Rebirth of America, this is my time

Australia is in the middle of summer in January, with the lowest temperature reaching 20 degrees Celsius. The sunny weather makes the beach crowded with tourists. The fact that it is surrounded by the sea has given rise to many water sports.

Banana boats, kayaks, water sofas;

Walking ball, motor boat, deep sea snorkeling;

As long as you can name the project, you can find them here.

For most people living in the northern hemisphere, Australia in December is a holiday paradise. But for the Johnson family, who have been active in the Bay Area all year round, water sports are meaningless.

Whatever is available here, California has it, and whatever is not available here, Ethan Jones can make it available in California.

Faced with this fact, their core purpose of coming to Australia is to change places and change their mood.

For example, I went to the Sydney Opera House, which was built just two years ago, to listen to a Christmas Eve themed concert;

But Thomas didn’t think it sounded good;

For another example, I attended a song and dance performed by the aboriginal Gedigail tribe on Christmas Day;

The place was lively, but also really crowded;

For example, I went to the Hunter Valley, a wine-producing area in Australia, and learned how to make wine;

Thomas bluntly said that Australian grapes are not as good as those in California;

And went to Kangaroo Island to have a close encounter with Australia's national treasure...

"Hey hey hey! Carrot! Don't provoke others!"

"Oh - white radish! Why do you like to eat other people's things so much!"

"Damn! That's shit! You two don't go smelling shit on the ground!"

"Oh Sxxt!"

"Ethan! Look at these two! They are not obedient at all! Call them over quickly!"

When a shrill roar resounded through the sky, the red and white figure who was still playing on the grass suddenly raised his head, stared at his round eyes, and looked around with a look of horror on his nostrils.

It was like a lightning strike and more like a fear, which made Ethan laugh. He put his right hand on his mouth and blew a loud whistle. The crisp sound made the little ones look for the sound. After seeing Ethan clapping his hands continuously, , they hurriedly rushed over with broken steps.

Then, he fell into Ethan's arms.

Not only that, they also turned their heads instinctively.

He cast a frightened look at Evelin who roared to the side.

This situation made Evelin so angry that she immediately threw the traction rope in her hand to Ethan.

Don't say anything, just turn around and leave.

"Oh - you two got into trouble -"

His sister's angry look made Ethan roll up the leash with a smile, and gently slapped the furry child twice, "Why don't you catch up quickly?"

The furry kids seemed to be able to understand human words, but it was more like Ethan's blow made them feel the pain. Before the words were spoken, they had already jumped out and chased Evelin, trying to Leave that devil who seems kind but hits people...

Carrot and turnip are two Scottish Shetland ponies, a gift given to Ethan by Roy Disney a few summers ago to congratulate Johnson on the success of his home console.

One head is maroon and the other is snow-white. At first glance, anyone would call him handsome.

Because of this, when they met Evelyn, the girl fell in love with them.

In order to be in contact with the little guys every day, Evelin even bought a house for them, right next to her villa, and hired a specialized breeder to raise them.

But unfortunately, even if Evelin bought good feed for them, fed them good horse grass, and even specially asked the Imperial Valley in California to supply it, giving them the best rice, without wood. The core is king carrots without the earthy smell, but they are still raw.

He would only show affection in front of Ethan.

To be honest, this fact made Evelin very confused. She didn't understand. In order to let the two ponies get close to her, she clearly asked the breeder not to feed the ponies carrots.

When she is the only one who can feed sweet and delicious snacks...

How come these two guys are like white-eyed wolves, not familiar with each other?

Oh no!

The wolves in Hoh Xil can recognize car logos!

So why are these two little ponies so stupid?

Could it be that their appearance is all due to their IQ?

Whenever Evelin expressed doubts, Ethan would smile secretly on the sidelines, because he would never say that while Evelin was feeding the two little guys carrots, he would also secretly feed them carrots. The little guy was fed some apples, oats, corn and soybeans sticky with syrup.

When the horse who likes to eat candy meets Ethan who feeds him candy directly...

There would be trouble if these two little guys didn't catch Ethan's trousers and rub them hard!

After all, no matter how delicious carrots are, they are not as sweet as syrup!

Hehe~

After staying in Australia for a month and taking carrots and radishes on a free trip with Thomas and Linda, Ethan returned to California and felt a little lost.

The kind of life where you spend money freely without doing anything is really wonderful.

If it weren't for the fact that he had too many opponents, each of whom wanted to tear him to pieces, he would probably have already found a successor and let him take over the position of president for the time being.

But now that he has returned to normal life, Ethan has also returned to work, and the first thing he did was to summon Steve Ballmer, who had been on vacation in North America.

"Has anything big happened here in the time I've been away from North America?"

