They also respected her very much, and she knew why they respected her.

Later she discovered that it seemed they were not the two Michaels.

Because Scarlett had seen his conversations with the two Michaels, and they were not as equal as the phone call she accidentally overheard.

Later Scarlett guessed that it might be Disney's Michael Eisner.

This is also a big shot.

But within a few seconds, Scarlett overturned this guess.

Disney's Michael's status is at most about the same as his two Michaels.

It is impossible for him to use titles such as "my brother" and "old friend".

Later, she recognized Michael's last name, Bloomberg.

Scarlett then realized that he was on the phone with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg!

Oh, the mayor of the first city in the United States, I had a phone call with him for half an hour!

Even if she didn't hear what the two said, Scarlett realized what kind of existence this man who demanded his body was.

The first phone call that she "accidentally" overheard already made Scarlett feel numb.

That phone call he answered while holding her.

That was the guy he contacted on his second phone call, whose surname was Shrub.

I heard that he and Mr. Shrub looked like two college students buddies, chatting and laughing with each other on the phone.

Scarlett was completely speechless inside.

If she guessed correctly, this bush must be the bush in the white house.

She knew that as long as Abel didn't give up, she would never think of escaping from him in this life.

In addition to these, Scarlett also discovered that he had a lot of private text messages on his mobile phone.

There are dozens of them every hour.

She took a sneak peek and found names such as Anne, Jessica, Ikana, and Liv in the text message list on her phone.

They sent a lot of text messages, many of which were unread.

This made Scarlett understand, no wonder she had sent him so many text messages, and he would only reply once or twice a week or two.

Scarlett felt that if it were her, there would be so many people looking for her every day.

I'll probably be like him and only reply once in a while.

Otherwise, it might take half a day just to reply to these text messages every day.

In addition to working, I also make and answer calls.

During these three days, he just concentrated on torturing himself.

On the night before returning to Los Angeles, there were six times in total. Taken together, he tortured himself for more than three hours.

In the end, Scarlett Johansson felt that she was close to collapse, and he was barely satisfied.

Very tired, but Scarlett was very happy.

She felt that this further confirmed that he indeed "pampered" her.

This can be regarded as the biggest gain that Scarlett feels she has gained during these few days in Houston.

When Scarlett Johansson left Houston and returned to Los Angeles to continue promoting "Kick-Ass" and planning new roles in new movies.

Two days later, on the evening of February 10, 2002.

Smith Media's major newspapers, television stations, Internet news channels and other news media published the same notice.

The notice includes American Pacific Commercial Bank, First National Bank of Dallas, First City National Bank of Houston, Republican National Bank of Dallas and Texas Commerce Bank.

Three other insurance companies announced restructuring, mergers, new equity allocations, and the establishment of new financial groups.

The name of the new financial group is Smith Financial Group.

Once the news was published, within minutes, it was reprinted and spread by all commercial media in the United States and even the world.

Elite business media in many countries have dedicated special reporting programs in less than half an hour.

Obviously, they have been prepared.

On the second day, the largest-selling daily newspaper in the United States was the Wall Street Journal, named after Wall Street.

Let this news be the headline of today's front page.

[…First National Bank of Dallas, First City National Bank of Houston, Republic National Bank of Dallas and Texas Commerce Bank, these four banks are all in the top 30 in the national bank rankings.]

[The highest ranking is Texas Commerce Bank, which is the 15th largest bank in the United States. It has 98 branches, total assets of 12.1 billion US dollars, and assets under management exceeding 100 billion US dollars. 】

[These banks also have insurance companies, after merging with Pacific Commercial Bank.]

[It will make the new Smith Financial Group one of the top five super financial giants in the United States.]

[In terms of assets alone, Smith Financial Group is now only below Citibank, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Mellon Bank, and even surpasses Bank of America, Bank of New York and other giants.]

[This merger between the two parties is no less than dropping a heavy depth bomb on the banking industry in the United States and even the world.]

[The splash caused by this bomb will inevitably spread to the entire banking and financial industry, with far-reaching impact. Especially for this new company, its chairman and CEO are all Mr. Abel Smith.]

[Presumably, the world’s richest man will definitely bring Smith Financial Group more attention in the future.]

[However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is...]

【……】

This report from the Wall Street Journal was talking about the merger of several major banks.

But later on, it revealed the truth behind the merger in a story-telling way.

That is this bank merger, which is actually the core event in the integration of the consortium represented by Abel Smith and the Texas consortium.

In its report, the Wall Street Journal expressed to readers the emergence of a new huge consortium in a subtle way.

On this day, in fact, it was not just the Wall Street Journal that reported this.

Other large media outlets such as the New York Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post are not controlled by Smith Media.

The content of their reports is generally similar to that of the Wall Street Journal.

To a certain extent, these behaviors of these newspapers can be seen as other established consortiums’ dissatisfaction with the merger between the two major consortiums and their actions as eye candy.

And this indeed surprised many Americans.

They were not surprised by the existence of the consortium.

Just like the chaebols of Hanguo and Neon.

Ordinary Han people and neon cabinets cannot escape the influence of their plutocrats throughout their lives.

So do ordinary Americans.

Their lives are also filled with the shadows of various European and American consortiums.

If Xiaobaga and Xiaoxipachi can accept the existence of the chaebol, then of course the Americans will have no problem.

Many Americans are surprised that Abe Smith has only appeared and been active for two or three years.

In just two or three years, how come he suddenly became the owner of the new consortium that the big newspapers said?

This is too exaggerated.

You know, newspapers used to say that Abel Smith was born in rural Texas and was the son of a farmer.

He has been feeding cattle and sheep since he was a child, shaving sheep's wool, and driving a farm tractor. He is a standard Texas farm boy.

In addition to being extremely handsome, he can also draw.

In other respects, he is just like thousands of American teenagers.

In this way, almost three years ago, he went to New York with dozens of dollars to pursue his dream.

But now?

Now the farm boy back then became the richest man in the world last year, and this year he became the owner of a new consortium!!

In just three years, he accomplished all this.

Isn't this the best American dream?

Combined with his experience of being attacked by those KBFZ not long ago.

And he has always been a very charitable person.

Too many Americans feel that young Abe Smith is a living American dream.

It can only be said that at this time, the various personas that Abel had set up for more than two years, as well as the recent attack, combined to have a very good positive effect.

The major media outlets, which originally wanted to make eye drops, had these malicious reports, but they had a positive effect in the hearts of many Americans.

Those reports have become more of a foil to Abe Smith and his legendary standard American dream.
Chapter completed!