Dumeijiao Manor, in the study on the basement floor of Shell Villa.
The time is still around six o'clock in the morning, Friday, November 3rd. It had been more than two hours since Simon got up. Mainly due to the time difference on the East Coast, the stock market was approaching the opening in New York.
There are too many things to be busy with recently.
Simon was not too entangled in his initial choice, but when Al Gore reacted and made a last-ditch effort, Simon had to deal with it carefully.
If there is a reversal at the end, the Westeros system will definitely not have a good time in the next few years.
Just as the video call with Paul Spaihts in Florida ended, Simon picked up a book and relaxed temporarily on the leather chair. Seeing Janet appear, he raised his hand and patted Janet on the leg. Smiling, he stepped forward and snuggled into his man's arms.
"What book are you reading?" After asking, Janet took the man's hand and looked at the cover: "History of World War II, how do you read this?"
Girl A, who also accompanied the early riser, walked over from the printer in the corner of the study with a stack of just printed documents. She put the documents on the desk and gently refilled her boss's coffee. Seeing this couple The man and woman cuddled up to each other. I was envious in my heart, but I could also understand the pressure the man had been under in recent days. Without disturbing Simon's brief relaxation, he took the initiative and said: "Boss, I'll go up first."
Simon nodded and turned his attention back to Janet in his arms. They looked at the books together and gestured to the bookshelf on the wall: "Flip through whatever you want."
Saying this, she motioned towards the table, Janet leaned over and picked up a pencil, handing it to the man.
Simon placed the book on Janet's plump thighs, and took up a pen to write a line of Chinese characters in the margin of the opened chapter about Germany's sudden attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941: "Don't rush when you see great gains, and be unprepared when you hear disaster." "Those who are superficial in fighting for things and show off their benevolence and righteousness will perish."
It was "Han Feizi: The Death March" that Simon had read many times and was able to memorize it.
In recent years, it has been increasingly discovered that Han Feizi's "The Death March", thousands of years later, can still be reflected in the real world, whether it is ancient and modern, Chinese or foreign.
Janet, who has become more and more proficient in Chinese over the years, saw the sentence written by Simon. In private, she almost followed the same steps as her man. She also knew the source. She pointed her fingertips over the beautiful font that had just been condensed, and commented: "I I also feel that the only thing Stalin did against him was not escaping from Moscow, otherwise the Soviet Union would not have existed in 1941."
Before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, various Soviet departments had obtained too much information about the upcoming German attack, and even the accurate time of the attack was finally obtained. However, Stalin, who insisted that the Soviet Union was not ready and therefore unfit for war with the Germans, adopted a policy of appeasement that was almost absurd.
For example, in the months before the war started, German aircraft were intruding into Soviet airspace almost every day to spy on intelligence. The Soviet Union responded by saying, "Fly as you please, we will never fight back. We even caught people filming forced landings at Soviet airports due to malfunctions. Soviet border troops were deployed." The reconnaissance plane was actually sent back with the people and the plane honestly.
In short, I am a good person and I stand on the moral high ground. As long as I don't regard you as my enemy, no matter how you target me, you cannot become my enemy.
Those who hear about trouble but are not prepared for it, and who act with benevolence and righteousness, will perish!
As a result, due to Stalin's serious mistakes, the German army pushed past the country. In one war, the Soviet Union's military and civilian casualties exceeded 60 million, and this country had a total population of only 180 million.
The gerontocracy in the late Soviet Union was ultimately unsustainable and collapsed. A large reason was that this war caused the Soviet Union to almost die out, which damaged its roots.
Then, standing far away on the other side of the ocean, the party that took all the benefits of the war became the embodiment of justice. The Normandy landing became the turning point of World War II, and the Soviet Union, which paid the highest price for that war, gradually became A symbol of the evil empire.
Because only the winner can stand on the moral high ground.
That’s the good guy.
Only then do you have all the glory.
The losers can only become dirty, evil and incompetent thieves.
