America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 491 Washington's affair and Zheng Gong's pregnancy

  May 8, morning.

  The Washington Post and the latest issue of the New York Observer go on sale.

  These two publications, they simultaneously published a piece of news that seems insignificant to ordinary people but shocking to professionals.

  The Washington Post’s headline on this report is [Oligarchs Accelerate to Grab Smith, Global Asset Management Giants Take Strategic Shares]

  【(Reporter Jon Williams) On May 8, Smith Financial Group announced that Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley will strategically invest in Smith Financial Group. This has become another latest case of Wall Street's deployment of Smith Financial Group after Berkshire Hathaway, Soros Fund Company, PNC Financial Services Group and other global asset management giants have seized the Smith Financial Group. Joined forces. 】

  【According to the predictions of industry insiders, the large-scale and fast-growing Smith Financial Group, as well as Mr. Abel Smith's achievements and aura in the investment field, have made more investors want to become shareholders of Smith Financial Group. 】

  【This time, Morgan Chase took a strategic stake, holding 10% of the shares, and Morgan Stanley has the same proportion. What they paid was 10% of their shares, and since then they have cross-shareholding with Smith Financial Group. 】

  【On May 7th, the "King of Profit" Smith Financial released the "Announcement on Introducing Strategic Investors to Increase Capital of Smith Financial Group" while disclosing the quarterly report for the first quarter of 2002, in order to improve...]

  The original text is very long, and it has always focused on political governance, not paying much attention to the "Washington Post" in other fields.

  This time, a few well-known financial commentators were invited to comment on the cooperation between the two giants.

  The "New York Observer" stood from another angle, expounding the possible impact of this cooperation on the situation in the global financial market.

  Not many ordinary people would be interested in these two pieces of news.

  About financial news, what ordinary people are interested in is generally only how much money a financial tycoon makes, what luxury house he bought, or what yacht he bought.

  Or which financial tycoon, or which financial company, lost so much money because of investment failure.

   But this news shocked people in the industry almost as much as a super earthquake!

  Smith Financial, the most popular company, merged with Morgan Chase!

  In terms of the financial industry, it means that the most capable and the most powerful have cooperated.

   This news surprised members of the American elite who had received rumors from Washington these days and wanted to watch the excitement and fish in troubled waters.

   You must know that shocking news came from Washington two days ago.

   Said Smith and Morgan got fucked.

   Everyone was waiting to watch the show. But within a few days now, there is news that the two parties have cooperated, held each other's shares, and become allies...

  The speed of change is simply dazzling.

  Washington, The Pier InterContinental Hotel.

  Not so long ago, John Wilson was berating his sister Keira Wilson loudly.

  He was holding the newspaper, and now he looked at the news in a daze.

   Beside him sat his wife, Maria Lytton Wilson.

   And my sister, Keira Wilson, who came over from 599 Water Street, DC, in the morning.

   And among the three of them, there was a satellite phone with speakerphone turned on.

"Hehehe... My dear brother, this is the big turmoil you are talking about? Is it the big trouble that Smith will have? You tell me, is this big trouble? Morgan and Rockefeller, they chose to reconcile with Smith ! They have become allies. 10% of the shares hold each other, this ratio can be said to be very rare among consortiums! John, are you sure what you just said is correct?"

  Kayla's voice is not low, but although she is talking to John, the direction is the satellite phone on the table.

  Because she and John Wilson's father were sitting on the other end of the satellite phone.

  The Slade Wilson who did not come to Washington in person, but has a very high status in the California consortium.

   Here's the thing.

  After breaking up with Abel and Keira the day before yesterday.

   Yesterday because the Federal Advisory Committee did not meet.

  So John Wilson contacted his father, sued his father, and reported the situation in Washington.

  After getting his father's approval, John asked Keira to come back last night.

  Kayla came back this morning.

  John Wilson got through his father's satellite phone and reprimanded his sister for her stupid choice in front of his father.

  Before the news came out, John's point of view was that Abe Smith didn't know the sky and the earth.

   It is very unwise to actually choose to go to war with Morgan and Rockefeller.

  The evidence is that at the meeting the day before yesterday, Abel and John Chris had a fight, which turned into a group fight.

  However, before John Wilson finished scolding his sister.

  The newspapers of the Washington Post and the New York Observer came out.

   Then came the scene where Keira, in turn, questioned her brother in front of her father on the conference call.

  Seeing her husband's aggrieved look, Maria doesn't like him in her heart.

   But the interests of the two are the same, Miss Litton had no choice but to stand up and speak for her husband with a soft smile:

"Kayla, it's not entirely John's fault. Who told the Texans to make peace with the East Coasters. Before this kind of thing happened, who would have thought of it? Their previous hostility, and their fight in the meeting, None of this can be faked.”

   "That's not a peace. A peace is a compromise between one party and the other." Keira immediately said:

   "This is Abel Smith's successful persecution of those East Coasters, so that they have to cooperate with him, so that they have to recognize his status! Father, I think you must think so, right?"

