America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 372 Great Achievement or Explosion
Abel understood that tonight's reception was not a party that Soros specially entertained himself.

It is likely to be a special reception inside Soros at the end of the year.

A financial company exists like an investment reception at the end of the year.

Strictly speaking, it might even be just a small end-of-year gathering with Soros, the group of oil people who have the closest relationship.

This can be seen from the fact that there are not many people in the reception, and most of them are oil people and financial elites.

As the only male guest in the whole reception who was not an oilman.

Abel obviously received more attention than Li Xinyu and Little Laura.

Like Alan Greenspan, and Leo Melamed, and David Rene Rothschild.

These three old men have been around him, so you can tell.

Compared with these three, even Soros' status within the Oilers seems to be inferior to them.

"Mr. Smith. You guys did a great job in South Korea this time. Clean hands and a perfect early stage. It was a very successful raid."

David Rene Rothschild said softly, laughing.

Leo Melamed is also talking about South Korea, "It's not a good thing. South Korea is too small and too thin. Even if it can be operated perfectly, the profits that can be drawn will not be too much."

Alan Greenspan didn't speak, and smiled beside him with a glass of wine.

Abel also smiled, looking very reserved, "This is not my success. Without the help of George and the contribution of local people, it would be impossible to talk about it."

"It's not like that," continued David René Rothschild:
"Mr. Smith, your ability to adapt to the situation is also very important. Without you, George would not trust those local people. Those local people would also not trust George."

"Without you in the middle, it would be impossible for them to work together and cooperate. Mr. Smith, your role is obviously very important."

"Okay." Abel raised his glass, "Then I finally have some credit. Come on, for everyone's health, Cheers!"

The three old men all raised their wine glasses with a smile, and took a sip to save face.

After drinking the red wine, the three oily old men forgot to look at each other.

Alan Greenspan and Leo Melamed both nodded slightly at David Rene Rothschild.

Abel soon heard David Rene Rothschild's very concerned question:
"Mr. Smith, I don't know Smith Capital, what's your plan for next year?"

Finally, Abel thought.

These three big oil guys surrounded him. He didn't believe that they just wanted to drink and chat with him.

Don't get too early without profit, this sentence can be said to represent the character of most oil people.

Abel smiled and replied: "Of course it is to earn more benefits. I have worked hard to earn more money for my investors and shareholders."

Seeing what he said, David Rene Rothschild also directly expressed his attitude.

"So...Smith Capital, are you interested in having a few more shareholders?"

"Oh?"

Abel looked at the three of them, not knowing what the old men meant.

Because if you look at it according to Abel's thinking.

These three old men should have taken some shares of their own company.

It is part of the 4% owned by Soros in Smith Capital.

The total value of Soros' 4% stake is almost 200 billion US dollars.

Soros didn't have that much money.With all his wealth, he can't get 4% of Smith Capital shares.

But this share, Soros took it.

Obviously, these oilmen behind him asked Soros to hold it on behalf of them, and then contributed together to take these shares.

With the status of these three old men in this circle.

Among these shares, they should be able to occupy a relatively large number.

In other words, logically speaking, these people are already shareholders of Smith Capital.

Now that he said this, Abel was a little curious.

Seeing Abel's appearance, David Rene Rothschild also decided not to be tactful anymore.

In the hearts of these oilmen, they also knew that talking to the Ansar should be more direct.

It was obvious that the guy in front of him was young, successful, and financially strong.

But he was also an Ansar.

People in Laoyou think that it is more straightforward to talk to him, as long as they talk about interests.

David Rene Rothschild cuts to the chase:
"Too little. Even with Bloomberg's 4% and Soros' 4%, the number is still too small. It's only 8% in total. Mr. Smith, we want to cooperate with you better. I hope you I can understand."

This time the other party spoke directly enough, and of course Abel understood.

He asked calmly, "Then...in the opinion of several gentlemen?"

"Take that 8 percent and add another 12 percent for a total of 20 percent," says David Rene Rothschild.

Abel understood what the oil men meant, and he couldn't help laughing.

This is too little.

