America's Road to Wealth

It's another sunny morning.

Compared with London, which is often rainy and rainy, the weather here in southern Europe is too normal.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the Greek civilization and Roman Empire that started in Europe originated here.

Hotel Excelsior Venice.

Opening his sleepy eyes, Abel yawned. He scratched his hair and glanced at Penelope Cruz, who was clinging to his arms.

He smiled happily, kissed her on the forehead, and carefully took out his left arm that was supported by her.

The 27-year-old Spanish national treasure goddess is at her peak in both figure and appearance.

Compared with the Angsa race that now occupies a mainstream position in Europe and the United States.

The Castilian race on the Iberian Peninsula ages more slowly.

Penelope Cruz is a typical Iberian Peninsula beauty, with a different style from the blonde beauty of Ansa.

Anyway, he likes them all and wants them all.

After getting off Simmons, Abel looked at the electronic clock next to him.

This is a "technological product" that has become very popular in Europe and the United States in recent years.

An electronic wall clock that uses simple LED lights to display specific time, temperature, and humidity.

In a few years, it will be replaced by various more advanced things.

But now in 2001, it is still a novel high-tech product.

The price is relatively expensive, so only high-end public places and middle-class families can afford such things.

On the electronic clock, Abel saw that today was September 8, seven o'clock in the morning.

However, due to the time difference, Venice is six or seven hours ahead of New York.

In other words, it was only around the early morning of September 8th in New York.

There are still three days left.

With this thought in his mind, he walked into the bathroom.

When he came out of the living room wearing a bath towel, Duoni and another female bodyguard were there.

As always, he took the clothes and helped him put them on.

After a brief breakfast at the Excelsior Hotel, he rushed back to the Lido Island mansion he had just bought.

When they returned to the house, Anne and Jessica had not gotten up yet.

Aimol Alamuddin, who has endured most of his firepower output in the past two days.

She had a good rest yesterday and got up very early today.

When Abel came back, she was playing tennis with Lulana, the daughter of cook Anne, in the tennis court of the villa.

The summer morning sunshine in southern Europe was quite mild, and Abel watched the beautiful girls and beauties in action for a while.

Not long after, David Jones came over with his No. 2 mobile phone.

"BOSS, this is the Norwegian's phone number."

Abel nodded and took it over to answer.

Slim Stadt's voice came from the phone receiver.

The Norwegian's voice sounded a little tired, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Mr. Smith, we agreed to your request. 5% of Statoil's shares and the same 5% of Norwegian Hydro's shares. But it must be based on the current market value, do you understand what I mean?"

"Oh, of course I understand." Abel smiled.

"So." Slinstad's groggy voice sounded.

"I understand, I understand. Just wait for the good news!" Abel smiled again.

Slim Stad responded and hung up the phone first.

Abel was holding business phone No. 2. He looked at David, "What happened to the U.S. dollar and Norwegian krone last night?"

David immediately said softly: "Last night, international hot money led by Soros once again poured $15 billion worth of Norwegian krone into the market. The exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the U.S. dollar fell below the 7.7 line for the first time, and is now hovering around 7.7950 , it may rise to 7.8 at any time.”

Abel nodded after hearing this.

Norway is a typical export-oriented country, mainly exporting energy, seafood, and industrial products.

Although for this type of country, currency depreciation can often lead to an increase in exports.

It has certain benefits for the economy of one's own country.

However, there is a premise for this, that is, this currency depreciation must be controllable.

Uncontrollable currency depreciation will bring about more than just increased exports.

But as the currency depreciates and exports increase, more domestic wealth will be plundered.

This is mainly because apart from energy, the rest of Norway's economy is too small.

There is some heavy industry, but light industry basically needs to be imported due to climate and population problems.

Even most of the food needs to be imported from outside.

Except for energy, this economy is actually very similar to Hanguo and Neon.

It's just that the Norwegians are crippled by high welfare, and there is no rollover in East Asia.

In East Asia, currency depreciation is not a bad thing in many cases, but if the currency depreciates too much in Norway, the first people to be unbearable are the Norwegians who enjoy high welfare.

In terms of the affordability of currency devaluation, a country like Norway with high national welfare is obviously not as good as East Asia, where kings are everywhere.

Abel clicked on the contact on mobile phone No. 2, found Soros' number on it and made a call.

The call was quickly answered, but it was Soros's secretary who answered the phone.

