The phone rang for a few minutes before Eric opened his eyes, and Elizabeth, who was leaning on his arms, woke up at the same time.

"It's your mobile phone, isn't it?" said Elizabeth vaguely, leaning back on Eric, not trying to get up.

Eric reached out and took the mobile phone on the woman's dresser, and as soon as he connected it, Murdoch's somewhat angry voice came out: "Eric, what the hell is going on, you promised me." ”

Elizabeth's face turned red when she heard her father's voice, but she approached curiously.

Eric wondered, "Rupert, you should have told me what happened, right?"

Murdoch, who was on the other end of the phone, heard Eric's puzzled tone, and could only patiently explain the matter. Eric was talking to Murdoch as he reached for the remote control he had placed aside and turned on the TV in his bedroom, where the host was airing an interview with a guest on ABC's famous morning news show, "Good Morning America."

"Mr. Kroll, what do you think will happen if Firefly Pictures withdraws its stake from Fox Network?"

After the camera switched, a middle-aged man with eyes said slowly: "First of all, we have to understand why Firefly Pictures will withdraw from the Fox TV Network, from the recent series of foreign cooperation with Firefly Pictures, we can see that Firefly Pictures has maintained its own strong strength while exerting a strong influence on the other three major film companies Sony Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox, and MGM, which means that Firefly has reached a limit in the development of the film business."

With the profitability of Firefly Pictures, Eric Williams certainly won't be reconciled to this. Therefore, entering the TV industry will become the inevitable way for the development of Firefly Pictures. But in recent years. The Fox television network is growing very quickly. News Corp. would certainly not choose to sell Fox Television Network to Firefly, so Firefly Pictures' 10% stake became an obstacle to its acquisition of other television networks, and Firefly Pictures had to sell its stake in Fox Television Network in order to avoid being investigated by the SEC and FCC when entering the television industry in the future. ”

The host kept nodding his head next to him, waited for the guest to finish, and then asked the question just now: "Will this withdrawal affect Fox TV Network and News Corp."

"Of course, and the impact is huge. We can see that the Fox TV network has been in a situation since five years ago with "Friends", and then with the TV series "The X Files" and the reality show "Who Will Be a Millionaire", the Fox TV network has once again expanded its audience and increased the influence of the Fox TV network. It is worth mentioning that in the five years since the broadcast of "Friends", the Fox TV network has not developed any popular TV shows with completely own copyrights. Once Firefly Pictures exits, Fox Network is likely to lose those three watchstar programs if it does happen. Its influence is equivalent to a tent being stripped of the three tallest pillars, and the overall strength of the Fox TV network will drop greatly in an instant. The blow was nothing short of devastating. ”

The host's tone seemed to be a little gloating, and he asked again: "Mr. Kroll, how do you think Firefly Pictures will develop its own TV business, and will they establish the fifth largest television network?"

"It's highly unlikely, and Eric Williams is most likely to choose between ABC, CBS and NBC. ”

The host asked excitedly, "In other words, our ABC is likely to be an acquisition target?"

"Of course, and I personally think that Firefly will choose ABC is the most likely, because ABC is the best of the three major TV networks, and the battle between NBC TV management and the parent company General Group will greatly affect Firefly Pictures' evaluation of it, and CBS TV has suffered a lot of vitality in recent years, and will definitely not be the first choice of Firefly Pictures......

Eric was already dressed at this time, listening to the guests of ABC TV on the TV without hesitation to criticize several other competitors, and said to Murdoch, who was still online: "Rupert, you should know that taking the initiative to make a big deal of this will not bring me any benefit, and after the other three major TV stations understand my personal intentions, Firefly's acquisition plan will also be greatly hindered, and I can't do this." ”

Murdoch said something more, and Eric nodded, "Don't worry, I'll let Michael attend the press conference in person...... Myself, no, I'm ...... today" Eric was about to make an excuse to refuse, when he saw Elizabeth standing beside him shaking his arm lightly with a pitiful expression, Eric's heart softened, and he had to say: "Okay, I'll go over on time...... At 10 o'clock, Century City, I remembered...... Well, I'll have someone look into who leaked it. ”

Hanging up, Eric stood in his bedroom and slapped his Motorola mobile phone, and burst out laughing after a moment.

Elizabeth was standing quietly beside Eric, for fear of disturbing his thoughts, but when she saw Eric laughing, she patted Eric on the shoulder with some annoyance: "Are you happy?"

Eric smiled, reached out and grabbed Elizabeth's small hand, squeezed it, and said, "I know who revealed this." ”

The negotiations on the dilution of Firefly Pictures and Fox Television Network are still limited to the high-level knowledge between the two parties, and even if some people give up their professional ethics, the losses caused by leaking company secrets are definitely much more serious than the profits generated by revealing this matter to the media.

In addition to the senior executives of the company involved in this matter, the only one who knows most about Eric's withdrawal plan is Drew, a lawless little girl, during this time the girl has been living in Jianjiao Manor, Eric often takes some documents home to deal with, and when the two occasionally chat, Eric does not hide anything, and it is not surprising that the girl knows about it.

Eric's handling of the TG incident yesterday was obviously a bit biased towards Elizabeth, and Drew's cleverness must have been able to find this, so it is not difficult to understand that this dead girl did this kind of thing to add to News Corp., but this wall is obviously a bit big, and it can be seen from the news that is still broadcast on the bedroom TV that the stock price of News Corp, the parent company of Fox TV Network, fell by 5.6% in two hours after the New York Stock Exchange opened, and its market value shrank by more than $1.5 billion in a short period of time.

Eric could think of it, and Elizabeth could guess some of it, and listened to the data that had just come out on TV, and said angrily, "Drew is really too much." ”

Eric turned off the TV, pulled Elizabeth downstairs, and said, "I'll teach Drew a good lesson, but after all, it's your old man who caused it." ”

Elizabeth looked at Eric's appearance that he was not angry at all, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and said indignantly: "At this time, you are still partial to her. ”

"Yesterday I favored you, today I favored her, and the two of you are even," Eric took Elizabeth into the restaurant, and Julia went out to film, taking Emma's little guy to Las Vegas, and the villa seemed a little deserted.

Eric instructed the servant to bring breakfast before he said to Elizabeth, who was still worried: "Don't worry, the matter is not as serious as they said just now, haven't I removed those three 'pillars' yet, and you know, I will only take Friends in the end, and it will be next year, as long as we wait for the press conference, News Corp's stock price will definitely rise again." ”

A maid handed today's newspaper to Eric, Eric flipped through a few at random, most of the headlines on the front page were about Firefly Pictures withdrawing from the Fox television network, Eric picked up his mobile phone and dialed the number of Sharp Corner Manor, but no one answered, and then dialed Drew's personal mobile phone number to prompt it to shut down. Dropping the phone on the dining table, Eric smiled wryly and said to Elizabeth, who was looking at him, "The girl ran away." (To be continued......)