"I don't know the fund that Jenny asked me to be in charge of Uliya, about nanomaterials and quantum computing projects. There is also the establishment of Solvay College in Boston. I have seen the materials. This is a very special school for children. I'm not sure if I can do it well?"

"It doesn't matter if you can't do it well."

"ah?"

"The projects you are responsible for are all left to the little guys in your belly. If they can't get anything in the future, they can only blame their mother."

“…”

Boston the next morning.

In the manor mansion in West District, the western suburb of the city, Simon took a helicopter to visit Maria and her two women.

Today is January 12th, Sunday, the coldest season of the year on the East Coast. It snowed a few days ago, and the manor was covered with plain clothes. Simon did not go out again after arriving. He just stayed with Maria in a living room in the villa and chatted. However, the three boys greeted Simon and took the initiative to find excuses to leave, obviously leaving space for Simon and his mother.

The topic was about a fund that Janet arranged for two women to manage when she came to meet them at the end of last year. It mainly used the scientific research resources of several top Boston universities to study a series of cutting-edge projects.

In addition, after the success of the Solvay Academy in Malibu, Los Angeles, Simon plans to gradually launch similar academy projects around the world starting this year, with the goal of selecting high-IQ children to cultivate targeted scientists such as Einstein and Madame Curie at the Solvay Conference in 1927.

The Solvay Academy project in Boston was naturally handed over to two women, Maria and Uriyana.

At this moment, looking at the woman curled up on the sofa with a hesitant look on her face, Simon couldn't help but reach out and stroked the woman's shiny face, slowly slashed her fingertips to her neck, and after being held down by the woman in a panic, she did not continue to go down, saying: "As long as you and Uliya do it seriously, it's nothing if they fail. These things cannot be successful in one go or in a short time. Even before the end of our short life, if we can complete half of them, it will be worth the vain."

When Maria saw the little man saying this, she slowly withdrew her big hand that she had just reached. She was inexplicably reluctant and moved her body and said, "Actually, I can see that your arrangements are very beneficial to the future of our world."

Simon shook his head slightly: "I'm not as good as you think."

Maria blinked her eyes and nodded slightly red: "Of course I know this."

A good person will not occupy her like a robber.

A woman with a blushing face will always look more attractive, especially a woman with a dignified temperament that seems to always be meticulous and suddenly blushed.

Simon reached out his hand again, hugged the woman directly, hugged her and kissed her lips.

Maria was forced to kiss for a moment and barely escaped: "Don't, no, baby... is still young."

"Don't worry, I know," Simon comforted her, seeing that the woman's eyes were still a little flustered, she just hugged her gently and took the initiative to return to the topic just now: "Actually, in recent years, more and more people are asking me, Simon, you have so much wealth and you will never spend it all, what are you going to do in the future?"

Seeing that Simon did not continue, Maria felt relieved and asked, "Did you think of the answer?"

As he said that, he understood a little.

Perhaps the funds you are responsible for and the projects you sponsor are the answers.

Simon nodded: "From a personal perspective, as a selfish person, if possible, I certainly hope to keep such a huge amount of wealth to my children in the future so that the Westeros will pass on forever. However, this is obviously unlikely, not to mention that my ability to control these wealth does not mean that the little guys will also have this ability in the future. Once they do not have the ability to control and inherit too much wealth, it will only cause disaster."

Maria nodded and agreed, "What?"

"Then, why not create a possibility."

Maria began to wonder again: “Hmm?”

Simon said: "It is unlikely to pass it to the children completely. Donating it out and setting up various foundations is probably the best place to belong. However, I don't plan to let these foundations do what they used to be, such as empty education, medical care, environmental protection, and even interference in politics to promote peace. In my opinion, these will only lead to stagnation and reincarnation."

Maria obviously still couldn't understand.

