Nancy did not participate in the negotiation of the actor in order to ensure the interests of several companies, but as John's agent, she certainly did not sit idle, and she was mainly responsible for negotiating with the advertising implanter.

As a modern film, "The Matrix" has many items that can be implanted, but for the quality of the film, John controlled the number of implants, and finally selected cars, computers, mobile phones, headphones, TVs, refrigerators, ovens, glasses, batteries, couriers, and clothing.

Among them, IBM is a big one, spending $10 million to contract the implantation of computers, mobile phones, TVs, refrigerators, and ovens, Cadillac spent $3 million to get the implantation of cars, Audio-Technica spent $2 million to win the implantation of headphones, MG Express spent $1.5 million to win the express implantation, Duracell spent $2 million to win the battery implantation, and CK spent 2 million to win the clothing implantation.

Before the movie was released, John recouped his $20.5 million investment. And the box office of the movie is more than $400 million, and these manufacturers have to add 15% of the implantation fee.

John is one of the directors that the manufacturer likes to cooperate with the most, and the implantation of each of his movies has brought great benefits to the manufacturer, the Nike shoes in "Forrest Gump" have sold well until now, Pepsi has surpassed Coca-Cola after John's implantation and bottle replacement, and the sales of cars implanted by Cadillac have increased significantly each time, these are real values, and no manufacturer does not do such implantation.

The negotiation of actors and the placement of advertisements went smoothly, and they were all negotiated in a month, but the matter of finding Yuan Heping to do the action directing at the harbor was not very smooth, because Yuan Heping felt that foreigners were unbearable and did not want to do it.

John is not reluctant, even if he doesn't want to do it, if he leaves Zhang Butcher, he will eat pigs with hair, he doesn't have time to spend a few months inviting someone now, so he asked people to contact another famous martial arts director, Hong Jinbao.

Hong Jinbao did not refuse, and after the two sides signed the contract, they took people to Los Angeles, and John met the most flexible fat man in history at Crown Studios.

"Hello Director Chris Deng!" Hong Jinbao stretched out his hand and shook John's hand, with some surprise in his eyes, he didn't expect the famous director Chris Deng to be so young.

"I have admired the famous Hong Dao for a long time!" John smiled slightly, holding Hong Jinbao's hand. "I like a lot of the movies that Director Hong makes! I'm a fan of yours. ”

"Ahh "Director Chris Deng has seen my films?"

"Of course, since you collaborated with Li Xiaolong in "Enter the Dragon", I have watched them all, zombie movies are my favorite, and the zombie films you and Lin Zhengyin collaborated on are particularly good. "Every year, John asks people to bring some films and records from the harbor, and he has seen a lot of Hong Jinbao's films.

"Thank you!" Hong Jinbao was a little surprised, he didn't expect foreigners to like to watch zombie movies!

After greetings from both sides, the main topic is introduced.

"Director Chris Deng, with all due respect, it is impossible to master Huaxia's kung fu in a few months, at most you can only learn some tricks, and the fight is soft. Hong Jinbao admires Lao Mei's professionalism very much, and actually spent several months training, knowing that he can make several movies in a few months in the harbor.

"I knew that was what I needed, and the martial arts movements of this film had to be beautiful, sharp, fast, with some softness. John said as he picked up a stack of sketches and handed them to Hong Jinbao. "These are some of the actions that come to mind, you see. ”

John watched "The Matrix" many times, and he remembered the action very well, and he drew some classic movements.

Hong Jinbao took the sketch and looked at it for a long time, as an excellent martial arts director, after going through these actions in his mind, he understood what John wanted. "No problem, that's how I'll design my movements. ”

"Thank you! ”

"As it should be!"

The chat with Hong Jinbao was very pleasant, after chatting, John invited Hong Jinbao to have dinner together, and invited Cheng Long, who came to the new line to do publicity, and the three of them became friends after eating a meal.

