America's Road to Wealth

This first snowfall in New York is getting heavier and heavier.

In the afternoon, it turned from light snow to moderate snow.

The whole city was covered with a layer of white gauze.

There are also winds of level 5 to level 6. If it were stronger, it would be considered a blizzard.

Pedestrians walking back and forth on the street were still freezing even if they were wearing thick warm clothes.

This year in New York must be an unfriendly year for homeless people.

But these matters have nothing to do with Abel. It is the New York City government that needs to care about these matters.

Maybe they won't care either.

After all, in this place, only the "strong" can survive.

To Abel.

This weather is annoying.

Fortunately, this level of risk does not affect helicopters.

But for relatively large fixed-wing aircraft, it has not yet reached the point where it cannot take off.

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

Abel once again flew on a Delta Air Lines private charter flight, destined for Fort Worth-Dallas Airport.

He had found satisfaction in Charlize in the morning.

On the plane in the afternoon.

Even if he met the beautiful flight attendant Maria again who had the attributes of a wife.

In a short period of time, he stopped thinking about brushing his teeth.

On the plane, he made two satellite phone calls.

One for David Mellon to learn about real-time foreign exchange market conditions.

Ten billion US dollars, and a lot of leverage was used.

The funds that can be affected exceed 50 billion US dollars.

Again, it’s the pound, a somewhat testy currency.

Even if he could cheat, Abel would have to pay more attention.

Another satellite call was to David Jones, who arrived in Fort Worth early last night.

anyway.

Among the people around Abel, David Jones is probably the busiest.

As Abel's chief steward, every time Abel goes somewhere.

Before Abeldu could go there, David had to go over and make arrangements in advance.

The staff who arrange rock security contact local hotels, fleets, or directly assistants.

It's just that the salary Abel offered him was more than twice what he had paid at American Express before.

Besides, the benefits are better and the work content is actually similar.

Although David Jones was a little busy, he enjoyed it.

After a flight of more than two hours.

Gulfstream G400 arrived at Fort Worth Dallas Airport.

Texas is one of the most southern states in the United States in terms of latitude.

The climate here is far milder than that of New York State.

Although it does snow, it usually comes in January and February of next year.

Even if the weather is La Nina this year, it has already started snowing in New York.

Although the temperature has dropped a lot here, the sky is still clear.

Transferring at the airport, the convoy headed straight to Fort Worth.

When Abel came to this American cowboy cultural center.

It's almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky is not that bright anymore.

By the way, today is November 7, 2000.

This day is also the first counting day of this national election.

Before meeting Alexander, Abel received news from David Jones about today's election.

"According to the press releases of the two parties, the situation on the same day today is that the two parties alternately take the lead."

David Jones said: "Maybe one hour, the elephant party was still in the lead. But the next hour, the donkey party may have overtaken and surpassed."

"Both sides are chasing each other all the way. Both sides announced that they have won their "vote base" states and estimated winning states."

Abel nodded.

Although he knew that Herbert's son would be victorious this time.

But that is a parallel time and space, and what is the specific situation.

As a "foreigner" in his teens at the time, of course he couldn't have known it clearly.

Now as a member of the capitalists in this country, it is unclear who can get the upper hand.

He is still more concerned.

But that's about it.

What he is more concerned about is the situation in Tarrant County.

Tarrant County’s election has been moved up this year.

In previous years, Tarrant County would be different from others and hold its own election in December.

But in September, the Tarrant County Council voted to change the tradition.

The campaign, which was previously launched in December, has been moved to November.

This is mainly for turnout considerations.

Because in an election year, there are also various elections for members of Congress (House and Senate), state legislators, and localities.

Most states combine all local election and general election dates together to save money.

This is guaranteed to save time and effort.

At the same time, it can also ensure that voters go out of their homes to actually vote.

In the past, Tarrant County always spent hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the neighboring county.

It has long been criticized.

To that end, the county council made changes this year.

