money trouble

Chapter 738 Getting Attention
"Everyone, stop what you're doing first. Margarina, please inform Orlando to suspend the arrangement of the next stop. Let's finish the launch of the campaign advertisement first, everyone work harder."

Harrison said excitedly.

After saying this, Harrison knew in her heart that the alliance between her and Wu Qian was completely formed, because she had already accepted the meeting gift from the other party.

To be honest, Harrison has already begun to look forward to the second meeting that Wu Qian said.

The atmosphere in the entire apartment was high. Those who could become Harrison's campaign team were die-hard supporters of Harrison. Their supporters were naturally happy when they got help.

Even if you don't know where this powerful support comes from, there will always be a day when you know, just get busy with the things at hand first.

Several staff members in charge of publicity felt as if they had been beaten to death. They contacted their colleagues who stayed at the headquarters and started making campaign advertisements suitable for Missouri and Kansas overnight, without any sleepiness.

Margarina was also very happy. She picked up her mobile phone and walked to a quiet corner to call the organizer of the next event to discuss the postponement. No one noticed Margarina in the busy office, so she went quietly The corner stayed for a long time.

Although the advertisers in Kansas City only started working at night, their intention was not to conceal the matter from the outside world, but to not hinder the normal life of the people during the day.

Thousands of miles away from Kansas City, in Newark, New Jersey, in a classical-style theater, Bloomberg, who is now ranked second in the Democratic faction, is enjoying a musical with local socialites.

Actors in gorgeous dance costumes performed hard on the stage. The high ticket price and small audience of musicals destined this art form to become a more enthusiastic way of spiritual and civilized entertainment for the upper class.

There is no doubt that this is a canvassing campaign organized by Bloomberg. He is not like other candidates. Other candidates have to consider expenses and fundraising while canvassing votes, but Bloomberg has no such concerns.

He bought the entire theater out of his own pocket, invited many celebrities to enjoy musicals, promoted his own political views by the way, and promised a piece of cake that might only be realized after many years. This is his way of canvassing votes. Excellent results.

Behind every celebrity, there are many swinging voters. Bloomberg wants to turn the people under these celebrities into his own vote base. New Jersey has [-] votes, which is a force that cannot be ignored.

At this moment, Bloomberg is chatting with a local industrialist next to him about his performance on stage. There are more than [-] workers in the factory under the name of this industrialist, and he has a lot of influence in the local area.

Just when Blumber was chatting, a man in a suit walked up to him and whispered a few words.

Blumber froze for a moment with a happy face, turned his head to look at the man, then smiled and apologized to the people around him, and then left the seat.

Walking out of the performance hall, Blumber frowned slightly and asked, "Sam, what happened in Kansas and Missouri, please tell me in detail."

The man named Sam said: "I just received the news that many advertisers in Missouri and Kansas have collectively defaulted on their contracts, and will begin to dismantle your campaign ads in the two states tonight."

"This... do you know who did it?"

Blumber asked in astonishment, he has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising all over the United States, and his profile picture can be seen in 80.00% of the cities in [-] states. How could a piece of him be pried off? It was a disappointment.

Another staff member of the campaign team standing beside Sam said: "Julie contacted several advertising companies. According to the other party's intention...they will undertake the campaign advertisement of Kama Harrison next."

"Watt? Who?" Blumber had a strange look on his face, which was mixed with a smile and contempt.

"Can Karma's campaign fund both Kansas and Missouri advertisers? Impossible!"

The person who knows you best may not be your friend, but probably your enemy. As Kama Harrison’s competitor, Bloomberg knows Harrison, an African-American woman, very well. How can there be so many people who benefit from the opponent’s political views? Money backs her.

"How could Harrison spend so much money for advertising? It's too nonsense. By the way, what about the advertiser's liquidated damages?"

After all, Bloomberg was born as a businessman. After the advertising space was robbed, he quickly thought of liquidated damages.

