America's Road to Wealth

In the vast sky of the North American continent, a Boeing 747-VIP is flying westward. In the luxurious interior of the Smith like a palace in the air, Abel sat in front of a high-quality writing desk made of Brazilian wood over 500 years old, looking at the briefing on the computer in front of him.

Of course, for the sake of safety, this high-end desktop computer is inlaid on this exquisite Brazilian wood desk, so that even if the plane encounters some turbulence in the air flow, it is impossible for the computer to slip and hit Abel.

Ding dong——

The sky palace is not only the main living room, but also the doorbell of Abel's sky office.

"Come in……"

"Boss, are you looking for me?" Miss Secretary Lydia walked in with some confusion.

Normally, Lydia's boss lover wouldn't ask her to come in and run amok while she was at work, even if she was just reading a business presentation.

If he really wants to do that kind of thing, it is often when he has read the briefing almost and the work is completed. Lydia would come in to help him relax when he needed a break.

Abel has only read the briefing for less than half an hour now, so he probably hasn't finished it yet.

Miss secretary didn't know why the boss asked her to come in.

"After arriving in Washington, there will be two press conferences. You will attend instead of me, as my spokesperson."

"Are you referring to the NRA press conference that happened recently in Pennsylvania, and the Rolls-Royce signing press conference after it officially regained its freedom?"

Lydia quickly thought about Abel's itinerary for the next few days after he arrived in Washington.

She immediately asked softly.

"Yes." Abel nodded slightly.

Of the two press conferences Lydia mentioned, the first was in April this year when a 14-year-old boy in Pennsylvania chose to commit suicide after shooting the principal to death.

This incident caused a lot of trouble, and public opinion was raging. The U.S. anti-wood warehouse faction jumped up and down again, all kinds of old-fashioned candles to pray and commemorate... As the re-elected chairman of the National Rifle Association, Abel must of course express something in the NRA's external press conference.

But for this kind of thing, it would be a bit of a waste of value for him to go in person. The best way is to send a representative, and preferably not an executive under the Smith family.

That would draw all eyes to him, which is not good for companies like Smith Media that need to cater to the general public to a certain extent.

As Abel's personal secretary, Lydia is very suitable at this time.

As for the other press conference, it was about the Rolls-Royce company that Abel started planning a few years ago, and it finally came to an end this year.

Volkswagen and BMW admitted that the Germans wanted to avoid the sanctions of the long-arm jurisdiction, and there were dissatisfaction within them. Although the loss was heavy—about 500 million U.S. dollars, they could only pinch their noses and admit that the London Lords’ judgment on the Rolls-Royce acquisition seven years ago was not established.

Under the interference of the savage Americans, the Germans ended up spending money. Not only did they not buy Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but they lost the money. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is now an independent company again.

This press conference is a press conference for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to announce the signing of an agreement of intent to accept the acquisition of the Smith Motors Group of the United States and face the media.

As for the American Smith Motors Group, it is a new company that was established less than three months ago.

In addition to Rolls-Royce Motor Company, which is about to be included under its command, it is also the largest shareholder of Tesla New Energy Technology Company in the United States.

Both presentations were held in Washington, but not because it's the capital of the United States.

And it just so happens that Abel is going there in the near future. In order to accommodate Abel, the NRA and Rolls-Royce Motors can only place the news media at the center of the empire.

"Okay, no problem." Lydia suppressed the excitement in her heart, but the expression on her face was charming. If Abel needs her to "work" for him in some aspects, she will definitely do her best and Unprecedented enthusiasm for...

The reason is very simple, because it is obvious to Lydia. These two press conferences are very long-faced and easy to show off.

They are all open to the public, and not just the general public, but only business elites and upper-class people pay attention to this kind of thing.

This will allow Lydia to appear in the eyes of these people, imperceptibly greatly improving her social status.

More importantly, Lydia has already felt it, and it is likely not only in these two press conferences.

It is very likely that in the future, similar meetings or activities that are not very important to Abel, but require him to send a special representative, may even get the opportunity to attend the representative!

