Hollywood has entered the era of blockbusters. In order to prevent Hollywood from further entering the super-English era that seriously impacts the diversity of movies, Simon has been correcting the development plan of the DC movie universe in recent years and has continuously lengthened the development cycle. The Marvel Cinema Universe plan was therefore shelved by Simon.

After the end of the year's "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice", as of the end of Justice League, there are three DC movie projects that have been confirmed, namely "Wonder Woman 2", "The Flash 2" and "Suicide Squad 2". Warner has been promoting "Cylinder 2". As long as the script is appropriate, Simon cannot be completely stuck.

Then, it may be 2,000 to actually wait until "Justice League" is released.

This is also the time point that Simon likes more.

The millennium, a great gathering of DC superheroes, is very memorable.

In the banquet hall of the Marriott Hotel, Jack Welch, who had known about the DC Cinema Universe in advance, was a little disappointed when he heard Simon say that "Justice League" could negotiate the revocation of copyrights. In fact, for Warner, being able to revoke the copyrights of the three DC giants is worth waiting for even five years. With the great success of DC Cinema Universe, Warner did not even expect Simon to let go.

Jack Welch couldn't wait for five years.

Because he will retire at that time, and once he leaves, these things will have nothing to do with him.

However, since Simon said so, Jack Welch knew that he had no room for bargaining. Even though he had just finalized the agreement to acquire Time Warner, he had a very thorough understanding of this matter.

The initiative of the DC Cinema Universe is completely in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment. Especially after the box office defeat of "Future Water World" produced by Warner Bros. this summer, Warner's dependence on the DC Cinema Universe is stronger. On the contrary, Daenerys Entertainment, even if it immediately loses the DC Cinema Universe, there are also the same successful projects such as the "Jurassic Park" series, Pixar animation series, the Soul Conjuring Cinema Universe series and other projects that can be developed.

If Warner uses tough measures to try to reclaim the copyright, the result is more likely to be a mess.

The matter was not done, and Jack Welch did not drag on it. Instead, he talked to Simon about the Internet industry and solicited opinions from Simon on the e-commerce business that General Electric is planning.

Ordinary people usually understand e-commerce to buy things online. In fact, the types of e-commerce are divided into B2B (business to business), B2C (business to individual), C2C (person to individual), etc. Online shopping is just one of them.

Therefore, when Jack Welch mentioned that a veteran giant like General Electric would also start an e-commerce business, Simon felt no threat at all. General Electric's e-commerce is most likely just B2B. Not only will it not compete with platforms such as Amazon and eBay in Westeros system, it is also expected to become an important customer of YWS.

The two discussed enthusiastically for more than ten minutes, and Simon took the initiative to say that Jack Welch could arrange for a meeting with Carol Butz, who is in charge of Igrit's YWS business, to have an in-depth discussion on possible cooperation between the two parties.

YWS (Ygritte Web Service) was launched in 1991. It has developed to the present day. After four years of continuous research and development, this business under Igritte is no longer a primary server leasing, but has truly begun to transform into a cloud computing platform in Simon's memory. The three models of IaaS (infrastructure as a service), PaaS (platform as a service) and SaaS (software as a service) that are the mainstream cloud computing business in space-time. The current YWS is beginning to be involved.

If we can attract customers from traditional industrial giants in non-Internet fields like General Electric, we will inevitably greatly expand the business breadth of YWS.

The next day is October 28th.

Saturday.

News of General Electric's acquisition of Time Warner finally shifted the media from the Forbes list of 400 rich Americans released on Monday. Simon also left the United States that afternoon and flew to Ukraine.

From the official agreement with the Ukrainian local government in early February to the present, in eight months, the Nokia factory located in the north of Rifny has been completed and will be officially put into operation on October 30. Simon will attend the commissioning ceremony on October 30 this time.

Simon was very satisfied with the speed of completion of this project.

At this stage, in North America or Western Europe, it is difficult to build a factory of the same size without rushing to two or three years. Moreover, even if the factory is completed, it may not be able to be put into production.

However, while the factory construction was completed, the Rifninokia factory simultaneously realized the process of workers training, equipment entry and other processes.

Even if the Soviet Union has disappeared, the institutional advantages brought by the Soviet system still exist.

This is exactly what Simon is interested in.

Of course, what is more important is that the Westeros system has become more and more powerful in the northwestern border of Ukraine.

Otherwise, some institutional advantages will only turn into institutional disadvantages.

