Rebirth of America, this is my time

Now that Spielberg has sorted out Columbia Pictures' check fraud case very clearly, Ethan and Evelyn have no intention of playing anymore.

The two chartered a plane overnight and returned to California. The next day, Ethan got into Stanford and hugged the old principal's thigh again. As he cried, a fax document full of pinholes also appeared. In his hands, this is the latest information about Steve Ross.

After a brief look through it, Ethan found that the content was roughly similar to Spielberg’s investigation.

but--

That doesn't mean everything Spielberg said was right.

Because the information obtained by the old principal showed that Steve Ross had recently divorced Carol Rosenthal and was now pursuing a woman named Amanda Cushing Mortimer.

This fact made Ethan frown.

Is this guy so heartless?

he muttered.

Although Ethan had already known that capitalists were inhumane when he was educated in his previous life, he was still a little surprised when he saw such things like abandoning wives and children.

After all, Carol Rosenthal is no rotten wife!

She is the woman who made Steve Ross achieve a class jump!

And Steve Ross chose to kick this woman away after becoming rich?

Digging!

This can only show that he is very insidious!

Do whatever it takes to succeed!

Ethan, what are you mumbling? When Ethan frowned and lamented that his opponent didn't seem to be killed so easily, the old principal who was curious about why Ethan was in a daze also poked his head over.

I glanced at the documents...

He smiled and said: Oh, it turns out that Steve Ross has found a new backstage...

What? The old principal's words made Ethan feel a little strange.

Principal, what do you mean? he asked.

Fred Terman pointed to Amanda Cushing Mortimer on the file.

It's normal that you don't know this woman. After all, you are not from the academic circle.

Amanda Cushing Mortimer was the daughter of Barbara Cushing, one of the three Cushing sisters.

And the father of the three Cushing sisters was Harvey Cushing.

“Harvey Cushing was a contemporary of my dad.”

But he accomplished more in academia...than my dad.

Really? Ethan didn't believe it.

Evelin had told him before that President Fred Terman’s father was also a professor at Stanford University and had extremely high attainments in the field of psychology. At the same time, his father had also participated in projects of the U.S. Department of Defense. So far, the psychological tests used for recruiting recruits in the United States were all written by his father.

In this case, the man named Harvey Cushing was more powerful than his father?

Why did I lie to you?

Principal Fred Terman rolled his eyes at Ethan and said: Academics can be falsified, but a pioneer in a field cannot falsify his own academics. Harvey Cushing is such a person.

He is a pioneer in brain surgery, the first doctor in our country who specializes in neurosurgery research. Cushing's reaction and Cushing's syndrome in the medical world are defined by his name. Now the brain and He wrote all the textbooks on spinal surgery. Do you think this kind of person is great?

‘Fuck! ’

Ethan was shocked.

He really doesn't know these things.

But he's also weird.

No matter how brilliant Harvey Cushing is, he is just an academic figure. The relationship between Steve Ross and his granddaughter will not help Warner Communications' business.

After he asked what he was thinking, Fred Terman, who was still in the process of reminiscing, poked at the information angrily and said: Mortimer! Mortimer! Mortimer is the point!

Haven't you heard of the Mortimer family? They were the real estate tycoons of the last century!

Counting further ahead, they are the result of a marriage between John Jay and Robert Livingston! They also have a good relationship with the Tilford family!

Perhaps it was because the old principal reported out the names of many families as if they were naming dishes, so Ethan didn't understand it for a while. After waiting for him to frown and express his confusion, the old principal immediately asked him to get a piece of paper. With a pen, a diagram of the relationships in their circle was drawn on it.

The mother of Steve Ross’ current girlfriend, Amanda Mortimer, is the daughter of brain surgery pioneer Harvey Cushing, and Amanda Mortimer’s father’s ancestors can be traced back to the founding of America. That group of heroes. John Jay, the pioneer of abolition, one of the three signatories of the Treaty of Paris, and the first chief justice of America, is the ancestor of Amanda Mortimer's father; and her father's maternal grandmother's side is still the Independence One of the five drafters of the Declaration of Confederation, one of the drafters of the Articles of Confederation, a founding father of America, and a descendant of Robert Livingston.

This one is a serious old New York star and stripes man!