After the film was arranged, John returned to New York, and "The Matrix" will not start filming until October, and he can rest at home for half a year.

But how can a person like John's have time to rest! The movie is gone, and there are still a lot of things to be done on the family, the company, and the government.

In his third week back in New York, the mayor of Los Angeles came along and put transportation solutions, urban greening solutions, and desalination solutions on his desk.

Since being instigated by John, the mayor of Los Angeles has been determined to save face, and when he returns to Los Angeles, he will let the municipal government, transportation, and planning ...... More than a dozen departments jointly came up with a plan, and under the high-pressure policy, these government departments were much more efficient, plus Boston was already building underground roads, with mature technology and experience, and the two parties cooperated to come up with a solution to traffic congestion in a few months.

"You have to dig so many tunnels, there are many high-rise buildings in Los Angeles, will it have an impact on these buildings? And what should I do if there is an earthquake, will this thing carry the earthquake?" John was a little worried after reading the underground road plan from Los Angeles.

This plan is crazy! The whole plan is to divide the underground of Los Angeles into two layers, with the lowest subway layer and the highway on the upper floor, and a total of 16 main roads, 29 side roads, and 7 subways will be dug up.

Los Angeles is located within the Pacific Rim Seismic Zone, the world's largest seismic zone, and is an earthquake-prone area.

John feared that an earthquake would destroy the tunnels.

"Boss rest assured, these tunnels will be built in accordance with the highest standards, the direction will generally be based on surface roads, will not have any impact on urban high-rise buildings, even if it encounters a magnitude 8 earthquake will be fine, the year before last Los Angeles 6.6 magnitude earthquake, many of our roads, viaducts are broken, but the subway tunnel is unscathed, the construction of the underground road tunnel grade is one level higher than the subway tunnel, and will take better earthquake measures. ”

"How much does that cost?"

Although John didn't know much about engineering, as soon as he heard the high standards, he knew that the cost of these tunnels was definitely not cheap.

"The total cost of the project, including the subway tunnel, will cost $275 billion, and the entire project will take 20 years to complete. ”

Boston began to build underground tunnels in 91, accumulating a lot of experience, Los Angeles can get a lot of ready-made technology, greatly speeding up the early time, otherwise 20 years would not have been able to complete such a huge project.

"Add to that greenery and the construction of a desalination plant, and a total of $301.2 billion will be needed. ”

"Yes!"

John nodded and thought for a moment. "The federal government only bears 80% of this money, and you have to bear 30% yourself, so you can get so much money?"

Los Angeles is very rich, but it is still enough to come up with more than $90 billion at once, and the city's big spending is also very large.

"We would like to apply for an additional underground highway tax to collect $2 per person per day for $730 a year for vehicles owned in the Los Angeles area, and $3 per day for vehicles with foreign license plates for the construction and maintenance of underground highways.

As a result, the city of Los Angeles has more than 6 million vehicles, and it can receive nearly $4.4 billion a year, and the government can also come up with $2 billion a year, a total of $6.4 billion, which can be paid in full in 14 years. ”

The United States adheres to the principle of a policy of who benefits and who bears, so the city of Los Angeles has come up with a public-private joint venture, of course, if you want to increase or decrease taxes, this needs John's consent, otherwise it cannot be implemented.

And you are only allowed to collect the full tax for 20 years, and after 20 years, the local residents of Los Angeles will be reduced to half, that is, $1 per day, $365 per year, and the vehicles with foreign license plates will remain unchanged, and the money can only be used for the maintenance of underground roads in the future, and the maintenance costs of urban roads and greenery, and cannot be used for other purposes!

If the people don't agree, then set up a toll booth after the construction is completed, $1 per vehicle per pass, $2 for vehicles with foreign license plates, and as for the difference in the early stage, I will let the bank lend you $50 billion with the minimum interest money, and then you can repay it with the fees collected!"

John is actually reluctant to tax, but sometimes he has to consider the affordability of the local government, and he can't play bankruptcy.