Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Because both parties had already sent people to complete almost all the handover work, the formal handover ceremony took a very short time and only required the signing of a few documents.

"This manor will belong to you from now on. I hope you can take good care of her." After signing his name on the last document, Mr. Piletti stood up and looked around with some reluctance and said. arrive.

"Yes, we will," Joan smiled, nodded and signed her name. "This manor will be our future home, and we will definitely manage this manor well."

"That's good, that's good." Looking at Joan of Arc with a serious look on his face, Mr. Piletti nodded with satisfaction, then placed a bronze-plated key on the table, and left with Mr. Hood. room.

"Now this manor belongs to us?" After the two people left, Jeanne looked at the signed document in her hand and then turned to look at Liang En. "It feels a little strange-"

"No, this is not surprising, Miss." said the housekeeper Robuchon who had been handling those things before. "As the heir of the nobility, these things are what you should get, so you have to slowly learn to adapt. "

"Okay, I think you guys must be tired after coming from the United States and being busy these past few days, so you should have a good rest today and wait until tomorrow to deal with other matters." After saying this, Steward Robuchon went to Joan of Arc. He bowed and left the room.

"I have to say that this house is more in line with my aesthetics than I imagined." After Butler Robuchon left, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became much more relaxed, especially the expression on Jeanne's face. Smile.

"I thought it was a castle before. To be honest, those castles look very spectacular, but it is definitely not comfortable to live in as a military installation."

"You are right, just like modern people basically would not choose to live in a bunker." Liang En nodded with approval. “The good thing is that this is an estate purely for rest and relaxation.”

In fact, ancient nobles, like modern people, did not like to live in castles all day long. They often only lived in castles during wars and usually lived in manors outside the castle.

Now Liang Ensuo's new manor was actually originally a manor where nobles lived, so the overall situation was more focused on life than military defense.

The two of them had a good rest that night. After getting up early the next morning, they first rode their bicycles to the town of Woodbridge to have a hearty English breakfast, and then went to the front of the manor to conduct an inspection on the employees. Simple speech.

I have said before that this manor is not only used for residence, but also operates a series of businesses. In addition to service personnel, agriculture and tourism employ employees.

So yesterday, although the baronet's servants, chefs and other people who served the baronet left the manor, these employees did not leave, but will continue to work here.

What Liang En and the others have to do now is to appease people's hearts and show everyone that there will be no changes in the operation of the manor in a short time, so that everyone can continue to work here with peace of mind.

They quickly rode bicycles along the road through the manor and then came to the small square on the other side of the manor. This small square was adjacent to a road toward the coastline on one side and had buildings on the other three sides.

These two two-story buildings and one three-story building are mainly used for external business. Visitor centers, restaurants, small supermarkets and hotels are all placed in these three buildings.

When Liang En and the others walked into the lobby on the first floor of the tallest three-story building, they found that almost all the staff were already waiting here, with uneasy expressions on their faces.

"Okay, everyone, relax." Joan of Arc nodded to Liang En and walked up to a small stage at the front of the hall, "We don't plan to end the manor's external business, so the thing that everyone is most worried about won't occur--"

As soon as Joan of Arc finished speaking, everyone on the scene let out a sigh of relief, because what they were most worried about before was that the new owner would come and close the original business of the manor, and then kick them out.

The distribution of British land is very unfair. British nobles and gentry own 30% of England's land; 18% is owned by various enterprises; 17% is owned by a series of oligarchs and banker upstarts; 8.5% is owned by the public sector; the British royal family owns 1.4% %.

The vast majority of ordinary people own little or no land. The average person who owns a home in England, regardless of country, owns only 5% of the land.

To make matters worse, many wealthy people did not continue agricultural production after purchasing land. Instead, they used nature reserves as an excuse to drive away the people who originally worked on the land, and then waited for the land to appreciate in value.

This is not done by one or two rich people, but by almost everyone. After all, they are just hoarding land and waiting for the value to rise, so reducing expenditures on various things and personnel is the most important thing.

It has to be said that they have indeed achieved his goals. The high degree of land privatization has led to high rental rates. Today, the proportion of young British families renting has increased from 9% in the late 1980s to 34%.

Therefore, it is normal for the staff who work on the farm to feel nervous after the owner of the farm changes, because they have seen too many tragedies in which the original staff were kicked out after the land changed hands.

Fortunately, Joan of Arc's speech relieved everyone's worries, because she made it clear that she would continue to operate and even expand the scale of operations.

Unlike those wealthy businessmen who expect to make a fortune from the land or wait for the land to appreciate, Joan of Arc is still a traditional aristocrat at heart, and as a traditional aristocrat, managing land is a necessary project.

Of course, this is also in line with the arrangements of the Dulis family, because for the Dulis family, the core of this manor is to gain a foothold in the British aristocratic circle, and it is always right to follow tradition at this time.

After all, to those British people, Mr. Dulis is more like a country bumpkin who came from France, so if he waits for the appreciation of land value like those wealthy businessmen at this time, he will be confirmed as a country bumpkin.

Another more important reason is that Liang En thinks it is a bit too bad to ruin other people's jobs for more profits when he is not short of money at all, especially when he is still making profits.

He knows that some people will definitely think that he is having a heart attack, but after all, he did not grow up in an environment of wealthy people, so his outlook on life is closer to that of ordinary people, so he will naturally make such a decision. .

Of course, such a decision is naturally very good news for these farm workers. It means that they can continue their work and avoid becoming unemployed.

You must know that as the trend of land annexation across the UK intensifies, it is becoming increasingly difficult for these people to find a suitable job, not to mention that they must leave their hometowns to find new jobs.

So after announcing the future plans, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became lively, and in the evening, Liang En and the others even prepared a buffet banquet as an occasion to get closer to everyone.