When I got up the next day, it was still raining north of Rivni.
After Simon got dressed and washed, he looked at the two sisters who were really sleeping and the other pretending to be sleeping on the big bed. He explained to himself, and kissed Eve on the face. He noticed that the girl's eyelashes were trembling, smiled, said nothing, and left. bedroom.
I'm leaving in the morning.
After having breakfast with Celia, the group left the hot spring manor by car and rushed to the city of Rivni.
On the way, I was still discussing some work matters with Celia.
Celia Miller and Emily Joplin will stay in Ukraine for a while, mainly for a corporate merger and acquisition plan that Simon came to finalize this time. Ekaterina’s father Maxim Nosko The fertilizer business of the Westeros System in Ukraine, which Mr. Hu is responsible for, will expand again and plans to acquire another large fertilizer factory in Odessa state in the south of the country.
Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, will also send a team to assist with the acquisition.
Ukraine, which inherited a large amount of high-quality assets from the former Soviet Union and was supposed to have the potential to become the largest power in Eastern Europe, has been thrown into chaos by a group of careerists and will only be able to maintain its status as a major agricultural country in the future.
Modern agriculture is absolutely inseparable from chemical fertilizers.
Simon's plan is to control more than half of Ukraine's fertilizer market through continuous mergers and acquisitions. As long as it is done properly, it will basically control more than half of this country's agricultural production in the future, and it can even further expand to other countries in Eastern Europe.
other aspects.
Simon also specifically asked Celia to follow up on the plan proposed by Andrei Vodmilka and Alexander Nagiyev, who were in charge of the resort entertainment business. There is definitely no extra money, but as long as the two can convince other shareholders, the profits generated by the three vacation projects can be directly invested in subsequent expansion.
There is also Rivni Media and Entertainment Company, run by Alexander Lyudaev, Lyudaeva’s uncle.
This is the public opinion mouthpiece of the Westeros system in Ukraine. At present, the company's main development goal is to subtly expand its influence in Ukraine, just like the upcoming 'Saints' group, which is expected to be launched next month. The first Russian-language album is released in the CIS region.
The state of the cultural and entertainment industry in the CIS region is similar to that in China. They are both deeply troubled by piracy. Music albums actually do not make much money.
The core of launching the Holy Maiden Group is to increase its influence.
Just like big-name entertainment stars in the West, many even play a role in guiding public political tendencies.
As for Oldek Company, which holds the most assets, Simon has been very confident about Sergey Komorov over the years. This company is currently mainly digesting and developing the various industries it has absorbed in the past few years, and further controlling Sergei Komorov. All aspects of the Nordic economy.
Finally there are some 'Operation Lawnmowing' finishing touches.
The local side is basically finalized.
Celia will go to Kiev again to conduct some necessary communication with the Kuchma authorities.
As for the small moves in France, Celia is also very efficient.
This morning on the east coast of the United States, the New York Times will publish an article that continues to trace the inside story of the Rwandan genocide, with a direct target at the French government.
There will be a lot of fun next.
A certain French NGO team still running around in Kiev will also be purged from Ukraine.
Moreover, Simon was still conceiving another plan in his heart, so he changed his original plan to return to North America directly and planned to go to Italy again.
Arriving at the airport in the west of Rivni, in addition to Simon's private Boeing 767, which was already waiting to take off, most of the Westerosi system's core executives in Ukraine came to see them off. Simon greeted everyone one by one, and then boarded the plane.
This is around nine o'clock in the morning in Kiev, Ukraine.
Shulshkina and her daughter stayed in Russia to accompany their families a few days ago. Celia and her small team also stayed in Ukraine. The Boeing 767 took off. Apart from the security, waitresses and crew team, Simon and A were the only ones in the cabin. Two girls.
Ukraine is one hour ahead of Italy.
The distance between Rivni and Milan is only over a thousand kilometers. Simon arrived at Milan Malpensa International Airport at around nine o'clock in the morning local time.
I have been to Italy a few days ago.
