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In the three months since he came to Los Angeles, Chen Jun has been busy almost every day. To be honest, he doesn't even have much time for tenderness.

Controlling Corleone's empire puts a lot of pressure on him.

Currently, he wants to shift the focus of the Corleone family's business to the west and sell off a large number of the family's prime and dark assets in eastern New York.

Among these many investment and acquisition cases, fortunately, he had the forward-looking vision from later generations and the professional elite talents given to him by his old godfather, so he was able to proceed in an orderly manner.

These companies in various industries, whether prosperous or not, controlling or fully acquired, will bring explosive wealth to the Corleone family with the rapid development of the American economy after World War II.

For example, the investment and holding of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo is purely based on the mentality of waiting for the stock to grow. Now Coca-Cola has almost 70% of the cola share. It is a beverage giant. The market has seen a significant increase in bullish prices. If you can participate in the purchase, it is enough. That's pretty good.

In addition to the catering field, Chen Jun also invested in the financial field. He controlled several investment companies led by Goldman Sachs that are now vaguely prosperous. However, it was just a holding, and finance was too professional. He could not play around and just waited for the price to rise.

The basic foundation he built for the Corleone family lies in the media field, biochemical pharmaceuticals, gambling hotel chain business, and may also involve automobiles and aviation in the future.

These are all areas involving people's livelihood, with large profits and difficult to be affected by fluctuations. For this reason, Chen Jun has also specially cooperated with two top universities in the west to study related media, color TV, audio recording and other technologies, as well as the upcoming third information In the revolutionary era, a lot of money was invested in the research of microelectronics and computer-related technologies.

The Corleone family's industrial structure has been gradually transforming. Among the many companies it has invested in and acquired, there are two major companies involved in the media field, National Broadcasting Company and National Radio Records, which Chen Jun is more concerned about.

Because of the Paramount Act, although the film industry is still making huge profits, it has been in a sluggish state for a long time, which is why wireless radio and television have risen strongly.

Of course, this is also a trend. Even if the film industry is not in a downturn, these two industries will also rise. However, the decline of the film industry and the technological improvement of color TVs and recording equipment will intensify the popularity of these two industries in the future.

In the future of the United States in the 1970s, a famous singer's income from performing concerts and performing tricks will be much higher than that of a movie star. In that era, such as Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ford, Peggy Lee, Classic songs by the Kingston Trio, the Fourth Grade Freshmen Band, the Athletes Band, etc. have also become household names with the recording of vinyl records.

National Radio Records is a company with related music patented technology and many singers. However, it has not yet fully prospered and was easily acquired by Chen Jun for US$7 million.

It is worth mentioning that Johnny Fontane is currently the number one singer of this company, but his voice was ruined by tobacco, alcohol and sex, and he did not like this career, so he became an actor, but his current record sales record No one has broken it yet, probably until Elvis Presley comes.

As for NBC, it is currently one of the three major commercial radio and television companies in the United States. It currently has 15 television stations and 116 affiliated radio stations. Because the Federal Communications Commission decided that NBC is not allowed to own both the red broadcast network and the blue broadcast network. .In October 1943, Edward Noble purchased the National Broadcasting Corporation for $8 million.

In February 1953, due to the implementation of the Paramount Act, Paramount Corporation purchased the company for US$25 million to form a new broadcasting company.

It was only 1946, and Chen Jun didn't need that much to acquire NBC, but he still spent $11 million to acquire it from Edward Noble.

This acquisition has already started two months ago. At the same time, if the acquisition is completed, the relevant TV variety show ideas and the funds needed to produce the TV series will be submitted and included in the territory of "Daily" media, and professional operation and financial personnel will also be provided.

will be responsible for related matters.

The work continues. Chen Jun needs to inspect and coordinate the acquired company's business every day, formulate relevant systems, and arrange professionals. It can be said that he is extremely busy.

At this moment, Johnny came to visit again.

"What else happened?"

Chen Jun poured him a glass of Scotch whiskey as usual, still the amber one.

Johnny was quite surprised and moved by this small detail, and a warm current flowed through his heart. In fact, whiskey was not a drink he really liked to taste, but it was the one he named by William in the small newspaper office a year ago.

The one I ordered.

At that time, his godfather helped him solve the problem of the movie tycoon. He was very high-spirited and was naturally not very polite to William.

Now he still remembers that he likes this wine, and it was specially kept for him in the office of the villa last time.

But William's next sentence made Johnny immediately come back from his warmth, "The filming of the movie is over."

Johnny was a little embarrassed: "The movie has been shot a long time ago, but director Hitchcock was not very satisfied with the editing of the film."

"Oh, I remember what you told me last time." Chen Jun said with a smile, "Sorry, I'm really busy with work recently."

"I know, I've been contacting a lot of editors, writers, and professional producers recently, which has kept me busy."

Johnny told Chen Jun about his experience during this period. In summary, it was a report. He had used his personal network to network with many professional talents, and had already formulated two film project shooting plans, and related scripts in the future.

As well as the film personnel and processes will be presented to him in the form of reports.

"You did a good job. I will read your follow-up project report." Chen Jun nodded: "What about Hitchcock's wishes? What do he think?"

"He has no objections and has no special views on that company. The important thing is that there are enough funds and a good script to satisfy him. Of course, an Oscar is also a must. No one can easily refuse this honor."

It can only be said that great directors are willful... Chen Jun heard Johnny's subtext: "Is your purpose of coming here for the Oscar?"

"That's right, the movie "Vertigo" is our company's first shot. Although it is currently trending to be a big hit, we can't give up on awards. It's best to create a sensational topic."

Chen Jun nodded in approval, casually dialed the phone in front of Johnny in the office, called five or six times, finally hung up, looked at him and said:

"No problem, the only problem is how many statuettes you want."

When Johnny heard these frivolous words, his eyelids jumped, and he once again refreshed his understanding of the power in William's hands.