Abel was at Crawford Farm and stayed only one night.

The next day, George seemed to have a real cold, and it looked quite serious.

Able smiled, and left Crawford Farm in the complaining tone of the Welsh lady.

He had planned to stay at Smith Farm for another week.

This meeting with George shattered his intentions.

Entering the first day of December.

Back at Smith Farm.

Abel plans to return to New York.

He plans to go back and integrate the Pacific Commercial Bank and the Express Company first.

Boost their market value before joining forces with the Texas consortium.

In that case, when the time comes to change shares, you can also have a little more advantage.

He left Smith Farm that day.

With his mother and Charlize reluctant to say goodbye, they set off for Dallas Fort Worth Airport.

At two o'clock in the afternoon East Coast time.

Abel's figure has appeared in Manhattan.

He hurried to Lower Manhattan. At Charlie Brown's pizzeria, Abel meets Jim Walton, an Amex shareholder who has recently been loudly attacking him in the media.

Charlie Brown's Pizzeria.

Jim Walton watched Abel in front of his eyes, feasting on a plate of chicken pizza, eating and drinking a greasy Coke from time to time.

"Didn't eat at noon, on the plane. Didn't have much of an appetite. I still prefer the pizza here. Jim, you really should give it a try. The pizza here tastes good."

Jim Walton smiled at Abel:

"I just had lunch two hours ago and ate two large steaks. I'm really not hungry right now. But I'll come back more often in the future, and it looks good."

Here, of course, it refers to the old man Charlie Brown, the most proud chicken pizza.

It is also Abel's favorite one.

Able smiled and said no more. Instead, under Jim Walton's watchful eye, one man took out a fourteen-inch chicken pizza.

This amount of food made Jim Walton's eyelids jump, and it scared him a little.

You must know that normally speaking, a pizza of 13 to 14 inches can already fill four or five people.

If you can kill a seven-inch or eight-inch pizza by yourself, even if you have a good appetite.

If you eat such a large portion of pizza alone, you can participate in the Big Stomach King competition.

It's better to be a manual worker.

But Abel is a super-rich man, the richest man in the world who is richer than himself.

He actually has this kind of appetite, looking at Abel's strong and tall body, Jim Walton is very envious.

is rich and in good health, which is the best match for rich people.

After eating and drinking, Able took the towel that Edward handed over to wash his face and wipe his hands.

After wiping his face, Abel calmed down and looked at the son of the founder of the Wal-Mart supermarket opposite.

"Honestly, Jim. I didn't expect you to be the first to contact me. I thought it was going to be the Fisher Group."

"You have to know some time ago. You're still scolding me in the media, saying that the invasion of me, a barbarian, will definitely cause the brand value of Amex to fall."

"Haha~" Jim Walton laughed, "It's because I have this perception. I just made an appointment with you today. That's why, Mr. Smith. I'm going to sell the shares of Yuntong in advance. Let the money go into your pocket, that's the safest thing."

Here's the thing.

After the general tender offer for Amex came to 48.9%.

The resistance to Abel's acquisition of the shares of the company has suddenly become significantly larger.

Those institutions don't want to let Yuntong completely fall into his control so quickly.

They launched a campaign to exclude Asia

Bo's small meeting passed a decision - none of the shares could be sold to Smith, and he could not be given complete control of the company.

They reached an alliance that was barely an alliance.

But within this alliance, it is full of holes, and the internal relations are very bad.

The point is that within this alliance, there are many people who are willing to sell the news to Abel.

Abel has remained silent since he learned of these people's intentions.

waited until Soros represented him and went to the shareholders' meeting on the 20th of last month.

At the general meeting of shareholders, Abel was elected as the independent chairman.

Abel privately took advantage of the fact that the month before the general takeover offer ended.

He secretly contacted the institutional shareholders, as well as the remaining shareholders.

Even Jim Walton didn't let it go.

If only the remaining shareholders could really work together.

Abel's connection, of course, is useless.

But the remaining shareholders, under the temptation of high prices, no one can work together.

A lot of people are secretly in contact with Abel. The vast majority of people want to sell for a good price.

Now that Abel already controls 48.9% of the shares, he only needs a small number of shares to achieve a safe controlling stake in the company.

After more than 50% of the security holding line, the company is almost equal to Abel Smith's ownership.

So the people Abel came into contact with, each of them had a very high offer.

Some are even exaggerated, so high that Able can buy them for almost twice the price.

For example, the five financial institutions that have been secretly communicating with Abel and are the most active in revealing the news of the company.

But in the end, it was Jim Walton who contacted Abel and asked for the least price.

"I know that now that you, Mr. Smith, are in charge, it is inevitable."

"Then I'm happy to sell you the stock first. Otherwise, if someone else sells first, I think my remaining stocks will be in trouble."

"In that case. Then I might as well earn a little less."

