America's Road to Wealth

Compared to Amanda, Lydia's appearance is more refined.

Amanda's appearance tends to be dignified and majestic.

I have to say which one of the two looks better.

From Abel's point of view of aesthetics, Lydia is better looking.

Looking at the blushing Lydia, Abel smiled and wanted to say something.

What surprised him was that before he spoke, Lydia didn't say a word, turned around and ran away with a blushing face.

On the contrary, it left Abel confused.

He didn't catch up.

As far as Abel knew, this Miss Lydia Hester was in her family.

He seems to be one who is not taken seriously.

The reason lies in her mother.

More than 20 years ago, I once did something that was shameful to the upper class and wealthy families in the United States.

Lydia Hearst's mother Patty Hearst.

I joined an American red organization back then.

You read that right, domestic organizations in the United States.

Even if it is a little unorthodox, or even an organization that has gone astray.

There is no doubt that this kind of thing is happening among the American elite.

It is the most unforgivable thing, something that betrays class.

Fortunately, Patty is a woman, and the organization did not succeed in the United States.

And Hearst does have greater influence as his family grows older.

Patty's father, through the energy of the Hearst family, influenced the then Commander-in-Chief Carter.

Through the commander-in-chief's unique amnesty, she was finally fished out.

If this were an ordinary rich kid, or simply an ordinary person.

It is estimated that at this time, I don’t know how many times I have been reincarnated.

After that, Patty Hearst was able to get married and have children, and Lydia Hearst was also born.

Another thing to mention, in the 1980s.

It is said that a stupid rich second generation who was chasing stars went to assassinate the then commander-in-chief for the star he liked.

Although he was unsuccessful, he managed to get the commander-in-chief at the time into the hospital.

Then the rich second generation who committed this capital crime became "mentally ill".

He didn't die, he was imprisoned in a sanatorium.

He was released later.

This is similar to what happened with Patty Hearst.

For both of these things, if it were an ordinary person, they might have to be locked up for tens of millions of years.

Even to the point of hanging or electrocution.

But the people who did these two things are still the second generation of real wealthy families.

In the end, both of them were fine, they just suffered a little.

It can only be said that in the United States, there is also a so-called tradition of "punishing officials without punishment".

After Lydia Hearst ran away, Abel didn't stay here anymore.

He turned around and returned to the bedroom.

He didn't continue to use dps on Charlize.

This "BOSS" cannot be fought, or his DPS output is too high.

None of the "BOSSs" in the current version of the normal world can withstand his output alone.

Unless there are several people playing together, or like last time he is alone vs. 25 people.

Only in this way can he be defeated and his Dps exhausted.

Otherwise, the bosses will seek their own death!

the next day.

Charlize and the two Hearst sisters did not come to find Abel.

Because Abel had business to do.

A Hollywood tycoon made a special trip from Los Angeles.

Not MGM CEO Robert Iger.

But another Hollywood giant, Columbia Pictures.

To be precise, it should be called Sony Columbia Pictures.

The company's CEO, Howard Stringer, made a special trip from Los Angeles to Hawaii.

Columbia Pictures, like other Hollywood giants.

They all have a history of almost hundreds of years.

But in 1989, this one of the American Hollywood giants was acquired by Neon Man, who had a very strong economy at the time.

The acquirer is Sony, and the price is US$3.2 billion in cash plus US$1.6 billion in loan cash.

You can imagine how rich Sony was at that time, or how hard it was cheated.

Abel bought an MGM of similar size.

It actually cost more than 20 billion, plus about one billion US dollars in debt.

A total of less than $3.5 billion.

This is still the year 2000.

Sony was in 1989, and the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar must have been stronger than it is now.

After all, there has been 11 years of inflation.

But Sony still spent US$4.8 billion in cash to win Colombia, and later had to bear hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

Total acquisition cost exceeds $5 billion

There is no better way to be taken advantage of.

In fact, during that period, Sony was not the only one acquiring Hollywood giants.

At that time, the neon people didn't know the heights of the world and clamored to buy the entire United States.

Sony acquired Columbia, and Panasonic acquired Universal.

It’s just that Hollywood loves to trick outsiders.

Even America's own people like Wall Street are tricked by Hollywood.

Not to mention Neon Man?

Panasonic's acquisition of Universal was so hard for Hollywood that it continued to lose money and finally couldn't bear the move.

Compared to Panasonic, which is getting worse and worse.

Sony, which is developing better and better, is a bigger business than any other company.

