Chapter 598

"My success is a combination of talent, trickery and luck. It cannot be replicated."

This sentence came from the White House Journalists Association Annual Dinner on October 11, 2003.

Abel faced more than a thousand guests, and when George, the commander-in-chief of the White House, asked him the secret of his success with a smile, he said these words.

Yes, more than two months have passed.

Abel stayed in Hong Kong Island until August 20th, then left China's territory and went to Singapore again.

After staying there for a few days, he went to the Philippines, a de facto American colony.

He did not return to the United States until the end of August.

September 2003 was an ordinary month for Abel. Except for September 11th, he continued to serve as the chief speaker on the September 11th incident as usual.

The rest of the time, I just deal with work, spend time with this woman and child, and spend time with that woman and child, living a fulfilling, happy and peaceful life.

In the blink of an eye, time has arrived in October.

He stayed in New York throughout September.

In early October, Abel went to Los Angeles to continue to care about his new energy business and Jobs, who had begun preparing for a mobile phone conference.

On October 10th, his plane departed from Los Angeles and arrived in Washington, the capital of the most powerful empire in human history.

This year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner will be held on October 11.

The annual White House Journalists Association dinner was held this year at the InterContinental Hotel in Washington.

At this traditional social event for Washington news and official circles, the annual self-deprecating speech by the American leader must be a big "selling point."

The White House Correspondents Association dinner has a long history, originally dating back to 1921, when 50 White House correspondents gathered to celebrate the appointment of their new boss. It was just a small industry banquet.

This is a dinner party that outsiders once viewed as a "nerd dance party." But now, the dinner tradition has evolved from a small gathering of a few dozen people to an annual event attended by more than a thousand people.

The process is basically that the general manager gives a speech and celebrities from all walks of life walk on the red carpet. On the contrary, there are fewer and fewer real "nerdy" reporters.

In the past, to be invited to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, you first had to work for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, radio, television, or other broadcasting organization or news aggregation organization.

Secondly, the applicant's main job is to attend various press conferences to report on the White House, and finally they must be a content editor. If you meet the above requirements, you are eligible to submit the application form.

However, more and more seats are now controlled by media organizations, which leave seats to the company's big boss or the advertisers who rely on them for survival. The dinner party has gradually "changed".

Now it has become a fashion feast, and the red carpet is not inferior to the Oscar red carpet. Film and television stars want to get close to the president and the boss of Washington, and reporters want to interview film and television stars. The ticket seemed to become a status symbol, like a bunch of high school students throwing a party, except the most powerful man in the world was in the room.

So this is why Ah Hei, who has always been very particular about his demeanor and has always appeared to be a gentleman, would lash out at MAGA in public.

Since George took office, he has held three such banquets in succession. Abel was actually invited to the previous two times, but he happened to be abroad both times, once in the UK and once in France.

In addition to this banquet, it looks very high-end, but in fact...it's just like that.

When Americans mention this banquet, the photos they see are: the five-star general in formal dress and the comedy superstar looking at each other and laughing, and the media big shots courting the dazzling young actress.

But in fact, if you pull the camera back, the charm of this banquet will drop sharply - they are in a hotel ballroom about the same size as an airplane hangar, and there are at least 1,000 other people present, and there are even people behind them A super scale of more than 2,600 people.

The so-called White House Journalists Association Dinner, Fuck, it is not held in the White House at all.

Moreover, a room full of "elites" of all stripes often do strange things.

When Tom Cruise walked through the corridors of the hotel where the banquet was held in 1999, the crowd of onlookers made him breathless. What was even worse was that in 2001, a group of people gathered around Britney Spears' table, pointing, watching blankly, or whispering and laughing.

To a certain extent, it is not as high-end as its name sounds. Instead, it is a bit like a wet market for the upper class elites in the United States.

The banquet was attended by at least a thousand people, and each person said a thousand words. You can imagine how noisy and lively it was, and it was even worse than an ordinary vegetable market.

So to say it is important is just that.

However, Abel had time this time and happened to be coming to Washington to attend the last regular meeting of the Federal Reserve this year.

George invited him again, and he accepted the invitation to attend the 2003 White House Journalists Association dinner.

