America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 349 Creating a Monster-Like Interest Group
As night falls, the lights are on.

This evening, Abel invited someone to have dinner with him.

He was coming out of the Woolworth Building on his way to a restaurant in upper Manhattan.

Having said that, after it is determined that Bloomberg can officially take office.

The new start real estate company that bought the Woolworth Building has submitted an application to the New York City Government and the New York Cultural Heritage Preservation Association again.

Application to change the name of the Woolworth Building to the new Smith Building.

This is the third time for New Start to apply.

In the past, the new starting point real estate company has applied twice, but was rejected by this.

This is the third application and the first application after [-]/[-].

Bloomberg has made it clear privately that he will fully support the approval of the application.

But Abe should also give a hand to the New York Cultural Heritage Preservation Association.

Abe knew it in seconds, and had even done it before.

for the past two months.

The three companies are Smith Capital, Smith Media, and New Start Real Estate Company.

It has made several consecutive batches of donations to the New York Association for the Preservation of Cultural Relics.

Abel himself, also donated twice.

He and his company have donated more than $300 million in funding.

Some people in the association have also made it clear that the New York Cultural Relics Preservation Association should follow the trend of the times and make some understandable changes when appropriate.

So after this submission, the Woolworth Building will probably never have this name again.

When he came out of the future Smith Building, Abel didn't bring the two housewives who had been staying there for the past two days.

I don't know if it's their nature, or they are aware of Abel's intentions.

After that night, Britney and Avril Lavigne have not gone out until now.

The two mingled in the "Peak" mansion all day long, either singing and dancing or drinking beer, or playing games, or swimming in the small indoor swimming pool on the top floor of the apartment.

I haven't come down until now, and have been staying on the roof.

Avril Lavigne also found out about Britney, who has also been given the affair by Abel.

Abel thought, come back tonight.

I want to put these two mainstays of the future North American music scene together!
Of course, this is after coming back at night.

Abel is now going to a dinner.

He made an appointment with Jess, the deputy commissioner of the IRS.

The two are going to eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant in upper Manhattan tonight.

Abel and this Deputy Director Jess have always had a good relationship.

Jess has always been on the IRS side, mainly responsible for receiving and serving Abel's executives.

In private, the relationship between the two is also very good.

Jess's surname is Harrison, the Harrison of the Harrison family.

This is why Abel developed a personal relationship with him outside of the IRS.

The Harrison family, they are likely to be one of the masters behind the Federal Reserve.

On the way to an appointment.

The roads in Manhattan are a bit congested during rush hour.

Sitting in the back of a Cadillac monster in the middle of the convoy.

Abel was a little dazed looking at the scene of Manhattan outside the window.

At this time, the convoy had left Lower Manhattan and entered Midtown Manhattan.

Like the lower city, the banks, companies, shops, and offices in Midtown Manhattan are densely populated streets.

Tall buildings tower into the night sky, like steep peaks, and the walls are made of transparent glass, like a crystal palace.

Colorful street lights flicker, far and near, high and low, appearing and disappearing, like floating in the starry sky.

The car flies by like a dragon in the wind, and the taillights on the car seem to be stretched into the distance like countless red ribbons.

But under this bustling scene, Abel was on the side of the street and saw some homeless people in the corner, who had already spread out their quilts and started their wandering life for another night.

Midtown Manhattan, one of the most prosperous islands of Manhattan in the financial city of New York and one of the most bank-concentrated places, has so many homeless people.

I have to say this is ironic.

Since [-]/[-], New York has been in recession.

Since the recession, some data companies have estimated that at least 60 New Yorkers have lost during this period.

Half of them happened in the half month after [-]/[-].

Among them, Lower Manhattan and Midtown are the most serious.

New York City, which has always been the "financial capital", has been hit hard by this. Local officials predict that New York will lose at least 55% of its economic growth in this round of recession.

One of the things people often hear about New York is, "It's great, but I hate living there."

