Chapter 582

"Honey, he must be hungry."

In the early morning, in the best and largest special medical ward of Smith Evangelical Hospital, Abel's voice rang out.

As he spoke, Abel hurriedly stood up, carefully but very skillfully moved his son's position a few times, helped little Laura lift up the hospital gown, held her slightly sideways, and started breastfeeding for the first time.

I have to say that babies' instincts are so powerful. He is so small, he can't move his hands and feet, and his eyes are slightly squinted. But he could open his mouth and easily turn his little head a few times to find his own exclusive food outlet position and start to replenish his energy.

Fortunately, his mother's grain warehouse didn't look too big to worry about. The production of rations is extremely sufficient, without any shortcomings. It is much better than some products that are good but useless.

So much so that the otherwise free rations were overflowing with luxury.

Gee, what a waste!

Abel looked at it and couldn't help but smacked his mouth, which made little Laura roll her eyes charmingly. However, his face was always filled with happiness. Looking at his son, whose skin was a little wrinkled, he still looked like a girl but was already a human being. Mother, her eyes are full of love.

"Honey, come here and help me. Don't do it too hastily. I'm afraid I might choke the baby..."

Little Laura said to Abel, it can only be said that it is too sufficient. Abel was there to help, and he seemed to be even more productive than Yin Kana.

Obviously in terms of the size of the warehouse, Yin Kana is at least four or five times the size of little Laura...

Maybe this is a gift? After all, there are indeed medical studies that show that size and yield really have little to do with each other?

After her son had his first full meal after his birth, little Laura quickly fell asleep due to the severe loss of energy after giving birth. Abel was left sitting next to Simmons, looking at the sleeping mother and son.

Watching silently, Alex, Alexander, Aria, Emily and little Laura herself, together with the people on the other side of the bush, firmly named Abel Bush Smith's son, Abel Think in your mind:

[Welcome to the world, my legitimate son. May life be somewhat difficult so that you can grow, but not so hard that it will crush you. You are born with a lot to bear, which is your luck and your misfortune. ]

Yes, although the Chinese soul in Abel's body always felt awkward, he ultimately couldn't resist the family's insistence and gave his name to his eldest son.

In fact, it was mainly little Laura who insisted. I don't know whether it was influenced by Alex and the others, or the instigation from the bushes.

In the end, little Laura insisted on using this name. The reason why Abel couldn't refuse is because she said: "This name has absolute meaning in Smith. It is a special case. I think our first child can be the most special." One. My dear, please satisfy my humble request!

"

Her words were actually a little unclear, but Abel understood what she meant.

This means that no matter how many illegitimate children he has in the future, she won't care. But this is the most special name to the Smith family, and she wants to get it first for her son.

To be honest, Abel himself actually just felt weird about this.

His son has the same name as himself, which is indeed in conflict with the Chinese people's concept. But the whole family, including the maternal side of the family, and little Laura had such considerations, and in many American families there are indeed fathers and sons with the same name.

He finally compromised and accepted to give his name to his most special son.

Because of this, he thought a lot just now in the delivery room while accompanying little Laura during her difficult delivery.

It's not that he only loves the son born to little Laura, but he is thinking that he has many descendants now, and the possibility of wealthy families fighting for power in the future must be very high.

No matter how well you educate yourself, no matter how much you restrict yourself, this is doomed.

Human nature is selfish, and the difference between what you can achieve by fighting and not fighting is so big, no one in this world can really not fight.

Abel has made a lot of preparations in advance, such as the family office and various trust funds and trusteeship funds established in the names of the children.

Now he feels that this is not enough. He feels that he wants to minimize the internal friction of the Smith family in the future. To avoid Smith's demise or weakening due to too much dispersion of power after his misfortune or death, he must make certain choices.

The United States has real-life examples before him.

Mellon, Morgan, and Rockefeller are ready-made examples.

During the Gilded Age, the Mellon family was far superior to the Rockefellers and Morgans for a period of time. This can be seen from the fact that their second generation could easily become the U.S. Treasury Secretary at the time.

Because at that time, the influence of American capital and plutocrats on Washington was really not as strong as it is now.

At that time, there was no Federal Reserve, or there was only a prototype of it.

But Mellon was able to become Treasury Secretary at that time. One can imagine how powerful Andrew Mellon was at that time.

What now? Although there is still a Mellon consortium, except for the name, the influence that Andrew Mellon's descendants can have on this consortium is already very weak, and they are already slightly better than the mascot.

It can be said that apart from the name, the Mellon family has nothing to do with the Mellon Group.

Otherwise, there is no need for David Mellon to keep working for outsiders, first Goldman Sachs and First Citi, and now he has become one of Abel's cronies.

The reason is that Andrew Mellon and his descendants were particularly fertile at the time, and when they had too many children, they even tried to distribute their property equally.

No matter how much property is distributed to more people, less will fall into everyone's hands. What's more, when these properties are scattered, it will be difficult for them to be gathered together into one body.

At that time, they will naturally become powerless when facing competition from other capital monsters.