The secretary said that Soros was still sleeping. Abel revealed his identity, and the secretary immediately went to Soros.

A few minutes later, Abel heard Soros' tired voice coming from the phone.

The old guy probably stayed up very late last night, and he is quite old.

After being called out so early, it was natural to feel a little tired.

He is over 70 years old and he is still working so hard.

Retire when it’s time to retire!

"George." After hearing Soros's voice, Abel said directly: "The Norwegians have already given me benefits. 5% of the shares of Norwegian Hydro and the corresponding shares of Statoil."

Soros on the other side of the phone heard these words from Abel.

The Oilman, who was still a little sleepy at first, suddenly became energetic.

Soros laughed angrily, "We have worked hard for more than two months, and only now have we earned several billion dollars, which has been divided among more than a hundred people."

"Abel, that's good for you. You haven't done anything and you've already received such great benefits!"

Hearing Soros's angry words, Abel calmly said, "No way, who told me to look more like a good person. Who told me to dominate the flow of the war now?"

He said politely: "George. If I want to get these shares, I will enter the market. I will start helping the Norwegians. Don't you have any ideas?"

"I understand what you mean. But Abel, do you know what you mean by doing this?"

Soros’s voice rang through the phone’s microphone: “It means you are going to be the enemy of most of the investors in the world!”

"Don't think you are so powerful." Abel was not afraid of his threat.

"If you were really so powerful, Norway would have surrendered to you long ago. If you were really so powerful, you wouldn't have returned empty-handed from Hong Kong Island a few years ago! George, many times you can only fight with the wind. Just financial pirates."

Soros was a little speechless by Abel.

It's not that his eloquence and quick wit are not good enough.

But Abel's timing was too good.

Now Abel is holding 400,000 lots of USD/NOK foreign exchange futures.

Once he chooses to close his position, such a large amount of money will inevitably suppress the rising momentum of USD/NOK.

It is very likely that the two months of international hot money efforts will be wiped out in a short period of time.

On the other hand, he holds a large amount of Norwegian krone in stock, which he will sell if he sells it.

The situation that Norway can still maintain now will most likely collapse in an instant.

Although he currently has 80 billion US dollars in capital, he has not invested the most in this financial war.

But just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the old strength was gone and the new strength was not born.

No matter which side he joins at this time, the other side will feel very uncomfortable and may even lose the war as a result.

The Norwegian side could not afford to lose, so the Norwegians showed their kindness to Abel first.

Even the shares of the two most important companies are willing to be taken out.

Soros’ side currently appears to be stronger.

But the ingredients on his side are too complex, and there are all kinds of ingredients in international hot money.

They did not completely obey Soros's orders, and most of them just followed Soros to fish in troubled waters.

If only they could all obey Soros's orders and be able to use their fingers like an arm.

Not to mention Norway.

It is estimated that no country in the world, other than the United States and the countries that are financially closed, can withstand their attacks financially.

The actual situation is that Soros can directly command the actions, and the funds willing to fully obey his words are actually less than Abel!

It is precisely because of this that Soros has been unable to benefit Abel.

Because they are not a whole, they are often each other's competitors or enemies.

Why does Soros allow others to benefit Abel? Why should others help Soros and benefit Abel?

So the final result was that Soros only found Abel once, and nothing happened after that.

The reason is that international tourism capital itself is countless messy international capital.

It's just a group of financial pirates who gathered temporarily under what seemed like a profitable situation.

It’s okay to fight against the wind and everyone can swarm forward.

When someone needs to sacrifice, no one is willing.

In this case, Soros simply cannot give much benefit and is unwilling to give it.

Now faced with Abel Chiguoguo's blackmail, all Soros can do is threaten and try to prevent Abel from ending up.

"Then are you really going to end?" Soros's voice continued.

"Aren't I informing you? George, for the sake of our good relationship, I think I should inform you first to prevent our friendship from changing."

Soros wanted to say, What friendship do we have?

There is no friendship among financial giants.

If possible, each financial giant would like to bite chunks of flesh from the other's body!

In a field like finance, which is mostly a zero-sum game, it is impossible to have true allies!

Some of them are just false allies temporarily united because of interests.

"In that case, we can only talk on the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Norwegian krone." Soros, who was unable to provide benefits, or rather unwilling to provide benefits himself, said in a deep voice.

"Is this your feedback? Very good, George. Then when I take the Norwegian shares, I can take it with peace of mind."