Of course, being orthodox in terms of status can only mean that their family has a glorious past. The person who really gave her power was her father's mother, her grandmother, whose surname was Tilford.

That's right, it's the Tilford family that's engaged in oil.

In the last century, Tilford family patriarchs Henry Tilford and Jabez Bostwick ran an oil company that was eventually purchased by John Rockefeller. After the two companies merged, Till Ford was not kicked out of the company by John Rockefeller, but led all the new company's operations on the West Coast. Later, after the establishment of Standard Oil, he became a director of Standard Oil, and later, after the breakup of Standard Oil, He secured the Standard Oil Company of California for his family.

This name may be unfamiliar to many people.

But Ethan was familiar with it.

Because in his memory, in a few years, this company will be renamed...

Chevron.

Cough cough cough cough...

The background that could circle the earth made Ethan cough non-stop.

Oil man?

He frowned.

Not only that, National Gas in New York is also owned by them.

Fred Terman keeps upping the ante.

...

This fact made Ethan's eyes darken.

He just couldn't figure it out!

How can this guy Steve Ross be so good at hugging his thighs?

I just kicked out the biggest mourner in the United States, and then I found the daughter of an oil tycoon?

Damn it!

I'm obviously more handsome than him!

Sxxt! Ethan cursed.

He found things a bit tricky.

If before, after chatting with Spielberg, he still had the confidence to kill Undertaker Ross, then now, when this guy hugs the lap of the oil tycoon...

This war is troublesome.

The old principal also saw the pain in his balls, Do you think Steve Ross is difficult to deal with?

He looked at Ethan with a smile.

Ethan also nodded without hesitation.

Oil people are inherently difficult to deal with.

And to be able to hold on to John Rockefeller's attack...

It's harder to deal with.

Hahaha—— Ethan's words made Fred Terman burst into laughter.

The old man patted Ethan on the shoulder and said, Ethan, don't think so much.

You can do whatever you want.

As long as you don't take the initiative to provoke a fight, there will be no problem.

Just like you forced Allen Bradley to give you money this time.

Just like the last time you had Lawrence Rockefeller lay off people.

Lawrence and Morgan Stanley both called me.

They complained to me and said you crossed a line.

But it didn't work.

As long as you don't play with fire, I can prevent them from playing with fire.

You know?

Fred Terman blinked.

Ethan's eyes flashed as he looked at him.

After a moment, a happy smile appeared on his face.

I know.

Now that the old principal has made it so clear, Ethan can go ahead and do it. Based on the current needs of Warner Communications, he quickly found two sniping ideas.

The first one is related to MGM's acquisition of Columbia.

Since Steve Ross wants to kick Columbia out of Warner Bros. Burbank Studios, keeping Columbia autonomous would undermine his plans.

If you want to do this, you have to prevent MGM from acquiring Columbia, and this...

Ethan asked his sister to call Professor Barbara Babcock and ask her to come home.

After waiting for the Archmage to come back, Ethan, who met with her, also talked to her about his needs.

Soon, Barbara understood what he meant.

You want the Department of Justice to stop MGM from buying Columbia?

Yes.

Why?

Quite simply, MGM is my enemy.

Is it because of the Tom and Jerry video game?

Well... that's right, but besides this, we also have conflicts in other areas.

Although Ethan did not unfold the entire case, Barbara had already seen his determination.

Okay. Barbara thought for a while and said, This matter is very simple to handle. Just ask the Attorney General to invoke Article 7 of the Clayton Act.

Our country's Department of Justice has the power to prohibit mergers and acquisitions that 'may significantly reduce competition or tend to create a monopoly,' as long as our Department of Justice feels that MGM's acquisition of Columbia Pictures will have a significant impact on the current film market. influence, then we can reject their acquisition case.”

The neat way it was handled made Ethan laugh.

Oh Barbara - is this going to be difficult?

It depends on who needs it. Barbara shrugged and said, If someone else is looking for me, it might be more troublesome, but if it's you... I'll help you find Jimmy when I get back.

The Archmage smiled and said: I am confident that I can convince him and let him give an order to the Minister of Justice to prohibit MGM from acquiring Columbia. But at the same time, you have to pay a little price.

