Swan Wharf, Big Neck, New York.

"Hello, gentlemen. Welcome, I'm Abel Smith, and this is my girlfriend, Kayla Wilson. ”

Abel shook hands with Leo Melamed and Alan Greenspan with a confident smile.

"Thank you both for the invitation, it's ......a great honor," Alan Greenspan smiled as he shook Abel's hand, and then with Kayla's incomparably graceful hand.

Leo Melamed did the same.

Neither of them had a veneer with Kayla.

First, even in Europe and the United States, when the first meeting is not so familiar, it is rare to have a veneer ceremony.

The second is that someone is taboo in some aspects, and it has long been known to people in the same circle.

Of course, the two oil elders will not commit such a taboo.

There are no reporters on the scene, and it is impossible to have such a private banquet in the top circle.

Banquets where journalists are allowed to attend often have the purpose of showmanship.

Otherwise, the banquet where so many elders gather, of course, the more private the better. Only this kind of banquet will really talk about interests, about things that are not suitable for the media, not suitable for the public.

After a polite exchange of pleasantries, a waiter played by a rock security worker behind Abel stepped forward and stretched out his hand to lead the two old oilmen into the banquet hall.

The second to arrive was a silver-haired old man in his fifties, dressed in a black suit, who slowly walked towards Abel and Kayla with a smile on his face.

Kayla said in an imperceptible voice, a little unnaturally, "I'm sorry, dear, I ...... this gentleman"

"Don't worry, I've got you covered." Abel smiled softly, knowing that Kayla might not recognize anyone.

During this time, she has been busy preparing for the dinner party, and she has to work during the day, so how can she have the time to memorize the hero genealogy.

You must know that in the upper class society of New York, one of the skills that must be mastered is to say the other party's family name correctly, and if you say it wrong, you will definitely offend people and be ridiculed, which is a very serious matter.

In addition, she is still a Californian, and her previous social circle has always been on the West Coast.

It's normal that you're not very familiar with the same kind here.

A lot of them may have only heard the name, but never met.

Fortunately, Abel has a super memory that he will never forget, otherwise he would have a headache for this kind of thing.

"Hello, Mr. Robert Miller, welcome to you, I'm Abel Smith, and this is my girlfriend Kayla......"

"Thank you, it's an honor to be invited to tonight's dinner, it's a pleasure to meet both." Robert Miller has a warm smile on his face and has a good attitude towards Abel and Kayla.

Looking at the back of Robert Miller walking into the banquet hall, Kayla asked curiously and in a whisper, "Who is this Mr. Miller?" ”

"He's the FBI director, the FBL's boss, who just took over last year. A veteran elephant party figure. ”

"Wow, I see." Kayla nodded, this is indeed a big shot.

Compared with CLA, whose main business is abroad, FBL has a much greater deterrent effect on the United States. Even if it is a consortium, it is necessary to pay attention to the movements of FBL in many cases.

Of course, in many cases, FBL is actually in the hands of the consortium and is a common tool for everyone.

As the leader, Robert Miller, the leader of the armed forces, can still make Kayla, who was born in a big business, respect a little bit.

This is mainly because the California consortium she came from is somewhat marginalized in this regard and has little say.

If you are from a Texas consortium, or a New York consortium, you will have a different sense of light for Robert Miller.

The guests in the back dazzled Kayla one by one.

Delin Schultz, the current leader of the Donkey Party. Richard Gephardt, donkey party whip in the House of Representatives. Le Corvin Jones, Senate whip of the Donkey Party.

The Donkey Party is now all in the Big Three.

The back zipper couple also came.

The Elephant Party was obviously not weak, and the Elephant Party whip and party leader, Tom Derey, who were well-known in both houses, also arrived at the scene in person.

This is a Texan, and he's very tough. The best skill is to stand up and unify the internal actions of the elephant party when the donkey and elephant votes are equal, and do not hesitate to threaten revenge with righteousness and justice, forcing the elephant party members to comply, so he got the nickname "Iron Hammer".

The famous American drama "House of Cards" that came out in later generations, the prototype of the powerful party whip in it is this.

In fact, the power of a normal party whip is not so great. This position is internal, and its role is to maintain the unity and discipline of the faction in voting.

Because they are elected by the parliamentarians, they generally have a high prestige, but there are really few who are as majestic as the party whip in "House of Cards".

Of course, "not a few" is not all of them.

Tom Dre is one such exception, this guy has a brilliant record on Capitol Hill.

During the two years of the 104th Congress, as the majority whip, he beat his own faction with a "hammer" style, winning 300 of the 303 votes.

Until his retirement, the Elephant Party's voice on Capitol Hill was unprecedentedly unified.

However, in the upper class of the United States, Tom Dryy is best known for successfully organizing a vote in 1998 and passing a resolution to impeach Zipperton, which was deeply involved in the "Zippergate" scandal.