So far, Smith Capital has four shareholders including Buffett, Soros, Bloomberg, and PNC Financial Services Group.

And the bush family, and Abel himself.

The Texas consortium is still discussing the details.

This part of the work is estimated to be completed next year.

The cooperation of two huge consortiums.It is relatively simple when the preliminary intention makes a decision.

As long as the leader nods.

However, the detailed rules below, as small as 0.1% of the shares of a certain company controlled by a subsidiary company, must be negotiated to avoid wrangling after the merger.

This part of the work, even with the help of elites such as PwC and Ernst & Young, will take a long time.

Like the cooperation between Rockefeller and Morgan.That is, the merger of Morgan Chase has been discussed since the 80s.

Speaking of the middle of last year, maybe after a joint decision was made.

The two sides only disclosed the possible merger.

At first the market thought it was a joke.

But by the end of last year, they really merged.

Not counting the previous ten or twenty years, the negotiations that the two parties may have involved.

Just based on the time from the announcement in the middle of last year to the actual merger, it took more than half a year.

So the in-depth cooperation between the Texas consortium and the Smith consortium.

If you want to get an idea, it will be at least April or May next year after the detailed discussion.

Prior to this, the Texas consortium could not be regarded as a shareholder of Smith Capital.

Among the original shareholders, Soros and Bloomberg's shares.

In fact, it was Abel, who specially left it for the oilmen.

The two together own 8% of the shares, which is the position and right to speak of the oilmen within the consortium.

Abel knew that the actual holdings of Smith Capital shares by these two people might not even add up to 3%.

The rest of the shares should be divided among other oilmen.

See what these oilmen mean.

They want to continue to add chips and increase the oilman's share in this joint consortium.

After thinking about it, Abel didn't immediately refuse, but he didn't intend to agree either.

He said with an ambiguous smile:

"If it's this question, I can't decide now. I'm not the only shareholder in Smith Capital now. If there are new shareholders who want to join, other shareholders need to nod."

"Of course." He changed the subject and said with a smile: "Personally, I welcome everyone to join. Because I have always believed-"Friends, there are never enough friends." You are all my friends, just like George Same as Michael."

Hear Abel's friendly attitude.

Even though the three big oil men present didn't get a satisfactory answer, they laughed along with them.

From last year to this year, for a period of time.

The Oilers are very afraid of the rise of Abe Smith, and even wanted to suppress it for a while.

It's just that before these people could unify their opinions, they discovered that this Ansar is also a target that can be won.

For example, Abel's subordinates have many oil elites.

Like Robert Iger, the first CEO of Smith Media, the oilman.

Abel's two most trusted Michaels, Michael Ovitz and Michael Lyle, are both Oilers.

The former deputy manager of Smith Capital, and now one of the presidents, Merio, is an oilman.

There are also a large number of oil workers in Smith Capital's company.

This is the elite under Abel.

One of Abel's best friends, Michael Bloomberg, is also an Oiler.

Abel Smith can be said to have contributed a lot to the appointment of New York's first oilman mayor...

There was another Soros behind him, also an oilman.

Invisibly, Abel has painted himself with a thick layer of oil paint.

This makes it difficult for the Oilers to raise hostility towards him even if he is a Texan with the most standard Anza background.

It's like the pheromones used by bee swarms to identify friend and foe. In the eyes of most oilmen, Abe Smith is their good friend even if he is not one of them.

After that, Smith Media's development in the media industry became more and more smooth.

Up to now, the oil people have not thought of suppressing anything.

They wanted to win over Abel now, to make him accept the presence of the Oilers like the other Ansans.

Just like the original Morgan and Rockefeller, let oil last forever in the United States.

Now seeing the Smith Consortium, it is hoped that it will merge with the Texas Consortium.

The merger of the two parties may lead to the emergence of a Smith & Texas consortium or a Texas & Smith consortium in the United States.

One has a sound financial system and core capital channels.

At the same time, it also mastered the military industry, as well as some energy and industrial behemoths.

The oily man who smelled this smell couldn't wait to entangle him.

They want to have more say in this consortium...

This is what David Rene Rothschild said today.

Abel didn't explicitly refuse at this time, but acted so tactfully.

