America's Road to Wealth

In the afternoon, the raging wind and snow stopped for a while, and Abel leaned his head on the window glass of the helicopter and looked down from the sky.

The snow-covered New York City landscape is majestic and majestic. Layers of ice accumulated on some water surfaces reflect crystal clear sky blue in the sun. At first glance, it is breathtakingly beautiful.

However, the sudden ice storm brought huge disasters to the entire New York City and even several states near New York State. The subsequent impact of this snow disaster and freezing will not be eliminated for a while.

However, the vitality of the Americans is very tenacious. Many people have experienced disasters of this level at least several times in their lives, and many people have experience.

What's more, in a socially advanced country like the United States, it doesn't matter if you don't have experience, at most you will become an obsolete product.

After all... Only the garbage dump doesn't need to clean up the garbage.

The apron on the roof of the Smith Tower, where Smith Capital is located, has been cleaned. With the whirlwind blown by the helicopter propeller, all the surrounding snow is blown up, causing a group of people waiting not far away to squint. Eyes, slightly sideways to resist the cold wind and the white snow and sand in the sky.

Abel, who was wearing a dark blue cashmere overcoat, got off the helicopter whose propellers had stopped spinning. Seeing a group of tightly packed people with red faces coming up quickly, Abel couldn't help but smile slightly. smile.

In addition to his own think tank, there are also executives from Smith Capital, as well as management from other Smith departments such as the media department and the energy department. sisters.

It seems that no matter which one of these people present can't wait to see me!

Who asked me to go to Washington this time, and it took so long to go.

Soon, an internal executive meeting of Smith's company began.

Several issues were mainly discussed at the meeting.

There are Smith Media's cooperation and merger with Sony Columbia and Sony Music.

This is the result brought by Abel Neon and his party.

He supported Mitsui Suki, Mitsui Toko's father, as the leader, not just for Dongko's beauty.

The biggest purpose of this trip is to draw one's own restricted area on the RBQ of the United States.

The Mitsui Zaibatsu is under the control of this newly promoted middle school tycoon.

The return of Mitsui and his daughter is the in-depth cooperation between Sony Columbia Pictures and MGM Film Group. Then Sony Music Group and DreamWorks Music cross-shared each other, and integrated their businesses to achieve a merger without merger.

This is the main work of Smith Media in the past six months, and it has almost been completed.

Now he, the boss, needs to make a final decision and directly make a decision to complete the final integration work.

After the meeting is over later, Smith Media will officially announce the news.

However, the actions between the two giants have already been frequent, and the outside world has been speculating and curious. In order to increase each other's stock prices, the two parties have been secretly promoting from the side in the morning.

This has allowed Smith Media's stock price to rise by about 8% in the past six months, and it is more stable than anyone else in the sideways market.

Sony Columbia and Sony Music, the latter not listed. The stock price of the former has almost risen by more than 25% in half a year.

This is still the case that the news has not been officially announced.

After the news is officially announced later, the stock prices of both parties will definitely usher in a rise.

At that time, the market value of Smith Media may exceed 350 billion U.S. dollars. That would make Smith Media the 15th largest company on the U.S. stock market, surpassing giants such as General Motors and Ford Motor.

Good for Sony, too, whose share price has been depressed for so many years. Now with Smith Media, I finally embarked on the fast lane.

This time it is estimated that there will be a wave of skyrocketing, at least the increase of more than 10% will not run away.

After discussing the work of Smith Media, the next step is Pacific Energy Group.

Pacific Energy Group's acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Company has been going on for more than a year.

The resistance in this regard is because there are many obstacles from other energy giants, such as the Seven Sisters of Petroleum. So even if both parties have love affairs and concubines, the work is very difficult. The sum spent on lobbying by both parties is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

But fortunately, because both parties are indeed interested, even if there are many parties to block it, now it has finally reached the final step.

Recently, all obstacles have finally been cleared, and Pacific Energy will acquire Anadarko for US$24 billion in the form of 50% stock plus 50% cash.

The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is expected to be completed in the first half of next year. After the transaction is completed, Pacific Energy will issue approximately 200 million new shares and pay approximately US$12 billion in cash. At the same time, Pacific Energy is expected to assume $8 billion of Anadarko's original debt. The size of the entire merger and acquisition transaction will reach nearly 32 billion US dollars.

There is no doubt that the actions of both parties have already aroused widespread concern in the industry. Some analysts said that if the acquisition is completed, Pacific Energy's operating cash flow will surpass Exxon Mobil and become the world's second largest crude oil company.

It is generally believed in the industry that this acquisition war has started a new round of arms race in the US oil industry - shale oil preparation!

The CEO of ExxonMobil, Fitter, bluntly told the media that Pacific Energy's acquisition of Anadarko is a bet on the Permian Basin.

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Holub also said that Pacific Energy values ​​Anadarko Petroleum because of its shale oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico.

According to relevant information, the Permian Basin is about 400 kilometers wide and 480 kilometers long, with a surface area of ​​more than 120,000 square kilometers, including 43 counties in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The basin consists of three small basins: Midland, Delaware, and Marfa.

According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the shale oil content in this basin accounts for two-thirds of the national shale oil content in the United States, and the oil production in this basin is expected to double within five years. As Bloomberg notes: "In the future, a significant portion of total global crude oil production will depend on the Permian Basin."

Because of this importance, Pacific Energy's acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Company has been delayed for so long.

In the end, thanks to Anadarko Petroleum Corporation itself, which is a Texas-based company, despite numerous obstacles, Pacific Energy successfully completed the biggest move since its establishment, establishing its new position in the crude oil industry.

Finally got to Smith Capital.

Abel was in Washington last month. Therefore, the Smith Capital Investment Reception, which was supposed to be held at the end of November, was postponed to December by Smith Capital.

