Breakfast time at Dumei Point Manor.

The time is September, it is Thursday, September 3rd.

Inside the restaurant.

As usual, Jennifer looked at a group of restless little guys, occasionally looking at the couple who were sitting next to each other and seemed to be eating outside. He sighed that he had a hard life and seemed to owe the family.

Simon and Janet also sat around them as always, Melbourne and Seattle, so they didn't have to pay much attention to it.

The final decoration details of the Westeros Building in New York are currently being discussed.

After the capping at the end of 1996, after more than a year of follow-up construction by nearly two women, the Westeros Building located in Manhattan has finally reached the level of being able to move in one after another. The super high-rise mansion exclusive to the Westeros family on the top ten floors is now in the final stage.

Simon means that after the decoration is completely completed, let it sit for at least one or two months before moving in.

This is a deeply rooted concept after reading some news in the past life. Even if the decoration materials of Westeros Building must reach the top environmental protection level, it is definitely correct to put it a little bit.

"The high-rise swimming pool can actually act as a damper. When our swimming pool is opened, Westeros Building will be equivalent to having a double damper. The engineering team has done simulations. At that time, even if it encounters a Category 5 hurricane, the swaying range of the building will not exceed one meter. It's very powerful."

"Actually, I'm more concerned about sound insulation," Jennifer across the street heard Janet say this and interrupted: "Will there be a lot of noise in super high-rise apartments?"

"We definitely don't have one," Janet shook her head and said, "Why not do that, Jenny, you've also visited Manhattan this weekend. Until now, you haven't seen it once?"

"I'll go to New York on the weekend, do you see the kids?"

"I..." Janet looked around and said, "Call after breakfast and let Sophie come."

Then another roll of eyes.

Janet smiled and stuck out his tongue, then looked at his man next to him: "By the way, will we ship the 150 tons of gold from Russia this time to New York or Melbourne?"

Simon thought about it for a moment and said, "Continue to put it in Australia."

Simon has never stopped buying gold in large quantities.

As for many media and economists repeatedly whispering in their ears that gold is the most valuable investment, Simon always thinks they fart, gold is the king of currency, which lasts for thousands of years, and will not change much. And those arguments that gold is worthless, if you think about it a little, you will understand why.

Of course, it's the US dollar.

If the US dollar is decoupled from gold, gold naturally cannot be too valuable.

In addition, in the past year, facing the financial crisis spreading to the world in Southeast Asia, one of the strange things is that gold has continued to fall sharply, and has fallen from a maximum of nearly $380 per ounce last year to around $270 now, a drop of nearly 30%.

Under normal circumstances, when an economy is in crisis and capital seeks hedging, gold should rise.

Why did it fall this time?

And it has fallen to a lowest point in 20 years.

If things are impermanent, there will be demons.

However, as long as you look at it, if gold plummets, whoever can get the benefits and whoever loses more will roughly understand it.

Simon will not expose the general direction layouts that are closely related to the interests of the Westeros system, but since gold plummeted, he certainly will not miss the opportunity to buy gold with large amounts.

It just so happened that in the past year, many countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have been selling gold to cash out foreign exchange in order to survive the crisis.

Um.

Look, one of the reasons for the plunge has been found.

Then the Westeros continues to buy in a large amount of money.

Just like this time.

Russia, which is so poor that it can only sell its own money, plans to sell another gold reserve in the near future, 150 tons. Instead of investing such a gold into the international market and having to pay huge handling fees, of course, Simon will not eat it quietly.

So Janet just mentioned it casually.

In fact, Jennifer, who stopped Snow and Greenwich from fighting with spoons, sat down again, remembered something, and said to Simon: "When you talk about gold, Simon, I remember you mentioned a digital currency plan. When will we implement it?"

Simon shook his head and said, "It's certainly not possible now."

Janet next to him took the initiative to add: "The Federation can launch a war for the hegemony of the US dollar. If we do this now, it would be strange if Washington doesn't turn against us."

"When will it take?"

"Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years," Simon said: "At that time, the international dominance of the US dollar will decline, and perhaps, it will also lead to the weakening of the federal national strength. In order to ensure our own interests, with our own gold reserves and business reputation, we can try to issue special Westeros digital currency."

Janet listened to his man's words, echoed his head and said, "However, before that, perhaps we can take the initiative to release an unofficial bearer digital currency solution and create an unregulated digital currency trading system that can do a lot."

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, Janet turned his head and looked at his man: "Simon, I think this can be done now?"

"It's still early. The number of Internet users around the world is not enough, and the overall computing power of the Internet platform is insufficient. If such a digital currency cannot be developed in advance, it will point out the ideas for others in the future. Then we don't want to gain dominance."

"That's right." Jenny said, "Then wait for another 5 years, 5 years should be enough?"

Simon thought, nodded and said, "Maybe."

