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Hearing Linda's voice, Simon came to his senses and shook his head.

I'm busy these days, but I don't have time.

Linda didn't say much, and said, "Simon, what do you think?"

Simon shook his head again: "No need to continue, just skip to Demi's audition."

Demi Moore's audition time is significantly longer than other Asian actresses, and the content is also richer, as well as a scene with Keanu Reeves.Moreover, in order to match Trinity's look, Demi Moore has cut her hair short and dyed it black. Every time she auditions, she obviously wears makeup, and the effect is clear at a glance.

In the end, Demi Moore also played a very beautiful set of Chinese boxing. Except for the obvious inability to complete the high-leg split, everything else seemed to be the same.

Simon couldn't have asked for more from a 35-year-old actress.

When playing Demi Moore's audition video, Linda obviously looked at her boss's expression a few more times than before. Seeing Simon's satisfied expression, she didn't rush to say anything more. She was basically sure that this role was not Demi Moore. Mi Moore is none other than him, so he doesn't need to say something on his own.

During this period, for this role, Demi Moore invited Linda seven or eight times in private, various activities, and even gave her second daughter who happened to have her 14th birthday a few days ago. A very precious one's gift.As a result, Linda had to bluntly warn the other party not to go too far, otherwise both of them might be unlucky, and in the daughter's resentment, they paid the two expensive purebred foals together for 5 years. The VIP members of a foster horse farm in Malibu all returned to Moore.

I really dare not.

What's more, their family can't afford it.

However, after all, he still complied with that sentence. It is no wonder that there are so many polite people. Moore is so attentive, and Linda doesn't mind saying a few more good words for the other party if possible.

Of course, I will do what I can, and I will not deliberately hide and slander other actresses who performed better for Moore.

To be able to follow Simon for so many years, the most important quality Linda relies on is reliability.

If her boss thinks she is unreliable, everything she owns will disappear quickly, and Linda has calculated the importance of it very clearly.

After Moore's audition video was played, Simon didn't hesitate too much, and said directly to Linda: "It's Demi, you should get the contract done as soon as possible, remember it's a trilogy. In addition, let her keep exercising so that she can be herself in the future." The one who took the photo, as far as possible, is still me.”

Linda nodded, showing another relieved expression, with a joking tone: "That's it, Demi must be very happy. She has been very attentive to me these days, and always invites me to eat and go shopping. Dare to promise her anything."

Simon understood why Linda would say that, he just smiled, and it was considered a denial.In fact, he also heard some news, mainly because people in the circle came and went. If Demi Moore wanted to get a role, someone would naturally want to snipe, and then tried every means to spread the wind to Simon's ears.

Simon was very satisfied with Linda's voluntary confession, and finally said: "Later, you can tell her the good news in advance, and take it as a reward."

Chapter 1221 The world is always forgetful

Point Dume Manor.

After dinner, Jennifer directed the maids to pack up the dining room, took care of the six little ones at home, and then went to the study on the basement floor of Shell Villa with a document.

Having worked as Simon's assistant for a long time, Jennifer knows all these things well.

Simon and Janet were standing together in front of a large world map on the wall of the study, discussing something, and occasionally raised their pens to draw on the map.

After standing by the side and looking at it for a while, Jennifer gestured to the document in her hand: "This is the list of accompanying guests for the luncheon on Thursday, Simon, do you think there is anything that needs to be adjusted?"

"You can do what you see," Simon said. Instead of taking the documents, he reached out to embrace the female assistant, gestured to the world map in front of him, changed Chinese, and said with a smile, "Look, this is what I gave you. The country that was laid down."

After all these years, Jennifer's Chinese is not much worse than Janet's, but she obviously still can't understand the joke that Simon blurted out. She thought the man was joking and gave him a blank look, but she still leaned next to the man and continued to look at her.

On weekdays, Jennifer and a few confidant maids are responsible for the cleaning and tidying of this private study room. As for the world map in the study room that has been scribbled and drawn by men for a long time, she naturally knows, and quickly distinguishes the Some changes, pointing to some extra notes on several routes extending in the direction of Africa: "Battery, what do you mean?"

