In the manor in the southern suburbs of Rome, Sofia didn't like to be admitted to the hospital, so several rooms in the west wing of the villa were transformed into a medical area with a full set of medical equipment, and a whole top medical team was stationed. Because she was an older woman and she had twins, the doctor suggested a caesarean section, and Simon and Sophia agreed after discussion.
For caesarean section, you can choose the date of surgery after the child is full term.
Sophia asked Simon to choose, so she decided on August 18. In the past life, this was a very auspicious number.
He arrived in Italy on August 12, local time. In the days before the operation, Simon stayed at the manor to accompany Sofia. In fact, women are not alone. After the summer vacation began, Sofia's parents and a pair of children came from New York. Rome, always with you. After Simon arrived, in order to avoid embarrassment, Sofia's parents quietly moved out and rarely appeared again, but Daniel and Gemma continued to live in the manor.
The two children had already accepted the relationship between Simon and their mother. Sofia's pregnancy made the atmosphere between them a little weird, but overall they were still harmonious.
These days, I try to get rid of work as much as possible. I just eat, chat, and walk with my woman every day. Occasionally, I talk about the future of the two children. Simon is actually a little alienated from the children in his heart. He has never denied this. However, Simon has never wanted to shirk his responsibilities as a father.
What's more, for Simon, if he can't give his children a lot of love, a lot of money is still no problem.
Simon's wealth now is very huge. He has never thought about donating most of it in the future, at least not really donating it. However, he will not leave it to a single child. As for the two in Sophia's belly How much Westeros can get in the future depends on them.
Sophia is also very calm.
He said that the Melisandre shares he held were planned to be divided between Daniel and Gemma in the future, and the shares in Simon's name were left to the twins. The woman took it for granted.
Since Sophia thought so, Simon agreed.
The entire Westeros system will always be a bunch of small Westeros in the future.
What will happen in the future, who knows
Because of different social concepts, many children of rich people in the West are always a little uninterested in inheriting the family business.
Over the years, Simon has quietly observed and combined with the information in his memory, he discovered a very interesting phenomenon. Most of the rich children who have left their families to pursue themselves are often from newly wealthy families and old money families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Relatively speaking, , the proportion of rebellious children is smaller.
Because when newly wealthy families are not yet prosperous, they often accept the educational philosophy that wealth is not important, power is not important, and pursuit of self-enjoyment is the most important thing. This has also become a universal concept among Western civilians.
Just like the Western public generally accepts the concept 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 do not care whether they go to college or not. Even if they enter college, like the United States, the graduation rate is less than half.
In comparison, children from the elite class often have to endure all kinds of heavy schoolwork since childhood. Even if they are really not talented, their parents have to find ways to send their children to prestigious schools.
This is a class solidification trap.
The elite have always been the elite, and the bottom remains at the bottom.
Simon is the most standard new rich man, but he has no intention of jumping into this trap. Children of Westeros must receive standard elite education, and their future life goal is to become the successor of the Westeros system. Even if there are inevitably some deviations in the process, the fundamental philosophy will not change.
In the blink of an eye, it was already August 17th.
The day before surgery, Sofia spent a few hours in the afternoon undergoing her final check-ups before her caesarean section.
Simon personally listened to tomorrow's surgeon, Ms. Sarah Wortley, introduce the results of the examination just now and all the details of tomorrow morning's operation. He also personally inspected all the equipment in the delivery room. It was already evening when all this busyness was over.
Leaving the medical area and coming to a living room on the first floor of the villa, Sophia and her daughter were leaning on the sofa and chatting. Gemma was still holding the cow cat named Luna in her arms.
Seeing Simon enter the door, Gemma, who became more and more graceful, hugged the cat and stood up, saying, "I'll go to the kitchen to have a look."
Simon came to sit next to Sophia, waited for Gemma to leave, caressed the woman's belly through the thin maternity skirt, and asked, "What were you talking about just now?"
Sophia held Simon's hand and said, "Gemma is curious. In the case of a caesarean section, how should Snow and Green distinguish between sister and brother or brother and sister."
