Chapter 959 Two Questions

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"Simon, in fact, I don't want your money very much. I know you want to push me to the front to resist the pressure of public opinion. Obviously, I can't escape this fate. So, in exchange, talk about your relationship with Russia. What are your thoughts?"

Manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

After lunch, the work schedule continued, and Simon was talking to George Soros.

Actions against Southeast Asia have already begun, and the hedging team under Cersei Capital is also planning.

In order to minimize the operation volume of Cersei Capital and avoid being targeted by Asian countries, Simon hopes to put part of the funds into Soros' Quantum Fund. The two sides have negotiated an investment of 3 billion US dollars. protocol. After all, it is a big customer, and the follow-up of the Westeros system has a different meaning. Soros took the initiative to give a big discount in terms of management fees and commissions.

The financial mogul was just whining at this point.

In the past financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, Soros became the target of thousands of people, but to be honest, this big guy in the hedging field is more of a shield launched by the West to attract firepower. There are countless hunting capitals behind this giant crocodile. These capitals hunted wildly, wiped the blood on their mouths at will, and in a blink of an eye, they could jump out as a savior and re-harvest in Southeast Asia.

Simon wants to be a 'noble' savior even more.

The two had just discussed some details of the layout. Simon heard Soros mention Russia, and stared at himself, rubbing the coffee cup in his hand: "George, what do you want to know about my opinion on Russia?"

"Political prospects," Soros said, and added: "I know you have been to Russia some time ago, and the Westeros system has always had various layouts in Russia, but I don't understand what you are doing?"

"Political prospects, it is obvious that with our joint efforts, Yeltsin can be re-elected this time, and then everyone can very happily privatize large state-owned enterprises in Russia and divide up the interests."

Soros felt the banter in Simon's tone, but his expression became more cautious: "Simon, don't you think it's a good idea to permanently eliminate the hidden danger of Russia?"

"This is actually two questions," Simon also became serious: "Can we do it, and is it necessary for us to do it?"

"Um?"

Simon was about to continue speaking when a girl in a light pink sleeveless knee-length straight skirt came over with a pot of coffee in hand. Seeing the two of them looking at him together, she was a little embarrassed, but she still raised the coffee pot in her hand.

Watching the girl bend over to refill the coffee for the two, Simon smiled and said to the puzzled Soros, "This is Gemma, Sophia's daughter."

Soros naturally knew Sophia Fisher, and the slight displeasure in his expression immediately turned into kindness, and nodded to the girl with a smile.

Simon also said: "This is Mr. Soros, a very powerful financier."

Gemma put down the coffee pot and called out politely: "Hello, Mr. Soros, it's nice to meet you. Simon and Mom have both talked about you, the first person to beat the pound."

Soros smiled and shook hands with the little girl: "Hello, Gemma, you can call me George. Also, you are so beautiful."

"thanks."

After the two greeted, Simon said, "I'll leave at about four o'clock. Would you like to go to Los Angeles to watch the premiere of 007?"

Gemma didn't sit down, looked at Simon and said, "I just came over to say hello to you, so I won't go, and I still have homework."

"Let's put the homework aside, where do beautiful girls need to do homework, and some people will go with you. You can also bring a few friends and play on the west coast for a few days."

"Hehe, don't. Daniel went to the summer training camp. I can't leave my grandparents behind and run around."

The girl moved a little, but she quickly refused, leaned over and hugged Simon, said goodbye to Soros, picked up another empty coffee pot and turned to leave.

When Gemma disappeared, Soros complimented and turned the topic back to just now: "Simon, what two questions did you ask?"

"Yeah, two questions," Simon said after sorting out his thoughts a little: "First of all, since the Tsarist era, Russia has maintained a state of great power for hundreds of years, so it means that this country has a kind of deep-rooted power. Gene, this may sound a bit elusive, but it is a fact that cannot be ignored. It is doomed that it is difficult for Russia to completely fall. Moreover, it is more practical. Even if the Soviet Union has disintegrated, Russia's heritage is still there, and it is a nuclear weapon power. It's hard to keep dismembering and taking indirect control as you think."

