In a private house on 78th Street, Upper East Side, Lin Su and Chen Qing arrived at the reception at Leon Black, CEO of Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, at 7 o'clock in the evening.

As night falls, the cocktail party has begun.

Girl A leads the two through the living room crowd to find Simon who is talking to Lawrence Fink.

After receiving Alison's reminder, Simon turned his head to look at the two women and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Chen Qing was wearing a black OL suit that looked quite capable and had small high heels on her feet. She didn't look like she was attending a cocktail party, but she was planning to work overtime. Instead, Lin Su was wearing a water-blue round-neck sleeveless dress that showed her figure and fitted her personal temperament.

Lin Su, who was looked at by the man's eyes, was obviously dressed more appropriately, but she felt that it was even more unnatural.

I wonder if Chen Qing is framed by herself again?

Before leaving, he said he wanted to change his clothes. Lin Su carefully selected the piece of clothes from some clothes prepared for them in advance. After coming out of the changing room, he found that Chen Qing's clothes were obviously not right. He wanted to change back to the same style as Chen Qing, but there was no time left.

Simon quickly understood the reason why Chen Qing was wearing this painting. The girl didn't want to be treated as a vase, so she deliberately dressed a little more formally.

Just smiled, and Simon showed curiosity on the other side of the face of Lawrence Fink, "Lawrence, this is Chen Qing, and Lin Su, they all come from China. Chen, Lin, this is Lawrence Fink, CEO of Black Rock Asset Management."

Seeing Chen Qing's movement beside him paused for a moment, Lin Su subconsciously stepped forward and reached out and said, "Hello, Mr. Fink, I'm very happy to know you."

Lawrence Fink roughly guessed the other identities of the two beautiful oriental women in front of him, but just gently held Lin Su and smiled and said, "Hello, Miss Lin."

After Lin Su greeted him, he took the initiative to retreat to Simon.

Chen Qing then stepped forward and shook hands with Lawrence Fink: "Hello, Mr. Fink, I'm glad to know you."

Lawrence Finky shook hands with Chen Qing: "Hello, Miss Chen."

After greeting him, Chen Qing did not retreat like Lin Su, and still looked at Lawrence Fink and said, "Mr. Fink, I happened to read some information about Black Rock Asset Management in the past few days. I have to say that managing more than 200 billion US dollars in assets in just five years is simply a business miracle."

"Oh, thank you," Lawrence Fink looked at Simon, then turned to Chen Qing, and asked with a smile: "Miss Chen's English is very good. Are you planning to work on Wall Street this time?"

Chen Qing also glanced at a certain man, but this time, the little woman's eyes were a little more flowing: "This is up to Simon's arrangement."

Simon let Chen Qing continue chatting with Lawrence Fink for a few words, and then said: "OK, Chen, you will have many opportunities to ask Lawrence for advice in the future. I will take you to get to know Leon first. You will have to work under his command in the future."

As he said this, nodded at Lawrence Fink, Simon took the two girls to another place of the cocktail party.

The Westeros system has many investment channels for China.

James Rebelder is responsible for Westeros, Cersei Capital, the investment departments of each subsidiary, the team of the Johnston family in Australia, etc. Among them, there are many shell companies or sub-funds registered in the offshore market to hide themselves.

Simon plans to arrange Chen Qing within Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, which focuses on private equity investment.

Apollo Management has been testing the investment in China on a small scale in the past few years. With the beginning of the era of China's market economy, Simon has specially asked Leon Black to select and form an investment team specifically for China in recent months and personally approved the first $100 million fund.

This money is only the investment amount for next year.

Simon will decide whether to add it according to the specific circumstances in the future.

In addition to the team under Apollo Management, the entire Westeros system will significantly increase its investment in China starting next year.

In the past few years, Simon has invested a total of US$700 million in China.

Perhaps, in the next year, the funds invested in China by the entire Westeros system will not be lower than this number.

