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She helped me pack my luggage last night.

set off.

at 9 o'clock in the morning.

I will fly high and high like a kite.

Then start to miss.

My homeland, and my lover.

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Chapter 355 Aftermath (Revised)

Simon played less than 6 minutes at Madonna's solo concert on the evening of June 23, but provided enough news material for countless media to hype for a whole week.

The flame guitar at the opening is undoubtedly the most concerned target of fans.

Before the concert that night was over, many people began to inquire about the source of the guitar in Simon's hand.

The "Los Angeles Times" obtained the detailed information of the flame guitar for the first time, and also interviewed the members of the production team of that guitar. The exposed information made most eager guitar lovers hesitate.

Not to mention the cost of more than 10 US dollars and the fact that Westeros has specially applied for a design patent, even if it is really copied, it is only the weight of the guitar itself, which is not something ordinary people can play with.

You know, the flame guitar that seemed to be playing freely in Simon's hands that night, because it is equipped with an all-metal flame-breathing system, its body is also much larger than ordinary guitars, but it weighs more than 20 kilograms, while ordinary guitars are very heavy. Rarely more than 5 kg.

Most people can certainly lift 20kg.

However, for a musical instrument with a weight of more than 20 kilograms, even if there are shoulder straps hanging on the body, probably not many guitarists can fully play under this sense of pressure.

Unless sitting.

However, few people should have the face to sit down and play a domineering double-headed flame guitar like holding a delicate acoustic guitar.

It's a bit embarrassing to think about it.

Of course, even with all kinds of obstacles, it still hasn't stopped many people's yearning for flame guitars.

Afterwards, there was an endless stream of people who wanted to buy the guitar from Simon through various channels, and the highest price even reached 300 million US dollars, but they were all rejected by Simon. Janet has already planned to store the guitar in their soon-to-be-completed Dume Cape Manor House.

Because of the flame guitar, some media couldn't help paying attention to Simon's strong personal force value again. At the beginning of the year, the video of ten consecutive KO opponents in the Melbourne boxing ring was once again hyped.

Flaming guitars are naturally out of reach for most people.

However, the guitar single called "Fire" was officially released on the following Monday, and sales exceeded 100 million copies in just five days.

The other two new songs "Hung Up" and "GhostTown" are planned to be released in the next album by Madonna. Therefore, if fans want to collect them in advance, they can only look forward to the recently released concert video.

Of course, there must be a large number of people who directly recorded the video of the concert that night with their home video recorders.

In addition to Madonna's team, the biggest beneficiary of this concert is undoubtedly ABC, which bought the live broadcast rights of the concert with a lot of money. The offer of 600 million US dollars brought ABC an average of 3600 million and a maximum of 4300 million horror viewers.

This kind of ratings data is already comparable to the Oscars.

However, the Oscars, the $600 million offer, that was out of the question.

Although the harvest is huge, everyone also understands that there are too many irreproducible features in this concert.

In order to ensure the box office of the concert itself, most singers would not easily allow TV stations to broadcast live.After all, doing so may make a lot of money in the short term, but it will dampen the enthusiasm of fans to watch live.

The Madonna team naturally understands this truth. The live broadcast this time is more for publicity needs.

Now, the effect has far exceeded expectations.

After that night's concert, although Westeros will not be involved in the future, Madonna's remaining concert tickets in North America and Europe were all sold out in the next few days.

Of course, there is no shortage of controversy in the hot media topic discussion.

The petite girl named Jennifer who rushed onto the stage when Simon last appeared was once suspected by many media to be a pre-arranged babysitter.

As for why.

Many media felt that the scene at that time was really too perfect.

A beautiful girl as delicate as a doll.

Westeros is just right to appease.

And, lastly, "Rocket man" by Elton John.

Especially the last song "Rocket Man" has become a bug that many skeptics blame.

For commercial concerts, any song, let alone a cover, even the singer's own original song, sometimes requires special authorization.

If Simon Westeros sang this song at will without prior authorization from Elton John and the copyright holder company of "Rocket man", it would be an infringement and he would be sued.

However, the subsequent news broke the doubts of the media one by one.

The whole thing was indeed an accident.

The 17-year-old girl named Jennifer Bray from Florida, apart from being a crazy fan of Simon, had never had any substantive interaction with Simon before. It was the first time that the girl saw Simon in person that night.

