"Because many companies will announce their quarterly and annual earnings reports this month, January is the most likely time for accidents, Joe, I want you to keep an eye on the Federal Reserve's side, not only can you not announce interest rate hikes this month, but even the news of interest rate hikes cannot be spread, once there are rumors, Greenspan needs to come forward personally at a critical moment, and this also needs you to operate. ”

"Greenspan is not a big problem, he ends his second term this year, the president will announce in February whether he supports him for re-election, as long as he communicates well with the White House, at least until February, he will cooperate with us. ”

"Very good," Simon nodded with satisfaction, looked at Joseph Schlap on the sofa opposite, and said, "Finally, Joe, this matter has a lot at stake, and I have to remind you that if you have personal funds to operate, you just need to say hello and put it on Cersei Capital's side." Yourself, and those around you, I don't want to see any speculation about tech stocks taking this opportunity. ”

When Joseph Schlap heard this, his heart sank slightly, and he hurriedly said: "Simon, I promise you that there will be no news flowing out of me like this, let alone the situation you said. ”

"I hope so, Joe, you will also understand over the years that I have never wronged those who have been loyal to me, and I hope you will never let me down. ”

Inside an estate in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

Simon and Joseph Schlap finished talking and walked out of the study together, where the maids were busy tidying up.

Today is Friday, January 3rd.

After more than a month on the East Coast, the Westeros family is finally returning to Los Angeles, waiting for the two Jennies to leave with the children first, and Simon to leave on Sunday.

Not long after sending Schlap away, a custom Black Eagle from the Westeros family also landed on the lawn, and Janet got off the plane and went straight to Simon, who was guarding the door of the villa.

Hugging affectionately, holding the man's arm and returning to the villa, Janet talked about the meeting with the senior management of Cersei Capital in Manhattan: "It has been arranged, Cersei Capital is the leader, Goldman Sachs, Morgan, First Boston and several other companies will try their best to cooperate to ensure that once the market changes, there will be no one-sided selling frenzy." And, even when I return to Los Angeles, I will continue to follow up in person during this time. ”

"In terms of the media, James on the East Coast will also be watching in person in the near future, so, think about it, are there any other questions?"

"There will definitely be problems, but if we get to this point, it won't be a problem for the Nasdaq to survive until February or even March, and after that, it won't be necessary. ”

As the two spoke, Jennifer pulled little Nick to appear, handed the little guy to Simon, and said, "It's ready, can you go?"

Simon picked up his son and nodded, "I'll take you to the airport." ”

Two of the Westeros family's three private Boeing 767s are parked at Westchester County Airport in New York State, less than 5 kilometers from the North Suburbs estate.

The sun shines just right on a winter afternoon.

Watching the two women take off with their children on two private jets one after another, the Boeing 767 turned into a black dot and disappeared into the blue sky, and Simon, who was guarding the runway, returned.

Counting the time, except for Simon's brief return to the West Coast, the family has been here for more than a month.

And certainly not just because of the festive atmosphere on the East Coast.

In addition to sorting out the Westeros system at the end of the year, another important thing is to lay out the layout for the new technology bubble that is about to burst.

Simon's meeting with Joseph Schlap, Janet's morning meeting in Manhattan, James Raybould's follow-up on the East Coast media arrangements, blah blah blah, blah blah blah.

From the end of the U.S. election in early November last year to the end of December, in just two months, the scale of short and outright short selling of Nasdaq futures for the new technology bubble increased rapidly from about $10 billion before the election to more than $40 billion.

The dominance of this large-scale short selling is none other than Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund and the Mellon family, who are standing behind it.

Of the more than $40 billion in short positions, Tiger Funds accounted for nearly half.

Although the cumulative losses of shorts have exceeded $3 billion in just two months due to the continued strength of the Nasdaq, the short capitals of all parties have no intention of retreating and continue to bet. After all, as long as it is not delivered, the loss will only be a floating loss on the book after all, and once the operation is smooth and the Nasdaq collapses, it may only take a day for the huge loss on the book to turn into a profit.

The Westeros system, as the biggest beneficiary of the boom in the new technology industry, must stand on the opposite side of the bears in any way.

Of course, the Westeros system is not going it alone.

In recent years, not to mention the capital of all parties that have made large profits from the new technology industry, even Washington, from the White House to the Congress, have taken advantage of the prosperity of the new technology industry to grab quite a lot of political capital.

