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The remaining 3000 square meters of space outside the hall on the first floor are divided into areas such as kitchen, bar, study, bathroom, meeting room, living room, meeting room, gym, library, storage room, and private screening hall, among which the kitchen, bar, There is more than one bathroom and so on.

The second floor of the villa also has a space of 3000 square meters, but there are six suites with separate living room, study, bedroom and bathroom, each with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters.The remaining separate bedrooms, study rooms, living rooms, cloakrooms, storage rooms, home theaters, etc. are all available.

The streamlined and spiraling third floor is mainly a flying saucer-shaped master bedroom, but this one is more than 300 square meters.

The master bedroom is located on the easternmost side of the third floor of the villa. To the west of the master bedroom, there are some matching study rooms, bathrooms, cloakrooms and other rooms. Janet has specially arranged two baby rooms these days.

Because there are often rooms within rooms, and there are many open semi-compartments, it is difficult to calculate how many rooms there are in this villa.However, according to the usual calculation method of western houses, there are only 11 bedrooms in the villa, and there are more bathrooms, reaching 19.

It can be imagined that although there are 11 people in the group of ABCD four girls and seven housekeepers, it is definitely not easy physical work just to take care of this single villa.It is even more difficult to take care of Simon's properties in North America.

Simon doesn't allow anyone else to look after his property, so the housekeeper has recently been in discussions with Janet about hiring more people.

Beside the glass curtain wall, when Simon turned his head, Janet also turned around and lay lazily on the back of the sofa chair.

Being watched by the two together, Alice's expression remained unchanged, and she said softly: "Sir, madam, do you want to prepare dinner?"

Janet's chin rested on the back of the sofa chair, her eyes sparkling and she remained silent.

Simon said: "Yes, besides, call everyone to come over first, and turn on all the lights in the villa."

Alice nodded, and walked away on her high heels again.

Janet didn't move her upper body, but her little feet in white flat shoes kicked Simon's legs rhythmically with the sound of da da, and joked: "If I add a hard sole to my shoes, I can also make noises." Woolen cloth."

Simon pressed the woman's restless calf, and said with a smile, "Put a horseshoe on it, so that the sound will be louder."

Janet rolled her eyes and came over, swung her calf and kicked Simon again.

A few minutes later, all the lights in the Shell Villa were turned on together. Cape Dumei was on a high terrain, and most of Malibu could see a dreamy light in the sharp corner of the city.

In the villa, 11 blond-haired, fair-skinned, tall girls with excellent figure and temperament quickly appeared in front of Simon. The uniform black OL suits looked extremely pleasing to the eye.

From the perspective of those who don't know it, these girls must belong to the elite level of the workplace, and no one would guess that they are just maids of the Westeros family.

In fact, the 11 girls with corporate vice president-level salaries are indeed considered elites in the workplace.

Not only the annual salary of 20 US dollars and the bonus after the 5-year contract, but also the daily expenses of the girls in terms of food, accommodation, decoration, fitness, medical care, etc., are all borne by Simon, which is no less than their salary .In order to make it easier for the housekeeper to lead the team around to take care of the property, Simon also specially allocated a Gulfstream IV private jet for them.

Frankly, Simon is keeping vases.

This can be regarded as another hobby of his besides buying real estate.

I don't pursue any rewards, and I don't have many physical demands. It's just a hobby.Having made so much money, of course you can do whatever you want.It is quite interesting to think about raising a group of high-level vases that are so exquisite that many men and women feel ashamed.

Unabashedly admiring the pleasing scene in front of him, Simon finally looked at C girl Claire and asked, "C, have you thought about what to do in the future?"

Claire felt that many other eyes were looking at her, but she was only looking at her boss, and said, "Let's start a company and be your own boss. I haven't figured out what to do yet."

Simon nodded, then turned to the other girls, looking at them with anticipation in both pairs of beautiful eyes.

Looking at it again, Simon said: "That's right, I plan to set up a venture fund, um, it's called the 'Vase Fund', what do you think?"

The meaning of this name is too obvious, girl A Alison quickly said: "Boss, is it for us?"

