America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 329 Become a vassal of the United States

  Abel stayed in Alexander's office for about an hour.

  During the period, he had a working meal at the County Government House in Tarrant County.

  Maybe because of Abra, today's work meal is also relatively rich.

   There's chicken fried steak, braised pork chops, biscuits and gravy, tacos and fruit cobblers, all synonymous with home-cooked food that haunts Texans.

  Abel, who was used to a refined diet in New York, occasionally ate such a meal after returning to his hometown.

  It made him feel comfortable physically and mentally, as if the Texan genes in his body had been reawakened.

   After eating, he didn't leave right away.

   Accompanied by Alexander.

   The father and son appeared near a square at No. 33-39 South Avenue in Fort Worth.

   This square was originally named South Plaza, but was acquired by a consortium and renamed Pacific Plaza.

   The consortium that acquired this square and many commercial buildings on the square is the Pacific Supermarket Company under the name of Abel.

  Pacific Supermarket Company currently has only one subsidiary under its name, which is Pacific Mall.

  The square on South Avenue in Fort Worth is the first store of Pacific Mall in the United States.

  The first Pacific Mall has two floors, each with an area of ​​66,453 square feet.

   That is a little over 130,000 square feet in total, and if converted into square meters, it is more than 12,000 square meters.

  It is undoubtedly a large supermarket, and it is also the largest supermarket in the entire city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

  A large supermarket with an area of ​​more than 12,000 square meters, if it were in Huaxia, it would probably rank first in the country.

   Like the Carrefour Supermarket in Zhongguancun, the imperial capital, once known as the largest supermarket in Asia, its business area is only 11,600 square meters.

   But in the United States, the supermarket with 12,000 square meters is indeed considered a big supermarket, but there is nothing new about it.

  Because there are many supermarkets larger than it in terms of area.

  The supermarket industry in the United States can be said to be a miracle composed of modern food, daily chemical industry, and light industry.

In the larger supermarkets, everything from homegrown goods, canned goods, meat and poultry, seafood, dairy, baked goods, frozen meals, beverages (including alcoholic beverages in some states), household staples, ready meals ( A wide range of items), to deli items such as sushi, pastrami sandwiches, and roast chicken.

  Some supermarkets even sell cars, small speedboats, and motor boats.

   Some also have pet markets and plant breeding markets inside.

  According to the data of the authoritative "Food Marketing Research Institute" in the United States, each supermarket in the United States distributes an average of more than 33,000 commodities.

  So supermarkets in the United States are large, with a median size of 41,561 square feet.

  The median area of ​​supermarkets is more than 4,000 square meters.

   From this, it can be seen that this kind of large supermarket with a large area and many types, like a small city, is very common in the United States.

  The more famous ones, such as the Woodman chain in Kenosha, Wisconsin, occupy almost 245,469 square feet.

  A supermarket with an area of ​​about 23,000 square meters.

   But that's not even the biggest.

  Popular Supermarket Corporation of Florida has a supermarket with a business area of ​​45,000 square meters in Miami.

   This supermarket is the largest in the United States, and probably the largest in the world.

  China's supermarkets can only be said to be shopping malls.

  Supermarkets in most parts of the United States, they really are "super" markets.

  Super large market with many types of goods.

   Imagine a supermarket with such a large area.

  Even with the help of some mechanical tools, the number of workers it needs to use will undoubtedly be many.

  This is also the reason why Abel would want to invest in this industry whose profits are not very good.

  Data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that in 2000, almost 4.8 million people worked in tens of thousands of large and small supermarkets across the United States.

  Abel’s Smith Thinking Group has data showing that it is the undisputed No. 1 retail overlord in the world.

   In the United States alone, 1.6 million people work for Wal-Mart.

   The second place is Kroger, a century-old American supermarket, with about 350,000 employees.

  How scary these numbers are, it equates to almost 0.5% of Americans working at Walmart and 0.13% working at Kroger.

  The American mass supermarket company that tried to enter Texas before, but did not develop very smoothly here, also has about 100,000 employees.

  Not counting Wal-Mart, which is listed as an anomaly, half of the top ten retail groups in the United States are private companies that are not listed.

  The controllers behind these guys, they are one of the masters of this country.

  They control the people's livelihood, stretch across the states of the United States, and affect the local politics and economy. They can be described as a prince.

  In contrast, Wal-Mart, which has more employees, is not a cause for concern.

  Whoever called Wal-Mart is a listed company, the control right is no longer in the hands of the Wal-Mart family.

   It is also because of the infinite dispersion of power that Wal-Mart can spread all over the United States, and then go out of the United States to the world.

   And these private retail giants, they can't do it.

  The reason is that the controlling family behind them refuses to hand over control.

  This makes the giants like the American mass supermarkets often only limited to the development of one or two states, at most three or four states.

   Rather than a listed company like Wal-Mart, which can open stores all over the United States.

  Since he is a prince, he will have territory.

  It doesn’t matter how you open a store in your own territory, but you have to open a store in other "vassals".

  Either you accept the other party’s shareholding, or you start a "war" and fight in all aspects.

