Eric got off the plane and was about to leave the airport with his entourage, when he saw Elizabeth wearing a khaki windbreaker pulling a simple suitcase and waveing ​​to him, then quickly walked over.

After the news group's business center was transferred to the United States, the Murdoch family settled in New York. During the festival, Elizabeth returned to New York to spend the festival with her family. Eric did not expect that he would encounter Elizabeth at the airport and return to Los Angeles.

Eric asked the bodyguard to help Elizabeth take the luggage and asked, "I'm back so soon, why don't I stay in New York for a while?"

"It's not interesting to stay in New York. I'm so bored that I might as well come back to work," Elizabeth said, looking at Eric. "Speaking of this, I've heard a lot about firefly investments at parties these days. What are you doing?"

"I plan to break my own money into pieces and hide it so that others can't guess how much money I have too easily," Eric said calmly. Even if he doesn't admit it, those who are interested will definitely be able to guess it.

Firefly Pictures has no way to hide it for the time being. Fortunately, the value of the entertainment industry is very valuable, not to mention that Firefly Pictures is not listed, so it is not easy to find out the assets of Firefly Pictures. However, some of the assets in Firefly Investment’s hands are obviously exposed to the surface. For example, if the public pays a little attention, they can easily find that Cisco’s largest shareholder is Firefly Investment Company.

Cisco's market value is only more than 2 billion, which is not too conspicuous, but Cisco's development has not deviated from the historical track. Cisco Ceo has now confirmed that John Chambers is his next successor. John Chambers is the biggest contributor to Cisco in the original time and space. Then, if Cisco's market value continues to expand to hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, the wealth controlled by Firefly Investment will be too dazzling. What's more, Eric has more than just Cisco's investment investment. After the Forbes rankings, Eric has to make a plan for the future in advance.

After discussing with Chris, Firefly Investment began to deal with Cisco's shares first.

Firefly Investment Company injected funds into several selected non-listed funds and then reversely acquired some of the Cisco shares in Firefly Investment. In this way, Firefly Investment quickly dispersed the Cisco shares in its hands into pieces and spread them into the hands of these funds. However, because of the signing of a complete agreement and the transfer of shares, Firefly Investment's control over Cisco did not change, but there was only a node in the middle. The most intuitive manifestation is that the candidates for the directors on Cisco's board of directors who originally represented Firefly Investment did not change at all, and they were still those people.

This indirect way of holding shares is very common in North America, even behemoths like General Electric, ExxonMobil or Bell Telephone and Telephone Company. Their shareholder list is basically a series of well-known and unknown foundations, trust investment, capital management and other investment companies. As for the real owners behind the shares held by these companies, no one knows them.

Not only Cisco, IE, Yahoo and Hotmail, Firefly Investment will no longer directly invest in it in the future, but will indirectly use foundations and other methods such as development funds.

When Elizabeth heard Eric's answer, she couldn't help but smile: "Compared to Firefly Pictures, that... Cisco's shares should not be anything, why don't you find a way to hide Firefly Pictures?"

Eric spread his hands: "This goal is too big. You can only spend time taking your time."

"I don't know what you're trying to do like this, as if I'm afraid others will steal your stuff."

As he said this, the two came to a few outside the game together. Elizabeth waved his hand to the driver who came to pick him up, let the other party leave, and followed Eric into his car.

Eric got on the car from the other side, and then said the topic just now: "I'm not afraid of others robbing them, but I always take care of other people's fragile hearts. I don't want anyone to be stimulated when I see too much money, and then there will be something like three or two short."

Elizabeth obviously regarded Eric's words as nonsense. She raised her small fist and hammered Eric's shoulder, and smiled and said, "You arrogant maniac."

Eric didn't dodge the girl's little fist without pain. He said, "I'm going back to the sharp corner manor now, are you going to my place too?"

Elizabeth blinked a few times, and then she seemed to remember it: "Yes, I forgot about this, hey, Carter, turn around and take me back to Beverly Hills first."

Carter Moen looked at Eric inquiringly through the rearview mirror. As a bodyguard who had been following Eric for a long time, he certainly knew the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth.

"Keep driving, go back to Malibu," Eric waved his hand at Carter, and said to Elizabeth: "I remember Julia also took the little guy back to her parents' place. Your house hasn't been cleaned for a long time. Let's live in my place tonight."

Seeing Eric's words so bluntly, Elizabeth's pretty face turned slightly red, pretended to be relaxed, turned his head, and put one hand on the car window to pretend to look at the scenery outside the window.

...

After walking out of the bathroom with a thick bathrobe, Elizabeth then remembered that her suitcase was thrown at the door of the villa, and her cheeks were slightly warm and pushed all the anxiousness that had been a few hours ago onto a guy.

The plane got off at four o'clock in the afternoon and took a nap after doing something. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening. The hunger came, and Elizabeth walked downstairs hesitantly.

The lights in the small living room were on. When I walked in, the sound of the TV was very low. Eric leaned against the sofa casually. A black laptop was placed on the exquisite aluminum alloy bracket in front of me. As the fingers were provoked, it made a slight clatter from time to time.

Seeing Elizabeth walk in, Eric pointed to the food on the glass table: "I asked someone to make a midnight snack. I just went upstairs and called you, and you're already taking a shower."

"What are you doing?" Elizabeth did not rush to eat, walked behind Eric and lay on the backrest of the sofa, looking at the laptop screen.

"The script of "Night Visit to Vampire" was very good at the box office and reputation some time ago. The production department also negotiated a cooperation agreement with David Geffen. The film will be released at the end of the year. How are your "Vampire Slayer Buffy" prepared?"

