The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

December 1996, London, Great Britain.

Today, the city is shrouded in heavy fog, with visibility reduced to only 100 meters.

Near a law enforcement agency in central London, Liu Meng and his team were monitoring the situation.

"Brother Meng, this is all the information we have so far. Why don't we go inside and take a look tonight?" Brother Quan couldn't help but ask.

Liu Meng, Quan Ge, and Da Sheng have been in London for almost half a day.

The intelligence information we have gathered so far is not much.

Their mission was to find out where the $1.5 billion in counterfeit money that Williams and his team brought back from the docks had gone.

And take those boxes back to Mauritius.

These two tasks are not simple, and are extremely difficult.

Let's talk about the first task. Williams and his team have already investigated it. It was their violent organization that caught fire, and the 1.5 billion US dollars in counterfeit money was burned.

Although Williams and the CIA agent investigated, they were unable to find any results, so it was impossible to determine whether the $1.5 billion had actually been burned.

The official message was that everything had been burned to the ground.

"No rush, let's take a couple of days to talk about it."

Liu Meng shook his head, but did not rush to take action immediately.

So they stayed in London for two days, and on the morning of the third day, after resting and recuperating, they finally set off.

After a thorough investigation, it was determined that the $1.5 billion was virtually impossible to burn.

Furthermore, the CIA task force that came from Washington headquarters was rather strange; they had only been there for a few days, yet they hadn't done their due diligence in their investigation.

"Brother Meng, do you think it's possible that they stole it themselves?"

The Great Sage suddenly offered his own guess.

It's certain that money can be a powerful motivator.

Even though it was $1.5 billion in counterfeit money, now everyone in the Longkui team knows that the counterfeit US dollars are being used as real money.

Previously, the Longkui team had carried out missions in the United States, and in the past year or two, counterfeit US dollars have become de facto 'real US dollars'.

This is simply because the Federal Reserve is not actively cracking down on counterfeit money factories producing super-sized dollars.

Counterfeit money is rampant, but the Federal Reserve seems to turn a blind eye.

This is interesting.

So even though it's counterfeit money, it can still be used as real money.

"That's possible. We could start by investigating these CIA special agents and look at their recent spending habits."

Liu Meng nodded and immediately gave the order.

So the two of them split up, one team stayed in London to continue looking for an opportunity to move the boxes, while the other team went to Washington.

Why not steal the box first?
Because if we do that, it will inevitably alert the enemy, and then it will be almost impossible to investigate the whereabouts of the 1.5 billion counterfeit bills.

On the second day after Da Sheng and his companions arrived in Washington, D.C., they soon learned some astonishing news.

That was the small team that was originally sent to London. Everyone, including the captain Woodrow, either resigned or took sick leave.

This is very bizarre, so there must be something strange about it.

After further investigation, Da Sheng and his companions learned that Woodrow had gone to a gold mine in Africa, intending to become a gold mine owner there.

"No need for further investigation; it's basically certain that their team stole that batch of money."

Upon receiving the message, Liu Meng immediately said the following.

"You guys come back first, we'll take these boxes away."

Two days later, Da Sheng and his team returned to London and, together, secretly stole the several boxes that were heavily guarded by the London police.

When they left London and appeared on the Atlantic Ocean, Williams and his companions learned that the trunk had been stolen.

The news quickly reached the ears of a duke in London, who was immediately furious and gave MI6 a death order: the box must be retrieved.

Because the box contains highly enriched uranium.

If this thing were to become known to the outside world, it would definitely cause a huge uproar.

What is highly enriched uranium?

Simply put, this refers to uranium with a uranium-235 isotope abundance of more than 20 percent.

Internationally, uranium enriched to less than 20 percent is generally called low-enriched uranium, while uranium enriched to more than 80 percent is considered 'weapons-grade' uranium.

The Duke knew that those boxes contained weapons-grade enriched uranium, which could be used to make nuclear bombs.

It is in the range of over 100 kilograms.

An atomic bomb requires approximately 15 kilograms of weapons-grade highly enriched uranium. Several boxes contained over 100 kilograms, meaning that more than six atomic bombs could be made.

This is a very terrifying thing.

Therefore, this matter must absolutely not be known to the outside world.

When the head of MI6 learned of this, he was so angry that he cursed loudly.

Those British politicians can't do anything right, but they always like to dump messes on MI6.

It's as if their MI6 is there to clean up other people's messes.

This is infuriating!

No matter how angry I am, this matter still needs to be done.

A plane landed at an ordinary airport near the Atlantic coast of Africa, then quickly switched to another plane, which immediately took off and flew to the other side of the African continent.

A few hours later, the plane landed smoothly at Sir Siwasaguram Goulan International Airport at the southern tip of Mauritius.

