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Except for the gathering of mercenaries from Eastern Europe.

Just in the morning in Europe across the Atlantic, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was in the honeymoon period with the West, couldn’t help but sarcastically said that when facing reporters’ questions about Simon’s hiring of Eastern European soldiers to station in Rwanda. When humanitarian disasters occurred in some areas, it was thought that it was the Red Army of the former Soviet Union, rather than the "army of justice" in the West, who came forward to stop the evil. This is indeed a question worthy of serious consideration by people all over the world.

The first president of Ukraine, Leon Kravchuk, who is doomed to step down in this year's general election due to the collapse of the domestic economy, is rarely tough in the face of some Western media's accusations of Ukraine's improper arms sales to individual forces He replied that Ukraine did not think there was anything wrong with this arms sale, and even countered the questioning reporter on the spot. Does the other party want the genocide tragedy in Africa to continue?

Warren Christopher didn't really expect that this breakfast conversation would make Simon Westeros comply with the authorities' wishes. If he was a submissive and lack of firm personal will, it would be impossible for Simon Westeros to achieve the current situation. Achievement.

This kid was able to come to Washington under the summons of the authorities, which has already given the federal government a step.

"Well, Simon, but I, as well as Mr. President, hope you know when enough is enough," Warren Christopher added with a resigned warning at the end, "However, this operation should not be lacking anyway." The figure of the United States. The White House has urgently allocated 2000 million US dollars in relief materials and 500 peacekeepers, and will fly to Africa this morning."

Without waiting for Warren to continue, Simon nodded with a smile: "I will let the Westeros refugee camp do a good job of reception, and I will definitely give our soldiers enough live footage."

Warren Christopher was a little embarrassed by the smile of the young man opposite, but he continued: "However, Simon, our soldiers are only responsible for the peacekeeping work inside the refugee camp this time, and will not participate in any military operations."

Simon didn't want the US military to intervene in his actions, so he nodded again.

In fact, according to the thinking of the White House and Congress, it would be best if they could stay out of the matter completely.

However, the United States cannot stay out of this matter at all.

In the final analysis, it is still for votes.

Just after the news of the Rwanda genocide was exposed yesterday, a large number of African-Americans in many cities in the United States immediately took to the streets, demanding that the federal government take immediate measures to stop the tragedy of the Rwanda genocide.

But today, it was still breakfast time. According to the news Warren Christopher got after waking up, tens of thousands of people had already gathered near the White House and the Capitol, among them, far from being just black people, they also included peaceful people of all races in the United States. The federal government is also called upon to intervene as soon as possible.

Today's headlines in the mainstream media around the world are almost exclusively about the racist genocide in Rwanda.If the governments of various countries continue to stand on the sidelines as they did a few days ago, they will inevitably encounter one-sided criticism from the media.

Therefore, if the U.S. authorities really dare to ignore the Rwandan genocide, the Democratic Party will definitely lose points in its own African-American base in this year's mid-term elections, and it will even affect many other voters in the country.

It can be said that many people in the White House and Congress were almost sleepless last night because of what the young man in front of him had tossed about.

The initially drafted compromise plan is that the United States will provide material assistance, but will not engage in military intervention.

In this way, an explanation can be given to the public, and the passive situation of losing troops and generals in Somalia last year will not appear again.

In addition, in terms of media, it must also get the support of the Ygritte portal controlled by Simon in front of him.

Although mainstream media from all over the world have sent reporters to Rwanda one after another, the Igret Portal, which has been deployed in advance, has largely dominated the news and public opinion of this event, especially the webcast of the Igret Portal. Relying on tens of millions of viewers all over the world, the influence of this live broadcast has even surpassed many mainstream TV media.

The U.S. military that is about to go to Africa does not plan to take military action, but the image of American soldiers in front of the camera must still be there, and it must be positive enough.

To achieve this, the cooperation of Ygritte's portal is crucial.

After Simon nodded again, Warren Christopher added: "The last point, Simon, you have to be clear about your position, so it's best not to let those Ukrainian mercenaries get too much limelight."

Chapter 634 Improper supporting role (repair)

Simon finished his meeting with Secretary of State Warren Christopher and flew directly to New York after breakfast.