Bitcoin was proposed in 2008. This time, the development of the Internet industry was strongly advanced by Simon three to five years, and then took advantage of the trend to create a digital currency in 2003, which may also make a big move ahead of time.

The key is to ensure that the Westeros system controls this digital currency.

Even you have to control your own greed.

Such a piece of cake cannot be cut away too much at that time to avoid serious imbalance in interests. Of course, it cannot be too little. It is better not to make too little.

...

On weekdays, I still have to go to work after breakfast.

Arriving at Malibu Cinema, the first meeting in the morning was about games.

After dealing with some projects in South Korea, Daenerys Entertainment will launch its first role-playing game from South Korea in September to test the waters. At that time, the three most popular games were Simon, "Frozen Age", "Wind Kingdom II" and "Legend of Heaven". Daenerys will be the first to be released in "Frozen Age".

The main reason is that this game has been completed last year compared to the other two. In recent months, it is mainly language translation and some small adjustments to adapt to the North American market.

After this trial game, Igret will launch "Wind Kingdom II" in the end of November of the year, and finally in February next year, back to Daenerys Entertainment, "Legend of Heaven", which Simon values ​​the most, will be launched.

This is a final schedule that was determined after many meetings and consultations.

The first "Frozen Age" was tested, and the other two were both of them that attracted more attention, as two key projects of Egret and Daenerys.

As for some other games during the same period, they will be launched one after another within the next year. Or, if these three games are hit, in order to avoid the impact of the same type of games, it is not ruled out that some games will be permanently refrigerated.

While arranging the game business in North America, Simon also paid attention to Asia.

First of all, there are two games in June, "Counter-Strike OL" and "Starcraft", which continue to be popular.

Then, in July, Suzhou's Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment launched "Happy Farm", which has become a casual game that is popular in China and is very popular among office workers.

Although it adopts a free model and only relies on a small amount of fertilizer props and other fees, the revenue momentum of "Happy Farm" is not much worse than "StarCraft", which is expected. After all, even if this game is very popular in the West, even if the Chinese team itself, due to some deep-rooted concepts, it was not believed that "Happy Farm" would be very successful in the mainland Chinese market.

Next is the upcoming release of "Wind Kingdom II" by Paradise Online, which takes over Igrit's instant messaging business in China. The domestic name will only be "Wind Kingdom", and the planned launch date is September 11.

Simon didn't think anything about this at first, but later he thought about it for a while and found that it was Chen Qing's girl who was doing something bad again.

Because Simon valued the three most from Korea games, only "Wind Kingdom II" has not been developed. The other two, when Simon came into contact with it, "Frozen Age" was already online, and "Legend of Heaven" is also waiting to be launched.

Chen Qing handed over this game that was just recently completed to Lin Su, and was almost using the team from Paradise Online for closed tests.

If the response is not good, you don’t have to bother to promote it to other markets.

After all, role-playing online games are still absolutely new in mainland China. "The Kingdom of Wind" first tried the waters, and in any case, it was equivalent to cultivating the market. Then, "Legend of Heaven" and "Frozen Age" followed, which was equivalent to having obtained a certain consumption base.

Although it was discovered that Simon did not interfere with anything.

This is a little bit of detail, not to mention that Simon thinks that Paradise Online, which has the instant messaging software AO, may not necessarily fail, and perhaps, it will be more successful.

Just like the legend.

Is this game that great?

no.

The key is that the first one to eat crabs, at least the first one to make crabs famous and become a phenomenon, and then it becomes the sentiment of a generation. The popularity has lasted for twenty years and has not yet been extinguished.

In short, there are pros and cons.

Who can tell you success or failure?

On the same day, another important job was to watch the sample of "Resident Evil".

The idea that emerged last year was finalized at the beginning of the year and filmed at the end of May. "Resident Evil" was officially completed last week.

Since he intends to follow the trend to create a "Resident Evil" universe, not only movies, but also games, Simon has always attached great importance to this project, including the production cost of the film, which has increased from the initial $25 million to $35 million by Simon himself.

No matter how high it is, it won’t work.

After all, we have to consider the size of the project theme itself, 35 million US dollars. It is already a big deal for a zombie science fiction horror movie. It is also Simon who wants a good start, so he will give so much.

Zach Schneider, who has just entered Hollywood, did not disappoint Simon.

First of all, on the picture, the finished sample has Schneider's personal strong style and is very attractive.

As for the story.

During the script creation process, Zach Schneider had some participation, but he was still dominated by the team on Daenerys Entertainment. After all, Simon is clear about someone's shortcomings, and Zach Schneider is more suitable for filming such films with the foundation of the original work.

It's all original, it's easy to fly.

"Resident Evil" seems to be original, but in fact, Simon has a complete worldview and even a very huge story line. It can be intercepted from it, whether it is made into a movie or a game, it is very exciting.

The story of the first "Resident Evil" movie is mainly based on the former movie version of "Alice".
To be continued...