It was still very early, and it felt like it was still dark. However, after the man got up, several girls on the big bed also got up one after another. Although there are only six of them, they are clearly divided into three small circles. They work in groups of two. Although they appear to be in harmony with each other, they are more or less cautious.
After all, the fashion resources available to Asians in the West are limited, and the top six of them also need to compete.
A certain man is capable of solving this problem, but he is obviously not a man who will please women uncontrollably, and this kind of man is not something they can ask for at will.
Quan Youzhen and Shin Chaehye, two Korean girls, were the first to go downstairs. When they met a waitress, they directly asked where the man was. They had something else they wanted to let him decide on.
The maid took them to a living room downstairs. The door was open. The two girls looked up and realized there was someone in the room.
The man was sitting alone on one side of the sofa, and on the single sofa next to him was the housekeeper Angre. In addition, on the couch opposite, there are two Asian women. Even though one has long hair and the other has short hair, it is still obvious that they are sisters at a glance. Moreover, although they are a little older, the two Korean girls cannot find fault with their appearance or temperament. They are inevitably envious. It would be great if they could take care of themselves to this level in the future.
But, well, the one with long hair has red eyes and is crying.
Noticing them poking their heads, the housekeeper gave them a dismissive look, and the two girls quickly walked away knowingly.
In the living room, he also noticed the two girls poking their heads. Simon ignored it and continued to lean on the sofa with his legs crossed. Hearing the woman opposite sobbing slightly and finishing her words intermittently, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Break things.
Last time Simon promised Yu Zhijin that he could go to Canada to visit her two sons. When the woman went, she not only quietly left her cash savings to her two sons, but also the jewelry she had accumulated privately, hoping that the two boys would be short of money. If you don't have enough money, you can sell it for money.
The two boys quickly exchanged the jewelry, and then, because they could not produce specific evidence of the source of the jewelry, they were regarded as thieves by the owner of the pawn shop. In fact, he wanted to steal the finances of the two Asian boys.
The two boys turned out not to be fuel-efficient. They were probably used to being arrogant since they were young, so they got into fights with others.
Then, the young man had one of his legs broken and called the police.
This happened yesterday afternoon.
The housekeeper has arranged to fish them out. Both boys were injured and have been sent to the hospital.
Then there’s the present.
Glancing at the woman who was still crying, Simon looked to his side: "Who made the first move about the fight?"
Before the housekeeper could speak, Yu Zhijin had already rushed to say: "It must be someone else. Xiaoguang is very obedient and never fights with others."
Simon just looked at the housekeeper.
The housekeeper said softly: "Ms. Yu's eldest son moved first and used the chair. The pawn shop owner's skull was fractured."
Yu Zhijin suddenly cried again.
Yu Caisang was worried that the man would be angry, so he finally couldn't help it and scolded: "Don't cry, they are all good sons you spoiled. Do you really not know what kind of virtue they have been since they were young?"
When her sister spoke, Yu Zhijin didn't dare to cry anymore. She just looked at the man pleadingly and couldn't help but defend: "This time, but this time, it's not Xiaoguang's fault, it's someone else who wanted to steal their things."
Simon's eyes showed a bit of interest: "Then what do you want to do?"
Yu Zhijin saw that the man was not angry and asked this question, but he did not dare to answer and subconsciously looked at his sister.
Yu Caisang actually doesn't want to pay attention to this kind of thing. She would rather not have this sister now. After all, the man next to her seems to be easy to talk to. However, she has never seen similar people in that class before. He is standard. Smiling tiger.
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Caisang still said: "Simon, since both sides of this matter are wrong, why don't we just forget it?"
If it were the past, even if it was to maintain the dignity of the family, it would definitely not be forgotten. But now, these women are all phoenixes who have lost their hair, and they can't even care about them. And this man, in his heart, just treats them as playthings. The smartest way is of course to expose the matter.
"Forget it," Simon said casually, and then looked at Yu Zhijin with red eyes: "The problem is, you secretly used the things I gave you to raise your son, and he is not my son. How should this be settled? "
When Yu Zhijin heard what the man said, his body stiffened, and soon softened, all the way to the carpet, and crawled to the man's feet: "Simon, you can punish me however you want, please, I, I will never do it again. Dare you."
Simon tapped the woman's chin with his toe and said: "Since we have actually raised them, you can leave them alone in the future. It's mine." After saying that, he ignored the woman and turned to the housekeeper: "Arrange English courses for them for half a year. Time to master the language. If you are lazy..." After thinking about it, Simon's mouth flashed with a hint of evil. He reached out and took off the belt from his waist and placed it on the coffee table next to him: "Send it over. If it doesn't work, have someone beat him until he stops being lazy. .”
The woman on the ground started crying again: "Simon, please."
Simon ignored it and said: "In half a year, send him to the United States to join the army. Since he is so good at fighting, it would be good to be a soldier. It just so happens that in recent years, many areas have been busy and there is a chance to participate in actual combat."
"Woooo..."
After listening to Simon's instructions, the housekeeper took the belt and nodded slightly.
