Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

In the afternoon sky, the wind and clouds are changing~

Kennedy International Airport.

Grace walked out of the car and faced the old Morgan couple, eldest sons Panaris and Elder, eldest daughter Cheryl and his wife, second sons Pine and Giles, second daughters Laura and Lilith and other family members who came out of the car. , greeting each other with a few words.

The eldest lady, Cheryl Norton Morgan, who had grown up with Grace and had the best relationship with her, and who understood Grace’s temperament best, took Grace’s right hand affectionately and smiled.

"You touch it~ I can hear his heartbeat every night before going to bed~"

Grace squatted down in a "defiant" manner, put her ear against Cheryl's lower abdomen, paused seriously for a while, raised her head and smiled.

"heartbeat!"

"I can hear two heartbeats~"

"Hahaha~"

"Yes! He is developing very well, and his heartbeat is very strong!"

"That would be awesome!"

Grace stood up, glanced at Cheryl's husband, the famous musician Tus Schumann Gruber, who was standing next to her, and laughed softly.

"Shall we sleep together tonight?"

"Okay~"

"Tooth, I'm with Grace tonight..."

"No problem!" Tusi agreed happily~

The few people standing aside and preparing to get in the car all showed slightly different expressions.

Morgan Sr.'s wife, Neria Norton Morgan, walked to her daughter Cheryl and smiled.

"The weather in New York has gotten a lot colder. Let's talk about it after we get in the car~"

"Ok!"

"Grace, come and stay with me~"

"..OK!"

When Cheryl heard Nariya's mother take the initiative to ask Grace to go with her, she frowned slightly and whispered.

"Mom, I..."

"I know!"

"Me and Grace haven't seen each other for a long time, just chatting!"

Old Morgan also came over at this time and said with a smile: "Yeah~"

"Get in the car first, and we'll talk about it when we get back."

"...Okay~"

"where are we going?"

"Go to the Blue Crystal Hotel to rest for one night, and then return to the Long Island Villa tomorrow."

"...Oh~"

----

Manhattan.

Rockefeller Center.

Livlyn G. Cherov, with a happy smile on her face, walked out of the office building with Leslie Rockefeller on her arm, who looked helpless.

Twenty minutes later.

The car the two were riding in stopped in front of a theater on Broadway Avenue.

Leslie stood on the street and said to Livlin with a wry smile: "Tonight is our first time to visit David's new home."

"Don't you need to buy some gifts?"

"I've been ready for a long time~"

"Oh?"

"wine!"

“I brought back many, many cellared treasures of red wine from California~”

“They are my dad’s favorite wine collection!”

"David used to be a bartender at the Wildfire Bar..."

"He'll already love my gift!"

"Um..Okay~"

Leslie raised his hand and scratched his nose, expressing a few "sympathies" in his heart to the old Mr. Cherov, his "father-in-law" whom he had never met before~

----

Manhattan.

Stanley fourth floor.

David, who had not long returned from the old Malkin's house, welcomed another wave of visitors in the office.

He smiled and asked the two visitors to sit down and chatted for a few words. After Elena brought the coffee, he pointed to the table and smiled.

"Larry, this new business card you gave me, is...?"

Larry Allison raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "After we returned to San Francisco, we immediately changed the name of the company~"

"Now, our company is called Oracle!"

"Hahaha~"

"I just made a suggestion~ I didn't expect you to return it..."

Bob Miner, sitting next to Larry Allison, smiled and said: "Your suggestion is great! We all like this new name very much~"

"Okay~"

David smiled and nodded to Bob Miner, the company's leader in technology development.

"As long as everyone likes it!"

"I believe that our Oracle will shock everyone in the future!"

"Hahaha~"

The three men in the office all laughed~

. . .

After the laughter.

Larry Allison turned his head and glanced at Elena, who was sitting quietly on the sofa, and said to David.