In the eyes of tourists, New York is always a desirable place.

But despite its luxurious and glamorous appearance, this highly developed capitalist city also shows its old side, a kind of oldness that is full of depression.

The inhabitants of New York are strangers, out of their homes, into the city, seeking refuge, seeking to perform, or seeking some large or small goals.

It is a mysterious quality of New York that it is capable of distributing such ambiguous gifts.

It can destroy a person, or it can fulfill him, largely depends on luck.

Unless you're willing to try your luck, it's best not to come to New York.

New York is not paradise at all to ordinary people.

It is an all-consuming hell!

That being the case, Abel felt that he was going to be Lucifer or Satan in hell.

The Satan of Manhattan Hell.

Although his eyes are looking at the bustling Manhattan.

But what he was thinking about in his heart was what happened during the day.

During the day, he took the initiative to draw Soros into his own interest group.

He is now calculating the gains and losses.

In fact, Abel had already had this idea.

That is to gather Buffett and Soros at the same time.

Almost most of Buffett's investors are rich and powerful families in the Midwest of the United States, as well as those traditional ruling families.

Most of Soros' investors are rich oilmen and a small number of political families.

One of these two represents the interests of the giants in the Midwest of the United States, and the other represents the interests of some oil people.

The other two shareholders of Smith Capital also represent different American forces behind them.

Take Bloomberg for example, most of the interest groups behind him are oil people, and a small part are people from Wall Street.

As for PNC Financial Services Group, it is the financial representative of the northeastern region of the east coast of the United States, mainly the Great Lakes region.

These four shareholders can be regarded as the Midwest of the United States and the northeast of the East Coast of the United States.

There are also more than half of the rich and powerful oilmen, all of which are included.

A discerning person observes Abel's shareholder layout.

You will find that he is trying to wipe out all the interest groups in the United States.

Like Abel himself, plus words from the bush family.

They can already represent the interests of a part of the southwestern United States, and even the middle part of the United States.

At present, within this group, from a regional point of view, there is only a lack of interest representatives from the west coast of the United States to enter.

According to Abel's vision, he will only hold 60% of Smith Capital's shares in the future.

For the remaining 40%, he will divide them into a share of up to 4%, and divide them into a large number of shares to attract major interest groups in the United States.

Except for representatives of these local wealthy power groups.

The rest will be the military-industrial complex, the labor bloc, the medical complex, and so on.

Abel is trying to create a monster.

A new consortium that includes most vested interest groups in the United States.

In this consortium, the Smith family will occupy a dominant position just like Rockefeller and Morgan.

But he will not be as narrow-minded as these two families, what Abel wants is as much as possible, as big as possible!

Although in this way, it is only a peace and balance of internal interests. If you want to prevent so many vested interest groups with different interests and demands from each other, and even conflicts in many cases, without fighting, you can make the smartest people's minds explode.

But if it can be successful, then the person who leads such a consortium.

If not King of America.He can also become the most versatile and most capable existence in this country.

This is the ecological niche that Abel found for himself in this kingdom.

It was the position in this order that he wanted to obtain after he found that there was no hope of changing the order.

The difficulty is high, but he is already working hard.

Abel feels that, at least so far, he has done a good job in this job.

One-third of the vested interest groups have been attracted by the crazy profits of Smith Capital.

The remaining two-thirds, sooner or later, they will smell the bloody smell of capital.

"call"

In the warm compartment, Abel exhaled lightly.

He only feels that there will be a lot of work in the future, and the kind that can't be done no matter what.

But as long as some of these tasks can be completed, one's status will also increase and improve.

Thinking of this, he finally felt much better.

At this time, Upper Manhattan also arrived.

The convoy stopped in front of the restaurant.

The deputy director of the IRS, Jess, even braved the night cold to wait for Abel outside the restaurant.

Obviously, this person's status in the Harrison family is probably not much higher.

If it is the upper-ranking member of the Harrison family, there is no need to be so courteous.

