America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 272 Ikana in Crazy Pregnancy Preparation

Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

"I'm back." Behind the desk, Robert Morgenthau, who was reading documents with his reading glasses, said with a gentle smile while taking off his reading glasses and putting down the documents.

"Yeah." Abel came to the seat in front of him and sat down politely.

Behind Abel was Peggy who quietly closed the door.

"You usually have something to do when you come to see me." Robert put his hands on the table and crossed them in the posture of "Yingyuantang", looking at Abel quietly and said.

"I want to invite you to a show."

Robert frowned: "Your underwear company's show? I can't go."

Let an old man in his 80s go to an underwear show, dare to say, if you make me 50 years younger, it will be about the same-Robert thought.

"No, it's not. That's obviously not suitable for you." Abel said with a smile:
"You're old. Robert, it's no use enjoying that thing."

Robert, who was originally in a calm mood, was already a little angry.

"What show is that?" Robert asked, frowning.

"Tonight. Madison Square Garden, the NBA's draft show. How about we watch it together?"

"It's even more impossible for me to go here." Robert's face was completely bad, "You want me to watch a lot of Brother Nee play football? I refuse."

Robert Morgenthau belongs to the most typical old white male style of the East Coast.

Even though he belongs to the Donkey Party, the Donkey Party is the party with the most black supporters.

But if you look closely, you can find that the old man doesn't even have a black friend.

After all, he is in his 80s.

In his youth, black people were not considered human beings in America
Abel knew he would be like this, so he said:

"Buffett and Bloomberg will both go. It's okay for Bloomberg to say, don't you want to talk to Buffett?"

Robert Morgenthau seemed to hesitate a bit, "No. I don't want to go, I don't like places that are too noisy."

The old prosecutor seemed resolute and did not intend to back down.

"Okay." Abel said, "Then let's forget about it. By the way, Robert, are you interested in investing in Smith Capital?"

"Smith Capital?"

Robert Morgenthau sat up straight, and the gray-haired old man looked at Abel: "Tell me about your plan."

"0.2% dry stock." Abel said:

"To Peggy or her father. The premise is that the position of Manhattan District Attorney must always be Morgenthau. When you lose this position, you will also lose the dividend right of this 0.2% share."

Abel's words made Robert Morgenthau deep in thought.

Abel didn't bother him, but turned his head and looked around, looking at the layout of Robert's office.

0.2% has only the right to share dividends to Robert Morgenthau. Abel has already planned this.

In addition, after this, he also plans to take out 0.6% of the dry shares with only dividend rights and hand them over to the other three people for disposal.

The three are the Speaker of the New York City Council, the Mayor of New York City, and the District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

the reason is simple.

Together with a Manhattan District Attorney (Western District of New York), these four are the largest and most powerful local snakes in the New York area.

Whoever owns these positions will be able to enjoy the right to share dividends during their tenure.

Whoever loses these positions will also lose the dividend right.

There is a high probability that the dividend right will not be directly held by these four people, and the rules of the game do not allow it.

But they have discretion.

Whoever they want to give the 0.2% dividend right to, then Smith Capital will give it to them.

The method is also very simple.

Smith Capital will recruit this designated person into the company.

Then, in the form of annual salary or options, these benefits are legally and reasonably given to this person.

This is actually a variant of the "revolving door" that is very common in the United States and is completely reasonable and legal.

The difference is that ordinary revolving doors are generally executed after the parties concerned retire or leave the job.

The revolving door of Smith Capital is simply given out when the other party is in office.

The difference between the two is that it is obvious that Smith Capital's 0.2% dividend will be amazing.

"I agree." About two or three minutes later, Abel wanted to stand up and look at a vase in the corner of Robert's office.

Robert spoke.

"It can't be Peggy." Robert Morgenthau said calmly: "She will be my successor. Give it to her father."

Abel withdrew his gaze from the beautiful vase.

He gave Robert a smile: "No problem. Dear Attorney General, this is your power."

