In order to build a Westeros building in Manhattan in the memory of the "Avengers", Simon bought the property and land in a block between 59th and 60th Streets east of Madison Avenue in Manhattan a few years ago, with a total of six buildings.

It was impossible for residents in the six buildings to be cleared at one time in a short time. It was not the time to build the buildings at that time. Simon treated the buildings as commercial properties and signed two to three-year leases with most residents.

The lease will expire in the next one or two years, with Simon's current net worth, it is enough to support the construction of Westeros Building.

Therefore, when hearing James's question, Simon nodded and explained: "The design work of the building has been in progress for the past two years. Now the preparations are started and ground breaking down by the end of next year, but the main building will take about five years. Including the later decoration, when it officially moved in, it is estimated that the new millennium has approached. With such a long cycle, even if more than $1 billion is required, we can raise funds calmly."

Perhaps every boy has the dream of building a building in his heart.

Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, Twin Towers, etc., should have similar motivations behind the scenes.

James couldn't help thinking, knowing that Simon had decided, he still advised: "Simon, this is not just a matter of funding. Have you ever thought about it? A 2,000-foot-tall building, a building with more than 100 stories, and a million square feet of internal space. These are all things that need to be filled with by someone."

"Of course I've considered it, Jim. I also know that many buildings often have to identify some tenants before they start construction. However, from now on, it will take at least seven or eight years for the Westeros Building to be completed and put into use. So, I don't think it's too urgent to be too anxious. You can find residents while building it. And, least, our own company can use this building."

After this meeting, the construction plan of Westeros Building began to be officially put on the agenda and Janet himself was responsible.

In order to achieve the most perfect architectural effect in any of the most subtle parts of the building, Simon simply did not make a budget limit, and now he has the confidence to pay more than $1 billion in expenses.

When Simon was busy with various affairs in the Westeros system, there were other major events happening in May 1991.

The two major ruling parties in the United States have begun to plan the 1992 US presidential election.

On the Republican side, relying on the momentum gained by the Gulf War, George Bush has almost no suspense to become a candidate for the Republican Party's next presidential election.

Although the Democratic Party won the 1990 midterm elections, the Democratic Party faces the embarrassment of "no general in Shu". Until now, there is no presidential candidate who can compete with George Bush.

As we all know, American politicians who participate in presidential elections usually have only one chance in their lifetime, not counting as re-election elections.

Once it fails, it will be even more difficult to get a nomination within the party.

Therefore, some of the big men in the Democratic Party who are prestige and are interested in the presidential throne have chosen to avoid it because they are afraid of the general trend that George Bush has gained from the victory of the Gulf War.

Even if the general trend is on the side of the Republican Party, there will always be someone who will come forward to fight George Bush.

So, in May, a young politician named Bill Clinton, who served as governor of Arkansas in the United States, and New York Governor Marrow Gumer, who was too old to wait and see, announced one after another that he would participate in the 1992 US presidential election.

However, what attracted Simon the most was the publicly expressed intention to run for the election by Ross Perrow, a corporate tycoon at the top of the 400 richest man list in the United States, who has a net worth of more than $2 billion.

Ross Perro was very dissatisfied with the two major ruling parties in the United States, so he said that he would form his own party to participate in the 1992 presidential election.

Simon remembers it very clearly that although in the original time and space, although the domestic reputation plummeted due to internal affairs, George Bush still had an advantage in front of Bill Clinton.

However, it was precisely because Ross Perro, the same conservative candidate who was also inclined to disperse George Bush's large number of votes with a record 19% third-tier support rate that led to George Bush's failure in re-election.

There are some later stories. Bill Clinton, who had no hope of reaching the top, unexpectedly entered the White House because he was suspected of "improperly gaining his position". After eight years in power, he was always surrounded by various scandals and even became one of the few presidents in American history to be impeached by Congress.

This is very similar to the situation of a guy who unexpectedly stepped into the White House in Simon's memory.

