Wolf didn't take the time to call Tommy back in the afternoon, because he was too busy to take care of the little thing.

Agence France-Presse, EFE, Ansa, Canada, Euronews, dpa, Reuters, Current Affairs, etc., these news agencies in overseas countries and regions immediately called VOX's Washington headquarters to subscribe to VOX in the name of a business after discovering that VOX had first-hand information about the conflict.

It's not that VOX doesn't need to do anything after receiving the money, just tell the other party to watch their own news channel, but according to the angle proposed by the other party, try to help prepare some materials that meet the other party's requirements, such as all news agencies will specifically point out, hoping to get some exclusive photos or exclusive materials that other news agencies do not have.

Subscription contracts also need to be drawn up separately for each news agency.

Some news agencies would also want to have a serious conversation with the president about how to work together, but in short, it seemed that Wolf needed to deal with everything, which made him feel like he was not in a good position.

Wolf felt good about being discouraged by dealing with countless heads of large news agencies with whom he had never had access to before.

He was busy until late at night, when he finally found time to soothe his hungry stomach, bought two burgers at a fast-food restaurant not far away, and then sat on a bench outside the entrance of VOX headquarters, put his briefcase in the empty seat next to him, and ate it in a big gulp.

"The taste of happiness and contentment, right?" A voice rang out from not far away, attracting Wolf's attention, and he looked up to see BT Network CEO Earl Rush smiling out of the VOX headquarters gate.

Wolf swallowed the food in his mouth and said with some surprise: "Earl? How did you end up here? ”

"I'm in Washington for a conference on the television industry, and I want to congratulate you after dinner, but ...... Considering that you should be busy today, I didn't bother Ling, and sat in the front desk office until now, and said that the coffee of VOX tastes better than the coffee of BT. Earl came over with a cigarette in his mouth and sat down next to Wolfe:

"It's nice to be able to fill your mouth with food when you're hungry."

Wolf picked up the hamburger box next to him, took another burger out of it and handed it to Earl: "I just bought one more." ”

Earl dropped the cigarette butt and took the burger, and the two middle-aged men were on the bench late at night, silent, biting on the burger, the same dark skin, the same gobbling up.

Knowing that the burgers were all eaten, Earl wiped his fingers with a tissue and exhaled comfortably: "I haven't congratulated you yet, although it is a free TV network industry conference, but there are quite a few people at today's dinner who are not interested in discussing the topic of free TV network industry, but have mentioned VOX several times, and the industry knows that you may increase at least 10 million subscribers this time." ”

"Frankly speaking, when I went to the bathroom to wash my face with cold water before I left the company, I couldn't help but silently thank Gaddafi, no one thought that after he saw the US aircraft carrier fleet, he would dare to take two fighter jets into the air to intercept it, and our reporter on the USS Kennedy said that the officers on the fleet felt unexpected." Wolf wiped the corners of his mouth, then carefully threw the tissue back into the box, and then carefully threw the box and the paper bag into the trash, and then sat back with a smile:

Associated Press, AFP, Reuters...... Even though VOX was set up by me, I never imagined that one day the world's three major news agencies would become our corporate subscribers, and they would use the news materials we provide, and it was like a dream that television had been invented for so long that no news agency had ever subscribed to a TV channel to get news. ”

Earl looked into the distance with a smile on his face: "That means you're a genius." ”

"No, Tommy is a genius, BT TV network, VOX TV network, it was all his idea, in fact, when he originally wanted VOX to sprinkle reporters on the world map like dandelions, I was against it, after all, the personnel cost is too high, for which I quarreled with him twice, but now it seems that he is right, without his insistence, there would not have been just our reporters on the Kennedy." Wolf said happily:

"By the way, do me a favor, Earl."

“FOX？” Earl seemed to have guessed what Wolf was trying to say.

Wolf nodded: "That's right, taunt FOX hard, damn it, humiliate our hosts and reporters in their own shows every day, you have to help me vent." ”

"Of course, I promise that tomorrow's Black News Today will be sharp enough to fight back, but ...... Wolff...... I'm not just here to eat your burger and congratulate you. Earl put his hand on Wolff's shoulder:

"I got a message."