"goodbye!"

Abel hung up the phone first.

In a hotel in the City of London, there was a "pop" sound, and Soros smashed the mobile phone in his hand to pieces.

His secretary didn't say a word and silently stepped forward to clean up the matter.

After a while, the secretary found the special mobile phone sim card for the mobile phone, and then inserted the mobile phone sim card into a new mobile phone.

Then he silently handed the new phone back to Soros, who was full of anger.

Soros took the phone, made a call and went out, then went into the bathroom to wash up.

When he came out, the secretary heard that he was still on the phone.

".Yeah. That little Dixie obviously knew something. I just got fooled and I'm so angry."

"I should pretend to agree to his conditions and wait for a few more days. If he wants to do this at that time, it will be impossible."

"But it may not be possible. If he knows something, he won't make a wrong judgment just because of my few words."

"Yes, yes. But who would have thought that Norway has such good resilience? I originally thought that the battle would be over in a month and a half at most!"

"What should we do? Retreat. It's not that we are afraid of him. It's that our time has been delayed for too long, and the best opportunity has passed. Stop now and wait and see what happens."

While making phone calls continuously, Soros walked out of the hotel.

Abel was more direct. He made a phone call.

London, England and New York, the United States, the two headquarters of Smith Capital, immediately began to liquidate their long positions in USD/NOK on a large scale.

By noon that day, the Norwegian krone, which had already broken through 7.8, quickly fell back to the 7.7 line.

After discovering the large-scale liquidation of Smith Capital.

Many people realize that Smith Capital is preparing to leave.

If it leaves the market at this time, it is obviously going against the international hot money headed by Soros.

Originally, everyone thought that there would be a good show on the Norwegian krone next.

The new financial god, who has been undefeated since his debut, is a good show against Soros, the sword of Wall Street and international hot money.

However, at night, a scene that surprised everyone appeared.

That is, a day has passed and Soros has done absolutely nothing.

This Wall Street oilman financial tycoon sat back and watched as the exchange rate of the Norwegian krone, which they had finally defeated, fell to the 7.7 line.

Many people are speculating that Soros is not moving, perhaps because he and Abel reached some agreement.

As a result, some of the international hot money following Soros has stopped doing business.

Soros himself does not come forward, and this part of the hot money comes out by himself.

The confrontation officially appeared the next day, and the exchange rate of the Norwegian krone was once again pulled back to the 7.7950 line.

By the end of the day, the Norwegian krone remained at the 7.7550 line and continued to fluctuate.

Yesterday and today, for two consecutive days, Soros was extremely calm.

In the past two days, Abel also signed agreements with Norwegian Petroleum Fund and Norges Bank Investment Management Co., Ltd.

American Pacific Energy Company acquired 10% and 5% of Statoil's shares at prices of US$1 billion and US$500 million respectively.

These shares are preferred shares.

So-called preferred shares are subject to internal voting within the company compared to common shares.

The voting rights are only one-tenth of those of ordinary shares, or even none at all.

Simply put, preferred stocks are generally shares without voting rights.

Since important voting rights have been lost, there will of course be compensation in other ways.

Preferred shares without voting rights will have priority dividend rights when dividends are paid.

This means that when the company pays dividends, preferred stocks can get the money the fastest.

Most of the shares held by giants like Wall Street in Han Guo are preferred stocks.

This is also the reason why Li Zaixi’s family’s shareholding is so low, but he is still able to control the Samsung Group.

Because of his small share, he almost has the most voting rights.

Basically, the money earned does not go into his own pocket, and most of it goes to the mouths of Wall Street giants.

So many times, the Hanguo consortium looks rich, but is actually very poor.

So after Li Zaixi passed away, when his children were forced to pay inheritance tax, they had to sell a large number of shares in exchange for cash, and use the cash to pay inheritance tax.

It’s not that they don’t value these shares, it’s that they really have no money, and the lack of money here refers to cash.

Who said that most of the company's profits were taken away by foreigners?

In fact, most of the Hanguo Group is like this.

What the chaebols got was power and influence in the southern peninsula.

Most of the real profits go to foreigners.

This is also the reason why those chaebols who seem to be very profitable often appear stingy.

That’s not because they want to be stingy, that’s because they really don’t have much money!

It's because more than 90% of the money earned by giant companies like Hanguo and used for dividends is given to Wall Street.

The two 5% shares given by Norway are also this type of stock.