Robert gave him a suggestion, "You should show your generosity to more people. Smith Capital has not even re-employed a retiree, which is not in line with the norm."

re-employment of retirees.

Robert's words were very cryptic, but Abel understood.

Probably referring to the normal version of the revolving door operation.

So-called revolving doors are characteristic of the United States and other parts of Europe and America.

It refers to some high-ranking government officials who, after resigning, retire and re-employ, and enter some large enterprises to work.

The content of work is often a consultant, the kind that only takes money and does not do anything.

Generally, companies that allow them to retire and re-employ.

It is often also very "coincidentally" that they used to work in the field before retiring.

For example, the officials of the Ministry of Health or the review committee of the FDA.

After they retire, they often become consultants and executives of companies such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and AbbVie.

Another example is the generals in the Pentagon.

After they retire.Generally, you can find a good job in companies such as Boeing, Raytheon, and General Dynamics
This is the so-called revolving door, an American feature.

Unfortunately, the big companies in a big oriental country later began to follow suit.

Robert is probably reminding Abel of this.

Because Abel's current company does not have such a consultant, nor does it have such retired re-employment personnel.

It's not that Abel doesn't do it.

It's all of Abel's companies, either they just came into existence or they were acquired not too long ago.

Even if you want to play the revolving door, you haven't had time to turn it.

Even if they want to recruit these retirees and re-employees, there is no suitable opportunity at present.

"I know what you mean." Abel thanked Robert for his reminder, "Thank you, Robert. I will do this."

Robert nodded with a smile.

"Okay." Abel smiled and said, "The business is over. Robert, you really don't want to accompany me to Madison Square Garden? You don't need to go to the ball, it's just the draft, and watch it as an entertainment show."

"I don't like to see a lot of Brother Nee appear in front of me." Robert Morgenthau was expressionless again.

"But Paige can go. If she wants to go."

Abel thought that an Ikana and a little Laura might both go.

Add another Peggy who doesn't matter, wouldn't that be World War?
He couldn't refuse, so he had to look at Peggy.

Fortunately, Peggy, who has been very quiet by the side, said lightly:
"I don't like basketball either. If it was Major League Baseball, I'd probably watch it."

"Ha~" Abel breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "That's very simple. I'll buy the Yankees in two days, and then I'll invite you to watch baseball."

The New York Yankees are one of the baseball teams in the American Major League Baseball that belongs to the American League.

The team's home court is in the Browns district of New York.In the division of the American League, it belongs to the American League East, and because the team has a history of more than 100 years, it also has the most famous historical events in the history of American sports.

It is also one of the commercial sports powerhouses with the most fans in New York, much more popular in New York than the Knicks of basketball.

In the same way, there are also football teams such as the New York Giants, and any one of them will beat the Knicks in the NBA.

However, there is only one Knicks team in New York, and the Knicks have become the most profitable and richest team in the NBA.

Now in 2001, the total market value of the 120 teams in the entire NBA league is estimated to be worth about [-] billion US dollars.

But a New York Yankees has a market value of around $40 billion.

In other words, a top giant team in the MLB league is worth more than one-third of the team value in the NBA league.

In the pre-NBA era when China had not been fully developed, the NBA was the bottom of the four major leagues all the year round.

After the China market was developed, the value of the NBA was firmly established as the third among the four major leagues.

But even so, the NBA still has a figure like Thunder.

This is a typical pick up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl to scold mother.

Faced with Abel's statement that he wanted to buy the New York Yankees, the grandson of Morgenthau didn't have much doubt.

Because no matter how tall the New York Yankees are, it is possible to succeed with Abel's wealth.

Peggy's response to this was a faint reply, "Okay. I'll go when the time comes."

Robert didn't invite, and Peggy wouldn't go.

Abel also did not stay here at the prosecutor's office.

He was escorted out by Peggy.

As soon as he got in the car, he picked up his cell phone and made a call.

"Hello, Warren."

"Good afternoon, Abel."

"How about coming to New York tomorrow night?"

"Is there a problem?"

