Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 654 Don Valentine's Wish

After helping Catherine Zeta-Jones get an audition guarantee, Hideki Hanyu naturally wanted to take a close look at her recent acting studies in Los Angeles that evening.

As for the result, the scumbag can only say that the medieval court costumes were indeed very white and the skirts were very large.

However, although he was very satisfied with the performance of the English Rose, he ultimately did not stay overnight at Catherine Zeta-Jones' apartment.

At midnight, Hideki Hanyu returned to Hibiscus Garden.

The next day came, and Hideki Hanyu, who only had a fundraising banquet to attend in the evening, originally wanted to stay at home and spend time with Liu Xiaoli and his daughter.

Who would have thought that Liu Xiaoli was such an impetuous person. She just got approval to start a dance troupe yesterday, and she has already contacted people in China today.

Then, before lunch time, Hanyu Hideki saw the other party directing the Filipino maid to start packing luggage for returning home.

Seeing this, Hanyu Hideki asked, "Are you preparing to return home?"

Liu Xiaoli, holding her daughter, answered, "Yes."

Hanyu Hideki asked again, "When are we leaving?"

Liu Xiaoli said, "In the afternoon, didn't I tell you when I got up?"

Hanyu Hideki scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Did you say it?"

He was a little angry when he got up, and he tossed the beauty around. He was so busy enjoying himself that he didn't pay any attention to what the beauty said when she was yelling.

"Of course I did. I also said I would use the Yunshang." Seeing that Hanyu Hideki looked like he couldn't remember, Liu Xiaoli hurriedly asked, "You're not going to use a plane too, are you?"

"I will stay in America until the end of the month, so I won't be using the cloud account for a while. If you want to use it, go ahead."

Hanyu Hideki said as he walked forward, holding the beauty's slender waist with one hand, and teasing the daughter in her arms with the other hand, asking, "Xixi, do you want to go back with you too?"

Liu Xiaoli said, "Yes, it's a good opportunity to take her back to find a suitable kindergarten in advance. Besides Xixi and Xiaoqiong, Dengna will also go back with me."

"Then there will be no one in Hibiscus Garden again," said Hideki Hanyu.

The beauty rolled her eyes at the scumbag when she heard this, "That's exactly what you want, you can be free and do whatever you want.

"What can I do?" Hanyu Hideki looked obedient.

"Hmph... stop pretending."

As the beauty spoke, she handed her daughter to Deng Na, then grabbed Hanyu Hideki's clothes and walked upstairs.

Seeing this, the scumbag hurriedly asked, "What is this for?"

The beauty said, "Before you leave, I'll tell you a secret."

"Haha... I love hearing secrets the most."

In this way, the scumbag was taken by the beauty and listened to secrets upstairs for a long time, even delaying the lunch time.

After lunch, it was afternoon.

The energetic Hideki Hanyu personally sent the mother and daughter, as well as Deng Na and Zhou Wenqiong, to the Los Angeles International Airport.

After saying goodbye, Hanyu Hideki sent the others on board the "Clouds". After watching the huge private plane take off smoothly, Hanyu Hideki returned to the Hibiscus Garden.

However, he did not stay in Hibiscus Garden for long. Instead, with the help of a stylist, he tidied up his appearance and set off.

Hideki Hanyu's next stop is West Hollywood.

In front of the familiar detached house, Hideki Hanyu waited in the Rolls-Royce for more than ten minutes before she saw Naomi Watts, who was going to accompany her to the fundraising banquet tonight, walking out in a dazzling silver evening dress.

The woman got into the car and said, "Sorry to have kept you waiting."

Hanyu Hideki said, “It’s okay.”

"I was a little nervous, so I made a few mistakes in my makeup," Naomi Watts explained.

"You're just accompanying me to the dinner party, there's nothing to be nervous about." Hanyu Hideki said nonchalantly.

"The dinner was hosted by the current President of America. How could I not be nervous?" Naomi Watts spoke with obvious anticipation.

"He is the President of America. Why should you, an Australian, be so excited?" Hanyu Hideki really couldn't understand.

"I'm not like you who gets to see important people often. This is my first time meeting the president of a country." Naomi Watts said excitedly.

"Ok."

At this time, Hanyu Hideki also felt that perhaps his uneasy attitude was abnormal in the eyes of ordinary people.