In this regard, both Wall Street peers and Smith Capital LPs strongly agree.

Without him, everyone knows that Abe Smith is the real creator and core of Smith Capital.

With him, Smith Capital is the number one investment bank on Wall Street. Therefore, if Abel did not attend the investment reception of Smith Capital at the end of the year, it would undoubtedly eclipse the gala of Wall Street and the rich in the United States.

The Lord did not come back, and David Mellon and the others did not arouse everyone's interest at all.

Everyone is naturally willing to wait for Abel Smith's return.

At the meeting, the rest of the main discussion was where to hold the investment reception at the end of this year.

Three years ago, the first Smith Capital investment reception was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. The second time was in the original Smith Building, which is the building in the LIC area of ​​Queens.

The investment reception at the end of last year was also held at the hotel.

This year, Abel wanted to do something different.

"My company hasn't held a joint annual meeting until now? Everyone seems to have their own annual meeting? As your boss, I either don't attend, or if I do, I will run up and down. "

In the conference room, Abel looked at everyone and directly expressed his thoughts.

"So I think, there will be a different show at the end of this year. I hope that all the industries under my umbrella, all the executives and important employee elites can gather at the end of the year after a busy year."

"Everyone has a grand party to celebrate this year's harvest, and at the same time look forward to the coming year to inspire greater motivation for everyone's bright future!"

Everyone in the audience instantly understood what the boss meant.

Soon, many people's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The end-of-year reception of the entire Smith Department, or even the entire Texas United Consortium?

Just imagining it made everyone present tremble with excitement.

You know, not long ago WSJ (Wall Street Journal) made a report on Abe Smith and how many people are currently working for him.

In that report, WSJ claimed that throughout the United States, there are at least more than one million Americans working for Abe Smith, or indirectly working for him.

Expanded to the entire world, there may be more than 1.2 million people working for Abel Smith.

And the number of people working for him is still growing. The WSJ says that in a few years, there may be more than 2 million people.

Imagine a joint reception at the end of the year for a huge business group with millions of people.

Even if only one-thousandth of the top elites and executives can attend, it will be a grand and unparalleled business party.

"Let's make a good plan. Then I will invite some friends. Everyone has worked hard for a year. Let's have a happy gathering and celebrate."

Seeing everyone's emotional expressions, Abel laughed, "Well, each company will send two people to participate in the discussion to discuss how to do this at the end of the year. As for the candidates, you decide internally. Make a plan Leave it to me in the future, and I hope to get it done by the end of this month."

After giving such a last order, Abel directly announced the dismissal of the meeting.

After the meeting, Abel made another round of the Smith Tower.

Just like the lion king on the African grasslands, he occasionally makes routine inspections in his territory.

When he decided to leave and appeared on the helipad in the annex of the Smith Building.

The sky has gradually dimmed, and under the cloudy night, the wind and snow have obviously weakened. The weather forecast said that the negative air pressure that led to the formation of the snowstorm has gone to the southwest.

New York State and several nearby states can finally take a breath, at least they don't have to worry about the continued raging of wind and snow.

Abel sat on the helicopter overlooking the still brightly lit midtown Manhattan, and couldn't help smiling. Although Con Edison is very weak, everyone is used to the temper of this monopoly power giant.

Here in Manhattan, each building and commercial building has its own independent power generation system. It really appears that in such a state of large-scale power outage, there is no pressure to generate electricity and supply power by yourself in a short period of time.

After all, this is Manhattan. If there is a complete blackout, the empire will not look good.

In contrast, the lights in Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey and other places in the distance are not so brilliant.

Only some skyscrapers are brightly lit.

After all, there is no electricity yet, and the East Coast power supply system is so stretched.

Pulling off the collar of the windbreaker on his body, he slowly closed his eyes, quietly waiting to reach his destination.

The propeller raised the white snow sand all over the sky, Abel bent slightly, squinted his eyes, and walked quickly towards the gate of the manor mansion under the cover of the human wall formed by the bodyguards around him.

"call--"

After entering the door, Abel breathed a sigh of relief, and let the two maids come forward to help him clean up the snowflakes on his body and help him take off his coat, while Avril, who stood aside with a sweet smile on his face, walked up Before and Abel did not get up.

"Why are you here? Where are Keira and Britney?" Abel asked curiously after exchanging words with her.

"Miss Wilson hasn't come back yet. After you left, she also went to work in Manhattan. Britney took Aishia and Orlando to sleep. And I...I've been here waiting for you to come back!"

"So obedient? This is not your style." Abel smiled.

Don't look at Avril Lavigne when he just got started, she was a cautious and obedient, like a puppy who was just brought home.

Later, I became familiar with each other, learned all kinds of postures, and developed feelings.

She started to germinate.

After all, her character has more flamboyant and punk attributes, and Abel also likes that his women have their own characteristics, so he doesn't impose more restrictions on them in this regard.

So now Avril also dares to be naughty in front of him, occasionally making small temper or something.

Abel took this as a hobby, otherwise it would be too boring if they all looked like puppet toys.

"Hey hey~" I saw that Avril's dress was completely different from that of the smoky makeup in the parallel time and space, the Avril who was dressed purely like a white lotus, giggled, "Dang~dang~ clang~”

She suddenly pulled out a report card from her pocket.

"You'll know it when you look at it."

Abel took it over and took a look, and found that it was an obstetrics and gynecology checklist issued by Williams Hospital in Manhattan that he had just acquired.

Already the father of more than a dozen children, Abel, who will become the father of more children in the future, is no stranger to this thing.

The simple data above showed that the owner of the check, Miss Avril Lavigne, was not long past her 19th birthday.

She is already pregnant.