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When Simon and Soros reached a tacit agreement, and quickly completed the connection with all parties on Wall Street, everyone began to consciously establish various bullish positions in the Hong Kong financial market. Although it aroused the vigilance of a small number of financial capital, the entire Asia Under the current situation, these bulls were swarmed and ravaged by countless short sellers.

Simon doesn't know the specific situation of other companies, but only on Cersei Capital's side, the total size of various long positions accumulated around Hong Kong during this period exceeded 60 billion US dollars.

Today's gathering is actually a final tacit agreement.

Dates to be precise.

On October 10th, which is next Wednesday, the Westeros system and Soros will jointly announce the investment benefits for Hong Kong.

Then, Thursday, October 10, and Friday, October 30, are the last two trading days of next week and the last two trading days of October, as well as the final settlement date of the October HSI futures contract , Including China, all parties will work together to carry out a major reversal, boost the Hang Seng Index to the greatest extent, and wipe out all short positions.

corner of the hall.

Henry Paulson, the head of Goldman Sachs who just took office last year, got the exact date from Simon. After a few questions, he turned to another topic: "Simon, South Korea, can you tell me what you plan to do?"

If Hong Kong has already reached a tacit understanding, in South Korea, even among the people at the reception, there are only a few who know Simon's layout.

Goldman Sachs is an obvious exception.

The current Secretary of the Treasury Bob Rubin is the previous head of Goldman Sachs. Simon wants to complete the layout of South Korea and cannot bypass the IMF. Therefore, this matter is not a secret to Washington, it is not a secret to the Ministry of Finance, and to Goldman Sachs, naturally It is no longer a secret.

Therefore, Simon did not deny Paulson, but said: "Henry, regarding South Korea, this is a long-term industrial layout of the Westeros system. You should not be too interested?"

Henry Paulson shook his head and said, "Simon, Goldman Sachs also has a lot of long-term investments."

"In this case, Henry, as long as you are willing, you can join together this time," Simon said, hesitating a little, and simply said: "I plan to eat the whole of South Korea."

"Simon, this is not easy." Henry Paulson showed a surprised expression, thought for a while, and said, "There are many problems."

"As long as the problem can be solved, it is not a problem."

Henry Paulson said: "I have also done a lot of research on South Korea. This is a country that has been surrounded by surrounding powers for thousands of years in the geopolitical vortex due to its geographical location. The independence is very fancy, and the national sentiment is easily triggered, how do you solve this?"

"Frankly, I did an experiment just recently."

"On the 18th."

"That's right," Simon said, "If you do a little more research, you'll find that the Korean people, the Korean government, and the Korean chaebol actually form a very interesting triangle."

Henry Paulson pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, this is not a stable triangle."

"I didn't say it's a stable triangle," Simon said with a smile, "I mean, it's a very interesting triangle. The Korean people, the Korean government, and the Korean chaebol are actually restraining each other. I can eat the country just by exploiting the conflict between them. You know, kind of, behind the scenes."

"Oh, I can feel it, Simon," Henry Paulson also said with a smile, "You really like being the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Who doesn't like it?"

As a joke, Henry Paulson continued: "In this era, if you want to control a country, the core is to control the country's economic lifeline. In South Korea, the economic lifelines are probably cars and electronics. Of course , Finance is also essential. Simon, Goldman Sachs cooperated with Cersei Capital to get involved in South Korea's finance, the remaining cars and electronics, or others I haven't seen, how about you come here yourself?"

As for South Korea, Simon didn't plan to eat it all by himself. When he said that he wanted to eat it whole, he meant to eat it with a community of interests in the Westeros system.The reason why he keeps a low-key secret until now is mainly to avoid some of his favorite core goals from being scrambled for.

Goldman Sachs approached ahead of time, and Simon didn't refuse, nodded and said, "No problem."

Henry Paulson, however, was not satisfied, and tentatively said with a smile: "Simon, I'm actually more curious, what are the things I haven't seen?"

Simon would not be unreserved about Henry Paulson, but he didn't intend to be tight-lipped, and said, "Henry, actually, I'm not interested in Korean cars at all."