It can be said that this whip and leader of the Elephant Party can be regarded as a well-known iron-blooded strongman on the main altar of the United States.

But......

"Uncle Tom, good evening. This is Kayla Wilson, my girlfriend ......"

Kayla was a little surprised to see Able take two steps forward, and her attitude was much better than that of the previous groups. It even seems that when he faces Tom Drey, he has the appearance of a junior facing an elder.

Then Tom Dre looked at Abel with a blank face, and then smiled at Kayla in a friendly manner, and greeted softly, "Hello, Miss Wilson." It's a bastard, and it's hard for you. ”

Kayla was surprised, there are still people who dare to evaluate Abel as a bastard, is this really so iron-blooded, so fierce?

She was a little at a loss for how to respond.

Although she also felt in her heart that Abel was really a bastard in many ways.

But on this occasion, it can't be like this, right?

She immediately looked at Abel, worried that Abel would be furious.

At this time, she heard Abel whispering, "Uncle Tom is my grandfather's godson, and he often took me to play when I was a child. I used to love to draw, that's what he said about me. ”

"Oh, oh, oh!" Kayla suddenly realized, and thought to herself, no wonder Abel didn't even have the same name.

No wonder Tom Dre dared to call Abel that, and Abel was not angry.

It turned out to be a world friend.

"Hmph - quit the Elephant Party, you have let a lot of people down. Abel. Tom Dre looked at Abel with a blank face.

Abel shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand lightly, "Uncle Tom, standing in my position, I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. ”

Kayla could see that the atmosphere between the two was a little tense, and she choked on the words she had thought of, and looked at the two with bated breath.

However, the imaginary quarrel did not occur, Tom Dre just snorted again, nodded at Kayla, and then ignored Abel and walked inside.

When Tom Drey was gone, Abel looked at the curious expression on the princess of California, and he could only explain a few words.

"Tom Drey's family is also a farmer, and like me, they are from Tarrantshire. His father and my grandfather had a good relationship. His father was also my father's godfather. But then my father's godfather died young, and Tom Dre took a very different path from my father and grandfather. He himself didn't like my father's practice of being a farmer in his early years, thinking that my father had no ambitions, and the two of them quarreled many times, and the more they quarreled, the more stiff the relationship became. ”

"Oh, when I was a kid, I loved to draw and wanted to be a painter, and he didn't like that either. He wanted to train me to be a regular guest since I was a child, and he wanted to be my godfather. But it was rejected by my father because they didn't have a good relationship. ”

Able shrugged, "But he has a lot of respect for my grandfather. Because that was his godfather and his biggest supporter when he was just starting out in Tarrant and Texas. ”

There is another aspect that Abel didn't say, that is, when he first came to New York, many people wanted to get him but didn't do it, and there were many reasons for scruples in all aspects.

One of them is probably related to Tom Drey.

That's why Herbert, a hyper-realistic person, has always maintained a good relationship with Alex when Abel was not fully developed.

Although, Alex Smith is not rich enough, and his fame is not very great. But Smith is in the central region of Texas, and he has really saved a lot of favors and connections.

This kind of thing is important or not, and sometimes it is quite useful to say that it is not important.

When there is no real conflict of interest, these things are obviously quite useful.

This is also the reason why Alexander was able to run the Texas Rangers with George.

Alex has a lot of connections like Tom Drey.

But well...... For Alex right now, there's only one of the most important connections.

That's his grandson – Abel Smith!

Otherwise, if Abel has no ability, he will quit the elephant party. This kind of thing is known to people like Tom Drey.

This Capitol Hill hammer with a fiery nature will definitely not give Alex any face, and will definitely make something to make trouble for Abel.

Connections are sometimes important, but in this part of the United States, the most important thing is to have strength!

Powerful connections are useful.

Without strength, even if you are a relative of Rockefeller, it is useless at a critical moment.

Later, the guests came one after another.

Like Deputy Commander Cheney brought his daughter Leeds, as well as CLA Director Tenet and other Washington elders.

In addition to these Washington elders, the invited Wall Street giants will certainly not be absent.

David Comansky, chairman of Merrill Lynch's board of directors, was the first Wall Street magnate to arrive.

This is arguably the Wall Street executive most affected by the Abel butterfly effect.

If it weren't for Abel's appearance, he would have been seized by Stanley O'Neal, the first black executive on Wall Street, in an alternate time and space.

Unlike now, he not only retained his position as CEO. Also because of O'Neill's downfall, he won the trust of Merrill Lynch's shareholders' meeting and became the chairman.

Later, many of them are Abel's acquaintances.

Like what Bank of America CEO Ken? Lewis......

Paulson, Chairman of Goldman Sachs......

Richard Fulder, CEO of Lehman Brothers......

The two CEOs of Da Mo and Xiao Mo......

First Citibank ......

In addition to these Wall Street giants, there are also some foreign friends like Mitsui's father and daughter.

