Chapter 895 (1/2)
Simon returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco in the evening of February 9.
Back home, Katherine Bigelow, who had not seen her for a while, came to visit her. She was drinking coffee and chatting with Janet by the glass curtain wall of shell villa at sunset.
Catherine was a little embarrassed to see Simon.
Mainly because of the failure of ”Detroit”, the film has long been off the shelf, and finally the box office in North America barely exceeded $10 million, and it won nothing in the awards.
Simon, of course, has nothing to do with it. He hugs Katherine, turns to the sofa where Janet is sitting next to him, and leans down on Janet's thigh, kicking off her shoes on the other side.
Catherine looked at the scene with a smile on her face. A little man would be so casual if he didn't treat her as an outsider, so she asked, ”is it too busy and tired?”
Simon just, um.
I'm not tired, mainly because I'm tired these days.
Janet affectionately held Simon's head on her lap, a hand along the man's hair, smiling and silent to Catherine with her mouth: ”overindulgence.”
Katherine just gave Janet a slight look.
There's no way to answer that.
Simon felt something. He closed his eyes and touched Janet. He held a small hand in the palm of her hand and suddenly tightened it. In the woman's whisper, he asked, ”what bad words do you say about me?”
Simon didn't make any effort, but was startled. Janet didn't take her little hand away from the man's palm. She dragged a big hand to her mouth and took a bite. Instead, she asked, ”Kate and I are going to the exhibition center tomorrow morning. Pop, do you want to go with us?”
”No
”Together, the charity exhibition can do good things.”
”Can we do bad things?”
”Yes, tomorrow you'll go and deliberately destroy some famous paintings, and then you'll make the headlines. Simon westero is insane again, tut, and then I can become the guardian of the Westeros' 700 billion, um, 900 billion dollar fortune.”
”And then?”
”Send you back to Watsonville psychiatric hospital.”
”It's like the plot of a movie,” Simon said with a smile
”Well?”
”Two years ago, James Spade starred in” snake and scorpion lover ”, the hero was framed by an evil wife who tried to seize his property and sent to a mental hospital. Guess how he turned over?”
Janet blinked. ”How did it turn over?”
Katherine beside also showed a curious expression.
Simon still closed his eyes to rest, just raised his hand to hold Janet's white neck, tried his hand, and then took it back.
Janet understood, ”it's amazing.”
Catherine was confused: ”what?”
Janet explained to Catherine, ”it's not against the law to kill people with mental illness.”
Katherine reacted this time and looked at them. Even though she understood that they were only joking, one wanted to send the other to a mental hospital, and the other wanted to kill the other. The one who was killed in the setting was quite excited. It seems that I In a word, the two in front of her are crazy in their bones. She can't hold this kind of relationship.
We continue to talk, twilight is coming.
Catherine was invited to stay for dinner, and was assigned to take care of a little guy. Although she was bitten by little Nick, who had not given up the habit of grinding her teeth, she somehow envied the atmosphere of the Westeros.
I just won't stay after dinner.
The time to see Catherine off was more than eight o'clock in the evening. The family gathered in a living room on the east side of shell villa. Simon and two jennies didn't have time to say something private until the five little guys fell asleep one after another.
It's mainly recent events.
Simon decided to give up the original plan to continue for one year, in fact, far less understated than on the surface.
Just like the assassination two years ago, which caused a series of follow-up disturbances, the reason is that the Woodfield family bet too much money on short technology stocks, resulting in misjudgment. In order to recover the losses, they had to take the lead and wanted to cause the market shock by assassinating Simon.
The situation is much worse now than it was two years ago.
Because of the bullish view on technology stocks, countless people flocked to the Nasdaq market, or directly bought a large number of stocks, or spared no effort to establish a bull market. The interests of many people were tied to the rising trend of NASDAQ. In this case, Simon wanted to go against the trend and suppress Technology stocks, and the risks involved can be imagined.
Therefore, after feeling the pressure from all sides and even warning, in addition to resolutely giving up the established reduction strategy, Simon also raised the security level of his family to the highest level. The private intelligence network of the Westeros family has also started to operate at full speed these days to ensure that if there is a potential crisis, it will be handled in advance.
In the final analysis, the influence of westero system is still not strong enough to control the economy of the United States and even the world.To achieve this, Simon needs to integrate the $900 billion of personal assets on the book with the global economy. In this way, if he wants to manipulate it in the future, he doesn't even need to do it himself. As long as Simon speaks, someone will do it for him.
Only in this way can the power of huge wealth be brought into full play.
The revolution has not yet been successful. Comrades still need to work hard.
In the living room of shell villa, Janet sleeps on Simon's lap this time. Listening to the man's strange words, she smiles and asks about visiting Livermore laboratory during the day. Hearing Simon's decision not to support the laser ignition project, Janet blinks: ”why not, don't you forget, um, that?”
Simon certainly knows what women mean.
The ”sword of Damocles” project of the Westeros.
Of course, I didn't forget it.
If the westero system has mastered laser ignition, it will have the most advanced hydrogen bomb technology, which will become a very powerful deterrent force.
With this in mind, Simon explained: ”I just don't support it now. I plan to start with the magnetic confinement scheme and form two teams, tokamak and star simulator. When the magnetic confinement scheme is mature, the technology accumulation in this field is deep enough, and laser ignition is natural. ”
Janet asked, ”what if the others make laser ignition first?”
Simon said with a smile: ”it's easier. You know, the time for pro nuclear countries to develop nuclear weapons is always getting shorter and shorter. The reason is that once the scheme is proved feasible, the follow-up efforts should be made in one direction. Laser ignition is also the same, once someone succeeds, follow-up winners will come in droves. Moreover, judging from the current state of research and development of nuclear fusion technology in various countries, even if we give them another 20 years, I don't think those people can achieve much. ”
Sitting quietly on the other side listening to the conversation, Jennifer said, ”why