Hollywood Hunter

Chapter One Thousand and Thirty-Nine - Choosing a Location for a Film and TV Base

In the early morning, Maria Rozin opened her eyes, felt the hot body of the man holding her, and immediately recalled the events of last night. After the constant buildup and brewing of the previous period of time, Maria who knew that there would always be such a day didn't have too complicated emotions in her heart.

The woman yielded to the man, and the weak yielded to the strong.

That was probably it.

The window there through the curtain into the low light show time is still early, should be about six o'clock, she is a very self-disciplined woman, a this time to get up.

But at this time is a little afraid to move.

Worried about waking him up, and to bully themselves. Last night ...... she has gone along with his wishes to break through some of the past never thought of some of the tricks, and finally or until begging for forgiveness, he was reluctantly willing to let go of himself.

Gently closing her exposed arm, she carefully retracted back into the nest and slowly and slowly felt her way to the position of her abdomen.

It wasn't really the best timing lately, but the odds were still there, just wondering if he would actually be pregnant with a little one again, as he wished. And to think that it was damned, he'd even told the kids directly yesterday that she was about to have a brother or sister, not yet pointing out that he was actually raising the one in Urijana's belly on her behalf.

What if, next, there wasn't one?

Suddenly blushing a little at the thought, is this ...... making excuses for itself?

Because he had also said that he hoped she would also conceive and then take care of that child with Urijana, but she had been ...... all this year anyway, and since the birth of the youngest, Anton, back then, she had not wanted to have any more children, and four children were enough.

In the midst of her musings, Maria's body suddenly stiffened.

Because the arm that was wrapped around her waist from behind had begun to swim, apparently, some guy had woken up.

"Morning."

There was a man's greeting from behind her, and hot breath on her neck, and I don't know if it was because of the night's rest, but Maria only felt the heat that quickly spread all over her body.

......

There was no escape in the end, they both woke up around six o'clock and didn't get out of the bedroom until seven o'clock.

Maria had wanted to send Simon away, after all, today was different from yesterday after all, and it would have been too embarrassing ...... to have him sitting at the table with their family for breakfast again.

Unfortunately, it still didn't work.

The man was too thick-skinned to insist on staying, so she had to steal the housekeeper's job, keep herself as busy as possible, not go to the table together, and wait for the three sons, who probably realized her predicament, to hurry through breakfast and get them to school, where they had all missed yesterday afternoon and would have to go over early today to make up their lessons.

It was only when Maria returned to the dining room that she watched the female guard, Katrina, drive away from the estate with the children.

Seeing that the glass of milk he had on hand was empty, and helping to refill some of it, she was about to divide the meal for herself when the housekeeper reappeared and offered to go over the work, so she sat down beside her.

Simon was very pleased with both women, Maria and Urijana.

Both women had excellent appearance and body, and, because one was well-bred and the other was disciplined, their physical conditions were far better than their peers, like the woman beside her, who of course Simon knew was 43 years old, but her skin was in such a state that Simon could not put it down.

At this time to see Maria sat down, Simon did not wait for the woman in the blush of shame to take the initiative to speak, but spoke first: "By the way, what is your original last name?".

Maria paused, and the a-girl hadn't had time to tell him about some of Simon's arrangements, but she was smart enough to guess right away, and with a careful glance up at him, she said, "Bezruk."

"Bezruk, is that also a Slavic surname?"

Maria nodded, "It's a very common surname in Ukraine."

"I still prefer Meretskova like that," Simon smiled and said, "In that case, you and the children can change back to your original surname."

Maria paused to think of the man who was already her ex-husband.

Simon added, "Also, I told the kids yesterday that I'm having a party at my house for the weekend and inviting some of their classmates over. You prepare for it over the next few days, and I'll have Angus stay here to help you, and call on Uriah if you need to. Also, I'll have some special guests then, like the mayor of Boston, or the president of Harvard or mit or something, depending on their schedules."

Maria wasn't yet too familiar with the rules of American society, but realized that this must be the little man helping the family raise their status in the Boston networking circle.

Thinking about it, Maria finally said, "So, you'll be over then?"

"Next time we have a chance."

Simon had left a rise on the west coast and was definitely going to be at home with the women and children this weekend.

Maria sniffed and wasn't sure whether to be disappointed or glad.

After breakfast with the women, Simon went to see Urijana at another nearby estate, made some arrangements, and then departed to fly back to the West Coast.

Back in Los Angeles, the first news Simon heard was that Jennifer was also successfully pregnant and that the Westeros family would once again be welcoming a little one into the world.

By the count, this should be the seventh.

However, Simon certainly didn't hide anything from the two Jennies about Uriana, and also made sure of one thing: no child other than the two Jennies would ever enter the Dume Point estate again, so this should be considered the second child in the Dume Point estate.

Simon, the father of the two mothers, was the first to get the news, followed by the Raybould family.

It was also the Rayboulds who were the happiest.

James and his wife had been hoping for a long time that Jennifer would have another child after Seattle, and they had even hinted at urging Simon a few times.

After getting the news, the Rayboulds also came over from New York and spent a few days in Los Angeles.

The last few days of September 1996 ended quickly in a state of joy for all.

Into October.

First up was the end of a fiscal year cycle for the Danielle's Entertainment Group, which was about to announce in mid-October its financial results for the full fiscal year from October 1995 to September 1996.

The U.S. stock market, by the way, has been looking more and more upbeat since Forbes' 1996 list of the 400 richest Americans was released in late August. So much so, that the second antitrust investigation launched by the U.S. Department of Justice against Igret's has not only failed to suppress the new tech giant's stock price, but has done the opposite, allowing Igret's stock price to reach new highs.