George was very happy about this. He kept talking to him and talked several times more than in the previous two years.

After the speech, he simply handed the microphone to him, and George acted as a reporter himself. The T&T lead student, who had drunk two too many drinks, "interviewed" Abel with a smile. It seemed that he was truly living up to the essence of the "Journalists Association Annual Dinner". At this moment The generals have become journalists.

The first question asked by reporters from T&T is a question that almost all Americans are very concerned about, but no one has asked it, or has not received a positive response from Abel.

"Dear Mr. Smith, how did you become so successful? Is there any way to imitate or learn from you?"

Well, in fact, Commander George transformed into a reporter to interview Mr. Abel Smith, and this scene was actually staged.

The two had rehearsed the specific procedures and answers before the dinner.

In terms of Zheng Zhi Xiu, Washington's scripts are much more rigorous and professional than Hollywood's scripts!

Of course, it refers to acting.

And Abel's answer, according to the careful design of the think tanks, was the sentence at the beginning.

The answer to this sentence is actually a bit of a panacea. It seems to be an answer, but in fact it is not.

But to be honest, Abel actually thinks this sentence is right.

He knows better than anyone that his success, in addition to his financial talent, is more crucial to his original background and background.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to rise so quickly and smoothly.

Otherwise, when he was still the "Wolf of Wall Street", any giant on Wall Street could destroy him in advance.

If it weren't for the fear of him being a Texan, there would also be the National Rifle Association and the identity of the Smith family who are related to the bush.

Then he might have jumped on the street the first few times when he used tens of thousands of dollars to gain millions or tens of millions of dollars in profits.

This is not alarmist, Wall Street has such an example this year.

In January this year, a retail investor named Andrew Carlson was detained and interrogated by U.S. financial regulators on suspicion of insider trading.

This person's experience is even more exaggerated than Abel's. It is said that he made a total of 126 high-risk stock investments in just two weeks, using a mere US$800 in principal to make a profit of US$350 million, more than 430,000 times his capital.

After being arrested, the guy claimed to be a time traveler from 2256. Many people suspected that this was a lie he told to avoid the crime of insider trading. However, two months later, the trial about Andrew came to an abrupt end, as if the man disappeared out of thin air.

Of course, the FBI and SEC have denied the news and said the story was a joke.

In fact, as one of the people behind Wall Street, Abel knew that this man's experience was true. At least Andrew Carlson really had such trading results.

But Abel didn't know whether he was able to achieve this level because he had the same "talent" as himself, or because he had other similar tricks.

It's just that his end was very bad, and there was suddenly no news about him in the media.

Secretly, Abel knew that this guy had been turned into many laboratory samples of DNA materials and had been sent to more than 2,000 research laboratories across the United States.

People die without a burial place, and Andrew has thousands of burial places.

Even Abel's Adam and Eve were given more than a dozen of these experimental samples...

Abel didn't know if this guy was so unlucky in parallel time and space. But this guy's experience made him call it a fluke after he found out.

Fortunately, I knew how to hide my stupidity from the beginning, and did not really exaggerate about making tens of millions from a few hundred dollars in a few days. Instead, I slowly earned 200 million with tens of thousands of dollars in half a year, and then relied on these 200 million to help me. Nasdaq bubble fortune.

Although it is exaggerated to make 200 million US dollars in half a year with tens of thousands of dollars, there were indeed similar wizards on Wall Street before him.

It is these wizards who will either hit the streets in the market or disappear from the public.

But making hundreds of millions from US$800 in two weeks is really an exaggeration.

It's no good if you really don't want to attract attention, especially when Abel Smith has already appeared in front of you.

Those guys are absolutely no longer willing to produce an Andrew Carlson, so even if this guy is really a reborn player or some other cheating player.

If you don't hide your clumsiness, you can only die directly.

that's the truth.

So Abel now knows that his background and origin really helped him a lot in the beginning.

At the same time, after earning the first pot of gold and becoming famous on Wall Street, it is also important to decisively marry the Bush family, which is on the rise, through the relationship between Alex and Herbert.

At that time, if he didn't have the light of the bush, it would never have been so smooth.

