In addition to the public two-day itinerary, Simon's trip to China is planned to last for a total of two weeks. After Yangshuo, I originally planned to visit other places, but this landscape is so beautiful that there is no need to pay attention to the second-level scenery after experiencing such scenery.

So I stayed for five days.

Daily rafting, dancing, mountain climbing, tea tasting...... Linger.

The last stop before leaving is in Shunan Zhuhai.

Mostly Janet wants to see.

Ang Lee had already begun to conceive the script for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" during the filming of "Eating Men and Women" in 1993, but it was only shelved because the conditions were not very ripe. After the last meeting, Ang Lee stopped preparing for "Ice Storm" and began to turn to this film, because many details were brewing for a long time, and it only took more than a week to complete the first draft of the script, which came to Simon's side.

When Janet accompanied Simon to read the script on the terrace of the annex, she saw the man sketching the bamboo forest battle scene in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the manuscript paper, and heard Simon talk about the vast and magnificent scenery of the bamboo sea, so she was interested in shifting positions.

Speaking of which, because of the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", China's bamboo sea landscape became famous at home and abroad for a while, and became a holy place for many domestic and foreign tourists to check in, and gradually evolved into one of the national tourism business cards. However, there are many theories about where the Bamboo Sea Battle scene of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was filmed.

Because there are many bamboo sea landscapes in China, Shunan Bamboo Sea is just one of them.

Simon didn't have time to dwell on that.

Since I have been to Shunan Bamboo Sea, I will finalize it directly.

This vast bamboo sea covering an area of more than 120 square kilometers not only has natural bamboo scenery, but also has no shortage of strange peaks, hanging cliffs, mountain streams and quiet lakes under the creation of heaven and earth, and there are various ancient temples, mountain residences, pavilions and towers under the accumulation of thousands of years of history, which fully meet all the framing needs of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in memory.

So after arriving, Simon directly asked people to take a batch of photos and pass them on to Ang Lee.

Saturday, May 4th.

Seeing the scenery of Zhuhai, this trip to China has also come to an end.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Westeros family's private Boeing 767 took off from Chengdu and flew directly to Los Angeles across the ocean without any stopovers. Prior to that, all of the core of the Westeros system, which visited China last week, had returned, including a U.S. government delegation headed by the Secretary of Commerce.

Boeing 767 cabin.

With an expected 15-hour flight, Simon is also starting to get back into working condition.

"The cooperation agreement between the Levison Group and Hilton Hotels Group has been reached and will be signed next Monday. Wal-Mart has been in contact with Levison Group in recent days to discuss the opening of a Beijing branch in the Levison International Center, which is controversial about the project, and Wal-Mart's presence will bring a lot of footfall, but it will also bring down the style of the Levison International Center. In addition, there is a list of all companies that have reached an intention to move in. ”

"The Chinese side has basically agreed with Mr. Mickey Kanter's three conditions on the film industry, which are expected to be implemented by the end of this month together with China's latest "Film Management Regulations". Boss, we have a copy of the internal draft of the "Film Management Regulations", and the official provisions should not change much, and I have already marked some of them. ”

"Verizon Telecom's first version of its prospectus, which is scheduled to be filed with the SEC next week, is a document from over there that has been marked. ”

"Brandt completed the negotiations with residents around the FusionTimes headquarters, and I also had the resumes of the latest batch of staff shortlisted for the final interview, and I helped my boss arrange the in-person interview schedule for next Wednesday. ”

Kevin Watson, an engineer at SpaceX, proposed a plan to build a simulated rocket launch system that would bring together all the hardware and software needed for a rocket launch into a simulation system for thousands of virtual launches in order to test component performance at the lowest cost. The engineer proposed the plan during his time at NASA and was rejected several times. However, the SpaceX team agreed that the program was very usable to help test most of SpaceX's in-house components, and together they had squeezed the initial $7 million budget to, well...... $1.2 million. Among them, Watson has personally written a set of aerospace electronic system software with a budget of only 10,000 US dollars, and I have checked that the budget for similar projects in NASA is 10 million US dollars. ”