Sofia Fesi, who was in Milan recently, was very happy that Simon was gone and back. Even if Simon confessed that he planned to arrange some bad things, it didn't matter. She specifically turned down today's work and stayed in a mountainside villa on the shores of Lake Como in the northern suburbs of Milan. Accompany Simon in his bad deeds.
It's just that he obviously can't understand the man's operation.
Contact a political consultancy to investigate France's immigration policy, including the main individuals, organizations and parties that support and oppose relaxed immigration policies.
Convene the intelligence network of the Westeros family in Europe to investigate the illegal immigration network in France, including illegal immigrant gathering areas, illegal immigrant survival patterns, and various underground groups that support the survival of illegal immigrants in France, etc.
Activate the dark forces of the Westeros family in Europe, cooperate with the intelligence network, and investigate smuggling networks from all over the world to France, including smuggler organizations, smuggling routes, smuggling costs, etc.
So until the afternoon.
French President Chirac personally called Simon.
The reason is that around the same time this morning on the East Coast of the United States, the New York Times suddenly published an official article from Rwanda titled "Rwandan Prosecutors Found New Evidence of French Army Involvement in Genocide."
Although the Rwandan civil war ended two years ago, follow-up investigations into the genocide that shocked the world have been ongoing.
This article once again included a picture of the tragic mass graves at the scene of the massacre. It said that through the interrogation of some war criminals, Rwanda once again confirmed that the tragic massacre two years ago was planned and instigated by the French military behind the scenes. The army was also directly involved in the killings of Tutsi civilians in Rwanda.
The Rwandan government therefore called on the international community to pay attention to this matter and hoped that the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague would intervene in a joint investigation into genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression committed by French troops in the Rwandan civil war.
After the New York Times article was published, several major portals such as Igret Portal and AOL Portal immediately made headlines and reprinted it.
Since the end of the Rwandan war, accusations that the French government was involved in the massacre have continued unabated.
In the same time and space, even decades later, whenever the genocide is commemorated, the Rwandan government will habitually criticize the French government, and then the French side will often categorically deny it.
Then there will basically be no more.
Without Simon's participation, a small country in central Africa would not be able to make any waves in Western society, no matter how you accuse it.
But it's different now.
A large newspaper with international credibility such as the New York Times took the lead, and several major portals with hundreds of millions of users around the world jointly promoted this pornographic thing, no matter what it is, which is tantamount to directly plastering it on the face of the French government. This article throws out, no matter what the result is, it will be a heavy blow to France's international image, and its influence is far greater than the article that France failed to publish accusing Simon of opening up a colony in Ukraine.
In fact, it is conceivable.
Once such public opinion ferments repeatedly, it will define the negative image of the French government. Then, when someone mentions France again in the future, it will not be the gentleman or Paris, but the warmonger who caused the racist massacre in Africa. Just like until now, when talking about Germany, many people's first thoughts are still the Holocaust and Auschwitz concentration camp.
By the time.
Some people want to travel to Paris and think about all the atrocities France has committed against humanity, forget it.
Someone wants to buy French products, think about the racist massacres in Africa, forget it.
Some people want to cooperate with French companies, and then think about the possible international impact, forget it.
Even France itself.
President Chirac, who just took office last year, is a tough right-wing politician who has proposed the "Chirac Doctrine" governing policy, trying to promote France's all-round recovery in politics, economy, military and other aspects, and once again expand France's influence in the international community. power and voice.
According to Simon, this is almost exactly the same as the slogan of a certain golden retriever in his memory, Make France Great Again.
Now that you are making such a fuss, you, a warmonger who created a racist massacre, are still great. What you should do is to kneel down and apologize to the hundreds of thousands of civilians who were massacred during the Rwandan war, like West German Prime Minister Willy Brandt did.
The most critical point is that the Westeros system really has some substantive evidence in its hands.
Although the French advisory group and the Wei private army who were captured during the Rwandan civil war two years ago were not handed over to the Rwandan government, they still conducted private interrogations in disregard of the rules and even used torture methods, leaving a series of records that were enough to make the French government deeply aware of the situation. Trapped video and written confession.
This is the sharpest bargaining chip in Simon's hand.
