Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 800.

The meeting was held in the morning, and in the afternoon the entire senior core of Rovno State began to move quickly.

This is the main reason why Simon is increasing his bets on Rovno State.

Because control.

Even if it didn't reach an entrenched position, Rovno, at this time in Rivne, was basically the only voice in the Westeros system, no tugging, no churning, no confrontation, trying to push certain plans through naturally with less effort.

Simon is actually referencing the rise of many countries.

Like South Korea, like Argentina, and even the pre-Soviet period, the period of rapid economic growth in many modern countries often had the prerequisite of a high degree of concentration of power. Under South Korea's Park Chung-hee, a political strongman who ruled for 18 years, South Korea's GDP increased 27-fold, while also laying a solid foundation for the country's subsequent growth.

Of course, this prerequisite is only one condition.

Because there are quite a few positive examples and even more counter-examples, after all, a train that can't make a turn and goes down one lane is either going to heaven or hell.

Also on this day, August 26, in another part of downtown Rivne, at the headquarters of Rivne Media and Entertainment, Alexander Lyudayev personally presided in the morning over the opening ceremony of the company's national television station.

It wasn't much of a battle.

Since everything is just beginning, Rivne Media recently received a television license from the Kiev authorities to broadcast a television signal to the whole of Ukraine and has the right to operate it, but a lot of human and material resources need to be invested in order to really cover the country, such as setting up or contacting signal retransmission facilities.

It should be noted that the Ukrainian television industry, at this time, is still largely at the level of the Soviet era.

What level?

Many people's homes still had old Soviet-era televisions, which only took a couple of minutes to turn on and often caused fires because of their unstable quality. Even so, not everyone has a television set, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the economy, compared to the peak of the Soviet Union, when more than 60% of households had a television set, the penetration rate of television sets in Ukraine is less than 50%.

In addition, television broadcasts in Ukrainian regions are also in the analog signal era.

In this context, one can imagine the state of the television industry in Ukraine.

This is the reason why Rivne Media was able to get a national television license more easily, instead.

The television industry has been so depressed and lacking in lobbying that various oligarchs naturally don't bother to fight for it, and even if the Kiev authorities don't ignore the role of television networks in controlling public opinion, the Rovno gang is, after all, on Kuchma's side, so there's no reason to oppose it.

And so it was set up smoothly.

The name 'Basic TV Network', which translates as 'Basic TV Network', also has its origin, and was preferred during the period of internal discussions, as Alexander Lyudayev lived on the shores of the city's largest lake, Lake BASF, south of downtown Rivne.

Unlike the small man-made lake, which is less than one hectare in size and adjacent to Simon's villa in the south of the city where the girls are housed, Lake BASF is the largest lake in Rifney, covering nearly one square kilometer. In the last two years, the large lake has been gradually circled by Rivne's powerful and wealthy class, developing estate mansions along the lake's perimeter, including Simon, who has also carved out several additional properties on the shores of Lake BASF.

When the name was reported to Simon and then typed back, one of the letters appeared to change and became, Basic TV Network.

Alexander Lyudayev deliberated and did not fail to find that the name, Basic TV Network(s), is indeed more appropriate than it was at first. Because it is common enough, generic enough, and even, international enough. After all, the average person usually does not easily understand the meaning of the word Basiv, but Basic is well known.

You might even get out in the future.

With the licence, the television network was officially inaugurated and the next step was to take various measures to open up the national signal, as well as the production and scheduling of television programmes.

The basic TV network team, headed by Alexander Lyudayev himself, maintained a full day of meetings.

The TV network's business strategy, however, has been locked in by someone ahead of time.

The basic cable network will touch as little as possible on the political sphere and focus its operations on entertainment content such as television, movies, music and sports.

没错.

Simon has never forgotten a certain 'pacifier project'.

Basic TV Network(s), would be one of the pacifiers that Simon slipped over for Ukraine.

One of them.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Basic TV Network(s) won't be involved in politics, it's a private TV station anyway, and the network can broadcast relevant content 24 hours a day if necessary, it's just that this weapon of opinion manipulation will never be used easily unless absolutely necessary.

On the business side, the problem of television broadcasting is easier to solve, and what Ukraine is lacking now is quality television content.

This is precisely for the Westeros system is also the least problematic, after all, the basic television network can be said to have backed the entire Hollywood, plus, now Ukraine is completely open to the West, there is not much content censorship ground barriers, even if Simon is also aware that a television network can not all broadcast foreign content, local programs are instead more important, but in the short term, the basic television network backed by the Westeros system. It was enough to beat other Ukrainian competitors interested in entering the TV sector during the same period.

After a busy day, after work in the afternoon, Alexander Lyudayev again received an invitation from Sergei Komorov.

That's when he learned about the $200 million development plan for the resettlement community that had just been circulated at the top in the morning.

Alexander Lyudayev was also shocked to hear the figure of $200 million, some young man really does not take money seriously.

Rushing to an appointment at a restaurant on that commercial street in the city center, Sergei Komorov, Vladimir Korkosko and others were there, and they all dined together while continuing to discuss the resettlement community.

According to the proposal given by Simon and the more details that were discussed out in the morning, first of all, all of the dormitory apartments that are being prepared by the Westeros system in various factories in Rivne will be stopped, the last batch of projects under construction will be completed, and all the dormitory apartments, will be transferred to a real estate company under the umbrella of the Aldec company for unified management.

The real estate company will also be responsible for the resettlement community scheme.

The development plan is that the Development Bank of Rifne and the United Bank of Rifne will provide funding in the form of loans to the Aldecker property company, and the completed resettlement communities will be rented out to employees of the Westeros system in Rifne-related properties.

