America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 617 The second Abel Smith?

"My success, gifted, tricky and lucky, cannot be replicated."

This sentence came from the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association on October 11, 2003.

Facing more than a thousand guests, Abel said these words when George, the leader of the White House, asked him the secret of his success with a smile.

Yes, it has been more than two months.

Abel stayed on Hong Kong Island until August 20th before leaving China's territory and went to Singapore again.

After spending a few days there, he made another trip to the de facto American colony, the Philippines.

He did not return to the United States until the end of August.

September 2003 was an uneventful month for Abel. Except on September 11th, he continued to serve as the chief speaker of the 9/11 incident as usual.

The rest of the time is just dealing with work, spending time with this woman and child, and spending time with that woman and child, living a fulfilling, happy and dull life.

In the blink of an eye, it was October.

Throughout September, he has been in New York.

At the beginning of October, Abel went to Los Angeles to continue to care about his new energy business and Jobs who had already started preparing for the mobile phone conference.

On October 10th, his plane departed from Los Angeles and arrived at the capital of the most powerful empire in human history-Washington.

This year's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner will be held on October 11.

The annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner was held this year at the InterContinental in Washington.

At this traditional social event of Washington News and Zhengjie, the annual self-deprecating speech of the US leader must be a big "selling point".

The White House Correspondents Association dinner has a long history, dating back to 1921, when 50 White House journalists gathered to celebrate the arrival of their new boss, and it was just a small industry dinner.

It was a dinner that was once considered a "nerd dance" by outsiders. But now, the dinner tradition has evolved from a small gathering of dozens of people to an annual event attended by more than a thousand people.

Basically, the process is that the generals give speeches, celebrities from all walks of life walk on the red carpet, but there are fewer and fewer real "nerd" reporters.

In the past, to be invited to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, you first had to work for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, radio, television, or other broadcaster, news aggregator.

Secondly, the applicant's main job is to participate in various press conferences to report on the White House, and finally must be a content editor. If you meet the above requirements, you are eligible to submit the application form.

However, more and more seats are now controlled by media organizations, and they reserve seats for the company's big boss or advertisers who rely on them for survival. The dinner has gradually "changed".

Now it has already become a fashion feast, and the red carpet that enters the venue is not inferior to the Oscar red carpet. Film and television stars want to get close to the big boss and Washington boss, and reporters want to interview film and television stars. That ticket also seemed to become a status symbol for the proverb, like a bunch of high school kids throwing a party, except the most powerful man in the world was in the room.

So this is also the reason why Ah Hei, who has always been very particular about demeanor and has always been a gentleman, will attack MAGA in public.

Since George took office, he has held such banquets three times in a row. Abel was actually invited the previous two times, but he happened to be abroad in those two times, one in England and one in France.

With the addition of this banquet, it looks very high-end, but in fact... that's all.

When the Americans mentioned this banquet, everyone saw the photos: the five-star general commander in formal attire and the comedy superstar laughed, and the media bigwigs courted the glamorous young actress.

But in fact, if the camera is pulled back, the charm value of this banquet will drop sharply-they are in a hotel ballroom that is about the size of a hangar, and there are at least another 1,000 people present, and there are even people behind A super scale of more than 2,600 people.

The so-called White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, it’s not held at the White House at all.

Moreover, all kinds of "elites" in the room often do strange things.

As Tom Cruise walks through the corridors of the hotel where the banquet was held in 1999, he is overwhelmed by the crowd. Worse still, in 2001, a group of people gathered around Britney Spears' table, pointing, staring blankly, or whispering and laughing.

To some extent, it is really not as tall as its name sounds, but it is a bit like a vegetable market for the upper class elites in the United States.

In a banquet attended by at least a thousand people, one person can say a thousand words, and the noise and excitement can be imagined, even more than a general vegetable market.

So it's important, but that's all.

But Abel has time this time, and he just happened to come to Washington to attend the last regular meeting of the Federal Reserve this year.

George sent him another invitation, which he accepted to attend the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2003.

George was very happy about this, and he pulled him to talk non-stop, talking several times more than in the previous two years.

