Chapter 107 Hunting

Therefore, at a time when Internet technology has not yet begun to recover, it is still very possible to contact the South African newspaper industry and provide them with enough income to obtain a project invested by the Chinese branch of its subsidiary.

So after receiving Barron's instructions, Amber arranged the affairs of the DS Capital Industrial Investment Department and went directly from London to Johannesburg.

Barron, on the other hand, came to a shop in Mayfair District with Bonnie.

The name of this store is William \u0026 Son. It can be seen from this name that the store was originally opened by a man named William and his son.

This century-old store located in a wealthy area specializes in custom-made traditional hunting clothing and shotguns for the rich and nobles.

Now that autumn has arrived, it is the most suitable time for hunting, and Viscount Bute and his wife invited Barron and Bonnie to go to a hunting ground of their family in the Scottish Highlands for a traditional hunting project.

Hunting has a long history in England. It has been an upper-class entertainment activity for hundreds of years.

Every spring and autumn, noble hunters gather in the countryside across England to enjoy the fun of hunting.

Wearing red hunting attire and black felt hats, they mounted tall horses. Surrounded by groups of hounds, they rode their horses and whipped their whips and galloped from the autumn mist in the countryside; they followed the footsteps of their ancestors in the rural jungles. , chase foxes, rabbits, elk and other prey, and feel the fun and excitement of hunting.

In 1066, the French Duke of Normandy conquered England, and the Norman hunting tradition was brought to England.

At that time, hunting deer and wild boar was the exclusive privilege of the royal family and distinguished guests.

After that, this privilege was gradually granted to nobles and landowners, and the British hunting culture gradually became popular.

In recent decades, people's awareness of animal protection has become stronger and stronger, and hunting is also controversial.

With the exception of Northern Ireland, traditional direct hunting with hounds is now banned in England, but shotgun shooting is still allowed.

This traditional shotgun used for hunting has many classic collections at Chatsworth Manor.

However, given that Bonnie has not participated in this kind of hunting activity before, and she is quite enthusiastic about going with Barron this year - she can be said to have been busy with work during this time, and Barron also wants to take advantage of this opportunity. Take her to relax - so I went directly to this shop, which is well-known in London and specializes in custom-made hunting supplies for nobles and rich people, to customize an outfit for the two of them, as well as a hunting rifle.

In this slightly formal upper-class hunting activity, gentlemen often wear "British red" hunting clothes, black felt hats, white breeches and black riding boots.

Of course, you can also choose according to your own preferences. After all, in this era, there are no longer such strict regulations on dressing for such occasions.

After asking the tailor in the store to measure his size, Barron chose several styles of hunting clothing, including the more classic brown-green hunting clothing and the red hunting clothing for formal occasions.

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Viscount Bute is very different from Barron. In terms of work - it can be said that Ian Bute is more like a traditional nobleman. He will not spend most of his time like Barron after taking over the family business. All busy with work.

Even with the King's Cross renovation plan they were carrying out at this time, Viscount Bute only listened to reports regularly from the general manager of Argent Real Estate Group and rarely participated in specific matters.

It can be said that he spends most of his time socializing at various gatherings.

Of course, the situation is also different. The Devonshire family that Barron took over can be said to be riddled with holes at the beginning, facing a crisis, and he needs to work hard to get it on the right track.

As for the Bute family, all the businesses have been doing well. As the heir to the family, Ian Butt only needs to gradually take over such a well-run family industry.

In this regard, I am afraid that Barron would not envy him.

The hunting grounds of the Bute family in Sutherland, on the northern coast of Scotland.

"I heard from my father that my grandfather came here when he was young. There were many woods around here, which were later cut down for timber sales or to make room for farmland..."

Viscount Bute, also in hunting attire, was riding on a horse, pointing at the pine forest in the hunting ground in front of him, and said to Barron:

"Later, my grandfather bought this place and tried his best to restore it to its original appearance that was closer to nature."

In this hunting ground, their group can be said to be very large - but there are not many accompanying them. Their group includes Viscount Bute and his wife, Barron and Bonnie, and Viscount Bute's sister Jenny Bute. Te and her fiancé.

Jenny Bute was the first time that Barron had met. He did not expect that Viscount Bute's sister looked quite heroic. Her appearance was somewhat similar to a woman that Barron liked very much in his previous life. ——Sophie Marceau.

Jenny is 24 years old, two years older than Barron, and her fiancé, named John Smith, is an American, which surprises Barron.

But during the conversation, after knowing John's identity, he suddenly realized something.

John Smith is the fifth son and youngest son of his father, and his father is named Julian Sinclair Smith. The company controlled by their family is the Sinclair Group.

In Barron's previous life, he heard about the Sinclair Group when they acquired American Forum Media Company and its 42 local TV stations in 2017. After that acquisition, the number of TV stations controlled by the Sinclair Group reached 223 Home, covering 72% of households in the United States, has become the largest television company in the United States.

The Sinclair family is very low-key. It can be said that before that acquisition, most Americans did not even know its existence - the American press called it a "company invisible to the radar."

In addition to the six of them, there are their respective followers and a larger number of hounds.

Whether it is the horses they ride or the hounds they bring, they are all specially raised by the Bute family for hunting in this hunting ground, and they can be said to be well-trained.

"The main target of hunting here is deer, and occasionally there will be foxes... You don't need to have any burden on this, because the deer population here can be said to be somewhat overpopulated..."

After all, since the new century, both environmental protection and animal protection have become more and more "trends" among young people, so Viscount Bute specifically explained to them:

"In the past five years, we have hunted more than 2,000 deer, but the deer herd is still very large. They eat the seedlings, causing us to continue to replant the woods here, so ladies and gentlemen, We are fighting for the ecology here.”

In England, deer hunting is an important hunting project because it also has another meaning, which is to maintain ecological balance. In the British ecological environment, there are no natural enemies of deer, so it is easy to overrun.

As for deer hunting, there is a special term called Stalking.

As the original meaning of the word "stalking" shows, deer hunting requires hunters to track prey for a long time, and often requires walking. Therefore, deer hunting requires much higher physical fitness of the hunter than hunting wild birds.

Well-known in the Scottish Highlands, the annual Macnab Challenge is a test of skill, fitness and, of course, luck, as it requires participants to shoot a stag, a pair of grouse and catch a salmon in one day.

Moreover, the difficulty of deer hunting lies in the fact that first of all, hunting deer requires as small a team as possible, because deer are extremely sensitive to the surrounding environment.

And because although deer are much larger than wild birds, the law stipulates that hunting deer or wild boars requires a single blow to hit the fatal part of the prey in order to minimize the pain of the prey.

Therefore, the British Hunting and Conservation Federation has strict requirements on hunting timing and hunter qualifications.

Of course, as a noble, you can usually ignore such "humane" regulations in your own hunting grounds. After all, no one else will know how you hunt.