As for the song "Rocket man".

Simon did infringe.

However, afterward, Madonna's team contacted Elton John and the record company that held the copyright of "Rocket man" for the first time.

Upon learning of the situation at that time, another copyright fee was paid, and all parties expressed their understanding.

In an interview with the media, Elton John also praised Simon's singing at that time, and hoped to have the opportunity to cooperate with Yunyun.

Moreover, when "Rocket man", an old song released in 1972, followed "Fire" and quickly rushed to No.2 on the single best-selling list in the following week, the copyright company of the song was overjoyed.

Because after Simon sang "Rocket man", he dragged Jennifer Bray to the backstage, and the petite girl became the focus of media attention. All the information that should be exposed and should not be exposed were excavated by the media.

Jennifer Bree is from Miami, Florida. She was born in an ordinary middle-class family. Her father is an employee of a food company, her mother is a nurse, and there are an older brother and a younger sister.The girl became obsessed with Simon from "Run Lola Run", and saved a few years of money through odd jobs, all of which were spent on a concert ticket that night.

Alone by train from Miami to New York, waiting outside the Brenda Barry Arena all day, empty pockets, not even a place to stay after the concert.

After Simon sang that night, he originally wanted to send the girl off the stage, but he felt that the little girl was obviously in a somewhat abnormal mental state, and found that she was alone, so he took the girl backstage.Knowing the situation of the girl, he helped her arrange a hotel and a flight back to Miami.

That's it.

After doing what he thought he should do and sending a lonely girl home safely, Simon stopped paying attention to this matter.

However, the gossip-filled media doesn't think so.

Some people speculated whether something happened that night, some people were chasing the details of the girl's contact with Simon, and even a brokerage company tried to sign the girl.

None of this has anything to do with Simon.

The day after the concert, Simon left North America and flew to Australia.

Cersei Fund Management Company has started a new stage of layout for the international crude oil market, Apollo Management Company is in the process of acquiring Simmons, and Black Rock Asset Management Company also plans to conduct a bottom-buying when the war triggers world stock market turmoil.

It can be said that the coming July is crucial to Cersei Capital, and Janet did not return to Australia with Simon this time.

Jennifer came along as planned.

During this period of time, the female assistant personally took charge of building a wooden house by a lake in Simon's territory in Tasmania, just waiting for a certain snowy day to spend a long-awaited two-person world with Simon.

In Melbourne, a week before Simon came to Australia, the filming of "Batman: The Dark Knight" officially started.

Considering the benefits of "Batman: Beginning of War" for Melbourne movies, tourism and employment, the discounts enjoyed by "Batman: The Dark Knight" have been further increased this time, and the tax rebate ratio is 15% compared with the previous one. It has increased to 20%, and there are still no restrictions attached to other films.

Simon did not deliberately exploit any loopholes because of the loose conditions of the Melbourne city government. Instead, he transferred more production links of this film to Australia. He also bought the abandoned factory in the western suburbs of Melbourne that was used for filming last time. Build a movie shooting base.

Daenerys Special Effects Australia Branch was also formally established.

In terms of specific shooting, although fans have some complaints about Simon's use of Jane de Bont, in fact, as Daenerys and Warner Bros. have publicly stated, the control of the film is still firmly in Simon's hands.

The script was finalized by Simon himself, and unless Simon could be persuaded, Jane de Bont had no right to modify it.

The crew is also all the team trained by Simon last time, which is enough to ensure that the technical details of the film are consistent with the first one.

Moreover, although Jane de Bont is the director in name, Simon also arranged for him two other assistants, Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell, all three of whom were Hollywood first-line directors later, Both already have enough experience in film production, and there is no doubt about their talents.

Simon's requirement is that the three should cooperate closely, and many things should be discussed before implementation.

After brainstorming, although Jane de Bont has the final decision-making power on the shooting scene, Simon believes that De Bont, who cherishes this opportunity, cannot be unwilling to learn the correct suggestions from the other two.

In addition, Simon still invited Joe Silver to serve as the producer responsible for the logistical support of "Batman: The Dark Knight" this time.

With this set of advantages, if Jane de Bont can still mess up, Simon will decisively kick him out.

The truth is, Jean de Bont was naturally not kicked out.

Simon rushed to Melbourne, carefully inspected the sample film shot by the crew in the previous week, and became a hands-off shopkeeper with great confidence.

