After the feast, everything was calm for a while.

The next day is September 11th of this year.

Last year's day was a day to remember for all Americans.

On that day, the Americans, who had become accustomed to flaunting their military might and being invincible in the world, discovered with horror that even in the "safe" United States, they could still be attacked by enemy countries.

The same could die.

Since then, the George Mansion, which was originally a small powerhouse, has leapt to the top in an instant and has become one of the most powerful commanders in the United States in history.

But that's all in the past, and people have to look forward after all.

The dead are dead, and the living should live better.

On September 11, 2002, the whole United States launched activities to commemorate and mourn the victims of the 911 incident.

As the center of it all, Manhattan is of course particularly important.

If there is no traffic control, I don't know how many people will want to come to the site of the Twin Towers on this day to pay their respects.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of this day, Abel appeared at the site along with many other people.

Countless people looked at the ruins in silence, except for the sound of the camera doors of the cameras as many reporters as they exploded.

There are also flashing lights from time to time, dense like stars in the sky.

8:46 a.m.

Time's up.

As soon as the bell rang, all the cars in Manhattan and even New York sounded their horns for a long time.

The sound of an air raid siren also sounded along with it.

At the same time, most cities across the United States were like New York, cars stopped driving and honked their horns, and shrill sirens sounded over the city.

Americans seem to want to use this kind of initiative to mourn the 2,996 Americans who died.

Having said that, this trick was actually suggested by Abel to George.

Otherwise, according to the arrangement of the George Mansion, at most, the bells of churches across the country will be sounded, and the air raid sirens will be sounded again in Washington and Manhattan.

Abel's suggestion of honking horns for national car mourning made George feel very meaningful, looked more solemn, and could have a better effect on the commemoration.

This helped him a lot in ruling and managing the United States. It is by this fact that he can have the status he has now.

George embraced this, and then there was today's scene.

After the three-minute long honking of the horns and air raid sirens of the all-American cars.

On the podium that had been set up next to the ruins of the Twin Towers, Able began to perform on stage.

The speech has already been prepared, designed and edited by the Smith Intelligence Group, and then handed over to the relevant departments of the White House for review and revision—on this special commemorative occasion, don't think that you don't have to go through this experience if you have a relationship with Abel.

In this regard, the United States is actually exaggerating more than any other country.

After the manuscript was reviewed, it finally fell into the hands of Abel.

The content of the manuscript is that anyway, promoting American exceptionalism, saying that Americans are innocent, saying that KBFZ and their supporters deserve hell. The war thus launched by the US military is sacred......

Such an important manuscript on such an occasion, even if Abel wants to make trouble, it is not appropriate.

Towards the end of the final speech, there is another requisite "God bless America", and it is over.

During his speech, the applause was naturally continuous. After the end, the applause was as warm as thunder.

This is of course all arranged, and there is a strong sense of moral kidnapping.

Whoever does not applaud at this time is the enemy of the United States.

Abel felt that even if he changed the pig, he would probably get this level of applause.

There is nothing to show off, the only thing he can be proud of is that his ability to go up means that he is more popular with Americans than the American Commander-in-Chief in this period.

If it weren't for the fact that your age doesn't allow it, and you don't have that kind of thought.

Abel thinks that maybe he will go to the general election now, and he may or may not be able to win.

It's a pity that the constitution. The law stipulates that if you want to become the commander of the United States, you must be at least 35 years old.

He is now less than twenty-three, and he is still 12 years away from that requirement.

And if you want to change this provision, you must amend the Constitution. Law.

Want to amend the U.S. Constitution. law, on the face of it seems impossible. For more than 200 years, the constitution of the United States. The Dharma has always been the same as it was originally.

But in fact, this is a layer of skin, constitution. The Fa is indeed still the original one.

In fact, Americans have amended the constitution many times ago. Law, but indirectly using a new law, called "Constitutional. The law is amended directly in the Constitution. The correction of eucalyptus outside the law is simple and direct.

And trying to pass this outrageous correction is almost telling all Americans, "I want to be the commander now."

This can be said to be the American version of Sima Zhao's heart, just think about it, there is no need to do it for the time being.

What's more, many times, the white house and the Grand Commander are just the spokespersons pushed out by the representatives of the interests behind them.

If the Grand Commander himself is an Elder and holds power, then he can become a powerful Grand Commander.

Like Master Xiao Luo back then, he is the American Sea. The founder of the army, and at the same time a super giant on the East Coast.

At that time, the U.S. Army could be said to be better than nothing, in other words, Master Xiao Luo was the super head of the U.S. Army at that time.

