America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 318 Returning to Manhattan

After the reception ended, neither Abel nor his family left the white house.

Including several other families that are friendly with the bush family.

Everyone stayed in the white house and spent the night in it.

This is not difficult, because except for the living space of the general commander on the second floor.

There are a total of 136 guest rooms in the whole white house, which can accommodate double the number of guests.

This time Abel couldn't share a room with little Laura.

It still makes sense to take a nap at noon today.If they sleep together at night, in the eyes of the unmarried Puritans, there is something wrong.

So tonight, Abel sleeps alone again.

Early the next morning, he bid farewell to his parents and left at Washington National Airport.

Abe and little Laura went to New York, and the Alexanders went back to Texas.

On North Houston Street in Manhattan, little Laura and Abel parted ways.

Little Laura is going back to New York University for extra lessons.

This little girl was originally a transfer student, she skipped a grade, and she kept asking for leave all the time, her grades were in a mess.

Although she is not afraid of not getting her graduation certificate in her capacity, she can't learn nothing in school.

She is determined to learn something so that she can help Abel in the future.

In order to achieve the purpose of concentrating on learning.

Before she and Abel separated, she even told Abel not to look for her for at least two months, and that she would spend every day in the library and classrooms to make up for what was behind.

Abel smiled and said yes, he bet she must be the one who couldn't bear to come out to find him first.

"Impossible! I am firm this time!" said little Laura.

"Then we bet?"

"What is the bet!! You may not win."

"bet"

Abel whispered something softly in her ear.

"Fake!"

These few words of Abel made little Laura, who had never uttered foul words before his eyes, couldn't help but burst out a foul word.

"Don't even think about it! Absolutely impossible! Impossible, no!" Her beautiful eyes widened.

"What a bastard you are! You can say such a thing! Oh, don't think about it!"

She was coquettish, and she entered the school under the escort of Secret Service and Rock Security staff.

Look at her bouncing around, with a petite figure.

Sitting in the car, Abel, who was watching her back, finally landed on her perky cock.

He felt that his request just now seemed a bit excessive.

"Too young. Regardless of age or body"

He thought for a while and muttered:

"It is estimated that Ikana and Liv, the two big and tall ones, can carry it. Maybe I should find Angel Isa first? They are more patient."

"Forget it. I'm not really a pervert."

"Let's go. Andy." He called out to the driver in front of him. "Go to Charlie Brown's Pizza!"

The driver Andy agreed, turned the steering wheel, and the convoy drove into Manhattan Avenue.

Compared to before, Abel feels that Manhattan is much deserted now.

After that incident, Manhattan experienced a depression not seen in decades.

In the first few days, in addition to the locals living here, there were also rescue workers.

According to a TV station, there are not even a few living people on the entire island of Manhattan.

After such a long time, time has healed a lot, but the mental scars have not healed.

Many people are still afraid that such a disaster will happen again here.

This made this small island, which was originally the economic center of the United States, a bit depressed.

Abel, who was stuck in traffic nine times out of ten times, drove very smoothly this time.

It only took ten minutes to arrive at Charlie Brown's Pizzeria in Lower Manhattan.

The location of the Twin Towers happens to be downtown as well.

After arriving here, there are more people, and you can see many loading trucks and workers wearing hard hats at work.

Workers are cleaning up the ruins, moving out a large amount of construction waste, and rearranging the site.

With the productivity of American workers in this era, this kind of work may last for several years.

However, due to the special situation, all Americans are watching here now, and the work efficiency is very fast.

When Abel arrived, he could find that more than half of it had been cleaned up.

At least when looking at it from a distance, you don't need to see a large ruin, but only a construction site.

Get off at the door of the pizzeria.

Abel noticed that the glass at the entrance of Charlie Brown's Pizza had obviously been replaced.

He knew that, Edward had mentioned it to him.

In that big event last month.

Some fragments of the collapsed building were flying everywhere, breaking a lot of glass, and some people were even taken to the hospital.

There were unlucky onlookers and those who were directly crushed to death.

Charlie Brown's Pizzeria was not far away, and two pieces of debris hit the gate and the glass next to it.

Nothing happened to anyone, but the glass doors and glass walls were smashed.

Because Abel has already bought the store, Charlie Brown is actually renting his store.

If there is any damage in this area, the old guy, the tenant, will of course look for Abel.

After Edward mentioned it, Abel asked Rock Security to pay the money, and simply replaced all the glass and doors of the store.

Directly replace it with bulletproof double-layer laminated special glass, and redesign the interior decoration.

In this way, when he eats pizza here in the future, he won't be afraid of being attacked by someone outside.

The street outside is deserted, but Charlie Brown's Pizzeria is open.

When Abel walked in, except for the old guy Charlie Brown, the owner, and two waiters who were actually rock security staff pretending to be in the store.

There is another table of guests.

The guests at this table saw Abel come in and waved at him.

It's Bloomberg.