"This was inspired by chatting with Paulson of Goldman Sachs at a reception in New York a few days ago," Simon said with a smile: "You know, I have paid a lot of attention to rechargeable batteries in recent years, but after Paulson Sen's unexpected reminder, I found that my layout is far from enough."

At the reception last week, Simon and Paulson accidentally talked about the future of the automobile industry. Paulson came to the conclusion that "the one who wins the battery wins the world" in his heart, and after that short conversation, Simon actually came to the same conclusion. in conclusion.

Before that, frankly speaking, Simon's focus on the rechargeable battery industry was more for the electronic product business of the Westeros system, such as a series of main products of Tinkobel, such as Nokia's mobile phones, and so on.

Others, Simon really hasn't considered too long-term.

After that conversation, Simon, who was awakened by accident, suddenly felt that it was indeed possible to make more arrangements in advance.

The opportunity brought by the global spread of the Asian financial turmoil is also very suitable for layout.

Hearing the man's words, Jennifer asked, "What does this have to do with Africa?"

Simon pointed to the DRC area in central Africa: "According to the current exploration results, there are a large number of important mineral deposits such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt that are necessary for flushable batteries in the future."

Having said that, without waiting for Jennifer to ask again, Simon took the initiative to add, pointing to the three routes extending from Africa on the map, mainly pointing to the east coast of the United States, Ukraine in the hinterland of Europe, and China: "Africa provides raw materials. After primary refining, Shipped to North America, Eastern Europe and China, refined, and then, a step further, processed into the batteries we need, a lot of batteries."

Jennifer curled the corner of her mouth like a joke: "What do we need so many batteries for?"

"Make a car," Simon said, "Imagine, if all the billions of internal combustion locomotives in the world are replaced with electric vehicles, how many batteries are needed?"

Even after being a housewife for several years, Jennifer's head did not slow down at all, and her mouth grew slightly soon.

Of course she could imagine.

If the scenario described by Simon is really realized, the role of batteries in the future is likely to be equivalent to that of oil today.And mastering the lifeblood of the international battery industry is equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of the global 'energy'.

Janet was also very excited on the other side of Simon at this time: "Maybe, in the future, there will be competition around the core industries related to batteries, and there will be some wars, the first battery war, the second battery war, ha ha."

Jennifer felt Janet's excitement when she talked about the war, and she rolled her eyes: "The third time is the world war, and everyone will be destroyed together."

"I've been looking forward to it for a long time."

Jennifer didn't have that much time to accompany the two guys talking crazy here, and said, "I'll go up first, so don't be too late."

After speaking, he kissed the man, turned and left the study.

Before the female assistant disappeared, Janet held Simon's arm, raised the fountain pen she had been holding just now, and made a mark in the Latin American area, saying: "I will talk to my brother more recently, if this is the case, In Australia, not just in Africa, we should increase the exploration and mergers and acquisitions of core material deposits related to the battery industry on a global scale."

Simon nodded, and said again: "There is no need to make it too obvious to avoid arousing the vigilance of others. We can spend ten years slowly laying out."

"Ten years, so long?"

Simon said with a smile: "In the next ten years, we need to continue to consolidate our current advantages in the Internet and other technological fields, and to explore emerging markets such as China. After doing this, we need a new growth point, the electric vehicle plan It can be implemented.”

Janet thought for a while, and nodded in agreement.

The two discussed the map again, and they came to the large desk by the window. Simon sat down on the leather chair. Janet didn't pull another chair, but sat directly on Simon's lap Let's look at today's briefing on the financial situation in Asia.

Janet remembered one more thing, and tilted her head slightly: "Honey, since this is the case, I think we should make some layout in the automotive field in advance, which can be regarded as technical accumulation, isn't it?"

Simon leaned in and kissed the woman's tender face, and said with a smile: "Not only can't do this, but we should reduce the relevant layout as much as possible."