In order to bring in more small and medium-sized investors, Igret has been discussing a stock split plan recently, and intends to do a one-for-five split on Igret's stock in October.

Simon would have been less in favor of a stock split earlier this year, for the purpose of squashing the new tech bubble. And, considering the strategy associated with a host of new tech companies that have since also boasted high stock prices and stopped splitting their shares, it would seem that not splitting Igret stock would have been an equally good idea.

Simon, however, didn't object this time.

Since the bubble has been completely unstoppable, let's come with a little more turbulence, and the preparations that should be made for the Westeros system are basically in place anyway.

On the other hand, in the same October, with only one month left before the 1996 US election, the US election war also entered the 'October Surprise' stage.

It can be described as exciting.

Of course, the presidential election, the result has almost no suspense, after all, the general election is only a short distance away, even if the recent new technology bubble collapsed early, will no longer bring too direct impact on Clinton's approval rating. In addition, this October, not only will Daenerys Entertainment will release the financial results of the past fiscal year, a host of new technology companies will also release their quarterly financial results.

Whether it's Ygritte, Cisco, America Online at the heart of the Westeros system or Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, etc. on the periphery, all of them are expected to give a pretty nice earnings report.

Combined with the Igret's stock split operation, the Nasdaq is sure to hit another high.

According to the survey report provided by the Silicon Valley side, certain turning, probably is the end of this year or the first half of next year, when the recent one or two years in succession IPO of various small and medium Internet companies burned through the initial melted funds, the real financial revenue situation will be more and more obvious.

At that point, along with some other fuse, the Nasdaq will unquestionably be headed for a rupture.

Los Angeles.

The clock has turned to Oct. 8.

Tuesday.

As soon as Simon arrived at the Malibu Studios office in the morning, the a-girl delivered two pieces of paperwork that had just come in from China.

About the site plan for the Jinshu film and television production base.

On the Chinese side, Simon had received a message from Chen Qing when he was still in Melbourne last month, and also agreed that the project would eventually be competed by the two cities of Hangzhou and Suzhou, both of which obviously took it very seriously, and today officially opened up the support policies and preferences that each could provide.

It took Simon more than an hour to finish reading the two documents.

The first was the location.

Once the most famous film and television production base in China was undoubtedly Hengdian Film and Television City, which seemed to give the idea that it seemed that large film and television cities should not be built in the middle of large cities.

This, of course, is a misconception.

The key to Hengdian Film and Television City's success lies with its founder, which is actually a model of hard work.

If it wasn't for his own planning, Simon wouldn't mind letting Hengdian Film City return to its former glory, of course, not now, after all, the Westeros system now has its own interests, Simon even if he does not plan to earn the money, but also need to consider the entire Westeros system chain of interests.

In terms of location, whether it was Suzhou or Hangzhou, Simon was actually very fond of them.

It's not for nothing that there's a heaven in the sky and a Suzhou and a Hangzhou in the bottom.

And the fact that it can't be built in an urban area, just to say Los Angeles, several major studios' film and television bases, are not all in the City of Angels.

It's nothing more than not being able to build in a dense downtown area.

Simon of course never thought of it that way, by the way, at this time located in what seems like downtown Los Angeles Paramount Studios and Fox Studios, when they were just founded, in fact, are in the suburban location.

On the Chinese side, the two cities are given, of course, suburbs.

Suzhou is a suburban area between the western suburbs of the city and Taihu Lake, according to the conditions given in the data, as long as the Jinshu film and television base is willing to locate in Suzhou, the western suburbs of the land, Simon can choose at will.

By the way, Suzhou's current development center is in the eastern suburbs of the Suzhou Industrial Park, Chen Qing's first two years of matchmaking, many companies in the Westeros system have opened factories in the western suburbs of the Suzhou Industrial Park, and Simon's garden in Suzhou is also on the edge of the industrial zone on the lakeside island between Jinji Lake and Dushu Lake.

Now, in an effort to secure the Jinshu film and TV base, there's a 'flattening plan' from the Suzhou government side.

Sounds very rustic a name, in fact, very ambitious.

The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.

In the end, a city of Suzhou, east of the Suzhou Industrial Park, mainly to pick up the economy, west of the Jinshu film and television base as the core, pick up the culture, forming a flat burden pattern.

Then came Hangzhou.

The location given by the other side, which Simon happened to be very familiar with, was also roughly on the western outskirts of the city, across the mountains from the West Lake Scenic Area, remembering the famous Xixi Wetland Park area.

Of course, there was no concept of a wetland park yet, and that side would just be purely a suburb of Hangzhou.

However, compared to the more undulating terrain of the western suburbs of Suzhou, the western suburbs of Hangzhou, that is, pure plains, more suitable for extensive engineering development.

Beyond the site selection is the policy support and tax incentives.

In this regard, the conditions given by the two sides are similar, after all, the municipal government's authority is placed there, and it can't just mess around.

The two are the same, and the two are the same, but they are not the same, so they are not the same.

Mainly, after careful analysis, Simon found that Westeros' industrial layout in Jiangsu province, obviously beyond Zhejiang province quite a lot.

The most important one is the joint venture between Johnston Holdings and the Jiangsu provincial government in Australia to form a 10-million-tonne mega steel giant, Jiangsu Iron and Steel Group, plus the investment of Nokia and Tinkerbell in Suzhou Industrial Park.

In comparison, the Zhejiang side is a lot weaker.

And, no surprises, the future will have to compete with Hengdian, also in Zhejiang, rather than then let the Zhejiang provincial government both ends of the dilemma, it is better to jump out in advance.