Chapter 859
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The game hall is very large in scale, occupying three floors of the five-story building in front of you. Each floor has an area of more than 1,000 square meters. There are all kinds of large-scale game equipment that have appeared in this era, including slot machines that imply gambling. It can be said that there are not many game halls of this size in Ukraine.
In addition, most ordinary people can afford it, so they are naturally overcrowded.
If it weren't for the person in charge of the game hall who received the notice that he would soon appear in person to receive the reception, it would not be easy for Simon and his friends to have fun in the game hall.
There are too many people.
After Simon appeared, the person in charge of the game hall decisively sent someone to guard the door like the dance hall next door to start limiting the flow, and he was only allowed to leave and not enter.
When the Westeros system arrived one after another in the core of Rovno Prefecture, Andrei Smirnov, the governor of Oldk, and Sergei Komorov, etc., arrived one after another in the core of Rovno Prefecture, Simon had already taken Charlotte and two girls to browse the game hall on the third floor, and then passed through the crowded dance hall next door and another multi-hall cinema, and finally transferred to a nearby billiards hall of equal size.
In order to entertain Simon and others, this billiards hall was completely emptied.
After everyone who thought something had happened arrived, they confirmed that Simon was really just looking around and not finding any mistakes, so they let go of their careful thoughts.
Speaking of which, this is still the aftermath of the great purge at the beginning of the year.
Simon was still too young. At the beginning, there were many people in Rovno Prefecture who regarded him as a sucker who spent money randomly in Ukraine. After the purge incident, these emotions disappeared, and everyone felt the ruthlessness and decisiveness of a young tycoon.
You should know that at the beginning of this year, the political and business circles of the northwestern Ukraine prefecture, as well as the private and underground forces in the Ukrainian state were sorted out. Not only were thousands of people implicated, but even the entire family of Yuri Miloslav, the leader of the Rovno Prefecture, was knocked out of dust.
What makes people even more silent is that when an outsider like Simon Westero launched a purge in Ukraine, the Kiev authorities not only did not rebound, but instead maintained a considerable cooperative attitude, which basically confirmed the control of the Westero system over the Rovno Prefecture.
Not only that, on the Forbes list of the 400 American richest people some time ago, Simon's personal net worth reached 700 billion US dollars, which also shocked the core members of Ukraine who are related to the Westeros system.
The more you can get to the top of this social pyramid, the more you can feel the invisible power brought by huge wealth.
The personal net worth of US$700 billion, along with the trillions of dollars of assets controlled by the entire Westeros system, is equivalent to the economic size of dozens of Ukraine.
In 1995, Ukraine's economy fell by more than 10% year-on-year, and its domestic GDP is expected to be only about US$48 billion. Even in the entire CIS region, GDP combined cannot reach Simon Westeros alone's wealth scale.
Absolute power often leads to instinctive surrender.
Therefore, in Rovno Prefecture, whether it is the direct core of the Westeros system or the new governor Andrei Smirnov, who was supported by Simon, there is not only no resistance to the Westeros system in his heart, but instead feels honored to be able to integrate into this super chaebol group.
In private, some people have begun to call Rifny Westlogler.
City of Westeros.
Although he didn't understand why Simon suddenly sent an order, Smirnov rushed to the billiard hall and told him his arrangements as soon as possible. He had sent a special person to pick up the prison in the suburbs of Rivny, and the relatives of the three girls could go home before 12 o'clock tonight.
As for the criminal responsibilities these people bear, Smirnov did not mention them at all.
Some rules are always only aimed at ordinary people.
Charlotte Brinita, who watched all this all night, only regretted why she had never been interested in Russian. Until midnight, she followed Westeros back to the south villa. Because of the language barrier, the woman never understood what had happened.
However, Charlotte Brinita clearly felt Simon's existence like a king in this strange city in Ukraine.
At the core, Charlotte Brinita is a woman who longs for power, so he is full of yearning for all this, just like the feeling of "a real man should be like this".
The next day is November 2.
Thursday.
In the villa in Rifny City South, Yulia Antoinko, who woke up very early, had red eyes, like a little rabbit.
