Of course, Kissinger is not the only veteran political elite that Simon plans to win over. However, Kissinger is one of the few people he attaches most importance to. The reason is very simple, such as Kissinger's theory of balance of power, the biggest feature, two words: pragmatism.

For later generations, they subconsciously thought that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was always the United States leading the West to suppress the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union collapsed.

Actually not.

The Cold War was initiated by the West, and began with the Iron Curtain Speech by former British Prime Minister Churchill. In the following years, the Western world led by Britain and the United States did maintain its dominance for a period of time. However, with the United States' successive failures in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the form gradually reversed, and the Soviet Union became a strong side, began to expand externally, and the Western world was on a defensive.

In this context, no matter how Western society discredits the Soviet Union in public opinion, for the upper class elites, especially for those Western political elites who have personally experienced some firm beliefs during the peak of the Soviet Union, there is no hope of destroying the Soviet Union.

Therefore, Kissinger's "balance theory" came into being.

The core of this theory is roughly to win over all the forces that can be won over as much as possible, form alliances, and jointly fight against the Soviet Union, and ultimately reach a relatively balanced two-level world pattern.

From this we can see that the West has made plans to coexist with the Soviet Union for a long time.

But when will the world change?

This is a later story.

Or the theory of balance of power, this is actually a microcosm of the US pragmatic diplomacy during the Cold War. Everyone doesn’t talk about right or wrong, good or bad, as long as you are willing to stand on my side, we are friends. And everything in the end is for the interests of the West.

One of the most classic cases is that in 1971, Kissinger secretly visited China.

Then, another most distinctive comparison is that after some years in the original time and space, the world pattern changed and winning over Russia was the most beneficial strategy for the United States. As a result, the bald eagle not only did not win over the other side, but instead pushed the hairy bear to an almost irreversible opposite through a series of extreme tricks.

Why?

Because in the American politics at that time, there were no real politicians who dared to take responsibility, and only a group of second-rate politicians who were in the wind were left.

Since he has become the most important passenger on this big ship now and has no place to jump if he wants to jump, Simon can no longer allow this kind of thing to happen. Cultivating truly outstanding political elites, constantly spreading into the federal politics in the next few years, and gradually completing replacement and control is an important strategy that Simon wants to implement.

The two chatted for a whole morning without realizing it. The host and guests had fun and had lunch together. Simon saw Kissinger away and then took a helicopter to Manhattan.

This is September 24th.

Sunday.

New York Fashion Week is in full swing, and the Manhattan area is also quite lively.

I had been together for a day of fun yesterday, so I still had to calm down. In the afternoon, I worked at the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment in the Upper West Side. It was not until the evening that I met with Grace Crapp again to attend a fashionable cocktail party hosted by Elite.

In this way, I stayed on the East Coast overnight, set off early the next morning, and flew back to the West Coast.

Time came unknowingly at the end of September 2000.

First of all, the summer season for 2000 was completely concluded.

With Daenerys Entertainment, "Finding Nemo", the 3D animated film has recently exceeded US$360 million in North America, and the box office in a single week has dropped to a level of only 200,000 to 300,000. It is expected that the total local box office will land about US$365 million. In addition, the overseas box office of the film has also exceeded US$500 million, because many box office release dates are lagging behind, and it is expected that there will be about US$100 million in the future. Therefore, the global total box office of the film will be around US$950 million.

Even if there is almost no possibility of breaking 1 billion, this 3D animated film is still the most popular movie in 2000.

Of course, what is regrettable is the surrounding area.

But I can only regret it.

Can't sell live fish!

Then there are three blockbusters in "Charlie's Angels 2", "Hangover 2" and "Spartacus", which are the second-tier blockbusters. Among them, "Charlie's Angels 2" is also a cooperative project. In short, the local box office volume of these films is around 200 million US dollars, and it can achieve very generous profits just by relying on theater distribution.

Then there is the third stage, from "Hurricane Rescue 2" which started the summer season, to "Singing and Dance 2" and "Black Dahlia", and then to "Kung Fu", which unexpectedly became another pure Chinese film in North America's box office of over 100 million yuan, all of which are films with a box office of about 100 million US dollars in North America.

It is also a big shot, but when it comes to dark horses, it is just like the last "Kung Fu".

Finally, there are general films such as "Magic Mike 2" that are not worthy of too much attention, either the box office is not as good as expected, or the body is too small, or it simply fails.

In any case, in one summer, 8 films related to Daenerys Entertainment reached the level of 100 million yuan, while in other studios, only Warner and Disney, each had a film that entered the 100 million yuan club, and the gap was huge.

It can be said that Daenerys Entertainment's dominance over Hollywood is still significantly strengthened only by looking at the performance of this summer.

Because of this dominance, coupled with Daenerys Entertainment's extensive layout in various businesses with normal potential such as gaming, cable TV and even the Internet, recently, Egret became the world's first super giant with a market value of over one trillion yuan, and Daenerys Entertainment's market value also broke through $870 billion.

Daenerys Entertainment's expected scale in fiscal year 2000 is about 10 billion US dollars, which means that the company's price-to-earnings ratio has exceeded 80 times.

For an industry giant that many professionals think is exposed to the ceiling in various business fields, such market performance is a miracle. Countless people are curious whether Daenerys Entertainment will become the second giant with a market value of Igrit, which has been rising after breaking trillions.

