What a beautiful family portrait.
Due to the shooting angle, the perspective in the photo is taken from the sea facing the beach.
Chikli's team is very professional. The photos taken are of extremely high clarity. The sun shines on the beach, and the entire beach is golden under the sunlight.
Two pink and tender little kids are squatting on the beach and building castles with sand. The kids look innocent and naive. Not far behind them in the same frame, there is a white beach chair. The Duchess is lying on her back on the beach chair in a bikini. Maybe because of fighting monsters, the top one has run out of durability and disappeared.
A middle-aged man with a Mediterranean hairstyle but a great figure was squatting next to the beach chair. He was holding the Duchess's feet in front of his nose with a smile on his face, looking intoxicated.
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This is a whole set of photos. Especially when you look at them one by one, it is almost like reading a comic strip. The characters and backgrounds in each photo are the same, with just slight differences in the movements. The biggest difference is the two little girls squatting in the front playing with sand, and the middle-aged man in the back.
He first held his feet and sniffed them carefully, then slowly tasted them. Both his eyes and facial expressions were clearly captured.
Finally, a little girl stood up and pointed in the direction of the photographer, and then the two little girls looked in this direction, and then...
In this group of photos of four people, the protagonists become the two people at the back...
It was really unrestrained and unrestrained. They looked like a loving couple, who took their two daughters to the beach for vacation. The daughters were playing beside them, and the couple were whispering and laughing in the back. When they were deeply in love, they couldn't help but prepare to create a younger brother for their two daughters on the spot...
The photos end here. The photos clearly capture the details of the couple. The link between the two parties has been successfully established and the evidence is conclusive!
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Alan looked at such a popular set of photos. This result was beyond his imagination. He really caught a big fish this time...The only flaw might be that the Duchess was a little dark. She had only been married for a few years and her skin was worn out a bit.
"How did you do that?"
Putting down the photos, Allen was very concerned about how Chickley did it. He was ready to expose these things, but before exposing them, he had to make a backup plan to avoid getting into trouble.
He dared to expose this matter, but he didn't dare let people know that he did it.
"Boss... We rented a small fishing boat and drove it to a place about ten miles away from their beach at midnight every day. Then we lowered a small kayak and used our people to paddle slowly towards them. There was an exposed reef not far from the beach of the villa they rented. Our people wore camouflage clothing and lay on the reef."
"All equipment has been waterproofed. We have a total of four photographers on surveillance duty. Each of them will monitor the area for a whole day until dark in the second half of the night. Then someone will be sent to pick up another person and send a new person up."
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Don’t think that what Chikli said is simple. First of all... this is not something that ordinary people can do.
If it were ordinary paparazzi or something like that, what problem would they solve first?
They had no idea about the Duchess's schedule, so how could they send someone to follow her?
You can imagine how difficult it is to follow a member of the royal family who doesn't want to be followed.
How can you take a secret photo if you can’t even find the person?
And Allen already has the biggest trump card in his hand.
He checked the recommendation letter his boss gave him, and he has an insider!
The royal bodyguards are trustworthy in their professionalism, but with an insider, you only need to tell Allen in advance where your people are going. Even though this is such simple information, just this... can already accomplish a lot of big things!
In addition, this time the bodyguards were deliberately sent away by the Duchess, and Chikli's photographer approached from the sea. The bodyguards were completely unprepared for this side. They were able to take these photos because of the right time, place and people. If it were someone else, they would have failed at the first step.
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"Boss, don't worry. We cleaned up the scene very well. We definitely didn't leave any clues. The photographer doesn't smoke. We took everything away."
Seeing Allen lost in thought, Chikli quickly recalled his memory of handling the scene and added a sentence.
"Um……"
Looking at these photos in front of me, they must be exposed, but at this time...
Alan planned to wait a little longer, and once he got the money, he would launch the operation there, which would just help him get out of Hong Kong. He would not wade into the muddy water this time, but he still had to take the money, as he was short of money right now, and it would be a waste not to take it.
"Just this photo. Destroy the others first. Take the film with you and go..."
At this point, Alan suddenly paused and thought about the small media he had slowly bought a few years ago.
Today's media, whether print or radio, has a great influence and is the main channel for most people to obtain external information.
But the prices of influential media are a bit inflated now, and Allen can't afford it...
He bought village-level and county-level media, small media and tabloids with very limited influence.
These small media were initially acquired as a package and stuffed into 21st Century Earl Pictures to serve as background boards for their size. Over the years since the acquisition, only a director and financial officer have been assigned to each of them, and the rest of the operations remain unchanged.
But now…
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Haha...if a woman from an ordinary family cheated on her husband, it would be a small matter at most. In this day and age, it would not even be qualified to be reported in the newspaper. Unless the man gets brave enough and kills the cheating couple, then it would be qualified to be reported in the news.
But if the cheating woman has a different identity...
Then the nature of this matter is different.
Furthermore, the photo shows not only the woman cheating, but she actually cheated under the pretext of traveling with her children, which is even more outrageous.
Although Prince Andrew's current title is Duke, his two daughters are real princesses. The cheating picture with the two little princesses as the background...
As long as it gets exposed, the sales of the newspaper... will definitely be sold out.
What Allen is thinking about now is whether he can take advantage of this opportunity to let the small media under his command follow suit and get some popularity.
If we take these small media as the first release, that will definitely not work, as the target is too big.
We need to find a scapegoat first, someone who is strong and influential.
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Chikli looked at Allen and suddenly stopped talking, then fell into deep thought. He sat down obediently, not daring to disturb Allen, and just listened to the second hand of the clock in the study, echoing softly in this quiet space.
finally!
After an unknown amount of time, Chikli heard Allen's voice again.
