After chatting with Denise Ridge, the next thing is small talk, but perhaps because of Denise Ridge's existence, everyone's small talk topic is about the commodity trading industry, and naturally about various legendary news of Markridge.

"John, why don't I introduce some friends to you, how about it, when I came here today, many friends said, I hope I can help introduce you, many people want to know you St. John Lee. ”

"Oh... , Hehe, that's okay, you still have to have Gordon's face, don't you, besides, I think the person introduced by Gordon should also be considered a celebrity in California, I, a California junior, just happened to see the world, and I would like to thank Gordon for your help in introducing and increasing your knowledge. ”

"Hehe... , John, you're so polite, let's go for a walk!"

"OK, please!"

“...”

The group walked into the middle of the venue under the guidance of Gordon Getty, and soon, Li Feng and his party walked to a corner of the venue, but they saw 4 or 5 middle-aged and elderly men sitting together drinking wine and chatting first.

"John, this is Wright Trainer and Henry Gianni, both of whom are independent directors of Bank of America, and this is Robert Gross and the Curtland Gross brothers, who are directors of Loma & Co., this is..."

"Hehe... , the last one doesn't need to be introduced, and Cheney and I are old friends. Without waiting for Gordon's final introduction, Li Feng took the lead in quipping.

"Hehe... , Gordon, I've known John for a long time, John, it's a pleasure to meet you in Napa Valley, I haven't congratulated you yet, I heard that Santa Mantuosawa has acquired several famous wineries in Napa Valley, it seems that we will have a common hobby in the future, next time I have a chance to taste red wine together, I have 2 bottles of 72 years old Monterena there. ”

It was Cheney, the president of Halliburton, who had contact with him before, that is, Richard Cheney, a close comrade-in-arms of the Bush family, Secretary of Defense of Bush Sr., vice president of Bush Jr., and known as the most powerful vice president of the United States.

Today, Cheney is the president of Houston's oil giant Halliburton, and I have to say that he is indeed capable, from the secretary of defense to the vice president, and it is easy to manage a large oil giant, and he is an excellent manager.

But think about it, it is a bit overkill to be able to become the secretary of defense and vice president of the United States, and manage a company, although it is famous.

......

As for the rest of the people that Gordon helped introduce, from the surnames of these people, combined with the fact that they wanted to introduce some California friends to themselves, Li Feng could roughly guess the family situation of these people, these are one of the control families of the once glorious California consortium, and they have strong influence in California and even the United States.

The Traina family has been the most powerful family in the San Francisco area for hundreds of years, naturally, one of the core families of the California consortium that rose after World War II, and Chiani, perhaps many people will be very unfamiliar, but if you understand the beginning of Bank of America, many people may understand that the predecessor of Bank of America was once called Bank of Italy, which was founded by an Italian immigrant surnamed Queani.

Today's Bank of America has been expanding for hundreds of years, and it is naturally impossible for the Biani family to say anything, but as the financial flagship core of the California consortium, the Bank of America is naturally the most important industry of the California consortium.

As the founding family that founded the predecessor of Bank of America, it naturally has a decisive influence in Bank of America.

The last Gross brothers are obviously the Gross family of Loma Company. Lockheed, one of the predecessors of the famous Loma Company, was acquired by the Gross family in the 30s, although with the development of Lockheed, many family consortia in California were continuously introduced, and finally merged with Martin Company, which diluted the shares of the Gross family.

But as the former owner of Lockheed, including the founder of the famous Skunk Studios, the Gross family has no doubt in Loma and even in the United States, and is one of the largest shareholders of Loma Company.

Although Li Feng doesn't know these people, but through Gordon Getty's introduction, the origin of several people can basically be determined from the surnames of these people, after all, he rose in California, and he naturally needs to understand the largest force in California, the California Foundation, and the information of many families of the California Consortium is in Li Feng's collection.

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To say that in terms of personal wealth, these individual families are not comparable to themselves, but after decades of development through the cooperation of the California consortium, these families have formed a close interest group, and their influence is by no means comparable to Li Feng in a short period of time.

Of course, today's Li Feng also makes these people look down on them, after all, the forces controlled by Li Feng really want to talk about it, maybe it is not as good as the overall California consortium or something, but there is already a tendency to catch up.

In terms of finance and banking, there are financial derivatives companies such as CSCB, a global financial giant, and BlackRock on Wall Street, and in terms of military industry, the core industry of the California consortium, there are also giants such as Northrop Raytheon, which are not inferior to Loma Company.

The rest also includes the influence generated by real estate, entertainment and media industries, and Li Feng's age advantage is more extensive and important than that of traditional California conglomerates.

It must be admitted that today's American upper-class people have recognized Li Feng's rise, and most people may still silently say 'nouveau riche' or something in their hearts, but now Li Feng has enough influence to be able to influence the American government to a certain extent.

The competition between the major consortia in the east and west was so fierce that it basically ended in a 'handshake and peace'.

Nowadays, the major consortia have infiltrated each other, I have you and I have you, and now for Li Feng's Century Series (which has been defaulted to the newly rising Century Consortium), those wealthy consortia in the United States basically have such an attitude, hoping to cooperate with each other, otherwise, the original Rockefeller and Roosevelt families would not have taken the initiative to win over Li Feng and choose to cooperate.

For these, in fact, Li Feng is also happy to accept, after all, Li Feng also knows that it is impossible for you to eat alone, such as those technology companies in Silicon Valley that will rise in the future, the principle of the future, Li Feng is ready to control the majority of the head, and then win over some wealthy family consortiums, and win-win cooperation is the best choice.

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Looking at the group of people introduced to him by Gordon Getty, Li Feng couldn't help but think secretly in his heart, these are all representatives of the California consortium, and suddenly if he wants to know himself, he should pay a little attention to it.

It seems that now I am on the list of other people's attention, and there are pros and cons, which need to be grasped by myself in the future.