Chapter 1705

Dumei Cape Manor, in the study on the basement floor of Shell Villa.

The time is still more than six in the morning, November 3rd, Friday. Simon has been up for more than two hours, mainly because of the time difference on the east coast, New York is close to the opening of the stock market.

There are so many things to do lately.

Simon didn't bother too much about the initial choice, but when Al Gore reacted, he was still struggling, and Simon had to deal with it carefully.

If there is a reversal at the end, the Westeros system will certainly not be too good for the next few years.

Just after the video call with Paul Spaihts in Florida, Simon picked up a book and leaned back on the leather chair temporarily. Seeing Janet appear, he raised his hand and patted on his leg, Janet With a smile, he stepped forward and snuggled into his man's arms.

"What book are you reading?" Asked, Janet had taken the initiative to grab the man's hand and looked at the cover: "The history of World War II, how do you read this?"

Girl A, who also accompanied her early riser, walked over from the printer in the corner of the study with a stack of just-printed documents, put the documents on the desk, and gently refilled some coffee for her boss. Seeing this couple The appearance of men and women cuddling with each other is envious in their hearts, but they can also understand the pressure of men in recent days, without interfering with Simon's brief relaxation, he took the initiative: "Boss, I'll go up first."

Simon nodded, returning his attention to Janet in his arms, looking at the book together, and gesturing to the bookshelf by the wall: "Just flip through it."

As she gestured towards the table, Janet leaned over to grab a pencil and handed it to the man.

Simon put the book on Janet's plump lap, picked up a pen and wrote a line of Chinese characters in the blank of the relevant chapter of the open German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941: "Seeing the great benefits but not following, hearing the calamity but not preparing. Those who are superficial in contention and defense, and who are devoted to benevolence and righteousness, may perish.”

It is Simon who has turned over the "Han Feizi: Dead Expedition" which can be basically memorized many times.

In recent years, it has become more and more discovered that Han Feizi's "Legend of Death", thousands of years later, can still get too many reflections in the real world, whether it is ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign.

Janet, who has become more and more proficient in Chinese over the years, saw the sentence written by Simon, and she almost followed her man in private. I also feel that the only thing Stalin did wrong was that he did not escape from Moscow, otherwise, the Soviet Union would not exist in 1941.”

Before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, various departments of the Soviet Union had already obtained too much information about the imminent launch of the German army, and even the exact time of the attack was finally obtained. However, Stalin, who insisted that the Soviet Union was not ready and therefore unfit to go to war with the Germans, resorted to an almost absurd policy of appeasement.

For example, in the months before the war, German planes were intruding into the Soviet airspace almost every day to spy on intelligence. The Soviet Union responded that if you fly as you please, we will never fight back. We even caught the filming of the Soviet army’s deployment on the border due to a malfunction. The reconnaissance plane was actually sent back with people and planes.

In short, I am a good person, and I stand on the moral high ground. As long as I do not regard you as an enemy, no matter how much you target me, you will not be my enemy.

Those who hear the disaster and are not prepared, and who should decorate themselves with benevolence and righteousness, can perish!

As a result, because of Stalin's serious mistakes, the country was pushed by the German army. In a war, more than 60 million Soviet soldiers and civilians were killed and injured, and this country has a total population of only 180 million.

The old age politics in the late Soviet Union, and even eventually collapsed, was unsustainable. A big reason was that the war caused the Soviet Union to almost die out, and it was fundamentally injured.

Then, the side that stood far away on the other side of the ocean and took all the dividends of the war became the incarnation of justice. The Normandy landing became the turning point of World War II, and the Soviet Union, which paid the greatest price for that war, gradually became the incarnation of justice. Symbol of the evil empire.

Because the winner can stand on the moral high ground.

is a good person.

to have all the glory.

And the losers can only be reduced to dirty and evil incompetent thieves.

Janet didn't talk about the recent troubles, just curled up in the man's arms and read a few pages with him, and shared a cup of coffee, until Girl A appeared at the stairs again, reminding him of breakfast, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. She said to Simon, "Do you really want me and Jenny to go to Asia a few days later?"