"You take the film to Los Angeles in person and find old Carl. Let him make the arrangements. As for the rest... you take my letter and show it to old Carl. You don't have to worry about anything else."
If we were to ask who is the most enthusiastic about news about the British royal family, it would definitely be the Americans.
After some thought, Allen finally decided to let the first media be America. As for where the release would be in the end, that would depend on old Carl's arrangement.
After old Carl arranges the first release media in the United States, he will go to make arrangements with other small media. With the American media taking the lead, the small media under Allen will be able to follow suit and reap the benefits in the second wave. These small media are originally famous for their lack of moral integrity. If they don’t have a certain degree of information sensitivity, how can they survive?
For this exposure plan, Allen planned to spread the entire news in the shortest possible time. He made sure to let the public see this shocking news quickly and without any preparation, and then make the actions of the two people in the picture into established facts.
Compared to stabbing someone to death on the street in London, this was a trivial matter in the eyes of the Queen.
But if it involves her children, especially if her daughter-in-law cheated on her husband, and took her granddaughter with her, and cheated in front of her granddaughter...
I'm sure the Queen will be surprised when she sees these photos in the newspaper.
And Prince Andrew will also suffer a wave of unexpected disasters.
With this, Britain will definitely be bustling in a short period of time.
Um……
Thinking of this, Alan resisted the urge to sleep, took out a pen and paper, and began to write a letter to old Carl.
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The next morning, after breakfast, Alan was reading with great interest the information that Xiao Shitou had collected for him.
After reading the book "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard" that day, Alan became interested in it.
Some people read this kind of book simply out of curiosity or to satisfy their desires.
But when Alan saw the book again this time, in addition to bringing back his memories, he also found some opportunities in it.
For example...
Since the quality of magazines like this one in Hong Kong is so good, can we directly acquire them and use them to supplement our own "Sailor's Happy Hour"?
Allen did not agree with the old earl's previous concept of the magazine. Older models were very cheap to use, and of course... the sailors were not satisfied with them.
As the person involved, Allen is the one who can get first-hand information about the client.
Mobile phones these days are not smart phones, and there are no entertainment facilities on the ship.
The sailors just want to read a large-scale magazine to relieve their worries. Is there anything wrong with that?
They just want to see some photos of pretty girls, or more explicit photos. Is that difficult?
Why do they have to give them their older sister's magazines?
Isn't this abuse?
So...now Alan plans to improve his own magazine based on the main force in Hong Kong.
It just so happens that the unemployment rate in Eastern Europe is even more serious right now. If "Dragon Tiger Sun" can use Thai girls to disguise themselves as Hong Kong girls, then why can't he use Eastern European girls to disguise themselves as British girls?
Eastern European girls are even prettier!
Then let the editors of "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard" translate some entertaining and educational pornographic texts into English, so as to improve the quality of "Sailor's Happy Hour" and increase the amount of stories.
Our British sailors are in urgent need of a more advanced foreign cultural baptism.
In this way, with his current influence, he can slowly expand his own magazine among the navy, from the previous 30% share to 50% or even more.
As long as the possession increases, we may be able to sell it back to the US military. We are all allies and good brothers. If we have good things, we should take the initiative to share them!
When the size of my family's magazine grows, would it be reasonable to mix some personal opinions into the short stories in the magazine?
Allen is not primarily after money; he is after fame and influence.
As long as he infiltrates the navy first and gives him a few years, he will be able to extend his tentacles very long.
Anyway...Alan used to serve in the navy, so it was reasonable for him to board this "big ship" of the navy.
A few years later...any sailor on any British or American warship, just mention the name of the magazine at home, and they will all read it. That scene, wow...
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The information Allen had in his hand was the approximate operating structure and personnel list of the current "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard" magazine, as well as the approximate profit and capital structure.
This magazine company, right now... looking at the data, doesn't seem to be doing very well.
"Um?"
I clearly feel that this magazine is still doing very well, so why do the data show that this magazine is not doing well?
Alan was a little puzzled by this introduction.
I turned another page and finally found the answer.
Do magazines make money nowadays?
Very profitable!
The net profit is more than three million Hong Kong dollars every month.
Even if this is converted into British pounds, it would be about 200,000 or 300,000.
The profit is higher than that earned by selling the magazines through allotment.
But the boss behind this magazine is a spendthrift who doesn't know how to manage money and is not good at showing kindness to others.
Although the magazine was very profitable, he was very harsh on his employees who created these profits for him.
Not to mention rewards like year-end dividends, even employee salaries are sometimes not paid on time.
In addition, the magazine "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard" produced by their magazine has a good reputation and almost monopolized more than half of the market, so they made many enemies.
These enemies would occasionally send some thugs to cause trouble at their magazine office.
Not only do employees fail to get their wages on time, they are also living in fear.
The other founder in the past, whose surname was Lin, could not stand the stinginess of his boss behind the scenes, so he took a few backbone members of the magazine and went out to work on his own.
A magazine called "Manly" was also established.
But on the "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard" side, the manager named Lin did not give up and was running between the two sides.
Later, the boss found out about his behavior, and the two broke up. Lin couldn't afford to offend his former boss, so he immigrated to San Francisco with his family...
Now he is in America, remotely managing the magazine here, and living a pretty carefree life.
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When Alan saw this, his eyes lit up. Isn’t San Francisco the same as San Francisco?
He is familiar with this place...
Since the former magazine founder and editor-in-chief Jian is in Los Angeles, he doesn't need to acquire the current "Dragon Tiger Leopard". Can't he just poach people directly?
With these people... my own magazine can finally stand on its own two feet.
Without the burden of the magazine company, Alan could finally breathe a sigh of relief. At least he did not lose all the old business in his family.
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