"Of course," Simon nodded, and said: "Everyone has 1000 million US dollars, whatever you want to do, fashion, technology, real estate, finance, etc., even if you want to make a movie, it's okay, I just can help you as a consultant. If you find it difficult to do it alone, you can also cooperate with each other. Well, I suggest you cooperate. Two people will have 2000 million US dollars, and 11 people will be 1 million US dollars. However, each person is only 1000 million Dollar share, if you lose, you don't get a second chance."

The girls confirmed that Simon was not joking, and couldn't help but look at each other, with eagerness on their faces.

1000 million US dollars, although this amount of money is nothing to Simon now, it is enough to satisfy the ambition of too many people who want to climb up.

After a while, a girl on the side of the housekeeper boldly said, "Boss, can you give us some advice?"

Simon looked over, remembered that the girl was named Zoe Parks, nodded and smiled: "Of course, in addition to the mutual cooperation between you, I suggest that you invest in emerging new technological fields, such as the Internet. I believe we We are in an era similar to the period of the electrical revolution a hundred years ago, when Morgan appeared, Rockefeller appeared, and Carnegie appeared. Similarly, in this rapidly rising information age, there will definitely be such a group of people, maybe you It's one of them."

On the side of the housekeeper, another girl said with a little lack of confidence: "How is it possible, we are women."

Feeling the almost coquettish tone, Simon looked over with a smile. This one was named Isabel Dunn, and said, "Why don't you forget your 1000 million dollars?"

The girl shook her head quickly, feeling that the reaction was wrong, and nodded quickly, but she still felt wrong, so she could only look at Simon pitifully with a small face.

"Okay, just kidding," Simon said, "That's it for the time being. I don't care what to do. You guys discuss it yourself. I will try my best to only pay the money. Now, go on with the work just now, ABCD, you are responsible dinner."

The girls whispered to each other and dispersed.

Alice stayed where she was, waiting for the others to leave. The housekeeper looked at Simon and said, "Boss, do I have 1000 million dollars too?"

Simon said: "Of course, but this does not hinder your original plan. How to do it in the future depends on your own choice."

Alice shook her head slightly, and said, "I mean, 1000 million dollars is a bit small for me."

Simon showed an expression of great interest, and asked, "You already have an idea?"

The housekeeper nodded and said: "I have read the information you gave me, e-commerce, this is a plan that I think is very promising."

Simon had a weird expression on his face.

In some original plans, Simon hoped that Jeff Bezos, who is now in charge of Igret’s network business, would turn to e-commerce again in the future. If the housekeeper was really good enough, he hoped that she would become Bezos’ successor.

Now it seems that the plan will probably never keep up with the changes.

These days, Simon has released a lot of information related to the new technology industry to the housekeeper according to the original agreement. Unexpectedly, she discovered the industry prospects of e-commerce so quickly.

After thinking about it, Simon said: "There is only 1000 million US dollars in the 'Vase Fund' for you, but as long as you do well enough, money is of course not a problem."

Janet, who was quietly listening beside Simon, also smiled at this time and said: "Cersei Capital can also invest in you, as much as you want."

"Actually, it's still too early to do e-commerce. Wait a year or two until the number of World Wide Web users reaches millions or even tens of millions. This is the most suitable period to enter the market. Since you have an idea, you can attach to the Eaglet Portal Test the waters on a small scale first, such as focusing on selling books or electronic products through the Internet in California or New York State." After Simon finished speaking, he put away his expression and said, "Of course, the most important thing for you now is to do a good job. own job."

Alice listened carefully to Simon's words, nodded, and said, "Then, I'll help prepare dinner too."

"Go, besides, you can choose a bedroom in the villa and live here tonight."

Alice, who was about to turn around, paused for a moment, then nodded slightly.

When the housekeeper walked away, Janet pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "Leave her, are you going to attack tonight?"

Simon pecked at the woman's angry red lips, and joked, "For you."

Janet's eyelashes flickered, she understood, and said, "I'm not a lesbian, but maybe we can be together."

"This, is it too bullying?"

"Aren't maids just for bullying?"

Simon showed a disgusted expression: "I didn't expect you to be such a woman, stay away from me, evil capitalist."

