Before returning to Los Angeles to officially start the war against Fox, Tommy made a special trip to KeyBank's headquarters in the World Trade Center in New York to meet with Jim Mantz, saying that he hadn't had a massage with Jim in a long time and that he wanted to relax one last time before the vacation was over.

Jim thought about it for a while, and felt that Tommy should not be lying this time, because his preparations should have been almost done, and there was nothing to worry about himself.

I haven't seen him for a long time, Jim is still the same ruffian and cheap look, Tommy is lying on the massage table next to him, enjoying the massage girl's oil massage, and scolds him: "In the name of business entertainment, you spent a lot of money to arrange such a massage room with sauna, bath and professional massage equipment in the headquarters?" Jim, you know, the president is only secretly using a personal phone to find a senior lady to relax in the White House, and you are here with great fanfare...... Oh~ Slightly lighten the force, my waist is a little sore, thank you, girl, this technique is so professional. ”

Jim, who was enjoying a massage from her older confidante Julia, closed his eyes: "Officials from a bunch of African countries or representatives of some United Nations organizations come to visit our headquarters, the flight is too long, and I want to relax my sore body, what should I do?" Would they have arranged for them to go to Brooklyn to find a girl who would be eighty dollars at a time, and dye the fresh May of New York and send it home as a gift to their family? ”

After speaking, he stretched out his hand backwards, grabbed Julia's wrist who was helping him massage his back, and pretended to flatter: "Of course, it is hypocritical to arrange a very formal relaxing massage, just like now, and at the same time, it can also make Julia's small business earn more, and for my sake of helping to attract business, I promise that Julia will give me a free order." ”

"I can, but the staff who help Mr. Hawke with the massage can't be free, and remember to tip generously." Julia smiled and pulled Jim's hand away and went on with her work.

After the massage, Tommy moved his limbs comfortably around the bath towel, sat down on the soft chair and lit a cigarette, Jim paid a generous tip, and after getting a farewell kiss from Julia on his cheek, he came over and sat down next to Tommy, and said: "If Murdoch makes American money and hurts American feelings, the current Republican administration will not let him do whatever he wants?" ”

"That's what Charles said." Tommy took a can of beer and opened it, and took a sip, the cold liquor in his throat, making him snort in comfort.

Jim picked up the phone next to him and gave a few instructions to the secretary outside, postponed the arrangement he had agreed, and waited until he hung up the phone before continuing: "Murdoch can't do that, without the support of the Republican Reagan administration, he was overturned in the United States a long time ago, and he can't stand at all, how can he stand on the wrong side at this time, to do stupid things that hurt the feelings of the United States, he himself has been sworn by naturalization and became a citizen of the United States, this guy is really talented, first Australian, then British, and now American, where is the money, He is from some country. ”

"He won't hurt the feelings of the United States in the future, it doesn't mean that he hasn't hurt before, just like he did in Australia and Britain before cleaning up those politicians, we don't care if Murdoch is a pure American in the future, but he must not have been before, just like you said, he is Australian, he is British." Tommy said.

Jim picked up the juice and took a big sip on the straw, then leaned his head back in the chair and gently stroked his somewhat bloated belly: "I have already thought about why you decided to trouble Murdoch and kick him out of the United States in the first place." ”

"What else, of course, is because Tommy Hawke loves America as a country." Tommy said confidently.

"That's right, it's because the land of America can't accommodate two people who love it so much, so you can only drive out one of them." Jim laughed out loud when he heard Tommy's answer.

Tommy laughed when he heard Jim's words.

In his spare time, Jim would think about why Tommy was looking for trouble with Murdoch, and he also learned some information about Murdoch, and the more he learned, the more interesting the question became, because he felt that the answer was what he said, there can't be two Murdoch in the United States, or rather, there can't be two Tommy.

When he first saw Murdoch's related information, he even wondered if Tommy was Murdoch's illegitimate child, because the two definitely had more in common than Tommy and his father Colin.

For example, the most basic is that both of them like to marry the same woman as a wife, Murdoch's second wife and current wife, Anne Tove, white skin, long blonde hair, sea blue eyes, perfect facial features, innocent personality, she used to be a happy unknown little reporter, most of the time, she writes news reports that cannot be published, because there are always naïve but ineffective comments that are characteristic of her as a young girl.

Until one day, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper suddenly found that she seemed to have suddenly opened her mind and understood how to be a real text reporter, and the text reports handed in were sharp, capable, and the comments were to the point, and she repeatedly won many Australian news awards for the newspaper, just when everyone was puzzled, she had become the king of the Australian media empire at that time, when she was Chinese New Year's Eve, Murdoch, who had just divorced her ex-wife, took the hand of a nineteen-year-old female reporter and appeared in front of everyone.

The newspaper realized that the two had been quietly dating for a while, and during this period of relationship, every time Anne finished writing a report, she would hand it over to Murdoch to help correct it on a date, and Murdoch silently racked her brains, and on the premise of trying not to change her girlfriend's view of the news, she helped her revise the worthless text in the eyes of the editor-in-chief and turn it into a real news headline. As a result, Anne has always believed that the awards were won because of her own ability.

Look at Tommy in front of him, this bastard is almost a replica of Murdoch's operation, looking for his girlfriend Otilia, from an aesthetic point of view, the characteristics are similar to Anne, a blonde, blue-eyed and white-skinned innocent girl, believing that her efforts can change the world, Otilia used to work as an assistant in the inspector's office in a small city, and after dating Tommy, she devoted herself to KeyBank's great charity and won various humanitarian charity awards at home and abroad, she really feels that she has helped countless people and changed countless people, So when she attended those award ceremonies, she took it for granted that she was just as natural as Murdoch's wife, Anne Tove.

