Chapter 323 America's First Party

Americans are party animals, from top to bottom.

The upper class use various parties as important occasions to expand their network, gather and socialize, and even discover business opportunities and deals.

The lower class people use parties to vent their anguish of being born in America, in order to ease the capital oppression that has been tightening around them since the fall of the Red Bear.

What? You said that the Americans suffered in their last life and came to enjoy happiness in this life. How could they be depressed and oppressed? Tsk tsk, it's actually very simple. As long as you think that working two jobs a day, each job is eight hours, a total of sixteen hours a day.

But I still can't save $500 a month. If something goes wrong, I might go bankrupt and not be able to pay the property tax. My house would be auctioned off and I would become a homeless person on the streets.

Then in many places in this country, even rainwater is taxed, women have to pay to hold their babies in the delivery room after giving birth, it costs $800 to see the body of a deceased relative before cremation, and it costs $5,750 to go to the hospital for emergency room therapy for 15 minutes. Even if the clothes you wear when joining the army are worn out, you have to buy new ones yourself...

If that’s not enough, there’s something even worse - if your house is burned down by a wildfire, you still have to pay property taxes.

What you pay is not just the land, because your house was burned down and only the land is left.

Instead, even if your "house" has been burned down by a wildfire and only a pile of ashes remains, you still have to pay property taxes, and you can only get a 30% discount at most...

So many years later, when the era of big reconciliation came.

"I wish you a happy life in America in your next life" is no longer just a blessing.

It has become a curse.

Although now, at the end of 1998, many situations are not as bad as they will be later.

But the reality is that the rope around the necks of all middle and lower class Americans has become tighter and tighter because of the disappearance of Red Bear.

That's indeed true.

So of course Americans love to party and are obsessed with all kinds of entertainment to death.

Because in an increasingly depressing life, if we can't find some fun for ourselves and help our body produce more dopamine for happiness.

I guess you can't even survive a month of real American life.

However, although the United States is gradually becoming a hell for the middle class and the lower class.

But everything is relative.

As some Americans' lives get worse, some Americans' lives get better! Like Ariana Rockefeller.

She was born into the Rockefeller family and could be said to have been born with a silver spoon in her mouth, a true noble lady of the empire.

But she felt that her life was getting better and better.

For example, now.

October 20, 1998 was her sixteenth birthday.

She saw with her own eyes her grandfather and uncle, bringing a large group of Rockefeller members with them.

Including her female elders and female peers, they were getting off the bus one after another at the fountain square in the courtyard of Blackburn Manor.

Mary France Rockefeller, the wife of her grandfather's brother, the respected Lawrence Rockefeller, had become the most authoritative and highest-ranking woman in the Rockefeller family after her grandmother's death when the men were chatting and laughing, hugging each other affectionately.

The grandmother also came to Ariana, changed her previous indifference, and hugged Ariana very affectionately, and even whispered to her, "You look beautiful today, dear. You are definitely the most beautiful daughter in the family. I'm so happy to see you here!"

Lawrence's wife, Mary France, whose father was the founder of the Northern Pacific Railroad, obviously helped Lawrence a lot, as he met many business people through his father-in-law.

Rockefeller also gained the support of French-American tycoons in the United States.

In the case of Ariana’s own grandmother who has passed away.

Among the women in the Rockefeller family, this woman has the final say.

Marie France has always been a strict person, and she is never smiling even to her own daughter.

Not to mention the younger granddaughters, or more distant cousins ​​like Ariana.

But today, she showed Ariana that she could smile so brightly and be so peaceful and approachable, which made Ariana think that she was a really good person.

Instead of the name "old witch" that they secretly called her within Rockefeller.

Ariana took a deep breath and warned herself again——

Marie France treated herself like this not because she was a Rockefeller, not because she was her great-niece.

The only reason is that he is now in front of Blackburn's manor.

Her identity is Blackburn's fiancée and the future mistress of Blackburn Manor!

That's why this person treated me with such a smile as if we were equals.

Instead of completely ignoring and disregarding it as before.

"Dear Mary, I am so glad you can come. I really want to stay in front of you and listen to your teachings. But there is no way. I have grown up. I already have a fiancé. Come, please walk this way. Please let me show you around this manor, which is one of the oldest in the United States with a history of nearly 400 years."

Ariana also smiled and spoke to Marie France very appropriately.

She also called out to the other Rockefeller women behind Mary France, "Please come this way, dears. Blackburn Manor was built in July 1625, the fifth year after the Mayflower arrived in Plymouth. At that time, Reverend Blackburn bought the land from the chief of the Karas Indian tribe with one hundred cowhides..."

Although whether in the past or now, the Blackburn family is still not as good as the Rockefellers.

But in terms of history, to be honest, there are not many families in the United States that are older than the Blackburn family.

