Celia Miller came to Los Angeles this time mainly to discuss with Simon the various details of forming the Wei family's private army.

The plan began at the beginning of the year, and the plan has been prepared for more than half a year, and it has begun to be quietly implemented in the near future. The training base is mainly in Ukraine, but Simon does not plan to select too many Ukrainians this time, but expands the scope of recruitment to Eastern Europe, North America, Africa, and Latin America, which is basically a global net.

There are many advantages to avoiding the presence of soldiers from a certain area where they are concentrated.

Maintain loyalty to the greatest extent, reduce the possibility of infiltration, eliminate the hidden dangers of forming gangs, and so on.

Recruitment is a 16-year-old male boy, orphans are preferred, and after passing the background check and physical examination, they will first receive two years of cultural training and preliminary training.

This process is primarily aimed at developing language skills, as well:

Most importantly, brainwashing.

Two years later, another batch was eliminated, at the age of 18, began formal military training, the time was still two years, 20 years old, except for the process of being eliminated again or a small number of advanced and higher-level training, the others began to join the Uyghur private army to serve, signed a formal employment contract, the term was 20 years, and retired at the age of 40.

Keeping a private army is not a taboo in Western countries, the Rockefeller family had its own private army back then, and many mercenary companies are actually private armies.

Last year's war in Rwanda has made the existence of the Uyghur private army a given.

This time, as long as the operation is done properly, even if it is exposed, there is no need to worry about anything, Simon did not plan to cultivate tens of thousands of troops, let alone train thousands of private troops at one time, but still adopted the strategy of breaking the whole into parts, Eastern Europe, North America, Australia, and Africa will put a little.

Even if there are only one or two hundred people in one batch, it will be one or two thousand people in ten years.

And so on and so forth.

The most important thing is to form a sustainable cultivation mechanism.

This, supplemented by ordinary mercenaries recruited from other sources, is enough to ensure that the Westeros family has a powerful violent machine in times of need.

After talking to Celia, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.

The guest room arranged for the woman was in the cliff villa next door, Simon personally sent Celia out of the shell villa and came to the upstairs master bedroom, Janet, who had never been able to afford to stay up late, had fallen asleep, but Jennifer was still sitting at the head of the bed and waiting for Simon while reading magazines.

After washing, Simon went to bed and came to the middle of the two women, and Janet, who felt Simon's breath, naturally came over, humming and pulling the man to lie down and use it as a pillow for herself.

The female assistant reached out to turn off the bedside lamp, also lay down and passed over, and whispered to Simon: "The room for the two little babies is ready, you can take a look when you get up tomorrow." ”

Simon agreed, and reached out to grab the female assistant as well.

Jennifer pillowed Simon's arm and said, "Sophie really wants to send two babies here?"

"That's right, but it might be the same as you were at the beginning. Simon said, and then asked, "Do you feel like you can't take care of it?"

"No, I'm just worried that I won't be able to take care of it. ”

"How is it possible, you take good care of the three little ones, and teach them very well. Seriously, it's hard to say what Jenny and I would have taught our children to be without you. You know, neither of us has the talent to raise children. ”

Jennifer remembered that Janet had been robbing Melbourne ducklings to play with recently, chuckled, and then said: "That's why you two can come together, you are the same people in your bones." ”

"Oh, what about you?"

"I, like in that book, big girl. ”

"To be precise, it's a big girl who warms the bed. ”

"It's not cold in Los Angeles. ”

"It seems that you still haven't been able to learn the essence of Chinese. ”

"Hehe, it's so hard, and I don't have that much time. By the way, next month Melbourne will start kindergarten, do you think you should add Chinese classes?"

Melbourne was born in December 1991 and will be 4 years old at the end of the year, which is already the age of school.

In recent years, the female assistant has been personally running a school in Malibu for the little ones, and the private school for the children of the upper echelons of the Westeros system began operating last year, and plans to provide a full range of education from kindergarten to middle school, and the little ones will officially enter school next month.

In fact, since Melbourne babbled, both Veronica and Jennifer began to educate the little ones in early childhood, and Simon once considered completely homeschooling the child.

In the end, I dismissed this idea.

For children to enter school, learning knowledge is actually secondary, mainly to contact the outside world, and to master various skills in dealing with people.