Jim Walton's statement is clear.

Like he said.

Jim Walton has had some conflicts with Abel on Amex.

He had also previously said in several media that Abel had made a hostile takeover of Amex.

In his mind, Abel really took full control of Yuntong after he became the master. The first one who may do it is against him.

In this case, in the case that Abel is still willing to buy his own stocks.

Jim Walton doesn't care about the offensive and defensive alliances, the shareholder alliances.

In order to ensure that his interests were maximized, he directly contacted Abel privately first.

Sell the stock to Abel, and he will not play in Yuntong directly.

Walk faster than anyone else.

"Haha~" Abel said to Jim Walton with a smile:

"I have to say, Mr. Walton, you made a wise choice. And also very quickly. Otherwise, I'll be going to see Fisher Asset Management tonight."

See what Caled does, of course, there is no need to go into details.

Jim Walton shrugged.

He knew that he was definitely not the only one who was willing to betray the shareholder alliance.

In itself, it was just a private verbal agreement to prevent Abel from completely privatizing the company.

Not to mention just a verbal agreement in private, profitable situations.

Even if you sign a contract, it's a big deal to lose the contract money, and you can tear it up casually.

Sometimes there may not even be compensation for the contract money, and the two parties will fight directly to see who can afford whom.

"Then do as we said earlier. $700 million."

Going around and around, Jim Walton sold his 1.5% stake at a price that didn't change much, and even a little cheaper.

Jim Walton

Agreed.

If he doesn't sell, about Abel really holds more than 50% of the security.

If Abel wants to retaliate against him, then his stocks will be in trouble.

Anyway, at this price, he has already made more than double the price.

Jim Walton was naturally happy to sell.

In the evening, the U.S. Pacific Commercial Bank issued an announcement.

Announced the acquisition of a total of 720.09 million shares of Amex Corporation.

It accounts for 50.4% of the total issued share capital of Yuntong Company, and has reached the target of the general tender offer.

Therefore, the general tender offer was officially a complete success.

As soon as the news came out.

The business phone calls of Abel and Jim Walton were blown up for a while.

It is estimated that most of the people who called Abel were the shareholders of the group of Yuntong companies that he had contacted before, but they all wanted to sell at a high price and raise the price very high.

The people who called Jim Walton were probably the same people.

Presumably, they are all condemning him, accusing Jim of disregarding the agreement of the shareholders to attack and defend the alliance, and privately contacting Abel.

But what's the use?

Jim Walton is not illegal in doing so.

Pacific Commercial Bank's general takeover offer is not over yet.

It won't end until the 5th of this month.

Everything is reasonable and legal, at most just Jim Walton, who broke their verbal agreement.

These people didn't expect it either. Among the shareholders, Jim Walton, who had the most serious confrontation with Abel in the media.

was the first to betray everyone.

Jim Walton's resoluteness can only be said to be the son of a top businessman who created a world-class company, Wal-Mart.

The first day of December passed like this.

Next.

December 2nd.

Early morning is the purest time of the day.

It was also when Abel was at his most energetic.

Like many things, doing them in the morning are very good for the body.

Such as exercising in the morning, eating fast food, and so on.

A harmonious and beautiful morning exercise.

It lifted Abel's mood for the day.

As for the delicate Avril Lavigne, who had been seriously deficient in sleep last night, she once again had the most beautiful and colorful morning.

The price is that I am more tired and sleepy, and I am estimated to sleep until after noon today.

Now Abel is at the pinnacle of the Woolworths Mansion mansion here.

Britney ran away and signed a short-term agreement with employees.

She regained her "freedom".

It's approaching the end of the year again, and Britney, as a top pop icon, can be said to be very busy.

Coupled with her mental problems, after experiencing a series of affairs with Abel.

actually announced that he was cured, and many top psychiatrists were amazed by this.

Abel didn't expect it either. I can still get this effect by giving her injections in that area.

Britney, who has recovered mentally and her body has been very well rested, her strong and energetic work heart is back.

When she was at Sony, she had that desperate work attitude, and she only slept three or four hours a day.

Sixty percent of them are Sony who wants to take advantage of her fire, so it can be squeezed, of course, crazy squeezing.

The reason for the rest is that Britney is a natural workaholic in this regard, and does not reject that level of work.

Otherwise, Sony would even want to squeeze. That level of work intensity, even if ordinary people can bear it physically, they can't bear it mentally.

At most, in half a year, even the body and spirit will collapse.

And Brienne, before she had mental problems. She has been working this way for two or three years.

I only sleep three or four hours a day, all year round for two or three years.

There's no such thing as her own workaholic attitude

Words, that can't be carried down.

Just wait until she feels tired and wants to rest for a while.

Sony refused.

The capitalists are addicted to squeezing. In addition, the newcomer contract is about to expire, and if you want to continue to squeeze in the future, you must use a large contract, and it is very expensive to continue to squeeze.

