Chapter 373

Abel finally understood that the reception tonight was not a party that Soros specially entertained himself.

   It is likely to be a special internal reception of Soros at the end of the year.

  A financial company that exists like an investment reception at the end of the year.

  Strictly speaking, it might even be just a small end-of-year gathering with Soros, the group of oil people who have the closest relationship.

   This can be seen from the small number of people in the whole reception, and most of them are oil people and financial elites.

   As the only male guest in the reception who was not an oilman.

  Abel obviously received more attention than Li Xinyu and Little Laura.

  Like Alan Greenspan, and Leo Melamed, and David Rene Rothschild.

  These three old men have been around him, so you can tell.

  Compared with these three people, even Soros's status within the Oilers seems to be inferior to them.

   "Mr. Smith. You guys did a great job in South Korea this time. The tail was clean and the early stage was perfect. It was a very successful raid."

   David Rene Rothschild said softly with a smile.

  Leo Melamed is also talking about South Korea, "It's not a good thing. South Korea is too small and too thin. Even if it can be operated perfectly, the profits that can be drawn will not be too much."

   Alan Greenspan didn't speak, and smiled beside him with a glass of wine.

  Abel also smiled, looking very reserved, "This is not my success. Without the help of George and the contribution of local people, it would be impossible to talk about it."

   "That's not what it says," continued David René Rothschild:

   "Mr. Smith, your ability to adapt to the situation is also very important. Without you, George would not trust those local people. Those local people would also not trust George."

   "Without you in the middle, it would be impossible for them to work together and cooperate. Your role, Mr. Smith, is obviously very important."

   "Okay." Abel raised his glass, "Then I finally have some credit. Come on, for everyone's health, Cheers!"

  The three old men all raised their wine glasses with a smile, and took a sip to save face.

  After drinking the red wine, the three oily old men forgot to look at each other.

   Alan Greenspan and Leo Melamed both nodded slightly towards David Rene Rothschild.

  Abel soon heard David Rene Rothschild's very concerned question:

   "Mr. Smith, I don't know about Smith Capital, what are your plans for next year?"

   Abel thought to himself that it was finally here.

   These three big oil guys surrounded him. He didn't believe that they just wanted to drink and chat with him.

   No benefit, no early, this sentence can be said to represent the character of most oil people.

  Abel replied with a smile: "Of course it is to earn more benefits. I have worked hard to earn more money for my investors and shareholders."

   Seeing what he said, David Rene Rothschild also directly expressed his attitude.

   "So...Smith Capital, are you interested in having a few more shareholders?"

"oh?"

  Abel looked at the three of them, wondering what these old men meant.

  Because according to Abel's thinking.

  These three old men should have taken some shares of their own company.

   is part of the 4% owned by Soros in Smith Capital.

  The total value of Soros' 4% stake is almost 20 billion US dollars.

  Soros doesn't have that much money. With all his wealth, he can't get 4% of Smith Capital shares.

   But this share, Soros took it.

   It is obvious that the oilmen behind him let Soros hold it on behalf of them, and then contributed together to take these shares.

  Based on the status of these three old men in this circle.

  Among these shares, they should be able to occupy a relatively large number.

  In other words, logically speaking, these people are already shareholders of Smith Capital.

   Now that he said this, Abel was a little curious.

  Seeing Abel's appearance, David Rene Rothschild also decided not to be tactful anymore.

  In the minds of these oilmen, they also know that talking to Ansars should be more direct.

   Obviously, this guy is young, successful, and financially strong.

   But he's an Ansar too.

   Laoyou people think that it is more straightforward to talk to him, as long as they talk about interests.

  David Rene Rothschild cuts to the chase:

"Too little. Even with Bloomberg's 4% and Soros' 4%, the number is still too small. It's only 8% in total. Mr. Smith, we want to cooperate with you better. I hope you I can understand."

  The other party spoke directly enough this time, and of course Abel understood.

  He asked calmly, "Then...how many gentlemen mean it?"

   "Count that 8 percent and add another 12 percent for a total of 20 percent," says David Rene Rothschild.

  Abel understood what the oil men meant, and he couldn't help laughing.

