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In the end, since Natasha Richardson was brought in, it was smooth, and the heroine was also booked in advance.

This woman from a family of British performers has enough appearance and acting skills, and her age of 32 is just right. What she has been lacking is just opportunities.

As for the original Cameron Diaz, Simon didn't feel anything, so he never thought of using him since "The Masquerade". This actress who should have been popular in the 90s is still in an unknown state.

Chapter 1094

Boston.

In the rich West area in the western suburbs, Ulyana Meretskova lives in the manor.

The time is January 1th, another new week.

In the dimly lit bedroom in the early morning, Ulyana was lying on her side, looking at the two servants Katya and Irina who she brought from Ukraine beside the big bed, dressed in light nightgowns and dressing the man, and said softly: " If you don't like Ana and Nick, I'll send them back to Ukraine."

"So you're not the only one left here in Boston, okay?"

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

In fact, she herself didn't like the two oil bottles beside her, she almost blurted out just now, but fortunately she stopped in time.

Simon looked at the woman who was five months pregnant on the big bed but became more and more irritating regardless of her figure and temperament. While the two women beside her came over with shoes, she took advantage of the opportunity and sat down by the bed. Come down, it's good to be with you."

Ulyana twisted her body to let the man follow suit, nodded and said, "I'll listen to you."

Although he was excited, after putting on his shoes, Simon only told the woman to sleep a little longer, and then left the bedroom.

When the man left, Ulyana said to the two remaining attendants: "Prepare some hot water for me, I'll take a shower later."

Katya Saponova, a standard Slavic girl with blond hair and blue eyes, said softly, "Ma'am, don't you want to sleep for a while?"

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

As Ulyana said, she raised her hand slightly, and Irina Dachenskaya, who was the female guard, hurried forward and carefully helped the woman up.

After the pregnancy became more and more obvious, Ulyana asked the two attendants she brought from Ukraine to sleep with her in the master bedroom, of course in the small bed next to her, and to help her turn over at night and so on.The men stayed here last night, not only did Ulyana not let them avoid them, but she took the initiative to pull the two girls, both of whom could be called superior in appearance and figure, into the big bed to please someone.

The effect looks good.

Of course, in order to prevent the two girls beside her from having any other thoughts, after some incidents last night, Ulyana drove them to the small bed in the corner of the bedroom again, and spared no effort to order the two girls in the morning.Born in a noble family, she knows that these seemingly insignificant tricks are actually very effective, because people will always adapt to their position unconsciously.

Simon has never paid much attention to the petty tricks of the women around him. After his routine morning exercise, just as he sat in the restaurant, girl A presented him with a stack of freshly released materials.

After several months of private arrangement, the new technology short-sellers headed by Tiger Fund and the Mellon family finally exerted their strength today.

The first is the article that was intercepted by Simon years ago: "The Shocking Conspiracy, the Ponzi Scheme of the Internet Industry!" "

"According to the current information feedback, a total of 17 local newspapers on the east and west coasts will publish this article today. However, large newspapers such as the "New York Times", "Boston Globe" and "Los Angeles Times" did not participate. Local newspapers such as the Pittsburgh Tribune controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. In addition, some news sites and famous bloggers will also publish this article, again excluding the most influential portals .”

Girl A said, seeing her boss look at the list of newspapers that are expected to publish a certain article, her slender fingers gestured to the two circled in red circles in advance: "These two belong to the Hearst family, Skye He wanted the Hearst family to publish this article in the "San Francisco Chronicle", but there was no agreement there, but two local newspaper platforms were still provided."

Simon just nodded slightly, continued to read the subsequent information, but said, "What about our side?"

"In the following, Igret has put up the headline of the portal. The title is "The Coachman Tried 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 Targeted counter-article refuting the Ponzi scheme contention of Scaife's draft."

Simon was noncommittal, and continued to look through the various drafts compiled by girl a.

Alison waited for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "Boss, actually, releasing the evidence of Scafe's behind-the-scenes manipulation of this matter should have a more direct effect. Why not do it?"

Simon countered: "How much is Skyefe losing now?"

"More than 15 million U.S. dollars," Alison said. "In addition to Scafe's 3 million U.S. dollars in principal, other branches of the Mellon family have also bet at least another 3 million U.S. dollars this time. After this time, although It is still far from getting to the root, but the Mellon family's control over companies such as Alcoa will definitely weaken. In addition, Scaife himself has suffered the most, and he has provoked this dispute. marginalized."