Sony, of course, wants to take the opportunity to squeeze as much profit as possible before the big contract is signed.

When Brienne herself began to feel tired. In order to squeeze some more profits, Sony naturally refused her request to rest.

coupled with emotional disputes, as well as continuous attacks from brain-dead fans, some media, and some black fans all the time.

Brienne's mental state, which began to gradually develop problems last year, began to be exposed this year.

In a parallel time and space, she will start to really go insane next year.

After being separated and reunited with his first love many times and being completely dumped, he gave up on himself.

In a short period of two years, I had six boyfriends and got married twice...

Now that she is well, Abel's injection has successfully cured her mental internal friction.

Abel asked her to sign an employee agreement. also made Xiao Tiantian, who has a typical dependent personality, gain a psychological backbone.

The workaholic Britney, full of energy, is back again.

While Abel was not in New York, she went to work.

Let Avril stay alone at the summit mansion.

In the face of the returning Abel, the punk girl was alone and was very well conquered.

Not even this morning.

Happily, Abel turned off the shower and dragged a towel.

He wiped his wet hair first, and after a few more casual wipes of his body, he took off his bathrobe from the side, put it on, and walked out of the bathroom.

In the master bedroom, the petite punk girl is still sleeping in Xiangxiang.

During this period of time, it is precisely after the 911 National Entertainment Conference.

Avril Avril is already working on her first album under the guidance of David Geffen.

New York itself is one of the important cores of the American music and recording industry.

Even Glemy is held alternately in New York and Los Angeles.

Avril's workplace has always been here in New York.

Looking at Avril, who should not have woken up so early, Abel turned and walked out of the bedroom.

On the table in the living room, a steaming, fragrant cup of coffee and a stack of newspapers were already placed.

After Abel walked to the sofa and sat down, he took a sip of coffee in a very happy mood, and smashed his mouth a few times, the coffee was brewed well, it should have been made by Edward or Donie.

These people who are close to him have gradually practiced a good coffee brewing technique by him.

Who says bosses like to drink coffee?

He nodded in satisfaction, put down his coffee cup, picked up a newspaper in his hand, and unfolded it to read it.

At the top, of course, was Abel's own newspaper.

With the unfolding of the Smith newspaper group plan, since June of this year.

The Smith Newspaper Group has made more than a dozen shots across the United States.

A large number of influential regional newspapers were acquired across the country.

Newspapers such as the Indiana Star, Utah First, and the Kansas Independent, which sell hundreds of thousands of copies a day in the local area but have very low sales nationwide, have become acquisition targets for the Smith Newspaper Group.

In the past six months, the record has been quite good.

Smith Newspaper has acquired six newspapers with daily sales of more than 200,000 copies and 11 newspapers with daily sales of 100,000 copies across the country.

The number of newspapers with daily sales of more than 50,000 copies and less than 100,000 copies is even higher.

Last month, Forbes launched a ranking of the nation's newspaper groups.

The Smith Newspaper Group also jumped into the fray. It became one of the top 10 American newspaper groups, only in the Gannett Newspaper Group and the Tribune Newspaper Group

, Chicago Newspaper Group, and so on.

However, at present, the two national newspapers of the Smith Media Newspaper Group are mainly The New York Observer and the American Sun.

The New York Observer is a bi-weekly magazine that is published only once every two weeks.

At present, the average sales volume of each issue has reached a critical line of about 100,000 copies.

If it is higher, it will be in the top three.

It has been less than two years since it was acquired by Abel.

With this achievement, it is really a spring breeze for many Abel.

Many people can see Abel's interview because of this, so they will buy it.

After all, there is Abel's authorization there, even if Abel is not interviewed sometimes.

As long as the content of the magazine is approved by the Smith Intelligence Group.

The New York Observer itself was able to concoct some of Abel's ideas and put them in biweekly magazines to attract readers.

Like the last time when the hostile takeover war of Amex Company.

Abel just asked to warn the leeks that they should be careful about the risks of investment.

The New York Observer used its collective wisdom to turn this passage into a brilliant interview.

Relying on this interview, the sales of that issue of "The New York Observer" were directly increased by more than 100%.

It can only be said that in the current situation when Abel's influence is growing day by day.

Whether it is an entertainment newspaper or a financial, fashion, or current affairs newspaper.

For American readers, the name Abel Smith is the main attraction for them to pay for the newspaper to read.

This also makes the name Abel Smith the wealth code of most newspapers and media in the United States.

Other media outlets were reporting on him.

Be careful not to cross the line, lest you attract a gleeful and frenzied attack by the most terrifying lawyers in the United States.

But Abel's own media has no such scruples.

In addition to not discrediting, their various reports on Abel are the most detailed.

Those subsidiaries within Smith Media, which have mastered this unique wealth code, at least rely on this, to increase their ratings by an average of 10% and sales by 12%!

