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Chapter 332, Invincible!! Dollar Bomb!! (Subscribe)
At the end of July 1973, a small incident happened to Sam.

To be precise, this incident happened last summer, but the details were not known at the time.

On June 18th of last year, The Washington Post reported on its front page the news that James McArthur was arrested at the Watergate Building.

The arrest of a suspicious-looking man is not big news.

However, James McDevitt claimed to be a former employee of SAM Intelligence Agency, but in fact he was the chief advisor for security in Richard Milhouse's re-election campaign office.

This is very interesting.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reporters from The Washington Post, were also quite brave. They actually followed up on the matter in depth and were determined to report the complete situation.

Zhao Mancang knew about this matter at first, but he didn't pay attention to it.

And this matter has nothing to do with him, he is just a spectator.

The way things develop, Richard Milhouse will announce his resignation next year.

There is no way around it. The Washington Post chooses to use any means necessary to create buzz.

At the same time, Richard Milhouse chose to do whatever it takes to successfully continue to stay in the position of class leader.

Both sides are right, and it's not just Richard Milhouse, but also Roosevelt going back further, they all did this.

Everybody did it, but when James McDead got caught and the story became public, it became a big deal.

As long as the fig leaf is not torn off, everyone can only be angry but not speak out.

But once the fig leaf is gone, someone will have to bear all the losses.

Zhao Mancang chuckled after reading the report in The Washington Post.

It's no different from the original time and space. It seems that this is Sam's old tradition. It's so fucking normal to pull each other down.

After a while, Zhao Mancang picked up another newspaper, which was the New York Times Post, a newspaper of the media group under his name.

The New York Times and Post reported yesterday's movie box office. In the total box office column, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was far ahead and temporarily ranked first in the total box office this year.

Moreover, this movie has only been released for less than half a month, but the box office has already reached 1.26 billion US dollars.

Just like its name, invincible, the quality of a king!
However, on July 26th, a new movie will be released, "Top Gun", which Universal Pictures has been preparing for two years.

This movie is very powerful. Zhao Mancang has seen it. Once it is released, it should be possible to break the box office champion of "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King".

Why are both movies crowded in such a schedule? Can't they be pushed back?
Can't push it!
Because August 2nd is the release date of th Century Fox's " Fast Furious", and August th is the release date of MGM's "Star Wars".

These movies are either sequels or very strong movies.

To the outside world, the four Hollywood giants including Paramount are mortal enemies, but to Zhao Mancang, they are just breeding poison.

Only Zhao Mancang himself knew that these four companies were his own. The outside world had no idea, and Paramount’s executives didn’t know this at all.

Even though the four Paramount companies have cooperative relationships with each other, the cooperation is not deep, and they have cooperated before, and even their film projects are the kind in which they invest in each other.

Basically, it is a situation where you are in me and I am in you.

However, even so, Zhao Mancang was still able to conceal his identity as a shareholder, and such a relationship was even more suitable for him to hide.

On July 26, "Top Gun" was officially released. On the opening day, it took up 40% of the screenings, while "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" took up 33% of the screenings.

The new film has a huge advantage, but "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" is also a huge hit.

Since its release on July 17, "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" has been truly invincible. In just nine days, it has earned a box office of 1.26 billion US dollars, which is really crazy.

However, on July 26, there was a long queue in front of the cinema, and more people seemed to be buying tickets for "Top Gun".

As it stands, The Lord of the Rings is in a bit of a precarious position.

The outside world has been paying attention to these two movies, wondering which one is better.

For Sony Columbia head Yushiro Maeda, no matter how awesome a movie is, he doesn't want to see it.

Of course, if there is no choice, then Yushiro Maeda would still prefer "Top Gun" to be more awesome, because he hopes that the road to invincibility of "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" will be cut off.

Jack from Warner Bros. has not been paying attention to the box office recently because he is focusing on his own movies.

Warner Bros. Pictures has invested 150 million U.S. dollars, and they are determined to make a comeback this time.

He also specifically picked next year's schedule to avoid the big-name Paramount films.

But whether it can be accomplished is still unknown.

The next morning, newspapers quickly reported the box office results for July 26th.