The Winster family in Plymouth has a slightly longer history than Blackburn and were the first colonial officials in Britain's first colony in America.

But the Winchester family had already declined long ago.

Apart from maintaining the reputation of the descendants of the first signer of the Mayflower Compact, its influence cannot extend beyond Plymouth.

The Blackburn family was the last signatory of the Mayflower Compact (because they were pastors, they signed last, representing God's recognition of the compact).

But what about now? Even without Milo's appearance, the Blackburn family is much stronger than the Winsters.

Not to mention that in the years since Milo's appearance, the Blackburn family's status in the United States has risen dramatically.

So much so that when Ariana celebrated her birthday, the Rockefeller family made a big fuss, and a lot of people came to celebrate! So Ariana had already confirmed it.

She wanted to make these people envious and jealous! So what could she have that could make her sisters and elders envious and jealous?

Except she was about to become the grandmother of a powerful family.

What she could show off, of course, was the strengths of this powerful family for Rockefeller.

So, in which aspect is Blackburn better than Rockefeller? In terms of hard power, of course, he is much inferior, and in terms of soft power, he cannot compare with Rockefeller for the time being.

But when it comes to history... Morgan and Rockefeller, who came to the United States during the Gilded Age, are not as old as Blackburn!

Ariana was using her own strengths to attack Rockefeller's weaknesses.

They were helpless because it was true. At least the history of this manor was almost 400 years old.

At that time, the United States had not yet been founded, and this place was still a British colony.

If you go out at night, you may be attacked by Indians if you are unlucky.

What do you Rockefellers have besides some filthy money? Nothing, bitches!

As for the other guests, they also brought female companions, so Ariana didn't need to worry.

Because Robin and Haley are back too.

After all, this was an event in the name of Ariana's birthday, but in fact it was an event that Milo wanted to invite all the upper-class families in the United States to gather together.

The current mistress of the house and the mistress who was supposed to take over will naturally come back.

Even... Peggy from Adams, Ivana from Gimp from New York, the daughters of Hearst and Hilton, also came to act as half-hostesses, greeting and receiving the numerous female guests at the door of the manor.

They either have high status or have given birth to children for Blackburn.

At the same time, everyone knew about Milo Blackburn's strange habits.

In addition, Black himself has a small number of people, so he really needs them to come and help hold the scene.

So this strange phenomenon appeared -

There are only three adult male members in the Blackburn family now.

But there are almost a dozen female adult members.

Many of the noble ladies who came to attend the event secretly shuddered, but some were envious.

"I feel like if someone were to plant a Muhai bomb on our heads right now, America would be doomed!"

The person who said this was Neil Bush, Milo's third uncle, who was there with his eldest brother and father Herbert.

While my father was saying hello to old friends.

Neil whispered this to his eldest brother, George Bush.

George said to his brother helplessly but proudly: "No one can plant Muhai eggs on American soil! No one can attack the American mainland!"

In his words, George revealed his pride in the strength of the United States and its military.

Well, that's certainly true of Americans of this era.

It would be fine if the United States didn't attack others.

Is there anyone who dares to touch the tiger whiskers of the United States? Didn’t you see that the powerful red giant bear fell down, and its sons, the first bear, the second bear, and the third bear, all knelt down and licked the United States like dogs, but the United States still ignored them and pitted them to death? Didn’t you see that the second-ranked red country now also admires the United States.

Are all citizens proud to immigrate to the United States? This is the best time for the American upper class.

"I'm just making an analogy." Neil shrugged in a very American way and spread his hands. "It's just an analogy. I know it's impossible."

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"But..." Neil looked at the real big shots who would never appear on the TV news one after another appearing in Blackburn Manor. He said with envy:

"The last time my father held a birthday party in Houston, there weren't so many people. It felt like there weren't even a third of the people!"

And his father Herbert is obviously one of the top people in the United States! "Because of Milo. He is so amazing." George was very calm and said with a smile: "We can also benefit from him in the future. I didn't expect Robin's children to be so outstanding. I hope Prescott and his children can be one tenth as good as Milo in the future."

Hearing his brother praising his nephew, Neil curled his lips but said nothing.

Then they saw Joseph entertaining guests, and George said, "Let's go over and help. After all, we are all Blackburn's relatives."

"Okay." Neil agreed.

No matter how envious or jealous he is, he is indeed a useless playboy.

But as a Celestial Dragon, Neil still has the basic social skills.

Also know what to do now.

So the two brothers, acting as Milo's uncles, began to help Blackburn and his friends entertain some of the more peripheral guests.

"Great! I never thought we could come to a place like this!"

Elon Musk looked at the American upper society that he once dreamed of with fascinated eyes.

Beside him are Eric Schmidt, CEO of Yahoo Group, Jerry Yang, one of the founders and chief technology officer of Yahoo, and several other Silicon Valley giants.

