After exchanging opinions with Robert, Jiang Chen decided on Future Group's plan to enter the film industry.
Jiang Chen would personally invest 1 billion US Dollar to establish Morning Light Pictures. Morning Light Pictures would be responsible for the production and distribution of films and would be independent of Future Group. This was mainly to avoid the Paramount Regulation as Future Group may intervene in the screening of films in the future. But there was no difference. Future Group and Morning Light Pictures were both controlled by him. Although the shares were independent, there was no difference in essence.
After all, this was not his Xin, so it was better not to mess around.
With 10% equity and a base salary of 1 million US Dollar, he hired Robert as the CEO of the company. After working in Los Santos for more than ten years, after getting rid of his identity as an arms dealer, he worked in Hollywood as a producer for three years. With Robert's connections in the city, it was more than enough for him to be the CEO.
Of course, all of this was still in the planning stage.
At least for now, the cooperation between Future Technology and Warner Brothers was still in the honeymoon stage. Everything had to wait until the release of "Time Curtain".
When Jiang Chen walked out of the mansion, it was already eight o 'clock at night. Lawrence was still leaning against the car, but this time, he wasn't eating a burger but smoking out of boredom.
When Lawrence saw Jiang Chen walk over, he extinguished the cigarette.
"Where are we going next?"
"Where can we go at this late?" Jiang Chen yawned and sat in the passenger seat.
"I thought you would have a date tonight after attending this kind of party," Lawrence said with a shrug.
Two hours ago, he saw a group of Hollywood stars walk out of Robert's mansion. Among them, there was no lack of blondes. Based on the FBA's profile, this guy should be quite shameless.
"I'm doing this to reduce your workload." Jiang Chen ridiculed the stern agent manager, put on his seat belt, and said, "I don't have any plans for the next two days. You can consider giving yourselves two days off."
"No plans?" Lawrence raised an eyebrow.
Based on the security agreement between the two parties, Jiang Chen was obligated to provide the FBA with the next day's itinerary so they could be prepared. However, Jiang Chen didn't have a plan, which made him confused.
"Yes, in the next two to three days, I will stay in the Xin Embassy and exchange opinions with my CEO on the upcoming Silicon Valley Summit. At the same time, there are some things in Xin that I need to deal with personally." Jiang Chen skillfully used the set of rhetoric he had prepared.
Lawrence looked at Jiang Chen suspiciously, but he didn't say anything.
Future Group's internal arrangements had no place for an outsider like him to comment. And he would never have thought that Jiang Chen would sneak out and "visit" Area 51 in Lincoln County in southern Nevada.
At the same time, a heated debate was taking place at the CIA headquarters in Virginia. Stephen, who had just returned from Los Santos, found his immediate boss, Director Naomi Madden, and tried to convince his boss to launch an investigation on Jiang Chen.
"There's no conclusion yet. Whether it was a graphite bomb or an EMP —" Naomi spun the pen in his hand as he leaned back in his chair and listened to his subordinate's report.
However, when it came to work, his right-hand man did not buy it. Stephen raised his voice and argued, "Conclusion? What evidence do we need? If the testimony of 110 Ukrainian government soldiers can't be used as evidence, then what else can be used as evidence? I'm sure it was an EMP! "
It was indeed difficult to distinguish the difference between a graphite bomb and an EMP. Both could destroy the power grid and damage electronic equipment, but the former's accuracy was too poor and ineffective against equipment that was too tightly sealed. Because the incident took place at the most chaotic front line, even CIB agents couldn't go deep into the enemy's territory and collect so-called evidence like detectives.
Naomi's face was solemn, but he still didn't make a decision.
The Ukrainian issue was indeed important, or the project team led by Stephen wouldn't be directly responsible to him. In the report of the Ukrainian government army, Russia used a weapon that could paralyze electronic equipment, which immediately attracted the attention of the CIB. After the airborne battle in City M, no country would ignore the killer of modern civilization, the EMP. Although all countries were protesting against this weapon, everyone knew that everyone was secretly studying this weapon.
The Pentagon suspected that Future Group had provided help to the Russians, but the KGB did a good job in intelligence work, and the CIB had not collected relevant evidence. They didn't even know how far the cooperation between the two sides had progressed. If it was a simple arms sale, it would be fine, but if it was a technology sale, then it was not good.
However, the people involved made it quite difficult for Naomi.
The Capitol was sending a friendly signal to Xin, but his right-hand man proposed to investigate Jiang Chen … Regardless of whether Jiang Chen was related to the weapons on the Russian-Ukrainian border, the CIB couldn't investigate a guest from afar.
"The key to the problem now is that even if these weapons are proved to be from the military factory on Ange Island, it is a transaction between Future Military and Russia. They did not directly sell the arms to the rebels." Naomi stopped spinning the pen in his hand, leaned back in his chair, and pondered with a frown. "This is difficult."
"Just because it is difficult, do we let them get away with it?" Stephen said with hatred.
Naomi looked at the agitated Stephen. He knew very well why his man saw Jiang Chen as a thorn in his side. The CIB once planned a kidnapping operation against Jiang Chen in Hua, but the dozens of CIB agents sent were still missing.
At first, they thought it was Hua who arrested them, but after a few years, Hua's silence on the incident began to make them wonder if it was really Hua's intelligence department that took care of those agents.
The dozens of dead agents were all Stephen's comrades, and he understood his man's feelings at the moment.
But for the sake of politics, Naomi was also unlikely to approve his proposal. His predecessor resigned because he planned the operation in Hua without authorization. As the CIB Director who was close to the Capitol, he made the most conservative and correct choice.
"I'll inform the Capitol."
"We can't ask for instructions from the Capitol for everything. Please, we are the CIB, not the FBA, not the puppets of the bureaucrats in the Capitol! We should be responsible for national security! We can solve it in our own way — "
"It's too risky!" Naomi immediately interrupted Stephen's words.
However, Stephen did not give up. The corners of his mouth curled up into a sinister smile as he said word by word.
"I heard that the Freemasonry has a grudge against them."
Naomi was slightly taken aback. Stephen didn't let go of this opportunity, so he struck while the iron was hot.
"There is no risk. We are completely out of the picture. We only need to provide a little help to those who are eyeing us."
Naomi frowned slightly and seemed to understand what Stephen wanted to say, but he still had concerns about whether it was feasible.
"One mistake will provoke a war between the two countries."
"There will be no war! As long as the person is not the UA, but the Freemasonry! As long as we completely separate ourselves from the whole thing, we won't get into any trouble! What we need to do is just … "
After a long silence, Naomi slowly opened his mouth. He did not explicitly agree, nor did he verbally refute. Instead, he gave an ambiguous answer.
"I hope Los Santos won't become the second Bay of Pigs."
The corner of Stephen's mouth finally curled up into a smile.
He knew that the conservative and cautious director had finally been moved by him.
"I promise."
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