I Become A Noble in England

"What are you talking about, darling?"

When Barron returned home, he saw Bonnie sitting on the sofa, chatting with Victoria Beckham, so he asked casually.

"We were just talking about the vault robbery last month. I didn't expect it to be so exciting..."

After he sat down next to Bonnie, she leaned against Barron and talked about this matter with great interest.

Barron knew that what Bonnie was talking about was the vault robbery that took place on the night of February 21 in Kent, not far from London.

Speaking of which, this case also broke the record in Britain and became the largest bank robbery in Britain so far.

After Barron returned to England, he learned about this incident as soon as possible. The reason why this robbery was talked about so much was that, unlike the previous brutal bank robberies, this robbery was like a plot in a movie.

The vault that was robbed was the vault of the Bank of Scotland, the central bank of England, located in Kent. The bank robbers disguised themselves as police officers and kidnapped the bank vault manager Dixon on his way home from get off work.

Another group of three robbers, also disguised as police officers, went to Dixon's home, kidnapped his wife and children and brought them before Dixon, threatening him with their lives to cooperate.

Finally, Dixon agreed to cooperate, and then led the robbers into the bank vault. After the robbers took control of the bank at gunpoint, they opened the bank vault...

At that time, the bank's vault had a total of 150 million pounds in cash, most of which were new banknotes that had just been delivered from the printing factory.

The robbers only took away 53 million pounds.

It's not that they "robbed with a code of ethics", but because the white van they drove over at the time could only hold 53 million pounds in banknotes…

After loading the banknotes, the robbers locked 14 bank employees, the vault manager Dickson, and his wife and children in the cage that originally contained the cash in the vault, and then drove away.

By the early morning of February 22, the whole of Britain knew about this explosive news.

The Kent Police Department launched a special investigation into the major robbery, and 300 police officers were engaged in the investigation of the case 24 hours a day - but there were no clues in the case, and the police were extremely troubled.

As a result, the Kent Police Department finally issued a reward, offering a maximum reward of 2 million pounds to anyone who could provide clues to the robbery.

Once such a high reward was issued, the enthusiasm of the masses was mobilized, and clues came one after another. It was also because the robbers were too careless that they did not even escape for such a long time. They were arrested one after another within the next 48 hours. However, this provided people all over Britain with a topic for discussion after dinner for a long time.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Victoria Beckham, who is now with Barron and his family, gave birth to another child last year. This is her third child...

But Barron felt lucky that this child had nothing to do with him and he didn't have to take any responsibility.

But we have to admit that Victoria's figure is indeed well maintained. It has only been more than three months since she gave birth, but she has completely regained her curves.

While they had lunch together, Bonnie asked Victoria a lot about how to get back in shape after giving birth.

Bonnie was now more than eight months pregnant and got tired easily, so shortly after lunch she went back to her room to lie down and rest.

Then at this time, Victoria entered Barron's study...

Different from the elegance and dignity she showed before, Victoria at this time showed a different style.

I don't know why, even though he just finished his meal, Barron still felt a little hungry, so Victoria kindly offered him...

"I'll drink less, just in case your child doesn't have enough..."

"No, Your Highness, please enjoy it."

Victoria's breathing became more rapid. She placed her hands on Barron's abdominal muscles and began to move downwards...

"What are you going to do, ma'am?"

"I... want to see the English cannon, Your Excellency."

Victoria said expectantly as she ran her tongue across her lips.

…

"Regarding Hermès, we are currently in the process of packing it. Two boxes have been filled and we are now packing the third box..."

During his last trip to Paris, Barron had already begun planning his acquisition of shares in Hermès.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

However, with the previous experience of LVMH's failed acquisition of Hermès as a lesson, Barron is proceeding with caution.

Just like what the person in charge in front of Barron, who was wearing a professional suit and had a good figure, said at this moment.

Ashley Weber, 29 years old, has been working at DS Holdings for more than two years and is currently in the strategic mergers and acquisitions department. Her previous work was also appreciated by DS Holdings CEO Amber Sheehan, so she was responsible for this acquisition of Hermès.

In her words, the acquisition of Hermès was like moving house. In order to avoid being discovered by the Hermès family and the LVMH Group, the DS Group cooperated with local French banks to set up offshore companies one by one...

In this process, they also made full use of intelligence. For example, after carefully investigating all shareholders holding Hermès shares, they classified these shareholders according to their willingness to sell their Hermès shares.

The Hermès family members who hold shares also do the same - there are currently 200 Hermès family members holding shares, and the shares are very dispersed. These family members have different attitudes towards Hermès, some hope that Hermès will remain under family control, while others do not care about it.

Therefore, they first targeted those members and shareholders of the Hermès family who did not care about Hermès, and began to acquire Hermès shares using seemingly unrelated offshore companies.

Ashley called these offshore companies "boxes" because in France, if you hold 5% of a listed company's shares, you need to raise a sign to indicate your intention to acquire those shares.

Then according to their regulations, once an offshore company holds 4.9% of Hermès' shares, it means that "this box is full" and it will continue to load the next box...

It is worth mentioning that the total share capital of Hermès is currently around 74.85 million shares, so about 3.66 million shares of Hermès can "fill a box"...

Their goal, of course, was to fill more than 10 boxes and eventually acquire more than 50% of the shares of Hermès, in order to prevent the situation in the original time and space where the Hermès family members concentrated part of their shares in the trust company called H51 in order to resist the acquisition of the LVMH Group, making it impossible for the other party to control the company...

Of course, this was also because in the original time and space, Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH Group, was too careless. He thought that he held more than 22% of the shares of Hermès at the time. After becoming the largest shareholder, he could defeat the members of the Hermès family one by one. He did not expect that there were still many people in the Hermès family who valued the family's honor so much and directly gathered their shares...