Although Ethan has promoted the bald man to the chairman of Destiny Pictures, as long as he still serves as secretary, the daily tasks of collecting intelligence will still belong to him.

Of course, he no longer has to do these jobs himself. In the past year, Ballmer has had two assistants. Now, those hard work belongs to young people.

After hearing Ethan's inquiry, Ballmer immediately took out a document from the folder and handed it over. Not only that, he also said: "Boss, although a lot has happened in North America during the time you left. Things, but those things are not important to us.”

"Probably the only one that needs our attention is the Chrysler case."

Ethan opened the file and scanned it briefly, and the whole thing came into view.

Chrysler is an automobile company. Since acquiring the Dodge brothers in 1928, they have become an important force in the American automobile industry. Together with Ford and General Motors, they are known as the three American automobile giants. But this success came to an abrupt end in 1973, because of the oil crisis and the introduction of new vehicle emission standards, their muscle cars instantly became 'junk' on the market.

In order to meet the market demand in a short time and produce lighter and more efficient small cars, they did not want to start from scratch and came up with a cool idea to save the country. They bought Neon Mitsubishi's shares and let it use Chrysler's In name, it shed its shell and was reborn, borrowing Neon's technology and Neon's low labor costs to directly provide low-cost goods to the American market.

To put it simply, it is OEM.

But unfortunately, before they could officially launch their products on the market, the American antitrust agency had already taken action and prohibited American car manufacturers from forming the MiRi or MiO alliances because they felt that these actions would make Neon or European car manufacturers enter the American market at a lower cost, and the profit-seeking behavior of American capitalists will make a large number of American workers unemployed.

When this fact emerged, Chrysler could only force the brakes, stifle its own desires, and hurriedly launch domestic self-developed products to the market. However, due to insufficient research and development time, insufficient testing time, and cutting corners in the manufacturing process, the product failed as soon as it was launched. A bunch of questions came up.

Then...

They were in deep financial crisis.

A large number of recalls saddled them with huge debts, and also made some branches insolvent and had to go bankrupt. In 1977, they packaged and sold their European companies to the Sign Group. Then, countless workers I received a layoff notice and therefore lost my job.

But even so, Chrysler had no hope of rebirth. The newly appointed executives found that based on the scale of compensation and loan interest rates at the time, Chrysler would go bankrupt in at most two years. As a result, they made a bold decision. Since the Federation felt that the alliance between MIRI and MIOU would cause countless American workers to lose their jobs and force their companies to bear huge social costs alone, then they gave up their job and directly Just put the whole thing on the table!

They want to tell everyone!

It’s not that they don’t want to save the company!

But the Federation wants to let all of them bear the losses with just one word!

Chrysler directly notified the U.S. Congress last year, requiring them to provide US$1.5 billion in low-interest or even interest-free loan guarantees in the shortest possible time, otherwise they would declare bankruptcy immediately.

This will cause 10,000 workers to lose their jobs immediately and at least 30,000 workers to lose their jobs indirectly.

Although their behavior was a bit shameless, as Thomas said to Ethan before, if a company can provide jobs for tens of thousands of people, it is actually too big to fail.

Therefore, when the gentlemen in Congress discovered that if Chrysler was not rescued, they might be in danger of having their heads exploded by unemployed people, the U.S. Congress quickly held a meeting, and at the end of last year, on the day of the Destiny Game holiday, in December On the 20th, the guaranteed loan bill for Chrysler was passed.

Renzong signed it into law four days ago, on January 7, 1980.

Endorse the credibility of the entire federation to ensure that assistance can proceed smoothly...

"so……"

"What does this matter have to do with us?"

Ethan smiled and shook the document in his hand.

Although he was asking a question, his eyes were full of appreciation.

Ballmer understood what his boss meant and shrugged: "When Congress decided to assist Chrysler and retain their autonomy, everyone knew how great the employment pressure was for the current federal government, especially when it was a booming industry. When a recession occurs due to the impact of foreign companies, the unemployment caused by the recession is unacceptable to the federal government."

"so……"

"If, I mean if, if in the future people like Warner and Komodo come up with some bad ideas, some bad ideas that we can't compete with, we can go directly to Congress to file a complaint and tell those guys that once Destiny Games goes bankrupt, How many families will be in crisis."

"Although we are in the entertainment industry, we also have industrial production, and our production is all conducted in North America. Not only that, we also have manufacturing companies. The work of those people can give us a huge advantage in foreign wars. ,especially……"

"Michael Blanco's status is still very special."

"It's okay for those veterans to be unemployed once. If they encounter unemployment when they return to society and work hard...then they will really make trouble."

The unpretentious words made Ethan laugh.

He admitted that Ballmer said exactly what he thought.

But many times, things can be done but words cannot be said.

