Chapter 673 (1/2)

In the morning, Simon and Joseph schrap re drafted the lobbying plan on the federal media integration ban.

Vivendi group of France suddenly launched an acquisition of Disney Company. In order to avoid more big Hollywood film companies falling into the hands of foreigners, it is no problem to push Congress to lift the ban on media integration and pass it before Vivendi and Disney reach an acquisition agreement.

Simon is not going to do it.

From the perspective of westero system, Simon hopes that Vivendi's acquisition of Disney will be successful. When another big film company falls into the hands of foreigners, under the pressure of public opinion, the ban on media integration will be lifted in the future, and Denise entertainment will have less political obstacles when it starts to acquire the TV network.

Moreover, if the ban on media integration is lifted ahead of time, it is likely that the old three major TV networks will compete with Vivendi. Even if it happens to be Metro ABC group that Simon prefers, it will be even more troublesome.

Even if it's not ABC, Disney will join forces with NBC or CBS to become another comprehensive entertainment media giant, which will surely become a strong competitor of Denise entertainment in Hollywood.

Simon is not afraid of competition, but also hopes that at the right time there will be a strong enough competitor to compete with Denise entertainment.

But not now.

In contrast, if Disney is allowed to be acquired by Vivendi, this Hollywood studio, which has been unsatisfactory in recent years because of the influence of Simon, will only continue to be weak.

Neither Hollywood natives nor the U.S. government will make it easy for outsiders trying to break into the U.S. entertainment industry.

This has been proved by many cases in the past and in the future.

If Disney merges with the local TV network and Denise entertainment takes action to suppress it, it will certainly attract wide public attention, and the federal government will not sit by and ignore it. On the contrary, if Disney becomes a subsidiary of a French company, even if the Hollywood studio with more than half a century of history goes bankrupt, many people will just turn a blind eye.

Want fair play?

It doesn't exist.

At the end of the day, this is protectionism.

Because of this, Simon will basically establish a close interest relationship with local forces in the overseas expansion of westero system.

For example, when melisandro had the opportunity to wholly acquire Gucci and other companies, Simon gave up on his own initiative. Nokia has just developed, Simon also took the initiative to let the company listed in Europe, in order to share the benefits. On the Russian side, the westero system has provided almost all the operating funds, but only half of the interest share is required, which can be called a massive blood transfusion.

And Australia.

If the Johnston family had not been deeply rooted in Australia, Simon would not have been involved in the mining resources related to Australia's economic lifeline, nor would he have invested heavily in Australia's mobile communications and Internet industry. Because it's very clear that if you rush to occupy the territory without roots and bottoms, you'll only be disappointed.

As a result, many overseas partners of the westero system feel that they have taken advantage of it and spare no effort to use their own resources and contacts in their respective countries to assist the expansion of the westero system. Therefore, Simon gains more.

Look at a bunch of outsiders in Hollywood.

Both Sony of Japan and sigram of Canada, relying on their huge financial resources, have chosen to eat all of their goals in Hollywood, and Vivendi now plans to do the same.

Now that these enterprises have become wholly-owned subsidiaries of your foreigners, the position of the federal government will naturally change.

Peter Cooper and John Peters have greatly damaged Columbia film industry, and even caused Sony a huge write down loss of more than 2 billion US dollars. If Sony is an American company, Peter Cooper and John Peters will surely be investigated and charged for suspected serious economic crimes.

As a result, they left a mess for Sony, and they enjoyed their retirement life with tens of millions of dollars of salary and benefits accumulated over the past few years.

Simon had lunch at Sophia's home at noon. Instead of waiting for Sophia's parents to avoid with their two children in the afternoon, they left Greenwich together and took a helicopter to the famous tourist resort of Massa vineyard, about 250 kilometers northeast of New York.

Sophia had a Simon's property cleaned up in advance yesterday.

