56. Stewardship
After getting up the next day, Su Zhen was not interested in going to the interview again, anyway, the protagonist had already been decided, and Su Zhen didn't have the patience to interview all the roles one by one, so he made a phone call, found a reason and threw the rest of the work directly to Shirley and Peter, and the other party naturally had no opinion on this.
Since there is no need to continue to watch the boring audition, Su Zhen simply solved the problem of the manor's servants and security today.
Because the manor is so big, and he and the others do not live in the manor for a long time, they definitely need a manager to hire a servant, so Su Zhen is ready to hire a housekeeper.
There is no need to go out, or make a phone call to Citibank Flag, and soon the other party recommended a local brokerage company in Los Angeles to Su Zhen, and soon the agent came to visit with information, and finally Su Zhen chose an old Chinese housekeeper in his fifties, and made an appointment to meet the other party in the afternoon.
"Mr. Su, hello, I'm Wang Youxin" After meeting, the other party introduced himself in English, this is a very strong old man, tall and very energetic.
"Hello, was Mr. Wang born in the United States? You should be able to speak Chinese, right? Su Zhen asked in Chinese.
"Of course, I came to the United States with my father when I was a teenager, and I can naturally speak Chinese," Wang Lao replied with a smile, "because I didn't know that Mr. Lu Daosu was from China, so I said hello in English."
"Oh? How do you know that I am from China," Su Zhen asked curiously.
"Hehe, Chinese Americans who grew up in the United States rarely have such a fluency in Chinese as Mr. Su," Wang replied with a smile.
Su Zhen thinks about it, if he is a Chinese born and raised in the United States, no matter how fluent he speaks Mandarin, he still has a somewhat American English accent.
Through exchanges, Su Zhen learned that Wang Lao's father was an officer of the Republic of China, and his family moved to the United States after the Civil War, learning a British-style housekeeping course.
"You don't need to call me sir, it's too outward, just call me by my name, I'll call you Uncle Wang" Su Zhen said, "If there is no problem, I will ask Uncle Wang to be the housekeeper of this manor." ”
"Naturally, I don't have any problems, but the etiquette can't be abolished, I'll still call you the young master," Wang Bo said respectfully, but the meaning was obvious, the master and servant were different, and he didn't intend to compromise on the issue of title.
"Hey, whatever, the young master is the young master" Su Zhen said helplessly, the British housekeeper is not very good at this, and he is a little rigid "In the future, the security and daily management of the manor will all be handed over to you"
"No problem," replied Uncle Wang.
The people from the brokerage company sitting on the side could only stare dryly when they saw that the two had been communicating in Chinese, but from Su Zhen's expression, it could be seen that he was very satisfied with Wang Youxin, which made him very happy.
After that, it was time to negotiate the contract, and finally with an annual salary of 120,000 US dollars, Wang Youxin was set as the housekeeper.
This is the standard income of a British housekeeper, in fact, although Wang Youxin has been a housekeeper in the United States for more than 20 years, although his ability is very good, even better than most white housekeepers, but because of his Chinese identity, he is not satisfied, and now he can get this job, and he is very happy in his heart.
After the agent left, Uncle Wang entered the working state, after Uncle Wang inspected the entire manor, he quickly calculated the manpower needed for the family service team, the general traditional British housekeeper under the complete family service team includes tutors, cooks, bodyguards, gardeners, tailors, nannies, housekeeping servants, now in addition to the tutor and tailor are not needed, other manpower is still indispensable, chef Su Zhen thought about it or is ready to invite two, a Chinese food and a Western food, It is enough for the gardener to hire a permanent one, for the nanny and the domestic servant, because of the large size of the house, it takes about three people to maintain cleaning and some housework every day, and as for the security guard, because of the need to work in 24-hour shifts, it is set at six, that is, twelve people need to be recruited.
After the last year, Su Zhen was shocked by the funds reported by Uncle Wang to maintain the operation of the manor every year, first of all, security, because the original security equipment of this manor was obsolete seven or eight years ago, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to renew it, plus the wages of all kinds of personnel and the maintenance of manor facilities, etc., the initial cost was almost nearly one million, and although the later cost was much saved, it also cost hundreds of thousands of dollars every year if the labor wages were counted.
