American Entertainment 1982

On the covered bridge on the second floor of this sea-view villa, Robert Miller, with light blond hair, slowly got up from his seat with a gentle smile on his face. With an appreciative smile, he looked at Tommy who appeared at the stairs and was getting closer and closer.

He said in exactly the same tone on the phone:

"Son, you should have come to drink with me last night and chat with me. In my impression, you are not the shy type."

"I know, but after a man has a girlfriend, no matter what type of personality he has, there will only be one type left in the end, the passive type. It's best to listen to his girlfriend obediently, if you don't want to be taught a lesson by her, for example Me." Tommy responded to the other party's words in his mouth, and at the same time stepped over and stretched out his hand:

"Tommy Hawk, SSD Stanford Chapter, nice to meet you, Mr. Miller."

Miller shook hands with Tommy, and then introduced to Tommy Julian Farrell who was walking by with his shirt sleeves in the distance: "Otilia's father, Julian Farrell, President of the line boat industry, my alumnus at Cornell University, a purebred vampire salesman, the greatest joy is selling some shabby sailboats to friends, such as me."

"Am I in my own vacation villa? It seems redundant. After all, two bastards from the White Robe Club are blatantly slandering me, a member of the Order of the Phoenix." Farrell walked over with a smile, and held out his hand to Tommy:

"Tommy Hawke, Ottilia kept telling me and her mom that you were her best student, even though she didn't have a teaching job, we should have known each other in your high school, yes Bar?"

"Yes, sir." Tommy nodded to Farrell: "I'm sorry I didn't see you in high school before."

Farrell didn't stay here ignorantly. After shaking hands with Tommy with a smile, he took the initiative to say: "I made a few calls to the company to deal with work. Don't regret it. When I finish my work, we will have dinner together. It's the same when we meet now. .”

"No regrets, Tommy, sit down, and I'll tell you why you don't have to regret it." Miller gestured for Tommy to sit next to him, and then looked downstairs, talking with Otilia and his three daughters The very happy Sophia said in her mouth:

"When Julian was in college, he snatched away the international sweetheart contestant from our SSD Cornell University chapter, and now he is his wife. After hearing this news, do you still feel regretful?"

Tommy shrugged, and said with a wry smile to Miller: "Then let me tell you a more regrettable news, the strong contender for the international sweetheart selected by the Stanford branch, a blonde girl who looks exactly like Judy Garland, was also accepted by the Order of the Phoenix." Someone took it away, just like your relationship with Mr. Farrell, that guy from the Order of the Phoenix is ​​also my friend, and I seem to be unable to do anything but regret."

"No, there are many things that can be done. If I were you, I would marry his daughter home with the idea of ​​helping SSD get rid of the shame." Miller suddenly turned his head, looked at Tommy and said.

Tommy was slightly taken aback.

Robert Miller laughed loudly: "Sounds a little difficult, right? After all, she is the only daughter of the Farrell family of Haixian Shipbuilding Industry. She has been taken care of very well since she was born, which is different from people like us. , we have to understand the rules of society from birth, and find ways to make our lives better, your father is..."

"Shipbreakers, but now there's a little shipbreaking yard," said Tommy.

"My father was a furniture salesman. I remember when I told him that I wanted to go to university, he was not proud, but angry because he thought I was making a wrong choice. He had already helped me find a job. In his eyes, a good job is to be a carpenter apprentice in a furniture factory, with a stable job, and he can also learn skills. After graduation, he can open a furniture workshop to support his family without worrying about being starved to death." Robert Miller picked up the table Put the grapes on the fruit plate, and throw one in your mouth:

"My mother persuaded him for a long time before he agreed for me to go to college and become the first college student in the Miller family."

With a sad expression, Tommy accompanied the old guy to recall each other's difficult years of schooling, and talked about how he made a summer camp gimmick to make money to bring back his sister and save tuition fees.

"I wasn't as good as you in high school, kid." Miller praised with affirmation: "I only knew how to do odd jobs at that time, but you can already make a lot of money, I just because I knew it from Otilia. It’s your past that makes you feel like investing in you because we’re the same kind of people.”

"Mr. Miller, with all due respect, your business has nothing to do with the computer software industry. I mean that investment should not be so hasty. Of course, I am very grateful for your appreciation. It's just that I am in trouble now and it is not a good time to invest." Tommy pretended to be a little unclear about the other party's thoughts, and asked frankly.