Abel, who was expressionless in the carriage, waited for Edward to open the door for himself.

The expression on his handsome face changed instantly, and a gentle and friendly smile hung on it.

"Oh~ dear Jess, it's so cold outside. How did you come down?"

"Ha~ It's okay. It hasn't snowed yet. Dear Abel, is there a traffic jam? There are too many cars coming from downtown at this time."

"Yeah yeah, dear Jess. We drove for half an hour when it was only 10 minutes away. But there's nothing we can do about it. That's the bad thing about Manhattan. We can only forgive it."

"That's right, dear Abel. Let's go up. I didn't feel it just now, but now I feel a little cold. I guess I stayed down for a long time."

"Haha~ let's go. My friend, what are you waiting for. Let's go up quickly."

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For a dinner, the two ate for about an hour.

During the communication, the personal relationship between the two deepened.

At the same time, they also understand each other's interests and needs.

Behind it is a tacit understanding, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

Around eight o'clock in the evening, Abel's motorcade returned from upper Manhattan.

At eight o'clock, Manhattan's rush hour traffic has not yet passed.

On the contrary, this is the time when there are most tourists.

Abel was stuck in traffic for another half an hour before returning to the summit mansion.

When he came to the living room, he saw the rare Britney and Avril in the living room, who were neither playing game consoles nor drinking, nor were they singing K-pop.

The two sat together very quietly. After Abel came in, two pairs of beautiful eyes looked at him at the same time.

It looked as if the two had been here, waiting for him to come back.

"What happened?" Abel asked curiously.

On the way back just now, he was already thinking about what method to use tonight.

Put the two of them together.

Instead of drilling two rooms in one night by himself.

Unexpectedly, they came back, but the two looked a little abnormal.

Avril Lavigne turned to look at Britney.

The latter nodded firmly to her.

Avril seemed to muster up her courage, and then looked at Abel:

"Boss, can you sit down? I think we should have a good chat."

"Oh?"

Abel looked at Avril Lavigne, then at Britney, and he laughed.

He would like to see what show the two of them will have tonight.

Abel came to the two of them and squeezed directly on the sofa between them.

Regardless of their slight dodge, he hugged the shoulders of the two of them one by one.

"I'm sitting down. Now, let's have a good chat then."

While smiling, he hugged the two of them towards him, and then fell down on the soft sofa.

Seeing him like this, the two girls were a little overwhelmed.

In the past few days, although Abel has already attacked them separately.

But when the three of them got along, Abel still had some scruples.

Like now, hug another person directly in front of one person.

This undisguised look was a little sudden.

"So what do you guys want to talk to me about?"

Abel smiled and looked at Avril Lavigne, then at Britney.

What the hell, the little mouse also wants to negotiate with the old cat?

"Forehead"

Avril Lavigne looked at Britney, who also looked a little overwhelmed.

The former gestured to Britney to let her speak first.

Britney gritted her teeth. After all, she debuted as a child star, she is more courageous, and she is a little older than Avril Lavigne.

Xiao Tiantian plucked up her courage, but said in a low voice:

"Boss, we want to ask, when are you going to let us out? We've been here for days. It's boring."

Avril's beautiful eyes widened.

That's not what they said when they were discussing just now.

When they were talking just now, Britney said that she wanted the boss to let the two of them go.

He also said that when the time comes, his attitude should be firmer and fiercer.

The boss will take it seriously.

But now.
At that time, Britney was still very firm, not as soft as she is now.

Seeing Britney being so unreasonable, Avril Lavigne became rebellious and her courage buff increased.

In a short time, he wasn't so afraid of Abel anymore.

Avril said: "BOSS. You have already implemented the unspoken rules. We didn't say anything. But we don't want to stay here any longer. It's actually very boring here."

After speaking, she added directly:
"I promise that I can continue to maintain a relationship with you in the future. As long as you continue to support me, but you can't restrict my personal freedom!"

Britney didn't expect Avril Lavigne to be so brave and speak so directly.

