Chapter 837 (1/2)

Celia Miller came to Los Angeles this time mainly to discuss with Simon the various details of the formation of the Victoria private army.

The plan started at the beginning of the year, has been prepared for more than half a year, and has been quietly implemented in the near future. The training base is mainly in Ukraine, but Simon does not plan to select too many Ukrainians this time. Instead, he will expand the recruitment scope to Eastern Europe, North America, Africa and Latin America, which is basically a global casting net.

There are many advantages in avoiding having soldiers come from a concentrated area.

Keep loyalty to the greatest extent, reduce the possibility of infiltration, and eliminate the hidden danger of forming gangs.

Recruitment conditions are 16-year-old male, orphan priority, after the background investigation and physical examination test, the first will accept two years of cultural course training and preliminary training.

This process is mainly to develop language ability, as well as the ability to learn English.

Most of all, brainwashing.

Two years later, another batch of them will be eliminated. When they reach the age of 18, they will start formal military training. The time is still two years. When they are 20 years old, they will retire at the age of 40.

It's not taboo in western countries to keep private troops. In those days, the Rockefeller family had their own private army. Nowadays, many mercenary companies are also private armies.

Last year's Rwanda war has made the existence of Uighur private army an established fact.

This time, as long as the operation is proper, even if it is exposed, there is no need to worry about it. Simon does not intend to cultivate tens of thousands of troops, let alone thousands of private troops at one time. Instead, he still adopts the strategy of breaking up the whole into parts, and Eastern Europe, North America, Australia, and Africa will put some of it into practice.

Even if there are only one or two hundred people in a group, there will be one or two thousand in ten years.

So it goes back and forth.

The most important thing is to form a sustainable training mechanism.

In addition, ordinary mercenaries recruited from other channels are enough to ensure that the Westeros have a powerful violence machine when they need it.

After talking with Celia, it was already ten o'clock in the night.

The guest room for the woman is in the cliff villa next door. Simon personally takes Celia out of the shell villa and goes to the master bedroom upstairs. Janet, who has never been able to stand up late, has fallen asleep, but she is still sitting at the head of the bed, reading magazines and waiting for Simon.

After washing, Simon goes to bed and goes to the middle of the two women. Janet, who feels Simon's breath, naturally sticks up to her. She hums and pulls the man to lie down and use him as a pillow.

The assistant reached out and turned off the bedside lamp. She also lay down and said to Simon softly, ”the rooms for the two babies are ready. You can have a look when you get up tomorrow.”

Simon agreed and reached for the assistant.

”Sophie really wants to bring the two babies here?” she said, leaning on Simon's arm

”That's what I said, but it may be the same as you used to be.” Simon said, and then asked, ”do you think you can't take care of it?”

”No, I'm just worried about taking care of it.”

”How can it be? You take good care of the three kids and teach them well. Seriously, it's hard to say what Jennie and I would have done without you. You know, neither of us has the talent to raise children. ”

Remembering that Janet had been robbing the Melbourne ducklings recently, she chuckled and then said, ”that's why you two get together. You're all the same people.”

”Oh, and you?”

”Me, as the book says, big girl.”

”To be exact, it's the big girl who warms the bed.”

”It's not cold in Los Angeles.”

”It seems that you still haven't learned the essence of Chinese.”

”Ha ha, it's too difficult, and I don't have so much time. By the way, Moore will start to enter kindergarten next month. Do you think it's necessary to increase Chinese course? ”

Melbourne was born in December 1991 and will be 4 years old at the end of the year. It is the age of school.

In recent years, the female assistant has been personally running a school for kids in Malibu. The private school for senior children of the Westeros system started operation last year. It plans to provide a full range of education from kindergarten to middle school. Kids will officially enter school next month.

In fact, from the beginning of learning English in Melbourne, both Veronica and Jennifer began to teach children early, and Simon once thought about family education for children.

In the end, he gave up the idea.

Let children enter the school, learning knowledge is also the second, mainly contact with the outside world, and master a variety of interpersonal skills.

Because of Simon, the little guy has been receiving Chinese education in recent years. At this time, when the female assistant asked, Simon said, ”no, joining the Chinese course may make other parents feel not used to it. However, of course, they still have to learn. As before, they still hire a tutor for Moore.”Over the years, people around him have experienced too much of Simon's peculiarity and are used to it.

However, for the outside world, even if he already has such great fame, power and wealth, Simon still tries not to take the initiative to show too much if it is not necessary.

Chinese is one of them.

The two chatted in a low voice for a while. They noticed that Jennifer's little hand was rowing on her chest. Simon was understanding. He broke away from Janet on the other side with a smile. He put his hand around the assistant's slender body and whispered in her ear, ”come by yourself. Don't wake Jane up.”

In August, the summer vacation in North America comes to the second half of the end.

In a box office week spanning July and August, the most eye-catching one is the box office comparison of the two new films ”future water world” and ”king of fighting” which started on July 28.

From July 28 to August 3, the box office revenue of the $175 million ”future water world” in the first seven days of the first week was only $25.19 million, which was unexpectedly lost to MGM's ”king of fighting”.

The production cost of the action movie king of combat adapted from the video game ”real quick fight” is only 18 million US dollars. At this stage, it is not even a medium cost, and it also has a strong B-class film style. However, such a movie, in its first week of painting, unexpectedly won 32.75 million US dollars at the box office, exceeding the opening performance of ”future water world” by 7 million.

According to the ladder sharing agreement signed by MGM and the cinema, the studio can get 90% of the box office share in the first week after excluding the basic expenses of the cinema, which is actually about 75% of the total box office in the first week. By calculation, MGM recovered a total of $25 million in production and publicity investment in the first week of the project.

This success is no accident.