By last week's brutal and merciless vengeance against the man behind the March assassination, Simon delivered a warning to some not to try to use unconventional means against the House of Westeros, or he will retaliate tenfold and a hundredfold. .

This Rwanda operation is also a demonstration of the capital strength of the Westeros system.

There are always people who think that money is just a series of numbers to a certain extent, and Simon let them experience what it means to have enough money.

Arriving in New York, the morning schedule is to meet with the heads of several media groups that I have made friends with.

In addition to the failure of the U.S. military in Vietnam, another important reason why the Vietnam War formed waves of anti-war waves in the United States was the complete failure of the federal government in controlling public opinion.

During the Gulf War three years ago, the Bush administration learned the lessons of the Vietnam War very well.Relying on excellent public opinion control and guidance, the U.S. government gained a lot of prestige through that war.

The failure of the Somalia operation last year was met with a one-sided domestic crusade, which led to the withdrawal of all Somalia troops by the United States. It was also a major failure of the Clinton administration in terms of public opinion.

Lessons learned from the past, even if it has already occupied the moral high ground, Simon still dare not take it lightly when the media all over the world turn their attention to Rwanda and thousands of journalists fly to Africa.

Facts have proved too many times that in order to gain attention and gain newspaper sales or ratings, unscrupulous media will never mind turning black and white, and even rendering a just war into an evil aggression in the end.

In order to avoid this situation as much as possible, the Westeros system team in Rwanda has been collecting information since the outbreak of the Rwanda genocide.The topic of the Rwanda genocide on the Ygret portal released only a small part of it. The large amount of evidence in the hands of the Westeros system is enough to prove the racist massacre that broke out in Rwanda in the past ten days.

Even if he has made sufficient preparations, in the next period of time, Simon still has to beware of someone trying to turn black and white. This requires the Westeros system to cooperate with other news media that also have extensive social influence to jointly control and guide public opinion.

Not only that, Simon also equipped a dedicated public relations team for the mercenary troops of the Westeros system in Rwanda, and formulated strict media regulations. All members of the mercenary troops are not allowed to accept media interviews without authorization, and the station is not allowed to admit reporters without authorization. , all actions of the troops will prevent follow-up reports by media that are not designated by the Westeros system, and all news will only be released regularly through the official media public relations team, and so on.

Thousands of professional soldiers in Rwanda will be responsible for the real war. For Simon, the control and guidance of media public opinion is also a war, and he will personally lead this matter.

Simon does not expect anything in return from this military action to prevent a racist massacre, but he will absolutely not allow anyone to try to reverse the justice of this action.

At noon, I accepted Rupert Murdoch's invitation to have a meal together, and it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon after lunch.

In the afternoon, I rushed to Greenwich Village, Manhattan to deal with some affairs of Daenerys Entertainment.

After submitting the prospectus, Amy Pascal and other high-level executives and the Cersei Capital team will be responsible for the next IPO-related matters, and Janet will also help to keep an eye on it. Simon does not need to worry too much, but many affairs of the group still need Simon Handle it yourself.

So busy until five o'clock in the afternoon, it was already off-duty time, girl A knocked on the door and came in, and began to report some things that Simon needed to know before off-duty: "Boss, Jim Carrey's agent just made a request to us, hoping to put The original five-part contract was changed to three."

Simon was writing his own comment on the project budget document for "Broken Arrow", and without looking up, he threw out a word: "No."

"Aeroplane Head", which was released on April 4th, was not recognized by media reviews, but Jim Carrey's exaggerated and unique comedy performance mode still won the audience's favor like the original time and space. Silk Entertainment's publicity and release of "Detective Airplane Head" is far more powerful than before, and the schedule is much better than the original February cemetery schedule. In just the first seven days, "Detective Airplane Head" earned $8 million from the opening of the painting. Weekly pavilions are as high as 2 US dollars, even surpassing the opening score of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2391" in the week of Easter.

Not only that, from April 4th to April 15th, after rapidly increasing the number of screening screens from 4 in the first week to 17, even though the two-week Easter spring break for American students is generally over, the film market has returned to desertion. The three-day drop of "Detective Airplane Head" is still only 1837% in the next weekend, and it continues to earn 2315 million US dollars. It is expected that the box office will be between 23 million and 1288 million US dollars in the seven days of the next week.