According to the report of Mr. Victor Merisisis, as of the end of April, the first batch of 50,000 acres of coffee seedlings has been planted, with a cumulative cost of 7.35 million US dollars, and it is expected that the remaining 100,000 acres of land will be developed and planted in the same period next year, because the foundation for the purchase of agricultural machinery and manpower training has been laid this year, and Mr. Merissis expects that only 10 million US dollars will be needed to complete the planting work next year. In addition, the first coffee harvest in 1999 required an annual investment of about $5 million. ”

"Mr. Anthony Johnston has sent a tender for the privatization of Brazil's Vale, the Japanese side is very determined about this tender, and it is expected to become the main competitor of Johnston Holdings, I suggest that the boss try to use his contacts in Washington, and now that the trade relationship between the United States and Japan is in the account, Washington certainly does not want the Japanese side to control a large mining giant. ”

"Egrete has reached a YouTube deal with the IOC to broadcast videos from past Olympic events, and the YouTube platform has not paid for it, but has promised to promote resources and give long-term advertising. In addition, YouTube has recently announced that more than 150 top athletes in various fields have entered the platform. ”

"And, well, an email from the White House asking the boss for his opinion on the recent Nasdaq move, which is supposed to be a continuation of that call the other day. ”

“......”

“......”

"Finally, on the Hollywood side, Emmerich's "Solo Day" will start shooting next week, and there will be a pre-launch reception in Los Angeles tonight, hosted by MGM, mainly to entertain investors from all sides of the five packaged projects including "Solo Day", and Ms. Lansing hopes that the boss will be able to attend tonight. ”

"The crew of "Tornado" has been stationed in Iowa, and filming will officially start next week. ”

The set of "Titanic" on the Gold Coast has been built, but Mr. Cameron has some ideas for special effects, and is experimenting with Daenerys' special effects team, and the start date of filming has been postponed to next month. ”

And, this is the list of movies scheduled for this summer. ”

Simon sat behind his desk in the study in the front cabin, listening to Girl A's quick introduction to the list of documents he needed to review, and there were two large stacks of documents piled up on the desk in front of him that might not be able to read it in 15 hours.

When Girl A finally stopped reporting, Simon had already finished reading the first document on the entry of the Levison International Center, raised her pen to mark a few sentences on the document, and handed it to Allison: "Tell the Levison Group that Wal-Mart must win this project, and we don't need to position this boring thing with the International Trade Center." ”

Girl A nodded, and said: "Boss, I think it can be neutralized and put Walmart on the basement level, there are such underground supermarkets in New York and London, which can not only maximize the use of space, but also the rent is quite affordable." I think Walmart, which is very concerned about controlling costs, will definitely be willing. The above-ground part can still maintain the occupancy specifications of the Levison International Center. ”

Simon had just opened the second document of the "Film Management Regulations", and when he heard this, he glanced up at Alison and said with a smile: "I think you should be in charge of this project, there are a bunch of idiots over there." ”

Girl A bent the corners of her mouth cooperatively, but did not talk.

The Levison International Center is currently only a preliminary plan, the specific design will start after roughly finalizing the potential users, there are still two years to go, and the plan to join a basement supermarket is easy, after a little consideration, Simon nodded and said: "Just do it, tell the other side, just say that I came up with this idea, let those idiots reflect on themselves, so I am the super rich." ”

"Okay, boss. ”

"Besides, I'll show up at the drinking party you just mentioned. ”

The West Coast of the United States happened to be 15 hours behind China, and Simon arrived in Los Angeles, where it was still Saturday afternoon, and there was no delay in the evening drinking party.

Girl A spite it on the memo again.

Simon thought about it again and said: "Regarding the three reforms of China's film industry, it is not surprising that China Film must have taken the lead in forming the first cinema line. You asked Amy to contact China Film and took the initiative to invite them to the United States for inspection, and Daenerys Entertainment's Auden Cinema Line was responsible for the reception, and it could also provide them with cinema management system software. ”

Alison didn't nod immediately, but said: "Boss, I think we can go to the next level and invite the senior management of China's radio and television department in charge of the film and television industry to inspect and directly promote the full network of China's cinema ticketing system." I recently inquired about China's cinema industry, because it is basically state-owned, this matter can be achieved without relying on the cinema system, and China's basic communication network has been connected to the whole country, and the soon-to-open Shanghai data center can provide data storage and information processing for this project, and there are no obstacles in terms of software and hardware. China is now in a hurry to promote the development of the information industry, and the completion of this project will also be a very important achievement for the responsible officials. ”

"At the same time, it will offend a lot of people," Simon thought about the local theaters that gritted their teeth after the ticketing system was connected to the Internet because they couldn't steal the box office on a large scale, but he couldn't hate himself anyway, so he said, "That's it." Remember to tell them that I also came up with this idea, so I am super rich. ”

Girl A gave someone a blank look, lowered her head and wrote the incident on the memo again.

