"Simon, in fact, I don't want your money very much, I know that you want to push me to the front of the stage to resist the pressure of public opinion, obviously I can't escape this fate. So, in exchange, how about talking a little bit about what you think about Russia?"

Manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

After lunch, the work schedule continued, and Simon's conversation was George Soros.

The operation for Southeast Asia has already begun to be laid out, and the hedging team under Cersei Capital is also planning.

In order to minimize the operation volume of Cersei Capital's side and avoid being targeted by Asian countries to make it difficult to do business in the future, Simon hopes to put some of the funds into Soros's quantum fund, and the two sides have negotiated a $3 billion investment agreement. After all, it is a big customer, and the follow-up of the Westeros system has a different meaning, Soros took the initiative to give a big discount in terms of management fees and commissions.

The financial tycoon was just whining at this point.

In the past financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, Soros became the finger of thousands of people, but seriously, this hedging tycoon is more just a shield launched by the West to attract firepower, and there are countless safari capitals behind this giant crocodile, these capitals are crazy to hunt, wipe the blood on their mouths at will, and in the blink of an eye, they can jump out as a savior and re-harvest in Southeast Asia.

Simon wants to be a 'noble' savior.

The two had just discussed some details of the layout, and Simon heard Soros mention Russia, and his eyes were staring at him, rubbing the coffee cup in his hand and saying, "George, you want to know what I think about Russia?"

"Political prospects," Soros said, adding: "I know you went to Russia some time ago, and the Westeros system has always had various layouts in Russia, but I don't understand what you're doing?"

"Political prospects, obviously, with our joint efforts, Yeltsin will be re-elected this time, and then everyone will be very happy to privatize Russia's large state-owned enterprises and divide the profits. ”

Soros felt the banter in Simon's tone, and his expression became more cautious: "Simon, don't you think it's a good idea to permanently eliminate this hidden danger of Russia?"

"These are actually two questions," Simon said seriously, "can we do it, and do we have to do it?"

"Huh?"

Simon was about to continue to speak, a girl in a pale pink sleeveless knee-length skirt walked over with a pot of coffee, saw the two looking at him together, slightly embarrassed, but still raised the coffee pot in his hand.

Seeing the girl bend down to refill the coffee for the two, Simon smiled and said to the puzzled Soros: "This is Gemma, Sophia's daughter." ”

Soros naturally knew Sophia Fessie, and the slight displeasure in his expression immediately turned into kindness, and he nodded to the girl with a smile.

Simon also said: "This is Mr. Soros, a very powerful financier. ”

Gemma put down the coffee pot and obediently shouted: "Hello, Mr. Soros, it's nice to meet you, Simon and Mom have talked about you, the first person to beat the pound." ”

Soros smiled and shook the little girl's hand: "Hello, Gemma, you can call me George." Also, you're beautiful. ”

"Thank you. ”

After the two greeted each other, Simon said, "I'm leaving at about four o'clock, do you want to go to Los Angeles to watch the 007 premiere together?"

Gemma didn't sit down, looked at Simon and said, "I just came to say hello to you, so I won't go, and I still have homework." ”

"Homework aside, pretty girls need to do their homework, and some other people will go along, and you can also bring a few friends and play on the West Coast for a few days. ”

"Hehe, I still don't. Daniel went to summer camp, and I couldn't leave my grandparents running around. ”

The girl moved slightly, but quickly refused, leaned over and hugged Simon, said goodbye to Soros, picked up another empty coffee pot and turned away.

When Gemma's figure disappeared, Soros complimented him flatteringly, and then led the topic to just now: "Simon, what are the two questions you said?"

"yes, two questions," Simon said after a moment of gathering his thoughts, " First of all, since the tsarist era, Russia has maintained a state of great power for hundreds of years, so it means that this country has a deep-rooted strong country gene, which sounds a little elusive, but it is a fact that cannot be ignored, doomed to be difficult for Russia to completely fall, and, more realistically, even if the Soviet Union has collapsed, Russia's heritage is still there, and it is a nuclear power that is difficult to continue to dismember and indirectly control according to your ideas. ”

Soros thought for a moment, looked over again, and said, "Simon, I don't think anything is eternal, if you don't try it, how do you know?"