In the end, although the descendants of the Mellon family are now particularly prosperous, there are hundreds of them in the United States. But the impact on the United States has been very weak, leaving only the glory of the past. The direct descendants will have to work for other capital monsters to get ahead.

Of course, this is from a capital perspective. From a biological perspective, there is no doubt that Mellon was successful in doing so.

His hundreds of biological descendants are doing poorly, just in comparison with the capital monsters. If compared with ordinary people and grassroots elites, it is still very good.

Other families, such as Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, etc., have completely different practices from Mellon. Hundreds of years have passed, but they are still firmly in control of the inheritance left by their ancestors.

Especially Morgan and Rockefeller, because they have produced capable and ruthless people from generation to generation, and now through the powerful national power of the United States, they can secretly influence the whole world, and they have become world boss-like existences.

DuPont seems to be doing poorly now, which is also compared with Morgan and Rockefeller.

Compared with Mellon and Vanderbilt, the DuPont family is still one of the top upper-class families in the United States.

Decentralization or non-decentralization of power, the impact is so great.

Abel now wants to imitate the Rockefeller family and go one step further in the practices of Rockefeller and Morgan.

His current plan is to focus on cultivating those who are truly capable and ambitious among his descendants.

If you have mediocre abilities or a Buddhist character, then you can just be a rich man and a playboy.

In this process, the direct line must play a role in tightly uniting other branches.

In order for the direct lineage to play this role, in addition to the personal abilities of the direct descendants. Abel knew that his attitude was also important.

In order to avoid too much internal friction that may occur in the future, his current idea is to show a difference in treatment.

He hasn't figured out the difference yet, but he thinks that the first step is to let others know how much he values ​​his legitimate son.

Subtly let other people know the importance of the direct line, and then let the direct line have more power and be able to control other branches.

In fact, it is the practice of ancient China and even ancient European dynasties.

Establishing direct descendants rather than establishing virtuous people is the best practice summed up by humans in the classical era in terms of reducing internal friction and passing on inheritance.

It has experienced thousands of years of development and has a certain existence significance.

This is why little Abel was born just a few minutes ago, after the doctors and nurses took care of it.

Abel hugged him and came out to the public, and he looked very happy.

Even in order to make others realize how much he values ​​his eldest son, Abel just cosplayed some classic moves from The Lion King...

There is no airtight circle in the world, and Abel believes that by tomorrow night at the latest, everyone around him will know how special he is to Abel Bush Smith.

This is what Abel wants, at least for the time being.

And Abel knew that doing this would make the Bush family, currently the first ally of the Smith family, happier and closer to the Smith family.

Didn't you see that when they heard that the child was called Abel II, Herbert and Barbara almost grinned to the sky?

The two old men in the bush didn't stop laughing the whole time.

The maternal great-grandfather and maternal great-grandmother looked happier than the real great-grandfather and great-grandmother.

After all, no matter what, little Abel is not Abel's first child. In private, apart from little Aria, Alex and his wife also secretly met several other descendants of Abel.

Scarcity is not unique, and Smith's two old men certainly don't have the same level of excitement as Herbert.

Looking at the sleeping mother and child, Abel stayed silently until dawn when the child was hungry again and cried, and after helping little Laura breastfeed for the second time, he left the room.

After taking a short rest, Abel was full of energy and energy again around 10 a.m.

He first went to the special ward to visit his legitimate son and little Laura.

After staying for about half an hour, he turned around and appeared in the biological and medical research department in the back half of Smith Evangelical Hospital, which he rarely visited but always valued.

Two years ago, Abel was already famous on Wall Street.

He asked people to search for talents in Houston and established two medical research laboratories, Adam and Eve.

In this approach, he imitated the precedent of Bill Gates and many other American wealthy people.

The wealthy Americans who set up medical research laboratories are not like what they say in their mouths. They all claim that they want to contribute to human medicine and science.

In fact, as an insider, Abel knew very well that everyone did this for two main purposes.

One is to make money. The pharmaceutical companies in the medical complex are all greedy for making money.

If my medical research laboratory is lucky enough to come up with any special medicine, it will be a lot of US dollars.

This is an industry with huge investment and crazy output.

The wealthy certainly take this into consideration.

The second reason is that the rich and powerful people in the world are actually very similar in some aspects.

This is the same as many emperors in ancient China or kings in ancient Europe.

That is, having enjoyed enough, everyone is afraid of dying early, and everyone wants to live longer.

In the past, China relied on seeking immortality and medicine, while Europe relied on belief in God and alchemists.

In modern society, scientific research shows that both of the above are false. Modern medical and biological research is more reliable than these metaphysics.

Even if it is difficult, there is still some hope.

Therefore, when wealthy Americans invest in medical research laboratories, in addition to making money, a more important consideration is for their own longevity and health.

In parallel time and space, wouldn't it be revealed in the future that rich people would trade their sons' blood for their own in order to live longer or receive medical treatment...

Otherwise, in parallel time and space, Bill Gates's medical research laboratory has invested tens of billions of dollars. In addition to tax avoidance, it also spends billions of dollars on research every year, but why is it that the output of a serious new drug is basically the same? nothing?

