America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 358 The plan of the day lies in the morning
Abel stayed only one night at Crawford Farm.

The next day, George appeared to have a real cold, which seemed to be quite serious.

Abel smiled, and left Crawford Farm in Ms. Wales' motherly complaining tone.

He had planned to stay another week at Smith Farm.

This meeting with George broke his plan.

Enter the first day of December.

After returning to Smith Farm.

Abel then planned to return to New York.

He plans to go back and integrate the Pacific Bank of Commerce and American Express first.

Raise their market value before consolidating with the Texas consortium.

That way, when the time comes to exchange shares again, you can have a little more advantage.

He left Smith Farm that same day.

In the reluctant farewell eyes of mother and Charlize, they set off for Dallas Fort Worth Airport.

It's two o'clock in the afternoon on the East Coast of the United States.

Abel's figure has appeared in Manhattan.

He rushed to lower Manhattan without stopping.At Charlie Brown's Pizzeria, Abel met Amex shareholder Jim Walton, who had recently been vocally attacking him in the media.

Charlie Brown Pizzeria.

Jim Walton looked at Abel in front of his eyes, eating a plate of chicken pizza, and drinking Coke from time to time while eating.

"Didn't eat at noon, on the plane. No appetite. I still prefer the pizza here. Jim, you really should try it. The pizza here tastes good."

Jim Walton smiled at Abel:
"I just had lunch two hours ago and had two large steaks. Not really hungry. I'll be back though, it looks good."

Here, it refers to the old man Charlie Brown, the most proud chicken pizza.

It's also one of Abel's favorites.

Abel smiled and said nothing more.Instead, he finished off a [-]-inch chicken pizza by himself while Jim Walton watched.

Seeing this amount of food, Jim Walton's eyelids twitched, and he was a little scared.

You must know that normally speaking, a [-]- to [-]-inch pizza can already feed four or five people.

If one person can kill a seven-inch or eight-inch pizza, it is considered a good appetite.

Eating such a large portion of pizza alone can take part in the big eater competition.

If this is a manual laborer, it's okay to say.

But Abel is a super rich man, the richest man in the world richer than himself.

He actually still has this kind of appetite. Looking at Abel's strong and tall body, Jim Walton was very envious.

Being rich and in good health is the best match for rich people.

After eating and drinking, Abel took the towel for washing his face and hands from Edward.

After wiping his face, Abel calmed down and looked at the son of the founder of Wal-Mart across the street.

"Honestly, Jim. I didn't expect you to contact me first. I thought it would be the Fisher Group."

"You know some days ago. You still scolded me in the media, saying that the invasion of me, a savage, will definitely make the brand value of American Express fall."

"Haha~" Jim Walton laughed, "It's because of my knowledge that I made an appointment with you today. Mr. Smith, that's why I want to give the stock of American Express Company to you in advance. Sell ​​it. Let the money sit in your pocket, that's the safest thing."

Here's the thing.

After the general tender offer for American Express, it came to 48.9%.

The resistance to Abel's acquisition of American Express's stock suddenly increased significantly.

Those organizations don't want American Express to fall into his control so quickly.

They convened a small meeting to exclude Abe, and passed a decision-no stock could be sold to Smith, and he could not give him complete control of American Express.

They struck a coalition that barely counts.

But the alliance itself is riddled with holes, and the internal relationship is very bad.

The point is that there are many people in this alliance who are willing to sell this news to Abel.

After Abel learned of these people's plans, he remained calm.

Waited until Soros represented him to attend the NO.20 shareholder meeting last month.

At the general meeting of shareholders, Abel was elected as the independent chairman.

Abel did it privately, taking advantage of the month of the general buyout offer not yet over.

He secretly contacted those institutional shareholders, as well as the remaining shareholders.

Not even Jim Walton was spared.

If the remaining shareholders can really work together.

Abel's connection, of course, was useless.

However, the remaining shareholders, under the temptation of high prices, no one can work together.

Many people are secretly reaching out to Abel.Most people want to sell a good price.

Now that Abel already controls 48.9% of the shares, he only needs a small number of shares to achieve a safe holding of American Express.

After exceeding the 50% safe holding line, the American Express Company is almost equal to Abel Smith's ownership.

So those people that Abel contacted, everyone's quotation was very high.

Some are even exaggeratedly high, so high that Abel almost paid twice the price to buy them.

For example, the five financial institutions that have been secretly communicating with Abel and are the most active in disclosing information about American Express.

But in the end, it was Jim Walton who contacted Abel with the lowest asking price.

"I know that since you, Mr. Smith, are in charge, it is inevitable."

"Then I'm naturally happy to sell the stock to you first. Otherwise, I think my remaining stocks will be very troublesome if I wait for others to sell first."

"In this case, I might as well earn less."

