America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 580 The Imperial Consortium

  The morning sunshine in Los Angeles was slightly dazzling. Abel changed into sportswear, put on headphones, and started jogging on the treadmill in the gym that opened to the outdoor garden in the villa while listening to music.

  Sunshine, breeze, birdsong, Abel feels very comfortable and relaxed, and his mood is extremely comfortable. This kind of life is life, not just simple survival.

   After almost running, he waved his hand and signaled Allen, who had been waiting beside him, to come forward.

  The chief think tank of Smith Wisdom Company took the initiative to step forward with a document.

   "I want to know what I asked you to prepare last night, Ellen."

   "Okay, BOSS." Allen looked like an elite in the workplace. He didn't open the file in his hand at all, so he came directly:

   "Last night, you asked me to collect information on the current communication operators in the US market. Would you like to hear it now?"

   "Tell me about it."

   "Okay." Allen coughed lightly and began to report relevant information to Abel.

"According to your request, in fact, only three companies are more suitable for our target. They are the three major wireless communication operators in the United States, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. They occupy the vast majority of the US mobile communication market. "

"In the wireless communication market, they compete fiercely and constantly introduce new services and products to attract consumers. The differences between them are mainly reflected in the aspects of network coverage, service quality, pricing strategies and products and services launched. For example , AT&T and Verizon have wide network coverage and high service quality, but higher prices; T-Mobile has relatively low prices, but the network coverage and service quality may not be as good as the first two."

"AT&T has about 48% of the shares, which are held by the members of the consortium, and its headquarters is also in Dallas, Texas. If you want, you can actually influence most of the decisions in this company. .”

   "As for Verizon, the conglomerates on the east coast have more influence over it. T-Mobile is the opposite of Verizon, which belongs to the west coast side."

  After listening to the report from the chief think tank, Abel pondered for a while and said, "It means that besides AT&T, the other two companies are more difficult to get started?"

  As long as it involves a company related to the consortium, no matter how small it is, as long as the consortium has a heart, it will be difficult for outsiders to reach out.

   What's more, these two communication companies are not small at all, but they are huge in scale.

   Allen nodded to indicate that's what he meant.

  Abel stopped talking, and started thinking while walking slowly on the treadmill.

  Last night, because I saw Apple's briefing.

  Abel finally made up his mind and planned to push forward the era of mobile Internet and smart phones.

   As we all know, the most important thing in the era of smartphones is not the smartphones themselves.

   What is more important is actually the network, a network with faster speed, larger bandwidth, and less expensive tariffs!

  With a high-quality wireless network, it is possible to have a powerful smartphone.

   Otherwise, it is not called a smart phone, but a game console or a multimedia player.

  Smartphones Smartphones, first of all, smart phones are not the most important thing, but the most important thing is the ability to connect to the communication network.

   Fortunately, in this era, 3g network has appeared. The major telecommunications companies in the United States began to lay out 3G networks as early as the end of the previous year, and this latest wireless communication protocol was able to be used in many places in the United States last year.

  By this year, 3G networks can basically be found in the core areas of major urban agglomerations in the United States.

  Nokia, Ericsson, Xingxingxing and other mobile phone giants have also launched mobile phones that can use 3G network signals this year.

   But these mobile phones, they basically have nothing to do with the word "smart".

  Compared with previous mobile phones, they have been upgraded in terms of the network they use, and their own functions have not improved much.

   However, Nokia dominates, and all major mobile phone giants and communication giants have participated in the development of the Symbian system. At this time, it has released the v7.x4 version.

  The Symbian system can perfectly support 3g network starting from V7.0.

  Compared to the previous black and white machine era, the Symbian system at this time is barely considered a little bit "smart".

  It is limited by the limitations of technology and the times, the concept of smart phones in later generations is basically equivalent to nothing at present.

  So, Abel wants to advance the era of smartphones, and he knows that the best way is to promote faster and better Internet penetration.

  So he plans to start with several communication operators such as AT&T, and at the same time cooperate with the new products of Apple and Google, so that his familiar era will appear on this planet in advance.

   As for the client, that is the smartphone itself. As long as there is a sound, working wireless network. Coupled with Apple's cross-generational iPhone, which is a few years ahead of schedule, as a flaunt, the upstream and downstream of the industry chain will naturally know the direction of their efforts.

   Soon, the corresponding products or accessories will appear in advance.

   It would be better if these people were really that dull.

  Since then, Abel has had Apple in his left hand, Google in his right hand, Android in one hand and IOS in the other hand, and he has fought with each other to let the world know what smart phones and mobile Internet are!

"Contact those people internally and tell them that I want AT&T... It doesn't seem to work. Those guys will definitely interfere with me in the name of antitrust. I can't directly hold the shares of the carrier, or let them continue to hold it. But tell They, I want AT&T to do it."