But if you think about it carefully, when he learned that he would be received in Yanjing, his performance was not much better than Naomi Watts.

From this we can see that whether he is nervous or not depends entirely on the person.

Thinking of this, Hanyu Hideki happened to see a movie poster flash by outside the window of a moving car.

Seeing that familiar face, Hanyu Hideki couldn't help but ask, "It's Nicole's movie poster. It looks like her new movie is about to be released. Have you contacted her recently?"

Naomi Watts responded, "I didn't contact her, but she contacted me."

"She contacted you. What did she say?" Hanyu Hideki was a little surprised.

Naomi Watts said, "Tell me her new movie is coming out next month."

"Are you here to show off?" Hanyu Hideki said suddenly.

"Not really. She even said something from her heart." Naomi Watts turned to look at Hanyu Hideki. "Maybe she only understood your care for her after we got together. She felt a little guilty and regretful."

“Haha…” Hanyu Hideki chuckled, “I think that’s just the insecurity before the movie is released. Once the new movie is successful, this emotion will immediately disappear.”

"Maybe. I hope her new movie will be a success."

Naomi Watts did not defend Nicole Kidman. After all, she was also a beneficiary of her good friend's departure from Cloud Pictures.

If Nicole Kidman were still around, Castle Rock Pictures' new project, When Harry Met Sally, would almost certainly fall into the hands of her good friend.

It has been so long since the Cloud Pictures reception dinner with Nicole Kidman ended in a bad mood.

Naomi Watts calmed down, and all her emotions towards Nicole Kidman faded away, and the inertia of years of friendship took over again.

Since there is no conflict of interest, she doesn't mind if the friendship develops more smoothly.

As the two chatted, the Rolls-Royce soon arrived outside a manor in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles where a fundraising dinner was held.

Hideki Hanyu did not need to get out of the car. He just took out the invitation ticket at the door and handed it to the waiter for inspection, and then the car was allowed to enter the manor.

Looking at the invitation ticket in Hanyu Hideki's hand, Naomi Watts asked curiously, "I heard that this kind of ticket is not free."

Hanyu Hideki replied, "Of course it's not free. These people do this for money, so how can it be free? My ticket is in the first row of the dinner, and it's worth $125,000."

Surprised by this number, Naomi Watts continued to ask, "If you just hold a green card, can you also donate money?"

Hanyu Hideki smiled and said, "Of course not in theory."

But he did not say what is beyond theory.

After all, there are too many ways to get around the rules in this world.

Many times you don’t even have to circumvent the rules, because people who need it will take the initiative to help you open the rules.

The car had already stopped. As the waiter came forward to help open the door, Hanyu Hideki changed the subject and said, "Okay, it's time for us to get off."

“I’m really looking forward to it.”

Naomi Watts was very happy that Hideki Hanyu was willing to bring her to such a high-end dinner.

But in Hideki Hanyu's heart, bringing a woman is just a matter of etiquette and to add a decoration to his side.

Today's fundraising dinner is of course nominally held by the World War II bomber pilot candidate.

But those who know the inside story know that it is because of the prestige of the current president that so many people can be gathered in Los Angeles.

After all, the current president's former career naturally gives him great influence in Los Angeles. When he ran for election, the West Coast was also an important base for him.

Next, when Hideki Hanyu entered the main banquet hall of the manor, he was warmly welcomed by the host and sat at his table.

After that, Hideki Hanyu behaved very low-key.

He was silent the whole time, and said even less than he did with Naomi Watts on the way here.

On the surface, he paid nothing except the ticket in the name of the company.

But in fact, everything that should be done has been done by his representatives.

This time, it was because the current commander-in-chief was anxious that he showed up in person. After that, when Karl Map takes office, many things can be handed over to him.

After the dinner, there was no need to go back to the deserted Hibiscus Garden.

And he also didn't want to go to Naomi Watts's house in West Hollywood.

So the two of them simply went straight to the Malibu beach mansion.

There is no need to elaborate on how the scumbag and Naomi Watts spent a happy night with the accompaniment of the waves.

……

The next day, July 18, came. After seeing Naomi Watts off, Hanyu Hideki left Malibu Beach and drove to Burbank, a satellite city of Los Angeles.