"What's the news?" Wolf turned his face to look at Earle, "Your free-to-air network terms don't have much of an impact on cable networks. ”

"Tommy has found a group of men ready to replace you." The smile on Earl's face faded, and his eyes stared sharply at Wolfe: "VOX is different from BT, he can't possibly give such a company that is likely to have influence in the world to a black man, he is a member of the SSD fraternity, he is a white supremacist." ”

Wolf stared at Earl for a few seconds, then came back to his senses: "In the afternoon, Tommy called and said that I should call him back when I was done, so that I was ready to suffocate my dreams again. ”

"I think you should learn to refuse, when VOX became famous overnight, you rejected him, he had no reason to refute at all, there was no reason to let the marshal resign just after the war was won." Earl took out the cigarette case from his suit pocket, shook out the cigarette and put it in his mouth:

"He's been using you, BT, and you've helped him with the tedious pre-preparations, and then where did you go? Is BT TV Network relevant to you now? VOX, you go to lease satellite channels, build teams, recruit journalists, all the hard work is yours, and now, the dawn is coming, you have to be replaced again, he has never been a friend of the black man, he is a white slave owner who knows how to use black slaves efficiently. ”

Wolf looked at Earl with a shocked face: "If Tommy is a white man, why would you still work for him?" ”

"Me and he use each other, my brother, and he uses me as a statue of a sharp tooth to tell everybody, hey, the president of this network is a, we're black from top to bottom, all, you have to understand that this network is the only one in America and you're one family!" Earl lit a cigarette and smiled exaggeratedly with open arms:

"But in reality, he used the television network to influence the minds of and decide who they voted for, you know? I'm the same, I can use BT to get more black support, increase my influence, I'm now a member of the New World Foundation, I've started the Rainbow Organization, and because of the BT network, my status in the California Democratic Party has been rising, and everyone has come out to greet me because I can decide whether or not the will vote for them. ”

"Why are you saying this to me?" Wolfe, still looking at Earl in confusion, asked.

Earl sighed: "VOX, what blacks need is not BT, but VOX, brother, we should take it into our own hands, not in the hands of a white trash who discriminates against blacks." ”

"So, you think that if I reject Tommy's decision to let me leave VOX for another job, I will be able to continue to sit comfortably in the position of President and CEO of VOX?" Wolf looked at Earl with an idiot's eye:

"Tommy is the boss of VOX, the chairman of the board of directors, and I'm just a senior worker with a little bit of a stake."

"If you reject Tommy, he can only push for your departure through the board of directors, and then I can cooperate with you and find an opportunity to expose his past discrimination against black people, and even confirm that BT shows are Tommy's decision, and the anger of black viewers is definitely enough to force him to forcibly sell BT TV network to real black entrepreneurs, so that it really belongs to black people, and if it works well, VOX is not impossible to be forced to sell." Earl exhaled heavily:

"This is our best chance, Wolf, if you leave VOX, it will be filled with a lot of white senior executives that Tommy brought from Wall Street in New York, and the will never have a chance to fight for this kind of world-facing speech tool in their hands, but now there is a chance to fight, and the price to pay is only for you to give up your friendship with Tommy's liar, he is just taking advantage of you, you can't leave VOX, if Tommy pushes it, you can make VOX mess up, even if it fails, I can give you BTI can, Wolf. ”

After listening to Earl's words, Wolf crossed his hands on his knees, looked at the night sky, and was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Earl, for me, a hamburger is enough to fill my stomach. ”

With that, he picked up his briefcase, stood up, and walked down the street into the distance.

"You're really willing to be used by a white man over and over again! Do you know what VOX means? Earl asked Wolfe's back in a voice that contained anger and reluctance.