Within ten days of its release, the cumulative box office of "Aero Detective" has reached 3679 million US dollars.

According to the step-sharing contract signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theaters, Daenerys Entertainment can take away 90% of the box office share excluding the basic operating costs of the theaters two weeks before the opening of the film, and the actual amount is about 70% of the total box office. about.Subsequent reductions of 20% every two weeks, until the lower limit of 30% account sharing ratio.

Therefore, "Aeroplane" only earned $10 million at the box office in 3679 days, which is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover all the production costs of $1500 million and the investment of $1000 million in publicity and distribution, and start to enter the box office profit period.

According to the drop in the next week and audience feedback, New World Pictures’ publicity team predicts that "Aeroplane" is likely to become Daenerys Entertainment's second local box office break after "Four Weddings and a Funeral" on Valentine's Day this year. billion works.

The success of "Plane Detective" even affected "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3".

Due to the diversion of audience attention, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" fell more than expected in the second and third weeks. The U.S. dollar was lowered to 6000 million U.S. dollars. Fortunately, the overseas box office performance of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 8000" is not bad, and the company is still expected to recover costs and achieve profitability only through global theater distribution.

Jim Carrey made his debut in the early 80s, and in the past he could only play various small roles in some films.

Now, relying on the 5 million yuan box office potential of "Detective Airplane Head", he has jumped into the ranks of first-line stars. This comedy star, who was once known for his love of money in history, suddenly became restless and couldn't wait to try to revise his previous relationship. Daenerys Entertainment has only signed five-film contracts with salary caps of only $500 million.

Other Hollywood studios usually agree to modify some contracts in order to maintain a good relationship with each other and maintain follow-up cooperation after an actor suddenly becomes popular, but Daenerys Entertainment has never been used to such bad habits of stars.

Simon has always been a person who takes contracts very seriously.

Moreover, if you agree to Jim Carrey's request, all the core actors of the DC movie universe who have signed low-pay long-term contracts will become noisy, and many projects will not be able to continue smoothly.

When girl A heard Simon's decision, she didn't explain too much. She just wrote down her boss' decision in the memo, and then took out an invitation letter from the folder and handed it over: "Also, boss, this is Elite President John Casablanca sent an invitation to a party this afternoon, and he said Ms. Gralf would be invited tonight as well."

George Gralf, who was involved in planning the assassination of Simon, was shot in the head last week, and his wife and daughter are also having trouble these days.

Laura Gralf, who was originally divorcing her husband, probably felt the crisis instinctively after George Gralf was shot dead, and hurriedly took out her hidden jewelry from a bank safe in Manhattan, intending to sell it After that, he hid abroad with his two daughters.

It's a pity that Laura Gralf had just taken out her jewelry and returned to the temporarily rented apartment in the lower city when she was robbed.

Not only the jewels worth millions of dollars, but also the slightly more valuable clothes and bags in Laura Gralf's home were swept away by the robbers. Afterwards, why they just tied their mother and daughter in the living room without robbing them for sex? After Laura Gralf reported the case to the police, she had to face very urgent livelihood issues.

Laura Gralf clearly knows what her greatest asset is.

Although she is 36 years old, with her outstanding appearance and careful maintenance, few of the opposite sex who have been in contact with her these years have been indifferent.Even though her possessive husband is very strict with her, Laura Gralf still maintains an ambiguous relationship with some elite men who are comparable to her husband in Manhattan.

This was the retreat she had instinctively left for herself.

Now it finally comes in handy.

Last Friday, Laura Gralf took the initiative to invite a famous unmarried diamond man on Wall Street who has been thinking about her for so many years. She thought it would be easy to get him. Wall Street fund managers of even larger funds of funds also readily attended.

However, the dinner date between the two only lasted halfway, and the Wall Street elite received a call that made his face turn pale instantly. His investors will redeem half of the 8 million US dollars fund under his control. He also warned the Wall Street elite very bluntly that if the other party continues to have any involvement with Laura Gralf, his fund will be closed next week, and the entire Wall Street will no longer have a place for him.

