The two were chatting about spot gold when the man sent from CBS headquarters in New York walked in:

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] I am here to inform you that the negotiations have been cancelled for the time being this morning. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then the one said to Xiao Yifei:

"Mr. Xiao, please prepare, someone will ask you to meet him in the afternoon."

After saying that, he smiled at everyone and left.

Xiao Yifei buckled his notebook and asked suspiciously:

"What's going on? Why is it suspended? ”

"Mr. Xiao, maybe that's a good thing."

Xiao Yifei was even more confused:

"Why is it a good thing?"

Catherine nodded, and continued:

"It should be Lei Shidong who wants to see you."

"Lei Shidong? Is he in Los Angeles? ”

Xiao Yifei doesn't understand, it is true that Los Angeles has Hollywood, which is the base camp of American film and television, but isn't the headquarters of CBS and Viacom in New York, Lei Shidong is not a star, and the boss should definitely squat in the New York headquarters, why is it in Los Angeles?

Ryan asked rhetorically in disbelief:

"Don't you know?"

"What? Know what? ”

"Lei Shidong lives in Beverly Hills."

Xiao Yifei's eyes widened, isn't it, he still plans to buy a house in Beverly Hills, isn't this still a neighbor with billionaire Lei Shidong?

"Really, of course, he lives in Beverly Park."

"Beverly Park?"

"It's said it's a park, but it's actually a closed community where supercelebrities live, and it's located right next to the Franklin Canyon Reservoir north of your 704."

After Catherine's introduction and Ryan and Galder's additions, Xiao Yifei learned that this Beverly Park is not simple, and the current price of the houses in it is at least $20 million. The whole park has 80 according to the house number, except for a few empty numbers or unstarted construction, the rest of the residents are either rich or expensive.

And Lei Shidong's home is in this community, living at 31 Beverly Park.

It seems that everyone has a gossip heart. The entire room joined in the discussion.

Speaking of Lei Shidong's home, there is also a small story, in addition to Lei Shidong, there are two other people involved in the story, one is the famous action star Stallone. The other one is Marion Knight.

Stallone won't talk about it, everyone knows it. Talk about this Marion Kate. This gentleman is a black man, and he is a black man with a bad record. He has a lot of life experience, being a professional rugby player who only played 2 games, and being a rapper. 2pac and dr.dre, who have opened companies and become popular gang rappers, have a lot to do with the blood gang of the two major black gangs in Los Angeles.

This kind of black man who is not black-skinned and white-hearted, but also a mixed athlete and entertainment industry, and has an affair with gangsters, he has inevitably been in and out of prison. (An example of this person can be found on Sugeknight's Wikipedia.) ）

Stallone lives at 30 Beverly Park, with a steep slope behind the house, and the flat area of Beverly below, standing in the backyard of their house, with a view of downtown Los Angeles.

The mansion is located at the end of a slip road. The only neighbor is number 31 next door. In 2001, the owner of No. 31 planned to move out, so he listed the house for 16 million.

There will certainly be no shortage of buyers for a luxury home in this location, and soon a buyer's agent will come to the door with a client, and the new buyer is the aforementioned villain Marien Knight, who intends to buy the house for 15 million.

Everyone is in the entertainment industry, and it is clear who has a good character, and when Stallone saw that he was going to be a new neighbor, he would definitely quit, so he bought the house for 16 million. I'd rather be there than let this big villain, Marion Knight, be my neighbor.

Later, Lei Shidong wanted to buy a house, so he listened to the mansion area. Who is Lei Shidong. At that time, he was already the owner of Paramount, and Stallone was an action star who was trying to change careers to production, and he had the mansion of 30 Beverly Park in his hands. If it is empty, you have to pay taxes every year, so in 2002, Stallone recommended this house to Lei Shidong.

Lei Shidong is worthy of being a Jew, and the price of this kind of house will inevitably increase every time it changes hands, but he actually forced it to cut $1.5 million, and finally Stallone sold the No. 30 mansion to Lei Shidong for $14.5 million. On this matter, Lei Shidong often tells people. He took $1.5 million from Stallone.

"Xiao, don't you have tens of millions of dollars in addition to buying A shares, do you want to get a set there?"