Janet didn't talk about the recent troubles. She just curled up in the man's arms and read a few pages with him, and drank a cup of coffee together. It wasn't until Girl A appeared at the stairs again and reminded her of breakfast that she finally couldn't bear it anymore. Zhu said to Simon: “Do you really don’t want Jenny and I to go to Asia a few days later?”
The plan for the two women's trip to Asia is to depart tomorrow morning and arrive in Singapore on Sunday afternoon local time. They will rest overnight and start various work schedules in the new week.
As for the voting day next Tuesday, whether the two Jennys are there or not has nothing to do with the overall situation.
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 not even be 30%.
why
Because for ordinary people, after too many hustle and bustles, they often find that nothing has changed.
Simon understood that Janet was worried about the election, and it would indeed help if she stayed, but he still shook his head: "No, there won't be any more surprises."
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, there is a three-hour time difference. Today's stock market has opened. The curve trend first went down and then went up. It went down slightly during the shock, but was generally stable. It did not reproduce the tragic situation where the circuit breaker was triggered 9 minutes after the opening of yesterday.
This is the result of emergency coordination throughout the night by the Westeros system and even countless stakeholders.
Simon doesn't mind breaking the fuse again, but a large group of people can't stand this. Therefore, not only the Westeros system, but also many other people are doing everything possible to prevent Gore from causing trouble again.
Janet looked at the stock market curve on the screen together and understood this. There were only three days left before the election. Although the market would not be open over the following weekend, there would still be a trading day next Monday, and Gore had already released Such harsh words, if the opponent wins the election on Tuesday, it basically means that the new technology bubble will burst after that.
If it really happened, there would be very few people in the entire federation, from top to bottom, who would not be affected.
Therefore, under the premise that George W. Bush is already in the lead, this incident will be self-defeating, and there will be no further setbacks in next Tuesday's vote.
Thinking of this, Janet relaxed a little and reluctantly left the man's arms. When Simon stood up, she still held his arm affectionately and said as she walked: "Gore has offended the whole world this time. I'm thinking, next time." Months later, are we still going to drop the Enron bomb?"
Simon shook his head solemnly and firmly: "What does this have to do with us? Enron's falsified accounting was exposed and the stock market collapsed. I am the biggest victim. My net worth will be reduced by hundreds of billions."
Janet glanced over with a smile: "Little bad guy."
After breakfast, Simon arrived at Daenerys Studios in Malibu early again at eight o'clock.
There have actually been too many dangers in the past few days. For example, after a circuit breaker broke yesterday, if it fails to stabilize today, the direction of the general election will become confused again. After all, people with a little bit of savvy understand that yesterday's circuit breaker was obviously caused by human manipulation, and it's obvious who was behind it.
Therefore, Simon's ability to release and retract makes people fear him and make him choose accordingly.
If Simon cannot take it back, the Nasdaq will collapse completely, and even if Gore loses the election, there will be a series of troubles in the future.
The current situation is that Simon created a circuit breaker yesterday, and the Nasdaq did not continue to fall sharply today, which can be regarded as a successful closing. By next Tuesday, as long as Gore loses the election, the Nasdaq is likely to rebound and even erase this drop.
In this way, the cause and effect of the whole incident falls entirely on Gor and has nothing to do with the Westeros system.
Entering his office in the movie theater, Simon immediately glanced at the stock market data again. The curve happened to rebound slightly again, which was close to yesterday's closing index, and was generally stable.
So relax and start your daily routine.
Among the stack of work documents presented by Girl A, the first was the box office data for the Halloween period that just passed.
In a box office week from October 27th to November 2nd, "The Conjuring 4: The Dead" was the best, with a box office revenue of 79.34 million US dollars in its first seven days. Although it was regrettable that it failed to break through the 80 million box office threshold, it also set a new record. The opening record of The Conjuring Cinematic Universe is more than 50 million behind the second place on the list.
The second place on the list is Warner's romantic film "Meeting in Rome", a collaboration between Mel Gibson and DC Universe's "Catwoman" Valerie Golino. It is a new film from Complete Butterfly, telling the story of a businessman who almost went bankrupt. The story of a collapsed American businessman who met an Italian girl in Rome and gained redemption and love.
