Ronald came to New York this time, and none of his friends in the circle told him. Kerkorian’s reminder is right. Faced with such a large project, anyone may be his competitor, or tip off a competitor.

of.

So the person who came to pick her up at the airport was her cousin Donna. Ronald only called her. Her relatives were the most trustworthy people. She drove over specially, picked up Ronald and drove to the Marriott Hotel.

"Donna, thank you for coming to pick me up. My trip this time has to be kept secret from Hollywood. You are my most trustworthy person. If you ask for leave to pick me up, it won't delay your work." Ronald himself said that year

On the passenger side of the car that was given to Donna, the Japanese car had a good design. Although it was small, Ronald, a tall man of over six feet, could sit very comfortably.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, it's hard for me to ask those bankers out to chat. It usually takes me more than a dozen times to get one willing to meet."

Donna's dress has gradually become closer to that of an office girl, and her overall sophistication is much better than when she was in college. Although her speech and movements sometimes still have the childishness unique to college graduates.

"They will beg you to meet one day in the future," Ronald said with a smile, the sister of the president of World Media Distribution Group, hahaha, Wall Street bankers will have to line up at that time.

"I hope so," Donna also smiled. "Actually, those bankers working on Wall Street are not bad people. They are also under a lot of pressure. It's just that sometimes they can't judge how much benefit I bring to them, so use them with caution.

It's just time.

I am now making unremitting calls to their secretaries to express my sincerity. After all, our fund manages funds for several Ivy League universities. When they see that I have made appointments with them ten times in a row, they will believe me.

of sincerity.

I am just a rookie who has just graduated from college, and Mr. Simmons is not giving me any more support. He said that understanding the way bankers on Wall Street do things will be good for my career development. After all, I am not the child of those rich people.

, driving a Porsche and visiting with luxury watches, the bankers can tell they are rich people at a glance..."

There will be good cars and luxury watches. Ronald feels that this cousin has suffered a lot of grievances. When I...

"By the way, you seem to admire your boss, Mr. Simmons?" Ronald changed the subject.

"He is actually more of a mathematician. He just thinks he can't be top in the field of mathematics, so he comes to invest." Donna is a top student in the MIT Department of Physics. She talked about Simons' investment ideas, which made many Rona.

Academic terms that Germany doesn’t understand.

The two arrived at the Marriott Hotel. After Ronald checked in, he and Donna had dinner in the restaurant.

Seeing that Ronald was full, Donna hesitated and asked him, "Ronnie, what's the reason for your visit this time? You can't be so mysterious just because you invited the son of the current deputy commander to dinner, right?

?I called Diane, but she didn’t even know you were coming."

"What did you say to her?" Ronald put down his knife and fork and asked.

"I said it was the deputy commander's son who came to discuss the film fund with you," Donna replied, and she wiped her mouth. When her childhood best friend Diane heard that Ronald came to New York mysteriously, she felt a little uncomfortable on the phone.

.

"This matter needs to be kept strictly confidential. I didn't even tell my agent. None of my friends in Hollywood told me, so don't tell anyone else." Ronald wiped his mouth.

"What's so mysterious? No one wants to invest in you, right?" Donna was familiar with Ronald's behavior in investment companies. Many investment bankers just like to keep projects secret.

"Actually, it's pretty much the same," Ronald told Kerkorian about what the three giants, MGM, Universal and Paramount, were preparing to form a joint venture to enter the Chinese market.

"Mr. Kerkorian is going to nominate me as the person in charge. For the time being, I'm here to talk to little George and see what his father thinks about the opening of the Chinese film market."

"Ah? Is there a big movie market somewhere? How come I heard that they are so poor that they can afford so much foreign exchange to import American movie copies?"

"Of course, you don't know. Although their income is not high, not many families have TV sets. We are facing a huge market with five times the population, and everyone wants to watch 20 movies a year."

Ronald told Donna the concept of the $25 billion market, "What do you think of this business ambition? The future banker of Wall Street?"

"Well, I think it is indeed possible based on numerical analysis." Donna was serious and did not hear Ronald's teasing tone. Instead, she started to work as a consultant for her cousin.

"And this is a very good concept. Wall Street money will like this idea. It's big enough, crazy enough, and greedy enough to make people's blood boil."

"I'll just say it's good. It seems you know how to invest." Ronald was very happy, and Donna thought so too.

"but……"

"But what?"

"But Mr. Simons said that when using numbers to invest, the only thing that can go wrong is not in the mathematics, but in the source of those numbers. If those numbers are not deliberately distorted or fabricated, then according to mathematical formulas, it will not

Something went wrong.”

"Well, what you said makes sense." Ronald touched his chin.

Donna has been working in a fund company for several months and already has some ideas for thinking about issues as Wall Street investors do.

What she said is indeed very reasonable. There is no problem with the logic of this business plan. If there is a problem, it will not come from here, but hidden in...

"The devil is in the details, Mr. Simmons always said."

"You have almost become a die-hard fan of Mr. Simmons." Ronald said to a fund boss when he saw Donna.

"Okay, I'll go home first. I told my mother that she will make preparations at home."

"Little Douglas will make arrangements so that Auntie won't be too busy."

"She said she would prepare some cookies for you, and leave the rest to little Douglas." Donna spoke of little Douglas, with a look of disgust on her face. This brother's classmate was still so courteous to her when he saw her. He looked like a fool.

