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Maria didn't expect the man next to her to mention this suddenly, and said subconsciously, "My daughter..."

He only started, but because of some inexplicable embarrassment, he stopped again.

"Oh, Annette, I know," Simon said, and said again: "Actually, Anne could have come here this time, why did she stay in Ukraine?"

Maria felt that it was impolite to speak without looking at the other party, but she was too embarrassed to turn to him anyway. After all, it was just the breath of the man around her, which made her flustered enough to jump out of the car and run away. At this time, hearing Simon talking about her daughter, she had another feeling. I lost the feeling just now, mainly because... her daughter is 21 years old.

However, he had to answer the man's question, so he tilted his head to look at him, quickly turned back, and said, "Her, I hope she can finish her undergraduate studies in Ukraine and then come to the United States."

As he spoke, he had some strange little emotions for no reason.

In the beginning, Maria accepted a certain situation with the idea of ​​sacrificing herself. She only hoped that her four children could have a bright future, including the eldest daughter. She also thought that no matter what, at least let him help The daughter wants to study abroad, and it must be the best school.

Unexpectedly, she didn't need to mention these things at all, and she took the initiative to help with them.

This also made Maria temporarily change her mind and let her daughter continue to stay in Ukraine to finish her undergraduate degree, and then go out to study abroad after getting her degree. After all, it is only a year.But the three sons were brought here together this time.

Simon nodded when he heard the words. In fact, he had just read some information about the children of the two women around him. He didn't say anything more at this time, but explained to Maria who didn't know the reason: "There will be a reception later, Many people will come and take you to get to know each other.”

Maria paused, and when she realized it, her face immediately turned rosy.

This is……

He, why... Isn't he worried that others will know?

Moreover, once she participated in this reception, she, and Ulyana on the other side, the identities of the two could not be clarified anyway. Even after repeated psychological construction, Maria had silently accepted certain things. Still don't want everyone to know.

After hesitating for a moment, she finally plucked up the courage and glanced at the man next to her again. Maria said, "Simon, can I...can I not go?"

Simon shook his head directly: "No."

"..."

How could this man be like this? !

Simon resolutely refused, and then added: "The main thing is that there is one more thing that needs to be done by you, so we must first give you and Ulia an identity."

Maria grabbed the corner of her clothes with both hands, she really didn't want this identity.

Seeing the woman's pitiful and anxious appearance, Simon remained unmoved, and continued, "Actually, Uriah is pregnant."

"what?"

Maria thought she had heard it wrong, and subconsciously raised her head again, this time looking at Ulyana Meretskova who had been silent on the other side.

Seeing her looking over, Ulyana just nodded slightly.

Then, Maria withdrew her gaze slightly and turned to him: "Then, what does this have to do with me?"

In fact, he wanted to ask how he planned to deal with this matter, but he still changed his words.

Simon shook his head slightly and said, "We'll talk about this after our reception."

Talking like this, two luxury cars crossed the Charles River, and soon arrived at a Marriott Hotel on the North Shore. Girl A, who had arrived early, greeted her in the parking lot. After Simon got off the car with the two women, she led them to the hotel. A banquet hall.

The reception has already started early.

According to Miss A's introduction along the way, most of the guests who were in Boston at the same time as the invitation were issued this time will basically come, and there are also some active contacts. According to the specific situation, the female assistant also selected some of them.

Relying on the two top universities of Harvard and MIT, Boston has gathered a large number of top world-class companies, the most famous of which is GE, and there are also world-renowned companies such as Gillette, Fidelity, and Boston Consulting.

Now that Simon is here, dealing with the core figures of these schools, companies, and even local governments will definitely be beneficial.

In the banquet hall, when Simon appeared, all the guests who had arrived immediately turned their attention.Then, he couldn't help noticing the two glamorous women beside Simon who couldn't tell their age.

Everyone is used to this kind of thing.

Girl A, as an assistant, competently helped Simon introduce the principal of MIT, the Nobel Prize winner, the mayor of Boston, the CEO of Gillette, etc., etc., and it took more than half an hour to go around.

Walking towards the two guests who had just arrived again, Girl A whispered and quickly introduced in her ears: "The president of Harvard University, Neil Lutherstein, and Neil is also a Ukrainian immigrant. The other one is a descendant of the Mellon family. , Richard Mellon Scaife, runs a paper business, far right, one of the main movers behind the Paula Jones case."

Said that it has come to the front.

