America's Road to Wealth

Florida's Palm Beach is ancient, but it was discovered and used because of an accidental stranding.

It is an elongated barrier island, bounded by the Intracoastal Waterway to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

In 1878, a cargo ship full of cocoa beans ran aground in the Palm Beach Intracoastal Channel.

A century later, the world's wealthiest people came to Palm Beach and stayed to turn Palm Beach into a desert oasis.

Now it has become a winter resort for the American elite.

Kennedy, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Mellon, Goldman Sachs, Carnegie, the British royal family, and many, many other American celebrities have their homes on this island.

Why do so many rich and powerful Americans, even the world's rich and famous like to come here?

Because the winter in the northern part of the east coast is too cold, and California is far away, everyone needs a resort that is also very comfortable in winter.

It is also because here in Palm Beach, there are more than 100 well-known charity events held here every year.

Therefore, it is called the most philanthropic city in the United States by the American media.

Of course, including those ordinary Americans, they all know that there is definitely a big question mark about how much charity has been implemented in these so-called charity banquets.

There are so many banquets where celebrities and dignitaries can gather, and they themselves are huge vanity fairs.

In the summer time in winter, it provides a very suitable place for everyone to socialize.

In other words, in addition to the fact that the climate here is really suitable in winter, it is also because Palm Beach provides a very intensive communication sanctuary for the American dignitaries on the east coast every year.

So every winter, Palm Beach gathers a large number of rich and famous people on the east coast.

This is the real reason why the residences here are infinitely elevated and known as the richest area in the United States.

As night falls, the lights come on. On the long stretch of Palm Beach, mansions of various styles are lit up.

These bright lights set off these beautiful seaside mansions, making them extraordinarily brilliant.

As a result, the entire Palm Beach, overlooking it from a high altitude at night, will feel like a super beautiful shiny pearl chain, showing off to the world the wealth and luxury of the richest and most powerful people in the United States.

When the night fell in April in Florida, Abel and his motorcade also arrived at the mansion at 12520 Seminole Beach Road, North Palm Beach, Florida.

There is no doubt that it is one of the top and famous wealthy areas in the United States.

The new starting point real estate company also used to buy and buy here like crazy.

It’s just that unlike cutting-edge luxury housing areas such as Malibu and Santa Barbara in California, Palm Beach has been developing for more than half a century.

The housing prices here are very stable, expensive and stable.

It's hard to depreciate, and it can't appreciate a few dollars, so the new starting point real estate company doesn't buy many luxury houses here.

No. 12520, where Abel stayed tonight, is one of the better ones.

There are 11 bedrooms, 18 full baths, and approximately 23,176 square feet of comfortable interior living on approximately 1.39 acres.

It was worth about 40 million U.S. dollars when I bought it, and the current market price is only 45 million U.S. dollars.

With an appreciation of more than 5 million, the dollar looks like a lot. But compared with the appreciation rate of more than 100% in the value of most American luxury houses in the past two years, it is nothing.

This seaside villa is a typical Italian Florentine style, and this type is also the most one-style mansion in the entire Palm Beach. The main reason is that the weather in this place, especially in winter, is too similar to that in southern Europe in the Mediterranean Sea.

They are all warm and comfortable, neither hot nor bitterly cold. At the same time, there are sea and sunshine, which is very suitable for vacation.

After entering this luxurious seaside villa.

Miss Lydia Hearst found that she finally did not have to live in the staff dormitory, but could live in the same place as the boss.

This was a big improvement. She even felt that something wonderful might happen between herself and her boss tonight.

In the past, she might be afraid of such things, and might hesitate.

After being tuned and flying a kite for so long, although she still feels a little apprehensive about this kind of thing, the rest is more about looking forward to it.

But soon, Lydia discovered something strange about her body.

The familiar feeling stunned her.

No way, why just come at this moment? Shouldn't there be another week? In addition, I obviously took the medicine, so it should not come until two weeks later, right? !

She forgot, the doctor reminded her. After taking that medicine, there is a 90% probability that it will delay the menstrual period.

But there is still a 10% probability that the menstrual period will be brought forward...

And she is in that 10% probability.

Not to mention Miss Hurst, who was originally full of excitement, suddenly felt extremely disappointed.

On Abel's side, after entering the villa, let Lydia take the rock security maids who came in advance to arrange the room.

