America's Road to Wealth

The surroundings are quiet and peaceful, and the sound of waves and wind in the distance interweave a distant melody. The singing of birds among the flowers in the courtyard is very harmonious.

The shadows of the fresh green leaves swayed gently, and the leaves were billowing in the wind, making a rattling sound.

Winter in the Southern Hemisphere is so different from that in the Northern Hemisphere that it literally looks like summer except a little colder.

In the room, half of the face was covered by the light golden hair dyed by the early morning sun. The outline was sharp and handsome, with a straight nose, white and smooth but lined skin, no matter from which angle, which race's aesthetics came from Look, Abel, who is a first-class handsome man, slowly opened his eyes. Even though he only slept for a few hours, there was no trace of fatigue in his eyes.

"call--"

Looking down and seeing Abilly's fair and ruddy pretty face curled up in his arms, as well as several other people around him, he sighed contentedly, this is life.

By the way, he turned his head and pressed a button next to him.

After a few seconds, everything was quiet.

Click——

The door was pushed open.

Lydia, dressed in exquisite OL makeup, opened the door and walked in with a few real rock security maids.

As soon as she entered the room, Lydia smelled a strange but familiar smell, which rushed towards her face, and it was extremely strong.

The daughter of the Hurst family looked at the pieces of clothes scattered everywhere on the ground, and there were traces of some liquids that had dried up. She didn't need to guess where the smell that filled the room came from.

An uneasy feeling rose from the bottom of her heart, but she quickly suppressed it very well.

She knew the reason why she could follow Abel more than her cousin Amanda. The most important reason is because I am more tolerant than Amanda.

Amanda is not used to it, or something that would be very unpleasant to see. She can turn a blind eye to it. Her childhood environment and her mother's previous experience made her want to be much lower than Amanda and most of the top socialites to a certain extent.

Social status, being valued in the family, enough material enjoyment - as long as she can satisfy her these, Lydia's endurance is stronger than anyone else.

Abel looked up at Lydia, who was standing in the bedroom, and she had directed the maids to pack their things.

Generally, when Abel goes out, most of his life is taken care of by her and the accompanying maids.

Abel yawned, and kissed Abilly, who was sleeping soundly, then sat up from the octopus-like entanglement, raised his arms high, stretched his waist and said, "What time is it? "

"Eight thirty in the morning. Boss, take a bath first or have breakfast first?" Lydia looked businesslike and serious, which was why she was loved by Abel and was often brought with him.

Because even though negative distance contact has occurred, she can still grasp her identity well at work, and her sense of proportion is much stronger than that of Amanda.

"Let's eat first, and then go for a swim in the indoor pool after eating."

Abel stood up in a dawdly way, and with Lydia's service, he put on a large nightgown, "What's the situation in the United States?"

"The latest briefings have been sent. In Los Angeles, DuPont, Rockefeller and others have all left Los Angeles one after another."

"Tsk tsk..." Abel sighed softly, and said with a playful expression: "It seems that the regular meeting in Los Angeles is really going to be cancelled. The meeting may have to be held in Washington."

Lydia nodded slightly at this. She was very excited that she was able to join this kind of change in the upper echelons of the empire.

Even if it's just a simple delivery, it's the same with related paperwork.

After all, their Hearst family, even when they were at the top of the peak, were much lower than her current height!

"I don't care about them. When I return to the United States in a few days, even if I want to go to Washington. They have to wait for me... Send the briefing to the indoor heated swimming pool. You can read it to me after breakfast and swimming. listen."

Abel smiled lightly and gently pinched Lydia's pretty face, who smiled like a girlfriend and seemed to enjoy his contact.

After breakfast with Nicole and the others, Abel went to the heated swimming pool in the villa.

The water in the swimming pool has a constant temperature of 26-28 degrees, which is the most suitable temperature for the human body. After a full meal in the morning, it is a very comfortable thing to soak in it without strenuous exercise.

The more comfortable thing is that when you are soaking in the swimming pool, two beautiful maids will gently massage your body on your left and right sides.

Then in front of you, there are two big beauties who have already given birth to you, playing in the water in Abhi Akiani, like two beautiful mermaids.

And behind you, there is a beautiful female secretary wearing a standard OL skirt suit, holding a thick document and reporting to you the situation of hundreds of companies under her.

"...Smith Media announced its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 200211-2002305 yesterday. Because of the gratifying financial report, its stock price broke through 256 US dollars to 256.9 US dollars, and its market value has reached 256.9 billion US dollars. Among the listed companies in the United States, it is currently ranked 19th bit."

"...According to market research, the average gas price per cubic meter of Pacific Energy in California has been reduced by 0.013 cents. Its Pacific Gas Station has an average reduction of US$0.1 per gallon of gasoline. Texas has also adjusted prices, but not as much as in California. So big..."

