Unlike county councillors, town councillors do not have full-time town councillors, and they are all part-time job reimbursers for various expenses. In the 12,000-strong settlement of Mastach, there are 17 town committee members, several of whom are former like-minded members of Mr. Lin's, though they may have never met.

County Board Treasurer Philip Aichinworth falls into this category.

"We've met before. "We were still on opposite sides of the story, and on the other side of Cowbridge, you were doing paperwork for a traffic speeding ticket. ”

"It's an honor. Lin Yilong fell into the memory, but he could not remember for a moment where he had met Mr. Aichiworth, who spent two years at the legal aid agency in the Glamorgan Gorge, where most of his work was dealing with cases such as traffic speeding tickets, parking violations or National Welfare. These simple cases require dealing with a lot of people, and apart from the main parties and defenders, he doesn't have that much of an impression on the others.

"Well, let's get down to business, as our Finance Committee has just said to you, if you don't pay the residence tax, we can't open certain public facilities for your workers, that's our most basic position. "Your commercial property tax doesn't directly entitle your employees to certain public facilities, because if they need to fill their spare lives, depending on the nature of the commercial property tax you pay, you'll need to build a library or a swimming pool for them." ”

"Can this be understood as the committee's recommendation?" Lin Yilong asked rhetorically, if he needed to donate 3,500 pounds to the town council every year to enjoy free benefits, it might be better to find a house and build a library directly, but this was not what Lin Yilong needed, Lin Yilong's main goal of paying 3,500 pounds to donate was to eliminate the hostility of the townspeople to his forest farm and the forest farm workers, otherwise he would always encounter unexpected additional difficulties in the town of Mastach.

"Yes, Mr. Lin, but please don't take this as an act of hostility just yet. "I am merely explaining, in my capacity as treasurer, the general position of our town finance committee. However, there are some exceptions to this position, because the mining industry is sluggish, and the town of Mastach is short of money, such as our roads, street lights and road signs, as well as traffic lights, such as our town fire brigade, and our football team. ”

"Excuse me, please say it again. Lin Yilong felt that Aichihua was knocking on his bamboo poles, and there was no problem with the maintenance of roads and ancillary facilities, as well as the fire brigade and police station, even if he funded the town gallery museum in Mastach, Lin Yilong also admitted, "Let me fund the school's sports equipment and others, it's all right, but what's the matter with the football team?"

Rugby's number one sport in Wales has always been rugby, with the highest TV ratings of the year being when Six Nations rugby is broadcast. Well, it's still England, and the audience for football is second only to rugby – Wales doesn't mix with the FA, and even more disadvantage is that several of its major teams are in the English league, and the Welsh FA's influence is quite small. It makes no sense to invest in the Mastach football team, which is a major shareholder of fan groups and town councils, and the Welsh second division, which is in a league with an average attendance of less than 500 players, does not even report the sports section of the local free newspaper.

"Because if the football team fails the financial review this year, it will be disbanded. "We were relegated last season and the only thing we can do is a small injection of money, and if you can save this football team, I'm sure the townspeople of Mastach will welcome you." ”

"It's a bit of a big investment. Lin Yilong said, "I want to know more about the amount of this 'small' capital injection?"

"Not much, about £50,000. Aichiworth replied with an unchanged face.

"Scared?" Lin Yilong shuddered at the amount of money the treasurer said, "A small town team with only 500 people per game needs so much money?"

"This team doesn't have its own stadium, and even the training ground and locker rooms are provided by the town committee, what can they use to guarantee that my investment will not be wasted!?" Lin Yilong continued, there is no shortage of 50,000 pounds at all, but this amount is much more than he expected, and it is not very cost-effective, "and, I guess, I will have to sponsor a small amount of jersey funds for the team." ”

"Attaching a message is worth the money. The old treasurer unhurriedly took out a letter from the table to change the name of the land property, "I think you know very well the zenith villa that is located in your forest farm but is not part of it. Part of the main building of the former miners' club, the zenith is to be moved as a monument to the museum in Saint-Feugan, of which our town council is the owner. The best way to do this is through an auction, and if you, as a neighbor, are willing to activate the right of first refusal before the auction, we can transfer it to you at an ordinary land price in exchange for your agreement to inject money into the team. In this way, you have become a resident of Middle Glamorgan and saved the town team, and I don't think the rest of the town will have any complaints. ”

The zenith villa is a remnant of public land and town council ownership, located on a ridge near the town of Mastach on the Lin Yilong Forest Farm, overlooking the Ogmo Gorge where the entire town of Mastach is located, and is the only enclave where others go deep into the Bracken Forest Farm. Lin Yilong wanted to pull this thorn off from the beginning. But the town council didn't want to sell the land to him, and the townspeople could access the Brecken Tree Farm via the road that connected to the Zenith to explore or have a picnic. Once the land is sold or the right holder is replaced, Lin Yilong can force the right holder to give up the land property right by blocking the road and cutting off the water.

"Worth it exactly. Lin Yilong didn't think about it, he directly took and confirmed the letter in the treasurer's hand, and then signed his name with the pen handed over by the treasurer.

The three checks in his arms were just enough to meet the price offered by the town committee for the zenith villa, and Lin Yilong handed them to the treasurer.

"This is the consideration for the Zenith Villa land on the name change letter. When Aichiworth signed in the name of the town committee, Lin Yilong said, "If I want to fund an accident insurance for the local emergency department, is the town committee willing to help me be the liaison?"

"Of course, even Glamorgan Communications can take two pictures of you to show your face. The treasurer said.