Simon smiled and said: "It's very simple. Whichever little guy comes out first is the brother or sister."
"That's what I said too, but Gemma doesn't think it can be calculated that way."
"Then how does she want to calculate it?"
Sofia's tone was soft: "You came in before we even discussed it." After chatting for a few words, Sofia took Simon's hand and put it on her face. She looked into Simon's eyes and said, "I feel that you have been in trouble recently. Want to be nervous?”
Simon didn't hide it either: "Yeah, I'm worried that I won't be a good father."
Sofia held up Simon's palm and rubbed it on her cheek, then put it down again, covered Simon's big hand with her two small hands, and said: "Actually, there is no need. It is their luck that these two little guys can become Westeros."
Simon held the woman's small hand with his backhand: "Actually, I have been wanting to ask you these past few days, are you really not going to take care of the two children yourself?"
Sophia shook her head without hesitation: "Last year, I was just impulsive and wanted to give you a child. Then I regretted it because I couldn't work for such a long time. Now, my wish has been fulfilled. You know, I don't feel too good either." It’s suitable to raise a child, and it’s best to leave it to Jenny and the others.” The woman said, then laughed again: “I’m not a good mother either.”
Simon actually knew that Sofia did this mainly because she hoped that the two children could truly grow up as 'Westeros'. He didn't say anything more and just smiled: "In that case, eat more at night. , but we can’t eat tomorrow morning.”
The next day's surgery was scheduled for nine o'clock in the morning.
The preparation beforehand is very sufficient.
Simon also specially transferred several female maids with the same blood type as Sophia, but they were not used.
At ten o'clock in the morning, two little guys who cried vigorously were born into this world. Snow Westeros, who left the mother's womb a few minutes early, became a sister. Greenwich Westeros, who is very powerful and weighs more than a pound more than Snow, can only be his younger brother.
Calm and peaceful.
In the following days, Simon continued to stay in Rome to accompany Sofia to recuperate. Naturally, it was impossible to send the child to Los Angeles immediately after he was born. He planned to wait until after the full moon. The two Jennys visited Sofia and the two little guys via video that day. The day after the baby was born, Veronica flew all the way from Australia and stayed with them in the southern suburbs of Rome for a few days.
Simon didn't try too hard to hide the news of the child's birth.
In just a few days, everyone who needed to know basically knew.
The old man in Melbourne was very dissatisfied. He called Simon and reprimanded him. It could be felt that it was just a routine reprimand. Since his other identity was exposed, according to Janet, the old man treated Simon better than he treated a group of his own children. He also often misses the hope that Simon can change the weird surname 'Westeros' to 'Johnston'.
In addition, the nationality of the two children is registered in Switzerland.
This is the result of a family discussion.
Of course, it will be easy for the Westeros family to obtain another American citizenship. However, the priority nationality will be locked in Switzerland, which is considered for the distant future.
After the birth of his two children, although he still stayed in Rome, Simon began to devote more time to work every day. The same happened after Sofia took a break from her hobby. Next month is the new season of fashion week, and many things require a woman's personal attention.
The last time he flew to Rome, he was inspired to have the idea of laying out in South Korea. Simon also collected a lot of relevant information these days.
For South Korea, Simon's priority is still sniping.
Attack South Korea's electronics industry and South Korea's entertainment industry, because these are the areas that the Westeros system focuses on.
If sniping fails, infiltration will be considered.
At this stage, South Korea is still like Japan, with a very closed domestic economy and many restrictions on overseas capital investment. Simon knows that this situation will change completely after 1997. He does not think that his big butterfly can resolve the Asian economic crisis.
Even if an accident does occur, Simon will use the power of the Westeros system to make it happen.
However, even if it is penetration, it is not as easy as controlling it personally.
Just like the semiconductor industry.
Simon does not want to let Samsung continue to grow in any case. Even if he has the opportunity to become Samsung's major shareholder in the future, he is still more willing to support an electronics giant that is directly affiliated with the Westeros system.