"I have 704s in the flat area, and most of the time I'm in Napa, what do I buy there."

"Xiao, do you know who lives there?"

"Who are they?" Xiao Yifei did a good job of praising this.

Speaking of this, Catherine was excited, and it seemed that the heart of the woman gossip was stronger:

"I'll tell you, in addition to the legendary defender of the Lakers, Magic Johnson, black movie stars Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, talk show star Paul Reiser and other sports movie stars, there are also a large number of billionaires. For example, Samiattieh, who is the vice president of the American-owned Saudi Steel Group; Michael of the Kort?Scott Financial Group; Jeffrey Marine, former vice president of Lehman Brothers; Former Russian parliamentarian, famous vodka king Alexander Sabadash; Stevenudvar-Hazy, owner of an aviation leasing company; private equity investment in PlatinumEquity, Inc., which acquired the Gores brothers of Grace Inc., a private equity of more than 80 companies; the Glazer family, which owns Manchester United and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Richard Frank, former president of Paramount, former chairman of Disney Television Telecommunications, and president of Disney Studios; Aviarad, former CEO and producer of Marvel; Accessories tycoon Brucemakosky, etc. In addition, the boss of the French Auchan Group seems to live in it. ”

Gauld added:

"Also inside are the former Ivorian defense minister and former ambassador to the United States, Reneamany; Haimsaban, an Israeli and American media mogul; There are also two Saudi princes, one of whom is also the crown prince and may be the next Saudi king. ”

Presumably men are interested in political topics, Ryan interjected and retorted:

"Nayef is the second crown prince, and there is a first crown prince in front of him."

"I know that he has a first crown prince in front of him, Prince Sultan, but Sultan has been intermittently seeking medical treatment in Switzerland and the United States since 2005, and he can only work two hours a day, so most of his work is divided between other princes and sons. It is because of this that Nayef was appointed second crown prince in March this year. ”

Xiao Yifei asked in surprise:

"Do you know all this?"

Gauld said proudly:

"That's right, you don't see what I do."

Wells Fargo as a big bank. It is definitely necessary to pay attention to the high-level movements of the big tyrant Saudi Arabia.

Ryan said stiffly:

"Even if he becomes the first crown prince, he may not be able to become a king."

Gourd said even more proudly:

"Even if he doesn't become the first crown prince, maybe he can be king. Because he has the intelligence services in his hands and the support of the military. He is also the leader of the conservative faction, who often worked against the reformist king when he was not the crown prince, and now he is the minister of the most powerful interior ministry in Saudi Arabia, and in a year or two, it may be possible to come to power in a direct coup. To know. He was one of the seven Sudri brothers. ”

Ryan can only surrender:

"I don't know, I just know that he's in Beverly Park, how many numbers he is, yes, it's 42. Another Saudi prince who lives in No. 74 seems to be the Minister of the Environment, right? ”

"Yes, yes."

Xiao Yifei sighed very much in his heart, the Saudis are worthy of being local tyrants, and they can be seen everywhere. But he was more interested in what Galder had just said:

"What are the Seven Sudri Brothers?"

It turns out that there are two largest political groups in Saudi Arabia, one is the Sudri Seven Brothers. One is the Samar tribe. The Seven Sudri Brothers refer to Sisa, the most favored wife of the founding king of Saudi Arabia. Seven sons born to Sudri. The Samar tribe is a descendant of the daughter of the chief of the Bedouin tribe Shamal, another wife of the founding king of Saudi Arabia.

The previous king, King Fahd, the first crown prince, Crown Prince Sultan and the second crown prince Nayef were all seven brothers of Sudri, and the current king Abdullah was a tribe of Samar.

Unlike the king, who pushed for moderate reforms, the US media described Nayef as a hard-line conservative, saying that he "often disagreed with King Abdullah's politics and remained indifferent to the king's extremely limited political reforms"

Catherine is rare enough to chime in here:

"It's just that Nayef is too conservative to let women participate in politics. Even women's right to drive is opposed. ”

"Saudi Arabia doesn't let women drive?"