Jim Walton's statement is clear.

as he said.

Jim Walton has had some troubles with Abe over AmEx.

He also said in several media that Abel hostilely acquired American Express.

When he thought about it, after Abel became the master and really took full control of Express.The first person who might do it is to target him.

That being the case, under the condition that Abel is still willing to buy his own stock.

Where does Jim Walton care about the offensive and defensive alliance, the shareholder alliance.

In order to maximize his own interests, he first contacted Abel directly and privately.

If he sold the stock to Abel, he would stop playing at American Express.

Go faster than anyone else.

"Haha~" Abel smiled and said to Jim Walton:
"I have to say, Mr. Walton, you made a wise choice. And it was also very fast. Otherwise, I will go to see Karide from Fisher Asset Management tonight."

Seeing what Khalid does, of course, there is no need to elaborate.

Jim Walton shrugged.

He knew that he was definitely not the only one who was willing to sell the shareholder alliance.

It is a private oral agreement in order to prevent Abel from completely privatizing American Express.

Don't say it's just a verbal agreement in private, if it's profitable.

Even if the contract is signed, at worst the contract fee will be paid, and it can be torn up at will.

Sometimes the contract money may not even be compensated, and the two parties quarrel and directly file a lawsuit to see who can spend more than whom.

"Then follow what we said earlier. 7 million US dollars."

Round and round, the price at which Jim Walton sold his 1.5% stake didn't change much, and it was even a little cheaper.

Jim Walton agreed.

If he doesn't sell it, Abel really holds more than 50% of the security.

If Abel wants to retaliate against him, then his stocks will be in trouble.

Anyway, at this price, he has more than doubled his profit.

Naturally, Jim Walton was happy to sell.

In the evening, the Pacific Bank of Commerce issued an announcement to the public.

Announced the acquisition of a total of 7.2009 million shares of American Express.

Accounting for 50.4% of the total issued share capital of American Express, it has reached the target of this comprehensive tender offer.

Therefore, the comprehensive tender offer was formally a complete success.

As soon as the news came out.

Both Abel and Jim Walton's business phone calls went off the hook for a while.

It is estimated that most of the people who called Abel were the shareholders of the American Express Company that he had contacted before, but they all wanted to sell and raised the price very high.

It was probably the same people who called Jim Walton.

It is estimated that everyone is condemning him, blaming Jim for contacting Abel in private regardless of the shareholders' offensive and defensive alliance agreement.

But what's the use?
It wasn't illegal for Jim Walton to do this.

Pacific Commercial Bank's general takeover offer time is not over yet.

It won't be over until the fifth of this month.

Everything is reasonable and legal, at most it's just Jim Walton, violating their verbal agreement.

These people didn't even think about it.Among the shareholders, Jim Walton confronted Abel the most in the media.

He was the first to betray everyone.

Jim Walton's decisiveness can only be said to be the son of a top businessman who created a world-class enterprise, Wal-Mart.

The first day of December passed like this.

The next day.

December [-]nd.

Early morning is the purest time of the day.

It was also when Abel was at his most energetic.

Like many things, doing them in the morning is of great benefit to the body.

Such as exercising in the morning, eating fast food and so on.

A harmonious and beautiful morning exercise.

Lifted Abel's mood for the day.

As for the serious lack of sleep last night, the coquettish Avril had the most beautiful and colorful morning again.

The price is that I am tired and sleepy, and I probably will sleep until after noon today.

Now Abel is here at the pinnacle of the Woolworth Mansion.

Britney ran away and signed a short-term employee agreement.

She regained her "freedom".

As the end of the year approaches, Britney, a top pop icon, can be said to be very busy.

In addition to her mental problems, after experiencing a series of incidents with Abel.

Many top psychiatrists were amazed by the fact that he was declared cured.

Neither did Abel.If I give her an injection in that area, I can still get this effect.

Britney, who has recovered mentally and rested her body very well, has returned to her strong work ethic.

When she was at Sony, she had that desperate working attitude and only slept three or four hours a day.

[-]% of Sony wants to take advantage of her fire, so it can be squeezed, of course it is crazy squeeze.

The remaining reason is that Britney is a natural workaholic in this regard, and she does not reject that level of work.

Otherwise, even if Sony wants to squeeze.That level of work intensity, even if the average person can handle it physically, they can't handle it mentally.

At most half a year, even the body and the spirit will collapse.

And Britney, before she had mental problems.She has maintained this kind of work intensity for two or three years.

I only sleep three or four hours a day for two or three years without a break throughout the year.

If it wasn't for her own workaholic attitude, she wouldn't be able to bear it.

Just wait until she herself feels tired and wants to rest for a while.

Sony refused.

Capitalists are addicted to oppression.In addition, the rookie contract is about to expire, and if you want to continue to squeeze, you must use a big contract, and the cost of continuing to squeeze is very high.

