America's Road to Wealth

On the way back to 9555 Heather Road, Beverly Hills, Abel naturally received news from Morgan and the others that they were going to those people in Cleveland.

It's like those people must have received information from him, the guy who encouraged everyone to withdraw the voting rights of the Cleveland Foundation at the meeting, but took the initiative to find the people of Cleveland.

This kind of news is difficult to hide from people, unless both parties in the action are deliberately concealing it and taking some cover-up actions.

Otherwise, for people like them, there are really no big secrets in this country.

After hearing the news, Abel's attitude was to leave them alone.

He is very confident in his own conditions, and he is also very confident in the current attractiveness of the joint consortium.

Why are there tycoons in or around Texas who actively want to join the consortium?

Because of the ecological niche within the joint consortium, apart from Smith's special status, most of the status of other forces and people have not yet been fixed.

This gives outsiders a message, that is - "Maybe after I join, I can become an important person in it."

This is the kind of information that tycoons in Texas and the surrounding states can receive.

People in New York and California can also receive it, because Abel also unites a large number of locals here.

And when this kind of information is faced with an entire consortium. The people of Cleveland must also consider --

If Abel Smith's conditions were agreed to, then Cleveland's status in the consortium might not be so low.

This kind of advantage over other consortiums in attracting other people is something that other consortiums do not have.

Who are the other consortiums, especially those old big consortiums, their internal ecological niches have been determined early in the development of hundreds of years.

Their acceptance of outsiders is not even half that of the United Consortium.

So Abel felt that if the Cleveland Consortium really wanted to find a backer, they would most likely find themselves.

Unless Morgan and the others can offer better conditions.

If that was the case, there was nothing he could do about it.

People are more willing to pay for it, and there is no need to chase after it. If you can win, you can win. If you can't win, being yourself is the most correct choice.

Now the multiple-choice question is thrown to the Cleveland people, and then it depends on how they choose.

By the time he returned to 9555 Heather Road, Beverly Hills, it was around 8 p.m.

Jessica and Anne knew Abel hadn't eaten when he was on the road.

So when Abel came home, both of them were making dinner for him.

The dinner is naturally very rich, and it is Western food.

"This oyster is very fresh. It is Ginardeau from France. It was just picked in the morning, and it was transported by air. It was very lively when it arrived! Eat more, and there is steak, this is your favorite neon Yonezawa beef and beef The beef was also just slaughtered in the morning, I let the chef marinate it for a day, and baked it at high temperature for an hour and a half, you can taste it quickly."

Annie smiled and pushed the oyster plate in front of Abel, urging Qing Lang to taste it, as if it was made by her, but it was actually the work of Abel's world-class chefs...

"Well, it's tender and juicy, it melts in your mouth!" Abel put a piece of cut beef into his mouth and chewed it, and gave Annie a thumbs up.

One of the benefits of wealth freedom is that you can taste the most delicious and expensive food in the world at any time!

All kinds of tastes are actually tasteless, not to mention the gold leaf dishes mainly for the purpose of pretending to be X.

Like the best Ginato oysters and Belon oysters in France, or the best neon Yonezawa Wagyu, Omi Wagyu and other delicacies that are really distinctive in taste, you can always eat the freshest and best quality .

The price is naturally high. Of course, while the price is more expensive, the quality of these things is still much higher than what ordinary people can eat.

"Hehe, let's eat some cauliflower and some mango. Eat more. I even had someone bake you a large piece of South African Dorper lamb chops. You guy, last night was not easy at all! "Annie looked at Abel eating happily, and at the same time made a small stab while being very happy.

Jessica smiled at the side and said nothing. She was more rational and tolerant, and she was gentler than Anne in this respect.

Abel didn't answer Anne's topic, but continued to enjoy the food with a smile, and asked curiously, "What about the others, I remember you didn't let them go?"

"Of course not." Annie pouted, "I keep six of them for you. But it's better not to use three of them tonight, so as not to leave any sequelae."

Abel knew that these three should be the three that were the first time last night.

Among them are the Israeli spy lady who has confessed to him, Amanda Seyfried, who Abel liked in his previous life, and Kat Dennings.

