Celia Miller didn't understand what was going on from beginning to end, and watched Simon burn the page with the time and place on it, and didn't ask more, but waited for her boss to sit down behind his desk again and report something else.

"As for the suppressed article of the Ukrainian newspaper "Rural News", it has been found that behind it is sponsored by a French-controlled offshore NGO registered as the Foundation for Transparency in Eastern Europe, and two employees of this foundation are currently working in Kiev to find other channels for publication, but they are already under our surveillance. ”

It happened more than a week ago.

One of Ukraine's most widely circulated newspapers, Rural News, almost published an investigative article with the headline "Rivne Oblast is becoming a colony of the Westeros system."

The word colony is directly brought up in the article.

It is conceivable that given the current turbulent and sensitive political situation in Eastern Europe, once this article is published, it will inevitably cause an uproar.

With the support of the Westeros system, Rivne Oblast has become one of the best economic regions in Ukraine at this time, so even if this article is published, the people of Rivne Region will not actually have much backlash.

However, in recent years, the various benefits obtained by the Rivne region have not fallen on the people of other regions and counties of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian people who are at the lowest point are the most inciting people at this time, and since they have not fallen into the benefits, there will be no pity for destroying them.

When the time comes, under the raging public opinion, the Kiev authorities will need to give an explanation to the public anyway.

No matter what degree of explanation, it will inevitably damage the layout of the Westeros system in Rivne, and even, if it touches the UFMS that Simon values most, it is equivalent to hurting the foundation of the layout of the Westeros system in Ukraine.

France again!

Simon tugged at the corners of his mouth slightly.

I've been chasing and biting for a few years, and I'm just a flat-headed brother.

Don't bother to get angry.

Moreover, it sounds ironic that a country that has a large number of French colonies around the world, even in the 21st century, would jump out and accuse others of colonization.

But.

Colonies.

That's a good idea.

Celia saw Simon leaning back in her chair as if she was thinking about something, and waited for a moment before she said again, "Boss, do you want us to use those materials about Rwanda again to fight back?"

Simon was brought back to his thoughts by Celia's words, and nodded, "You can arrange it." ”

The idea that has just arisen is not carried out in a day or two. Now that the French are scratching again, Simon doesn't mind calling back immediately.

Since it is the same entanglement that began in Rwanda two years ago, let's continue.

Celia noticed that her boss obviously had other ideas, but she still didn't ask, and reported the general situation of this 'lawn mowing operation', mainly some obvious matters that she was responsible for.

There are some dark operations in private, neither Simon nor Celia will personally mess with them.

After all, nothing is foolproof in many things, but as long as it is not directly operated, even if it is exposed in the future, there is too much room for manoeuvre, such as the most classic excuse often used by some people whenever a scandal breaks out: not knowing.

I do not know.

It's all the people below who are good at making claims.

At most, I quit my job and change the pit.

What else?

When Simon and Celia finished talking, it was already noon.

After lunch, Simon leaves the Spa Manor and the first stop is the military base of the UFMS.

In order to ensure loyalty and build a private army with the true attribute of 'Westerosian', Simon launched a plan to train UFMS mercenaries from scratch last year, selecting teenagers over the age of 16 for all-round training such as cultural education and military training, which has been effective.

Simon watched a group of UFMS recruits with still youthful faces conducting military drills, and directly communicated with some of them in English.

These people will be the real descendants of the Wei family's private army in the future.

However, if you want to officially enter the battlefield, you have to wait at least until they are 18 years old, and not all of them can stay, the initial selection is already very strict, and after two years, the final ones who can stay will still only be 12 out of 10.

The attributes of the Wei family's private army are destined to be too big, and they can only work the quality of individual soldiers.

So Simon only needs special forces.

It's not much more expensive.

Two hours later, leaving the UFMS military base, Simon went to the Ukrainian Peace Military Theme Park, which had officially opened.

After more than a year of preparation, the 20-square-kilometer military theme park quietly opened on April 1 this year, after all, it is different from the usual theme park venues, and has adopted a customized package strategy, mainly for Western Europe and North America to provide a variety of military experiences with prices between $2,000 and $10,000.

Depending on the package, visitors can experience everything from the most basic types of firearms to the most advanced fighter jet flights.

In addition to the package, in order to increase the popularity of the theme park, it also provides the most basic admission tickets for local and overseas tourists, which are very cheap, so you can only visit the various military facilities inside the theme park according to the limited route, and you can only watch from the sidelines such as shooting targets, driving tanks, and flying planes.

As it is still in the trial operation stage, the park is currently only accepting 300 package bookings per month.