In Burbank, Hanyu was joined by Alan Horn, CEO of Cloud Pictures.

As early as last month, Alan Horn told him that three pieces of land suitable for building a park for Cloud Pictures in Burbank had been selected and he hoped that he would come and see it in person and decide on one.

I couldn't make it to the meeting the day before yesterday because it was too late, and I had to attend a fundraising dinner yesterday, so we can only make an appointment to come together today.

However, in Burbank, in addition to meeting Alan Horn, Hideki Hanyu also met the most popular player, Monica Bellucci, who flew to Burbank from San Jose.

As soon as they met, Hanyu Hideki, the head of the North American Secretary Office, asked, "When will the boss be able to finish dealing with the Los Angeles affairs? There are still many things waiting for you to deal with in San Jose. The boss wants to hold a meeting for the new CEO of Cisco..."

Before Monica Bellucci finished speaking, Hideki Hanyu interrupted her and said, "I know everything you said. John Chambers has been communicating with me all the time."

"So..." Monica Bellucci spread her hands, "When does Boss plan to go to San Jose?"

Hanyu Hideki replied, "We will leave after we check the land in Burbank. You can help me reply to the Cisco board of directors according to this schedule."

Monica Bellucci said, "Okay."

After dealing with the perfect and sexy secretary, Hideki Hanyu spent the next day, accompanied by Alan Horn, visiting all three pieces of land.

After some discussion, the two men finally chose a piece of land north of Griffith Park and south of downtown Burbank as the site for the future headquarters.

This land originally belonged to a large manufacturing plant, covering an area of ​​122500 square feet. Although the project has gone bankrupt due to poor management, the land development is very mature.

If Yunshang Pictures is purchased, a lot of effort can be saved in construction.

Even some old factories can be used directly after a little renovation.

Of course, in Hideki Hanyu's opinion, this area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters is still a bit too small.

Of course there is no problem using it as a headquarters. It would also be no problem to learn from Disney at 500 South Beauvais Street and set up a theme store there.

But if we want to build a large-scale studio in the future when filming technology lags behind, it will definitely be far from enough.

Therefore, although Hideki Hanyu decided to use this piece of land as the future headquarters of Yunshang Pictures, he also had no intention of giving up the other two pieces of land.

So this is what he said to Alan Horn at last.

"Mr. Horn, I am very satisfied with all three plots of land. Let's buy them all. This will be used as the future headquarters, and the other two plots will be built into photography areas."

Hideki Hanyu's decision also made Alan Horn witness the "inhumanity" of his boss for the first time after joining the company.

……

After a day trip to Burbank, Hideki Hanyu decided that he wanted them all.

The subsequent purchase of land and how to plan and design it after purchase is the responsibility of CEO Alan Horn.

After all, Hideki Hanyu paid the other party to be the CEO, not to ask him to make decisions on everything.

After leaving Burbank, Hideki Hanyu's car returned to Los Angeles and headed straight to Hibiscus Garden in Beverly Hills.

As they got closer to the Hibiscus Garden, Monica Bellucci said with some surprise, "Boss actually wanted to bring me to the Hibiscus Garden. I'm really surprised. Aren't you worried that Ms. Liu will be unhappy to see me?"

"She took her daughter back to China yesterday." Hanyu Hideki explained and said dissatisfiedly, "And there is no need for you to test me with such words. I have always been open with women. If you don't like me, you can just leave."

"Including me?" Monica Bellucci asked.

Hanyu Hideki answered without even looking at him, "Including you."

"The boss is really ruthless, but the more so, the more I like him." Monica Bellucci immediately adjusted her javelin and came forward to please him.

"hehe--"

Hanyu Hideki grinned, too lazy to point out the woman's little thoughts.

But when the vehicle drove into the Hibiscus Garden, Hanyu Hideki still explained, "I have prepared the helicopter crew. We will not stay here overnight. We will go directly to San Jose."

"Is that so? I thought I could try that Ms. Liu's bed?"

Qiuhua said, looking at Hanyu Hideki charmingly, "Boss, don't you want to try?"

"No, it's not just her bed, it's my daughter's too."

The fact that his precious daughter involves Hideki Hanyu's principles is enough to make him ignore any temptation.

The female player, who was originally confident of seducing Hanyu Hideki, was stunned after hearing Hanyu Hideki's words, and then she grabbed the scumbag's arm.