The story is not bad, with a comprehensive media score of 7.6. Unfortunately, the original is not as good as the sequel. Although Gibson and Golino are both famous, they do not have much appeal in the field of romance films, not to mention the fact that they are in love with each other. "The Conjuring 4: Death", therefore, with a budget of US$45 million, the box office in the first week was only US$26.83 million.
The local box office is expected to be around 60 million, including overseas and post-production channels, which is not a failure, but it can only be said to be better than nothing.
The second place was left far behind, not to mention the rest of the list.
It is also worth mentioning that only the self-produced "Terror Cruise", which opened the week before, took in US$14.36 million in the first week. Perhaps because of its small size, it was also impacted by "The Conjuring 4: Deathstroke" the following week. Not big, the decline was well controlled at 28%, and it collected another US$10.33 million, bringing the cumulative box office to US$24.69 million.
Not surprisingly, the box office this week will exceed 30 million, and whether it can eventually reach 40 million locally depends on luck.
The total investment in the production and promotion of the project is 22 million U.S. dollars. Taking into account the overseas box office revenue of nearly 30 million U.S. dollars, which is slightly better than the local box office, this film has successfully entered the profit cycle. At least, the expected revenue is higher than Warner's "Meeting in Rome" Very gratifying.
After reviewing various documents for an hour, there was a regular senior management meeting at nine o'clock.
After discussing some recent work matters, he glanced at the memo to make sure there were no other topics. Simon looked up and saw that Amy Pascal, Mark Belford and others around him were still looking at him with bright eyes, and he turned the pencil in his hand. , Simon remembered and said: "In any case, Daenerys's market value goal of breaking one trillion has been achieved, and we can celebrate it on the weekend. Amy, you can arrange it yourself."
Although it failed to last a single trading day, Daenerys Entertainment eventually became the third corporate giant in the US stock market to exceed a trillion-dollar market capitalization. This record is destined to be recorded in business history.
When Simon mentioned this, Amy also smiled: "Okay."
However, after saying this, everyone's expressions still did not drop.
Of course Simon understands what everyone is thinking. After all, before Gore broke up, at least at the presidential election level, everyone thought that the Westeros system supported the Democratic Party.
Therefore, no one expected that things have changed dramatically recently.
Simon didn't ignore it anymore. He thought about it for a while, looked around and said, "There is such a story..."
Everyone immediately cheered up.
Simon tidied up his language a little and said: "On the African savannah, there is a fight between a herd of wild horses and a herd of bison. My question is, if you were a lion, which side would you support?"
What is the problem
Everyone was stunned, but Nancy Brill, who had no scruples because she was closer to men, blurted out: "Why would a lion support a bison or a wild horse?"
Simon curled up his lips: "Yes, bison and wild horses are both food for lions. Of course, it does not need to support any one of them, because he is a higher-level predator in the food chain, and those herbivores are just eaten by Just a predator.”
When Simon said this, everyone understood.
What my boss means is that he is the lion, and by extension, the entire Westeros system is a pride of lions. The Democratic and Republican parties fighting for those chairs in Washington are like the bison and wild horses fighting for territory on the prairie.
Looking at everyone's thoughtful expressions, Simon spoke again: "I know you are wondering why I suddenly changed the target of my support. The metaphor just mentioned is the reason. Since they are lions who are not in the same food chain, of course I want to eat beef. Eat beef, eat horse meat if you want to eat horse meat, instead of choosing to side with the herd of cattle or the herd of horses. I hope you can also understand this, we are Westerosians, we have our own position, not to degrade ourselves Go take a stand against our food.”
If you want to make a point about Simon's remarks, it's easy to find fault.
However, none of them were children here. My boss had already explained the matter very clearly with quite popular metaphors. Even if he did not explain some of their doubts, and even he himself could not adapt to his status as a 'lion' for a while, he could still explain it very clearly. There was no further investigation.
In any case, my boss must have his own reasons for his choice.
This man created a huge Westeros system in just over ten years. His choices, even in terms of pure probability, are definitely more correct than theirs.