Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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Janet continued to flip through her papers and added, "So, what do you think of this theme park that Tymoshenko and the others are trying to build in Kiev?"

"It would have been just play money, and it's only a few tens of millions of dollars a year after all," said Simon, casually shaking his head and thinking, "but there might be security issues involved, which would be a problem."

"Security issues?"

"Yeah, it's not an ordinary theme park after all, but a military theme park, the theme park over there in Rovno, I've personally intervened in the safety regulations, it's very strict, to ensure the safety of the visitors to the maximum extent, even if the fun of the park is lost as a result. It's hard to say on Kiev's side, if they mess around and there are deaths and injuries of tourists, then the theme park on Rovno's side will definitely be involved as well."

Janet nodded, "That's a problem."

"But maybe," Simon smiled, and said, "Even if it's not as big as Universal Studios, according to Tymoshenko's vision, it's at least tens of millions of dollars of investment, and frankly speaking, Tymoshenko's side can't come up with that much money right now, so he can only borrow from overseas. And if there is a high-level change within Ukraine in the next two years, such as Lazarenko being taken down by Kuchma, the project will basically be a mess."

Janet finished reading the file in her hand and closed the folder, "I don't think so, even if Lazarenko loses ground, after all, the military theme park over there in Rovno is very lucrative, maybe someone will want to commit to continuing it, like the Kuchma line."

Simon just shrugged his shoulders, but didn't deny the possibility.

On the Ukrainian side, the rift and conflict between the Kuchma line and the Lazarenko line is, in the end, a conflict of interest.

The main reason why the rift between the two sides has not spread to the Rivne Oblast is that they are both currently competing for the more gold-bearing heavy industrial assets in Eastern Ukraine, concentrated in the Petrovsk Oblast, the nest of the Petrovsk gang, and the later famous Donetsk Oblast, not only because of its proximity to Russia, where most of the former Soviet Union's legacy heavy industrial complexes are located, but also because 90% of the coal mining assets within Ukraine are also In the Donetsk region.

As a result of all the gas-related news that followed, Ukraine was always perceived as a country that lacked energy minerals.

This is not the case.

There are enough coal reserves in East Ukraine to burn the whole of Ukraine for a century if it is put to good use.

This is still a proven coal reserve.

Unfortunately, due to the long period of international turmoil and chaos and the interests of all parties involved, the coal mining assets of the Eastern Ukraine region were not put to good use, but had to spend the original shabby to pathetic foreign exchange to import natural gas from Russia, and therefore also subject to Russia's constraints.

Look at Xiwu, increasingly prosperous Rovno region, although the original Simon also to Sergei Komorov's Aldec as a shell acquisition of a large number of local state-owned assets, but at this stage, most of the Rovno region's industry, in the final analysis, are the result of Simon's large sums of real money smashed down smashed out.

In addition, the Rovno area has another particular high-income group, the UFMS private army, which exceeds the average local resident by more than ten times, and makes money that eventually needs to be spent, thus boosting the local economy as well.

Neither the results of Simon's real money thrown down nor the perceived creation of a group of high-income people are easy to grab, which is another important reason why Simon has been able to quietly plow into the power of the Westeros system in Rovno.

Janet put down the surveillance file on the series of events that had just taken place on the Ukrainian side and took another thick file box with a copy of the dossier in brown paper.

Casually picking up a copy, with 'The Banshikov Family' written on the cover, unwrapping the dossier and pulling out the information, the first copy was a girl, Galina Banshikova, sixteen years old, just look at the photo ID in the top right corner, this was a beautiful girl like a doll.

So Claptrap shook the information in his hand at the man next to him, "Is this the one batch you plan to build that has, um, exotics?"

Simon doesn't hide some of his thoughts from Janet.

Looking at the file in Janet's hand, Simon nodded, noting the names on the page, and added, "This one has been abandoned."

Janet, who was usually in charge of the family's intelligence network, knew about certain things before Simon did, and sniffed, "Don't think I don't know that you got that guy's wife and two daughters to the spa manor."

That's no answer.

Simon simply pretended not to hear, still with that information about the Russian election in his hand.

Janet, too, had only a token taste, and her gaze fell back to the file in her hand, skipping the second self-annihilation of Maxim Benshikov and looking straight back.

Natalia Banshikova, 36 years old, was able to give birth to such a daughter, whose mother's appearance is naturally not inferior in the slightest, but equally durable in the same documentary photo.

The last one, Eva Banshikova, 14 years old, two years younger than her sister Galina, but much younger in the ID photo, unlike Galina's 169cm height in the profile, probably because it hadn't opened up yet, Eva Banshikova was only 153cm smaller.

Janet read it and tokenized her displeasure by tsking a couple of times, and suddenly asked, "Foreigner, by the way, Simon, is our family a foreigner to you as well?"

Simon didn't look up, and his tone didn't seem to hesitate, "No."

Even if the man didn't add much more, Janet was already curling her lips with a little satisfaction, of course not, if some guy wasn't so powerful that even the old man couldn't argue with him, this one beside him, it should have been Simon Johnston, it was already family, where was the gaijin.

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers, and to ensure that its products and services are of the highest quality. Simon, what are you going to arrange?"

Simon: "Just drop in, plug in wherever you need to, and take it down if it doesn't work or if it goes wrong. If you are more careful, the Ukrainian election in two years, the timing was not right last time, this time it should be the Rovno state share of MPs, I intend to take as many as possible."

Janet thought about it, and said, "The Ukrainian MP quota is 450, for a total of 25 states, and the Rovno state can get 18, as if it's not much, and our existing own people can divide it all up."