Obviously, this small group of people are the Silicon Valley superstars under Milo.

This time Milo also sent them an invitation.

It can be regarded as a benefit for these workers, allowing them to also touch upon the truth of the American Heavenly Palace and meet the real masters of this empire at a cocktail party.

So basically there was no one to entertain them.

After showing their invitation at the door and being invited in, they were arranged to sit in this corner.

We didn’t even dare to walk around and could only sit at the table and chat in low voices.

Then use your eyes to chase those legendary big names.

For example, David from Mellon, Pierre from DuPont, George from Ford, Edward from Wilson...

These are the real oligarchs of the empire who will not even be broadcast on television, and the public needs their own nod before they can hear or see any news about them.

But at this moment, they appeared vividly near them, interacting with each other like ordinary people, and communicating with smiles on their faces.

Musk, who was born into a South African slave-owner family but has real abilities, couldn't help but express the above sentiments.

Several of his companions nodded in agreement, and Eric Schmidt whispered in agreement, "Yeah, who would have thought. All I can say is, long live Milo Blackburn!"

His sigh made the police officers around him couldn't help but follow suit and say "Long live Milo Blackburn".

His Milo seems to be the person who requires people to raise their right hands in salute when their name is mentioned.

Compared to people like Musk and Eric Schmidt who have white faces and white blood.

Jerry Yang, a Chinese, actually feels even more emotional inside.

Once upon a time, Jerry Young was just like his fellow men.

I thought this country on the other side of the ocean was really a city on a hill, a beacon to the world! I thought this was really a free world, infinitely beautiful, and everyone was equal.

But all of Jerry Yang's cognition was ruthlessly shattered as his status in the United States improved! When he thought of his former assistant coach, who had been a close friend and partner in creating Yahoo, he was shocked.

Jerry Young would occasionally wake up suddenly from his dreams in the middle of the night.

Not to mention the scene of waking up that morning and seeing the bloody head of my beloved dog lying on my bed.

America, is not some goddamn beacon of freedom.

This is a more naked social world than anywhere else in the world, even than those chieftains in Africa! As a Chinese, he has a very low ceiling here.

Jerry Young now knows that even if he is better than countless white and black people.

But even if he spent his whole life, he would never be able to reach the status that these white people, or even some black people, could achieve in the United States! Jerry Yang, who understood this more and more clearly, also realized it more clearly.

I am so happy that I can be in such a place and see such a scene.

That's really smoke coming out of our ancestral graves.

It's very simple. At a glance, it's a huge cocktail party with nearly a thousand people.

I guess there are not even 20 yellow people in total...

Hmm, it seems similar to black people?

That's no problem.

Jerry Young suddenly felt that it was fair, and at the same time he was extremely grateful to Milo Blackburn, his boss and nightmare creator, for letting him come.

So, let us finally turn our attention to the two old men, Lawrence Rockefeller and John Chris Morgan, who are whispering at this moment.

"What? You agreed to let him join?"

Lawrence Rockefeller was surprised.

John Chris Morgan smiled.

His eyes swept through the crowd that represented almost 70% to 80% of the upper-class families in the United States.

He said softly: "Lawrence, old man, stop pretending. Don't think I don't know. In order to make Standard Oil appear, you are ready to compromise with him!"

"Uh..." Lawrence looked at John Cleese and saw the sneer on his face. He couldn't help but retort, "Fuck, whoever doesn't want Standard Oil to reappear is not Rockefeller. Just like your JP Morgan! Chase Morgan's shares are valuable, but we don't want to give all of them to him. He will only have the smallest share among the three of us, so why don't we agree?"

"Shut up!"

John Cleese reiterated: "It's JPMorgan Chase, not Chase Morgan!"

"Haha..." Lawrence sneered, and glanced at David who was chatting and laughing with Herbert and Old Blackburn not far to the left. He continued to John Chris: "Don't talk about us. You have been very close to that guy recently. Don't think we don't know that you played golf together yesterday! David thinks that instead of letting you poach people, it is better for us to compromise a little. After all... the future heir of the Blackburn family will definitely be born in our Rockefeller belly!"

"So what?" John Chris Morgan said nonchalantly, retorting to Lawrence, "You guys came out of Vanderbilt's belly. So what about Vanderbilt now?"

He could even talk to David Rockefeller and John Chris Morgan.

But when I was with Laurance Rockefeller.

These two always quarrel.

For example, now Lawrence immediately got angry and said, "You guys came out of Rothschild's belly. You guys are the most dedicated in expelling Rothschild, damn it!"

Don't think that the Celestial Dragons don't swear.

Rather, it is limited by the globally unified quality of the human body.

In fact, many times, they are just like ordinary people, they curse and use foul language.

The object of their scolding is something that ordinary people can only dream of.

(End of this chapter)