Link cautiously steered the carriage back to Hannah Castle before the sun approached the treetops.

The newly recruited butler, William Reilly, was already at the door: "Sir, Ms. Benis, Miss Hannah, welcome back!"

The housekeeper was thirty-five years old, an Englishman. He graduated from the famous British housekeeping cadet and is a professional housekeeper. Energetic and experienced. Now the entire Mora estate is tended by him with forty-four servants, two cooks and three gardeners. Link is paid nearly four million dollars a year for this.

Over the course of the past week, Reilly had become more or less familiar with everything here, and had earned the respect of the other servants. This also made Link quite satisfied. If you can't get the approval of other servants as a steward, you won't be able to manage the manor well.

"Good work!" Link smiled and nodded at him.

Reilly smiled and said, "It's my pleasure!" he asked after a pause. "Sir, do you have any requirements for dinner?"

Link asks Jessica what she wants to eat tonight.

"It's okay to be lighter!" Jessica said.

He was about to ask Hannah when she had already raised her hand and said loudly, "I want to eat snails!"

Link patted her on the head and said to Reilly, "I don't particularly want to eat, as long as the portion is big enough." Just tell the chef Jessica and Hannah's request. ”

"Yes, sir. Reilly stepped back.

Jessica was in the castle, still feeling like she was in a dream. Stepping on the soft woven carpet makes you feel like you're walking on the clouds. The atrium's more than 10-meter-high vaulted lobby can accommodate a dance party of hundreds of people, and the dark yellow frosted stone slabs make the castle look quaint.

Exquisite crystal chandeliers on the Greek-style colonnades, as well as large crystal chandeliers with a diameter of more than three meters above the lobby. Let this castle have a strong castle atmosphere in the interior, but at the same time, it looks luxurious. However, it took hundreds of millions of dollars to build!

You know, more than $400 million is enough to build a modern building with tens of floors.

Before dinner, Link takes Jessica on a tour of the castle. The highest point of the castle is sixty-four meters high. However, it is an attic in the middle, and the main building has only nine floors, and the height of each floor is 4.5 meters. Inside, it gives a feeling of a huge space.

The marble round columns in the corridors all have mythological reliefs of the same style. And on the pillars of each corridor, the carved mythological system is different.

A staircase at least five yards wide, flanked by rustic, non-slip mahogany handrails. In the center is a three-yard-wide rug of fuchsia weave with frosted marble slabs underneath.

Two elevators inlaid with mahogany logs take people directly to the highest attic. They took the elevator to the ninth floor.

Hannah dragged her to her bedroom.

Hannah's room was entirely a large ensuite. The bedroom alone is nearly 150 square meters in size. The whole room is a warm pink tone, and a princess bed that allows Hannah to roll around on it.

The floor was teak, and in one corner there was a rug of thirty or forty square meters, perhaps for Hannah to play on.

"I still have a lot of rabbits. It was all given to me by Daddy. ”

Hannah said aloud, running to open the door to a toy room that was at least fifty square meters in size.

"It's so high here, you can see it far and wide!Click, come on!" On one side is a brown bright yellow frosted glass door, and outside the door is a large balcony three meters wide and fifteen meters long. The balustrades on the balconies, also marble.

Jessica and Link walked to the balcony together. Hannah tugged at Link's pants, "Daddy, hug me." I want to see it!"

Here is the top floor, and the empty plain allows them to see far away.

"It's a great view!" Jessica sighed as she watched the sunset. "You can't find this kind of wilderness in a park in the city. ”

"This is a forest. Link hugged Hannah and said. "If you go to the top attic, you can see the blue ocean. ”

There is also a forest around the Mora estate, where trees can grow to a height of more than 100 meters. But there are always places where you can see the distance.

"You can see the lights of Fox here. Those must be the streetlights there. ”

"It is. If the weather is good, the view is very good. ”

Jessica blinked and said, "We'll go to Fox tomorrow." I want to move the company there within a week. But I've heard that Fox's hotel is not very good, can I rent a room here in the future?"

"Of course!" Link said, holding out a hand around her. "It's just that the room rent here is expensive. Maybe I can rent you half a bed for free. Don't worry, my bed is big enough to fit two people. ”

"My bed was also huge. Sleep with me!" Hannah said not to be outdone.

Jessica glanced at Link and said, "Okay." I slept with Hannah!"

The next day, Link and the others went to Fox again, but this time to find an office for the California Agricultural Services.

In a small town like Fox, don't try to find any good office buildings. They temporarily rented a land lease that they had previously been a real estate agent. The place is about a hundred square meters and there is an attic.

There aren't many executives in California right now, and they don't need to move all of them. As long as Jessica moves in, the rest of the population will still be able to stay in California, and she can handle the company's affairs electronically.