Janet rushed forward without retreating, entangled Simon for a while, and then asked curiously: "Why do you want to set up a 'Vase Fund'? Isn't it good to let them be real vases?"

Simon put his arms around Janet's waist and said: "Of course it's still a vase, but I want to make even the vases of the Westeros family reach the level that many people look up to. Think about it, a large group of Westeros in the future Isn’t it interesting that a female billionaire who was born as a housemaid even reached the level of being squeezed into the Forbes list?”

"You think they can really do that?"

"I give them the best conditions for starting a business. As long as you work a little harder, it's actually very easy to make some achievements. They were all selected by you, and none of them is just a simple vase with an empty skin, right?"

"Yeah, they're all very ambitious. There are still people who want to take my place." Janet nodded with a smile, and then teased: "But, aren't you afraid that you will end up taking advantage of other men?"

"Don't be afraid, the money is all investment. If I do it well, I will be able to get a return," Simon shook his head and said, "Besides, there are not many 'other men' in this world that I can care about."

"Indeed," Janet raised her tone and teased, "Someone seems to like other men's women very much."

"Ah, you are slandering."

"Humph."

"What does 'hum' mean?"

"You know it yourself."

Unsurprisingly, the first lighting scene of the Shell Villa at Cape Dume Manor appeared in many newspapers the next day. Naturally, there was another voice of criticism, accusing Simon Westero of living a luxurious life. The power consumption of villas is equivalent to hundreds of times that of ordinary people.

Naturally, Simon didn't care about this, he just wanted to let the world gradually get used to his increasingly sharp edge.

Regarding the matter of the 'Vase Fund', Janet took it over with great interest in the end, and planned to link this fund to Cersei Capital. Simon naturally had no objections, but doing so would make the fund appear even more regular.

After a short weekend break, the weekday arrived, and the first thing Simon ushered in was a lawsuit.

The three major labor unions in Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild of America, the Screenwriters Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America, simultaneously filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Delaware, the place where MCA and Daenerys Entertainment are registered, to sue Daenerys Entertainment against MCA. The acquisition of MCA by Daenerys Entertainment is prohibited on the grounds that the merger will lead to monopoly and lead to a deterioration of the working environment for media industry workers.

The three major trade unions are obviously well prepared, not only hiring the most famous anti-merger lawyer team in the United States, but also collecting a lot of witnesses and material evidence.

Among them, the serious overtime phenomenon within Daenerys Entertainment has become one of the important bases for this lawsuit by the three major labor unions. Members of the three major labor unions came forward to testify that they had to bear the burden during their work for Daenerys Entertainment. Long hours of overtime.

In addition, the three major labor unions also believe that once Daenerys Entertainment and MCA merge, the films produced by this company will directly or indirectly occupy about 40% of the domestic box office share in the United States, reaching 20 billion US dollars, which has constituted a monopoly suspicion.Daenerys Entertainment will also take advantage of its own industry advantages to further reduce the salaries of employees in the industry.

This allegation is also well documented.

At the same time, many media also launched a public opinion offensive against Daenerys Entertainment.

Many people have a hunch that in order to stop Daenerys Entertainment's expansion, Simon Westeros is likely to face a lawsuit bombardment.There are many precedents for this kind of thing in the West. Many corporate mergers and acquisitions often fail due to litigation and public opinion pressure.

Chapter 388 Counterattack (Repair)

On Monday, November 11th, the three major Hollywood labor unions simultaneously filed a lawsuit in the Delaware federal court in an attempt to prevent Daenerys Entertainment from acquiring MCA. The entire Westeros system is busy dealing with this matter, but That doesn't stop Thanksgiving from coming.

Thanksgiving this year is November 11.

It happened to be snowing on the East Coast, and Simon liked the snowy atmosphere during the festival, so he spent this Thanksgiving with Janet at the Greenwich estate.

After Thursday, it's another box office week for Hollywood.

此前的11月16日到11月22日，感恩节档期第一周，史泰龙的新片《洛奇5》顺利夺得单周票房冠军。

However, the popularity of this action movie series, which once created a miracle at the box office, is still not as popular as before. It only received 1960 million US dollars in the box office in the first week of its opening, and the reputation of film critics is not satisfactory.The industry generally predicts that the film will drop by 5% to 40% in the next week, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than 50 million US dollars. The producer can only hope to rely on overseas box office and other channels to recover costs.