Abel walked over with a smile and greeted the No. [-] candidate of the New York Elephant Party this year:
"Good morning, Michael. I didn't expect you to invite me here for dinner. I thought I was the only one who liked the old guy's pizza."

That's when Charlie Brown came by with a pineapple pizza and put it on Bloomberg's side.

Hearing what Abel said, the old man couldn't help saying:

"Hey, my pizza is the best in New York! Mr. Bloomberg likes it too, he comes here often!"

Bloomberg also confirmed with a smile: "That's right. I will eat here at least once a week. Charlie's pineapple pizza is very suitable for my appetite."

"Haha~ Thank you for your compliment." Charlie Brown saluted Bloomberg gracefully, and then left in a grand manner.

Abel complained about Bloomberg who started eating pineapple pizza:

"If the Italians in New York knew that you, the future mayor of New York, like to eat pineapple pizza so much. Guess if the Italians in New York would vote for you?"

It is said that the first pineapple pizza in history was made by Sam Panopoulos, a Canadian pizza chef from Greece.

In 1962, he made the first pineapple pizza in the small town of Chatham Kent, Ontario, Canada.

Later it became popular all over Canada.

As we all know, Canada is a relatively large "state" of the United States.

Soon it spread here.Because it is very in line with the sweet taste of most Americans, this kind of pizza is also widely popular here.

But this kind of pizza is regarded as heresy by Italy, the birthplace of pizza.

For Italians, eating pineapple pizza is intolerable.

This is probably as unbearable as a person in Shu Province, China, seeing the sweet "strawberry mapo tofu" made by a small neon cabinet.

Hearing what Abel said, Bloomberg, who also likes sweets and was eating vigorously with two pieces of pineapple pizza, couldn't help but pause.

You must know that the Italian group who came to the United States loves to immigrate to the eastern part of the United States, especially New York, because it is a port city.

In Brooklyn, there are at least hundreds of thousands of Italians, and there are even many Italian communities, which are more than the number of Chinese here.

This can be seen from the fact that most of the early gang members in New York were Italian.

Thinking of this, Bloomberg couldn't help but put down his delicious pineapple pizza.

"Well, you seem to have a point." Bloomberg said helplessly.

Abel shrugged: "Actually, I just said it casually. I don't know if Italians really mind."

Bloomberg knew, too, but decided to quit pineapple pizza in the future, just in case.

Compared with the huge benefits of becoming the mayor of New York, a mere appetite for food is nothing to a person like him.

"I came here just now, and I feel that Manhattan has been depressed a lot." Abel said softly.

Bloomberg nodded.

"It is true. As far as I know, there is definite news that more than 400 companies have decided to move out of Manhattan."

"So much?" Abel was surprised.

"There will only be more," Bloomberg said:

"Originally, the land price in Manhattan is unbearable. For the price of renting one office here, you can rent three in Queens. If you change it to Brooklyn, you can rent five."

"Moving out of Manhattan used to make people doubt the strength of the company. Now that this happened, there is no better excuse to evacuate Manhattan at this time."

before the big event.

Lower Manhattan has almost 2 residents.

Less than a month after the big incident, 1 people have left.

Many more have left Manhattan, and their departure has made it look a bit bleak.

These ordinary citizens cannot be blamed.

Even the 500-meter-long Wall Street, various commercial institutions, municipal departments, banks and insurance companies in the surrounding buildings, and even these giants have chosen to move out of here.

No. 23 Wall Street, the former Morgan Chase Building, No. 37 Wall Street, the former American Trust Company, No. 45, the former Toronto Mingdao Bank, No. 63, the former Brown Brothers Harriman Trust Building, etc., these companies have all gone.

After that big event.

Although some large financial institutions and banks still stand here on Wall Street today, they are not the same as before.

The ruins not far away, it enveloped the 500-meter street like a haze.

The whole of New York is in a state of mourning right now, and Manhattan is the source of the mourning.

Compared with places like Afghanistan, Lysyria, and Lakoy in the future, Manhattan's misery is naturally nothing.

But on the mainland, Americans who have not been attacked for almost 200 years.

The big incident this time was to slap them dozens of times in the face.

Not very harmful, but extremely insulting.At the same time, it also broke their psychological defense, letting them know that the safest homeland can be dangerous sometimes.

In New York and Manhattan, which are facing the disaster directly, this sentiment is naturally even more serious.

In panic, everyone will of course choose to stay away from Manhattan.

"Michael." Thinking of the depression around Manhattan, Abel said softly: "Have you ever thought about using these things to make an article?"

"How to say?" Bloomberg, like Abel, called out a chicken pizza again, and the pineapple pizza was given to his bodyguard next to him.

Although it is impossible to be so unlucky, it is still just in case.

After all, Mark Twain's article was not written in vain, and many of the examples in it are true.

During the campaign, in order to be able to win.

Both sides can do a lot of things.

Sometimes even something that seems to have a small impact can have bad results.

"In this situation where all Manhattanites, all New Yorkers, need a hero to come out. I think you can be that hero, and it's going to get you a lot of votes a month from now."