"...Qualcomm and AMD (the merger of Texas Instruments and AMD, the full name Texas Advanced Instruments) have officially jointly launched a new product of the latest generation of 3G communication chips and information processors. The two companies will call it SOC is the abbreviation of System-on-Chip, or System-on-a-Chip. Based on this system, mobile phone companies can easily make new mobile phones that can use 3G communication and have stronger information intelligent processing capabilities. But it is only an exhibit at present. , It will take about half a year before the official start of the sale.”

"...Smith Capital currently holds stocks of 269 companies in the U.S. stock market, with a total value of 103.656 billion US dollars as of yesterday. In the global stock market, it holds a total of 136 company stocks, with a total value of 36.55 billion US dollars as of yesterday. International spot $32.5 billion in gold..."

"..."

Lydia was clear and articulate, reporting one company briefing after another to Abel, while Abel closed his eyes slightly, enjoying the services of the beautiful maids, and at the same time learning about the general development of the company under his name.

When Lydia reported to Google's briefing, Abel heard the briefing CEO Eric Schmidt, and the two co-founders Larry and Sergey agreed to develop a smartphone system, but Sergey Brin believes that Google needs to open up new tracks outside of search engines.

The mobile phone system is one, and cloud computing is another.

"Cloud computing? Sergey mentioned cloud computing?" Abel, who closed his eyes, finally couldn't help blinking, and said in surprise.

Lydia looked down at the briefing, and then confirmed again: "Yes, it was raised at an internal high-level meeting of Google."

Abel raised his eyebrows. He remembered that cloud computing was indeed popular in parallel time and space for a while.

At that time, almost all IT companies in the world invested a lot of money in development. But it seems to be nothing after that, the biggest result is that it has become more annoying in terms of advertising push.

It cannot be said that there is no output, that is, almost all companies investing in cloud computing have a disproportionate input and output.

But if you look at it from the perspective of capital, most of these companies have made money.

At least in the years when the concept of cloud computing was very hot. The stock prices or market value of those companies with relatively good cloud computing technology have been highly speculated.

If the shareholders had cashed out at that time, they could definitely make a fortune.

"About cloud computing, is there any more information in the briefing?" Abel asked.

Lydia shook her head directly this time, "No, do you need me to ask Mr. Baker to send over relevant materials immediately?"

Baker is the surname of Alan, the general manager and chief think tank of Smith Wisdom.

Gathering intel for Abel was part of their job.

Abel nodded slightly. He personally thinks that cloud computing can be used as a big gimmick for Google in the future, and it can be used as one of the capitals for Google's future listing.

Yes, as the largest shareholder of Google, Abel, who holds more than 1/3 of the shares, already has the idea of ​​listing Google.

One was the two co-founders, Larry and Sergey, who kept bugging him about it. The two co-founders who have been deprived of power are thinking about taking advantage of the company's listing opportunity, hoping to weaken Abel's influence and control over Google as much as possible.

Abel has been bored for a long time, and he is somewhat bored. And he knows very well that if he really wants to push the era of smartphones ahead of schedule, it's better for Google and Apple to let one go.

Apple is more profitable and has a stronger ecosystem, so Abel chose to let Google go.

He intends to let Google go public after Google confirms the development of Android.

Through the listing, control your own shares to about 10%, a standard that can affect Google, but will not make others retreat.

At the same time, the 20% or so shares can at least make him two to three billion US dollars. Compared with the original investment of billions of dollars, it has already doubled several times.

And Google's stock price will not be particularly exaggerated before 2010. When the financial crisis comes, you can also inhale on dips. At that time, whether it is to increase control again or just invest, it will be a good choice.

And cloud computing, even if it is only used as a gimmick concept to hype the stock price, can also be used as the backbone of Google's hype before the Android system is accepted by the market.

Who are Internet companies, they often don't need any real product power. In many cases, being able to speculate and make people believe in its future is the biggest support for the stock price.

This is how the Internet bubble of Nasdaq came about. For companies that are not even profitable, the market value and stock price are often calculated at dozens of times. It is unreasonable that such bubbles do not burst.

Lydia took a pen and quickly wrote down what Abel explained, mainly about cloud computing.

In fact, the concept of "cloud" in the Internet appeared very early. It originated from the concept of "the network is a computer" first proposed by John Gage, the co-founder of SUN Microsystems in 1988.

But when it was first used as a concept, it was very vague. Together with many Internet concepts at that time, it seemed bizarre and unrealistic in the past.

The exact concept appeared in the 1994 issue of Wired. An outline of the cloud concept is clearly seen in this article. Its description seemed rather sci-fi at the time.

However, in 1996, Compaq's designers and software engineers wanted to realize it, but limited by the development of technology and technology, the products at that time were relatively failures, and were even eliminated before they were launched.

In the parallel time and space, the exact proposal of cloud computing was in August 2006, and it was also first proposed by Google.

So three years in advance, it is normal for Google's co-founders to think of cloud computing.

