In fact, Barron's original idea was to raise more than 2 million pounds of funds from the family, so that he would be able to get back more than 35 million pounds of funds through the capital market within half a year to save the Duke of Devonshire's family.
But the reality is that the funds he can currently use are only a small portion of the family's directly held assets in cash, a mere 100,000 pounds.
With this amount of capital, it is indeed difficult to achieve one's goals in the short term - even if one invests in start-ups and does venture capital work, for example, Internet companies like Google and Facebook, from start-up to successfully completing a 100-fold exit of venture capital, it is often not achieved in a year or two.
In the end, Barron was left with only one choice - to expand his 100,000 pounds as much as possible by betting on the World Cup.
In fact, this is not difficult to think of. After all, the World Cup is about to open. In this Asahi World Cup, only England has entered the finals among the British Isles.
As one of the countries that is crazy about football, there have been a lot of reports on the World Cup in recent newspapers. Therefore, as a reborn person, it is very normal to think of making money through betting.
Moreover, the Asahi World Cup itself is very suitable for Barron to choose for betting. On the one hand, in his previous life, this World Cup was very familiar to the Chinese. Not only was it a World Cup held at home, but the start time was also very friendly to the Chinese. In addition, because this World Cup was the only time that the Chinese team entered the finals, they were more familiar with the results of the game than in other World Cups.
And in the final analysis, betting on this kind of World Cup often requires upsets to get higher odds. For well-known reasons, there are especially many upsets in this World Cup. If nothing else, just betting on South Korea's game is enough - after all, normal countries often don't use the "home advantage" to such a naked degree.
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Betting on football matches is very popular in the UK. After all, William Hill, a well-known company in the sports betting industry, is a British company.
In addition to this company, many other powerful gambling companies also have many betting stations in London, so it is very convenient just for betting.
After arriving in London, Barron went to his apartment.
Barron's apartment in London is also part of the family's business. After all, the Duke of Devonshire's family is an old-fashioned British aristocracy. Although the family's overall economic strength is a little weak now, their ancestors were still wealthy. Accordingly, it is very normal for them to own a residence in London.
Of course, in this respect, it is still far inferior to the Duke of Westminster, which is also a ducal family and claims to own half of London.
After returning to London, Barron couldn't help but think of the girl in the hotel room when he first came to this time and space.
At that time, he just felt that the other person looked very familiar, but because he had just "come here" and was quite shocked, he did not think too much about it.
But when he met the then Crown Prince of Wales at the family funeral that day, he suddenly realized - the girl who had a one-night stand with his predecessor was actually the future Princess Cather!
This discovery surprised Barron a little. After all, although he didn't know much about the British royal family in his previous life, Cather's wedding to the prince caused a sensation at the time. At that time, the Internet was already extremely popular, so he had also read a lot of related reports.
If I remember correctly, Cather should have been studying at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland at that time, and had already met the prince. How could she appear in a London nightclub and have such a "friendship" with her own...predecessor while drunk?
Since he couldn't figure it out, Barron stopped thinking about it. After all, if history had developed as it did, nine years later, the girl would have married into the royal family and become Princess Cather.
Moreover, this incident itself was a romantic encounter of his previous life. Well, at most he saw the other party with his own eyes. The most important thing for him now is to think about how to make money next.
Britain also has many traditions regarding the death of a loved one. Although it is not as exaggerated as the three-year mourning period in ancient China, as children, they will generally not attend parties and entertainment activities for several months to half a year...
Of course, by now, such constraints have become less and less, but this time when Barron came to London, he was still very low-key. He asked Ramos to help buy the latest reports on the World Cup, and he also searched the Internet for some information about this Asahi World Cup.
Tomorrow, May 31st, is the opening day of the Asahi World Cup. The opening match of the day is between France, the host of the previous World Cup, and Senegal.
Seeing this schedule, Barron's eyes lit up, because he knew very well that in this match, the host of the last World Cup and the eventual champion, France, had lost the game!
So Barron immediately checked the odds of this match, which made him happy.
Because of this game, the mainstream odds are that France will win at 1:1.2 and Senegal will win at 1:15!
That is to say, if you bet 100 pounds on the French team to win, you can get 120 pounds in the end, and win... 20 pounds.
But if you bet 100 pounds on Senegal's victory, you can get 1,500 pounds in the end!
From the odds, we can see that most people are optimistic about the French team winning. This is not surprising, after all, the French team is the champion of the last World Cup - although there are some strange things in the final that defeated the Brazilian team, which will be mentioned many years later, but the strength of the French team is beyond doubt.
Most of the French team participating in the World Cup in Asahi this time are players from the last World Cup. Even in tomorrow's game, Zidane, the soul of the French team, may not be able to play. But Senegal? Speaking of this country, I'm afraid not many people know that it is located in West Africa. In terms of popularity, it is far behind the French team.
So this World Cup is really extraordinary. There was a big upset in the opening match, which also foreshadows the unusualness of this World Cup.
After confirming this, Barron became excited.
He now has 100,000 pounds in his hand, and he immediately has an urge to bet all 100,000 pounds on Senegal's victory in tomorrow's opening match.
But after taking a deep breath, he tried his best to suppress the impulse.
After all, although he had a deep impression of this game in his previous life, he could even remember that he and his roommate climbed over the wall to watch this game when he was in high school...
But after all, although it seems that the time and space he knows so far is not different from his previous life, the fact that his previous life actually had such an incident with the later Princess Cather made him a little alert. What if? So
in the end, he decided not to go all in on this game, but to verify first whether the result of the game would be the same as in his memory.