By coincidence, the other person who lost the election happened to be Clinton's wife Hillary Clinton.

Speaking of which, this is probably a political ecology in the United States.

Those old political families with profound backgrounds or senior politicians who are expected to reach the top, such as George Bush at this time, have no similar "troublesomeness".

Although Simon's political layout focuses on Congress, he will not spend too much energy in the White House.

However, this time, Simon still ordered James Rebel to establish contact with the Clintons in private and promised to fully support each other in the election.

It is actually a bit unwise to make such a promise before Clinton received the party’s nomination.

However, adding icing on the cake is never as good as a timely help. If you want to get more, you naturally have to take greater risks. Since the layout is not in the White House, investing in a potential stock that is not optimistic is natural and failing, and it will not have much impact on the Simon and Westeros systems.

Greenwich, Connecticut.

Simon is preparing for a birthday party in the manor here, tomorrow is the 8th birthday of Sophia's daughter Gemma Fessi. The apartment Sophia bought in Greenwich is not big, so Janet took the initiative to lend her own manor to Gemma to hold a birthday party.

Not only that, Janet's birthday gift that promised little Gemma and a documentary about Antarctic will be played on the manor tomorrow night.

The documentary started production last year and was finally named "Ice and Snow World" with a budget of US$3 million. The documentary content is not mainly penguins, but mainly displays various scenery in Antarctica.

At the same time, after tomorrow night as the "premiere" of Little Gemma's birthday gift, the documentary will also be logged into North American theaters next Friday.

As long as you can get a good response, with the experience accumulated in the first documentary, Simon's memory of "The Emperor Penguin Diary" project will be launched again.

May happens to be the new year's American drama promotion season. Since Daenerys Entertainment's layout in the TV field is to strengthen, Simon has also arrived in New York in recent days to personally participate in the selection and preparation of some projects.

Janet was unable to come because of pregnancy. Although it was a weekend, Simon did not return to the West Coast, but stayed here to attend Little Gemma's birthday party before leaving.

In the evening, Sophia checked the female housekeeper Alice and led the girls to the arrangement of tomorrow's birthday party scene, and came to the study on the second floor. Simon was sitting behind the desk and carefully flipping through some documents.

I was about to sit down opposite Simon, but when the man looked up and saw her, he made a gesture to come over. Sophia hesitated for a moment, then turned to Simon opposite the desk, and then the man was taken into his arms.

He was a little nervous about what Simon would do, and confirmed that he was just hugging him, and then he felt relieved.

My face still couldn't help but turn a little red.

This position is more like an adult hugging a child or a boy hugging his girlfriend.

However, she was so many years older than him.

I had to hypnotize myself as much as possible and turn my attention to the documents in the man's hands: "What is this?"

Simon put his head on the woman's smooth face and explained: "A development plan for data interface."

Sophia nodded, because her mood was floating, she didn't develop much interest.

Simon stopped talking after explaining, hugged the woman and continued to focus on looking through the documents in his hand.

After the last time I had the idea of ​​building a whole hardware system ecosystem around the USB interface, things have made considerable progress during this period.

In fact, Apple has been developing similar data interfaces since 1986, which was the "FireWire" that was used in many Apple computers in the 1990s but ultimately failed to popularize.

In Simon's memory, the reason why this data interface, which actually had higher data transmission efficiency and was not popularized earlier than USB, was due to Apple's rapid decline in the 1990s, and on the other hand, it was the cost of interfaces and the conservative and expensive licensing strategy of Apple, which holds interface patents.

Simply put, the difference between FireWire interface and USB interface is probably equivalent to the difference between the sensor CCD and CMOS of the core components of digital cameras.

Due to the advantages of cost and energy consumption, CMOS is destined to be the application trend of consumer digital cameras in the future, and USB is the same compared to FireWire.

However, FireWire now takes the lead in time.

If Simon has control over Apple, he will temporarily promote the FireWire interface as an excessive, and after the more cheap and convenient USB interface solution is completed, another standard will be promoted.