  Kayla turns to her father for a response.

  Slade Wilson also heard his breathless, but dignified voice as always.

   "Kayla is right. John, you misjudged this time."

   "At this point, we can only do this..."

  Don't mention Slade Wilson, the explanation to his son and daughter.

   On May 8th, the once-interrupted meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee resumed at noon.

  This time, because the news exposed in the morning was too shocking.

  Those centrists watching the show watched Abel and John Chris almost the whole time.

  It was different from the last time the two fought without saying a word.

  This time, the two parties almost sat together, chatting and laughing the whole time.

   This proves the morning news is true.

  Abel Smith really worked with Morgan, Rockefeller.

  The first major assassin (Texan) and the most powerful reached a cooperation, and then the proposed plan was basically acceptable to all parties.

   The second meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee naturally went smoothly.

  Wait until the end of this meeting, basically it can be declared that the regular meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee has ended.

  The written results of the meeting have not yet come out, but most of the upper-class families in the United States already know it.

   That's the Texans and Californians getting what they've wanted all along, more votes in the Federal Reserve.

  What upsets the Californians is that they are stronger, but this time they have less power than the Texans!

  At the meeting, John Wilson, a representative of the California Consortium, loudly objected.

   However, the objection was invalid because the Texans did not choose to stand with them this time.

  The Texans who have received enough benefits have become vested interests this time.

  In the end, Californians only got 15% of the voting rights, and Texans got 19%.

  The remaining voting rights are readjusted among the parties according to the original proportion.

  Since then, the most economically developed state in the United States and the third most developed state have obtained the corresponding powers of the Federal Advisory Committee.

   It's just a little unfair, the first one doesn't get as many as the third one.

  …

  …

  During the night, the Washington, D.C. District is brightly lit. Although it doesn’t have the row upon row of high-rise buildings in New York, the lights on Capitol Hill still declare the city’s dominance.

  This is the core of power in the United States, and this is the distribution center of the global situation. Every gentleman who is polite, courteous, and contagious speaks here, saying that they are for the well-being of the people and to support the future of their voters.

  Everyone said so, as for the facts, what does it matter?

  In a manor in the Phillips Park community.

  Abel looked at being held in his arms horizontally. At this moment, his whole body was like a cooked soft-legged shrimp, curled up with the little Laura covered in red.

  He smiled triumphantly and walked into the marble bathroom decorated with teak wood inlays, and the water waves rolled in the oversized jacuzzi bathtub.

  Stepping into the bathtub, Abel sat down slowly, and the two were soaked in the warm water, washing away the remaining joy on their bodies.

   Well, little Laura still has a lot of personal weariness.

   "You almost killed me..."

  Little Laura's pretty, powdery face was lying in her fiancé's arms, with an afterthought of laziness and charm.

   "Blame me? You kept yelling for me to kill you... Cough cough."

  Little Laura elbowed her twice in embarrassment, and Abel closed his mouth wisely.

  He leaned his whole body relaxed on the edge of the ergonomic design of the bathtub, feeling everything very comfortably.

"Since the morning, the whole of Washington, even the whole of America, has been messed up by you. I have been annoyed by those ladies all day today, and they all want to get some inside information from me. No matter, I want you Make it up to me!"

  Looking at her fiancé, little Laura acted softly with fascination in her eyes.

  In the afternoon, she learned from her grandfather and father that Abel's affairs in Washington were a great success in the past few days.

  Little Laura fell into a strange mood.

  It was hard for her to imagine such a young Abel, such a young self. To be one of the most powerful couples in this country hiding behind the scenes.

  That feeling of climbing to the top of the country at a young age without any experience.

  She, who was born in the Masaharu family, had a sense of super surprise that ordinary people won hundreds of millions of dollars in lottery tickets without doing anything.

  Her grandmother even called to tell her that from now on, the Smiths were the first family in Texas.

  19% of the voting rights of the Federal Reserve, second only to the 39% of the joint Rockefeller and Morgan, also marked that it must be controlled by Abel.

  This power is enough to make her fiancé one of the top of the empire.

   "I will pay you, I will pay you back." Abel said with a smile:

   "Didn't I pay you billions from the evening to now?"

   Billions?

  Little Laura was startled, a little unresponsive.

   When she realized it, she chuckled and hit her fiancé.

  A pair of small hands caressed her own flat and beautiful belly involuntarily.

  Although she hasn't graduated yet, she hasn't even matured yet... But now, she wishes she had a child of herself and Abel in her stomach.

  She also thought that since half a month ago, she has been off the medicine, and these days are dangerous times again.

  His ability to make women have children is insanely strong.

  Little Laura thinks that there may be a child with him in it now!

  But for this kind of thing, it's better to be a little safer.

  The two looked at each other, and little Laura started to move.

   "Hey, hey, didn't you say you were tired?"

   "I still want more than a billion, woo..."

   2002, May 10th.

  Abel left Washington with little Laura and returned to his loyal New York.

