America’s Road To Wealth - Vol 2 Chapter 433

Chapter 433 Let them know what is called America

By the end of the dinner party, it was already past ten o’clock in the evening.

When Abel and the slightly drunk, swaying, and increasingly charming little Laura walked out of the gate of the medieval castle-like Morgenthau mansion.

In Southampton, Long Island, New York, there was a light drizzle in the sky, and at the gate of the mansion, the brand-new red carpet was blown to reveal a large area.

“boom!”

Edward and Johnson behind them held up two large black umbrellas to shield them from the drizzle, and let the drizzle fall on their shoulders.

Abel hugged little Laura who had already put on her coat. New York can be very cold or hot in March.

It’s so late, it’s raining lightly, and it’s still quite cold.

Blown by the cold wind, little Laura, who was slightly drunk, her fair and pretty face became more and more red.

“Hehe, what a beautiful night…It’s a pity that I’m not a poet, otherwise I would be able to write poems.”

Little Laura clung to Abel’s arms, not forgetting to lift her skirt that dragged the floor, revealing a section of white calf, raised her head, looked at Abel with a charming smile on her face and said.

“You look happy tonight? Drink a lot and you’re not even 18 yet.”

In the United States, guns can be legally owned before the age of 18, and there are even children’s versions of various firearms—the size is slightly smaller, and some cartoon stickers or beige color stickers are used.

But if you want to legally consume alcoholic beverages, you must be at least 21 years old by law.

is outrageous, but easy to understand. Just because in this country, liquor sellers are not as strong as gun sellers…

If you strictly abide by the law, little Laura cannot drink alcohol.

It’s just that this rule is dispensable in many cases, as long as you don’t get caught.

On an occasion like tonight, of course it is impossible for anyone to arrest her.

“Half it…”

Her drunken eyes were a little hazy, and she smiled like a flower and said, “I’m very happy, that’s right. The other half is that I’ve been looking for that Miss Peggy Morgenthau for a drink, and I drank too much before I knew it. We talked a lot, she is really a lady.” Smart man.”

“Get in the car first, it’s a bit cold. Be careful not to catch a cold.”

Abel changed the subject.

After getting into the car, little Laura lay in Abel’s arms, and changed the topic very cleverly.

“It seems that you and those two old guys didn’t reach a consensus?”

“You see that? Don’t we all put on a good show? We look like good friends. That John Cleese, he even promised me that he would go to Texas for a hunt.”

“You have many little habits…” In his arms, little Laura untied his tie to make her fiancé more comfortable.

“Generally, when you talk with others, it’s when you don’t talk about business and official affairs. That means that you are not familiar with the other party, and you have to deal with the other party.”

“People like this usually have high status. I’ve only seen you treat Morgan and Rockefeller like this in the White House.”

“Smart little guy.” Abel scratched her nose affectionately, “It’s not good to be too smart.”

“I’m not smart at all, I’m just too focused on you!”

Little Laura twisted her body in reluctance, and said coquettishly.

She still hasn’t said anything about his little habits.

For example… when he cares about a woman, or is interested in a woman.

He will often look at that woman.

Like tonight, apart from herself, little Laura found him at least 5 times, with her eyes on Peggy Morgenthau.

It’s just this kind of thing, in this kind of atmosphere at this time, there is no need to mention it again.

“There is no agreement.”

Abel smiled, “These old guys, they are still under construction to even treat me equally. It will take some time for them to compromise.”

“Honey, take your time, don’t worry about some things, since you can’t kill with one blow, then wait patiently, be patient… After all, time is on your side.”

Listening to little Laura’s relief, Abel lowered his head and grabbed her cold and moist mouthpiece, stroking her arm back and forth.

Slightly sweet, with strong grape flavor and some youthful aroma.

In the passenger seat, the bodyguard captain Edward pressed the button for the partition between the front compartment and the rear compartment without changing his expression.

The special glass-steel fiber boards for the partition rise up, and the front and back become two worlds.

…

…

the next day.

Smith Building.