After Ukrainian second president Leon Kuchima came to power last year, he quickly promoted a series of reform measures, but failed to reverse the continued slide of Ukrainian domestic economy into the abyss. Under the strong control of the Westeros system, the city of Rifni became the only highlight of the country's economy. Due to various real and potential interests, even if the Westeros system's control over Rifni has exceeded certain limits, the Ukrainian authorities did not dare to rashly disrupt this hard-won situation.

Therefore, not only is the Nokia factory about to be put into production, but the entire city of Rivni and even the Rovno State are in a prosperous state.

When Simon first came to Rifni last year, the city was the same as other areas of Ukraine, declining and withering. A large number of people moved to rural areas where they could cultivate food by themselves for the most basic survival. Now, in more than a year, Rifni's population has soared from 220,000 in the trough last year to 510,000 people today.

Ordinary people always don’t see things that are too deep. They just know that this city can bring them the most valuable job opportunities, and that’s where hope lies.

The skyrocketing population inevitably makes the city of Rifni a mixture of fish and dragons. However, both the official and underground forces are firmly controlled by the Westeros system, not to mention that there is a powerful private army stationed in this area. Those who want to do something in Rifni are not very good ending, and the rest are just some small fish and shrimp that cannot be made.

Under the efficient execution rate brought by strong control, Rifny has already shown a trend of being expected to become a major Ukrainian light industry center.

Ukraine inherited a large number of heavy industrial assets from the former Soviet Union. However, tanks and cannons cannot be used as food. Light industry that provides residents with various types of basic daily necessities is the area that Ukraine needs to develop most urgently at this stage. Since its own strength, the Ukrainian authorities have been trying to promote this matter, but the effect is not good.

The reason is very simple: lack of money.

The national economy is like rivers and lakes that connect all aspects of public life.

Funds are like water.

Only with enough funds can dry and stagnant rivers and lakes flow through and rejuvenate.

The large amount of funds from the Westeros system were injected into the Rovno Prefecture, coupled with strong coordination and control, which prevented the funds from being swallowed up by unreasonable waste and quickly revitalized the area. It can be imagined that when the rivers and lakes of the Rovno Prefecture gradually filled, it would inevitably flow to other areas of the country.

The owner of the water flow will not change.

This inevitably leads to further penetration and control.

Rifney Airport will not be opened next year. Simon arrived in Kiev on Sunday morning local time and took a bus to Rifney.

As one of the most important investments introduced by the country in recent years, the current Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Razarenko chose to travel to Rovno Prefecture with Simon and planned to attend the afternoon commissioning ceremony.

In the era when the greenhouse effect was not yet bursting, Ukraine began to fall snow at the end of October.

Shuving through the northern plains of Ukraine, which was surrounded by snow, Simon chatted with Lazarenko, who took the initiative to take the same car with him. Even if he didn't like this person very much, it would not prevent the two from having a good chat. Since Lazarenko and Kuchima came to power together, in addition to not allowing the other party to interfere in the layout of the Westero system in Rovno Prefecture, Simon has been in his favor and is not stingy with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, who is known for his greed.

The complete feeding of several talkers from the Kiev authorities is also the key to the smooth layout of the Westeros system.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, when he arrived in Rifny, Simon handed over the task of receiving Razarenko and his party to Sergei Komorov, the head of the Oldek company, and refused the lunch arranged by Komorov on the grounds of hard work on the journey. Anyway, he couldn't escape the evening social engagement.

Lunch time was actually left to several UFMS leaders.

Regarding Ukraine, Simon always cared about the most was the Ukrainian private army here.

Otherwise, there are so many investment opportunities that are expected to achieve richer returns, and Simon will not have to work hard to make a move in Ukraine.

Even though he rarely comes to Ukraine, Simon has always been paying close attention to UFMS. He has created three channels to obtain information from UFMS in various aspects: Krem Jerevyanko, the direct person in charge of UFMS, Sergei Komorov, the head of Oldek Company, and the secretly Westeros private intelligence team in Ukraine.

Simon's personal military assistant Celia Miller puts most of his thoughts here.

Therefore, Simon's understanding of UFMS is even deeper than that of Krem Jerevyanko, and so is the control.

The lunch started at 11:30 and lasted for an hour and a half. Simon set off from the villa in the south of the city at 1:00 pm and rushed to the Nokia factory in the northern suburb of Rifney.

In addition to Simon and Ukrainian Prime Minister Razarenko, Nokia CEO Yoma Olila has also been here for two days.