   After clearing his mind, Abel began to explain, and Allen took out the notebook he had prepared earlier, and quickly recorded the boss's thoughts.

   "And Verizon, tell Bloomberg and Buffett what I think. If they don't want to, then I'll find someone else. But wait a few years, and they don't regret it."

   "As for T-Mobile, forget it for now."

  His idea and idea are very simple, that is, by influencing the two major mobile communication giants, AT&T and Verizon, to make them more active in laying 3G networks and adjusting tariffs.

  With these preparations, more advanced smartphones can have a perfect experience.

   But these actually take time to prepare.

  Whether it is the laying and popularization of 3g network or the development of smart phones, it is a difficult process in units of years.

  Being able to use the first-generation smart phone and the corresponding network package in 2005, Abel felt that he was very successful.

  Because in the parallel time and space, the same thing did not appear until the end of 2007, and it was not paid much attention by the market at the beginning.

  At that time, ordinary people and many investors believed that the so-called smart phone plus 3G network was just a luxury enjoyed by some electronic geeks, just like SLR cameras and various high-end DIY PC assembly.

   Expensive, professional and a bit strong, not so easy to use

   Mainly in the concept of this era, a mobile phone is a mobile phone.

  Who would have imagined that just a dozen years later, the mobile phone would become a super-stitched composite that combines telephones, cameras, video cameras, miniature mobile computers, and even makeup mirrors, microscopes, compasses and other strange functions.

  It can only be said that the times are changing too fast, especially when it is profitable and capital is behind it.

   In the morning, Abel did not leave 9555 Heather Road, Beverly Hills. He was here with Annie, who was about to give birth, and Jessica, who was about to give birth.

  In the garden, watching the world's richest man holding a pregnant woman in one hand, followed by two cheerful puppies, he looks like a good husband and family.

  Eva Green, who didn't get up until after ten o'clock, was in a trance after seeing this scene.

  Because of his innocent appearance, it's really hard to imagine how he dealt so violently with himself and the other two women last night.

  Abel naturally didn't care about the idea of ​​this woman who was acting like his own crown jewel.

  It's like the emperors in ancient China, they might consider the idea of ​​the queen, or one or two imperial concubines.

  But the emperors will never take into account the thoughts of a Jieyu in the palace, or a young envoy, a beauty, or promises.

   Even though they may sometimes be more beautiful than the queen.

  At noon, Pierre Eugene Dupont came with several people as scheduled.

  Speaking of which, if there is such a thing in this world as good is rewarded for good and evil is rewarded for evil, the current DuPont family can probably be regarded as a proof of this concept...

  I think back then, when the DuPont family was in full swing.

  The first generation of DuPont owner Pierre DuPont and his son Eugene DuPont, their favorite thing to do is to send the entire family of their competitors on a dirt plane.

  咻～BOOM, the kind where the whole family goes to heaven.

  The United States in the Gilded Age was the first to use various physical means of elimination against its competitors, and DuPont at that time was one of the best.

  The means of throwing explosives and explosives into the opponent's factory, poisoning the wells of the competitors' workers, etc., should not be used too high back then.

   Well, after more than 100 years. Compared with other companies of the same era, DuPont is simply miserable.

   Not to mention the families like Morgan and Rockefeller who have a higher status now.

   Let’s talk about Mellon.

  Although it is said that Mellon has lost its past glory, the Mellon family has been dispersed and developed independently, and now it is flourishing, with hundreds of Mellons across the United States. Once there is something involving Mellon, the strength of their unity is also very strong.

  The Mellon Consortium is still called by this name, and they still retain some authority in it, after all, they are descendants of the founder.

  DuPont, except that the company name is also called DuPont, other aspects have long been infiltrated and eroded. Morgan's voice in it is not even lost to DuPont.

  That's all for that matter, after all, it can still be maintained, and it is actually stronger than Mellon, who only has a name left.

  In contrast, the DuPont family is actually even worse because of the marriage of close relatives for hundreds of years, and the quality of DuPont's offspring has seriously declined.

  Deformed children, cerebral palsy, substandard intelligence, etc., are very common among DuPont's descendants.

   So much so that they had to hide behind the scenes, so as not to be discovered by the public and become a laughing stock under the use of other consortiums.

  So those who are interested can find that Mellon, Rockefeller and the like are often in the news, even the Vanderbilt family, the richest family in the past, can occasionally be in the news because of scandals.

   But news about the DuPont family, or even DuPont, rarely gets out to the public, for better or for worse.

   It is because of the descendants of DuPont, because of the genetic problem of close relative marriage, too many accidents happened.

  Twenty or thirty years ago, they finally realized that something was wrong, stopped the pace of continuing to die, and stopped insisting on marriages between close relatives, and the situation in this regard has improved a lot.

   Otherwise, if it continues until now, I don’t know if there will be a new generation of healthy DuPont.