For other capitals, this risky investment strategy seems too radical. In the past few years, such as Latin American countries, there have been many things that have lost all their investment in overseas capital due to institutional turmoil. Only Simon knows how great the future development potential of China's economy will be.

Only by entering the market earlier can you get richer returns.

He introduced Leon Black, and Simon introduced Chen Qing to Jared Barkley, the manager of the Chinese business department of Apollo Management. Jared Barkley, 36, is even stronger than his athlete-born boss, and is over 1.9 meters tall, with the unique aggressiveness of Wall Street people.

The position Simon arranged for Chen Qing was Jared Barkley's deputy. Barkley was obviously hesitant about this and asked Chen Qing bluntly in front of Simon: "Does Miss Chen have investment experience?"

Chen Qing shook her head calmly: "No."

Jared Barkley said: "So, why do Ms. Chen think she can be my deputy?"

Chen Qing raised her head and looked at Barkley without any timidity: "Because I am from China, no one knows China better than me in all the guests present tonight."

"It doesn't make sense. What I need is an investor, not a China Pass."

"Mr. Barkley, do you think you are an investor?"

"certainly."

"So, why do you need a second investor?"

"Because I believe in the power of collaboration, the ability of two people is always better than that of one person."

“What is collaboration for?”

“To do business better.”

"This is the purpose. In my opinion, collaboration is for complementarity. Although I don't understand investment, my understanding of China is far more than you. This is complementarity. China is a country with a very complex political and business environment. If you know nothing about the various unspoken rules of this country, then it is a pity that even if you have professional investment skills, you will be unable to move forward if you want to start a business in China."

Jared Barkley heard Chen Qing say this, his tone slowed down a little, but he still did not stop asking: "Miss Chen, can you first talk about a hidden rule that I need to pay attention to?"

"Our department will focus on long-term investment in China, rather than quickly cashing out and leaving the market after achieving profits within three to five years. Therefore, this requires a lot of attention to the growth of the company. To achieve these, a Chinese company needs to pay great attention to, which is local protectionism. Mr. Barkley, have you paid attention to this issue?"

Jared Barkley nodded: "Protectionism, this is a problem we need to face if we want to enter any overseas market, and it is not special at all."

"I'm not talking about broad national protectionism, but China's local protectionism."

“Is there any difference?”

"National protectionism usually has very clear terms, and we just need to abide by the rules. Local protectionism is different because there are no clear rules. All parts of China now look at economic growth indicators. Therefore, in order to protect local enterprises, they will try every means to squeeze out foreign companies to conduct business locally. If our investment in China wants to get rich returns, it must continue to expand, which will inevitably conflict with local protectionism."

Jared Barkley thought for a while and said, "I think this kind of thing should be a matter that professional managers of our investment companies need to pay attention to."

"Mr. Barkley, are you evading responsibility?"

"Okay, then, how should you solve this problem?"

"The root of local protectionism is economic indicators. We can set up branches in areas where we need to expand and leave economic indicators locally."

"Is it that simple?"

"This is just an immature idea that I have developed when I read some materials in the past few days. It will definitely not be so simple to implement. However, I think my direction is right. Mr. Barkley, I recommend you to read a book, which is the work of the leader who created our country, called "The Theory of Contradiction". If you have read this book, you will understand that the simplest way to solve problems is to grasp the main contradiction."

Jared Barkley continued to look at Chen Qing for a moment, finally nodded slightly, and reached out to the girl again: "Chen, I hope we will have a happy future cooperation."

"certainly."

Leon Black, who was listening to the confrontation between the two of them throughout the whole process, also smiled and said, "Ms. Chen, you can give me one copy of "Theory of Contradictions."

"No problem, Mr. Black."

Lin Su has always stood beside Simon, with a faint envy in her eyes for the confrontation between Chen Qing and Jared Barkley. She knew that she could not do this, not that she was not as knowledgeable as Chen Qing, nor that she was not as eloquent as Chen Qing. Instead, she was trained as a lady since she was a child, so she lacked the personality traits of Chen Qing who dared to confront others.