Unlike the U.S. Congress, which has two chambers, the Ukrainian parliament is unicameral and the election process is a special hybrid system, roughly meaning that the 450 seats are roughly divided into two relatively equal parts, one going to each constituency in the country and the other to be allocated by each of the political parties running for election themselves based on the percentage of votes they receive.

Therefore, the number of parliamentary seats each state can get is not as fair as in the United States, where strong states can get 40 to 50 votes and weak states may only get single-digit seats.

The strong oblasts can get 40 to 50 votes, while the weak oblasts may get only single-digit number of MPs.

Ukraine is now a presidential-parliamentary system, and relatively speaking, of course, there is a parliamentary-presidential system, and the difference between the two is quite simple: whoever is in front has more power, for example, in the former case, the president can designate the choice of the prime minister, and in the latter case, the prime minister has to be nominated by the parliament.

However, the parliament still has a deep influence on the country's political direction, especially at this stage Leon Kuchma is still a leader who prefers to play with balance rather than dictatorship, whether actively or reluctantly, which means that, as long as it has enough seats in the parliament, the Westeros system can guarantee its influence in Ukraine to the greatest extent.

Simon thought so, and smiled at Janet's words, "Can't be too obvious, and like Sergei, Krim and the others, they have too much on their hands to have the energy to be MPs."

Janet couldn't help but laugh, "Then you let these little lovers of yours be MPs, it's too messy."

Simon emphasized with a serious voice, "It's the parents of the little lovers."

Janet lifted her hand and hit Simon on the shoulder.

Simon didn't care, and it was the truth: "Ukraine's economy will continue to go down for the next few years, while the country's internal politics will continue to be in turmoil and more eyes will only be on Kuchma, and not too many people will care who is actually a member of parliament."

This is one of the curious things about Ukrainian politics.

In the original space and time, Ukraine's richest man, Akhmetov, pushed all of his drivers, bodyguards, dentists, and other close associates into the MP's seat in one fell swoop, and there was little backlash. Later on, a certain actor president was even more strange, and after successfully being elected and securing a large number of parliamentary seats, many of the actors, producers and other creators within a TV series in which the actor president had been involved became MPs.

After gradually getting to know more, for the Ukrainian side, the more capable spokesmen, Simon instead no longer wanted them to waste their time on such things as acting as MPs.

Just like Evgenia's father, Vladimir Korkosko, Simon initially also hoped that the other party would run for the parliamentary seat, but as Vladimir showed the corresponding ability in the top of the Rivne regional government, Simon gradually hoped that the other party would be able to take root in his base and directly take the governorship in the future.

As for those parliamentary seats, sending a group of obedient puppets over would be enough.

Janet finished reading the 14 files in her hands one by one, and also made markings with a pencil in a few of them, looked up again and found that Simon beside her was still looking over the Russian elections, temporarily put down the files in her hands next to her and asked, "How's it going over there in Russia?"

Simon said, "Yeltsin's a steady winner."

The two of them had already had some discussions about Russia before, including a private contact with a certain Smolny Palace Grey Cardinal of St. Petersburg, and Simon did not hide it from Janet. Therefore, Janet was already very familiar with Simon's business ideas in Russia, and still couldn't help but say at this point, "Actually, I still think it's perfectly possible to adopt the same strategy for Russia as for Ukraine."

Simon put the side of his head against Janet's head and smiled, "Don't you think this goal of our own is already too obvious?"

"Uh-huh."

"So, if there's a lack of external targets, the Washington authorities might turn their attention to us. That's actually why I've quietly made a tacit agreement with the Bush family that this time, forget it, next time, it'll be better for the Bush family to be in power than Gore, because the Bush family's ruling DNA is set, and they prefer to turn their attention to foreign countries."

Janet smiled and added, "And they like to fight."

"Yeah," Simon followed, nodding, "The major economies of the world, with the exception of the United States, aren't doing too well right now, and there will probably be another general decline next year. If Gore succeeds in the future and continues the Clinton 'the problem is the economy' governing strategy, the US economy continues to go up, probably to unprecedented heights, and when the economy is strong enough, with no worries about jobs and taxes, etc., politicians tend to try to do more, and then the spearhead will have to think only of us. All, we need the Bush family to change that momentum, and even to fundamentally weaken the Union through war."

Janet heard Simon finish and suddenly leaned in a little more, her face pressed against Simon's face, "Simon, aren't you tired of always having to think so much?"

"Not tired," Simon smiled and reached out to put his arm around Janet, "Because of you."

Janet didn't dwell on whether the 'you' in the man's words was singular or plural and said, "Actually, I know that you've always wanted the world to be a better place."

"It's not really."

"Huh?"

"There's a fable," Simon's lips were still smiling, "The hero who slays the dragon is elected by the people to be king, then the hero on the throne begins to grow dragon scales."

Janet had heard the fable, of course, and did move a little closer to her man, whispering, "I'd rather you be an evil dragon than a hero."

Simon kissed Janet's smooth cheek and said, "I do want the world to be a better place, but I only do what I can and never want to be a hero. Or, I was already an evil dragon that came into the world."

Janet could actually sense that the man next to her always spoke of certain things with some banter and sarcasm, and would even actively push the envelope and participate in it, but in reality, the man's heart was a little sad about it, a sadness that disappointed the world to no end.

Because of this disappointment, Simon has continued to put himself in a higher position in recent years.

Like, some years ago, Simon felt that if he wanted to change this country, this world, he should start with the most basic education system, valuing primary education, and acted on it. Now, instead, he values certain things that focus on the future of humanity as a whole, space migration, fusion, solar energy, and so on.

This change, in fact, is a kind of worst-case scenario.

When some almost inescapable worst-case scenario arises, perhaps, at this point, these arrangements can leave a glimmer of hope for this race in this world.

That is all.