Like other nearby states and counties, they all chose to hold the election on Election Day in conjunction with the national election.

In this way, everyone can elect the general leader and their own county magistrate at the same time.

This is why Abel returned to Texas, to Tarrant County.

His father's great cause here will take its first step today.

It is different from the general election which takes several days to get the results.

Tarrant County as a whole has a population of less than two million, and results are available on the same day.

It's just that the counting speed is slow, and the results will not be fully available until about 8 to 9 pm.

In fact, Abel didn't need to come over because he wanted to know the result.

All it takes is a phone call when the time comes.

But this is his father's big business after all.

This road was made by my father.

Abel is naturally concerned about this, and it is also related to his plans for his future.

So even though Smith Capital was very busy, he still rushed back.

At around five o'clock, Yu Alexander met his father and mother in Alexander's campaign office.

Different from the previous times, the Alexander that Abel saw this time was not wearing the black suit commonly worn by politicians.

Rather, it was a set of native clothing common in Tarrant County.

What is Tarrant County native clothing?

Jeans.

Tarrant County, known as "the place where the West began," is now nationally known for its rich Western cultural heritage, especially cowboy culture.

Fort Worth is also famous as a cowboy capital.

The outfit Alexander put on has been worn by candidates before.

But generally only candidates with backgrounds as farmers can wear this outfit without many people questioning it.

If a person from the city or from outside shows up wearing such clothes.

It is estimated that the opposite result will be obtained.

Alexander is much better.

He was tall and strong, and the skin on his face looked a little rough.

On the lower part of the face and on the neck, there is even some rosy skin that has been exposed to the sun for a long time.

This is the typical red-neck image.

Of course.

In fact, Alexander's neck was not so red at first.

Although he was very good at farm work, he didn’t really go to the fields every day.

Not that much sun.

The reason why it is so red now.

After I started participating in the election campaign, and on the advice of my team and consultants, I deliberately sunbathed my neck a little more.

And when I go out, I will put something on it.

This made his neck look even redder.

This will give him more recognition in Tarrant County.

When Abel arrived, the whole office was busy.

There were a lot of people talking loudly on their phones, a lot of people walking around, and people constantly coming in and out.

Outside the office, there are some reporters and photographers from local and Texas media, already staring at this place.

There are four candidates in total in Tarrant County this year.

But in fact, the other two can basically be used as companions.

It's obvious, as is most other parts of the United States.

The winner will only be among the elephant or the donkey.

Therefore, local media reporters basically ignored the other two candidates.

They were divided into two parts, and one part was waiting on Alexander's side.

The other part is waiting with Denko, the Donkey Party candidate.

They will wait until the results of the election are known, and reporters will immediately swarm.

Interviews with winners and losers provide fodder for the evening and tomorrow's news.

Let’s not mention the situation on Denke’s side for now.

On Alexander's side, the total number of reporters is about ten.

They noticed the arrival of Abel's motorcade and also noticed Abel walking into the office quietly and quickly.

Many people were hesitant.

A reporter from a local tabloid stabbed a reporter from another tabloid next door.

"Hey, did I read that correctly? I thought I saw Abel Smith getting out of the car just now."

"Well, I think I saw it too, it's that Abel Smith."

The latter responded to him.

The photographer next to him took the camera over and showed the reporter what he had just captured.

"It seems to be really Abel Smith! The pride of our Tarrant County, the financial sword of Texas!"

the photographer said excitedly.

The surrounding reporters and photographers all gathered around.

It only took a minute or two for everyone to confirm what they had just walked in.

It was indeed Abe Smith.

"Oh~"

A reporter suddenly realized this and slapped his thigh.

"Abel Smith's surname is Smith, and Alexander Smith is also a Smith! They are both from Tarrant County! They must know each other!"

"Is there a possibility that they are not acquaintances at all? They may still be relatives!"