"We are returning to New York this time and plan to complete all the underlying procedures as much as possible before Christmas."

David nodded after listening to Larry Allison's work arrangements for the next half month.

"ok~"

"Is there anything you need me to do?"

"Have!"

Larry glanced at Bob Miner, hesitated for a few seconds, and said, "We want to go to IBM..."

"Yeah..Okay~"

"Please leave your contact number in New York to my secretary Maggie later~"

"I will inform you after I have contacted you!?"

"Okay, boss!"

"Tch~who am I the boss?"

"You are the real bosses of Oracle!"

"Hahaha~"

. . .

After Larry Allison wrote down his contact number, David stared at Bob Miner for a moment and asked him.

"Man, it just so happened that a friend came over two days ago and talked to me about the Nasdaq automatic quotation system~"

"You two are professionals in this area. Can you give him some constructive suggestions for this project?"

"Automatic quote?"

"Yup!"

"The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq stock exchanges still use the traditional model of telephone quotation and stock buying and selling."

"My friend is a market maker, and he has a huge headache with this extremely time-sensitive trading model~"

"So, he thought of using a large computer to build a system that can display real-time quotes on an electronic screen for the stocks being traded."

"Oh~ I probably understand."

Bob Miner nodded with interest and smiled at his friend Larry beside him.

"It should be like...the kind of billboards that are constantly scrolling in front of some stores~"

"It's just that this will be used in a stock exchange... The quotation system will have higher software and hardware requirements~"

"Yeah~ That's right!" David gave Bob Miner a thumbs up.

Larry Allison tapped his knees lightly with his fingers, nodded slightly and said: "Is this... We can talk to him~"

"Ask him about some of the relevant details of this quotation system before you can make very targeted suggestions."

"it is good!"

"Elena, go and give Bernard Madoff's contact information to Larry and Bob~"

"Ok!"

. . .

ten minutes later.

Larry Allison and Bob Miner are gone~

David let out a deep breath, slumped back in his chair, and rubbed his swollen temples with his hands.

Elena walked behind him, gently pressed his head with her hands, and whispered.

"Cui Yingying and I learned some massage techniques that can relieve headaches."

"But this... can only help you temporarily relieve yourself~"

"Hmm~"

David snorted softly and said feeling very comfortable.

"I don't have this kind of headache before..."

"Maybe it was because I overused my brain some time ago~"

Elena raised her eyebrows, smiled and said no more, and the strength in her hand became slightly stronger.

"Hey~ That's right!"

"I'm having a party at my house tonight."

"Come with you too."

"Home? Who did you invite?"

"Who else could it be?"

"It's Giles, Bloomer, Leslie and the others~"

"..oh!"

"What? Don't you want to come?"

"No! I listen to you!"

"Why are you not active this time?"

Ailian pretended to smile helplessly and said, "Did you misunderstand something?"

"I'm not Cui Yingying!"

"Oh?"

"Don't you want to give me a child?"

Elena rolled her eyes wide and muttered.

"Are you daydreaming?"

"Still really think that you are... a lover of the masses?"

"..Haha~"

"I'm not the kind of person who is a popular lover... I have a good body!"

"Hahaha~"

Elena put her hands on his shoulders and asked with a smile.

"No wonder you dare not touch me..."

"Cut~"

This time it was David's turn and he rolled his eyes~

"Hahaha~"

----

Manhattan.

42nd Street, Auxiliary Police Office.

Auston, the person in charge here, was holding coffee in his hand, looking at the two people opposite him with a strange expression, and asked.

"You were witnesses to the murder that happened last night... and you came to tell me now?"

"What are you doing?"

"Hehe~"

The young man sitting opposite Austen, Asteffen Sidric, shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

"The victim in this murder case had always been an enemy of my father."

"He was killed~ It's too late for me to be happy."

"Why should I actively help him?"

Auston frowned, glanced at his subordinate "number one general" Farpo Chivino not far away, and sighed.