"I want kids, too."

It was obvious that the tennis player was a little jealous of how much Hideki Hanyu valued his precious daughter.

Hanyu Hideki said helplessly, "Aren't you always working hard?"

"If not, it means the boss is not working hard enough. Let's get on the helicopter quickly. I will go to Moon Lake Manor later..."

As the two approached the already started helicopter, the fierce words that the player said were completely drowned out by the sound of the helicopter engine.

……

July 19th, afternoon.

At Moon Lake Manor, Hideki Hanyu received two guests successively.

The first is John Chambers, the current CEO of Cisco.

The other party came to him to inform him in advance about the board meeting the day after tomorrow.

It has been exactly two months since John Chambers joined Cisco.

During these two months, in addition to fulfilling his normal CEO responsibilities and helping Cisco develop steadily, John Chambers also did not forget to propose an acquisition plan for Qualcomm at the board meeting when he first joined the company.

In two months, John Chambers has had many contacts with the person in charge of Qualcomm.

The current situation is that Qualcomm has just experienced a commercial failure in its transportation communications system and lacks the resources needed for development, so it is not opposed to Cisco's intentions.

However, as for direct acquisition, several founders of Qualcomm prefer the method of capital injection and mergers and acquisitions because they are also optimistic about the development of Cisco.

So we hope to acquire some Cisco shares in this merger and acquisition.

In addition, several founders of Qualcomm also stated that even after the merger, Cisco must ensure the independence of Qualcomm.

John Chambers intended to agree to these conditions because the founders of Qualcomm were optimistic about Cisco and John Chambers was also optimistic about Qualcomm.

Because he already knew that Qualcomm had begun research and development of mobile communication technology, which will definitely be a technological route no less important than the Internet in the future.

But it’s useless for John Chambers to be optimistic. Cisco’s board of directors must also be optimistic and agree to Qualcomm’s acquisition plan.

This is also the reason why John Chambers visited Hideki Hanyu first.

Knowing that Cisco founder Leonard Bosack and his wife did not support him, he had to get the support of Hideki Hanyu.

As the largest shareholder of Qualcomm, Hideki Hanyu's Hope Angel Investment will basically be half successful as long as Hideki Hanyu supports him.

But the premise for Hideki Hanyu to support it is that Hanyu, like him, is also optimistic about the future of Qualcomm, otherwise the merger and acquisition plan will harm Hanyu's interests.

"Mr. Hanyu, in my opinion, Qualcomm is a company..."

So when the two of them talked to the end, John Chambers basically kept praising Qualcomm to Hideki Hanyu, trying to make Hideki Hanyu see the value of Qualcomm.

But John Chambers didn't know that in this day and age, no one knows better than Hideki Hanyu how successful Qualcomm will be in the future.

But the problem is that even if Hideki Hanyu knew it, he couldn't say it directly, nor could he act too eager or deliberate when facing John Chambers' praise.

Therefore, after listening to John Chambers' words, Hanyu Hideki raised his hand to check the time and said, "Chambers, of course I trust your judgment.

But today, in addition to you, I have also made an appointment with Mr. Don Valentine. If you want your merger and acquisition plan to succeed, you cannot do without his support.

So next I will help you test his attitude, and then decide what we should do based on his attitude."

"Mr. Hanyu has a point," said John Chambers.

"Very good, you'd better not show up next time. I will contact you as soon as there is news." Hanyu Hideki reminded.

John Chambers said, "I understand. I'll take my leave now."

"Okay, I'll send it to you."

Just as Hideki Hanyu left, Don Valentine arrived at Moon Lake Manor.

Just now, Hideki Hanyu told John Chambers that he would test Don Valentine's attitude next.

But when Don Valentine arrived, he got straight to the point.

"Mr. Valentine, you must support John Chambers' merger plan."

Don Valentine looked at Hanyu Hideki and asked, "Why, just because he is optimistic about the future of that company?"

But Hideki Hanyu, who knew Don Valentine's thoughts well, didn't focus on the high pass at all.

He just said it in a calm tone.

"The acquisition of Qualcomm is not the main point. The main point is how to use this acquisition to achieve Mr. Valentine's wish and make two people disappear from Cisco completely."

(End of this chapter)