With this statement, the three big oil men are satisfied enough.

They felt that the next thing they lacked was a bargaining chip to make Abel tempted.

And when it comes to bargaining chips, the Oilers Group has always been in short supply.

They have the smile they have now.

And Abel was also smiling on the surface, but secretly planned to go to Peggy's... grandpa, Robert Morgenthau.

He wanted Robert to ask the other two families.

Go ask those two guys who obviously contacted themselves earlier, but now they have lost their voices.

Those two guys were Morgan and Rockefeller.

The first thing to explain is that these two families are not oily at all.

At most, they have had very close cooperation with the Oilers.

For example, Morgan's family has been a British banking family for a long time, and its blood relationship is very clear, and it has never been mixed with oilman blood.

The family was a merchant family whose ancestors immigrated to the United States during the gold rush of the New World in the early 17th century and initially settled in Massachusetts.

It wasn't until the time of John Pierpont Morgan's grandfather, Joseph Morgan, that he sold his farm in Massachusetts and settled in Hartford.

Hartford is the capital of Connecticut, USA, in the north-central part of the state, along the Connecticut River.It has a large number of giant insurance companies.It is the headquarters of the world insurance industry.

It can be said that it is a pure Angsag, one of the symbols of the traditional East Coast power of the United States.

Then there is Rockefeller.

Rockefeller is not oil either.

Like Morgan, Rockefeller was also described by many small media outlets as oilmen.

This lie has been repeated so many times that it has been mistaken for an axiom by many.

But the fact is that the Rockefellers are not Oilers at all.

They neither believe in oil, nor have oil blood.

The religious belief of the Rockefeller family is the Protestant Baptist Church, not the Oilers.

The Rockefeller family is of English, German, Scottish, and Irish descent, not of Oilman origin.

The reason why there are rumors that these two families are oil.

In addition to the consistent habit of the oil people, they always like to bring the good people to their own race.

It is also because these two families were suspected of being "rebels" who backstabbed oilman financial capital and became financially independent in North America.

The story inside, Abel is not very clear.

He had only heard part of it when his grandfather and Herbert chatted.

But all in all, not only are Rockefeller and Morgan not the oilmen, but they are the existence of the Anza suppressing the oilmen in the financial field.

This can be seen from the very successful confluence of Rockefeller and Morgan.

Abel wanted to ask them, now these oilmen are so active to win over his new Anza.

As the old Ansa, don't you guys have anything to say?
To put it simply, he wants to jump left and right again, or it is up for grabs.

Just like what he did in the Norwegian krone incident, when facing the dispute between Soros and Norway.

Abel spent the entire evening chatting with David Rene Rothschild, Alan Greenspan, and Leo Melamed.

With these three, even George Soros only came here once.

Obviously, these three are the bosses of this small group.

Judging from their identities, it is understandable.

Like David Rene Rothschild, his surname is Rothschild in English.

There are two translations of this word in Chinese, one is Rothschild and the other is Rothschild...

And Leo Melamed's identity is not simple, he was once the chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Is the founder of many types of futures.

Like Abel, he liked to play the most in the early days, and now he occasionally invests in foreign exchange futures.It was invented by Leo Melamed, an economist and financial guru.

As for Alan Greenspan, he is the current chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board.

This committee has an abbreviation, and everyone prefers to call it the Federal Reserve.

It can be said that these three are among the living oilmen.Basically, it is the third of their vital existence in the financial field.

Even Soros couldn't stand on an equal footing in front of these three.

And now Abel has done it.

Does it mean that Abel's status has surpassed that of Soros?

It's not...

The most important reason why Abel can make them pay so much attention is that the Smith Consortium and the Texas Consortium have begun to merge.

For a long time, because of the lack of financial core, the Texas consortium has been seriously lacking in hematopoietic ability.

It's okay to say that when there is a war, there will be no food when there is no war.

As for the Smith Consortium, because its rise is too fast, and its members are basically in the financial field.

It cannot be said to be equal to nothing in terms of military, industry, energy or other aspects, but there is only one Pacific Energy Company, which can only be said to be better than nothing.

