Chapter 1063: 1063
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On the east coast of the United States, at a manor on Martha's Vineyard island at the east end of Long Island, Celia, returning to North America, saw Simon again on Friday, November 15.
In just a few days, in the face of the strong concern of international public opinion, the Kiev special task force stationed in Donetsk quickly cracked the sherban assassination case.
At a news conference summarizing the case, the Ukrainian side said that one of the five arrested killers held a grudge because his factory was acquired by a company under the name of shelban and suffered layoffs. He contacted several other accomplices to launch the assassination.
The reason is bullshit.
Onlookers who know a little bit about the situation know that the whole thing is a fierce struggle between the two major forces in Ukraine for the industrial assets of eastern Ukraine. Moreover, the attempted assassination of razarenko a few months ago is not clean.
This kind of scandal is certainly not suitable for the public to know.
Even if you hide your ears.
Now that the case has been solved quickly, Leon Kuchma also held a press conference in person to assure reporters all over the world that Ukraine will strengthen the protection of overseas investors. In addition, Russia and the United States did not make any substantive follow-up after making a speech. This is the end of the matter.
As for the continuous surging and waves in private, it is not anyone can detect.
In the living room of manor villa on the south end of Martha's Vineyard island by the sea.
Celia Miller sips her coffee slowly, occasionally glancing at the owner of the casino development with Irene Lauder in her arms on a nearby sofa.
After more than ten minutes, after reading the materials, Simon rubbed Irene's waist in his arms and gave her a kiss on her cheek and neck. He asked, "how do you feel about this plan?"
Eileen, who had been swearing in the man's arms for Celia's appearance, quickly turned ruddy under Simon's action. She pressed his big hand and shook her head. "I don't understand this, but I don't know where Livni is. Can I really invest a lot of money to build a gambling city to attract tourists in the future?"
"Las Vegas was just a desert town before it became famous."
Irene saw Simon say and kiss the corner of his mouth, really embarrassed in front of the outsider so affectionate, feigned to bite him, said: "then you decide, anyway, it's all your money."
Simon was not frightened by Eileen's false bite. He gave the girl a kiss on her earlobe and said, "maybe the Lauder family will join in. It will sound very powerful to let our little Noah be the king of gambling in Eastern Europe, won't it?"
Eileen was even more embarrassed: "I don't know it's a boy or a girl. Moreover, my father has to decide on the investment. I can't manage it."
With that, Irene, who has been cultivated as a lady since childhood, finally can't stand being looked at so intimately by Celia. She breaks away from Simon's arms and gets up and says, "OK, I'm going to take a nap. Let's talk."
Simon took the girl's arm until she got up and broke away a little bit, affectionately: "I know you can't sleep alone, I'll come with you soon."
Irene gave Simon a white look: "I like to sleep alone."
Said to see the small hand is also held by Simon, the man also side face, can only come forward to kiss, can be let go.
Just as she was about to turn around and go out, Eileen, who was not stupid in the end, responded that a guy was just on purpose, so that she could not bear to leave on her own initiative.
Finally, with a "I see" look in her eyes and a polite nod to Celia, Irene walked out.
When Irene left, Simon glanced at Celia with a strange face: "do you envy her?"
For some things, Simon did not deliberately hide, Celia naturally knew, although the heart inevitably moved, the woman did not answer, but said: "Noah, very good name."
"Yes, Elin. We all hope it's a boy. It'll be Noah Lauder westero."
After all, it's the boss's private business. Even if she has a close relationship, Celia still put herself in a very right position. She nodded and said nothing more. Instead, she asked, "what does the boss think of this plan?"
Simon said: "if everything only needs 200 million dollars, you can try it, but it's certainly not enough to really start."
Celia agreed.
If you want to build a gambling city, infrastructure like casinos and hotels is just the beginning. If you put 200 million dollars in Ukraine, you can really spread out the stalls.
The key is the follow-up operation.
Just like Atlantic City, although it is not a failure, the result is far lower than the expectation of investors.
This is true of Atlantic City, which has many advantages. It is a gambling city located in an unknown remote state in Eastern Europe. It is absolutely difficult to do it. At that time, once the operation of the gambling city is not ideal, this project is likely to be like a film project like "future water world" or "Titanic", which is still shooting. If you want to avoid the huge investment in the early stage, investors will have to bite their teeth and continue to burn money.It's hard to say whether it will become a bottomless pit.
After a little consideration, Celia said: "in terms of the operation of hot spring resort and military theme park, Andre and Alexander have excellent abilities, and they are still exploring and learning. This is a very important positive factor. If their passion can last for five to ten years, or if the boss is willing to use the resources of westero system to help them I believe that this gambling city is more than 70% likely to succeed. "
Simon closed the document in his hand and said, "I'll get someone to evaluate it again. Celi, tell me about your trip to Ukraine the other day?"
Celia sorted out her thoughts and talked in detail about her contact with Victor pinchuk, Victor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko, as well as some negotiation results and other schedules. Even the korkoshko family's wish to send gifts at Thanksgiving was not forgotten.
Some of the items Simon has learned from Celia's memo that she just smiles when she hears that evgenia wants to come over for Thanksgiving, indicating that Celia is telling Janet directly.
In addition, there are some small feelings in my heart.
Yanukovych also appeared.
This politician who was born in the Donetsk clique and once became the president of Ukraine can be said to be the worst one among the former and latter presidents of Ukraine. The root of the matter lies in each other's Pro Russian stance. It's a pity that Russia is no longer the former Soviet Union, and the United States has to beat Russia, let alone support Yanukovych's ruling. In the end, what Russia can do is to give political protection to this little brother in distress, so as to prevent him from being caught back in Ukraine and thrown into prison.