Sony endured terrible losses.

But it was also a loss for more than ten years.

Parallel space and time.

Sony Columbia didn't turn a profit until Spider-Man became a hit.

One loss lasted eleven years. Even MGM could not do this kind of thing.

According to statistics, Sony has lost more than tens of billions of dollars in Colombia in the past ten years.

Hollywood is willing to trick Wall Street, let alone the Neon People.

In addition, Sony is also afraid that their American dad will be unhappy.

It’s been eleven years since the acquisition of Columbia Pictures.

Columbia Pictures' executives and management have always been American.

The Neon people only dare to put some of their own people in the corners.

The proportion of neon people is very small, which was also the promise when they acquired Columbia Pictures.

This time Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Columbia Pictures, came to see Abel.

It's because since October last year.

On the American Internet and some entertainment media, there are some negative voices about Sony Columbia.

As early as last October, not long after Abel acquired MGM.

A voice emerged on American Internet forums and various portals.

Many American netizens claim that it is one of the iconic superheroes that symbolizes the American spirit and the bravery and kindness of Americans.

Spider-Man Parker.

His copyright is actually held by an American company controlled by Neon Man?

Does this mean that the Neon Man is secretly plotting behind the scenes, trying to darken this symbol of the American spirit?

The sound was quiet at first, but as time went on, the sound became louder and louder.

It has become so big that even Sony and Columbia Pictures cannot ignore it.

Sony Columbia Pictures stepped in and tried something.

But with little success, the voice on the Internet is getting louder.

Originally it was just a sound on the Internet network.

Sony Columbia will take it seriously, but it won’t really take it too seriously.

At this time, many elites did not realize the horror of the Internet.

The problem is, it came after December last year.

A member of the U.S. Congress also raised these issues on the Internet.

The congressman even said he would launch a bill in Congress.

The content of the proposal is to prohibit companies and works that symbolize the United States or have the American spirit from falling into the hands of foreigners.

This proposal has not been put forward yet, it is just a piece of news.

It has received support from many American netizens.

After being exposed by the mass media, it also gained support from more Americans.

It is said that this helped the congressman's approval rating increase by several percentage points in his own constituency.

By this time, Sony Columbia Pictures was starting to get nervous.

They also began to take action and began to intervene and lobby.

After they start to intervene and lobby.

They found that more attacks in this area were coming towards Sony Colombia.

Especially after entering this year, since January.

Another congressman in his district proposed a similar proposal.

In DC.

People from Sony Columbia tried their best to find the "Commission for the Arts and Humanities", a department abbreviated as PCAH.

This department was established in 1982 and is directly overseen by White House.

Its power and role are similar to those of the U.S. Department of Culture.

The people of PCAH are under the power of Sony Columbia’s dollar bills.

They told Sony Columbia's Howard Stringer.

"Just sell those things you shouldn't have."

What are the things we shouldn’t have?

Howard Stringer was stunned.

Then Howard Stringer came to his senses.

Reminiscent of the public opinion that began to ferment on the Internet last year.

Spider-Man!

In addition, MGM has been in contact and negotiating with Sony Columbia on behalf of Marvel since November last year.

Marvel wants to buy back the rights to Spider-Man.

Howard Stringer suddenly understood something.

The president of Sony Colombia spent some more connections and resources.

Finally, in DC, the source of this incident was roughly determined.

That's why today, Howard Stringer came to our door specifically.

Abel at his beach house in Hawaii.

Hosted one of the giants of Hollywood.

In the same living room where Cameron was received.

Abel met Howard Stringer.

Howard Stringer is not a standard American.

He was born in the UK in 1942, and became an American citizen in 1985. He is now a dual citizen.

Although US law allows the existence of dual citizenship, and many people also have different feelings towards the UK.

But this time in the incident of "foreigners possessing American spiritual symbols".

Howard Stringer, the original British CEO, and his dual nationality.

It has also been used as an attack on the Internet.

Even if Howard Stringer is a typical Unsa.

Ordinary Americans, after being incited, don't care about this.

All they know is that Spider-Man, whom everyone has loved since childhood, is one of the spiritual symbols of American civilians.

He was actually robbed by the Neon Man!

This is almost equivalent to the fact that in China, Sun Dasheng's copyright is actually held by a Chinese film company controlled by Neon.

Even the citizens of a big country can’t stand this kind of thing!

When you are fine, you will be fine.

If someone is inciting public opinion and looking for trouble on the Internet.

