America's Road to Wealth

After the feast, everything was temporarily calm.

The next day is September 11 this year.

This day last year was an unforgettable day for all Americans.

On that day, the Americans, who had become accustomed to being invincible in the world, discovered with horror that even if they were in the "safe" United States, they could still be attacked by enemy countries.

Likely to die.

Since then, the government of George, who was originally a powerless government, has leapt to the top in an instant and has become one of the most powerful leaders in the history of the United States.

But this is all in the past, people must look forward after all.

The dead are dead, and the living must live better.

On September 11, 2002, activities to commemorate and mourn the victims of the September 11 incident were launched across the United States.

As the center of everything, Manhattan, New York is of course particularly important.

If there is no traffic control, I don’t know how many people will want to come to the site of the Petronas Twin Towers on this day to commemorate.

At 8 o'clock in the morning on this day, Abel and many other people appeared at the site of the ruins.

Countless people looked at the ruins in silence, only the sound of the cameras being pressed by the reporters who exploded.

There are also flashing lights that flash from time to time, densely like stars in the sky.

8:46 am.

Time is up.

As soon as the bell rang, all the cars in Manhattan and even New York all honked their horns for a long time.

The sound of an air defense siren sounded at the same time.

This wave of sound seems to be contagious. At the same time, most cities across the United States, like New York, stop driving and press their horns, and harsh sirens resound over the city.

The Americans seem to want to use this move to mourn the 2,996 Americans who died.

Having said that, this trick was actually suggested by Abel to George.

Otherwise, according to the arrangement of George's administration, at most the bells of churches across the country would ring, and the air defense sirens would sound again in Washington and Manhattan.

Abel's suggestion of national car mourning honking made George feel very meaningful, it looked more solemn, and it could have a better effect on the commemoration.

This is of great help to his rule and management of the United States. He relied on this incident to have his current status.

George readily accepted this, and then there was today's scene.

After the three-minute long honking of car horns and air defense sirens across the United States ended.

On the podium that had been set up next to the ruins of the Petronas Twin Towers, Abel began to perform on the stage.

The speech has been prepared long ago, designed and edited by the Smith Intelligence Group, and then handed over to the relevant departments of the White House for review and revision-on such a special commemorative occasion, don't think that you don't have to go through this experience if you have a relationship with Abel.

In this regard, the United States is actually more exaggerated than any other country.

After the manuscript was reviewed, it finally fell into the hands of Abel.

The content of the manuscript is the same anyway, promoting American exceptionalism, saying that Americans are innocent, and saying that KBFZ and their supporters should go to hell. The war launched by the US military is sacred and so on...

For such an important manuscript on such an occasion, even if Abel wanted to make trouble, it would not be appropriate.

When the final speech is about to end, there is another necessary sentence of "God Bless America", and it's over.

During his speech, the applause was naturally continuous. After the end, the applause was even more enthusiastic like thunder.

Of course, this is all arranged, and there is a strong sense of moral kidnapping.

Whoever does not applaud at this time is the enemy of the United States.

Abel felt that even if he changed pigs, he would probably get this level of applause.

There is nothing to show off, the only thing he is proud of is that his being able to go up means that he is more popular with Americans than the US President in this period.

If it wasn't for the fact that my age didn't allow me, and I didn't have that kind of idea at the same time.

Abel felt that maybe if he went to the general election now, he might win or not.

It's a pity that the Constitution stipulates that if you want to be the President of the United States, you must be at least 35 years old.

He is not yet twenty-three, 12 years away from this requirement.

To change this provision, the Constitution must be amended.

It seems impossible on the surface to amend the U.S. Constitution. For more than 200 years, the U.S. Constitution has remained the same as it was originally.

But in fact, this is just a layer of skin, and the Constitution is indeed still the original one.

Americans have actually amended the Constitution many times long ago, but they have adopted new laws indirectly, called "Constitutional Amendments", which are directly outside the Constitution. The amendments are simple and direct.

And wanting to pass this outrageous amendment is almost telling all Americans, "I, Smith, want to be the commander-in-chief now."

This can be said to be the American version of Sima Zhao's heart, just think about it, but there is no need to do it for the time being.

What's more, in many cases, the White House and the Grand Commander are just the spokespersons pushed by the interest representatives behind them.

If the Grand Commander himself is a big boss and holds power, then he can become a powerful Grand Commander.

Like Master Ronaldinho back then, he was the founder of the U.S. Navy and a super wealthy family on the East Coast.

At that time, the U.S. Army could be said to be better than nothing. In other words, Master Luo was a super military leader who completely controlled the U.S. military.

