America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 212 Smith's Version of The Old Man and the Sea

Royal Point New York,

No. [-] Thirteenth Road.

This place has been "requisitioned" to a certain extent by Isa Corporation.

Isha's corporate headquarters is in New York.

And the signed models in Elizabeth's back garden.

Their "dormitory" is this ultra-luxury manor villa that has been "requisitioned".

Since last year's Christmas Eve show.

Isa Corporation, gained huge popularity.

Coupled with the very good unit price per customer, the market quickly spread across the United States.

At the end of December last year, there were only [-] stores in Elizabeth's back garden in the United States.

By the end of January this year, the number had reached more than 200.

Wait until the middle of the month.

Elizabeth's back garden has reached 300 stores across the United States.

The company's overseas branches have also begun preparations.

Other than that.

Last year's Christmas Eve show.

The one who benefited the most, apart from Yisha Company itself.

benefit the second largest.

Naturally, the company's 25 signed models.

Although there were more than 45 models who appeared on the stage at that time.

But those twenty models who weren't signed.

Although they are more famous, the timing and clothing of their appearance on the court are very bad.

In fact, they were invited to be green leaves to set off Isa's own models.

This approach is very successful.

This approach makes Isa's models look better and sweeter than these top world supermodels.

Also because of this show, Isha has 25 models.

There are more than ten in short order.

I got interview invitations from top fashion magazines including "VOGUE" and "Harper's Bazaar".

Like Gisele Bundchen, who was the finale, even once again became the cover figure of "VOGUE" magazine.

Carmen Keith also graced the January cover of Harper's Bazaar.

The Harper's Bazaar is not China's Harper's Bazaar.

Harper's Bazaar in the United States is the No. [-] fashion magazine under the Hearst Media Group and is very influential in the world.

And other models have also gained their own fame one after another.

Among the models, the most profitable.

Except for Gisele Bundchen and Carmen Kess, two famous supermodels before they joined.

Secondly, there are Adriana Lima and Carolina Kurkova, two younger supermodels.

Adriana Lima, interviewed by "VOGUE" for the first time after this.

And it was announced not long ago that Lima would play an important supporting role in MGM's "Spider-Man".

Karolina Kurkova is not bad either, she was also interviewed by Cosmopolitan.

"Cosmopolitan" is the top five fashion magazines in the United States, founded in 1886.

In addition, KK, who was still young at this time, also got some supporting roles in Hollywood like Lima and others.

It can be said that except for the success of Yisha Company.

Elizabeth's Angels, too, was a huge success.

This makes No. [-] Thirteen Road, King Point, New York.

It quickly became a legend in supermodel circles.

Leaving aside this house, it is said that the selling price is as high as 6500 million US dollars.

Being able to live in it is a kind of enjoyment in itself.

Not to mention, the models who live in it all start to shine in fashion magazines around the world
This makes those newcomers who have not joined, or have no way to join, or yearn for this circle.

Naturally, it is infinitely admired.

This day, when Xiaoxue started to be colorful again.

The later Big KK, now in the fashion media, is nicknamed "Little KK" Karolina Kurkova.

afternoon.

While it was still snowing outside.

She was comfortably soaked in Abel spent almost tens of millions of dollars to remodel.

You can also swim outdoors in winter.

While looking at the snow scene, you can swim cheerfully in the outdoor glass dome swimming pool as a mermaid.

Of course, such a big swimming pool.

It is not prohibited for any guest in the villa to use it.

Other supermodels who live in the villa can also swim in it.

Just recently, the number of girls who still live here is much smaller.

This is because Yisha Company is currently engaged in a spring show.

Its own 25 signed models are divided into four parts.

Four parts.

Coupled with some temporarily hired supermodels, they will go to the four most developed cities in the United States to hold big shows.

The four cities are New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago.

The other models have already set off for those three cities.

No. [-], Huangdian Thirteenth Road, New York, naturally fewer supermodels still live here.

Among them, Gisele Bundchen is vaguely already the world's number one supermodel.

She took six colleagues to Los Angeles.

Carmen Kath took seven colleagues and went to Miami in the south.

Adriana Lima, who is younger but has already shown her unique temperament on the runway.

He took the same seven colleagues and went to Chicago to open up the market under the protection of rock security.

The youngest, Karolina Kurkova, and the rest of her colleagues.

Stay in New York and continue to have a spring show in New York.

This spring show will last for a week.

There were four shows in total.

Try to stabilize or even expand the popularity accumulated in last year's Christmas Eve show.

Stronger, older sisters.

They go to big cities such as Los Angeles to open up markets.

Karolina Kurkova, the little sister with little influence, stayed in New York.

In addition, by doing this, the company is almost implicitly telling its angel babies——

If you get the favor of a certain king, your position in Isa will be guaranteed.