In just one dinner time, half of his own fund collapsed. How could the Wall Street fund manager still not understand what happened.As if feeling that some eyes around him were staring at him, and he didn't even pay for the meal, the Wall Street elite randomly found a reason to get up and run away.

A stunned Laura Gralf had to pay for expensive meals with the last of the cash she raised from selling her furniture.

The news spread quickly throughout Manhattan.

Before the weekend was over, the mother and daughter Gralf had become plague-level existences that the upper classes of Manhattan feared to avoid. Even the social circles of Laura Gralf's two daughters were completely closed to them. door.Beauty isn't a scarce resource for Manhattan's upper class, so no one is foolish enough to ruin themselves for three beautiful women who have been blacklisted by some big shot.

The Gralf mother and daughter are not smart, but they are not stupid either. They still don't understand what they are experiencing from the reactions of the people around them.

The first thing Laura Gralf felt was fear.

She was very worried that one day she would suddenly be shot in the head like her husband.

However, even if they want to hide now, it is impossible for them to hide, because the last family property of the mother and daughter was emptied in the last burglary, and the police did not have any clues at all. The rent has not yet been settled, let alone buying a plane ticket to fly to Europe for asylum.

As for other relatives who can rely on, both of George Gralf's parents have passed away. The other party has an older sister who lives in Michigan, but they haven't had much contact in recent years. The relationship between Laura Gralf and her husband's sister Not good either.

In terms of her natal family, Laura Gralf, who was born in an ordinary farm family in Georgia, has three older brothers.

In the early years, the relationship between Laura Gralf and her natal family was relatively harmonious. When she was a child, her three brothers took care of her, the only girl in the family.

Until Laura Gralf married George Gralf.

George Gralf is not a generous person, and Laura Gralf is more worried that a large family will demand too much from her, so she and her family have had several money-related disputes since ten years ago The relationship cooled down. After Laura Gralf's parents passed away one after another over the years, she voluntarily gave up her share of inheritance rights in her parents' farm to draw a line with her three older brothers.

Three years ago, the eldest brother's youngest son was admitted to Brown University, an Ivy League school, and hoped that she could sponsor the tuition.At that time, the husband rarely let go and said yes, but Laura Gralf chose to refuse out of the dark instinct of not wanting her elder brother's children to be too promising. She went to another ordinary university that could provide scholarships, and the relationship between Laura Gralf and her natal family was completely broken.

With no capital to escape, and no relatives to turn to, Laura Gralf could only stay in Manhattan with her two daughters tremblingly.

And, always have to think about livelihood.

Once worked as a model, Laura Gralf knew that even if she was still beautiful, she would not be able to resume her old career in the fashion industry, so she paid attention to her two tall and beautiful daughters.Her husband firmly opposed her and her two daughters' contact with the chaotic fashion circle during his lifetime. She also hoped that the two daughters should marry the noble sons of the old money family in the future and enter the upper class thoroughly.

Now I can't care too much.

This time, I didn't expect that just after trying it, the top Elite model agency in the United States at this stage gave a positive response, and the other party wanted to sign their mother and daughter three at a time.

Even though there were some doubts in her heart, even though the contract offered by Elite was obviously very harsh, Laura Gralf, who had nowhere to go, still chose to agree, so the mother and daughter officially signed a contract with Elite yesterday and became the models of this company Three models under the brokerage company.

The circumstances of Gralf's mother and daughter were naturally the result of Simon's quiet arrangement.

There are other things tonight, and Simon doesn't plan to see the mother and daughter in the short term. The wild cat that was just caught will take a while to become tame.

What's more, Janet is also on the east coast. The woman went to Boston during the day to discuss a merger project that Cersei Capital has been promoting in recent months, and she is probably on her way back to New York at this time.

Shaking his head, Simon said to Alison: "Tell John Casablanca that there is no need to arrange any activities for the three of them in recent months, including tonight's party. I think the agency should be most familiar with how to hide their artists. "

Girl A nodded and reported some other things. After a brief processing, Simon left Daenerys Entertainment East Coast Headquarters in Greenwich Village and took a helicopter on the nearby Hudson River to the manor in Greenwich, Connecticut. , There is already a military affairs team specifically in contact with Rwanda waiting for Simon.