But what no one expected was that the champion of the single-day box office ranking was not "Top Gun", but "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King".

hiss!
Everyone was in an uproar, but when they carefully looked at the box office data, big capital giants like Wall Street were stunned.

Because at this moment, Sam's movie box office revenue actually reached 400 million US dollars in a single day.

Fake!

Isn't this too crazy?
Oh my God, has this world gone crazy?
The champion of the single-day box office ranking is "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", which earned 2 million US dollars. The runner-up is "Top Gun" with million US dollars, and the third place is "The Jason Bourne Supremacy" with million US dollars.

Ranked fourth is "The Rise of Nations", which earned $507 billion, and fifth is Sony Columbia Pictures' monster movie, which earned $10.8 million.

The total box office of the above five films has exceeded 400 million US dollars.

Of course, all the money was earned by these five movies, or more accurately, by the first four movies.

After all, the movie "The Tribute to All Nations" has been released for nearly a month, but on July 26th, the box office was still so high, which is incredible.

You have to know that this is "The Rise of Nations", a Chinese film, and the two films "Top Gun" and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" have occupied 73% of the screenings, leaving only 27% for other films.

Therefore, the fact that the box office output on this day is so high can only prove that the top four movies in today’s box office rankings are all very exciting, and their box office potential is far from being exhausted.

For fans, this is the best thing.

In this way, they can choose the movies they want to watch, which is definitely a visual feast and a blessing.

In fact, many people will watch these movies with good box office results, especially good movies like "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King". Most people will not watch it just once, but will choose to watch it several times.

Currently, Sam’s best entertainment every summer is actually watching more movies.

The overwhelming publicity is all about movies. On the contrary, although televisions are very common, the scale of investment in TV dramas means that their publicity efforts cannot be that great.

Moreover, TV series with small investments will be surpassed by movies in terms of excitement and quality.

Otherwise, there is no way the movie would be so popular but the TV series would not have such a big spark.

No matter what the outside world thinks, for Zhao Mancang, as long as the movie sells well, it is a good thing.

"Top Gun" lost narrowly, but on Saturday, July 28th, its box office finally surpassed it.

On Saturday, the entire Sam's movie market once again broke through 400 million US dollars, and this time it was the total box office of the previous four movies combined.

Ranked first is "Top Gun", which took in 153 million US dollars at the box office with 39% of the screening schedule.

The runner-up was "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", which took 34% of the screenings and earned 1.42% at the box office.

Up to now, the box office of "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" has exceeded 1.6 billion US dollars and is about to break 1.7 billion US dollars.

It's really invincible.

No one knows to what height it will raise the box office champion in film history.

The total single-day box office for these two movies alone has reached 295 million US dollars.

The third place is not "Jason Bourne", but "The Rise of Peter Pan". The former received 2 million US dollars, while the latter received million US dollars.

The total single-day box office of the four films combined reached 401 million US dollars.

Horror!
The Federal Reserve worked even harder after learning that the film market was so hot this year.

On July 29th, at an internal meeting of the Federal Reserve, they began to discuss that this year's US dollar printing should not be so conservative, but should reach 50 billion US dollars or even 60 billion US dollars.

Greedy people can never stop being greedy, they always want to get more.

"According to my estimate, 60 billion is definitely no problem. We have already released over 30 billion US dollars. As you can see, the film market is extremely hot, and the same is true overseas. The US dollar circulates faster."

"Also, you should see that more people around the world are coming to our Sam's Club because of the movie promotion."

In the office, a pot-bellied white man gave a very accurate analysis.

By presenting data and stating facts, many people are convinced by such words.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Hollywood movies are not only very popular in Sam, but also overseas, and are even more popular overseas.

Why is this so?
Because many people in this era thought that the life in the movie was the life of ordinary people like Sam now.

Many people simply don’t know that the life pressures brought about by the devaluation of the US dollar, rising unemployment rates, inflation, etc. are very scary for ordinary people like Sam.

The lower class people, especially those who are unemployed, seem to be able to receive government welfare benefits, but if they can live standing up, who would be willing to kneel down?
Not everyone is one of those black people. Anyway, many Chinese who come to Sam's place hope to carve out a world of their own with their own hard-working hands in this land of free air and sweet running water.

