Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1574 Let's See Each Other's Ideas
The parties and banquets hosted by those nouveau riche are empty and boring. Apart from being able to indulge in unrestrained behavior in that area, they have little merit.

However, the parties and banquets hosted by the English royal family, members of the royal family, dignitaries, tycoons, and members of parliament are different.

When everyone is of equal status, there's no need to elaborate. These banquets are basically aimed at maintaining relationships and promoting some kind of exchange of benefits.

If you don't meet the requirements in terms of status and wealth but still want to expand your network, you either have to pay a price that is unimaginable to ordinary people, or you have to surrender to the organizer, fulfill some of their requirements, or even become their front man.

The most famous of these people was a woman named Christina from England. With her outstanding abilities and appearance, she pledged allegiance to a hereditary nobleman and quickly became his front man in certain matters. Eventually, she became one of his spokespeople, and she herself earned a huge amount of money from it.

There are only two things that make Christina so successful that are truly remarkable.

These two events have far-reaching effects, and are still being applied by many people even in the 21st century.

After Christina became a front for a certain hereditary nobleman in some matters, the first thing she did was to spend a huge sum of money to hold these parties and banquets continuously.

The banquets that Christina funded were mainly for inviting well-known English scholars, mid-level businessmen, and mid-level managers from various English departments.

Parties and banquets are of course inseparable from all kinds of beautiful women, and Christina chose to personally oversee the selection process.
She would first eliminate women who were not pretty or had poor figures, and then women whose personal or family situations were unstable.

Christina not only gave these women the opportunity to connect with people on a higher level, but sometimes she would also pay them a commission.

(There are also some people who immigrated here secretly. These people are not recorded in England, and no one cares if they die.)

Christina would also provide further assistance to exceptionally outstanding women, including financial aid and housing.

Christina certainly wasn't doing this because she had the money to back it up. She used the name of that hereditary nobleman to have a constant stream of beautiful women at her disposal, each of whom was very easy and safe to manage.

These circumstances led to her parties and banquets becoming increasingly famous and known to more and more people.

Gradually, it turned into a brothel for English royalty, dignitaries, and tycoons, and more and more people wanted to attend her parties and banquets.

By this time, not only had all of Christina's initial earnings been recovered, but the hereditary nobleman behind her had also gained a lot of favors.

(This kind of dance has a far-reaching influence and a wide audience. For example, a British prime minister named David was a regular at such dances in private.)
This also transformed Christina from a clandestine white glove placed in the shadows into an open agent.

After Christina became the agent, she handed over these brothel events to her subordinates and turned to another activity that was essentially the same but presented in a more sophisticated manner.

That is, Christina used more money, more luxurious venues, more advanced equipment, and more professionals to start hosting dance debuts and debutante balls for young English socialites.

(The socialites here are real socialites, not the fake socialites who post photos online in later generations, buying a pair of socks through group buying and ending up with athlete's foot.)
This allowed Christina to connect with a wider range of English nobles, wealthy merchants, scholars, future members of Parliament, future government staff, and individuals in certain governing fields. Christina navigated these networks, facilitating numerous transactions and acting as a mediator, conciler, and all-rounder in many small matters.

In this situation, both Christina's backing from the hereditary English nobleman and these bigwigs and connections were happy to give her information that was unknown to others, allowing her to easily and openly earn some money.
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We've strayed from the topic without realizing it, so let's get back to the main point.

After Han Li finished listening to Zhong Chudan, his nominal sister-in-law, rambling on, he hadn't even replied when Zhong Chuhong, who had just helped him take off his coat, spoke up somewhat angrily from the side.

"Second sister, how come you have no sense at all? Your brother-in-law has been busy abroad for so long, and he just came back today after a flight of more than 20 hours."

He's already exhausted. What you need to do now is hurry up and cook for your brother-in-law. If he has the energy after he showers and eats, he can tell you about it. If he's not in the mood, you can ask him another day.

After listening, Han Li said it was nothing, but Zhong Chudan stuck out her tongue, made a face, and then obediently went to the kitchen to cook.

No sooner had Zhong Chudan turned around than Han Li was pushed into the bathroom by Zhong Chuhong to wash up, who also prepared toiletries and a bathrobe for him.

After doing all this, Chung Chor-hung went into the kitchen and started talking about her younger sister.

"Second sister, you're not young anymore. You need to use your brain more in the future and know when not to say what. Let's take today's incident as an example."

While helping with the cooking, Cherie Chung kept talking about her younger sister for quite a while.

These words not only helped Zhong Chudan to be more perceptive, but also taught her how to be a gentle, considerate, caring, and loving woman for her husband.

In addition, during the time Chung Chu-hung spent with Han Li, she was very clear that her husband genuinely disliked many aspects of England.

Therefore, when Chung Chor-hung was scolding her sister, her words inevitably contained some of her own man's thoughts and opinions.

However, Chung Chu-dan has been influenced by the propaganda of the Hong Kong government and England for many years, and many of her ideas and opinions cannot be changed by just a few words, even if the person is her own sister.

Although Zhong Chudan was young and impetuous, she wasn't entirely without sense. Despite not entirely agreeing with what her sister said, she didn't immediately refute it.

However, this made Zhong Chudan decide in her heart that she would find an opportunity to quietly ask her "brother-in-law" who had studied in England.

Han Li, who was taking a shower in the bathroom, was still unaware of the thoughts of his nominal sister-in-law in Hong Kong.

He had no idea that Han Erjie, who lived far away in Beijing, had recently been set up by a colleague at work and had already met someone for a date today.
(End of this chapter)