"Asti!"

"You are Ludy's son~"

"He gave you to me not to hold you back!"

"I see!"

"Only this time, the next time is not an example!"

"Ok!"

. . .

Young Asti Sidric, gone.

Far Pocchivino sat across from Auston and asked with a frown.

"What do we do now?"

"Hehe~"

"What else can I do?"

"He is an auxiliary police officer, not a murderer~"

"It's not illegal to refuse to save someone even if you die!"

Far Pocchivino is speechless~

Auston put down the coffee cup in his hand, rubbed his cheeks with both hands, took a few deep breaths, and shook his head.

"Okay~"

"Take someone to see the scene."

"When you come back, I will report this matter to see what it says."

"above?"

"Hardman? Or Matthews?"

Auston glared at Farr fiercely and whispered.

"Mayor Hardman and Commissioner Matthews are handling the handover of work these days~"

"From now on, you big mouth, be careful what you say! Do you understand?"

Far helplessly spread his hands and said, "I'm used to it!"

"It's not illegal to call him by his first name~"

"...Get out!"

"Hahaha~"

. . .

Farr Pocchivino, gone.

Auston rubbed his forehead with his hands, but there was a smile on his lips.

Hot horse Joey!

That bad-tempered, bottomless bastard. .What a good death!

However, Asti said black gangs. .which one?

Auston considers himself very familiar with the many black gangs in Hamlin and the Bronx~

But no one could compete with the young black man Asty described. .

Will he take the initiative to do business with the fierce horse Joey and then kill him?

Auston thought for a while, picked up the pen on the table, and while whispering about the clues he had just received from Asti, wrote ~

"Young black gang boss with a civilized stick in his hand."

“It seems that I really like the orthodox suit + tie look~”

“When he speaks, he still has some Southern accent!”

"There are no rings or watches on my hands and wrists..."

Emm. .

Auston put down his pen, looked at these clues for a while, and finally gave up helplessly~

Investigate this guy, yes!

But if you want to catch him, convict him. .almost impossible!

Moreover, after this case occurred, Astina boy must have found his father Ludy immediately and told him the "good news" ~

That's why Lu Di's men used extremely fast speed this morning to take control of the business and store that originally belonged to Lie Ma Joey. .

"Whoo~"

Auston took a deep breath, looked away from the clues, and looked out the door.

There are many, many bastards like Joey in New York~

They are like weeds, a group disappears, and another group appears~

This cycle continued for many years.

Auston didn't think he could shoot all these people to death or put them all in jail. .

Doing that will only make the security situation in New York worse and worse!

----

Manhattan.

Stanley fourth floor.

David was in the office getting ready to go home from get off work when he unexpectedly received his last visitor.

Pine!

David raised his head, saw him, stepped forward and gave him a big hug, smiling.

“How’s the Texas sunshine?”

"Haha ~ great!"

"You and your family, please go there for Christmas~"

"We've already arranged it for you."

"OK~"

"After Lilith and I got engaged in New York, I sent my family to Texas to spend the New Year."

"family?"

"What about you? Won't you go together?"

David pulled Pine to sit down and explained with a smile: "When I went to London, I promised Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, that I would take Lilith with me to visit her at Christmas."

"Deborah?"

Pine crossed his legs, shook his head and said with a smile: "Her husband, the romantic Duke Andrew of Devonshire, still doesn't like to go home?"

"Um...that's right!"

"Hahaha~"

. . .

After the two chatted and laughed for a while.

Pine asked with a smile as he glanced around the office.

"Where's your new assistant Elena?"

"I asked her to go home and help Susan prepare for the party at night~"

"Will you come too?"

"Of course!"

"However, I came to see you right after I got off the plane because I wanted to talk to you about something serious."

"Oh?"

David put away his joking attitude and nodded.

"what's up?"

Pine waved his hand crisply and said with a smile.