   Like the American mass market company, it is mainly rooted in several places near Florida and Alabama.

  In the past two years, I wanted to come to Texas to develop, but I was miserable by the local snakes in Texas.

  The land on Nanfang Avenue was negotiated and built by the Volkswagen Supermarket Company at that time.

   But after the construction was completed, a backstab was given to them here.

   Under desperation, the popular supermarket company had to choose to withdraw from the city of Fort Worth.

   And the development in other Texas regions is not very smooth.

  From these things, it can be seen that these private retail giants have a terrifying and low-key influence on the local states of the United States.

   Let's put it this way.

In the United States,

  Wall Street and the financial oligarchs have mastered finance.

  The military-industrial complex has mastered the force.

  The energy complex holds the energy.

  These retail giants, and the agricultural companies that are inextricably linked to them, control the livelihood of the people of the United States.

  In addition to these, there are some industrial giants who have mastered American industry.

  Finance, military force, people's livelihood, energy, industry.

   On the bodies of these behemoths, countless big and small Zhengzhi clans were born.

   They hang like a shadow over all Americans.

  Many times, the "farce" between the elephant and the donkey in the White House and Capitol Hill.

   Even the Grand Commander.

  It’s just a trick for the American people after these existences struggle, contend, and compromise with each other.

  It is not that the United States does not have a commander in chief who cannot see this drawback.

   Yes, the last Grand Commander of Vossloo saw it.

   and resolve to change.

   He began to "eat" one capitalist per day.

   Want to carry out a series of social reforms and change the national attributes of the United States.

The results of it?

  The result was that he was about to lead the United States to win World War II. On the eve of victory, he died of cerebral hemorrhage inexplicably in the White House.

  Since then, the United States has never had a ruler at the level of a politician.

  Even if such a strongman really appeared, it would be impossible for him to reach that position.

  The capitalists are terrified by Fussloo.

   Since then, only the capitalists have been able to go up.

   In case something happens, you can also play a big show with a lot of brain holes.

  In this way, the retail group that can directly affect the people's livelihood at the bottom has entered Abel's vision.

   It is for this reason that Abel decided to enter this seemingly unprofitable and not at all high-end industry.

   Just like he invested in Tesla and wanted to shape a new track for new energy sources for electric vehicles.

  In these areas, he is not looking for profit.

  What he wants is the huge influence that is invisible in many places in the local area, just like the uncrowned princes and kings of the United States.

  This is the American Pacific Mall, to be precise, the emergence of the American Pacific Supermarket Corporation.

  Walking around the outside of the first Pacific Mall, Abel didn't go in.

   It's noon now, and the mall's business is very good.

   You can see the outside of the shopping mall. The square used as a parking lot is full of a large number of cars, most of which are pickups.

   This is also a major feature of the United States and Texas.

  That is, when Americans go shopping in supermarkets, they usually buy enough food for a week.

  Buying a lot naturally requires a car to drive home.

  So these large supermarkets in the United States will all have a very large parking lot.

   In supermarket parking lots elsewhere, there is everything parked.

  In Texas, most of them are pickups or off-road vehicles.

  In summary, it is because the land is sparsely populated, the material is rich, and the world can be harvested with dollar tides.

  This allows ordinary people in this country to share the little juice leaked by the capitalists.

  Let the people here, in terms of food, live better than people in most parts of the world.

  World robbers, under the tidal harvest of the dollar, all Americans can benefit.

  The difference is that capitalists take most of it, and ordinary Americans enjoy a small part.

  After wandering around the perimeter, Abel didn't want to go in either.

  In the carriage, the father and son talked softly.

   "The other one is a little smaller than this one," said Alexander. "There are two in Fort Worth. One in Arlington. One in Lincoln and one in Bloomund."

  This is Abel in Texas, in fact, mainly in the five Pacific Malls in Tarrant County.

  These five Pacific Malls actually started after Alexander came to power.

  Through part of the official power, and then directly spend money, the supermarket chain was established.

  As the second most populous continent in the United States, it is the largest state in terms of area, and its economy ranks among the top five states.

  The retail industry in Texas is very developed, and Wal-Mart is very strong here, with more than 11% of its stores located here.

   Fortunately, there is no local giant like Florida's Mass Supermarket Company.

  The retail industry in Texas has always been in the "Warring States Period".

  External retail giants, such as listed companies like Wal-Mart, as well as giants such as Volkswagen Supermarket and Kroger Supermarket, as well as some local mid-sized retail companies, have fierce competition in Texas.

  Abel knows that he wants to develop Pacific Mall to the whole of Texas, and even the entire southern United States.

   Instead of being limited to the words of Tarrant County.

   Then there is a high probability that the power of the shrub family will be needed.

   Otherwise, it will be very difficult to go out, and it will take a lot of time.

  Thinking of this, Abel nodded and said: "I won't go to see those for now. I'll go back to Smith's Farm first to see Emily and Charlize. I'll go to Houston to see Alex in two days."

   "Alex is not in Houston."

  Alexander said: "My mother and father went to Austin. Herbert invited the two of them to be guests. They have been there for more than a month."