After all, it's not the kind of self-guided tour that Universal Studios has, and it's dangerous. Therefore, Simon repeatedly asked for only one thing for the operation of this theme park: safety, safety, and safety.

Because in the event of an accident, although a perfect insurance plan has been purchased, this kind of thing will inevitably seriously affect the reputation of the theme park.

Without tourists, everything else is in vain.

In order to achieve this, for package visitors, no matter what kind of package, they will be accompanied by one-on-one escort throughout the whole process to ensure maximum safety.

After the official opening, through the accurate advertising and marketing operations in relevant military magazines and online military forums in Europe and the United States in the early stage of the opening, as well as the word of mouth of tourists who completed the experience, not only the 300 tourist places in the first two months were sold out, but now the reservation places have been lined up in August.

So much so that the person in charge of the theme park has repeatedly proposed to shorten the six-month trial operation period.

Just didn't get a response.

On the other hand, in the first two months of opening, the theme park's revenue was $1.96 million and $2.07 million, respectively.

If such revenue figures are placed on any Universal Studios owned by Daenerys Entertainment, it can definitely be described as miserable. For this military theme park, it is to the delight of all other shareholders outside the Westeros system. 、

Because the cost is really low.

The land is allocated directly by the government of the Rivne region, and it is basically not money.

weapons, which Ukraine does not lack the most at this stage.

A large number of military equipment left over from the former Soviet era has been directly discarded, no one wants to dismantle scrap iron, the industrial system has collapsed, factories have been shut down in a large area, why do you want scrap iron?

Therefore, the first few troops almost fought in order to provide weapons to this theme park in exchange for shares, and the most expensive part of the expenses was not money at all, and whether it was tanks, planes, or several military ships in the artificial lake of the theme park, etc., the equipment was selected to be the latest and greatest.

Finally, there is infrastructure.

This part of the money was taken out by the Westeros system.

However, because one of the military shareholders directly transferred a regiment of sappers to volunteer labor during the construction process, and even brought their own machinery, even if Simon, a fairly good capitalist, took the initiative to give those soldiers some additional salary subsidies on the basis of food and housing, the final construction of all facilities such as artificial lakes, airstrips, standard shooting ranges, leisure and accommodation areas, etc., was completed, and the total investment was only 30 million US dollars.

This figure actually exceeded Simon's initial expectations, but it is still not the same order of magnitude as Universal Studios, which is often at the level of 1 billion.

And, now it seems, the income is also quite substantial.

The monthly income of the trial operation has reached the level of 2 million US dollars, and the converted cost of various labor, fuel, ammunition, etc. is less than 400,000 US dollars, and the gross profit is more than 80%.

It's just a huge profit.

Simon is also clear that this state of affairs is unlikely to last forever.

Because at this stage, the theme park mainly consumes all kinds of materials inherited by the Ukrainian army from the former Soviet Union, and the price is almost the level of a pack of instant noodles in the former Soviet Union in the nineties.

However, the future will be discussed in the future.

Simon spent half an hour at the military theme park, then moved on to a nearby hunting ground and then to a hot spring resort.

The theme park, hunting grounds, and hot spring resorts in the northern part of Rivni City have been combined to form a large-scale resort center where you can escape the heat in the summer and hot springs in the winter, and in addition to the hot spring baths, the hot spring resort also has a variety of Vegas-style entertainment venues such as casinos, theaters, bars, and clubs.

It's all the Westeros team that's in charge.

Although it has not been open for a long time, it has become famous because of the relatively low consumption level and the fact that the Westeros system uses resources for global marketing.

Leaving the resort area, Simon visited several important industries of the Westeros system in Rivne, such as a fertilizer factory in charge of Catherina's father Maxim Noskov, a furniture factory owned by the Aldecker company, and a Nokia factory in the northern suburbs of Rivni.

When I came to the bustling shopping street where I happened to meet Yulia Antonenko last year, it was past eight o'clock in the evening. Even though the summer days in Rivni are just as long, the night is already covering.

Finally, dine in a high-end restaurant operated by the Westeros system on the high street.

Throughout the afternoon, in addition to Celia Miller and her entourage, several core members of the Westeros system in Rivne Oblast, including the head of UFMS Kerim Derevyanko, the head of Ordeck Sergei Komorov, the head of Rivni Media and Entertainment Alexander Lyudaev, and the governor of Rivne Oblast personally selected by Simon last year, Andrei Smirnov, and others.

Simon was actually patrolling his territory.

Like the lion king.

Simon wasn't a fan of this kind of thing, but there were some things that had to be done. Because if you don't do this, over time, some people may gradually forget who has the final say in the area.