Bloomberg was cheered up, and his team had said the same thing.

But because he was afraid of self-defeating, Bloomberg was hesitant to make a move, and only did some due work.

For example, in front of the public, take the initiative to find ways to raise donations and the like.

That's fine, but his competitors have done similar work.

Doing it alone will look great, and doing it with two will look like it should be done.

"Where do you think we should start?" Bloomberg said.

"Your company hasn't left Manhattan, has it?" Abel asked back.

"No." Bloomberg shook his head.

Bloomberg, Bloomberg, has three offices in New York.

One is the headquarters, at 732 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, which occupies floors 2-29 and the basement of the building.

After the big incident, Bloomberg actually thought about moving his headquarters out of Manhattan.

Billionaires are also afraid of death.

It's just that he will be elected this year. If something like this happens and he leaves, he will probably be scolded to death by the voters and attacked by his competitors.

So the thing about leaving Manhattan is just thinking about it.

"That's fine."

Abel said, "That way we can come out. How about going back to Manhattan?"

"Huh? How to do it specifically."

"You know, I bought the Smith Tower a few months ago."

"Not yet," Bloomberg corrected him. "New York City officials have denied your request for a name change. It's still called the Woolworth Building."

Abel waved his hand: "It's okay. When you take over, it will be the Smith Tower."

Bloomberg fell silent.

If you really want to make him successful, just change his name, of course Bloomberg will help.

"My plan is to move most of my company's headquarters from the outside to Manhattan Island, and move them all into the Smith Tower!"

Abel looked at Bloomberg: "Let's make our battle bigger, publicize it well, and tell people outside—when everyone was thinking of evacuating Manhattan, Abel Smith lived in Manhattan without hesitation, with All his companies and employees, what do you think of this stunt?"

"Very good." Bloomberg said helplessly: "But what does this have to do with me? Everyone will just look at you then. Are you going to run for office?"

If that's the case, we can't be friends.

"No freedom to eat pizza for the sake of campaigning, I don't want that."

Abel said affirmatively: "Of course it has something to do with you. At that time, I will give a speech in front of the Smith Building. We will get the TV station and reporters. At that time, I will announce on the spot that it is under your persuasion and sincere invitation. Willing to live in Manhattan. How many votes do you think this will get you?"

Bloomberg suddenly became energetic, and he felt that Abel's operation seemed possible!

Moreover, both of them have TV stations, and both have decent relations with media groups.

With some planning, it should work out pretty well.

At this time, Abel was still saying: "In addition to this "Return to Manhattan". We can also launch a charity concert in your name. It will be almost a month before the big event happens."

"We can hold this concert in Times Square on October 10 or 11. At that time, we will invite singers and celebrities from all over the United States to raise funds for those who died in this tragedy."

"Using it in your name, how many votes do you think you can win?"

"Needless to say."

Bloomberg directly raised his hand and clenched his fist, and said with some excitement: "Just do as you said! But if I go to invite, I may not invite many stars."

"Isn't there still me? I believe that with Smith Media and the significance of this matter, many people will be willing to come. At least." Abel thought for a while:

"At least I can guarantee that Michael Jackson and Britney will definitely appear!"

Bloomberg actually doesn't chase stars. For a person of his status, which actress can't play?

But he doesn't have much influence in the entertainment circle, and he also knows the powerful appeal of those star singers in the entertainment circle to ordinary people.

If this concert can really be held in his own name.

Bloomberg feels that this will definitely be of great help to his later campaign work.

Looking at Abel's handsome appearance, Bloomberg now feels that the luckiest thing he has done in recent years is to become this guy's ally.

The owner of Bloomberg also stated directly, "Do everything according to what you said. Dear Abel, you know, after I really succeed. I will definitely promote the Hudson Bay thing!"

"Crack~"

Abel snapped his fingers and responded with a smile: "Then it's settled."

After confirming these two things, the chat between the two of them became much easier.

After Abel said that he wanted to form his own TV network.

Bloomberg also directly stated that all TV stations under Bloomberg can directly join Abel's TV network by way of franchise and shareholding.

Of course, Abel couldn't wish for it. The several TV stations of Bloomberg News are aimed at elite audiences in the United States.

In the past, whether it was those cable TV stations or several giants, Bloomberg had been invited to join.

But he rejected them all.

Now that Abel's TV network doesn't even have a shadow, Bloomberg wants to join.

This is the benefit of having allies.

Of course, the premise is that he can give Bloomberg the benefits he wants.

Bloomberg, on the other hand, happened to have what Abel wanted.

Such an ally relationship, coupled with a little personal affection, can be regarded as a stable ally.

Even if Bloomberg is an oil.

In a way, he has a relatively close relationship with Bloomberg.

It is also the reason why the oil people have never targeted him, and even behaved kindly to him even though he has never expressed his opinion.

Because Bloomberg is also an oil man.

From this point of view, Abel now also has an oily component.

(End of this chapter)