Martha Vineyard island is one of the tourist attractions with a long history on the east coast. Not only a large number of rich people, politicians and celebrities like to buy property here, but many American presidents regard it as a designated resort. There are many famous news events around this famous island.

For example, Spielberg's famous work, great white shark, was originally filmed on Martha's Vineyard island.

For another example, John F. Kennedy Jr., who was burdened with the task of rejuvenating the Kennedy family, died when his plane crashed into the sea on his way home after attending a wedding ceremony in Martha's vineyard. Of course, it happened in Simon's memory of 1999, and now little John Kennedy is still alive.

Two Black Hawk helicopters landed one after another on the lawn of a private beach mansion in oak Town, north of Martha's Vineyard island. Unlike Greenwich's 30 acre manor, this beach mansion covers only about 6 acres.Of course, even so, it's not something that ordinary rich people can have, and ordinary people can't expect it.

Simon and Sophia get off the helicopter. Two groups of bodyguards from the other helicopter, led by Neil Bennett, take the lead to enter the villa with various instruments, carry out routine anti eavesdropping inspection, and then install and activate the monitoring system around the manor.

So busy for more than half an hour, the bodyguards removed the annex building, and only Simon and Sophia were left in the three-story resort style main villa.

The world of two.

Sophia is no longer reserved and Simon is still energetic after last night.

After a ridiculous afternoon, when I wake up on the master bed of the villa again, I can see the stars outside through the bedroom window. Unfortunately, the villa has no terrace, and Simon and his wife don't mean to be outdoors. Although the scenery and climate of Martha's Vineyard island are pleasant, there is no shortage of mosquitoes in summer.

The view on the big bed is very small. Sophia pulls Simon up, goes to the window, moves the original sofa coffee table, spreads a blanket and lies down again.

Stick it on Simon's chest, reflecting the stars all over the sky, listen to the little man tell all kinds of strange stories about the stars from the East and the west, then be happy, and then sleep until the next morning.

When Simon woke up in the morning, he made up his mind to be abstinent for a week.

However, thinking about returning to Los Angeles in the morning, I decided to start again next Monday.

Sophia is radiant in the early morning, and her white skin is ruddy, which makes people want to take a bite.

After breakfast, I finally remembered that I had some business to talk about.

In the past few years, melisandro has expanded at the rate of acquiring one company every year. After Gucci, it acquired Chateau Latour in 1990, van clenburg in 1991, CK in 1992 and Christie's in 1993.

Melisandro would have started a fashion TV station last year if it hadn't been for Simon's interference.

Naturally, this year's expansion will not stop.

In fact, since the first half of the year, Sofia has been looking for various targets, but some transactions have failed for various reasons.

In recent years, even though a large amount of money has been invested in expansion, melisandro has unconsciously accumulated more than $300 million in cash balance even after dividends have been paid to other shareholders because of the high profit margin of the luxury industry itself.

In this era, even many of the world's top 500 companies may not be able to take out $3 at will.

Bernard Arnault, the former boss of LVMH, became the world's second richest man with 100 billion US dollars after Jeff Bezos, not without reason.

For the time being, Sofia is short of the target of annexation. In the second half of last year, Sofia began to invest all the money in the US stock market according to Simon's suggestion, and bought a large number of technology stocks that continue to be sought after.

At present, the principal of US $300 million has increased by more than 50%, and can be cashed out at any time for acquisition and expansion.

This time, Sofia brought the information of three companies at one time.

All famous.

Bulgari, Versace, Constantine.

On the private beach of Martha's Vineyard mansion, Simon leans in the reclining chair under the sunshade and looks at the information of the three companies. Sophia, who seems to be wearing only a man's shirt, comes over with a cold drink and puts the tray on the tea table. Instead of going to the reclining chair, he sits directly in Simon's arms and asks, ”how about it?”

Simon put down the information in his hand, motioned to the woman to give him a glass of juice, said: ”all very good, also have problems.”