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Chapter 788: The Chaebol Family

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When Steven Rockefeller and Clark Ford had finished dealing with their accosting, the three of them strode together towards the cabin not far away.

After passing through a completely gold-inlaid metal barricade, bypassing a gorgeous corridor, and passing through a portal again, a gorgeous and extravagant banquet hall appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes.

The hall is about 40 meters wide, nearly 100 meters long, more than 10 meters high, divided into two floors, the middle is a high structure, completely luxurious French decoration style, under the dazzling crystal lamp, the surrounding walls are gold and yellow complement each other gorgeous wallpaper and relief, and on the high-end carpet under the feet, there are walnut wood, gold and silver edged tables and chairs!

Between the tables and chairs, many well-dressed men in suits and bow ties, as well as women dressed in fancy clothes, each holding wine glasses and surrounding their own small circles, talking and laughing with each other.

The bartender in the middle of the red vest shuttles non-stop, making the atmosphere in the entire banquet hall lively and noisy.

However, Liu Dong clearly felt that after the three of them, Steven Rockefeller and Clark Ford to be precise, walked in, the eyes focused on them suddenly intensified.

Perhaps they were accustomed to this kind of high-profile scene, so both Steven and Clark always kept smiling indifferently and occasionally exchanged a few words, as if they didn't notice anything strange around them.

Seeing them like this, Liu Dong did the same! Directly follow them, who told him that it was the first time to come to this kind of place!

Feel more and more surprise, questions, and curious eyes on your body. Liu Dong followed the two through the red carpet in the center of the hall. Then he walked up a spiral staircase to the second floor.

Standing on the second floor is perfectly condescending to see any scene on the first floor below. But not many people can enjoy this feeling of being on top.

Compared with the number of nearly 1,000 people on the first floor of the banquet hall, the number of people on the second floor is less than 100 people, but Liu Dong can clearly feel the same atmosphere as Steven Rockefeller and Clark Ford from these people, and it is obvious that these people on the second floor are also descendants of big American families!

And in it, Liu Dong also saw an acquaintance, John Harriman who was once intimidated by him, and then the private club was ransacked by Liu Dong!

But I was able to see Liu Dong here, and it was with the Rockefeller family. and the children of the Ford family, also surprised John Harriman.

After the eyes of the two touched each other, they quickly separated, and they did not mean to greet each other.

Moreover, Liu Dong has more important things to be busy with here!

That is, under the introduction of Steven Rockefeller, I met the rich boys and ladies gathered here.

And this time he is really eye-opening, like Hughes, Getty, Hunt, etc., the descendants of the rich American families who have only heard of their names before, this time Liu Dong basically knows them!

Although he is just a familiar face, even the politeness of people to him is for the sake of Steve Rockefeller and Clark Ford. Regardless, Mr. Liu's own network is expanding at an alarming rate. And its influence has also risen sharply with the help of the giant Rockefeller family.

Without a doubt, this ultra-luxurious cruise ship is one of the top social venues in the entire United States and the world. Because from Clark's mouth, he clearly understood that the minimum standard for boarding the 'Poseidon' is private property of more than $5 billion!

And to be able to reach this second layer, there is only one condition, private property of more than 20 billion US dollars, or the family belongs to one of the top ten consortiums, of course, if the influence in the political circles can reach the Roosevelt family and the Kennedy family, it is naturally no problem!

Such a high standard also creates the highest luxury here!

So anything on this cruise ship is the most high-end product in the world, and any one of them can be put into the auction house when it is taken outside.

Especially on the second floor where Liu Dong is located at this moment, the cups and utensils on the dining table are all high-end daily porcelain from Wedgwood, and Wedgwood's high-end daily porcelain has always been a special porcelain supplier for the White House and the British royal family. The world's most famous ceramic enterprise for the production of luxury porcelain.

In addition to porcelain, the spoons used for coffee are all made of pure gold and silver!, and the furniture tables and chairs are handmade from the world's top home furnishing brand 'Medici'!

Coupled with the pure Persian carpet under the feet, the famous oil paintings hanging on the walls, the gorgeous and exquisite crystal chandeliers, etc., every qiē here reveals two words of 'luxury'!

