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In the following two days, the Sanyang Headhunting Company helped Namei Entertainment find several successors.

Yang Chaoye personally conducted the interviews, and the last candidate, who had served as the Chief Operating Officer at Paramount Pictures, was successfully selected.

Alfred Tom, 46 years old this year, worked at Paramount Pictures for 21 years, serving as department head, branch general manager, and chief operating officer of the head office, among other positions.

Alfred Tom's career was simple; he spent almost all of it at Paramount Pictures, so he had a deep understanding of film companies.

A year ago, he had a major conflict with the company's biggest contracted actor.

That big-name contracted actor directly issued a public statement: either Paramount Pictures has him or me, there's no both!

Ultimately, the company chose to support the actor, and Alfred Tom was forced to leave Paramount Pictures.

In the eyes of Paramount Pictures' board of directors, the company's interests came first.

Although Alfred Tom was very talented, the position of Chief Operating Officer could be replaced by others.

However, the biggest contracted actor could not be replaced by anyone else.

The influence of every top artist is enormous.

The Paramount Pictures board of directors did not want to lose this cash cow, so Alfred Tom naturally became the object of abandonment.

Just like Namei Entertainment, before Su Cheng took over, if they had lost Linda Langsdell, then Namei Entertainment's market value would have been cut in half, at least.

This is the awesome power of top stars.

In the past year, Alfred Tom had submitted many resumes, but all were met with silence.

The reason was that these companies were afraid to hire Alfred Tom, fearing they would offend that star.

Therefore, although he took the Namei Entertainment job very seriously, he did not have much hope for it.

Unexpectedly, Yang Chaoye saw his talent and was not afraid of offending that top Hollywood actor.

Su Cheng naturally had no objection to the talent recognized by Yang Chaoye. After personally meeting with Alfred Tom for a brief chat, he directly asked Zhang Qizheng and Yang Chaoye to hand over the reins to this new successor.

Thus, Alfred Tom was directly appointed by Su Cheng as the new CEO of Namei Entertainment.

As for the position of Chairman, it was still held by Su Cheng, of course.

Even if he was about to leave the United States, it was not a problem.

Because the current Namei Entertainment, strictly speaking, was purely a private company, it was not a problem for Su Cheng to be a hands-off manager.

Today was already October 18th. He had been in the United States for quite some time, so Su Cheng planned to return in a couple of days.

The reason for the rush to return was simple: the oil issue.

These days, Su Cheng had been very concerned about the changes in the world's oil market.

Dongying, South Korea, Australia, Europe, and other places had already begun to experience oil shortages, and governments had begun to call on everyone to conserve oil.

Because the current price of crude oil was rising rapidly, which was only a minor problem.

After all, no matter how high the price of crude oil rose, the price would ultimately be borne by consumers, not distributors.

The biggest problem was that there was a real shortage of oil.

After Persia stopped exporting crude oil, the supply of crude oil began to fall short.

In the short term, this was not a big problem.

And how could the speed of oil extraction keep up with the speed of oil consumption in various countries?

As a result, the oil shortage became larger and larger.

Today, the oil market was short 5 million barrels of oil.

Tomorrow, the oil market would be short 6 million barrels of oil.

The day after tomorrow, the oil market would be short 8 million barrels of oil.

The vicious cycle began.

The world was short more and more oil, which was why the world crude oil price was rising almost every day.

At this time, Su Cheng was sitting in the chairman's office of Namei Entertainment, holding a newspaper in his hand.

And on the desk, there were more than a dozen different newspapers.

These newspapers all reported international energy news, which Su Cheng had asked his subordinates to buy.

The Los Angeles Morning Post reported: Nearly one-third of the cars in Dongying have no oil to add. On the originally bustling and congested roads of Tokyo, there are fewer and fewer cars. Affected by this, Dongying's transportation industry is almost stagnant, indirectly leading to heavy losses in all walks of life.

The California Business Journal reported: Affected by the energy crisis, nearly half of the British fishing boats cannot go to sea, and the price of seafood has doubled.

The New York Times reported: Due to reduced oil imports, many means of transportation in Australia have stopped working, making travel difficult, and hundreds of thousands of kangaroos have been slaughtered by food-short nationals.

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The California Daily reported: A South Korean historian discovered ancient Goguryeo ceramics in Saudi Arabia. After investigation, it is believed that the territory of ancient Goguryeo must have reached the Middle East at its farthest point. As the former homeland, those oil in the Middle East should be mined by South Korea.

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The impact of the oil shortage began to show.

And today, the price of crude oil had risen to $33.8 per barrel.

This price had already made Su Cheng a lot of money.

However, Su Cheng just smiled slightly as he looked at the information in the newspaper.

Although he had already earned more than $20 per barrel, Su Cheng would not be so easily satisfied.

According to the information provided by Xiao Ai, in the previous world, even without someone like Su Cheng to interfere with bottom-fishing, the price could rise to more than $40.

And in this world, the previously excess production of major oil-producing countries had almost been bought and hoarded by Su Cheng, the impact would definitely be greater, and the price would definitely be higher.

$40 was definitely not the highest, and even $50 or $60 a barrel was possible.

Oil is the lifeblood of the economies of various countries.

Oil shortages will definitely have a great impact on the economy.

Moreover, the current era is not like later generations, where there are many energy substitutes.

For example, solar energy, wind energy, nuclear energy, tidal energy, etc., are not as well utilized as in later generations.

Therefore, the importance of oil cannot be replaced.

Su Cheng read all the newspapers before putting down the last one with a smile on his face.

Crisis is opportunity, and for him, this was also an important turning point for development.

What did the disasters brought about by the energy crisis have to do with him?

It was enough for him to make money. He didn't care if others lost their shirts!

Since he decided to go back in two days, Su Cheng naturally prepared to go back and soon told Zhang Qizheng, Yang Chaoye and others about this decision.

Of course, they didn't care, anyway, the affairs of Namei Entertainment were still in the process of being handed over.

In fact, there was nothing to hand over, because when Zhang Qizheng took over the management rights of the company, no one handed it over to him. He learned it little by little.

Now, Alfred Tom had someone to hand over to him, which was considered good.