"That's the second question," Simon said, taking a sip of his coffee, "is it necessary for us to do this? There is a Chinese proverb to the effect that a country in a state of constant alertness and distress is easier to survive, and that if there is no enemy, it can perish at any time if it is in a state of long-term peace and slackness." ”

"I see, Simon, you want to save Russia as a strategic adversary?"

"That's right. ”

"Simon, I don't think the United States will ever be short of strategic rivals, like China, which you just mentioned. And it seems to me that Russia is a rather uncertain and dangerous country. ”

Simon shook his head and said: "Times are different, George, now is not hundreds of years ago, not even decades ago, this world has formed a set of international orders that will be quite stable for a long time to come, so you don't need to think about some things according to the thinking of decades ago." Unless the future leader of Russia is a madman, the country will inevitably conform to the existing international order as much as possible, and even if it violates, it will be punished accordingly. ”

Soros thought seriously for a moment, and said again: "Simon, I still stick to my point of view. ”

Simon smiled and nodded: "Of course, you can carry out your plan, and I will also implement my plan, which is not in conflict, and even the two of us do not even have a conflict of interest, because I will not compete too much for Russia's state-owned assets in the next few years." ”

Historically, Soros began to bet heavily on Russia after Yeltsin's re-election.

During the last secret meeting, Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana talked about the privatization of shares in the Russian telecommunications giant that she wanted to give to Simon as a gift, and it turned out that the Russian oligarch Potanin was in the pocket with the huge capital support provided by Soros, and in addition to eating a large number of privatization shares, Soros also bought a large amount of Russian government bonds and corporate bonds.

It wasn't until 1998 that Russia's economy hit rock bottom, and there was even a rare default on its national debt, when Soros, who had just been in high spirits in Southeast Asia, returned from Russia after losing billions of dollars.

From Simon's current point of view, what Soros is doing is actually a kind of economic infiltration, and while earning profits, he is also trying to control the country by controlling the Russian economy at the strategic level.

Simon himself is actually doing this kind of thing.

Soros ended in failure, which can be regarded as a negative case for Simon.

The main thing is to do what you can.

For the big powers, we should not expect absolute control, but strive for more influence step by step. As for a small country like Ukraine, which is destined to fall, it can be said to be controlled, after all, this kind of country that has been fooled to the point of abandoning its own martial arts and is another scattered country in the country is destined to be a standard chess piece in the game of great powers in the future, even if it is played badly, no one on either side of the game will be more serious.

Seeing off Soros, Celia Miller, who had arrived in advance, reported to Simon the results of the negotiations with the French side.

The Chirac authorities largely agreed to Simon's demands.

A senior French military member who has been quietly working on things for two years will retire in the near future, and Paris may promise that there will be no more entanglements. At the same time, the French side also demanded that Simon no longer support Rwanda's continuous voice in the international community and let this matter be completely over.

Simon certainly has no objections.

This matter seems to have reached a good ending, but both parties actually know that it is impossible to end completely.

Just as the French side did not submit the slightest evidence of the confessions of the captured soldiers of the French advisory group that Simon had retained, they knew that they would not come back at all, so they did not bother to speak.

How about it later, I'll talk about it later.

It's nothing more than you coming and going.

After talking about it, Simon rushed to JFK International Airport by helicopter with his entourage, where the Boeing 767 crew was already waiting to take off.

And there are still people waiting.

After the first few times, Jerry Hall's daughter Elizabeth was already familiar with the road, and it happened to be the summer vacation, and a certain undisciplined little girl who was completely used to calling Simon's father once again took a group of friends to Romeo's private jet to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of "007: The Ghost Party".

This time, there were no other parents except Jerry Hall.

It's Jerry Hall who has brought three children, and then there is a group of girls and liars who are already familiar, the Hilton sisters, the Kardashian sisters, etc., chattering a group, and Simon also accidentally found a girl named Ivanka this time, 14 years old, already very tall.

After a little bit of scrutiny, you can understand why they can be mixed together.

Obviously a group of rebellious girls who are not very motivated, like the daughter of a certain golden retriever, the photo of smoking in public with a rebellious face on the head of a chicken coop as a teenager can be said to be widely circulated, which can be seen which group of Manhattan is it. And like Sophia's daughter Gemma, or Grace's daughter Rita, they are either good girls or very motivated, which is not something that can be played together.