Soros thought for a while, looked over again, and said, "Simon, I don't think anything is eternal. How do you know if you don't try it?"

"This is the second question," Simon took a sip of his coffee and continued: "Do we need to do this? There is a Chinese saying, to the effect that a country in a state of constant alertness and distress is more likely to be It is easy to survive, if there is a lack of enemies, long-term peace and slack, but may perish at any time."

"I see, Simon, you want to keep a strategic opponent like Russia?"

"That's right."

"Simon, I don't think the U.S. will ever lack a strategic adversary, like the China you just mentioned. And in my opinion, Russia is a rather uncertain and dangerous country."

Simon shook his head: "Times have changed, George, now

Not hundreds of years ago, not even decades ago, the world has formed an international order that will be fairly stable for a long time to come, so you don't need to think about things in the way you thought decades ago. . Unless the future leader of Russia is a lunatic, the country will inevitably follow the existing international order as much as possible, and even if it violates it, it will be punished accordingly. "

Soros thought for a moment and said again: "Simon, I still stick to my point of view."

Simon nodded with a smile: "Of course, you can implement your plan, and I will also implement my plan. This is not a conflict, and we don't even have a conflict of interest, because I won't be there in the next few years. More competition for Russian state-owned assets."

Historically, Soros began making big bets on Russia after Yeltsin was re-elected.

At the last secret meeting, Yeltsin’s daughter Tatyana talked about the privatization of shares of the Russian telecom giant that she would give to Simon as a gift. In the original time and space, it was the Russian oligarch Potanin who received the huge capital support provided by Soros. In addition to eating a lot of In the privatization of shares, Soros also bought a large amount of Russian government bonds and corporate bonds.

Until 1998, the Russian economy fell to the bottom, and there was even a rare default on national debts. Soros, who was still in high spirits in Southeast Asia, just returned from Russia after losing billions of dollars.

From Simon’s current point of view, what Soros is doing is actually a kind of economic infiltration. While making profits, he also tries to control the country by controlling the Russian economy on a strategic level.

Simon himself is actually doing this.

Soros ended in failure, which can be regarded as a negative case for Simon.

The main thing is to do what you can.

For great powers, do not expect absolute control, but strive for more influence step by step. As for a small country like Ukraine, which is destined to fall, it can be controlled. After all, this country that has been fooled to the point of abolishing martial arts is destined to be a standard pawn in the game of great powers in the future. will be true.

After sending Soros away, Celia Miller, who had arrived in advance, reported to Simon the results of negotiations with the French side.

The Chirac authorities largely agreed to Simon's request.

A senior French military officer who has been working quietly for two years will retire in the near future, and Paris may promise that there will be no more entanglements. At the same time, the French side also asked Simon to stop supporting Rwanda's continuous voice in the international community and let this matter pass.

Simon certainly has no objection.

This incident seems to have reached a good ending. In fact, both parties are well aware that it cannot be completely ended.

Just like the French side did not submit the evidence of the confessions of the captured soldiers of the French advisory group that Simon had kept at all, knowing that they would never come back, they would have no excuses.

What happens in the future, I will talk about it later.

Nothing more than you come and I go.

After talking about this matter, Simon and his entourage took a helicopter to JFK International Airport, where the Boeing 767 crew was already waiting to take off.

And there are people waiting.

After the first few times, Jerry Hall's daughter Elizabeth was already familiar with the way, and it happened to be summer vacation. A rude little girl who was completely used to calling Simon's father brought a group of friends to Los Angeles to participate in Simon's private jet. The premiere of Spectre 007.

This time there were no other parents except Jerry Hall.

On the contrary, Jerry Hall has brought three children, and then a group of liars who are already familiar with the girl, the Hilton sisters, the Kardashian sisters, etc., chatting a group, and this time Simon also accidentally discovered someone named Ivan. Card's girl, 14 years old, is already very tall.

After a little scratching, I understood why they were able to mix together.

Obviously a group of rebellious girls who are not very motivated, just like the daughter of a certain golden retriever, the photo of her teenage years wearing a chicken coop and smoking in public with a rebellious face can be said to be widely circulated, which can be seen from Manhattan. dial. And like Sophia's daughter Gemma, or Grace's daughter Rita, either a good girl or a very motivated, this is not something that can be played together.

