Chapter 126 The Sorrow of Little People
Different from Li Changheng's own world, the Bank of England in this world sounds like a national name, but it is a 100% private bank.
To get the right to issue banknotes and recycle old and damaged banknotes, you have to go back 260 years and get it from a king who has no money to fight.
So, let alone Philip, this group of bankers, as long as they are not caught, even Downing Street doesn't pay much attention to it now.
But self-confidence belongs to self-confidence. This group of people knows that if they want to keep their current status and wealth, they have to win over and make friends with more people.
But wooing people requires money and other benefits. If you want to pay less, the best way is of course to use the handle with the money.
This was the beginning of the counting and spying on Li Changheng.
However, Philip's counterattack not only cut off a baron's title, but Li Changheng opened a panda restaurant with excellent business in just two months.
Someone couldn't help plotting against Li Changheng, and at the same time used him to fight back against Philip.
Moreover, to be honest, this group of people is indeed powerful enough.
These people have thought of the high cost, difficult transportation, and the fact that processing centers are difficult to radiate to too many places in this era.
However, they never thought of setting up a large number of stores in a certain country.
Instead, open ten to twenty stores in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Rome, the largest cities in the country with the strongest spending power, and start listing.
While making money, use the pursuit of stockholders to drive up the stock price.
However, the store-buying strategy that Li Changheng has always insisted on has been favored by this group of conservative bankers.
Compared with KFC four years ago, the people in the bank discovered that no matter how far the business develops in the end, franchising alone will not only make a small profit.
And without their own directly-operated stores and real assets, it simply doesn't work in this era to just speculate on the concept.
Shareholders and investors are not fools. If they don’t have the assets they can afford, no matter how good the business is, it’s hard to increase their market value.
And with a large number of store real estate, when listing, just looking at these self-owned stores in the busy city can push up the valuation by 50%.
Even if the business is as hot as ever, it is not impossible to double or triple the price.
And Li Changheng didn't want to go big, he just tried his hand and bought some downtown stores as a long-term investment strategy.
The move to stop at the opening of the tenth panda restaurant made these bankers think that the opportunity had come.
As long as he loses millions, or even hundreds of thousands of pounds, the restaurant may be swallowed up by them directly, and the villas on Garden Avenue may also be eaten up by the way.
But now not only did he fail to achieve his goal, but he also gave Li Changheng 1.01 million pounds for free. Doesn't this mean that at least 6 restaurants will open again?
The main store of Panda Restaurant on Oxford Street cost 380,000 yuan for the store, and a total of 420,000 yuan for decoration and equipment.
The other nine stores only spent a total of 1.3 million pounds on the purchase of the store.
Buckle Kit, as the person in charge who came to stare at this scam today, saw Ivan's reminder, and the refrain of "Woooooooo" came from his ears, although he wished that Ivan and Sinder fell to death when they went out.
But considering that Li Changheng could only withdraw 200,000 pounds from the bank, he thought he was really out of money.
However, just £1.2 million is not enough to get Li Changheng in debt.
At least 1.5 million, and 2 million if the effect is stronger.
Thinking about it again, Li Changheng only wants to trust UBS. Not only does Panda Restaurant’s cash settlement go to UBS, but any money transfers only go through UBS.
Buckle gritted his teeth, looked at Ivan and Sinder who were about to walk out of the private room, and then nodded to a middle-aged white man.
But I don't plan to take out the 2 million pounds in my heart.
It's like taking the lives of people like Ai Wen to gamble with Li Changheng.
As the intellectual brain of the team, Vince, who is also Aiwen's adoptive father, immediately sneered, "Need some change for a ride? American guy.
Or give you 200 pounds, and return to the United States with a wife who looks like a Yanwu star? "
Ai Wen, who had already reached the door of the private room, his eyes lit up, took the opportunity to stop, and then his teeth were creaked and creaked by him.
As Aiwen's adoptive father, Vince certainly knew of Sidel's origin.
Hidel was so angry that she almost trembled, but she never dared to scold back. Instead, she took the opportunity to look pitiful, so that Aiwen could find an excuse to return to the table because of the humiliation of dignity and women.
"Two million pounds".
Li Changheng, who watched the group's acting expressionlessly, pretended to be in disbelief and said.
"Come on, buddy, I advise you to go home early, so as not to lose cash and have to sell property and houses in debt."
"2 million, you bet or not."
Li Changheng shrugged, "I kindly remind you that if you want to make up your books, you should go home and rest for a night. When you think it over tomorrow, we will make an appointment."
Many people at the scene quickly felt that Li Changheng didn't have good intentions, but was very smart to accept it as soon as he saw it.
After all, his luck just now was not very good. If he didn't meet the unlucky little 2, the probability of losing 5 of hearts is as high as 70%.
Everyone at the scene understands that luck will not always follow you.
Therefore, everyone waited for Ivan to gamble on luck again, and they were not too surprised after calming down.
"I want to make money, but if you want to accept it, I will take a step back."
Ivan pointed to the court and said seriously, "You pick one of all the players on the court, and I'll guess the number of the player you chose."
"You're crazy." Li Changheng stood still on the spot cooperatively, and then said amidst the sound of gasping, "This is a one-in-a-tenth probability."
"If you want to make money, you have to take risks. I bet that today's luck will not always be worse than yours."
"You're really crazy." After Li Changheng showed an unbelievable expression on his face, his face and eyes changed one after another, pretending that there was a ghost in it, "Go home, buddy."
After speaking, he walked towards the steps without looking back.
"Wait," Aiwen fully expressed a red-eyed dude, pointing at Hidal and said, "I'll take a step back, you choose the number, and she will guess it?"
"What?" Hidel, who was pointed by Ivan's finger, took two steps back in fright before being supported by someone and not tripping over the steps.
Seeing this, Li Changheng frowned cooperatively, and after a moment of silence, he smiled as if he saw through Shidel as an idiot, "Are you sure?"
Ai Wen, who had been staring at Li Changheng all the time, saw that his brows were loosened, the corners of his mouth were crooked, and there was greed in his eyes, so he knew that the other party had been fooled.
"Sure".
"Since someone wants to send me money, why not?" Li Changheng smiled and waved at the head of Charles's bodyguard, "Steven, binoculars."
Then, when Ivan and Hidel were acting like they were arguing, I looked through the binoculars for a few tens of seconds, and soon saw a guy wearing a No. 55 ball jersey rushing towards Manchester City's goal with the ball.
A smile suddenly appeared on his face at the right time.
He took the cards on the table, deliberately picked two cards and placed them on the wine cabinet, pressing them down with wine glasses.
It seemed that he was too excited, and even Ivan didn't take out the two million pounds, so he forgot and said with a smile, "I've chosen, it's up to you."
Sinder took a few deep breaths, walked to the wine cabinet in a nonchalant manner, picked up the binoculars and scanned the players on the field back and forth.
"God, what should I choose?"
"Wait," Andrew, who wanted to continue talking, was immediately stopped by Bell Burke.