Simon patiently explained: "In my opinion, human civilization can be divided into three stages: prehistoric era, farming era, and industrial era. The prehistoric era is too long. If you don't talk about it, the most typical farming era lasted for thousands of years. Whether in Asia, Europe or America, it is basically accompanied by the dynasty changes of intensive wars, civilization stagnates and continues to reincarnate. Until the industrial era, that is, now, whether it is the subdivided steam era, the electrical era or the information era that has been unfolding now, it seems to me that they are only different stages of the industrial era. If no one changes, the result will likely be constantly stagnated and reincarnated for a long time, just like the farming era that has lasted for thousands of years. What I want is a fundamental change, pushing mankind into the next civilization era and creating a new possibility for the lucky race in this universe. I can only say it is a possibility, because I cannot judge the good or bad of this era in the future."

After the little man explained this, Maria, who was the top intellectual in this society, had completely understood it.

A feeling of admiration in my heart inexplicably.

Compared to those politicians and rich men who keep saying that they want to make the world a better place, this little man is truly considering the future of mankind.

Simon keenly noticed the change in the woman's expression and asked with a smile: "Suddenly falling in love with me?"

Maria dodged her eyes, then she mustered up the courage to look over and said, "I'm just sure that the little guy in my belly has a good father."

Simon stroked the slightly raised belly under the woman's base shirt. This time, Maria did not dodge and felt it for a moment. Of course, there was no reaction now. She just said: "The little guy may not think so in the future. Moreover, many things I plan to do may cause a lot of controversy."

Maria gently pressed Simon's big hand and said, "Great people will always be questioned and slandered as they move forward, but history will give fair evaluations."

"Haha, it's not as noble as you think. I just happened to be in this position and have enough resources."

Maria shook her head, "Many people who can use more resources than you have never thought about doing this."

As he said this, the empire that collapsed a few years ago appeared in Maria's mind. Those who once stood at the peak of power eventually remained the countless ambitions that dissipated in the long river of history.

Simon felt the sudden melancholy of the woman, and probably guessed what she was thinking, but didn't say much.

Maria didn't indulge for too long. She came back to her senses and chatted with Simon for a few more words. She hesitated and said, "You should go and see Uliya more. I can tell that she was pregnant. It was really just an accident. There was no intention to rely on you."

“I’ll go after lunch.”

"Then, will you stay tonight?"

Simon's eyes swept over the woman's warm body and nodded, "Okay."

Maria shook her head, "I mean, you stay with Uliya."

Simon teased: "Are women so generous nowadays? Push their men to other women?"

"I am your woman, but you are not my man."

"Oh..." Simon looked around and said, "Do you have other men? Please remind me, don't let me find out that someone will die."

Maria gave him a blank look with no lethality: "I mean, I just snatched it from you."

"It sounds like I'm a robber."

Maria made a 'you' look, paused, and said, "Or, I'll call Uliya to come over and have lunch together."

"You don't mind, of course I'm fine."

Simon said, seeing Maria take out her cell phone, she smiled and stopped her, called the butler, and directly asked her to send the driver to pick up the person.

When Maria saw the man, she decided directly and felt that she would call Ulyanna to explain. However, after thinking about it, she understood that the man did this and did not want any misunderstanding between her and Ulya. After all, she had good intentions, and Ulyanna might not think so. If she thought she was demonstrating, she would do something bad.

If a little man like a robber decides casually, it will have nothing to do with her, and maybe it will make the two closer.

The same fate is connected.

However, in order to avoid Uriyana's embarrassment, Maria called her eldest son Victor and asked the three brothers to solve lunch outside by themselves and come back in the evening.

Simon stayed in Boston for one day and set off early the next morning to return to the West Coast, with the destination in San Francisco.

It was mainly to discuss the 1996 annual financial report for Igrit, which will be released at the end of the month. The article obtained by the Weijia Intelligence Team from Richard Mellon Skyve accused the Internet industry of a Ponzi scheme, and the attack was Igrit.

Therefore, this financial report will be related to the next critical long-short game in the technology stock market.

With the full-year financial report planned to be released on January 22, Egret will hold a special press conference. The impressive revenue and profit data are second, with the focus on promoting Egret's changes to public life, its help to local employment, its promotion of social efficiency, etc.

In short, it is to weaken the impact of a certain article and related public opinion operations on the new technology industry in advance.

When Simon returns from San Francisco, another box office week in January 1997 is over.

The first thing that attracted attention from January 10 to January 16 was that the local box office of "Wonder Woman 2" officially exceeded the $400 million mark, becoming the only super bombshell in the 1996 film that had a local box office of over $400 million.