When the private plane took off from JFK International Airport, the two little children were handed over to the maid, and the girls in the middle cabin were familiar and playful. Jerry Hall came to the front cabin and saw Simon sitting On the sofa by the porthole in the living room, he flipped through a document and looked a little dazed. He leaned over and sat down on the man's lap, wrapped his arms around his neck and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Simon put his arms around the woman's waist, put the document on those amazing long legs, and said casually, "I'm thinking about why there are no good children to play with me, all of them are unmotivated girls."

Jerry Hall laughed and said: "Liz and the others are still young, and they are already very good. Speaking of which, Liz has also opened a channel on the YouTube platform and has more than 600,000 fans. Her current petty use I don't need any money."

Simon nodded and nodded.

Jerry Hall glanced at the document in the man's hand, saw that Simon didn't seem to care, and took a few more glances before saying, "This is... um, are you planning to acquire the newspaper assets of the Hearst Group?"

The document in hand is an asset sale plan of the Hearst Group. The Hearst family, which has become increasingly bleak in the past two years, intends to sell another batch of newspapers. The project is in charge of Goldman Sachs.

Then naturally it came to Simon.

Shaking his head, Simon said, "Just look."

For the Hearst Group, Simon has never completely let go, so he has been staring at it intentionally or unintentionally.

, With the unique advantage of the prophet, Simon only needs to ensure that the family does not go on the right path, and the decline is inevitable.

Just like two years ago, Simon has already divested all the cable TV assets that the Hearst Group later occupied more than half of the family assets and had long-term growth potential, especially the 20% stake in ESPN. Now, the Hearst family is only confined to The rapidly declining print media sector.

Due to the chain reaction brought about by the Westeros system, the Hearst Group declined faster than the print media industry in the past two years. Just like the most valuable "San Francisco Chronicle" under the Hearst Group, as the second largest newspaper in California after the "Los Angeles Times", after entering 1996, it has begun to lose money and its value has shrunk significantly.

In a few years, even bankruptcy is not impossible.

In order to prevent the dog from jumping over the wall, the fish died and the net broke, Simon has not done much, and it is completely a slow pressure like a frog boiled in warm water. Even in the end, in fact, the Hearst family can still retain considerable family assets, enough to maintain a fairly good life, but this The family will no longer have the right to speak in public opinion in American society that could even provoke a war.

Of course, Jerry Hall, who knew about Simon's entanglement with the Hearst family, didn't ask any more questions. He chatted with the man about some recent things, and after a while, he leaned into Simon's ear and said, "Shall we go to the bedroom, four? an hour."

Four hours later, the Boeing 767 landed at Los Angeles National Airport, just five o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast.

The red carpet for the premiere also started at five o'clock.

Simon didn't plan to walk the red carpet, so he was in no hurry, but Jerry Hall wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to show his face, so he was dressed up on the plane, got off the plane, and took the extended courtesy car to the city center. Holy Citizen Auditorium.

Choosing the Holy Citizen Auditorium for the premiere of Spectre, rather than Hollywood's Chinese Theatre, was a big deal for MGM.

This was the beginning of a new phase for MGM.

Not to be missed.

Therefore, it can be said to do their best.

Simon and the playful group of girls took a few other cars, but they didn't condone the request of these girls to go to the red carpet. They were all big stars, and it was too imprecise to put a group of girls on it.

So we arrived at the Great Hall of the Holy Citizen and entered directly from the back door.

The girls ran to take their seats. Simon didn't walk the red carpet. He still had to take a few promotional photos. He and Shirley Lansing came to a media area in the auditorium. Schwarzenegger came over with his wife and greeted Simon warmly with some flattery.

Simon, of course, knew why Schwarzenegger came to the premiere.

For the "Terminator" copyright thing.

This matter has been almost settled. However, because the partner Schwarzenegger found was Disney controlled by Vivendi, the French side made small moves a few days ago, and also deliberately blocked Daenerys Entertainment related films in France. After the release review, Simon naturally retaliated, and there is no reason to shelve the "Terminator" negotiations.

Now is the time to let go.

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