章 107: Chapter 107 Hunting
Therefore, at this time when Internet technology has not yet begun to recover, it is still very possible to contact the South African newspaper industry, give them enough benefits, and obtain a project invested by the Chinese branch of its subsidiary.
So after getting Barron's instructions, Amber arranged the matters of DS Capital's industrial investment department and went directly from London to Johannesburg.
Barron, together with Bonnie, went to a shop in Mayfair.
The name of this store is William & Son. As the name suggests, this store was originally opened by a man named William and his son.
This century-old store located in a wealthy area specializes in customizing traditional hunting clothes and hunting rifles for aristocrats and wealthy people.
It is now autumn, the best time for hunting, and Viscount and Viscount Bute invited Barron and Bonnie to go to their family's hunting ground in the Scottish Highlands for traditional hunting.
Hunting has a long history in Britain. As a recreational activity for the upper class, it has remained popular for hundreds of years.
Every spring and autumn, aristocratic hunters gather in villages across England to enjoy hunting.
They wear red hunting suits, black felt hats, and ride on tall horses. Surrounded by packs of hunting dogs, they gallop out of the autumn fog in their hometown, following the footsteps of their ancestors in the countryside jungles, chasing foxes, rabbits, elks and other prey, feeling the fun and excitement of hunting.
In 1066, the Duke of Normandy of France conquered England, and the Norman hunting tradition was brought to England.
At that time, hunting deer and wild boar was an exclusive privilege for the royal family and distinguished guests.
After that, this privilege was gradually granted to nobles and landowners, and the hunting culture in Britain gradually became popular.
In recent decades, people's awareness of animal protection has grown, and hunting as an activity has become controversial.
With the exception of Northern Ireland, the traditional method of direct hunting with hounds is now banned in England, but shooting with shotguns is still allowed.
This traditional hunting rifle is a classic in the Chatsworth House collection.
However, given that Bonnie had never participated in this kind of hunting activity before, and she was quite enthusiastic about participating with Barron this year - she has been busy with work during this period, and Barron also wanted to take this opportunity to take her to relax - so they went directly to this well-known London store that specializes in customizing hunting supplies for aristocrats and wealthy people, and customized a set of outfits for the two of them, as well as hunting rifles to carry with them.
In this slightly formal upper-class hunting activity, gentlemen often wear "British red" hunting suits, 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 the dress code for such occasions.
After having the store's tailor take his measurements, Barron chose several styles of hunting suits, including the more classic brown-green hunting suit and the red hunting suit 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 aristocrat. He is not like Barron, who spends most of his time working after taking over the family business.
Even when they were carrying out the King's Cross renovation plan, Viscount Bute only regularly listened to the reports from the general manager of Argent Real Estate Group and rarely participated in specific affairs.
It can be said that he spends most of his time at various gatherings and socializing.
Of course, the situations are different. The Devonshire family that Barron took over was in tatters and facing a crisis at the beginning, and he needed to work hard to get it back on track.
All the businesses of the Butt family have always been run well. As the heir to the family, Ian Butt only needs to gradually take over such a well-run family business.
In this regard, I'm afraid Barron can't envy it.
The Bute family hunting grounds are located in Sutherland on the north coast of Scotland.
"My father told me that my grandfather came here when he was young. At that time, there were many woods around here, which were later cut down for timber sales or to make room for farmland..."
Viscount Bute was also dressed in hunting clothes, riding on a horse, pointing to the pine forest in front of the hunting ground, and said to Barron:
"Later, my grandfather bought this place and tried his best to restore it to its original state, which is closer to nature."
In this hunting ground, their group can be said to be a large one - although there are not too many entourages. Their group includes Viscount and his wife Bute, the couple Barron and Bonnie, and Viscount Bute's sister Jenny Bute and her fiancé.
This was the first time Barron had met Jenny Bute. He had not expected that the younger sister of Viscount Bute looked quite heroic. She looked somewhat like a woman whom Barron had liked very much in his previous life - Sophie Marceau.
Jenny is 24 years old, two years older than Barron, and her fiancé, John Smith, is an American, which surprised Barron a little.
But after learning about John's identity during the conversation, he suddenly understood something.
John Smith is the fifth and youngest son of his father, Julian Sinclair Smith, and the company controlled by their family is the Sinclair Group.
In Barron's previous life, he heard about the Sinclair Group when they acquired the 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, covering 72% of American households, making it the largest television company in the United States.
The Sinclair family is very low-key. It can be said that before that acquisition, even most Americans did not know of its existence - the American press called it "a company invisible to the radar."
In addition to these six people, there are their respective followers and a larger number of hunting dogs.
Both the horses they rode and the hunting dogs they brought were raised by the Bute family specifically for hunting in this hunting ground, and they could be said to be well-trained.
"The main target of hunting here is deer, and occasionally foxes... You don't need to worry about this, because the deer population here is a bit rampant..."
After all, since the new century, both environmental protection and animal protection have become more and more a "trend" 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 size of the deer herd is still large. They eat the seedlings, so we need to keep replanting the woods here. So ladies and gentlemen, we are fighting for the ecology here."
In Britain, deer hunting is an important hunting activity because it also has another meaning, which is to maintain the ecological balance - in the ecological environment of Britain, there are no natural enemies of deer, so it is easy for them to proliferate.
There is a special term for deer hunting, called Stalking.
As the original meaning of the word "tracking" suggests, deer hunting requires hunters to track prey for a long time, and often on foot. Therefore, deer hunting requires much higher physical fitness from hunters than hunting wild birds.
The famous annual Macnab Challenge in the Scottish Highlands 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 a single day.
Moreover, the difficulty of deer hunting lies in the fact that, first of all, deer hunting requires as small a team as possible, because deer are extremely sensitive to their surroundings.
And because deer are much larger than wild birds, the law requires that hunting deer or wild boar requires a single shot to hit the prey in a fatal part in order to minimize the prey's pain.
Therefore, the British Hunting and Conservation Federation has strict requirements on the timing of hunting and the qualifications of hunters.
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.
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