Chapter 275 (1/2)

Malibu.

It's Monday, July 10.

In the villa on the west side of Cape Dumay, Simon wakes up at six o'clock in the morning in the new week.

Last night, I talked with Janet on the phone to discuss the cabin design of the Boeing 767. Until very late, there were still many design drawings faxed from Melbourne in my bedroom.

Since he decided to buy a Boeing 767 first, Simon contacted Boeing after returning from Melbourne last time.

However, Simon then directly sent Boeing's sales representatives to Melbourne to discuss the details with Janet. The only decision he made was the choice of the specific model.

The latest model of Boeing 767 series is 767-300ER, but Simon chooses 767-200er.

The 200ER is only slightly inferior to the 300er in terms of fuselage length and load, while the cruising journey is comparable to the 300er. Simon has been renting the 200ER before.

Moreover, the key reason why Simon chose 200ER is that this medium-sized airliner has low requirements for takeoff and landing airports. The runway length required for full load and heavy takeoff is only 1.7km, and most airports in the world can meet the takeoff and landing requirements. In contrast, the runway length required for 300er to take off is 2.4km, which can not be supported by airports in many smaller cities. Simon's last trip to Europe, whether in Cannes or Florence, the length of the city airport runway is within 2 km.

Boeing's offer for the selected aircraft is $60 million.

The first thing Janet did after contacting Boeing sales representatives was to bargain. Simon is not a big customer who orders 10 or 20 airplanes at a time. However, as a public figure, he can play a better role in brand promotion than those big customers who buy Boeing products as private airplanes.

Moreover, the purchase of private aircraft is indeed negotiable.

After negotiation, the transaction price of the two sides was finally determined to be US $50 million, nearly 20% off. Of course, it's just the price of bare metal, and the internal equipment and decoration have to be calculated separately.

Simon has never been a miser in spending money, but he hates being treated as a big wrongdoer. He is very pleased that his wife can save money for a top villa in this transaction. With the signing of the contract, and the time for assembly and decoration, the plane will probably be delivered in November at the end of the year.

Dress and get up, simply clean up the drawings around, the bedroom will become clean and tidy again.

It's actually due to Jennifer.

Janet is not in Los Angeles, and Catherine has also gone to New York. Simon's villa in Malibu, palisade, Beverly Hills and Janet's villa on the east side of domay Cape are all managed by Janet. The female assistant takes time to clean several properties every week, so Simon doesn't need to worry about it at all.

Catherine is also helping to keep an eye on the two properties over there in New York recently. Angela arenz, President of Gucci America, will be in charge of the two properties when Catherine is away.

As for Europe, after the acquisition of Gucci, Sophia originally intended to return a falcon 50 business plane rented by the company in order to save money. Finally, in order to be able to travel quickly between different cities in Europe and help Simon manage many properties, Sophia kept it.

Janet had warned Simon that too many houses could be dilapidated if left vacant for too long. Now with regular and careful maintenance, Simon is no longer worried about this.

Wash, exercise, shower.

Seven o'clock.

Leave home on time.

Breakfast was at a nearby restaurant. By the way, I had an appointment with the head of the construction team of domay point manor to discuss the construction progress of iron man villa. Simon's attitude towards the villa is the same as that of the imagined westero building, which is built completely according to the high specifications of the art level. He is not in a hurry. He has a mentality of slow work and meticulous work, and only pursues perfection.

Finish breakfast and drive to Santa Monica.

Simon opened today's Los Angeles Times in his car and looked at the cover index first.

Skip over the words like ”the sixth sense of the supernatural” and ”reverse fall”, find a news headline of ”the successful conclusion of the U.S. - Iraq Business Forum” and turn directly to the international news page.

Today is the 11th day of the release of the sixth sense. What Simon can do has already been done, and the box office of the first week has also reached his best expectation. He doesn't need to worry too much about the next things.

Comparatively speaking, the just concluded ”US Iraq Business Forum” is something Simon has been paying close attention to recently.

The Iraq Iraq war, which lasted for eight years, ended at the end of last year. After eight years of consumption, Iraq's domestic economy and people's livelihood and other aspects have been in dire decline.

In the war with Iran, Saddam gained the ”warm-hearted” help of many Western allies, and a war lasted only eight years. Now, if we want to restore the Iraqi economy, we certainly need the assistance of these partners.

My friends are really enthusiastic.Although it is the U.S. - Iraq business forum, the oil giants of the United States, Britain, France and other major western countries all gather in Baghdad.

At the two-week business forum, Iraq hopes to get 40 billion US dollars from its Western allies to revive its domestic economy.

The allies are not stingy and agree, but they also put forward their own conditions. Iraq needs to privatize its own oil resources, or most of them, so that Mobil, Xinfu, shell and other international oil giants can better help Iraq develop its oil resources and restore its domestic economy.

According to the exploration data of geologists from various countries in the 1980s, Iraq is the largest undeveloped oil producing area in the world except the Soviet Union. Although its overall reserves are not as good as Saudi Arabia, it has great potential to win.

Seeing that the ”allies” want to hand over Iraq's oil sovereignty directly, and that Saddam Hussein has not been kicked in the head by a donkey, it is impossible to agree.

What's left of Iraq without oil?

Therefore, this business forum failed to reach any substantive agreement in the end, and all that remained was superficial harmony.

Simon looked on coldly, knowing that this was probably the beginning of many stories in the next 20 years.

When he comes to Santa Monica, Simon goes directly to Denise's special effects headquarters. In the morning, he will discuss with the special effects team of Batman about the final modification of some CG scenes.

Jennifer has been waiting for Simon at Denise special effects headquarters.

She asked the female assistant to collect more information about the U.S. - Iraq business forum, and Simon took over her work schedule today.

Morning work has been confirmed, and I have a lunch appointment with Jonathan Friedman at noon.