With the existence of these two factors, Master Ronaldinho has the ability to eat a capitalist a day, and is able to almost bring the United States on a road that has never been imagined.

It's a pity that such a super boss was eventually defeated by the united capitalists and died of cerebral hemorrhage in the white house.

So in many cases, the Grand Commander is really nothing. The recent case of George is an example. If 9/11 hadn't happened, it is not certain whether his words would be able to get out of the White House.

Simply put, the US President is very extreme. Those with great power can eat up a capitalist in a day, while orders with little power may not be able to leave Washington.

The anniversary ended, and Abel then met with the Ambani brothers.

When meeting with the third brother's richest man, Abel got straight to the point and said directly that he wanted to do business with them in the third brother's country.

But what to do is the real estate business, which will enter under the name of D. Ted Lerner, and cooperate with the two brothers.

At the same time, if necessary, he can help Reliance Group to list in the United States or London.

The former Ambani was a little tangled and suspicious.

The options listed later, that is, whether Mukesh Ambani or Anil Ambani, are a bit overjoyed.

Now in 2002, any country other than the United States. Once a company in its country can be listed in London or the United States, it can be said to be an honor.

It is a thing that can be shown off among the same industry in China, and ordinary people will be more in pursuit of the company's products if they know about it.

Even if he is the richest man in Sange, Mukesh Ambani is still very excited.

Who doesn't know that a dollar is worth a dollar, and the market value of a company listed in the United States is a dollar.

Isn't this better than earning bitter rupees in Mumbai?

Subsequent work has been carried out smoothly since then. And Abel also officially started the layout in the third brother's country through the cooperation with the Ambani brothers.

His earlier arrangement of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Sango Kerala can finally start.

Instead of being like before, even if a tourism company is established, there are still a lot of Asan watching during the development and repair process, and we must be careful to avoid international incidents that are difficult to deal with.

In this way, time flies, and soon the last few months of 2002 will be over.

During this period, Smith Capital unsurprisingly held its third year-end investment reception.

This year-end investment reception is much larger than the previous two.

For the first investment reception, Abel only invited less than 200 people at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

The second time was at the Smith Building in LC, Queens, and more than 300 people were invited.

In the Smith reception in the third year, Abel directly booked the entire Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Then more than 1,000 guests were invited to settle in, and then divided into four meeting areas, and different admission permissions were set according to the strength level of the guests.

The most senior banquet was hosted by himself, while the other three were handed over to David, Jess and others.

At this year-end reception, Smith Financial Group announced the financial report of Smith Capital for this fiscal year.

The financial report is sent to everyone, and the specific items are very long.

But the most important data in it is that in the 200111-200211 fiscal year, the total revenue of Smith Capital was 114.938 billion US dollars, a year-on-year +265.07%.

There is also the net profit attributable to the parent of 78.634 billion, which is 219.90% year-on-year.

A net profit of US$78.634 billion is a figure that makes everyone scream.

It's very simple. Compared with the financial report of Goldman Sachs in the same fiscal year, Smith Capital's annual revenue is almost 10 times that of Goldman Sachs, and its net profit attributable to its parent is almost 20 times that of Goldman Sachs.

Here's Goldman Sachs' earnings report for the same period --

The total revenue was 14.938 billion, +265.07% year-on-year.

The net profit attributable to the parent was 3.234 billion, a year-on-year -17.90%.

The data of Goldman Sachs, if not compared with Smith Capital, can actually be said to be relatively good.

Not to mention Lehman Brothers, which makes a lot of money from subprime mortgages, the data of several other major investment banks are actually similar to or not comparable to Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs is no better than Smith Capital, which is really a non-war crime.

In shock, investors and guests carefully checked the details of Smith Capital's financial report data.

The above shows that most of the profits of Smith Capital are not in the traditional investment banking business.

but in other ways.

For example, in May of this year, Smith Capital reached an outrageous monthly profit of 18.6 billion US dollars.

Seeing this, everyone immediately thought of that time. Isn't it the time when Smith, Rockefeller, and Morgan joined forces to act and cut Neon Man and Global Leek to death?

There is also the profit in June and July of this year. The profit in the two months adds up to about 15 billion US dollars.

And those two months happened to be the time when someone joined forces with Soros to attack London.

In August and September, the profit in the two months was more than 10 billion U.S. dollars.

At the beginning of that month, it happened to be the time when the Canadian government announced that it would sell 20% of Petro-Canada's shares to Pacific Energy.

In addition to these large incomes, Smith Capital's record in other months is not weak at all.

But in the end, more than 1,000 guests were surprised that Smith Capital actually made a total profit of more than 10 billion US dollars in international spot gold futures this year.

