America's Road to Wealth

The convoy quickly left Beverly Hills and arrived at the Smith Financial Group branch in downtown Los Angeles.

As the financial core of the Texas consortium, Smith Financial Group has merged the original Texas-based financial companies, together with Abel’s original Pacific Bank of Commerce and Smith Capital, its power is mainly distributed in the east and west coasts of the United States, as well as in Decker. Texas and Kansas and several other southwestern states.

As the second largest city in the United States, Los Angeles, where Hollywood and Beverly Hills are located, will of course be valued by Smith Financial Group, even if it is actually one of the core areas of the California consortium.

It's like in Houston, there are still branches of Wells Fargo, First Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and other forces.

After arriving at the Los Angeles branch, Abel took a short rest and led people into the video conference room.

This is a conference room that every branch of Smith Financial Group, even large branches of Smith and Dezhou, will have now.

These meeting rooms use the latest video conferencing technology provided by Qualcomm, which can conduct transoceanic and transnational video conferencing, and have made a certain contribution to the promotion of the administrative and execution capabilities of the Texas consortium.

And this large order from the Texas consortium has also provided a great boost to Qualcomm, which is already on the right track.

Today is Abel's original arrangement, a regular report on investment details every two days.

He must participate. His career and beauty are the foundation for him to enjoy life wantonly, which he knows very well.

No matter how wonderful the gentle township is, it is just him as a brilliant diamond inlaid in the crown of a successful man.

In the meeting room, Allen and others from the Smith Intelligence Group sat in the lower position of Abel according to their status and closeness.

After the video conference is connected.

Jess, the head of Smith Capital in the UK, began to report in detail on the results of his recent work.

"...The resistance of the British on the British pound can be said to be useless. But these British guys, facing our operations in the stock market, carried out all-round attacks. For this reason, even the British Financial Supervisory Authority has come to an end. The London authorities even made frequent threats from the side. This made the progress of the snipers, including us, somewhat difficult."

While listening to Jess' report, Abel stroked his chin and pondered after carefully reading the document. All the think tank members in the meeting room looked at him.

This is actually very easy to understand. The pound is the pound for all British people. Those companies are only the industries of the British oligarchs, or the British upper class.

The Americans are attacking the pound, because the pound is too big and has a great impact.

So no matter how much the Americans snipe, as long as Wall Street doesn't want to hurt both sides, London will not be too afraid.

However, Americans attack those giant British companies, and the owners behind the giants will be directly affected by their interests.

And these giants, they can easily influence the London authorities, and it can even be said that now that capital is ruling the roost, these talents are the real British masters.

Facing the Americans who came to seize power, these people will certainly not compromise.

This is a matter of life and death. With the support or strong opposition of these people, it would be strange if the London authorities did not come out to protect them desperately.

These capitalists and oligarchs are equivalent to British state-owned enterprises. A "state-owned enterprise" that does not need to bear the responsibility of state-owned enterprises, but can enjoy the treatment of state-owned enterprises.

It's a bit like the Federal Reserve in the United States, and companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Such a company, of course, the British authorities will die.

What's more, it is now 2002, and the British have not completely given up, and have become the United Kingdom that is dedicated to conjugating father and son.

In the conference room.

Abel looked up at the camera, which was the source of the signal that the financial forces of the entire Smith Department used to listen to his voice in the video conference.

Abel asked directly:

"Talk about what we've been attacking on the pound so far, and what we've gained from our plan to land in Britain."

Jess in London nodded, picked up the file and began to report:

"In terms of sniping the pound currency, our total harvest as of today is 3.969 billion pounds in profits."

"However, most of these profits have already been invested in our plan to land in Britain. There is still about 450 million pounds in the account balance."

"As for the plan to land on the British Isles, so far, we have controlled 4.5% of British Petroleum (BP), 7.65% of AstraZeneca, 9.5% of GlaxoSmithKline, and Vodafone through a total of 135 broiler companies. 7.5% shares, Law \u0026 General Insurance 5.5% shares, HSBC Bank Holdings 11.5% shares..."

"To this end, we have invested a total of $36.556 billion in capital, in addition to paying out our profit on the pound sniping."

Most of the people connected to the video conference are financial elites, and they can understand what the data reported by Jess means.

It means that Smith Capital has mastered these shares for less than 40 billion US dollars.

This is actually a great victory.

Not to mention other companies, just BP Petroleum.

You must know that BP is a high-quality company with total assets exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars.

At the peak of the stock market value, it once exceeded 300 billion US dollars.

Although it has declined now, it is still one of the world's seven oil and gas "super giants". The others are Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total.