Sam shrugged and said, "Liquidated damages have been paid to your campaign account. Not only you, I understand that the campaign ads of Elizabeth and Buttigi have also been withdrawn."

"hiss……"

Blumber rubbed his chin and frowned in confusion. He is too aware of the cost of winning two states after advertising all over the United States. This is really not within the competence of Kama Harrison.

Kama Harrison is a very special existence in the democratic faction, with many supporters, but a shortage of funds. In the short term, it does pose a certain threat to Bloomberg and Jordan, but as long as the "battle" time In the long run, the serious consequences of insufficient funds can wear her down.

The situation that was already a sure thing has changed dramatically, which made Bloomberg feel a little uneasy.

"Kansas has six votes and Missouri has eleven votes. These two states combined are more important than New Jersey. We cannot relax the promotion of these two places and let Julie contact those advertisers to get back the advertising space. "

Blumber said a little excitedly, as the mayor of New York for three terms, he knows the power of money very well. If you can take it away from me, I can take it back again!

Sam said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Bloomberg, it may not be easy to regain the advertising space in a short period of time. We have already consulted several advertisers, and the other party said that if within the last three months, you want to regain the advertising space To return to the advertising space, at least five times the amount of compensation must be paid, which is about 5000 million U.S. dollars."

The laws and regulations of each state in the United States are different, and the restrictions and penalties for breach of contract are also different. In order to prevent the advertising space from being robbed again, Wu Qian specially paid the advertising company a breach of contract insurance in accordance with local laws.

This money has nothing to do with the amount of business, it is specially set up for breach of contract, which is a bit similar to the meaning of express delivery insurance.

"Oh, Shet!"

Bloomberg was very depressed when he learned that regaining the two state advertising spots would require sending 5000 million campaign funds to his opponents.

"Kama's campaign funds are definitely not enough to support her to do this. Who is helping her? Let me investigate clearly and draw the other party to my camp!"

Bloomberg gave the order.

According to his thinking, many of his political opinions and opinions are on the side of capital, and those who can spend tens of millions of dollars must not be ordinary voters, and should be on the same side as himself.

What happened to Kama Harrison made Blumber feel a lump in his heart, and when he returned to the performance hall again, his mood was not as good as before.

Unlike Bloomberg, who is busy with socializing, Jordan is sitting in a quiet living room listening to the phone in a small villa in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, only more than 100 kilometers away from the theater where Bloomberg enjoys the opera.

The decoration of the living room is very warm, like a home style, with a fire burning in the fireplace, wooden crafts hanging on the wall, and two exquisite coffee cups on the coffee table with coffee stains on the rim. In the same room.

Jordan listened carefully to the phone, without any change of expression on his face, only a slight "hmm" after a while, perhaps to tell the other party that he was still listening.

The phone call lasted a total of ten minutes, and Jordan didn't say anything other than "um" until the end.

"be careful."

After saying two simple words, he hung up the phone.

Part of the call was the same as what Sam reported to Bloomberg about the ad removals in Missouri and Kansas, but the other part was more important.

"The speech activity in the morning was not completely over, and Harrison left the Freedom Monument Square early. What did she do?"

Jordan crossed his legs sideways, with a pensive expression on his face.

"The collective breach of contract by advertisers must be inseparable from Harrison's early departure from the speech site..."

Jordan's detailed reasoning and analysis.

If Blumber still regarded Harrison's opponent seriously, then Jordan really didn't pay attention to Harrison. Although he was put on by Harrison in the debate half a year ago, it was a small Small fights are nothing but gains and losses for a city.

Jordan has his own strong foundation, extensive contacts and rich campaign funds. He has never regarded other candidates in the faction as opponents, even Bloomberg, who is comparable to him, has never taken it seriously.

His eyes had already set his sights on the opponent of the Republican faction, Mr. Prang.

But this time the collective default of the advertisers made him wary of Karma Harrison.

