The word "Famous Fair" is very interesting, with fame ahead and profit behind.

Therefore, it can be seen that most people subconsciously sort the importance of fame and fortune.

However, for some people who have only reached the top of the social pyramid after climbing, they often need to accumulate enough wealth before they can pursue fame.

No matter which cultural background is in the East and the West, it is basically the case.

For Simon, the desire to show himself and be eye-catching is still some kind of instinct from the deep human genes.

It's like a peacock spreading his tail.

The entertainment industry is undoubtedly one of the most convenient channels to attract the attention of the outside world. Hollywood is the core of the world's entertainment industry.

So, from a very early stage, capital or tycoons from all over the world continued to make great achievements in Hollywood.

Especially in the past decade, British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Australian, Canadian, and Americans have... either set up film companies in Hollywood, or targeted the seven old brands in Hollywood, or invested in movies as a solo investor, which is very lively.

Simon also knew that many years later, it was the Chinese turn again.

As for the result, they basically returned home after paying enough tuition for the Hollywood natives.

It is just because of the desire for fame and fortune, no matter how many people fall into it, they cannot stop the endless stream of latecomers.

The French Vivendi Group, which suddenly expressed interest in Disney, is the latest "latecomer".

Vivendi Group is a monopoly water company established in the mid-19th century in France. It is responsible for urban water supply business in core French cities such as Paris and Lyon. Later, it gradually developed into a diversified infrastructure giant integrating water, energy, construction, transportation and other businesses.

Then, since the 1980s, Vivendi, who had been passed down for a hundred years, also began his own transformation to fame and fortune. He first invested in the first paid cable platform Canal+ in France, and participated in film investment. He probably consciously accumulated a certain amount of experience and naturally turned his attention to Hollywood.

In recent years, the re-transaction process of several giants such as MGM, Paramount and MCA have all had Vivendi Group's Claws.

Of course, none of them succeeded.

This time, Vivendi made sufficient preparations and directly targeted Disney.

In the original time and space, Disney during this period was at its peak in its 1990s with a market value of up to $20 billion, even surpassing Time Warner, which had not yet completely escaped from the debt quagmire of the merger at the same time.

Because of Simon's appearance, Disney, which was once glorious, was firmly suppressed by Daenerys Entertainment. Not only did it lose many top-selling projects, but its performance was lukewarm for several consecutive years. Recently, there have also been scandals of high-level infighting, which further impacted the stock price. The market value during this period is less than US$7 billion.

Not only that, Disney is also the only and the last Hollywood film company that has not changed hands since the wave of acquisitions broke out in the 1980s. Even Warner, the merger was actually the acquisition of Warner Brothers by Times. However, the merged company was completely seized by senior executives of Warner, which gave people the illusion of Warner's acquisition of the era.

Therefore, if Vivendi Group wants to realize its ambitions in Hollywood, Disney is the best and only choice in the short term.

Daenerys Entertainment has just been listed for a week. Perhaps it was stimulated by Daenerys' stock price that Vivendi Group, which finally made up its mind, officially started contacting Disney executives. For some reason, this news immediately appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

Moreover, the Los Angeles Times' attitude towards this transaction is obviously not very friendly. News articles unceremoniously mocked the French for resisting Disneyland's invasion of French culture two years ago, and in a blink of an eye, they wanted to invade American culture in turn.

In fact, Vivendi's choice to acquire Disney is also due to Disneyland in Paris.

This large theme park, which cost $5 billion, fell into huge losses after it started operating in 1992. Its performance has not improved much in the past two years, and it has even fallen on the verge of bankruptcy. The initially ambitious name "European Disney" was also changed to "Paris Disney".

Although the French media continues to sarcastically sarcastic about Disney in Paris, the French government does not dare to allow such a large theme park to go bankrupt.

Because the huge Disneyland Paris provides France with more than 40,000 fixed or temporary employment opportunities, and a comprehensive business circle involving more people's jobs is formed around Disney Paris.

