Chicago 1990

It was too late when I hurried to the TV station, and the rehearsal was very detailed. When Song Ya and Mariah Carey took pictures with reporters holding hands in the Tribeca apartment downstairs, the lights of the Empire Heart were full. Night sky.

"Humph!"

After entering the door, Mariah Carey immediately threw her hand away, "I blame you for the trouble. Now we can hardly get rid of the paparazzi."

"Sorry, Mimi, Taraji is helping you clean up the master bedroom."

Song Ya didn’t care much about her. After CUU and other media suddenly “aided” on a large scale, his subordinates seemed to be optimistic, but only he knew in his heart that Danburton’s accusations were not ridiculous and groundless. When you can breathe a sigh of relief.

"Isn't the trouble at the hearing resolved yet?" Mariah Carey asked.

"How can it be so fast, I am not a god." Song Ya replied, "Go, rest, you are very tired today."

"How about you?" she asked.

"I'm going there..." Song Ya pointed to the study, "it will be very busy."

"Oh."

Mariah Carey took her people upstairs with Taraji, Song Ya turned and asked Linda, "Is Goodman here?"

"Not yet. The snowy weather in Chicago caused the flight to be delayed. You have asked several times." Linda asked, "Do you really need him so much now?"

"Need more than ever."

Only Goodman understands the whole story. Song Ya said to Linda: "Send someone to the airport and wait. I will wait for him if I don't sleep tonight."

"It's not..." Linda glanced at Hamlin, Sutton and the others who were walking into the study, carefully lowered their voice and asked, "It's not as easy to solve as you thought, right?"

"Nothing is easy Linda, let alone Jesse Helms behind Dumberton."

Song Ya didn't answer directly.

"Tomorrow morning, the conservative media will make efforts to release the full text of the Danburton press conference and the live video they edited. I promise that it will have a completely different effect from CUU."

Goodman did not arrive, Sloan did not arrive, but the meeting will continue as usual. Passy Sutton is still very worried about the conservative media, "Their audience in the United States is not low, but the voice is getting worse and worse since the 1960s. It's loud."

"Then let's start preparing public relations countermeasures." Song Ya discussed with them for a while. According to their optimism, they agreed that the biggest danger was not from Dan Burton or Jesse Helms, but from Sony Columbia Records. attitude.

In common sense, Sony Columbia Records will also be a strong backing for its superstars. Their media influence is not low. However, after Daniel's departure and the Second Motula incident, the two sides tacitly stopped discussing the issue of contract renewal. The relationship between Howard Stringer and John Carly at the helm is very delicate. Passy Sutton is worried that Benzi and Motula will try to seize this opportunity again.

"We have to find a way to try, the A+ record revenue will be settled at the end of the month, right? Linda, maybe you can ask if you can make it a little earlier?" Hamlin asked.

"This is likely to have the opposite effect. It is not a good thing for Sony Columbia Records to think that our cash flow has gone wrong. This is tantamount to pushing them on the road of betrayal."

Linda firmly opposed, "Now we don't even know who stabbed Dunburton in the Barn Chemical case. Maybe it's Motula."

"My cash flow is unlikely to be a problem, and my stock in Netscape will be lifted in February, although Jim Clark and I have signed a series of selling restrictions..."

Song Ya waved his hand. He didn't want to be misunderstood by Sutton and his sons that he was tight on cash flow, "Don't worry about money Hamlin for me."

"That's Netscape's stock." Hamlin doesn't recommend selling very much. "IE2.0 is not enough for Netscape browsers. The outside world agrees that it will rise even higher. Next year, it may even reach 200 yuan per share. ."

"Perhaps, I don't need to worry about this anyway." The shares are worth 300 million yuan and they have little power. Song Ya is also going to sell a part of it just for risk diversification, and has entrusted O'Grady of Northern Trust to find a home.

"Ms. Sloan is here."

When the meeting was about to midnight, Passy Sutton could not hold his body and left first, while Sloan rushed over from Washington, "I didn't eat." She said as soon as she entered the door.

Linda got some cookies and water, and she gobbled it up in spite of her image, "A confidant of Jesse Helms and I..."

"Wait." Song Ya stopped her from speaking, "Pierre, Linda, and...you all go out first."

After Sloan, himself and Hamlin were left in the study, "You can say it."

"Jesse Helms' cronies personally hinted to me that they instructed Dan Burton to do this."

Sloan continued.

"That's worse, very bad." Hamlin held his forehead a little frustrated when he heard the news. "The Federal Senator, the energy of the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee is far more than that of a Federal Representative in Danburton."

"This is not surprising. Danburton and Jesse Helms have been inseparable recently." Sloan detailed the brief conversation outside the Capitol Hill Club. "The good news is that they just want to punish, or give some color. Let's see, the specific reasons... they let us think for ourselves."

"What do you think?"

Song Ya rolled his eyes and said, "Is it because I did the wrong thing first? I have nothing to do with the conservative gang of Xiangdang, so I can't commit the original sin of being included in the rice rich list, right?"

"I summarized the following possibilities on the road."

Sloan said: "One, think in the simplest way, Jesse Helms needs your money. He raised 16 million campaign funds in the previous Senate campaign, and this year it is his turn to run for re-election. The current fundraising progress is far behind, and my old friends in the lobbyist circle predict that it can only raise half of what it was six years ago, which is 8 million."

"We can't give him money, neither openly or secretly, nor can he accept our campaign donations. An ultra-conservative senator takes money from an African star? It's better not to..."

Hamlin shook his head: "He has to take the risk of APLUS to fund his opponents in this case."