The majority of the shares in these two companies, 51%, are owned by the Norwegian government.

The rest is in the hands of local Norwegian capitalists.

Abel also knew that it was impossible for him to annex these two Norwegian companies.

He wants these 5% shares mainly to increase his voice in Europe.

As the largest oil producer in Europe after Maozi, Norway still has a certain say in Europe even if it does not join the EU.

In addition, selling oil is the easiest industry to make money.

These 5% shares will be used for the skyrocketing oil prices in the future.

Abel knew that he would be able to make back his money in two or three years at most.

The next step is to easily get dividends every year.

He is not short of this money, but the money can be put into the family foundation and family office.

This kind of stable long-term income is the most suitable industry for family offices.

Therefore, even if it is a preferred stock, it is a good thing for him.

He agreed, and the deal was done.

At this time, the time has arrived on September 10th.

There is still no movement from Soros’ side——

In fact, it is not silent, if someone can see through Soros' disguise.

You can find that Soros has been quietly leaving the market since the 8th.

By the 10th, Soros and his true allies had withdrawn more than half of their funds.

The market is still fighting with Norway and Abel.

Only those international hot money who have made too much money following Soros in the past few years are left.

So on the 10th, the international hot money without a backbone gradually began to retreat.

The 7.7 line, which had been maintained for two days, also began to break.

Wait until the evening of September 10th, European time.

Smith Capital, which is frantically closing its positions, has closed all its short positions in USD/NOK.

And instead of the Norwegian government and the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, they frantically purchased Norwegian kroner spot on the market.

Wait until noon on September 11th European time.

Smith Capital already holds 600 billion spot Norwegian krone, becoming one of the giants holding the largest number of Norwegian krone on the market.

At this time, the exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the US dollar has also fallen back to the 7.6950 line.

Milan, Italy.

As an internationally famous fashion capital, the largest number of clothing shows here every year.

In early September of this year, Milan welcomed the angels from the Elizabeth Back Garden Company in New York.

After nearly half a year of planning, ESAB finally plucked up the courage to head to Europe.

The first stop is Milan.

For one week in a row, Isa Company and its collaborators held a catwalk show in Milan.

Elizabeth's twenty-five contracted models worked hard for just one week.

This time Isa's company has big goals.

The company will run shows in Europe for two consecutive months, visiting all of Milan, Paris, London and Berlin.

Fortunately, the week's catwalk is over.

Then the models can rest for one to two weeks and then go to Paris to compete again.

Abel’s Elizabethan angels can finally take a good rest.

Noon European time.

There is such a secluded area outside Milan.

It is built on the mountain and has a beautiful and huge Italian-style wooden villa. The higher you go up, the better the view.

This is a spa villa designed by the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano.

Speaking of hot springs, earthquakes often occur in Italy due to its location in an earthquake zone.

Of course there are many bad side effects, but it has also brought some small benefits to many places in Italy.

For example, just like the Neon Cabinet, there are many hot springs here in Italy.

In Europe, Italy is a famous hot spring town.

There are many well-known hot springs in Milan, such as Tempest Hot Spring, QC Hot Spring and Ski Resort Hot Spring.

The wooden building designed by Renzo Piano has its own temperature zone inside.

It is half indoor and half outdoor. The outdoor part is built in the open air and is located at a high place.

During the snow season, you can soak in the hot water while admiring the snow and overlooking the city of Milan below.

The indoor part is directly connected to several bedrooms, including the master bedroom, which can be reached directly.

Master Renzo Piano used wooden sliding doors with a bit of neon style to divide the bedroom and living room.

The entire main room has large enough windows and enough places to enjoy the changes of light and shadow.

At this time, on the outdoor terrace, the hot springs made of smooth stones are constantly steaming, fighting against the cool temperature in the mountains. The wind is misty, and the nearby forest can almost cover the entire suburb of Milan. Enjoy all the colors.

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"Shua"

After a strenuous workout not long ago, Gisele Bundchen returned indoors for a long rest.

Now that she had finished her rest and had something to eat, Gisele Bundchen, wearing a three-point bikini, jumped into the hot spring swimming pool. She swam towards the outdoor part of the hot spring swimming pool.

As expected, she saw her colleagues outside the outdoor hot spring pool in the hot spring water.

And her boss.

In the hot spring water, Gisele Bundchen felt a little jealous.

Another one vs twenty-five game.

This boss is not afraid of breaking his back! !