America's Road to Wealth

Liam H.L. Hunter, this old guy has been at 324 Buckingham Road in Houston's Dr. District for a long time.

Until almost 10 o'clock in the evening.

The patriarch of the Hunter family left with satisfaction.

In the courtyard.

Looking at Liam's leaving motorcade.

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

"Look, didn't we just find a crack inside the iron plate that we can get into?"

David smiled slightly and did not answer the boss's words.

Allen responded respectfully: "They themselves are not an iron plate. In fact, even Rockefeller or Morgan. As long as there are enough interests, they can still make cracks appear."

"well said."

Abel smiled and clapped his hands and praised: "There is nothing wrong with it, interests. Interests are everything."

"Okay." His voice softened, "It's already a little late. Let's go back and rest. There is still a lot of work to do in the next few days."

Alan and David have been really busy these days.

It involves the equity and share exchange between dozens of large companies within two huge consortiums, as well as the negotiation of some terms.

These tasks are mainly coordinated by the Smith Think Group.

Allen is the managing director of Smith Brain Group and is responsible for much of its oversight.

David in turn oversees the Allen and Smith Brain Group.

During the merger of the two consortiums, they were the busiest.

On the contrary, the other David and Robert were more relaxed and only needed to continue their own work.

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

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

Basically except for going out to do errands, usually major events related to Abel's family.

Wherever Abel goes, there is David Jones.

Unlike Allen, Allen usually only appears by Abel's side when Abel has business needs.

Otherwise, Allen usually stays in New York, where the Smith Group is headquartered.

Like now, there are hundreds of people from Smith Think Group, Smith Capital, and Pacific Commercial Bank.

Abel booked two hotels in downtown Houston.

Allen lives in the hotel so he can monitor these staff nearby.

The two cronies left one after another.

After a busy day, Abel also turned back to the living area behind the villa.

The exterior style of this manor house is pure New England country pastoral.

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

When he came in, Scarlett did not appear.

Abel looked around but didn't see his little canary.

He came to the master bedroom, which had a stylish marble dresser and gleaming wooden hard floors.

Abel walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. The view was very wide and he could enjoy the bustling night view of uptown Houston.

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

At this time, a smile appeared on his lips.

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

Picking up a neatly folded new bathrobe from the sofa, he looked at it and threw it back.

What to wear...

I have to take it off later anyway, so it’s better not to wear it at all.

He quickly took off his clothes, swaying and walking into the bathroom where the sound of water came from.

No woman's screams came from the bathroom.

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

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

Perhaps because of the hot water, the girl's face was covered with blush, and her face was slightly childish, but extremely charming.

Under His watering.

Now it looks even more charming.

Looking at Abel's unscrupulous eyes.

Scarlett walked forward slowly, standing on tiptoes, and reluctantly hooked Abel's neck with one hand.

This action is a bit laborious.

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

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

The four eyes stared at each other without blinking.

Scarlett's body was lifted up.

Then...spring arrives, everything revives, and it's the time when animals are happy again.

Spring is warm, flowers are blooming, grass is growing and orioles are flying. Spring is full of vitality and romance. Naturally, Abel would not let it go.

A busy night.

During this "call" trip, Scarlett Johansson stayed in Houston for a total of three days.

The experience of these three days made her suddenly understand a lot of things.

This made the girl, who was already very mature in mentality, become more stable.

After three days of getting along.

She really felt that Abel seemed to dote on her a little unusually.

But in fact, Scarlett Johansson herself feels that compared with the "girlfriends" or "employees" known to Abel, she really has no advantage.

In terms of beauty, she felt that she was not as good as Anne and Jessica.

In terms of body shape, although I am big enough in some aspects. 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 such an illusory thing as temperament was what she lacked the most.

On IQ, acting skills, ability, character...

In every aspect, she felt that she was not the best.

It seems...it seems...that in terms of age, I am the youngest.

She was suspicious, maybe because of this reason.

He just likes himself more.

Because Scarlett has heard of that guy’s fiancée, she is the same age as herself! !

Look at the way he is obsessed with himself.

Scarlett couldn't help but said: Falk! As expected of a Smith, a blacksmith is a blacksmith!

In the past three days, Scarlett noticed.

He was very busy during the day, and she only spent half a day by his side.

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

Watch him decide the future salary and benefits for thousands of employees at his energy company in the blink of an eye.

There are also future super factories in Houston and so on.

This is nothing.

The problem is that he answered more than 20 calls that morning.

They seemed to be talking about international gold, oil, and the Japanese yen exchange market, something that Scarlett couldn't understand, and she didn't know what they were talking about.

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

His cell phone will stop.

His assistant David Jones, whom even big figures like Rupert Murdoch valued and respected, left with his other two mobile phones.