"No, do you think that Jesse Helms and Danburton have no funders with different political views? Many big companies, such as the Telephone and Telegraph Company, have long-term funding for Danburton’s golf hobby, and he participates at least twice a year. The celebrity group event of the golf championship...there are not as few APLUSs as you think you can spend a small amount of money to buy a safe." Sloan retorted.

"Could it be the telephone and telegraph company..." Song Ya asked: "In revenge, I let Mimi threaten them with a wiretapping case of 2.5 million yuan for the settlement?"

"Telegraph and Telegraph Company? Not that this is a small amount of money. The two groups of people responsible for civil reconciliation and political donations in giant enterprises are absolutely irrelevant." Hamlin shook his head.

"But it is possible for Motula to get on the line with the other party during the self-rescue process of the wiretapping case, right?" Song Ya thought of a possibility.

"Perhaps, but don't care about it for the time being. Second, Jesse Helms is in Danburton to implement the sanctions against Cuba. He may need your influence on Wrangell and the Black Caucus of the Donkey Party in the House of Representatives." Sloan continued. Say.

"Impossible. The Donkey Party black caucus will not help the Elephant Party Conservatives pass the bill. This is a fundamental question of line. In this matter, even Wrangell’s cudgel may not be easy to listen to me. I have influence. Not that big."

This matter happened to be mentioned by Doug. Song Ya said: "As far as I know, it is difficult to pass that bill. Even if it is passed, the general will not sign it into effect."

"I always have to try. It's good to get one more vote. That's what politicians do." Sloan shrugged.

"Well, what else?" Song Ya nodded.

"The third is wine."

"liqueur?"

"Yes, after the success of the Cuban Revolution, Western capital was driven away. Among them was the liquor giant Bacardi that started there. It is rumored that Cuba is planning to restart the original Bacardi rum production line that was nationalized, even the brand No change. So Bacardi is also a strong supporter of Jesse Helms and Danburton's sanctions against Cuba. And your Grey Goose vodka is selling very well in the United States, and maybe Bacardi has taken a fancy to it. "

Sloan said: "Helping money masters to take advantage of it is also an essential skill for politicians."

"I'll make a call."

Song Ya called Rise, the president of A+ Liquor, and said, “Rise didn’t receive any quotations from Bacardi, until Seagram and Universal’s boss Jr. Bronfman asked about it once, because we used Seagram. There is no follow-up. In fact, Grey Goose vodka is still very weak. I heard that the three-color vodka of French brewer Francis Steibold is also very strong. It is also under the umbrella of a small company to acquire French products. Isn't it more reasonable for the wine giants?"

"Well, there is a fourth possibility. They want to force you to betray the long-term cooperation of Donkey Party politicians. It is best to provide some black material." Sloan said.

"I don't want to die yet." This is even more absurd. I would rather risk going to jail than commit such a foul to heaven.

"The last possibility left is that A+CN once attacked the law enforcement units in the constituency of Dunburton and Jesse Helms, treated violently and discriminated against African Americans." Sloan added.

"Yes? Didn't we... call Gordon last time?" Song Ya remembered that another lobbyist, Remy, came to say hello to Sloan on behalf of the Elephant Party politician, and she also hinted that Gordon had rectified.

"It seems... didn't stop completely later, right? Gordon just lowered the attack intensity, I don't look at A+CN very much..." Sloan rarely showed an embarrassed expression, "Remy didn't look for me again, I think it's something It has passed."

Song Ya looked at Hamlin.

Hamlin shrugged and admitted generously, "I never watch."

"Well, you are white people, Linda!" Song Ya called Linda in.

"Uh...I will subscribe." I didn't expect Linda to watch it either.

I can’t complain that A+CN has no ratings. In fact, Song Ya himself occasionally watched it for a while when he changed channels. Besides, he rarely watched his own TV. He rolled his eyes reluctantly, and had to pick up the phone again. Called Michelle.

"Recently? Yes, A+CN has been following the case of a young black man in Charlotte who was shot and killed by a white police officer." Michelle said: "The man tried to escape from the police and was shot from the back by the white people. kill."

"why?"

"Maybe it was because he appeared on the side of the road in the wealthy area, and then put his sweater and hood on his head." Michelle said: "He had a history of stealing many times, but he did not commit any crimes at the time. Walk properly."

"A young black man with a history of stealing many times, wearing a hood, appeared in a wealthy area where there is usually no public transportation? Then he must be on the way to steal." Song Ya caught Michelle's words The main point, "Then resist arrest..."

"Your thoughts are dangerous, APLUS, but he was not caught at the time of the crime." Michelle smiled indifferently: "This is definitely the excessive use of violence by the police. The local black community is holding large-scale protests. We are in Chicago. I will also support."

"Well, thanks to Michelle." Song Ya asked her husband's election again. Alice Palmer, who would cause them a moral crisis, was still in the stage of collecting voter signatures. The download did not go well, but the danger is still great.

"It's okay, thank you for your donation to APLUS, don't take it lightly that happened at the hearing." Michelle said.

"See you."

"Goodbye."

"Charlotte is in Jesse Helms' North Carolina constituency. The local politicians should have had friendship with the old man for many years." Sloan said after he hung up.

"This Gordon." Song Ya curled his lips unhappily.

"We ourselves are thinking like this, and we will only think more and more about the possibilities. If we want to please Danburton and Jesse Helms, we will only throw ourselves into the trap to give them more surprises." Hamm Lin warned: "Isn't it even more guilty of our conscience? Maybe they will believe that the Barn Chemical case is true and speed up the investigation."

"Yes, we need more accurate information." Song Ya looked at Sloan.

"I'll ask Remy again." Sloan glanced out the window. It was already light. "I'll go outside and find a public phone."

"Mr. Goodman is here." Taraji pushed open the door.

"Great, you all go to rest, I will chat with Goodman alone for a while." Song Ya yawned and went out to greet him.