, could I be as superficial as those female stars in Hollywood?

"Say hello to aunt for me, I have to meet some people here tomorrow." Ronald sent Donna to the car and waved goodbye.

Maybe Hollywood's secrets can be kept longer, but Wall Street's secrets obviously leak out quickly.

Ronald had just accepted Kerkorian's invitation and was considering the job carefully. Steve Bannon, who used to be on Wall Street, got the news from nowhere. Before Ronald left for New York,

, I was the first one to call and ask for an interview in Manhattan.

Ronald was surprised that he was well-informed, but Bannon said that this matter had been discussed on Wall Street for some time, but Hollywood artists were not aware of the business operations yet.

As for why the news of Ronald as a new candidate reached him, Bannon said that Kerkorian took the initiative to let a limited number of senior bank executives on Wall Street know.

So this time Ronald stayed at the Marriott Hotel in Lower Manhattan near the Financial District. The two made an appointment to talk in person the next day. Kerkorian's approach made Ronald feel a little uncomfortable. He asked

I kept it a secret from people in Hollywood, but I went to Wall Street to show off, not knowing what I was going to do.

What Donna said just now also aroused Ronald's doubts. When he was in Los Angeles, he was deducing the steps of the grand plan in his mind every day. Every detail was logical and no flaws could be seen.

But if the numbers entered as parameters in a mathematical formula are wrong, no matter how correct the logic is, it is impossible to get the correct result.

Alone in the room, drinking Coke silently, Ronald felt that he still needed to confirm Kerkorian's big plan in detail.

He took out his phone book, looked through it and found Xiao Yan's phone number, and called Xiao Yan, who was taking community college courses at Stanton College.

"Xiao Yan? I'm your Brother Luo. I just arrived in New York and I remembered you. Are you free tonight? Come to Manhattan to chat with Brother Luo. I promised your father that I haven't paid much attention to you recently."

"Brother Luo, look at what you said. I owe all my TOEFL and schooling to you, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go to school. I'm in the dormitory, and the Staten Island ferry is still open. I'll go find you.

, what hotel are you in?"

"Come here, I'm staying at the Marriott. I can just walk to the pier in Manhattan and wait for you." Ronald put down the phone and put on his coat. He slowly walked to the Battery Marine Ferry Terminal in the southernmost part of downtown.

It is close to Roosevelt Street and Whitehall Street, and not far behind it is Wall Street, the financial center of the universe. On the wide water, the symbols of the Manhattan skyline are reflected, the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the twin towers and some lower buildings around it.

The light that shines through is reflected on the blue-black water, which is scattered at different heights and colorful, very beautiful.

Ronald was fascinated for a moment. Such a beautiful night view is rare in America. The population density on the West Coast is relatively low. Such a super metropolitan scene can only be seen in the Big Apple, New York City.

Of course.

"Woo..."

A whistle sounded, and the yellow ferry docked. It woke up Ronald, who was deep in thought. He looked at a few small boats on the water, and the yellow ferry JFK Kennedy was slowly approaching. It was several times larger than the other boats.

, very conspicuous.

The crowd began to commotion. There were many low-level secretaries on Wall Street who could not afford to rent a house in Manhattan and settled on Staten Island. Several female secretaries wore high hairstyles and held expensive high heels in their hands.

Wearing relatively light running shoes on our feet, we rushed to the pier, waiting for a seat after boarding the ship, so that we could take a rest after a busy overtime work.

When they get home, they still have to clean the room and other household chores waiting for them, and maybe their boyfriend will come over to eat the dinner they cooked. Ronald thought of the partner of the leg warmers, Theresa Kate. She turned out to be such a person

The hard-working secretary later met herself. After selling her leg warmer business, she continued to work in the store and sell goods. She and her husband David had a lovely son, and her life was out of the sea of ​​hardship.

All these scenes gave Ronald a familiar feeling: New York, ferries, the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, and hard-working secretaries. He seemed to have dreamed of such a set of shots.

"Brother Luo, Brother Luo..."

Xiao Yan rushed down from the Kennedy against the flow of people and waved to Ronald.

"Xiao Yan," Ronald's thoughts were interrupted and he stepped forward to hold Xiao Yan's hand. After the two hugged, Ronald looked up and down for a while. Xiao Yan's clothes were already similar to those of native Chinese.

, in addition to his temperament and characteristics of the Mainland, and his English accent, it seems that he has integrated well into the school.

"How's it going? Are you happy going to school here?"

"I thought you were going to ask me if my grades were good." Xiao Yan replied in English. Regardless of his accent, he speaks English much more fluently now than in China.

"I like Stanton University very much. The atmosphere is very free. I can choose any course I want, and I can sneak in and audit classes that are not my own. My grades are still very good. We Chinese can endure hardships here. I

I also worked a part-time job distributing flyers in schools.”

Xiaoyan was very grateful to Ronald and explained his situation.

Ronald took him to a good restaurant in Chinatown. The two ordered barbecued pork and green leafy vegetables, soaked a pot of Pu'er chrysanthemums, and chatted.

"The master chefs here are better than those in China. The waiters are also very polite, unlike those in China who are indifferent." Xiao Yan lamented that the Chinese food here is no less good than in China.

"You have to give a tip," Ronald replied with a smile. There are advantages and disadvantages.

"I came to you and wanted to ask about the situation of the domestic movie market. How much is the ticket price for watching movies?"
To be continued...