Miller's gray-blue eyes looked at Tommy: "Tommy, you are so smart, you should realize that business in the United States is the same regardless of industry. Entrepreneurs may need professional knowledge, but investors do not. He All you need to know is that you can make money. Your troubles are not troubles to me. I guess you should know about my news. I can have today because of SSDs. There are no SSDs in West Point Military Academy and the Naval Academy. People, Chuck and I can’t do tax-free business like this.”

"Yes, sir, I've heard about your experience with Mr. Feeney." Tommy nodded.

Miller wiped his fingers with a paper towel from the water stains from grabbing grapes: "You are a member of SSD, I can save the bullshit that I would talk to those sanctimonious guys, in short, SSD brothers in the Navy When we went fishing with me, we mentioned that the U.S. Navy recently had a naval contract worth at least 2 billion yuan, and about 400 million of it involved computer software. I thought, Actor might want to earn this money."

"It sounds like as long as not everyone in the navy is blind, the small company Actor shouldn't be able to make this kind of money. Mr. Miller, Actor company doesn't have the ability to bid. We just develop some simple office software. , just sold to the poor." Tommy had a shocked look on his face, and after a few seconds of stunned, he shook his head and said again and again.

Miller ignored Tommy's shock, and continued on his own: "That order is for the US Navy to seek service providers for four large overseas bases located in the mainland, Hawaii, Japan, and South Korea, and build a computer information center. , to provide computer information equipment maintenance services, 2 billion is just the basic construction cost, if you need facility maintenance services in the future, you need to sign another contract, and the contract will be renewed every five years, that is, every five years, you can charge the government once cost."

"This kind of business is more suitable for EDS founded by Mr. Henry Perot, another SSD alumnus. His EDS specializes in providing overall network construction and maintenance services for government departments, large banks, and enterprises." After listening to Tommy, he immediately Just asked.

Hearing Tommy talking about Perot, Miller smiled disdainfully: "Perot, that's right, you've heard of Perot, right? That guy sounds like you, and he's in the computer business." Man, has contacts in the military, the army, the navy, and even the National Social Security Bureau have large contracts from his company, he is indeed the most suitable person for this order, but why didn't I call him, but after I found you, I was pleasantly surprised invited you over to discuss this business?"

"I don't know, sir. I haven't met Mr. Perot, but I've only heard his story." Tommy said, shaking his head.

From any point of view of this business, Perot's EDS is the best choice for the Navy.

"By relying on his connections with SSD, he got a big order when he was working at IBM, and then he created EDS. Many orders from the military did not choose a more suitable IBM, and all of them were handed over to his small company EDS, just like today I put This order is ready to be handed over to you. With those orders, EDS has grown rapidly. In a short period of time, this guy has become the richest man in Texas, but he obviously has no shortage of money, but he wants to let the company go public. EDS only relies on the US military The business can earn a steady stream of wealth, but that bastard insisted on betraying the people who helped him, and listed EDS with a high profile. Many shareholders who helped him and just wanted to hold shares in the company to receive returns were forced to Withdraw from EDS, after listening to it now, do you think Perot, who betrayed his friend, is the most suitable candidate for this order from the Navy?" After Miller finished explaining why he didn't want Perot to take over the business, he patted Tommy shoulders:

"Now, an opportunity to make you the richest man in Rhode Island, because of Perot's stupidity, is presented to you, Tommy, just like the opportunity presented to Perot back then."

There was an expression of disbelief on Tommy's face, and even his breathing was a little short, but his heart was as calm as water. If the old guy said these words to an ordinary college student, he might really be tempted, because it sounds very tempting , as if the whole thing is completely harmless, even there are references for the retreat, for example, one day because of the company's business problems, there is a conflict with shareholders, and the company can go public and part ways like Perot.

But in fact, it was Miller who avoided the important and ignored the important. He would never say that if Perot can do some things, it doesn't mean that Tommy Hawke can also do it.

Perot has served in the Navy for many years, has won many medals, and has a profound background. Moreover, he and Hayes McLuggin, the third-ranked white-shoe elite lawyer in the United States and President Nixon's personal adviser, are childhood buddies. The Bush family in Texas also has a personal relationship. The background across the two parties and the military is there. It is impossible for the group of vampires who serve in the military behind Miller to use American-style settlements to get rid of their shareholders and make a lot of money. Perot, after all, it is impossible for these American silverfish to do stupid things because they made less money, so that they will lose their official positions and ruin their reputations.

But they must dare to use the American style to solve Tommy Hawk, who has no background but tries to emulate Perot to break free from control.