Then this matter can be big or small.

At present, things are already relatively big.

Didn’t you see that all the MPs came out to speak?

In order to calm down the incident, Howard Stringer had to come to the door.

As soon as I came to the door, after seeing Abel.

Howard Stringer got right to the point:

"Mr. Smith, what can Columbia Pictures do to satisfy you?"

This kind of thing can be done, but Abel will not admit it.

Abel deliberately puzzled and said:

"What are you talking about? Mr. Stringer, I don't understand what you mean."

Howard Stringer smiled bitterly and said, "Then let me speak frankly. Mr. Smith, many Americans are now doubting that we hold the copyright to Spider-Man."

"But the problem is that when Marvel sold the copyright, the entire process was reasonable and legal."

Hearing what Howard Stringer said, Abel smiled softly.

"It's definitely legal. If it's not legal, the transaction that year won't be approved."

Abel said softly:

"It's not necessarily reasonable. A cultural and spiritual symbol of American civilians was sold for US$6 million."

"Is this reasonable? Then I'll pay you $6 million, and you can help me go to Neon and sell me copyrights like Doraemon?"

Howard Stringer felt that Abel was trying to make excuses.

Before superhero movies were successful.

Neon-popular anime IPs like Doraemon are much more profitable than American superheroes.

Let’s talk about 6 million. Marvel itself agreed to it back then.

"call"

Howard Stringer took a deep breath and smiled on his face:

"Mr. Smith, I'm here to solve a problem. What exactly do you want Columbia Pictures to do?"

If we say that Abel is just a Hollywood giant.

Then this happens.

Howard Stringer doesn't have to be so groveling.

If we say that Abel is not only a Hollywood tycoon, but also a media tycoon.

Howard Stringer also has a way, with the support of Sony, to let Columbia Pictures launch an industry-wide counterattack against Abel.

This forced Abel to give up this public opinion attack.

But the problem is

The two titles of Hollywood tycoon and media tycoon are just two unimportant ones to Abel.

Howard Stringer and Sony behind him.

What is even more worrying is Abel's status as a Wall Street tycoon and a fellow Texan.

The former is already terrifying.

When it comes to Wall Street, which industry giant is not afraid?

The latter's identity as a fellow Texan was nothing in the past.

right now.

Who told Texans to live in white houses now?

What's more, it was no secret that little Laura entered and exited the Smith Building more than half a month ago.

Not only Wall Street, but most of the upper-class elites in the United States have heard of this.

This time Columbia Pictures is an old friend in DC.

This was also mentioned implicitly.

Under the oppression of these two identities behind Abel.

Only then did Sony Columbia have to ask Howard Stringer to come and proactively seek peace.

Howard Stringer also had to look a little groveling like this.

You know, Howard Stringer is trusted by Sony.

His status within the behemoth Sony is extremely high.

In parallel time and space, a few years later, he served as the president of Sony Group for eight years.

Let such a giant in the industry show such a side.

Just relying on Abel's status as a Hollywood magnate and media tycoon.

That's obviously not enough.

That's why Abel's take on Sony Columbia Pictures looks so terrible.

Mainly because, in the eyes of Americans, Sony Columbia is really an American company held by foreigners.

In addition, there is the sense of oppression from Wall Street and the White House.

"It's very simple." Abel didn't hide it.

He looked at Howard Stringer:

"For $12 million, Marvel doubled the price to repurchase this American spiritual and cultural symbol."

"This is impossible!" Howard Stringer said decisively immediately.

Sony Columbia has been losing money for eleven years and finally got Spider-Man.

Within the company, preparations were made for the launch of related comic book movies last year.

Even the script has been created, the director has been found, and the filing has been completed.

Just bad shooting.

If there is no copyright at this time, then most of last year's work will be in vain.

Sony Colombia also did a lot of market research.

Plus Howard Stringer's intuition.

Research results and intuition are telling Howard Stringer.

Spider-Man, maybe himself, has a chance to make a comeback with Sony Columbia Pictures.

Since this is an opportunity for a salty fish to make a comeback, how could it be given up?

Seeing Howard Stringer's determined look, Abel smiled and nodded.

"Yes. Marvel doesn't have to buy back Parker. But the previous price was very unreasonable."

"For $6 million, an American cultural symbol was sold to a company controlled by foreigners."

"I think this is very unreasonable."

Abel smiled, his face blank at first, and he looked at Howard Stringer.

"I will appeal to White House to investigate the transaction that year."