"Yes, it's not just local Saudi women who aren't allowed to drive, not even female tourists. King Abdullah reportedly wanted to relax the law, but was strongly opposed by the Nayef faction. In the end, there was no way to repeal the decree. ”

Gourd was given his chance, and went on to add:

"Also, it is said that the Indonesian businessman Hanmoeljadi on the 27th actually laundered money for Suharto, and the house is in his name, but it is actually used by Suharto's son."

"It's true that it's either rich or expensive."

Catherine seized the opportunity to continue to encourage Xiao Yifei:

"Think about it, if you live in it. Maybe you can make a big deal out of it. I don't think you will be satisfied with such a little A shares, think about it, if you live in it, you will often go to Lei Shi's house and have a good relationship with him. If he has to sell stocks next year or later, won't you be able to get more A shares? ”

"Well, there are your compatriots in there."

"Really?"

"yes, and it seems like there are two or three families that are Asian."

Xiao Yifei was puzzled, how did they know so much, it was comparable to a professional paparazzi:

"Didn't you say that foreigners pay attention to Yankuai, how do you know so clearly?"

"Paying attention to yankuai is also for ordinary people, and for those of them, there is basically not much yankuai. Besides, it is no secret that these materials were exposed when they were in a lawsuit. ”

"Lawsuit?"

Catherine smiled and said:

"Yes, it's a lawsuit, it's better, they are actually fighting a lawsuit for a door."

Xiao Yifei was completely messy:

"A door?"

Ryan and Gauld affirmed:

"Yes, it's really because of a door, and it's a lot of noise. The newspapers were all about the news during that time. ”

Speaking of this favorite news, Catherine was extremely excited when she saw Xiao Yifei's head full of mush, and Ryan and Gould, who were next to her, also added from time to time. The three of them teamed up to popularize science for Xiao Yifei. In order to let Xiao Yifei have a clearer and more intuitive understanding, Catherine simply took out the computer and called up the satellite map to explain to Xiao Yifei.

Beverly Park is also in a very good location, just north of the famous Mulholland Avenue at the top of the hill. To the south is the same Sunset Boulevard, to the east is Franklin Canyon Park, and to the west is another affluent district, Beverly Gren.

Beverly Park has 80 households, and all but one of the mansions for sale and a few that haven't been built yet. Due to the terrain, the 80 homes in Beverly Park are divided into two separate sections: the South and North sections.

There are 63 households in the North District, and the aforementioned Lei Shidong, Saudi Prince and other people who are not rich or expensive live in the North District. There are 17 households in the Southern District, where Magic Johnson, producer Richard Zanuk, and Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the one-eyed dragon director of S.H.I.E.L.D., live here, and Zhu Jianqiu, the third richest man in Hemudu, Zhijiang Province, who is also Chinese, also lives in the Southern District. Judging by the inhabitants. The strength and reputation of the residents of the southern district are obviously not as good as those of the northern district.

Topographically, the North District is located on a large piece of flat land in the mid-levels, and each mansion occupies a large area, with a complete lawn, swimming pool, and tennis courts. The South Zone, on a hill beam, is a number of mansions built along the roadway by bulldozing the terrain, and although there are also swimming pools and lawn tennis courts, they cannot be compared with those mansions in the North.

Despite this, the two districts have always been peaceful, but in 2006 this harmony was broken.

In March 2006, the Management Committee of the North District sent a letter to the South District Committee. They are required to pay a total of $121,000 per year for road repairs, gates, security and other expenses in the North District. The reason is that residents of the South Side have been using the roads of the North Side to get in and out of Mulholland Avenue.

This phenomenon has been around for a long time, since the construction of Beverly Park, residents of the South Side have always entered through the South Gate of the North Side, and then onto Mulholland Avenue from the North Gate. Not only residents of the South Side. Their relatives, friends, and employees are also in and out like this, and even the construction and maintenance of construction and maintenance vehicles such as electricity and communications in the southern area are also driven in this way. Otherwise, they would have to take a detour in and out of the southern district, which would add more than 10 kilometers to the distance.

The residents of the South Side did not want to pay the money, but when they refused, the North District Committee sent another letter and increased the cost by $7,000. Residents in the southern district did not pay attention to the requirements of the northern district.