At the end of the discussion, Celia finally asked, "boss, this storm is a great opportunity for us to expand in Ukraine. Why should we give up? We all feel sorry and confused about this? Like Tymoshenko, if the boss agrees to the woman's refuge, we can directly control the natural gas supply in Ukraine. "
"If I want to invest in natural gas, I can go directly to Russia to buy oil and gas fields. This is the real energy business. Tymoshenko is just a second dealer who relies on monopoly distribution channels to grab profits," Simon shrugged. "As for why not take the opportunity to expand, of course, I know your mind. Take this opportunity to destroy Lazarenko At the same time, we will march into eastern Ukraine and annex the Donetsk gang. At that time, we will basically control the whole Ukraine, right
Instead of nodding rashly, Celia asked, "what's the problem, boss?"
"Frankly, I almost couldn't resist this desire to expand. Fortunately, I finally kept this line," Simon said. Seeing Celia still wondering, he added, "Celia, let me ask you a question. Why do you think the westero system has grown at an almost miraculous speed in the past decade?"
This problem is too big, Celia thought, can only smile: "because the boss is a genius ah."
Simon shook his head with a smile. Instead of forcing Celia to reply, he volunteered, "I don't deny that I have my own secret. However, one of the key factors for the rapid rise of the westero system in the past decade is that I have never competed with others in various traditional industries that have become monopolies, so I have bypassed the competitive barriers that many entrepreneurs often encounter. Just like Denise entertainment, since its establishment, in order to avoid the pressure of the seven old brands at that time, I have been cooperating with foreign countries and let out a lot of interests. Until now, this company has also cooperated with several other Hollywood giants. Then there is the Internet field, which is more typical. It is an emerging industry from scratch. Therefore, the westero system can grow rapidly in an environment with few competitors. "
Celia, if she knows.
Simon looked at Celia's expression and continued: "my layout in Ukraine is the same. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most valuable assets inherited from the former Soviet Union are in the East and the south. However, I did not develop to the southeast. Instead, I focused on the most impoverished and backward frontier state in the northwest, and invested a lot of money to develop from scratch In addition, I continue to make concessions to Ukraine's local leaders, which has not caused the local forces in Ukraine to covet and rebound. "
Seeing Celia nodding her head, Simon still did not stop: "people always like to get something for nothing, which is natural. However, things that are too easy to get are often difficult to hold in their hands for a long time, just like the fierce battle between Lazarenko and Donetsk for the industrial assets of eastern Ukraine. They all think that they can get it without paying too much As a result, yef sherban even lost his life. And Tymoshenko, the natural gas princess, seems to be very beautiful, but as long as the political situation in Ukraine changes, the monopoly natural gas distribution channels she now controls will be taken away almost immediately, which is also something she can't hold. In contrast, our layout in Rovno state has taken shape in the last two years. Next, we just need to be patient and create a super Rovno consortium that is strong enough to easily control Ukraine's economy. At that time, this Eastern European country will naturally be in our hands. Just like Hollywood, with the present strength and size of danielis entertainment, I say I am the king of Hollywood. Do you think there is any objection? "Celia nodded her head subconsciously, then quickly shook her head. At last, she didn't know whether to nod or shake her head. She could only smile: "boss, I see."
Simon showed a satisfied expression, but he took the initiative to change the subject: "however, I'm actually thinking about this issue in recent days."
"Well?"
"If we don't take the initiative to ask for something, it will make Ukraine's local leaders feel uneasy and think that we are planning something bigger."
Celia immediately had the same feeling: "boss, actually that's what I want to say."
Simon said: "so next, Livni can apply to the Kiev authorities for the establishment of a free trade zone, which is the benefit we hope to get this time."
"Free trade zone?"
"Yes, as you know, it was raised by the city government of livny two years ago. However, the original plan of imitating China's establishment of special economic zones will certainly not work. As long as Kiev is not crazy, it is impossible to give a comprehensive resource preference to Livni. Their own resources are not enough. Let's take a step back and push Livni to establish a free trade zone with relevant tax exemption. Without the restrictions of trade categories and tariffs, not only can more investors be attracted to Livni, but the "light industry consortium" plan proposed by Sergei can also get a better development platform. Moreover, as soon as the incident of the sherban assassination is over, neither the Kiev authorities nor other forces will jump out to oppose the plan. "
Celia then remembered the proposal that Simon had temporarily suppressed.
After all, the development plans such as gambling city are just a corner. The industrial core of Rovno is still light industrial products and OEM industry, and both of them are mainly export-oriented. In this case, in order to promote the further development of the state of Rovno, it is really best to build livny into a free trade zone.
Moreover, under the current situation in Ukraine, the resistance to the free trade zone proposal being released by Kiev is also the lowest.
So she quickly raised her interest and seriously discussed with her boss for more than half an hour before Celia finally left, intending to contact Rovno immediately.
Simon personally escorts Celia to the helicopter returning to Greenwich. Seeing the helicopter disappear into the clear blue sky in winter, he feels the desolation of green shade due to the withered leaves around her. He lifts her arms and stretches her body at will. After a while, she walks towards the villa.
This is actually an estate of the Lauder family.
After Eileen became pregnant, the founder of Estee Lauder, who is still alive, of course, is also the daughter's grandmother. Estee Lauder personally assigned the estate to the granddaughter's name, saying it was a gift for a little guy in Eileen's stomach.
Back in front of the common white wall blue roof villa in the United States, Simon looked up and saw the girl who had woken up by the bedroom window on the second floor greeting him. He responded with a smile and made a wait. He soon entered the villa and came to the bedroom on the second floor.
However, although she obediently allowed the man to pick herself up from the sofa by the window and put it on her lap, Irene went to Simon's collar room and sniffed. She was dissatisfied and said, "after talking for such a long time, she still said that she would take a nap with me?"
"No more sleep?"
"Where can I sleep?" Irene raised her hand and hit the man on the shoulder. Then she leaned over and complained, "are you going to leave later?"
Even though he arrived the day before yesterday afternoon and had been with the woman for two days, Simon could only say, "of course not, we are still here tonight to tell you ghost stories."