Link saw that Jessica was satisfied with the place, and signed the lease contract without caring about the extra rent of a few hundred dollars a month. Anyway, it's only temporary.

On the way back, Link told Jessica, "I'll be building an office building in Fox by May at the latest, and then I can rent two floors to the company cheaply." ”

It's the first time Jessica has heard him say she's going to build an office building here, and it doesn't sound like it's going to be built for a California company.

"You're going to start a new company. What does it have to do with a few of your farms?"

Link shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter much. I plan to set up an investment bank. ”

"Open a bank!" Jessica was stunned for a moment, but immediately said with a smile. "That seems like a good note. Are you going to invest in finance?"

She knew that Link had a lot of cash, and with those four wells, she could expect him to have more cash in the future. If the cash had been in his own bank, it would have been much more useful in other banks.

However, Link still shook his head and said: "Investment finance will do, but it is not the fundamental purpose." Actually, I was wondering if the company's research could achieve the desired results. We're definitely going to promote. But it will certainly be cracked down by other biotech companies. Their main weapon is the bank. Many farmers need bank loans to stay afloat. ”

"So you want to use the loan to get those farmers to choose our products?"

"Yes. But it may be a little bit like what other companies do. We can do it by investment, we can work with those farms. ”

Jessica thought for a moment, her eyes lit up and she said, "Your purpose is to sell the seeds and then buy and process them?"

Link laughed and whispered, "Yes." Family farms are not highly resilient. I've surveyed that at least 70 percent of family farms are actually controlled by those bio companies. Especially chicken farms and pig farms. They will often be asked to increase their breeding facilities, for which they can only borrow constantly. Then continue to be under the control of the biological company. ”

"I've heard of this. Most of the operating family farms are tied up with bank loans. For example, if a farm wants to buy a company's products and does not have enough funds, the company can provide him with a guarantee to borrow from the bank, and at the same time require the farmer to produce according to their requirements, including what brand of pesticides to buy, and the agricultural products to be sold to that company. If the farm does not follow their instructions during the process, they will no longer provide a guarantee to the farm. Banks will be forced to collect debts. ”

She paused, looked at Link and said, "Do you want to do that too?"

Link smiled and said, "No, I wouldn't do that. Cooperation is fair. Doing so will only create contradictions. But I'll borrow from that. For example, we can borrow part of the purchase money to the farmer in advance without interest through the bank, so that they can operate. Settlement occurs after the product is acquired. If these farms are acting in accordance with the contract. Interest will not be calculated in the end, but if they breach the contract. Interest will be calculated. And blacklist them. No more cooperation in the future. Of course, maybe I'll think of something better. ”

He really hadn't thought of the perfect solution yet. For example, he is still thinking about what to focus on in his plan. Is it mainly for profit, or to improve his social status. Or maybe both. He had to identify this fundamental issue before he could really decide on his detailed plan.

But the bank he wants to set up will be the core of his big plan. His plan had to be backed up by a big bank.

"So let's say. I'm going to have a banker boyfriend right away?"

"You can have a banker fiancé for as long as you want, and there will be a banker husband in the future. ”

"God, you're not romantic!" Jessica laughed and rested her head on his shoulder. "I think you're proposing again, but the atmosphere isn't like that!"

"Not this time!"

"I should have said that!"

"I'm speaking my heart for you!"

Jessica laughed, but there was some worry in her heart. I also stopped arguing with him, saying, "Your plan is too big, if the results of the laboratory are too late." So what?"

Link also thinks about this problem: "It's best when the lab gets the results we want as quickly as possible. If I can't, I'll have to run the bank slowly. Let the bank's assets increase. ”

He considers the problem by way of a reverse extrapolation.

He knows that there are some companies that the United States will not want to see fall.

The most obvious example is the subprime mortgage crisis 15 years ago, some of the same banks collapsed in the crisis, but there are some of which the federal government will never allow to collapse even if it looks at the recipients of the support with huge bonuses.

The only reason for that distinction is that the banks that have fallen are ordinary banks.

And those who can't fall are running all kinds of government funds. For example, all kinds of insurance benefits. Once these banks fail, the health insurance and pension insurance systems will be ruined. Then the entire U.S. government will be doomed.

He hadn't thought of how to get involved in those areas yet. Maybe he'll never get a chance to get involved. But he's thinking of other ways to get his bank to do the same. If he could: if his bank collapsed, the whole of America would be thrown into chaos. Then his bank will always be able to stand.

As long as this core does not fall, he can occupy a very important position in the United States.

That's his new goal. Of course, he must also work towards this goal.

Jessica smiled and said, "Looks like I'm going to work harder." "Listen to Link. She runs the California Agricultural Services Company, which is also very important in his program.