“The Rockets lost, stopped seven consecutive victories, Dayao scored 30 points and 16 rebounds…”

“Data from the American Banking Association show that the scale of mortgage approvals in 2002 increased by 155.9% over the previous year…”

“Rating company Moody’s predicts that international spot gold will show an upward trend within this year…”

“News from Washington that the White House intends to deregulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae…”

“The number of new housing starts in the United States in February 2002 rose by 142%, with an annual rate of 32.51 million households, the highest in 20 years…”

“…”

Abel put his feet on the desk lazily, looked at the heavy rain flying outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, listened to come up to report on work, but read to Amanda, who asked him to temporarily act as a secretary, to him market news.

“Hiss…”

Adjusted the posture of lying down, and touched the wound on the back, which made Abel frown.

Little Laura, who was a little drunk last night, was too excited to ride a big horse.

When he started to turn against customers, the little Laura, who was so excited, scratched his back.

“Chairman, what’s wrong with you? Are you all right?”

Amanda saw him frowned, looking like he was in pain, and asked in a hurry.

“It’s okay, I was scratched by a kitten last night.”

Abel said casually.

Amanda was startled.

Got scratched by a kitten?

Amanda remembers that this guy has a dog, but he doesn’t seem to like cats. How could he be scratched by a kitten?

But that kind of kitten, this guy has raised a lot…

Thinking of this, Amanda couldn’t help but give Abel a charming white look, and secretly complained.

Last night, she didn’t know which Xiaobi slept in, and she didn’t know how high she was, that’s why she scratched uncontrollably.

“Chairman, the cleaning service has already cleaned it for you. You asked me to read the news to you, and I read it. I did everything according to your request.”

Amanda, who plays role-playing, pretends to be pitiful:

“Then Mr. Chairman, can you sign the report of the media group so that I can continue working?”

Amanda is currently working in the content department of Smith Media Group as an intern.

Same as before, if there is any document that needs to be approved by the chairman, Abel.

Robert Iger, who is about to step down as the CEO of the media group, asked Amanda to report.

As soon as Amanda came up, she was asked to “workplace unspoken rules”.

She was asked to hold ice cubes in her mouth today…

After about half an hour of service, she was “forced” to perform assistant work that did not belong to her.

Now that all of this is done, the “oppressed” newcomer in the workplace “begs” the big devil in the workplace to let him go.

The acting skills are very good, and the acting is the same as the real one.

Abel nodded with a satisfied smile, “Well, you can leave now. But you still need to practice. You can’t be unbearable just a few times because the ice is colder, understand?”

Amanda rolled her eyes charmingly again, but she was very measured, knowing that here, this guy likes to play this trick.

“Understood.” She responded with that pitiful tone of a bullied newcomer in the workplace.

Amanda left soon.

咚咚—

“Come in.”

“Boss, Mr. Allen has arrived.”

It was Abel’s female assistant who pushed the door and walked in.

A beautiful young woman with a body good enough to go to Hollywood.

It’s a pity that Abel doesn’t eat the grass on the edge of the nest, and he was blinded by the high EQ, high IQ, high education, good looks, and good figure specially selected by the personnel department.

“Well, let him in and make us another coffee.”

Abel looked at Allen who walked in, smiled and gave instructions to the female assistant.

The female assistant smiled charmingly, and started brewing coffee in the rest area of ​​Abel’s office.

Allen walked to the boss’s desk and began to report on work.

“BOSS, Preston Robert Tisch of the New York Giants, agreed to sell 60% of his team shares. In addition, Wellington Mara, also affirmed your entry into the New York Metropolitan Stadium. .”

“We will sign a contract with them at noon. From then on, this New York football team with a history of more than a hundred years and the largest number of fans in New York belongs to you.”

Hearing Alan’s words, Abel couldn’t help smiling and stood up from the boss’s chair, and walked to the cloak mirror with his arms stretched back.

The female assistant who made the coffee, hurried over to help him put on his suit.

Abel laughed and said:

“That leaves the New York Yankees. What about George Steinbrenner? The upstart from Ohio, I don’t think he’s going to laugh anymore?”

The acquisition of the New York Giants and the New York Yankees started in October last year when Abel put Allen in contact with the team’s owners.