During breakfast, Simon told Warren Christopher that he is not used to being a supporting role. Therefore, during the daytime local time today, the mercenary troops of the Westeros system have carried out the first successful military operation according to their own plan.

Chapter 635 Cersei Capital Expansion Again (Revised)

Simon returned to the manor in Greenwich City. Janet, who had arrived ahead of schedule, greeted him in front of the villa, threw herself into the man's arms, made a kiss, and walked into the living room together, holding his arm.

Not in a hurry to pay attention to things in Africa, the couple sat down on the sofa in the living room, and Simon asked the woman about the results of her trip to Boston.

With the rise of Black Rock Asset Management Company under Cersei Capital, many large financial groups have begun to pay attention to this business. Before Black Rock, although professional asset management companies have been developed for many years, such companies with a scale of 2000 billion US dollars There is not one, and most financial companies have paid more attention to high-risk and high-yield fields such as hedge funds and private equity in recent years on the basis of traditional business.

Black Rock Asset Management Company wins entirely by scale, reaching a certain level of scale, the risk is still very low, but the income is high enough, which makes it impossible for other financial giants to calm down.

Wall Street has always been known as mysterious and powerful in the minds of later generations.

In fact, before the 90s, the strength of Wall Street was far from being as strong as after the new century, and the financial industries of European countries were still able to compete with the United States.

The real change in the pattern began in the 90s. The continuous economic turbulence and recession in Europe and Asia led to a large amount of capital flocking to the United States, where the economy continued to prosper. The federal authorities also continued to relax financial industry regulations in the 90s. Wall Street's dominance on a global scale is a strong situation.

Whether it is hedge funds, private equity or asset management industries, Wall Street in the 90s showed a ten-fold high-speed growth.

The total size of hedge funds has increased from tens of billions of dollars in the 80s to trillions of dollars after the new century.After the madness of the 80s, private equity no longer used leverage unrestrainedly, but the overall scale continued to increase.The business model is biased towards the conservative asset management industry, and it has developed from the highest asset management scale of tens of billions of dollars in the 80s to a super giant of trillions of dollars.

Considering the overall development strategy of the Westeros system, among the three subsidiaries of Cersei Capital, the Cersei Fund Management Company, which is mainly engaged in the hedge fund business, is the least valued by Simon, and the one that is in charge of Lawrence Fink is the most important. Black Rock Asset Management.

The total assets of Black Rock Asset Management Company have recently exceeded 2100 billion US dollars, but Simon is not satisfied.

Since the beginning of the year, Janet has been planning a severance, with the goal of Boston-based State Street Bank. This veteran banking giant was previously considering independent asset management business and the establishment of an independent asset management subsidiary similar to Black Rock.

Later, if people are interested in the ownership structure of large American companies, they will definitely find that whether it is an emerging technology company such as Apple, Google, and Amazon, or an established giant such as General Electric, Boeing, and Exxon Mobil, the public shareholders are usually at the forefront. Two names, 'BLACKROCK INC.' and 'STATE STREET CORP', the former is Black Rock Group, the latter is State Street Bank.

Even though the overall asset management scale has not been comparable to the Black Rock Group, the strength of State Street Bank, which is usually among the top five public shareholders of large companies like Black Rock, can be seen.

At this stage, the core business of State Street Bank is still concentrated in the traditional banking field. The asset management business is not operated independently, and the scale of controlled assets is only equivalent to one-tenth of the total assets of State Street Bank, which is about 600 billion US dollars.

Of course, the asset management scale of 600 billion US dollars is already at the level of giants in this era.

Before most financial giants only realized the development prospects of the asset management industry but did not fully see the importance of this industry's potential impact on the direction of the US economy in the future, Simon and Janet decisively launched a plan to try to cut off the Husband. The plan to spin off the asset management department of State Street Bank to operate independently was directly strangled in the cradle.

The feasibility of this plan is very high.

The core lies in the gold-lettered signboard of 'Cersei Capital'.

For the old-fashioned State Street Bank, using the asset management department, which is only one-tenth of its total business, in exchange for tickets to enter Cersei Capital, and then establish a close cooperative relationship with the entire Westeros system, this business is at least in the It's still pretty cheap right now.