Specific aspects.

Last Christmas, "Charlie's Angels" was released in the fourth week after overtaking "The Brave Game" last week. It still firmly ranked first in the single-week box office with a good 29% drop in a single-week box office, and closed another $27.16 million. The cumulative box office in four weeks was US$197.19 million, which is about to exceed 200 million.

From the first week of more than $70 million on December 20 last year, to the top three weeks after the local box office surpassing the Brave Game, the series of data of "Charlie's Angels" exceeded the expectations of the two major producers Daenerys and MGM.

At present, the bombshell here is only a local box office, and is expected to exceed US$250 million, which is enough to recover the total investment in production and publicity and promotion and achieve profits. Not only that, but most importantly, the success of "The Ghost Party of 007" and "Charlie's Angels" in the past year has given a stunning start to the planned "Agent Film Universe".

After "Charlie's Angel", "The Brave Game" barely held the runner-up position on the list.

However, compared with the $27.16 million in "Charlie's Angels", the box office of "The Brave" has dropped to $13.72 million in a single week, which is because the decline this week narrows again compared to last week's sharp drop.

After five weeks of release, the cumulative box office of "The Brave Game" was $169.71 million, and there is still a gap of $30 million from the 200 million threshold. Although it is not a big problem to collect $30 million in the future, the local box office of the film probably stopped at a little over 200 million, and it is likely that even 210 million cannot exceed it.

Fortunately, based on the film's production of $82 million and the promotion and promotion of $35 million, the local box office was $200 million. With the movie's share share ratio of more than 60% in theaters, it is still enough to recover the cost and achieve a small profit. However, compared with the industry's general optimistic view of this CG blockbuster rather than the relatively traditional "Charlie's Angels" prediction before it was released, the reversal of reality is really difficult to make Warner, who is responsible for the release, too happy.

Then there was "The Mind Catcher", which ranked third on the list almost on par with "The Brave Game".

Since preview, "The Spirit Catcher" was released in the sixth week, with the largest single-week box office drop of 27% since the opening of the painting, and it closed at another $12.65 million, which is only a margin of more than $1 million from the previous "The Brave Game".

Compared to other super bombshells that succeeded for granted, it was unexpectedly bombshells. The dark horse literary drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale, which produced only $10 million, has successfully exceeded 100 million this week, reaching $1071.7 billion.

This year's Golden Globes are coming on January 19th this Sunday.

As a popular awards season, "The Mind Catcher" was stimulated by a series of awards until the Oscars. The box office curve is definitely very good. Conservatively estimated that the local box office can reach more than 150 million US dollars.

The fourth place is "Madame Perron" starring Madonna.

This biographical movie, which started preview on December 20 last year, made the producer Paramount regret it so much that he wanted to hit the wall.

In order to avoid competition at the end of the year, Paramount has arranged two weeks of previews for the film since December 20, spanning Christmas and New Year's Day, completely avoiding the fierce competition at the end of the year, and only started a large-scale painting opening on January 3. As a result, the box office trend of the film proved the serious mistakes in Paramount's distribution strategy.

We still have to start from the beginning.

In the first week of preview, "Madame Perron" won a box office of $1.02 million with only 22 yuan on the screen, and the studios reached $46,000, which was an excellent result. But then, in the second week of the movie, that is, New Year's Day week from December 27 to January 2, the same 22 yuan on the screen, not only did the film's studios not decrease, but instead jumped to $77,000, and the earnings reached $1.69 million in a single week.

What this means is self-evident.

Even though the film's reputation in media is barely qualified, audiences from New York and Los Angeles who have started previews obviously like this movie, otherwise there would not be such super high-end museums that were crowded with the previews this week.

Unfortunately, Paramount didn't even catch the last chance.

According to the operating ideas of the award-winning film, on January 3, "Madame Perron" still only won 704 screens. Finally, from January 3 to January 9, the first week of large-scale paintings was launched. The box office of the movie was only 11.3 million US dollars, which is in sharp contrast. The average average of the museum was as high as 16,000 US dollars.

Another week just past, Paramount finally reacted and quickly increased the scale of the screening to 1,319 yuan.
To be continued...