After the speech later, he simply handed the microphone to him. George, who was a reporter himself, "interviewed" Abel with a smile on his face after drinking two more glasses. The commander-in-chief has become a reporter.

The first question asked by the commander-in-chief reporter is a question that almost all Americans are very concerned about, but no one has actually asked it until now, or it has not received a positive response from Abel.

"Dear Mr. Smith, how did you achieve such success? Is there any way to imitate or learn from you?"

Well, in fact, Grand Commander George turned into a reporter to interview Mr. Abel Smith, and this scene was actually staged.

The specific process and answers, the two had already rehearsed before the dinner.

In terms of Zhengzhi show, Washington is much more rigorous and professional than Hollywood scripts!

Of course, it refers to the acting skills.

And Abel's answer, according to the careful design of the think tanks, is the sentence at the beginning.

The answer to this sentence is actually a bit of a panacea. It seems to have answered, but in fact it has not.

But to be honest, Abe actually thinks it's true.

He himself knows better than anyone else that besides his financial talent, the key to his success is his background and background.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to rise so quickly and smoothly.

Otherwise, when he was still the "Wolf of Wall Street", any giant alligator on Wall Street could destroy him in advance.

If it weren't for his fear of being a Texan, he would also have the identity of the National Rifle Association and the Smith family related to the shrubs.

Then he may have rushed to the street in the first few times when he made millions or tens of millions of dollars in profits with tens of thousands of dollars.

This is not alarmist talk, Wall Street has such an example this year.

In January of this year, a retail investor named Andrew Carlson was detained and interrogated by US financial regulators on suspicion of insider trading.

This person’s experience is even more exaggerated than Abel’s. It is said that he made a total of 126 high-risk stock investments in just two weeks, and made a profit of 350 million US dollars with a principal of 800 US dollars, which was more than 430,000 times.

After being captured, the guy claimed to be a time traveler from the year 2256. Many people suspected that this was a lie he lied to avoid the crime of insider trading. However, two months later, the interrogation on Andrew came to an abrupt end, as if the person had disappeared out of thin air.

Of course, the FBI and SEC have denied the news, saying that the story is purely a joke.

In fact, as one of the behind-the-scenes on Wall Street, Abel knew that this person's experience was true, at least Andrew Carlson really made such a transaction.

But Abel didn't know whether he was able to achieve this level because he had the same "talent" as himself, or because he had other similar tricks.

It's just that his fate was very bad, and the news about him in the media suddenly disappeared.

Secretly, Abel knew that this guy had turned into a lot of laboratory samples of DNA material, which had been sent to more than 2,000 laboratories across the United States.

There is no burial place for people to die, but Andrew has thousands of burial places.

These experimental samples, even Abel's Adam and Eve were divided into more than a dozen...

Abel didn't know if this guy was so unlucky in the parallel time and space. But this guy's experience made him call it a fluke after he knew it.

Fortunately, I knew how to hide from the beginning, and I didn't really make a few hundred dollars to earn tens of millions in a few days. Instead, I slowly used tens of thousands of dollars to earn 200 million in half a year, and then relied on these 200 million Nasdaq bubble fortune.

Although tens of thousands of dollars to earn 200 million in half a year is exaggerated, but Wall Street did have similar wizards before him.

It is these geniuses who will either rush to the street in the market, or disappear from the crowd.

But if you make hundreds of millions of dollars in two weeks with $800, that's an exaggeration.

It’s okay not to want people to pay attention, especially when Abel Smith has already appeared in front of him.

Those guys are definitely no longer willing to produce an Andrew Carlson, so even if this guy is really a reborn or other cheating player.

If you don't hide your clumsiness, you can only die directly.

that's the truth.

So Abel now knows that his background and origin really helped him a lot in the beginning.

At the same time, after earning the first pot of gold and becoming famous on Wall Street, it is also important to decisively marry the rising bush family through the relationship between Alex and Herbert.

At that time, if he hadn't been exposed to the light of the shrubs, he would definitely not have gone so smoothly.

Of course, at the same time, he also benefited from his own rapid rise.