Has been in contact for several months, so the deal with the New York Giants will be so smooth.

However, the contact with George Steinbrenner has not been smooth.

It’s because of this guy, George Steinbrenner, he has a backer in New York.

This Ohio guy, his backer, was one of the members of the Newhouse family who drank with Abel last night.

There are rumors in New York that George Steinbrenner’s first pot of gold was obtained by giving his wife to Shiyi Newhouse’s younger brother, Donald Newhouse, as a secretary. .

The two brothers of the Newhouse family, Shi Yi Newhouse, have a very good reputation.

This man is very generous, offering high salaries to magazine editors, throwing lavish parties for employees, and never considering the cost, so he is widely loved by employees.

However, his younger brother, Donald Newhouse, did not have the practice of a successful businessman like him.

From the fact that this guy can force one of Shi Yi Newhouse’s favorite generals, the female devil Anna Wintour, into that kind of appearance, it is clear that he is not an easy-going lamp.

As far as Abel knows, there are many secrets of the Newhouse family involved, such as infighting among wealthy families.

He didn’t bother to deal with the specifics, he only knew that Shi Yi Newhouse really wanted to reconcile with himself.

The problem was Donald Newhouse.

After Shi Yi Newhouse talked with himself, George Steinbrenner still refused to sell the New York Yankees, because Donald Newhouse was backing him.

Now Abel wants to see if Shi Yi Newhouse can handle his younger brother.

If there is no other way, then don’t blame Abel for continuing to target.

If you can’t handle it by yourself, then I’ll help you.

“George Steinbrenner’s attitude has softened. He expressed his willingness to talk to us. After the New York Giants’ contract is settled at noon. I will go and talk to this Ohio guy in person.”

Alan Baker replied with a smile.

Abel nodded in satisfaction.

It seems that Shi Yi Newhouse can still handle his brother.

“Also, BOSS, about the Rolls-Royce Motor Group in the UK, I have received some business intelligence, which may be troublesome.”

“Oh, what kind of trouble?”

Since Abel went to England last year, he fell in love with Rolls-Royce, and inserted into the acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Group by Volkswagen Group and BMW Group at the right time.

Rolls-Royce Motor Car Group, with the support of Abel, overturned the previous acquisition and has been in a lawsuit with Volkswagen BMW.

Because someone made an early move, he established a relationship with many people in the House of Lords in London.

The appeals of Volkswagen and BMW have always been at a disadvantage.

The Vickers Group, the parent company of the Rolls-Royce Motor Group, also tends to make more money and sells two products.

So that later Volkswagen and BMW had to come to Abel, wanting Abel to back down.

It’s a pity that Abel is not so easy to talk about because of the huge influence of the automobile industry.

At that time in France, two Germans were severely humiliated by him.

“The BMW Group threatened Rolls-Royce, announcing that after the contract expired in 2003, it would no longer license Rolls-Royce’s patents. And Rolls-Royce has more than 1/3 The engine technology of the company all comes from the patent authorization of these two automobile groups.”

“Rolls-Royce began to put pressure on the Rolls-Royce Motor Group, threatening not to grant its Rolls-Royce trademark. Because Rolls-Royce also has a large number of supporters in the House of Lords in London , this matter becomes very troublesome.”

Rolls-Royce is a famous British engine company and the largest aero engine company in Europe.

Its products include aero-engines, marine engines and Muhai power units for Muhai-powered submarines.

Among them, the aero-engine is its well-known flagship product, and various aero-engines developed by it are widely used in civil and military aircrafts all over the world.

It has a very high status in the UK, and it is not comparable to a civilian company such as its brother Rolls-Royce Motor Group.

BMW Group’s threat not to authorize patents to Rolls-Royce can be said to be the way to draw salary from the bottom of the acquisition case.

In the parallel time and space, BMW also used this trick to get rid of the Rolls-Royce that was still struggling.

This is indeed a problem.

But… BMW boy, you need to know your position.

“I see.”

Abel nodded, “Allen, go get busy, I’ll consider this matter.”

Allen said nothing, nodded respectfully and left.

