American Entertainment 1982 - Chapter 138

  Chapter 138 The world is really crowded

   Quincy, Massachusetts, a private marina on Quincy Bay.

At this time, a three-masted monohull about 50 meters long is moored at the end of the plank road. At this time, the mast is raised and the sails are opened. It looks like a white swan resting gracefully in the blue sea. .

In the pier leisure area, the billionaire Robert Miller, who had just visited the ship, looked at the Cornell University alumnus and Sealine Shipping President Julian Farrell, who was picking out cigars recommended by the butler, and said, “Do you think I What is the name of the third super sailing ship?”

“The first one is called Pia, the second one is called Mary, and the whole world knows that the third one should be called Alexandra. There is no difficulty in this problem. The real difficulty is the fourth sailboat that will definitely belong to you in the future. After all, you only have three daughters.” After choosing the cigar, Farrell asked the butler to bake it for him, and said with a smile:

“It’s not like me. Although I manufacture and sell yachts, my wife and I only have one yacht under our name. Like my daughter, they are both called Ottilia. Speaking of yachts, are you sure you don’t need them? Every time I ask Help you design this monohull, you know…”

Robert Miller made a please gesture and begged Farrell: “Julian, please, don’t sell me a yacht, a product that is simply used to show off wealth, this is a toy that a man should buy for himself. After I choose the crew, I will drive the Alexandra across the Atlantic Ocean and set a new world record for crossing the Atlantic Ocean again.”

   “Mr. Miller, SSD’s monthly “Agenda” magazine has arrived. Do you want to read it now, or do you need me to send it to your study or bedroom…” The butler came over, leaned slightly, and said softly.

“It’s okay, just bring it, Charlie, I can show Farrell until we are old and lie in the graveyard. He didn’t join the SSD, and I was in it. It will be a regret in his life, too. The glory of my life.” Robert turned his head and said to the butler, and made a provocative gesture to Farrell deliberately exaggerated.

“Hey! I’m not an unwanted idiot. I joined the VSA. I’m from the Order of the Phoenix, okay? Everyone knows that the Order of the Phoenix is ​​better than the Order of the White Robes. Besides, I’m the final winner. I put Your SSD’s international sweetheart finally got her and married her back home.” Farrell sat up straight in dissatisfaction, pointed to several women who were showing their cooking skills not far away, and signaled Robert’s attention: “That’s why I have Sweet daughter Ottilia.”

  Robert also looked at his wife and three daughters, and was happily chatting with Farrell’s wife and daughter while grilling meat.

“Time flies, Julian. It always feels like yesterday, the stupid things we did in college. The Order of the Phoenix, the White Robes, the Bishops, the Hunters, the Wolf… In the blink of an eye, our daughters We’ve finished college, and we’ve all turned our abs into bellies.” He looked back and said to Farrell with some emotion.

At this time, Charlie, the housekeeper, sent over the “Agenda” magazine that SSD was only issued internally to the living members. Robert took it and looked at it: “I am glad that I joined SSD. Without SSD’s contacts, there would be no Robert Miller today. Not to mention DFS today, I am not you, Julian, you can directly join the Order of the Phoenix with the aura of your parents, but my father is just a salesman, my mother is a substitute teacher, without SSD, I may just be a hotel manager after graduating from college, after all I There is only a degree certificate in Hotel Management from Cornell University, which is the lowest tuition program in that year at Cornell University.”

Julian nodded understandingly. He knew the experience of this classmate who had to customize a super sailboat for himself every once in a while. In a nutshell, Robert and his current partner Chuck Feeney, two The genius **** met in the SSD chapter of Cornell University, and they hit it off and told the world that there is a brand-new profiteering industry, the chain of duty-free shops.

  By virtue of SSD’s connections with many members in the military, the two used their holidays to fly to Asia to make money during college.

In South Korea, Japan’s US military bases directly sold various cheap cigarettes and drinks from smuggled channels to American soldiers. At that time, the term duty-free goods was still very unfamiliar, but smuggling was well known, but those countries The police or the tax department did not have the courage to stop the two blatantly selling smuggled goods to the U.S. military, because Japan once tried it. Several policemen tried to confiscate the two people’s goods. As a result, the policemen were directly beaten into pig heads by several American soldiers , Then the result of the handling was that Japan was strongly dissatisfied. The US military stationed in Japan expressed regret and sent the beating soldier to Hawaii for a vacation.

