Rise of an Empire

Compared with the cold weather in New York, the temperature in Los Angeles is obviously much warmer. Even in this cold winter, it maintains a normal temperature of about ten degrees.

So in contrast, there are a bunch of fashionable beauties on the roadside, still wearing cool summer clothes, exposing their pretty legs.

"Los Angeles is such a beautiful city, do you think we should buy a manor here?" Gudrun happily walked hand in hand with Conrad on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, excitement beyond words.

Although Gudrun is already thirty-two years old in terms of age, this beauty has been brainwashed by the cheap father's Germanic ideas since she was a child. Then when she was just sixteen years old, she was selected as a powerful minister. Life is almost zero.

So when Conrad offered to take her out to play, Gudruna was overjoyed.

"Okay, let's buy two buildings. It is said that the environment at Malibu Beach is more beautiful. How about we go there and buy a cliff?" Malibu Beach is still just an outdoor shooting location and has not been officially developed at all. We have to wait until Thirty years later it would become a gathering place for Los Angeles celebrities.

The Iron Man super mansion that everyone is familiar with in later generations is located on the cliff of Malibu Beach.

But now?

Conrad thought that he might as well buy all the cliffs while the land there was worthless, and see where Tony Stark would build his mansion.

Naturally, Gudrun would not have any objections to his decision. She just said it casually, but she didn't expect that Conrad was actually planning to buy land and build a house here, which made her a little touched. .

Compared with the house prices a few decades later, the beaches in Mabury are now simply cheap. Conrad only spent 60,000 US dollars to buy all the cliffs along the entire Mabury coast.

The clerks in the real estate transaction department looked at him as if they had been taken advantage of. You must know that Marbury is still just a wilderness, but there are fools who spend real money to buy land somewhere. It is really a fool's money. Many

This is the benefit of foresight. Looking at the land deed in his safe, Conrad knew that even if he did nothing, he would earn at least thousands of times in forty years.

Of course, the main purpose of his coming to Los Angeles today is not to speculate on land.

"Miss Rama, does she live here?" Gudrun asked curiously, looking at the crumbling apartment building in front of him.

After more than two months of development, the fruit company finally opened in the Brooklyn Industrial Zone. Originally, Conrad wanted to open the company near Stark Industrial Park, but after asking about the housing prices, he felt that Brooklyn was also quite affordable. OK

It's just that although the company has opened, it can't do anything so far. After all, top scientific and technological talents are definitely hot commodities. Even though he has repeatedly lowered the requirements, he still can't recruit people.

Now is the period of rapid economic development in the United States. As long as you have a college degree, you can find a pretty good job, not to mention those professional talents.

As long as people are slightly famous, they will choose big companies like General Motors or Bell. Well, Fruit Company, what is that?

If Conrad was willing to spend money, he would be able to attract a lot of people, but when faced with those charlatans whose names he had never even heard of, the Duke felt that it was a waste to spend a lot of money to recruit those guys.

Even if my money is blown by the strong wind, I can't waste it on these idiots, right?

So after thinking carefully about it at home for more than two months, he finally came up with a talent.

"If the informant's information is correct, then she should be living here." Conrad smiled. If he hadn't known that the other party was now in poverty, he wouldn't have come to see her with such confidence, right?

"I remember watching her interview when I was a kid. I never imagined that she would live in a place like this." Gudrun said with a sigh as he looked at the people going by.

This kind of apartment building is obviously reserved for the lower class. Although it is much better than the slums, as a once world-famous star, living in such a place is really a bit embarrassing.

"Is Miss Rama here?" Conrad knocked on the yellowed wooden door and shouted.

"Who is it?" A lazy female voice called from inside the door, and before he could continue to introduce himself, the door was already opened.

By the way, since you are ready to open the door no matter who it is, why do you still ask who it is?

Holding back the complaints in his heart, Conrad smiled as standard as possible, preparing to leave a good impression on the other party.

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Looking at the woman whose clothes were half unbuttoned, revealing most of her body, he really didn't know if he should continue smiling.

"This guy is so handsome. Are you here to play with your sister?" The woman inside the door looked about forty years old, with a Chinese-shaped face and exposed breasts. Although the years had inevitably caused some weathering on her body, she still No matter who she is, she has to admit that if she were twenty years younger, she would definitely be a stunning beauty.

As for now?

The old age of a beauty is really a very sad and regretful thing. Even though the other person may be regarded as a charming mature woman in the eyes of ordinary people, in Conrad's view, she is really a little too mature.

It's all sagging, okay?

"Are you Ms. Hedy Lamarr?" Conrad asked calmly, trying not to look at the other person's exposed breasts.

"So you didn't come here to play with my sister." The woman inside the door finally saw Gudrun's presence. She sighed slightly, pulled up her half-unbuttoned clothes, and her expression immediately changed.

"I don't welcome idlers here. If you're not here to have fun, get out of here immediately. I won't accept interviews."

After saying that, the other party wanted to close the door.

But before she could close the door, she was held up by a delicate palm.

"You can't tell, he's quite strong." Hedy Lama looked at Gudrun who was leaning against the door frame and said with some disdain.

"Ms. Rama, with all due respect, you can be considered a superstar, but this kind of life is really unfair to you." Conrad had already scolded the damn informant in his heart. Damn it, I can't even explain what other people are doing now. I really don't know what they do.

Los Angeles is a complete picture of all living things. When you are popular, you will have countless money pouring into your arms even if you are lying at home. But when you are down, even life will be very difficult.

Those actresses who have passed their time, if they did not save a pension when they were popular, they can only choose the last method in order to maintain their lives.