Simon didn't want the news of his contact with the Hearst family to leak out, so the agreed lunch was not arranged in the high-rise restaurant inside the movie theater, but instead chose a lounge in the office building in the administrative district.
The agreed time for lunch is 12 o'clock.
Mother and daughter Patty Hearst and Lydia Hearst arrived early at 11:30. Simon did not keep the mother and daughter waiting for too long and arrived five minutes early.
Patty Hearst was obviously dressed up carefully, wearing a black short-sleeved long dress that showed off her figure. The woman who happens to be 40 years old this year has lived in a wealthy family since she was a child. Except for the incident that year, she has not experienced any hardships in life. Both her appearance and figure are exactly that of a young woman in her 30s.
In the process of shaking hands and greeting, she felt the aggressive gaze of the man in front of her looking at her unabashedly. Patty Hester could not feel much hatred for this young man who had pushed her family to the brink of collapse. On the contrary, While being held by the man's strong big hands, he couldn't help but take a breath, his heartbeat quietly accelerated a bit, and he didn't dare to look at the other person.
When the man let go of her right hand, Patty Hester even felt a little lost.
Simon just greeted Patty Hearst briefly, then turned to the little girl next to the woman who was starting to have a slim figure: "Hi, Lil, do you still remember me?"
Except for her increased height, Lydia Hearst still looks like the little witch she first saw to Simon at Sophia's daughter Gemma Fessey's birthday party, with a petite face, short lips, and a pair of Talking green eyes.
Lydia Hester was not as restrained as her mother in front of Simon. Seeing the man talking to her, she completely ignored her mother and grandfather's instructions in advance. She nodded her head, but suddenly asked with a bit of questioning: " Simon, do you want our family to be ruined?”
Simon was a little surprised when he heard the little girl use the word 'Finished', but he smiled and nodded: "The key is that your family wants to finish me off first."
Lydia's mouth pursed, and her short lips began to elongate. She had a tendency to turn into a little witch. Her eyes when looking at Simon were undisguised condemnation, as if you were the villain.
Patty Hearst didn't expect that her daughter would offend Westeros just after they met. She was stunned for a moment before she realized what she was doing. She quickly said, "Mr. Westeros, Dia didn't mean it. Don't mind."
Simon smiled and looked at the little girl: "Li'er, did you do this on purpose?"
The little girl completely ignored her mother's hint and nodded: "Yes."
Patty Hester angrily pulled her daughter and scolded: "Dia, apologize to Mr. Westeros."
Lydia felt her mother's almost never harsh words, and she suddenly showed a strong expression of grievance, looking like she was about to cry, but she stubbornly refused to apologize to Simon.
Simon had no intention of being as familiar as the little girl. He just shrugged, raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Sit down."
The three of them sat down at the dining table. Lady A personally pushed a dining cart in and brought several dishes to the table.
Simon noticed Patty Hearst's curious look when she smelled the aroma of food in the air, and explained with a smile: "We're having Chinese food today."
As an increasing employee benefit, both Daenerys Studios and Universal Studios in Burbank have upgraded their restaurants, added dishes from different countries, and specially invited several top chefs as chefs. The chef at the Chinese restaurant in Daenerys Studios was hired by Simon from across the ocean, so he can make very authentic Chinese food.
In fact, it is also Simon’s selfishness.
The key reason why Simon has never cared much about what he eats over the years is that, as an Oriental at heart, he has never been able to fully adapt to the Western food system.
Of course, not everyone can enjoy these benefits.
Simon's insistence on originality for employees in the Westeros system has never changed. I will give you as much as you pay.
Similarly, in the Westeros system, a person enjoys what kind of treatment according to his position. Therefore, ordinary employees can still only enjoy ordinary dishes cooked in batches in the staff restaurant, and depending on the level, the group provides Catering subsidies are also different. Higher-level management can also use a separate high-rise restaurant. Further up, the group's core executives can customize their favorite dishes from the restaurant chef.
On the other hand, the medical, education and other benefits that are about to be upgraded in the Westeros system will also be hierarchical.
Simon will not hide this too much, he is deliberately creating a clear-cut unfairness. If someone can't stand this unfairness, they must either work hard to climb up, or leave the Westeros system to find what they want. fair.