Therefore, this game under the leadership of the Westeros system, through the layout of capital, politics, media and other levels, even if it is still impossible to prevent the collapse of the Nasdaq, which is too serious after all, the bubble will eventually become too serious, and it is still easy to achieve the goals of delaying the collapse of the Nasdaq to the greatest extent, letting as much short capital as possible go home, and striking at the conservative old money forces in the United States.

Sending the woman and the children away, Simon took a helicopter to Manhattan.

For the rest of the afternoon, there was no other work arrangement, but secretly accompanied Lin Su to take a pregnancy test.

This is the sixth.

Lin Su quietly prepared for pregnancy for several months after someone mentioned it at the beginning, and returned to North America last month, and the time was just right, so she easily got pregnant.

At the same time, six women are pregnant with their own children, and in some moments, Simon is inevitably stressed. Fortunately, if you think about it carefully, the last thing you lack is milk powder money, and when the child is born in the future, you don't need to be a daddy in person, and it is a lot easier.

All right.

However, it will certainly not be easy to have children in the next few years.

After all, Simon hopes that the little ones can grow up to be qualified heirs of the Westeros family in the future, and if there are too many, it is inevitable that they will not be able to take care of them.

Upper West Side, Manhattan.

The residence of Chen Qing and Lin Su, in the evening, Chen Qing, who had worked all day, returned, and saw his boss sitting in the living room flipping through a Chinese, and the strong woman temperament on her body was quickly swept away, and she pounced pitifully: "Boss......"

Simon casually hugged the woman's slender body, but he was unmoved, and said with a serious expression: "Remind me, you and Ah Su are good sisters, and the child is also the two of you, and some thoughts must not be used on her, understand?"

Chen Qing originally wanted to be coquettish, but felt the solemnity in the man's tone, although his expression was still aggrieved, he nodded very formally: "I know, boss, Asu's child was originally the two of us." Hmm, I just, I want to give you one too?"

"I said a long time ago, at least until you're 30. ”

"Okay, okay. ”

After speaking, he changed into a more comfortable posture in Simon's arms, and looked at the book in the man's hand together, but it was a copy of "Emperor Kangxi", which was actually taken back by Chen Qing in the past few days.

"Boss, how is this book?"

"I only saw the beginning, but the first big project after the completion of the Ming and Qing Dynasty palaces as Jinshu Cinemas is very suitable. ”

Lin Su came in with a fruit bowl at this time, and when he saw Chen Qinglai in Simon's arms, he was still demonstrating to him with a provocative look, so he simply ignored it, just gently put down the fruit bowl and sat quietly next to him.

Chen Qing leaned over and held the fruit plate, and while feeding his boss, he said: "Jinshu Media has recently selected several TV projects, and I was about to show them to the boss," he said to the waitress Lily Favir, and said: "Boss, China's TV drama industry has developed very well in recent years, I think we don't need to wait for Jinshu Film and Television City to be built to start, and movies, "If You Have Something to Say" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" have been filmed, it is also time to select new projects. ”

With that, Lily Favier quickly brought over a stack of materials.

Chen Qing handed the fruit bowl to Christina, another waitress next to her, took the information, and said to Simon: "Last year, there was a very popular TV series in China, called "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", which tells the story of Liu Yong, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, and a corrupt official and Shen. Among them, the actor who played Qianlong planned a new project called "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", well, boss, Kangxi, Qianlong, you should know all of these, right?"

Simon smiled and nodded, still a little surprised, he didn't expect the Jinshu Media team to get the famous "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", compared to "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", which only filmed one, this is a super long-lived and popular series.

On second thought, though, it's not surprising.

China's film and television industry is currently only so many people, and the circle is very small.

Chen Qing continued to introduce, and Simon also followed him to look through a thick stack of film and television project materials from China.

In addition to "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" and "Kangxi Dynasty", which I just saw the original work, I soon found a project that surprised Simon, "Dragon Babu".

"This, what's going on?"