It can only be said that there is such a thing as traffic, even in this era when the rules of the Internet have not yet been perfected.

It can also concretize traffic into real benefits.

As the first generation of super traffic kings, Abel is the first person to eat the benefits of this kind of Internet celebrity.

As a biweekly magazine, the last issue of The New York Observer was published on November 16.

So yesterday, it released its latest issue.

At this time, the top of the newspaper is naturally "The New York Observer".

Abel took it and brought it over.

Even like the previous issue, the cover photo of this issue of the magazine is Abel's "beautiful picture".

This series of "beautiful pictures" is Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue magazine, the world's first fashion event.

She personally took a series of photos taken by her magazine's best photographer for Abel.

Composition what, even the fashion master himself.

Abel still remembers the editor-in-chief, who made many appointments with him in private.

But he refused.

Although when I was young, I probably looked very good.

But Anna Wintour's daughters are now almost as old as Abel.

He was not interested in the old grass.

Vogue magazine used only some of the photos taken at that time.

They can't take the rest of the copyright. Now it's Smith Media, you can use it yourself.

If other people and companies want to use these photos, they have to pay a royalty to Abel.

And most of the time, even if you want to pay the copyright fee, you can't get the right to use these photos.

Abel is not bad at that

Money.

So much so that as a wealth code, Abel's cover photo appears the most in "The New York Observer".

Like this issue, the last issue, the last issue, the fourth issue of "The New York Observer", the cover photos of the three issues are all Abel's "beautiful photos".

This frequency can be imagined, and it is already unusually frequent.

So some of the newspapers and the New York Observer are competitors.

As far as I am concerned, the name of "The New York Observer" should be changed to "The Smith Observer"!

After all, how can there be a cover character, and the same person is used for several issues in a row.

Readers will get tired of it!

But the problem is, the New York Observer has found out.

Every time you use the boss's photo as the cover character, the sales of the current issue of the newspaper will increase by more than 10%.

This is already the real wealth code.

Since you can use it freely, you only need to pay a very low royalty.

The editors of the Smith Newspaper Group, of course, are happy to use it.

The sour words of the other newspapers were only regarded by them as jealousy.

Who told them that they couldn't use this wealth code freely?

Open this issue of "The Smith Observer", ah, no, it's "The New York Observer".

Abel first looked at the catalog.

Sure enough, there was his own "interview" in front of him.

Abel doesn't remember being interviewed by them recently.

He couldn't help but shake his head, intending to make Dilan restrain himself.

Don't do this all the time, readers are not fools who make up too many interviews, they will know that they make up these kinds of interviews!

The general content of these interviews is now familiar to Abel.

They were except, at most, a few words that Abel had said himself, or that he had said to the Smith Order, and then had them written down.

The rest of the content is basically compiled by the elite editors of the New York Observer themselves, based on Abel's words.

For example, Abel said, buy me a mansion in New York tomorrow.

Then they will beautify it and make Abel's words as lofty as possible.

Another issue of professional news related to New York's luxury housing and real estate industry...

In this issue of the magazine, there is also a real interview with Soros.

When it comes to wool, Abel has always been serious.

Soros joined Smith Capital as soon as he joined him.

Abel asked the people from The New York Observer to hurry up and interview.

Correspondingly, Warren Buffett, Bloomberg, Robert Morgenthau, Sullivenston and other elders have all been interviewed.

Abel also plans to have the magazine interview Bloomberg again in the next issue.

After the next issue of the magazine is published, in half a month, Bloomberg will become a new city. What's the long time?

Other than that, it's just normal commercial content.

There is a magazine about Amex, but because it was printed yesterday morning.

So the new news development of Yuntong that just happened last night is not above.

Abel put it down and picked up the American Sun, which was second on the stack.

On the "American Sun", there is news about the fact that Amex has been controlled by Abel 50.4% of the shares.

The newspaper is as usual, with a "New York Post" headline and content.

Basically, it is using UC body, saying that its own boss Abel is very awesome, and the Yuntong company is already owned by Abel.

In licking Abel's piece.

The New York Observer is more or less the style of an elite magazine.

The entertainment-oriented and public-oriented "American Sun" has no such scruples.

Anyway, readers love to watch it, so of course they catch the boss and blow it wildly.

Being able to pat the boss's sycophants and attract readers to increase sales is simply the best of both worlds for them

Its beauty.

So much so that Abel doesn't take his newspaper too seriously now.

Because they are basically beautifying and blowing wildly, some people who urge him to be arrogant are a little unbearable.

What he really knows how to read are the more neutral newspapers.

Like The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and so on.

Sipping hot coffee and reading the newspaper, the morning view of Manhattan with tiny snowflakes floating outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows next to it.

Such a morning and such a life made Abel feel very comfortable.