In Britain, such private roads exist and are usually marked on local block maps. In some cases, if the privately owned road were maintained by the local Shire Council or the Greater London City Council, some would allow pedestrians, but many more would not – some individual neighbourhoods would even have swimming pools and gyms – and the facilities would have made these neighbourhoods far more isolated from strangers than in South Africa and Millican. In the houses of these communities, what happens is very difficult for the media and the public to know.

At the Bracken Tree Farm, when Lin Yilong bought the small town of Grigwayh, the West Gramorgan County Board also sold all the highway land within the Bracken Forest Farm to Lin Yilong at a very cheap price, and Lin Yilong did not directly remove these sections of the road, but kept all the asphalt roads that served as the fire barrier of the forest farm. Tree farm workers also mostly follow these roads on their daily patrols, rather than exploring the inaccessible depths of the forest.

Along this path, even on a sunny day, the forest is dark. Tree farm workers driving here, except for the birdsong, can only hear the sound of gasoline engines, if not accustomed to it, only feel mad.

In addition to some necessary pruning, the workers perform the duties of security guards along the roads in and around the forest farm, and although they do not work much, they work a lot of hours. It's one of the few quality jobs that these former unemployed mine workers can find. Blackken Tree Farm later joined the Pristine Forest Conservation Project, which lasted for 30 years, meaning they could even keep the job until retirement if nothing significant changed, especially as Westminster wanted to postpone the retirement age.

The Brecken Forest Farm Company received £290,000 a year from Lin Yilong for maintenance, but it had nearly £780,000 in expenditure: about £400,000 for the salaries, taxes, benefits and compulsory insurance of the nine men, about £150,000 for miscellaneous expenses such as food, electricity and petrol, £120,000 a year for forestry insurance, and finally about £100,000 for the "salary" and "education" of the "directors" of the Yeon sisters. The difference of £0.5 million in income and expenditure was compensated by the sale of truffles and saffron.

As a result of the compensation, the company, which specializes in providing services to Mr. Lin, has maintained a slight surplus every year.

Lin Yilong's annual tax-free subsidy alone has a net income of 2 million.

Despite this, as chairman of Bracken Forest Farm, Lin Yilong believes that the £750,000 expenditure is still too much and should continue to be cut.

"I think the operating costs on the company's side are too high. When Lin Yilong was eating, his mobile phone app reminded him that on payday every month, a bill of 27,000 yuan had been settled. So he suddenly said to the Yeon sisters in front of him, "You are also members of the 'board of directors' of the forest farm company, what are the ways to increase profits and reduce expenses, let's hear about it." ”

Nadia and Vera looked at each other, not knowing that Lin Yilong had mentioned this matter. Although the sisters are nominally listed as directors of the forest farm company, it is just a way for Lin Yilong to "flexibly handle" taxes, and they do not know anything about business affairs, and they only attach their names to Lin Yilong in the income and expenditure books every year.

"Increasing revenue, basically not, unless you are willing to increase the operating service fee for the company, the revenue will definitely increase. Nadia quipped, "As for saffron, you can sell bulbs as well, and I bet a lot of plant companies want to talk to you about how your saffron is grown." ”

"No, my money is my money, and my company's money is my company's money. Lin Yilong said, "I separate these things very separately. In addition, the flower garden is the three of us, not the Bracken Forest Farm Company, and this company does not count. ”

"With such a large area as a forest farm, it is difficult for nine people to cover the entire area with just the usual patrols, and if it is reduced again, the introduction of aerial observation equipment will be inevitable. Vera tried to put herself in the role of shareholder and gave her opinion.

"That's why I built two helipads behind our house. Lin Yilong said, "You won't forget, in fact, two years ago, I had this consideration, using light helicopters to extensively view and mark." ”

"It's been two years and the helicopter hasn't been seen except once when we came to Wales. Vera complained.

"It's cost-effective!" Lin Yilong said, "a car ride along the entire forest farm will cost only 50 pounds an hour, and if you fly into the sky, the cost of an hour's flight will be nearly 150 pounds." Technically, the helicopters needed for livestock farming on the other side of the pond and in Australia's outback plains are not suitable for the rain-rich Bracken Tree Farm, which is a complex terrain. ”

"What about drones!" Nadia said, "I've been working on carbon fiber materials for aviation these days, and the biggest one is drones. ”

"It's too simplistic to think about. Lin Yilong said, "The requirement is to be able to withstand the strong valley wind in the South Wales valley, the range is about 35-40 kilometers with thermal imaging and other multiple sensors of the drone, we can see back and forth and find a lot of problems, do you know how long the current consumer drone can run?"

"That's not impossible, industrial-grade drones can also be used. Nadia suggested.

"I have done this homework, the entire UAV market and related fields, I found that there are such industrial-grade UAVs, not considering the operating price that is almost the same as that of light helicopters, and the trivial and complicated degree of the entire application procedure is not much less than that of light helicopters. Lin Yilong pronounced the death penalty for Nadia's plan, "Otherwise, Nadia, you work hard and take the train to Cardiff every day, I will dismantle your car and sell scrap iron to buy industrial drones." ”

"Now we have six workers, including two foremen and four general workers, a mechanic, a forest farm manager and a general clerk. Nadia ignored Lin Yilong's joke and seriously asked a practical question, "Which of these nine people do you think is not necessary?"

"Sure enough, none of them can be reduced. ”

"yes, so this kind of overhead is something you imagined Yilong. Nadia vetoed all of Lin Yilong's ideas in Lin Yilong's tone, and then put on a pitiful look and asked carefully, "Then my car, can I not go to the scrap factory?"