"Boss, you read this at the beginning, I still remember your evaluation of this book, boss, well, a group of idiots, I also read this book recently, and I find more and more that what you said makes sense, boss. ”

Chen Qingbala a few words, and explained: "In recent years, Hong Kong's TVB TV has been remaking Jin Yong's martial arts series, and this year it happens to be going to launch "Dragon Babu", Jinshu, boss, you must also know some of the situation in China, so the Jinshu team took the initiative to seek cooperation with Hong Kong and Taiwan, which can not only learn from experience and take the opportunity to cultivate their own team, but also accumulate political capital, "Dragon Babu" is such a project, Jinshu intends to join forces with TVB and CCTV to create an annual martial arts drama co-produced by China and Hong Kong. Of course, these are just intentions, boss, if you don't agree, I'll let them cancel. ”

Simon didn't answer immediately, but asked, "What is the name of the person in charge of Jinshu Media?"

"Wu Shanlin," Chen Qing said, noticing his boss's expression, and immediately asked for credit with a smile: "This is what I recruited, he is a fellow countryman of mine, graduated from Peking University, originally worked in the radio and television system of Jiangsu Province, a very capable person." ”

"You can cultivate more in the future," Simon said directly: "As for these projects, this year you can do "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" and "Tianlong Babu" first, and "Kangxi Dynasty" will be done after the completion of the Ming and Qing Dynasty palaces as I just said." ”

As he spoke, he continued to scroll down.

Although some other projects have been seen, they are not as influential as the three parts of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", and it was not until a stack of project introductions was about to bottom out that I saw another one: "Mansion Gate".

Chen Qing saw Simon's attention and took the initiative to explain: "This is introduced by Zhang, telling the story of the rise and fall of a Chinese medical family for a hundred years. Boss, if you're interested, I have a detailed script document on my computer. ”

Simon just read the thin pages of the project introduction in his hand and said, "With this one, I won't read the script." ”

Saying that he continued to flip, the last few projects were not too impressed, Simon skipped directly, and said while turning to the film project information below: "On the Chinese side, I haven't thought about making any money in the media, however, this does not mean that the team of the Jinshu Department can toss casually, the shortcoming over there happens to be commercial operations, China does not lack film and television talents who can make good works, but it is often impossible to fully tap the commercial potential of a project, which is what the Jinshu Department needs to pursue for many years in the future." Anyway, if one day I find out that I'm not doing well, I'll pull out all the support, you remember to tell them. ”

Chen Qing nodded in remembrance.

Simon looked at the film project materials in his hand, remembered one thing, and said: "Didn't you say Hong Kong and Taiwan, why haven't you seen the cooperation project with Taiwan?"

"I haven't found a suitable one yet. ”

Simon thought for a while and said casually: "Qiong Yao, it must be right to look for her." ”

"Huanzhu Gege" is such a phenomenal TV series, don't be in vain, as for all kinds of bad things that happened later, maybe you can eat melons for decades far away.

Chen Qing was surprised again: "Boss, you even know Qiong Yao?"

"Well, it's definitely the right thing to look for her anyway. ”

"Then I'll let Jinshu contact him as soon as possible. ”

Saying this, Simon has quickly seen a film project in his memory, "The Devil is Coming".

Chen Qing said on the side: "This is the latest creation of the screenwriter of "Something to Say", I think it is unlikely that it will be released in China, but it should be able to win awards overseas, and there will definitely be benefits." ”

Simon finished reading it quickly and shook his head directly: "I remember telling you that Jinshu tries to only make entertainment movies in China, especially these movies that may cause controversy, don't touch any of them." ”

Actually, there is another reason.

It's okay to be an actor, if you are a director, Simon will never cooperate with Lao Jiang's money-burning pit goods, even if it is "Let the Bullets Fly".

Chen Qing is as kind as flowing: "Then I'll let Wu refuse." ”

Lin Su didn't know when to get up and leave to prepare dinner, Simon hugged Chen Qing to finish reading the movie project materials in his hand, different from TV projects with a lot of treasures, except for another "Party A and Party B" recommended by Feng Pants, who was personally sent by Simon to Jinshu and was preparing for "Love Call Transfer", there was no other script that interested Simon.

In the end, only one "Party A and Party B" will be determined.

In addition to "Something to Say" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which entered the later stage, there are also "Love Call Transfer" and "Hero", plus a "Party A and Party B", which is enough for Jinshu Media to be busy for two years.

After reading the information in his hand, Simon and Chen Qing discussed the development plan of the Jinshu Department in the next few years, until Lin Su came over to call someone for dinner.

After spending one night with Lin Su and her two daughters on Friday and visiting several other pregnant women over the weekend, Simon finally left for Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.