For example, Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in the third brother, and his younger brother Anil Ambani, who has a very stiff relationship with him, and so on.

As for Buffett and Bloomberg, they arrived early and were already in the venue to help greet guests and contact each other.

……

As time went on, more and more guests arrived, and several people walked back and forth on the red carpet, Abel and Kayla still greeted with elegant and calm smiles, until Rockefeller and Mahogon arrived together at the end.

These two old men and the little old man have always given Abel a feeling of being inseparable.

If it weren't for the fact that the age gap between the two is relatively large, and they are both very traditional old white men.

Abel had to wonder if these two guys had that tendency.

In fact, in this regard, Abel misunderstood.

Rockphil and Morgun were not together as often as he saw them.

Eighty percent of the occasions they often appear together are because of Abel's presence.

In other words, Abel is too important for these two to take very seriously. That's why when they appear in front of Abel, the two of them will often appear together.

"Abel, you are such a shrewd boy, I have to admire, no wonder you can accumulate so much wealth in such a short time, your control of timing is simply genius."

As soon as he came up, John Chris Morgun did not hesitate to praise Abel.

To be honest, although for many people, tonight's dinner is definitely a grand end, after all, it is not an easy task to be able to gather so many big people together.

But that's not what John Criss's obvious boast about.

Tonight's banquet of this level, if you want to do it, Mogen can also afford to make a scene.

Having John Chris praise as soon as he comes up is another recent thing.

Just when Kayla was a little surprised in her heart, why did John Criss praise Abel so much in the first place.

Abel, who knew the reason why the little old man said this, smiled and said:

"As a latecomer to Wall Street, I'm honored to have your admiration, John. But in the beginning, I really just wanted to make some Canadian dollars. It's just that I didn't expect Taihua to be so generous, so I had no choice but to be disrespectful. ”

Abel said with a calm smile, not caring at all about the teasing of the little old man John Chris and the helpless eyes of David Rockphile next to him.

Thicker than his skin, Able doesn't think he's going to lose to anyone else.

Kayla, who was watching the conversation between the Big Three on the side, didn't know why John Chris said that as soon as he came up, he was actually ridiculing Abel and stimulating David next to him.

What they are talking about is actually a piece of news announced by Canada a few days ago.

In that news, the commercial division of Hold Taihua announced that it would sell the remaining 20% of Petro-Canada to Pacific Energy at 20% below the market price.

And the reason that forced Canadians to do this was that as early as a few months ago, Abel began to lay out the incident of shorting the Canadian dollar to snipe at Canadians.

In order not to really collapse the Canadian dollar exchange rate, which will affect Canada's exports and even people's livelihood.

When there was nothing they could do, the Canadians made the same choice as the Norwegians.

They "recruited" Abel Smith, the No. 1 short, and used the shares of Petro-Canada, which they intended to get rid of, to get Abel out of this sniping.

That's what John Criss joked about, because the 20% stake in Petro-Canada has always been wanted by Rockphile.

David has been planning for a long time, and it was also in 2004 that these shares were taken by Rockefeller.

Now that he has been intercepted by Abel, David Rockphile is of course a little unhappy.

Even if he has actually taken a very large amount of the other 80% of Petro-Canada's shares through various means.

But seeing that the meat that was about to reach the mouth was amputated, no one would feel comfortable.

What John Crisse wanted was Rockefeller's unhappiness and Abel's unease.

I just didn't expect Rockfaeler to really look unhappy.

Abel didn't look uncomfortable at all.

Although everyone is now a handshake and even an ally.

But whether it was Mahogon and Rockphil, or they and Abel. Everyone used to be an opponent and an enemy.

In terms of the general direction, although we are no longer engaged in confrontation and hostility, we will often join forces together.

But this kind of daily ridicule, of course, will not let go if you can catch it.

Looking at Abel's rightful reply, John Chris laughed, thinking that you kid is so thick-skinned.

But the old guy probably didn't have that much fun.

Mahogon immediately looked at David next to him.

Sure enough, listening to Abel's cheap and obedient words, Rockphile almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

It's very uncomfortable and in a bad mood. However, this was sent by the Taihua side, and Abel didn't even name it.

And David's action of laying the groundwork for so long has not been opened, and from this point of view, it cannot be regarded as Abel's grabbing.

It cannot be considered a confrontation, and there is no violation of the agreement at that time.

David was very uncomfortable, and he didn't have much to say.

"Huh...... Okay, you guy...... Let's go, let's go inside, you don't really want to keep greeting, do you? The old guy finally had to say angrily.

"You're coming so slowly, and my feet are sore. Let's go, let's go in together. ”

Abel held Kayla, who was smiling next to him, and said softly with a smile.

Even Rockphil and Morgun had already arrived, and there were no more important guests behind.

Even if there were, he and Kayla had been standing here for so long, and they were tired of standing.

Then those who came after him should let the two Davids meet them.