And it is very fixed every month. It can be seen that this investment bank has been buying and selling international gold continuously, but in the long run it has been holding it.

It was only then that everyone discovered that since the end of last year, the international spot gold has indeed changed from the decline of previous years and has been rising almost all the time. It only occasionally falls in the short term, but it will rise again soon.

It turns out that there is a super bull like Smith Capital behind it...

In short, this year's Smith Capital's end-of-year reception can be regarded as a shock to the peers, and LPs (funders) can't wait to dance on the spot. Potential LPs are all waving checks and yelling, wanting to join this carnival of wealth.

Abe Smith has spent years proving that the sooner he joins his chariot of fortune, the sooner he gets his share of the glory.

For those guys who drive at night, it will not be so easy to get in the car later.

Regarding this point, those members of the old Texas consortium said they had a great say.

They got in the car too late at the beginning, so that they had to choose to merge with Smith before they could get in the car completely.

If they had made up their minds back in 2000, they could have made more money!

This end-of-year investment reception has finally come to a successful conclusion.

It has dimmed all the year-end investment receptions on Wall Street this year.

The next day, without exception, all the data of the reception that should have been "confidential" was exposed.

The major media in the United States, and most of the financial media in the world, all exaggerated this and frantically pursued the report.

More than 78 billion U.S. dollars, almost 80 billion U.S. dollars in profit is really amazing.

Abel Smith once again proved to the world his ability to make money, earning the wealth of one of the world's second richest and one of the world's third richest in almost a year.

As a result of the cascading effect, as the first listed company under Abel's name, Smith Media's stock price rose accordingly.

The stock price rose directly from US$168.5 per share to US$182.9 per share that day, and its market value exceeded US$180 billion, making it the most valuable media company in history.

Apart from Smith Media, although Abel has no other direct listed companies.

But the stocks of those listed companies in which he holds shares have also been sought after.

In one day, more than 300 companies in the United States experienced different increases because of their relationship with him or his holdings.

An exaggeration is Microsoft, an already very popular stock, which rose by 9.9% in one day.

What’s worse is that Abel only holds 4.5% of the shares, which is completely a company like Texas Agricultural Machinery, which was won during the September 11 bailout, and it rose by more than 20% in a day.

The reason why it is bad is because Microsoft's 9.9% is much more than the 20% of Texas Agricultural Machinery.

In terms of market capitalization alone, a Microsoft is worth more than 30 Texas farm machinery.

So Microsoft's 9.9% stock gain is much more exaggerated than Texas Farm Machinery's 25%.

That night, the evening paper of the "Wall Street Journal" used "Fortune Smith" as an expression of this phenomenon.

[...In the past, investing on Wall Street only required the name Warren Buffett to be recognized. Now the list is two, with the addition of Abel Smith. 】

[But unlike Buffett, Abe Smith is not just a Wall Street Smith. He's still the American Smith. Americans want to invest in stocks, but in fact they don't have to do anything. They only need to find out what stocks Abe Smith bought, and they will buy them along with them. 】

[Then hold it all the time, waiting for the stock to appreciate quietly. Sell ​​it when you need money, and you will find that your money generates a lot of money. 】

[In this regard, the author named this phenomenon - "Fortune Smith". Why take this name? This may have something to do with the fact that the author also happens to be surnamed Smith...]

The phenomenon of "Wealth Smith" in the follow-up "Wall Street Journal" lasted for another two days before gradually extinguishing.

This time, the fad went out so quickly because of another reason.

One is that news is always time-sensitive. Secondly, other financial oligarchs don't want everyone to follow Abel's investment, so they are still playing a fart.

Under their joint suppression, the news that should have been popular for at least a week was suppressed in two days this time.

Abel also felt that it didn't matter, he was already strong enough.

You don't need this kind of external name to add authority to yourself.

Now he is the living authority.

One of a kind.

Time continued to move forward, and soon Christmas in 2002 arrived.

This year's Christmas Eve is completely different from the previous two years.

Christmas Eve in 2000 was a cold winter. It started snowing in New York in November, and there were many snowstorms in December.

The weather in New York in 2001 was normal, and it snowed in December as well.

The weather in New York this year seems to be a warm winter. There have been a few light snowfalls since December, but the snow is so small that it melts completely when it falls on the ground.

This allows the supermodels in Elizabeth's back garden to suffer less in this year's Christmas Eve show.

Compared with the previous two years, today's New York Hydra Gang has taken shape.

On the night before Christmas, the third Isha show was held in Times Square in New York as scheduled.