And the four leading elder sisters, including Karolina Kurkova.

There is no doubt that they are the four angel babies who are most favored by the king.

"Crash~"

In the swimming pool, there was a sound of water.

Karolina Kurkova, who was tired from swimming, came to the pool and went ashore to rest.

In her light gasp.

Another supermodel, Alessandra Ambrosio, swam to her with a smile.

"Hey Carolina, are you off swimming?"

"I'm a little tired from swimming, take a break." Karolina Kurkova responded with a smile.

Alexandra is also Isha's signed model.

In this back garden, she has a lower status.

Shared a room with Angela Lindelwald.

In contrast, the younger Karolina Kurkova can live in a room by herself.

Obviously the big KK is here now, and his status is much higher than that of Alexandra.

That's why Carolina.

The reason for looking more calm in the face of Alexandra's greeting.

"That's right~" Alexandra said with a relaxed tone:

"Carolina, I heard our boss is back in New York? I saw the news this morning! The New York Post said he went to Smith & Co."

Karolina Kurkova was young after all.

And she entered the modeling industry at the age of 15, and came to the United States when she was less than 16 years old.

After coming to the United States, she was signed by Victoria's Secret before she even became famous.

Although Victoria's Secret is now suppressed by Isa, it is about to go bankrupt.

But at that time, it treated Karolina Kurkova, a model signed by itself, relatively well.

At least it's much better than those dark modeling agencies.

Because of this, Karolina Kurkova was on the way to enter the Isa company.

The darkness in the circle itself hardly bears anything too large.

In a daze, she became Elizabeth's angel.

This made Karolina Kurkova less wary of her circle and "colleagues".

To put it bluntly, he is too young and has relatively little experience.

Hearing Alexandra ask like this.

Carolina even said a little proudly:

"I'm back in New York! I sent a message yesterday to ask. The boss said that he will come to see me today or tomorrow!"

Of Elizabeth's angels, only four had Abel's number.

These four people were the first to come to this villa.

Karolina Kurkova is one of them.

She is naive and courageous.

He was also the one among the four who dared to send a message to Abel.

"Oh oh oh~" Alexandra smiled.

Alexandra then swam in the water for a few more minutes.

She said to Karolina Kurkova:
"Carolina, I'm tired, I won't swim anymore. I'll go back and change first."

Karolina Kurkova naively said:
"Are you tired from swimming so quickly? You swam for a long time yesterday. Well, then I will swim for a while."

Alexandra smiled and nodded, and went straight back to the room.

In the same room as Alexandra, Angela Lindelwald, who had charming eyes like a fox, was not there.

Angela went to Miami, and the room was temporarily exclusive to Alexandra.

Alexandra hurried to the vanity mirror and sat down.

She began to carefully apply makeup, and then choose clothes.

So wait for Abel around four o'clock in the afternoon.

Take a boat across the sea and come to No. [-] Thirteenth Road, Emperor Point, New York.

When walking into the largest living room, which was once used as a temporary show stage.

In the warm living room.

What he saw was Alessandra Ambrosio in cool clothes and nice light makeup.

"Mr Smith!"

Seeing Abel's arrival, Alexandra showed a surprised and joyful expression on her face.

She jumped up on the couch.

In the cool clothes, she has a very material figure, because of her bouncing, she looks very good-looking.

Abel's eyes fixed on Ambrosio's jumping bear, and he said with a smile:
"I remember you, your name seems to be Alexander?"

When the sound came out, Abel felt weird.

Because his father also has this name.

"Alessandra," corrected Alessandra Ambrosio.

"The name is pronounced differently when it is applied to a female, my dear sir."

"Okay." Abel nodded with a smile.

Alexander is a common name in America.

And not only men can use it, but some parents will give their daughters this name.

But the name is, after all, the name of Alexander the Great.

It's okay for men, but weird for women.

Later, different pronunciations were developed. When a woman uses this name, she will be pronounced Alexandra.

"Alexandra, why are you alone?" Abel walked towards her curiously.

Alexandra replied obediently:
"Some of them are taking a nap, some are swimming, and some don't know what they are doing."

"I'm reading a book here~"

Abel naturally hugged her into Hai's arms.

He also saw Alexandra holding a copy of "The Old Man and the Sea".

"The Old Man and the Sea" by Alexandra is certainly not a song.

It is a work created by the famous American writer Hemingway in the last century.

The work revolves around an elderly Cuban fisherman, and a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore to start the story.

Abel felt strange.

I thought to myself, how can a top supermodel who is a scumbag read such boring books?
Even Abel himself.

Before he was reborn, he only finished reading this book in junior high school when he had the strongest desire to read in his life.

He didn't know.

This is Alessandra Ambrosio's character set for herself in front of him.

A beautiful supermodel who pursues high-level interests, likes literature and philosophy, but has a good figure and strong professional skills.