Wolf paused and said without looking back, "I'm not going to tell Tommy that you've come to congratulate me, and if you're not full, the fast food restaurant is there, good night, Earle, I'm going back to spend time with my wife, lest she always want to find a chance to go to BT TV to participate in "Wife Swapping Game". ”

……

Riding a taxi back home, Wolf took off his coat, put down his briefcase, and went to his daughter's bedroom lightly, giving her a goodnight kiss on the other cheek before walking back to the living room.

The wife came over in a nightgown and thoughtfully handed over a glass of red wine to help her sleep, with admiration for her husband in her eyes: "When I called VOX to ask how long you have to work overtime, your secretary said that you may not come home until late, because today is an important moment for Wolf and VOX to become famous in the world." ”

"It's true that VOX got corporate subscriptions from the Associated Press, Reuters, and AFP, which is enough for me to be ranked as the second most important moment in my life in the memoirs I will write in the future." Wolf took the wine, then kissed his wife on the lips and said with a smile:

"The number one is our wedding."

"You're getting more and more vigilant, Wolf, and you don't even have to ask me to give me the answer I want." The wife smiled softly.

"Tommy said that you should always be more careful with your wife or girlfriend than with your enemies." Wolfe sipped his glass of red wine and said: "I always thought it was wrong, but then I felt it made a lot of sense. ”

The wife rolled her eyes and analyzed this sentence, and said disagreeingly: "It doesn't make sense at all, okay?" Be on guard against your girlfriend or wife like an enemy? How bad a husband must be to do that. ”

"Because a man doesn't know which sentence is wrong, his wife can become a more terrible existence than the enemy, so he can only prevent it from happening." Wolf laughed.

"I think he's hurting you, Wolf." His wife smiled and stared at Wolfe.

Wolf said puzzled: "Why? ”

"Because he doesn't have a wife, he doesn't worry about his wife teaching him, but you're different, I thought you came back late today and wanted to let you go, but now, follow me back to the bedroom, I'm going to teach you some special lessons, Now!" The wife leaned against the door frame of the bedroom, tilted her head inside, and said in a serious tone.

"I'm going to make a phone call, and I'll be taught a lesson after the call, okay, dear?" Wolf drank the wine from his glass, then picked up his mobile phone and shook it at his wife: "At least let me scold Tommy who framed me first." ”

His wife winked at him, and then went back to the bedroom, Wolf went to the balcony and sat down, looked at the lights in the distance and sat quietly for a few minutes before taking out the phone and dialing Tommy's number, he didn't know if Tommy was asleep, but normally, he would wait for his call back.

"I guess you just came home?" The phone was connected, and Tommy's voice rang: "You're going to exhaust yourself like this, Wolf, there's no need to do everything yourself, such as drafting contracts, let the legal department take care of it, you can just look at it." ”

"The secretary said that you called in the afternoon and wanted me to suffocate my dreams again." Wolf looked into the night in Washington, and said with a smile:

"Can I understand that when the time comes for me to separate from VOX, please, I won't be able to enjoy the fruits of a victory?"

Tommy laughed on the other end of the phone, too: "Almost, you keep your position on the VOX board, but you have to be prepared to hand over the rest of the work, because there is more important work waiting for you." ”

"The boss fires the workers, it's all your tone at the moment." Wolf said with a wry smile.

Tommy said seriously: "I'm not the kind of capitalist who is stubborn and self-serving, sweeping his subordinates out of the house at every turn, I'm not that kind of person, so I want you not to think of yourself as being forced to leave VOX by me, but I have no one around me who can do this except for you, you helped me prepare BT, prepare VOX, I'm afraid that the whole of the United States, when it comes to the experience of preliminary preparations, no one can compare with you, Wolfe, I am really inviting you to accompany me into the next battlefield, for me, A more important battlefield than VOX. ”

"I'm listening." Wolfe said with a smile on his face when he heard that Tommy wasn't joking.

