Hollywood Hunter

Malibu.

Perhaps because of jet lag, Janet woke up before Simon.

The faint morning light broke into the bedroom through the gap in the curtain, it was still early.

Feeling the breath of the man next to him, Janet quickly climbed onto Simon, enjoying this skin-to-skin feeling, leaning over and kissing the man's face, then retracted his chest again and squinted again. eye.

A pair of powerful arms wrapped around her waist, and the two pressed closer together.

Knowing that Simon was also awake, Janet rubbed her cheek on his chest, her voice rustled softly, and said, "Morning."

"Ok……"

Listening to the man's weak response, Janet chuckled a few times, opened her mouth and bit on the man, saying: "Little bastard, you were tossed to death last night."

Simon just hummed again.

Janet said so, but there was no accusation in the words, but a sense of happiness. He can toss himself like a little tiger who has been hungry for many days, which shows that when a person is in Los Angeles, he seldom touches flowers.

I don't mind if he steals food outside, but of course she will be very happy if he can be so restrained.

Tired for a while, feeling no sleep at all, Janet got up and started dressing, and said that she would prepare breakfast herself.

Simon also got up.

Today is Saturday, November 18.

Leaving the bedroom, it was only a quarter past six.

There is no work arrangement on weekends, everything can be done slowly.

The two played tennis on the tennis court for half an hour. Janet went to prepare breakfast. Simon sat at the dining table and read today's newspaper.

These days, the turmoil in Eastern Europe has begun to intensify.

The Berlin Wall came down on November 9, and the reunification of Germany and Germany was inevitable.

Out of instinct for a unified Germany, in order to prevent this from happening, Britain, France, and Italy, which were just allies, all turned their faces in a blink of an eye. They almost issued a warning of not hesitating to war and even threatened the two Germanys to seek reunification , Britain, France and Italy will form an alliance with the Soviet Union for military intervention.

Because of the immediate turmoil of this kind of war, James Leibald has recommended more than once that Simon at least suspend the acquisition of Nokia's mobile communications equipment division. After all, once a war breaks out, Finland, which directly borders the Soviet Union, is likely to be affected. Hundreds of millions of dollars in funding will be worthless.

Simon knew very well that there would be no war this time, and did not follow James' advice.

Now is the best time to enter Nokia. Once the situation in Eastern Europe stabilizes, it will certainly not be so easy to buy Nokia's entire mobile communications equipment department for US$200 million.

Looking through several newspapers discussing the situation in Europe, Simon also discovered another interesting piece of news: The Bush administration yesterday suddenly stopped a US$2.3 billion loan to Iraq on the grounds that it suspected that the money might be used. Saddam used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction.

It turns out that the slogan of'weapons of mass destruction' was born so early.

Since the'U.S.-Iraq Business Forum' in the middle of the year, Simon has been secretly following the situation in the Middle East.

The news in front of us meant that after trying to seize Iraq’s oil sovereignty to no avail, the Bush administration officially began to attack Saddam.

Picking up the pen made a mark on this piece of news to be collected as a newspaper clipping. Simon was about to look at the film reviews of several new films released yesterday, and Janet walked into the restaurant with two breakfasts.

Temporarily put a stack of newspapers aside, Simon took the food, Janet still habitually sat down next to Simon, poked her head and glanced at the news that he had just marked, then curled her lips and said: "Clumsy Excuses."

Simon smiled and said, "Everyone is a civilized person, so I still need an excuse."

Janet is actually concerned about this matter. Cersei Capital will focus on oil next year.

However, she did not talk about her interest in work at this time, and changed the subject after responding: "I have asked Sophia to help us prepare the schedule. Tomorrow, I will go to Europe and live in each city where I own the property for a week. Things, go to fun places, and you can pick more houses in other cities yourself. By the way, maybe you can get into war."

Simon glanced at the woman's ruddy face with a little excitement, and said, "You really want to fight?"

"Well, it's exciting to watch human beings step by step toward self-destruction."

Simon is a pessimist who firmly believes that mankind will eventually go to self-destruction.

In this respect, Janet is the same person as him, but the woman's thoughts are even more crazy, she wants to destroy the world herself.

Hearing this, Simon just smiled and said, "Are you not afraid of affecting yourself?"

"Don't be afraid, depending on the situation, we will immediately hide in Australia."

If World War III occurs, the safest place in the world will probably be Australia in the southern hemisphere.

The island of Tasmania chosen by Simon happens to be the southernmost island of the world outside of Antarctica, so it is also safer.

Thinking of this, Simon half-truth said: "Maybe we can build another doomsday refuge in Tasmania, so that even if a nuclear war breaks out, we will not be afraid."

