Chapter 194： : Assistant to the President

Chapter 196 Presidential Assistant

The old godfather explained when Tom came, no matter what decision Hardy made, Tom must support him, so Tom was the first to stand up and agree to Hardy's terms.

The patriarch of the Lucesse family also stood up, "Mr. Hardy, I am also willing to buy shares and buy 5% of the shares."

This one thinks very well. He is just to make money. He also has economists around him. His economists have told him that all of Hardy's operations are like a magical stroke. He can make hundreds of millions of dollars in just two years and he masters ABC. For a company with such a heavy voice as a TV station, he admired Hardy's investment talent very much.

He believed that Hardy would definitely be able to make money with him, so he agreed in time.

After that, several family owners expressed their willingness to buy. There are still more than ten families left. They decided to go back and think about it. There is still a need to determine how much to buy. After all, not every family has so much cash in their hands.

Hardy is not in a hurry and takes these people to the restaurant for dinner.

In the afternoon, several patriarchs found Hadi, and the rest were small families. Some people bought 4%, 3%, and even one family only bought 2%. It seems that some families’ days It's not easy.

There is another one who has never looked for Hardy. I don’t know if it is because of the money or they are helping the Basini’s family to check the situation.

Hadi does not matter.

Finally, the new casino sold a total of 56% of the shares.

The number of shares fits Hardy’s heart. If he sells too many shares, he will occupy too few shares, and he will earn less when the casino is open.

Hadi holds 10% of the remaining shares and he owns 34%.

holds 34% of the shares and has the so-called one-vote veto power.

However, Hardy has a management agreement, but he is not afraid of shareholder rebellion. With a management agreement, he can fully control the company even with only a few percent of the equity.

The matter is finalized.

Hadi signed an agreement with the mafia patriarchs at the hotel, and a project with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars officially fell.

As for investment money.

Other families indicated that they would submit the documents one after another after they returned. It is estimated that it will take one or two months. Hardy said that the Venetian Hotel will set up a construction management team. Shareholders are responsible, and will report the construction situation and details of the use of funds every time.

Listening to Hardy's words, these patriarchs were completely relieved. They were afraid that Hardy would be like Siegel, in order to pursue the extreme overspending, then their money might really be in vain.

The matter is settled, the Mafia family patriarchs left one after another. Hardy smiled slightly when he looked at the agreement. These people have already boarded the ship. From now on, the Mafia forces will not be a big threat to him.

After sending these people away, Hardy also returned to Los Angeles.

He is anxious to come back because there is a speech waiting for him.

When he traded with Meyer, one of them was to be the chairman of the actors' union, and Meyer agreed.

Now that the election of the union chairman is approaching, several candidates have begun to promote, and Hardy is one of them, but there has been no movement.

Today's actors' union has a registered number of about 40,000 people, including film and television actors, reporters, radio celebrities, recording artists, singers, voice actors and other media professionals.

is mainly distributed in Hollywood and New York, but don’t underestimate this number. Although most of them are ordinary actors and actors, the big stars are also here.

Their appeal is very strong. Sometimes in presidential elections, candidates will ask these big stars to stand for themselves, just to borrow the power of the stars' fans and increase their support rate.

Moreover, there are reporters and radio celebrities. Their influence is not small. The pen can write dead people, and the celebrities can say dead people.

This is also the biggest reason Hardy wants to be the chairman of the actors' union, because becoming the chairman of the union is equivalent to mastering a powerful force.

As soon as Hardy returned to Los Angeles, he received a call from Meyer, "Hadi, I heard that you and someone else set up a new casino and invested 100 million?!"

"That's right."

"Didn't you say that you are going to build a new casino with us?" Mayer asked with a frown.

"Hehe, this does not conflict, our new casino will be built, I am waiting for your news." Hardy said.

"Aren't there conflicts? Invest in a large casino of 100 million yuan. After the new casino is completed, everyone will grab business together." Meyer said.

"Mr. Meyer, I told you before that Las Vegas is a big gold mine, and one person can't dig it completely. Moreover, the better we build this gold mine, the more tourists we make. The more."

"Do you know the cluster effect? ​​Build more casinos. In the future, as long as tourists want to play, the first one will think of Las Vegas instead of other places."

"I can tell you that even if 10 casinos of this size are built in Las Vegas, it will not be saturated. Tourists have to build the casino. All that remains is how to attract them, just like a movie. After the filming is finished, we have to conduct large-scale publicity for the same reason before the screening."

"And there is another reason, I have to build this new casino." Hardy's voice became serious.

"What's the reason?" Meyer asked curiously.

"The partners I worked with this time are all mafia families. There are 15 companies in total, accounting for more than half of the Mafia committee. They originally had casinos in Las Vegas, but they were relatively small, about the same size as the underground casinos in Los Angeles. "

"Because the opening of the Hardy Hotel has attracted most of the tourists, and their business has plummeted. These mafia families have developed a sense of hatred. To be honest, I am in Las Vegas and they dare not do anything to the Hardy Hotel. Hands and feet, if a new casino is built, do you think they will tolerate this happening?"

Meyer immediately realized that this was indeed the case.

They just have money, but they can’t do anything against the Mafia.