Simon had already quickly browsed the clause in the "Film Management Regulations" in his hand that was marked with a red pen that "the annual time for the screening unit to screen domestic films shall not be less than 2/3 of the total annual screening time for films", and felt Allison look at him again, and said with a smile: "So, do you have any suggestions about the president's email?"

Girl A shook her head this time: "The Nasdaq has now entered a state of loss of control, and it is the best choice for us not to interfere in any way." Otherwise, if the misoperation causes the collapse of the one, no one can bear the responsibility. ”

"Then you can help me respond to Mr. President, just say that I am very optimistic about the future trend of the Nasdaq, anyway, he only hopes that the Nasdaq will survive November, as long as the Republican side does not jump out to make trouble, this should be no problem. ”

"Boss, it's enough to say only half of it, needless to say later. ”

"Of course, do you still need me to remind you, it's so stupid, no wonder you can't be a super-rich person like me. ”

Girl A pretended to be angry and pouted at someone, continued to jit down on the memo, and looked back at Simon.

Simon thought for a moment and said, "That's all for now, and I'll talk about the rest after I finish reading these documents." ”

Alison nodded, turned and quietly exited the study.

Probably because of the inertia of work, it was out of control, during which I ate an in-flight meal that I don't know what it was, Janet ran to sleep and came to see again, Simon was still sitting at his desk, and the flight had passed 10 hours, so he rushed him to sleep.

When she was woken up by Janet, the plane was already over the West Coast of the United States.

After a brief freshening, finding a fixed seat and fastening his seatbelt, the Boeing 767 began to lower altitude, and landed on the runway of Los Angeles National Airport a few minutes later.

After leaving for two weeks, there is no long-lost feeling of returning to my homeland, but a little drift away from my hometown.

The security team and the maid who traveled with them for two weeks were on vacation, the new team sent by the Dummy Point Manor took over the follow-up, Jennifer also came to pick up people, Janet talked about the various trivial matters of the trip to China, but Simon remembered to ask how the five little ones were doing?

Of course it's fine.

Veronica was still watching at home, so she came to pick someone up.

Well.

Simon and his wife are not there, Veronica came from Australia on purpose, and has been helping to take care of the children at the Dumes Manor for the past half month.

Sophia also came over for a few days.

Because it was Saturday, it was all at home.

Melbourne is still by Veronica's side.

Seattle was still very cold, holding a tome encyclopedia that was completely out of her age.

Nick Jr. still has a tendency to use little white fangs for everything.

The last pair of twins still remember their father, and when they were picked up by Simon, they even took the initiative to call people, and sure enough, their IQ seemed to be a little higher than that of their two brothers, but they were not as good as their second sister, which was good.

He spent an afternoon with his family, accompanied the children to open gifts, talked to Jennifer about recent trivial matters, and inspected the eldest son's recent homework in a decent manner, and had dinner together in the evening.

It wasn't until eight o'clock in the evening that Girl A came over and asked if she wanted to go to a certain drinking party.

Barely made it to Century City.

After all, this reception is dealing with the investors behind Simon's packaging plan designed for overseas film capital after the fiasco of "Cut Throat Island".

Among the five projects, "Xenomorph 2" has already started filming and is expected to be released during Easter next year. Roland Emmerich's "Alone Day" is the highlight of next summer's file, and then Robert Zemeckis is scheduled for "Chrono Contact" at the end of next year.

These are three of the first batch of five-part packages.

According to the production plan, the remaining two films will be approved next year and released in 1998.

The whole plan is also the focus of MGM's business in addition to the Agent Cinematic Universe, and as long as it is successfully completed, MGM will basically be able to completely recover.