It's like bargaining directly with vendors at a flea market.

But it's not easy for her to back down now, or she will abandon Avril Lavigne.

Britney quickly said, "Me too!"

Looking at Avril, who raised her face and mustered up her courage, Abel smiled lightly.

He felt that the appearance of the two of them was a bit like when he was sailing on Ovitz's yacht.

At that time, my reputation was not very obvious, and I was just a rich man.

Liv Tyler and another actress directly negotiate terms with themselves.

At that time, facing these beautiful girls, he still needed to directly promise benefits and negotiate conditions.

They will consider whether to submit or not.

And after he entered Hollywood and became a top media tycoon.

These girls in the entertainment industry have all become much better, and they won't negotiate terms as soon as they come up.

Instead, he took the initiative to send it to his door, trying every means to please him.In many cases, they would not even take the initiative to discuss the conditions, and Abel offered them elsewhere.

That would look more pleasing to the eye, at least it didn't look like Chiguoguo's very direct transaction.

When he had already gotten used to the "beauty" of these beautiful girls.

Suddenly, Avril appeared, talking about the conditions openly and silently.

He also felt a little fresh.

It's like back when he was just an average billionaire.

Abel smiled and said:
"Oh, I can agree to your request. But you said that you want me to praise you so that you can maintain a relationship with me. How far should I go for this "support"? And you, Britney, do you mean the same thing? ?”

Since he wants to talk about business, he is also happy to talk about business.

Well-behaved, obedient, pretentious, and those with super good acting skills are tired of eating.

It's not bad to experience this kind of direct red fruit once in a while.

Just when Britney and Avril were about to speak, Abel suddenly raised his hand.

"Since you want to talk to me about the conditions in this regard, you have to show me what I can get from you, right?"

"Let's go. Let's go into the room. I want to know what terms you use to negotiate with me."

After finishing speaking, he let them go and walked into the room on his own initiative.

Avril Lavigne and Britney looked at each other. .

Wait for Abel's figure to disappear in the corridor.

Avril immediately whispered: "Ah, am I being too straightforward? What if the boss gets angry?"

It's all like this before I'm afraid, it's really you.

Britney said helplessly: "Go in and have a look. You won't die anyway."

Avril Lavigne thought so too.

The two stood up together and followed Abel into the room.

In the room, the three of them started this kind of business negotiation.

more than an hour later.

in the room.

"Not bad. Your conditions are good."

"Beautiful, elegant and pure, it is really attractive to me."

"Britney, you should raise your pitch a bit. You know you're a singer and dancer, and your lung capacity and physical strength are incredible!"

"Shet. Boss, you are such a bastard!"

With her make-up done and half of her costume on, Spears let go of the curtains she was gripping tightly.

Her pretty face was flushed, she turned her head full of shame, and glared at Abel who had a smirk on his face. .

But just now they had already negotiated a business with him.

At this time, Britney also had to work hard to calm her breath, and began to sing her famous song according to Abel's request.

The English name of the song is Baby One More Time, literally translated as "Baby One More Time".

Huaxia translated it into a song of "First Confession of Love".

"Oh baby. ah. baby...!"

"Why do I hiss. Ah. Will I know?"

"There's... something. Ah. Something's wrong!"

"I hiss. Whoosh. I shouldn't have let you go!"

"Oh baby, baby."

Not far away, is Avril Lavigne who is also wearing half of the costume, holding a guitar, and watching Britney singing.

From Avril Lavigne's point of view, Britney's singing performance was very poor this time, interrupting the song from time to time, and occasionally screaming.

It was so substandard.

But Avril didn't want to think about it. She was holding the guitar just now, but she didn't perform very well.

After all, in this situation, how could it be possible to sing well normally.

Unless you are proficient in the future, it may be possible.

But now, they are not very proficient in this aspect. .

After all, the time they met Abel was still a little short.

　Like last night, the next chapter may be a bit late, so go to bed first.

　
(End of this chapter)