Simon returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco on the evening of February 9.

When he got home, Catherine Bigelow, who hadn't seen him for a while, came to visit him and was having coffee and chatting with Janet by the glass curtain wall just in the setting sun of the Shell Villa.

Catherine was a little embarrassed to see Simon.

Mainly because of the failure of "Detroit", the movie has long been out of stock, and in the end the box office in North America barely exceeded 10 million US dollars, and it won nothing in the awards.

Of course, Simon had no grudges about this. He hugged Catherine, then turned to the couch where Janet was sitting next to him, and directly fell down, resting on Janet's thigh with no visual appearance, and kicking off his leather shoes and throwing them around him.

Katherine looked at the scene in front of her with a smile on her face. A little man would be so casual when he didn't treat her as an outsider. So she asked, "Are you too busy with work and tired?"

Simon just said huh.

I am not tired in my body, mainly because I am tired these days.

Janet held Simon's head pillowing on his legs affectionately, followed one hand along the man's hair, and smiled and said silently to Catherine with a smile: "Excessive indulgence."

Catherine just glared at Janet, who was not in good condition.

This is impossible to answer.

Simon felt something, and closed his eyes and touched Janet's little hand in his palm, tightened his head suddenly, and asked in the woman's soft cry, "What bad things are you saying?"

Simon didn't exert force, but Janet, who was shocked, did not retract his little hand from the man's palm. He dragged a big hand to his mouth and took a bite. Instead, he asked, "Kate and I will go to the exhibition center tomorrow morning to see the exhibition. Pope, do you want to go together?"

"Don't go."

"Together, at the charity exhibition, you can do good things."

“Can you do bad things?”

"Yes, tomorrow you will deliberately destroy some famous paintings, and then you will be on the headlines. Simon Westeros is mentally abnormal again. Tsk, and then I can become the guardian of the Westeros family's 700 billion, well, it is the guardian of the huge $900 billion property."

"What's the matter?"

"Return you back to Watsonville Mental Hospital."

Simon smiled and said, "This seems to be the plot of a movie."

"Um?"

"Two years ago, the hero was framed by James Spader in "The Viper Lover", and was sent to a mental hospital by his evil wife who attempted to seize his property. Guess how he turned the tables?"

Janet blinked: "How did you turn the tables?"

Catherine next to her also showed a curious expression.

Simon still rested with his eyes closed, but raised his hand to grab Janet's thin white neck and tried the feel, then took it back.

Janet understood: "It's so awesome."

Katherine was confused: "What?"

Janet explained to Catherine: "It's not illegal to kill people in a mental illness."

Katherine reacted this time and looked at the two of them. Even though she understood it was just a joke, one wanted to send the other to a mental hospital, and the other wanted to kill each other again. The other one was killed in the setting, and the other looked quite excited. It seemed that she... in short, the two in front of her were crazy in her bones, and she wouldn't be able to suppress this relationship.

Everyone continued to chat, and twilight fell.

Catherine was invited to stay for dinner together and was assigned to take care of a little guy. Although she was bitten by little Nick, who had not yet quit her teeth grinding habit, she inexplicably envied the atmosphere of the Westeros.

I just refused to stay after I had dinner.

It was over 8 o'clock in the evening when the family gathered in a living room on the east side of the Shell Villa. It was not until the five little guys fell asleep one after another that Simon and the two Jenny had time to talk about some privacy.

Mainly it's recent.

Simon decisively gave up the share reduction plan that he originally planned to last for one year, but in fact it is not as light as it seems.

Just like the assassination that caused a series of subsequent storms two years ago, the cause was that the Woodfield family bet too much money to short technology stocks, and the result was a misjudgment. In order to recover the losses, they had to take a detour and wanted to cause market turmoil by assassinating Simon.

The situation is much worse now than two years ago.

Because of the bullishness of technology stocks, countless people flocked into the Nasdaq market, either directly bought large stocks or spared no effort to establish long positions. The interests of many people are tied to the upward trend of Nasdaq. In this case, Simon wants to counter the trend and suppress technology stocks, and the risks contained in it can be imagined.

Therefore, after feeling the pressure and even warning from all sides, in addition to decisively giving up the established share reduction strategy, Simon also raised the security level around his family to the highest level, and the Westeros family's private intelligence network has also begun to operate at full speed these days to ensure that once a potential crisis occurs, it will be handled in advance.

In the final analysis, the influence of the Westeros system is still not strong enough to truly control the economy of the United States and even the world.

To do this, Simon needs to integrate the $900 billion in personal assets on the books at this time with the global economy. In this way, if you want to manipulate it in the future, you won’t even need the Westeros system to take action. As long as Simon speaks, someone will do it for you.

This is how to maximize the power of huge wealth.

The revolution has not been successful yet, and comrades still need to work hard.

In the living room of Shell Villa, Janet was on Simon's legs this time. Hearing the man say this strange words, he asked with a smile, and then asked about visiting Livermore Laboratory during the day. When he heard Simon talking about his decision not to support the laser ignition project, Janet blinked: "Why don't you support it? Have you forgotten, um, that?"

Simon certainly knew what a woman was referring to.

The Westeros family’s ‘Sword of Damocles’ plan.

Of course I haven't forgotten this.

If the Westeros system masters laser ignition, it will be equivalent to having the most advanced hydrogen bomb technology. At that time, this will become a very powerful deterrent force.

Thinking of this, Simon explained: "It's just that it's not supported now. I plan to start with the magnetic constraint solution and form two teams at the same time, Tokamak and the stellar imitator. After the magnetic constraint solution is mature, the technical accumulation in this area will be deep enough, and laser ignition will be natural."