Simon first took the initiative to reach out his hand to Neil Lutherstein, the tall president of Harvard University who was about 60 years old, and greeted him, then reached out and shook hands with Richard Mellon Scaife: "Hello, Mr Scaife, nice to meet you."

"Hello, Simon, my friends call me Charlie," Richard Mellon Scaife, who is also in his 60s and has solid silver hair, shook hands with Simon with a smile, and then gestured with bright eyes. Two ladies beside him: "Who are these two?"

"Oh, here's Maria, and Ulyana, they're from Ukraine, they've just recently started at Harvard."

After turning around in such a big circle, I met a bunch of big names at the top of the American pyramid. Even Maria, who was reluctant to come here, gradually became familiar with it. After listening to Simon's introduction, she politely extended her hand to Scaife in front of her: "Hello, Mr Scaife."

Richard Mellon Scaife agreed with a smile, but grabbed Maria's little hand and leaned over slightly, obviously wanting to kiss her hand.

Maria was already uncomfortable with Scave's smile, but when she saw the other party like this, she subconsciously withdrew her hand, making the other party's plan come to nothing.

Immediately, Scaife, who was already half-bowed, suddenly felt unable to get off the stage.

Seeing this situation, it was obvious that she had offended the other party. Maria couldn't help but look at Simon with a guilty conscience, and couldn't help worrying that he would blame herself. After all, maybe, this should be a normal etiquette, right?

Simon gave the woman a comforting look, and then said lightly to Scaife, who straightened up in embarrassment: "Maria is not used to kissing hands, Mr. Scaife, oh, Uriah is not used to it either, I am so sorry."

Ulyana on the other side felt the bluntness in the man's tone, and directly dismissed the intention of reaching out to greet him.

"Oh, it's nothing," said Richard Mellon Scaife, seeing that Simon was still using the title of 'Mr. Displeased, but, as a descendant of the Mellon family that has maintained a strong influence in the United States for a century, Scaife did not feel that there was anything wrong with his actions just now, but was also somewhat displeased, and quickly said: "Speaking of it, Simon, I used to live in Pittsburgh and had to move to Boston two years ago when I was terrified by the bombing. Hey, it's a blasphemy to the civilized world that this kind of thing happened in America."

Simon didn't seem to understand the meaning of Scaife's words at all, and shrugged with a smile: "I have understood that this world is not so beautiful since I was 3 years old, Mr. Scaife, you should be glad that you only need Hiding in Boston, if I remember correctly, William Hearst III is still hiding in Morocco, he is much more unlucky than you, and probably will not be able to return to the United States in this lifetime."

The potential verbal confrontation between the two was actually the series of turmoil two years ago.

See Simon's mention of former Hearst family head William Hearst III, Richard Mellon Scaife, who had to abscond abroad because of the exposed 'Doris Fecher murder' The corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

In terms of strength, the Hearst family, whose media empire spreads all over the United States, is several ranks higher than the owner of a media company whose influence is limited to the New England region of the northeastern United States. The Ster family is quite powerful.And it was such an old Qian family that had been inherited for a hundred years and had great influence, and it had fallen into decline rapidly in just two years.

Looking at the young man in front of him again, not to mention anything else, just his net worth of 1.5 trillion US dollars is enough to suppress him until he loses his temper completely.

Thinking of this, Richard Mellon Scaife, who is arrogant in his bones because he was born in the Mellon family, will inevitably have some frustrations that he is reluctant to admit. However, let him apologize for what happened just now, then Certainly not.

In this atmosphere, even Neil Lutherstein, the president of Harvard University, felt that he could not step down. Fortunately, someone soon helped them out.

"Hey, Simon, how did you come to Boston?"

It was Jack Welch, the head of General Electric who had just arrived, who was speaking.

Simon listened to Welch's greeting, and ignored Richard Mellon Scaife, but still nodded slightly to Neil Lutherstein, turned to Welch with the two women around him, stretched out his hand and The other party hugged him and said, "I happen to have something to do. Since I'm here, I'll say hello to everyone. Jack, I'm glad you can find time to come over."

"Of course I'm coming," Welch said, looking at the two beside Simon: "This is?"

Simon introduced again: "Maria, and Ulia, they just joined Harvard recently."

There are some things that don’t need to be pointed out, and everyone knows that Welch is not as greedy as Scaife. He shook hands with the two women gracefully, then turned to Simon again, and said, “Speaking of which, I still have some I want to talk to you about something, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to deliver it to your door."

