America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 358 A day's plan lies in the morning

  Abel stayed at Crawford Farm for only one night.

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

  Abel smiled, and left Crawford Farm in Ms. Wales's mother-like 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 planned to return to New York.

  He plans to go back and integrate Pacific Commercial Bank and Express Company first.

   Raise their market value before syndicating with the Texas consortium.

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

  He left Smith Farm that day.

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

   At 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 watched Abel in front of his eyes, gorging on a plate of chicken pizza. While eating, he also drank coke from time to time.

   "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 right now. I’ll be back more often though, it looks good.”

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

   It is also Abel's favorite.

  Abel smiled and said nothing more. Instead, he finished off a 14-inch chicken pizza by himself while Jim Walton watched.

   This amount of food made Jim Walton's eyelids twitch, and he was a little scared.

   You must know that normally speaking, a 13- to 14-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.

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

  He actually still has this kind of appetite. Seeing 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 enough, 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 the Wal-Mart opposite.

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

   "You must know some time ago. You still scolded me in the media, saying that the invasion of me, a barbarian, will definitely make the brand value of American Express Company drop."

"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 for Abel to acquire the shares of American Express Company suddenly increased significantly.

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

   They convened a small meeting to exclude Abel, and passed a decision-the stock could not be sold to Smith, and he could not give him complete control of American Express.

   They forged a coalition that was barely a coalition.

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

  The key 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 shareholders meeting on the 20th of last month.

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

  Abel did it privately, taking advantage of the one-month period of the general offer.

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

   Not even Jim Walton.

  If the remaining shareholders can really work together.

  Abel's connection is of course useless.

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

  Many people are secretly contacting 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 line of 50% security holdings, the American Express Company is almost equal to Abel Smith's ownership.

  So those people that Abel contacted, each offer was very high.

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

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

  But it was Jim Walton who finally contacted Abel and asked for the lowest price.

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

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

   "Since that's the case. Then I might as well earn less."

  Jim Walton's statement is very clear.

   Just like he said.

  Jim Walton has had some conflicts with Abel on the American Express company.

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

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

  In this case, if 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 contacted Abel directly and privately first.

  Sell the stock to Abel, and he will stop playing in 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 Company tonight."

  Seeing what Kalede 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.

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

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

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

   Sometimes the contract money may not even be compensated.

   "Then follow what we said earlier. 700 million US dollars."

   Going around, the price at which Jim Walton sold his 1.5% stake has not changed much, and it is even a little cheaper.

   Jim Walton agreed.

   If he does not sell, 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 already earned more than double.

   Jim Walton would be happy to sell.

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

   announced the acquisition of a total of 720.09 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 officially a complete success.

   As soon as the news came out.

  Abel and Jim Walton's business phone calls were blown up for a while.

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

  The people who called Jim Walton were probably the same people.

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

  But what's the use?

   Jim Walton did not do this illegally.

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

   It will not end 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 2nd.

   Early morning is the purest time of the day.

   is also when Abel is 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.

   Boosted 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. I guess I will sleep until after noon today.

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

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

   She regained her "freedom".

  The end of the year is approaching. As a top pop icon, Britney Spears is very busy.

  Plus her mental problems, after experiencing a series of incidents with Abel.

   He was declared cured, and many top psychiatrists were amazed by it.

  Abel didn't expect it either. If I give her an injection in that area, I can still get this effect.

  Britney, whose spirit recovered and her body got a good rest, returned to her strong work ethic.

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

   60% 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, Sony even 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, he will collapse physically and mentally.

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

  Sleep only three or four hours a day, two or three years without rest throughout the year.

   Without her own workaholic attitude, she would not be able to bear it.

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

  Sony refused.

  The capitalists are addicted to squeezing. 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.

  Sony certainly 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.

  In addition to emotional disputes, and continuous attacks from fans, some media, and some black fans all the time.

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

  In the parallel time and space, next year she will start to really have a little mental disorder.