"Come to Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, let's watch the NBA draft together."

As soon as this sentence was finished, Abel was afraid that Buffett would refuse, so he said before Buffett could speak:

"I've invited the Mayor of New York City, the Speaker of the City Council, Elephant Party candidate Bloomberg, and West District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. These people will show up when the time comes. Warren, are you sure you won't come? "

Buffett was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "What's the big plan?"

"You'll know when you come."

"Okay. Then I'll go there tomorrow."

"OK, waiting for you."

Abel breathed a sigh of relief when the phone hung up.

In fact, among the people he just mentioned, only Bloomberg promised to go.

And it was only after hearing that Buffett would go that Bloomberg was willing to go.

In fact, Abel didn't invite Buffett at all before this.

He has only just issued an invitation to Buffett until now.

As for the Mayor of New York City, the Speaker of the City Council, Robert the West District Attorney, etc.
Abel either wasn't invited at all or was turned down.

But what the heck.

Even Buffett and Bloomberg discovered the truth afterwards.

Could it be that they fell out with Abel because of such a trivial matter, and would they be dissatisfied with Abel?

At most it is speechless, and then angry for a while.

At this time, Abel still has this face.

Only through this incident, Abel also discovered that among the old white men in the upper class in the United States, none of them are really interested in the NBA.

It seems that even Obama, as the only black-skinned general, has never been to the NBA dominated by blacks.

In the United States, things with too many and too strong black attributes are destined to belong only to the bottom.

No matter how hard the NBA executives work, as long as this point is not changed, it will never be possible to compete with the NHL and MLB.

Mostly use the influence of the international market, put the ice hockey league under him as the fourth child, and himself as the third child.

But that didn't matter to Abel either.

Most of his interest in the NBA came from his youth.

Belongs to play ticket nature.

He doesn't bother to care about whether the NBA can go up.

After hanging up the phone, Abel's motorcade drove to the Woolworth Building.

Through negotiations, the building was built in 1913 in a neo-Gothic architectural style, 792 feet (241 meters), with a total of 57 stories.

It has now become one of the properties under New Start Real Estate.

Taxes + the cost of buying the building cost Abel a total of $16.35 billion.

In the core area of ​​the core of Manhattan, the price is so exaggerated to buy a famous building.

After fully holding it, Abel has already applied for a name change to the New York City government.

If it can be approved, then there will be no "Woolworth Building" in New York.

In its place was a mansion with a prefix of Smith's name.

Like Papa Ikana's Ted Lener Building, which was originally called the Chase Bank Building in Manhattan.

It was the old man who changed the name to his first and last name after he bought it.

Abel also imitated him.

But Abel's side is more difficult.

Because the Woolworth Building is more famous, taller, and more important in its location, it is already a building at the level of historical relics.

This is a little difficult to change.

Today's Woolworth Building is starting to clear the leases, and more than 400 companies in it have been cleared out.

This is a money-losing job, but fortunately it is not difficult, it just takes some time.

In addition, the facade of the building has already started to be refurbished and cleaned, which will last for a month or two.

Half a year later, there will be a skyscraper that does not change its original appearance, but has a completely new look.

Abel didn't go up the building, and there wasn't much to see there.

He was at the entrance of the building and looked at what it looked like.

Perhaps feeling something, looking at the Woolworth Building, he couldn't help but look to the south of the building.

There, there are two buildings that look exactly the same and are much taller than the surrounding buildings.

They are reflecting the bright light under the sunshine of New York at the end of June, setting off the prosperity and modernization of this city.

"Twins~"

Abel sighed slightly.

He has decided to stay in New York for more than a month and leave New York in a month.

He will not be returning to New York until that is over.

He would wait until the dust cleared before returning to traumatized New York.

Then, if possible, he will come here as the savior of New York or Manhattan to establish his new image in this city!

This plan has been in his mind for a long time.

It's just because you can't tell others, you can only know it yourself.

It's a bit hard to hold back.

In addition, he was also very curious about whether that incident was a conspiracy.

