Malibu.

Perhaps because of the jet lag, Janet woke up before Simon.

The faint morning light broke into the bedroom through the cracks in the curtains, and it was still early.

Feeling the breath of the man next to her, Janet rubbed and quickly climbed on top of the man, enjoying the feeling of skin to skin, leaning over Simon and kissing him, then retracted his chest again, and squinted again.

A pair of powerful arms wrapped around her waist, and the two of them pressed closer together.

Knowing that Simon was also awake, Janet's face rubbed against his chest, her voice rustled softly, and she beckoned, "Morning." ”

"Hmmm......"

Listening to the man's weak response, Janet laughed a few times, opened her mouth and bit the man, and said, "Little bastard, I was going to be tossed to death by you last night." ”

Simon just hummed again.

Janet said this, but there was no accusatory air in her words, but with a full sense of happiness. The fact that he can toss himself like a little tiger who has been hungry for many days shows that a person must rarely mess with flowers and grass when he is in Los Angeles.

She didn't mind if he was eating outside, but she would certainly be very happy that he could be so restrained.

After getting tired of it for a while, feeling sleepy at all, Janet got up and began to dress, and said that she would prepare breakfast herself.

Simon got up as well.

Today is Saturday, November 18th.

Leaving the bedroom, it was only a quarter past six.

There is no work schedule on the weekends, and everything can be slowed down.

The two played tennis on the tennis court for half an hour, Janet went to prepare breakfast, and Simon sat at the table flipping through today's newspaper.

These days, the turmoil in Eastern Europe is beginning to intensify.

The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November, and German reunification was inevitable.

Out of instinctive fear of a unified Germany, in order to prevent this from happening, Britain, France, Italy, and other countries, which had just been allies, all turned their faces in the blink of an eye, almost issued a warning that they would not hesitate to war, and even threatened Britain and France to form an alliance with the Soviet Union to intervene militarily once the two Germany sought reunification.

Because of this imminent turmoil of war, James Raybould has suggested more than once that Simon could at least hold off on the acquisition of Nokia's mobile communications equipment division. After all, in the event of a war, Finland, which directly borders the Soviet Union, is likely to be affected, and hundreds of millions of dollars will be wasted.

Simon knew very well that there would be no war this time, so he did not follow James's advice.

Now is the best time to take ownership of Nokia, and once the situation in Eastern Europe stabilizes, it will certainly not be so easy to eat Nokia's entire mobile communications equipment division for 200 million US dollars.

In the course of several newspaper discussions on the situation in Europe, Simon also found another interesting piece of news: the Bush administration yesterday abruptly halted a $2.3 billion loan to Iraq, citing suspicions that the money could be used by Saddam to make weapons of mass destruction.

It turns out that the meme of 'weapons of mass destruction' was born so early.

Since the U.S.-Iraq Business Forum in the middle of the year, Simon has been secretly following the situation in the Middle East.

This news in front of us means that after trying to seize Iraq's oil sovereignty to no avail, the Bush administration officially began to take action against Saddam.

Putting pen to paper on the news that was to be collected as a newspaper clipping, Simon was about to read the reviews of several new films released yesterday, when Janet walked into the dining room with two breakfasts.

Putting a little newspaper aside for the time being, Simon took the food, and Janet still habitually sat down next to Simon, poked her head to glance at the news he had just marked, and then pouted and said, "Clumsy excuse." ”

"Everyone is civilized, so we still have to find an excuse. ”

Janet is actually concerned about this matter, and Cersei Capital's operation focus next year will be on oil.

However, she was not interested in talking about work at this time, and changed the topic in response: "I have asked Sophia to help us prepare the schedule, tomorrow we will go to Europe, live in each city where we own real estate for a week, eat good food, go to interesting places, and personally pick more houses in other cities." By the way, maybe we can even run into a war. ”

Simon glanced at the woman's rosy face and said, "You really want to fight?"

"Well, it's still exciting to watch humanity move towards self-destruction. ”

Simon is a pessimist who believes in the end of humanity to self-destruction.

Janet is the same kind of person as him in this regard, but this woman's thoughts are even more crazy, and she wants to destroy the world herself.

Hearing this at this time, Simon just smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid of affecting yourself?"

"Don't be afraid, if the situation is not right, we will immediately hide in Australia. ”

If World War III were to happen, the safest place in the world would probably be Australia in the southern hemisphere.

The island of Tasmania chosen by Simon happens to be the southernmost point of the world outside of Antarctica, so it is also safer.