Last night, she stayed with the man and was able to return to the villa in the south of the city. Then, the girl found that her former room had been changed to a piano room by Ekaterina and the other three. She wanted to sleep with Simon, but she failed. In the end, she had to rest in the villa room, like an outsider.
Not only that, maybe I heard some news that the three girls who had not slept until late at night were not as familiar with her re-communication as before, but were somewhat hostile, obviously hoping that she would leave quickly.
All of these made the girl feel aggrieved and sad.
But of course, you can't leave.
So she got up very early and wanted to help Simon prepare breakfast. She wanted to please him. As long as the man gave in, she could stay.
As a result, the kitchen was not in.
In the villa, Eve Bessonoskova, who was very kind and always took good care of them, the other maids were also quite cold to her, and she also blocked her outside the kitchen by using the excuse that Simon's breakfast was not allowed to interfere with others.
It was obviously intentional trouble.
I have prepared breakfast for men before, but I have never heard of these rules.
Simon still got up early and couldn't go into the kitchen. Yulia wanted to practice morning with the man. As a result, the three girls who also got up early today were all around him, and they all changed into beautiful sportswear they bought from abroad. Their slim and perfect figure was undoubtedly revealed. She also had these clothes at the beginning, but at the beginning of the year she left the house completely and was driven out without taking anything. She found Eve and asked, and found out that all her personal belongings had been disposed of, or were made by Ekaterina and the other three.
So I could only enter the gym wearing my close-fitting autumn clothes and trousers, and I was immediately reflected in an ugly duckling.
The ugly duckling is the ugly duckling!
Anyway.
I can't care so much.
In the end, the man spoke, and Caterina reluctantly borrowed her a sportswear.
Unfortunately, it was breakfast time not long after I changed my clothes.
I have to change my clothes again, so I have to go to the dining table. Compared with the bright and brightness of other girls, I am still an ugly duckling.
I held it so hard that I didn't cry.
In fact, what I was most worried about was that the man drove her away. After breakfast, the man went to the study and started working for a day. He never asked her to leave. Only then did he feel relieved. As long as the man no longer forced her out of the villa like last time, he decided to stay here. Anyway, other girls and the maid guards couldn't do anything to her.
Just roll your eyes or something, pretend not to see it.
However, it was still very uncomfortable to hear Natalia Liudaeva's obvious intention to say something more rude than Lyudmira Besonoskova.
So I remembered some things from last night.
I quietly slipped into a small living room on the first floor of the villa where no one was staring at me, locked the door, picked up the phone and contacted the home.
My father was taken from a state legislator to prison, and the phone number at home was not removed. She forced to stay. She just hoped that one day Simon would call again. The small shop owned by her family on the North Commercial Street in the city was quite profitable. Although the phone cost was expensive, it could be affordable.
No one answered the phone at first, and he was so angry that he almost threw the microphone off.
I hid in the living room for more than half an hour and dialed several times in a row, and finally my mother answered the phone.
Yulia did not explain too much to her mother, nor did she want to hear that her father had come out and was sent to the hospital for recuperation. Although she cried to Simon last night that she hoped that he could let her father go, if her father had not betrayed Simon and turned to the governor's family, she would not have fallen to the present, and she did not want to do too much.
He just asked his mother to ask his sister Ivana to come to the south villa as soon as possible, and also told him to dress up and not to embarrass himself.
But my mother was muttering on the phone that her sister was still in the hospital, and she also talked about her father, and asked what happened from last night to now. This made Yulia more and more irritable and felt that she was so unlucky that she had a betrayed father, a procrastinating mother, and a weak sister.
If it weren't for the villa in the south of the city, the girl would almost scream, and in the end she would just raise her voice a little, threatening her if she wanted her father to be sent to prison, she would take her words as a warning to her.
Then he hung up the phone.
Last night, I personally saw the prosperity of the commercial street. In the morning, Simon found the financial statements of the game halls, dance halls, cinemas and other projects directly under the Westeros system on the street.
The result is also very satisfying.
The most profitable dance hall among them is equivalent to US$900,000 in the single-month turnover in October. Calculated, the annual revenue of this project is expected to exceed US$10 million. With the city scale and economic status of Rifney, many people did not expect it.