When the private jet took off from JFK International Airport, handed over the two slightly younger children to the care of the waitress, and explained to the familiar girls who were familiar with the frolicking in the middle cabin, Jerry Hall came to the front cabin, and saw Simon sitting on the sofa by the porthole window of the living room flipping through a document, and still a little distracted, leaning over and sitting down on the man's lap, putting his arms around his neck and asking, "What are you thinking?"

Simon put his arm around the woman's waist, put the document on the amazing long legs, and said casually: "I wonder why there are no good children to play with me, all of them are unmotivated girls." ”

Jerry Hall laughed and said, "Liz is still young, and it's already very good, speaking of which, Leaz has also opened a channel on the YouTube platform, which has more than 600,000 followers, and she doesn't need me to give her pocket money now." ”

Simon nodded.

Jerry Hall glanced at the document in the man's hand, and saw that Simon didn't seem to care, so he looked at it a few more times before saying, "This is ...... Hmm, you're planning to buy the newspaper assets of the Hearst Group?"

The hand-held Chinese document is an asset sale plan for the Hearst Group, and the Hearst family, which has been in increasingly dismal circumstances for the past two years, intends to sell another batch of newspapers, and the project is handled by Goldman Sachs.

And then naturally it came into Simon's hands.

Shaking his head, Simon said, "Just looking." ”

For the Hearst Group, Simon has never completely let go, so he has been staring at it intentionally or unintentionally, with the unique prophetic advantage, Simon only needs to ensure that the family is not on the right path, and decline is inevitable.

Just as two years ago, Simon divested all of the Hearst Group's cable assets, which later accounted for more than half of the family's assets and had long-term growth potential, particularly ESPN's 20 percent stake, and now the Hearst family is simply confined to the rapidly declining and shrinking print media sector.

Due to the knock-on effects of the Westeros system, the decline of the Hearst Group in the past two years has been faster than that of the print industry. Just like the San Francisco Chronicle, the most valuable newspaper of the Hearst Group, the second-largest newspaper in California after the Los Angeles Times, it began to fall into losses after entering 1996, and its value has shrunk significantly.

In a few years, even bankruptcy is not impossible.

In order to avoid the dog jumping over the wall and the fish from dying, Simon has not made much action, it is completely a slow suppression of the boiled frog, even in the end, in fact, the Hearst family can still retain considerable family assets, enough to maintain a fairly good life, but this family will no longer have the right to speak in public opinion that can even provoke a war in American society.

Of course, Jerry Hall, who knew about Simon's entanglement with the Hearst family, didn't ask much, chatted with the man about some recent things, brewed with his sideburns, and leaned into Simon's ear and said, "Shall we go to the bedroom, four hours." ”

Four hours later, the Boeing 767 landed at Los Angeles National Airport, just five o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast.

The red carpet of the premiere also starts at five o'clock.

Simon didn't plan to walk the red carpet, so he didn't rush, but Jerry Hall wanted to take this opportunity to show his face, so he was already dressed up on the plane, got off the plane, and rushed directly to the Holy Civic Auditorium in the center of the city in an extended courtesy car.

Choosing the Holy Civic Auditorium to host the premiere of "007: The Phantom" instead of Hollywood's Chinese Theater is also a big deal on the part of MGM.

This was the beginning of a new phase for MGM.

There is no room for error.

Therefore, it can be said that we can do our best.

Simon and a group of frolicking girls took a few other cars, but they didn't condone the request of these girls to go to the red carpet too, they were all big stars, and it was too unscrupulous to let a group of girls go up.

So arrive at the Great Hall of the Holy Civics and enter directly through the back door.

The girls ran to sit down, Simon didn't walk the red carpet, but still had to cooperate with a few promotional photos, and came to a media area in the auditorium with Shirley Lansing.

Simon, of course, knew why Schwarzenegger had come to the premiere.

For the sake of the Terminator copyright thing.

This matter has been almost negotiated, but because Schwarzenegger found a partner, Disney controlled by Vivendi, made small moves in France a few days ago, and deliberately reviewed the release of Cardenerys Entertainment-related films in France, Simon naturally retaliated and shelved the "Terminator" negotiations for no reason.

Now, too, is the time to loosen your mouth.