Henry Paulson raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why?"

Simon said: "Henry, don't you think that an industry that has lasted for a century should be counted as a sunset industry?"

Henry Paulson shook his head and said: "Simon, the problem is that the automobile consumption in many emerging countries is still in the initial stage of development, such as China, Eastern Europe, and even Africa in the future. I think automobiles are the same as electricity and communications. , it is just needed, and it is impossible to eliminate it.”

"You're right, Henry, but when it comes to communication, a century ago, long-distance communication relied on the telegraph, then, in the 20th century, the telephone began to spread, and then, in the last ten years, mobile communication and the Internet began to rise, which is enough Explain the problem. Cars are just in demand, but in my opinion, it is time for traditional internal combustion locomotives to be changed and replaced.”

Henry Paulson thought for a moment this time, but he could only shake his head: "Simon, I don't see an opportunity for changes in the auto industry. You don't mean electric cars, do you?"

"Why not?"

"The problem of electric vehicles is much more troublesome than internal combustion engine vehicles, but the battery part..." Henry Paulson said here, and suddenly looked at the young man in front of him: "If I remember correctly, in the first two years, you seem to have taken Off IBM's battery division, Rectery, right?"

"That's right," Simon admitted with a smile, and praised: "Henry, I have to say that your memory is very good."

Henry Paulson smiled wryly, and said, "Actually, I just happen to know, Simon, that your team in China has recently invested in a battery manufacturer named BYD."

Simon nodded again, and saw Thomas Renyi and George Soros of the Bank of New York walking towards this side together, and finally raised his glass to Henry Paulson: "Henry, if you are also optimistic, Goldman Sachs can join us next." Play."

Henry Paulson looked at the backs of the two young men who turned to face Soros, and suddenly felt an inexplicable shudder.

Because he understood some of the young man's thoughts.

Cars are just needed. Henry Paulson is very confident in his judgment. Although it has lasted for 100 years, even after another 100 years, he does not think that human beings can get rid of this means of transportation.

However, this does not mean that the internal combustion engine cannot be eliminated.

Think again about what this young man has done.

In less than ten years, the Westeros system can be said to have promoted the development of the Internet industry by itself, and Simon, by virtue of cutting off a large part of the Internet industry alone, became the number one in the world. trillion-dollar billionaire.

It is not difficult to see that creating an industry involves far more interests than competing for a mature industry that has already developed and matured.

As a human being, the automobile industry may be just needed in the next 100 years. If the Westeros system uses its own power to realize the replacement of electric vehicles to internal combustion locomotives, this is almost the same as creating an industry. The scale of interests involved in the automobile industry, at least in the view of Henry Paulson at this time, far exceeds that of the Internet industry.

If this pioneering work is completed and most of the benefits are eaten again, perhaps it is not impossible for the world's first ten trillion dollar super rich to be born.

How can such ambition not shock people? !

Glancing again at a certain young man who started chatting and laughing with Soros, Henry Paulson forgot to pay attention to South Korea for a while, and subconsciously began to sort out some possible layouts of the Westeros system involving the future electric vehicle industry.

Henry Paulson is also clear about the three goals of Simon's recent lobbying in Washington. Among them, the controllable nuclear fusion that breaks through the energy limit, if you think about it for a while, isn't it for electric vehicles?

As long as controllable nuclear fusion is realized, the cost of electric energy will be far lower than the mainstream fossil energy used in the current automobile industry, which directly provides the basis for the rapid promotion of electric vehicles.

However, Henry Paulson is not so optimistic about the short-term breakthrough of controllable nuclear fusion technology. He said that the ITER project that he also heard recently that the Westeros family intends to fund is just a super-large tokamak experimental device. It will take ten years to build. If you want to realize the mature application of controllable nuclear fusion, even if everything goes well, it will be at least 30 years later.

Thinking of this, Henry Paulson inevitably doubted himself. Could it be that he was too pessimistic?

In any case, since Simon Westeros intends to do this, coupled with the successful precedent of the Internet industry, there is no reason for Goldman Sachs not to follow the bet.

Henry Paulson quickly grasped another key.