The two women's Asian itinerary is planned to start tomorrow morning, arrive in Singapore on Sunday afternoon local time, rest overnight, and start various work schedules in the new week.

As for next Tuesday's polling day, the presence or absence of the two Jennys is irrelevant.

This is actually the norm in electoral politics.

In Western elections, the turnout rate of eligible voters is often less than 50%, and if the entire population is counted, it may be less than 30%.

why?

Because for ordinary people, after too many hustle and bustle, they often find that nothing has changed.

Simon understands that Janet is worried about the election, and she can really help by staying, but she still shakes her head: "No, there will be no more accidents."

As he spoke, he leaned forward slightly and operated the mouse to open the Alia financial software created by Girl B.

On the east coast, the time difference is three hours. Today's stock market has opened. The trend of the curve is first down and then up, with a slight downward trend in the shock. The overall stability is stable, and the tragic situation that the circuit breaker was triggered 9 minutes after the opening of the market yesterday did not reproduce.

This is the result of a night of urgent coordination between the Westeros system and countless stakeholders.

It doesn't matter that Simon is blown again, but another large group of people can't stand this, so not only the Westeros system, but many other people are doing everything possible to prevent Gore from making trouble again.

Janet looked at the stock market curve on the screen together and understood this. There are only three days left until the election. Although the market will not be open for the next weekend, there is still a trading day next Monday. Moreover, Gore has released Such ruthless words, if the opponent wins the general election on Tuesday, it basically means that the new technology bubble will burst after that.

If it does happen, the entire Federation, from top to bottom, will not be affected by many people.

Therefore, under the premise that Bush Jr. is already ahead, this time the trouble is self-defeating, and there will be no more twists and turns in next Tuesday's vote.

Thinking of this, Janet relaxed a little, reluctantly left the man's arms, and when Simon got up, she still held his arm affectionately, and said as she walked, "Gore has offended the whole world this time, I'm thinking, next In a month, are we going to drop that Enron bomb?"

Simon shook his head solemnly and firmly: "What does this have to do with us? Enron's fraudulent accounts were exposed, and the stock market collapsed. I am the biggest victim, and my net worth will shrink by hundreds of billions."

Janet glanced sideways with a smile: "Little villain."

After breakfast, at eight o'clock, Simon again arrived in Malibu's Daenerys Studios ahead of schedule.

There are actually too many thrills in the operation of the past few days. For example, after a circuit breaker was hit yesterday, if it cannot be stabilized today, the direction of the general election will be blurred again. After all, people with a little brains also understand that yesterday's circuit breaker had obvious human factors, and it was obvious who was behind the scenes.

Therefore, Simon can put and withdraw, which will make people jealous and make choices accordingly.

If Simon can't take it back, the Nasdaq will collapse completely, and even if Gore eventually loses the election, there will be a series of troubles in the future.

The current situation is that Simon created a circuit breaker yesterday. Today, the Nasdaq did not continue to fall, and it was successfully closed. Until next Tuesday, as long as Gore loses the election, the Nasdaq is likely to rebound and even wipe out this decline.

In this way, the cause and effect of the whole thing falls on Gore and has nothing to do with the Westeros system.

Entering his office in the studio, Simon glanced at the stock market data again for the first time. The curve just rebounded a little again, which was close to yesterday's closing index and was generally stable.

So rest assured and start your daily work.

In the stack of work documents sent by Girl A, the first thing is the box office data of the Halloween schedule that just passed.

In a box office week from October 27th to November 2nd, "The Conjuring 4: Reaper" rode the dust and earned $79.34 million at the box office within seven days of its opening. Although it was regrettable that it failed to break the box office threshold of 80 million, it also set a The opening record of The Conjuring Movie Universe is even more than 50 million behind the second place on the list.