Because of Simon, the little guy has been receiving Chinese education in recent years, and when the female assistant asked, Simon said: "No, joining the Chinese course may make other parents feel unaccustomed, but, of course, you still have to learn, still like before, ask for a tutor for Melbourne." ”

Over the years, the people around me have felt too much of Simon's peculiarities and are accustomed to it.

However, for the outside world, even if he already has great fame, power and wealth, Simon still tries not to actively show too many things if it is not necessary.

The Chinese language is one of them.

The two chatted in a low voice for a while, and noticed Jennifer's little hand scratching on his chest, Simon understood, smiled and took off Janet on the other side, reached out to put his arm around the slender and soft body of the female assistant, leaned into her ear and whispered: "Come yourself, don't wake Jenny up." ”

Entering August, the North American summer season has come to an end.

Spanning a box office week in July and August, the most eye-catching thing is the box office comparison of the two new films "Future Water World" and "King of Fighters" that opened on July 28.

"Future Water World", which cost $175 million, earned only $25.19 million at the box office in the first seven days of the first week from July 28 to August 3, unexpectedly losing to MGM's "King of Fighters".

The production cost of the action movie "King of Fighters" adapted from the video game "Mortal Kombat" is only $18 million, which is not even a medium cost at this stage, and has a strong B-movie style, however, it is such a movie, in the first week of production, it unexpectedly earned $32.75 million at the box office, exceeding the opening score of "Future Water World" by as much as 7 million.

According to the tiered sharing agreement signed between MGM and the theater chain, the studio can get 90% of the box office share in the first week after excluding the basic expenses of the theater chain, which is actually equivalent to about 75% of the total box office in the first week, and calculated, just in the first week of painting, MGM recovered a total of 25 million US dollars in total investment in production and publicity.

This success is no accident.

Simon's early development of the "Ninja Turtles" video game began to focus on fighting games, and with success, Daenerys Entertainment's game division has paid special attention to the production and distribution of such games in recent years, and after the completion of the full acquisition of EA in late 1991, the game division annexed Midway, a Chicago-based game production company, in early 1992.

This happens to be the developer of Mortal Kombat.

In 1992, the first part of "Mortal Kombat" was released, and 900,000 units were sold in one year, which was not up to the level of several popular series in Daenerys' game department, but it was also a good success.

However, this is actually much lower than the history that once was.

Simon doesn't remember how much Mortal Kombat sold in the original plane, but it must have been in the millions, and even later rivaled the Street Fighter series.

After Simon's personal attention, the game department paid more attention to the sequel, and it took two years for dway to finally release "Mortal Kombat 2" three months ago, and Daenerys Entertainment also spared no effort in marketing and promotion. It was put on the shelves at the beginning of the summer vacation in early May, and as of the release of "King of Fighters", in three months, the sales of "Mortal Kombat 2" have exceeded 500,000 units.

The sales curve of video games is not the same as the box office of a movie, but more like a music record, which is often still selling well for a year or two.

Sales have already exceeded 500,000 units within three months of its release, and the gaming department predicts that Mortal Kombat 2 will sell around 3 million units in the next two years.

Daenerys is another hit in the game.

MGM's film adaptation of the game is actually a crossover, and it has successfully benefited from the release of "Mortal Kombat 2", but it has invested $7 million in publicity and distribution, which is no less effective than the advertising investment of other films of $10 million or two.

Simon has always been very cautious about adapting movies from games.

Because there are too many cases of tragic failures, there are very few successes.

Therefore, for the adaptation of "Mortal Kombat", he actually handed it over to MGM with the idea of transferring risks, otherwise Daenerys' New World Pictures could have made it by itself, but he didn't expect it to become a dark horse.

With a start of $32.75 million, even if the follow-up trend of popcorn films will not be too strong, the local $70 million will definitely not be able to run, and it will be a big hit overseas.

Compared with Warner Bros., which is mired in the quagmire of "Future Water World", and Disney, which planted a big heel in Stallone's "SWAT Judge", it is just a "King of Fighters", MGM can be described as a huge income this summer, not to mention that there is also a budget of $12 million, which earned $23.07 million in the first week of "Dominance", which is standard and big.

