After Ye Zhiming returned to Europe, he continued to deal with the Alaber Consortium, PPR Group and LVMH Group, and on the other hand, he quietly planned to acquire PPR Group and LVMH Group.

In addition to acquiring Gucci, Xia Tian also wants to swallow 25% of the shares of PPR Group and LVMH Group. In this way, his position in the luxury goods industry will be unrivaled.

Of course, it would be best if he could successfully acquire these three companies. However, given that it is unrealistic to acquire three companies in one go, the funds alone will require about 100 billion US dollars, which is not something that summer can afford at this stage, so his goal is to take a look at the two. He must successfully acquire one of them, strive for two, and plan for three.

In this way, his nearly half a year of hard work will not be wasted.

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Just when Ye Zhiming was planning to "surround Wei and save Zhao", Xia Tian was busy writing the book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in the mainland.

Last year, the book "The Prisoner of Harry Potter and Azkaban" was released in the summer, which became very popular after its launch. So this year he wanted to continue to work hard and continue to launch the book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

On the one hand, if you don’t hurry up and launch a new book, readers will grow up, which will affect the sales of the Harry Potter series.

On the one hand, Tianxia Production has cooperated with Universal Pictures to start adapting the Harry Potter series of movies. It is expected to start filming "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" this year, striving to be released on Christmas this year. It is casting and setting up a shooting venue a few days ago. It is expected that the filming will officially start in another month.

Now writing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in summer can be synchronized with the movie adaptation plan of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". At that time, each other will be promoted and borrowed light from each other, and the movies will be exposed twice, so there will be no need to worry about box office and sales.

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is a transformational work in the "Harry Potter" series. The plot of this work will be more tortuous and bizarre, and the style will become darker.

Not only did Harry Potter witness death for the first time, but Hermione's "protecting the house elf" also reflects more injustice in real society. It can be said that starting from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the "Harry Potter" series is no longer a simple fairy tale.

In addition, the book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" also wrote about two other magic schools for the first time, and also wrote about the "World Cup" of the magic world - the "Quidditch World Cup", as well as magicians from all over the world, which can be said to have greatly expanded the "setting of the Harry Potter magic world".

Therefore, this book must be written carefully, otherwise the transformation may not be so successful, and it will also affect the launch of the subsequent three works.

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While writing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in the summer, mainland audiences were attracted by a popular TV series. It was adapted from Eryuehe's classic "Yongzheng Dynasty" and produced and filmed by CCTV's Film and Television Department.

The TV series has a total of 44 episodes, and it was broadcast on CCTV's first series at the beginning of the new year, setting a super high rating of more than 16.7%.

Because the play contains "science fraud cases", "Yellow River floods", "spreading acres into a mu", "gentle-in-one food collection", etc., which are closely related to the real society, such as the case of leaking questions in the CET-4 exam, the college entrance examination fraud case; the tofu project of the Yangtze River embankment; the reform and opening-up strategy encountered many obstacles, etc., it aroused strong response and heated discussions in the society.

Even Director Zhongling highly praised this TV series, believing that this drama is a "high-quality product in historical dramas", and believed that it reflects reality and has certain educational significance. He also called on all cadres of the Party and the government to watch this TV series.

This made the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty" more influential and became the hottest TV series at the beginning of 1999. Even Wang Xiaoxian himself was not interested in history, so he watched this movie "Yongzheng Dynasty" with relish. Unfortunately, "Yongzheng Dynasty" only broadcasts one episode a day, and it is difficult to watch it in one breath, which makes her feel very unhappy.

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The popularity of "Yongzheng Dynasty" also made "Li Wei the Official" filmed by the same team.

"Li Wei Becomes an Official" is still under intense shooting, so I quickly want to catch up with the footsteps of "Yongzheng Dynasty". I hope to follow the airing immediately after "Yongzheng Dynasty" is broadcast.

In this way, we can get the greatest profit by borrowing the east wind of "Yongzheng Dynasty".

However, because "Li Wei Become an Official" was filmed, it was already the end of 1998. No matter how fast it was filmed, it was only less than half of it.

After all, it is 1999, and mainland film and television workers are not yet in a bad state, and they are still thinking about making good shows and fine products. Therefore, although the filming time is very tight, they still have quality and quantity guaranteed. They do not shoot randomly just because they have to rush the construction period.

This affects the shooting speed to a certain extent. Otherwise, like in the past life when traffic was the king and bad dramas were rampant, a TV series could be filmed for two months, which would be considered a conscientious production.

Many dramas are finished filming only for one month, and the main actors spend no more than half a month on the crew. In addition to the forced close-ups and close-up scenes, other medium scenes, long-range scenes, group scenes, fighting scenes, bed scenes, kiss scenes, etc., all use stand-in. They don’t even show the outdoor scenes, and they directly use green screens to shoot them in the studio, and then they will be cut out later after the pictures are finished.

This has led to a significant increase in the output of dramas in previous lives, but very few dramas can be seen.

Although Xia Tian really wanted to film "Li Wei as an Official" as soon as possible and broadcast it soon, considering the quality issues, he did not urge him anymore.

Fortunately, although CCTV's "Yongzheng Dynasty" has been broadcast, provincial TV stations continue to broadcast for the second time, and the ratings are still very good, making "Yongzheng Dynasty" continue to be popular.

This is good news for summer.

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March 12th.

NATO held a ceremony in Missouri, the United States, and officially announced the acceptance of Poland, the Czech Republic and the Galilee as new members of NATO. These three countries are Eastern European countries and are also members of the Warsaw Pact.

Now they all joined NATO and are so close to Russia, which has made the situation in Eastern Europe even more tense and also made Russia very dissatisfied.

Because these three countries were originally the outposts of the Warsaw Pact against NATO, but now they all surrendered to NATO, which greatly reduced the depth of Russia's strategic depth, which is not a good thing for Russia's national security.

What's even more troublesome is that in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of NATO's founding, the heads of NATO member states jointly signed a "Washington Declaration" and adopted the "New Concept of Alliance Strategy", which transformed NATO from a "collective defense" organization to an "offensive military alliance", which made the security situation around the world tense.
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