   This is too little.

   So far, Smith Capital has four shareholders including Buffett, Soros, Bloomberg, and PNC Financial Services Group.

   And the bush family, and Abel himself.

  The Texas consortium is still discussing the details.

  This part of the work is estimated to be completed next year.

  The cooperation of two huge consortiums. It is relatively simple when the preliminary intention makes a decision.

   As long as the leader nods.

  But the detailed rules below, as small as 0.1% of the shares of a certain company controlled by a subsidiary company, must be negotiated to avoid disputes after the merger.

  This part of the work, even with the help of elites like PwC and Ernst & Young, will take a long time.

  Like the cooperation between Rockefeller and Morgan. That is, the merger of Morgan Chase has been discussed since the 1980s.

   Speaking of the middle of last year, it may have been after a joint decision.

  The two sides only disclosed the possible merger.

   At first the market thought it was a joke.

   But by the end of last year, they really merged.

   Not counting the negotiations that the two parties may have involved in the previous ten or twenty years.

   It only took more than half a year to calculate the time from the announcement in the middle of last year to the actual merger.

  So the in-depth cooperation between the Texas Consortium and the Smith Consortium.

   If you want to get an idea, it will be at least April or May next year after the detailed discussion.

  Before this, the Texas consortium could not be regarded as a shareholder of Smith Capital.

   Among the original shareholders, the shares of Soros and Bloomberg.

   In fact, it is Abel, specially reserved for the oilmen.

  The two people add up to a total of 8% of the shares, which is the position and voice of the oil people in this consortium.

  Abel knew that the actual holdings of Smith Capital shares by these two people might not even add up to 3%.

  The rest of the shares should be divided among other oilmen.

  Look at what these oilmen mean.

  They want to continue to add chips and increase the share of oilmen in this joint consortium.

   After thinking about it, Abel didn't immediately refuse, but he didn't intend to agree either.

  He said with an ambiguous smile:

   "If it's this question, I can't decide now. I am not the only shareholder in Smith Capital now. If there are new shareholders who want to join, other shareholders need to nod."

"Of course." He changed the subject and said with a smile: "Personally, I welcome everyone to join. Because I always believe-"Friends, there are never enough friends." You are all my friends, just like George and Same as Michael."

  Hear Abel's friendly attitude.

  The three big oil men who were present, even though they didn't get a satisfactory answer, they laughed along with them.

   From last year to this year, for a period of time.

   The Oilers are very afraid of the rise of Abe Smith, and even wanted to suppress it for a while.

   It's just that before these people could unify their opinions, they discovered that this Ansar is also a target that can be won.

   For example, Abel's men have many elite oilmen.

  Like Robert Iger, the first CEO of Smith Media, the oilman.

  Abel's two most trusted Michaels, Michael Ovitz and Michael Lyle, are both Oilers.

  Smith Capital's original deputy manager, and now one of the presidents, Merio, is an oilman.

  Smith Capital's company also has a large number of oil workers.

   This is the elite under Abel.

   One of Abel's best friends, Michael Bloomberg, is also an Oiler.

  New York's first oilman mayor took office, and Abel Smith can be said to have contributed a lot...

   There is another Soros behind him, who is also an oil man.

  Invisibly, Abel has painted himself with a thick layer of oil paint.

  This makes it difficult for the Oilers to raise hostility towards him even if he is a Texan with the most standard Anza background.

  It's like the pheromones used by bees to identify friend and foe. In the eyes of most oilmen, Abe Smith is their good friend even if he is not one of them.

  After that, the development of Smith Media in the media industry has become more and more smooth.

   Now that the Oilers have developed, they no longer think about suppressing them.

   They now want to win over Abel to accept the presence of the Oilers like the rest of the Angsans.

  Like the original Morgan and Rockefeller, oil can last forever in the United States.

   Now seeing the Smith Consortium, there is hope to merge with the Texas Consortium.

  The merger of the two parties may lead to the emergence of a Smith & Texas consortium or a Texas & Smith consortium in the United States.

  One has a sound financial system and core capital channels.

   At the same time, it has mastered the military industry, as well as some energy and industrial behemoths.