"Then is there a possibility that the two people are not just relatives at all? Maybe Abel Smith is the son of Alexander Smith?"

"That shouldn't be the case. If Alexander had such a son, why didn't he say it in his previous campaign speech?"

"Wait a minute, didn't you say that Abel Smith had an ordinary background? He was just the son of a farmer, but how could his father be Alexander Smith now?"

"Haha. Alexander is also a farmer. Haven't you seen so many farmers come to support him in the past few days?"

"Oh~ too!"

"FXXK, my editor-in-chief is short-sighted. He sent me alone and not even a cameraman! No, I have to call them and ask them to send more people. This is Abel Smith, the pride of our Tarrant County. !”

"Yes, there may be big news here today! We need to call the talents quickly!"

Reporters were clamoring, and soon Tarrant County pride Abe Smith was there.

The news of appearing in candidate Alexander's office quickly spread throughout Fort Worth.

In another corner of the city.

The candidates of the Donkey Party, who were also waiting for the results of the general election, heard the news.

Denke had a wry smile on his face.

How to compare.

There is a son of a billionaire who is so famous.

This time in terms of Zhengzhi donation.

He was even crushed by the other party by an entire magnitude!

Throughout Tarrant's campaign posters, Alexander alone had more than twice as many posters as the other three of them.

Denke felt that he was very unlucky. He couldn't choose any year, but he came out this year.

Good thing it's before the campaign starts.

Alexander, on the other hand, was concerned about possible counter-effects.

He didn't treat his son as a card.

Denke naturally wanted it, and Ruowuowu suppressed the fact that Alexander had such a son.

So the campaign went on for a month, and most Tarrant County voters didn't know that Abe Smith was Alexander's son.

Don't think this is ridiculous.

In the United States, this is true.

Among ordinary people in the United States, there is a widespread problem of insufficient common sense and knowledge.

Even now, tens of millions of people across the United States still believe that the earth is flat.

This rainbow in Tarrant County

One of the red neck strongholds, semi-illiterates with only basic literacy account for at least half of the county's population.

in this case.

As long as the media does not guide it, or the parties themselves do not publicize it.

The fact that Abe Smith is the son of Alexander Smith can really make voters generally unaware.

I can only say that this is an American characteristic.

The elite are more powerful than anyone else and are among the best in the world.

The people at the bottom are stupid one after another, and have long lost themselves in happy education and Naitou music.

Because both the Elephant Party and the Donkey Party are suppressing this news.

So much so that local media reporters didn’t know much about the matter.

Now that they have seen Abel appear with their own eyes, many people suddenly realize it.

Then there were the reporters waiting for Alexander, and suddenly there were more reporters.

In the campaign office.

Abel smiled and hugged his parents and his father's campaign aide Dewayne.

"It looks like things are going well. I see everyone is in a good mood."

Abel smiled and spoke.

After entering, he could feel that the atmosphere in the whole office was very good.

Everyone is busy, but everyone has a smile on their face.

This means that some of the results that have come out so far are obviously more beneficial to this side.

Dewayne was the first to intervene. He said: "Hahaha~ In fact, it is indeed the case. There are 363 polling places in Tarrant County. 215 have been counted, and Alexander's vote rate is 53%!"

With 53% of the vote, it seems that the other candidate has 47%, which is not a sure win.

But actually, because there are four candidates.

The other two non-bipartisan candidates will still take away some votes no matter how bad they are.

The two candidates of the two parties can actually get about 80%-90% of the votes.

In this ratio, if you get this number of votes, it can indeed be said to be basically stable.

Abel smiled and looked at Alexander, who looked calm and proud.

Beside him, Emily smiled and said: "Is my husband really going to become Tarrant's chief officer?"

"Who can say it's not the case?" Abel smiled and looked at his mother: "Dear Chief Chief's wife, good evening, you look so beautiful!"

"Haha~" Emily, who had not seen her son for a long time, was amused by his son and laughed.

