America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 416 The American Dream Into Reality

   Liam H. L. Hunter, this old guy has been at 324 Buckingham Road in the Dr. area of ​​Houston for a long time.

   Until about 10pm or so.

  The patriarch of the Hunter family left contentedly.

   In the courtyard.

  Looking at Liam's leaving convoy.

  Abel smiled and said softly to David and Alan standing beside him:

   "Look, haven't we just found a crack inside the iron plate that we can drill into?"

  David smiled slightly, but didn't answer the boss's words.

   Allen responded respectfully: "They themselves are not iron plates. In fact, even Rockefeller or Morgan. As long as there are enough interests, they can also cause cracks in them."

"well said."

  Abel smiled and applauded: "There is nothing wrong, interests. Interests are everything."

   "Okay." His voice became softer, "It's a bit late. Go back and rest. There is still a lot of work to do in the next few days."

   In the past few days, Allen and David have been really busy.

   It involves equity and share exchanges among dozens of large companies within two huge consortiums, as well as negotiations on some terms.

   These tasks are mainly coordinated by the Smith Intellectual Group.

   Allen is the general manager of the Smith Group and oversees much of it.

  David in turn oversees the Allen and Smith think tank.

  During the merger of the two consortiums, the two of them were considered the busiest.

   On the contrary, it is the other David and Robert, who are relatively relaxed and just need to continue their work.

   "Okay..." David responded with a smile.

   As the family steward, David had a room of his own in one of Abel's many houses.

  Basically except for going out to do errands, which are generally related to Abel’s family.

  Wherever Abel goes, there is David Jones.

  Unlike Alan, Alan generally only appears by Abel's side when Abel has business needs.

   Otherwise, Allen usually stays in New York, which is the headquarters of the Smith Intelligence Group.

  Like now, hundreds of people from Smith Thinking Group, Smith Capital, and Pacific Commercial Bank have come.

  Abel is in downtown Houston and has booked two hotels.

   Allen lives in the hotel, which is convenient for monitoring these staff nearby.

   Two cronies left one after another.

   After a busy day, Abel also turned around and returned to the living area behind the villa.

  This manor house, its exterior style, is a pure New England country pastoral.

  But the interior decoration of the living area is very modern.

   After he came in, Scarlett didn't show up.

  Abel turned around, but he didn't see his little canary.

  He made his way to the master bedroom, with its sleek marble vanity and gleaming hardwood floors.

  Abel walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, with a very wide view, and he could enjoy the bustling night view of Uptown Houston.

  Looking at the night scene, Abel closed the curtains, took off his suit, and untied his tie.

  At this time, a smile was already on the corner of his mouth.

  He heard the sound of water coming from the crack of the door in the bathroom of the master bedroom.

   Picked up a neatly folded new bathrobe on the sofa, looked at it and threw it back.

  What to wear...

   Anyway, I have to take it off later, so it's better not to wear it.

  He quickly took off the clothes on his body, swung them around, and walked into the bathroom where the sound of water was coming from.

   There was no scream from the woman in the bathroom.

  Abel looked at the beautiful scenery in front of him in amazement.

  That beautiful arc can drive any man crazy, he can't take his eyes off at all.

  Perhaps because of the hot water, the girl's face was flushed, a slightly immature but extremely charming face.

   Under His watering.

   Now it looks more and more charming.

  Looking at Abel's unscrupulous eyes.

  Scarlett walked forward slowly, stood on tiptoe, and with a somewhat reluctant hand hooked Abel's neck.

   This action is a bit strenuous.

   She's a little short, he's too tall.

  The girl whispered softly: "What are you waiting for?"

   The four eyes looked at each other without blinking.

  Scarlett's body was lifted up.

  And then... spring came, everything revived, and it was the season of happy animals again.

  The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the grass is growing and the warblers are flying. In spring, there is vitality and romance everywhere. Naturally, Abel would not let it go.

   Had a busy night.

  Scarlett Johansson lived in Houston for a total of three days for this "calling" trip.

  The three-day experience made her suddenly understand many things again.

   Let the girl who was already very mature mentality become more stable.

   Three days of getting along.

  She really felt that Abel seemed to dote on herself a little abnormally.

   But in fact, Scarlett Johansson felt that compared with the known "girlfriends" or "employees" around Abel, she really had no advantage.