Battery.

That's right!

When it comes to diesel locomotives, oil is key.For electric vehicles, electricity is not the key, because there are too many sources, and the engine is not the key. The technology accumulated over a century is not a problem.Therefore, flushable batteries for storing large amounts of electricity are key.

It is entirely conceivable that if all the billions of internal combustion locomotive vehicles in the world are replaced by electric vehicles, the demand for batteries will be huge.

Therefore, Henry Paulson had a faint feeling that in the future electric vehicle industry, whoever wins the battery will win the world!

Chapter 1216

In the early morning, Simon escaped from the arms of Janet who was whining and trying to cling to the bed with him. When he was dressing, he was chased and kicked by a little foot on the bed, accompanied by another woman With a chuckle, Janet teased lazily again: "Irene... was eaten up by you last night, and you can feed little Noah by yourself later."

Then another kick.

It's a pity that this time he was caught by Simon, followed the clues, cleaned it up sternly, and finally put the two women together on the bed and continued to sleep, so Simon was able to escape.

Today is Friday, June 10th.

Came to New York yesterday, and when she returned from a day of work in the afternoon, Janet brought Irene Lauder and little Noah mother and son over. When Simon was entertaining guests at the reception last night, neither of the two women showed up. It's a cute little baby of all kinds.

It can be seen that Janet is more inclined to Irene Lauder than Grace or the two women in Boston.

the reason is simple.

The two women come from similar backgrounds, both are young ladies, both have a good upbringing experience, and both are relatively young, at least Janet must think so, so there will be more common topics.

People are divided into groups and cannot be forced.

After dressing and washing, I went to the next door to check on the little guy. He was sleeping soundly. The two maids also dutifully stayed by his side. After listening to a few reports, Simon went to the gym.

Janet and Irene didn't stay in bed for too long. Simon sat in the dining room at seven o'clock, and just a moment later, the two women came in together, followed by a waitress who was hugging a little girl. From this detail, it can be seen that the two women Another common point is that the above is laborious, even though they must love little Noah, but it is so tiring to hold them by themselves.

After sitting down, Irene took the child from the waitress. Janet was rarely next to Simon, but leaned next to Irene, chatting in whispers, while watching Irene lift the clothes for the child After breastfeeding and looking at it for a while, he glanced at someone again, and then poked the little guy on the face with his gaze back, and he didn't know who he was joking: "It's really gluttonous!"

Erin laughed again.

Simon was thick-skinned enough, so he pretended not to hear and continued to eat his own breakfast.

After Irene laughed a few times, she talked to Simon first: "Jenny said, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", which has been discussed by many media recently, is also your idea?"

Simon nodded: "Yeah, what do you think?"

The brand-new "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was officially released on October 10th, a week after the release of iPad-10, on both physical and online channels. Under the deliberate promotion of the Westeros system, coupled with the first This gimmick was released simultaneously online and physically, and quickly attracted a lot of attention. It became one of the few books that directly entered the No. 17 New York Times bestseller list with a sales volume of 16 copies in the first week without word-of-mouth fermentation.

Moreover, this is on the premise that the "New York Times" deliberately did not recognize the online sales data of 11 copies in the first week announced by the Tbook platform under Tinkber.

Even not only the "New York Times", but also the best-seller lists of various other traditional media, as if they had negotiated, they all avoided talking about the online sales of this book.Simon can even imagine that if the book hadn't become a bestseller, the traditional media would even hide the relevant information of this book as much as possible.

As for the reason, it obviously does not need too much explanation.

The publishing teams of Daenerys and Tinkber are not only not dissatisfied with this, but are happy to hear it. Recently, the debate between traditional print media and online platforms has been heated up.

Opposite the dining table.

Irene tilted her head slightly and thought for a while, then said, "It's quite interesting, I'm just curious, where did you get so many ideas?"

Simon smiled and raised his hand to draw a circle beside his head: "No way, nothing can stop it."

Then Irene gave her a blank look.

Janet also glanced over, and said to Irene: "Just wait and see, the little guys in our Westeros family must be very smart."