"It's only half of the loss. If the inside story is exposed now, it is likely to prompt Scave to make up his mind to liquidate the position. I don't want him to run away."

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

Simon continued: "Compile a blacklist, and all the newspapers that published that article today, and the advertisements that we can influence, will all be removed."

Alison heard her boss's order and quickly wrote it down in her memo.

"In addition, no matter what the impact of this article is, it's just the beginning. We can't just take the initiative passively, let the Weijia public relations team in charge of Jinsili and Ygritte and their companies directly move, and finally put Nasdaq pushes up another level."

Simon was discussing with Alison when he heard footsteps. Looking up, Ulyana's two children, Anna Meretskova and Nicholas Meretskov, entered the restaurant together with their heads looking. To them, the siblings who had already walked to the dining table stopped, and the elder sister Anna greeted them actively: "Good morning, Mr. Westeros."

The younger brother Nicholas, who was looking at the information in Simon's hand with curiosity, also hurriedly greeted him.

Simon didn't know the same as the two little guys, so he still couldn't help frowning slightly, waved his hands 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 what he said, the elder sister Anna shrank her neck delicately, made an embarrassed expression, and dragged Dali to the outside.

When the siblings left, Simon also roughly finished looking through the materials in his hand, and did not continue. This matter was just the beginning, and he could ask, "How about Sundance?"

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

"The jury prize went to a film called 'Sunday' directed by Jonathan Nositt. From our side, only 'Two Smoking Barrels' won an Audience Award."

The result was expected, and Simon was not surprised or dissatisfied. He just said: "The planning of the "Ghost Story" I wrote over the weekend, I transferred the information to Lin Yibin and asked him to prepare it first. If you have time, we can talk face to face. Well, let’s send a copy to c, after all, it can be promoted to irec, at least let her sponsor a batch of the latest digital cameras for shooting.”

A few days ago at Sundance, Simon had the idea of ​​starting a pseudo-documentary genre. After careful consideration, he chose "Ghost Story" from memory.

As for "The Blair Witch", which pioneered the pseudo-documentary, it was temporarily suppressed by Simon.The main reason is that the success of "The Blair Witch", in addition to the impact of the Internet virus, is largely a deception. It deceives the public who doesn't know the truth that a witch murder actually happened, and then attracts the audience to enter.

Frankly speaking, if it was done by a small publisher who was not well-known in the past, the result would be fine, but if Daenerys Entertainment did it, and then used the same method, the result is likely to encounter a group because of this kind of deception. Litigation, Simon doesn't want to get into this kind of trouble.

Even after the success of "The Blair Witch", it was not until another 10 years that another "Ghost Story" became a hit. It seriously hurt the audience's enthusiasm for this genre.

In comparison, "Ghost Story" is truly a breakthrough in the genre of movies.

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

The first part of "The Blair Witch" sold nearly 25 million US dollars worldwide. The cost of the sequel launched the following year increased from 6 US dollars to 1500 million US dollars. As a result, there was no splash at all, and the two young directors of the two series also both It was a flash in the pan, and then no influential works appeared.

Look at "Ghost Story" again. After the first film was a huge success at the global box office of nearly 1000 million U.S. dollars, a series of sequels were released in succession. The cost did not exceed [-] million U.S. dollars, but they were all hits, almost as the publisher Paramount. of a golden egg hen.In Simon's opinion, this is what a new type and a big-selling series should look like.

However, even though "Ghost Story" was selected, the idea of ​​the follow-up "The Blair Witch" can also be used, but this time it must not use deceptive tactics to promote it. 'For the type of movie, "The Blair Witch" is seriously done better, coupled with proper publicity, it will definitely attract a large audience.

As for the director Justin Lin, although he was later known mainly for the "Fast and Furious" series, this director is actually an all-rounder who can handle various genres.

"Ghost Story" is just an experiment after all. From the director to the actors, Simon intends to use newcomers. Not to mention the actors, only newcomers will not let the audience play in this pseudo-documentary form. The director, on the one hand, is a Simon gave Lin Yibin an exercise, and Simon can also judge the strength and potential of this "newcomer". On the other hand, a newcomer director must also know how to cherish opportunities better, and at the same time, it is cheaper.

Of course, since Simon is personally in charge, he will definitely not only give the previous budget of 1 US dollars.

In fact, if it is really going to be released, after the digital camera is shot, it will only cost more than 35 US dollars to convert the low-quality digital video into 1mm film. Therefore, from the preparation to the completion of a film that can be screened in theaters For the 5000mm copy, Simon prepared $35.

The bulk is mainly in distribution.