This airport was expanded and completed a few years ago, and direct flights to Hong Kong Island, Harbin, and Chongqing have been launched.

Nowadays, Mauritius has seen at least 200,000 tourists from mainland China every year over the past few years.

The arrival of these tourists has brought vitality to the island.

The island's natural scenery is indeed very beautiful, but its tourism resources have not yet been successfully developed.

The roads, in particular, are not well-maintained, and the resort hotels and similar facilities are not very good either.

But the natural scenery is just too beautiful.

Therefore, the tourists were able to tolerate these inconveniences and enjoy their trip happily.

Liu Meng and his group were not tourists, but returned here because their headquarters were located here.

Of course, with the increasing number of tourists on the island, their headquarters will probably have to be relocated soon.

The day after Liu Meng and his group returned to Mauritius, Wang Duoyu issued his orders.

Those boxes will be moved to Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, where a ship will take them away.

If transported by ship, it will take some time.

"I thought the boss would come here, but I didn't expect that."

Quan watched the ship leave the port and chuckled softly.

The Great Sage immediately replied:
"How could that be? The boss is a legendary figure; of course he wouldn't come to Mauritius."

"You know what, it's possible. Mauritius has really beautiful scenery, and once the roads are built, it will be absolutely picturesque."

The entire island of Mauritius covers an area of ​​2,000 square kilometers, which is not roughly the size of two Hong Kongs.

The island is covered with crops such as sugarcane, and the wind blowing through the wheat fields makes the scenery even more beautiful.

Such a wonderful place! After spending some time here, Brother Quan was reluctant to leave.

Because this place is really suitable for retirement.

Liu Meng suddenly said:
"Alright, stop talking about it, let's go back."

Meanwhile, in Ice City, Wang Duoyu burst into laughter upon learning that Woodrow and his team had actually 'stole' the 1.5 billion US dollars.

"Dad, what are you laughing at?"

At the entrance of the villa, Wang Yifei appeared with her younger sister, Bai Doufu, and asked curiously.

"It's nothing, Dad's working. Come in quickly and close the door."

It was cold outside, so the little ones just threw on a coat and ran over.

Because the study was located right across from the villa, they weren't properly dressed.

"Dad, are you tired? Do you want to play with me for a while?"

Bai Doufu wrapped her arms around her father's neck, smiling affectionately and saying sweetly, "Okay, wait for Daddy."

Wang Duoyu still doted on his daughter and immediately agreed to the little one's request.

He did want to relax a bit, it was a good way to balance work and rest.

Working all the time is not a good thing. Besides turning yourself into a workaholic, it will only alienate you from your children.

Half an hour later, Wang Duoyu personally took the little guy back to the villa next door before returning to the study villa.

He immediately called Zheng Baoyin and asked him to handle the matter.

The goal was to accidentally leak this information to the CIA, while also exposing a counterfeit money operation that had been prepared beforehand.

Have the CIA take down this hideout.

In short, the Federal Reserve must be given a little "sweetener" to let them know that counterfeit money rings are not invincible.

But at the same time, they also need to understand that even members of an agency like the CIA can be greedy for counterfeit money and successfully exchange it for gold.

In a sense, there is no real difference between counterfeit and genuine banknotes.

After all, even their own people admitted the existence of counterfeit money and willingly exchanged it for gold.

They laundered all that money little by little.

That was a senior CIA agent, someone so 'loyal'! And what happened?
So this is a huge irony.

After hanging up the phone, Zheng Baoyin was beaming with excitement.

He didn't know where his uncle had gotten the news, but it was fantastic news for their super dollar factory.

Even though the Super Dollar counterfeit bill is essentially a 'real US dollar', the CIA, FBI, and NSA have not given up on tracking down the Super Dollar factory.

"Hurry, hurry, let's get moving!"

Soon, Zheng Baoyin's order was relayed, and the relevant teams sprang into action.

Just as Zheng Baoyin was preparing to have his intelligence agents stage a performance to pass on information about Woodrow and his associates to the FBI, the movie "The Sixth Sense" had already gained overwhelming dominance in North America.

After breaking the $160 million mark on its opening day, the film grossed over $100 million in the following days, bringing its total box office to nearly $600 million in just seven days.

Horror!
The counterfeit Super Dollar is circulating globally, leading to increasingly outrageous box office figures for movies.

Movie box office revenue is playing an increasingly prominent role in laundering counterfeit money, and it is also difficult to detect.

Inside the Paramount Pictures conference room, thunderous applause erupted.

"Everyone here is a great contributor to the company. This time in December, Paramount finally managed to turn the tables on MGM, but..."

Levin Burns' words silenced all the executives in the conference room.