Simon stretched out his hand to pull the woman on the ground over and held her in his arms: "Stop crying, I'm kidding you. Since I raise them as sons, I just want them to become talented, but I won't let them die."
The woman obviously didn't believe it. She tried her best to press against Simon and begged: "Simon, please, Xiaoguang and the others can't bear the pain of being soldiers."
Simon held up the woman's face: "Then what do you think I should do? I can't stand it if you use my money to support two losers."
The woman burst into tears more frequently, and quickly promised: "I won't support them anymore, let them find jobs in the future and support themselves, Simon, please."
Simon kissed the woman on the lips and said with a smile: "Women are the best at lying, especially you who dote on your son, so I don't believe it. That's it, or this belt, I Let someone go over and strangle them to death so that they won’t be upset by the thought of two losers, what do you think?”
Yu Zhijin's body trembled again, and she keenly realized that the man was not joking, and immediately did not dare to speak.
"That's good," Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman on the lips: "Okay, get up and go have breakfast with me."
Quan Youzhen and Shin Chaehye didn't see a man again until after breakfast. They talked about their own affairs. The two girls wanted to immigrate to the United States.
Human nature.
However, if it was Jian Xin and the others, Simon would not care. But for the two girls, Simon did not agree.
At present, South Korea is also promoting the two girls' participation in Victoria's Secret with great fanfare, and they have once again become the pride of South Korea. It would be very troublesome if such a proud person immigrated suddenly.
How could proud Koreans not want to be Koreans
Speaking of this, Simon couldn't help but think of an interesting thing. In the past, the Koreans spent 20 million US dollars, and finally in the past few years, they sent one of their own citizens into space, realizing South Korea's conquest of the entire universe. The first small step, the whole people are inspired.
Then, the Korean female astronaut who defeated tens of thousands of other citizens to obtain qualifications and spent 20 million from the country to be the first to set foot in space immigrated to the United States.
Have no idea.
Voting with your feet is the most incontrovertible thing.
After handling these small chores, Simon took a helicopter and rushed to Manhattan.
Today is mainly the agenda of the Westeros Company, involving the 'stock exchange' plan.
It is already December. As of the end of November, the scale of the "stock exchange" plan that has been completed in the entire Westeros system has reached 210 billion U.S. dollars. It is expected that this number will be fixed at around 230 billion U.S. dollars in the next month.
Among them, 70% are stock assets and 30% are cash.
The cash ratio is much higher than Simon originally expected, but since someone can come up with it, they will definitely not refuse it.
All in all, it is estimated that assets of 230 billion US dollars are spread all over the world, in all aspects and types.
It can be said that after such operations, coupled with past accumulation, the entire Westeros system is now becoming more and more like an octopus-like super chaebol. Of course, it is not the ultimate form, because it is still far away from Simon's goal of controlling the entire world economy.
There is no rush to do this, it will happen in twenty or thirty years at most.
Now that so much had been obtained in the first year, next year Simon decided that the project would be put on hold.
After all, just like money, a person has enough money, but if he cannot stimulate the energy that the corresponding money can represent, he may not have the social power and public influence that the money represents.
This is what everyone often calls the nouveau riche.
Why do the old money families in the West look down on some emerging rich people, even if these rich people have much more wealth than they do? In addition to the inherent pride of aristocratic families, another reason is that these emerging rich people often do not have the strong social power that they, the old money, have.
In short, they are the results accumulated over decades and hundreds of years.
Let’s talk about this stock exchange plan. If we don’t manage the US$230 billion of wealth expected to be obtained throughout the year patiently and just let them sit there as equity or cash, these assets will be just a pile of wealth. Even these Instead, wealth will be used by trustees and become a tool for them to seize power and interests.
Simon would not allow this to happen.
As for how to activate the influence represented by this wealth, it is a matter of slow work and careful work.
In addition, another reason why Simon suspended its stock exchange plan is that the U.S. stock market continues to rise rapidly and is now in a bubble state again.
It stands to reason that exchanging bubbles for assets is obviously a better business.
However, in this world, maybe the rich people are not as smart as ordinary people think, but if they are stupid, there are definitely not many.
Therefore, even if it is forced to continue here, the effect will not be very good, and it is more likely to be exchanged for a large number of junk assets.
Furthermore, if the stock market crash unexpectedly starts again due to this replacement operation of the Westeros system, then Simon will become the target of public criticism, which is also the main reason.
So Simon chose to pause.
In addition to sorting out the assets that have been obtained with the Westeros company team today, there is another thing that is a contact with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and even the Ministry of Finance and Congress have sent representatives.
It’s still about this asset of more than 200 billion US dollars.
The news that Westeros Company has launched a stock exchange plan can be known to the public who pays a little attention to financial information. Therefore, one of the things that everyone is most concerned about this year is, has Simon Westeros paid taxes
Taxes and death are two eternal topics in America.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in Simon's previous impression, is definitely the most powerful government department in the United States. It is not even one of the most powerful government departments in the United States. It has its own law enforcement powers, its own army, and even its own prisons, blah blah blah. It makes people frightened. Even if the U.S. government wants to arrest gangsters, it needs to go through the IRS.
However, after so many years, just as Simon has become more and more familiar with the American system, he has also gradually become more aware of the IRS.