  May 20,

  Kayla Wilson was transferred from the director of the retail department of Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco to the general manager of the Manhattan branch of Wells Fargo Bank in New York.

   On the same day, Keira Wilson found Laura Shrub at New York University, and the two had a secret conversation.

  But since then the relationship between the two has eased. At the same time, on May 24, little Laura was diagnosed at the New York University Medical Center and had been pregnant for two weeks+.

  May 25,

  Kayla Wilson moves into the top floor of the Smith Tower.

  May 28,

  Li Fuzhen gave birth to a "posthumous son" in Hanguk's capital, named Li Shiming in Hanguk, and Adam in English.

  June 6,

   "Washington Post" officially announced that it has accepted the acquisition of Smith Media with a market value of 2 billion US dollars.

  At the same time, Smith Media, which acquired the Washington Post Company, announced its official listing on the New York Stock Exchange on July 1 this year.

   June 10.

  In the early morning, on the South Pier of Manhattan, the lingering fog was dispelled by the clear sunlight.

  Abel, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the piercing laughter-like chirps one after another.

  Abel withdrew his claws that had been scratching all night.

   Sleepy-eyed, he kissed the cheek of the beautiful woman in front of him, and then he looked and found that it was Anne Hathaway.

  Annie fell asleep quietly, looking sweet and peaceful, like a sleeping angel, her long eyelashes folded its wings like a tired bird. In her sleep, after being kissed by Abel, she showed a sweet smile, but she looked very tired, and she didn't seem to wake up at all.

   After taking a few glances at Anne, Abel raised his eyes and looked around—oh, last night was Hollywood theme.

  Beside him and Annie, on the huge prototype Simmons around them, there are several other women lying crooked and messy at the moment.

  The closest to him and Annie is Jessica, Jessica Alba.

   And a young Scarlett Johansson, hugging Liv Tyler, looks like she's about to fall off Simmons.

  Abel stretched his body a little and let out a satisfied sigh.

   "Huh—"

  The so-called sleeping beauty, wake up and take power in the world, nothing more than that.

  He has been very comfortable for a month.

  The victory in Washington can be said to have completely established his position in the empire.

  Little Laura is pregnant, and Li Fuzhen gives birth. I don't know what happened to Keira Wilson. She sent it to her door thousands of miles away, and reached a certain degree of relief with little Laura.

  The "Washington Post" is in hand, and Smith Media is about to go public, and everything is going very smoothly.

  Annie has finished filming the second and third parts of the Spider-Man trilogy, and plans to go back to New York to rest for a while.

   Jessica has been the heroine of four movies in a row, and she also plans to take a two-month break.

   Liv is now a signed model of Elizabeth Company, and one of the art directors, and has been working in New York.

  Scarlett Johansson came over here to film the sequel to Kick-Ass.

  Last night, the first super catamaran ordered by Abel at the French Beneteau Group also happened to arrive.

  He "tricked" Anne and Jessica up, and later asked Liv to bring Scarlett over.

  Following, it was natural that there was a lot of black and white, playing with the Hollywood theme all night.

   "Yawn—"

   Yawning, Abel stood up and looked out the one-way glass window of the sailing yacht.

  I found that what woke me up was a group of laughing gulls on the sea in the early morning on Manhattan's South Pier.

  Laughing Gull is a kind of seagull, the scientific name is red-billed gull, mainly distributed in North America.

  The sound it calls sounds like a human laughing, so it is called the Laughing Gull.

   Wash up a little and put on loose nightgowns.

  Abel left the bedroom and went to the living room of the super catamaran sailing yacht, planning to have breakfast.

  At the breakfast table, after breakfast.

  Abel started the office mode he just used not long ago—

  Through video conferencing, to command and control the operation of its subsidiaries.

  Video conferencing actually appeared in theory and prototype as early as the 1920s.

  In the 1960s, Neon people researched it. It’s just that the first-generation product was very unstable, the video quality was poor, and it did not start large-scale commercial use.

  Beginning in the 1990s, a breakthrough was made in digital image compression technology, and digital video conferencing replaced analog video conferencing; however, due to the lack of unified standards, it was difficult for products from different manufacturers to communicate with each other.

   What Abel is using now is the first commercial high-definition video conferencing system exhibited at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas not long ago, which has been acquired by him.

   This system uses the H.323 standard of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

  Its protocol stack is an organic whole, consisting of audio codec, video codec, system control, data stream multiplexing, etc.

  Actually, this set of tools is not yet on the market and is still being tested.

  Abel is the boss of Qualcomm, and he has long been keen on this thing.

  With this system, he doesn't need to run around for some trivial matters, and he can command the managers under him while sitting in New York or the United States, so as to better control the entire group company.

  So he now uses this system for some less important meetings.

   It can also be regarded as helping Qualcomm to test products and technologies.

   Abel has been spending the morning in video conferencing.

  In the afternoon, at the South Wharf of Manhattan, an international figure who could shake the financial circles of many small countries was welcomed.

  (end of this chapter)