Because he mentioned MGM, the sister company that produced the movie "Titanic," which is already the highest-grossing film in history.

And it continues to break box office records, raising this box office record to a new level.

Although "The Sixth Sense" is very strong, its final box office will probably only be around one billion US dollars.

It would take two movies like this to possibly rival Titanic.

Ugh!
.........

At MGM headquarters, in a conference room, Roland Winster and his executives were very pleased.

Although the peak of "Saving Private Ryan" has passed, surprisingly, "Titanic" has come back to life again.

It's been more than half a year since the movie was released, and the daily box office has once again exceeded ten million US dollars, and on Saturday and Sunday it even broke the single-day box office record of twenty million US dollars.

The total box office has exceeded 2.5 billion US dollars and is steadily moving toward 3 billion US dollars.

"This year we can finally surpass Paramount..."

One of the executives said happily:

"Besides Titanic, our other films are also very good, and we have Rush Hour coming out this month, which will definitely boost our box office..."

"Including Saving Private Ryan, our film revenue this year will exceed three billion US dollars..."

clap clap clap!
The film segment alone generated $3 billion in revenue, and if other revenues are included, this year's total revenue will certainly exceed $10 billion.

The largest segment of MGM's revenue comes from film merchandise licensing.

There are many types of copyright revenue, including DVD rights, toys, and product placement.

In short, MGM's revenue this year is indeed terrifying, with tens of billions of dollars, enough to make it the top of the eight Hollywood giants this year.

Of course, another part is the 'compensation' for helping the super-dollar factory launder money, which is the service fee.

This money isn't so blatantly disclosed; instead, it's spread across all revenue segments and named "service fee."

Roland Winster smiled and reached down, immediately silencing the meeting room.

"A revenue of tens of billions of US dollars is indeed fantastic, and I believe the parent company will be very happy to know."

It's already December, and Rush Hour is about to be released, which means Christmas is just around the corner.

So now that the year is over, it's time to hand in our year-end reports.

"This year's results are basically settled; next year..."

Upon hearing Roland Winster's words, the executives immediately became serious.

Within MGM, everyone knew that Rowland Winster wanted to advance and become a member of the management team at MGM's parent company.

However, since MGM was acquired in 1989, Rowland Winster has mentioned more than once that he wants to revitalize MGM and join the parent company's management.

Nearly eight years have passed since 1989 until the end of 1996.

MGM has transformed from being the least successful of the original eight Hollywood giants into the number one super-giant it is today.

It's important to understand that among the current Hollywood giants, MGM and Paramount are in a league of their own, followed by Marvel Studios, and then Disney, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and others.

So it's truly impressive that MGM was able to beat Paramount to become number one.

Logically speaking, Roland Winster has a high probability of entering the parent company's management team, but who can say for sure?
An annual income of tens of billions of US dollars does not guarantee that he will succeed; it only means he has obtained the ticket to the game.

Therefore, next year's revenue is also very important.

If this delays Roland's promotion, then all the executives present will be in deep trouble.

Half an hour later, Roland Winster ended the meeting and left the company.

He took a car and arrived at a villa in the suburbs.

The environment here is elegant and comfortable, and there is no one else within a three-kilometer radius, because this is a private residential area.

"Roland, why are you taking so long? I've been waiting for you for ages..."

Upon seeing Roland, Levin Burns couldn't help but complain.

The two are both friends and rivals.

Because Want Want Group only allows them to compete fairly and strictly prohibits them from engaging in malicious competition.

Therefore, Paramount and MGM mostly cooperate, and even when they compete, they are relatively restrained.

For example, Paramount only had one film, "The Sixth Sense," released this month, so it got the best release date.

MGM had two movies, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Rush Hour," released, so the release dates weren't considered very good.

Of course, judging from the quality of these three films, the sixth sense is indeed stronger.

Coupled with its prime release date, The Sixth Sense became an instant box office hit after its release.

Unfortunately, box office revenue is not the most important factor in a film's total revenue.

The Sixth Sense performed very well at the box office, but the merchandise was only so-so.

On the contrary, movies like Titanic are the real all-rounders, with incredibly impressive copyrights in all aspects.

"I just finished a meeting and I'm a little late. I'll punish myself with three drinks later."

Roland said with a smile.

"Haha, that's good..."

The two exchanged a few pleasantries at the entrance before entering the villa.

Martinez, one of the senior executives of Want Want Group, was already sitting inside, along with several other senior executives in reserve.

"The usual..."

After Levin Burns and his companion entered, the small meeting officially began.

The so-called old rule, of course, requires thorough preparation in all aspects to ensure strict confidentiality.

Because what they're doing is far from simple, and the interests involved are extremely important. (End of Chapter)