Of course, Sony wants to take the opportunity to squeeze as much profit as possible before the big contract is signed.

When Britney herself starts to feel tired.In order to squeeze more profits, Sony naturally rejected her request to rest.

Coupled with emotional disputes, and continuous attacks from fans, some media, and some black fans all the time.

Britney's mental state gradually began to show problems last year, and it began to be exposed this year.

In the parallel time and space, next year she will start to really go crazy.

After breaking up and reuniting with her first love many times, and being completely dumped, she gave up on herself.

In a short period of two years, I made six boyfriends and got married twice
It's all right now, Abel's injection successfully cured her internal friction.

Abel had her sign the employee agreement.It also allowed Britney, who has a typical dependent personality, to gain a psychological support.

That workaholic Britney, full of energy, she is back.

While Abel was not in New York, she ran off to work.

Let Avril Lavigne stay at the summit mansion alone.

Facing Abel who came back, the punk girl had no way to support her and was severely conquered.

Not even this morning.

Able whistling happily turned off the shower and pulled a towel.

He wiped his wet hair first, then wiped his body casually a few times, took off his bathrobe from the side, put it on, and walked out of the bathroom.

In the master bedroom, the petite punk girl was still sleeping soundly.

During this period of time, to be precise, after the September [-] National Show Business Convention.

Avril Lavigne has already started preparing her first album under the preparation of David Geffen.

New York itself is one of the important cores of the American music and recording industry.

Even the Grammys are held alternately between New York and Los Angeles.

Avril Lavigne's workplace has always been in New York.

Looking at Avril Lavigne, who should not have woken up so early, Abel turned and walked out of the bedroom.

On the table in the living room, a cup of steaming, extremely fragrant coffee and a stack of newspapers have been placed.

After Abel walked to the sofa and sat down, he took a sip of the coffee in a very happy mood, and smacked his mouth a few times. The coffee was well brewed, and it should be made by Edward or Donnie.

Those people who are close to him have gradually been trained by him to make good coffee.

Who told the boss to drink coffee?

He nodded in satisfaction, put down his coffee cup, picked up a newspaper, and read it.

On top, of course, is Abel's own newspaper.

With the launch of Smith's newspaper group plan, since June this year.

The Smith Newspaper Group has made more than a dozen shots across the United States.

A large number of influential regional newspapers were acquired across the country.

Newspapers such as the "Indiana Star", "Utah First Daily", "Kansas City Independent Daily", etc., which sell hundreds of thousands of copies in the local area but very low in the country, have all become the acquisition targets of the Smith Newspaper Group. .

In the past six months, the record has been pretty good.

Smith Newspapers has acquired six newspapers with a daily sales volume of more than 20 copies and 11 newspapers with a daily sales volume of [-] copies throughout the country.

The number of newspapers with a daily sales volume of more than [-] copies and less than [-] copies is even greater.

In the last month, Forbes launched the ranking of the national newspaper group.

Smith Newspapers also jumped in.Become one of the top ten American newspaper groups, just behind the old giants such as Gannett Newspaper Group, Tribune Newspaper Group, and Chicago Newspaper Group.

But at present, the national newspapers of the Smith Media Newspaper Group are mainly the "New York Observer" and the "American Sun".

Among them, the "New York Observer" is a biweekly, which is issued only once every two weeks.

At present, the average sales volume of each issue has reached the critical line of about [-] copies.

No matter how high it was, it would be hitting the top three.

It has been less than two years since it was acquired by Abel.

With this achievement, I really owe a lot to Abel.

Many people bought it because they saw Abel's exclusive interview on it.

After all, there is Abel's authorization there, even if sometimes Abel is not interviewed.

As long as the content of the magazine has been approved by the Smith Group.

The New York Observer itself can fabricate some of Abel's views and put them in a biweekly to attract readers.

Like the last hostile takeover battle of American Express.

Abel just wanted to warn the leeks to pay attention to risks in investment.

The "New York Observer" used the collective wisdom to make this passage into a wonderful interview.

Relying on this exclusive interview, the sales of that issue of "The New York Observer" were directly increased by more than 100%.

It can only be said that Abel's influence is increasing day by day.

Whether it's entertainment newspapers or financial, fashion, and current affairs newspapers.

For American readers, the name Abel Smith was the main draw that made them pay for a newspaper to read.

This also makes the name Abel Smith the wealth code of most newspapers and media in the United States.

When other media reported on him.

Also be careful not to cross the line, so as not to attract the most terrifying lawyers in the United States, who are excited and crazy to attack.

But Abel's own media has no such scruples.

In addition to not discrediting, their various reports on Abel are the most detailed.

The internal subsidiaries of Smith Media who have mastered this unique wealth code, at least relying on this, have increased their ratings by an average of 10% and sales by 12%!
It can only be said that things like traffic, even in this era when the rules of the Internet have not yet been perfected.