  The oily man who smelled this smell couldn't wait to entangle him.

  They want to have more say in this consortium...

  David Rene Rothschild's statement today is exactly what it means.

  Abel did not explicitly refuse at this time, but behaved so tactfully.

   With this statement, the three big oil men are satisfied enough.

  They felt that the next thing they lacked was the bargaining chip to make Abel tempted.

   When it comes to bargaining chips, the Oilers Group has never been short of them.

   They have the smile they have now.

   And Abel was also smiling on the surface, but in private, he planned to go to Peggy...'s grandfather, Robert Morgenthau.

  He wanted Robert to ask the other two families.

  Go and ask those two guys who obviously contacted themselves earlier, but now they have no voice.

   Those two guys are Morgan and Rockefeller.

  The first thing to explain is that these two families are not oily at all.

   At most, they have worked closely with the Oilers.

  For example, Morgan, whose family has been a British banking family for a long time, has a very clear blood relationship and has never been mixed with oilman blood.

   This family is a merchant family whose ancestors immigrated to the United States during the gold rush wave of the New World in the early 17th century and initially settled in Massachusetts.

   It was not until John Pierpont Morgan's grandfather, Joseph Morgan, that he sold his farm in Massachusetts and settled in Hartford.

  Hartford is the capital of Connecticut, USA, in the north-central part of the state, along the Connecticut River. It has a large number of giant insurance companies. It is the headquarters of the world insurance industry.

   It can be said that it is a pure Ansar, one of the symbols of the traditional East Coast power of the United States.

   Then there is Rockefeller.

   Rockefeller is not oil either.

  Like Morgan, Rockefeller was also called by many trail media as oilmen.

   This lie has been repeated thousands of times, so many people have mistaken it for an axiom.

   But the fact is that the Rockefeller family is not an oil man at all.

  They neither believed in oil, nor did they have oil blood.

  The religious belief of the Rockefeller family is the Protestant Baptist Church, not the Oilers.

  The Rockefeller family is of English, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and has no oilman ancestry.

  The reason why there are rumors that these two families are oil.

  In addition to the consistent habit of the oil people, they always like to bring the good people to their own race.

  It is also because these two families were suspected of being "rebels" who backstabbed the oilman financial capital and became financially independent in North America.

  Abel is not very clear about the story here.

  He only heard part of the time when his grandfather and Herbert were chatting.

   But all in all, Rockefeller and Morgan are not only not oilmen, but they are Anza people suppressing the existence of oilmen in the financial field.

  This can be seen from the very successful confluence of Rockefeller and Morgan.

  Abel wanted to ask them, now these oil people are so active to win over their new Anza.

  As the old Angsa, don't you guys have anything to say?

   To put it simply, he wants to jump left and right again, or it is up for grabs.

   Just like what he did in the Norwegian krone incident, when facing the dispute between Soros and Norway.

   Throughout the evening, Abel spent the whole time chatting with David Rene Rothschild, Alan Greenspan, and Leo Melamed.

  With these three, even George Soros only came here once.

   It is very obvious that these three are the bosses of this small group.

   Judging from their identities, it is understandable.

  Like David Rene Rothschild, his surname is Rothschild in English.

   This word has two translations in Chinese, one is Rothschild, and the other is Rothschild...

  The identity of Leo Melamed is not simple, he was once the chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

   is the founder of many types of futures.

   Like Abel, he liked to play the most in the early days, and now he occasionally invests in foreign exchange futures. It was invented by Leo Melamed, an economist and financial guru.

   As for Alan Greenspan, he is the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States.

  This committee has an abbreviation, and everyone prefers to call it the Federal Reserve.

   It can be said that these three are among the living oilmen. Basically, it is the third of their vital existence in the financial field.

  Even Soros couldn't stand on an equal footing in front of these three people.

   And now Abel did.

   Does it mean that Abel's status has surpassed that of Soros?

   is not…

  The most important reason why Abel can make them pay so much attention is that the Smith Consortium and the Texas Consortium have begun to merge.

  Due to the lack of a financial core, the Texas consortium has been severely lacking in hematopoietic capabilities.