Irene tooted her mouth, took Simon's big hand, put it on her mouth and bit it. She didn't use her strength. She still complained after letting go: "you don't love me or marry me. You just want to possess me and make me pregnant. Now you should accompany me more, right?"
Simon in turn put the girl's little hand in his heart: "feel it, almost guilt to stop."
Irene really felt for a while, lost a white eye to come over: "deceiving."
Simon lowers his head and kisses the girl on the lip again.
Warm for a while, the two separate, a little more satisfied Irene did not release the resentment magic, wearing thin socks toe point, next to a pile of thick information on the coffee table. These are Simon's yesterday. The girl just turned over and said, "it's all about the Mellon family. Are you going to do something bad?"
Simon subconsciously played a trick: "Why say again?"
Irene obviously can't get it, just said: "the Mellon family is much stronger than the Hurst family. I advise you not to mess about."
Simon nodded, saw the girl's eyes with concern and reminder, and said with a smile: "in order to avoid being disturbed by others in the future, or even affecting our children, of course, I will not easily mess around, it must be within the rules."
Irene saw that Simon understood what she meant and said nothing more.
Simon glanced at the stack of data, which was also filled with emotion.
Through the investigation of the Mellon family these days, Simon found that, compared with the Hurst family, who trapped himself in the media field, the assets and network of the Mellon family are almost the ultimate goal template that he has been subconsciously laying out for the Westeros.At the present stage of the Mellon family, the financial capital includes Mellon financial group, which controls a large number of local city banks; the mining capital includes Alcoa, which ranks in the forefront of global production capacity; the transportation capital includes GTI, which controls a large number of domestic railways; the pharmaceutical capital is involved in Warner Lambert, which is acquired by Ruihui with a huge sum of $90 billion in memory; and the energy capital owns the famous chevron Dragon company.
All these listed companies have a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, and their annual profits are quite rich and stable, which constitute the current asset base of the Mellon family.
Over the past century, the Mellon family's shareholding in these enterprises has been very small, basically less than 10%. As for Warner Lambert or Chevrolet, even less than 5%. However, through the ownership of hundreds of family funds, trust funds and charitable funds in these enterprises and the network of contacts built over a hundred years, the Mellon family directly or indirectly controls a large number of board seats in these enterprises and related companies. Therefore, although they hold only a small amount of shares, the Mellon family still has a considerable say in these enterprises.
For example, GTI, an industrial transportation company, is still CEO of Timothy Mellon and directly controlled by the Mellon family.
This is the capital deposit of the entire Mellon family, although it has only a few billion dollars of assets, which can affect hundreds of billions of industrial empires.
With a small, broad and intertwined capital structure, even though the westero system has absolutely crushed the scale of the industries involved by the Mellon family, if Simon wants the Mellon family to decline in a short time like the Hurst family, the traditional means of suppression will not work at all.
Because once Simon attacks the Mellon family, it is tantamount to touching a huge capital system involving finance, medicine, energy, mining and other fields.
This is just the capital level.
Through the continuous donation of more than a century of funds in the name of almost every family's children, the Mellon family's network of contacts in the fields of politics, economy, culture and so on has become even larger.
Take education as an example. The foundation of the Mellon family has almost donated to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Cambridge, Imperial College and other top universities in the world. Once there is a conflict with the Mellon family, if the family can't compete with it, maybe as long as the other party says something, they can close their opponents out of the door of a large number of famous universities.
That's really deep-rooted.
Simon wants to crack down on the Mellon family's old money. Within the rules, he can only extract the capital the Mellon family relies on, and then slowly cut its network, so that the family will lose its influence on the Federation.
With the steady foundation of westrow system, it began to expand to the traditional industries which are still controlled by a large number of old money capital in the world, and the conflict with the old money system of the United States and even the world is almost inevitable. Therefore, Simon did not intend to give up just because he found that the Meron family was too hard to chew. On the contrary, he was more aggressive. He regarded it as a trial. As long as he could fight the Meron family, other old money would be vulnerable to the westero system.
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On the east coast of the United States, at a manor on Martha's Vineyard island at the east end of Long Island, Celia, returning to North America, saw Simon again on Friday, November 15.
In just a few days, in the face of the strong concern of international public opinion, the Kiev special task force stationed in Donetsk quickly cracked the sherban assassination case.
At a news conference summarizing the case, the Ukrainian side said that one of the five arrested killers held a grudge because his factory was acquired by a company under the name of shelban and suffered layoffs. He contacted several other accomplices to launch the assassination.
The reason is bullshit.
Onlookers who know a little bit about the situation know that the whole thing is a fierce struggle between the two major forces in Ukraine for the industrial assets of eastern Ukraine. Moreover, the attempted assassination of razarenko a few months ago is not clean.
This kind of scandal is certainly not suitable for the public to know.
Even if you hide your ears.
Now that the case has been solved quickly, Leon Kuchma also held a press conference in person to assure reporters all over the world that Ukraine will strengthen the protection of overseas investors. In addition, Russia and the United States did not make any substantive follow-up after making a speech. This is the end of the matter.
As for the continuous surging and waves in private, it is not anyone can detect.
In the living room of manor villa on the south end of Martha's Vineyard island by the sea.
Celia Miller sips her coffee slowly, occasionally glancing at the owner of the casino development with Irene Lauder in her arms on a nearby sofa.
After more than ten minutes, after reading the materials, Simon rubbed Irene's waist in his arms and gave her a kiss on her cheek and neck. He asked, "how do you feel about this plan?"
Eileen, who had been swearing in the man's arms for Celia's appearance, quickly turned ruddy under Simon's action. She pressed his big hand and shook her head. "I don't understand this, but I don't know where Livni is. Can I really invest a lot of money to build a gambling city to attract tourists in the future?"
"Las Vegas was just a desert town before it became famous."