She knew that this meant that her position in Abel's heart had risen to a higher level.

Maybe even taller than my cousin Amanda!

【It's not in vain that I sacrifice so much! Sure enough, as my mother said, for a man like Abel, not fighting is the biggest fight! 】

Lydia suppressed the excitement in her heart, seeing that Abel had no other demands, but looked down at the business briefing again.

She backed away slightly, intending to leave to prepare for the two press conferences.

She didn't want to screw up such a great opportunity.

But before going out, Abel signaled for her to call Edward over.

Lydia nodded to leave, and within a few seconds Edward knocked on the door and walked in.

"How are things going in Afghanistan?"

"The plane has left Central Asia and is now supposed to enter Europe. It is expected to arrive in Texas tomorrow morning."

"How's the preparation over there in Fort Worth?"

"Everything is ready."

Abel nodded in satisfaction, thinking that a batch of precious Silk Road treasures would soon appear in the collection room of the Smith Manor. Adding thousands of names to Smith's collection list, which already had a large number of Asan's gold treasures, was a very A good sense of harvest filled his heart.

Although there are some robbers, and they are indeed very shameful morally.

But... isn't this the owners of these treasures, don't you take them very seriously?

Fortunately, Afghanistan, after all, is in a war-torn period, and the lack of protection is justifiable.

There are more secret treasures of Sange Temple, their country is in a state of peace, but they still ignore them.

It's better to keep it for your own collection and contribute to human culture and antiques industry!

Feeling that his thoughts were shameless after all, Abel smiled and stopped paying attention to this trivial matter in his mind.

Even for these trivial matters of his, Rock Security and Black Rock risked three lives. The number of unlucky people who died because of this in the local area is as high as double digits...

Treasure and gold, they are often stained with invisible blood.

The Smith was seen over Washington, D.C., Columbia. .

The sky has already set, and the lights of the entire DC District have just come on, and it is extremely beautiful when viewed from the air.

When he got off the flight ladder, Abel received a news that he was not very surprised.

The George Bush administration announced not long ago that Henry Paulson was appointed as the assistant to the commander-in-chief and a member of the White House Internal Affairs Committee, succeeding the original Treasury Secretary John Snow as the new US Treasury Secretary.

When George first came to power, his treasurer was Paul Henry O'Neill, a typical American political establishment. He once held an important position in the White House when Herbert was the commander-in-chief, and was Herbert's defense chief at that time.

After George came to power, it may be to support the elderly, or it may be that Herbert wanted to make his son more stable, so Paul Henry O'Neill, who is indeed very capable, became George's finance minister.

The problem is that this old man doesn't know whether he is dissatisfied with George or George's staff. Not long after he took office, he expressed his dissatisfaction with George on many occasions on many occasions.

On several occasions, even in public, his behavior can be said to be very excessive for his employer George.

In the parallel time and space, George endured this guy for three years, and he didn't know whether to say he had a good temper or that Paul Henry O'Neill had amazing energy.

Or both. In this time and space, this guy is in the emergency after 9/11, which makes Abel very unhappy. At that time, in front of George and Herbert, Abel was very eccentric Paul Henry O'Neill.

As a result, Paul Henry O'Neill stepped down earlier than in the parallel time and space, and George replaced his own man, John Snow, as the new Treasury Secretary.

It's been almost two years. The problem is that in the past two years, the economic situation of the United States under the management of the George administration has not improved. Even if the quantitative easing techniques learned from the Neon people are used, it has not really boosted the economy.

Since last year, Washington has been flooded with calls for John Snow to step down. Saying that he stayed in that position might as well not set up this position at all, because he was an answering machine for George.

And even when George started his own company, he lost 8 years in 10 years. How could he manage the economy well?

In many cases, to some extent, the US treasury secretary is very authoritative and generally very capable in terms of economics.

Finally, perhaps these voices reached a certain level. Or maybe George really wants to revive the economy.

This time he transferred John Snow elsewhere and appointed Henry Paulson as the new treasury secretary.

Speaking of Paulson, this guy can be said to be an old acquaintance of Abel.

