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Boston.

In the wealthy West suburb of the western suburbs, in the manor where Ulyana Meletskova lives.

The time is January 27, and it is a new week.

In the faintly light morning bedroom, Ulyana lay sideways, looking at the two attendants Kaka and Irina that she had brought from Ukraine by the big bed, dressed in flimsy nightgowns to serve the men, she whispered: " If you don’t like Anna and Nick, I will send them back to Ukraine."

"So you won't be left alone in Boston, can you?"

"I..." Ulyana paused and said softly, "I'm fine."

In fact, she herself didn't like the two oil bottles next to her, she almost blurted out just now, so she stopped in time.

Simon glanced at the woman who was pregnant for five months on the big bed but became more and more irritated regardless of her body and temperament. He took advantage of the two women beside him to bring their shoes, sat down by the bed, probing her hands, and said lightly: "Let them stay Come down, or stay with you."

Ulyana twisted her body to let the man follow her, nodding and saying, "I listen to you."

Even though he was interested, but after putting on his shoes, Simon only asked the woman to sleep a little longer, and then left the bedroom.

When the man left, Ulyana said to the two remaining attendants: "Help me prepare some hot water, and I will take a shower."

Standard Slav girl Kaga Sabonova with blond hair and blue eyes whispered: "Madam, do you not sleep for a while?"

"When Simon is gone, it's time for me to sleep."

As Ulyana said, raising her hand slightly, Irina Dachenskaya, who was the female guard, quickly stepped forward and carefully helped the woman up.

After the pregnancy became more and more obvious, Ulyana asked the two attendants she had brought from Ukraine to sleep with her in the master bedroom. Of course, it was a small bed placed next to her, helping her to turn up at any time at night.The man stayed here last night, and Ulyana not only didn't let them avoid it, but took the initiative to pull the two women who are both good-looking and tall into the big bed to please someone.

The effect looks good.

Of course, in order to avoid the two women around him from having other thoughts, after some things last night, Ulyana rushed them to the small bed in the corner of the bedroom again, and spared no effort to call the two women in the morning.From a noble background, she knows that these seemingly inconspicuous little tricks are actually very effective? Because people always adapt to their position without knowing it.

Simon has never paid much attention to these little tricks of the women around him. After a routine morning exercise, he just sat in the dining room? Girl A sent a bunch of materials that had just been released to him.

Have been in series for several months in private? The new technology short-stakes forces headed by the Tiger Fund and the Mellon family have finally come into force today.

The first is the article that was intercepted by Simon a year ago: "Shaking Conspiracy? A Ponzi scheme in the Internet industry!"

"According to the current feedback, there will be a total of 17 local newspapers on the east and west coasts today that will publish this article. However, large newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times are not involved? Local newspapers such as the "Pittsburgh Tribune" controlled by Richard Mellon Skeff. In addition, some news websites and famous bloggers also publish this article, also not including the most influential portals ."

Girl A said? See her boss looking at the list of newspapers that are expected to publish a certain article? Her slender finger gestured to the two companies circled in red in advance: "These two? They belong to the Hearst family? Skye Is there any contact between the husband and Hirst? He hopes the Hirst family will publish this article in the San Francisco Chronicle? There is no agreement, but two local newspaper platforms are still provided."

Simon just nodded slightly, continued to read the subsequent information, and asked: "Where are we?"

"Below, Igrett has made the headlines? The title is "The Coachman Attempting to Dismantle the Railway"? This is the general direction? Mainly attacking conservative forces trying to contain the new technology industry? In addition, there will be some more changes. Targeted counter-attack articles,

Simon is noncommittal and continues to look through the various drafts compiled by Girl A.

Alison waited for a moment? Can’t help but ask: “Boss, in fact, the effect should be more direct to release the evidence of Skeff’s manipulation behind the scenes. Why not do this?”

Simon asked, "How much has Skeff lost now?"

"More than 150 million U.S. dollars," Alison said: "In addition to Skeff's 300 million U.S. dollars principal, other branches of the Mellon family also bet at least another 300 million U.S. dollars this time. After this time, although It is far from reaching the roots, but the Mellon family’s control over Alcoa and other companies will definitely be weakened. In addition, Skeff himself has suffered the most, and he has provoked this dispute, and the Mellon family will definitely be Marginalization."

"It's only half of the loss. Now if the insider is exposed, it will probably prompt Skeff to make up his mind to liquidate his position. I don't want him to run away."

Girl A heard the words, understood, and nodded in approval.

Simon continued: "Complete a blacklist. All the newspapers that published that article today, and all the ads we can affect, will be removed."

Alison heard her boss's order and quickly jotted it down on her memo.

"In addition, regardless of the impact of this article, it is just the beginning. We can't just take it passively. Let the Weijia public relations team in charge of Jinsli and Igreat and other companies directly move them, and finally The Nasdaq pushes it one level higher."

Simon was discussing with Alison, footsteps came, and looked up, Ulyana’s children Anna Meletskova and Nicholas Meletskov headed into the restaurant together, and saw Simon. To them, the siblings who had already reached the table stopped, and sister Anna proactively greeted them: "Good morning, Mr. Westeros."

Brother Nicholas, who was looking curiously at the information in Simon's hand, also hurriedly greeted him.

Simon doesn't know the same things as the two little guys, so he couldn't help but frown slightly, waved his hand and said, "Go to the restaurant next door, I want to talk about things here."

The siblings are quite sensitive to Simon's emotional changes. Seeing him say this, sister Anna also shrunk her neck cutely, made an embarrassing expression, and pulled her to walk outside.

When the brothers and sisters left, Simon also roughly finished the information in his hand and did not continue. This incident was just the beginning, and instead asked, "How about Sundance?"