Although he plans to focus on Nokia's mobile phone manufacturing in China, Yoma Olia also agrees with Simon's view that eggs cannot be placed in one basket. Therefore, while Nokia promotes the multi-supplier procurement strategy under Simon's suggestion, it also plans to build Rifny as Nokia's second mobile phone manufacturing center.

Therefore, this factory with an annual output of 1 million mobile phones is just the beginning.

Nokia's mobile phone sales are expected to exceed 20 million units this year. As long as the factory is in production smoothly, Nokia will start the construction of a second larger factory on the 150 hectares of land that has been encircled as soon as possible.

Not only that, companies such as Tinkobaier in the Westeros system have also been paying attention to the Nokia factory in Rifney to build their own factories here to support the European market.

To form an OEM system, the most difficult thing is not factory construction or worker training, but complete support for supporting industrial chains.

By helping Rovno nuclear power plant introduce investment, as long as new nuclear power plant units start to operate in the next two years, the energy problem can be solved. At this stage, mobile phones, because they involve cutting-edge technology, most of the components will rely on imports from Western Europe and North America, which greatly makes up for the shortcomings of the inability to produce components in the Rovno State.

However, in order to reduce costs, Ukraine still has a lot to do.

While establishing a vocational training school to train workers for the Nokia factory, Aldek, the company undertook an order to provide external packaging for Nokia mobile phones through a subsidiary. Komorov is also trying to further provide injection molded shells for Nokia mobile phones. This will gradually form an increasingly complete supply chain, from circuit boards and even some parts with low technical requirements.

As the supply chain becomes more and more perfect, more manufacturers will inevitably be attracted to Rifny to invest and build factories.

This forms a virtuous cycle.

Simon also plans to let Aldek enter the OEM field personally in order to further control the cheap human resources in Ronov Prefecture and Ukraine as a whole.

In the past, Ukraine, because of its unsustainable domestic survival, more than 50 million people lost one-fifth of its citizens, and tens of millions of people fled from this country was a wonder. This time, even if it only grasped one-tenth of the human resources that had fled Ukraine, it was enough for the Westeros system to establish a huge OEM empire in Ukraine.

Having masters of other people's jobs is actually equivalent to having dominance to a certain extent.

The commissioning ceremony lasted for an hour that afternoon.

After the ceremony, Simon did not leave, but visited the assembly process of the factory with Yoma Olila and others. Although it was Sunday, Eastern Europe now does not have the rules of Western Europe. Once the factory is put into production, it will be carried out for 24 hours in a row.

What Ukraine lacks the most now is people.

If you don’t want to work overtime, if you dislike the low salary, or even if you are lazy, it’s very simple. Get out of here, pack up and get out of here. There are so many people who want this job.

Simon stayed at the Nokia factory until evening, returned to the city, and continued to attend the evening reception party, and did not return to the south villa until late at night.

The following two days were busy with all kinds of busyness, one by one, passing the Westeros system's industries here, and some unavoidable welcomes and sends them. Until Wednesday, November 1, when a little free time, Simon rushed to the Ukrainian Peace Military Theme Park, which had been basically completed in northern Rifny, to relax.

Actually, it's still work.

Compared with a professional theme park like Universal Studios, this theme park covering an area of ​​20 square kilometers can only be described as rough. The only advantage is that it is its spacious enough area.

However, Simon did not become indifferent because of the roughness of this project. Instead, he attached great importance to it. Not only did he send a team from Universal Studios, Daenerys, to participate in the project planning, but he also personally provided a lot of suggestions. The park will open in the spring of next year, mainly for Western European and North American customers, providing an immersive military experience.

When A girl found Simon with a blonde woman wearing a black windbreaker and high leather boots, he was at the shooting range of the theme park, holding the Barrett gun that he had fallen in love with after his last hunt in the Alaska wasteland. In his capacity, it was easy to bring such a 'toy' at any time and anywhere.

The blonde woman is named Charlotte Brinita, from Switzerland. She is the president of the venture capital department of Brinita Asset Management. She is just ‘Brennita Asset Management’. The corresponding woman’s name can probably determine the relationship between the woman and the company.

Family business.

This is what Grace recommended to Simon a few days ago that the head of European funds who hopes to invest in Instagram.

Simon heard Grace say that women are very beautiful and joked that they must meet. They didn't take it too seriously at that time, but the other party took the initiative to contact this meeting. Simon was also very interested in the always mysterious and low-key Swiss Capital, so he agreed.
Chapter completed!