"Are you planning to strike later? Karma, you are still so young, so you have such a heavy heart? Did you just make friends with powerful people, or have you been hiding it all the time, ready to go?"

Jordan moved to the fireplace, extinguished the fire, and sat quietly for half an hour. Then he went to the bedroom, took out a mobile phone from the bedside table, and made a call.

"Investigate Kama Harrison."

After a very simple order, he hung up the phone.

The rain clouds covering New York seemed to have finally released their energy. The day after Wu Qian returned to New York from Missouri, it finally cleared up.

Waking up early in the morning, Wu Qian took a look at the prices of WTI and Brent as usual. There was still no change. The prices hovered around $[-], as if frozen. what effect.

I got out of bed, opened the curtains with a slam, a ray of sunshine shone on my face, opened the window, and a slight sea breeze blew, refreshing.

But before Wu Qian could continue admiring the beautiful scenery, the mobile phone placed by the bed rang.

Yao Xinlu, who was far away in Germany, calculated the time for Wu Qian to wake up, and called him, telling him that the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp had been completed.

"It's a few days sooner than I expected. Come to the United States to have fun. There will be an event in three days. I will show you friends, how about it?"

Yao Xinlu is currently packing her luggage in her villa on the outskirts of Frankfurt. She tilted her head and clamped her cell phone, and said with a smile, "Do you need me for anything important? If I have time, I plan to go to Hawaii."

Wu Qian knew that Yao Xinlu's parents were on vacation in Hawaii, and it was normal for Yao Xinlu to come to the United States to see her parents. He said: "There may be no news from the outside world, so let me tell you in advance that I will start the acquisition of Universal Music today. There shouldn't be much to do at first."

"Yes, you can take your uncle and aunt to Miami. Three days later, the cruise ship sails. I plan to invite some celebrities to hold an event to have fun together. It will be lively."

Yao Xinlu got a rough idea of ​​the latter sentence, and her thoughts were completely attracted by the previous sentence.

"What! You bought Universal Music? The Universal Music headquartered in Los Angeles?"

Yao Xinlu asked in surprise.

"That's right, don't ask that first, are you going to Miami with your uncles or aunts? If you go, I will prepare for it."

Wu Qian said.

Yao Xinlu was silent for a few seconds to digest the content of Wu Qian's words, and then said: "If it doesn't cause you trouble, I will take my parents to play."

Wu Qian said with a smile: "What trouble can you cause me? I plan to invite some friends to join us and make the atmosphere more lively. When the time comes, don't leave. Stay and help me with some things. I will help my uncle and aunt from the cruise ship." How about reserving two awesome rooms on the Internet and having them be the first guests."

how about it?
It's great...

"Okay, just follow your arrangement. I'll pack up first. I'm sorry to have lived in his villa for so long. You should call Stefan if you have time."

Yao Xinlu said that after living in someone else's villa for a period of time, she always had to say goodbye when she left. It was inconvenient for her to be Wu Qian's female companion, so Wu Qian had to deal with these matters.

"I want to tell him, you clean up first, I just got up and I'm going to have breakfast."

After all, Wu Qian hung up the phone, and he sent a message to Stefan to inform the other party that the relationship between the two is not bad, as long as these things are not ignored, one sentence is enough.

After packing up and having breakfast, Wu Qian, who was thinking about whether to take a plane to visit the headquarters of Universal Records in Los Angeles or to visit Midtown New York, received a call from Dwayne Johnson.

"Wu, my friend told me that I saw your plane at the airport, have you returned to New York?"

asked Dwayne Johnson.

Wu Qian smiled in amazement. Is his plane so famous? People know it everywhere he goes. Why does it feel too high-profile?

"Yes, I came back at midnight last night, Johnson, are you still in New York?"

"Haha, Wu, of course I'm still in New York. Today is the professional day of the technology exhibition at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. Are you interested in going shopping together?"

Dwayne Johnson invited Wu Qian.

　Thanks to book friend Su Nian sma for the 500 reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)