If it weren’t for Hardy,

They didn’t even get involved in Las Vegas.

Later in Las Vegas, until the 1960s and 1970s, the casinos here were firmly controlled by the Mafia. Later, the Mafia was cleaned up by Kennedy, and then after several blows, the Mafia showed a trend of decline, Wall Street Only with some big capital can we enter Las Vegas and open more casinos and hotels.

Before the Mafia was in decline, it was better than Wall Street and big capitalists, and it was incapable of eating this piece of meat.

Wall Street also has powerless people and things.

It can be seen from this,

The Mafia is indeed a formidable force.

Wall Street bosses are not invincible, thinking that rich people are more afraid of death. If you play yin with the mafia, they dare to play hard with you.

Maybe your car will explode, your house will explode, your cigar may explode.

certainly,

Later, the Mafia fell. There are many reasons for this. I will not analyze them one by one. It is because he knows that the Mafia will fall in the future, and Hardy still knows the reasons, so he turned himself white from the beginning.

On him alone, you won't find any problems.

Even if someone knows that he is the gangster behind the gang, what's the matter, you have no evidence, and if there is no evidence, it will be deadly.

As long as Hardy becomes strong enough in the future, as powerful as the eight major consortia, politicians will not dare to move him, who cares about your family history.

A profitable business.

HD security armed forces.

ABC TV, Global Times and other media.

These are the fortresses Hardy built for himself.

Money, force, and the media's right to speak, these three things are in hand, even the president of the United States does not dare to move himself easily.

Pulled far away.

When Hardy revealed the powerful relationship, Meyer finally realized this. If these mafia families are pressed into a hurry and unite with each other, his casino, let alone making money, is still unknown whether it can be built.

Wait when it was built soon, there was an explosion and the building collapsed. Then all his investment was lost.

"I built a new luxury casino together with them and brought them together to make money. This will eliminate the crisis and expand the influence of Las Vegas. Do you think my decision is wrong?" Hardy asked road.

"Yes, I think you did the right thing Hardy." Meyer said immediately.

Meyer is very aware of the means and power of these mafia families, and he feels that Hardy is indeed doing the right thing.

"Then our investment continues?" Meyer asked.

"Of course continue, I have prepared the land." Hardy said.

Hardy bought a large amount of land in Las Vegas. After several months of acquisitions, he already has more than 20,000 acres in his hands. After Hardy Hotel's business boomed, land prices began to soar, and the land he hoarded is now also Appreciated a lot.

The 100 acres of land for the construction of the "Venetian Hotel", he is going to buy it from his own hands. Is the price? Of course it won't be cheap.

For the hotel that Meyer cooperated with, the land was naturally bought from his own company, because the land in his hands is the best in Las Vegas.

"I found a few friends before, and everyone's opinion was to invest 20 million yuan. Now it seems that the investment may need to increase." Meyer said.

"I think it can be set at 50 million." Hardy suggested.

"50 million? I want to discuss with my partner." Meyer said.

"Then I will wait for your news."

Hang up the phone, Hardy picked up a speech from the table. This is his speech for the show tomorrow evening. He is going to participate in tomorrow's "Elaine Tonight Show" to canvass for his election as the chairman of the Screen Actors Guild.

This is his first time on stage.

Standing in the spotlight, countless Americans will know him in the future.

And him.

It is impossible to hide behind forever.

The next evening.

Hadi came to the ABC TV studio's big studio, this studio can accommodate more than 100 people, and the people who come today are almost all Hollywood stars.

Hadi is now the owner of a major Hollywood studio, the owner of the country’s largest broadcasting company, and most of the Hollywood movie stars are registered with the Screen Actors Guild. Hardy invited them to vote for himself.

When Hardy walked in, many people stood at the door to greet him.

At a glance, they are all Hollywood stars who can be named, as well as some directors, screenwriters, and producers.

Hadi saw Li Gen in the crowd. He stood behind those big stars. Now Li Gen has joined Hardy’s brokerage company and has become a contracted actor of Hardy’s company.

Li Gen and Heidi Lama filmed together with the ghostly love has not yet come to an end, and officially enters post-production.

Hardy exchanged greetings with these people After all, we need to win the votes of these people. When he walked in front of Li Gen, Li Gen stretched out his hands and shook hands with Hardy. Hardy got closer to Li Gen and said, "Film shooting is complete. , What's the matter now?"

"Nothing." Li Gen said quickly.

"Are you interested in coming to the actors' union to do a job? If I become the chairman of the union, you will be my assistant." Hardy said.

Li Gen immediately showed surprise.

"Of course I would like Mr. Hardy."

Hadi smiled, "That’s all, from now on you will be my assistant in the election of the Actors’ Guild Chairman."

Later Li Gen started from the actors' union. During his time as an actor, he first joined the union, then became the chairman of the actors' union, joined the Republican Party, then became a California congressman, senator, California governor, and finally president.

The ability to rise step by step and do so well fully demonstrates Li Gen's ability, so Hardy thought of him and asked him to be his assistant. In the future, he will have many things for himself, and the daily affairs of the union will be handled by him.

It feels good to find a later president to be his assistant.

(End of this chapter)