If the project meets Simon's expectations, the distribution fee of 500 million may not be enough. Of course, only if the film is successful, Daenerys Entertainment can earn more.

After ordering this matter, girl A wrote it down, and took the initiative to report some other matters: "Chen sent an email. Over there in China, the project of the Rose Garden villa area in Beijing has been finalized. Boss, do you want to see the details?"

"Well, let's see on the plane back."

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

"What does David mean by himself?"

"There is a suggestion that if it exceeds our budget by 15, the deal will be abandoned."

Simon nodded: "That's it."

"Also, about the Spanish clothing company ditex, after several contacts, they are very interested in our investment, but the boss of ditex, Amancio Ortega, hopes to meet with you, and , he wants the Westeros Corporation to invest directly, not through the Apollo Management Company."

"You can arrange a time," Simon didn't refuse, but remembered one thing, and asked again: "Ditex set up a factory in Rivni, is it settled?"

"It's settled. However, the scale of the first phase of the factory will not be too large. The main reason is that ditex has expanded rapidly in recent years, and its own funds are not abundant. In addition, ditex also mentioned another matter. I hope we It can increase support for the aviation industry in Rivni, because the Zara brand under Ditex uses air freight to launch new products globally."

"Let Komorov and the others discuss this matter," Simon said, thinking for a while, and said: "We can strengthen further control over the basic service areas of Rivne State, such as electricity, railways, aviation, energy, Telecom and so on."

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

For Rivni, Simon had such an idea a long time ago, intending to build a city of Westeros in Ukraine.

To achieve this, the key is of course not to control the light industry or even the service industry that the Rivne region focuses on, but to control the basic needs of all kinds of food, clothing, housing and transportation that everyone in a region cannot do without.To put it bluntly, it is actually the development of a brand-new rental economy.

If Simon wants to develop into Rivni, he must introduce many other funds to promote it. Only relying on the Westeros system, it is impossible to eat everything after all, just like Ditex built a clothing factory in Rivni.However, as long as he controls the basic needs of everyone in a city in a region, not just ordinary residents, but also all kinds of enterprises, then Simon will become a charterer who can obtain the most lucrative benefits.

Chapter 1095 Rolling

Obviously considering the risks involved, the final article accusing the Internet of being a Ponzi scheme did not directly name them, but listed a series of detailed data.Even so, a discerning person can still understand at a glance which company the "industry giant" mentioned in the article refers to.

After all, the power of many short-sellers and the Mellon family should not be underestimated. The unified efforts of a large number of media across the United States inevitably aroused huge social repercussions.

Even though the Westeros system made many responses in a timely manner, the Nasdaq still fell significantly when the market opened on Monday, January 1. Igret, which bore the brunt, fell by 27% within an hour of opening, with a book loss of more than 1.3%. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

In the end, on Monday, the Nasdaq index fell 69 points by the close of trading, a drop of 1.1%. As the leading stock, Eaglet’s share price also fell by 0.7% in a single day. Falling back to 7519 billion US dollars, other companies such as Cisco, America Online, Microsoft, etc., also experienced varying degrees of decline in stock prices.

Even if it did not meet expectations, such a 'good start' made some people quite excited.

So, that night, the last move was made again.

On the evening news program of CBS TV under the control of Westinghouse Electric, a former Republican government official of the U.S. Department of Justice was interviewed. All states in the United States should unite and put pressure on the White House to dismember Igret, the "monopoly monster" that hinders the development of the new technology industry.

Not only that, the next morning, a large number of local paper media and social network platforms once again appeared some influential senior government officials or public figures in the United States calling for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in order to control the growing federal economy overheating, especially the Internet and other bubbles. China's new technology industry turned to a benign development track.

Whether it is an attack on Eaglet, the leading company in Nasdaq market capitalization, or a call for the Fed to raise interest rates, it can be said to hit the nail on the head.

On Tuesday, the Nasdaq fell again.

Compared with Monday, Tuesday’s one-day decline expanded to 1.6%, and Eaglet’s stock price also expanded from yesterday’s 0.7% decline to a deep drop of 2.1% on the day, with a single-day additional market value of more than 150 billion US dollars.

Rain is coming.

Although the two consecutive days of bearishness have not triggered a large-scale selling frenzy, everyone knows that if this continues, the result will only be a collapse.Therefore, the technology stocks headed by the Westeros system also made the most determined counterattack.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan accepted an interview with ABC Evening News on Tuesday night, and personally stated that in order to maintain the current prosperity of the US economy, the Fed has no plans to raise interest rates in the short term.