The European currency crisis two years ago put the French economy into recession, and the unemployment rate at this stage is as high as 9.1%. If Disneyland Paris goes bankrupt, it will not only leave a shocking mess, but will even directly affect the further deterioration of the Paris region's economy.

Disney Paris’ failure largely stems from the blindness and arrogance of Disney’s management.

Now, if Vivendi can take Disney into his pocket, the French can directly control the operation of Disneyland Paris.

As for Hollywood, the news that Vivendy and Disney were exposed by the Los Angeles Times at the instruction of Simon.

Since Sony acquired Columbia five years ago, the US media have begun to loudly call on the federal government to take measures to stop foreign capital from invasion of the American cultural industry. One of the most widely recognized solutions is to open the media integration ban as soon as possible so that Hollywood film companies and large American public television networks can merge and integrate with each other in order to resist the acquisition of foreign capital.

The public opinion storm that began in March caused a series of bills related to the Westeros system to fall into a standstill, including the almost immediate reopening of the media integration ban.

The relationship between the United States and France has never been harmonious.

This time, Simon wanted to force Congress to launch a vote as soon as possible to lift the media integration ban through the power of public opinion.

Otherwise, if another Hollywood giant is acquired by foreigners, half of Hollywood will become the treasure of overseas capital, which is very difficult for Americans who are also not lacking in national pride. The two houses of Congress, which hinder the lifting of the media integration ban, will definitely become the target of media attacks.

As for Daenerys Entertainment, after the media integration ban is lifted, it can further enter the traditional TV industry.

Ohio.

It is Monday, July 11th.

In the new box office week that started last Friday, North American theaters have once again released two new heavyweight films, namely "The True Lies" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and "I Love Trouble" starring Julia Roberts.

However, the most popular film these days is "Forrest Gump".

Simon spent the weekend with his family in Los Angeles and set off for Ohio early Monday.

The preparations for the Westeros system's private military force, "Military Consulting and Security Services Company" (MCSA), which directly reported to Simon personally, have been initially formed during this period. With the help of Leslie Wexner, the former boss of Victoria's Secret parent company, LTD Group, Simon purchased 12,000 acres of land in the mountains of southern Ohio, the hometown of Wexner, as the MCSA's training base.

Ohio is located in the inland United States, and placing a training base here can avoid external attention as much as possible.

The training base, which is equivalent to 50 square kilometers, is located in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. The surrounding hills and a winding river are also surrounded by this private territory.

Unlike in Europe, Simon's expectations for MCSA are that it is not expensive. Therefore, in two months, under the operation of Celia Miller, Dan Rubier and Martin Stillman, MCSA has temporarily recruited only 150 fixed members, of which 50 are former retired officers at all levels in the United States and 100 former US special forces soldiers.

The first phase of these people is to first improve the construction and start operations of the training base, and to train a group of female bodyguards for the Westeros family.

In addition to 150 MCSA employees who have joined, Celia Miller has also been responsible for recruiting 100 young girls with various sports expertise from universities in the United States during this period, basically between the ages of 18 and 22, ranging from freshman to senior year.

Americans have far less strong educational concepts than Chinese people.

The generous treatment of the Wei family maid is well known, so most girls are willing to give up their existing studies after receiving the interview invitation.

After a strict first phase screening, Celia selected 100 girls from more than 2,000 candidates. This group of people undergoes rigorous training and will only retain 20 to 30 people in the end, and most of them will still be eliminated. However, Westeros may promise that girls who have been eliminated can return to school. Westeros will not only complete relevant communications with their alma mater in advance, but will also provide girls with a one-time scholarship of $50,000.

At around 2 p.m., Simon met a group of girls in training for the first time at the MCSA training base near Falston, southern Ohio.

The training contents of bodyguards and soldiers vary greatly.