Unfortunately, Simon cannot interfere in Apple's operations.

At the same time, I don't want to waste too much time at Apple.

Just so happened that Egret's team also found a solution similar to a USB interface.

Simon didn't remember much about this, but he was almost certain that this was the USB interface solution in memory.

The solution comes from an Indian hardware engineer named Ajay Bart, an Intel subsidiary of Intel. The engineer submitted his own solution to Intel's senior management two years ago, hoping to develop a data transmission interface that is more widely used and more convenient than the existing serial excuses and parallel interfaces, and can also be plug-and-play.

However, three consecutive changes have been submitted in two years, but Ajay Bart's plan has not been approved. Previously, the engineer has been working on Intel's processor chip team.

Information inside Silicon Valley is very open.

The popularity of the World Wide Web has further accelerated the exchange of information within Silicon Valley.

After Simon proposed his own ideas, Egret released the news of looking for similar solutions or talents, and Ajay Bart quickly took the initiative to contact him.

Egrit, which quickly became a newcomer in Silicon Valley, is like star technology companies in Westeros system such as American Online and Cisco. Every move in the past year has attracted much attention.

Therefore, this incident alarmed Intel executives without surprise.

The data interface solution that Ajay Bart, which has been ignored for two consecutive years, immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Building a hardware ecosystem around personal computers is not the focus of Igrit's business. Westeros is still the largest shareholder who holds 15% of Intel's shares. Since Intel has taken it seriously, Simon did not insist on poaching, and then took the initiative to pull Microsoft in.

The promotion of USB interfaces requires joint efforts from hardware, operating systems and peripheral manufacturers.

Intel is responsible for hardware, Microsoft is responsible for software, and Egrit or Westeros focuses on the development of peripheral hardware systems such as digital cameras, USB flash drives, and MP3 players.

The three companies work together to achieve the purpose of promoting USB.

Therefore, recently, the Universal Serial Bus project team jointly participated by the three companies was officially established. As the project leader, Ajay Bart will be jointly held by Intel, Microsoft and Igrit.

With sufficient budget and support at the technical platform level of hardware systems, operating systems, etc., the USB development cycle is expected to be one to two years. The first phase of peripheral hardware ecological promotion goal will mainly focus on two peripheral equipment, mouse and keyboard, which are indispensable to personal computers.

Westeros will also invest in the development of peripheral hardware products such as USB interface versions of digital cameras, USB disks, etc.

Simon quietly read the information about USB projects and put down the folder. He found that the woman in her arms was slightly squinting her eyes, her face was rosy, and she looked almost asleep.

Just as he smiled wickedly, Sophia woke up and pushed the man's hand that wanted to untied her clothes: "It's already a little late, I'm going home to have dinner with the children."

Simon pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "What should I do?"

Seeing that Simon had no intention of forcing her, Sophia held the man's hand and pressed her chest, saying, "I'll come over after dinner, well, wait until the children fall asleep."

Simon smiled and said, "Why should I go over? I really want to try the feeling of a night attack."

Sofia rolled her eyes charmingly and patted Simon's back. The two stood behind the desk and maintained a kind of charming and ambiguous posture, but they didn't do anything else. Sofia was not in a hurry to escape, and her calf was still rubbing on the man's legs, changing the topic: "By the way, I have found some people about the detective team."

"Stasi in Germany?"

Sofia nodded: "I contacted more than a dozen people, and there are some of them with a very high level. I have recently compiled a copy of information for you. Or, if you want to see it yourself, I'll let them come to the United States?"

Simon thought for a while and said, "No need for now. You can arrange some things to see their abilities first."

Sofia nodded and said, "I plan to let them be responsible for your background investigation in the European butler and maid team. It is a test. In addition, I have recently visited some major universities in Europe and found many very powerful girls. According to your ideas, maybe it can really create a large number of female multi-millionaire billionaires. It is indeed a very fulfilling thing to think about it. In this world, most people always despise women."
Chapter completed!