On the way back to 9555 Heather Road in Beverly Hills, Abel naturally received a message from Morgun and the others to go to those Clevelands.

It's like those people must have received information from him, the guy who encouraged everyone to take back the voting rights of the Cleveland consortium at the meeting, but took the initiative to find the Cleveland people.

It's hard to hide this kind of information, unless both sides of the operation are deliberately concealing it and taking some cover action.

Otherwise, there really isn't much of a big secret in this kingdom for them.

After hearing the news, Abel's attitude was to ignore them.

He is confident in his own conditions, as well as in the current attractiveness of the consortium.

Why do some tycoons in Texas or around them take the initiative to join the consortium?

Because of the ecological niche within the joint consortium, except for Smith's special position, most of the other forces and people have not yet been fixed.

This gives a message to outsiders, that is, "Maybe I can become an important person when I join."

This kind of information is received by tycoons in Texas and several surrounding states.

People in New York and California can also receive it, because Abel also unites a large number of locals here.

And when this kind of information, when faced with a whole consortium. People in Cleveland will surely consider -

If Abel Smith's conditions are agreed, Cleveland's status in the United Consortium may not be much lower.

This kind of advantage over other consortia in attracting others to the outside world is something that other consortia do not have.

Who calls other consortia, especially those old big consortia, their internal ecological niches have long been determined in the hundreds of years of development.

They are not even half as receptive to outsiders as the United Consortium.

So Abel thinks that the Cleveland consortium really wants to find a backer, and there is a high probability that it will find itself.

Unless they are Mogun, they can prescribe better conditions.

If that were the case, he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

People are more willing to pay for it, and they don't need to chase it with their muscles and bones. If you can win over, you can pull in, and if you can't win over, doing yourself is the most correct choice.

Now that the multiple-choice questions are lost to the Clevelands, it's up to them to choose.

By the time he got back to 9555 Heather Road in Beverly Hills, it was about 8 p.m.

Jessica and Anne knew Abel hadn't eaten before he was on the way.

So when Abel returned home, both of them were preparing dinner for him.

Dinner was naturally very hearty and Western.

"This oyster is very fresh, it is Ginador from France, it was just picked in the morning, it was flown over, and it was very lively when it came! Eat a little more, and the steak, this is your favorite neon Yonezawa beef wagyu beef, also just slaughtered in the morning, I have had the chef marinate it for a day, and bake it on high heat for another hour and a half, you can taste it. ”

Anne smiled and pushed the oyster plate in front of Abel, urging her. Lang tasted it, as if it was made by her, and it was actually the work of those world-class chefs of Abel......

"Well, it's juicy and melts in your mouth!" Able took a piece of cut beef into his mouth and chewed it, giving Anne a thumbs up.

One of the benefits of financial freedom is that you can taste the tastiest and most expensive foods in the world at any time!

All kinds of things don't really taste good.,It's mainly for the gold leaf dishes of X, not to mention.。

Foods that are truly distinctive in taste, such as the best French Ginado oysters and Belon oysters, or the neon's best Yonezawa Wagyu beef and Omi Wagyu beef, can be eaten at any time with the freshest and best quality.

Naturally, the price is also very expensive. Of course, the price is more expensive and the quality of these things is much higher than what ordinary people can eat.

"Hehe, eat some cauliflower with it, and a little more mango, eat more, I even had someone bake you a large piece of South African Dupo lamb chops." You guy, last night wasn't easy at all! Anne watched Abel feast, and at the same time was very happy and at the same time gave a small stab.

Jessica smiled and didn't speak, she was more rational and tolerant, and she was more gentle than Anne in this regard.

Abel didn't answer Annie's topic, but smiled and continued to enjoy the food, while asking curiously, "What about the others, I remember you didn't let them go, did you?" ”

"Of course not." Anne pouted, "Keep all six for you." But there are three that are better left out tonight, so as not to leave any sequelae. ”

Abel knew that these three should be the first three last night.

Among them are Miss Seree, who has confessed to him, as well as Amanda Seyfried, whom Abel liked very much in his previous life, and Kate Darlings.