His last job was Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. When Abel first rose up on Wall Street, he first faced people like Paulson.

At that time, when Abel and Wall Street "went to war", Goldman Sachs' attitude was always very ambiguous, and Paulson was responsible for it.

Because in fact, Paulson at that time was already flirting with the Texas Group by chance, and had a certain connection with George's staff team.

At that time again, Abel officially became the son-in-law of the bush family.

For the sake of the benefactor, but also to avoid possible losses for Goldman Sachs in that conflict.

Goldman Sachs, controlled by Paulson, chose to be neutral.

At the time, his approach seemed to be a little bit of using power for personal gain.

There were dissenting voices within Goldman Sachs at the time. Fortunately, it didn't take long for Abel to ruthlessly scrape those investment banks in the capital market, causing them to suffer heavy losses.

On the contrary, Goldman Sachs Group, because Paulson's use of power for personal gain and choosing neutrality did not end, but did not suffer any losses. He even made a little profit from the robbery afterwards, which made Paulson's authority within Goldman Sachs even greater.

Those were the old days, and now this guy is George's new treasurer.

Abel knew that the subprime mortgage crisis would definitely come earlier than in parallel time and space.

Because this Paulson guy has been "one of the most active Wall Street participants in Greenspan's new securitization reform."

It was Goldman Sachs, with Paulson as CEO, that "propelled securitization reform and endless new product demonstrations" that allowed Wall Street to completely let go of the reins.

Now that this guy is also the finance minister, the progress in this area will only be faster.

Although Abel is not without a chance to prevent it, he can make George not appoint this guy, and take the opposite positive strategy to delay or avoid the subprime mortgage crisis.

But even if Abel really does this, the financial crisis is still doomed, and no matter how hard he tries, he can only delay it by a few years at most.

On the contrary, if he does this, he will be hostile to Wall Street as a whole and resented by many financial groups. Because Paulson and the others do this, the biggest benefit in itself is the consortia with invincible authority in finance.

Even without these considerations, the crisis is doomed to be inevitable. In fact, traces of this crisis have already appeared in the early 1990s. At that time, the U.S. debt and the U.S. domestic economy were about to collapse, and there were signs of the Great Depression in Europe as a whole.

And then...then the red bear blew himself up to save the capital world.

After a super booster shot, the little brothers in the United States and Europe have survived for another ten years. In the parallel time and space, 2007 and 2008 finally couldn't hold on, and then broke out.

If Huaxia hadn't come out to be taken advantage of at that time, the Great Depression would definitely have come around 2008.

As a result, Wall Street was as wrong as ever, and continued to die after being caught.

Finally, more than ten years later, coupled with the super black swan incident of masks, the precursor of the Great Depression finally officially came...

These are all things that will happen in the next decade or so in parallel time and space.

The problem is that Abel exists in this time and space, and his plundering of many giants on Wall Street has forced these people to go further and harder on the road of invading the American nation.

The butterfly effect he formed has even greater side effects in this regard.

So even Abel himself judged that the subprime mortgage crisis will definitely come ahead of schedule.

In particular, Paulson became the finance minister so many years earlier than in the parallel time and space...

Thinking of this, when he got off the aircraft ladder, Abel directly told Allen to let Smith Wisdom complete the reorganization as soon as possible.

Abel needs them to formulate measures to face the subprime mortgage crisis earlier.

In the night, after the plane landed, they boarded the convoy that had been waiting for a long time, and headed straight to downtown DC. Emily, who knew he was coming, was preparing a sumptuous dinner and waiting.

Alexander is now a member of Congress. Although he is only a member of the House of Representatives, he, like Neil Shrub, is stationed in Washington for most of the time, except that he needs to return to his respective constituency during campaigns and shows.

So when his convoy arrived at the residence of the Alexander couple in downtown DC.

No doubt, dear Mr. Neil Shrub, Congressman, he was also at the Smith's in Washington.

He and Alexander are in-laws, and the two families are in Washington. Even if one person is a donkey and the other is an elephant, but with their origins and relationships, no one will talk about how close they are.