The so-called 'new evidence' mentioned in the New York Times article is naturally not without purpose.
So one can imagine how furious Chirac and Simon were during the phone call.
Simon did not show any signs of weakness, and forcefully asked Chirac to give him an explanation for the continuous small actions in Ukraine, otherwise he could not guarantee that he would not do anything irrational.
After hanging up the phone, Simon walked to the sofa next to him, hugged Sophia who was leaning over and looked at the TV screen where the French government's emergency press conference was being broadcast.
The scene was a complete mess and it was so lively.
Sofia leaned in Simon's arms, caressing the man's waist with one hand, and said: "I think it is because some senior officials in the French military are unwilling to accept the setback they suffered two years ago that they continue to struggle."
Simon nodded: "I will ask someone to check it, but maybe Chirac will give me an answer soon."
"In any case, you have pushed the French authorities into a panic this time."
Simon said: "They have been forcing me, just like a mangy dog, otherwise who would be in the mood to pay attention to them."
Sofia leaned on Simon's shoulder: "Then you are not worried about the next things, such as the various businesses of the Westeros system in France?"
"Oh, this is what I am least afraid of. When it comes to doing business, is there anyone in the world who can be more successful than me? If they target my business, I will target their business," Simon said, flashing in his mind A flash of light looked at Girl A who was sorting documents in the office area not far away: "A, I remember that the federal government has a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which was just revised two years ago. Give me a copy."
Girl A agreed and continued the work at hand.
Sofia waited for Simon to regain his attention and asked: "What is this bill?"
Simon smiled and said: "It's a very interesting law."
Seeing Simon's pretentiousness, Sophia rolled her eyes at him. Luna, the cow cat that Gemma bought for her mother last year, happened to walk over and called. The little one, who was already over a year old, jumped lightly onto the woman's lap and took a good look at it. Simon, then lazily rolled into a ball and began to rest.
After stroking the cat in her arms, Sophia said again: "I suddenly understand why you want to investigate those things, about immigration?"
"Um?"
Sofia rolled her eyes at Simon again: "You are really bad. I just remembered a term I saw in a magazine by chance, called 'reverse colonization'. This was an article when France abolished birthright citizenship three years ago. Discussion article in a right-wing newspaper. You intend to reverse colonize France.”
Reverse colonization, as the name suggests.
A few hundred years ago, a group of European imperialist countries colonized the world. A few hundred years later, the residents of those once-colonized territories in turn moved to various developed countries in Europe.
In the end, it was mainly about customers.
Simon is not sure about other aspects. Anyway, later France was really a 'model' of reverse colonization. The most obvious one was the French football team. I didn't know but thought it was an African football team. In particular, there is a law in France that prohibits racial statistics, causing the French themselves to not know how many foreigners there are in their country.
Simon intended to accelerate this reverse colonization process against France.
If anyone else tried to do this, they would definitely be overestimating their capabilities, but Simon has this kind of power. His plan is to quietly invest hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and promote it in all aspects, including changing French immigration policy and subsidizing illegal smuggling networks.
Simon lacked neither money nor patience.
Just like in my memory, a certain Silicon Valley boss spent ten years to bring down a website that had exposed negative news about him through litigation bombardment, Simon can also afford to spend ten or twenty years.
Think about it. Ten or twenty years from now, thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in France will be in darkness.
Tsk tsk.
Referring to the defeated South Africa, coupled with some other means, such as using a long-arm jurisdiction law to suppress and dismantle French corporate giants, Simon does not believe that the Gallic Black Chicken can still stand up as a developed country. .
Simon is not a man who holds grudges.
However, as long as you remember revenge, with the current strength of the Westeros system, there are really not many people who can afford it.
However, he suddenly remembered that Sophia next to him was French. Simon listened to the anger in the woman's words and said: "I almost forgot that you are from France. Sophie, if you think it is inappropriate, please beg me and I will Let them go."
"My current nationality is Switzerland," Sofia continued to follow the cat on her lap, but her eyes met Simon: "Besides, you are my man and the father of my child. No matter what you do, I will support you. .”