In May 2007. The North District told the residents of the South District that from now on, relatives, friends, employees, service providers and guests in the South District will no longer be allowed to use the gates and roads of the North District, but the residents of the South District will still be able to enter and exit the North District as before.

This means that their girlfriends, common-law partners and other people who are not in the house need to make a detour of more than ten kilometers every day, and many construction vehicles are simply unable to go from the steep, narrow and winding mountain road to the south of the country. So they took their neighbors in the north directly to court, arguing that they had restricted the rights of residents in the south side, which not only caused the same relatives and friends, but also seriously affected the value of homes in the south side. The North Side, on the other hand, stressed that it had seriously affected the security of the North Side, because they had no idea who was passing through the North Side, and they had to invest more in order to be safe.

Originally, the lawsuit was carried out quietly, but it was known by the Los Angeles Times, so the "lawsuit caused by a door" was published in the Los Angeles Times on November 20, 2008, and the public learned that these celebrities and rich people actually fought a lawsuit for the door. Soon after, the media in Los Angeles and even California reported on it.

At first, everyone only knew that a few big stars lived in Beverly Park, but in January of this year, after the judge lifted the ban on the North District, the North District was not satisfied and immediately appealed. With the release of the verdict documents, everyone has seen more familiar names appear on the list of original defendants. The big newspapers also have to take into account the reaction of the rich, but the tabloids have no pressure, they have heard the house numbers of the Beverly Park rich from various channels, so the general public also knows the house numbers of these film and television sports stars, billionaires, and corporate executives.

"You buy a set to ensure that you don't lose money, even if you don't live by yourself as an investment, renting it is also very profitable, for example, you TV show person Wan Nabai rented his No. 75 to singer Prince, with a monthly rent of up to $200,000, and there will be no loss at all."

After listening to these gossips, coupled with Catherine's agitation, Xiao Yifei felt that he really wanted to buy a house in it, just like Catherine said, if he had a good relationship with Lei Shidong, he would have the opportunity to get more A shares in the future.

"Okay, the gossip is over, it's already 11 o'clock, let's still think about what to say when we see Lei Shidong."

However, this issue must not be discussed here, so everyone returned to the hotel, the soldiers dispersed, and several leaders gathered in the conference room for a small meeting.

Xiao Yifei started first:

"Now that I look at it, whether this share acquisition is successful or not depends on this meeting with Lei Shidong."

"yes, if we can get him right, then the rest of the negotiations will be too simple."

"The question is how to explain him, he is an 86-year-old man, and he has not had many opportunities to be soft in this life, so it can be said that he is a typical old stubborn."

Catherine thought for a moment and asked a question:

"Xiao, what is your attitude towards CBS shares, purely for investment purposes, or do you want to make your voice heard by controlling the operation of CBS through the control of A shares?"

This is a good question, if it is just an investment, then there is no need to grasp A-shares. And if you want to make your voice heard, it is obvious that this point is not enough for A-shares.

"It's hard to say now, on the one hand, I hold too few shares, and on the other hand, my main business is still on the wine side for the time being, and holding a stake in CBS can reduce a lot of unfavorable voices for the winery."

"That is, you don't say anything about CBS's operation for the time being, and you don't pay much attention to CBS's dividends?"

What is there to say about the operation of CBS? Could it be that they are too conservative and have become "old people's stations"? But although CBS is an old man's station, his TV series have always been good, and he occupies the main position on the ratings list all year round, in addition to sports programs, CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Heroes" are among the best in terms of sitcoms, and other NCIS, CSI, CM and other crime themes also have a place on the ratings list. CW TV, which also owns half of the shares, has a lot of influence among teenagers by sucking "The Vampoo Diaries", "Gossip Girl", "New Leap Beverly Hills" and "Smallville Off".

The current situation of CBS is not very good, but this is determined by the economic environment, which is a problem common to all media groups, and basically has nothing to do with its management.

"Of course, I'm not that stupid, and I kind of like his American dramas."

"Okay, that's easy, then when you meet with Lei Shidong, you mainly emphasize these two points, as long as Lei Shidong feels that your control of A-share shares will not affect his control, then we have succeeded for the most part."

The next few people began to study the rhetoric and how to express this meaning tactfully. (To be continued.) )xh118