Of course, this kind of luxury is nothing at all for people who can sit here!

"Steven, go down and have fun, or it's too boring to sit here!" said a handsome young man in a pale pink shirt with a beautiful woman in his arms.

This person Liu Dong is also impressed, because his surname is 'Mellon'!

The Mellon family has a long history and controls hundreds of large enterprises in industries such as finance, aluminum, petroleum, coal mining, shipbuilding, and steelmaking. The Mellon Bank Company, for example, has assets of $30 billion, making it one of the 25 most powerful banks in the United States.

Thomas Mellon, the founder of the Mellon family, was a contemporary of Rockefeller and made the family shine as secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Andrew Mellon era.

On October 24, 1929, the largest economic crisis in the history of capitalism broke out in the United States. Within a week, Americans lost $10 billion in fortune on the stock exchange, and farmers poured milk into the Mississippi River in order to destroy the "surplus" product. At that time, there was a popular children's rhyme in New York: ? Mellon blew his whistle and Hoover rang the bell. Wall Street sent a signal that the United States was rushing to hell!"? This shows the influence of the Mellon family on the United States at that time.

The Mellon family, which has been prosperous for more than 200 years, is even considered by many people to surpass the super chaebols of the Rockefeller family and the DuPont family in terms of family wealth, but how to estimate it except for a few people, no one can calculate it clearly, because there are too many enterprises that they control and infiltrate!

"Let's wait for them, I believe they should arrive too!"

Hearing this, Matthew Mellon nodded, he naturally knew who Steven's mouth was 'them'!

"Hey, it seems that Andrew's guy came quite in time!

Listening to his words, Steven Rockefeller, Clark Ford, and Liu Dong next to him looked at the staircase almost at the same time.

I saw a young man in a black suit, gold wire glasses, and a gentle and elegant temperament, and Rutgers Dupont, who had greeted Liu Dong on the tarmac at the entrance of the hall, and walked up talking and laughing.

"I think this should be the son of the Morgan family!" After noticing the young man, Liu Dong secretly guessed in his heart.

"Andrew, you're a little late this time!" Matthew Mellon said with a big grin as he stood up.

"I'm sorry, I had an accident when I arrived, so I was a little late...... Steven, I didn't expect you to come quite quickly this time! Besides, I just heard Rutgers say that you have made a new Chinese friend?" said that, the elegant young man's eyes focused on Liu Dong, who was standing to the left of Steven Rockefeller.

"That's right! Liu is our family's partner in China, and I'm bringing him here to play this time!" said Steven Rockefeller indifferently.

At this time, the eyes of almost everyone in the banquet hall on the second floor were focused on the middle four people, because they represented the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, the Mellon family and the Dupont family, four famous century-old families!

Noticing the faint envy and jealousy in the eyes of the people around him, Liu Dong also sighed a little in his heart, not only did these people envy the power of the four major families, but even Liu Dong himself was very envious in his heart, but he also understood that it was too difficult for him to become a giant consortium like Mellon, Morgan, and Rockefeller on his own, because China has always been a country where politics and decisions are made.

If you are simply rich and do not have political influence, you will not be able to become a world-class consortium family at all!

But thinking about it, Liu Dong laughed again in his heart!

"Don't be too ambitious, Rockefeller and Morgan are too far away from me now, and when I am worth more than $100 billion, I will think about this problem!"

"Alright, since you two are here too, let's go down and have fun, it's too boring to stay here!" said Matthew Mellon.

"I'm fine, Andrew, what about you two?" said Steven Rockefeller.

"Of course we're happy to accompani!" Andrew Morgan and Rutgers Dupont looked at each other, and the latter laughed.

"Okay, let's go! Who else wants to go with us, everyone!" Matthew Mellon greeted, and as a result, almost everyone gathered around, everyone was quite bored here, and no one let go of the opportunity to play together.

However, not everyone followed, after all, there are some middle-aged rich people who don't like to get together with young people, so they stay.

However, the elevator on the second floor of Unicom is not enough to load so many people at once!

So, Steven and the four of them, plus Clark Ford, and the lucky Liu Dong, six people took an elevator!

As for the rest, it's just a sit!

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)