There are also movies and games.
Of course, Korean movies will not pose much of a threat to Hollywood. However, due to the rise of the film industry, South Korea's special effects industry will indeed become a strong competitor to Hollywood in the future, and it will win a large number of orders with its price advantage. This is something Simon does not want to see. of.
This is even more true when it comes to games.
After Daenerys Entertainment's movie business gradually hit the ceiling, Simon has regarded the game business, whose global market is far from saturated, as an important performance growth point for Daenerys in the next many years, and has targeted global expansion. In this regard, the Korean game industry, which was once very strong in my memory, has become a direct competitor of Daenerys Entertainment.
Especially the Chinese market.
Simon is bound to win the Chinese market, but due to cultural differences, South Korea undoubtedly has an advantage.
Plus, there's music.
In this regard, Simon doesn't have much intention to suppress.
We also need to give strong support.
I am very happy to see the Korean wave attacking from all sides and transforming Asia.
This is a very powerful pacifier.
Imagine swarms of handsome men wearing eyeshadow, enough to make an entire nation lose their masculinity.
Soft.
Weaken the male's inherent aggression to the greatest extent.
How nice.
However, having finalized the strategy against South Korea, it is difficult for Simon to do much in the short term.
The main thing is that the Westeros system is really too big.
Even though Simon has far more energy than ordinary people, he is only one person after all, and there are only 24 hours in a day, so it is impossible to take care of everything at the same time.
Speaking of which, this state of affairs already appeared a few years ago.
Just like the hardware field layout of the Westeros system.
Simon started paying attention early.
However, at this stage, the Westeros system mainly focuses on equity investment in these aspects.
The key is that Simon doesn't have enough energy to take care of so many things. Moreover, the threshold for semiconductors, LCD screens and other fields is much higher than that of the Internet and Hollywood. Not only that, these fields are not like the Internet, which started from scratch, but have been fiercely fought since the 1980s. of the Red Sea Market.
The technical threshold is high, capital intensive, and industry competition is fierce.
These limit Simon's layout.
Simon is not short of money, and he also has considerable prophetic advantages. However, if he rashly invests one billion or eighty billion dollars in these fields, he is most likely to produce a series of useless waste.
In comparison, Hollywood and the Internet, which Simon is most familiar with, are completely different.
Simon has his roots in Hollywood and most of the memories in his mind are of Hollywood, so he was able to play around with it easily.
On the Internet, there is mainly no competition.
Completely an emerging industry.
Not only can Simon clearly see the future, but he can also use his memory to find many outstanding professional managers to help him conquer cities and territories.
However, what needs to be done must be done after all.
During Simon's days in Rome, one of the important decisions he made around this matter was to reduce and cash out his technology stocks in large quantities starting from the beginning of next year, so as to accumulate as much money as possible amid the changes in the next few years.
As long as he has enough cash, no matter how bad things happen, Simon will be able to take advantage of the situation and become a major shareholder of Korean oligarchs such as Samsung.
In the original time and space, many people may have some doubts.
Why are Chinese mobile phone manufacturers unable to open up the US market, but Samsung can conquer North America unimpeded
The main reason is that more than half of Samsung's shares are in the hands of Americans.
To be precise, the entire South Korean economy is controlled by the United States.
After decades of struggle, Japan, which is also closed, has not been able to escape this fate.
This also explains one thing.
Why are both developed countries, even in terms of economic indicators, Japan and South Korea surpass many European countries, but the life pressure of most Japanese or Koreans is still very high, far less than the high welfare and comfortable life of developed European countries.
This is not due to institutional reasons.
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 have been quietly withdrawn by overseas capital. As a result, although the economic indicators of these countries are quite developed, their citizens have not enjoyed it. to the dividends brought by a developed economy.
Therefore, many people say that Japan and South Korea are colonies of the United States. This is actually not wrong. One of the biggest characteristics of colonies is that they are constantly sucked by the mother country in the economic field and serve as wedding clothes for others.