he is given enough time, he is confident that with a certain amount of primitive capital, he can earn back enough funds in the capital market to save the family's assets!
But now it seems that I still need to speed up the progress, so the initial amount of original capital is more important.
This is also what he is doing now, raising as much money as possible that he can use.
At this time, there are actually many opportunities for financial investment.
For example, international oil prices have been rising since the end of last year.
Up to now, international oil prices are at about $25 per barrel. Although there will be ups and downs in the middle, they will generally be in an upward channel. By mid-July 2008, international oil prices reached a high, close to $150 per barrel.
It can be said that this is a long-term bullish opportunity, but in the short term, if you want to solve the current capital problem, you still need a faster way to be effective.
"Master Barron, there is one thing for you to decide."
At this time, the housekeeper Sean said to Barron:
"It's about the arrangement of servants. Now there are three more personal servants at home. In addition, in our current situation, I'm afraid that the configuration of the previous servants can also be adjusted, which can save a lot of money..."
Housekeeper Sean pointed out that after the death of Barron's father, eldest brother and grandmother, their personal servants became redundant.
And now only Barron is left in the Cavendish family, which means that only one master like him is left in this manor, so the size of more than 30 servants seems too large to be streamlined.
In the final analysis, as a housekeeper, Sean must be given priority to the main family.
When it comes to these, let's talk about some of the configurations of servants of noble families.
Generally, in a traditional noble family, there will be a male housekeeper as the leader of all servants.
Just like in the Cavendish family, the male housekeeper is Sean, who can usually be directly called the housekeeper. He is responsible for coordinating the affairs of the whole family and keeping some more expensive items, such as wine cellars and silver tableware...
In addition, there will be a housekeeper, who is mainly responsible for managing the maid at home. In addition to being the assistant of the housekeeper, she is responsible for the tidying up and cleaning of the house.
In the Cavendish family, the housekeeper's name is Riley, and she has served as the housekeeper of the family since her mother's generation.
Then there is the cook, who is responsible for the kitchen affairs. Usually, the cook and the male housekeeper and the female housekeeper are all high-level servants.
The cook has the supreme right in the kitchen. For example, in some family banquets, the cook has the right to refuse the meal requirements other than the pre-determined menu.
Then there are the personal maid and the personal servant. The personal maid is the servant who takes care of the food and living with the female members; the personal servant is the servant who accompanies the male members to take care of the food and living.
As for other male servants and maids, when there are more than two people, there will also be a certain level, such as the male servant leader, the first male servant, etc.
Therefore, like the size of the Duke of Devin Hill family, every family member has his own personal servant, which is very normal - even Barron stayed in London most of the time before, and the family arranged a personal servant Ramos for him.
So now, the redundant three close servants naturally do not need to be retained, which can also save the expenses of the manor.
In addition, the size of more than 30 servants can also be streamlined.
"How did you usually deal with it before?"
Hearing Barron's question, Housekeeper Sean said:
"They will be dismissed. When you don't need so many people, it also depends on their daily performance. And when dismissing them, for those servants who had been conscientious about the family before, we can help write a letter of recommendation for his next customer, which is often very helpful for their subsequent applications.
"Then let's do it like this, housekeeper Sean. It's up to you to decide these things."
Barron waved his hand and said.
"In addition..."
Housekeeper Sean hesitated for a moment:
"Anna, the former old lady's personal housekeeper, is almost 60 years old and has served the old lady for 40 years... I'm afraid it's difficult to find a job at her age..."
"For such a person, we can't be impersonal. You can ask her for her opinion. If you still want to work, you can provide her with an easier job. If you want to live for a year, then we can bear part of her future life."
At first, servants like Anna who had served the family for most of their lives would provide pensions for more decent aristocratic families. However, with the improvement of the entire social security system, this part of the pension has been included in their salary, so what Barron said is to give an additional part of the subsidy in addition to the pension.
"You are really so kind, Master Barron, God will bless you."
Originally, the housekeeper Sean was still a little worried. With his previous understanding of Master Barron, the other party was likely to be more inhumane, so after Barron said such a thing, he did not hesitate to praise himself and still sighed in his heart.
"So how much cash can you take out in this asset directory if you don't sell those jewelry and antiques?"
Barron returned to him the catalogue of assets directly held by Sean's housekeeper to his family and asked.
"In my opinion, only 100,000 pounds of funds can be used at most..."
Hearing this number, Barron sighed that most of his family's assets were injected into the family trust fund, and he believed that the assets originally held directly and the cash part would inevitably be invested in the fraud project of "London Star"...
Up to now, this part of the assets, as Shawn's housekeeper told him, has taken out 100,000 pounds to invest in Barron.
But it is very difficult and almost impossible to get back the planned 35 million pounds of funds in the capital market.
Even if Barron has previous experience, for the capital market at this time, he can only remember some key nodes at most, saying that it is impossible to remember all the price trends of investment products.
Seeing Baren's sad expression, Sean's housekeeper said:
"Young master, are you going to pay the inheritance tax? In fact, those jewelry and antiques can be temporarily sold or mortgaged..."
"I'm going to invest it, otherwise I won't have the money to pay the inheritance tax and bank loans anyway."
"Investment?!"
Hearing that Barron was ready to invest, butler Sean was shocked:
"But young master, investment is risky, and it is likely that all the money will be lost..."
It can be seen that after the family's investment loss in the "London Star" this time, Sean's housekeeper is also particularly sensitive to the word "investment".
What's more, in his eyes, how could the young master, who only spend a lot of money before, invest... Even the master lost such a large amount of money because of investment, which put the Cavendish family into such a big crisis at this time!