Janet blinked.

Simon reminded: "Think about North America, why is it so difficult to develop a cheaper and more efficient railway system?"

After Janet thought about it for a while, she understood.

profit-driven.

Of course, there is no shortage of railways in North America, but compared to the aviation and highway systems, the US railway system is backward and dilapidated.

Why?

Because the huge aviation and highway interest system does not allow it.

Not Boeing, not the airline union, not GM and Ford, not the Truckers union...

Extending a little bit, why is the public transportation system in major American cities lacking? In some world-class metropolises, the subway has not been repaired for decades. It is the same reason. Public transportation is too developed, so there are fewer people buying cars?

Therefore, it is not that there is no money, but that too many people do not want to see this result.

because it affects their interests.

Besides, in the Westeros system, if the investment in traditional internal combustion engine vehicles is too large and electric vehicles are developed in the future, even if Simon is willing to sacrifice the interests of the traditional car business to eliminate himself, there will be too many interests involved to prevent Simon from doing so.

Even the development of controllable nuclear fusion in the Westeros system will definitely encounter various conceivable obstacles in the future, and these obstacles must come from traditional fossil energy interest groups.

In any case, at least in order to minimize the obstacles that may be encountered within its own system, Simon will not get involved in the traditional auto industry too much.

Janet wanted to understand this, so she stopped pursuing it, and looked at the briefing in front of her with the man.

Asian stock markets, bond markets and currency markets continued to be turbulent on Monday, after last week's Taiwan dollar abandoned its support and the South Korean won abandoned its exchange rate limit.

Under everyone's tacit control, Hong Kong stocks once again bear the brunt.The Hang Seng Index fell sharply from 7.3 points last Friday to 11392 points at the close with another sharp drop of 10561% in a single day. Except for a few well-informed groups secretly planning, almost no ignorant bystanders do not think that the Hang Seng Index is bound to fall To within 10000 points.

Since no one took over the short contracts of the underlying HSI above 10000 points, a large number of speculative capital could only bet within 10000 points, and this part of the short positions was almost fully accepted.

In the next two days, to be precise, it will be one and a half trading days before a press conference is released at 9000:9500 p.m. local time on Wednesday. Not surprisingly, the Hang Seng Index will be entered into the [-]-point range tacitly by everyone. Around [-] points, it attracted the last wave of short speculators who threw themselves into the net.

Then close the net.

After reading the relevant data in Hong Kong, Janet raised her head again: "The Hong Kong government has prepared 150 billion US dollars to actively support the market. This is tantamount to giving up the free market rules of not interfering with financial fluctuations. I wonder if other countries will Will follow suit, such as South Korea, if we do the same, some of our layouts will not be so easy to implement?"

Simon admired Janet's insight.

Historically, in August 1998, Hong Kong gave up the principle of non-interference in the market and actively invested funds to support the Hang Seng Index. This was a very risky move, because it might damage the reputation of Hong Kong’s free market. However, the results proved that The correctness of this trick.

After the Hong Kong financial defense war, international speculators finally stopped, making Hong Kong and even the entire mainland behind it return to calm.

Seeing the positive effect of Hong Kong's active intervention in the market, Malaysia also began to intervene actively a month later, and even Russia later became even more ruthless. A leading hedging company in the United States called Long-Term Capital Management was liquidated directly.The Federal Reserve was also forced to intervene proactively due to the large size of the long-term capital management company's position, which almost caused a systemic financial crisis in the United States.

Therefore, it can be said that Hong Kong's active intervention in the market was the first pot of cold water to extinguish the Asian financial turmoil that lasted for two years and spread to the world.

This time, the Chinese authorities made a certain decision a year in advance, and there is obviously the possibility of triggering a follow-up.

Simon thought about it, and said: "At least South Korea has no chance, because the situation in South Korea and Hong Kong is completely different. Hong Kong has sufficient foreign exchange reserves, a good economic structure, and almost no foreign debt. It is a game within the financial rules. South Korea is different. The main problem in South Korea is foreign debt. The South Korean government wants to intervene. For an export-oriented country, doing this may temporarily stop the blood loss, but at the same time it means that South Korea has completely given up its own country's economic future."

