Boston.

In the West Rich District of the western suburbs of the city, Ulyana Meretskova's manor is located.

It is January 27th, and it is the beginning of a new week.

In the early morning of the morning, Ulyanna lies sideways, looking at the two servants Kaga and Irina whom she brought from Ukraine from the big bed, she was dressed in thin nightgowns, and whispered: "If you don't like Anna and Nick, will I send them back to Ukraine?"

"You are the only one left here in Boston, can you?"

"I..." Uriyana paused and softened her voice: "I'm fine."

In fact, she herself disliked the two oil bottles around 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 was getting more and more angry, taking advantage of the two women beside her to come with their shoes, sat down by the bed, reached over, and said lightly: "Let them stay, it's better to be with you."

Uriyana moved her body to make the man easier and nodded: "I'll listen to you."

Although she was intrigued, Simon only told the woman to sleep for a while before leaving the bedroom after putting on her shoes.

When the man left, Uriyana said to the two servants who were left behind: "Prepare hot water for me, I want to take a shower."

Kaja Saponova, with a standard Slavic face, blonde hair and blue eyes, whispered: "Madam, are you not going to sleep for a while?"

"I can sleep all day when Simon is gone."

Uriyana said, raising her hand slightly, and Irina Dachenskaya, who is a female guard, hurried forward and carefully helped the woman up.

After the pregnancy became more and more obvious, Uriyana asked her two servants from Ukraine to sleep in the master bedroom with her, of course, a small bed placed next to her, and she could turn over and get up at night at night. Last night, the man stayed here, and not only did not let them avoid it, Uriyana took the initiative to pull the two women with high-quality appearance and figure onto the big bed to please someone.

The effect looks good.

Of course, in order to avoid other ideas from the two women around her, after some incident last night, Uriyana drove them to the small bed in a corner of the bedroom, and in the morning she spared no effort to call the two women. She came from a noble family and knew that these seemingly inconspicuous little tricks were actually very effective? Because people would always adapt to their position without realizing it.

Simon has never paid much attention to these little tricks of the women around him. After a routine morning exercise, she just sat down in the restaurant? Girl A delivered a fresh stack of information to him.

How many months have they been privately connected? The new technology short-term forces led by Tiger Fund and the Mellon family finally launched today.

First of all, the article that was intercepted by Simon a year ago: "Shocking Conspiracy? Ponzi Scheme in the Internet Industry!" Compared with the original version, this article has been supplemented many times in a few months? Both logic and data are more detailed and meticulous? At first glance, it looks quite convincing.

If you are not prepared in advance, it is difficult to say whether it will have an impact on the new technology market.

"According to current information feedback, there are 17 local newspapers on the East and West Coasts that publish this article today? However, large newspapers like The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Los Angeles Times are not involved? Mainly local newspapers such as the Pittsburgh Tribune controlled by Richard Mellon Skyve. In addition, some news websites and famous bloggers will also publish this article? They also do not include the most influential portals."

Girl A said? Seeing his boss looking at the newspaper list that was expected to publish an article, his slender fingers signaled the two companies that were circled in red in advance: "These two companies are affiliated with the Hurst family. Skyve is related to Hurst. He hopes that the Hurst family will publish this article in the San Francisco Chronicle? There is no agreement there? But they still provide two local newspaper platforms."

Simon just nodded slightly? Continue to read the subsequent information? He asked, "Where is our side?"

"Below, Igret has already posted the headlines with the title "The Coachman who tries to demolish the railway"? This is the general direction, mainly attacking conservative forces to try to curb the new technology industry, and there will be some more targeted counterattack articles that refute Skyve's Ponzi scheme argument."

Simon listened while looking through the various press releases compiled by Girl A.

Alison waited for a moment and asked, "Boss, in fact, the effect of releasing the evidence of Skye's manipulation behind the scenes should be more direct. Why not do this?"

Simon asked back, "How much is Skyve losing now?"

"More than $150 million," Allison said: "In addition to Skyve's $300 million principal, other branches of the Mellon family have also bet at least $300 million this time. After this time, although it is far from reaching the root cause, the Mellon family's control over companies such as Alcoa will definitely weaken. In addition, Skyve himself suffered the most losses, and he provoked this dispute, so he will definitely be marginalized by the Mellon family."

"It's only half the loss. If the inside story is revealed now, it will likely prompt Skyve to make up his mind to clear his position. I don't want him to run away."

Girl A understood and nodded in approval.

Simon continued: "Collection of a blacklist, and all the newspapers that published that article today, the advertising we can affect, will be removed."

Alison quickly writes it down on his memo.

"In addition, no matter what the impact of this article is, it is just the beginning. We cannot just passively accept the challenge. Let the Weijia PR team, Egret, and other companies in charge, take action, and finally push the Nasdaq up a little further."

Simon was discussing with Alison when footsteps came.

Looking up, Ulyanna's children, Anna Meretskov, and Nicholas Meretskov, leaned into the restaurant together. Seeing Simon looking at them, the siblings who had already walked to the dining table stopped. Sister Anna took the initiative to greet him, "Good morning, Mr. Westeros."

Nicholas, the younger brother who was curiously aiming at the information in Simon's hand, also hurriedly greeted him.

Simon didn't know the same knowledge as the two little guys, but he couldn't help but frown slightly and waved his hand, "You guys go to the restaurant next door, I'm going to talk about things here."

The siblings were quite sensitive to Simon's emotional changes. Seeing him say this, her sister Anna curled her neck pretty, made a embarrassed expression, and pulled her brother out.

