Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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To be honest, Xu Cun is not a person who likes politics.

However, it is impossible for Xu Cun's business to be so big without being isolated from politics.

for example:

Under the restrictions of US G's anti-monopoly law, US G's film companies cannot operate theaters vertically. In addition, to be able to become a Hollywood giant, in addition to making good movies, you must also have a media network. Therefore, the parent companies of several major Hollywood giants are either engaged in television, newspapers, or records.

In other words, if Xu Cun wants to buy a theater chain in the United States, due to the restrictions of the anti-monopoly law, DreamWorks Films cannot be the parent company. Therefore, Xu Cun must have a company that produces TV, newspapers, or records as the parent company of DreamWorks (the US G branch) and the theater chain that Xu Cun wants to buy, so that Xu Cun will not offend US G. antitrust laws.

In the last life, the media king Rupert Murdoch took advantage of the difficulties of 20th Century Fox and bought its shares at a high price. At the same time, he also took advantage of the acquisition of seven TV stations of Metropolitan Media Corporation to form Fox Television. To this end, he sold the "Village Voice" and "The Times of the Sun". However, U.S. law stipulates that non-U.S. citizens are not allowed to own newspapers and television stations at the same time. In order to build his own TV network, Murdoch had to join the US G nationality. A year later, Fox Television became the fourth largest television company in the United States after ABC, CBS and NBC.

Among TV, newspapers, and records, Xu Cun prefers to be a TV network. In other words, Xu Cun is going to follow Murdoch's way of building a TV network.

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Murdoch's road is not easy - in the last life, Murdoch had many newspapers in his hands to advocate for himself, and many Wall Street predators helped him lobby the US G government, so he also joined the US G nationality Only then was he able to establish his own media empire.

Compared with Murdoch, Xu Cun's only advantage is that he does not have a newspaper office in the United States, and he does not need to violate the laws of the United States. Non-US citizens are not allowed to own newspapers and television stations at the same time.

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Even so, it is by no means an easy task for Xu Cun, a native of Xiangjiang, to establish a TV network in US G, especially when he has no one to help him lobby the US G government.

Regardless of whether it is the TV network or the US G theater chain, for Xu Cun who wants to build a big entertainment ~ empire, they are all determined to win!

Therefore, Xu Cun had to make some political investments in the United States.

It is precisely because of this that, taking advantage of the upcoming US election, Xu Cun took a lot of effort to connect with the Bush family.

Today, Bush Sr. is competing with President Reagan within the Republican Party for the qualifications of the next presidential candidate.

Xu Cun naturally knew that Bush Sr. had no chance at all, and could only obediently continue to be his vice president in the end.

But even so, Xu Cun is still planning to invest in Bush Sr., or the Bush family.

Xu Cun did this out of Xu Cun's consideration:

First of all, the vice president also has great power, at least helping Xu Cun lobby the US government is not a big problem.

Secondly, Bush Sr. will serve as the next president of US G in 1988, and Bush Sr.'s son Bush Jr. will serve as the president of US G in 2000. Such a family with potential is certainly worthy of Xu Cun's investment.

The U.S. G election is not only a competition of personal charm, but also a competition of money - "Money is the mother's milk of politics", and the political achievements of the Bush family are naturally inseparable from their thick pockets. Bush's great-grandfather was a manufacturing tycoon, and Bush's grandmother was born in a family of financial giants. The Bush family's industries cover oil, banking, military enterprises and even sports. It can be said that the Bush family is one of the biggest predators on Wall Street.

Of course, let alone Bush Jr., even Bush Sr. has not yet become president, so there is still a big gap between the Bush family and the Adams family, the Roosevelt family, and the Kennedy family, the three largest American families.

This is also the reason why Xu Cun decided to invest in the Bush family - after all, the icing on the cake is never as impressive as the timely delivery of charcoal, isn't it?

The core figure of the Bush family is undoubtedly Bush Sr. The reason why Bush Jr. was elected governor of Texas that year was that many voters looked at his father Bush Sr.'s face. And if Bush Sr. is the core of the Bush family, then Bush Sr.'s wife Barbara is the soul of the Bush family. Barbara shows people the image of a kind old grandmother to the outside world, winning many hearts for the family, but internally she holds great power and trains her children and grandchildren to be obedient. After Bush Jr. became president, he still had to get up in the morning and drink coffee with the whole family according to his mother's rules, and he was still scolded by his mother.

Xu Cun came to Texas this time to visit Barbara, one of the most powerful women in the United States.

Because Barbara is a woman, Xu Cun brought Gong Li, a big girl from Shandong. Barbara agreed to meet Xu Cun very suddenly, and Xu Cun couldn't let He Chaoqiong or others who were far away in Xiangjiang accompany him See Barbara, so Xu Cun can only bring Gong Li who came to the United States to play with him.

(Lizhi has been pregnant for more than a month, so she didn't go to Beijing with Xu Cun or come to the United States with Xu Cun.)

Hearing Xu Cun say that he was going to take her to visit the wife of the Vice President of the United States, Gong Li was very nervous—so much so that she tried all the clothes Xu Cun bought for her before picking out a set that satisfied her. See guest clothes.

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All that Gong Li did was in vain—Barbara only gave Xu Cun five minutes, and during these five minutes, Barbara hardly looked at Gong Li.

In these five minutes, Barbara first said that she and Bush Sr. both like to watch movies directed by Xu Cun, and then chatted with Xu Cun about ZhongG, and then said that Bush Sr. has a very good impression of ZhongG. Okay, after that, she will politely say that she has something to do later.

In the eyes of Barbara, Xu Cun is just a local tycoon with assets of more than two billion US dollars-this money is indeed a lot for an individual, but it is nothing for a big family and a big group. If it weren't for the deep friendship between Xu Cun and Barbara, Barbara would never meet Xu Cun, a local tyrant, let alone talk to Xu Cun for five minutes.

In this regard, Xu Cun, who has always been self-aware, can still figure it out.

Therefore, Xu Cun first put a check for 50 million dollars that he had prepared earlier on the table, and then stood up and said goodbye to Barbara.

The Bush family is rich, but the money belongs to the entire Bush family after all, but Xu Cun's $50 million can belong to Barbarash himself, and the $50 million is just a gift from Xu Cun to the Bush family.

Xu Cun believed that with Barbara's wisdom, she would not know these things, and Barbara would definitely push the Bush family to accept Xu Cun, a local tyrant who was willing to pay.

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