Chapter 588
In the end, Abel didn't take away any of them because he didn't look down on these soulless bodies at all.
With his current status and power, if he wants to play in this direction. His resources allow him to play more excessively and outrageously than the old Chinese in the Neonxia Club.
Although one of the impressions Abel gave to outsiders has always been his beauty and habit.
But his good looks are not just about his good looks and wonderful figure.
Maybe it was true at the beginning, but now his requirements for beauty have become very high.
One is to have characteristics. If it is a cookie-cutter body without a soul, then he has no interest in it.
If there are no characteristics, you can also have identity, talents, skills, and last but not least, you have to be able to attract him in terms of personality.
Or one of his feelings before his rebirth.
And these things, the dolls trained by Xia Kaiguan basically do not have them.
What's more, Abel also suspected that these feudal dregs had been trained as tools since childhood, and they might also be responsible for spying on the Xia Guild Hall.
Abel didn't lack women, let alone women who had no interest and were like living dolls.
In the end, he naturally directly rejected the idea of Kitashirakawa Michihisa wanting to give the twenty-odd best dolls cultivated by Kasumi Kaikan to him at once.
However, John Wenders, the American envoy to Japan, accepted one. The old guy explained to Abel that he wanted to see how the Neon people cultivated this kind of thing.
But Abel looked at the interested look he showed towards the black pearl doll.
Abel felt that the secrets he brought back to study and train were fake, and that the secrets he brought to his private Simmons to study Black Pearl's body might be real.
Afterwards, Abel stayed in Osaka for a few more days.
It was not until August 5, when a total of 35% of the shares of the Osaka Stock Exchange officially belonged to Smith Capital (Neon) and Asia Investment Group, that Abel began to prepare to leave Neon, the most developed city in Kansai. 's second largest city.
In terms of shares, Asia Investment Group holds 10% of the Osaka Stock Exchange and Smith Capital (Neon) 25%.
The current shareholding ratio of Asia Investment Group is that Smith Capital holds 49.9% of the shares and Abel personally holds 0.2%.
The total share capital is US$10 billion, and 15% of the remaining shares have been subscribed by Hanguo, mainly owned by the Li family and several other Hanguo consortiums.
Originally, according to the wishes of the Han people, they wanted more shares. But Abel refused.
Asia Investment Group, Asia Investment Group. The name is actually Asia, so of course it can't be just Han people or Neon people who hold shares in it.
Abel's plan is that Neon people and Han people will each hold 15%, and the remaining nearly 20% of the shares will be given to consortiums in other parts of Asia.
Only in this way can this special group have the greatest influence in Asia.
For example, Singapore, those countries in Southeast Asia that have a little influence, and that big country in Asia that there is no way around.
The reason why 10% of the Osaka Stock Exchange's shares are placed in the Asian Investment Group is to consider using these high-quality assets to attract other investors besides Hanguo and Neon.
August 6th, one week after coming to Neon.
Abel finally bid farewell to Osaka and arrived in Tokyo, the current de facto capital of neon and the city these little cabinets are most proud of.
Tokyo is the central city of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, one of the three major neon metropolitan areas. Formerly known as Edo, it was once the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. It has now developed into a hub center in many fields such as neon politics, economy, culture, and transportation.
Judging from the current scale and construction in all aspects, there is no doubt that Tokyo is also the largest city in Asia.
When Abel's Boeing wide-body passenger plane "Smith" appeared in the sky above Tokyo's Haneda International Airport.
Under the airport, in a temporary special runway opened especially for him, there were Neon Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Maeda Tamon, and Neon Minister of Foreign Affairs Naoki Sugiura.
Two neon cabinet ministers received reminders from their secretaries in the VIP waiting room.
"Mr. Abel Smith's plane is here."
Maeda Takato, who was drinking coffee, subconsciously put down the coffee cup and looked up at the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Sugiura Naoki shrugged at him, "He's already here, what else are you thinking about? It's our task to welcome him today."
"Hey, this is a bit of a fuss. He has no official status...but the Prime Minister asked us to come and greet him. We took the initiative to do things that no Han people did." Maeda Tamon whispered unhappily. .
Listening to the somewhat resentful complaints from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Foreign Minister Naoki Sugiura pretended not to hear it.
In many cases, the upper echelons of Neon have always had two extreme attitudes towards Americans.
One is manifested outside and the other is manifested inside.
The outward attitude is often one of extreme humility and even some flattery toward the upper echelons of America. When meeting with senior American officials, he bent down and bowed in various ways, which looked like he had no dignity at all.
Therefore, in the news media, when the Neon authorities face the US authorities, Neon people feel like servants.
This is when the Neon Man's attitude toward America manifests itself outwardly.
And when it comes to this, there are many neon upper-class elites who are privately very dissatisfied and unhappy with the Americans. They talk about it and want to revive the glory of the empire.
The problem is that these people, like other neon people, turn into that kind of dogleg when facing the Americans... They are cruel on the inside and cruel on the outside. These guys have achieved the ultimate.
Maeda Takato is such a Neon person. As the dignified Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, he also holds a high position in Neon.