Of course, he also benefited from his own rapid rise.

His rise was so fast that he was surrounded by monsters and grew into a new behemoth at lightning speed, avoiding being divided and eaten by many forces.

Otherwise, with the solidified pyramid class in the United States, Abel's rise like a plug-in would have been eliminated long ago.

Just like that hapless Andrew Carlson.

Do you really think that you will be invincible after rebirth or cheating? Unless you drive DC Superman, one person can defeat the world.

As for the reality side, after all, we still have to pay attention to the rules of reality.

If he had been as high-profile and aggressive as Andrew Carlson at that time, he would not be able to stand here and act with George as a giant in the country now, pretending to be X in front of the top elite celebrities and the media in the United States.

"It was the happiest dinner party I've ever had."

After the acting was over and the banquet officially began.

George came down, still smiling and very relaxed, and smiled softly to Abel, little Laura beside him, and his own wife.

"You will come every year from now on, it's a happy deal!"

When facing friends and relatives, the leading student from Datong University, who has a serious public image, is actually a very easy-going and humorous guy, even a little out of tune.

When I say this to Abel now, it feels a bit childish.

Abel shrugged, "Yes, yes, but I ask you to give me performance fees. Acting like this feels even harder than Hollywood, and I have to memorize so many lines and key points!"

"Hahahaha..." George laughed heartily, "The stage of life is full of dramas. If you can act your own life well, you can succeed in anything you act."

"It's quite meaningful, but that doesn't mean you don't have to pay an appearance fee!"

"Haha..." George laughed heartily again, and then found an excuse to take his wife away immediately: "Besides, I will be very busy tonight. You have to take good care of little Laura, let's go and get busy first, late See you soon~"

After saying that, he went to entertain the guests who needed his entertainment with his wife, who looked a little helpless.

Little Laura watched her uncle leave in amusement. When Abel turned to look at her, she smiled and said, "That's just what he is. It's not like you don't know."

Abel smiled and said nothing. He stretched out his hand and leaned closer to her to make her arm more comfortable.

Little Laura noticed his thoughtfulness, felt a little sweet in her heart, and said softly: "Speaking of it, dear. This seems to be the first time we attend a public dinner together?"

Abel thought that was indeed the case, but he knew that this dinner was not actually public.

When the media reports later or tomorrow, he will appear as Abe Smith. But because of his request, the bush woman next to Abel Smith would never appear.

This is the tacit understanding between him and the Bush family, and it is also the bottom line between him and his kind.

Even his competitors will help him cover up before anyone breaks through the bottom line.

Little Laura's emotion and excitement were only half the story at best.

She was the woman destined to hide in Smith's shadow.

Maybe it's not that she doesn't know, it's just that she has no choice but to be satisfied, or she can only choose to be satisfied.

At least in front of these guys and the upper-class American elites, he was willing to admit her identity.

The sunk cost is so big that even the child is one year old, what else can she do? Of course I listened to him.

At least he respects himself. None of his other women came tonight, only him.

Little Laura was quite satisfied with this, so she didn't care if he didn't answer. She smiled sweetly and pulled him to walk around the banquet, wanting to get closer to the Alexanders and Neils.

In such a high-profile place, two congressmen who need votes will certainly appear.

George was just pulling Abel to act in front of him, while the rest of them went to work in their own circles.

Because of the well-known in-law nature in their circle, even if a donkey and an elephant are gathered together, it will not look out of place.

Even the centrists and moderates within Donkey and Elephant used them as a link and formed a small circle around them tonight.

Little Laura knew her husband's attraction to those people, and she wanted to take her husband there so that she could also be of some help to her father-in-law and father.

But before they even got close, someone shouted hello to Abel through Edward and the other bodyguards who had also followed.

Little Laura looked over and saw a white man in his thirties with a square face, shouting "BOSS" to Abel loudly.

Little Laura looked at Abel in confusion. She knew all of Abel's important confidants, but she didn't know this one.

Abel himself was startled. He didn't really know this guy.

But this guy's face was familiar to him after seeing it many times before he was reborn.

Because this guy's name is Elon Musk.