Then Wednesday.

Accompanied by major portals and major newspapers on the east and west coasts about Eaglet’s huge subsidies for profitable businesses such as advertising and software, e-commerce has created a huge loss of up to 17 billion US dollars in the past year, creating at least 10 yuan for the Federation inside and outside Eaglet. Propaganda articles on long-term jobs. At the White House press conference in the morning, the White House spokesperson made a public statement in response to questions from reporters. Considering the close relationship between Eaglet’s many businesses and the large number of jobs created by the federal judiciary The Ministry will carefully consider the split plan of Eaglet, and will only urge Eaglet to improve certain market strategies that are harmful to small businesses and consumers.

On the same day, after the White House made a statement, Ygritte responded almost at the same time.

On the morning of the west coast, Eaglet signed a technology authorization and compatibility sharing cooperation agreement with IBM, Microsoft, HP and other companies that also provide data center services at the headquarters park in San Francisco. The focus is to increase Eaglet’s Compatibility of Internet infrastructure tool software with other data center service providers.

Obviously, Eaglet did this in response to the investigation launched by the Ministry of Justice at the end of last year against the accusation that Eaglet bundled its own software with data center services to force sales to users.Not only that, Eaglet announced again on Wednesday afternoon that in order to support the development of small technology companies, Eaglet will reduce the price of its own data center services by 15% with immediate effect.

This is still not over.

On Thursday morning, Igret executives held a press conference at an Amazon warehouse logistics center near Miami, Florida, and announced that they would start the recruitment plan for 2000 employees ahead of schedule. At the same time, after the official opening of the logistics center near Miami, , in addition to increasing the scale of its own employees, it will also bring no less than 1 jobs to the surrounding area.

At this press conference, a judge of the Florida Attorney’s Office in charge of Eaglet’s antitrust investigation personally stood on the platform and affirmed Eaglet, saying that the Florida Attorney’s Office and Eaglet Company have Settlement talks in last year's antitrust probe are coming to an end.

For two consecutive days, a series of news that was completely reversed, although it attracted a lot of criticism from the short-sellers controlling the public opinion platform, the market feedback was immediate.

Eaglet’s two-day decline on Monday and Tuesday came to an abrupt end on Wednesday, and then began to rise, and because of Greenspan’s personal statement, the Nasdaq was also driven by the rebound in Eaglet’s stock price. It quickly regained the lost ground and returned to the high of 6300 points at the close of last Friday.

The rapid reversal of the whole matter is completely crushing for some interested spectators who know a little bit about the inside story.

The disparity in strength between the long and short sides is too great.

Short capital can only use some local media or small online platforms and some ex-politicians who have left the field to speak out and create public opinion, while the long side directly moves out of the White House and the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and controls the Eaglet Portal, ABC TV Network, and the New York Times " and other mainstream media with great influence, the result of the collision can be imagined.

On the other hand, Eaglet's further opening-up measures and the promotion of local employment have also brought the Ministry of Justice and the state prosecutors' offices to a higher level. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that last year was the White House's attempt to take the initiative. An anti-monopoly investigation launched, after Igret broke the situation, will soon end in anticlimax.

It is determined that Eaglet will not be split. Even if the price cuts in data center services and technology licensing to other peers will have some impact on Eaglet’s revenue and monopoly advantages, the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Finally, Friday, January 1.

After a lively week, the Nasdaq closed at the end. Not only did it not turn to collapse, but it continued to rise by 1.8% in a week compared to last Friday's close.Reached 6437 points.

The most dazzling one is Ygritte.

The three-day period of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday continued to rebound. By the close of trading on Friday, the company's market value had reached 7731 billion US dollars, with a weekly increase of 2.8%.

It seems to be a single-digit percentage increase, but with the size of the Nasdaq market and Eaglet at this time, it is still a huge number.Correspondingly, during this week, the short capital that had slightly recovered some lost ground in the first two days still ended in a loss after a week.

October 2th, Sunday.

Simon came to New York yesterday and spent a day with Irene Lauder, and this morning he gave Grace the time.

Then at noon, the Inditex founder Amancio Ortega from Spain was invited. Although the Spanish businessman was the richest man in Spain and was still the richest man in the world for a short time, it was not considered for Simon at this time. What.

no way.

Simon is no longer richer than anyone else.

After lunch, I personally finalized the plan for Westeros to invest in Inditex, the parent company of Zara. In the afternoon, I came to the residence of Chen Qing and Lin Su in the Upper West District.