Janet asked, "What if others did laser ignition first?"

Simon smiled and said, "This is even simpler. You know, the time for nuclear-owned countries to develop nuclear weapons is always getting shorter and shorter. The reason is that once the plan is proven to be feasible, as long as you work in one direction in the future, laser ignition is the same. Once someone succeeds, subsequent successful people will come one after another. Moreover, judging from the current development status of nuclear fusion technology in various countries, even if you give them another twenty years, I don't think those people can achieve anything."

Jennifer, who was quietly sitting on the other side listening to the conversation between the two, curiously said: "Why?"

Simon turned his head and hugged the female assistant, explaining: "The environment is like this, without confrontation and faith, it is very difficult to do something with a country or a person."

Jennifer obediently leaned over and asked, "Then, us?"

Simon smiled and said, "We have interests. Without confrontation and belief, then, if we want to drive a team to overcome technical difficulties, the most effective tool is interests. So I am not optimistic about national research on aerospace and nuclear energy fields. Whether in North America, Europe or Asia, researchers in related fields are treated very ordinary, and they are seriously bureaucratic. Those who make achievements cannot get rewards, and those who mess up will be severely punished. In this environment, it is basically impossible to make progress. So the current aerospace and nuclear energy fields are still at the level of the 1950s and 1960s. We are different. Not only will I provide them with sufficient budget, but I will also share most of the equity as rewards to the research team. As long as the technology can be broken through, even if we only retain 10% of the shares in the end, the benefits involved will be huge enough."

Janet, who was pillowing on Simon's leg, said at this time: "In this case, we must determine the dual equity structure in advance to ensure our control."

"certainly."

Without absolute control, if the Westeros system's shareholding ratio in SpaceX and other companies is reduced to less than 50% in the future, these companies will basically fall into the situation like Boeing and Los Angeles.

Seeing Simon say this, Janet knew that he had considered all aspects of the whole thing, so she stopped continuing. Instead, she talked about the Westeros family's private intelligence team. In order to avoid a recurrence of similar incidents two years ago, the woman has actually been adjusting the family's private intelligence team recently.

I took two days off on the weekend.

In the new week, Simon left Los Angeles again on February 15 to fly to New York for the listing ceremony of Tinkobaier on February 16.

After a two-week roadshow, Tinkobaier's intended subscription share reached 17 times the amount of funds raised in this IPO. Faced with such strong market demand, Tinkobaier re-planned the issue price, increasing the price per share from $43 to $50, and the IPO valuation increased from $35 billion to $40.7 billion.

Even though it attracted some criticism, a total of 130 million new shares were quickly subscribed.

After all, everyone knows that the issue price has only increased by 16%, which is still far behind the market value potential of Tinkobaier 100 billion US dollars predicted by some institutions.

The issue price has been raised to US$50, and the total amount of IPO financing has reached US$6.5 billion, of which the 30 million shares cashed out by Westeros this time have also increased to US$1.5 billion.

On the other hand, in order to avoid the long dreams, several Wall Street giants including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, decisively took over the stocks of Daenerys, Cisco and American Online, which Simon last sold, totaling $3 billion.

After the announcement of the share reduction announcement on February 2, Westeros has also quickly completed the share reduction of US$2 billion worth of stocks in the past two weeks.

$1.5 billion plus $3 billion plus $2 billion.

It can be said that in just half a month, Westeros cashed out a total of US$6.5 billion in cash from the US capital market. Including the previous two cashing outs of Daenerys Entertainment and Cisco, minus 15% of capital gains tax, Westeros’ net income was about US$9 billion.

Because of its 100% stake in Westeros, the money actually belongs to Simon.

This fund has exceeded the entire wealth of most of the top wealthy people of this era.

Moreover, the cash reserves of the entire Westeros system are far more than that.

However, the Igrit family raised more than US$20 billion in funds before and after the IPO last year. Simon imposed very strict restrictions on the use of this fund, basically not spending a penny. Mergers and acquisitions and expansions should be used to replace stocks as much as possible. Large-scale investment in projects such as data centers can only use the cash flow generated by Igrit's own revenue.

Such a huge cash reserve is not only expected that after the bursting of the China-Singapore technology bubble, the Westeros system will further strengthen control of the new technology field, but also achieve its own diversified expansion.

New York.

Simon arrived on the afternoon of February 15, which happened to be the last day of New York Fashion Week.

The four major fashion weeks actually do not last for a week, but are based on the number of brands participating in each major fashion week.

Just like this year, the first New York Fashion Week started, lasting 8 days, and the next London Fashion Week, only 4 days, and then Milan Fashion Week, 7 days, and the last Paris Fashion Week, the longest time is 9 days.

These data can also show the proportion of fashion industries in various countries.

France is still ahead.

Midtown Manhattan, in Bryant Park at home in New York Fashion Week.

Lyudmira Besonoskova ended a show as a closed model, and ended with the designer amid the applause. When she returned to the backstage, she immediately saw the three of Yekaterina Noskova standing next to her sister.

Bichi!

Lyudmira, who already speaks very well in English, couldn't help but whisper in her heart.

After being trained in private for a whole year, Lyudmila finally debuted at this fashion week. Moreover, judging from the feedback from recent days, she has made a big splash.

With his outstanding appearance and professional quality for one year, Lyudmila can be said to be the most popular new model of this fashion week. In 8 days, including the brand of the same name Mark Jacob, which ended tonight, attended a total of 21 catwalks. Under the operation of Elite, magazines such as "Vogue" and "BAZAAR" reported on Lyudmila.

But, I can't be happy at all.

Why?
To be continued...