Abel asked the female assistant to go out. He strolled to the huge French windows in the office and watched the pouring rain outside the window.

The weather in New York is extreme, snow can easily lead to blizzards, and rain can easily lead to heavy rainstorms.

There are 12 months in a year, that is, the weather in May and September is good.

Looking at the heavy raindrops sliding down the waterproof glass on the glass curtain wall.

Abel played with the mobile phone in his hand, while thinking quickly, then found out the number and dialed it.

“George, I need your help…”

People need to talk about some skills when interacting with each other, or dealing with interests.

You can’t always ask the other party to help you with difficult things.

But you can’t always let the other party do nothing for you.

That way it will appear that the other party has nothing to do and that the other party is not so important to you.

So, contacts and relationships should be used when they should be used.

dc white house oval office.

Little Laura’s uncle hung up the phone, nodded in satisfaction, with a happy expression on his face.

This guy finally asked me something.

It’s such a small thing that is easy to do, really good!

He picked up another phone and pressed it, saying, “Tell Darcy Walker to come to my office.”

Soon, a handsome white man in his forties, with a meticulous hairstyle, a slender and strong figure, and an upturned mouth, walked in with an invisible affinity.

“Boss, are you looking for me?”

Darcy Walker was George’s cronies who served as assistants when he was the general manager of the Texas Rangers and even the general manager of the oil company.

Little Grandpa Laura’s full name was George Herbert Walker Bush.

Her uncle’s full name is George Walker Bush… From this detail alone, we can see the significance of Walker to the Bush family.

Darcy Walker is the elite of this generation of Walker family.

It is different from the fringe member that Abel knew, who was the US ambassador to the UK in London, England.

Darcy is the core figure of the younger generation of his family, and he is also very capable.

is also trusted by the shrub family, which can be seen from the fact that others call the commander-in-chief the commander-in-chief, but he calls the commander-in-chief “boss”.

“Yes. That boy Abel called me just now. He said he wanted me to do a little favor, and I want you to find a way for me.”

The little bush said with a smile.

The old handsome Darcy Walker’s eyes lit up, and he was obviously very interested in the request of the richest man in the world.

As far as Darcy Walker knows, Smith and Bush have been married since.

Smith has always been more helpful to the bush.

What Smith got from the bushes was more of an opportunity.

It’s rare to hear about that super character now, and sometimes I ask George for something.

Darcy couldn’t help being curious.

“Oh, boss, I have to say this is the first time I heard that this person needs help.”

“Hahaha-”

The little bush smiled happily: “Then you are wrong. This kid often asks for my help. Like in the future, when he wants to marry little Laura, he will definitely ask me for help, so that I don’t make fun of him.” ,Hahaha-”

Darcy Walker smiled cooperatively.

He is a boss with a good personality and is very able to unite his surroundings.

It is often very inconspicuous, and it can be said to be an outlier in the shrub family.

But this heterogeneous, loved by Herbert, is also the eldest son of the family, and the key is that the military-industrial complex has taken a fancy to it.

Then it doesn’t matter how mediocre his ability is.

“Boss, what is it?”

Darcy Walker, a confidant, is different from the confidant of Freddie Ford, chief of staff of the White House.

Freddie Ford is George’s official confidant.

A person like Darcy Walker is naturally a confidant when dealing with private affairs.

“Think of a way, let BMW and Volkswagen have some problems, put some pressure on these two hateful German companies…”

“How to do it is up to you.”

After the fuss, George said comfortably.

“Is that all? Just for two car companies?”

Darcy Walker originally thought that it might be difficult for Abel Smith to speak once in a while.

I didn’t expect that the richest man in the world asked George to do something, it was just that simple.

“Yes.”

George shrugged:

“Anyway, that’s what he said just now. I asked him the reason, and he said that he was not happy to see the Germans. Well, I am also a little unhappy to see them recently. These guys, what kind of European army do you want to do, hehe… Darcy, I think It’s time for these Europeans to know what America is.”

Darcy Walker nodded.

“I see, boss.”

Another update in the evening, one at noon and one night in the future

(end of this chapter)