With the existence of these two factors, Master Xiao Luo has the ability to eat a capitalist a day, and he can almost lead the United States to a path that he never imagined.

It's a pity that such a super boss was eventually defeated by the united capitalists and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the white house.

So a lot of times, the Grand Commander is really nothing. The recent George is an example, if there is no 911, it is not certain whether he will be able to get out of the white house.

To put it simply, the U.S. Commander-in-Chief is extreme. Those with great power can eat one capitalist a day, and those with less power may not be able to leave Huashengdu.

The anniversary ended, and Abel met with the Ambani brothers.

When meeting with the richest man in the third brother, Abel got straight to the point and directly said that he wanted to do business with them in the third brother's country.

However, it is a real estate business, which will enter under the name of D. Ted Lerner and work with the two brothers.

At the same time, if needed, he can help Reliance Group go public in the United States or London.

The former Ambani was a little tangled and suspicious.

The option to be listed later, that is, whether it is Mukesh Ambani or Anil Ambani, they are a little overjoyed.

At this time in 2002, any country other than the United States. It can be said that it is an honor for companies in their countries to be listed in London or the United States.

A thing that can be flaunted among the same industry in China, and the general public will be more sought after after the company's products when they know about it.

Even if he is the richest man in the third brother country, Mukesh Ambani is excited.

Who doesn't know that the value of the American knife is the market value of the American listed company.

Isn't this better than the rupees that make a lot of money in Mumbai haha?

The follow-up work has been carried out smoothly since then. And Abel also took advantage of the cooperation with the Ambani brothers to officially start the layout in the third brother's country.

His earlier installation at the Sam Ge Shah Padmanaba Swamy Temple in Kerala can finally be set off.

Instead of being like before, even if a tourism company is established, there is still a lot of Ah San watching in the process of development and repair, and it must be careful not to make international incidents difficult to clean up.

And just like that, time flew by, and soon the months that followed 2002 were almost over.

During this period, Smith Capital unsurprisingly held its third year-end investment reception.

This year-end investment reception is much larger than the previous two.

For the first investment reception, Abel was only at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, inviting less than 200 people.

The second time at the Smith Building in Queens LC, at that time invited more than 300 people and almost 400 people.

In the third year of the Smith reception, Abel directly chartered the entire Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Then more than 1,000 guests were invited to settle in, and then divided into four meeting areas, and different admission permissions were set according to the strength level of the guests.

The highest banquet was presided over by himself, and the other three were entrusted to David, Jace, and others.

At the year-end reception, Smith Financial Group announced the financial results of Smith Capital for the current fiscal year.

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The financial report is sent to everyone, and the specific project is very long.

But the most important data in it is that in the 200111-200211 fiscal year, Smith Capital's total revenue was 114.938 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of +265.07%.

There are also net profit attributable to the parent company of 78.634 billion, a year-on-year increase of 219.90%.

A net profit of $78.634 billion, which is a number that makes everyone scream.

Very simply, compared with the financial report of Goldman Sachs in the same fiscal year, Smith Capital, one of the largest investment banks on Wall Street, has almost ten times the annual revenue of Goldman Sachs, and the net profit attributable to the parent is almost more than 20 times!

This is Goldman Sachs' financial report for the same period -

The total revenue was 14.938 billion, a year-on-year increase of +265.07%.

The net profit attributable to the parent company was 3.234 billion, a year-on-year increase of -17.90%.

Goldman Sachs' data, if not compared with Smith Capital, can actually be said to be relatively good.

Not to mention Lehman Brothers Bank, which made a lot of money by relying on subprime mortgages, the data of several other major investment banks are actually similar to or not comparable to Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs can't compare to Smith Capital, which is really a non-war crime.

In shock, investors and guests scrutinized the fine print of Smith Capital's earnings figures.

The above shows that the vast majority of Smith Capital's profits are not in the traditional investment banking business.

Rather, in other ways.

In May, for example, Smith Capital reached an outrageous monthly profit of $18.6 billion.

Seeing this, everyone immediately thought of that time, wasn't it the time when Smith, Rockefeller, and Mahogon joined forces to act and cut the neon people and the global leeks to death?

And then there's the profits from June and July this year, which add up to about $15 billion.

And those two months happened to be the time when someone and Soros joined forces and started sniping London.

There are also more August and September, with a two-month profit of more than 10 billion US dollars.

At the beginning of that month, it happened to be the time when the Canadian government announced that it would sell 20% of Petro-Canada's shares to Pacific Energy.

In addition to these large incomes, Smith Capital's record in other months has not been weak at all.