Chapter 1037 Children's Arrangements

Chapter 1037 Children's Arrangements The two of them walked a little to the side of the banquet hall, and Jack Welch said, "That's right, Simon, I heard that you are planning to build a thermal power plant in Rivni. The last share The nuclear power plant unit order was given to Westinghouse, so there is no reason not to cooperate with GM this time, right?"

Affected by the shortage of power resources in the Rivne region, in addition to the No. 4 unit of the Rivne nuclear power plant that is still under construction, the Westeros system is also planning to build a thermal power plant with a power generation capacity of 2000 megawatts in Ukraine.

Unlike the Rivne NPP's 950 MW No. 4 unit, the overall investment can be as high as 15 billion U.S. dollars, and the cost of thermal power plants is much lower.However, no matter how low the construction cost is for a 2000-megawatt thermal power station, it will probably cost around US$5 million.Such a project is enough for Jack Welch to fight for it.

When Simon saw Welch mentioning this matter, he didn't answer directly, but asked, "Jack, you should have contacted Livney, right?"

Jack Welch nodded: "Of course, but according to the feedback, then plan to use the local team, Simon, frankly speaking, I recognize the industrial strength of the former Soviet Union, but it is no longer what it used to be, and, as you must know, GM's The generator set must be much stronger than that of the former Soviet Union."

"But it's also much more expensive," Simon said, then shook his head and said: "Jack, the last time the Rivne nuclear power plant, frankly speaking, it was a state-owned enterprise in Ukraine, plus some other reasons, it will Using Westinghouse equipment. This time it is basically my personal investment, of course cost must be considered, so it is a pity.”

The No. 4 unit of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant originally only needed an investment of 5 million US dollars in the follow-up.However, under the operation of Westinghouse Electric, the Ukrainian Nuclear Power Company and the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, it was abruptly raised to 8 million U.S. dollars. This money will eventually be paid by the already stretched Ukrainian government.

Simon wouldn't be taken advantage of like this.

Compared with nuclear power, the technical difficulty of thermal power is much lower, and only local companies in Ukraine can undertake it. In this way, the initial budget of 5 million US dollars may still have a lot of surplus.Simon's plan is to take advantage of the trend to dig out and reorganize a related team. After all, this time a thermal power station may not be the last one.

Seeing Simon's refusal, Jack Welch did not give up, but said, "Simon, I can personally make the decision and give you a good discount."

Simon shook his head again and said with a smile: "Jack, maybe you can also guess my layout for Ukraine. This time the thermal power plant is not the only one, but that is very important to me, and it is definitely not just a simple business. .”

When Simon said this, Welch, who was also very clear about certain things, stopped, but he still couldn't help asking: "Simon, it seems that you plan to artificially manufacture one in Ukraine, um, according to China's The concept is called a special economic zone, right?"

"Yes."

"Then, there must be room for us to cooperate in other areas."

"That's for sure, Jack. Speaking of which, if GM wants to build some factories in Eastern Europe, Rivne region is a good choice."

Jack Welch didn't expect Simon to "turn the client into the center" so soon, he started his own business, smiled, but nodded, and said: "Of course, if there is a suitable project, I will definitely consider it."

When the matter came to this point, Simon thought it was over, and was about to transfer to entertain other customer service personnel. Welch stopped him again and said, "One more thing, Simon, about Time Warner, the summer vacation that just passed , Seriously, Warner Bros. is doing really badly."

Welch is obviously referring to the fact that Warner did not have a movie with a box office of over [-] million in the past summer. After all, this is the first summer when General Electric acquired Time Warner. Although the responsibility for this performance is no longer the parent company GM Here, but it must have made Welch very embarrassed.

Shrugging, Simon said with a smile on his lips, "This, Jack, is not my responsibility."

Welch just couldn't help complaining. Seeing what Simon said, he realized for a while that he really had no reason to blame Simon. Could it be that he blamed Daenerys for being too strong in entertainment, leaving Warner with no way out? As a legendary professional manager, he doesn't have this habit.

Moreover, if it is the heads of other Hollywood film companies, they may not be able to resist talking to Simon about cooperation.

However, after quietly researching a series of external cooperation projects of Daenerys Entertainment in private, Welch also found that although other Hollywood film companies have made a lot of money in cooperation with Daenerys Entertainment, in reality On the contrary, it has lost its independence to some extent, which is absolutely harmful to the long-term development of an enterprise.