Especially the last one, which is Kate Darlings. In her previous life, she played the poisonous tongue girl Max in "Bankruptcy Sisters", a pair of super bright headlights, with her somewhat petite height, and now she is only 17 years old.

Of course, Gadot and Amanda Seyfried are also very good.

is the young Gadot, and indeed he does not have the temperament when he was shining in his previous life.

At that time, she was already married, and there was an indescribable smell of Cao thieves, which naturally made most Cao thieves like it from the bottom of their hearts when they saw it.

She is a beauty that needs time to precipitate before she can become more and more beautiful.

And Amanda Seyfried, a big beauty, the head of the first Hollywood Four Little Flowers in parallel time and space, is one year older than Kate Darlings.

The figure is already very good, but it has not grown in appearance, and there is no future charm.

According to the ranking in Abel's current heart, in some aspects of attractiveness, it is still Kate Darlings, Gadot, and Amanda Seyfried.

The main thing is Kate Dailings' figure and height, coupled with her age, it is indeed easy for Abel to have the idea of critting her.

It's kind of like another version of Scarlett Johansson, and it's a little fresher for Abel, so injuries are inevitable......

After eating a dinner that made Anne very jealous, Abel was not in a hurry to enjoy the three "gifts" that were not injured or not seriously injured.

He went to his study at 9555 Heather Road in Beverly Hills to continue his day's work.

Bringing the Cleveland Consortium on board is not just his business.

Although he is now because of his continuous victories and the ability to make money like a cash cow, the entire consortium is subservient to him.

But after all, he only has a little bit of financial talent. It's not the kind of super hanging that makes people bow down when the tiger's body is shaken.

Sufficient internal communication, as well as appropriate benefit delivery or something, still have to be talked about.

People who haven't come in yet, all want to get enough niche inside. Those who are already inside are naturally worried that the addition of outsiders will affect their ecological niche.

As the arbiter and leader of the consortium, avoiding or minimizing conflicts between the two sides is one of his most important jobs.

Only by doing a good job in this area can we avoid internal friction within the consortium and have greater cohesion and threat when developing externally.

Fortunately, thanks to the fact that all along, under his leadership, the United Consortium has been moving from one victory to another.

So when he put these things out and said, whether it was the original people of the Texas consortium or Buffett, they were easily handled by him.

In any case, if the Cleveland consortium or DuPont can really be integrated, it will be more beneficial than disadvantageous for everyone in the joint consortium.

In particular, one of these two consortia has a say in the chemical industry, and the other is a leader in the steel and rubber fields in the United States.

These two aspects are areas that the joint consortium does not currently have or are relatively weak, and it is naturally welcome for everyone to let them join.

After more than an hour on the phone and communicating with many people.

Abel began to look at the various briefings of today, one of which was related to Apple, which surprised him a little.

Today, he is the largest shareholder holding about 28% of Apple's shares, and he is also the biggest supporter of Jobs.

The two sides can be said to have cooperated happily on the Pixar deal.

In order to be able to always gain his trust and the support of his consortium boss, Jobs would often communicate with him.

Much of the briefing on Apple was at the internal level that Jobs took the initiative to oversee by the Smith Intelligence Group.

After reading the briefing on Apple, Able put it in a folder next to him, and he picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip.

What surprised him a little was that the bulletin announced that it was expected that Apple's first-generation smartphone would be unveiled to the world at the end of this year or early next year!!

You must know that the first-generation Apple 3G in parallel time and space, it was launched in mid-2007.

Even at the beginning of next year as mentioned in the briefing, Apple's mobile phone in this time and space was launched three years ahead of schedule.

Even if it will not be listed directly, but disclosed in the form of high-tech, as a gimmick for Apple to boost its stock price, it will also surprise Abel.

He couldn't help but think, is the curtain of the smartphone era about to begin?

In this regard, Abel is a little lamented by the strong butterfly effect he brought, after all, Jobs developed the Apple mobile phone a few years earlier than the parallel time and space, because of his advice.

After two years, now you can actually show it? Even if it's just to show off, it's much earlier than parallel time and space.

So, is the era of smartphones really coming?

Abel is not sure about this, but he will not deny it.