  In terms of beauty, she felt inferior to Anne and Jessica.

  In terms of stature, although I am big enough in some respects. But it's too short, and the total score is really not high.

  In terms of temperament, even Scarlett is very confident. But she also knew that temperament, an illusory thing, was what she lacked the most.

  On IQ, on acting skills, on ability, on personality...

  In every way, she feels that she is not the best.

  It seems... It seems... It's also about age, I am the youngest one.

  She was suspicious, maybe because of this reason.

  He likes himself more.

  Because Scarlett heard about that guy's fiancee, she is the same age as herself!

  Look at the way he is obsessed with himself.

  Scarlett couldn't help it: Falk! Sure enough, as expected of Smith, a blacksmith is a blacksmith!

   These three days, Scarlett noticed.

  He is very busy during the day, just by herself, spending half a day by his side.

  Follow him, go to see his work for half a day, and watch him command dozens of real banking elites to direct and invest billions of dollars in capital flows.

   Watching him decide the future salary and benefits for thousands of employees of his energy company in an instant.

   There is also the future super factory in Houston and so on.

   This is nothing.

  The problem is that in that morning, he answered more than twenty calls alone.

   It seems to be talking about international gold, oil, yen exchange market and other things that Scarlett can't understand, and she doesn't know what it is talking about.

   This kind of busyness will last until about eight o'clock in the evening.

  His phone will stop.

   His assistant, David Jones, who even a big man like Murdoch attaches great importance to respect, will leave with his other two mobile phones.

   But even so, the personal mobile phone he carried with him would still ring non-stop.

   Scarlett Johansson overheard twice, once he was on the phone with a guy named Michael.

  At first, Scarlett thought it was Michael Ovitz or Michael Levine.

   These two are senior executives of Smith Media, and Scarlett knows them.

  They also respect her a lot, and she knows why they respect her.

  Later she found out that it was not the two Michaels.

  Because Scarlett had seen him talking to those two Michaels, it was not as equal as the phone call she accidentally overheard.

   Later, Scarlett guessed that it might be Disney's Michael Eisner.

   This is also a big shot.

   In a few seconds, Scarlett overturned this guess.

  Disney's Michael is at most similar to his two Michaels.

   It is impossible for him to use titles like "my brother" and "old friend".

   Going to the back, she recognized Michael's surname, Bloomberg.

  Scarlett realized that he was on the phone with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg!

   Oh, the mayor of America's No. 1 city, I had a half-hour phone call with him!

  Even if she didn't hear what the two of them said, Scarlett realized what kind of existence this man who demanded so much about his body was!

   If the first phone call "accidentally" overheard, it has already made Scarlett feel a little numb.

  Then the phone call he answered when he was holding her.

   That is his second call, the guy he contacted, whose surname is Shu.

  Heard him and Mr. Shrub, like two buddies of college students, talking and laughing at each other.

   Scarlett was completely speechless.

   If she guessed correctly, this shrub must be the shrub in the white house.

  She knew that as long as Abel didn't give up, she would never even think about running away from him in this life.

  In addition to these, Scarlett also found that he had a lot of text messages on his private cell phone.

  The kind with more than a dozen messages every hour.

  She took a sneak peek, and found names such as Anne, Jessica, Ikana, and Liv in the SMS list on the phone.

  They sent a lot of text messages, many of which were unread.

   This made Scarlet understand, no wonder she sent him so many text messages, and he only replied once or twice a week.

  Scarlett felt that instead of herself, there would be so many people looking for her every day.

  It is estimated that he will be like him, only occasionally returning one.

   Otherwise, it may take half a day just to reply to these text messages every day.

  In addition to work, there are calls and answers.

  During the past three days, he just concentrated on tossing himself.

  The night before returning to Los Angeles, there were a total of six times before and after. Together, he tossed himself for more than three hours.

  In the end, Scarlett Johansson felt that she was close to collapse, and he was barely satisfied.

   Tired, but Scarlett was very happy.

  She felt that this further confirmed that he really "loved" herself.

   This can be regarded as the biggest gain she has gained in the past few days in Houston.

   While Scarlett Johansson left Houston and returned to Los Angeles to continue promoting "Kick-Ass", while planning new roles for new movies.

   Two days later, on the night of February 10, 2002.

  Smith Media's major newspapers, TV stations, Internet news channels, and other news media published the same notice.