"You don't have to be so nervous~"

"A few days ago, old Mr. Morgan went to Tokyo, met some people, and talked about some things."

"At that time, the other party did not give a very clear answer."

"So tomorrow, they will take a plane to New York to discuss cooperation and investment between the two parties again."

David smacked his lips a few times, tilted his head and looked at Pine, and asked.

"Specifically...who are they?"

"Mainly people from the Mitsui Consortium ~ including Sony Corporation, Toyota Corporation, Sakura Bank, Panasonic Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Mitsui Fudosan Corporation, etc."

"..ok!"

After hearing this series of company names, David felt dazed for a moment, nodded and asked.

"Are these companies...all owned by the Mitsui family?"

"Of course not~"

"Hahaha~ What are you thinking about?"

"Among these companies, only Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned company of the Mitsui family."

"The rest are all joint-stock companies~including Sakura Bank!"

"Oh~"

"It's like Sony being listed on the New York Stock Exchange... like this!?"

"Yes~"

Pine looked at David with interest and asked, "Are you interested in Sony?"

"No!"

"I am very interested in these companies~"

"Hahaha~"

"Then you can follow old Morgan and Julie tomorrow night and meet them together~"

David rubbed his chin with his hand, blinked his eyes, and nodded.

"it is good!"

"I will definitely go tomorrow!"

"Ok!"

. . .

Pine, let’s go~

David lay down on the sofa, staring directly at the ceiling, and his thoughts wandered away again.

Semiconductors, real estate and cars!

The main businesses of the companies mentioned by Pine just now are these three, and they are industries with huge money potential that David is very concerned about.

Especially cars and semiconductors!

The coming oil crisis will allow small-displacement cars from island countries to quickly occupy the global mid- to low-end car sales market~

Toyota will be one of the companies that will gain the most from the oil crisis.

Sony, Panasonic, and Toshiba are all semiconductor manufacturers that will dominate the global market in the next 20 years.

Especially Sony, David also conducted some historical research on it~!

For example: transistor radios in the 50s; small televisions and color televisions in the 60s; new video recorders and cameras in the 70s, etc.

These are the semiconductor products launched by Sony during the "Sony Myth" period.

Moreover, David still remembers that the world’s first walkman was also a classic product launched by Sony to cater to the consumer needs of young people~

Thinking of this, David jumped up and thought about it carefully several times. He got up and walked to the door of the office, opened the door and said to his secretary Maggie.

"You will get off work early and help me do something..."

. . .

After explaining his "work" to Maggie, David returned to the sofa and lay down, rubbing his forehead and sighing~

Morgan Sr. and Julie. .

What are these two people going to do?

Talk about cooperation?

Old Morgan's trip to the island nation of Tokyo was not going well?

From Pine’s words, it sounds like this is really the case~

David remembered that some time ago, Bloomer's father, Walton Sr., also visited the island nation of Tokyo to discuss matters.

Now it seems that Wharton Sr. probably failed to negotiate cooperation-related matters when he went to Tokyo.

Among the people coming to New York tomorrow, Pine just mentioned some companies of the Mitsui Consortium, but did not mention the companies under the names of Sumitomo, Mitsubishi and other consortiums~

this. .There must be something inside!

Emm. .

When things are strange, there must be something weird!

A smile appeared on David's lips, and he mentally gave a thumbs up to his "genius analysis"~

However, then all the problems he had to face came!

Cooperation! ?

Who to talk to?

What to talk about?

How to talk? !

Will it succeed?

these questions. .David, who was very "proud" just now, suddenly fell into deep thought~

But~

No matter what we talk about, can we succeed~

Tomorrow's meeting is a very rare opportunity for David!

Old Morgan specially asked Pine to come here to inform him in advance, and he should also be expecting his performance. .

David slowly got up, sat upright, walked to the window with a frown, looked at the darkening sky outside, and quickly thought about tomorrow's "meeting ceremony" ~