Chapter 862: Forever Comrades
The private plane with a silver base and red stripes soared in the clouds like an eagle.
Lily and Elizabeth came out of the bedroom at the back and slumped on the sofa chair. They seemed exhausted and leaned their heads against each other and didn't want to talk.
Martin came out and sat opposite them.
The captain's reminder suddenly sounded in the cabin, and everyone was asked to fasten their seat belts because of the air current ahead.
Martin glanced at the opposite side. Lily and Elizabeth seemed to have not come out of the blank state of their brains yet, so he hurried over to help them fasten their seat belts.
He returned to his seat and fastened his seat belt as well. Not long after, the plane began to shake.
Elizabeth was the first to come to her senses and hugged Lily next to her.
The latter had a little fear of flying, and got into Elizabeth's arms without saying a word.
A few minutes later, the plane returned to normal.
Martin asked the flight attendant to bring two glasses of fruit wine and said to Lily, "Drink something sweet and you will recover soon."
Lily had lost a lot of water before, so she picked up the glass and drank the fruit wine in a few gulps, and said to the flight attendant, "Give me another glass of lemonade, thank you."
Seeing that her condition had improved, Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The air flow on this route is very strong."
Martin said, "I asked the airport, and it's not a big problem." He said another thing: "Earlier this year, Leo, that idiot, went to Russia to participate in an event and encountered severe convective weather on the way. There is a wing that falls off. He thought he would die on that plane. Lying in her arms, reminding Martin: "Don't scare her." Lili lay on a soft place. After she didn't want to ignore her dizzy, Martin, who asked her to stun the chicken, took out her mobile phone and looked up. Elizabeth looked down and said, "A fan of you built a website for you and got a lot of people to respond." Lily put his mobile phone on the table. "John Wick 3 is a big hit at the box office, you are too popular." Elizabeth was obviously worried: "On the Internet, you are almost becoming a god-like figure."
Martin understood what she meant: "It's not easy to be a god. It will be very troublesome if something goes wrong later."
In his impression, there is no god created on the Internet that will not fail, not to mention that there are actually a lot of negative information about itself.
Lily sat up straight and said to Elizabeth: "Why don't we find a few media to discredit Martin, this bastard!"
Elizabeth smiled dimples: "This is a good idea. Instead of letting people discredit you endlessly later, it is better for us to discredit you in a controlled way, break these deification movements, and let people know that you are just a person, not the god they think you are."
Martin fully agreed: "This matter is left to you two."
Lily had just attended an art exhibition and had no work recently. She said: "Liz and I promise to get this done."
Bruce waved over here.
Elizabeth saw it and reminded Martin: "Old Bruce is looking for you."
Martin got up and went to the front and sat opposite Bruce.
Bruce whispered, "Alexandrovich is about to get the results."
Martin knew that this was about the election for the president of Ukraine.
Bruce added, "In the last poll, Alexandrovich's support rate was close to 80%."
Martin nodded and asked, "Will the results be out today?"
Bruce looked at the time, calculated the time difference, and said, "It's probably about time."
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Kiev, Parliament Building.
When the election results were announced, there was a loud explosion at the scene, and nearly 70% of people cheered loudly.
In front of the TV, countless Ukrainian people were excited. They were looking forward to finally welcoming a brand new president, a president who truly belonged to the Ukrainian people, a president who could lead Ukraine to regain its glory.
The past twenty years have proved that politicians and oligarchs cannot save Ukraine.
But the Ukrainian people believe that a national hero can save this fragmented and impoverished country.
Most Ukrainians put their hopes on Alexandrovich.
Inside the parliament hall, Alexandrovich looked calm and composed. Although he hugged and celebrated with every member of the campaign team, he did not show any ecstasy.
Over the past year, he has become more mature and knows how to hide his thoughts.
Alexandrovich was originally an actor, and his acting skills are pretty good.
He then gave a victory speech, once again stating that he would lead Ukraine to a completely new path!
Ukrainians were very encouraged.
These people had no idea that Alexandrovich had already completed his transformation from an actor to a politician.
The election results were out, and there was still some time before he could take over.
Surrounded by bodyguards, Alexandrovich and Olena and his wife left the parliament building and got into a bulletproof car.
As the car left the city center, Alexandrovich received a call.
He was not surprised. After a few words, he took the initiative to invite the other party to the subsequent celebration dinner.
The bulletproof car arrived at the Ukrainian Grand Hotel, where Igor, the boss of the Privat Group, was waiting for him in the hotel.
Before the celebration dinner began, Alexandrovich invited Igor into the reception room he had prepared.
Igor has a gray beard and looks suave, a typical old handsome man. He smiled and said, "Congratulations on your successful election."
Alexandrovich smiled and said, "It should be congratulations to us."
Igor laughed and said, "How is your cabinet formation going?"
Alexandrovich replied seriously, "The personnel are basically determined."
Igor nodded and waited for him to express his opinion.
Alexandrovich lowered his voice and said, "What we agreed on will be done immediately after I take office and stabilize the situation."
Because of the close proximity to Russia in the east in recent years, Igor has been sanctioned by Western countries led by the United States, and the group's business has been greatly affected. He supports Alexandrovich and intends to ease relations with the West through him.
There is no way. In the eyes of arrogant Westerners, he, a Ukrainian tycoon, is not a human being at all. It is easy to be sanctioned, but it is difficult to unblock.
Igor saw clearly that the democracy and freedom that the West talked about were all nonsense. Not to mention ordinary people in Ukraine and Russia, even billionaires would be just fish on the chopping board if they went there.
Or the kind that was delivered to the door on their own initiative.
Alexandrovich said again: "This matter is a bit troublesome. When I take office, please provide the necessary data and information, Mr. Igor, so that I can do things more efficiently."