He started talking with the chief think tank who also came here two days in advance.

"...those people are very stubborn." Alan Baker whispered to his boss, telling the stubbornness of Cardinal Health's shareholders:

"Most of them are locals in Florida. Some of them are even supporters of Mr. Bush. For this reason, it is not easy for Mr. Bush to stand up for many things."

Abel knew that the shrub that Allen was talking about here was his father-in-law's second brother, Jeb Shrub, the second brother of Commander George, and the current governor of Florida.

"It's fine." Abel responded to the consultant with a smile: "I believe Jeb will support us. He knows how to do it, and there is no need to worry about his ideas. I will visit him tomorrow."

Speaking of the position of the second uncle Laura, the governor of Florida, as far as Abel knows, Jeb was able to win the election for governor of Florida in 1998 because of some chance and luck.

Of course, at the same time, he himself is also a ruthless person who can give up everything for victory.

Otherwise, even if you are lucky, you may not be able to succeed.

Luck plus ability can make people succeed in things that were not likely to happen before.

The reason for saying this is that the Texas bush family was originally a new Protestant family that could not be newer.

It is a very traditional kind of WASP, which can be called the old May flower.

This kind of family is almost unified in Protestantism. The Bushes were, and the Smiths were, and so were the East Coast Rockefellers and the Morgans and Morgenthaus.

At the same time, these are the real rulers of the American upper class.

But in the United States, besides Protestantism, other denominations also exist, some of which have quite a few believers.

Like Jeb Bush, in order to gain a firm foothold in Florida, he was able to do such things as marrying the wife of a Hispanic Christian believer.

After marrying his wife, he resolutely converted and became a follower of Bishop Tian.

This allowed him to get more support in Florida. After all, this is one of the states with the most bishops in the United States, because there are a large number of Hispanics.

Jeb, who married a Hispanic wife and converted at the same time, naturally won the support of Hispanics, who accounted for 16% of Florida's total population, and they considered Jeb to be their "one of them."

Jeb's son with obvious Hispanic appearance is the best proof.

These supports, coupled with Jeb's own work and activities in Florida for more than ten years, and the hard work of the Xiang Party here, allowed him to win a narrow victory in 1998.

Then he did very well in the past 4 years, which allowed him to win again and win re-election in the Florida election in the mid-term election at the end of last year.

Florida is one of the seven states in the United States that stipulates that a person can only serve as governor twice in his lifetime.

This also means that after this term is over.

Unless Jeb can become the Florida senator, he will say goodbye to Florida, and his influence here will fade with him.

And something like a senator is actually more expensive than a governor to a certain extent.

People who can be senators don't want to be governors, and people who can't be senators want to be governors.

Most of the senators are members of real local wealthy families, or puppets launched by these families.

The foundation of Bush in Florida is only Jeb himself, and everyone knows that there is a high probability that he will not be able to become a senator.

Of course, he can also choose to continue doing business here.

Or, like Jerry Brown in California, who was a governor but could not become a senator, he can also try to run for other positions.

For example, the mayor, the attorney general and so on.

It's just that these are not so prominent.

In other words, there are less than 4 years left for Jeb to be cool in Florida.

Abel knew that for the sake of more tangible benefits, even if Jeb Bush had some involvement with the local area, he should know what to do.

What's more, even if Jeb wants to support those people, it's useless, because facing this kind of matter that has risen to the federation, it is still related to the judiciary.

Even the governor has basically no right to intervene. The governor is nothing more than the governor of the state government and the chief of the state armed forces.

Under the separation of powers, the governor cannot control the judiciary. Unless he's a local giant, which Jeb isn't.

What's more, now that the matter has directly reached Supreme Law, Jeb can't control it even if he wants to.

Allen naturally knew this too. Seeing that the boss was mentally prepared for everything, he nodded and said, "In this case, in the next few days, I will continue to lead the negotiation team and chat with those people."

"Let's break through each one." Abel thought for a while and said, "Don't let them gather together this time. You also separate and talk one by one. As for how to talk, I think you are better than me at this."

Allen nodded yes, then looked at the time, and exchanged glances with David who was always smiling beside him.

The two said goodbye to Abel together immediately, because it was a bit late.

Abel smiled and agreed. In the next time, he will have to try the feeling of "I have something to do with the secretary, it's okay."

It seems that I have already owed 4 cards, I am numb, I will try to pay back slowly later