Janet narrowed her eyes after listening to Simon's words: "I don't think so, the world is always forgetful."

Simon pondered for a moment, but still had to admit that Janet's judgment was still correct.

Although Russia once cheated once, after internal changes and the sharp rise in oil prices at the beginning of the new century, it once returned to the ranks of the world's top ten first-tier economies in the world's GDP.

There are also other countries or regions that have adopted control measures during the Asian financial turmoil, such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Although they have been criticized by various economists for a long time and how their behaviors have produced long-term negative effects, if they go to Looking at the GDP rankings of these countries, except for the short-term trough after the storm, which stretched the timeline, there was almost no change in 97, 07, and 17, and some even rose instead of falling.

The world is indeed very forgetful.

However, Simon quickly said: "I don't care about other things. At least, if South Korea dares to let my plan fail, I will let them have no future forever."

This time Janet didn't refute anymore, she nodded her head, and turned her face to rub Simon's chin.

In fact, at first Janet was a little puzzled why her man wanted to hold on to the little South Korea.

Of course now.

The core is still a semiconductor.

Simon has long wanted to get involved in the semiconductor industry, but there has been no suitable opportunity before.

This time is an opportunity.

In fact, after suppressing Japanese semiconductors, the strength of the US semiconductor industry is not too weak. The problem lies in the production process.The U.S. semiconductor industry has been rapidly transforming to a fabless system in recent years, and the short board of production will become more serious later on. With Simon's prophetic advantage, it is clear that the production of the semiconductor industry will increasingly fall to Asia.

In Asia, Japan will only rely on its laurels for a long time in the future. Taiwan only needs to win a TSMC. If there is an opportunity, the weakest South Korea just has the feasibility of eating it all.

So of course we have to act decisively.

In addition to semiconductors, of course there are LCD screens.

This point, while Simon will also eat it, will also balance it appropriately to prevent South Korea from becoming a dominant family in the future.

Then there are Korean construction, machinery, shipbuilding and other aspects.

In short, it's all fat.

What's more, behind the scenes also means the control of an entire country.

As for South Korea's entertainment industry, it seems to be the most glamorous and prosperous, but in terms of size, it is actually just an addition, and the scale is limited after all.

Chapter 1222

I continued to discuss some things with Janet. At 08:30, Simon Unicom made a video call with Chen Qing that had been scheduled in advance.

Because of recent events, I communicate more frequently with China.

The figure of Chen Qing soon appeared on the computer screen on the desk. When Nizi saw Janet leaning against Simon's arms, she immediately showed a warm smile and said in Chinese: "Madam, good evening, Qinger here for you Please be well."

Janet didn't appreciate it at all, she rolled her eyes and said in Chinese: "It seems that I have done something bad, I have a guilty conscience."

Chen Qing immediately felt pitiful: "Madam, Qing'er was wronged."

Janet stretched out her arms in Simon's arms, stood up and said, "You guys talk, I'll go up first."

Simon and Janet kissed, watched the woman leave, and looked at Chen Qing with a slightly strange look: "The role of 'Qing'er' is good, maybe it can be added to some TV series."

Seeing Janet leave, Chen Qing stopped acting pitiful, and said enthusiastically, "Are you playing the villain, the one who kills people without blinking an eye?"

"That's a disgrace, playing a little princess, Little Gege or something."

Chen Qing resolutely obeyed her boss's suggestion: "Well, there have happened to be a lot of costume dramas recently, so it's good to add a Qing'er Gege character, who is as lovable as me."

Of course, what Simon thought of was Qing Gege in Zeng Li, but Chen Qing said so, so it's not easy to change it to Li in the future.There are not many long series of TV dramas in China, not to mention that they have not been aired yet. It is uncertain whether they will be successful or not, and no one can say for sure whether there will be a sequel.

So on to other topics.