The game hall is very large, occupying three floors of the five-story building in front of you. Each floor covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters. There are all kinds of large-scale game equipment that have appeared in this era, including gambling slot machines. It can be said that the entire There are only a few game arcades of this size in Ukraine.
In addition, most ordinary people can afford it, so it is naturally overcrowded.
If the person in charge of the game hall had not received the notice and showed up to receive them personally, it would not have been easy for Simon and the others to have fun in the game hall.
There are just too many people.
After Simon appeared, the person in charge of the game hall decisively sent people to guard the door and began to limit the flow of people, just like the dance hall next door, and only allowed out but not in.
When Andrei Smirnov, the governor of the Rivne region, Sergei Komorov, the head of the Oldek Company, and other core members of the Westeros system arrived in the Rivne region, Simon had already I took Charlotte and the two girls around the three-story game hall, then passed through the overcrowded dance hall and another multiplex movie theater next door, and finally transferred to a nearby billiards hall that was also large in size.
In order to entertain Simon and others, the billiard hall was completely emptied.
After everyone arrived who thought something had happened, they confirmed that Simon was really just looking around and found nothing wrong, so they put down their caution.
Speaking of which, this is still the aftermath of the big purge at the beginning of the year.
After all, Simon was still too young. At the beginning, many people in Rivne Oblast regarded him as an unjust person who was throwing money around in Ukraine. After the purge incident, these emotions dissipated, and everyone felt the ruthlessness and determination of a certain young tycoon.
You know, in the purge at the beginning of this year, the political and business circles of this northwest Ukrainian state, as well as the Uyghur private army and underground forces, were all sorted out. Not only were thousands of people implicated, but even the Rivne Oblast The entire family of the top leader, former governor Yuri Miloslav, was wiped out.
What makes people even more silent is that when an outsider like Simon Westeros launched a purge in Ukraine, the Kiev authorities not only did not rebound, but maintained a very cooperative attitude. This basically confirmed the Westeros system’s influence on Rove Control of the Nordic State.
Not only that, but some time ago Forbes listed Simon's personal net worth as high as US$700 billion on the 400 richest people in the United States, which also made many core people related to the Westeros system in Ukraine feel astonished.
The more people are exposed to the top of this social pyramid, the more they can appreciate the invisible power brought by huge wealth.
A personal net worth of US$700 billion, together with trillions of US dollars in assets controlled by the entire Westeros system, is equivalent to the economic size of dozens of Ukraine.
In 1995, which is about to pass, the Ukrainian economy once again declined by more than 10% year-on-year. The domestic GDP is expected to be only about 48 billion US dollars. Even the combined GDP of the entire CIS region cannot reach the GDP of Simon Westeros alone. Scale of wealth.
Absolute power often brings about instinctive surrender.
As a result, both the direct core of the Westeros system in the Rivne region and the new governor Andrei Smirnov and others supported by Simon, not only did they no longer have any respect for the Westeros system in their hearts, He resisted, but felt honored to be able to integrate into this super chaebol group.
Privately some people have begun to refer to Rivni as Westerograd.
The city of Westeros.
Although he didn't understand why Simon suddenly sent a certain order, Smirnov rushed to the billiard hall and immediately talked about his arrangements. He had sent a special person to pick up the person from the prison on the outskirts of Rivni. Three people The girl's relatives will be able to return home before 12 o'clock tonight.
As for the criminal responsibility carried by these people, Smirnov did not mention it at all.
Some rules are just for ordinary people.
Charlotte Brenita, who had watched all this the whole night, only regretted why she had not been interested in Russian. She followed Westeros back to the villa in the south of the city at midnight. Because of the language barrier, the woman still did not understand. Something happened.
However, Charlotte Brenita clearly felt Simon's king-like presence in this strange city in Ukraine.
At heart, she is a woman who longs for power, and Charlotte Brenita is therefore full of yearning for all this, just like the feeling of 'this is what a man should do'.
The next day is November 2nd.
Thursday.
In the villa south of Rivni, Yulia Antonenko got up very early with red eyes, like a little rabbit.
Last night, she stayed by the man's side every step of the way and was able to return to the villa in the south of the city. Then, the girl found that her former room had been turned into a piano room by Ekaterina and the other three. She wanted to sleep with Simon, but she didn't. He succeeded, but in the end he had to rest in the guest room of the villa, like an outsider.