By continuing to improve this hierarchical system over the next many years, Simon's ultimate goal is to create a pyramid-shaped 'Westerosian' system that is independent of the current social system and has a stable structure.
On the dining table in the lounge.
Very authentic Chinese food, three dishes and one soup, Kung Pao Chicken, which is very familiar to Westerners, a crispy roast duck, a tomato beef, and finally a simple vegetable soup. The vegetable soup has been divided into three portions. Girl A finally put down three drawers of Shaomai and then quietly exited.
Simon waited for Girl A to leave, then smiled and asked the little girl opposite who was still holding her cheek: "Li'er, can you use chopsticks?"
Lydia was very dissatisfied with the fact that a certain guy called her "Lil" familiarly. But after her mother got angry with her just now, the little girl didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore. Seeing the man opposite him skillfully picking up a pair of chopsticks, the little girl tried to imitate him, but the two sticks in her hands refused to obey her orders. She noticed that her mother also picked up the chopsticks similarly, and Liddy Ya became even more angry, put down his chopsticks depressedly, stared at the two adults angrily, and planned to go on a hunger strike in protest.
Patty Hearst felt that Simon Westeros probably liked his daughter's energetic appearance very much, so he simply stopped controlling her and ate his food with a low eyebrow, as if he didn't notice his daughter's anger.
Feeling the little girl's cat-like gaze, Simon smiled, put down his chopsticks, picked up the knife and fork, and said, "Okay, let's use the knife and fork, and let your mother use those two weird things."
Lidya then picked up the knife and fork, carefully tasted a few portions of the food on the plate, and then said unceremoniously: "It's weird, it doesn't taste good at all."
Simon seemed patient: "You can try the shaomai."
Although the taste is contrary to the previous meals, it is definitely not delicious. Just after hearing Simon's suggestion, my sister-in-law could instinctively have a rebellious mentality, deliberately not touching the drawer of siomai, and continued to deal with the food in front of her. Occasionally, she would He had to raise his head and make an expression towards Simon that he didn't like at all.
Only half an hour later, when the meal was over, the little girl had unknowingly wiped out all the food on the plate. In the end, she didn't even miss the three beef siomai in the cage.
Simon summoned Girl A to come in and clear the tableware, and said to the little girl who had a clear look on her face: "If you want to eat Chinese food in the future, you can come to Los Angeles."
Lydia said contemptuously: "Mr. Westeros, our family is also very rich, and we can afford it ourselves."
Simon nodded and said casually, "It seems that in order for Lil to come to Los Angeles more often in the future, I can only make it as difficult as possible for you to afford Chinese food."
Patty Hester's heart tightened when she heard the man's words.
The 10-year-old girl was certainly not completely ignorant of the world. Seeing Simon say this, she immediately looked over angrily.
Simon had already stood up and said, "Let's go to my office to talk."
The mother and daughter had no choice but to get up and go outside the lounge. Simon motioned to Girl A to look after Lydia for a while, and then took Patty Hearst into his office.
About twenty minutes later, Patty Hester walked out of the man's office and took her daughter with her.
She got into the family car directly under the office building. When the car drove out of the movie studio, Lydia asked her mother beside her a little abruptly: "Mom, did you sleep with Simon Westeros?"
Patty Hester recovered from her daze and glared at her daughter: "Who taught you this?"
Lidya curled her lips, but looked her mother up and down, and said, "So, is our family's trouble over?"
With a slight tremor in her tone, Patty Hester raised her voice and said to her daughter: "Don't ask these messy things again, or I will send you to boarding school."
Lydia curled her lips disapprovingly: "If mom fails to deal with that guy, I may not even be able to afford boarding school in the future."
Patty Hester fell silent.
I couldn't help but recall the scene in that man's office just now.
The two entered the office, and Simon Westeros just motioned for her to sit down casually, then turned to his desk and started working directly. After waiting patiently for five or six minutes, she had no choice but to take the initiative and convey her father's wish for reconciliation. As a result, the man just looked at her, smiled hatefully, and asked her if she wanted to reconcile with just a few words.
Then, noticing the man's appraising gaze, remembering his preference in women and her father's stern instructions before lunch, she hesitated slightly and took the initiative to walk towards the man.
seem.
I’m not too resistant inside.
I even vaguely hope that men can be rougher.
