, "It's your fault whether you have been trained or not! It's been a whole night, why haven't you trained yet?! It's really useless!"

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

This calf is said to be a calf, but it has grown to more than 100 catties. How can this calf be trained overnight? !

Besides, what time did you come back yesterday?

"Harry!"

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

"I"

Harry looked at the calf who was taller than himself. Although he was not very sensible, such a big calf was scary to look at!
But looking at his brother's eyes, Harry was hardened for a rare moment, sniffed his nose, nodded and did not speak.

William happily looked at the calf brought by the servant.

The back of the black Indian bison's back neck is slightly raised, and it has no horns yet, but it can already see the rough shape of the grown-up in the future.

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

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

William stood behind and directed blindly. Although the servants looked embarrassed, they still scattered around slightly, leaving room for Harry to see what the little Highness wanted to do.

Harry is still young
He doesn't know much, and he is in the stage of life where he plays around all day.

Thinking about how people usually ride horses, he pulled out the small children's riding whip hanging from his waist, and pointed it at the calf's head, and it was a whip when he went up!

His operation not only stunned the onlookers William and his servants, but even Maverick was stunned by the sudden jerk.

Time seemed to have stood still, the dumbfounded servants around, and the two little highnesses in the field all remained motionless.

The Mavericks were the first to react!

This thing has a bad temper. It just came to a new environment. In the early morning, someone took a warm bath for it. It was happy at first, but then it was surrounded by a circle of people. Finally...
Actually, a little Douding whipped it with a whip, and it hurt a lot!
"Moo!"

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

"Protect Your Highness!"

The crowd was in a mess, and the servant's movement disrupted the tight formation that had surrounded the Mavericks.

Maverick found the empty space, got out from the crowd, and ran towards the distance without knowing the direction.

William watched the cow run away before realizing it, and shouted: "Catch the live one! Don't hurt my cow! Go, go, catch the cow for me!"

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

That direction is His Highness's garden!
"Master, this is an expert in economic research. He is in charge of telling you about the current economic situation of the island country and the forecast of future trends."

"Ah."

In the small reception room on the third floor of the manor, Allen sat on the sofa, looked at the gray-haired middle-aged man of Indian descent who came in, and nodded, indicating that he could give a lecture.

As a scumbag, Allen is not interested in other studies, but he is only interested in making money.

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

There are not a few days left before the thunderstorm in the American stock market. Allen is going to hug the buddha's feet temporarily 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 on it, a blackboard and a projector behind it!
The one sitting on the sofa under the stage is now the Earl of Carmarthen who is well-known throughout Great Britain!

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

Now, I have also been invited to teach alone, which makes the middle-aged man even more emotional, look at
This is an aristocrat. Although he has money, property, moral character, and good looks, His Excellency the Earl needs tutors even on weekends!
He was born with a high starting point, but still works so hard, this person deserves his fame today!

The middle-aged professor took chalk and wrote the titles of several chapters. He spoke eloquently from the 60s to the mid-80s, explaining the economic situation of the entire island country.

In order to facilitate Alan's understanding, a lot of comparisons have been added, and even the Great Britain of different periods was used for comparison, so that Alan can understand.

"Your Excellency. The current economic situation of the island country seems to be better than ours, but this is just a sign."

"According to our statistics, their current banks have already seen negative interest rates for 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 have to pay the bank another interest?

shit
Who still saves money here?

"To stimulate consumption?"

"With such a purpose, although everyone is in a recession now, the more ordinary people and enterprises like to tighten their wallets, consume rationally, or consume less in this period, but the market has shrunk and enterprises are affected. The impact is also big, which will bring about a chain reaction.”

The middle-aged professor nodded.

No wonder Sony is so rich and powerful, the feeling is that the money will become less!

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

But when it is deposited in the bank, interest will be generated every day-interest to the bank.

No one will be reconciled to this!
Let’s not talk about hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of yuan, but what about hundreds of millions?
How much interest will be paid on so much money in one day?
Might as well invest in it!
Although the investment has lost and earned, but the money in the bank can only be kept low!

There is only one way out, which is to expand overseas markets and invest outside!

"As ordinary people consume less, many factories cut down on scale and close down due to cost considerations or other project considerations as profits decline. 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! There is a price war between companies in the same industry, and the price of the product is getting cheaper! Or in order to increase sales, improve the quality of the product, and increase the speed of replacement, squeeze profits through various means of internal friction. compete!"

"and many more!"

Allen frowned, why did the word sound so familiar to him?
(End of this chapter)