It can also concretize traffic into real benefits.

As the first super traffic king, Abel is the first person to enjoy the benefits of this kind of internet celebrity.

As a biweekly, the last issue of the New York Observer was issued on November [-].

So it released its latest issue yesterday.

The one on the top of the newspaper at this moment is naturally the "New York Observer".

It was what Abel took along.

Even like the previous issue, the photo of the cover character of this issue is Abel's "beautiful picture".

This series of "beautiful pictures" is from Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of the American edition of "VOGUE", the world's largest fashion festival.

She personally took the best photographer in her magazine to take a series of photos of Abel.

What is the composition, even the fashion master himself.

Abel still remembered the editor-in-chief, and asked himself many times in private.

But he rejected them all.

Although he probably looked pretty good when he was young.

But Anna Wintour's daughter is almost as old as Abel now.

He is not interested in old grass.

"VOGUE" magazine only used part of the photos taken at that time.

They have no way to take away the remaining copyrights.Now it is also Smith Media, which can be used by itself.

If other people and companies want to use these photos, they have to pay copyright fees to Abel.

And most of the time, even if you want to pay the copyright fee, you can't get the right to use these photos.

Abel is not short of the money.

So much so that as a wealth code, the cover photo of Abel appeared most often in the "New York Observer".

Like this issue, the previous issue, the previous issue, the four issues of "The New York Observer", and the cover photos of the three issues are all "beautiful photos" of Abel.

It is conceivable that this frequency is already abnormally frequent.

So certain newspapers and competitors of the New York Observer.

Just saying in a dark way, the name of "New York Observer" should be changed to "Smith Observer"!
After all, there is no cover character, the same person has been used for several consecutive issues.

Readers will get bored!

But the problem is, the "New York Observer" has already found out.

Every time as long as the photo of the boss is used as the cover character, the sales volume of the current newspaper will increase by more than 10%.

This is already the real wealth code.

Since you can use it freely, you only need to pay a very low copyright fee.

The editors of the Smith Newspaper Group, of course, are happy to use it.

The sour words of other newspapers were only regarded as jealousy by them.

Why can't they use this wealth code freely?

Open this issue of "Smith Observer", ah, no, it is "New York Observer".

Abel looked at the catalog first.

Sure enough, there was another "exclusive interview" of his own earlier.

Abel didn't remember that he had recently been interviewed by them.

He couldn't help but shook his head, intending to make Dylan restrain himself.

Don't always do it like this, you are not a fool if you get too many readers, they will know that this kind of interview is made up by them!

Abel is now very familiar with the general content of these interviews.

Except for a few words at most that Abel said himself, or what he said to the Smith Intelligence Group and was written down.

The rest of the content is basically compiled by the elite editors of the "New York Observer" based on Abel's words.

For example, Abel said, buy me a luxury house in New York tomorrow.

Then they will beautify it and try to make Abel's words as tall as possible.

Another issue of professional news related to New York luxury houses and real estate industry.
In this issue of the magazine, there is also a real interview with Soros.

Abel has always been serious about gathering wool.

As soon as Soros joined Smith Capital.

Abel asked the "New York Observer" people to rush to interview.

Correspondingly, big names such as Buffett, Bloomberg, Robert Morgenthau, Sullivanston, etc. have all been interviewed.

Abel also plans to let the magazine interview Bloomberg again in the next issue.

Who said that Bloomberg will become the new mayor in half a month after the next issue of the magazine is released?
Other than these, it's all normal commercial content.

It's about American Express, but it's a magazine that was printed yesterday morning.

So the new news development of American Express that just happened last night is not there.

So Abe put it down and picked up the American Sun, which was second on the stack.

On the "American Sun", there is news about the American Express Company, which has been controlled by Abel with 50.4% of the shares.

This newspaper, as always, is very "New York Post" in terms of headlines and content.

Generally speaking, they are using UC, saying that their boss, Abel, is awesome, and the American Express Company is already owned by Abel.

Licking Abel's piece.

The "New York Observer" still needs to pay more attention to the style of an elite magazine.

But the "American Sun", which is oriented towards entertainment and the general public, has no such scruples.

Anyway, readers also like to read it, so of course they catch the boss bragging.

Being able to flatter the boss and attract readers to increase sales is the best of both worlds for them.

So much so that Abel doesn't take his newspapers too seriously now.

Because they are basically beautifying and bragging, some people who make him so arrogant can't stand it.

What he really knows how to read are the relatively neutral newspapers.

Like The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, whatever.

Drinking hot coffee, reading the newspaper, and outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows next to it, is the morning view of Manhattan with fine snowflakes.

Such a morning and such a life made Abel feel very comfortable.

(End of this chapter)