However, after she was very proactive, the man did nothing. Instead, he gave her a 1 dollar coin and asked her to pass it to her father, asking her what she could buy with so much money, and said that they only had one chance. .
She ended up leaving his office with just a coin.
Leaving Malibu and returning to a mansion owned by the Belair Hearst family, Patty Hearst handed the coin to Randolph Hearst and conveyed Simon's message.
What can $1 buy
If it was just a literal meaning, the members of the Hearst family, which had been famous for hundreds of years, really didn't know it very well.
However, Randolph Hearst quickly figured out Simon Westeros' intention to ask his daughter to transfer the $1.
The conflict between the two parties has reached this point. If the Hearst family wants to reconcile, it is simply impossible to just send a woman. Even if they send a mother and daughter to Simon Westeros, nothing can be easily resolved. The only possibility is to provide sufficient substantive compensation.
Simon Westeros took out 1 dollar, just to make this kind of compensation appear to be a transaction.
As for what the Hearst family can come up with to compensate Simon Westeros, apart from the media assets of the Hearst Group, there is probably nothing else that the other party can take notice of.
After getting a result that was not a dead end, Randolph Hearst quickly returned to the East Coast and convened family members to discuss which assets of the group should be sold to Simon Westeros for $1, and what was needed. What conditions should be exchanged
Then, inevitably, there were serious differences within the family on this matter.
Given the extent to which the Hearst Group has offended Simon Westeros in the past, many members of the Hearst family know that the compensation cannot be lower than the total of US$370 million from the six lawsuits under the control of the Westeros system. Claim amount. However, the Hearst Group's assets have been severely reduced in a series of turmoils. If a large number of assets are easily ceded to Westeros, no one will be willing to do so.
What's even more confusing is that Westeros only gave them one chance to bid, leaving no room for bargaining.
This made many family members even more hesitant.
Now that things have developed, they don't think Simon Westeros is just bluffing.
As a result, the original opportunity to break the situation suddenly became contentious.
However, the outside world did not stop attacking the Hearst Group because of the differences within the Hearst family.
Every day that followed, bad news came from the Hearst Corporation. On May 11, several senior executives of the Hearst Corporation could not bear the pressure from the outside world, and because the Hearst family lacked a backbone to support the overall situation, they simply decided to They gave up their choice and submitted their resignation letter together.
Nowadays, everyone in the Hearst Group is shouting for help. These senior executives realize that if they continue to stay, their careers may sink to the bottom of the sea with this broken ship, so they should not leave immediately.
Along with the resignation of top management, many middle and low-level managers and even ordinary employees of Hearst Group have also chosen to flee, continuing to make this old media group even worse.
On May 13, bad news emerged again. A well-known New York law firm responsible for defending the Hearst Group against the Westeros system litigation suddenly announced that it would withdraw from the case it was responsible for, losing the support of its powerful legal team. Hesst The Special Group suddenly became passive in the lawsuit.
The once arrogant Hearst Corporation was already in a precarious position in the dispute with the Westeros system. Since the Doris Fitcher murder scandal broke out in early May, in less than half a month, it has already shown signs of a crisis. A disintegrating situation.
Of course, it’s not like no one is on Hearst’s side.
Many newspaper industry unions, which initially indignantly joined forces with more than 1,100 employees of the three closed newspapers to launch a class action lawsuit against the Hearst Group, realized that the situation at the Hearst Group was deteriorating and finally could not calm down.
You know, the entire Hearst Group is related to the jobs of more than 20,000 employees.
If the Hearst Corporation falls apart or even goes bankrupt, the Hearst family, which has a profound foundation after all, may not become pauper all of a sudden. However, the more than 20,000 employees of the Hearst Corporation may lose their jobs in this accident.
Moreover, against the background that the traditional print media industry is accelerating its decline due to the pressure from the rise of the Internet industry, it will be very difficult for these employees to find new jobs of the same type once they lose their current jobs.
The Hearst family has been completely discredited due to the Doris Fitch murder scandal, and the newspaper industry unions no longer dare to openly speak for each other. However, with the coordination of several large unions, someone still submitted a A petition letter was sent to the White House, hoping that the president could intervene in this matter to prevent tens of thousands of families from falling into unemployment due to the Hearst family's fault.