Simon looked at the woman's still charming face and watery eyes, and moved forward to kiss her on the lips.
The cat meowed dissatisfiedly and jumped away.
Girl A, who was in the office area not far away, glanced over and looked away as if nothing had happened, with only a slight blush on her cheeks.
Moscow.
The time is also afternoon.
In an office in the Kremlin, Yeltsin listened to a briefing from his subordinates on the recent public opinion incident in Rwanda against France, sent him away, and looked at his second daughter Tatyana who stayed in the room: "So, Westeros didn't come. Moscow?"
"Yes, father, he went to Milan in the morning, and he probably won't go back again."
Yeltsin picked up a personnel file on his desk, opened it, glanced at a middle-aged man with thinning hair in the photo, then moved his eyes to the contents of the file, and asked: "What do you think of this incident just now? "
"The French government must have done something to anger Westeros. Father, if you think it is necessary, you can have someone check it out." Tatiana paused slightly before saying, "However, I think , this actually proves once again that Westeros is a worthy partner. I judge that the French government can only swallow this breath this time, and may have to pay some price, at least spend a sum of money to appease Rwanda and prevent them from letting them It is certain that we will cause trouble again.”
Yeltsin turned the page of the file in his hand, raised it slightly, and asked again: "Where is this person?"
"I have also studied his files repeatedly in recent days and collected some other information. This is indeed a man of extraordinary ability. Sobchak is a scholar who can only talk. In the past five years, most of St. Petersburg's He handled all the municipal work and helped Sobchak resolve several crises, so he got a nickname, the Gray Bishop of Smolny Palace. I think he fits the description of Westeros very well. There are two necessary conditions for father to choose a successor, one is to be loyal enough, and the other is to have outstanding ability."
Yeltsin looked up at his daughter: "Tanya, he is loyal to Sobchak because Sobchak was his former teacher and he was promoted. Do you think he will be loyal to me? You know, I and I Sobchak is a political enemy."
Tatyana knew that her father had been tortured by the chaotic current situation and was becoming more and more paranoid. She said patiently: "Father, this is a very pragmatic person. I don't think his loyalty to Sobchak is the kind of ignorant loyalty that doesn't know how to adapt. As long as my father does his best to support him in the next few years, with his character, he will give us corresponding rewards."
Yeltsin pondered again for a moment, and looked at his daughter again, with gentleness in his eyes but caution in his tone: "Tanya, you have to understand that I am old, and this escape route is more arranged for you, and there is no room for it. A slight mistake.”
Tatyana nodded and said: "Of course I know, father, but compared with those guys in the Kremlin who only know how to fight for power and profit, I find that maybe he is the most suitable one."
"but… "
"Father, you said it yourself. Simon Westeros' position has been separated from the scope of the country. Therefore, he may be a puppet of Westeros, but he is certainly not a puppet of the US government. Moreover, I think last time What he said during the meeting with Westeros was also correct. That was a very smart guy. He said that as long as this person ascends to the position of President of Russia and becomes the master of the Kremlin, he cannot be anyone’s puppet."
"In this case," Yeltsin thought for a moment and finally said: "Let him serve as deputy director of the Presidential Affairs Bureau that Borodin is reorganizing."
The Presidential Affairs Bureau is equivalent to the Kremlin's butler team.
This position is not the core of Moscow, but it is very close to the president, and it has some real power, can do things, and is easy to replace. It is very suitable for nearby attention and inspection.
Tatyana heard Yeltsin say that he accepted this position, and understood that her father had obviously considered it in detail, so she nodded and said: "Father, I will inform Borodin right away."
Yeltsin nodded, watched his daughter leave, and looked again at the file in his hand that he had read over many times.
My thoughts are not on it.
But it was the most critical part that the young man said.
Loyalty is there.
The ability is there.
Finally, how to push the other party to the top
Yeltsin was well aware of his situation. It was very difficult for him to win the election this time, and it would be even more difficult for him to nominate a successor in the future.
When the time comes, it will still be inevitable to rely on someone’s help.
No one knows the final outcome.
However, I can no longer care about so much. Protecting yourself and your family is the most important thing.