The Woolworth Building is already an old building.

This building was built in 1913, which makes it 87 years old.

The building was financed by Frank W. Woolworth, founder of the Five and Dime grocery store.

It has a total height of 57 floors and a Gothic-style exterior, which looks a bit like the Empire State Building.

The Empire State Building is taller and bigger, and it is also a symbol of New York.

The Woolworth Building did not have such good luck. When it was first built, it was the tallest building in the world.

After being the tallest building in the world for thirteen years, this title no longer belongs to it.

Like many other ancient companies or buildings.

The builders of the Woolworth Building were the Woolworth family.

Today, the property rights of this building are no longer owned by the Woolworth family.

The current property rights of this building.

12% is owned by Merrill Lynch,

28% is owned by Goldman Sachs,

30% owned by Wells Fargo Bank,

About 10% is owned by small shareholders.

The owner of the remaining 20% ​​equity is Abel Smith.

This is also the reason why "Smith Capital" will work in this building.

Because part of this building itself belongs to its owner.

These Woolworth Building shares were acquired in May this year.

Abel bought it from two banks for $300 million.

In other words, the current Woolworth Building is worth approximately US$1.5 billion.

In fact, the building itself is no longer valuable; what is valuable is the land and its historical and cultural value.

Even if the 87-year-old skyscraper is not a dangerous building, it is still an old building.

It, along with many other buildings of approximately the same period, became one of New York's historically protected buildings in 1995.

That is to say,

Even if someone buys out the entire Woolworth Building.

If you want to tear it down and rebuild it, that is not allowed.

Because this is a historically protected building.

Of course,

If this person can get through the city council and other relevant connections and get approval.

Even if it's the Empire State Building, you can still push it if you want.

Smith Capital is located on the 33rd floor, and there is only one company on the entire floor.

The area of ​​this floor is 8,000 square feet, probably less than 800 square meters.

During the day, all employees are present.

It can accommodate 120 Smith Capital employees working here.

It's night now,

Most of the employees have gone off work.

But just like there are security guards guarding the door, there are also people working in the company.

After entering the company,

Abel was familiar with the roads and soon came to the company's "safe house", which is also a safe house.

A safe house is a house specially arranged by many financial companies.

Financial operators who enter the safe house will have all communication tools confiscated and their entire body will undergo a security check.

After moving in, you are not allowed to leave before the work is completed.

During the time they were operating.

There will be professionals preparing food, cleaning, and other cleaning work for them every day.

The job of these operators is to follow instructions and operate or stare at certain investment targets within a period of time.

Smith Capital's safe house already has eight staff members who have been there for a week.

These people were in there long before he went to Texas.

There are also four security guards stationed outside the safe house.

Except for those with permission, they can come and go freely.

Others wait,

Whether it's people inside or outside.

No entry or exit is allowed.

In addition to the four bodyguards, when Abel arrived, there was a blond man in his thirties lying on the sofa outside.

The blond and white man was lying on his stomach, sleeping soundly.

After Abel came in, he did not go into the safe house.

He walked directly to the sofa, raised his hand, and aimed at the blond man who was sleeping soundly on the sofa.

There was a loud "pop" sound.

A hard slap,

Spank the blond white guy on the butt.

"fxxk!the fxxk!!!&%*...."

A loud curse in English rang out, and I was hit hard in my sleep.

The blond and white man suddenly jumped up from the sofa, grinning.

When he saw clearly that the person who hit him was the smiling Abel.

This guy stopped swearing in English, rubbed his butt, and complained:

"fxxk! Can't you be gentler?

I just dreamed about Marilyn Monroe and was about to have fun with her, but you woke me up!!"

Abel said: "You want to be happy with Monroe? It's easy, I'll have someone take you to Pierce Brothers Xilin Village."

The blond white man frowned:

"Pierce Brothers Westwood? What does that mean? What does it have to do with Marilyn Monroe?"

Abel glanced at him and ignored him, but asked the bodyguard Edward who followed him to say:

"Edward, tell us dear David, what is the relationship between the Pierce brothers, Xilin Village and Monroe."

"Um..." Bodyguard Edward twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at David's curious eyes.

He said a little helplessly:

"The relationship between the Pierce brothers, Silin Village and Monroe was.

That's where the graves of Marilyn Monroe and many older Hollywood stars are."

David Mellon was startled, and then yelled "fxxk".

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village is the name of a cemetery.

The full name is Pierce Brothers West Grove Memorial Cemetery, located in Los Angeles.

After the little episode,

David Mellon, general manager of Smith Capital, came to Abel in high spirits.

"The time has come, hasn't it? Otherwise, it would not be easy for you to come to the company!!"

"Yes. The time has come." Abel responded with a smile, and he looked at David Mellon.

David Mellon, as you can see from his surname, is related to the Mellon Group, one of the top ten financial groups in the United States.

David Mellon's great-grandfather was one of the protagonists in the famous children's song during the first Great Depression in the United States.

The content of this children's song is - "Mellon blew the whistle, Hoover rang the bell. Wall Street sent a signal, and the United States rushed to hell!"

The Mellon in this children's song refers to Andrew Mellon, the then U.S. Treasury Secretary.

David Mellon's great-grandfather is Andrew Mellon's son.
To be continued...