  Abel really didn’t know about this, and he was taken aback when he heard what his father said.

   was invited to be a guest, and I have been a guest for more than a month.

  Abel couldn't help but feel a little conspiracy theory again.

   If you count the time, your grandparents were invited by Herbert just two days before the big event happened.

   This is either a coincidence, or Herbert knew that Abel was in Europe, so he called his old friend to his side to avoid running away.

   "call"

  Abel smiled: "Okay. Then I will go to Austin later."

  Austin is the capital of Texas and also the education center of Texas.

  But as the capital of a state, it is miraculously neither an economic center nor a political center.

   It is understandable that it is not an economic center. After all, the capitals of many places are not economic centers.

  The status of an economic center is generally related to geographical location and industrial development.

  But the capital of Texas is not the political center, and there is only one place like Austin in the United States.

   And most Texans don't like Austinites.

  Conversely, Austinites don't like other Texans very much.

  The reason is that the entire state of Texas is basically conservative. In terms of elections, it is crimson.

  But Austin, the capital, is as blue to purple as New York City.

  The capital of the reddest state is dark blue, which is very strange.

   But in reality it happened.

   This makes most Texans reluctant to recognize Austin's status.

  Most Texans prefer Houston and Dallas, and even prefer Fort Worth to Austin.

  In the end, it basically does not have the status of the political center, and can only play by itself, which is very amazing.

   Chatted with his father a few more words, and Abel's motorcade also left the Southern Avenue slowly.

  The convoy returned to the main government office of Tarrant County, after putting Alexander off the car.

  The convoy started again and left downtown Fort Worth.

   Soon after, the convoy drove out of the city limits of Fort Worth and headed for the northwest of the city.

  At this time, Abel’s car is no longer the Cadillac monster.

  He put the Cadillac monster in his father's place.

   On the way back to Smith Farm, more than 70% of the journey is unpaved.

  Traveling on such a road with extremely poor road conditions, even if the Cadillac Monster has good shock absorption and comfort, it is uncomfortable to sit in the back.

  In order to damage the vehicle, it is better to go back directly in the SUV.

  Abel switched to a modified Cadillac Escalade.

   At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun began to set, the team returned to the long-lost Smith Farm.

  Smith Farm, whether it is to protect Emily or Charlize.

   Rock security is here, and a large number of staff are deployed.

  The arrival of Abel and others naturally notified this part of the company's employees in advance.

  There are people from the rock security guard coming all the way to greet you.

   Escorted Abel all the way to the spacious square and parking lot in front of the main gate of Smith Farm.

  Emily, who knew her son was back, and Charlize, who was very excited, had been waiting there for a long time.

   Emily laughed happily when Abel jumped out of the car.

  Charlize's eyes were slightly red.

  He walked over and gave the happy mother a hug first.

  After hugging his mother, Abel came to Charlize, looking at this glamorous girl who was full of a full circle, but looked more plump and sexy, full of the taste of a pregnant mother.

"I am back."

  Abel smiled and opened his hands to her, Charlize rushed forward without hesitation, hugging him tightly.

  Abel carefully protected her belly, hugged her with one hand, and gently comforted her on the back with the other.

  Although Abel was very angry at her behavior at the time, and had no affection for her at that time.

   It's more about the desire to possess her beauty, and the desire to conquer men.

  But Abel really couldn't pull out his X and be ruthless.

  Plus she became the carrier of her own gene reproduction, that is, the mother of the child.

   There are still more than half a year, which dilutes a lot of his unhappiness and dissatisfaction at that time.

   Coupled with little Laura's tolerance and calmness, Abel is no longer angry with Charlize.

  After I stopped being angry with her, I felt a little guilty.

  He hugged her and coaxed her softly for a while, which also made Emily beside her smile.

  As the mother of her son's first child, plus getting along day and night.

   Charlize naturally has some status with Emily.

   Soon Abel led Charlize with one hand and mother with the other, and walked towards Smith Manor.

   This evening, he had another real home-cooked meal, cooked by Emily herself.

  Texas is known as the melting pot of North American history and culture, and it is also recognized as an emerging food destination in the United States.

  There are world-renowned German/Mexican cuisine, gold medal barbecue, cute hand-cut steaks, and seafood freshly caught from the Gulf Coast. It can satisfy the diverse taste buds here.

  But traditional farm families or cowboy families generally eat the same things—

  Chicken fried chops, braised pork chops, roast beef ribs, biscuits with lamb gravy, tortillas and fruit pies.

   No matter how delicious it is, Abel has already had a meal at his father's at noon.

   Another meal in the evening. If it weren't for the expectant look in his mother's eyes, he wouldn't be able to eat it.

  After the meal, the wife of the farm worker came to help clean the kitchen as a servant.

  Emily also accompanied her son and the mother of the son's child to the living room to watch TV and chat about family affairs.

   Occasionally come to this kind of family warmth, and Abel also thinks it is very good.

  Emily's maternal love and Charlize's dependent tenderness.

   Let him relax a little bit from his tense spirit in New York.

   At this time, the TV is on the channel of Abel's own AMC TV station.

   What is playing inside is the replay of the Times Square concert last night.

  (end of this chapter)