Chapter 383 Making headlines again

In the morning, the dazzling New York winter sunshine filtered through the floor-to-ceiling windows, making Abel unable to open his eyes.

Abel confusedly reached out to hug the little Laura or Li Xinyu next to him. After the throw was empty, he turned over and faced the sky. He lazily opened his arms and stretched. After yawning, he directly

Sit up.

He reached out and scratched his hair and looked at the clock on the wall. It was already 8 o'clock.

Today is Abel's first morning back from Texas.

Abel returned to Smith Farm in the early morning of Christmas. He spent a joyful Christmas with his family and Charlize and his daughter.

The next day, the family went to Austin.

In a bush estate outside of Austin.

With the blessings of all members of the Shrub family and all members of the Smith family.

Abe Smith and Laura Bush officially confirm their relationship as a married couple.

The two parties agreed to choose a date to get married when Laura Bush turned 20.

Since then, the Smith family and the Bush family have officially formed an alliance.

After the engagement, Abel stayed at Bush Manor for three days.

During this period, little Laura "accidentally" caught him and her best friend Li Xinyu having "JQ" in the guest room where Li Xinyu lived.

After a confession, the fiancée admitted Li Xinyu's existence. She told Abel that she had not become a different person after getting engaged.

Things agreed upon before the engagement will not change after the engagement.

Little Laura's behavior actually made the very thick-skinned Abel feel a little embarrassed.

I'm sorry, but if I want him to change it... I'm sorry, I can't.

In this way, Li Xinyu has become the same mistress as Annie and others in front of little Laura.

According to little Laura's words, that is - "Ha! From the first day he saw you, he kept staring at your pair of car lights secretly, I knew this day would come!"

That's what happened.

Next is Abel at the Bush Manor, where he stayed for three days in total.

During this period, I participated in various year-end cocktail parties held by the Shrub Family in Austin many times.

At these drinking parties, Abel got to know most of the "top people" in Texas.

There is the Texas Consortium, with important members of more than a dozen families behind it.

In fact, Abel was already the "top man" at those drinking parties.

He is even one of the most important figures.

In those drinking parties, Abel's popularity was no less popular than George Bush, who was almost pushed up by Texas.

Because everyone with a discerning eye knows that if the merger of the Texas Consortium and the Smith Consortium succeeds.

The surname Smith will also become very important in Texas.

No one knows what the future will be like.

But since we are all at a cocktail party, we will not lose anything by getting to know each other and handling the relationship well.

These people are naturally willing to make this kind of emotional investment and network investment.

During those few days, Abel also understood why the Texas consortium made such a big concession this time.

It was Herbert and his grandfather Alex who jointly reminded him and made him understand this.

The Texas consortium's big concession this time. Their greatest confidence comes from the arrogance or confidence of these traditional old money families in a sense.

In the United States, there is no family that is easy to deal with that can still stand firm and become stronger and stronger after hundreds of years.

Every such family is paved with glory paved with the corpses of many victims.

Through marriage, establishing alliances, and then annexing industries one by one, this is the most popular and most popular method among American chaebol families.

Because most of the time, new money families cannot match the heritage of old money families. Especially when it comes to the issue of successors, no one can guarantee that the successors will be as good as the entrepreneurs.

Many of the dozen or so families that control the Texas Consortium have this idea.

That means you, Abel Smith, are indeed very powerful, better than everyone else.

But you can’t live forever, nor can you be so wise forever, right?

Even if you are always so wise, you will always have descendants.

It is impossible for your descendants and successors to be as wise and capable as you, right?

These people think long term and want to do what they did in the past.

The process mentioned above is achieved through alliance and marriage.

Abel and little Laura's child is not even a bubble yet.

But it has been targeted by many people.

In a sense, they are betting. They are betting that the Smith family will be a flash in the pan, and they are betting that families with richer foundations will be able to dominate the alliance in the future.

Of course, the more important reason is that even if the two parties merge successfully.

Smith & Texas Consortium, that is also a binary rule.

At that time, Smith and Texas will jointly lead the consortium.

This is the basis.

With this foundation, these old moneymen will want to take a gamble.

Even Herbert was outspoken in this regard.

This situation is actually the most common and most likely to occur in American family culture.

Little Laura, the grandfather, spoke directly to Abel.

If the descendants of Abel and little Laura are no longer as good as the bushes in the future, there is a high probability that they will end up like this.

Similarly, if in the future the shrubs are not as good as Smith and are annexed by Smith, no one can blame them.

Just like the relationship between Bush and the Walker and Pierce families before.

In the generation of Herbert's grandfather and father, the Walkers were superior to the Bushes.

Herbert's father could rise to power and become a senator.

At least half of the credit goes to the Wall Street financial tycoon of the Walker family at that time.

That is Herbert's grandfather.

What about now?

The Walker family has not produced a strong man for many years. Over the past few decades, most of the family's resources have been lost in the bush.

The Walker family, which was very powerful back then, is now considered one of the vassals of the Bush family.

Pretty much the same as the Pierce family.

In the history of American plutocrats, this model has been around for more than a hundred years.

As for this kind of family affection and love, haha, that’s all!

On December 29, Abel took little Laura and Li Xinyu back to Smith Farm.

I stayed at home for more than two days.

On the afternoon of December 31, he left Texas with little Laura and Li Xinyu.

Get on his Boeing 747 and return to New York.

We just arrived last night. After arriving, Abel took two girls to attend last night's New Year's Eve concert in Times Square, New York.

This is one of New York’s must-have shows every New Year. It can be regarded as New York’s “Super Bowl” and is very lively.

Basically, the most popular singers of the year will be invited.

In other words, only singers who are popular enough can participate in this New Year's Eve concert in New York.

This concert is hosted by the New York City Government.

In fact, Bloomberg has the final say in the New York City government.

This concert was naturally led by DreamWorks Music.

The result is that after the National Arts and Arts Festival on October 11, DreamWorks Music once again dominated a performance of this scale.

Let the American entertainment industry realize that DreamWorks Music has become one of the music giants.

In the situation of three major players and one minor player in the American music industry, it has become a new minor player and is madly attacking the three major players.

After watching half of the concert, the three of them left the concert and returned to the townhouse at 138 East 65th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where Li Xinyu lives.

With his half-coaxing and half-cheating, and Li Xinyu's active cooperation.
To be continued...