Irene saw Simon say and kiss the corner of his mouth, really embarrassed in front of the outsider so affectionate, feigned to bite him, said: "then you decide, anyway, it's all your money."
Simon was not frightened by Eileen's false bite. He gave the girl a kiss on her earlobe and said, "maybe the Lauder family will join in. It will sound very powerful to let our little Noah be the king of gambling in Eastern Europe, won't it?"
Eileen was even more embarrassed: "I don't know it's a boy or a girl. Moreover, my father has to decide on the investment. I can't manage it."
With that, Irene, who has been cultivated as a lady since childhood, finally can't stand being looked at so intimately by Celia. She breaks away from Simon's arms and gets up and says, "OK, I'm going to take a nap. Let's talk."
Simon took the girl's arm until she got up and broke away a little bit, affectionately: "I know you can't sleep alone, I'll come with you soon."
Irene gave Simon a white look: "I like to sleep alone."
Said to see the small hand is also held by Simon, the man also side face, can only come forward to kiss, can be let go.
Just as she was about to turn around and go out, Eileen, who was not stupid in the end, responded that a guy was just on purpose, so that she could not bear to leave on her own initiative.
Finally, with a "I see" look in her eyes and a polite nod to Celia, Irene walked out.
When Irene left, Simon glanced at Celia with a strange face: "do you envy her?"
For some things, Simon did not deliberately hide, Celia naturally knew, although the heart inevitably moved, the woman did not answer, but said: "Noah, very good name."
"Yes, Elin. We all hope it's a boy. It'll be Noah Lauder westero."
After all, it's the boss's private business. Even if she has a close relationship, Celia still put herself in a very right position. She nodded and said nothing more. Instead, she asked, "what does the boss think of this plan?"
Simon said: "if everything only needs 200 million dollars, you can try it, but it's certainly not enough to really start."
Celia agreed.
If you want to build a gambling city, infrastructure like casinos and hotels is just the beginning. If you put 200 million dollars in Ukraine, you can really spread out the stalls.
The key is the follow-up operation.
Just like Atlantic City, although it is not a failure, the result is far lower than the expectation of investors.
This is true of Atlantic City, which has many advantages. It is a gambling city located in an unknown remote state in Eastern Europe. It is absolutely difficult to do it. At that time, once the operation of the gambling city is not ideal, this project is likely to be like a film project like "future water world" or "Titanic", which is still shooting. If you want to avoid the huge investment in the early stage, investors will have to bite their teeth and continue to burn money.It's hard to say whether it will become a bottomless pit.
After a little consideration, Celia said: "in terms of the operation of hot spring resort and military theme park, Andre and Alexander have excellent abilities, and they are still exploring and learning. This is a very important positive factor. If their passion can last for five to ten years, or if the boss is willing to use the resources of westero system to help them I believe that this gambling city is more than 70% likely to succeed. "
Simon closed the document in his hand and said, "I'll get someone to evaluate it again. Celi, tell me about your trip to Ukraine the other day?"
Celia sorted out her thoughts and talked in detail about her contact with Victor pinchuk, Victor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko, as well as some negotiation results and other schedules. Even the korkoshko family's wish to send gifts at Thanksgiving was not forgotten.
Some of the items Simon has learned from Celia's memo that she just smiles when she hears that evgenia wants to come over for Thanksgiving, indicating that Celia is telling Janet directly.
In addition, there are some small feelings in my heart.
Yanukovych also appeared.
This politician who was born in the Donetsk clique and once became the president of Ukraine can be said to be the worst one among the former and latter presidents of Ukraine. The root of the matter lies in each other's Pro Russian stance. It's a pity that Russia is no longer the former Soviet Union, and the United States has to beat Russia, let alone support Yanukovych's ruling. In the end, what Russia can do is to give political protection to this little brother in distress, so as to prevent him from being caught back in Ukraine and thrown into prison.
At the end of the discussion, Celia finally asked, "boss, this storm is a great opportunity for us to expand in Ukraine. Why should we give up? We all feel sorry and confused about this? Like Tymoshenko, if the boss agrees to the woman's refuge, we can directly control the natural gas supply in Ukraine. "
"If I want to invest in natural gas, I can go directly to Russia to buy oil and gas fields. This is the real energy business. Tymoshenko is just a second dealer who relies on monopoly distribution channels to grab profits," Simon shrugged. "As for why not take the opportunity to expand, of course, I know your mind. Take this opportunity to destroy Lazarenko At the same time, we will march into eastern Ukraine and annex the Donetsk gang. At that time, we will basically control the whole Ukraine, right
Instead of nodding rashly, Celia asked, "what's the problem, boss?"
"Frankly, I almost couldn't resist this desire to expand. Fortunately, I finally kept this line," Simon said. Seeing Celia still wondering, he added, "Celia, let me ask you a question. Why do you think the westero system has grown at an almost miraculous speed in the past decade?"
This problem is too big, Celia thought, can only smile: "because the boss is a genius ah."
Simon shook his head with a smile. Instead of forcing Celia to reply, he volunteered, "I don't deny that I have my own secret. However, one of the key factors for the rapid rise of the westero system in the past decade is that I have never competed with others in various traditional industries that have become monopolies, so I have bypassed the competitive barriers that many entrepreneurs often encounter. Just like Denise entertainment, since its establishment, in order to avoid the pressure of the seven old brands at that time, I have been cooperating with foreign countries and let out a lot of interests. Until now, this company has also cooperated with several other Hollywood giants. Then there is the Internet field, which is more typical. It is an emerging industry from scratch. Therefore, the westero system can grow rapidly in an environment with few competitors. "
Celia, if she knows.