So Ethan shook his head and said: "Steve, I think you are thinking too much."

"How many people do our manufacturing company have?"

"It simply cannot achieve the same scale as Chrysler!"

"Oh - boss - I may not have considered this issue, it was my negligence." Ballmer did not argue and directly admitted his mistake, but the next second, he added: "Boss, since this matter has nothing to do with us relationship, then I will report to you on other tasks."

"In fact, even if you don't come to me today, I will come to you."

"Because our company's operating report for last year has been compiled."

"Although the specific figures have not been verified with all parties, there should not be much problem with our book figures because they are basically consistent with our cash."

"Really?" Ethan liked the news very much, "Let's take a look."

Is it difficult to produce a company's annual operating report?

In the future of paperless office, this kind of thing is relatively simple. As long as people in various departments are not lazy and enter various data on time, most software can generate enterprise reports with one click. Products like Oracle have interactive style report generation function.

It’s just that software cannot be held responsible for its own actions, and they cannot go to jail if something goes wrong. Therefore, before issuing a report, the person responsible needs to confirm the data for which they are responsible.

And this confirmation is also very fast in the era of digital office.

But in the current paper-based office era, this kind of thing is still very difficult. It is very troublesome to turn over paper data, and staff have to check one by one before filling out the report.

Ethan originally thought about urging each department to hurry up after work and try to let him see last year's operating data in early February, but he didn't expect these people to do it in advance?

This is really...

Looking at the report handed over by Ballmer, Ethan also smiled and said as he reached out to take it: "Don't you have any of you secretly working overtime? I won't give you high overtime pay for this kind of voluntary overtime!"

The half-joking words made the bald head shake his head repeatedly and deny: "Oh my boss! You really feel too good about yourself! Is there anyone in this world who likes to work? How can we secretly work overtime? That's not crazy. Behavior?"

At this point, Ballmer laughed to himself, because he was the lunatic himself, so he changed his words: "Okay, okay, okay, the reason why we produced data quickly last year is simple, because all of our company's marketing Concentrated in the first half of last year..."

When Destiny Games launched a product throughout last year and focused all marketing methods on the first half of the year, as long as the accounts for the first half of last year were sorted out, all subsequent operations would be mechanized routine operations. When the financial report for the first half of last year has already been produced in the second half of last year, it is very easy to fill in the comprehensive report for the whole year.

As for the rest of the comprehensive report?

This thing is not difficult for Ballmer, who studied mathematics but also likes to write essays.

As expected, after opening the report, the first thing Ethan saw was the comprehensive catalog. He skipped the company introduction and overall strategy, things that everyone knew well, and directly focused on the company structure.

Destiny Games is a limited liability company. Its main business is the research and development, production and sales of electronic games. It is a mixed operation of software and hardware. At the same time, it also has two wholly-owned subsidiaries under its name, namely Destiny Shadows. and the yet-to-be-split Michael Blanco Manufacturing Company, as well as a 51 percent-owned subsidiary, Western Design Co., a joint venture with Bill Mensch, as well as two laboratories and a For SQL, one is Engelbart.

Destiny Pictures also has a wholly-owned subsidiary, Destiny Music.

Destiny Music also has a 50%-owned subsidiary, Geffen Records, which was founded when David Geffen came to join Ethan Jones.

As for Apple and Microsoft?

In the former case, when Ethan wrote a check to Steve Jobs, it was a personal check, so according to normal business procedures, the investment was made in his own name, and the Destiny Game had not yet been officially announced. Establishment, no matter how the shares are transferred to the company.

The latter was even simpler for Microsoft. Ethan Jones got 20% of the shares with just one idea from a spreadsheet, so in the final equity transfer, he was the one who was listed on the list.

In this case, Apple and Microsoft's reports will not be reflected in Destiny Game's reports.

In addition, there is another company related to Destiny Game, but it will not appear in Destiny Game's reports, and that is Nintendo Kyoto Chip Manufacturing Company.

This company existed because of the neon agent of MOS 6502. When it was established, Ethan Jones only obtained 20% of the equity as a joint person, because Chuck Paido wanted Ethan to Being able to oversee Nintendo and let them roll out cheap chips to Neon.

Therefore, the equity of this company is still owned by Ethan personally. Even if the cooperation collapses and Western Design re-supplies, this level of equity has still not been transferred to Destiny Games by Ethan.

For the general public, the structure of the Destiny Game is already very troublesome, but for Ethan, who has read countless giant reports in his previous life, this structure is really simple and clear.

A tree diagram can break it down.

After confirming that Ballmer had not got the company's structure wrong, Ethan turned the page with confidence. When he turned his attention to the financial report, Destiny Game's revenue...

Make him overjoyed!