After the siblings left, Simon roughly finished reading the information in his hands and did not continue. Today is just the beginning, and it depends on the follow-up. So he turned to ask, "How is Sundance?"

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

"The jury award was given to the film called "Sunday" and was directed by Jonathan Nosette. Only "Two Bullies" won an audience award."

As expected, Simon was not surprised and was not dissatisfied. He just said, "I planned the "Ghost Record" I wrote on the weekend. I transferred the information to Lin Yibin and asked him to prepare it first. If he had time recently, he would talk to him in person. Well, I can also pass it on C. After all, it can be promoted to iRec, and at least let her sponsor a batch of the latest digital cameras for shooting."

A few days ago, Simon had the idea of ​​starting a pseudo-documentary type in Sundance. After careful consideration, he selected the "Ghost Record" in his memory.

As for "The Witch Blair", which once set a precedent for pseudo-documentary films, it was temporarily suppressed by Simon.

The main reason is that the success of "The Witch Blair" is, in addition to Internet viral marketing, to a large extent, it is actually a deception. The public who is not sure of the truth can really think that a witch murder incident has occurred, which has attracted the audience to enter the venue.

If it was a small publisher who was once a poor-for-all small publisher who did this project, it would be fine to take such measures, but if it was Daenerys Entertainment, the same method would likely lead to class action lawsuits due to this deception, and Simon didn't want to cause such trouble.

Even after the success of "Blair the Witch", it was not until nearly ten years later that another "Ghost Record" was sold well. The key is that "Blair the Witch" is equivalent to a film that not only sets a precedent for pseudo-documentary films, but also seriously hurts the audience's enthusiasm for this type of genre.

In comparison, "The Legend of Ghost" is a real pioneering film genre.

This can be seen from the subsequent commercial performance of the two series.

The first film of "Blair the Witch" sold nearly $250 million worldwide. The sequel launched the following year increased from $60,000 to $15 million, but it did not splash at all. The two young directors of the two series were also short-lived, and no influential works appeared afterwards.

Let’s look at "The Legend of Ghosts". After the first song was successful at a global box office of nearly $200 million, it then released five or six sequels in succession for many years, with a cost of no more than $10 million, but it was a big seller. It can almost be regarded as a golden egg hen by the publisher Paramount. In Simon’s view, this is what a brand new type and the big seller series should look like.

However, although "The Legend of the Ghost" was selected, the subsequent ideas of "Blair Witch" can also be used, but this time, you will definitely not be able to use deception to promote it. As long as "The Legend of the Ghost" opens up the situation and sets up a "pseudo-documentary" movie genre, "Blair Witch" does a better job seriously, and with the proper local publicity, it can still attract a large number of viewers.

As for director Lin Yibin, although the "Fast and Furious" series later became known mainly, this director is actually a versatile player and can handle all kinds of things.

"The Ghost Record" is only an experiment after all. From director to actor, Simon plans to use newcomers. Not to mention actors, only newcomers will not allow the audience to get out of the play in this form of pseudo-documentary. On the one hand, it is a training for Lin Yibin by Simon, and Simon can also judge the strength and potential of this "newcomer". On the other hand, new directors must also know how to cherish opportunities and are cheaper.

Of course, since Simon personally led it, he would definitely not only give the once pitiful budget of $15,000.

If it is really to be released, after the digital camera shoots, it only costs more than $15,000 to convert low-quality digital images into 35mm film. Therefore, from the preparation to the completion of a copy of 35mm film that can be screened in theaters, Simon prepared $300,000.

The big head is mainly issued.

If the future film effect meets Simon's expectations, the distribution fee of three to five million may not be enough. Of course, as long as the film is successful, Daenerys Entertainment can earn more.

Girl A took note of this incident and took the initiative to report some other matters: "Chen sent an email to me. In China, the rose garden villa project in Beijing has been finalized. Boss, do you want to check the detailed information?"

"Yeah, on the plane back."

"Also, Caterpillar officially announced the acquisition of Platinum Engines in the UK, and Mr. Rubenstein said in his email that this may increase our acquisition cost by 10% to 20%.

"What does David mean?"

"Then suggests that if it exceeds our budget by 15%, then give up this deal."

Simon nodded: "That's it."

"Also, about the Spanish clothing company Inditex, after several contacts, Inditex is very interested in our investments, but Inditex's boss Amancio Ortega hopes to meet you, and he also hopes that Westeros will invest directly, not through Apollo management."

"You can arrange the time," Simon did not refuse, remembering one thing, and asked again: "Have the matter of Inditex setting up a factory in Rifny?

"The agreement was made, but the factory size of the first phase will not be too large. The main reason is that Inditex has expanded rapidly in recent years and its funds are not sufficient. In addition, Inditex also mentioned one thing, hoping that we can increase our investment in the Rifney aviation industry, because the Zara brand under Inditex adopts air freight to launch new products worldwide."

"You ask Komorov and the others to discuss this matter," Simon said, thinking for a while, and then said: "We can strengthen further control of the basic service areas of Rovno State, electricity, railways, aviation, energy, telecommunications, real estate, etc."

When Simon talked about this, he thought of a city from the Li family on the other side of the ocean.

For Rifni, Simon had such an idea very early, intending to build a city of Westeros in Ukraine.

To do this, the key is not to control the light industry or service industry that is focused on developing in the Rovno region, but to control various fundamental needs such as food, clothing, housing and transportation that everyone in a region cannot do without. To put it bluntly, it is actually to develop a brand new rental economy.
Chapter completed!