Chapter 971: Scale Expansion
During this period, the first round of investigations on other members of Barron's previous security team has been completed. Through this investigation, no signs of other people participating in this operation were found.
This includes the investigation of all information including bank accounts, communication records, etc. of these people and their families, and even further, background checks on all the people they have contacted in the past five years.
Of course, this is only the first round of investigations, and more detailed investigations will continue in the future.
Since the suspicion of these people has been basically cleared, they have been released from isolation.
However, for safety reasons, they can no longer enter Barron's personal security team-these people have naturally understood what happened by now.
Fortunately, His Royal Highness the Duke is safe and sound, otherwise, I am afraid that under the anger of all his stakeholders, these people, whether innocent or not, will find it difficult to stay out of it.
Of course, the only regret is that they lost the members of His Royal Highness the Duke's personal security team, such a lucrative job.
But these people, as professionals with rich relevant skills, will naturally make full use of their resources. They can stay at the Munger base as instructors, join the Protector Military Service Company, or choose to join the G4S Security Company.
According to their own wishes, they can get a position such as a small supervisor anyway, which is satisfactory.
In the past two years, with the arrival of winter in London, Barron and his family will go to Lanai Island in Hawaii for the winter.
It’s just that because of the assassination of Barron just happened before, for safety reasons, they will stay in London this winter and no longer go overseas.
After all, although Barron has "reconciled" with some consortiums in the United States, he has not eliminated the hostility between him and Mossad. After Britain announced the expulsion of two Israeli diplomats, although Israel expressed regret for this behavior, and its ambassador to Britain also communicated with Britain specifically on this matter, Britain still expressed a tougher stance on Israel.
As we all know, Mossad is very good at terrorist attacks and assassinations, and Barron also needs to be on guard against this.
It's not that he doesn't trust his current security team, but at this time, there is no need to take risks. "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall." From now on, until 2015, it is an important period for him to plan for the next stage. He doesn't mind keeping a low profile for the time being.
Because of that incident before, Barron missed the groundbreaking ceremony of the British High Speed Rail Line 2, which he was originally going to attend after returning from Colo.
At present, the High Speed Rail Line 2 has been contracted by a consortium of Chinese engineering companies, and the laying of rails has begun.
This time is different from the previous life. At that time, the route planning of the High Speed Rail Line 2 was revised due to budget issues. In the end, six prime ministers left. When the seventh prime minister came to power, it was still a long way from completion...
According to the plan of the Chinese side, after detailed geological exploration, they will be divided into four engineering bases and built at the same time.
In other words, they will be built at the same time from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
The engineering team in Birmingham, located in the center, will be the largest, because the engineering base in Birmingham will be built in three directions: London, Manchester and Leeds.
Because the entire high-speed rail line 2 is a Y-shaped line, and Birmingham is located at the intersection of the center.
If it is built in this way, the progress of the entire project will be greatly accelerated, but at the same time, it will also be a great test for the organizational ability of the entire project construction.
The quotation of the Chinese consortium for the construction of the entire high-speed rail line 2 and the high-speed rail station is far lower than the initial estimate of the British government. If the construction period can be shortened, then it can be said that the performance of the Chinese engineering construction in this high-speed rail construction is perfect - they are also treating this project as a model project in Europe. After all, at this time, China's high-speed rail projects are still only in China, and there are no commendable projects in overseas projects.
If they can have a brilliant performance in this project, it will naturally promote a series of high-speed rail projects in Europe that they will undertake later.
But then again, although the Chinese offer this time is far lower than the initial budget, its cost is still much higher than that of China's domestic high-speed rail projects.
After all, the high-speed rail project in the UK needs to take care of local construction companies. Although the general contractor this time is a Chinese enterprise consortium, there are still many local British small and medium-sized enterprises as subcontractors.
As civil engineers, the local British civil engineers are certainly far inferior to their Chinese counterparts in terms of "durability".
"I heard that the British Motor Group is planning to expand its electric vehicle super factory in Birmingham?"
It seems that with the approaching general election - there is only a year and a half left - Cameron is particularly concerned about the economy. After learning that the British Motor Group is planning to expand their super factory, he came to find Barron.
"Yes, there is such a plan. After all, you know that the sales of Jaguar TYPE electric models in Europe last year were satisfactory."
"Indeed, this is the only electric model in Europe that can compete with Tesla in the field of electric vehicles."
Cameron was not stingy with his compliments, and then said:
"Then why don't you consider building another electric car factory in other cities? The government can provide preferential policies..."
"Well, we still need to consider the cost, and we also need to be steady. Although more models will be launched this year, it is not just Tesla. China's electric vehicles are also developing very rapidly. In addition, the automakers in Germany and Japan are still competitive, so..."
Barron could only decline Cameron's proposal:
"But we will add two production lines to the super factory in Birmingham, which can also provide a lot of jobs there."
"But your super factory is an automated production line. I have visited it. It is very advanced and does not require much employees..."
Cameron said with a little regret.
There is no way around it. After all, although Jaguar TYPE is relatively high-end and competes with brands of Mercedes-Benz and BMW, it still needs to enhance its competitiveness in the face of Tesla.
In the past year, if Tesla is the best-selling electric car in North America, then in the European market, Jaguar TYPE is the darling of the electric car field.
For example, when the Jaguar TYPE electric car landed in the Norwegian market at the beginning of this year, it broke the local sales record in the first week, selling 350 cars...
In the past year, the total sales of Jaguar TYPE in Europe reached 15,000 units, far higher than Tesla's less than 5,000 units - of course, Tesla's main sales market is in North America, where they sold more than 20,000 Model S units in the past year...
But this also shows that Jaguar TYPE has finally succeeded. According to the survey, the main group of people who buy electric cars in Europe are young people who pursue environmental protection and technology.
Well, Barron has finally tasted the sweetness of "environmental protection". For this reason, the Prosperous Earth Foundation has incorporated several environmental protection organizations in Britain and continental Europe, shouting that everyone should pay attention to the future of the earth and buy electric cars for environmental protection...