Su Zhen was quite speechless about this, no wonder in his previous life he frequently heard that those celebrity rich people either sold or borrowed money because they couldn't support the maintenance costs of the mansion, such a high cost is really difficult to maintain without a stable high income, not to mention the disgusting real estate tax.
Fortunately, Su Zhen's pocket is still bulging, and he can support this expense, so he reluctantly wrote a check to Uncle Wang and handed over all the things in the manor to the other party.
After solving the problem of the manor, Su Zhen was ready to go back to Harvard, originally he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get closer to Charlize Dodo, but unfortunately Liu Ru's urging call came first, because it was about to arrive in the United States for the fall enrollment, and Liu Ru urged Su Zhen to return to Illinois to settle the enrollment matter.
Su Zhen had no choice but to obey the order and prepare to go back tomorrow, but he hadn't forgotten his plane plan and planned to buy a plane to play.
Originally, Su Zhen wanted to ask Citi about Gulfstream, the best private jet company he had ever heard of in his previous life, but Citi recommended another aircraft manufacturing company to Su Zhen - Boeing.
Su Zhen was very curious, doesn't Boeing produce large business jets, does it also build private jets? After understanding, Su Zhen learned that Boeing was ready to enter the private jet market in 96 years, and cooperated with GE to establish the Boeing Business Jet Company, with Boeing 737 as the prototype, began the research and development of private business jets, and now the first finished product is about to be tested in the near future, that is, the famous Boeing BBJ series.
As for why Citi's customer service manager would recommend Boeing Su Zhen, it is not difficult to understand that Citigroup is developing rapidly and has penetrated into the military industry, and Boeing is an important member of Citigroup.
However, Su Zhen saw that the price of this Boeing BBJ is very expensive, and its estimated price is 30 million US dollars, which is still a bare metal, counting the interior decoration, 40 million can not escape. This made Su Zhen, who finally had a little money in his pocket, smacking his tongue secretly, it seems that we are not rich enough, if we buy this plane, we will become poor again, and I am afraid that I will not even be able to afford the crew at that time, so I will buy it as an ornament?
However, it does not prevent Su Zhen from going to see it at that time, if it is really good, it doesn't hurt to buy it, anyway, there are several Internet companies under the investment company that are preparing to go public, and when the time comes, it will be possible to make a lot of money by selling the shares of a few companies with small potential, and it will not really be able to afford it, but it is too early to do so, this aircraft will not be tested until September, plus it will take a few months to obtain various approvals.
Put aside the matter of buying a plane for the time being, Su Zhen began to think about going to school, in fact, except for college, the school system in the United States is similar to that in China, it is also twelve years, but the difference is that in an accurate sense, there is no junior high school in the United States, only elementary school and high school, although there is the word middle school in English, but it is with primary school, a total of eight grades, unlike the country is separated as a separate stage, high school is four grades, that is to say, high school is equal to the third year of junior high school in China, However, the learning content and coursework are much easier than in China, and the key is where to go to school.
It's not that Su Zhen doesn't want to go to school in Los Angeles, where the beauty is like clouds, but Su Zhen is not at ease with the ranch, Su Zhen knows that the ranch is his foundation, and it is really fast to write novels and invest in movies and Internet companies before, but his knowledge only lasted until the end of 2013, and then it is impossible to make a lot of money in this way, but animal husbandry is different, as long as his jade card is still there, there is no possibility of loss in the pasture, and only the jade brand can ensure that his descendants can continue to continue steadily without decay.
Speaking of Chicago, because American schools adopt small classes, the number of students in each school is generally around a few hundred to a thousand, and two thousand is already a very large school, so there are many schools in the United States, and there are as many as 138 public high schools in the Chicago metropolitan area alone, just in the urban area, not including the several districts around Chicago.
So Su Zhen had a headache about which school to go to at first, but after thinking about it, he just went to high school in Harvard Town like Liu Shihua at the beginning, and it was really unnecessary to go to Chicago to go to high school, originally Liu Ru meant that if Su Zhen went to school in Chicago, then he could take care of Su Zhen's life, but Su Zhen thought that the two places were not far away, a total of less than 100 kilometers away, and it was only an hour or two by car, so it was very convenient to meet, and he could take care of himself, right?