"Dances with Wolves" produced by Daenerys Entertainment ranked second. In the first week of its large-scale opening, the box office reached 1267 million US dollars. Its $1031 box-office hit was pretty stellar.

Counting the previous screening results, the cumulative box office of "Dancing with Wolves" reached 1730 million U.S. dollars in the first three weeks, which is already close to the film's production cost of 2000 million U.S. dollars.

"Ten Days of Dangerous Love", which was released during Halloween, fell by 22% this week. It is a pity that it failed to rebound during the Thanksgiving schedule.The film received another US$687 million in seven days, and the cumulative box office reached US$4399 million in four weeks.

Disney produced "Three Dads and One Baby", which was confirmed to be released on Wednesday, November 11. With its excellent reputation and festive atmosphere, it earned 21 million US dollars in two days, which is a bit of a dark horse.

The 2D animation film "Little Heroes to the Rescue", also produced by Disney, ranked fifth with a box office of US$479 million in the first seven days of its opening week.

Outside of the top five, there are basically a lot of old movies.

On November 11, the second week of the Thanksgiving schedule, there are also three new films, namely Daenerys Entertainment and Columbia Pictures' "The Pink League", Fox Pictures' "Predator 23" and Warner Bros. Pictures The 2D animation film "The Little Nutcracker Prince".

Among them, "League of Pink" and "Predator 2" have more than 2000 screens, while "The Little Prince of the Nutcracker" has only 906 screens, which is comparable to Disney's "Little Heroes to the Rescue" and belongs to this era of 2D animation. The standard distribution model for movies.

In the manor on the northern outskirts of Greenwich.

Except for the main road, the rest of the manor is still white and has not been cleaned up.

Sofia Feixi parked the car outside the villa of the manor owner, got out of the car and opened the rear door, and the two little guys couldn't wait to get out of the car and ran towards Janet who was coming.

Today is November 11th, Sunday.

It happened to be a sunny day. At ten o'clock in the morning, the air was still cold, but the sun was shining brightly.

Sophia came from Europe to see the children as usual on weekends, and neither Simon nor Janet left the East Coast after Thanksgiving.

I went up to say hello to Janet, and after listening to a couple of children chatting with Janet, they soon ran to build a snowman together, and Sophia walked into the villa by herself.

The villa seemed very warm. She took off her windbreaker and handed it to the B girl Becky who came over. After asking a question, she learned that Simon was in the upstairs study, so she walked up the stairs to the second floor.

Simon was on the phone, and there were many documents scattered on the desk.Hearing the knock on the door, he responded casually. Seeing Sophia's hesitant look after pushing the door, he smiled at the woman, indicating that it was okay, and Sophia walked in.

Trying to make herself look as nonchalant as possible, Sophia walked across to Simon's desk, casually helped the man organize the documents on the desk, and listened to him talking to the other side.

The discussion was about the recent MCA acquisition.

Regarding how to deal with the lawsuits of the three major trade unions and other issues that followed, these things are not suitable for anyone to hear, but the man did not deliberately lower his voice to avoid himself, which made Sophia feel warm in his heart.

After arranging several documents, the woman went to the bookshelf again, pretending to look at the books on it.Turning his back to Simon, wondering if he might be looking at himself.

It's just that after a while, the man's call still hasn't ended.

Walking from one side of the bookshelf to the other, she failed to write down anything.

Putting down the Lola figurine that he had been playing with for a while, he turned around and looked over. Simon happened to hang up one call, but directly transferred to another one.

Can't help but give birth to some resentment.

Then I felt that I was really hopeless, this man, after all, was younger than me... so many years old.

Simon focused on flipping through a piece of information, holding the microphone in his hand and discussing with the other party. He raised his head inadvertently, noticed Sophia's expression, paused, smiled and gestured towards the woman.

What did you do in the past?

With that in mind, Sophia still walked over.

As soon as he walked to his leather chair, the man grabbed his waist and pulled him into his arms.