Chapter 859: Holy Maiden Heavenly Regiment
The scale of the game hall is very large, occupying three floors of the five-story building in front of you, each floor has an area of more than 1,000 square meters, and there are all kinds of large-scale game equipment that have appeared in this era, including slot machines that imply the nature of gambling, it can be said that there are few game halls of this scale in the whole of Ukraine.
Coupled with the fact that most ordinary people can afford to consume, it is naturally overcrowded.
If it weren't for the fact that the person in charge of the game hall who received the notice quickly showed up to receive him in person, it would not be easy for Simon and the others to have a good time in the game hall.
There are too many people.
After Simon appeared, the person in charge of the game hall decisively sent people to guard the door like the song and dance hall next door and began to restrict the flow, and they were only allowed to go out and not enter.
By the time Andrei Smirnov, the governor of Rivne, Sergei Komorov, the head of the Aldek company, and other Westeros systems arrived in the heart of Rivne Oblast, Simon had already taken the two Charlotte women around the game hall on the third floor, and then passed through the overcrowded dance hall and another multiplex movie theater next door, and finally transferred to a nearby billiard hall of no small size.
In order to entertain Simon and others, the billiard hall was completely emptied.
When everyone arrived, who had thought something was going on, they confirmed that Simon was really just looking around and didn't find anything wrong, so they let go of their cautious thoughts.
Speaking of which, this is the aftermath of the Great Purge at the beginning of the year.
Simon is still too young in the end, and at the beginning, there was no shortage of people in Rivne Oblast who regarded him as a wronged person who threw money indiscriminately in Ukraine. After the purge, these emotions dissipated, and everyone felt the ruthlessness and determination of a certain young tycoon.
You must know that in the purge at the beginning of this year, the political and business circles of this northwestern border region of Ukraine, as well as the private army and underground forces of the Uyghur family, have been combed together, not only thousands of people have been implicated, but even the entire family of Yuri Miloslav, the former governor of Rivne Oblast, has been knocked into the dust.
What is even more chilling is that when an outsider like Simon Westeros launched a purge in Ukraine, the Kiev authorities not only did not rebound, but maintained a fairly cooperative attitude, which basically confirmed the control of the Westeros system over Rivne Oblast.
Not only that, on the list of the 400 richest people in the United States by Forbes some time ago, Simon's personal net worth of up to $700 billion also made the cores associated with the Westeros system on the Ukrainian side feel staggered.
The more people who have access to the top of the social pyramid, the more they will be able to appreciate the invisible power that comes with great wealth.
A personal net worth of $700 billion, together with trillions of dollars in assets controlled by the entire Westeros system, is equivalent to the economic size of dozens of Ukraine.
In 1995, Ukraine's economy fell by more than 10% year-on-year, and its domestic GDP is estimated to be only about $48 billion.
Absolute power often brings with it instinctive surrender.
As a result, both the direct core of the Westeros system and the new governor Andrei Smirnov and others supported by Simon on the Rivne region not only did not resist the Westeros system in their hearts, but felt honored to be able to integrate into this super chaebol group.
Privately, some people have begun to refer to Rivni as Westlogler.
The City of Westeros.
Although he didn't understand why Simon suddenly sent a certain order, Smirnov rushed to the billiard hall and immediately talked about his arrangements, he had already sent someone to pick up people from the prison on the outskirts of Rivni, and the relatives of the three girls would be able to return home by 12 o'clock tonight.
As for the criminal responsibility on these people, Smirnov did not mention it at all.
Some rules are never meant for ordinary people.
Charlotte Brinita, who had watched all this all night, only regretted why she had not been interested in Russian until midnight when she returned to the villa south of the city with Westeros, because of the language barrier, the woman never understood what was happening.
However, Charlotte Brenita clearly felt Simon's kingly presence in this strange city of Ukraine.
She is a woman who longs for power in her bones, and Charlotte Brenita is full of yearning for all this, just like the feeling of 'a big husband should be like this'.
The next day was November 2.
Thursday.
At the villa in the south of the city of Rivni, Yulia Antonenko, who got up very early, had red circles in her eyes, like a little rabbit.