However, to the surprise of more than 1,000 guests, Smith Capital actually made a total profit of more than $10 billion in international spot gold futures this year.

And it is very fixed every month, and it can be seen that this investment bank has been constantly buying and selling international gold, but in the long run, it has always been held.

Only then did we find out that since the end of last year, international spot gold has indeed changed the decline of previous years, and has been rising almost all the time, only the short-term will occasionally fall, but it will soon rise again.

It turns out that there is such a super boss as Smith Capital behind it......

In short, this year's Smith Capital year-end cocktail party was a shock to its peers, and LPs (funders) couldn't wait to dance on the spot. Would-be LPs are all waving checks and yelling at them, wanting to join in on the carnival of wealth.

Abel Smith has spent several years proving that the sooner he joins his chariot of wealth, the sooner he can share in his glory.

Those guys who drive at night, it's not so easy to get in the car again.

On this point, those members of the old Texas consortium said that they had a very right to speak.

They just got on the bus too late in the first place, so they had to choose to merge with Smith to be able to get on the bus completely.

If they had made up their minds back in 2000, they would have made even more!

The year-end investment reception was finally successfully concluded.

It has darkened all the year-end investment receptions on Wall Street this year.

The next day, without exception, the data of this drinking party, which should have been "confidential", was all exposed.

The major media in the United States and most of the financial media in the world have all exaggerated this and frantically sought after reports.

More than $78 billion, almost $80 billion in profits, is really amazing.

Abel Smith once again proved to the world his ability to make money, almost making a fortune of the world's second richest man and the world's third richest man a year.

Under the cascading effect, as the first listed company under the name of Abel, the share price of Smith Media rose in response.

The stock price rose from $168.5 a share to $182.9 a share on the same day, and the market value exceeded $180 billion, becoming the most valuable media company in history.

Except for Smith Media, although Abel has no other listed companies.

But the shares of the listed companies in which he holds shares are also sought after.

In one day, more than 300 companies in the United States all showed different increases because they were related to him or because he had a stake.

Exaggeratedly, there is Microsoft, an already very popular stock, which rose 9.9% in one day.

The worse is that Abel only holds 4.5% of the shares, which is completely a company like Texas Agricultural Machinery, which was won during the 911 bailout, which rose by more than 20 percent in one day.

The reason why it is bad is because Microsoft's 9.9 percent is more than 20 percent of Texas agricultural machinery.

In terms of market capitalization alone, a Microsoft market capitalization is worth more than 30 Texas agricultural machinery.

So Microsoft's 9.9% increase in stock is much more exaggerated than the 25% increase in Texas Farm Machinery.

That evening, the evening newspaper of the Wall Street Journal used "Fortune Smith" as an expression of this phenomenon.

【…… In the past, investing on Wall Street was all that was done by the name Warren Buffett. Now the list has become two, with the addition of an Abel Smith. 】

[But unlike Warren Buffett, Abel Smith is not just a Wall Street Smith. He is also the Smith of the Americans. Americans want to invest in stocks, but they don't have to do anything. They just need to find out what stocks Abel Smith has bought, and then they can buy them together. 】

[And then I have been holding it, waiting for the stock to rise quietly.] Sell it when you need it, and you'll find that your money makes a lot of money. 】

[In this regard, the author named this phenomenon - "Fortune Smith". Why the name? This may have something to do with the fact that the author also happens to be surnamed Smith......]

The "Wealth Smith" phenomenon in the mouth of the Wall Street Journal lasted for another two days before gradually extinguishing.

There is another reason why this trend was extinguished so quickly.

One is that news is always time-sensitive. Second, other financial oligarchs don't want everyone to follow Abel's investment, so they will still play a fart.

Under their joint suppression, the news, which should have been popular for at least a week, was suppressed in two days this time.

Abel also felt that it didn't matter, he was strong enough.

You don't need this kind of external name to add authority to yourself.

Now he is the living authority.

The kind of one and only.

Time went on, and soon Christmas 2002 arrived.

This year's Christmas Eve is completely different from the previous two years.

Christmas Eve in 2000 was a cold winter, with snow falling in New York starting in November and many snowstorms in December.

The weather in New York in 2001 was normal, and it snowed in December.

This year's weather in New York seems to be a warm winter, with a few light snowfalls after December, but the snow is so small that it melts completely as soon as it falls to the ground, which can only bring a slight coolness, and it is not cold at all compared to previous years.

This makes the supermodels in Yin Lizabeth's backyard suffer too much less at this year's Christmas Eve show.