Well, some of them don’t know yet, but they will definitely know in the future, what heavy metal lead poisoning is.

In the movie "Top Gun", there is a thrilling scene of a super pilot flying a super fighter jet at a speed exceeding Mach 5 and soaring in the sky.

When ordinary audiences around the world saw this scene, they were all shocked by Sam's powerful technological capabilities.

But in fact, this is a movie, not reality.

However, ordinary people in the 1970s were ignorant and many were illiterate.

In addition, people mostly get information through newspapers.

As for newspapers, haha, anyone who believes them is a fucking fool.

So many people believed it and came to Sam's one after another, but in the end they were cheated.

In the internal meeting office of the Federal Reserve, after the meeting, the printing volume of base currency of 60 billion US dollars was determined.

What they didn't know was that their conversation today was actually eavesdropped on.

In Sam, eavesdropping is everywhere.

Whether it was the Watergate Building before or many important occasions, the presence of eavesdropping devices is normal.

This time, the people who eavesdropped on them were not anyone else, but Xiong Licheng and his group.

Xiong Licheng sent out a small team to carry out the mission personally.

The Super Dollar Factory's printing task for this year has long been completed, so in addition to collecting and purchasing raw materials such as paper and ink, Xiong Licheng and his team also need to keep an eye on the developments of the Federal Reserve.

In other words, we must always keep track of whether the Federal Reserve has discovered super dollars.

Once discovered, the Super Dollar Factory must adjust its strategy in a timely manner.

Zhao Mancang spends so much money every year to support Xiong Licheng and others, so they must take this matter extremely seriously.

If Xiong Licheng and his team were caught while eavesdropping on the Federal Reserve Building, then Zhao Mancang would definitely send out the Black Cross Force, or even directly issue a high-bounty mission in the underworld to get rid of Xiong Licheng's team.

As for what will happen to Xiong Licheng and his team’s families after their death?
Haha, there will definitely be a lot of money given to their families as compensation.

There is no need to worry about the funeral arrangements.

In a luxurious manor villa in New York, Zhao Mancang met Xiong Licheng and listened to the latter's work report.

After the other party finished reporting, he spoke:
"Very good, I understand. The Super Dollar Factory will remain on hold for now. We're not in a rush!"

"You continue to keep a close eye on the Federal Reserve. At the same time, send more personnel to collect ink, paper and other raw materials. Be careful to be secretive and don't let anyone discover this."

In fact, Zhao Mancang has already provided the Super US Dollar Factory with related technologies such as ink, but he is also very cautious in obtaining raw materials.

Once it is known to the outside world, it is easy for something to go wrong.

Never underestimate anyone, because everyone can be an agent.

Details determine success or failure!
Xiong Licheng immediately nodded seriously to show that he understood.

"Okay, keep working. When it's time to rest, take a good rest, but don't forget to be alert or you'll get caught."

Zhao Mancang said calmly:

"When I asked you to go on a mission before, you had to disguise yourself well, with at least three layers of disguise. Only in this way can you protect yourselves."

"Okay, I'll stop rambling. I believe you understand. Let's get to work."

After watching Xiong Licheng leave, Zhao Mancang also stood up and left.

He acts more cautiously than anyone else.

With all the things he did in Sam, if any one of them were exposed, it would be absolutely earth-shattering and would attract the attention of the whole world.

So he is extremely careful and will check and review the situation repeatedly afterwards to ensure that he does not miss any details.

If the Federal Reserve were to do this now, things would be easy.

The Super Dollar Factory will definitely follow up, but it will become increasingly difficult for Super Dollar to continue hiding.

Because the amount of super dollars now is less than 10 billion US dollars, it is normal that the Federal Reserve has not discovered it yet.

But once a certain warning line is crossed, or when they find abnormalities through economic data, or when there are senior bank employees who are very familiar with the US dollar, they will probably discover it over time.

Anyway, Zhao Mancang already knew that there were super US dollars circulating in the Sam's Club market.

It’s just that the bigwigs at the Federal Reserve don’t know about this yet.