For Daenerys, handing over the rights to the Mortal Kombat adaptation to MGM would certainly be a mistake. However, in the end, it can be regarded as fertilizer and water that does not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Like last year's "Xenomorph", with the release of the box office results in the first week, MGM immediately announced the sequel to "King of Fighters" and publicly stated that it would still adhere to the low-to-medium cost strategy.

In addition to the two new films, among the old films, the most blockbuster "Jurassic Park 2" this summer, in the 9th week of release, collected another $8.07 million at the box office, and the box office officially fell into the range of $10 million in a single week, and the cumulative box office of the film reached $381.76 million, continuing to steadily move towards the threshold of 400 million.

"Apollo 13", which was released during the solo day holiday, received $56.31 million in the first week, and the trend has been quite stable in recent times.

In the fifth week of its release from July 28 to August 3, the box office of "Apollo 13" fell by 29% in a single week, collecting another $12.78 million, with a cumulative box office of $143.57 million.

"Fight the Tide of Wisdom 3", which was completely drawn in June, ended up with a domestic box office of $176 million, and the domestic box office of "Apollo 13" is basically on par with the blockbuster comedy in the Easter schedule.

If there were other studio-grossing films on last year's annual box office list, from 1995 to the present, Daenerys Entertainment has completely shown its dominance.

Up to now, the four movies that have crossed the threshold of the 100 million yuan box office club, "Jurassic Park 2", "This Man is from Earth", "Fighting Wisdom 3" and "Apollo 13", all of which are from Daenerys Entertainment, and this time they are all wholly-owned projects that are not foreign cooperation.

In addition to Daenerys, although there are films such as "Die Hard 3" and "Ghost Pony Elf" that temporarily broke into the top ten of the annual list, the box office of these movies combined is not as good as a "Jurassic Park 2", this situation, just like Simon's memory Many years later, other studios rushed into the top ten movies, and the box office was not as good as Dibao's "Star Wars" or "Avengers".

The oligarchic momentum is fully formed.

On August 4, a new box office week in the second half of the summer season opened.

Like MGM's distribution strategy, in order to avoid a series of bombshells in the early part of the summer season, many projects of other studios were placed during this period.

On this day, a total of four films with more than 1,000 screens were released, namely Disney's "Dangerous Games" starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Warner Bros. starring Julia Roberts "Love Magic", Paramount's Denzel Washington's "Time and Space Warriors" and Fox's low-budget family comedy "The Cursed Lawn".

The production cost of the four new films did not exceed $30 million, although it inevitably had an impact on a number of old films after their release, but there were no hits.

Julia Roberts' best-performing first-week romance movie "Love Magic" grossed only $16.61 million in seven days. "King of Fighters", which was a big hit in the first week of the show, fell by 54% the following week, and the expected deep fall was the second place in the list with $15.21 million, with a cumulative box office of $47.96 million in two weeks.

Warner Bros.'s "Future Water World" fell by 43% at the box office the next week, collecting another $14.35 million, with a cumulative box office of $39.54 million, and the total box office is expected to be about $60 million in China, which is about $20 million lower than in history.

Friday, August 11th.

Another box office week has begun, and the number of major new films has been reduced to two, namely "Internet Horror" starring Sandra Bullock by MGM and "Walking in the Clouds" starring Fox.

Simon left for Europe at noon that day to accompany Sophia to give birth.

The non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Rome is 10,000 kilometers and takes about 12 hours, and is expected to arrive at its destination at 9 a.m. local time tomorrow.

Girl A is still with her.

In the front cabin of the Boeing 767, after the plane had stabilized, Alison handed Simon some of the documents he had just received before leaving.

This is a stack of property information.

Lady A briefly introduced that this batch of properties was mainly sourced from Asia by the Westeros family's private real estate brokerage team.

It's still Simon's daily routine to buy a house.

Hearing that there are several properties from South Korea, Simon directly opened them and found them, a total of three properties, all of which are in Yongsan-gu in the center of Seoul, South Korea, which is like the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York.

Simon looked at the information in his hand, but thought of something else.

In recent years, South Korea has been forgotten.

As one of the four Asian tigers, South Korea will have direct competition with the Westeros system in many industries in the future, such as the electronics industry, the game industry, and even film and music.

It's not too late, though.

To be precise, the most suitable time for the layout of South Korea should be 1997.