Charlie Schaff is here.

The Merrill Lynch executive at a banquet hosted by Barron Hilton this evening.

It is one of the relatively high-ranking guests.

His every move can easily attract other guests at the banquet.

Most people's attention, including the owner Barron Hilton.

What's more, Charlie Schaff didn't go through alone.

Behind him, there are four other Wall Street giants.

For a time, this was in the Golden Banquet Hall.

The originally inconspicuous corner suddenly became the place that attracted the most attention from the audience.

This phenomenon makes me stay with my grandfather Barron Hilton tonight.

Paris Hilton, who was originally very happy, was suddenly a little less happy.

The reason is simple.

Because everyone's attention and eyes were originally on her.

Well, actually, it was on her grandfather.

But she has always been by her grandfather's side, and he is willing to take her with him.

Paris felt that this was the equivalent of herself, attracting so much attention.

This is one of the greatest honors for a girl like her, who was born as a rich lady.

But now, all eyes are on that side.

Especially over there, there is a woman she hates the most in all of New York.

Young Miss Paris Hilton was even more upset.

It's just that she's not in a good mood, and it doesn't affect Charlie Scharf.

When Charlie Scharf arrived, the target seemed to be D. Ted Lerner.

He laughed and chatted with D. Ted Lerner—

"My dear Ted, you've done a great job this year.

The rating of the Miss Teenager America contest is 0.9%, and the rating of the Miss Universe World contest is 1.2%. ”

"Especially the latter, which is quite an achievement.

Even compared to the ratings of Miss World, it is not much worse. ”

Charlie Schaff's Miss America and Miss Universe are two beauty pageants jointly organized by D. Ted Lerner and NBC.

Although they are two beauty contests, they are actually the same.

Every year, the winner of the Miss America Young Age contest will be selected first.

And then this champion will represent the United States,

Participate in the Miss Universe World beauty pageant.

So the two are actually the same, and the right to host both of them is in the hands of D. Ted Lerner.

He bought it in 1996, but it's not exclusive, it's owned and co-hosted with NBC, which is NBC.

NBC is one of the three largest commercial broadcasters in the United States, and its strength is unquestionable.

Otherwise, D. Ted Lerner, a real estate businessman, would not be able to hold this kind of beauty contest that requires the cooperation of TV stations.

After listening to Charlie Scharf's words, Ted suddenly said:

"Charlie, your data may be wrong.

On the final night of the Miss America Teenage contest, the ratings have exceeded 1.2%.

On the final night of the Miss Universe contest, the number of viewers exceeded 9 million! ”

"That's more than 50 percent from 0.6 percent in 1995 and five million people tuning in. The latter, in particular, rose by nearly one hundred percent. ”

"So I can say that I'm not doing very well. I'm doing very, very, very good!! ”

After saying this data,

D. Ted Lerner proudly compared the two thumbs as if he were giving a speech, and said with a smile:

"No one knows beauty pageants better than I do! Only I can bring Miss Universe to life again! ”

Charlie Scharf: "Uh......"

Mr. Chief Financial Officer of Merrill Lynch, the reason why he mentioned beauty pageants is just to find a topic to intervene in.

For this kind of annual profit, it will not exceed fifty million dollars, and the risk is extremely high, very cumbersome stuff.

He wasn't interested.

Just when Charlie Schaff was speechless for D. Ted Lerner's "I understand".

Lehman's CFO, Mr. Bryn Buley, has come over.

CFO is an abbreviation for Chief Financial Officer, and this position is very important in financial companies.

Sometimes even more power than the CEO.

Bryn Boulley, like Charlie Scharf, is the CFO of their respective banks.

Compared to Charlie Scharf, who first talked to D. Ted Lerner.

Bryn Bulli is obviously much more direct.

This Lehman executive did not care about D. Ted Lerner, who was hated by the wealthy circle in New York.

He smiled directly at David Mellon, who was standing with Abel, and said:

"Dear David.

If I'm not mistaken, this must be Mr. Abel Smith next to him, right? ”

Charlie Scharf, who was next to him, couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw him so direct.

Obviously I came first!

Charlie Schaff glanced helplessly at D. Ted Lerner.

The latter was very interested and wanted to continue to discuss the Miss Universe pageant with him.

David Mellon laughed and whispered:

"That's right, that's my boss."

Abel stretched out his hand at the right time and said with a smile: "Abel Smith, Smith Capital." ”

"Hello, Mr. Smith. I'm Breen Bulli from Lehman" Brin Bulli smiled happily.

What's the use of Charlie Schauff coming first with a thick skin?

After all, he was not really the thickest-skinned, and he was stupid enough to talk to D. Ted Lerner first.

New Yorkers, who don't know D. Ted Lerner.

Sure enough, being young is still unreliable, Brin Booly thought to himself.

But he looked at the younger Abel and David Mellon, and hesitated to overturn the idea.

Some people are young, but they really look reliable.

At this time,

Sharly Vinston, President of PNC Financial Services Group,

Citibank President John Reid and Citibank Senior Vice President William Rhodes also stepped forward.

Like Bryn Booley, none of the three paid attention to D. Ted Lerner after they came.

Unlike Charlie Scharf, they greeted Abel and David directly and began to introduce themselves.

Abel's response was the same as Bryn Boully's.

Say hello with a smile and introduce yourself.

Abel, who felt that the timing was right, was already willing to make contact with these Wall Street giants.

These Wall Street giants finally had the opportunity to contact him, and they were all very proactive.

The two sides can be said to be in love with each other, and they have close hearts to each other.

As soon as I got in touch and started chatting, it was very smooth in the end.

Within a few minutes, these guys with extremely high IQs somewhat understood what Abel meant.

That's it.....

It had been very cold before, turning a blind eye to many of Wall Street's hints.

Even Smith Capital, who treated him coldly.

There was a meaning to let go.

This made these giant crocodiles, who originally just wanted to come over and get close, and wanted to brush their faces to be familiar, all of them had a sense of unexpected joy.

And the host of tonight's banquet, who was originally elsewhere, has always been held by the stars.

The second generation of the Hilton family is in charge, Barron Hilton, who is considered one of the most prominent second-generation billionaires.

The old man, also smiling, walked over to this side with his granddaughter and a few others.