As if noticing the look on Tommy's face, Miller continued: "You like Ottilia a lot, don't you? Influenced by the bastards of SSD, no one can resist the blonde girl, and the other party is her own A high school teacher can increase the temptation even more. If you seize this opportunity, you can stand in front of her and propose to her with an expensive diamond ring. Her father will not object to you who are well-matched. He will only send blessings and miss it. I think you are just selling those cheap software, and it is difficult for Julian to give his daughter to you with confidence, because fathers will worry about the decline in the quality of life of their precious daughter."

"But this kind of public bidding, compared to Actor and EDS, is completely uncompetitive." Tommy didn't follow the other party to talk about Otilia, but continued to ask, it sounded like women were not in his mind at the moment. It is worth mentioning that making money is his sole purpose for Tommy Hawk.

Seeing that Tommy was moving, Miller immediately added a more seductive tone: "EDS has established several business alliances to provide comprehensive information services for each Party A. Lotus just happens to be a member of the EDS Agile Alliance EDS provides special spreadsheet software, that is to say, there is an economic relationship between them, and EDS can be involved in court if they are related. During the period when EDS is involved, the military can just worry about potential infringement The reason for rejecting EDS’s bid on the grounds of malicious claims is above board. Then, I will give you all-round support, lawyers, funds, contacts, lobbyists, etc., and you can quickly expand the actor in a short period of time. , harvest this contract calmly. Speaking of it, the military business is the best. Those low-level soldiers don’t know what they need. Even if you give them a blank piece of paper and tell them what electronic materials are in it, they will be stupid I believe that as long as you complete this business, you will find that it is very easy to make money as long as you make a good choice. Of course, I can first pay for the computer software training service of Actor in the name of DFS Actor's five million, so that your company's books will not be out of money, although DFS does not need Actor to provide any services at all."

Tommy has already used all kinds of dirty words in his mind to greet the old man in front of him who has turned into a beast in clothes, but still deliberately talks to him in a jerk tone and tries to get closer to him countless times. The three daughters and his wife are already in Tommy's mind. Innumerable poses were posed.

I am a bastard with no bottom line in his style of acting, but he has the most basic humanity, but what is this guy? I have no imagination, courage and freedom, and I am not worthy of being a bastard. jerk?

I'm old, and I don't allow other men with big clubs to spend time and drink, so I can only accompany him as a eunuch?

This meeting, apart from allowing Tommy to see that Miller is using the lawsuit from his perspective, has nothing to learn from Benjamin Rosen, at least Mr. Benjamin Can give some positive suggestions, although Tommy himself understands those reasons, but at least it is the attitude of SSD alumni teaching SSD juniors.

And listen to what this bastard said, he lied to himself and Actor as his profit tools and weapons, and he was only willing to pay five million. When Master Tommy is really a Warwick countryman who has never seen money?

Even in his own imagination, it might exist, and he would not be willing to offer Otilia to marry him in exchange for being a tool maker, he would not give it to his own daughter, and he would not give it to someone else's daughter? Even if it was a lie, it would be nice to trick Master Tommy into being happy.

If I had known that the other party was so rich and still maintained the fine tradition of being stingy, I wouldn't have brought Sophia with me as a shield, so I might be able to get closer to Otilia in private.

"Uh...but...I mean...I mean I'm from Warwick." Tommy opened his mouth hesitantly, looked at Miller, and then lowered his head to look at his hands: "You know, Perot Mr. is my father's idol. After knowing that I joined SSD, my father specially told me to meet him if I had the opportunity, and let me remember to ask for an autographed photo for him. But Mr. Miller, what you just said... is hope I stood opposite Mr. Perot, who is also a member of SSD, and I joined SSD because of him."

"So, are you sure you want to give up such a big business?" Miller stared at Tommy with a half-smile: "You are a smart man, think about it, you can turn upside down the Caribbean Sea when you have no money, and if you have wealth , you could even change the world with that money and your mind, Tommy."

Tommy seemed to have made up his mind, his gaze became resolute, and he looked at Miller: "Let me help you fight against the past idol and SSD alumni...additional money is required."

"He's really an SSD qualified bastard." Miller laughed when he heard Tommy's words: "Then how much do you hope to get?"

Tommy also laughed: "No, no, money is not important now, and I feel even more insecure now."

"Sense of security?" Miller frowned slightly: "Bodyguard? Driver, doctor?"

