Chapter 370: Hereditary Aristocrats

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Although the British royal family now has only some symbolic power, he is still the most influential royal family in the world, and it is also one of the oldest surviving royal families, not to mention that Hong Kong is still a British colony, so it is a great honor for most people to receive an invitation from the British crown prince, and such occasions can often help them expand their social circle.

As night falls, The Peninsula welcomes Hong Kong's celebrities, business, political, entertainment, cultural and media, who are either alone or holding their female companions, getting out of the car in full costume and then entering the hotel under the spotlight of reporters. There is no doubt that the people who can attend today's dinner are all people with a certain status and influence in Hong Kong.

On the contrary, many people see attending tonight's dinner as a reflection of their identity and status. Of course, there are some people who don't think so, and don't even want to participate, such as Gu Chen, if he can, he really doesn't bother to participate in this kind of boring dinner, because choosing who to be the female companion is really a headache for him, like tonight's obviously Western-style dinner, as one of the main guests of the dinner, he usually has to bring a female companion, he told Wilsin in the morning that he would attend the dinner alone is just a joke.

In the end, he still chose He Chaoqiong, since the obituary was published in "Ming Pao", He Chaoqiong has been regarded by the media and the public as the eldest and youngest grandmother of the Gu family, and today is the first time he has attended this kind of formal banquet after the relationship between him and the women has been clear. He could only put this worry behind him for the time being.

When Gu Chen and He Chaoqiong got out of the car, the reporters who had been waiting around immediately pressed the shutter of the camera in their hands, and suddenly the sound of the shutter and the magnesium light were intertwined. The two did not stop, and walked straight into the hotel under the escort of bodyguards.

Then under the leadership of the hotel staff, I took the special elevator opened for tonight's dinner to the dinner hall, at this time, it was not far from the start of the dinner, and the invited guests basically came, and the entire dinner hall was crowded, Gu Chen was the latest to come, but no one felt that there was anything wrong with it. The most important character should naturally be the last to appear.

Not long after Gu Chen and He Chaoqiong stepped into the hall, Wei Yixin greeted him with a wine glass, and he seemed to be in a good mood. The smile made his face wrinkled: "Welcome Mr. Gu, welcome He ...... Oh no, I should call Mrs. Gu, welcome both of you. ”

He Chaoqiong did not refute Wei Yixin's title. On the contrary, the smile on her face betrayed her mood. But it's just a smile, her man is by her side, she knows what she should do and what she shouldn't do, and a woman who is too flamboyant is not likeable.

Gu Chen picked up a glass of red wine from the tray in the hand of the waiter next to him and touched the glass with Wei Yixin, and then saw Wei Yixin raise his wrist and look at the time: "The time for the banquet to start is almost up, the crown prince and the princess should be about to come out, please two of you." ”

Gu Chen and He Chaoqiong followed Wei Yixin to the rostrum, and those who could stand here were all people with real status and status. Ho Hongsen, known as the gambling king of Macau, is one of them, and he doesn't know what to talk about with Li Jiacheng. Since I met my father. He Chaoqiong naturally wanted to go over to say hello, but Gu Chen didn't want to go over a little, mainly because he didn't know what to call it, and calling unc1e like before seemed a little estranged, after all, other people's daughters were regarded by the media and the public as the Gu family's daughter-in-law; Calling He Chaoqiong, he was difficult to speak.

In the midst of the dilemma, there was a burst of warm applause in the hall, Gu Chen looked up, Prince Charles in a black suit and Princess Diana in a white evening dress walked out of the side door next to the rostrum holding hands, the two walked up to the rostrum, Prince Charles stood in front of the microphone, Princess Diana stood on his left side and back, only to see Prince Charles bow slightly to the guests in the audience, and then said: "Thank you very much for coming to tonight's banquet, everyone present is a representative figure of their respective industries." On behalf of the British Royal Family, the British Government and all Hong Kong people, I would like to thank you for all your contributions. In fact, in addition to having an opportunity to communicate with Hong Kong's elites, there is also an important thing to announce that in view of Mr. Gu Chen's outstanding contributions to Britain and Hong Kong in terms of economy and culture, the British royal family has decided to canonize Gu Chen as the Viscount of Pardocia, and the Pardocia Islands as its territory, and the official canonization ceremony will be held on New Year's Day this year. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes in the hall instantly focused on Gu Chen, and most of the people's eyes were filled with shock and envy, you must know that the viscount is a hereditary noble title in the United Kingdom, and since entering the 2O century, the British royal family has rarely canonized people outside the royal family as hereditary nobles, let alone canonized a person who is not a native citizen of the United Kingdom as a hereditary nobleman, and this seems to be the first Hong Kong person in history to be canonized as a hereditary nobleman by the British royal family, so in the eyes of most of the people present, This is undoubtedly a great honor.