Unsurprisingly, New York City Mayor Bloomberg, the current city speaker and other big figures all attended the event. New York or the Northeastern United States was full of dignitaries, just to appreciate the completely different beautiful performances of Issa Angels and other skinny supermodels.

Well, this is actually a lie.

The real reason why these rich and powerful people are willing to brave the freezing weather to watch the catwalk show is because of the name - Abel Smith.

If it weren't for the purpose of getting in touch with Abel and taking the opportunity to get close to Abel to see if he could get on the Smith chariot.

Where are these dignitaries willing to come from?

Especially those WASPs, they have always looked down on this kind of thing.

The reason is that these supermodels who can make ordinary men add to the screen infinitely, in their eyes, are actually just some beautiful and a bit expensive playthings.

They don't say how many such playthings they want, but they can play with them anytime they want.

If they can't play with the group of supermodels with the Smith label on them, then other supermodels or beauty goddesses, don't they have everything they want?

Not to mention this kind of catwalk with clothes on, they can also afford a catwalk without clothes.

At most, they are not from the same batch, but their figure and beauty will never lose to the angels of Isa.

In this world, there are too many women who are beautiful and eager to succeed, hoping to enjoy the top material.

Among them, those who can get what they want will never exceed 1/10000.

Of the remaining 9999, at least 70% to 80% can be played by them.

This kind of thing that ordinary people can't ask for is really nothing to them.

For the third Issa Angel show, the curtain call model was Gisele Bundchen as always.

Today's Yishaxiu is still very young, and Abel is not a little plum. Gisele Bundchen, who is satisfied with her current position and everything, will most likely leave Victoria's Secret much later than in parallel time and space.

As in previous years, Abel left Manhattan for Queens as soon as the Christmas Eve show was over.

He boarded his Boeing 747-8vip and departed for Texas.

Here in New York, the Hearst sisters are home for the holidays with their families. Kayla even went back two days ago because her father had a minor illness.

She went back early to visit her father and reunited with him at the same time. In addition, she had to go back and tell her father the good news——

That's my dear Slade, you don't have to worry about your ending. Although your son can't give birth, your daughter is already pregnant!

Of course, she couldn't have said it so bluntly. Then instead of being happy, Slade might become angry instead.

As for the other women, Abel had already made arrangements.

Those who want to go back to reunite with their families go back, and those who don't go back spend the festival with their mutual "sisters".

Like Nicole and Kate in Australia, like Jessica and Megan and so on.

After Abel's 7-hour flight, the plane arrived at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

The time was approaching late at night, and in the darkness, Abel's Sky Palace landed smoothly and slid slowly until it came to a stop. The hanging ladder was erected, the cabin door was opened, and the bodyguards went first. After confirming the surrounding environment, a man in casual clothes with a black hood Abel stepped out of the cabin.

Taking a deep breath of air that is much warmer than New York, Abel felt that Texas, which is in the south, is actually more suitable for human habitation.

Get off the hanging ladder and sit in the SUV that has been waiting for a long time.

This time there's no need to sit in a Cadillac monster.

Because there is not such a good road to go back to Smith Farm.

SUVs and trucks, pickups, and even horseback riding are far more popular than sedans in this part of Texas.

A group of fifteen vehicles drove away from the private apron at the airport and sped towards Smith Farm.

It takes another one and a half hours to drive from the airport to the Smith family's farm.

This is also a very embarrassing thing, there is no way, who made his air palace too big, not all airport runways can accommodate it.

After an hour and a half of galloping.

Smith Farm is just ahead.

Compared with a few years ago, the current Smith Farm is actually gradually transforming.

The original Smith Farm had a total of more than 5,000 acres of land. Later, after Abel made his fortune, he bought several thousand acres with money, but up to now the total is only about 10,000 acres.

A farm of about 10,000 acres is not that big in the United States to be honest. There are hundreds of thousands of acres or even millions of acres of farms in the United States.

The 10,000 acres of Smith Farm is obviously not enough, but Abel has no intention of continuing to expand it.

One is that they are surrounded by acquaintances of Alexander, and it is not easy to buy the land in their hands.

The second reason is that both the Alexanders and his wife went to Austin, and the Alexandrians only came back for one or two months a year.

There is better and cheaper land available in the United States and other countries for farms and agricultural companies.

There is no need to stare at Texas and ruin your own basic market.

So the farm was directly transformed under Abel's request, and it became his personal resort and hometown. There are no more planting and breeding, and most of the places have become rock security training grounds, leaving only some places for raising Horses and dogs.

Then these buildings and workers, surrounding the most central Smith Manor, existed as the last base in Abel's mind.