In addition to the taste of marrying a wife, the two are also very similar in business methods, like to emphasize public opinion, used to stand on the side of the public, Tommy entered the entrepreneurial battle of the computer industry, claiming that the battle against Lotus Company is to bring free OSS software to the bottom people of the United States, and promote the equality of science and technology in the United States, which has won him the support of countless poor Americans, calling him Tommy the Rogue and Tommy.

And Murdoch was based in the First World War in Britain, and claimed that his "News of the World", which specializes in reporting all kinds of vulgar scandals, is more elegant than British politicians, and they slandered my newspaper because I exposed them to the sun, and the newspaper they wanted was a newspaper that ordinary people would not read, and the newspaper I wanted was a newspaper that everyone wanted to read, and only the parties were shameless to read, and there were many low-level people in Britain who lived a very miserable and difficult life, bought a newspaper, learned about the privacy of those big people, and saw them make a fool of themselves, Allowing them to gloat in the dust is already the only cheap pleasure in their lives.

Murdoch's manipulation has caused newspaper sales to rise sharply, and with frequent revelations of politician scandals in newspapers, he has earned the nickname of political cleaner among the British people.

When they try to take a stake in a company, they will be full of humility and say that they will never seek control, do not participate in daily management, and only enjoy dividends, but once they get the shares, they will immediately turn their faces ruthlessly.

The only difference may be that Murdoch likes to gamble, whether it is a hobby or a business, there is a strong gambling color, but Tommy is used to thinking about all the problems that may arise by himself before actually doing a certain job, and make sure that he can think of solutions to all situations before he goes out.

This is what Sophia realized when she chatted with Jim before, Jim had already started to take care of KeyBank's business at that time, and at a dinner, Sophia chatted with him about the lawsuit between Tommy's Actor and Lotus, Sophia said that long before Lotus sent the lawyer's letter, Tommy had locked himself in the library to study various copyright-related U.S. laws, and formed various women's equal rights campus organizations through the influence of SSD in various universities across the country, More than 170 amicus curiae were prepared to appear in court.

Every time Jim Manz recalls the memories that Sophia talked about to himself as a joke, he can't make himself as relaxed as Sophia, he only feels a chill in his heart, Tommy's bastard had just turned eighteen at the time, and he hadn't even met the two founders of Lotus, and he hadn't even received a lawyer's letter, so he had already made a plan to dig a pit in the court and bury Lotus.

So including Jason, even Benjamin and others at the beginning, they all expressed their hope that Tommy would consider it carefully when they tried to do something to Fox, only Jim never thought of persuading Tommy from beginning to end, this guy who would never trust a person 100% could perfect the devouring plan against Lotus at the age of eighteen, Jim didn't think that this kind of rational madman was not qualified to fight Murdoch, Murdoch was thirty-six years old before unifying Australia's newspapers, television and radio stations, Formed his media empire.

But from Jim's own judgment and deduction, following the steps of Tommy's crazy bastard, this guy might have become the eyes, mouth, and ears of the majority of the people of the United States, the most powerful country on earth, at the age of thirty-six.

What they want to see, hear, and say requires Tommy's consent.

Tommy finished a cigarette, drank his beer, put the cigarette butt out in the ashtray and got up and walked towards the shower: "Among the assets held by the shareholders behind Stephen, there are seventeen banks that hold short-term loans from the Murdoch Group, I think the storm I have set off, the potential income is enough for them to refuse to help Murdoch convert to a long-term loan, I try not to let you and Benjamin use KeyBank's other hidden connections, but if the other party can really be like Otilia, when he slept with me, he accurately found my weakness, When I want to die......"

"I think Murdoch had better pray, don't resist too violently in your bed, and lead the investigation to me, after all, I'm in deep water, not to mention strong swimmers, professional divers will drown, and what's even more terrifying is that the enraged deep-sea monsters will chase into the shallow sea, and even go ashore to slaughter humans." Jim yawned and said lazily, "Goodbye, that's all, I won't take you to the airport." ”

Tommy turned on the shower and washed his body while poking his head out to Jim and asked, "Jim, have you seen Martin, my driver and bodyguard?" ”

"That black man, I have an impression." Jim said perfunctorily.

Tommy wiped the water stains on his face, and said to Jim with a bright and even flattering smile: "If your politician friends are not very capable, but they always like to be in the limelight, and they want to get a position in the officialdom of the big cities of America, introduce them to Martin, and then he will do this kind of work in Los Angeles, I mean he can help those black people lobby for some Los Angeles jobs, such as the fire department, the police department, and so on." ”

"Can I say I don't want to hear it, dear Big Bird Tommy? You're not here to just enjoy a relaxing afternoon massage with me, and you're trying to force me to pay for it, are you? You'd better say to me, No! Jim asked, his eyes widened, his face irritated.

Tommy smiled sheepishly, then said, "Yes." ”

"Isn't that your third game? Can't you wait for the second level to be cleared and claim the game rewards? Can't you pity those? You know, every time you push me, there's a whole bunch of who need to transfer their resources at a lower price. Jim scolded frustratedly.

Tommy smiled apologetically, and he didn't have any dissatisfaction with Jim's scolding of himself, after all, he still had to have an attitude when he appeared on the stage, so he could only reluctantly explain: "But I'm also helping blacks, and I use this money to give Martin to help the black elite as city administrators." ”

"The question is, are black Africans happy to have a black fire chief in Los Angeles?" Jim rubbed his face, feeling his head ache again.

"That's not what I'm thinking about, they're all black, so why can't they be happy for their fellow citizens? Be a man with fraternity, and don't care about momentary mistakes. Tommy wiped his wet hair:

"Because for them, the loss is permanent, like the loss that Murdoch is about to lose."

(End of chapter)