  Du Pont's current owner, Pierre Eugene Du Pont, whose name is composed of the names of the first and second generation owners.

  Smith Wisdom Company's evaluation of this individual, translated into Chinese, is probably "the capital of the middle class".

  It doesn’t matter how good it is, and it doesn’t matter how bad it is.

   And this kind of him is already the best among the generation of DuPont in the 1950s and 1960s.

  At the lunch table, Abel brought up the old story again. Have someone give Pierre Eugene Dupont a copy of what was shown to the people of Cleveland last night.

  Pierre Eugene Dupont seemed to have been mentally prepared, so he took it silently and read it carefully.

   "...a very bold, very risky proposal." After a rough reading, Pierre Eugene Dupont raised his head and looked at Abel. He had long lost interest in eating, but looked at Abel:

   "Mr. Smith, I understand what you mean. Frankly speaking, last night and this morning, many people came to me. I think you understand why they are looking for me. Their purpose is the same as yours."

   In this regard, Abel shrugged with a smile: "But my conditions are more suitable, aren't they? In various senses, I think we are more suitable."

   "First of all, the Texas Consortium does not currently have many members in the chemical industry. Before that, we have been cooperating with DuPont."

  As one of the military-industrial complexes in the United States, the California Consortium and the Texas Consortium have always cooperated with DuPont.

"Secondly, the people of Cleveland are also interested in joining us. Once they and DuPont are all willing to join, then their steel, your chemical industry, and Texas' military industry can become a very complete industrial chain. .This will allow all of us to increase our right to speak in the United States at the same time!"

  Listening to Abel's inspiring words, Pierre Eugene Dupont was quite moved.

  Because in a way, it's really like what Abel said. DuPont, which focuses on chemicals, and the Cleveland Consortium, which focuses on steel and rubber, plus Texas in the military, industrial, and energy fields, are indeed very complementary.

   And now there is the monster Abel, and the financial core of the three consortiums, which were originally weak, now also exists.

  If they can really be united, they can suddenly be compared with the combination of Morgan and Rockefeller, and surpass those consortia in Boston, California, and Chicago.

  The premise is that the alliance can really succeed, and there will be no major internal problems after the alliance.

"I want to know what the people of Cleveland really mean, and this kind of thing has to be considered in the long term. And as far as I know, even if you are a Texan, Mr. Smith, it took you almost two years to unite with the Texans." After Pierre Eugene Dupont felt that he had thought it over clearly, he said softly.

"Hahaha-"

Abel laughed, and immediately said: "Indeed, it will take a certain amount of time for the three parties to trust each other. And even if we agree immediately, it will take one or two years for the relevant preparations and integration. years. So I'm not in a hurry, and I believe that David and John Cleese are actually more anxious than us in this situation."

  A joint consortium that may be stronger than itself and have greater influence in all aspects of the empire.

  How could Morgan, Rockefeller, and even several other established consortiums remain indifferent to this?

  Abel is very clear, since he went to see the Cleveland himself last night.

  The seemingly calm American consortia have actually caused waves and shocks on their own initiative.

   At this time, those old guys are probably cursing.

   Curse yourself.

   But Abel didn't care much, because today is different from the past. Now he is not afraid to confront anyone, especially when he is a financial target himself.

  Then he is even less afraid of the Morgan and Rockefeller consortia who mainly use financial weapons to show off their power.

  Speaking of which, Morgan and Rockefeller, and even First Citigroup, Chicago, and Boston, were really gnashing their teeth at Abel and at the same time helpless.

  These old consortiums of the empire, their biggest weapon and the most fierce thing is that they have financial power that several other consortiums do not have.

   It was because of their financial strength that they were able to invade the Cleveland and DuPont conglomerates.

  Then...and now Abel is stronger than them in terms of power, although he doesn't seem to be as strong as them in terms of power.

   Their strongest weapon, they dare not use it casually when facing Abel.

  Without the deterrence of this greatest weapon, the measures they can take against Abel are very limited.

  As for Abel, he only started doing things like this after the foundation was solid. Instead of taking the lead at the beginning, avoiding the possibility of being beheaded in the novice stage, this is the capital to stir up the situation among the imperial chaebols today.

  Pierre Eugene Dupont did not stay long, and left in a hurry after lunch.

  This is also the normal state of the chaebol giants who gathered in Los Angeles because of the regular meeting of the Federal Reserve these days.

  They thought it was going to be a relaxing regular meeting, coming over to spend the holidays with their peers.

  Now, because of Abel's sudden attack, they can't relax even if they want to.

   And the Federal Reserve regular meeting two days later, it is definitely impossible to have a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.

  The atmosphere may be more tense than the last meeting in Washington.

   After all, that time only involved voting rights, this time...may even involve alliances and annexations between consortiums!

  If this kind of thing is not done well, it is really possible that something big will happen. It is estimated that the situation in Washington must have become complicated because of this.

  (end of this chapter)