Simon looked at Celia's expression and continued: "my layout in Ukraine is the same. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most valuable assets inherited from the former Soviet Union are in the East and the south. However, I did not develop to the southeast. Instead, I focused on the most impoverished and backward frontier state in the northwest, and invested a lot of money to develop from scratch In addition, I continue to make concessions to Ukraine's local leaders, which has not caused the local forces in Ukraine to covet and rebound. "
Seeing Celia nodding her head, Simon still did not stop: "people always like to get something for nothing, which is natural. However, things that are too easy to get are often difficult to hold in their hands for a long time, just like the fierce battle between Lazarenko and Donetsk for the industrial assets of eastern Ukraine. They all think that they can get it without paying too much As a result, yef sherban even lost his life. And Tymoshenko, the natural gas princess, seems to be very beautiful, but as long as the political situation in Ukraine changes, the monopoly natural gas distribution channels she now controls will be taken away almost immediately, which is also something she can't hold. In contrast, our layout in Rovno state has taken shape in the last two years. Next, we just need to be patient and create a super Rovno consortium that is strong enough to easily control Ukraine's economy. At that time, this Eastern European country will naturally be in our hands. Just like Hollywood, with the present strength and size of danielis entertainment, I say I am the king of Hollywood. Do you think there is any objection? "Celia nodded her head subconsciously, then quickly shook her head. At last, she didn't know whether to nod or shake her head. She could only smile: "boss, I see."
Simon showed a satisfied expression, but he took the initiative to change the subject: "however, I'm actually thinking about this issue in recent days."
"Well?"
"If we don't take the initiative to ask for something, it will make Ukraine's local leaders feel uneasy and think that we are planning something bigger."
Celia immediately had the same feeling: "boss, actually that's what I want to say."
Simon said: "so next, Livni can apply to the Kiev authorities for the establishment of a free trade zone, which is the benefit we hope to get this time."
"Free trade zone?"
"Yes, as you know, it was raised by the city government of livny two years ago. However, the original plan of imitating China's establishment of special economic zones will certainly not work. As long as Kiev is not crazy, it is impossible to give a comprehensive resource preference to Livni. Their own resources are not enough. Let's take a step back and push Livni to establish a free trade zone with relevant tax exemption. Without the restrictions of trade categories and tariffs, not only can more investors be attracted to Livni, but the "light industry consortium" plan proposed by Sergei can also get a better development platform. Moreover, as soon as the incident of the sherban assassination is over, neither the Kiev authorities nor other forces will jump out to oppose the plan. "
Celia then remembered the proposal that Simon had temporarily suppressed.
After all, the development plans such as gambling city are just a corner. The industrial core of Rovno is still light industrial products and OEM industry, and both of them are mainly export-oriented. In this case, in order to promote the further development of the state of Rovno, it is really best to build livny into a free trade zone.
Moreover, under the current situation in Ukraine, the resistance to the free trade zone proposal being released by Kiev is also the lowest.
So she quickly raised her interest and seriously discussed with her boss for more than half an hour before Celia finally left, intending to contact Rovno immediately.
Simon personally escorts Celia to the helicopter returning to Greenwich. Seeing the helicopter disappear into the clear blue sky in winter, he feels the desolation of green shade due to the withered leaves around her. He lifts her arms and stretches her body at will. After a while, she walks towards the villa.
This is actually an estate of the Lauder family.
After Eileen became pregnant, the founder of Estee Lauder, who is still alive, of course, is also the daughter's grandmother. Estee Lauder personally assigned the estate to the granddaughter's name, saying it was a gift for a little guy in Eileen's stomach.
Back in front of the common white wall blue roof villa in the United States, Simon looked up and saw the girl who had woken up by the bedroom window on the second floor greeting him. He responded with a smile and made a wait. He soon entered the villa and came to the bedroom on the second floor.
However, although she obediently allowed the man to pick herself up from the sofa by the window and put it on her lap, Irene went to Simon's collar room and sniffed. She was dissatisfied and said, "after talking for such a long time, she still said that she would take a nap with me?"
"No more sleep?"
"Where can I sleep?" Irene raised her hand and hit the man on the shoulder. Then she leaned over and complained, "are you going to leave later?"
Even though he arrived the day before yesterday afternoon and had been with the woman for two days, Simon could only say, "of course not, we are still here tonight to tell you ghost stories."
Irene tooted her mouth, took Simon's big hand, put it on her mouth and bit it. She didn't use her strength. She still complained after letting go: "you don't love me or marry me. You just want to possess me and make me pregnant. Now you should accompany me more, right?"
Simon in turn put the girl's little hand in his heart: "feel it, almost guilt to stop."
Irene really felt for a while, lost a white eye to come over: "deceiving."
Simon lowers his head and kisses the girl on the lip again.
Warm for a while, the two separate, a little more satisfied Irene did not release the resentment magic, wearing thin socks toe point, next to a pile of thick information on the coffee table. These are Simon's yesterday. The girl just turned over and said, "it's all about the Mellon family. Are you going to do something bad?"
Simon subconsciously played a trick: "Why say again?"
Irene obviously can't get it, just said: "the Mellon family is much stronger than the Hurst family. I advise you not to mess about."
Simon nodded, saw the girl's eyes with concern and reminder, and said with a smile: "in order to avoid being disturbed by others in the future, or even affecting our children, of course, I will not easily mess around, it must be within the rules."
Irene saw that Simon understood what she meant and said nothing more.
Simon glanced at the stack of data, which was also filled with emotion.
Through the investigation of the Mellon family these days, Simon found that, compared with the Hurst family, who trapped himself in the media field, the assets and network of the Mellon family are almost the ultimate goal template that he has been subconsciously laying out for the Westeros.At the present stage of the Mellon family, the financial capital includes Mellon financial group, which controls a large number of local city banks; the mining capital includes Alcoa, which ranks in the forefront of global production capacity; the transportation capital includes GTI, which controls a large number of domestic railways; the pharmaceutical capital is involved in Warner Lambert, which is acquired by Ruihui with a huge sum of $90 billion in memory; and the energy capital owns the famous chevron Dragon company.
All these listed companies have a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, and their annual profits are quite rich and stable, which constitute the current asset base of the Mellon family.