Now, he was asked by the Prime Minister to greet an American businessman together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Even though this American businessman is the richest man in the world, Maeda Tamon feels that the specifications are a bit exaggerated.
These are the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. They are two levels of welcoming guests, except that the American commander-in-chief is a bit unqualified.
When other foreign heads of state come to Japan, when the two of them appear at the same time, they are fully qualified to welcome any non-American foreign heads of state!
Tamato Maeda, who is a little younger and a bit energetic, is also a neon person who pays great attention to seniority, so of course he has some opinions on this.
More importantly... the president of the Neon Central Bank who once suffered a loss at the hands of Abel, the president Yu Hayami who has now run away, and there is no news about his whereabouts, is Tamado Maeda's brother-in-law.
Under various circumstances, Tamon Maeda would naturally have some complaints about Abel. Of course, I only dare to say such things in private, when facing a good friend like Sugiura Naoki and an ally of Masaharu.
"Let's go, don't say these useless things. This is not just a simple businessman." Naoki Sugiura, who was more calm, said bluntly.
You must know that this person today is not only the richest man in the world. He is also the core figure of a large American conglomerate and the son-in-law of the family of the current American leader.
The identity of the son-in-law in the front is okay, but the identity of the core figure of the large consortium in the back... Even if the Neon people want to ignore it, they also know that this is actually the master behind the United States.
Of course Maeda Takato also knew that he was in a high position as Neon's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Two neon senior officials, all dressed in suits in the summer, braved the scorching sun and appeared on the special VIP tarmac of Tokyo's Haneda International Airport at noon, when the sun was at its hottest.
At this time, the Smith also landed slowly and began to slow down and come here.
It was very hot, even if there was someone holding an umbrella next to me it was still very hot.
Naoki Sugiura and Tamon Maeda, who were wearing suits, were sweating from the sun and felt very uncomfortable.
Maeda Takato, who was already a little unhappy, was about to whisper a few words to Naoki Sugiura next to him.
Suddenly, there were rapid footsteps behind them, and both of them subconsciously turned their heads and looked back.
They found several men wearing black suits like them, walking quickly towards them in the scorching sun.
The appearance of the first few made Naoki Sugiura and Tamon Maeda straighten their backs, and their expressions became more serious and cautious.
The person who brought about these changes was not their immediate boss, the Prime Minister, but several prominent figures from the Special Service Bureau of the Neon Tokyo District Police Department.
Director Furukawa Ichihei, executive Takeda Eijiro and several others are all Neon people.
Maeda Takato, who originally wanted to say something weird, immediately shut up after seeing these people and became cautious in his words and actions.
Today, even some foreigners know that the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office is the "East Factory" set up by the United States in neon. It only takes orders from the United States and does not listen to the neon authorities at all.
This organization occupies a detached position in the Neon government. Basically, all high-ranking Neon officials who violated the interests of the United States were killed by this organization.
The key is that once someone makes a move, they are almost never empty-handed.
For those targeted by the Special Service Bureau of the Tokyo Regional Police Office, the best outcome is to step down. The middle outcome is to be imprisoned. The more serious ones are to die directly from some accidents. In the worst cases, even their family members will be affected. Implicated...
Over time, not only will the upper management of Neon who know the inside story become afraid of these people, but later even ordinary Neon people or employees of government agencies will tremble when they hear the names of these people.
Like Furukawa Ichihei, he is unknown among ordinary people in Neon, but his reputation among the upper-class elites in Neon is almost the same as the names of Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian among the scholar-bureaucrats during the Masanori and Apocalypse years of the Ming Dynasty.
The lethality is huge.
Maeda Takato and Sugiura Naoki were in shock, and Maeda Takato began to regret what he said just now.
Furukawa Ichihei and others have already walked to Maeda Tamon and Sugiura Naoki.
He didn't even look at the two cabinet ministers first, but first looked at the Smith that was slowly sliding towards the tarmac. Seeing that it was still a few hundred meters away, he relaxed in front of the two ministers and said to himself Said to himself: "Okay, okay, luckily I caught up!"
Immediately afterwards, the director of the Special Service Bureau of the Tokyo Regional Police Office, as if he had just seen Sugiura Naoki and Maeda Tamon, greeted the two ministers with a smile:
"Maeda-san, Sugiura-san, hello noon. Thank you for your hard work."
"Good afternoon, Furukawa-san. It's not hard." X2.
Both of them greeted Furukawa Ichibei and then nodded to several others behind him.
It's just that the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are a little confused at this time. They don't know what these people are doing here.
It seemed that they were not here to arrest the two of them, but were they also here to greet Abel Smith?
But these people's identities are obvious and they are not suitable to welcome foreign guests.
Are they here to arrest Americans?
Hey, what a joke!
Then...the only possibility left is to welcome Abel Smith, an American, just like us.
In the midst of shock and doubt, there was no time for Naoki Sugiura and Tamon Maeda to use their verbal skills to find out the truth from Furukawa Ichibei.
Because the Smith had stopped on the tarmac, the ladder truck drove over to dock, and the American was about to get off.
The neon people, all wearing very formal suits, could only brave the scorching sun and wait for the appearance of American guests under the scorching heat.
