In the manor in the southern suburb of Rome, Sophia didn't like to live in a hospital. Several rooms in the West Wing of the villa were transformed into a medical area by a full set of medical equipment, and a whole top-level medical team entered. Because they were older mothers or twins, the doctor proposed a caesarean section, and Simon and Sophia agreed after discussion.
Caesarean section can choose the operation date after the child is full-term.
Sophia asked Simon to choose, so she decided that August 18 was a very lucky number in the previous life.
Arriving in Italy on August 12, local time, Simon stayed in the manor to accompany Sophia these days before the operation. In fact, women were not alone. After the summer vacation, Sophia's parents and a couple of children came to Rome from New York and stayed here all the time. After Simon arrived, in order to avoid embarrassment, Sophia's parents quietly moved out, rarely appeared again, but Daniel and Gemma continued to live in the manor.
The two children have already accepted the relationship between Simon and their mother. Sophia's pregnancy makes the atmosphere between them a little strange, but the whole is still harmonious.
These days, we try our best to get rid of our work. We just eat, chat and walk with women every day. Occasionally, we talk about the future of our two children. Simon is alienated from his children. He never denies this. However, Simon never wants to shirk his responsibility as a father.
What's more, for Simon, it's no problem that he can't give his children a lot of love and a lot of money.
Simon's wealth is very huge now. He never thought that most of them would be donated in the future, at least not really. However, it would not be left to a single child. As for how much Sophia's two Westeros can get in the future, it depends on them.
Sophia was also very calm.
She said that her shares in melisandro would be distributed to Daniel and Gemma in the future. Simon's shares would be left to twins. Women take it for granted.
Since Sophia thought so, Simon agreed.
The whole westero system will always belong to a group of little Westeros.
Who knows what will happen in the future?
Because of different social concepts, many of the children of the rich in the West are always not engaged in their proper work and show no interest in inheriting their family business.
These years, Simon quietly observed and combined with the information in his memory, and found a very interesting phenomenon. Most of the rich children who get rid of the family's pursuit of self are often from the newly rich families, and the old money families who have inherited for a hundred years. Relatively speaking, the proportion of rebellious children is relatively small.
Because when the newly rich families are not prosperous, they often accept the education idea that wealth is not important, power is not important, and the pursuit of self enjoyment is the most important, which has become the universal concept of the western civilian class.
Just as the western public generally accepted the idea of happy learning.
Knowledge is not important.
It doesn't matter whether you go to college or not.
Happiness is the most important thing.
Therefore, the common people in the West don't care whether they go to university or not. Even if they go to university, just like in the United States, the graduation rate is less than half.
In contrast, the children of the elite often have to bear all kinds of heavy schoolwork since childhood. Even if they are really not talented, parents should try their best to send their children to famous schools.
This is a class curing trap.
The elite has always been the elite, and the bottom is still at the bottom.
Simon is the most standard new rich, but he doesn't intend to jump this pit. The children of Westeros must accept the standard elite education, and their future life goal is to become the successors of the Westeros system. Even if there are inevitable deviations in this process, the fundamental idea will not change.
In the twinkling of an eye, it was August 17.
The day before the operation, which took several hours in the afternoon, Sophia had her last prenatal examination by caesarean section.
Simon personally listened to Ms. Sarah watley, tomorrow's chief surgeon, who introduced the results of the examination and the details of the operation tomorrow morning. He also personally inspected the equipment in the delivery room. It was evening to end these busyness.
After leaving the medical area, she came to a living room on the first floor of the villa. Sophia and her daughter were talking on the sofa. Gemma was holding the cow and cat named Luna in her arms.
Seeing Simon coming in, Gemma stood up with the cat in her arms and said, "I'll go to the kitchen and have a look."
Simon came to Sophia and sat down. When Gemma left, he stroked her stomach through her flimsy pregnant dress and asked, "what were you talking about?"
Sophia pressed Simon's hand and said, "Gemma is curious. How can snow and green distinguish between elder sister and younger brother or elder brother and younger sister in case of caesarean section?"
Simon said with a smile: "it's very simple. The little guy who comes out first is his brother or sister."
"That's what I say, but Gemma doesn't think it's that way."
"What does she want to do?"
Sophia's tone was soft: "you came in before we discussed it." After a few words of gossip, Sophia took Simon's hand and put it on her face. She looked at Simon and said, "I feel you want to be nervous again recently?"Simon did not hide: "yes, I'm afraid I can't be a good father."
Sophia took Simon's palm and rubbed it against his cheek. Then she put it down again. Her two little hands covered Simon's big hands and said, "actually, no, they're lucky that they can be Westeros."
Simon held the woman's small hand in his backhand: "in fact, I've been asking you these days, don't I really plan to take two children myself?"
Sophia shook her head without hesitation: "last year, I just wanted to give you a baby on impulse. Later, I regretted that I couldn't work for such a long time. Now, the wish has been fulfilled. You know, I'm not suitable for raising children. It's better to give them to Jennie. " The woman said and laughed again: "I'm not a good mother either."
Simon actually knows that Sofia, to a large extent, still hopes that the two children can really grow up as "Westeros". He doesn't say anything more, but says with a smile: "in this case, eat more in the evening, but you can't eat tomorrow morning."
The next day's operation was scheduled for nine o'clock in the morning.
The preparation was very good.
Simon also specially transferred several maids with the same blood type as Sophia, but it didn't work.
At ten o'clock in the morning, two weeping kids were born into the world. Snow Westeros, who left his mother a few minutes earlier, became a sister. Greenwich Westeros, who was more than a pound heavier than snow, became a brother.
Plain and peaceful.
