"The key is that these guilds are not short of money. Most of them have accumulated considerable wealth, and they all regard land as a long-term investment and rarely sell land at will. Therefore, it is very difficult to buy land from them. You can only start from other private owners."
"No matter what, keep in touch first."
"It's just that those private plots are not large and are relatively fragmented."
"Try to buy everything you can now, even the plots of land from the same industry associations, and you can try to contact them and pay a part of the premium."
Since Barron had decided so, Yulia agreed.
It has to be said that Barron has recently discovered that Yulia's attitude towards him has changed. Now it seems that Yulia does have her strengths, that is, she takes her work very seriously and will try her best to complete the tasks he assigns her.
The only thing is that her character is too stable, or in other words, she is extremely risk-averse.
I don't know if this incident was caused by the family's previous investment in the "London Star" project, which resulted in heavy losses and almost bankruptcy.
That's why Barron didn't tell her about the money he'd made from World Cup betting and the cash he now had.
If Yulia knew about this, she would probably worry that Barron would become too addicted to gambling...
Unlike Daisy, perhaps because Julia's life is too deeply tied to the Devonshire family, she often thinks too much about her family.
Daisy was employed by Barron. She only needed to be responsible for him, or to put it more bluntly, she only needed to complete Barron's instructions. As for whether those things would cause losses to Barron...
She might at most give a reminder, but she won't be too persistent about it.
It is for these reasons that, in Barron's opinion, Yulia is more suitable to be in charge of the traditional industry with stable development, such as family trust funds.
As for riskier financial investments, he chose to be independent from the family fund at this time.
"Anything else, Ms. Moore?"
After discussing the land in King's Cross, Barron saw Yulia still sitting there, seeming to be hesitant to speak, and couldn't help but ask.
"There is something I think I should talk about..."
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"At the beginning, your father, in addition to considering cooperating with Viscount Bute to develop the land in King's Cross, gave priority to opening a new hotel in London and was already looking for a suitable location."
"Then he invested so much money in that project..."
Speaking of this, a gloomy emotion flashed in Yulia's eyes:
"The Duke did not tell me the reason at the time, but he was very insistent at the time... Maybe there is some other hidden reason, but I guess it is possible that he hopes to raise funds for the two projects at the same time."
Now that Barron's father and brother have passed away, the truth about this matter has become shrouded in mystery and is difficult to see clearly.
However, when it comes to the family's hotel business, when the estate was first opened as a tourist attraction, Barron's grandfather's generation opened a hotel in the town near Chatsworth Estate.
The family's earliest hotel was built in the 1960s.
Two generations later, there are now four hotels named "Devonshire" and "Cavendish", including one on Oxford Street in Soho, London, but they are not very large.
According to Yulia, after inspecting the hotel market in London, Barron's father decided to make a big splash and open a large-scale luxury hotel with four stars or above, and he made a lot of preparations for this.
At that time, his idea was to demolish the old building of the Cavendish Hotel in London and build a new building on the original site to increase the business area.
But after the "London Star" incident, the plan was shelved... until his accidental death.
It has to be said that Baron also thinks this is a good idea. The demand for hotels in London has always been strong, and the Cavendish Hotel has been in business for nearly half a century and has a certain brand.
In such a British aristocratic family, in addition to being able to obtain the duke title which has extremely "pretentious" attributes, another advantage is that after many generations of development, the accumulation of professional talents in some of the family's traditional industries is still very rich.
If Barron were to create a hotel brand from scratch, then the first issue he would need to address would be talent and related manpower - after all, he couldn't really run it himself, and he had no experience in running a hotel.
Traditional British aristocrats do not need to manage or work their own businesses, they can just leave it to the professionals under them.
"I also have the idea of expanding the grade and scale of my family hotel, Ms. Moore, but for now, this is not the top priority. But please believe me, in the future, no, you will be able to see it soon."
"I hope so, Your Highness."
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"I feel great, Bonnie. It's really better than I thought it would be. Excellent job."
Barron carefully read the manuscript that Bonnie brought, and said to her excitedly:
"There's almost nothing that needs to be revised, except for a few lines. I have some ideas that you can refer to."
In just over ten days, Bonnie had completed about one-third of the content of the first "Downton Abbey", which did surprise Barron, especially after he read it and felt that the quality was very high.
The manuscript in his hand was given to him by Bonnie after she printed out the contents.
The lines that Barron said were the ones that left a deep impression on him when he watched the British TV series "Downton Abbey" in his previous life. He felt that it was very exciting.
"As long as you like it, Barron, to be honest, I was a little nervous just now..."
Bonnie took the manuscript from Barron and looked at what he had written in the corresponding position. Her eyes lit up:
"It's really... surprising. Is this what you just thought of when you were reading the manuscript? Barron, I'm jealous of you. It's really a wonderful line!"
"Actually, these are what I thought about when I was thinking about this story. Let's not praise each other. Bonnie, you have really worked hard during this period. You are so busy at work, and you have to use the rest of your time to write the novel manuscript. I didn't expect you to finish it so quickly and so well. How should I reward you?"
Hearing Barron's words, Bonnie's long eyelashes brushed across her emerald pupils like windshield wipers, and she smiled and said:
"Haven't you already paid me, Barron? Besides, there's still a lot of content in this first part that hasn't been completed yet... But if you really want to reward me, I'll have a vacation soon, and I hope to go to Chatsworth House again."
"That's certainly no problem, and I think, with your progress, we can consider publishing this work."
"Really?"
Bonnie said with a look of surprise on her face,
"I've always dreamed of having a novel I participated in published for everyone to see."