The next second, he heard Tommy say on the phone: "Wolf, I'm going to open another news television network." ”

Even though Wolf had already thought that Tommy would find a reason to perfunctory himself, he didn't expect this guy to find a reason so arbitrary:

"How much are you hiat, Tommy, you already own BT TV, you own VOX News Network, and now you're telling me you're going to open a new News TV network? And then let the new news network fight VOX, if you like this kind of gimmick, why don't you hire me and Earl to fight in the Octagon Cage, that will also save you a lot of unnecessary expenses. ”

"This news network is for my black friend Wolf Tucker, the fool from the Finance Channel." Tommy ignored the ridicule and anger in Wolfe's words, and said seriously: "I'm trying to help you find the most suitable position, Wolf, don't fucking want to have another job in your life, this news network is your only career for the rest of your life." ”

Wolf said with interest: "There is no shortage of financial business channels in the United States, Tommy. ”

He thought that Tommy was going to use the money to support him and start a financial business channel, which is everywhere, and several major TV networks have their own financial channels, and he was a vice president of the financial business channel before.

"But the world lacks a financial news network like VOX, so imagine if I'm an ordinary American, and I want to understand what's going on in London's stock market. I need to call the brokerage firms on Wall Street in New York, wait for the stockbroker there to call the London branch for me, and then fax the list back to Wall Street in New York, and my agent will read it to me. ”

"I think the advent of satellite TV has made it easier for us to have a simpler way, such as just turning on the TV, so that people who care about the world's financial markets can keep abreast of the latest news from Dow Jones and NASDAQ...... Twenty-four hours a day, when the Eastern Hemisphere sleeps, we pay attention to the Western Hemisphere with money, when the Western Hemisphere sleeps, the financial market of the Eastern Hemisphere has begun to open again to welcome us, and our channel, like the money in this world, never sleeps. ”

Wolf was dumbfounded.

"When it works, those economic experts who were dismissive of your program back then will kneel and beg you to give him the opportunity to appear on the TV station, if it works well, all the brokerages around the world will line up and beg you, arrange their economists to come to our channel to brag about their stocks, fool the stockholders to pay out, the world's well-known economists will become friends with you, and the world's well-known brokerage journalists are willing to work for you, Your wife will never have to worry about the Wall Street agency daring to sell her junk shares, because if they do, you can make them not have a chance to appear on our channel for a year, and I promise, this time, the new financial news network, you own 20% of the shares, you are worth so much, I never be stingy with my friends. ”

Wolf continued to be dumbfounded.

"That's not enough for you to choke, again?" Tommy smiled and asked, "If you don't think this financial news network is interested, I'll let the person who is going to take over your VOX work be in charge, he actually wants to prepare the ...... himself"

"You've managed to convince me, Tommy, you're like a pimp who can always lure women into a fire pit!" Wolf exhaled heavily, brought himself back to his senses, and then scolded with a smile:

"The only question is, am I moving again? It's been less than a year since I moved to Washington. ”

Tommy smiled and said, "I'll pay for your move personally, Wolf, only you're going to be faster this time." ”

"Why?" Wolf asked.

"Because I learned from the Wall Street brokerage that I managed the assets that I had a guy named Mike Bloomberg who was about to start a Bloomberg financial news network, I mean, if you stand up and compete with him, with your experience of successfully running two big networks, Wall Street would prefer to be a successful professional like you rather than a guy who crossed over from the computer industry, and you can't lose, because it's up to you whether I can break the FOX network." ”

"If I hadn't disappointed you before, I'm sure it won't be this time." Wolf said lightly: "That's it, Tommy, good night, I'm going to bed, by the way, thank you for giving me an excuse." ”

"What excuse?" Tommy asked curiously.

Wolf laughed: "Wait until I go back to the bedroom and tell my wife that Tommy kicked me out of VOX, I'm heartbroken at the moment, I can't get the club up, and she shouldn't force me anymore." ”

"I'll call your landline and explain to your wife what happened, no thanks, good night, Wolf." Tommy hung up immediately.

Before Wolf could get up, the landline at his home rang.

The wife, who thought that Wolf was still talking to Tommy, walked out of the bedroom under Wolfe's desperate gaze and picked up the landline with a smile.

“F*ckYou！ Tommy! Wolfe, a black gentleman who had always been mild-mannered, finally couldn't help but burst into foul language.

(End of chapter)