Even, the current situation in Hollywood is largely due to the fact that other studios have indirectly promoted each other to become bigger through cooperation with Daenerys Entertainment in the past few years.

The most typical is probably the DC movie universe project.

Welch is heartbroken when he thinks of this now. Although Warner's interests in the DC Movie Universe project are overwhelming, the initiative is completely controlled by the young man in front of him. It is the part of the distribution commission, but it is equivalent to using most of Warner's resources to help her make money, while Daenerys entertains herself, saving production and publicity resources, and can continue to develop her own projects.

Jurassic Park series, The Conjuring Cinematic Universe series, Pixar animation series, you name it.

Even, Warner didn't dare to turn his back on him.

Because Daenerys Entertainment also has the biggest bargaining chip, no less than DC's Marvel.Once the two sides fall out, Daenerys Entertainment only needs to hold the copyright of the Big Three superheroes equivalent to the core of the DC movie universe. Neither party can develop the DC series, but the other side can start the Marvel movie universe.

All in all, it's a real pain in the ass.

After changing his expression for a moment, he recalled the phenomenon-level reality show "American Idol" that was also broadcast on the ABC TV network under Daenerys Entertainment last week. Welch lost his temper for a while and could only raise his glass to Simon.

Simon understood, probably able to understand Welch's mood, and also raised his glass. He didn't say much, but walked away with the two daughters Maria who had been standing quietly by his side just now.

The reception lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon.

Simon took the two women out of the Marriott Hotel, came to the parking lot, and talked about going back to the wealthy West West suburb together. The bodyguard opened the car door. Ulyana got into the car first, and Simon was about to get into the car. The shirt was hooked by Maria beside her: "Can I sit in the car behind?"

Simon paused, stepped aside, and said with a smile, "Sit with Ulia. I'll sit in the back, and I have something to discuss with A."

Maria blushed slightly, and obediently got into the car.

After a while, when the car started, Maria finally opened her mouth carefully in the car and asked, "Are you really pregnant?"

Ulyana leaned lazily on the leather chair and asked, "Otherwise, would he come?"

Maria paused, then whispered, "Then, what are you going to do?"

"It's what he plans to do," Ulyana shrugged, kicked off her shoes, curled up on the seat to make herself more comfortable, and said while looking at the scenery outside the car: "We don't have any right to decide, but , I probably guessed what he was thinking."

"Ok?"

"He wants you to come and take the baby."

Maria's eyes widened, she subconsciously glanced at Ulyana's abdomen, and couldn't help but ask, "How can this be?"

Ulyana didn't care, and said: "Otherwise, in fact, it is obvious that you are very good at educating your children. Obviously, your children are all excellent. Anita can be admitted to the National Technical University. Victor and the three of them One, when they first came to the United States, they could directly enter a private school. In comparison, Anna and Nick can only stay at home to study English for the time being."

"Well, actually, Anna and Nick are very good."

"My own child, I know what it looks like," Ulyana did not accept Maria's persuasion, and said, "Actually, it would be nice for you to take care of this child. If possible, I would even give it to Anna and Nick." You, I came to America, I just want to enjoy life, nothing else matters."

"This way..." Maria hesitated again, and said, "This way, it's not very good."

Ulyana smiled suddenly, looking more coquettish, and turned her head to glance at Maria: "You don't want to persuade me to cheer up, do you?"

Maria shook her head quickly: "No, I, I will not interfere in other people's lives."

Ulyana didn't continue to say anything, she turned her head back and fell silent.

There is some melancholy in my heart.

In fact, it's all the damn world's fault. If the Soviet Union hadn't disintegrated, she should have been a princess all her life, with her clever mind to get some glorious titles, and then enjoy her life leisurely.

I just didn't expect the collapse of a super empire to come as soon as it was said.

Even if it is two children, in fact, if she can maintain the life she used to, she can actually spend a little bit of thought on educating them well. However, a few years ago, their family even reached the point where eating was a problem. With the huge gap between her personal status and her living standard, she was lucky that she didn't collapse, and she couldn't manage so much.

As a result, the two children's academic performance was a mess. As for their personalities, a pair of children who happened to be sensible back then experienced tremendous changes together. Coupled with the later ups and downs, they not only became timid and timid in their bones, but also smooth and snobbish on the surface.

In short, they were just two little things that even she herself hated a little.