As a listed company, BP Petroleum is listed in London and New York respectively.

What Smith Capital acquired was mainly the stock of London BP, whose current market value is around US$80 billion.

Before the London financial turmoil, its market value was US$100 billion.

4.5%, according to the current market value, it is about 3.6 to 3.7 billion US dollars. According to the original market value, it would cost about 4.5 billion US dollars.

The cost of the acquisition was almost US$700 million less, which can be said to be a very successful acquisition case.

The stock prices of other companies are generally much lower than before the storm, and the purchase price is much lower.

The overall purchase price is at least 25% lower on average.

Not to mention the difficulty of holding these shares, even after the London financial turmoil has passed and the stock prices of these companies have risen normally, selling these shares can make a lot of money.

Therefore, from a profit point of view, Smith Capital's more than two-month-long hunt was relatively successful.

The profits in all aspects add up to more than 15 billion US dollars.

The problem is that everyone knows it very well.

This time the boss has a big goal. What he wants is influence over these British giants, not just pure profits.

So far, the profits are high. However, the completion of the plan to land in Britain was very mediocre, even poor.

Although the British can't do anything now, they are the ancestors of modern finance.

Even the financial system of the modern Oilers was actually inherited from Britain. In addition, they are now a clone of Wall Street, and the Americans can't use too much force on London's finance.

At the same time, to deal with the British, we must also consider the actual strategic alliance between the two countries.

This allowed the British to successfully defend against this wave of Yankee sniping and plundering, although they paid some price for it.

Compared with other small countries that have been sniped by Wall Street without a blade of grass, these costs are really nothing.

At least many British people can still sing and dance after that.

Unlike in Southeast Asia, it was miserable for more than ten years after being cut off once, and the situation did not ease slightly until the rise of Huaxia.

"It has been very successful."

After a long time, Abel spoke.

His opening remarks made most of the hundreds of financial elites connected to the video conference breathe a sigh of relief.

"Let's stop here. Everyone else has stopped the operation. If we continue to act alone, it will easily arouse the hatred of London. If it goes too far, even Washington will call me."

"However, you don't need to be discouraged. I will communicate with Morgan and the others later to exchange shares. I think they must be interested in our shares, and we also want some spoils in their hands."

"At least I believe that Rockefeller must be very interested in BP."

The boss's words are fine for the financial elites present to listen to.

Thinking about it carefully, it will make people feel a bone-chilling chill.

This is a large group of American consortiums gathered together to exchange the spoils of this looting with each other. It is equivalent to everyone working together to weigh and exchange the meat cut from the British oligarchs.

Everyone couldn't help but glanced at the boss. There was a trace of doubt on their faces. They didn't know what the boss's goal was. Even BP, one of the famous seven oil sisters, was willing to hand it over.

But they looked at the young boss in the video conference, whose eyes were deep and shining, and no one dared to ask.

Well, the image of Abel is actually mainly due to everyone's fantasy and mental pressure.

Video conferencing in this era, in addition to ensuring that the sound is very clear, the quality of the video is actually average.

The general expression can be seen clearly, but it is not enough to say that you can see the eyes.

It is the shadow of the famous tree of man. Abel has long been famous. These subordinates of his regard him as a god even more in terms of finance.

Usually even a few simple words from him, they will try to figure it out in many ways.

At this time, in this kind of meeting, words such as BP, Rockefeller, and Morgan were involved, and with what they had learned, Abel's words would naturally make them speculate even more.

After the video conference, Abel and Alan walked out of the conference room together. As they walked, Abel asked Alan beside him:

"What's new in our contacts with Robert D. Walter?"

"Robert D. Walter, he intends to sell 11.69% of Cardinal Health's stock he holds. He had a serious illness a few years ago, which caused the stock price of Cardinal Health to rise from the highest point of $122. It fell to $35 later. This caused him to be criticized by the market, even though the stock price rose again later, but not long ago, Cardinal Health’s stock fell for four consecutive months, and it is only $45 now. It made him feel more urgent to sell the stock, especially when we are willing to buy at a premium of 50%. The problem before us is that the remaining shareholders of Cardinal Health are not willing to let Robert D. Walter exit Card Dina Health Group. You know, some of these Robert D. Walter stocks are questionable."

After listening to Allen's words, Abel groaned as he walked, and finally said:

"Tell Robert D. Walter we have the power to get him out of the prosecutors as long as it's in Florida. Tell him to sell me his stock and I'll get him that contract. Problems? Problems and I'll fix them , or solve the problem itself!"

Allen nodded, thinking that it was true.