But even so, the personal cell phone he carries with him will still ring non-stop.

Scarlett Johansson eavesdropped twice, once on the phone with a man named Michael.

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

Both of these men were senior executives of Smith Media, and Scarlett knew them.

They also respected her, and she knew why they respected her.

Later she discovered that it didn't seem to be the two Michaels.

Because Scarlett had seen him talking to the two Michaels, and they were 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.

But within a few seconds, Scarlett overturned this guess.

Disney's Michael's status is at most about the same as his two Michaels.

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

At the back, she recognized Michael’s surname, Bloomberg.

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

Oh, the mayor of the first city in the United States, I had a half-hour phone call with him!

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

The first phone call that she "accidentally" overheard already made Scarlett feel numb.

That phone call he answered while holding her.

That was the guy he contacted on his second phone call, whose surname was Shrub.

I heard him and Mr. Shrub chatting and laughing at each other on the phone like two college buddies.

Scarlett was completely speechless.

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

She knew that as long as Abel didn't give up, she would never think of escaping from him in this life.

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

There are dozens of them every hour.

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

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

This made Scarlett understand, no wonder she had sent him so many text messages, and he would only reply once or twice a week or two.

Scarlett felt that if it were her, there would be so many people looking for her every day.

I'll probably be like him and only reply once in a while.

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

In addition to work, there are also making and answering calls.

During these three days, he just concentrated on torturing himself.

The night before returning to Los Angeles, he tortured himself six times in total, and together, he tortured himself for more than three hours.

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

Very tired, but Scarlett was very happy.

She felt that this further confirmed that he indeed "pampered" her.

This can be regarded as the biggest gain that Scarlett feels she has gained during these few days in Houston.

When Scarlett Johansson left Houston and returned to Los Angeles to continue promoting "Kick-Ass" and planning new roles in new movies.

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

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

The notice includes Pacific Commercial Bank, First National Bank of Dallas, First City National Bank of Houston, Republic National Bank of Dallas and Texas Commerce Bank.

There are also three other insurance companies that have announced restructuring, mergers, new equity allocations, and the establishment of new financial groups.

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

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

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

Obviously, they were prepared.

On the second day, the largest-selling daily newspaper in the United States was the Wall Street Journal, named after Wall Street.

Let this news be 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 Commerce Bank, these four banks are all in the top 30 in the national bank rankings. 】

[The highest ranking is Texas Commerce Bank, which is the 15th largest bank in the United States. It has 98 branches with total assets of US$12.1 billion and assets under management exceeding US$100 billion. 】

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

[It will make the new Smith Financial Group one of the top five super financial giants in the United States. 】

[In terms of assets alone, Smith Financial Group is now only below Citibank, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan 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 a heavy depth bomb dropped on the banking industry in the United States and even the world. 】

[The splash caused by this bomb will inevitably spread to the entire banking and financial industries, with far-reaching impact. Especially this new company, its chairman and CEO are all Mr. Abel Smith. 】

[Presumably, Mr. Smith Financial Group, the richest man in the world, will attract more attention next time. 】

[However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is...]

【……】

This report from the Wall Street Journal talked about the merger of several major banks.

But later on, it revealed the truth behind the merger in a story-telling way.

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

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

On this day, in fact, the Wall Street Journal was not the only one reporting this.

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

The content they report is generally similar to that of the Wall Street Journal.

To a certain extent, these behaviors of these newspapers can be seen as other established consortiums’ dissatisfaction with the merger between the two major consortiums, and their actions as eye candy.

And this indeed surprised many Americans.

They were not surprised by the existence of the consortium.

Just like the chaebols of Hanguo and Neon.

Ordinary Han people and neon cabinets cannot escape the influence of their plutocrats throughout their lives.

So do ordinary Americans.

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

If Xiaobaga and Xiaoxipachi can accept the existence of the chaebol, then of course the Americans will have no problem.

Many Americans are surprised that Abe Smith has only been around for two or three years.

In just two or three years, how come he suddenly became the owner of the new consortium that the big newspapers were talking about?

This is too exaggerated.

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

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

In addition to being extremely handsome, he can also draw.

In other respects, he is just like thousands of American teenagers.

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

But now?

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

In just three years, he did all this.

Isn't this the best American dream?

Combined with his recent experience of being attacked by KBFZ.

And he has always been a very charitable person.

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

It can only be said that at this time, the various personas that Abel had set up for more than two years, as well as the recent attack, combined to have a very good positive effect.

These malicious reports by the major media outlets, which originally wanted to be eye-catching, have had a positive effect in the hearts of many Americans.

Those reports have become more of a foil to Abel Smith and his legendary standard American dream.