What? Ethan was curious.

Like, donate some money?

Barbara gave an example, You should know about Love Canal, right? You can donate some money to the disaster relief committee established by Jimmy, so that Jimmy can provide better relief to the residents there.

Is one million enough? Ethan asked.

Oh - this is a bit too much - Barbara smiled and shook her head, A donation of two to three hundred thousand is enough, because what Jimmy wants is help from the social trend.

Now he is pursuing an energy company. And you want these companies to proactively deal with their own pollutants? That is impossible. Therefore, in addition to federal funding, the disaster relief committee cannot raise more from society. Funding, after all, once energy companies donate, it means they understand that they are responsible for their haphazard burial, and this is unacceptable to them.

Your donation to the disaster relief committee actually means that private companies agree with Jimmy's point of view and want to make chemical production companies take responsibility for pollution control. With this social trend, Jimmy can negotiate with more companies and Push for the accountability bill that he wants to push.

and……

The amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars is not obvious.

After the failure of the MGM acquisition, they won't be able to think of you with this small amount of money.

Oh - then I will ask Evelin to donate - Barbara's words made Ethan laugh, But our donation amount is still one million...

Because I just want them to know that it was me who blocked their acquisition.

No matter what kind of war it is, you can hide as much as you want when you attack, but you must fight back loudly!

Others have already called at your door, but you are still secretly replying?

Even if you win in the end, your enemies will not be afraid of you!

Therefore, Ethan wants to let Steve Ross know that I have seen through your plan!

Next, no matter how good you pretend, I will kill you!

Okay. Now that Ethan had made his decision, Barbara stopped persuading him.

After chatting for a while, the Archmage stood up and left.

As she left, Ethan also set his sights on the second idea of ​​sniping Warner.

This idea is related to their main business, because Warner has taken advantage of Ethan to fight the chip defense war and officially announced that it will launch its own superhero movie Superman during this year's Christmas period.

Although no one knows so far whether Warner will release a video game with the same name during the release of Superman, but when MGM achieved success with Tom and Jerry, Ethan felt that having Atari's history There was no way Steve Rose would pass up this opportunity.

So...

It will become inevitable to snipe away their projects.

Like the flower factory, the cool behavior of selling articles before publishing them is actually the best way to respond!

Unfortunately--

This was impossible before logistics was fully developed and the Internet era came.

But at the same time--

The original plan of holding a press conference in a fruit factory like a flower factory is still feasible in this era.

Therefore, Ethan first went to the R\u0026D department to review the development status of Ms. Pac-Man.

When he discovered that Damio Dean had led the engineers in the company to reach the number of two hundred and thirteen game levels, it was expected that all tests would be completed by the end of September, officially packaged, and mass production would be launched. Ethan then understood what he should do.

He will release Ms. Pac-Man at the end of the year with Warner Communications!

He's going to destroy Steve Ross' Superman project!

And if you want to do this...

Then you have to find a helper in the channel.

A helper who would allow him to sell electronic arcade machines directly to theaters.

Because eroding Warner's basic base makes Warner even more heartbroken.

Thinking of this, Ethan directly dialed the company's short number and called the bald Steve Ballmer over, Call Roy Disney.

tell him.

I want to see him.

Note: ① Steve Ross’s original accumulation depended on marriage. After sucking his father-in-law dry, he decisively changed to a thicker thigh to suck on. In reality, he married Amanda Mortimer in 1978, and then Warner directly bypassed all competitors and went to the TV network. They cooperated with American Express to establish Warner Express Cable Company. This kind of mixed business operation was subject to investigation at that time, but Amanda Mortimer's background was too great, and Warner's competitors did not dare to report it. The relevant departments pretended not to have seen it. Steve Ross is the real leg tuck king. ②Amanda Mortimer’s current public name is actually Amanda Burden. She was the director of the New York Department of City Planning from 2000 to 2010, and is now the head of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Foundation. Bloomberg also embraced her. Her background written in the article is just a small part of a huge network of relationships. Her mother's two sisters were married. One of them married the eldest son of the Astor family, the one with the highest net worth among the victims in the Titanic disaster. The other son of Astor IV was married to the eldest son of Shizu. Yes, he was the eldest son of the four great commanders.