"Are you up, baby?"
"Just woke up..."
Beatrice stretched and looked at Barron softly. That look could melt steel immediately.
After kissing the girl on the forehead, Barron said gently:
"Get up and have breakfast together, baby."
"I want you to hold me up..."
So, Barron grabbed his arm and easily lifted the girl up horizontally. She hugged the man's neck and giggled.
Now the two of them have come to Milan. Bocconi University, where Beatrice is studying, is located in Milan. Although she is very reluctant, she will soon go to school to start her courses.
Speaking of Bocconi University, it is also very famous in Europe. It is a private university and one of the most famous business schools in the world. It has been rated as "Europe's No. 1 Business School" many times.
But before returning to school, Beatrice also participated in this year's Milan Fashion Week as a model.
Every February and March is the time for Milan's spring fashion week. As one of the four major fashion weeks in the world (New York, London, Paris and Milan), Milan Fashion Week naturally attracts the attention of fashion lovers around the world.
Fashion brands under the Gucci-Hermès Group have all participated in this fashion week, after all, the headquarters of the group itself is in Italy.
And among the four major fashion weeks, although Milan Fashion Week rose the latest, it has now taken the lead and gathered top figures in the fashion industry.
Milan Fashion Week often gathers thousands of professional buyers, as well as professional media and style trends from all over the world. The global spread brought by these essence elements is far beyond the reach of other business models - Milan Fashion Week has always been regarded as the "barometer" of world fashion design and consumption.
Although Beatrice is very enthusiastic about Milan Fashion Week, Barron is not too cold about it. After spending some time with the girl, it is time for him to return to London.
"I'll miss you, dear..."
It seems that Beatrice is really reluctant to leave, which is normal. A girl who has just fallen in love is in the heat of the moment and wants to be with her lover every moment. This is normal.
Therefore, Barron can only patiently comfort her:
"Don't worry, baby, you can see me anytime you want. Just give me a call and I'll send a plane to pick you up."
"Really? It's a deal?"
"Yes, it's a deal."
...
One of the reasons why Barron decided to return to London at this time is that Murdoch also arrived in London.
And he contacted Barron, hoping to meet him.
Barron knew that Murdoch could no longer sit still. As the British police arrested more and more employees of News International newspapers, the government's attitude towards News Corporation became more severe, which also affected Sky TV - they were also affected in the competition for the Premier League broadcasting rights. What's
more troublesome is that it seems that Murdoch's son James Murdoch's response to the situation is not satisfactory. His behavior of paying a low-key settlement was called "arrogantly trampling on justice with money" by many other media...
In addition, as the British side investigated the "phone-hacking gate" of News Corporation, there were more and more revelations and evidence, and its influence radiated around the world, so that the FBI in the United States also began to intervene in the investigation of News Corporation. Since the
outbreak of the "phone-hacking gate", the stock price of News Corporation has been negatively affected, falling by nearly 40%. How could this not make Murdoch feel a sense of crisis?
Therefore, he finally decided to come to London in person to try to solve the matter.
In fact, Murdoch is not without help in Britain. For example, former British Prime Minister Blair has known Murdoch for many years and can even be called an old friend...
Blair, born in 1953, is 22 years younger than Murdoch, which is almost the age difference between son and father. When Blair entered politics, Murdoch had already dominated the media industry.
At first, the two actually had little intersection until a bilateral meeting in 1995, when Blair went to Australia as one of the representatives of the British Labour Party, where he met Murdoch.
As we all know, Murdoch was originally an Australian and started in Australia. Later, after he expanded his business to the United States, in order to circumvent the relevant laws and regulations of the United States on owning media companies, he finally changed his nationality to American nationality.
When he first met Blair, Murdoch had established his own media kingdom and was trying his best to further expand his territory.
Having seen countless people, he soon found Blair among the representatives...
After a conversation at the reception, Murdoch saw that Blair was also a pragmatist, that is, he made utilitarian choices based on facts.
At that time, he thought that if such a person could take power in the British government in the future, it would undoubtedly push his career to a higher peak.
So Murdoch began to get acquainted with Blair, and the other party naturally wanted to get on the boat of the "media king". The two soon became close friends who talked about everything.
The "emotional investment" of both parties soon paid off. In 1997, Blair participated in the prime ministerial election. At that time, both the British people and the party elders were not optimistic about this politician who had just turned 40 - his initial polls were not ideal, and at this time, the good brother took action...
The Sun under Murdoch continued to build momentum for Blair, gradually manipulated public opinion, and made his support rate rise at an astonishing rate, and finally won the prime minister's throne in the general election.
This business was very cost-effective, and Blair returned the favor and helped Murdoch get a lot of benefits after becoming prime minister.
In the next few years, with the help of the other party, Murdoch took over the six newspapers with the largest circulation and controlled the public opinion of nearly half of the voters in Britain.
In fact, this is why Barron took advantage of the rare opportunity to force Blair to resign early last year. Otherwise, if he was still in office, whether he could detonate the "phone-hacking scandal" early at this time would naturally be a problem for Barron.
However, although Blair is no longer the prime minister, he still has connections and influence in Britain. In this "phone-hacking scandal", he also tried to help Murdoch deal with it. Brown had mentioned to Barron before that Blair had made some relevant remarks to him, hoping that in dealing with this matter... "it would not cause too much turmoil."
Originally, Barron could have ignored Murdoch's desire to meet him, and he was originally prepared to do so.
The reason why he finally decided to meet Murdoch was that Murdoch did not use other channels, but asked his wife Deng Wendi to contact Ivanta directly and make an appointment with him through Ivanta.