Over the past century, the Mellon family's shareholding in these enterprises has been very small, basically less than 10%. As for Warner Lambert or Chevrolet, even less than 5%. However, through the ownership of hundreds of family funds, trust funds and charitable funds in these enterprises and the network of contacts built over a hundred years, the Mellon family directly or indirectly controls a large number of board seats in these enterprises and related companies. Therefore, although they hold only a small amount of shares, the Mellon family still has a considerable say in these enterprises.
For example, GTI, an industrial transportation company, is still CEO of Timothy Mellon and directly controlled by the Mellon family.
This is the capital deposit of the entire Mellon family, although it has only a few billion dollars of assets, which can affect hundreds of billions of industrial empires.
With a small, broad and intertwined capital structure, even though the westero system has absolutely crushed the scale of the industries involved by the Mellon family, if Simon wants the Mellon family to decline in a short time like the Hurst family, the traditional means of suppression will not work at all.
Because once Simon attacks the Mellon family, it is tantamount to touching a huge capital system involving finance, medicine, energy, mining and other fields.
This is just the capital level.
Through the continuous donation of more than a century of funds in the name of almost every family's children, the Mellon family's network of contacts in the fields of politics, economy, culture and so on has become even larger.
Take education as an example. The foundation of the Mellon family has almost donated to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Cambridge, Imperial College and other top universities in the world. Once there is a conflict with the Mellon family, if the family can't compete with it, maybe as long as the other party says something, they can close their opponents out of the door of a large number of famous universities.
That's really deep-rooted.
Simon wants to crack down on the Mellon family's old money. Within the rules, he can only extract the capital the Mellon family relies on, and then slowly cut its network, so that the family will lose its influence on the Federation.
With the steady foundation of westrow system, it began to expand to the traditional industries which are still controlled by a large number of old money capital in the world, and the conflict with the old money system of the United States and even the world is almost inevitable. Therefore, Simon did not intend to give up just because he found that the Meron family was too hard to chew. On the contrary, he was more aggressive. He regarded it as a trial. As long as he could fight the Meron family, other old money would be vulnerable to the westero system.
On the east coast of the United States, at a manor on Martha's Vineyard island at the east end of Long Island, Celia, returning to North America, saw Simon again on Friday, November 15. In just a few days, in the face of the strong concern of international public opinion, the Kiev special task force stationed in Donetsk quickly cracked the sherban assassination case. At a news conference summarizing the case, the Ukrainian side said that one of the five arrested killers held a grudge because his factory was acquired by a company under the name of shelban and suffered layoffs. He contacted several other accomplices to launch the assassination. The reason is bullshit. Onlookers who know a little bit about the situation know that the whole thing is a fierce struggle between the two major forces in Ukraine for the industrial assets of eastern Ukraine. Moreover, the attempted assassination of razarenko a few months ago is not clean. This kind of scandal is certainly not suitable for the public to know. Even if you hide your ears. Now that the case has been solved quickly, Leon Kuchma also held a press conference in person to assure reporters all over the world that Ukraine will strengthen the protection of overseas investors. In addition, Russia and the United States did not make any substantive follow-up after making a speech. This is the end of the matter. As for the continuous surging and waves in private, it is not anyone can detect. In the living room of manor villa on the south end of Martha's Vineyard island by the sea. Celia Miller sips her coffee slowly, occasionally glancing at the owner of the casino development with Irene Lauder in her arms on a nearby sofa. After more than ten minutes, after reading the materials, Simon rubbed Irene's waist in his arms and gave her a kiss on her cheek and neck. He asked, "how do you feel about this plan?" Eileen, who had been swearing in the man's arms for Celia's appearance, quickly turned ruddy under Simon's action. She pressed his big hand and shook her head. "I don't understand this, but I don't know where Livni is. Can I really invest a lot of money to build a gambling city to attract tourists in the future?" "Las Vegas was just a desert town before it became famous." Irene saw Simon say and kiss the corner of his mouth, really embarrassed in front of the outsider so affectionate, feigned to bite him, said: "then you decide, anyway, it's all your money." Simon was not frightened by Eileen's false bite. He gave the girl a kiss on her earlobe and said, "maybe the Lauder family will join in. It will sound very powerful to let our little Noah be the king of gambling in Eastern Europe, won't it?" Eileen was even more embarrassed: "I don't know it's a boy or a girl. Moreover, my father has to decide on the investment. I can't manage it." With that, Irene, who has been cultivated as a lady since childhood, finally can't stand being looked at so intimately by Celia. She breaks away from Simon's arms and gets up and says, "OK, I'm going to take a nap. Let's talk." Simon took the girl's arm until she got up and broke away a little bit, affectionately: "I know you can't sleep alone, I'll come with you soon." Irene gave Simon a white look: "I like to sleep alone." Said to see the small hand is also held by Simon, the man also side face, can only come forward to kiss, can be let go. Just as she was about to turn around and go out, Eileen, who was not stupid in the end, responded that a guy was just on purpose, so that she could not bear to leave on her own initiative. Finally, with a "I see" look in her eyes and a polite nod to Celia, Irene walked out. When Irene left, Simon glanced at Celia with a strange face: "do you envy her?" For some things, Simon did not deliberately hide, Celia naturally knew, although the heart inevitably moved, the woman did not answer, but said: "Noah, very good name." "Yes, Elin. We all hope it's a boy. It'll be Noah Lauder westero." After all, it's the boss's private business. Even if she has a close relationship, Celia still put herself in a very right position. She nodded and said nothing more. Instead, she asked, "what does the boss think of this plan?" Simon said: "if everything only needs 200 million dollars, you can try it, but it's certainly not enough to really start." Celia agreed. If you want to build a gambling city, infrastructure like casinos and hotels is just the beginning. If you put 200 million dollars in Ukraine, you can really spread out the stalls. The key is the follow-up operation. Just like Atlantic City, although it is not a failure, the result is far lower than the expectation of investors. This is true of Atlantic City, which