In the following days, Simon continued to stay in Rome to accompany Sophia. Naturally, the child could not be sent to Los Angeles immediately after he was born. He planned to wait until after the full moon. The two jennies visited Sophia and the two little guys through video on the same day. The day after the baby was born, Veronica flew all the way from Australia and stayed with her in the southern suburb of Rome for a few days.
Simon didn't deliberately hide the birth of the baby.
In just a few days, the people who should know have basically known.
The old man in Melbourne is very dissatisfied. He calls Simon and scolds him. He can feel it. It's just a routine reprimand. Since another identity has been pierced, according to Janet, the old man treats Simon better than a group of his own. He often remembers that he hopes Simon can change the strange surname "westero" to "Johnston." .
In addition, the nationalities of the two children are registered in Switzerland.
This is the result of a family discussion.
Of course, it's easy for the Westeros to take another American nationality, but the priority nationality will be Switzerland, which is considered for the far future.
After the birth of the two children, although he still stayed in Rome, Simon began to spend more time on his work every day. After Sophia took a break, the same is true. Next month is a new fashion week. Many things need women's personal attention.
The last plane to Rome inspired by the idea of layout of South Korea, Simon these days also let people collect a lot of relevant information.
For South Korea, Simon's priority is still sniping.
Attack the electronics industry and entertainment industry of South Korea, because these are the key areas of westero system.
If the sniper fails, infiltration will be considered.
At this stage, South Korea, like Japan, has a very closed domestic economy and many restrictions on overseas capital investment. Simon knows that this situation will be completely changed after 1997. He doesn't think that his big butterfly can solve the Asian economic crisis.
Even if there is an accident, Simon will use the strength of the westero system to push it to happen.
However, even if it is infiltration, after all, it is not as powerful as personal control.
It's like the semiconductor industry.
Simon doesn't want to let Samsung continue to grow. Even if he has the chance to become a major shareholder of Samsung in the future, he is more willing to support an electronics giant directly under the Westeros system.
There are movies and games.
Of course, Korean films will not pose much threat to Hollywood. However, because of the rise of the film industry, the special effects industry in Korea will become a strong competitor of Hollywood in the future. With its price advantage, it has won a large number of orders, which Simon does not want to see.
That's even more true in games.
After the film business of danielis entertainment has gradually reached the ceiling, Simon has regarded the game business, which is far from saturated in the global market, as an important growth point of danielis's performance in the next many years, and has targeted at global expansion. In this regard, the once very strong Korean game industry in my memory has become a direct competitor of Denise entertainment.
Especially in China.
Simon is sure to win the Chinese market, but because of cultural differences, South Korea is undoubtedly more advantageous.
In addition, there is music.In this respect, Simon doesn't have much pressure.
We need to give it a lot of support.
I'd love to see the Korean wave attack all over Asia.
This is a very powerful pacifier.
imagine that a large crowd of beautiful men with eye shadow has prevailed enough to make a nation lose its masculinity.
Soft pedaling.
Minimize aggression in the male bones.
How nice.
However, it is difficult for Simon to do too much in the short term after he has finalized the strategy for South Korea.
The main reason is that the stalls of the westero system are already too large.
Even if Simon has more energy than ordinary people, he is only a person, only 24 hours a day, and can't take care of everything.
In a word, this kind of state appeared a few years ago.
It's like the hardware layout of the westero system.
Simon has been paying attention to it for a long time.
However, at this stage, westero system in these aspects, mainly equity investment.
The point is that Simon doesn't have enough energy to take care of so many things. Moreover, the threshold of semiconductor, LCD and other fields is much higher than that of the Internet and Hollywood. Not only that, these fields are not like the Internet, which is a blue ocean from scratch. On the contrary, they are the red ocean market, which has been fighting fiercely since the 1980s.
High technology threshold, capital intensive, fierce competition in the industry.
These all limit Simon's layout.
Simon is not short of money, but he also has considerable advantages. However, if he plunges 1.8 billion US dollars into these fields, the most likely thing is to make a series of useless floats.
By contrast, Hollywood, which Simon is most familiar with, is completely different from the Internet.
Hollywood is Simon's foundation, most of the memory in his mind is about Hollywood, so he can easily play.
On the Internet, there is no competition.
It's a completely new industry.
Simon can not only see the future clearly, but also find many excellent professional managers to help him conquer the city and land by virtue of his memory.
However, what should be done must be done after all.
During Simon's stay in Rome these days, he made an important decision on this issue, that is, starting from the beginning of next year, he will reduce his holdings of technology stocks to cash in his hands, and try his best to hoard more funds in the coming years.
Only with enough cash can Simon, such as South Korea, seize the opportunity to become a big shareholder behind the scenes of Korean oligarchs such as Samsung.
In the original time and space, many people may have some doubts.
Why can't Chinese mobile phone manufacturers open up the U.S. market, but Samsung is able to make a smooth move in North America?
The main reason is that more than half of Samsung's shares are in the hands of Americans.
To be precise, the whole Korean economy is controlled by the United States.
After decades of tossing and turning, Japan, which is also closed, has not been able to escape this fate.
It also explains one thing.
Why are the same developed countries? Even in terms of economic indicators, Japan and South Korea are more than many European countries. However, most Japanese or South Korean people are still under great pressure, far less than the high welfare and comfortable life of European developed countries.
This is not caused by the system.
The key is that because the national economy is fundamentally controlled by the west, most of the economic dividends in the development process of Japan and South Korea are quietly withdrawn by overseas capital. As a result, although the economic indicators of these countries are quite developed, their citizens do not enjoy the dividends brought by the developed economy.
Therefore, many people say that Japan and South Korea are colonies of the United States, which is not wrong. One of the greatest characteristics of the colony was that it was constantly sucked blood by the suzerain state in the economic field and made wedding clothes for others.