A strong financial, a strong industry.The combination of the two parties, even if it is not a complete merger, is just a deep cooperation.

Both parties' status in this country will be raised a lot at once.

After the merger or in-depth cooperation, this consortium can become an enhanced version of the California consortium.

The normal version of the California consortium can compete with Morgan & Rockefeller.

The enhanced version of this consortium, not to mention being on equal footing, would not be much worse.

Be aware of this and don't allow oily people in this aspect from beginning to end.

They smelled it and surrounded it.

If it can cooperate deeply with the merged Smith & Texas consortium, or if it succeeds internally.

For oil people, it means that they can stay outside the already powerful finance and media.

Gained a more terrifying support point again.

If it really succeeds, it will all be used by them.

It is not impossible for the oil man to become the master of this country.

Instead of being like now, you can only be an accountant and manage money in general.

Later, the reception was over.

After Abel left the field, sitting in the Cadillac monster, surrounded by Little Laura and Li Xinyu, he gradually figured it out.

"Hey--"

After thinking about it.

In the carriage, Abel couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

These intrigues are not his strong point.

However, he asked for everything again.

It was he himself who set the goal too high from the very beginning.

I want this and that, I want to be big and complete.

Well now, this is equivalent to practicing too many cheats of various attributes.

Now all kinds of inexplicable internal forces began to collide inside his body.

If one is not maintained well, it will really explode and die.

But they have come to this point, and now they can only continue to go on.

It is equivalent to continuing to practice magic skills.

Or it is to create one's own magical skill, to become a super master who can penetrate the past and present, the kind that is invincible in the world.

Either you will go into a madness halfway, and it will be a waste of a person, or it will hurt your muscles and bones.

Seeing him sighing, little Laura, who let him sit in the middle unknowingly just now, didn't think about it.

The girl's little hand caressed her lover's brows that seldom frown, "It's rare to see something that can make you so distressed. This is the first time I've seen you like this."

Little Laura's voice, and her little cold hand coming in from outside.

Pull Abel's spirit and attention from his thoughts back to reality.

He looked at the caring eyes of Little Laura and Li Xinyu in the warm carriage.

Abel subconsciously opened his hands, hugged the two of them into his arms, and replied softly:

"Thinking about something troublesome. I regret it a bit."

Seeing him naturally, he hugged himself and his best friend in his arms.

There are also girlfriends who take it for granted at first, but after being seen by me, they get a little flustered in their little eyes.

Little Laura already had doubts in her heart at this time.

But at this time, she naturally chose to comfort her man first.

"What can make you regret it?" said little Laura softly:
"Maybe there's nothing I can do to help you. But maybe you can confide in me, and it might make you feel better."

Many people's thoughts are indeed that after telling others, they will feel better.

But Abel was obviously not this kind of person, he shook his head with a smile, leaned over and kissed little Laura.

Then the movements are natural and skillful, like rain and dew, just like in Korea.

Kiss your sister and kiss your sister, or kiss your sister and kiss your sister.

After kissing little Laura, he wanted to show Li Xinyu's pretty face as well.

It was only halfway through his kissing that he suddenly woke up.

"Ha ha--"

Abel let go of Li Xinyu's hand holding Li Xinyu skillfully by the way,
"Sorry, almost kissed. Sorry, I was abrupt."

Li Xinyu, who was taken aback by him just now and was worried about being discovered by little Laura, was relieved.

Li Xinyu immediately said: "It's okay, but I won't allow it next time!"

"Oh oh oh, of course."

Seeing the two acting there, little Laura raised her beautiful and slender eyebrows.

She wasn't sure at first.

But now, little Laura was quite sure.

There must be something wrong with my man and my best girlfriend!
　Now there are only two chapters with more than 70 words updated every day.Because I have to save the manuscript, so as not to be interrupted for a few days after the sun... I feel that it is coming soon. We have broken from single digits to 80+[-]+ in these two days, and it is not long before we are three digits.It feels like it's coming to me within the next week at most.So in order to save the manuscript, I can only slow down a little during this time.

　　It will be normal when I save enough drafts for 10 days of continuous updates.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)