Simon personally felt that he had little hope.

Because as many professionals have analyzed, many businesses under Daenerys Entertainment are at the top ceiling of the industry, such as movies and music. It is impossible to maintain continuous high growth in the future.

The reason why this is now is very complicated.

First of all, the general environment.

In the century bull market, not to mention pigs or cows, elephants can fly.

Then there is the blessing of Westeros concept stocks.

Even though he clearly saw the ceiling of Daenerys Entertainment, after so many years, seeing Simon create a super wealth miracle step by step, everyone is almost blindly confident about Westeros-related companies.

Finally, when it comes to actual business areas, of course, there are not without highlights.

For example, games.

Especially the rapidly emerging online games in recent years, both within companies and various media generally believe that the future will be the world of online games. Moreover, compared with previous stand-alone games, the market size of online games should be far beyond that.

In fact, it is just 20 years ahead of time to come up with a meta-universe concept.

Then there is the Internet.

Daenerys Entertainment has spared no effort in IT concepts in recent years. Whether it is the continuous opening of the full-service network membership system, the continuous increase in online business, the Blockbuster leasing chain, its own game software mall, and even the online ticket sales that its theaters have begun to try, etc., it has real results.

However, this part of the business can bring to Daenerys Entertainment a market value gain of at least 100 or 200 billion US dollars.

In short, the times create heroes.

General Electric, which was supposed to be ahead of the New York Stock Exchange, actually has a stronger strength than before after annexed Time Warner, but is now firmly suppressed by Daenerys Entertainment, which is also on the New York Stock Exchange. Even if the market is so crazy, it is still due to the increase and decrease. General Electric's market value is only over 400 billion US dollars. Before this bull market turns, there is little chance of whether it can finally reach the peak of 600 billion.

Simon returned to Los Angeles, and the end of this summer season will soon arrive in October.

The first thing is CNOOC's IPO again.

It is Friday, October 6th.

It is still listed in both China and the United States at the same time.

This time, with the big sale and the strong escort of the Westeros system, the subscription volume during the roadshow stage reached 4.3 times the total issuance of new shares.

In the end, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was listed on the other side of the ocean, with the opening increase of HK$6.15, reaching 12%. At the close of the day, the stock price fell to the high of HK$7.56, with a single-day increase of 23%. The subsequent New York Stock Exchange listing also reached 22% on the first day.

Everyone was very happy.

At least, it must be the case on the surface.

Because there is only one purpose of this IPO, that is, IPO. As long as you can successfully list and don’t repeat the same mistakes, you will win. There are no other things to care about.

On the day of listing, Chen Qing went to New York to help, and after finishing her business, she flew to Los Angeles.

Simon has been on the West Coast recently.

Because September has passed, and it happened to be the end of a fiscal year for Daenerys Entertainment, there are many things to deal with before and after.

For example, financial reports.

The annual financial report planned to be released in the middle of this month is also the key to whether Daenerys Entertainment will become the second company with a market value of over one trillion yuan.

Simon doesn't really matter to me personally.

Moreover, in Simon's view, before this major turn, the second one to break through trillions should be Tinkobaier. The company's recent market value has also exceeded the 800 billion mark, following Daenerys, ranking third in the US stock market value.

However, Daenerys was quite enthusiastic about it.

After all, even if it only takes a trillion-dollar day, it is a super record that can be shown off for many years. Therefore, Amy Pascal even discussed with Simon whether to make the financial report... well, it is more beautiful.

Simon doesn't care.

Just explain the specific revenue and profits. After all, the net profit of about 10 billion is already quite outstanding. The big studios with low rankings in Hollywood are still far behind, not to mention profits, but the revenue is still a big 10 billion. If you deliberately do it, it will not be as high as more than 20 billion. Only a dozen or two billion will be added. It has nothing to do with the overall situation, but it will be embarrassing after being exposed.

Others, such as layout in the field of Internet concepts, can be casually depicted.

Anyway, compared to many people who are still speculating on concepts, their real performance in all aspects is still very resistant to descriptions.

As for whether we can break through the 1 trillion mark in the end, we will follow the circumstances.

Saturday.

There was nothing special at home, so Simon went to Daenerys Cinema in Malibu to handle some work matters.

Chen Qing arrived in Los Angeles and first visited Dumei Point Manor.

I brought a lot of gifts, big and small, and even some of the Wei family maids whom I am familiar with, will not miss it. Therefore, the entire Dumeiji Manor actually has a very good impression of her.

Until noon.

Simon returned from the cinema and had lunch together before taking a walk on the manor beach with his own boss, and talked about some recent things.

The IPO just now is definitely the focus.

However, seeing that his boss seemed to be not very interested in this, Chen Qing took the initiative to change the topic: "The boss of the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon was also released last week. Guess how much box office there was?"

Simon didn't guess, just said, "It should be able to reach the level of "Everest" last year?"

"It is expected to be higher," Chen Qing said: "I started painting on the 29th of last month, because the National Day holiday followed, and it collected 67 million in seven days of the first week. Everyone was shocked. However, after the domestic market became standardized, it is actually normal. After all, there are 1.2 billion people. Last year's "Mount Everest" was 114 million yuan in mainland China. This movie, from the first week, can reach at least 150 million. Anyway, all companies have made a lot of money."

Simon nodded with a smile, thought for a while, and said, "Yu Xiaomin is right, it's very good."
To be continued...