Chapter 347 London Has Big Plans!
The sun never sets has declined, but the luxury has always been there.
In particular, the Queen's travel is a matter of great mobilization and red tape.
In 1986, when visiting Country Z, the Queen took a special plane BAe-146 and also used the luxurious royal yacht "Britannia".
This is a 5769-ton ocean-going ship that began service in 1954 and has sailed nearly one million nautical miles. It is known as the "mobile Buckingham Palace".
The restaurant on the ship is large enough to hold a state banquet and can accommodate a 26-member Marine Corps band.
The team accompanying the Queen on the visit is huge. In addition to her husband Prince Philip, there are Country Y Foreign Minister Geoffrey Howe and his wife, 16 royal family members, and the Queen's private secretary, press secretary, butler, attendant, medical officer, dresser, hairdresser, treasurer, maid, butler and other 20 accompanying personnel who take care of the Queen's daily life.
In addition, there are more than 600 bands, royal service personnel and ship officers and soldiers on the royal yacht and frigate.
More than 200 reporters from Y country, Y Federation country and Hong Kong reporters followed to interview, and the total number of personnel exceeded 900.
The communication equipment, office supplies, food, etc. shipped by Y for this visit amounted to dozens of tons, of which the Queen's personal suitcase alone exceeded 400 pieces, weighing 5 tons.
Now that Mr. Yang has come to London, they are as solemn and important to Yang Ming as they are to other big figures from other big countries.
Ah Zhu and Zhong Chuhong, even Lin Dezhong, were a little stunned. They really felt the difference of their ancestral home.
Not only rich, but really rich, and every aspect seemed to be exposed as a local tyrant.
In this regard, Ah Zhu and Zhong Chuhong found that Yanjing was indeed far behind when they followed Yang Ming back to the Yanjing Hotel in China.
The dinner to welcome Mr. Yang lasted until 21:30 in the evening.
The dinner ended.
Ah Zhu and Zhong Chuhong found that most of the guests who attended the banquet had a lot of food left on the table.
What does this mean?
The leftovers were all thrown away.
It must be a waste, and they seem to have gotten used to it.
If it was before World War I, London, which relied on colonies around the world for its livelihood, would probably be even more luxurious.
The dinner was over.
Yang Ming shook hands with these representatives one by one and said goodbye.
Yang Ming, Ah Zhu, Zhong Chuhong, and Lin Dezhong left here and went upstairs to the luxurious suite.
"Master, a lot of food was wasted just now!" Ah Zhu said.
"What does this count as?"
For Yang Ming, this really didn't count.
As for some of the lower-income groups in Country Y, they are not as rich as imagined. In the lower levels of London, there are also many ordinary citizens who cannot afford to buy houses.
For the upper class in London, especially the royal family, even if they are not so luxurious at ordinary times, they are definitely not much different.
Like the queen eating eight times a day.
In addition to breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, etc., there may be eight or even nine separate meals during the period, and each meal is not much.
This time, the dinner that Yang Ming was treated to was just like that.
The style looked rich.
Yang Ming felt that there were not many things that really suited him.
Zhong Chuhong didn't know what to say.
She used to be in the class of Hong Kong. Her parents relied on that clothing store to support six people. It was really difficult. She really didn't expect that the food and use here in her ancestral home were much better than she imagined.
"You have also been on the plane for a day. Go take a shower and rest first."
"Yes, Master."
London in April.
The temperature at night is still around 6 degrees Celsius.
The daytime temperature remains at around 12 degrees Celsius.
In other words, it is still relatively cold here.
Yang Ming has not yet gotten off the plane, but Yang Ming has already known it in advance.
Yang Ming was wearing a thick coat at the time.
The hotel has very warm heating 24 hours a day, and the temperature remains at 26 degrees Celsius, so you don't feel the cold outside at all.
It was also because of that that in this weather, there were so many people at the airport to welcome him, which was enough to show that those people attached great importance to Mr. Yang's arrival.
Yang Ming was looking at London outside at night.
It was 23:00 London time.
Yang Ming was thinking.
Since there were two parties in London who invited him this time.
One of them was Brunel University in London, his former alma mater.
This university can only be regarded as an ordinary university in London, even in Country Y, as his predecessor studied economics and management.
Yang Ming originally thought that when he arrived, the university would definitely send someone to welcome him. Just now at the airport, there was no representative of the university.
What does this mean?
Yang Ming already understood.
This university graduation ceremony invitation is just a name.
In other words, it is the name of London inviting Yang Ming to come.
If Yang Ming refused the name of his alma mater to invite him to the university graduation ceremony, then they have another invitation name, which is about the Queen's birthday on April 21 every year.
Mr. Yang accepted the invitation and came to London.
Then for London, the invitation to the university graduation ceremony is naturally not important.
Yang Ming will definitely attend the university graduation ceremony when he arrives, but compared to this trip to London, the university graduation ceremony is naturally nothing.
It was also because of that that Yang Ming did not see any representatives from Brunel University at the airport.
If that was the case, Yang Ming felt that London had big plans.
Historically, Li Jiacheng wanted to transfer most of his wealth to Country Y.
Is London starting to pay attention to this now?
For example, if you are asked to transfer the headquarters of the Wharf Group, or even the headquarters of the Jardine Matheson Group, etc. to London first, it would make Yang Ming uncomfortable.
If you are unwilling to transfer, then they naturally have other ways.
Historically, the headquarters of many British foreign companies, including the headquarters of the Bank of Hong Kong, were moved back to London from Hong Kong.
On the one hand, it was because the British foreign companies were really afraid of being swallowed up by Chinese capital, so that the headquarters of Jardine Matheson Land in history were moved to Bermuda.
In addition, a large number of British foreign companies or Chinese capital followed suit and moved to Bermuda and London.
As for the transfer of the headquarters of the Bank of Hong Kong to London, it was more or less related to these.
There was a knock at the door.
Yang Ming went to open the door.
He saw that it was Kayla.
"Mr. Yang."
"Keira, come in."
After closing the door, Yang Ming was already holding Keira's hand.
Keira, Zhou Kaixuan, and Lin Xiuzhi, the three of them arrived in London a week earlier than Yang Ming.
With the power of money, they had already opened up many networks for Yang Ming in advance.
Shen Yi came to London one day earlier than Yang Ming, and Shen Yi also began to lobby many people for Yang Ming.
In fact, when the Empire Group wanted to acquire shares in Huifeng Bank, Shen Yi had already lobbied some upper-class people in advance.
So when Yang Ming really arrived in London this time, he was welcomed by so many people.
Maybe it was too cold outside.
Yang Ming held Keira's hand and felt that her hand was a little cold.
Keira seemed very excited.
Chapter 5!
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