has many advantages. It is a gambling city located in an unknown remote state in Eastern Europe. It is absolutely difficult to do it. At that time, once the operation of the gambling city is not ideal, this project is likely to be like a film project like "future water world" or "Titanic", which is still shooting. If you want to avoid the huge investment in the early stage, investors will have to bite their teeth and continue to burn money.It's hard to say whether it will become a bottomless pit. After a little consideration, Celia said: "in terms of the operation of hot spring resort and military theme park, Andre and Alexander have excellent abilities, and they are still exploring and learning. This is a very important positive factor. If their passion can last for five to ten years, or if the boss is willing to use the resources of westero system to help them I believe that this gambling city is more than 70% likely to succeed. " Simon closed the document in his hand and said, "I'll get someone to evaluate it again. Celi, tell me about your trip to Ukraine the other day?" Celia sorted out her thoughts and talked in detail about her contact with Victor pinchuk, Victor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko, as well as some negotiation results and other schedules. Even the korkoshko family's wish to send gifts at Thanksgiving was not forgotten. Some of the items Simon has learned from Celia's memo that she just smiles when she hears that evgenia wants to come over for Thanksgiving, indicating that Celia is telling Janet directly. In addition, there are some small feelings in my heart. Yanukovych also appeared. This politician who was born in the Donetsk clique and once became the president of Ukraine can be said to be the worst one among the former and latter presidents of Ukraine. The root of the matter lies in each other's Pro Russian stance. It's a pity that Russia is no longer the former Soviet Union, and the United States has to beat Russia, let alone support Yanukovych's ruling. In the end, what Russia can do is to give political protection to this little brother in distress, so as to prevent him from being caught back in Ukraine and thrown into prison. At the end of the discussion, Celia finally asked, "boss, this storm is a great opportunity for us to expand in Ukraine. Why should we give up? We all feel sorry and confused about this? Like Tymoshenko, if the boss agrees to the woman's refuge, we can directly control the natural gas supply in Ukraine. " "If I want to invest in natural gas, I can go directly to Russia to buy oil and gas fields. This is the real energy business. Tymoshenko is just a second dealer who relies on monopoly distribution channels to grab profits," Simon shrugged. "As for why not take the opportunity to expand, of course, I know your mind. Take this opportunity to destroy Lazarenko At the same time, we will march into eastern Ukraine and annex the Donetsk gang. At that time, we will basically control the whole Ukraine, right Instead of nodding rashly, Celia asked, "what's the problem, boss?" "Frankly, I almost couldn't resist this desire to expand. Fortunately, I finally kept this line," Simon said. Seeing Celia still wondering, he added, "Celia, let me ask you a question. Why do you think the westero system has grown at an almost miraculous speed in the past decade?" This problem is too big, Celia thought, can only smile: "because the boss is a genius ah." Simon shook his head with a smile. Instead of forcing Celia to reply, he volunteered, "I don't deny that I have my own secret. However, one of the key factors for the rapid rise of the westero system in the past decade is that I have never competed with others in various traditional industries that have become monopolies, so I have bypassed the competitive barriers that many entrepreneurs often encounter. Just like Denise entertainment, since its establishment, in order to avoid the pressure of the seven old brands at that time, I have been cooperating with foreign countries and let out a lot of interests. Until now, this company has also cooperated with several other Hollywood giants. Then there is the Internet field, which is more typical. It is an emerging industry from scratch. Therefore, the westero system can grow rapidly in an environment with few competitors. " Celia, if she knows. Simon looked at Celia's expression and continued: "my layout in Ukraine is the same. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most valuable assets inherited from the former Soviet Union are in the East and the south. However, I did not develop to the southeast. Instead, I focused on the most impoverished and backward frontier state in the northwest, and invested a lot of money to develop from scratch In addition, I continue to make concessions to Ukraine's local leaders, which has not caused the local forces in Ukraine to covet and rebound. " Seeing Celia nodding her head, Simon still did not stop: "people always like to get something for nothing, which is natural. However, things that are too easy to get are often difficult to hold in their hands for a long time, just like the fierce battle between Lazarenko and Donetsk for the industrial assets of eastern Ukraine. They all think that they can get it without paying too much As a result, yef sherban even lost his life. And Tymoshenko, the natural gas princess, seems to be very beautiful, but as long as the political situation in Ukraine changes, the monopoly natural gas distribution channels she now controls will be taken away almost immediately, which is also something she can't hold. In contrast, our layout in Rovno state has taken shape in the last two years. Next, we just need to be patient and create a super Rovno consortium that is strong enough to easily control Ukraine's economy. At that time, this Eastern European country will naturally be in our hands. Just like Hollywood, with the present strength and size of danielis entertainment, I say I am the king of Hollywood. Do you think there is any objection? "Celia nodded her head subconsciously, then quickly shook her head. At last, she didn't know whether to nod or shake her head. She could only smile: "boss, I see." Simon showed a satisfied expression, but he took the initiative to change the subject: "however, I'm actually thinking about this issue in recent days." "Well?" "If we don't take the initiative to ask for something, it will make Ukraine's local leaders feel uneasy and think that we are planning something bigger." Celia immediately had the same feeling: "boss, actually that's what I want to say." Simon said: "so next, Livni can apply to the Kiev authorities for the establishment of a free trade zone, which is the benefit we hope to get this time." "Free trade zone?" "Yes, as you know, it was raised by the city government of livny two years ago. However, the original plan of imitating China's establishment of special economic zones will certainly not work. As long as Kiev is not crazy, it is impossible to give a comprehensive resource preference to Livni. Their own resources are not enough. Let's take a step back and push Livni to establish a free trade zone with relevant tax exemption. Without the restrictions of trade categories and tariffs, not only can more investors be attracted to Livni, but the "light industry consortium" plan proposed by Sergei can also get a better development platform. Moreover, as soon as the incident of the sherban assassination is over, neither the Kiev authorities nor other forces will jump out to oppose the