Seeing that Alan didn't respond, Boss Cha didn't care. He just wanted to give a reminder. In his opinion, these were all trivial matters. It didn't matter if he didn't know. Now that there was some gossip, he just needed to pay a little attention. With Alan's ability, there was no need to expect him to use this information to "make waves" in the financial market in advance.
"I heard that you went to Jordan some time ago? Did your secretary get married to a rich man?"
"Ahahaha... Your Highness, I just went over to have fun. I have a personal relationship with Prince Hussein."
Boss Cha stared at Allen and said pointedly, "Pay attention to your own business. The Americans have been very active there recently. Last month, there was a lot of noise about their affairs with the Chinese. You know that the United Nations is also in a mess in Somalia recently. I had to cancel my scheduled trip because of the latest developments. That's why I have been free these few days."
"Don't worry, Your Highness. What can happen to me? It's all a private relationship. Besides, I have already told the ambassador in Jordan that if anything really happens, he can notify me. As for other matters..."
Alan thought about what his boss said about the Americans and the Chinese. It was all because of that ship.
He dared not even touch such matters. One was a new boss who had succeeded in a local area, and the other was a small businessman doing "legitimate" business. When a conflict occurred between the two sides, the problem was not with the boat, but with the two parties themselves.
To put it bluntly, the Americans are just using this ship to cause trouble. If there is no this ship, there will be other ships. Contraband items... are all excuses.
However, in the past two years, since the Americans have thoroughly demonstrated their strength in the Middle East, they have become more and more arrogant. A lot of people have long disliked them. Maybe there are some things...
You can do it, but it can't be so obvious, and you can't always shit on other people's heads, like Allen. Even if he bullies people, he only picks on the big ones. He is too lazy to bully ordinary people. And even if he bullies people, he has to bully them speechless and do it reasonably and legally. He can't do it recklessly without caring about the consequences. What era is it now? If you still use the old methods, you will suffer a lot in the long run. The Americans are now... all that's missing is someone who will stab them in the back.
According to what Boss Cha said, the situation in Somalia has been tense recently. It is probably almost certain that the Americans will suffer a setback here sooner or later. Alan is ready to watch the show.
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"By the way, early next year, you and I will go to Australia together."
"To Australia?"
No matter what Allen does, since Boss Cha says he has to go, then he'll just go along. After all, doing this kind of thing more often won't do him any harm.
"Well, they participated in their national day and invited me to give a speech."
Boss Cha looked at Alan, who was busy eating and didn't even look up when he spoke. He frowned and glared at Alan.
"Eat, eat, eat. Did you hear what I said?!"
"I heard you, Your Highness. Wherever you say, I'm always ready to answer your call. Your Highness... I haven't seen you for a long time. What's wrong with me eating some of your food?"
"Get out of here right after you finish eating!"
Boss Cha looked at Alan, who was a tough guy, and waved his hand in annoyance. After he finished his business, he started to chase him away.
Alan put down his fork and wiped his mouth. He was half full after finishing this crappy lunch and then started to chase people away. Boss Cha has become more and more irritable recently. This temper is not good. Is this how you treat your loyal subjects?
As Alan bowed and was about to leave the restaurant, Boss Cha felt that he had missed something, but he was so angry that he couldn't remember it for a while.
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After going downstairs and walking to the car, Alan glanced at the smiling Butler Capel. In this situation... should he take something before leaving?
"Butler Capel, have you forgotten something?"
"Uh... Your Excellency, what do you mean...?"
Butler Capel was a little confused, and the smile on his face faded. Suddenly... his expression became a little unnatural, as if he remembered something.
"Ahahaha... since you can't remember, I'll do it myself. You... you, go get me a few chickens according to the number from last time, and tell His Highness that I didn't eat enough today."
Alan stared at the guard who looked familiar, the unlucky guy from last time, and once again ordered him to help him catch the chicken.