Because their laboratories are not engaged in medical research, they are studying genes. They are studying genes or drugs that make humans live longer...

Even if the research in this area produces results, it will not be known or used by ordinary people for a long time.

If this is reflected in the media and the public, there will naturally be little output.

In addition, there are many similar laboratories in the United States, and many of them are not directly named like Bill Gates.

What American wealthy people prefer is to secretly fund various laboratories to conduct research and development on various topics, and then share the results.

Bill Gates conducts his own research and also provides funding of this type.

Abel's Adam and Eve Research Laboratory did the same thing. The difference is that Abel is very low-key in this regard, unlike Bill Gates who is very lively in the media, because Bill must do this if he wants to attract other wealthy people to join him.

Abel himself has the ability to support this sky-high-cost gold-burning activity, and he also has the ability to recruit high-quality scientists and bioengineers on his own, so he does not need to be as high-profile as Bill Gates.

In addition to the rich circle, some people know that he is also working on this project that many people are working on.

The media and the public do not know that this young and strong super-rich man has begun research on immortality or life extension like other old rich men.

Smith Evangelical Hospital, in Adam's Laboratory.

Abel was wearing a complete set of the most advanced medical research protective equipment, even more so than Baymax.

Accompanied by several senior engineers and directors of the laboratory, he pointed to a petri dish frozen in a transparent medical observation refrigerator and said:

"This thing is a research sample of that thing from China last year?"

"Yes." The person in charge of the laboratory, who was also neatly dressed and whose face could not be seen except for a pair of eyes, said softly:

"This kind of thing has very strong plasticity. The speed and amplitude of mutation exceeds that of any bacteria and viruses. We hope that by studying them, we can try to find a way to benefit mankind."

Abel was silent for a moment, and after a few seconds he asked again: "I just heard you introduce it outside. Many people in the United States are studying them?"

"Yes, the industry believes that their changeable characteristics may be some kind of characteristics suitable for evolution, and they must be taken advantage of."

Abel was silent again, but secretly shouted "Made" in his heart.

It seems that the super black swan event more than ten years later may not be something evolved by natural selection. And it may be that they are really specially cultivated and specially prepared super monsters.

Perhaps in this early stage of studying them, people in the United States may really be studying them for science, including research on longevity and benefits to humans.

But just like gunpowder was just a by-product of alchemy made by ancient Chinese alchemists at the beginning.

During the research process, after discovering some of their characteristics that are suitable for use as weapons, they will definitely attract interested people to apply them.

Coupled with Angsa's unique weak social ethics, Abel felt that he was just as desperate as he thought.

Then...should we tell Adam and Eve to stop researching in this direction?

It's not necessary. First of all, everyone is doing it. If you don't do it, you will look a little different.

Secondly, even if the situation is really what you think. Then conducting research in this area on your own can be considered a good preparation.

And what results can really be produced by research in this area?

He was silent for a while, and then, accompanied by the person in charge and the scientists, he continued to visit other aspects of research in the Adam and Eve laboratories.

The two research laboratories have a clear division of labor. Adam is responsible for biomedical research at the genetic level and micro level.

Eve is at the clinical and application level, mainly in the field of medicine.

After all, Abel now owns a pharmaceutical group, and he can directly use any results in this area.

There is also the idea that as a reborn person, it will benefit the world to some extent. If you really want to conquer some disease, make money and satisfy your own moral conscience, then it's not a loss.

Two hours later, after extensive disinfection and inspection, Abel came out of the research room.

But taking this into consideration, he had already planned not to visit little Laura and her son for two days.

Although it was sterile and virus-free, Abel still didn't want to bring any possible risks to his children and little Laura, both sensory and psychological.

He did not take this opportunity to leave, but went to Fort Worth, the capital of Tarrant County, intending to inspect the Texas AMD Instruments semiconductor silicon wafer production base that had been built for almost a year, as well as several other factories.

Looking around Fort Worth at night, you can't see the prosperity of New York, nor the crowds of downtown Los Angeles, nor the style of Miami, or the vicissitudes of Washington. Can't hear the gunshots in Chicago.

Many times, Fort Worth looks like a young cowboy with plenty of energy but not much money.

Now, the "cowboys" in this American city have a very wealthy behind-the-scenes mastermind.

It's growing at a ridiculous pace, the same way big cities like New York did in America's Gilded Age.

Roads are being built all over the city of Fort Worth, and various construction vehicles can be seen everywhere in the city center of the old city and along the way in the new city.

In the suburbs outside the city, various large factories and super factories are rising rapidly.

Tesla's photovoltaic factory and automobile factory, Texas Chaowei Instruments' semiconductor production base, Smith Agriculture's food processing and production factory, the new F1 Formula One racing track in the United States, and so on...

All kinds of medium and large projects are crowded together in this city.

Abel is using his ideas and money to transform this base in his mind.

In this city, like China at the moment, it seems to be transformed into a large construction site.

Abel received an unexpected guest.

Or did the other party take the initiative to come to see him, or to be precise, come to visit him for a meeting.

The man's name is Tom Dray.