Not only that, probably because they had also heard some news, the three girls who had not slept until late at night were not only no longer as familiar with her as before, but were also somewhat hostile, obviously hoping that she would leave as soon as possible. appearance.
All this filled the girl's heart with grievance and sadness.
But of course, you can't leave.
So she got up very early and wanted to help Simon prepare breakfast, thinking to please him so that she could stay as long as the man relented.
As a result, I couldn't even get into the kitchen.
Except for Eve Besonoskova, who has a good temper and always takes good care of them, the other maids and guards in the villa are also relatively indifferent to her, and even use the excuse that Simon's breakfast does not allow others to interfere casually to block her. Outside the kitchen.
It's obviously a deliberate attempt to make things difficult.
I have helped men prepare breakfast before, but I have never heard of these rules.
Simon still got up early and couldn't go into the kitchen. Yulia wanted to accompany the man for morning exercises. As a result, the three girls who also got up early today were all closely surrounding him, and they all put on beautiful sportswear bought from abroad, looking slim and slim. The perfect figure was undoubtedly revealed. She also had these clothes at the beginning, but she left the house completely at the beginning of the year and was kicked out without taking anything. I found Eve and asked about it, and learned that all her personal belongings had been disposed of, and it was the three Ekaterinas who had done it themselves.
So I could only enter the gym wearing close-fitting autumn clothes and trousers, and I was immediately made to look like an ugly duckling.
An ugly duckling is an ugly duckling!
Anyway.
I can't control that much.
Finally, the man spoke, and Ekaterina reluctantly lent her a set of sportswear.
Unfortunately, it was breakfast time not long after changing clothes.
I had to change my clothes again, and then I went to the dinner table. Compared to the other girls, I was still an ugly duckling.
I had to hold back so I didn't cry.
In fact, what she was most worried about was the man driving her away. After breakfast, the man went to the study to start working for the day, but he never asked her to leave. Then she felt relieved, as long as the man would not force her out of the villa like last time. , decided to stay here all the time. Anyway, other girls and those maids and guards couldn't do anything to her.
Just roll your eyes and pretend not to see it.
However, it is still very uncomfortable to hear Natalya Lyudaeva obviously deliberately saying that she is more shameless than Lyudmila Besonoskova.
Then I remembered some things from last night.
He quietly sneaked into a small living room on the first floor of the villa where no one was watching, locked the door, and picked up the phone to call home.
Her father went from being a state legislator to going to jail. The phone at home was not removed. She kept it by force. She just hoped that one day Simon would call again. The small shop the family owned on the commercial street in the north of the city still had income. Not bad. Although the phone bill is expensive, it is affordable.
No one answered the call at first, and I was so angry that I almost dropped the phone.
After hiding in the living room for more than half an hour and dialing several times, my mother finally answered the phone.
Yulia didn't explain too much to her mother, and she didn't want to hear that her father had already come out and was sent to the hospital for recuperation. Although she cried to Simon last night and hoped that he could let her father go, if his father hadn't betrayed Simon, he would She wouldn't be in the current situation with the governor's family, and she didn't want to do too much.
He just asked his mother to ask his sister Ivana to come to the Chengnan Villa as soon as possible, and also told her to dress up and not embarrass herself.
On the phone, her mother kept saying that her sister was still in the hospital. She also talked about her father and asked what had happened since last night. This made Yulia more and more irritable and irritable, and she felt that she was really unlucky. There was a betrayal father, a procrastinating mother, and a weak sister.
If she hadn't been in the Chengnan villa, the girl would have almost screamed. In the end, she just raised her voice slightly and threatened to turn a deaf ear to her words if she still wanted her father to be sent to prison.
Then he hung up the phone with a snap.
After seeing the prosperity of the commercial street in person last night, Simon found the financial statements of the arcades, dance halls, cinemas and other projects that directly belong to the Westeros system on that street in the morning.
The results are also very satisfying.
Among them, the most profitable large-scale song and dance hall, the monthly revenue in the past October has reached 900,000 US dollars. Calculated, the annual revenue of this project is expected to exceed 10 million US dollars. Considering the scale of Rivni and its current economic situation, This surprises many people.
