The Woolworths Building is already an old building.

The building was built in 1913 and is 87 years old.

The building was built by Frank Brown, the founder of the "penny of a dime" small grocery store. Funded by W. Woolworths.

With a total height of 57 floors, it looks a bit like the Empire State Building in Gothic style.

The Empire State Building is taller, bigger, and some kind of symbol of New York.

Woolworth Tower was not so lucky, it was only when it was first built, it was once the tallest building in the world.

After thirteen years as the world's tallest building, the title no longer belongs to it.

Like many other old companies or buildings.

The builders of the Woolworth Building were the Woolworths family.

Today, the property of the building is no longer owned by the Woolworths.

The current property rights of this building.

12% owned by Merrill Lynch,

28% is owned by Goldman Sachs,

30% owned by Wells Fargo,

About 10% is owned by minority shareholders.

The remaining 20% of the shares, its owner is called Abel Smith.

That's why Smith Capital is based in this building.

Because part of this building itself belongs to its owner.

These shares of the Woolworths Building were in May of this year.

Abel bought it from two banks and cost him $300 million.

In other words, the current Woolworth Building is worth almost $1.5 billion.

In fact, the building itself is no longer valuable, but the land and its historical and cultural value.

The 87-year-old skyscraper, if not a dangerous building, is still an old building.

It is one of the other buildings of the same period, and in 1995 it became one of the listed buildings in New York.

Other words

Even if someone bought the entire Woolworth Building in full.

If you want to tear it down and rebuild it, that's not allowed.

Because it's a historic building.

Of course

If this person can get through the city council and other relevant relationships, get approval.

Even if it's the Empire State Building, you can push as much as you want.

Smith Capital is located on the thirty-third floor, and there is only one company on the entire floor.

This floor is 8,000 square feet, which is probably less than 800 square meters.

During the day, all employees are there.

It can accommodate 120 employees of Smiths Capital, who work here.

It's night,

Most of the employees have already left work.

But just as there are security guards at the door, there are people working in the company.

After entering the company,

Abel was familiar with the road and soon came to the company's "Safe House", that is, safe house.

A safe house is a house specially arranged by many financial companies.

Financial operators who enter the safe house will have all communication tools confiscated and their entire body will be subject to a security check.

After being stationed, they are not allowed to leave until the work is completed.

During the time they were trading.

Every day, there will be professionals who will prepare food, clean up, and do other cleaning for them.

The job of these operators is to follow the command and operate or keep an eye on certain investment targets for a period of time.

Smith Capital's safe house, which already has eight staff members, has been in it for a week.

Long before he went to Texas, these people went in.

Outside the safe house, there were also four security guards.

Except for those who are allowed to come and go freely.

others, etc.,

It doesn't matter if it's the people inside, or the people outside.

No entry or exit.

In addition to the four bodyguards, when Abel arrived, there was a blonde man in his thirties lying on the rest sofa outside.

The blonde white man was lying on his stomach and slept soundly.

When Able came in, there was no safe house.

He walked over to the couch and raised his hand to aim at the blonde man sleeping soundly on the couch.

There was a loud "pop".

A hard slap in the face,

Spanked on the ass of a blonde white man.

“FXXK！ the FXXK！！！ ＆%＊....”

An English curse sounded, and he was hit hard in his sleep.

The blonde white man suddenly jumped up from the sofa and grinned.

When I saw clearly that the person who beat me was the smiling Abel.

The guy stopped talking in foul English, rubbed his buttocks, and complained:

“FXXK！ Can't you just be gentle?

I just dreamed of Marilyn Monroe and was about to be happy with her, but you woke me up!! ”

Abel said, "Do you want to be happy with Monroe?" It's easy, I'll have you taken to the Pierce brothers. ”

The blonde white man frowned:

"Pierce Brothers Chilling Village? What do you mean? What does it have to do with Marilyn Monroe? ”

Abel glanced at him, ignored him, and let Edward, the bodyguard who followed him, say:

"Edward, you come and tell us, dear David, what the Pierce brothers have to do with Silin Village and Monroe."

"Uh..."The bodyguard Edward's mouth twitched, and he looked at David's eyes full of curiosity.

He was a little helpless and said:

"The relationship between the Pierce brothers, Chillin Village and Monroe, is.

It is the grave of Marilyn Monroe and many of Hollywood's older stars. ”

David Mellon was stunned, then called "FXXK".

The Pierce brothers are the name of a cemetery.

The full name is the Pierce Brothers Silin Village Memorial Cemetery, located in Los Angeles.

After the vignette,

David Mellon, general manager of Smith Capital, came to Abel in good spirits.

"It's time, isn't it? Otherwise, it will not be easy for you to come to the company!! ”

"yes. Time's up. Abel smiled in response, and he looked at David Mellon.

David Mellon, just look at the surname and know that it is related to the Mellon consortium, one of the top ten consortia in the United States.

David Mellon's great-grandfather was one of the main characters in the famous children's rhyme during the first Great Depression in the United States.

The content of this nursery rhyme is - "Melloon blows the whistle, and Hoover rings the bell." Wall Street signals that America is rushing to hell! ”

The Mellon in this children's song refers to Andrew Mellon, the then US Treasury Minister.

David Mellon's great-grandfather, the son of Andrew Mellon.

In other words, David Mellon is the son of Andrew Mellon's great-grandson.

That is, David Mellon is now a member of the Mellon family.

It's just that the current Mellon family is no longer as terrible as it used to be.

When the Mellon family was strong, Rockphil, M-Gen and the like had not yet risen.

But that was before.

The current Mellon family has long since lost the status it used to be.

Don't look at the name of the Mellon consortium is still called Mellon, but in fact, the Mellon family is no longer dominant, just a part of the consortium.

And after more than 100 years of reproduction, there are now more than 200 direct descendants of the founder Thomas Mellon.

The combined collateral descendants are estimated to be in the thousands.

And there is no main vein left to occupy the wealth, and the wealth has been divided by so many generations.

Today, there is no one Mellon that has much influence on the United States today.

Of course, after all, the ancestors were once wide.

Although the current Mellon is not as good as before, there are more than 200 direct members, and it is no problem to maintain a rich life.

Several of the stronger branches are still billionaires and part of the Mellon consortium.

David Mellon, for example, still has some shares in Mellon Financial.

And his father is also in the Mellon consortium and has a certain status.