Sitting in the carriage at the moment, Abel looked out the front window. Under the bright starry sky, several beams of light broke through the dark night. He passed through most of the vast and empty farm along the newly repaired road, and quickly approached the center of Smith Farm. luxury estate.

The eaves with different heights are like mushrooms with open umbrellas. Under the bright lights indoors and outdoors, the orange walls are surrounded by towering trees, just like a scene in a fairy tale.

The motorcade stopped at the square in front of the main house. Abel got out of the car and saw Charlize Theron and four maids standing at the door to welcome the return of Abel, the master.

"It's too late, Aliya and Emily have already rested."

It was clearly in the middle of the night, and Charlize, who was supposed to be wearing pajamas or casual clothes, was wearing a small dark blue V-neck windbreaker dress at this time, and her entire lower abdomen was tightened by a wide corset belt of the same fabric in the middle, which was vivid After wearing little Alia, the more majestic bust was lifted more prominently, and the entire curve was outlined so that no one could pick out any flaws. It was perfect in the night as if she was just about to walk on the red carpet.

"Laura was also waiting for you to come back. But it was too late. She happened to be three or four months pregnant, which is the time when she is most prone to sleepiness. And staying up late is not good for her and the child, so I persuaded her to go to rest. "

"So, it's just me. Darling, your dinner is ready and ready to eat, and the bathtub is filled... cluck cluck... eat first or... me first?"

"What do you think?" Abel raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand to hug the charming Charlize with a smirk on his face, and whispered something in her ear, which made Charlize, who was already prepared, blush.

Naturally, after a long absence, a newly-married.

After the battle, Abel didn't rest immediately, but went to visit his eldest daughter.

Little Arya turned one year old, and Abel came back for her first birthday.

I haven't seen her for a month, and the little doll has obviously grown up a bit.

Babies in this period of time really change after a month or two.

She has slowly learned to walk and began to make sounds and learn to speak.

According to Charlize, the first word little Aaliyah could say was "dad".

This kind of thing, he believed on the surface.

But secretly, Abel felt that there was a high probability that this was a lie fabricated by Charlize in order to let him value and love little Alia more.

Because in general, most of the first things that children say is mother, and this is true of human babies all over the world.

What's more, compared with Charlize, Abel is very self-aware.

He didn't see his eldest daughter a few times a year, and it was Charlize and her mother who took care of her, and occasionally his mother Emily and grandmother Alia.

Little Alia and little Laura, the big mother, may both spend more time with each other than herself-after little Laura returned to Texas, most of them now live in Smith Farm.

In this case, how could it be possible to talk about father first instead of mother.

Even if they really talk about dad first, there is a high probability that they will talk about dad first because of Charlize's crazy teaching.

He doesn't really care about these things, although he is said to be an illegitimate daughter, but he really likes little Alia.

With his growing number of illegitimate children/daughters, Able is now comfortable with this sort of thing.

He even has an attitude that it doesn't matter if he is discovered.

This has something to do with the United States being very tolerant in this regard. I have to say that in terms of illegitimate children, this problem is really not a problem in the United States.

Whether in real life or in TV movies, Americans feel that they are living in a "post-moral" era. Many Americans "lightning" get married and then "lightning" divorce. The one-night pleasure between two lovers is even more rampant. How can there be morality in a society that is so casual about marriage and the relationship between men and women?

The so-called "X liberation" is only one aspect of American society. In other respects, Americans have shown a strong sense of morality.

For American public figures, the immorality of public life is more terrifying than the immorality of private life.

The immorality of private life is really nothing in the United States. In the United States, it is common for celebrities and celebrities to have an illegitimate child or a scandal. But the most important thing is that as long as these people are honest and self-sufficient in public life, there is no major problem. At the very least, they must show their integrity and self-discipline, because public life involves the interests of the people.

To put it bluntly, all Americans are collectively selfish, so do what you like, as long as it doesn't affect my interests.

Gently kissing the eldest daughter, Abel gave a satisfied sigh.

He just turned around and walked behind. Originally, he wanted to go back to Charlize's room and continue sleeping with the South African diamond in his arms.

But after thinking about it, he still turned a corner halfway and returned to his master bedroom familiarly.

Sure enough, at the door, he saw the female bodyguard he arranged for little Laura, and Miss Hannah, a former FBl agent.

Of course little Laura rested in it.

He went in, fucked his big Simmons, and gently hugged the little Laura, who was three months pregnant and obviously much rounder, closed his eyes and fell asleep for a second.

Today, one chapter is worth two chapters, so I only owe one chapter, and I will find an opportunity to make it up later.