Especially the last one, namely Kat Dennings. In her previous life, she played Max, the poisonous girl in "The Broke Girls". Those pair of super bright headlights matched her somewhat petite height, and now she is only 17 years old.

Of course, Gadot and Amanda Seyfried are great too.

It's the young Gadot, who really doesn't have the kind of temperament he had in his previous life when he was shining.

At that time, she was already married, and she had an inexplicable smell of a Cao thief on her body, which would naturally make most Cao robbers like her from the bottom of her heart when they saw it.

A beauty like her is the kind that needs time to accumulate to become more beautiful.

And Amanda Seyfried, one of the great beauties, the head of the first Hollywood Four Stars in the parallel time and space, one year older than Kat Dennings.

The figure is already very good, but the appearance has not yet grown up, and the charm of the future is not there yet.

According to Abel's current ranking in his heart, in terms of attractiveness in certain aspects, it is still ranked like Kat Dennings, Gadot, and Amanda Seyfried.

The main reason is that Kat Dennings' figure plus height, coupled with her age, really makes it easy for Abel to have the idea of ​​violently attacking her.

Kind of like another version of Scarlett Johansson, and a little fresher for Abel, so the injury was a given...

After eating a dinner that made Annie feel a little jealous, Abel was not in a hurry to enjoy the three "gifts" that were not injured or were not seriously injured.

He was in his study at 9555 Heather Road, Beverly Hills, where he continued his day's work.

Letting the Cleveland Consortium join in is not just his business.

Although he now has the ability to make money like a cash cow because of his continuous victories, the entire consortium bows to him.

But after all, he only had a little bit of financial talent on him. It's not the kind of super hang that makes people bow down when the tiger's body shakes.

We still need to have a good discussion about sufficient internal communication and appropriate benefit delivery.

Those who haven't come in all want to get enough ecological niche inside. Those who are already inside are naturally worried that the addition of outsiders will affect their ecological niche.

As the arbiter and leader of the consortium, avoiding conflicts between the two parties, or minimizing such conflicts, is one of his most important tasks.

Only by doing a good job in this area can we avoid internal friction within the consortium, and have greater cohesion and threat when it develops externally.

Fortunately, under his leadership, the United Consortium has been advancing from one victory to another.

So when he laid out these things, whether it was the original members of the Texas consortium or Buffett, they were all easily settled by him.

Anyway, if the Cleveland Consortium or DuPont can really be integrated, this will ultimately be more beneficial than harmful to everyone in the joint consortium.

In particular, one of these two consortiums has the right to speak in the chemical industry, and the other is a leader in the US steel and rubber fields.

These two aspects are areas that the consortium currently does not have or is relatively weak. It is naturally welcome for them to join.

After talking on the phone for more than an hour and communicating with many people.

Abel began to read various briefings today, and one of the briefings related to Apple surprised him a little.

Today, he is the largest shareholder holding about 28% of Apple's shares, and he is also the biggest supporter of Jobs.

The two parties can be said to have cooperated happily in the Pixar transaction.

In order to always gain his trust and the support of his consortium leader, Jobs would often communicate with him.

Regarding Apple's briefing, most of the content is still at the internal level that Jobs took the initiative to let the Smith Intelligence Group supervise.

After finishing the briefing on Apple, Abel put it in the folder next to him. He picked up the coffee at the table and took a sip.

What surprised him a little was that the briefing declared that Apple's first-generation smartphones are expected to be displayed in front of the world by the end of this year or early next year! !

You know, the first-generation Apple 3G in parallel time and space was launched in mid-2007.

Even if the time of the beginning of next year mentioned in the briefing is calculated, the Apple mobile phone in this time and space will be released three years ahead of schedule.

Even if it will not be listed directly, but disclosed in the form of high-tech, as a gimmick for Apple to boost the stock price, it also surprised Abel.

He couldn't help thinking, is the era of smartphones about to start?

In this regard, Abel is a little bit moved by the powerful butterfly effect he brought. After all, Jobs developed the Apple mobile phone a few years earlier than Parallel Time and Space, because of his suggestion.

After two years, it is now possible to show it off? Even if it's just for show, it's much earlier than parallel time and space.