While it was tentatively decided that the communities would be primarily modelled on the 'silos' promoted by Khrushchev in the pre-Soviet era, Simon's requirement was that the relative specification of the properties be a little higher, including at least a solitary kitchen and bathroom.

This is a bit of a high standard.

Because even in the capital, Kiev, the silos that existed in large numbers at this time were still at the stage of communal kitchens and toilets.

However, since someone said that they wanted to give the people living in them a sense of 'home', so that they would not want to leave once they had lived in them, they were just enforcers and certainly did not have much reason to object.

The big boss paid for it anyway.

Of course, the people also hinted at something else from the word 'home' that someone emphasized.

Although the population reached 50 million, compared to the size of the country, Ukraine was still sparsely populated, so land and houses were, in a way, not worth much. If you can't stay in a city, or find it too hard, it's easy to leave.

It's just that when a city's living conditions are so much better than a small town or village, it's not so easy to leave once you get used to it.

Just like this settlement plan.

Simon's proposed building specifications with perfect kitchens and bathrooms is still just a foundation, in addition to the most basic resettlement apartments, but also called around the construction of schools, hospitals, supermarkets, cinemas, parks and other kinds of infrastructure, can really allow the people living in them to settle down during the period. All in all, it's a pretty comfortable and advanced modern community.

Of course, even though it is a resettlement community, which may not sound that high-end, it is definitely not something that anyone can apply to rent.

These resettlement communities are only available for rent to employees who work in industries related to the Westeros system, and if you're not in the bureau, you're not even eligible to rent. And, naturally, if you leave or are fired, you will lose this rental status. And the Westeros System's various industries in Rifney, the stupid, lazy, and restless, definitely don't want any of them.

Since Simon has no intention of making money from these projects in a short time, anyone who can live in them is, at least on the surface, receiving a subsidy from the Westeros system.

As for the deeper level.

In order to raise better quality sheep, it was definitely necessary to provide a more comfortable place to live, and after all, it was also necessary to give the sheep some hope that with all sorts of carrots and vegetables dangling in front of them, it would be impossible for them not to run hard. At least, if you want to maintain this life, don't say lazy, if you just want to run 8 hours a day, you're doomed.

It's always been said that Westerners absolutely refuse to give anything beyond 8 hours, and Simon's plan is to change that.

In short, how much is invested now, the sheeple will still earn it back for themselves in the future.

After the meal, it was off to the cabaret for entertainment, which was also a property of the Westeros system, and the core of the Rovno gang, who continued to discuss these issues, could not ultimately understand Simon's deepest considerations, but everyone was confident in the future of Rivne, the future of Rovno, and the future of the Rovno gang, through this proposal.

Then, after just under half an hour of entertainment in the box, the crowd received a piece of information.

To be precise, it was from a North American magazine.

Forbes.

Also on this day, August 26th, the 1996 Forbes list of America's 400 richest people was released.

Seeing the wealth figures attached to the name high up on the top of one of the lists on the magazine's copy, the top brass of the Rovno gang couldn't help but feel some semblance of unreality.

1.5 trillion dollars!

Obviously, compared with last year's list of $ 700 billion, $1.5 trillion, not only in just one year more than double, but also, Simon is also apparently the first super-rich can in the premise of the dollar count unit to describe the comparison of their own personal wealth with '' this volume of figures.

1.5 trillion U.S. dollars, what is this concept, even according to the predicted 1996 world GDP volume, Simon's personal wealth, among the world's more than two hundred countries, is enough to rank in the top five, only after France's GDP volume of 1.6 trillion or so, which happens to rank fifth.

At the same time, such a wealth figure is even more like a huge mountain on these people of the Rovno gang.

After all, the entire Ukraine, the estimated 1996 GDP of $45 billion, is only equivalent to a mere 3% of Simon's personal wealth, so when you see this latest list of wealth, Rovno gang all the core, for today just got $200 million investment plan instead, suddenly there is not much emotion.

Nine cows and a hair.

Nine cows and a dime!

When the Rovno gang of executives lamented over the latest Forbes list of America's 400 richest people, the whole world, basically, was the same.

First and foremost, it's still America.

After all, Forbes is an American magazine.

This morning, local time, the new issue of Forbes magazine was released, and at the same time, the new year's "Forbes" U.S. 400 richest people list was announced in the paper media and Forbes' official website at the same time, suddenly exploded once again the topic about the Westeros system that had risen because of Verizon Telecom some time ago.

1.5 trillion dollars.

Such a figure, anyone with a little more acumen would understand that it was obviously just a relatively general statistic.

And, to a large extent, it's also clearly intentional.

Again, numbers that are too specific are also often more likely to attract attention, and conversely, the more general the number, the more vague the perception it gives people, and the more subconsciously they feel that it's just a number.

Only, how could it be just a number!

Not to mention the increasing size of the entire Westeros system, just as the core of this terrifying business system, Simon Westeros alone has the wealth of a large 'economy' equal to the fifth largest in the world, and, $1.5 trillion, not to mention last year, just in the projections of the United States this year's 8.07 trillion dollar GDP, even though the two figures are two concepts that are quite different, but, the figure of one person having a wealth figure equivalent to 18.6% of the proportion of the GDP of the most powerful country on the planet, is already close to two tiers, which is a little too terrifying.

After all, modern society had long since moved away from the primitive days of profiteering, when whoever owned a sword or gun was the boss and the merchant had a low status.

The situation now is that whoever has the most money has the power.