Irene nodded expectantly, looked at the son in her arms, and then started whispering to Janet again.

Simon could only hear a few words intermittently, naughty, don't be so playful, blah blah, don't pursue it.

As long as it's not talking about murdering your own husband.

Speaking of it, during the pregnancy, especially during the period of labor, Irene was very emotionally unstable, and Simon thought that the child might be separated after giving birth.However, with the birth of the little one, Eileen's emotions began to return to normal, and she now enjoys being a mother more and more.

Simon can only say that a woman is a needle in the bottom of her heart.

Or, I also responded to the saying that if you are close, you will complain if you are far.

After breakfast, Irene went to prepare for the next flight to Miami for the weekend. Simon and Janet got together to discuss some things about the reception last night and the economic situation in Asia that had ended for the week.

The temporary focus remains on Hong Kong.

According to news from the morning, on the last trading day of this week, the Hang Seng Index once again fell from 3.1 points to 11756 points with a single-day drop of 11392%, which is not far from the 10000 point mark that all parties have agreed upon.

According to the agreement of all parties, before the announcement of good news by the Westeros System and Quantum Fund on Wednesday afternoon next week, everyone plans to push the Hang Seng Index slightly within 10000 points, and finally attract a wave of short sellers to enter the pit. , a major reversal occurred in the last two trading days on Thursday and Friday.

There will be no suspense.

Because after a closer look, this can be described as a major alliance between the top capitals of China and the United States. What China wants is Hong Kong’s financial stability, while Wall Street pursues interests and each takes what it needs.With the combined strength of both sides, it is impossible to have any opponents.

The couple made plans for Asia. At nine o'clock, Simon left Greenwich and rushed to Manhattan to start a day's work.

Janet and Erin flew to Miami with little Noah.

Simon is not going.

His weekend was divided among Grace in New York and two women and children in Boston.

As a group of little guys were born one after another, Simon also reduced the frequency of visiting women and children, and could only guarantee at least once a month, after all, he really didn't have that much time.

On the other hand, today happened to be the end of another movie box office week in North America. On the way to Manhattan by helicopter, Simon got the box office report of the box office week from October 10th to October 17rd that just passed. The focus of the market is still "Ghost Story".

This is the fourth week of release for the ultra-low-budget horror phenomenon.

In the previous third week, "Ghost Story" earned $32 million with a deep box office drop of 3362%.In the fourth week that just passed, the film's box office decline narrowed to 21% again, earning another US$2655 million.

After continuously breaking through the dark horse-level data of a series of weekly box office records in unpopular schedules in September and October, in a total of four weeks, the cumulative box office of "Ghost Story" has reached 1 million US dollars, second only to the US$6925 million so far this year. Independence Day, the US$3.06 million "Tornado" and the US$2.78 million "Face Changing" temporarily ranked No.2.03 on the North American box office list in 1997.

Moreover, with the box office momentum of "Ghost Story", it is not a big problem to surpass "Face Changing" next.

As for the end of the year, although blockbusters are gathered, in Simon's view, the only ones that can pose a clear threat to the box office ranking of "Ghost Story" are "The Flash 2" and James Cameron, who are under the halo of the new DC film universe. "Titanic", even Disney's "Terminator 2" or its own "A Bug's Life" and "Contact" can't be said to be steadily surpassed.

This also means that "Ghost Story" is likely to eventually rank No.1997 in the 5 North American box office list.

Then again, whether it is No.5 or No.10 in the end, it doesn't matter to "Ghost Story".With its breakthrough genre and super high return on investment ratio, this movie has made the whole Hollywood go crazy in the month since it was released.

Not only was Justin Lin in Simon's project poached, but now the top filmmakers in Hollywood seem to be planning their own pseudo-documentary projects.

With a cost of 30 and a box office of [-] million US dollars, it is too profitable!

Therefore, Simon can only follow up together.

After all, this time it is definitely going to be a wave of fun until this genre is ruined. Daenerys Entertainment has already made a brand with the help of "Ghost Story", coupled with Simon's prophetic advantage, before the game is ruined, it will cut a big one. A piece of cake, no big deal.

Do not cut white do not cut.