Just as I was thinking about this, I heard the man beside me say, "It seems that your future cooperation will be very pleasant. Jerry, next, you will be responsible for introducing some other guests to Chen, and by the way, you will talk about your future cooperation."

The two nodded. Before leaving, Chen Qing naturally came over and kissed Simon on the cheek, and whispered: "Simon, don't forget me here when you leave."

Simon smiled and patted the girl on the waist: "Of course not."

When people around them saw this scene, they all smiled knowingly.

Leon Black is closest to him. Looking at Chen Qing's small movements, he couldn't help but think that this girl is really good at grasping the "main contradiction". It may be questioned if she reveals her relationship with Simon Westeros in public, but relying on Westeros as a big backer will definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

In fact, because the women who have walked out of Simon in recent years have become better than the other, Leon Black has never despised Chen Qing from the beginning. His just confrontation with Jared Barkley made Black completely let down his concern that his boss might recommend a vase.

The vase cannot survive on Wall Street.

After Chen Qing and Barkley left, Simon continued to talk to Leon Black about Apollo management company.

So until nine o'clock.

Simon said goodbye to everyone and left the mansion on East 78th Street.

Lin Su and Chen Qing followed Simon together. After leaving the room, both women were wrapped in windbreakers, but they still couldn't hide their beautiful figures. However, Simon did not take the two women back to his apartment on Fifth Avenue, but just separated directly outside the Black's mansion.

It’s not that she didn’t want to, but that Girl A had a temporary slut. She has been holding the man’s arm since Simon and Black said goodbye, looking like she was worried that he would run away with other women and was jealous.

Simon has become accustomed to the intermittent little temperament of Girl A, and he always does it once or twice a month.

Of course, punishment is certainly unavoidable.

While still in the car back to the Fifth Avenue apartment, Girl A was already excited to reach out to pull out the belt from the man's waist with some strange feeling.

The next morning, Simon woke up on time at six o'clock.

This is November 8th.

Tuesday.

Voting day for the midterm elections.

Simon registered constituency in California, as usual, has no plans to participate in the voting.

After a routine morning exercise, she sat in the restaurant at seven o'clock. This time Zoe and Isabel accompanied him to serve breakfast and left. Girl A handed Simon a marked New York Times and sat down next to the man.

Today, the headlines of the New York Times are not the midterm elections, but the news that Egret Company will open the Egret outsourcing platform next week.

Bragging without taxes.

Therefore, the article stated that the soon-to-open Igret outsourcing platform will provide tens of millions of job opportunities to Internet users around the world every year in the future.

Not only that, with the continuous promotion of online offices, this new working model in the information age will bring great convenience to the entire society, because no longer frequent commuting is required, a large number of transportation resources will be released, and the operating costs of enterprises will be greatly reduced due to the reduction of office space. This can not only alleviate the traffic pressure in major cities, but also save energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions, etc.

In short, the benefits come from the present and the future.

Not just the New York Times, on Tuesday, many mainstream print media in North America were discussing news about the Igret outsourcing platform.

The Igret Portal naturally also gave a more detailed explanation.

As the talent gap in Silicon Valley continues to expand, the Igrit outsourcing platform is not only an outsourcing platform for Igrit itself to publish paid tasks to the entire Internet user group, but any new technology company around the world that can connect to the Internet can publish tasks through the Igrit platform.

At the same time, as long as you have a computer at home and have a little understanding of the basic operation of personal computers, anyone can find a job that suits you on the Igret outsourcing platform.

Compared with the smoky midterm elections in recent months, this kind of news that seems to be closely related to everyone has quickly become a hot topic for people to chat with each other after going to work today.

This is naturally the result Simon wants to see.

After breakfast, Simon rushed to the Lesington Avenue Arsenal, not far from Gramessi Park in Midtown Manhattan. This was once the location of the weapon factory warehouse during the war and is now an indoor place that many exhibitions or concerts like to use.

The third Victoria's Secret Show will be held here.

As the show date approaches, today is a complete rehearsal before the official show.
Chapter completed!