So, is the age of the smartphone really coming?

Abel wasn't sure about this, but he wouldn't deny it either.

The reason for not being sure is that it is only 2003 after all. The development of chips and communication technology did not advance too much because of his appearance.

Under the current level of technology in 2003, Abel felt that there was a big question mark about whether the early smartphone products of the previous life could appear.

He does not deny that the era of smartphones may appear earlier, because Abel knows that with the efforts of several major communication operators in the United States in the past two years, the 3G network has basically stabilized in major urban agglomerations in the United States.

The first-generation 3G mobile phones have been launched one after another, that is, they are actually not much different from the original mobile phones, but the network has become better.

There is still no concept of a real smart phone with a large screen, touch and multimedia functions.

In parallel time and space, this aspect is indeed pioneered by Apple and promoted to take shape.

However, the era of smartphones itself is built on the mobile Internet with faster speed and larger bandwidth.

With the emergence of 3G, it has the possibility of real opening.

The popularity of 4G later is the real arrival of the era of mobile Internet and smart phones.

Abel still attaches great importance to smartphones and mobile Internet.

In addition to bringing terrifying profits, the mobile Internet can even be said to be the real mouthpiece of the future of the world.

By controlling or influencing it, it is possible to make ordinary people only see something, or make them see nothing.

Otherwise, Americans 20 years later, there would not be so many states wanting to ban TikTok.

How could it have affected the authorities' absolute control over public opinion to some extent?

Smartphones, together with its entire upstream and downstream industry chain, are an industry that can provide a large number of high-quality jobs and profits, and its scale is no less than that of the automobile industry that Abel attaches great importance to.

Naturally, Abel would not let it go, otherwise he would not have bought Qualcomm so early, nor would AMD and Texas Instruments have merged.

These are the relevant preparations he has made in advance for this future.

These things are the most important links for Abel to grasp the pulse of the times.

Now that the iPhone may be about to appear, the future market will be larger and the Android system will be more popular, and perhaps we can start preparing for it.

Hmm...Google is also in his hands, and he holds about 33% of Google's shares...

Hey, is it too much to eat alone? When those guys are delighted to find that a new profitable industry has emerged, but they see themselves from the source to the front end, will they all be angry?

Hey, it's good to be mad! No one said that Rockefeller had been alone in the oil field for so many years, and no one said that Morgan had been domineering in the financial field for so many years.

I, Smith, become the king of the new era, so why not!

Abel has already made up his mind, he will not give up this interest!

In the past, I was willing to give in because I knew it would not work.

If you don't transfer your benefits, you won't be able to attract allies, and you won't be able to avoid blows from powerful enemies.

But today is different from the past, the current self is strong enough.

If he continues to make concessions like this now, what is the purpose of his establishment of the consortium?

What is the significance of the existence of the Texas United Consortium?

Thinking of this, to be honest, Abel really can't wait to welcome the arrival of the great era.

For a person who is used to traveling around the world with a mobile phone, it is indeed a torment to use a stupid mobile phone that can only make calls and send emails and text messages.

Fortunately, he is not an ordinary person, there are too many entertainments and jobs waiting for him.

If it was an ordinary person who was reborn, he didn't have any cheats or abilities, and he didn't even have much prophetic memory.

Going back to the era without smartphones, for people after 2016, it is estimated to be very boring and scary.

Abel considered how to bring the era of smartphones ahead of schedule, how to bring the Smith Dynasty into reality.

In his view, the era of smartphones is a very good opportunity. .

The red light of the answering machine in front of the desk flashed suddenly, and Abel stretched out his hand to press it, and Edward's voice came out, "Boss, after Morgan and Rockefeller left. Sure enough, Mellon and the Californians also went to live in Cleveland one after another. somewhere."

Abel smiled slightly when he heard the words, he was not surprised.

We are all hyenas, there is no reason to only allow ourselves to smell meat, and other hyena groups will also want to take a share.

"Ask Allen or David to inform Dupont that I will invite them to dinner at 9555 Heather Road, Beverly Hills at noon tomorrow, and only invite them this time."

Abel thought for a while, then spoke.

"Understood, I'll go and explain to David, he just happened to be by my side."

"OK."