Igor was very satisfied with the attitude of the upcoming commander-in-chief: "I have asked someone to sort it out and will give it to you later."
Alexandrovich stood up and bowed to Igor at 90 degrees: "Thank you Mr. Igor for your support!"
This attitude made Igor even more satisfied. He quickly stood up and helped Alexandrovich up: "We are friends and comrades-in-arms. We will fight side by side in the future."
Alexandrovich shook Igor's hand heavily: "We are comrades-in-arms forever!"
The celebration dinner began, and Alexandrovich and Olena and his wife moved around the crowd with ease.
Because he was born in the entertainment industry, his campaign team is basically composed of people from the entertainment industry.
These people are about to take important positions.
Alexandrovich must reward people according to their merits, and has drawn up a list of important positions early.
For example, the future secretary-general will be producer Trofimov, the mayor of Kiev will be his boxing champion friend, and a TV producer who has worked with him for a long time will be the director of the Security Bureau.
In short, this will be the first government to absorb a large number of TV and film comedians to hold important positions.
After the dinner, Alexandrovich and Olena returned home.
The two entered the study and talked about something.
This study, according to Bruce's suggestion, has been specially modified to shield all electronic signals.
Olena asked, "What does Igor want someone to do?"
"Let me complete the things I promised and let me be his friend and comrade forever..." Alexandrovich certainly knew what these meant: "He wants me to be a puppet of the Privat Group forever."
Olina was quite indignant: "Martin helped us so much and never asked for anything."
Alexandrovich raised his hand to interrupt his wife: "That was in the past, who can say what will happen in the future."
"No matter what you do, I will support you." Olena held her husband's hand: "But I want to remind you that our roots are in the west."
Alexandrovich said slowly: "I promised all Ukrainians , will fight corruption, regulate the market order, increase market reform, and develop the Ukrainian economy. ”
He had thought about it long ago: "Even if some promises cannot be fulfilled, I must show enough gestures, so that I can sit firmly in that position. Developing the economy is too difficult. To be honest, I don’t know how to develop it, but the first three items are easy for Ukrainians to see the results. ”
Olina immediately understood: "Attacking the oligarchs?"
"Yes, just like I said last time, take Igor and Privas Group as the first!" Alexandrovich said: "This can express my determination to fight corruption and market reform to Ukraine and the world!"
Olina reminded: "It is difficult for us to do it alone."
Alexandrovich said: "I will offer the Privas Group to Martin and his allies. The Americans will help us."
Olina looked at her husband with a hint of admiration in her eyes.
Martin must pay back the favor he owes. After all, they decided to take the Western route, and the Privas Group wanted to control them and make them puppets, but they didn't want to be puppets.
It just so happened that they could use the power of the Western Group to suppress the Privas Group. With the power in their hands at that time, it is very likely that the Privas Group will be defeated.
The property of the Privas Group can also serve as a bridge to the West.
That night, Alexandrovich and Olena and his wife discussed almost all night.
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At Los Angeles International Airport, a business jet with a silver background and red stripes landed on a private apron.
Several bodyguards who stayed in Los Angeles drove several Cadillacs to pick them up.
Martin and his party got in the car and headed straight for Beverly Hills.
After returning home, Martin went to sleep with Lily and Elizabeth first.
The two girls may have been exhausted on the plane, and fell asleep after taking a shower.
Martin came downstairs, and Bruce was waiting in the living room.
The two went to the study.
Bruce closed the door and said, "The results from Ukraine are out, and Alexandrovich was elected with an absolute advantage."
Martin said, "It's an expected result."
Bruce said, "Alexandrovich called ten minutes ago and wanted to discuss something very important with us before taking office."
Martin was not in a hurry and waited for him to continue.
Bruce did not stop talking: "He plans to consolidate his power after taking office, and then use anti-corruption and market reform as a breakthrough to attract the support of the Ukrainian people, especially the military. His target is the Privas Group, and he asked the Western world whether it could help him deal with this oligarchic group."
He paused and added: "If we can give support, he plans to let Olena go to Paris to talk to our people."
Martin had discussed this matter with Louise and Kelly before. The latter used a lot of political connections to effectively suppress the backlash of some Ukrainian forces.
To put it bluntly, the Western faction can be used to attack the Eastern faction like Privas who are inclined to the Russians and the Tsar.
Martin thought for a while and said: "Old Bruce, go to Paris and meet Olena."
This matter may involve billions of dollars, and Bruce did not refuse at all: "I have an appointment with them and will go to Paris this week."
Martin then contacted Louise and Kelly and went out to meet Louise again.
In the following week, Martin took a vacation, threw away all his work, and accompanied Lily and Elizabeth to travel around.
The three of them also went to Hawaii together.
At the same time, "John Wick 3" continued to be a hit in North America. After a month of screening, the speed of collecting box office revenues slowed down significantly, and the North American box office accumulated to 456 million US dollars.
Overseas, employees who may be absent from the world's second largest film market, overseas box office revenues are always slightly lower than North America, and the current overseas box office has accumulated 366 million US dollars.
Offline channels are also negotiating. Netflix took the initiative to find Davis Studio and wanted to purchase the holiday network on-demand rights of "John Wick 3", and the offer reached 80 million US dollars in the first year.
But the premise is that the DVD cannot be released within half a year after the film is off the shelves in the theater.
The two sides are still negotiating because Netflix's price is not high enough.
Although the DVD revenue of Hollywood movies has been declining year by year since 2012, the situation that DVDs can sell more than 100 million US dollars in the first few months of listing has become a thing of the past, but the first-year sales of DVDs of popular films are not a problem to sell 60 to 70 million US dollars.