Of course, in terms of media reports, in order to appease fans' concerns about the quality of the film, Simon is still "conscientiously" following up the filming of the film throughout.

Unknowingly, time soon came to July of 1990.

Simon is not in Los Angeles, Daenerys Entertainment still started the financial audit work for the first half of the year step by step, Janet will occasionally help take care of it.

Moreover, it is not just Daenerys Entertainment, because of the attention that Simon participated in the concert some time ago, some media found out after listing that since the summer of 1986 when he stepped into Los Angeles, Simon Westeros In four years, a huge business empire has been created.

The entire Westeros system, with Westeros Corporation as the core, involves four major areas: entertainment, fashion, technology, and finance.

What's even more rare is that none of the four major fields involved are trivial.

Among them, Daenerys Entertainment, the most dazzling one, although its business field is still limited to movies and related industries, has already firmly ranked among the giants in just a few years.

The strong uncertainty and unsustainable curse of the film industry in terms of performance has also been broken by Daenerys Entertainment.

From its establishment to the present, Daenerys Entertainment has not suffered too much loss in film projects. On the contrary, it has repeatedly created big and small projects such as "Scream", "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" and "Wind and Moon". The box office miracle of films such as "Beauty".

The launch of the DC movie universe project has allowed the industry to see a new way for the development of the movie industry.

In the field of fashion, Gucci, which was almost on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly revived after being taken over by Simon Westeros. Recently, the valuation of Gucci by industry organizations has exceeded 10 billion US dollars. Compared with the initial investment, Simon Westeros Just in terms of equity, it has already obtained several times the return.

The technology industry, this can be said to be the first area where Simon Westeros made a big bet.

Although Igret, one of the four "women" under Westeros, seems to be very weak, but the stock prices of Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN and other companies that Westeros bet on during the stock market crash in 1987 have recently fallen. It has been rapidly increasing in value for several years.

Especially Microsoft.

Since the release of Windows 5 system in May and its great success, Microsoft's stock price has continued to rise sharply, and now it has exceeded 3.0 billion US dollars, catching up with Microsoft's close partner Intel.

The industry even predicts that by August, Microsoft's share price may even double compared to its market value of around US$8 billion at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, not to mention the profits brought about by absorbing Microsoft stocks during the initial stock market crash, but the 10% increase in holdings at the end of last year may bring nearly 100% book returns to Westeros in less than a year.

The final financial field.

Cersei Capital became famous through two operations in the Japanese financial market and the U.S. bond market last year. The exposure of Simon Westeros’ $45 billion overseas cash reserves at the beginning of this year shocked everyone.

Although it has been keeping a low profile as much as possible, every move of Cersei Capital continues to make waves on Wall Street.

It was no secret from the beginning that Cersei Capital was targeting the operation of the international crude oil market.

Fortunately, companies that can dig out information from Cersei Capital are not stupid, and following up secretly is the kingly way. Therefore, they did not spread this information everywhere, and even offered to help in this way, which did not make Cersei Capital fully transparent to the public. .

After a rough estimate, the total market value of a series of entertainment, fashion, technology and financial companies involved in the tentacles of the entire Westeros system has exceeded 500 billion US dollars.

In this era, General Electric, which is often ranked among the top 500 companies in the world, has a market value of less than US$500 billion.

July is the height of summer in the northern hemisphere.

The Southern Hemisphere has entered the coldest phase of winter.

Melbourne is in a temperate marine climate zone, and it basically does not snow in winter. The same is true for the coastal areas of Tasmania. However, the inland stretching for tens of kilometers is already another scene.

Second week of July.

When a heavy snow fell in the area where the female assistant built the wooden house, the two rushed over together.

Chapter 356 Reserve a Piece of Sky (Repair)

Simon and Jennifer left Melbourne on July 7 and rushed to a forest lake in central and western Tasmania, which happened to be in the middle of Simon's private territory.

Because the nearest road is [-] kilometers away, the only way to get there is by helicopter.

The female assistant built a wooden house out of her own purse. There are three houses in total, each for Simon, the two of them, and other entourages to live in. In addition, a helipad was built, but the transportation of building materials cost a lot of money. Naturally, there is no water and electricity in the forest. Can only rely on generators and natural water sources, and communication can only use satellite phones.

It was already a very closed living environment. When the snow covered everything, the surroundings were completely isolated from the outside world.