The 13th Film Festival, which lasted 11 days, ended yesterday.

"The jury award was given to the film called "Sunday", directed by Jonathan Nosit. On our side, only "Two Smokers" won a best audience award."

The result was as expected. Simon was not surprised and had no dissatisfaction. He just said, "The planning of the "Ghost Record" I wrote on the weekend was transferred to Lin Yibin and asked him to prepare first. If you have time, you can talk in person. Well, let's pass a copy from C. After all, it can be advertised to iRec and at least let her sponsor a batch of the latest digital cameras for shooting."

Simon had the idea of ​​starting a pseudo-documentary film when he was at Sundance a few days ago. After consideration, he chose the "Ghost Record" in his memory.

As for "Blair the Witch", which pioneered a pseudo-documentary, it was temporarily suppressed by Simon.Mainly, the success of "Blair the Witch", in addition to the influence of the Internet virus, is to a large extent actually deceit. The public who did not know the truth actually happened to a certain witch murder, and then attracted the audience.

Frankly speaking, if a small publisher who was once influential did this project, the result would be nothing, but if Daenerys Entertainment did it and used the same method, the result would likely be a collective encounter because of this deception. Lawsuit, Simon didn't want to cause such trouble.

Even after the success of the previous "Blair Witch", it was not until another 10 years before another "Ghost Record" was sold. The problem is that "Blair Witch" is equivalent to a film that created a precedent for a pseudo-documentary, but also Seriously hurt the audience's enthusiasm for this type.

In contrast, "Ghost Record" is truly a pioneering film genre.

This is actually evident from the subsequent commercial performance of the two series.

The first global sales of "Blair the Witch" was nearly 250 million U.S. dollars. The cost of the sequel launched the following year increased from 60,000 U.S. dollars to 15 million U.S. dollars. As a result, there was no splash at all. The two young directors of the two series also It was a flash in the pan, and then no influential works appeared.

Looking at "Ghost Record" again, after the global box office of the first song was close to 200 million U.S. dollars, a series of sequels were released continuously, and the cost did not exceed 10 million U.S. dollars, but it was a big seller, almost as the publisher of Paramount. Of a golden egg hen.In Simon's view, this is what a brand new type and big-selling series should look like.

However, although "Ghost Records" was selected, the idea of ​​the follow-up "Blair Witch" can also be used, but this time it is definitely not possible to use deceptive methods for publicity, as long as "Ghost Records" opens up the situation and erects a'pseudo documentary' 'The type of movie, "Blair the Witch" is seriously doing better, coupled with proper local publicity, surely can still attract a large audience.

As for the director Lin Yibin, although it was said that the "Fast and Furious" series was mainly known later, the director is actually an all-rounder who can control all types.

"Ghost Record" is just an experiment after all. From the director to the actors, Simon intends to use new people. The actors don’t say, only new people will not let the audience play in this pseudo-documentary form. The director, on the one hand, is considered Simon gave Lin Yibin an exercise, and Simon was able to judge the strength and potential of this "newcomer". On the other hand, the newcomer director must also know how to cherish opportunities and is also cheaper.

Of course, since Simon is personally leading it, he will certainly not only give the budget of $15,000.

In fact, if you really want to release, after the digital camera shoots, just convert the low-quality digital camera to 35mm film, the cost is more than 15,000 US dollars, so from the preparation to the completion of the film can be screened For a 35mm copy, Simon prepared $300,000.

The bulk is mainly distributed.

If the project meets Simon's expectations, the distribution fee of three to five million may not be enough. Of course, only if the film is successful, Daenerys Entertainment can make more.

After ordering this matter, Girl A wrote down and took the initiative to report some other matters: "Chen sent an email here. The Rose Garden villa project in Beijing has been finalized on the Chinese side. Do you want to see the details, boss?"

"Well, look again on the plane back."

"Also, Caterpillar officially announced its participation in the bid for the Carlyle Group's acquisition of the British Perkins Engine Company. Mr. Rubinstein said in an email that this may increase our acquisition cost by 10% to 20%. %."

"What does David mean by himself?"

"The suggestion over there is to abandon this transaction if it exceeds our budget by 15%."

Simon nodded: "That's it."

"Also, about the Spanish clothing company Inditex, after several contacts, there is very interested in our investment, but Inditex boss Amancio Ortega hopes to meet you, and He hopes that Westeros will invest directly instead of through Apollo Management."

"You can arrange time," Simon did not refuse, remembering one thing, and asked: "Inditex's establishment of a factory in Rivne, is it settled?"

"It's negotiated, but the scale of the first phase of the factory will not be too large, mainly because Inditex has expanded rapidly in recent years, and its own funds are not abundant. In addition, Inditex also mentioned another thing. It can increase support for the Rivne aviation industry, because Inditex's Zara brand uses air freight for global new product launches."

"You ask Komorov to discuss this matter," Simon said, after thinking about it, and said: "We can strengthen further control of the basic services in the Rivne region, such as electricity, railways, aviation, energy, Telecom and so on."

When Simon talked about this, what he remembered again was a certain Li family city on the other side of the ocean.

For Rivne, Simon had such ideas for a long time, planning to build a city of Westeros in Ukraine.

To achieve this, the key of course is not to control the light industry and even the service industry that the Rivne region focuses on development, but to control the basic needs of all kinds of food, clothing, housing, and transportation for everyone in a region.To put it bluntly, it is actually the development of a brand-new rental economy.

If Simon wants to develop into Rivne, he must introduce a lot of other funds to promote it. Only relying on the Westeros system, it is impossible to eat everything after all, just like Inditex is building a garment factory in Rivne.However, as long as you control what everyone needs in a region and a city, not just ordinary residents, but all kinds of enterprises, Simon will become a charter company that can obtain the most lucrative benefits.