Alexander's calm and gentle lips couldn't help but twitch.

Alexander looked at his son playing tricks and his happy wife in front of him.

He himself became happy.

"Come out, come out!"

In the office, someone suddenly shouted loudly.

"The latest votes are out!! A total of 256 boxes have been opened so far, and Mr. Smith's vote is 56%!"

"The Donkey Party's Denke only has 33%, the Green Party's George has 7%, and the independent candidate Johansson has 4%!"

As the voice fell, the happy atmosphere in the office became a little thicker.

Although the ballot boxes have not all been opened.

But Alexander has this number of votes, so it can be said that he is basically stable.

Unless the remaining ballot boxes are all for Denke.

Abel looked at his father who was pretending to be calm, and then at his mother who was not pretending to be excited next to his father.

He walked over with a smile, held his mother's hand, and looked at his old man again.

"I didn't expect it to work. Dad, I didn't expect you to be able to do such a thing besides hunting."

"Hmph~"

Alexander snorted proudly and did not answer his words.

Abel ignored him. That was the only bad thing about this guy.

He is over fifty years old, but he is a very arrogant person.

The key point is that his body is as strong as a bear, his face is white and his neck is red and thick, and he is not cute at all.

In contrast, Abel still prefers talking to his grandfather Alex.

He also somewhat understood why Grandpa and Alexander always tended to quarrel without even saying a few words.

There is a little bit of conflict between the two men's personalities.

Fortunately, the Smith family has been passed down for many generations. Even if the personality is difficult to deal with, the family atmosphere is still very good.

Chatted with mom Emily about some things at Smith Farm.

About half an hour passed.

A new call came in.

The ringing of the phone made all the dozen or so people in the campaign office fall silent.

Everyone held their breath, hoping to get the news they wanted most from this phone call.

News of victory.

As Alexander's deputy, DeWine stayed by the phone.

The phone rang twice and Dwayne picked it up.

"Hello?"

Dwayne said calmly.

"Is it Mr. Dwayne? I'm Eisen. There are many people outside, and many reporters are here. What's going on?"

Dwayne was startled, this Eisen was a peripheral member of the campaign team.

Dwayne asked Eisen to watch outside, preparing to wait until Alexander successfully took office.

Then rally your supporters and throw a victory party in Fort Worth.

Unexpectedly, I called to tell him about this.

"Let me take a look." Dwayne put down the phone and immediately walked to the window and looked outside.

Outside, he saw an astonishing number of reporters.

At least forty or fifty reporters and cameramen surrounded the campaign office.

Dwayne frowned, not knowing what happened.

Fortunately, at this time, Abel walked up to him.

"It should be for me. When I came in just now, I saw them filming me very excitedly."

Dwayne looked at Abel and suddenly understood.

Although I didn’t know that during the campaign.

Alexander did not use Abel's name as a trump card to win votes.

This once made Dwayne feel very regretful.

Now just because of Abel's appearance, there are so many reporters outside.

Dwayne felt that Alexander might have been considering this situation since the Abel card was not used at the time.

With Abel's public exposure at the time, I really don't know whether Alexander's performance in this election was a good thing or a bad thing.

But things are different now. The votes have been cast and all that remains is to count them.

It doesn't matter whether the impact of Abel's appearance is good or bad.

at this time.

Just when Dwayne opened his mouth to say something.

The phone rang again.

Dwayne wanted to walk over and answer it, but Alexander was right next to the phone.

Alexander answered the phone himself and only heard a few calm "hmm" from him.

Then everyone saw Alexander put down the phone and said to everyone.

"The counting of votes has been completed in 311 of the 363 polling stations."

"I got 61 percent of the vote."

"And just now, Denke of the Donkey Party and two other candidates have congratulated the media on my official election."

Speaking of this, Alexander pretended to have a calm voice.

He was also a little defeated and seemed a little excited.

"Everyone, standing before you now is the 42nd chief executive of Tarrant County."