Austin, the capital of Texas, is also the educational center of Texas.

It enjoys the reputation of "The Live Music Capital of the World" and is a city named after Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas.

Even a very large number of Texans do not want it to be the capital of Texas.

But it has always been an unchangeable reality that Austin is the political center of Texas.

The ideas of the lower class people cannot change the practices of the top Texas oligarchs.

The headquarters of the Texas consortium is not actually located in Houston, which has a better economy, but in Austin, a blue city in a red state.

Abel taking off from Los Angeles International Airport.

His sky palace, the Smith, returned to Texas.

The landing place is Bergstrom International Airport in Austin.

As the Boeing 747 taxied slowly, it parked on the private tarmac of Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

When Abel and his party walked down the hanging ladder, it was already past four o'clock in the evening in Austin.

The motorcade quickly drove out of the airport and headed toward downtown Austin.

At night, the heart of Texas, illuminated by colorful lights, seems to be covered with gold, showing the prosperity of the big city everywhere.

The lights are flashing and the lights are overflowing. Whether it is the night sky or the buildings, they make the city more dazzling and beautiful.

"call--"

A Cadillac Monster modified vehicle that is exactly the same as Army No. 1, in the rear compartment.

Abel let out a soft breath.

Since the "accident" on January 20th.

He has been cleaning up all aspects of the attack he directed.

To be honest, now, Abel has already regretted to some extent that he has caused so many things for no reason.

Although compared to the gains, the losses are not very big.

But these gains cost him too much effort.

Compared with the effort he expended, Abel really looked down upon this little gain.

If he really wanted to do this, he felt that he could put his time and energy into the broader financial capital market.

With his "talent", he becomes even more invincible in this field.

Rather than giving up your greatest advantage.

Put the battlefield on the aspect of conspiracy and conspiracy that you are least good at and the most energy-consuming.

Fortunately, things are finally over now.

The test for the entire Smith Department, including the consortium partners, cannot be said to be full marks, but it is also a passing test.

In addition to these internal gains.

through this attack.

The shareholders of California Pacific Electric finally gave up their previous persistence one after another under the pressure of public opinion.

Through a relatively tacit understanding of looking at each other from afar with Jerry Brown.

California Pacific Electric will merge with Pacific Energy next month.

At that time, Abel will personally own 90% of the new company's shares, and the remaining 10% will be transferred to the original California Pacific Electric Group shareholders.

If there is no attack and everything goes well.

Even if the two major local energy groups in California can merge, Abel can only get about 75% to 80% of the shares at most.

After doing this, the shareholding ratio increased by about 10% to 15%.

This can be regarded as one of the biggest benefits that Abel can gain from this attack.

Over there in New York, the tangle with the Newhouse family.

Also because of the attack, the Newhouse family seemed to be very hostile to Abel, who stood on the moral high ground.

The two parties have temporarily reconciled.

Newhouse did not continue to make a fuss about the gray underground forces in New York.

For the time being, Smith Media has let Anna Wintour refrain from launching attacks on Newhouse.

The main reason why these two parties suddenly became so easy to talk to was after the attack.

At present, Abel has temporarily stood on the commanding heights of morality and public opinion in the United States.

If you go against Abel at this time, it will be easy for Abel to target you in this regard.

This was also one of the benefits that Abel thought he could gain after he had an idea at that time.

That is to occupy the moral high ground of the entire United States and attack his enemies from the moral high ground.

It's just that the imagination is beautiful, but the operation is very complicated, and this kind of conspiracy is very labor-intensive.

Many times, people from the Smith Group cannot be allowed to participate.

Abel also needs to do it himself.

It only took this once, and Abel was somewhat discouraged.

After the operation, he felt that by doing this, he was giving up his strengths and taking advantage of his weaknesses.

I obviously have more advantageous talents and don't use them, but I use these things that I am not good at.

What a fool.

After this incident.

Abel secretly decided in his heart that this kind of thankless thing would be done.

From now on, it’s better to do it less often.

This is also the reason why he stayed there and rushed back to Texas decisively after finishing his work for the time being.

There are more or less factors here to avoid the limelight.

Of course, he had a very good reason to return to Texas.

That lasted for several months and hundreds of rounds of negotiations had been conducted.

The final cooperation contract and model, the merger of the Texas Consortium and the Smith Consortium, have been finalized, and the final part of the work has been carried out.

If all goes well, within a few days, the Texas Consortium and the Smith Consortium will merge in a certain sense.

Both parties will stand on the same side in many aspects, share interests, hold shares in each other, and become one.

There will no longer be the original Texas Consortium or the Smith Consortium.

The new consortium will appear under the name "Texas & Smith Consortium," or "Smith Texas Consortium."

Of course, a consortium itself has no real name.

There is no group or company in the world called the Rockefeller Group or the Morgan Group.

A consortium itself is just an invisible, huge community of interests.

It doesn't really matter what his name is, Abel.

All he wants is to be able to dominate it.

Looking out the car window, I saw the beautiful lights of Austin.

Abel took out his cell phone and dialed.

"Prescott, it's me, I'm glad you haven't rested yet."

"Ha - I want to rest. But this is a task given to me by my grandfather and uncle. Dear Abel, just come back."

"Well, let's put it this way first. It's already so late, Prescott, you should rest first. See you tomorrow."

"OK."

"..."

Abel hung up the phone.

At this time, his motorcade also arrived at the Holy Fire Gun Road in southeast Austin.

This area, located south of downtown Austin by the river, has very high housing prices. The area's median household income in 2000 was $52,048.

It is a wealthy area in the city of Austin.

The Bush family's villa is actually on the edge of this area, enjoying the best scenery of the Colorado River.

Abel came here because New Starting Point Real Estate Company also purchased properties here.

No. 11408 Firearms Road, Austin, a luxurious mansion with 7 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms covering an area of ​​about 10 acres.

The motorcade stopped in the beautiful courtyard of the mansion, and the Cadillac Monster took Abel to the main entrance of the villa.
To be continued...