Therefore, some MCSA instructors will actually only be responsible for the gun, physical fitness and fighting training of this group of girls. The professional skills such as alert, communication, monitoring and other needs to be mastered by bodyguards will be responsible for the former US Secret Service instructors and professional agents from the CIA recruited by Westeros.

At the edge of the shooting range with gunfire, after watching for a while, a row of tall, well-proportioned girls in camouflage military uniforms shot with guns, Simon looked around again.

Around the open shooting range, there are at least four obvious cameras, and the entire training ground is basically covered by the camera's surveillance.

Simon also knew that the surveillance center connected to these cameras was not inside the training base, but the surveillance center in the downtown area of ​​Columbus, the capital of Ohio, 100 kilometers away, can also retrieve the surveillance screen here at any time.

The reason for this is that long-term consideration is to maintain monitoring of this training base.

In the short term, it is to ensure the absolute safety of the 100 trained girls in the shooting range at this time.

These girls with sports specialties such as track and field, basketball, and fighting are generally between 175cm and 180cm. Compared with ordinary women, they actually have considerable self-protection ability.

It’s a pity that this is a military camp.

The proportion of female soldiers in the federal army being sexually assaulted is shocking, and a group of girls who are even stronger than ordinary people still cannot have much power to fight back in front of former US special forces.

Simon doesn't want to be the most personal female guard of the Westeros family in the future to suffer similar injuries.

Therefore, not only is the strict monitoring of the training grounds, but the trained girls do not live inside the base on weekdays, but in the nearby downtown of Falston. At the same time, there are also a considerable proportion of women among all kinds of instructors, and strict preventive training regulations have been formulated.

Just in case, the girls were even directly prohibited from contacting other members other than the base instructor.

Celia, who was still wearing a black OL suit, noticed the gaze of the man beside her, looked over and couldn't help but smile: "Simon, I think you are not training bodyguards, but raising your daughter."

Simon withdrew his gaze, glanced at the woman beside him, and smiled, "Do you like this kind of PLAY? Let's try it if you take the time."

Celia thought for a moment before she realized it, and her face turned slightly red and turned her eyes to the man: "I mean, your desire to protect the women around you is too strong."

Simon said: "Actually you want to say 'ownership'?"

Celia hesitated a little, but did not deny it.

Simon did not deny it, saying, "This is of course possessiveness, very purely from male possessiveness. Since these girls have entered my territory, I naturally want to avoid them being targeted by other males."

Celia's eyes flashed a few times, and suddenly asked a slightly sharp question: "What about you?"

Simon glanced at the woman beside him, with a slightly evil smile on his lips: "Of course I am an exception. In my territory, everything is mine, including you."

"You," Celia's eyes widened slightly, but she couldn't help but avoid the man's gaze and said, "You are like a lion on the grassland."

Simon didn't respond again.

Celia didn't know either, she wasn't the first woman to feel this way.

After being silent for a while, Celia took the initiative to say, "Boss, why don't you speak?"

Simon said: "What?"

Celia deliberately showed some teasing: "Are you embarrassed to be exposed by me in person?"

Simon looked at the girls who had started to gather here after completing several sets of training, and said, "Celia, you must have learned about my growth experience."

The woman paused and nodded.

Simon said: "For you, or, to most people in this world, since childhood, you have received very orthodox education on human social civilization. You will think that the world is bright and beautiful. Even now, you will at least think that the world is full of order. But I am not."

Celia did not answer the conversation and waited for the man to continue.

Simon did not pause too much and quickly said: "For me, living at the bottom of this society since I was a child, the world in my eyes is cruel, the prey of the weak. If you are not strong enough, you will only have the fate of being eliminated. Later, I stood at my current position. In my eyes, the top of the pyramid of this society is still cruel, and the prey of the weak. So, I am different from you, and I have always been different. My outlook on life has always been the prey of the weak from childhood to adulthood. You just asked me if I feel embarrassed. Unfortunately, your moral code does not apply to me. In my eyes, the strong have everything. If you cannot become stronger, you should have the awareness of the weak."
Chapter completed!