His rise was too fast, allowing him to grow into a new behemoth at lightning speed, surrounded by monsters, and avoid being divided and eaten by many forces.

Otherwise, with the solidified pyramid hierarchy in the United States, Abel's rise like a cheat would have been wiped out long ago.

Like that hapless Andrew Carlson.

Do you really think that you will be invincible after rebirth or cheating? Unless you drive a DC Superman, one person can hit the whole world.

On the reality side, after all, we still have to pay attention to the rules of reality.

If he had been as high-profile and quick as Andrew Carlson at the time, he would not be able to stand here as a national giant, act with George, and pretend to be X in front of the top elite celebrities and the media in the United States.

"It was the happiest dinner I've ever had."

After the performance is over, the banquet officially begins.

George came down, still smiling and very relaxed, and said softly to Abel, little Laura beside him, and his own wife.

"In the future, you will come every year, so it's a happy agreement!"

When facing friends and relatives, Mr. Datong has a serious public image, but he is actually a very easy-going and humorous guy, even somewhat out of tune.

When talking like this with Abel now, it is somewhat childish.

Abel shrugged, "Yes, yes, but I ask you to pay me the performance fee. Acting like this feels harder than Hollywood, and you have to memorize so many lines!"

"Hahahaha..." George laughed heartily, "The stage of life is full of dramas. If you can play your own life well, you can succeed in everything you do."

"It's quite meaningful, but it's not an excuse for you not to pay an appearance fee!"

"Haha..." George laughed happily again, and then found an excuse to take his wife away immediately: "Furthermore, I will be very busy tonight. You have to take care of little Laura, we will go to work first, tonight See you later~”

After finishing speaking, the lady with a helpless expression went to entertain those guests who needed him to entertain.

Little Laura watched her uncle leave amusedly, and when Abel turned to look at herself, she smiled and said, "That's how he is, and you don't know."

Abel smiled, said nothing, and stretched out his hand to lean on her to make her more comfortable.

Little Laura noticed his thoughtfulness, and she felt a little sweet in her heart, and said in a low voice: "Speaking of which, my dear. This seems to be the first time we have attended a public dinner together?"

Abel thought it was true, but he knew that the dinner was not really a public one.

Abe Smith will appear later or when the media will report tomorrow. But because of his request, the bush woman next to Abel Smith will never appear.

This is the tacit understanding between him and the shrub family, and it is also the bottom line for him and his kind to know each other.

Before anyone breaks the bottom line, even his competitors will help him cover it up.

Little Laura's emotion and joy were only half-satisfied at best.

She is the woman who is destined to only hide in Smith's shadow.

Maybe it's not that she doesn't know, it's just that she has nothing to do when she knows, or she can only choose to be satisfied.

At least in front of these guys, in front of the upper elites of the United States, he is willing to admit her identity.

The sunk cost is so high that even the child is one year old, what else can she do? Of course he listened to everything.

At least he respected himself very much, none of his other women came tonight, only himself.

Little Laura was quite satisfied with this, so it was fine if he didn't answer, she smiled sweetly and pulled him up to the banquet scene, wanting to get closer to the Alexander couple and the Neil couple.

In such a showy place, two members of Congress who need votes are of course bound to appear.

George just dragged Abel to act in front of him, and they all went to work in their own circles.

Because of the well-known in-laws in his circle, even if a donkey and an elephant gather together, it doesn't look awkward.

Even the centrists and moderates within Donkey and Elephant used the two of them as a bond and formed a small circle around them tonight.

Little Laura knew her husband's attraction to those people, and she wanted to bring her husband there, so that she could also help her father-in-law and father.

But before they got close, someone greeted Abel loudly through Edward and the bodyguards who also followed in.

Little Laura looked over and saw a square-faced white man in his thirties, who yelled "BOSS" to Abel.

Little Laura looked at Abel suspiciously. She knew all of Abel's important confidants, but she didn't know this one.

Abel was also taken aback, he didn't know this guy very well.

But this guy's face was familiar to him many times before he was reborn.

Because this guy's name is Elon Musk.