Thinking of this, Simon said half-truthfully: "We can build another doomsday shelter in Tasmania, so that even if nuclear war comes, we will not be afraid." ”

Vault of Doom isn't actually an original Fallout game. The decades-long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union caused fear of nuclear war, and there were actually many shelters built across the United States to escape nuclear war.

"Good idea, we can have people come up with a plan in the next few days," Janet nodded approvingly, and then said, "By the way, my aunt is helping us talk about another piece of woodland, in central and western Tasmania, this time the plot is very large, more than 6,000 square kilometers. The Tasmanian government originally planned to enclose a state nature reserve, but as long as we can ensure that the ecological appearance is maintained without damaging the environment, and if we can provide the state government with an additional input, it should not be a problem to acquire the land. ”

Simon already owned about 150,000 acres of land in Tasmania, the largest of which was more than 500 square kilometres of woodland on the banks of the Arthur River in northwestern Tasmania, which cost $7 million.

At the standard of 1 square kilometer equals 247 acres, more than 6,000 acres of forest land is about 1.5 million acres, which directly expands the area of private land owned by Simon tenfold. At the same time, Tasmania has a total area of 68,000 square kilometers, and by winning this woodland, Simon owns one-tenth of the land in Tasmania.

Thinking about this, Simon asked, "How much will it cost?"

Janet said: "It's still being discussed, but as long as we take over according to the specifications of the state nature reserve and don't seek financial benefits, the Tasmanian government's offer should not exceed $100 million, and the price will definitely be lower after negotiation." I've brought the materials, so I can show them to you for breakfast. ”

After chatting like this, the two had breakfast, and Janet took out the information about the plot that Veronica was negotiating with Simon.

Because of some trivial matters in Los Angeles, the two did not immediately leave for Europe, but stayed for another day to check the construction progress of the villa at Dumaye Point Manor, and accepted a lunch invitation from Christopher Scars, chairman of Qintex, at noon.

Influenced by Simon's big butterfly, the acquisition of MGM by Australia's Qintex Group is already a certainty.

In this case, Simon is no longer as cold to Christopher Skars as he was at the beginning. Now that the relationship is good, once the Qintex Group is no longer sustainable, Simon can also arrange for other Australian capital to take over MGM more conveniently.

The afternoon and evening schedules are also full.

So the next day, the two boarded the Boeing 767 early in the morning and took off from Los Angeles, stopped in New York for a short time, and flew directly to Helsinki, Finland with the Westeros team that was going to Europe for final negotiations with Nokia.

When we arrived in Helsinki, it was not yet six o'clock in the morning local time.

It's the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and the nights near the Arctic Circle are longer, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, it's still dark around Helsinki.

Nokia sent a car to pick up James and the others, and the Boeing 767 took off again and rushed to Florence.

Simon and Janet's 'first stop' on their trip to Europe was London, and they went to Florence only because Sophia had prepared a lot of things for the two of them, including several maids and cooks who were responsible for their daily routines.

After a few rounds of tossing and turning, Simon and Janet finally settled in the famous Kensington Garden Street villa in central London on the evening of November 20.

A total of more than 15,000 kilometers of long-distance flights, because of the presence of luxurious Boeing 767, except for jet lag, neither of them felt much fatigue from long-distance travel.

Janet also briefed Simon in detail on the results of the operation of Cersei Capital's 6-10 sub-fund during this period.

After the 'mini-crash' of the U.S. stock market on October 13, Cersei Capital made a huge $1.6 billion in the following week by unwinding short positions in S&P 500 futures and other types of stocks and bonds.

In the following month or so, as the North American stock market quickly returned to stability and got the most lucrative profits at the beginning, Cersei Capital also began to simmer porridge and patiently manage the remaining positions.

As of November 17, Cersei Capital 6-10 sub-funds continued to make close to $700 million in profits on top of the initial $1.6 billion.

Therefore, excluding the No. 1 to No. 5 sub-funds in the hands of the Japanese, the net asset value of Cersei Capital attributable to Simon and other investors has reached $7.3 billion.

After Simon and Janet discussed, they planned to completely liquidate all positions in the U.S. junk bond market around the end of December, and then turn their attention to the oil futures market.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is remembered on 2 August 1990, during which crude oil prices skyrocketed.

However, before the Kuwait War, in order to force Iraq to use force against Kuwait, Western countries joined forces with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other major oil countries to greatly suppress oil prices by increasing production, and the international crude oil price once fell to $13 per barrel, so the first half of the year can be used for shorting. ()

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