The difference is that when Eric Schmidt proposed the concept of cloud computing at that time, Google had already studied it for a long time, and related products were launched in a short time, and the gimmick was very attractive.

Like now, when Abel came up with this gimmick, Google estimated that it would take a year or two of research and development before it could be officially launched, and it would probably not be until 2005.

It is only a year or two earlier than the parallel time and space.

In the morning, finish the briefing at the villa. At noon, Abel finally officially appeared in front of the Australian media.

The occasion where he appeared was at the signing ceremony of the agreement of intent to acquire the Cadleston Ranch, Australia's second largest ranch.

Negotiations between the two parties have been going on for a long time, because one is willing to pay a high price and the other is willing to sell.

So it was finalized in a few days. After signing the agreement of intent, the transaction was reported to the Australian Foreign Investment Regulatory Commission and awaited approval.

After signing the agreement of intent, this transaction can be regarded as a legal constraint on both parties. No matter who wants to go back and tear up the contract, both parties will face liquidated damages for the transaction amount.

Once approved, this ranch, the second largest in Australia and actually the largest in use, will smoothly become an industry under Abel's name.

However, at the media meeting, the numerous Australian media or foreign journalists stationed in Australia were not at all interested in the transaction itself, the seller and the representatives sent by the state legislatures of Queensland and South Australia who were in charge of monitoring.

Their interest is obviously all in Abe Smith, who came to Australia quietly and directly bought the Cadleston Ranch.

After obtaining the permission to interview, the reporters, who were obviously more than the normal commercial signing ceremony, raised their hands and asked questions frantically and enthusiastically, hoping to get a chance to ask questions.

"...Mr. Smith, did you come to Australia just to ranch? Or do you have other purposes?"

"...Mr. Smith, it is said that you have a close relationship with Ms. Nicole Kidman and Ms. Cate Blanchett. What do you think of them?"

"...Mr. Smith, I am the Australian correspondent for the American Sun, and I..."

"……Mr Smith……"

"..."

But Abel didn't care about their dissatisfaction, because Abel knew very well that the Australian local media was basically monopolized by Murdoch.

There is no media controlled by Murdoch, which is also heavily influenced by him.

That's why Abel didn't bother to pay attention to the local media. Anyway, there were so many American media and international media present.

The reporter from the "Wall Street Journal" was very excited and took the lead in asking: "Mr. Smith! Actually, I have many questions to ask, but since I can only ask one, then I would like to ask about the real descendant company under your name, the second listed company. Which company will it be? We all know that Smith Media’s market value has exceeded 260 billion U.S. dollars today, making it the media company with the highest market value in history! So which company under your name will you list after Smith Media?”

It is indeed the number one mouthpiece of Wall Street, and their reporters are still very professional in this regard.

After thinking about it, Abel said softly, "Maybe it will be Pacific Energy, or it may be Smith Financial Group. If you have to pick one, it will be one of these two companies."

This answer made the reporter of the "Wall Street Journal" very satisfied, and the many reporters on the scene immediately "wowed".

The content of this news is obviously very exciting.

Pacific Energy and Smith Financial Corporation, they may be listed in the near future, at least in a few years, isn't the news like this crazy enough?

Especially Smith Financial Group, a financial giant that is no less than JPMorgan Chase and far above Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and other investment banks.

If it really wants to go public, it will definitely become a hot topic in the US stock market for a long time.

In the past, there was Smith Media’s exaggerated performance, and its performance was even better. It was so good that it seemed to be bragging about the listing of Smith Financial Group. There must be more exaggerated and outrageous performance.

Once Smith Media went public, it has created more than a dozen billionaires, dozens of multi-millionaires, and hundreds of millionaires.

Switching to Smith Financial Group, these figures would not have increased by 10 times, but it should be normal to increase by five or six times, right?

That is to create dozens of billionaires, hundreds of multi-millionaires, maybe thousands or even thousands of millionaires at once...

Such a myth of creating wealth can attract attention wherever it is placed, and it can increase the sales and ratings of TV stations and newspapers by at least 50% steadily, even if it may only be for a few days, it is already very powerful.

The media naturally love to report on such newspapers and also like such news.

So this group of people subconsciously forgot that in Abel's answer, besides Smith Financial, there is also a choice of Pacific Energy...

But Abel didn't care about these, he had already asked David to signal the reporter of the "New York Observer" to ask questions.

The "New York Observer" has changed from a weekly magazine to a biweekly now, which is more professional and refined. Internationally, however, its name has also been changed to The International Observer.

Among them, the "New York Observer" version, the main content is related to the United States.

The version of "International Observer" has a broader field of vision and focuses more on foreign countries of the United States.

Therefore, the content of the question asked by the reporter of "International Observer" has nothing to do with the United States.

Also, because he is one of his own, it is impossible to ask Abel too explosive questions. The questions he asks are related to Australia. After all, Abel is in Australia now.

Abel's answer was also very official, and he couldn't fault it, but it wasn't very brilliant either.