Compared to the previous two years, the New York Hydra Gang has now taken shape.

On the night of Christmas Eve, the third Yin Sha Show was held as scheduled in Times Square in New York.

Not surprisingly, New York City. Bigwigs such as Long Bloomberg and the current city councillor were all in attendance, and the powerful in New York or the Northeast gathered to enjoy the beautiful performances of Yin Sha Angels and other skinny supermodels.

Well, that's a lie.

The real reason why these elites are willing to brave the cold weather to watch the model catwalk is because of that name - Abel Smith.

If it weren't for the opportunity to get in touch with Abel, take the opportunity to get close to Abel and see if he could get on the Smith chariot.

Where are these powerful people willing to come?

Especially those guys, they have never looked down on this kind of thing.

The reason is that these supermodels who can add infinite screens to ordinary men, in their eyes, are actually just some beautiful and expensive playthings.

They don't say how many or how many of these playthings you want, but you can play them whenever you want.

Can't play with these supermodels with the Smith label on them, so the other supermodels or beautiful goddesses are not what they want?

Not to mention this kind of catwalk with clothes, they can afford to have a catwalk without clothes.

At most, it is not the same batch, but the figure and beauty will definitely not lose to Yin Sha Angels.

In this world, beautiful and thirsty. There are too many women who hope to succeed and enjoy the top material.

Among them, there will definitely not be more than 1/10,000 of those who can get what they want.

Of the remaining 9999, at least seventy or eighty percent of them can be played with.

This kind of thing that ordinary people can't ask for is really nothing to them.

And for the third Yin Sha Angel Show, the curtain call model is Gisele Bangchen as always.

Today's Yin Shaxiu is still very young, and Abel is not a little plum. Giselle Bundchen, who is very satisfied with his current position and everything, is likely to leave Victoria's Secret much later than in parallel time and space.

As in previous years, as soon as the Christmas Eve show was over, Abel left Manhattan for Queens.

Hop aboard his Boeing 747-8 VIP and set off for Texas.

Here in New York, the Hearst sisters are home for the holidays with their families. Kayla had even gone back two days earlier because her father had a minor illness.

She went back early to visit her father and was reunited with him at the same time. In addition, she has to go back to tell her father the good news-

That's my dear Slyder, you don't have to worry about you being cut off. Although your son can't give birth, your daughter is pregnant!

Of course, she couldn't have said it so bluntly. Then instead of being happy, Schreed might turn into anger.

As for the other women, Abel had already arranged it.

Those who want to go back to reunite with their families will go back, and those who don't go back will spend the holidays with their "sisters".

Like Nicole and Kate in Australia, like Jessica and Meghan, etc.

After a seven-hour flight, Abel arrived over Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

The time was approaching late at night, and in the night, Abel's sky palace landed smoothly, sliding slowly until it stopped, the suspension car was erected, the cabin door was opened, the bodyguard went first, and after confirming the surrounding environment, Abel in a black hooded casual suit walked out of the cabin.

Taking a deep breath of air much warmer than New York, Abel felt that Texas, which was located in the south, was actually more suitable for human habitation.

I got off the ladder and sat in the SUV that I had been waiting for a long time.

There is no need to sit on the Cadillac monster this time.

Because it's going back to Smith Farm, there's not such a good way to go along the way.

In this part of Texas, off-road vehicles and trucks, pickup trucks, and even horseback riding are far more popular than sedans.

A group of fifteen vehicles left the airport's private tarmac and sped away in the direction of Smith Farms.

The Smith family's farm is another hour and a half drive from this airport.

This is also a very thing, no way, who made his sky palace too big, not the runway of any airport can accommodate it.

After an hour and a half of galloping.

Smith Farm is just ahead.

Compared to a few years ago, Smith Farm is actually gradually transforming.

The original Smith Farm totaled more than 5,000 acres of land. Later, after Abel made his fortune, he paid for thousands of acres, but now the total is only about 10,000 acres.

A farm of about 10,000 acres is honestly not that big in the United States. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres of farms in the United States.

The 10,000 acres of Smith Farm was obviously not enough to see, but Abel had no intention of continuing to expand it.

One is that he is surrounded by Alexander's acquaintances, and it is not easy to buy the land in their hands.

The second is that the Alexandres both went to Austin, and the Alexes only came back for a month or two a year.

To start farms and agricultural companies, there are better and cheaper land to get your hands on in the United States and other countries.

There's no need to stare at Texas and ruin your fundamentals.

So the farm was directly transformed into his personal resort and hometown at Abel's request, and it was no longer much planted and raised, and most of the place was turned into a training ground for rock security, leaving only some places for horses and dogs.