At least for now, this persona has aroused Abel's curiosity and attention.

One is dressed coolly and has a super figure.

She is beautiful, she is flattering to herself, and at the same time she looks more artistic.

It would be strange if Abel wasn't interested.

This made him and Alexandra couldn't help talking a little more.

While chatting, the clothes on his body disappeared.

Chatting and chatting, Alexandra's clothes also disappeared.

Wait for Karolina Kurkova to finish swimming comfortably.

Back in the room, she wanted to sit in the living room in her bathrobe.

When she got outside the living room, she heard voices coming from inside.

The voice was all too familiar to Karolina Kurkova.

She quietly pushed the door open and saw a copy of Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" falling on the ground inside.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is covered with a pair of tulle trousers produced by Elizabeth.

Above, there is the sofa.

Abel and Alexandra who are "reading" are gone.

Karolina Kurkova is relatively naive, but she is not stupid.

I have also heard many legends in the circle for a long time.

When she saw the woman inside, it was Alexandra, not any other colleague.

The young big KK immediately understood something.

This made her grit her teeth, furious in her heart:
"Madfak! Bitch, big Bitch!"

She had already guessed that Alexandra was telling her own words just now!

This made the young KK aware of the darkness in this circle.

Even the Eden-like Isa Garden in the industry cannot escape this rule.

At most, it is more orderly, has rules, and has its own king.

In other respects, this place is actually no different from the outside circle.

After thinking this through, Karolina Kurkova gritted her teeth, pushed the door open and walked in.

Naturally, the three of them watched "The Old Man and the Sea" together.

After that, other supermodels came.

The number of people watching "The Old Man and the Sea" together changed from three to four, four to five, and five to six
Finally, Abel was added, and there were eight people in total, who were reading Hemingway's masterpiece——

"The Old Man and the Sea".

This is "The Old Man and the Sea". The content in the book is a little different from Hemingway's original work.

Abel's version of The Old Man and the Sea.

Tells about seven mermaids.

The story description revolves around a young fisherman named Abel who fights on sofas, carpets, walls and many other places.

When Abel left No. [-] Thirteenth Road, King Point, New York.

It was already daytime the next day.

Today is a beautiful day and the snow has finally stopped in New York.

The sun came out, although the sky was not clear, it also made people feel comfortable physically and mentally.

Abel, who came out of the villa, supported his waist, put his hands on his hips, looked at the sky and smiled.

He pushed his limits.

One hit seven, no pressure!

In this way, he left No. [-] Thirteenth Road, Emperor Point, New York.

Today is already October 2th.

There are still three days until the end of the first private placement of Smith Capital.

Smith Capital has notified the 100 LPs (investors) of the first private placement.

Let them come on the 20th, let them come by themselves or let representatives come to Smith Capital for a meeting.

The story quickly spread throughout New York.

The general profitability of this private equity fund.

On NO.15 last November, at the Smith Capital Investment Reception that night.

It has already been announced once.

Now the closed period is coming to an end, even if it is not the LPs of this private placement.

Other New York tycoons, and even American tycoons who have heard of it, are also very curious about this matter.

Everyone is curious, in November, only three months have passed.

The account of this private equity fund has changed from 30 billion US dollars to more than 86 billion US dollars.

Now another three months have passed.

What kind of figure will the balance of 86 billion US dollars become?

Add another 50 billion U.S. dollars to become 130 billion U.S. dollars?

Still not $130 billion, or even more than $130 billion?

Basically these three guesses.

Anyway, no one thinks it will be less than $86 billion.

Wall Street, in particular, is even more curious about this.

Mostly last month.

In the USD/JPY incident between Smith Capital VS a dozen investment banks.

Smith Capital hurt them.

Also let these investment banks know that the profits of Smith Capital will be absolutely terrible.

And at this time, David Mellon announced on behalf of Smith Capital.

Smith Capital's new 4, 5, 6, a total of three private equity funds will start raising funds.

To all US investors.

This news instantly detonated the circle of rich people in New York.

It is also spread to the circle of the rich in the United States.

There are even many rich Americans who immediately took a private jet and flew directly to New York.

And David Mellon is smart enough.

He did not explain to the outside world at all that these three private placements will not be the fund manager of Alberta, but another trader from Smith Capital.

If you say it directly, there may be many rich people who will not come.

But if you don't say it, first trick them into the company.

Even if they get angry and regret it afterwards, they should be able to retain some customers to some extent.

And doing so will do no harm to Smith Capital.

Because there are 2 and 3 private placements ahead, which are managed by Abel.

And in the future, Abel will not create new private placements any more.

For these three private placements, Abel will also come forward to provide certain guarantees.

There is a three-pronged approach to these efforts.

These private placements of Smith Capital should not be difficult to raise.

(End of this chapter)