  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 asked her to sign an 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 again.

   While Abel was away in New York, she went to work.

  Let Avril Lavigne stay alone at the summit mansion.

   Facing Abel who came back, the punk girl was helpless and was severely conquered.

  Even this morning, they were not let go.

  Happy whistling Abe turns off the shower and grabs 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, a petite punk girl is still sleeping soundly.

   During this period of time, to be precise, it was after the September 11 National Show Business Conference.

  Avril Lavigne has already started preparing her first album in her life 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 in 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 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.

  The 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 the coffee cup, picked up a newspaper, and read it.

  The one on top, of course, is Abel's own newspaper.

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

  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 200,000 copies and 11 newspapers with a daily sales volume of 100,000 copies across the country.

  The number of newspapers with a daily sales volume of more than 50,000 copies and less than 100,000 copies is even greater.

   In the last month, Forbes launched the national newspaper group rankings.

  Smith Newspaper Group also jumped into it. 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 published only once every two weeks.

  Currently, the average sales volume of each issue has reached the critical line of about 100,000 copies.

   No matter how high it is, it will hit the top three.

   It has been acquired by Abel in less than two years.

   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, even if Abel is not interviewed sometimes.

   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 opinions and put them on the biweekly to attract readers.

  Like the last hostile takeover battle of American Express.

  Abel just wants to warn leeks, investment should pay attention to risks.

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

   Relying on this exclusive interview, the sales of that issue of "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 is an entertainment newspaper or a financial, fashion, or current affairs newspaper.

   For American readers, the name Abe 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 10% and sales by 12% on average!

   We can only talk about traffic, even in this era when Internet rules are not perfect.

  It can also visualize traffic as real income.

   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 16.

  So it released the latest issue yesterday.

  The one on top of the newspaper right now is of course The New York Observer.

   It was what Abel took along.

   Even the same as the previous issue, the photo of the cover character in this issue is Abel's "beautiful picture" again.

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

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

   What is the composition, even the fashion master himself.

  Abel still remembers 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, now almost as old as Abel.

  He is not interested in old grass.

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

  The rest of the copyright, they have no way to take it away. Now it is also Smith Media, which can be used by itself.

  Other people and companies who want to use these photos 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 this money.

  As a code of wealth, 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", the cover photos of the three issues are all "beautiful photos" of Abel.

  This frequency can be imagined, and it is already extremely frequent.

  So certain newspapers and competitors of the New York Observer.

   He was saying gloomily that the name of "New York Observer" should be changed to "Smith Observer"!

  After all, there is no cover character, and the same person has been used for several consecutive issues.

   Readers will get tired of it!

   But the problem is that the "New York Observer" has already discovered it.

   As long as the photo of the boss is used as the cover character every time, the sales 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 directory first.

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

  Abel doesn’t remember that he recently accepted an exclusive interview with them.

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

  Don’t do this all the time, readers are not fools if they get too many, 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, Abel himself said it, or he said it to the Smith Intelligence Group and then wrote it down.

  Other 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.

   Soros joined Smith Capital.

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

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

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

  Who said Bloomberg will be the new mayor in half a month after the next issue of the magazine is released?

   Apart from these, it is all normal commercial content.

  There is something about American Express, but because it is a magazine that was printed yesterday morning.

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

  Abel put it down because of this, and picked up the "American Sun", which was ranked second on the newspaper pile.

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

  This newspaper is as usual, and the title and content of the report are very "New York Post".

  Basically, they are using the UC system, saying that their boss, Abel, is awesome, and the American Express Company is already owned by Abel, and so on.

   is licking Abel's piece.

   "New York Observer" more or less, still need to pay attention to the style of elite magazines.

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

   Anyway, readers love to read it, so of course they caught 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 own newspaper too seriously now.

  Because they are basically beautifying and boasting, some people who urge him to be arrogant can't stand it.

   What he really knows 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, 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)