The reason for the uncertainty is that it is only 2003 after all. The development of chips and communication technology did not advance too much because of his appearance.

In 2003, under the current level of science and technology, whether there can be the early products of smart phones in the previous life, Abel feels that there is a big question mark.

It is not denied that the era of smart phones may appear in advance, because Abel knows that with the efforts of several major communication operators in the United States in the past two years, the 3G network has basically stabilized in major urban agglomerations in the United States.

The first generation of 3G mobile phones has been on the market one after another, but they are actually not much different from the original mobile phones, but the network has become a little better.

The kind of real smartphone with a large screen, strong touch and multimedia capabilities, there is no concept yet.

In parallel time and space, this aspect is indeed the first to be created by Apple and promoted its formation.

However, the era of smartphones itself is built on a faster and more bandwidth mobile Internet.

With the advent of 3G, it is possible to really open.

The popularization of 4G is the real arrival of the era of mobile Internet and smart phones.

For smartphones and mobile Internet, Abel actually attaches great importance to it.

The mobile Internet, in addition to being able to bring terrifying profits, can even be said to be the real mouthpiece of the world's future.

To control or influence it, you can make it possible for ordinary people to only see something, or make them not see something.

Otherwise, 20 years from now, there wouldn't be so many states that want to ban TikTok.

Who called it to some extent and affected the authorities' public opinion. On absolute control of it.

The smartphone, and its entire upstream and downstream industry chain, is an industry that can provide a large number of high-quality jobs and profits, and its scale is no less than that of the automobile industry, which Abel attaches great importance to.

Abel naturally won't let it go, otherwise he wouldn't have started Qualcomm so early, and he wouldn't have merged AMD and Texas Instruments.

These are all relevant preparations he made in advance for this future.

These things are the most important links for Abel to grasp the pulse of the times.

Now that the iPhone may be on the horizon, the future market will be larger and more widespread Android, and perhaps preparations can also be made.

Well...... Google is also in his hands, and he holds about 33% of Google's shares......

Hey, wouldn't it be too much to eat alone? When those guys are happy to find that a new industry to make money has appeared, but they see that they are their own figure from the source to the front end, will they be angry one by one?

Hey, it's good to be angry! No one said that Rockefeller had eaten alone in the oil field for so many years, and no one said that Mahken had been tyrannical in the financial field for so many years.

I, Smith, have become the king of the new era, so what's not to do!

Abel has already made up his mind, and he will not let out this benefit!

I used to be willing to let it, because I knew that it wouldn't work.

If you don't cede your interests, you won't be able to attract allies, and you'll be able to avoid blows from powerful enemies.

But now it's different from the past, and now I'm strong enough.

If he continues to do that now, then what is the purpose of his establishment of the consortium?

What is the significance of the existence of the Texas Consortium?

Thinking of this, to be honest, Abel really can't wait to welcome the arrival of the great era.

For a person who is accustomed to a mobile phone going all over the world, it is indeed an ordeal to use a fool's mobile phone that can only make calls and send emails and text messages.

Fortunately, he is not an ordinary person, and there is too much entertainment and work waiting for him.

If you are reborn as an ordinary person, you don't have a golden finger or any ability, and you don't even have much prophetic memory.

Back to the era of no smartphones, it is estimated that for people after 2016, it is very boring and scary.

Abel thinks about how to make the era of smartphones come early, how to make the time when the Smith dynasty really comes.

And in his opinion, the era of smartphones is a very good opportunity.

The red light of the transponder in front of the desk suddenly flashed, Abel reached out and pressed it, and Edward's voice came out, "Boss, after Morton and Rockphil are gone." Sure enough, Mellon and the Californians also went to where the Cleveland people lived. ”

Abel smiled slightly when he heard this, he was not surprised.

Everyone is a hyena, and it makes no sense to only allow themselves to smell the smell of meat, and the rest of the hyena group will also want to get a piece of the pie.

"Let Alan or David inform DuPont that I will invite them to dinner at 9555 Heather Road, Beverly Hills, tomorrow at noon, and only invite them this time."

Abel thought for a moment and spoke.

"Yes, I'm going to tell David, he happens to be right next to me."

“OK。”

(End of chapter)