The Doomsday Refuge is not actually the original of the Fallout game. In the decades-long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, because of concerns about the outbreak of a nuclear war, there are actually many refuges built to avoid nuclear wars across the United States.

"Good idea, in the next few days we can have someone make a plan," Janet nodded in agreement, and said again: "By the way, my aunt is helping us talk about another piece of woodland, in Tas In the central and western part of Mania, the land area this time is very large, covering more than 6000 square kilometers. The Tasmanian government originally planned to circle a state nature reserve, as long as we can ensure that the original ecological appearance does not damage the environment, and can provide the state government For an extra input, the problem of taking this land shouldn't be big."

Simon already owns about 150,000 acres of land in Tasmania. The largest piece of land is more than 500 square kilometers of woodland on the Arthur River in northwestern Tasmania. That piece of land originally cost 7 million US dollars.

According to the standard that 1 square kilometer is equal to 247 acres, more than 6000 acres of forest land is about 1.5 million acres, which directly expands the area of ​​private land owned by Simon ten times. At the same time, the total area of ​​Tasmania is 68,000 square kilometers. If this woodland is taken, Simon is equivalent to owning nearly one-tenth of Tasmania's land.

Thinking of this, Simon asked: "How much is it probably?"

Janet said: "It is still being discussed, but as long as we take over according to the specifications of the state nature reserve and do not seek economic benefits, the Tasmanian government's offer should not exceed $100 million, and the price after the negotiation will definitely be lower. I I brought the materials and I can show them to you after breakfast."

After talking like this, after the two had breakfast, Janet took out the information about the plot that Veronica was negotiating with Simon.

Because of some trivial matters in Los Angeles, the two did not immediately set off for Europe. Instead, they stayed for another day to check the progress of the construction of the villa at Cape Dumei Manor. They also accepted Qintex Chairman Christopher Skas at noon. Lunch invitation.

Affected by Simon this big butterfly, Australia's Qintex Group's acquisition of MGM is already clear.

In this case, Simon is no longer as indifferent to Christopher Skars as he was at first. Now that the relationship is good, if the Qintex Group becomes unsustainable, Simon can also arrange for other Australian capital to take over MGM more conveniently.

The schedule for the afternoon and evening is also full.

So on the next day, the two boarded the Boeing 767 early in the morning and took off from Los Angeles. They stopped in New York for a short time. They brought the Westeros acquisition team that was going to Europe for final negotiations with Nokia, and the group flew directly. Helsinki, Finland.

When I arrived in Helsinki, local time was less than six o'clock in the morning.

The northern hemisphere is in the middle of winter, and the night near the Arctic Circle is longer. At six o'clock in the morning, the surroundings of Helsinki are still dark.

Nokia sent a car to pick up James Rebold and others, and the Boeing 767 took off again for Florence.

The ‘first stop’ of Simon and Janet’s European trip this time was London. They went to Florence only because Sofia had prepared a lot of things for the two of them, including the maids and cooks who were responsible for their daily lives.

After so many twists and turns, Simon and Janet finally settled in the famous Kensington Garden Street villa in central London on the evening of November 20th.

A total of more than 15,000 kilometers of long-distance flight, because of the existence of the luxurious Boeing 767, except for jet lag, neither of them felt much fatigue from long-distance travel.

Janet also introduced to Simon in detail the results of Cersei Capital's 6-10 sub-funds during this period.

After the U.S. stock market ‘small crash’ broke out on October 13, Cersei Capital obtained a huge sum of US$1.6 billion by closing short positions in S&P 500 Index futures and other types of stocks and bonds in the following week.

In the following month or so, because the North American stock market quickly recovered stability, and after getting the most lucrative initial profit, Cersei Capital also began to simmer and patiently manage the remaining positions.

As of November 17, Cersei Capital's 6-10 sub-funds continued to gain US$700 million in profits based on the initial US$1.6 billion.

Therefore, excluding the 1 to 5 sub-funds in the hands of the Japanese, the net asset value of Cersei Capital attributable to investors such as Simon has reached 7.3 billion US dollars.

After discussing with Janet, Simon and Janet plan to completely liquidate various positions in the US junk bond market around the end of December, and then turn their target to the oil futures market.

The time of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in my memory was August 2, 1990, and crude oil prices skyrocketed during that time.

However, before the Kuwait War, in order to force Iraq to use force against Kuwait, Western countries joined forces with the Middle East oil powers to drastically suppress oil prices by increasing production. The international crude oil price once fell to US$13 per barrel. Therefore, the first half of the year happened to be used for shorting.