Last night, she stayed by the man's side every step of the way, so she was able to return to the villa in the south of the city, and then, the girl found that her former room had been changed into a piano room by the three Catherine, and she wanted to sleep with Simon, but she didn't succeed, and finally had to rest in the guest room of the villa, like an outsider.
Not only that, but the three girls, who had not slept until late at night, were not only no longer as familiar with her re-arrival as before, but were a little hostile, obviously hoping that she would leave quickly.
These all made the girl's heart full of grievances and sadness.
Of course, though, you can't leave.
So she got up very early, wanting to help Simon prepare breakfast, thinking that she would please him, and as long as the man relented, she could stay.
As a result, the kitchen could not be entered.
In the villa, except for Eve Bessonoskova, who has a good temperament and has always taken good care of them, the other maids and guards are also cold to her, and they also block Simon's breakfast with the excuse that no one else is allowed to interfere casually.
It's obviously deliberately making things difficult.
I've helped men prepare breakfast before, but I've never heard of these rules.
Simon still got up early and didn't get into the kitchen, Yulia wanted to accompany the man to exercise in the morning, but the three girls who also got up early today were all around him, and they all changed into beautiful sportswear bought from abroad, and her slender and perfect figure was undoubtedly revealed, she also had these clothes at the beginning, but at the beginning of the year, she was completely out of the house, and she was kicked out without taking anything. When she found Eve, she learned that all her personal belongings had been disposed of, and that the three of them had done it herself.
So he could only enter the gym in a close-fitting autumn coat and trousers, and was suddenly reflected as an ugly duckling.
Ugly ducklings are ugly ducklings!
Anyway.
It doesn't matter that much.
In the end, it was the man who spoke, and Catherine reluctantly borrowed her a set of sportswear.
It's a pity that it didn't take long to change clothes and it was breakfast time.
I had to change my clothes again, and I was able to go to the table, and I was still an ugly duckling compared to the brilliance of other girls.
I endured it so that I didn't cry.
In fact, the most worried thing is that the man drove her away, after breakfast, the man went to the study to start a day's work, and never said anything to let her go, so he put his mind at ease, as long as the man no longer forcibly kicked her out of the villa like last time, he decided to stay here, anyway, the other girls and those maids and guards can't do anything to her.
White-eyed or something, pretend not to see it.
However, it is still very uncomfortable to listen to Natalia Lyudaeva obviously deliberately saying that she is more lily than Lyudmila Besonoskova.
Then I remembered something from last night.
Sneaked into a small living room on the first floor of the villa where no one was staring, locked the door, and picked up the phone to contact home.
Her father went from the state legislature to jail, and the phone at home was not removed, which she forcibly stayed, just hoping that one day Simon would call again, and the small shop owned by the family on the commercial street in the north of the city had a decent income, and although the phone bill was expensive, it could afford to provide it.
At first, no one answered the phone, and I was so angry that I almost dropped the microphone.
Hiding in the living room for more than half an hour, dialing several times in a row, it was finally my mother who answered the phone.
Yulia didn't explain much to her mother, and she didn't really want to hear that her father had come out and been sent to the hospital for recuperation, although she cried to Simon last night and hoped that he would spare her father, but if it wasn't for her father's betrayal of Simon and falling to the governor's family, she wouldn't have fallen to where she is now, she didn't want to do too much.
just asked her mother to let her sister Ivana come to the villa in the south of the city as soon as possible, and told her to dress up well and not embarrass herself.
On the phone, her mother chattered that her sister was still in the hospital, talked about her father, and asked what had happened since last night, which made Yulia more and more irritable and irritable, feeling that she was really unlucky, and she had a betrayal father, a procrastination mother, and a weak sister.
If it weren't for the villa in the south of the city, the girl would almost scream, and finally only raised her voice a little and threatened to ignore her own words if she still wanted her father to be sent to prison.
Then he snapped and hung up the phone.
Last night, I personally saw the bustling shopping street, and Simon found the financial statements of the game halls, dance halls, movie theaters and other projects directly belonging to the Westeros system on that street in the morning.
The results are also very satisfying.
