Chapter 284 Smith who bought London

Some people say that in the United States, only New York is a big city, and the rest are in the countryside.

According to this standard, in the UK, except for London, which is a big city, everything is in the countryside.

This is probably the case in the eyes of Londoners.

Early August 2001.

The Times published a report that made most British people angry after reading it.

When the Thames is mentioned, the first thing that Chinese people think of is the Thames, the mother river of London.

By extension, most Chinese people would also think that The Times means The Times.

Not really.

The English name of "The Times" is The Times, and the Chinese literal translation should be "Times" or "Times".

However, its Chinese translation has become the same as "Thames", which has a similar pronunciation but has no connection.

Due to convention, this mistranslation has been preserved in the Chinese dynasty to this day.

There are many newspapers named Times around the world, such as The New York Times.

To distinguish it, The Times is sometimes called The Times of London by English speakers.

Another piece of trivia is that The Times is the first newspaper in the world named after "Times".

This is also the reason why British people say that newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were actually copycat versions of The Times in the beginning.

August 2, 2001.

The Times by News Corp UK.

A news article titled "Are the Americans going to buy Britain?" was published.

This story is the headline on the second page, not the front page.

This shows that The Times still has some scruples

【.As we all know, the United States of America was originally the thirteen continents of North America of the Great British Empire, and later】

【In late July of this year, an American businessman named Abel Smith came to London. Mr. Smith's great-grandfather's great-grandfather's grandfather set out from Plymouth on September 16, 1620.】

【..Three hundred and eighty years later, Mr. Ander Smith's descendants returned to London. He only came to London for less than half a month and almost bought most of London.】

[.Let us see what the descendants of Mr. Under Smith bought in London.]

[Newspapers: "Daily Telegraph", "Daily Mail", "Daily Express", "Daily Star", "Glasgow Herald".]

[Magazines: "New Scientist", "New Society", "Women's Circle". What are these? These are the newspaper companies that Mr. Smith purchased in London within ten days. According to calculations by professional accountants, these newspapers cost Smith a total of

Sir, about 1.5 billion pounds.]

[The expenditure of 1.5 billion pounds has made Mr. Smith’s British Smith Media one of the top media giants in the British Isles]

[Do you think Mr. Smith only buys newspapers? No, he buys a lot of things! You will find out after reading below. 】

[In addition to Smith Media, Mr. Smith established a British New Start Real Estate Company in the UK. This company began to purchase goods frantically in London. Within a week, the average price of the entire London luxury market increased by five percentage points. 】

[Have you heard of "Kensington Palace Gardens"? Maybe not, but let me tell you, it is at No. 1, Kensington Palace Gardens Street, and it is worth 80 million pounds!]

[Maybe you don’t know Kensington Palace Garden Villa, then you may have heard of “Strawberry Hill House”. Maybe you haven’t heard of Strawberry Hill House, but many of you should have seen “The Castle of Otranto”. 】

["The Castle of Otranto" is the originator of Gothic novels. Strawberry Hill Villa is the former residence of Mr. Walpole, who is the originator of Gothic novels.]

[Strawberry Hill Villa has a long history. It is dilapidated, but it has unparalleled historical value. The World Heritage Fund has listed it as one of the 100 endangered heritage sites in the world this year. 】

[It now also belongs to Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith only spent 15 million pounds to get it. Because of subsequent maintenance and repairs, another 15 million pounds may be needed. No one is willing to pay this money, but Mr. Smith is willing.

Then it belongs to him.]

【.Newspapers, luxury real estate, do you think he only bought these?】

[No! This gentleman bought 52% of the shares of MUPLC Group in a very short period of time. MUPLC Group is a listed company. Yesterday, this gentleman launched a comprehensive tender offer for this company. 】

[Many people may not know what MUPLC means? So let me tell you, MUPLC is the English abbreviation of "Manchester United Limited Liability Company"! Yes, MUPLC is Manchester United!]

[This gentleman from the United States has become the largest shareholder of the Red Devils. He is also seeking to privatize the Red Devils and turn it into his own team. With the financial resources shown by Mr. Smith, this process must not be difficult.

.]

[When Mr. Smith announced the comprehensive takeover offer yesterday, the market value of Manchester United Group on the London stock market was 420 million pounds. I believe Mr. Smith can fully afford this amount of money.]

【.】

This article is very long.

A detailed list of the investments made by Abel Smith in the UK in a very short period of time.

If the British News Corporation had not paid special attention to Abel, it would not have been possible to achieve this level.

Being able to compile such a detailed form in such a short time and so quickly.

In addition to the fact that these transactions are all public and have been announced to the outside world.

It is also related to the fact that the British News Corporation paid special attention to Abel, and the Times paid special attention to Abel.

This also means that American News Corporation, the controller of British News Corporation, attaches great importance to Abel!

In other words, Murdoch was a little nervous about Abel coming to London.

What are you nervous about?

Nervous, Abel launched a sweep in the British media industry, shaking News Corporation's position in the British and European media circles.

In fact, Murdoch is right to be nervous.

It's only been a few days since I saw Abel arrive.

The British Smith Media Group is already at the top of the scale and sales of newspapers.

Is it almost on par with, or even a little bit ahead of, News Corporation UK?

What if Smith Media UK buys a few more TV stations next?

That News Corp and two other local media giants.

We have to hold our noses and watch new competitors squeeze into their original ecological niche.

However, whether it is Murdoch or the two local local snakes.

They have no resistance at all to Abel's entry method of buying and selling with krypton gold.

When Murdoch came in, he did the same thing.

Krypton gold is the simplest and most effective technique.

If Abel were from another country.

For example, neon, China, or even other European countries.

If these non-Five Eyes, that is, non-Ansa-dominated countries, want to come in.

Murdoch and others may still be able to find ways to suppress it from the London government level.

But Abel Smith is an American. He is a more authentic Five-Eyed Big Brother Amelia than Murdoch’s home country of Australia.

The British Isles have already begun to treat each other as little brothers.

There is no resistance to the invasion of the conjugated father and son from North America in this area.

Murdoch could not rely on official power, because British officials simply did not dare to exclude Abel from Wall Street.

Murdoch can only focus on inciting public opinion and the British people.

See if you can create some obstacles for Abel through these leeks.

At best, it can only be an obstacle, because the British people and the American people are the same -

It only plays a small role in elections, paying taxes, and consumption.

Since they are leeks, they can only put pressure on Abel and have only a few obstacles.

After the Times initiated this report.

The newspapers of several large media groups in the British Isles also quickly followed suit.

Originally, they were afraid of offending Abel on Wall Street.

But now that Murdoch has done it, they still have the courage to follow suit.

Under the encouragement of these media.

For a time, ordinary British people felt like a "wolf is coming".

People who don't know, think that Abel really wants to buy all of London.

In fact, Abel spent almost 4 billion pounds in the UK in only about ten days.

Based on the current exchange rate of 1 pound to 1.45 U.S. dollars, this is almost an investment of 5.8 billion U.S. dollars.

This amount of money is not small, but it is still 18,000 light years away from buying London.
To be continued...