"Let's see if in this process, whether there are people on Marvel's side and Columbia Pictures' side, who are maliciously selling America's civilian spiritual and cultural symbols."

"I think there will be many Americans, especially netizens on the Internet, who will very much agree with this."

When Abel talked about "Internet netizens", he deliberately emphasized his tone.

This is a deliberate reminder to Howard Stringer of public opinion on the American Internet.

In fact, what Howard Stringer fears most is not the public opinion of the American Internet network.

In this era, most people have not noticed the role of the Internet in manipulating public opinion.

Only the will of individual countries, such as the United States and Rabbit, are aware of it.

The American approach to this is to spread the Internet to the whole world at a faster speed.

In this way, it, the controller of the Internet, can get the maximum benefits.

Rabbit’s approach is to enclose the territory and prevent its own Internet from being controlled by outsiders.

Although Howard Stringer is a business elite, he has the limitations of the times after all.

Abel is not great in business, but he comes from the future.

He knew that for this matter, public opinion on the Internet would be even more powerful.

What Howard Stringer is more afraid of is actually the White House and Wall Street that may be standing behind Abel.

Face this threat from Abel.

Howard Stringer was worried that Abel could really bring down the White House.

By that time, it doesn't matter whether Parker can be saved or not.

Sony Colombia will definitely suffer heavy losses in this matter.

It's good to be able to keep it, and there is a chance to make it back slowly after a heavy loss.

If it can't be saved after suffering heavy losses, then Sony Columbia will really be in trouble.

When he thought of this possibility, Howard Stringer's tough tone just now couldn't help but soften a bit.

The dual-national American looked at Abel with a slight pleading in his voice, "Mr. Smith. As early as last year, Columbia had already started preparing for a Spider-Man movie."

"If we lose Parker at this time, our losses will be very heavy. Columbia has been losing money for eleven years, and we can't continue to lose like this!"

Abel would not soften his heart because of this.

"Why not?"

Abel took it for granted:

"Sony's market capitalization exceeds US$130 billion, making it richer than 99% of U.S. listed companies."

"And I know that Mitsui is behind Sony. They are richer."

"They want to have a tool to speak out in the United States. How can that be possible without paying a price?"

"Colombia's continued losses are the price they have to pay."

Howard Stringer didn't expect that Abel would bring the topic to this larger and more serious level.

But the CEO of Sony Columbia Pictures knows it too.

This kind of thing is no secret to Americans at Abel's level.

What Howard Stringer is worried about now is that what Abel did was not just Abel's own idea.

Rather, they represent the words of certain forces in the upper echelons of the United States.

That's when things get really troublesome.

At this point in the conversation, Howard Stringer already knew that there wouldn't be any blood today.

If Sony Columbia does not satisfy the other party, there is definitely a high probability of losing Spider-Man.

Even if Sony Columbia follows up, there will be many other troubles.

Thinking of this, Howard Stringer tried to calm himself down.

He calmed down, looked at Abel and said:

"Okay. I understand what you mean. Then Mr. Smith, please give me a price at the end."

After talking to this point, Abel was too lazy to continue arguing with Howard Stringer.

Abel raised two fingers and said, "Two choices."

"The first option is for Marvel to buy back all the copyrights of Spider-Man for US$18 million. At three times the price, in less than five years, the annualized rate of return will be more than 40%."

"This yield is unprecedented on Wall Street."

"The second option is that Sony compensates Marvel with 60 million in copyright fees, and both parties share the copyright of Spider-Man Parker."

Both options were too much for Howard Stringer to bear.

But if Howard Stringer had to pick one that he found more uncomfortable, it would naturally be the former one.

Because that would be losing Spider-Man.

Losing Spider-Man, Howard Stringer felt that he and Sony Columbia would lose a chance to turn around.

But Howard Stringer also knows that for Sony behind him.

Of the two options, the latter may be more uncomfortable for Sony.

Spend an extra $60 million on Ping An.

Just spend an extra $60 million to buy Ping An.

Getting Spider-Man isn't complete, it's only part of it.

Even Howard Stringer himself would actually prefer the latter option.

But Howard Stringer also knows that Sony will most likely not be willing to spend an extra 60 million.

"I see."

Howard Stringer stood up expressionlessly, "I will report this to the head office immediately. Goodbye, Mr. Smith."

"Goodbye~"

Abel smiled and waved at this guy who was considered a "beautiful traitor" to Americans.

Howard Stringer was calm on the surface, but left with a turbulent heart.