More than a minute later, the ladder truck was connected and the plane's door was opened. A tall and strong black figure first came out. He looked towards them and then retracted into the plane.
After a while, a tall and straight young white man appeared at the plane door.
At this time, there was no need for Maeda Takato and Sugiura Naoki to give orders. In the shooting area not far away, the photographer specially assigned by the neon authority was already taking pictures with the equipment.
These photos will be selected and retouched later, and then sent to major newspapers and media outlets in Neon.
Tonight, or even in the afternoon, the news that American oligarch Abel Smith visited Neon and was welcomed by Neon Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Maeda Takato and Neon Foreign Minister Naoki Sugiura will appear in Neon and various other countries. on the news.
However, people such as Furukawa Ichibei and Takeda Eijiro of the Special Service Bureau of the Tokyo Regional Police Office will not be in the news.
They don't even exist in the photos, because it's hard to explain to ordinary neon people!
There was no fancy elementary school students to greet me, because I was a little late in time, and the other party said frankly that it was not necessary.
According to the original preview, Sugiura Naoki and Maeda Takato were all smiling, just like their prime ministers did when meeting with the American commander, and walked quickly to the hanging ladder.
A long way apart, the two of them bent down slightly and stretched their hands forward to shake hands with Abel, who was about to come down.
But someone was faster than them. Furukawa Ichibei almost rushed over and appeared in front of Abel before Naoki Sugiura and Tamon Maeda. He spoke to Abel enthusiastically in English with a southern American accent:
"Dear Mr. Smith, welcome to Neon! Your arrival has made Tokyo even more glorious!"
This flattering and exaggerated tone made Naoki Sugiura and Tamon Maeda, who were lagging behind him, open their mouths and feel somewhat indignant in their hearts.
This is so lickable!
The subsequent conversation between Abel Smith and Furukawa Ichibei made them understand a little bit why Furukawa Ichibei looked so humble.
"You are John, right? Hahaha, George mentioned you to me and said that you are one of the foreign students he is most satisfied with. He just called me two days ago and asked me if I had any trouble in Neon If so, I can find you."
Abel responded with a smile.
"Mr. Tenet really said that? I don't dare to take it seriously, and it is also an honor for me. I am just one of his many ordinary students! But what he said next is correct. I am very happy to serve you, anything! "
"Well, I also heard from George that you studied at New York University?"
"Yeah, Mr. Tenet was already one of my teachers at that time. Mr. Smith, it's too hot here, I think we should go inside. The summer in Tokyo is so annoying. In comparison, I I still think summer in New York and Los Angeles is more pleasant!"
"Haha, let's go. But before that, I should have a chat with these two gentlemen, right?"
"Of course! Of course! Please let me introduce it to you!"
Then, like a servant, the director of the Special Service Bureau of the Tokyo District Police Office, who even Nihong Prime Minister was a little afraid of, brought Abel to Maeda Tamon and Sugiura Naoki, who were looking at each other.
"This is Sugiura Naoki, Neon's Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is Maeda Takato, Neon's Minister of Brokerage Industry. They are responsible for welcoming you today."
Furukawa Ichibei first introduced the two neon cabinet ministers to Abel respectfully.
After Abel smiled and nodded, he introduced Abel to the two neon men:
"Maeda-san and Sugiura-san, you must also know that the person in front of you is the famous Mr. Abel Smith, right?"
Maeda Takato wanted to scold Furukawa Ichibei. Are you a Neon man? Why are you acting like an American at this time?
You must know that you are the director of the neon Tokyo District Prosecutors Office Special Service Bureau, not the Tokyo District Prosecutors Office Special Service Bureau of the United States!
Sugiura Naoki immediately smiled like their prime minister, and began to nod and bend to Abel in a very "Japanese" manner, "Of course, of course I know Mr. Abel Smith! You are the most famous man in the world. Entrepreneur, philanthropist and financier, how could I not know you! Nice to meet you, Mr. Smith, as Furukawa-san said, I am Naoki Sugiura, Neon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, today on behalf of the Prime Minister and Neon The Rainbow people are here to greet you!"
"My name is Maeda Takato. I'm very happy to meet you!" Even though Maeda Takato is full of complaints, his appearance is almost exactly the same as Sugiura Naoki. He is slightly stooped despite his low height. Abel is 1.92 meters tall. The height profile is just like the comparison between college students and elementary school students.
"Hello everyone, please go in after taking pictures. It's really too hot here."
There's no place in Tokyo that isn't hot. Abel understood and said with a smile.
Sugiura Naoki then called the special photographer over there and came over to take photos of the individual. They took various poses for more than ten minutes.
The mission was completed. Tamon Maeda and Naoki Sugiura led the way, followed by several people from the Special Service Bureau of the Tokyo District Police Office. The neon people enthusiastically welcomed Abel into the special VIP waiting room of Haneda International Airport.
After that, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which had been prepared long ago, escorted Abel's motorcade out of Haneda International Airport.
This was the situation on Abel's first day in Tokyo.
The weather is very hot, and the neon people are also very "hot", enthusiastically hot.