Then these buildings and workers, around the very center of the Smith Manor, existed as the last base in Abel's mind.

Sitting in the carriage at this moment, Abel looked out the window in front of him, under the bright starry sky, a few pillars of light broke through the dark night, and passed through most of the vast and empty farms along the renovated road, quickly approaching the luxury manor in the center of Smith Farm.

The eaves of different heights are like mushrooms with umbrellas unfolded, and the orange walls are surrounded by towering trees under the bright lights of the interior and exterior, just like scenes from fairy tales.

The convoy came to a halt in the square in front of the main house, and Able got out of the car to see Charlize Theron and four maids already standing at the door, welcoming the return of Abel, the master.

"It's too late, Arya and Emily are already resting."

Obviously it was the middle of the night, Charlize, who was supposed to wear pajamas or casual clothes, was wearing a dark blue small V-neck trench coat dress at this time, and the middle was tightened by a wide corset belt of the same fabric to tighten the entire lower abdomen.

"Laura was going to wait for you to come back. But it was too late, she was just three or four months pregnant, and it was the most sleepy time. And staying up late is not good for her and the child, so I persuaded her to rest. ”

"So, it's just me. Honey, your dinner is ready and ready to be enjoyed, and the bathtub is also stocked with water...... Giggle...... Eat first or ...... Eat me first? ”

"What do you say?" Abel raised his eyebrows, reached out with a wicked smile and hugged the charming Charlize into his arms, whispering something in her ear, which made Charlize, who had been prepared, blush.

Naturally, the back is a long-term absence to win the newlywed.

After the battle, Abel did not rest immediately, but went to visit his eldest daughter.

Little Arya has turned one year old, and on her first birthday, Abel came back for a visit.

I haven't seen her for a month, and the little doll has obviously grown up a little more.

Babies in this time period really change after not seeing each other for a month or two.

She has slowly learned to walk, began to vocalize and learn to speak.

According to Charlize, the first word that little Arya would say was "dad".

This kind of thing, he believed on the surface.

But secretly, Abel felt that this was most likely a lie made up by Charlize in order to make himself more important and love little Arya.

Because generally speaking, most of the first things children will say are mothers, and this is true of human babies all over the world.

What's more, compared to Charlize, Abel is very self-aware.

He didn't see his eldest daughter a few times a year, Charlize and her mother, and occasionally her mother Emily and grandmother Arya.

Little Arya and Little Laura, the big mother, probably spend more time together than she does—Little Laura now lives mostly at Smith Farm after she returned to Texas.

In this case, how can you talk about your father first, and not your mother first.

Even if you really say Dad first, it is likely that Charlize will be taught by Madness, and he will be affected before he will say Dad first.

He didn't care much about this, although he said it was an illegitimate daughter, he really liked little Arya.

As he has more and more illegitimate children/daughters, Abel can now deal with this kind of thing calmly.

There is even an attitude that it doesn't matter if it is discovered.

This has to do with the fact that the United States is very tolerant in this regard. I have to say that in the area of illegitimate children, this problem is really not a problem in the United States.

Whether in real life or in TV movies, Americans feel like they are living in a "post-moral" era. Many Americans "lightning" marriage and then "lightning" divorce. The joy of a night of mutual love is even more flooding. In a society that is so casual about marriage and the affairs of men and women, can there be morality at all?

The so-called "emancipation of X" is only one aspect of American society. In other respects, Americans have shown a strong sense of morality.

Even more terrible than the immorality of private life for public figures in the United States is the immorality of public life.

The immorality of private life is really nothing in the United States. In the United States, celebrities, celebrities, and celebrities have an illegitimate child or a scandal abound. But the most important thing is that as long as these people are honest and self-righteous in public life, there is no major problem, and at least they must show that they are honest and self-conscious, because public life involves the interests of the people.

To put it bluntly, most Americans are collectively selfish, do whatever you like, just don't affect my interests.

Kissing his eldest daughter gently, Abel exclaimed with satisfaction.

Then he turned and walked behind him. I wanted to go back to Charlize's room and continue to sleep with a South African diamond.

But after thinking about it, he still turned around halfway and returned to his master bedroom familiarly.

Sure enough, I saw the female bodyguard I arranged for little Laura at the door, as well as Miss Hannah, a former FBL agent.

Of course, little Laura was resting inside.

He went in, got into his big Simmons, gently hugged little Laura, who was obviously much more round after three months of pregnancy, and closed his eyes and fell asleep for a second.