Simon was not surprised.
At this stage, in China, some of the less-than-class dance halls, game halls and other places in China, are actually huge profits. Large dance halls in some core cities in China can achieve hundreds of millions of yuan in a year, and the profits are astonishingly high.
The key is that these projects are not something that anyone can do, whether in China or Ukraine.
If you want to open a dance hall, you not only need a political and business background, but also need to manage underground forces and take care of all aspects. Otherwise, if such a profitable place is jealous of others, it will be the end of closing the door in minutes.
The same is true for Rifny.
Whether it is a dance hall or a game hall, the approval authority is in the city government.
Although the city's related entertainment venues are not just the ones on Chengbei Commercial Street, the scale is only on Chengbei Commercial Street, and the others are all small-scale. If other competitors want to enter the market to disrupt the situation, the Westeros system's power here has hundreds of ways to make others unable to continue.
Of course, Simon did not take all the benefits alone.
Calculated that the share of these entertainment venues directly controlled by the Westeros system is barely more than half, and the other half Simon generously distributed it to various interest classes. Simon just does not want the public in this area to be too rich. If a group of vested interest classes related to the interests of the Westeros system is created, it will be in line with his layout.
After reading the financial statements, Alexander Lyudaev, the head of the Rifni Media Company, a subsidiary of the Westeros system, who Simon planned to meet in the morning, also came here. This is the uncle of the villa girl Natalia Lyudaev, who is responsible for the series of television, radio, newspapers and other media assets of the Westeros system in Rovno Prefecture and even the entire Ukraine.
In Rovno Prefecture, the public opinion channels are basically under the control of the Westeros system.
Simon and Alexander Lyudaev discussed today mainly to expand the entertainment department of Rifni Media.
Backed by the Westeros system, Rifny Media's development is also very rapid.
Not only controls the area's television, newspapers and other assets, Rifney Media also represents the distribution of Hollywood film and television copyrights throughout the CIS region.
This is a very rich business.
The continuous collapse of the Soviet Union and economic collapse have led to the lack of development of the entertainment industry in the CIS region, so it can only be introduced from the outside. The cultural yearning and worship of the West makes these regions easy to accept Hollywood content resources, so they have very good market prospects.
Speaking of which, the "Iron Lady" Tymoshenko started his business by reselling pirated videos.
Before the Internet era, due to the lack of various powerful and professional subtitle groups, the quality of pirated resources was definitely not comparable to that of genuine ones.
As a result, Rifney Media obtained the authentic content authorization from Hollywood, and then localized the transformation through its own professional dubbing and subtitle team. The various movies and TV series released were widely welcomed by the entire CIS region.
Because it is limited to both television and video, and Simon did not hand over all the content to Rifney Media's agent. In addition, due to its economic size, this part is very generous for Rifney Media to benefit Daenerys Entertainment. However, overall, it is very consistent with Hollywood's cultural output strategy.
After all, the market will grow sooner or later.
On the other hand, since he has taken root in Ukraine, what Simon discussed with Liudaev this time was to establish a local entertainment system.
Cultural exports ultimately face various cultural barriers. Compared with overseas film and television, most ordinary public prefer localized entertainment content.
After careful discussion between Simon and Liudaev, the entertainment department of Rifny Media Company will focus on two aspects, TV series production and music business.
There is no need to say more about the TV series.
Need for urgent needs.
Music is also a relatively lagging and indispensable area in Eastern Europe.
Referring to the information in memory, Simon proposed a plan to build a female singing group and also personally named it: Saint Maiden Group.
In my memory, it happened to be the Saints Group from Ukraine. It can be said to be the most popular and long-lived female singing group in the CIS region, no one. Other singing groups often become out of date or disband after a few years. However, the Saints Group lasted for more than ten years. Although the members have changed many generations in succession, they have always been widely welcomed by the Russian-speaking system in Eastern Europe.
Now, backed by the Westeros system, Rifny Media Company has neither shortage of resources nor teams, and can try to copy this women's group.
Chapter completed!