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the sunshine and rain that you have given us, so that the earth produces abundant food. I also ask you to cleanse this food for us. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen!"

Listening to the pre-meal prayers of his parents, father-in-law, and mother-in-law, Abel folded his hands into fists and put them on the dining table, then closed his eyes, and pretended to sit with his family and pray before meals.

"Thank you Lord for giving me today's food, please let me..."

No way, who made this an old tradition of WASPs.

In the memory of the body, this was also a predestined process in Texas.

A traditional habit that most devout believers have.

Abel was not so pious, and he only did this when he was a guest at the shrub's house, or when he went home to accompany the old man.

When he was with himself or with his women, there was no such rule.

Maybe some of them used to have it, but he didn't. At least in front of him, they did not pray before meals.

After drawing the sign of the cross, everyone opened their eyes. Neil Shrub looked at Abel with emotion, then raised his glass, looked at Abel and said, "Let's raise a toast for Abel's coming to Washington."

"Thank you. Thank you everyone." Abel smiled and raised his glass in thanks.

Everyone couldn't help but chuckled. Everyone was proud of Abel's achievements today, especially for Neil and Alexander, the significance was even greater.

Because if it weren't for Abel's rise, Neil Shrub would definitely still be his petty oil businessman now. Relying on Shrub's fame and influence, he would earn over 100 million dollars a year, and would even have to pay for his entire family. I have to run around with Yaodi in the United States, Asia or Europe all day long, cheering for the fact that I can earn millions of dollars a month.

Even if Neil is not a member of parliament, he still has a father and elder brother who are the commander in chief, and he is considered a figure in the kingdom.

In contrast, Alexander's changes are even greater.

If Mr. Smith, MP, hadn't had this son.

This senior redneck in Texas is probably still on his farm now, teaching those local rednecks or the newcomers from the south how to better shear sheep and shave hooves for cows.

Then because of their work mistakes or low efficiency, they stood by and yelled, blushing with anger...

Where could it be like now, when entering and leaving the power center of the empire, all the people who come and go are well-known figures in the news, and the topics discussed during the day are closely related to all aspects of the world's most powerful country.

All kinds of gatherings and parties at night are yearned for and envied by all political animals in the world.

As a member of Congress on Capitol Hill, this identity has already stood at the top of this country.

The vast majority of American elites have worked hard for a lifetime, and the height they can stand is probably nothing more than that, which belongs to the ceiling of many people.

But for them, this is just the starting point for their son/son-in-law.

Above, higher places awaited them.

So at this moment, how could the two fathers not feel emotional about it?

After the opening wine, the atmosphere was very happy. But because of the three men, two are powerful figures in the empire, and one is one of the masters of the empire.

The two women are both housewives, so the topics at the dinner table are naturally almost all related to power and governance.

Emily and Little Laura's mother talked softly about their wives' daily life, looked at their husband and son/son-in-law from time to time, and laughed lightly from time to time.

Abel, on the other hand, chatted with his father and father-in-law about the most concerned event in Washington or the entire upper class of the United States recently-the consortium annexation incident.

You know, Abel sitting here is one of the absolute core of this incident.

"Simply put, if I succeed this time." Abel looked at his father-in-law and father, chuckled as if bragging:

"After that, I will have at least 1/3 of the decision-making power over who will be the President of the United States. If the other 1/3 is settled by then, then who will be in this position will be up to me."

"Dear Alexander and Neil, tsk tsk... How about letting you take turns? One for four years, each for eight years! Hahahaha——"

"Oh~~" Neil said in a melodious voice, raising his red wine glass to hide his blushing face when he heard Abel's words, "I feel like I'm drunk. This California red wine seems to have a higher degree than ordinary wine. French red wine is higher?"

Alexander looked at his in-laws with contempt, thinking that he was pretending to be a fool!

However, the former Texas senior redneck thought that he could sit in the position where George is now.

Even if he really didn't pay much attention to it at the beginning.

But when this possibility increased infinitely, even someone with a rough personality like Alexander couldn't help but feel his heart beating.

Power, it is really the most terrible poison for human beings.