What's more, this viscount is not just an empty title, but a 'real power' viscount with a territory, although almost no one present has heard of where the Pardocia Islands are, but it is also a territory, and how many modern British hereditary nobles still retain their territories? You can count on both hands.

As the person concerned, Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized in his heart that this should be the reason why Prince Charles and Princess Diana suddenly visited Hong Kong. As for why the British royal family would so generously canonize him as a viscount, it is not difficult to understand.

By the end of June, the economic growth rate increased by 2.7 percentage points year-on-year, and the unemployment rate was also greatly reduced.

Secondly, Gu Chen established the Global Bank a month ago, although the bank's business has not yet been fully launched, but a fool can see the energy contained in this bank, if it can maintain a good relationship with Gu Chen, or if the two sides can cooperate, then Britain may be able to rely on this bank to obtain some economic, diplomatic and even political benefits from other countries in the future.

Again, it's money, so far, Gu Chen's assets on the bright side have exceeded 2ooo billion US dollars, you must know that France, one of the world's major economies, last year, its GDP was only worth more than 5ooo billion US dollars, and you can appreciate how huge Gu Chen's assets are when compared with each other. And no one knows how many assets Gu Chen still has not been disclosed, sometimes there is a certain amount of money, even if it is deposited in the bank and not spending, it is also very deterrent. For example, when transferring the money deposited in ZĂ i Swiss Bank to Standard Chartered Bank, Gu Chen did not transfer all of them at once, but divided them into dozens of times and transferred them at different times.

In addition to increasing the concealment of capital transfers, the main reason for doing so is to avoid causing turmoil in the world financial market, because the one-time transfer of more than $4ooo billion dollars of huge funds is very likely to cause a crisis of dollar liquidity shortage in the world financial market, which will directly lead to a sharp decline in the world stock market and commodity market (including gold and silver).

In the end, Gu Chen not only assisted the Chinese government with 5ooo million US dollars at the beginning of the establishment of the Global Development Bank, but also provided a loan of 200 million US dollars to the Chinese government in its first business, and the position is very likely to fall towards China, which the British government absolutely does not want to see.

This time, Prince Charles and his wife suddenly visited Hong Kong, bringing the queen's canonization of the oracle is naturally to win over Gu Chen, in order to achieve this purpose, the British government has made a bloody investment, and it is a hereditary noble title and a fief, you must know that the British royal family has not given the hereditary noble territory for hundreds of years, this time it is an exception (there are two ways for the British nobles to be produced, one is to recommend candidates to the king, and the other is to decide the king himself, but to give the noble territory needs the consent of the cabinet, This is also a consequence of the rapid passage of power in the British crown since the First World War), but the way they pronounced their dictations inevitably seemed a bit over-the-top.

Without any communication with Gu Chen in advance, they specially held a grand dinner, in front of more than 100 celebrities from all walks of life in Hong Kong, announced without warning that the British royal family would canonize Gu Chen as the Viscount of Pardocia, and he was also a viscount with a territory, which gave everyone the first impression that Gu Chen had a very close relationship with the United Kingdom, which also cut off the possibility of Gu Chen's refusal to accept the canonization. I believe that after tonight's banquet, many people will label Gu Chen as pro-British.

On such an occasion, Gu Chen knew that he had to accept it even if he didn't want to, but when he faced Prince Charles's gaze, he only smiled slightly, he knew that the other party was asking him if he wanted to go on stage to say a few words, and his smile obviously meant to refuse.

In fact, he didn't think about refusing the canonization of the British royal family, he was disgusted by the way the other party adopted, he didn't communicate with him at all in advance, anyway, this is disrespectful to him, and he really has no interest in going to the stage again to hypocritically echo Prince Charles.

“…… Before the banquet begins, let us congratulate Mr. Gu with warm applause. With that, Prince Charles took the lead in applauding. (To be continued......)