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Chapter 185 Eavesdropper

Priscilla Cheng prepared a workstation for Xian Yaowen and installed a telephone at his workstation.

As he said, there was still a little time before get off work, so he couldn't be idle.

Priscilla Zheng placed a phone book at his workstation. After opening two pages, you can see several pages sandwiched between the pages. Each page has a form drawn on it, including the name of the unit, address, and phone number, arranged in this way.

The first one was the directory of the employment agency. He scanned it from top to bottom and selected the more powerful ones based on their addresses.

In his last life, he was a flying trapeze artist, and he had his footprints in all cities with relatively active economies, but as to which city he was most familiar with, it was New York. He was born in New York. He spent at least half of each year in his childhood and adolescence in New York, and the rest of the time shuttled between New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Mumbai.

His father has a family in each of the five cities. He has several half-brothers and sisters. As the eldest brother and the family successor who was determined early, he must fulfill the responsibilities of an eldest brother in terms of friendship. In order to maintain stability in management, it is necessary to not only allow the younger siblings to unite closely around the family, but also to deter them from having ambitions to compete with him for the throne.

To put it into perspective, he spent nearly a quarter of his previous life in New York and was quite familiar with New York. The general layout of New York was already set in the 1920s and 1930s. In the next few decades, high-rise buildings will continue to rise in New York. , there will be more residential areas, but the main streets will not change significantly, the residential classes in the major residential areas will not change significantly, and the slums will still be slums for another half century.

Employment agencies are very particular about office addresses. If you want to find a janitor, you can contact the employment agency in the black area of ​​​​Lower Brooklyn. I believe you can find someone easily. If you want to find a secretary or other office staff, it is best to find one in Manhattan. Employment agencies, especially those located in Midtown.

I picked up the phone and called the phone company. I inquired about the application time and transfer record of a number. I learned that the current user had used it for more than two years. I dialed the number. After a while, an employment agency near Rockefeller Center called. The bell rings.

After a short communication, I learned that the weekly salary of a secretary in a small company was between US$30 and US$50. He offered a weekly salary of US$70, with an optional installation fee of US$50, which the candidate could take or not.

The other party thought he understood what he meant, wrote down his aesthetic preferences and address, and ended the call after informing him that the bill would be sent out as soon as possible.

He didn't bother to explain that what the other party thought was not what he thought, because what he wanted was not simpler than lying on his desk, and $50 was not that easy to get.

Later, he made a call to another employment agency to recruit editors, photographers and other positions.

After arranging the recruitment matters, he came to the stairs, looked at the small sky outside through the corridor window, and fell into deep thought for a moment.

There is a good German movie called "The Eavesdropper," which tells the story of secret police eavesdropping during the East German period. Fifty years before it, there was another Hollywood movie "The Eavesdropper," which tells the story of "The Eavesdropper" in New York. Wiretapping den" scandal.

There are currently a group of professional eavesdroppers active in New York. They have some eavesdropping equipment and can connect to several major switches in New York. It can be said that they can monitor the calls on any telephone line. They are hired by companies to eavesdrop on the calls of competing companies. , and also accept personal employment to monitor someone who is not dealing with or his or her partner.

When there is no order, they will also look for interested monitoring targets on their own. Some wealthy celebrities are their favorite monitoring targets. Once they have valuable information, they can carry out blackmail, and some shady things can be used against the parties involved. It is said to be fatal, and in order to keep it secret, often no matter the cost.

As far as the business itself is concerned, Playboy Magazine (Flower Club) does not have many trade secrets to speak of, and they will talk about it on the phone even less. However, at the same time, it will involve the privacy of many celebrities. Once a celebrity is involved in a flower club, The call of Hua Society was blackmailed. Once the news spread, Hua Society was very passive.

Therefore, how to prevent eavesdropping will be a focus of the flower club's normal operation. This task is very difficult. The number of the flower club cannot be kept secret at all. Even if a line is secretly pulled from the building next door, it can be used It won't be long before the outside world learns about it.

Xian Yaowen had a headache. Eavesdroppers guarded the switch and it was almost impossible to bypass it. How could we quietly reduce the number of confidential conversations on the phone without affecting normal operations?
"boss."

He had a headache when Priscilla Zheng came to him.

"Huh?" Xian Yaowen turned his head.

"Tomorrow is Friday, the day to pay wages. The registration of the magazine has not been approved yet. How should the wages be paid?"

Xian Yaowen chuckled, "Hui Xian, your position as general manager is only temporary. You don't need to learn some methods of doing things. I believe the lawyer must have warned you about how to do it. Just follow it." Priscilla Zheng said shyly: " Boss, save some face for me."

"Ha, I'm here. You don't have to worry about the magazine's chores. What you should worry about from now on is the magazine's content." Xian Yaowen put a hand on Priscilla Zheng's shoulder, "Just in time, I'll arrange a good errand for you. Do you know the actor Ronald Wilson Reagan?”

Priscilla Cheng nodded.

"I have seen a lot of his photos in magazines. This man dresses very tastefully. I hope there will be an article about him in the first issue of our magazine. You can arrange time to interview him and write an article. The title is 'President Bling-Bling'." Xian Yaowen chuckled secretly.

"Fashion President?"

"Well, it's almost the same as the president of the flower country on the beach. At the end of the interview, you can tell him the title. If he has no objection, you can ask him in a joking way if he has any ideas about running for president. If he answers Yes, the subtitle of the article is 'I want to run for Fashion President, please vote for me'."

Priscilla Cheng asked suspiciously: "Why do you want to stick to the president?"

Xian Yaowen took back his hand, "More than twenty years ago, a woman named Nan Britton published a book "The President's Daughter". In the book, she said that she was Warren Game, the 29th President of the United States. Lil Harding's lover, and revealed that the two had had affairs in the lounge of the Presidential Office many times.

On the plane to New York, I had just finished reading this book, and an idea came to my mind, using Harding's story as a prototype to conceive a story about the fictional President Clinton, a romantic love story or a satire about scandal.

I think Reagan has a presidential temperament. When the story is completed one day, Reagan may be invited to play Clinton. This is why I want to associate Reagan with the president. "

"filming?"

Xian Yaowen nodded, "Yes, in addition to newspapers and magazines, I also invest in movies. If you have any stories you want to adapt into movies in the future, you can tell me and I will open a back door for you."

Hearing this, Priscilla Zheng said thoughtfully, "I don't have this idea yet."

Xian Yaowen patted Priscilla Zheng on the arm, "Hurry up and get your driver's license. I'll give you a second-hand car. It's inconvenient to live in New York without a car, right?"

Priscilla Zheng smiled bitterly, "It's very inconvenient. Many things are only sold in the suburbs, and it takes two hours by car."

"Hmm, do you want to cook for yourself?"

The two chatted for a while about trivial matters in life. Xian Yaowen carefully wrote down Priscilla Zheng's complaints and planned to try his best to help the other party solve them.

When it was time to get off work, he went to the Katlian restaurant downstairs, sat on the outdoor seat, and ordered a cup of coffee to kill time. When he felt that it was almost time, he borrowed the restaurant's phone to call Jane.

Jane gave him an address and asked him to pick her up. Coincidentally, she lived in the East Village adjacent to Greenwich Village, which was about a ten-minute walk from him.

Greenwich Village is often referred to as the West Village, plus the East Village next door. Compared with other neighborhoods in New York with similar conditions, the rent in the two neighborhoods is a bit more expensive. If you are not interested in art and want to get together, you will generally not choose it. Live here.

He was now more certain that Jane was a poor artist from New York, and the snack became even more delicious.

　There is another chapter in the morning

　　
　
(End of this chapter)