One of the most profitable large-scale dance halls, just in the past October, the monthly turnover is equivalent to 900,000 US dollars, calculated, the annual revenue of this project is expected to exceed 10 million US dollars, with the scale of the city and the current economic situation of Rivni, which many people did not expect.
Simon, however, was not surprised.
At this stage in China, in the eyes of ordinary people, some of the unpopular song and dance halls, game halls and other places, in fact, are profiteering, some of China's core cities of large song and dance halls, a year can achieve hundreds of millions of yuan of turnover, and the profits are amazingly high.
The point is that these projects are not something that can be done by anyone, whether in China or in Ukraine.
If you want to open a dance hall, you not only need a political and business background, but also some underground forces, and all aspects must be taken care of, otherwise, such a lucrative place, under the eyes of others, it will be closed in minutes.
The same is true for Rivni's side.
Whether it is a dance hall or a game hall, the approval authority is in the city government.
Although the city's related entertainment venues are not only those on the north of the city, but the scale is only on the north of the city, the others are petty fights, if other competitors want to enter the market to disrupt the situation, the Westeros system on this side of the forces have hundreds of ways to make others unable to do it.
Of course, Simon didn't monopolize everything.
Calculated that the Westeros system directly controls only a little more than half of these entertainment venues, and Simon generously distributes the other half to various interests. Simon just didn't want the public in the area to be too wealthy, and it would be in line with his plan to create a group of vested interests related to the Westeros system.
After reading the financial statements, Alexander Lyudaev, the head of the Rivni Media Company under the Westeros System, whom Simon planned to meet in the morning, also rushed here, this is the uncle of the villa girl Natalia Lyudaeva, who is in charge of a series of TV, radio, newspapers and other media assets of the Westeros System in Rivne Oblast and even throughout Ukraine.
In the current state of Rivno, the channels of public opinion are basically under the control of the Westeros system.
Simon and Alexander Lyudaev are discussing today a plan to expand the entertainment division of Rivni Media.
Backed by the Westeros system, Rivni Media has also grown rapidly.
In addition to controlling regional television, newspapers and other assets, Rivni Media also represents the distribution of Hollywood film and television rights throughout the CIS region.
It's a very lucrative business.
The continuous collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic collapse have led to the fact that the entertainment industry in the CIS region cannot develop at all, so it can only be imported from the outside.
Speaking of which, the 'Iron Lady' Tymoshenko started by reselling pirated videos.
Before the Internet era, because of the lack of a variety of strong and professional subtitle groups, the quality of pirated resources must not be compared with the genuine version.
As a result, Raffni Media has obtained the authorization of genuine content from Hollywood, and then localized the production through its own professional dubbing and subtitling team, and the various films and TV series distributed have been widely welcomed throughout the CIS region.
Because it is limited to TV and video, and Simon does not hand over all the content to Rivni Media, coupled with the economic size, this part is very lucrative for Rivni Media, which is actually dispensable in front of Daenerys Entertainment. However, the overall is very much in line with Hollywood's cultural export strategy.
After all, the market will grow sooner or later.
On the other hand, since he has taken root in Ukraine, Simon and Lyudaev are discussing the establishment of a local entertainment system this time.
After all, cultural export must face various cultural barriers, and most of the general public still prefer localized entertainment content compared to overseas film and television.
The entertainment division of Rivni Media, which is about to be expanded, will focus on two main areas: TV drama production and the development of the music business, after careful discussions between Simon and Lyudaev.
Needless to say, the TV series is going to be said.
Just needed.
Music, on the other hand, is also a lagging and indispensable field in Eastern Europe.
Referring to the information in his memory, Simon proposed a plan to create a female singing group, and also gave a name himself: Holy Maiden Celestial Order.
In my memory, it happens to be the Holy Maiden Troupe from Ukraine, which can be described as the most popular and long-lived female singing group in the CIS region, and there is no one. While other singing groups tend to be popular for a few years before they become obsolete or disband, the Holy Maiden Troupe lasted for more than a decade, and although its members have changed for many generations, they have always been widely welcomed by the Russian-speaking regions of Eastern Europe.
Now, backed by the Westeros system, Rivni Media has neither the resources nor the team, and it is entirely possible to try to replicate this women's group.