After Xiong Licheng left, Zhao Mancang continued to pay attention to the Sam Film Market. At the same time, he came to the Mayflower Media headquarters to listen to the work report of the head Randolph Daniel.

The New York Times and Post, among other newspapers, have now become the top ten newspapers in Sam's domestic sales, accounting for a total of five.

The Mayflower Media Group alone occupies half of the market. It can be imagined that the development of the Mayflower Media Group is still very gratifying.

Zhao Mancang looked at Randolph Daniel in front of him, and the other party seemed to want to escape from his control.

In fact, the other party had followed him for thirteen years. When Mayflower Media Group was still a very small company, Randolph Daniel was already a manager of the New York branch of Women's Health.

Now that thirteen years have passed, it is normal that Randolph Daniel's ambition has emerged and has even reached a point where it cannot be suppressed.

"Haha, what makes you think you can?" Zhao Mancang asked with a smile.

When Randolph Daniel heard this, his heart suddenly skipped a beat. Fear appeared in his heart and cold sweat began to appear on his back.

After so many years, he is very familiar with his boss Zhao Mancang.

If you ask this now, the boss must be extremely angry, right?

But when you think about how he has worked diligently for Mayflower Media Group for so many years, even if he has no credit, he has worked hard, not to mention that his contributions are absolutely countless.

So he made a little request, what's wrong?
"Will leaving Mayflower Media Group bring you any benefits? Isn't the salary I offer you the highest in the industry? Doesn't that justify your hard work?"

"Also, I've always been in charge of Mayflower Media Group's development strategy. You're just an executor. What makes you think you can get by out there?"

"If it weren't for the fact that you've followed me for thirteen years, I would have just let you go instead of talking so much nonsense with you!"

After saying that, Zhao Mancang took another sip of water and continued:

"If you still insist that you can get along well out there, then no problem. In three days, I will sign and let you go."

"Mayflower Media Group has many talented people and doesn't need you. The reason this company is great isn't because of you, but because of me. If you can't understand this, then it's a good thing for you to leave."

He had no intention of keeping Randolph Daniel.

You can’t keep someone who wants to leave no matter what you do.

Zhao Mancang watched Randolph Daniel leave without trying to keep him.

A few days later, the other party left as expected, and Zhao Mancang turned around and supported a new person in charge, Salvatore Van Buren.

After Salvatore Van Buren took office, he did not make any major changes to the company. Instead, he managed many details in a meticulous manner.

Zhao Mancang is also paying attention. Everyone is paying attention to how the new person in charge will perform.

It was already August and "2 Fast Furious" had been released, but it did not perform as well as its predecessor. In the four days of its first weekend, its total box office was only million US dollars, far less than "Top Gun" and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the Condor Heroes".

Of course, the box office performance of "2 Fast Furious" is still much better than that of "The Rise of Nations", but the former has to face too many challenges.

Judging from the current screening schedule, "2 Fast Furious" accounts for only % of the total screenings, "Top Gun" accounts for %, and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" accounts for %.

The film "The Rise of Nations" accounted for 2% of the screening schedule, and the remaining % was divided up by other films such as "The Jason Bourne Supremacy" and Sony Columbia Pictures' monster movies.

From this point of view, "2 Fast Furious" seems to be quite good, but "Star Wars" is about to be released on August th, which is bound to squeeze the screening schedule.

Although the screenings of movies like "Top Gun" will also be reduced, the box office potential of these two movies, "Top Gun" and "The Lord of the Rings", is so awesome.

Invincible!

Therefore, it is still very difficult for "2 Fast Furious" to maintain its current advantages.

Zhao Mancang already has a clear understanding of the overall situation of the film market.

But "Star Wars" has not yet been released, and he cannot be sure what changes will happen later.

The massive printing of US dollars by the Federal Reserve, coupled with the influx of super US dollars, has made today's Sam's economy completely different from the original time and space.

Many people from Africa and South America come to Sam's Club with huge sums of US dollars to spend.

In most abnormal situations, Sam's Club ultimately has to pay the price.

No one knows whether the super dollar will explode prematurely like a bomb.

(End of this chapter)