Chapter 1: Arthur Walker
"Arthur, hurry up, we're going to the hospital later, your grandfather's body is ......"
A noisy sound woke Lin Baiyi, he shook his head, touched his forehead and sat up. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although it has been nearly a year since China in 2016 came to England in 2000, Lin Baiyi still feels trance sometimes, especially when he wakes up every morning.
Every morning when he woke up, Lin Baiyi was a little scared, because he couldn't tell whether he was the Chinese citizen in the previous life, or the vast young and young of the Walker family now, every time he woke up, the two memories kept fighting in his mind, one would be Lin Baiyi, a small civil servant in China, and the other would be Arthur, the grandson of the British family? Walker. Two memories kept spinning back and forth in my mind.
When Lin Baiyi had just crossed over, the two memories were distinct at the beginning, but slowly the two memories began to merge.
Lin Baiyi went to the bathroom to wash up after getting up, and looking at the skin he possessed after being reborn from the mirror, it can be regarded as a talent. Twenty-three years old is the most energetic age for men, with a height of more than one meter and eight years, blonde hair, an angular face, and a model-like figure, Lin Baiyi, who had a "beer belly" early in his previous life, is naturally no longer satisfied with such a figure.
As the two memories continued to merge, Lin Baiyi didn't know if his memories were integrated into Arthur's memory, or Arthur's memories were integrated into his own memory. Anyway, now the two memories are completely mixed together, and it is difficult to distinguish each other. With the fusion of memories, Arthur also began to come out of his trance and understood many things.
Arthur was a member of the Walker family, and his great-grandfather, Charles? Walker was a steel business owner before World War II, and he said he was a business owner, but he was not much bigger than the average small workshop.
The rise of the Walker family relied on Arthur's grandfather, Jack? Walker. In 1951, Walker Sr. died, and Jack took over the company from his father. At this time, Britain had just experienced the cruel baptism of World War II, and various industries were in ruins, especially the demand for steel in traditional industries such as construction, automobiles, and shipbuilding, and it was through this period that Jack accumulated a lot of wealth. In 1988, he sold GKN, a subsidiary of Walker Steel, to British Steel for £360 million, a record price for a private company.
Jack? Walker's name was also famous in Lin Baiyi's previous life, not only because he was a successful entrepreneur, but also because he was the pioneer of Jinyuan football.
Just six months after selling GKN to British Steel, Jack moved into Blackburn with a huge fortune and injected £30 million into the club under the slogan "I want to give back to my hometown". A club that couldn't even afford to pay for the team's train tickets was instantly rewarded with £30 million, which made Jack a god to the locals, and the club immediately renovated Ewood Park into a modern 30,000-seat stadium.
The second step is to buy someone. Jack used 400,000 pounds to poach the "Liverpool King" Dalglish as head coach, and Scottish central defender Stephen Hendry, Everton's Newell, Norwich's Sherwood, as well as Lesox, **** Hirst, David Barty and goalkeeper Flowers and others have joined one after another. Of course, the two most important transfers are the 3.6 million acquisition of Alan Shearer and the 5 million acquisition of Chris? Sutton, their devilish front line helped Blackburn Rovers knock out Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup in the 93/94 season.
In the 94/95 season, Blackburn Rovers finally ushered in the most glorious period in their history, Manchester United were held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham in the final round, and the league title was given directly to Blackburn, and when Jack enjoyed the praise of tens of thousands of fans in the stadium, he said the famous phrase "This championship made people find Blackburn Rovers on the map of England".
However, as soon as the championship arrived, Dalglish resigned from the coach, because he knew very well that Blackburn's limitations were too great, so after gaining fame and fortune, the scheming Dalglish hung up a false position at the club and still received 300,000 pounds a year from the club.
In the 95/96 season, the team's results slipped under new boss Ray Halford, and despite winning a good draw in the Champions League, they were in the same group as Spartak Moscow, Rosenburg and Warsaw Lega, but the defending Premier League champions were knocked out of the group, and Barty and Le Sox also staged football's famous room-mates and battled on the pitch. In the end, Blackburn only finished seventh in the Premier League that season and missed out on next season's European competition. Against this backdrop, the star Shearer had the idea of moving to his hometown club Newcastle, and Blake was already in disarray, and finally relegated to League One in the 98/99 season.