  After that, no one dared to point fingers at such things.

Relying on the power of the United States, they used illegal means to quickly earn the first pot of gold in other countries. Then the two registered and established DFS company. With the rapid expansion of military contacts with SSD, they opened duty-free shops to Europe and every airport in Asia with US military garrisons. .

   Today, the two young people who can only study majors with the lowest tuition fees are the two founders of DFS, the world’s largest travel retailer company with nearly 100 duty-free shops.

Although DFS is not listed in order to avoid disclosing the information of shareholders, business magazines value the company as high as 4 billion, because it is still in the expansion stage, as long as the Cold War does not stop, as long as the United States continues to increase its military presence overseas , this company will continue to expand and occupy the core areas of the airports of those countries where troops are stationed.

   What’s even more frightening is that everyone doesn’t know how many shareholders DFS has and what their identities are.

   Anyway, Julian has known Robert for so many years, and only knows two alumni founders of DFS.

   “This article is good.” At this time, Robert found a piece of interesting text in a magazine, and he read enthusiastically:

“If those nerds from elite schools in Boston think they can intimidate the members of SSD with the name of Yale and Harvard, I don’t mind kicking their **** and re-teaching them what SSD is. Looks like they need support, Charlie. I called the SSD General Assembly to find out if these two boys need a lawyer or something… No, I saw it, they found a lawyer from the White Shoes Firm…”

Soon, Robert stopped talking, and the expression on his face changed from that of killing time to playful. After reading the whole article, he said, “Call Charlie Feeney at the Hong Kong headquarters and ask him to use DFS In the name of the company, an internal notice was issued. Whether the company’s office software was replaced by Actor’s OSS for reasons of efficiency, cost or other reasons, this matter should be completed before the court session. He must have received this magazine and would understand the court session. previous meaning.”

   “Do you need me to call the general meeting for you again, and ask the other party to call you to thank you?” the butler asked.

“No, I’ll be on vacation in Massachusetts, and they will come to see me to thank me in person. Besides, if they don’t come, we are large commercial users of OSS, so we have reason to intervene because of possible economic and human losses in this penalty.” After Robert finished speaking, he handed the magazine to Farrell next to him:

   “SSD is about to give birth to yet another Robert and Charlie pair, this time in California, the Stanford SSD Chapter, Tommy and Jason.”

“Are you sure that if I read your internal magazine, you won’t violate SSD’s leaking regulations?” Julian teased, and then took a look at the magazine, not as interested as Robert, because this is not the internal magazine of the Order of the Phoenix, he At least I just looked at the photos, got a general idea of ​​the content, and then put the magazine on the table: “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the two of them are robbers in suits, at least I haven’t seen the company’s engineer in charge of program control , When encountering lawsuit trouble, the face in the photo can still show such an excited expression, the opponent is Lotus, a well-known software company in Boston…”

“Try the vanilla biscuits I baked, Mr. Miller, and father.” Otilia walked over with baking gloves, carrying a freshly baked biscuit, and placed it on the table in front of the two of them. I just happened to find that photo in the magazine.

  She was slightly astonished at first, then picked up the magazine in disbelief, and looked at the photo of Tommy and Jason on it: “Tommy Hawk? This is Tommy?”

“You know him?” Farrell was stunned for a moment, and then he also realized: “Tommy Hawk, this is the kid who made a fortune at the international summer camp and sent himself to Stanford by the way? The world is really Crowded.”

Robert also looked at Otilia, but Farrell’s words just now made him interested: “Otilia, mind explaining to me when we are eating biscuits, what is an international summer camp?” Make a lot of money and send yourself to Stanford by the way?”

The first update~~ First let me tell you that I am not lazy, and I don’t want to reverse the schedule again. I started coding not at night, but in the afternoon. It’s just that I was so engrossed in reading the information that I read it as a novel before I knew it. It’s an hour, and half of the second update has been coded, it will be ready soon~ I will as soon as possible~

  (end of this chapter)