What he is talking to his boss about is Cardinal Health Pharmaceutical Group, which ranks about 13th in the US pharmaceutical industry in terms of annual sales and scale.

Things have to be said until the end of last year and the beginning of this year.

At that time, Abel was in San Diego, and after reaching the acquisition of Genentech, he issued orders and requirements to the Smith Group.

Since then, Abel has had his hands on the American medical complex.

In order to avoid the vigilance of traditional medical complex giants such as Pfizer, Johnson \u0026 Johnson, Abbott, and Merck, he did not show much interest in these giants.

In private, he let Alan and the others secretly contact large pharmaceutical and health companies like Cardina Health.

It is on the ranking list, from the 8th to the top 20 companies of these sizes.

After contacting for more than half a year, Cardinal Health, a large medical group that can't compete, is the most promising pharmaceutical company that Abel can swallow directly.

First of all, in terms of scale, it has achieved annual sales of about 20 billion US dollars.

This is of course incomparable with Pfizer's US$60-70 billion. But because of this, it is also expected to be sold.

As for Robert D. Walter, he is the founder, current chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health.

Robert, like other founders of large businesses, had been deprived of real ownership of the company during the years of operation, leaving only control.

Of the 11.69% of the shares he holds, 6.69% of them are dry stocks.

These stocks, once he resigns or dies, the stocks will return to the company and do not belong to his descendants.

This part of the shares was an agreement reached after Robert D. Walter made a compromise with the shareholders in order not to be kicked out of the company.

Robert D. Walter kept an eye out at the time. He seized the opportunity that Florida had not yet improved the "Pharmaceutical Business Rules" at that time, seized some flaws in it, and left a family or descendants who hoped to win to the terms of this 6.69% stock property.

According to the law at the time, as long as the people of Florida bought all the stocks in his hands, it could be 11.69%, not just 5% held by himself.

To put it simply, as long as you are not afraid of wrangling, or you can handle Florida's prosecutors and the Supreme Court, or even the federal Supreme Court.

Then you can use this clause to lure Robert D. Walter to sell all the stocks in his hands with the opportunity to realize the 6.69% of the stocks.

You will have the opportunity to hold this part of the shares in Cardinal Health, with voting rights as high as 40%.

After getting this initiative, they will use their voting rights to make troubles, coercing and luring other shareholders to sell the shares of Cardina Health.

Eventually reaching the idea of ​​Abel influencing and even taking full control of Cardinal's health.

This is mainly due to the blessing of various laws in various states in the United States.

As the country with the most legal entries, the most types of laws, and the most lawyers in the world.

Similar things emerge one after another.

But even if Abel gets the shares of Robert D. Walter, other shareholders will not be convinced.

Obviously, this incident will definitely not only happen in Florida, and it will most likely reach the highest level.

Because of this, this is why Cardinal Health has such an obvious flaw, but not many people covet the stocks of Robert D. Walter.

Those who have the ability and ideas, such as giants in the industry such as Pfizer and Merck, find it too troublesome.

Those who have the ability but no ideas are of course indifferent. Let alone people with ideas but no ability. Most of the people who know the flaw of Cardina's health belong to this part.

Only Abel, he is capable and not too troublesome, so when the Smith Intelligence Group discovered this flaw, he has been paying attention to Cardina's health.

Of course, this is mainly related to the shrub with the surname of the governor of Florida, who is the second uncle of little Laura.

With this level of relationship, it can almost guarantee that Abel can solve the troubles at the Florida level.

In the end, the occasions where the two sides fought each other were mainly at the level of the federal supreme court.

At this time, the benefits of Abel's willingness to spend money were reflected.

As soon as Abel arrived in New York and his wealth was just freed, he had a relationship with Satan, the New York law girl.

The famous New York barrister named Caroline Jond Rehnquist has been Abel's chief personal lawyer until now.

Even now, Smith Financial Group and the Texas Consortium have well-established legal departments.

Abel's many aspects of legal issues are still provided by Caroline Jond Rehnquist.

The reason is that today's Supreme Court of the Federation, the chief justice with the highest status, his name is William Habs Rehnquist.

Well, coincidentally, he is Lady Caroline's uncle, the same relationship as little Laura and George.

This is also the reason why Abel has not long since arrived in New York, knowing that Caroline's fee is so expensive, but he still insists on using her.

There are people in Florida, and there are people in the highest law. Even the white house is their own people.

In addition to the power of itself and the capital behind the scenes, it is enough.

That's why Abel was not afraid of the troubles behind Cardina's health, and he coveted it very seriously.

And once he can get Cardina Health, it means that he has the ticket to enter the medical complex. This is very important for Abel who intends to build an empire.