Simon was not surprised.
At this stage in China, some places such as song and dance halls and game arcades that ordinary people think are not popular are actually huge profits. Large-scale song and dance halls in some core cities in China can make hundreds of millions of yuan in sales a year, and their profits are high. Astonishingly.
The key is that these projects are not something just anyone can do, whether in China or Ukraine.
If you want to open a song and dance hall, you not only need a political and business background, but also need to manage underground forces and take care of all aspects. Otherwise, such a hugely profitable place will be closed down in minutes due to the jealousy of others.
The same is true here in Rivni.
Whether it is a dance hall or a game hall, the approval authority lies with the municipal government.
Although the relevant entertainment venues in this city are not just those on the commercial street in the north of the city, the only ones that are large-scale are in the commercial street in the north of the city. The others are small and small. If there are other competitors who want to enter the market, To disrupt the situation, the power of the Westeros system here has hundreds of ways to make it impossible for others to continue.
Of course, Simon didn’t monopolize all the benefits.
After calculation, the share directly controlled by the Westeros system in these entertainment venues is barely more than half, and Simon generously distributed the other half to various interest groups. Simon just doesn't want the public in this area to be too wealthy. If he creates a group of vested interests connected with the Westeros system, it will be in line with his layout.
After reading the financial statements, Alexander Lyudaev, the head of Rivni Media Company under the Westeros System, who Simon planned to meet in the morning, also came here. This is the uncle of the villa girl Natalia Lyudaeva. , responsible for controlling a series of television, radio, newspaper and other media assets of the Westeros system in Rivne Oblast and even throughout Ukraine.
In the current Rivne Region, public opinion channels are basically under the control of the Westeros system.
Simon and Alexander Lyudaev discussed today mainly plans to expand the entertainment division of Rivni Media Company.
Backed by the Westeros system, Rivni Media Company is also developing very rapidly.
Not only does it control TV, newspapers and other assets in the region, Rivni Media Company also acts as an agent for the distribution of Hollywood film and television copyrights throughout the CIS region.
This is a very lucrative business.
The continuous disintegration of the Soviet Union and the economic collapse have made it impossible for the entertainment industry in the CIS region to develop. Therefore, it can only be introduced from the outside. The cultural yearning and worship of the West make it easy for these regions to accept Hollywood content resources, so it has a very Good market prospects.
Speaking of which, the 'Iron Lady' Tymoshenko made her fortune by reselling pirated videos.
Before the Internet era, due to the lack of various powerful and professional subtitle groups, the quality of pirated resources was definitely not comparable to genuine ones.
As a result, Rivni Media Company obtained genuine content authorization from Hollywood, and then localized it through its own professional dubbing and subtitle team. The various movies and TV series it released were widely welcomed throughout the CIS region.
Because it is limited to television and video, and Simon does not hand over all the content to Rivney Media Agency, coupled with the size of the economy, this part is very profitable for Rivney Media. Daenerys In the face of entertainment, it is actually dispensable. However, the overall situation is very consistent with Hollywood's cultural export strategy.
After all, the market will grow sooner or later.
On the other hand, now that it has taken root in Ukraine, what Simon and Lyudaev discussed this time was the establishment of a local entertainment system.
Cultural export will eventually face various cultural barriers. Compared with overseas films and television, most ordinary people still prefer localized entertainment content.
The soon-to-be-expanded entertainment department of Rivni Media Company, after careful discussion between Simon and Lyudaev, will focus on two aspects, the production of TV series and the development of the music business.
Needless to say about the TV series.
Just need.
Music is also a lagging but essential field in Eastern Europe.
Referring to the information in his memory, Simon proposed a plan to create a female singing group, and even named it himself: the Holy Maiden Group.
What I remember exactly is the Holy Maidens from Ukraine, one of the most popular and longest-lived female singing groups in the CIS region. Other singing groups tend to be popular for a few years before fading out or disbanding, but the Saints lasted for more than ten years. Although the members have been replaced for many generations, they have always been widely welcomed in the Russian-speaking areas of Eastern Europe.
Now, with the backing of the Westeros system, Rivni Media Company lacks neither resources nor team, and can completely try to replicate this all-girl team.