It can be said that in Blake itself, fans around the world have witnessed the glory of Jinyuan football for the first time, and it has also given the Walker family an extraordinary status in the Blackburn area.
Most of the members of the Walker family are graduates of high school and have relatively decent jobs. The family is not considered to be the top wealthy family in the UK, nor is there any political bigwig, but the various networks are very deep, and they are also a relatively respected group in the British upper class.
But unlike Jack Walker, who is obsessed with football, there are no football-obsessed fans in the Walker family like him, and they take a completely hands-off attitude towards Blackburn's management, let alone plan for the future development of the club.
Arthur's father, James Walker, is Jack's eldest son, who works for Walker Steel, and after Jack's advanced age, James exercises the duties of chairman as vice chairman, and is so focused on the development of the company that he has limited attention to Blackburn.
Jack has a son and two daughters, in addition to the eldest son James, the two daughters are an editor of the very famous British newspaper "The Times", and Arthur's aunt is a professor at the University of London.
Although Arthur is Jack's eldest grandson, he is not the eldest of their generation, and he also has an older sister, Sophia Walker, Sophia became a photography enthusiast under the influence of her aunt who was an editor.
As the saying goes, SLR is poor all your life, but fortunately, the Walker family has a big business, and it is not too much of a burden for Sophia to be able to fill a room full of photographic tools.
In addition to Arthur's sister, Arthur has some younger siblings, but they are all children of the two aunts' families, because they do not live together, the relationship is not very close, and Arthur's memory after rebirth is not very deep.
Arthur Walker is James's eldest son and naturally Jack's eldest grandson, and he can be said to have completely inherited Jack's obsession with football. At first, Arthur wanted to be a professional footballer, but he didn't have the talent. If he has a little talent, with Jack's influence, he can make it to the Blackburn first team, or even make it to the regular rotation.
However, because he was really talented, Arthur was eliminated by Blackburn's junior team at a young age. Perhaps because of love and hate, Arthur became Blackburn Black, and was very loyal, and had a lot of trouble with his grandfather for this, and even smashed the glass door outside the club on the night Blackburn won the Premier League Cup.
Arthur's studies are very average - said to be average, in fact, they are all promoting him, he failed to get into the university and it is even more difficult for him to find a decent job in England, Jack hopes that Arthur can continue the pace of the Walker family, enter Blackburn to work, become the club's assistant manager, but Arthur has not agreed, but has become a so-called freelancer, drunk every day.
However, Jack and James watched Arthur be fooling around, but he had always obeyed the law, so he went.
These are all things that Lin Baiyi learned from Arthur's memories.
Overall, this is the Walker family.
Just traveled back to 2000 and changed into the skin of a wealthy child in Europe, Lin Baiyi was full of ambition at the beginning, planning to rely on his foresight and family funds to quickly become the pride of heaven on the Forbes list, but in fact it proves that if you really plan according to those rebirth novels, it is already a great luck to be able not to starve to death.
In fact, there has never been a shortage of people of insight with forward-looking vision in the world, nor is there a shortage of talented people with intelligence but few opportunities, and Lin Baiyi's tens of thousands of pounds of assets obtained by his "predecessor" can only be a joke in front of real capital predators.
What's more, Lin Baiyi, who was a civil servant in a third-tier city and township in China in his previous life, did not have those talents at all - he would not remember the trend of the domestic and foreign stock markets as he cherished, nor would he clearly remember which companies had good opportunities to intervene before they made their fortunes, and he would not have a conclusive memory of the numbers of any winning lottery.
However, after Lin Baiyi has a good chance to be reborn, will he be so idle?
The inactive Lin Baiyi, the taciturn Arthur? Walker, the two have completely different identities, but they have a common identity - football lovers.
Because of the junction of rebirth time, Lin Baiyi inevitably missed the Danish mythology, but the night of Rotterdam two days ago increased the amount of deposits in Lin Baiyi's bank by dozens of times.
Although compared with those "science fiction" novels, with a sole proprietorship of 30,000 pounds and an income of nearly one million pounds, Lin Baiyi's performance can be described as a waste of wood, but this is the down-to-earth reality.