As usual, Jennifer looks after a group of restless little guys. Occasionally, she looks at the couple who are sitting next to each other as if they are not involved in the meal. She feels that she is in debt to the family because of her poor life.
Simon and Janet are also sitting next to the two biggest ones, Melbourne and Seattle, so they don't have to pay any attention.
The final decoration details of the westrow building in New York are being discussed.
After capping at the end of 1996, after more than a year and nearly two years of follow-up construction, the westrow building in Manhattan has finally reached the level of being able to enter one after another, and the super luxury house exclusive to the top 10 floors of the westrow family is now in the closing stage.
Simon means that after the decoration is completely completed, at least one or two months to stay.
This is a deep-rooted idea after reading too much news in previous lives. Even if the decoration materials of westero mansion reach the top level of environmental protection, it must be right to put it a little bit.
"In fact, the high-rise swimming pool can also act as a damper. When our swimming pool is put into use, the westero building is equivalent to having double dampers. The engineering team has done the simulation, and by that time, even in the event of a category 5 hurricane, the shaking amplitude of the building will not exceed one meter, which is very severe."
"In fact, I pay more attention to sound insulation," the opposite Jennifer heard Janet say this, interrupted: "super high-rise apartment will have a lot of wind?"
"We certainly don't have one," Janet said, shaking her head. "Why don't you go to Manhattan this weekend, Jennie? You haven't seen it until now?"
"I'm going to New York at the weekend. Are you babysitting?"
"I..." Janet looked around and said, "call after breakfast and ask Sophie to come over."
And then there was a white eye.
Jeanette chuckled and spat out her tongue, looking at the man beside her: "by the way, are we going to transport 150 tons of Russian gold to New York or Melbourne?"
Simon thought a little and said, "keep it in Australia."
Simon never stopped buying gold.
As for many media and economists who repeatedly say that gold is the most worthless investment, Simon always thinks that they fart. Gold is the king of money. It has lasted for thousands of years, at least for another one or two hundred years. There will not be much change. The argument that gold has no value can be understood by a little consideration.
Dollars, of course.
Since the US dollar is decoupled from gold, gold should not be too valuable.
In addition, in the past year, in the face of the financial turmoil spreading from Southeast Asia to the whole world, the paradox is that gold has continued to fall sharply, from the highest of nearly $380 an ounce last year to about $270 at present, a drop of nearly 30%.
Under normal circumstances, when the economy is in crisis and capital seeks to avoid risks, gold should rise.
Why did it fall this time?
And it has fallen to the lowest point in 20 years.
When things change, there will be demons.
However, as long as we smooth it out a little bit, we can roughly understand who will get the benefit and who will lose more when gold plummets.
Simon will not expose the general direction layout that is closely related to the interests of the westrow system. However, since gold has plummeted, he certainly will not miss the opportunity to buy gold in a big way.
It happened that in the past year, many countries in Asia and Eastern Europe were selling a lot of gold to cash in foreign exchange in order to survive the crisis.
Yeah.
Look, one of the reasons for the crash has been found.
And then the Westeros kept buying quietly.
Just like this time.
Russia, which is so poor that it can only sell iron by smashing the pot, plans to sell another 150 tons of gold reserves in the near future. Instead of putting such a sum of gold into the international market, which has been under pressure and has to pay a huge handling fee, it's certainly better for Simon to eat it personally.
So with Janet, I just mentioned it.
She stood up and stopped snow and Greenwich from beating each other with spoons. As she sat down again, she remembered one thing and said to Simon, "speaking of gold, Simon, I remember you mentioned a digital currency scheme. When shall we implement it?"
Simon shook his head and said, "not now."
Janet, who was next to her, took the initiative to add: "the United States can launch a war for us dollar hegemony. If we do this now, it's strange that Washington will not turn its back."
"When will that be?"
"Maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years," Simon said, "at that time, the international dominant position of the US dollar will weaken, and perhaps, along with the national strength of the federal government, we can try to issue a special westero digital currency to ensure our own interests, with our own gold reserves and commercial reputation."
Janet listened to her man, nodded her head and said, "but before that, we can take the initiative to release an unofficial anonymous digital currency scheme to create an unregulated digital currency trading system, through which many things can be done."
The more she said it, the more excited she got. Janet turned to her man and said, "Simon, I think it can be done now?"
"It's still too early. The number of Internet users in the world is not enough, and the computing power of the overall Internet platform is also insufficient. If we launch such a digital currency ahead of time, if it can't develop, it will point out ideas to other people in the future, so we don't want to get the dominant power."
"So it is." Janet nodded: "then wait another five years, five years should be ok?"
Simon thought, nodded and said, "maybe."
Bitcoin was once proposed in 2008. This time, the development of the Internet industry has been strongly advanced by Simon for three to five years. Taking advantage of the situation, we can come up with a digital currency in 2003. Maybe it can be greatly advanced.
The key is to ensure that the westero system controls the digital currency.
Even control your own greed.
Such a piece of cake should not be cut away too much to avoid serious imbalance of interests. Of course, not too few. Too little is better than nothing.
……
On weekdays, I still have to go to work after breakfast.
Arriving at Malibu studios, the first meeting in the morning is about games.
After finishing some projects in South Korea, daenerys entertainment will launch its first role-playing game from South Korea in September to test the water. At that time, the three games that Simon paid the most attention to were ice age, wind country II and legend of heaven. Daenerys is about to launch ice age.