Or is it just the inevitability of accidental events formed under various coincidences.

He didn't know these things, but he knew that his own life was very important.

During that time, he would also keep his women, important employees, away from Manhattan for a period of time under various names.

In fact, he is not the only prophet to do this.

in parallel time and space.

When that day comes.

There is not even a single Wall Street executive around these two buildings.

The kind that doesn't have any.

Either they were on a business trip, they were on vacation, or they just weren't in Manhattan at the time.

It's such a coincidence.

This kind of coincidence caused Hollywood to make many movies in a sneaky way, and it was mentioned cryptically in the movie.

There are even American dramas, and the American drama "Billions" also mentioned a little bit of this coincidence.

It's just very cryptic, and I dare not mention it blatantly.

After looking at them deeply for a while, Abel calmed down and got into the car.

"Let's go, Andy," he told the driver.

The driver Andy turned on the turn signal, surrounded by the convoy, and drove into the vast river of cars in Manhattan.

Unfortunately, today is Saturday.

Foreign tourists flocked to Manhattan to visit the capital country, one of the most developed marvels of modern times.

The result is that Manhattan is blocked.

I left at three o'clock, and it was only four or five kilometers away, but I drove for an hour.

Around four in the afternoon.

Abel, who had been out all day, returned to 63 East 8rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Paris and Ikana haven't been out all day today.

Paris is in her room working on a draft.The design director of YKM has been working on drafts all day long.

This is the result of lacking in strength and talent, but having to bear the heavy responsibility of the design director of a fashion clothing company.

Ikana seemed very laid back.

When Abel came back, he saw her reading a book in the living room on the second floor in loose casual clothes that she rarely wore.

Ikana looked at it seriously, so seriously that Abel didn't notice when he came to her.

Abel glanced at the cover of the book Ikana was holding in her hand.

The name of the book is "Perfect Guide to 40 Weeks Pregnancy Upgraded Best Selling Edition".

This discovery made Abel reaffirm her determination.

For the sake of the child, she was a little obsessed.

On the table, there are several other books.

Abel picked it up and saw what it was "Mary's 100 Ways to Get Pregnant", "How to Conceive a Healthier Baby", "How to Eat During Pregnancy, Complete Book of Nutrition and Recipes During Pregnancy".
outrageous.

"Crack~"

Abel reached out and closed the book she was reading, startling Ikana.

She looked up and saw that it was Abel who had just come back, and his face just showed joy.

Ikana heard Abel say: "If you want a child, what's the use of reading these books? Of course, the actual operation is more useful! Let's go up and do the actual operation, so that you can have a child as soon as possible."

Ikana smiled shyly and wanted to say something, but screamed in fright. It turned out that Abel picked her up all at once.

Abel was still holding her and walked to the third floor.

"Be careful. It will be troublesome if you fall down. Maybe I already have it now, so pay more attention to safety!"

"What are you afraid of? It's not that you don't know my strength. Like you, I can hold two at a time, one on the back, and one on the front."

"Bragging~ Ah, don't hit, don't hit, don't grab so hard. I believe, I believe, I believe, can't I?"

"Ha ha."

While the two were laughing, they happened to meet Paris Hilton on the third floor who was holding a design draft and was about to go to the second floor.

"Hi, Paris, how are you?" Abel hugged Ikana and greeted her.

Paris nodded. Just as she was about to say something, Abel carried Ikana into the room.

Paris: "What are you going to do?"

Ikana giggled and didn't answer, but there was light in her eyes.

it's spring,
It's water light,
It is radiant light.

Just don't answer Paris.

Fortunately, before entering the master bedroom and closing the door, Abel winked at Paris, "Of course I did."

boom,
The door is closed.

Paris froze for a moment.

Then he reacted again.

"Fake oil!"

She made an international gesture towards Ikana and Abel's master bedroom.

　In the afternoon, I took the third child to the hospital for an examination. The three-month-old child had been coughing for two days and came back at six o'clock. Sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)