Therefore there is no awe anymore.
In fact, there is no awe at all. The gnashing of teeth with which most Americans talk about the IRS is not awe at all, just disgust.
As for the U.S. government’s use of the IRS to deal with gangs, many people often get one thing wrong.
In this case, the most powerful one is the US government, and the IRS is just a tool. Just like what the Chinese are more familiar with, when doing business, encountering industrial, commercial, taxation, firefighting and sanitation... After all the twists and turns, do you want to live or die
IRS, same kind.
As for whether in reality or in movies and TV series, big and small people are often shocked by tax inspections, the same principle applies.
The IRS is a very handy tool for the US authorities to use when needed. It can be used wherever it is directed.
As for the IRS itself, if this department is so powerful, why can so many wealthy people avoid so many taxes so easily that the richest people in the United States have the lowest tax rates
Because of reasonable tax avoidance
fart.
Anyone with a little more normal thinking should be able to understand that a super rich man with a net worth of tens of billions or hundreds of billions not only does not pay taxes for a year, but can even get an extra tax refund in some cases, which is absolutely abnormal.
It can only mean that a country has too many tax loopholes, which are unreasonable.
Of course, no matter how unreasonable it is, as long as it is legal, it will be fine, right
So the question comes again
Why is it that no matter in movies or TV series or in real America, whether you are a gangster or a rich person, whether you are a small business owner or the middle class, you are all afraid that someone will suddenly ask you to check your taxes
Since it's all legal, why be afraid
Is it a reasonable inference that too many people are actually evading taxes and therefore cannot withstand investigation? That's why I'm scared from top to bottom.
This brings us to the final question.
Too many people evade taxes, why can they succeed
Very simple.
Because the IRS is not as powerful as outsiders imagine, it is just an ordinary government department in the United States, and it is not much more powerful than the FBI, CIA and other powerful departments. Not only that, such a department, like the unclog in the toilet, is very frequently used as a tool of coercion by U.S. power agencies at all levels, and anyone who needs it can use it.
It's that simple.
Of course, everyone should do their best to make superficial remarks.
Today's meeting with the IRS is like this. What needs to be done must be done. Although Simon does not intend to transfer tens of billions of funds back to the United States, he still needs to give the IRS a decent step and take out a batch of money to use as tax payment. and make appropriate publicity in the media.
Westeros Corporation has fulfilled its obligations as a taxpayer, and the IRS, the White House, and Congress have also fulfilled their due collection and supervision obligations. Voters can also catch up after seeing that the Westeros system has paid a batch of taxes. I am relieved that at least the hard-working people in Washington are doing their jobs, and they will vote when they need to.
Everyone is happy.
After finishing this work, the next day is December 3rd, Friday.
Preliminary preparations for the TV broadcast of the Victoria's Secret Show next Monday are still in full swing, and another box office week at the end of the year in North America has also come to an end.
In the box office week from November 26 to December 2, because Thanksgiving has passed, no new films were released last Friday. This week's box office is crucial to the overall trend of a series of Thanksgiving films.
Without any suspense, "Cyborg 2" easily won the title.
In the second week after its release, this super blockbuster with a total investment of US$240 million, after being a big hit in its first week, ended up with a respectable 45% weekly decline, collecting another US$71.86 million, and at the same time, it also easily pushed the cumulative box office to 71.86 million US dollars. 200 million, reaching US$202.51 million.
Breaking 200 million in two weeks, an absolutely outstanding achievement.
Moreover, the 45% drop in the second week is also very good compared to the film’s box office volume of 130 million in the first week.
However, because the drop exceeded 40% the next week, according to Warner's official predictions, there is still suspense whether North America can exceed 400 million in the next trend. That is to say, if the decline in the next week is controlled within 40%, it will be very safe to exceed 400 million, but now, it is somewhat uncertain.
Of course, the cumulative box office exceeded 200 million in the two weeks after its release, and the next 300 million threshold is easily achieved.
Immediately afterwards, the second place is still "Cars".
Due to its genre, "Cars" entered a short period of desertion between the Thanksgiving season and the Christmas season. As a result, the single-week decline reached 39%, which was higher than last week's 37% decline, and it collected another US$24.39 million. The cumulative box office of this 3D animated film reached US$127.95 million.
Still expected.
Unlike "Cyborg 2" and "Casino Royale," which are popcorn blockbusters that enter the Christmas season only to be hit by new films and quickly drop out of the competition, in the next Christmas season, due to fixed market demand, "Cars" will also There will be a wave of performance, so even if the decline reaches 39% this week, the local threshold of 200 million is still not much suspense.
Then there is the third place "Casino Royale". After being hit hard by "Cyborg 2" the next week, the film's decline this week slightly converged to 43%, which is somewhat unsatisfactory. The film continued to earn 20.97 million U.S. dollars, with a cumulative box office US$132.88 million.
It is still as expected, but compared with the initial 150 million, it may be about 10 million higher, but it will stop there.
Outside the top three, films such as "Air Force One" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" don't have much to say, because the box office trend has been determined before and basically will not be in the next Christmas period. What sense of presence there is.