plan. " Celia then remembered the proposal that Simon had temporarily suppressed. After all, the development plans such as gambling city are just a corner. The industrial core of Rovno is still light industrial products and OEM industry, and both of them are mainly export-oriented. In this case, in order to promote the further development of the state of Rovno, it is really best to build livny into a free trade zone. Moreover, under the current situation in Ukraine, the resistance to the free trade zone proposal being released by Kiev is also the lowest. So she quickly raised her interest and seriously discussed with her boss for more than half an hour before Celia finally left, intending to contact Rovno immediately. Simon personally escorts Celia to the helicopter returning to Greenwich. Seeing the helicopter disappear into the clear blue sky in winter, he feels the desolation of green shade due to the withered leaves around her. He lifts her arms and stretches her body at will. After a while, she walks towards the villa. This is actually an estate of the Lauder family. After Eileen became pregnant, the founder of Estee Lauder, who is still alive, of course, is also the daughter's grandmother. Estee Lauder personally assigned the estate to the granddaughter's name, saying it was a gift for a little guy in Eileen's stomach. Back in front of the common white wall blue roof villa in the United States, Simon looked up and saw the girl who had woken up by the bedroom window on the second floor greeting him. He responded with a smile and made a wait. He soon entered the villa and came to the bedroom on the second floor. However, although she obediently allowed the man to pick herself up from the sofa by the window and put it on her lap, Irene went to Simon's collar room and sniffed. She was dissatisfied and said, "after talking for such a long time, she still said that she would take a nap with me?" "No more sleep?" "Where can I sleep?" Irene raised her hand and hit the man on the shoulder. Then she leaned over and complained, "are you going to leave later?" Even though he arrived the day before yesterday afternoon and had been with the woman for two days, Simon could only say, "of course not, we are still here tonight to tell you ghost stories." Irene tooted her mouth, took Simon's big hand, put it on her mouth and bit it. She didn't use her strength. She still complained after letting go: "you don't love me or marry me. You just want to possess me and make me pregnant. Now you should accompany me more, right?" Simon in turn put the girl's little hand in his heart: "feel it, almost guilt to stop." Irene really felt for a while, lost a white eye to come over: "deceiving." Simon lowers his head and kisses the girl on the lip again. Warm for a while, the two separate, a little more satisfied Irene did not release the resentment magic, wearing thin socks toe point, next to a pile of thick information on the coffee table. These are Simon's yesterday. The girl just turned over and said, "it's all about the Mellon family. Are you going to do something bad?" Simon subconsciously played a trick: "Why say again?" Irene obviously can't get it, just said: "the Mellon family is much stronger than the Hurst family. I advise you not to mess about." Simon nodded, saw the girl's eyes with concern and reminder, and said with a smile: "in order to avoid being disturbed by others in the future, or even affecting our children, of course, I will not easily mess around, it must be within the rules." Irene saw that Simon understood what she meant and said nothing more. Simon glanced at the stack of data, which was also filled with emotion. Through the investigation of the Mellon family these days, Simon found that, compared with the Hurst family, who trapped himself in the media field, the assets and network of the Mellon family are almost the ultimate goal template that he has been subconsciously laying out for the Westeros.At the present stage of the Mellon family, the financial capital includes Mellon financial group, which controls a large number of local city banks; the mining capital includes Alcoa, which ranks in the forefront of global production capacity; the transportation capital includes GTI, which controls a large number of domestic railways; the pharmaceutical capital is involved in Warner Lambert, which is acquired by Ruihui with a huge sum of $90 billion in memory; and the energy capital owns the famous chevron Dragon company. All these listed companies have a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, and their annual profits are quite rich and stable, which constitute the current asset base of the Mellon family. Over the past century, the Mellon family's shareholding in these enterprises has been very small, basically less than 10%. As for Warner Lambert or Chevrolet, even less than 5%. However, through the ownership of hundreds of family funds, trust funds and charitable funds in these enterprises and the network of contacts built over a hundred years, the Mellon family directly or indirectly controls a large number of board seats in these enterprises and related companies. Therefore, although they hold only a small amount of shares, the Mellon family still has a considerable say in these enterprises. For example, GTI, an industrial transportation company, is still CEO of Timothy Mellon and directly controlled by the Mellon family. This is the capital deposit of the entire Mellon family, although it has only a few billion dollars of assets, which can affect hundreds of billions of industrial empires. With a small, broad and intertwined capital structure, even though the westero system has absolutely crushed the scale of the industries involved by the Mellon family, if Simon wants the Mellon family to decline in a short time like the Hurst family, the traditional means of suppression will not work at all. Because once Simon attacks the Mellon family, it is tantamount to touching a huge capital system involving finance, medicine, energy, mining and other fields. This is just the capital level. Through the continuous donation of more than a century of funds in the name of almost every family's children, the Mellon family's network of contacts in the fields of politics, economy, culture and so on has become even larger. Take education as an example. The foundation of the Mellon family has almost donated to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Cambridge, Imperial College and other top universities in the world. Once there is a conflict with the Mellon family, if the family can't compete with it, maybe as long as the other party says something, they can close their opponents out of the door of a large number of famous universities. That's really deep-rooted. Simon wants to crack down on the Mellon family's old money. Within the rules, he can only extract the capital the Mellon family relies on, and then slowly cut its network, so that the family will lose its influence on the Federation. With the steady foundation of westrow system, it began to expand to the traditional industries which are still controlled by a large number of old money capital in the world, and the conflict with the old money system of the United States and even the world is almost inevitable. Therefore, Simon did not intend to give up just because he found that the Meron family was too hard to chew. On the contrary, he was more aggressive. He regarded it as a trial. As long as he could fight the Meron family, other old money would be vulnerable to the westero system.