  It's okay to say that when there is a war, it's okay to stop cooking as soon as there is no war.

  The Smith Consortium, because of its rapid rise, and its members are basically in the financial field.

  It cannot be said to be equal to nothing in terms of military, industry, energy or other aspects, but there is only one Pacific Energy Company, which can only be said to be better than nothing.

   One strong finance, one strong industry. The combination of the two parties, even if it is not a complete merger, is just a deep cooperation.

  It will make the status of both parties in this country suddenly raised a lot.

  After the merger or in-depth cooperation, this consortium can suddenly become an enhanced version of the California consortium.

  The common version of the California Consortium can fight against Morgan & Rockefeller.

  The enhanced version of this consortium, not to mention being on equal footing, would not be much worse.

   Aware of this and not allowed to be tainted with this oil man from beginning to end.

  They smelled it and surrounded it.

  If it can cooperate deeply with the merged Smith & Texas consortium, or parasite internal success.

  For oil people, it means that they can stay outside the already powerful finance and media.

   once again gained a more terrifying support point.

  If it really succeeds, it will all be used by them.

  It is not impossible for the Youman to become the master of this country.

   Instead of being like this now, you can only be an accountant and manage money in general.

   Later, the reception was over.

   After Abel left the field, sitting in the Cadillac monster, surrounded by little Laura and Li Xinyu, he gradually figured it out.

"Why-"

  After thinking about it.

  In the carriage, Abel couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

   These intrigues are not his strong point.

   He asked for everything again.

   It was he himself who set the goal too high from the very beginning.

  I want this and that, and I want it to be big and complete.

  It's all right now, this is equivalent to practicing too many cheats of various attributes.

  Now various inexplicable internal forces began to collide inside his body.

  If one is not maintained well, it will really explode and die.

  But they have come to this point, and now they can only continue to go on.

  It is equivalent to continuing to practice magic skills.

  Either it is to create one's own magical skill, to become a super master who can penetrate the ancient and modern, the kind that is invincible in the world.

  Either you will go into a madness halfway, or you will lose a person, or you will hurt your muscles and bones.

   Seeing him sighing, little Laura, who let him sit in the middle unknowingly just now, didn't think about it.

  The girl's little hand caressed the lover's brows that seldom frown, "It's rare for you to be so distressed. This is the first time I've seen you like this."

  Little Laura's voice, and her little cold hands coming in from the outside.

   Pull Abel's spirit and attention from his thoughts back to reality.

  He looked at the caring eyes of little Laura and Li Xinyu in the warm compartment.

  Abel subconsciously opened his hands, hugged the two of them into his arms, and replied softly:

   "Thinking about something troublesome. I regret it a bit."

  Looking at him naturally, he hugged himself and his best friend in his arms.

   There are also girlfriends who take it for granted at first, but after being seen by themselves, they get a little flustered in their eyes.

  Little Laura already had doubts in her heart at this time.

   But at this time, she naturally chose to comfort her man first.

   "What can you regret?" said little Laura softly:

   "Maybe there's nothing I can do to help you. But maybe you can confide in me, and it might make you feel better."

  Many people's concerns are indeed that after telling others, they will feel better.

   But Abel was obviously not this kind of person. He shook his head with a smile, leaned over and kissed little Laura.

   Then the movements are natural and skillful, like rain and dew, just like in Korea.

   Kiss your sister and kiss your sister, or kiss your sister and kiss your sister.

  After kissing little Laura, he wanted to show Li Xinyu's pretty face as well.

   It was only halfway through the kiss that he suddenly woke up

"Ha ha-"

  Abel let go of Li Xinyu's hand holding Li Xinyu proficiently by the way,

   "Sorry, almost got kissed. Sorry for being abrupt."

  Being startled by him just now, Li Xinyu, who was worried about being discovered by little Laura, breathed a sigh of relief.

   Li Xinyu immediately said: "It's okay, but I won't allow it next time!"

   "Oh oh oh, of course."

  Watching the two of them acting there, little Laura raised her beautiful and slender eyebrows.

  She wasn't sure at first.

   But now, little Laura is very sure.

  My man, and my best girlfriend, there must be something wrong!