"Your three daughters have the same blonde hair as Miss Otilia Farrell, huh?" Tommy said with a smile, and slowly stood up: "I'm just kidding."

This sentence almost choked Robert Miller, who was picking up a glass of water, he didn't have dementia, the fucking bastard really dared to think that his three daughters were all blond...

He stood up with a slightly sullen face, shook hands with Tommy, and said coldly: "I don't think you need to think about it, I already know the answer, I was a jerk myself, and I know what you are thinking, you tell me Take it as a lie and a joke.”

"You're not a jerk, Mr. Miller, so treating this meeting as a joke is the best result." Tommy let go of the opponent's hand and sighed: "Before I saw you, I had a lot of respect for you, because What you experienced when you were young made me, a new generation of bastard, yearn for a time machine and go back to that era to do those crazy things with you, but at this moment when I was about to leave, I found out that you have three Not as good as Ottilia's beautiful blond daughter, nothing I remember, times have changed Mr Miller, twenty years ago you and Mr Perrault were the best bastards in SSD, but now, Only Mr. Perot is still insisting on being a jerk, and you have become a gentleman."

After finishing speaking, he bowed slightly to Miller, turned around and walked towards the stairs: "Assholes are always breakers who break the rules, rather than assimilating into a part of the rules, so every time someone calls me an asshole, I will be very upset. Happy because they remind me not to forget what I have to be."

"You rejected me, and I can also help. A procurement contract worth five million has nothing to do with the Navy's bidding contract. I just want to see you kick those nerds' ass." Miller asked behind.

Tommy immediately turned around, walked quickly back in front of Miller, and bowed to the ground: "You said earlier that you would give Actor 5 million for free, which would make my impression of you much better, Mr. Miller."

"So you greeted me wildly in your head just now." Seeing Tommy's reaction, Miller laughed.

Tommy said frankly: "No, I'm not gay, I just greet..."

"Shut up, for the sake of my age, don't let me die of a heart attack." Miller sat back in his seat and took out a business card from under the fruit plate:

"I won't pay five million, but here is a business card of Perot. He said before that if you are not a fool who rushes to the opportunity when you hear the opportunity, you can call him and he will buy it. A batch of OSS."

Tommy stared at the business card, then looked at Miller with a smirk on his face: "You are really good at acting, Mr. Miller, I have a colleague who is an assistant casting director, would you like to make a movie? I am willing to support you as the number one male."

"No, just let my daughters go in your mind." Miller shook his head: "Although I was lying just now, it is true that Perot lost the navy order."

"Impossible." Hearing Miller's words, Tommy said with certainty: "No other company can compete with EDS for naval orders."

"Wait to watch the news, or wait for Perot to fly back to the country and tell you in person. Anyway, it's not a secret." Miller said with a bit of disappointment:

"I wanted to teach you a lesson, you know? But you didn't give me a chance to teach you a lesson. Instead, you taught me a lesson with similar lines. Did you see through a certain link?"

Tommy said seriously: "No, everything I said before was a lie, only what I said to you when I was leaving is true, you are not a jerk, Mr. Miller."

After he finished speaking, he hesitated and added: "Uh, by the way, there is one more thing I want to clarify. I don't have a girlfriend. Sophia is my legal assistant. I thought you would seduce me with beautiful women, so I specially brought you Remind yourself not to be fooled, but now, I feel the need to explain clearly to you, your three daughters, and Ottilia that I am single, and my character is obvious to all..."

"How's the secret meeting of your fraternity going? I've prepared some food, do you need to bring it up?" Otilia asked loudly to the two people on the upstairs terrace from far downstairs.

"No need, Ottilia, take my three daughters away. Aren't you going to watch a musical on Broadway in New York? Ask the driver to take you to the airport immediately." Miller responded loudly, then turned to look at Tang Mi said threateningly: "My daughters will only marry real gentlemen, so you'd better stay away from them, and don't force me to eunuch you."

Tommy obediently raised his hands and made a retreating motion: "This sentence can vaguely feel the aura of when you were a jerk back then."

"Your lunch is not prepared here. I am only responsible for teaching you one thing in this class. Don't be like a fly that rushes to poop when you see it. Think about the consequences. I didn't expect you to do a good job." Miller He waved his hand impatiently and made a gesture of repelling:

"Those things I told you are not lies, but just my retelling of what happened to me back then. If I could resist the temptation like you did back then, it would be so damn good. Now it doesn't even matter whether my company goes public or not." Can't decide."

Six thousand words, too lazy to divide into chapters, actually two chapters~