"If it weren't for this, I'd be back at the beginning of the month," Elizabeth replied. "I also had a heroine audition in New York. According to your original advice, we plan to choose girls with dance foundations, which can shorten the training time, shoot action scenes relatively easily, and the pilot episode can be produced by May."

"Is the person I've chosen?" Eric posed a line of comments on the play's text document and asked casually.

"Well. I selected a few girls. They will come to Los Angeles in a few days for the final audition with the candidates here," Elizabeth stared at the laptop for a while, then turned bored to sit opposite Eric, and ate it on her knees.

Eric hummed softly and continued to pound on the document.

"Hey, are you going to come here during the last audition? They are all very beautiful girls," Elizabeth said a moment later.

Eric smiled and said, "This step is gone. You know my taste. Just give it to me on the bed after choosing it."

Elizabeth spat gently, grabbed a piece of bread and threw it at Eric.

"Hey. I almost forgot, why would you show up at the airport today?"

"I thought you were full of bad things and ignored this problem." Eric teased, quickly reached out to catch a piece of bread flying over, and then took a bite and replied: "I'm going to San Francisco. Pixar's new animation has been initially completed. I'll go to see the sample and discuss the Super Bowl trailer with John and the others."

"What is this time? Is the sequel to Toy Story?" Elizabeth asked curiously. When Fireflies used to disclose news about Pixar's latest 3D animation to the outside world, they always used the "unnamed Pixar new animation" as a synonym, and Elizabeth had never paid much attention to it. At this time, she became interested when she heard that Pixar's new 3D animation was about to be completed.

"No, the new animation was initially named "The Mobilization of the Bugs", which is a story about the ant family living in an oasis fighting the slavery of locusts," Eric said concisely.

Elizabeth looked at Eric, waited patiently for a few seconds before asking, "That's all, nothing?"

"It's boring to tell you all the plot now. When it's released, you can go to the cinema to watch it."

"I won't go, what the kids see," Elizabeth curled her lips.

After having lunch, Elizabeth came to the kitchen to pack the tableware and returned to the small living room again. Because she slept for an afternoon, although it was already ten o'clock in the evening, the girl didn't have any pajamas. She picked up the TV remote control placed on the glass table, sat down next to Eric, pulled a pillow and hugged it in her arms, and casually chose a midnight talk show.

After watching the host Shicai Lianhua commented on the recent current events, Elizabeth said to the man beside her again: "Eric, is Firefly's next step to develop its own TV network?"

"What did your old man guessed?" Eric turned his head and asked.

Elizabeth nodded.

"Now the integration of media groups has become an inevitable trend. Firefly's industrial chain in the film sector has expanded to its limit. Next, it will definitely develop towards a comprehensive media group. Not only the TV network, but also the business in music, publishing, etc. will expand." Speaking of this, Eric smiled and said, "But you can rest assured that Firefly will not get involved in paper media, so it will not compete with News Group at this point."

With the rise of the Internet, the decline of paper media has become an inevitable trend. Eric remembers that after entering the new century, even several of the most famous newspapers in the United States have frequently encountered bankruptcy crises. He does not intend to waste time making useless layouts in a declining industry.

"Don't think I don't know what you are thinking. I heard that the website you founded at the end of last year was recently in contact with several print media groups. The editor-in-chief of the New York Post talked about this with my dad last time. You must be planning to build an online news website."

Eric temporarily stopped typing the keyboard finger, turned his head to look at Elizabeth, and asked curiously: "What do your dad think about this?"

Elizabeth hummed a few times with a little smugness, without answering, looking like I didn't tell you that I didn't want to hit you.

Eric shrugged and understood that Murdoch must have a low rating on the prospects of this idea. After working in the media for most of his life, Murdoch could certainly see that the current Internet environment does not have the basis for large-scale development of online news. The current Internet user base has not yet been popularized to the level of ordinary people, and most of it is concentrated on college students and professional and technical personnel. However, he obviously cannot predict how terrifying the explosive growth of Internet users will be in the next few years.

"Hey, Liz, you said if one day I fight with your old man, who would you help?"

Elizabeth had a strong contempt in her eyes: "Of course, help my dad, do you have the nerve to fight with an old man in his sixties? It's so shameless."

"Uh, it's wrong, am I talking about the company?"

"Then why do you want to do it, just to make it happen," Eliza said lazily, hugging her pillow on the sofa, saying lazily. The current scale of Fireflies and News Corporation's development is certain, and the rise and fall of the other in a certain period of time is certain, but unless there is a huge industry change, it is difficult to have a life-and-death struggle. Not to mention the future, even if 20th Century Fox and Firefly already have a competitive relationship in the film business, the two companies are in peace and have even some cooperative relationships. This is the case with several other major Hollywood film companies.

Eric smiled, and said nothing more. He spent nearly an hour reading the script of "Night Visit to Vampire", shutting down the notebook, and patting the girl's smooth calves on her knees: "Are you sleepy?"

Without a response, Eric turned his head and looked over. The girl was already asleep with her eyes squinting.

...

The new year's awards season seems to have little to do with Firefly Pictures. The movies released by Firefly last year are basically commercial films. Even at the Golden Globe Awards with strong operationality, they can only win the nominations, and there are basically no movies with the winning ability. In addition, the company created a miracle of 27% share in the box office last year, Firefly's inaction in the awards will inevitably become the target of mocking by some media with a sour grape-like mentality.
Chapter completed!