Chapter 175 Special Operations

"Your Highness, I didn't expect you to play tennis so well."

Tamaran Ecclestone, dressed in a cool tennis outfit, stayed by Barron's side, wiping her sweat with a towel and speaking with a beautiful smile.

I have to say, her figure is really great, especially when the two of them were playing ball just now, Barron couldn't help but be attracted by the position of her jumping.

They are now at the Hurlingham Club in West London.

Hurlingham Club was founded in 1829. It is currently the largest club in England and one of the most difficult clubs to join in the world.

Because the Hurlingham Club currently has about 13,000 members and it is a hereditary system, new members can only join after old members withdraw or die, and the motion must be proposed and seconded by two current members. There is currently a 30-year waiting period.

Barron automatically qualified because the Devonshire family was a member of the club.

The reason for choosing to come here is that this kind of club is very private, especially this top-level club, where no outsiders are allowed to enter. Barron does not have to worry about being secretly photographed by tabloid reporters.

Speaking of which, London can be said to be the private club capital of the world. After all, the earliest private club originated in London.

That is White's Club. This private club is considered to be the earliest private club in the world. It was founded in 1693. It is very low-key, private and unique.

During its heyday, this place housed nearly half of Britain's male aristocrats.

Barron is also a member of this oldest club. In addition to the Devonshire Hotel, this club is the only place where he met Cameron. Cameron is also a member of the White's Club, and his father once served as the chairman of this club.

The Prince of Wales and Prince William are also members of the club - the Crown Prince's bachelor party was held here before he married Princess Diana in 1981.

Prince William and Barron both joined the White's Club this year. The club is still one of the few clubs that follows tradition and refuses to allow female members to join. In its 300-year history, the only female guest who appeared in the White's Club was Her Majesty the Queen.

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"Finally, NetArt issued us approximately 310,000 new shares at a price of $16.12, with a total value of $5 million."

Amber Sheen has returned to London from China and has dealt with matters concerning Penguin and NetEase. He said:

"This portion of shares needs to have a 12-month lock-up period and cannot be traded in the secondary market before then."

Although by the end of September, NetEase Cloud Music's stock price will reach its highest price in recent years at US$55.86, the newly issued shares will not be able to be traded at that time.

However, the NetEase shares purchased by DS Capital earlier can be sold out by then, and the 310,000 additional shares issued now can be kept for long-term holding.

With Barron's acquisition of Argos now complete, his current large-scale acquisitions have come to a temporary halt.

In the following period of time, he will focus mainly on the operation of existing business.

After all, these acquisitions, including O2 Telecom, Manchester United and Argos, all used leveraged buyouts, and so far he has incurred more than £6 billion in debt.

Even because of these acquisitions, many media reports described Barron's actions as "crazy" and predicted that once any business encountered difficulties, it would fall into an overall collapse due to the financial domino effect.

But now it seems that they may be destined to be disappointed.

Take his largest acquisition, O2 Telecom, for example. Three months after Barron completed the acquisition, the reorganized O2 Telecom, in cooperation with Digital UK, launched a "super package" for British household users. During these three months, the number of new users in the UK alone exceeded 1.5 million, increasing O2 Telecom's turnover by more than 30%.

The so-called "super package" is a comprehensive monthly package that includes mobile phones and broadband for home users, and also comes with some service packages for the Freeview platform.

You can even get more favorable tariff packages for family members.

This deep binding makes it easy for users and their families to become O2 Telecom users.

And with the investment in O2 Telecom's local broadband business, its broadband speed has also been greatly improved after the upgrade. The lower charges and higher network speed caught other telecom companies off guard.

In addition, O2 Telecom has also entered the French and German markets. Although it does not have the advantages it has in the UK in these two new markets, every user it gains there is an additional...

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"How's the progress now?"

"Your Highness, we have found the whereabouts of one of the members in Latvia, and the special operations team has set off to there..."

Barron never gave up on tracking down the "London Star" gang, but because the forces he could mobilize were limited and the other party was extremely cautious, even with some intelligence support from MI6, there was still not much progress.

However, up to now, more than a year has passed since the case was solved, and because the other party was a little negligent, he was caught by the intelligence team.

The person discovered this time was an inconspicuous member of the original "London Star" gang. Intelligence showed that he had recently appeared in Latvia.

Latvia, one of the three Baltic countries, has not had a strong presence since the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

All in all, it can be described in one word - chaos.

After Barron took full control of the Protector Military Services Company, his intelligence team received more support. His intelligence consultant Nigel Inkster specially selected the five most elite members from the Protector Company who had served in the special forces and had experience in military intelligence gathering, and formed a special operations team specifically for this operation against the "London Star" gang.

Currently, this special operations team has set off for Latvia. Once the gang member is captured, Barron will not worry about not being able to pry him open his mouth.

However, this operation is not so easy. After all, this special operations team is actually just a personal armed force. They have to go deep into other countries. The "enemies" they face are not only members of the "London Star" gang, but also local law enforcement forces...