"I don't want this to happen, Butler Sean, but there is no other way, right? As the heir to the family, I need to shoulder my own responsibilities, which is to do my best to preserve our family's assets..."Barron looked directly into Butler Sean's eyes and said sincerely,
"If there is another way, I would not want to take the risk, but that is too difficult. Under the current circumstances, if you want to get the best results, you need to take certain risks. But I can assure you, Butler Sean, I will not take out too much money to take risks. This 100,000 pounds plus some from the family fund should be enough."
After all, Butler Sean has deep feelings for his family and does not want it to fall apart; but at the same time, he is not very confident about Barron's risky behavior.
But as Barron said, there is hardly any other solution now - selling part of the industry is one way, but facing the huge losses before, if they really want to do so, I am afraid that even Chatsworth House will be difficult to keep!
So at this moment, he could only choose to believe Barron and secretly pray that God would bless the Cavendish family.
"Master Barron, I will also do my best to reduce the expenditure of the manor. Over the long years, Chatsworth Manor has experienced many critical moments, and we have finally resolved them. I hope this time will be the same."
"I will, Butler Sean..."
Barron did not hide the determination in his eyes, and turned to the butler and said:
"By the way, I didn't know much about the family trust fund before. As for the fund manager, Ms. Moore, Butler Sean, can you tell me more about her?"
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If Butler Sean was just worried about Barron's plan to use part of his funds for a more aggressive investment...
However, his proposal was decisively rejected by Ms. Julia Moore, the manager of the family trust fund.
"Lord Barron, I have to be frank. If you are planning to raise funds to pay inheritance tax, or sell part of the family assets to make up for the losses and pay the bank's loan, then I will definitely cooperate with you. But if you want to use this money for risky investments, I'm sorry, I can't do that!"
When Julia Moore came to the master's study of Chatsworth House again and faced Barron, she said so without hesitation after learning of his thoughts.
"Oh? Are you sure? Ms. Moore, then I want to know, as the manager of the family fund, what was your reaction to my father's investment in the London Star?"
When Yulia heard Barron mention this, her expression suddenly turned cold:
"Do you think I am responsible for this investment, Lord Barron?"
"It doesn't make much sense to talk about responsibility now. I just think that as the manager of the family fund, what you need to do is to use your professional knowledge to help us manage the family business, rather than making decisions about it. I know that investing in the 'Star of London' was my father's idea, so you can't say that you were cooperating with his investment intention at the time, but you rejected my investment opinion so arbitrarily!"
Yulia shook her head at Barron's words:
"Your Excellency, I still regret that I did not stick to my position even though I objected to your father's investment proposal. So now, I cannot make the same mistake again... In addition, in fact, although you are the only heir to the Duke of Devonshire's family, you have not yet inherited the family's title and property in terms of procedure..."
"So you mean you won't obey my orders now? Even though I'm the only heir to the family?"
Barron stood up from his seat and walked to Yulia, still smiling, and said lightly:
"It seems that Ms. Moore, you really don't have much confidence in me, or you have no confidence at all."
"I just said it, Your Excellency, if you want to pay inheritance tax for the title and family assets, or to stop the family's deficit, then I will fully cooperate with you, but if it is such a risky investment..."
Yulia was not at all weak in momentum, and she did not avoid Barron's gaze:
"Then I won't agree. Maybe you are right. I respect your status as the heir, but as the manager of the family trust fund, I can't take risks. Even if you will drive me out of this position later!"
Obviously, this meeting between the two did not produce a result that satisfied Barron, and it can be said that they ended up parting on bad terms.
But it is indeed as Julia said, even if Barron is the only heir of the Cavendish family, after all, he has not yet completed the procedures for inheriting the family title and property. Therefore, as the manager of the family trust fund, she can choose to take the risk to cooperate with Barron's investment, or she can refuse the other party's request. At present, Barron has no way to deal with this.
From her appearance, we can still see that Yulia's appearance is different from traditional British people. The reason is that she has a large part of Slavic blood.
In his previous conversation with Butler Sean, Barron also learned more about Julia Moore.
Yulia Moore's full name should be Yulia Shakhovskoy Moore. Her mother's family came from Russia. After the October Revolution, they fled from Tsarist Russia to Europe and eventually came to England.
It can be said that most of the Tsarist nobles who were in exile at that time did not live well - on the one hand, they left Tsarist Russia too hastily, and on the other hand, they encountered many setbacks along the way, including deception and looting. Therefore, there were very few exiled nobles who were able to retain a certain amount of property.
By the time of Julia's mother's generation, although they had integrated into British society, their family life could only barely be described as middle class.
Her mother married a lawyer who had close ties with the Cavendish family. Therefore, after Yulia's father died in an accident, Yulia's family received help from the Cavendish family. It can be said that a large part of Yulia's ability to complete her studies came from the funding of the Cavendish family.
It was also because of this relationship that the family chose Julia Moore, who graduated from a prestigious university, as the manager of the family trust fund - this trust came from this.
But now it seems that Yulia's trust in Barron is quite insufficient.
In this way, the idea of obtaining funds from the family fund for investment was basically rejected.
The only funds Barron has available now are the 100,000 pounds from assets directly held by the family.
Unless he can pay the inheritance tax as soon as possible and complete the inheritance procedures for the family title and property, it seems difficult to get more support from Yulia.