The main reason is that compared with the other two, this game was completed last year. In recent months, it has been mainly language translation and some minor adjustments to adapt to the North American market.
After this water trial game, igritte will launch "wind country II" in November at the end of the year, and finally come back to Denise entertainment in February next year. Simon's most important "Legend of heaven" will go online.
This is the final schedule after many meetings and consultations.
The first "ice age" test water, the other two, are more concerned, respectively, as the two key projects of igritte and Denise.
There are also some other games that will be launched one after another in the next year. Or, if these three games are popular, in order to avoid the impact of the same type of games on the market, we can not rule out the possibility of permanently freezing some games.
While arranging the game business in North America, Simon also focused on Asia.
First of all, the two games in June, "anti terrorist elite ol" and "StarCraft" continue to be popular.
Then, in July, Jiangnan mutual entertainment in Suzhou launched happy farm, which has become a popular leisure game in China and is popular with office workers.
Although it adopts the free mode and only relies on a small amount of fertilizer, props and other charges, the revenue momentum of happy farm is not much worse than StarCraft, which can be predicted. After all, even though the game is very popular in the west, even the Chinese team did not think happy farm would be very successful in the mainland market because of some deep-rooted ideas.
Next, Paradise online, which has taken over igrit's China instant messaging business in Hangzhou, will soon release "wind country II". The domestic name will only be "wind country", and the planned launch time is September 11.
Simon didn't feel anything about it at first. Later, he thought it over a little and found that it was Chen Qing who was doing the wrong thing again.
Because Simon's most important three games are from South Korea. At the beginning, only "wind country II" was not developed. When Simon contacted the other two games, "ice age" was already online, and "Legend of heaven" was also waiting to be launched.
Chen Qing gave Lin Su this game, which was just finished recently, almost taking the mainland market for a closed test.
Mice.
If the response is not good, there is no need to bother to promote to other markets.
After all, role-playing online games are absolutely new in mainland China. In any case, it is tantamount to cultivating the market for "wind country" to test the water first, and then "Legend of heaven" and "ice age" to enter, which is equivalent to having gained a certain consumption base.
Even though he found out about it, Simon didn't interfere.
This is a trivial matter. What's more, Simon thinks that Heaven online, which has instant messaging software Ao, will not necessarily fail. Maybe it can be more successful.
It's like legend.
Is this game that good?
no
The key is to be the first to eat crabs, or at least the first to eat crabs out of fame and become a phenomenon, and then become the feelings of a generation. The heat has lasted for 20 years.
In short, there are advantages and disadvantages.
On the same day, another important job was to watch the sample of biochemical crisis.
Last year's idea was finalized at the beginning of the year, and shooting started at the end of May. Biochemical crisis was officially released last week.
Simon has always attached great importance to this project, including the production cost of the film, which has been increased from $25 million to $35 million.
No matter how high it is.
After all, we have to consider the size of the subject matter of the project itself, which is 35 million US dollars. For a zombie like sci-fi horror movie, it's already a big deal, and Simon really wants a good start, which is why he gives so much.
Zac Schneider, who has just stepped into Hollywood, did not disappoint Simon.
First of all, on the screen, the completed sample film is with Schneider's strong personal style, very durable.
As for the story.
In the process of script creation, Zach Schneider has participated in a certain extent, but it is still dominated by danielis entertainment team. After all, Simon is quite clear about someone's weakness. Zach Schneider is more suitable for making films with original basis.
Even if it's original, it's easy to fly.
Biochemical crisis seems to be original. In fact, Simon has a complete world view and even a very large story vein. It's very wonderful whether it's made into a movie or a game.
The story of the first big movie biochemical crisis is still based on the former film version of Alice.
For Simon's sake, this film series will no longer have the situation that it was almost impossible to justify the conflict between shooting and setting the story.
First of all, Alice has a complete set of stories that are closely related to the background of the biochemical crisis series. It is no longer the situation that she was forced to be a heroine because she was the director's wife.
Generally speaking, the plot.
Alice, the heroine, wakes up in the laboratory of ambrera's headquarters. Together with a group of teams who enter ambrera's headquarters to check the biochemical leakage, she goes through a lot of hardships, encountering staff members, zombie dogs, lickers and even the ultimate tyrant of biochemical weapons, and finally escapes from ambrera's underground laboratory.
There will also be another biochemical crisis character Simon likes very much, IDA Wang.
Aunt Wang, who is played by Chen Xingwei, will appear in one of them with a good and evil image. She has a very strong style and is good at the most popular Chinese Kung Fu, as well as all kinds of weapons and top hacker skills.
At the same time, it will also intersect with the game stories that are also under development.
The ending of the first film is that the heroine and her party escape from ambrera's underground laboratory and announce ambrera's plot to the outside world.
It seems like a sunny ending, but the story will turn over in the second one.
It's probably the usual way of Hollywood. The government covers up the truth. Raccoon city will be cleaned up in the second movie. Alice is framed as a murderer and is wanted by the government.
Because of this cover up, it led to the third film.
Extinction.
Once the biochemical crisis game, the virus basically broke out in a small range, and then was successfully contained by human beings.
This time, Simon is no longer satisfied with the two story lines of movies and games. Instead, he let t virus and other evolutionary versions break out in an all-round way. As a result, human beings are in a crisis of extinction. Finally, with the joint efforts of the protagonists in the two lines of games and movies, human beings defeated the virus, and the world ushered in hope again.