  The content of the announcement is the Pacific Bank of Commerce, the First National Bank of Dallas, the First City National Bank of Houston, the Republic of Dallas and the Texas Commercial Bank.

   There are three other insurance companies that announced reorganization, merger, new equity distribution, and the establishment of a new financial group.

  The name of the new financial group is Smith Financial Group.

   Once this news was published, it was reprinted and disseminated by all commercial media in the United States and even the world within a few minutes.

  Elite commercial media in many countries have dedicated special reporting programs in less than half an hour.

   Obviously, they have long been prepared.

   And on the second day, the No. 1 daily-selling newspaper in the United States, the "Wall Street Journal" named after Wall Street.

   made this news the headline of today's front page.

  【... First National Bank of Dallas, First City National Bank of Houston, Republic National Bank of Dallas and Texas Commercial Bank, these 4 banks are in the top 30 in the national bank rankings. 】

  【The highest ranking is Texas Commercial Bank, which is the 15th largest bank in the United States. There are 98 branches in total, with total assets of 12.1 billion U.S. dollars and assets under management exceeding hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars. 】

  【These banks also have insurance companies, after merging with the Pacific Commercial Bank. 】

  【The new Smith Financial Group will become the top 5 super financial giants in the United States. 】

  【Only in terms of assets, Smith Financial Group is now only under Citibank, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and Mellon Bank, and even surpasses giants such as Bank of America and Bank of New York. 】

  【This merger between the two parties is no less than dropping a heavy depth bomb in the banking industry of the whole United States, and even the whole world. 】

  【The splash from this bomb is bound to spread to the entire banking and financial industry, with a far-reaching impact. Especially this new company, its chairman and chief executive officer are all Mr. Abel Smith. 】

  【Presumably next, Mr. Richest Man in the World will definitely attract more attention to Smith Financial Group. 】

  【However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is...】

  【…】

  This report in the "Wall Street Journal" is all about the merger of several big banks.

  But at the back, it tried to show the truth behind this merger in a way of telling a story.

   That is this bank merger, which is actually the core event of the integration of the consortium represented by Abel Smith and the Texas consortium.

  In the report, the Wall Street Journal expressed to readers the emergence of a new huge consortium in a cryptic way.

   On this day, in fact, not only the "Wall Street Journal" reported this way.

   Other large media such as the New York Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, which are not controlled by Smith Media.

  The content of their reports is generally similar to that of the "Wall Street Journal".

   To some extent, these behaviors of these newspapers can be shown as the displeasure of other established consortiums at the merger between the two consortiums, as well as the behavior of eye drops.

   And this really surprised many Americans.

  They were not surprised by the existence of the consortium.

  Like the chaebols of Hankook and Neon.

  Ordinary Han people and the neon cabinets have no way to escape the influence of their chaebols in their lives.

   Ordinary Americans, too.

  Their lives are also filled with the shadows of various European and American consortiums.

  Xiao Baga and Xiao Xiba can accept the existence of chaebols, so of course Americans will have no problem.

  Many Americans are surprised that Abel Smith has only appeared and been active for two or three years.

  In just two or three years, why did he suddenly become the owner of the new consortium that the big newspapers said?

   This is too exaggerated.

  You know, the newspapers used to say that Abel Smith was born in rural Texas, the son of a farmer.

  He has been feeding cattle and sheep since he was a child, shaving sheep, and driving a farm tractor. He is a standard Texas farm boy.

  In addition to being extremely handsome, he also knows how to draw.

  In other respects, he is the same as thousands of American teenagers.

   In this way, almost three years ago, he went to New York with dozens of dollars to chase his dream.

   But now?

   Now the farm boy from back then became the richest man in the world last year, and this year he became the owner of a new consortium!

   He's done it all in just three years.

   Isn’t this Fark the best American dream?

   Combined with the encounter he was attacked by those KBFZ not long ago.

   And he has always been very kind and generous.

   Too many Americans feel that young Abe Smith is the living American dream.

   It can only be said that at this time, the combination of Abel's various character designs for more than two years, and the attack not long ago had a very positive effect.

   Let the major media that originally wanted to use eye drops, and let their malicious reports play a positive role in the hearts of many Americans.

  Those reports, on the contrary, became a more foil to Abel Smith, his legendary standard American dream.

  (end of this chapter)