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After finishing today's chores, the TV station was taken over, and the report to the leader was also completed. Not only did he get his work done, but he also finalized his schedule for the beginning of next year. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was only a few months away, Alan felt relaxed.
All that’s left is to go to Sweden on a business trip next month to give a gift, and then everything will be fine!
Haha, a good life is beckoning to him. As for whether the pound depreciates or not, Alan doesn't care at all. The living environment is different. In his previous life, although prices also rose where he lived, it was just like boiling a frog in warm water. There was no big hype from the outside world. In addition, in the early years, everyone was poor. Whether prices rise or not, does it matter to ordinary people?
In the 1980s and 1990s, the worst TV set cost hundreds of dollars. How many ordinary families could afford one?
Ordinary people only earn a few dozen dollars a month, so shouldn’t they just do what they want to do?
Who would have imagined at that time that a few decades later, housing prices would soar into the sky?
Could people at that time have imagined that housing prices would be several thousand or tens of thousands per square meter?
Unexpectedly wow...
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After resting at home for two days, Alan was free and sat in the new study room flipping through documents with a frown on his brow.
Now his private secretariat is on track. Every month, a secretary takes turns to go to Alan's office at the European Parliament headquarters in France to help him collect information from there.
The other secretaries followed him to work normally in the old manor. If there was anything, these secretaries would go through it first. The bigger matters would be handed over to Xiao Shitou, the trainee butler, and the bigger matters would be handed over to Hut, the old butler, and finally the bigger matters would be handed over to Allen.
In this way, Alan's workload was greatly reduced. On average, he only had to deal with one or two documents a day, and they were not urgent. Even if he was lazy for a few days, he could deal with them later.
Everything is on track. Except for the fact that many industries have been temporarily suspended or are being maintained as best as possible due to lack of funds, everything else is fine.
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The document in front of him was a summary of the investment projects attracted from China, regarding the plan to "revitalize the economy of Carmarthenshire" that Alan had requested last time.
Among them was the breakfast stall Alan had seen in Cardiff a few days ago.
These are the people who came over there. They felt that the competitiveness for development in Carmarthenshire was a bit too fierce, so they dispersed spontaneously.
The rest also brought in the first batch of small commodities, which were not very high-end items even in China, and their main selling point was that they were cheap!
Some samples of these things were placed on Allen's desk for him to look at.
There are patterns of peonies, mandarin ducks, etc. on the red iron sheet. This old-fashioned thermos is said to be China's flagship export product.
Alan took the thermos and it felt very solid. This thing was not comparable to the plastic thermos that would be available decades later. Nowadays, Chinese people are still very simple and honest. When producing goods, their idea is to make the quality as good as possible. They have never thought about planned obsolescence.
Both the external and internal materials are very solid and of very good quality. Apart from the somewhat rustic appearance, there are no other shortcomings.
Looking around the world, it seems that only Chinese people like to drink boiled water, or hot water. People from other places like to drink cold water, except for making tea.
But thermos don't have to be used to hold drinking water. They can be used to hold hot coffee or hot milk. As long as they are cheap, they are very popular even in Wales.
In addition to thermos, we also got two other key products exported by China: towel blanket and enamel basin.
There is no need to talk about the towel quilt. In terms of craftsmanship and materials, this thing is no worse than similar products produced in the UK. But the key is that even if this thing is imported, it is much cheaper than things in the UK.
This season is the right time to sell these things. As for the enamel basin, it goes without saying that this thing is strong and durable, and most importantly, it looks good. Even if the pattern on it is a little bit rustic in Alan's opinion, it is full of exotic atmosphere in the eyes of others!
After looking at these three flagship products one by one, there were still a few plastic bags left on the table, which contained packaged clothing samples.
Alan opened the plastic bag and found the packaging inside was very simple. In his opinion, it was a packaging that had absolutely no business sense.
They took a good cotton short-sleeved shirt and folded it into a roll, tied it up with a wide strip of cloth, and that was it.
What style the clothes are, long sleeves or short sleeves, what pattern is printed on them, you can’t tell at all unless you open the package.