The second place on the list is Warner's romantic film "Meet Rome", a collaboration between Mel Gibson and DC Universe 'Catwoman' Valerie Golino, a completely new film about a business that went bankrupt and almost went bankrupt. The story of a broken down American businessman who met an Italian girl in Rome and got his life redemption and gained love.

The story is not bad, with a comprehensive media score of 7.6. Unfortunately, the original is not as good as the sequel, and although both Gibson and Golino are famous, they don't have much appeal in the field of romance films, not to mention they hit "The Conjuring 4: Reaper", therefore, with a budget of $45 million, only made $26.83 million at the box office in its first week.

It is estimated that the domestic box office of about 60 million, including overseas and later channels, is not a failure, but it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

The second place is far away, not to mention the rest of the list.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that only the "Terror Cruise", which was produced by the company and opened the previous week, received $14.36 million in the first week, perhaps because of its small size, the impact of "The Conjuring 4: Reaper" in the next week was also Not big, the decline was well controlled at 28%, and it collected another $10.33 million, bringing the cumulative box office to $24.69 million.

Not surprisingly, the box office will break through 30 million this week, and it will depend on luck whether it can reach the local 40 million in the end.

The total investment in the production and publicity of the project is 22 million US dollars, which is close to 30 million US dollars at the box office, which is slightly better than the domestic one. The film has successfully entered the profit cycle. At least, the expected revenue is higher than Warner's "Meet Rome". A lot of joy.

After reviewing various documents for an hour, at nine o'clock is a regular meeting of executives.

After discussing some recent work items, glanced at the memorandum, and determined that there were no other issues, Simon looked up, saw Amy Pascal, Mark Belford and others around him still looking at himself with bright eyes, and turned the pencil in his hand. , Simon remembered and said: "In any case, Daenerys's goal of breaking the trillion in market value has been achieved, and you can celebrate it on the weekend. Amy, you arrange it yourself."

Although it failed to last for a single trading day, Daenerys Entertainment became the third corporate giant in the US stock market to break through the trillion-dollar market value. This record is destined to be recorded in business history.

Simon mentioned this, and Amy also smiled: "Okay."

However, after saying this, everyone's expressions did not fall.

Simon certainly understands what everyone is thinking. After all, before Gore broke his face, at least at the level of the presidential election, everyone thought that the Westeros system supported the Democratic Party.

Therefore, no one expected that the situation has changed a lot recently.

Simon didn't ignore it anymore, he considered it a little, looked around and said, "There is such a story..."

The crowd immediately cheered up.

Simon sorted out the language a little and said, "On the African savannah, a group of wild horses and a group of bison are fighting. My question is, if you were a lion, which side would you support?"

What is the problem?

Everyone was taken aback, because Nancy Brill, who had no scruples because she was closer to a man, blurted out, "Why would a lion support a bison or a wild horse?"

Simon curled the corners of his mouth: "Yes, bison and wild horses are both the lion's food, of course it does not need to support any of them, because he is a predator on the higher level of the food chain, and those herbivores are only eaten by Just a predator."

When Simon said this, everyone understood.

His boss means that he is the lion, and by extension, the entire Westeros system is a group of lions. And the Democratic and Republican parties fighting for those chairs in Washington are the bison and wild horses fighting for territory on the prairie.

Seeing everyone's thoughtful expressions, Simon spoke again: "I know you are wondering why I suddenly changed my supporters. The metaphor just now is the reason. Since it is a lion who is not in the same level of the food chain, of course I just want to eat beef. Eat beef, eat horse meat if you want, not choose to stand with the herd or the horse. I hope you can understand this too, we are Westerosian, we have our own position, not degrade ourselves Go take a stand with our food."

Simon's words, if you want to raise the bar, it's easy to stab.

However, none of them were children, and their boss had already explained things very clearly with a fairly common metaphor. Even if he didn't explain one of their doubts, he couldn't even adapt to his status as a 'lion' for a while. Didn't get to the bottom of it.

In any case, the choice of the boss must have its own reasons.

This man has created the huge Westeros system in just over ten years, and his choice, even in pure probability, is definitely more correct than theirs.