After opening the package, Alan touched the material of the clothes. The pure cotton was very strong, but the hand feel was a little hard. This should be a problem with the manufacturing equipment and process. Old-fashioned cotton short-sleeved shirts were like this. They had little elasticity and were round-neck pullovers. They became larger as they were worn, and basically lost their shape after washing them a few times. There were the words "Serve the People" printed on the chest, and below them were the words "a certain cotton mill".
Alan threw away the short-sleeved shirt and wrote a note on the document. All these things could be sold first, and even the appearance didn't need to be changed. Only the words on the short-sleeved shirt needed to be slightly changed. For example, it could be changed to "God Save the Queen" or something like that. That would be enough. He should sell them first while the season is here.
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Putting down the signed document, Alan yawned and looked at the time on the wall clock. It was three forty, time for afternoon tea!
The old-fashioned pull-cord bell has been replaced by a new electric bell. There is a hidden thing on Alan's desk, like a power strip. It can be pushed down and hidden to keep the desk flat. When it is needed, just press down lightly with your fingers, and the front row will rise up like a roadblock, with a row of buttons of different colors and text on them.
There is a call button to directly call the person on duty, a button to order food when you are hungry, a button for when you are tired and want a massage, and there are buttons for taking a shower and calling the secretary. In this way, he doesn't have to call people in and then explain what to do when he wants to do something as before. It is more convenient to express himself, and the servants on duty outside the door can also save a lot of trouble. Usually, only two people need to sit in the duty room at the end of the corridor, watching the surveillance and waiting.
After pressing the button for refreshments, Alan put down the documents and leaned back in his chair. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the documents on the Welsh TV station on the table. Additional staff had been sent there in the past few days to take over the TV station in full.
When I think of Welsh TV, Alan has his own arrangements for this.
First of all, we must not be like before, trying to spread some reactionary information from time to time, but not doing it thoroughly. It has no other benefits except making people laugh. As for bilingual programs, cancel them all!
It's just a crappy local TV station, why is it making a fool of itself by producing bilingual programs?
For normal daytime programs, we return to the main topic. In addition to normal news reports, we should have more serious TV programs. The ratings don’t matter, as long as there are programs to fill the numbers.
With fellow junior students from the Journalism and Media Department of Cardiff University, Alan plans to have more news reports about the whole of Wales. He plans to recruit more college students, trick them into coming to work under the pretext of internships, and then send them out to visit every corner of Wales under the pretext of making rural programs and getting close to the masses, which will also make it easier for Alan to monitor the place secretly.
This not only saved money, but also increased his control over the whole of Wales.
The TV station may not make money from the show, but it must give Allen benefits in other ways!
As long as he can slowly develop this area, he will know every time a chicken lays an egg in the whole of Wales!
As for the tape recorder that Allen had someone take out in public in the TV station's conference room that day.
He had someone secretly put that thing in there a day in advance just to make it look like something was happening.
With current technology, eavesdropping is so expensive!
It's just a small tape, how many hours can it record at most?
If every household did this, Master Allen would never have enough money to spend no matter how much wealth he had.
Those are all used to bluff people, to scare those old guys who don't know the ins and outs of this. They look high-end, but they are actually useless.
If you really want to monitor a place, this seemingly aboveboard method is more effective and saves money.
As for the profit-making projects, the TV stations broadcast serious programs during the day, so they have to make some changes at night. They can't be like before, showing some old and outdated movies from decades ago every night. That would be too boring.
The large-scale wilderness survival blind date show that Allen did last year has not yet been negotiated with the BBC, and he plans to broadcast it directly on Welsh TV.
In the future, Welsh TV stations must be pure and clean during the day, with all kinds of news, and take an alternative approach at night. We will broadcast what the people like!
It’s different at night. Who likes to watch the news late at night before going to bed? Don’t you want to watch some energizing programs?
And it changes with the time period. The later it is, the more explicit the program will be.
Create a different new Welsh TV station!