butterfly effect
At a banquet at the Plaza Hotel, Eugene met a lot of people and expanded her personal network.
At each banquet, not a few new people came to introduce themselves to Eugene and wanted to enter the inner circle of wealth that Eugene was building.
Unlike in the past, it was difficult to find a person who did not have a certain degree of influence among those attending this banquet.
As Eugene’s name value and the weight of the banquet increased, even for security reasons, anyone without an invitation could not enter. It was going beyond the social party.
For that reason, Eugene was a little saddened by the fact that the number of encounters with young people who had hardly any influence was reduced.
Even at this day’s banquet, among the prominent figures filling the spacious banquet hall, even young people in their twenties and thirties were the only ones who stood out in their respective fields.
Eugene, who had been acquainted with Zhang Siwei and Arthur Delvian for a while, moved to one side of the party and approached a pair of young men and women chatting affectionately.
“How are you? Are you enjoying the party, Alexei?”
“Sure. Attending that famous Eugene’s party will probably be the pride of a lifetime.”
Alexei Feydorf, who had just turned 30, smiled broadly, reached out and asked Eugene to shake hands.
“It’s even going to be gilded like that. I’m glad you enjoyed the party.”
“I am serious. Thanks to being here, I was also able to meet this wonderful woman. This is Sarah Green.”
“Nice to meet you. This is Sarah Green. If not, I was expecting to say hello to Eugene someday, but thanks to Alex, I can finally say hello.”
A woman named Sarah, who was introduced by Alexei, did not miss the opportunity to say hello.
“Nice to meet you. I know you work for the State Department.”
“Wow! Do you know me too?”
She said with a slightly startled expression.
“Of course. All invitations to guests attending this banquet go through me. There I saw the name of Miss Sarah.”
In fact, it is not. It was something he had never expected that Sarah would appear at today’s banquet.
Eugene is simply not a person who can afford enough to take care of personnel that are equivalent to working at the State Department.
Because of that, when Eugene saw Sarah Green’s face a while ago, it took a little time for her to think of her from her youthful appearance 20 years later.
And I was startled to see her conversing sweetly with Alexei.
The look of affection between the two men and women was so conspicuous that I thought that something was going to happen after this banquet was over.
Normally, I would not have intervened in affairs between a young and beautiful man and woman, but it was a little different when it came to Sarah Green, a woman who might lead the country in the future.
Especially if the opponent is a very suspicious man who manages the hidden slush funds of the Russian tsar.
Alexei Feydorf is the head of the New York branch of a company that manages the hidden assets of the Russian president.
And, like many of the Russian president’s close associates, he had a plethora of questionable careers.
“Alexei. I thought for a moment about the business I was talking about back then. Can we talk for a moment?”
Eugene didn’t like the fact that Sarah Green had attended the party and met a dangerous man named Alexei.
Maybe it’s because of you that something that should never have happened has happened.
It is not certain whether Sarah Green was dating Alexei in her past life, or whether they met this way because of Eugene’s banquet.
But if possible, I wanted to prevent things from progressing between the two of them.
“Five! If so, is it possible to invest?”
At Eugene’s words, Alexei turned away from Sarah Green and asked urgently.
It seems that Eugene’s proposal is more important than her interest in Sarah Green.
As Eugene moved, Alexei moved along without looking back at Sarah.
And at Alexei’s attitude, Sarah Green’s face is slightly distorted.
Seeing the expression on his face that seemed to have hurt his pride, Eugene’s light plan seemed to have succeeded without difficulty.
A woman approached Sarah Green, who was left alone with an uncomfortable face.
“Do you like the banquet? Nice to meet you. This is Monica.”
“It’s a wonderful banquet. It doesn’t suit me a bit, but… … .”
“I wish we could have enjoyed it together.”
“It wasn’t that bad until a while ago… … .”
“Our boss stole our opponent.”
Monica said with a smile.
“haha. That seems to be the case.”
“The boss asked if he could spare some time tomorrow as an apology.”
“For me?”
Sarah Greene asked with a look of surprise.
“yes. He asked if we would like to go to the Metropolitan together.”
“If it’s the Metropolitan, of course I like it, but… … Is this a date request? Then why not do it yourself?”
“I do not know? Because our boss is a bit of a weird person. Maybe it’s because I’m too shy, I don’t know.”
Monica said with a smile.
“Shira… … You didn’t look like that at all, did you?”
“Why don’t we meet in person and ask?”
“like. I am curious.”
Sarah Green smiled at the wounds she had received from Alexey Feodorov a while ago.
The next day, Eugene arrived at the meeting place, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He arrived first and looked at the clock for a moment, while Sarah Green strode over to greet him.
Eugene chatted with Sarah Green for a while before entering the museum together.
“It’s a really big museum.”
“That’s it. I’ve been to quite a few places so far, but I don’t think I’ve seen them all yet.”
New York, the busiest city in the world, has plenty of cultural facilities to match it.
Not to mention Central Park overlooked from Eugene’s office, there are also numerous musical theaters, various museums, and more than ten world-renowned art galleries.
Among them, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the northeast of Central Park is a place Eugene often stops by for a walk.
The Metropolitan Museum, which is considered one of the world’s three largest museums and called the best museum in New York, is also proud of its mesmerizing scale, such as tearing down an entire medieval cathedral or displaying an entire Egyptian temple.
“If you visit often, is there any work that you particularly like?”
Eugene asked, pretending not to know, even though she knew that Sarah Green had a lot of interest in a particular artist among the paintings displayed here.
“If you are interested, would you like to go with me?”
Sarah took a step forward. Clearly Sarah Green is the woman she knew from a past life. Of course, the first female president of the United States would not know anything about a man named Eugene.
Sarah Greene, who is now working hard to build a splendid career in the US State Department, was scouted at the White House at a young age, served as Secretary of State, and eventually became the first female president of the United States.
If the future that Eugene knew does not change as it is, there are only ten years left until then.
So, building a relationship with someone who will one day become president of the United States at this point is a choice that Eugene will not lose at all.
Of course, even now, Eugene is already involved in a lot of things in the world, and in the future, she will exert even greater influence.
So there’s no guarantee that Sarah Green will always become president of the United States, as Eugene is not sure what the world will be like 10 years from now.
But aside from the future of becoming the president of the world’s most powerful country, the fact that she is a very talented person does not change.
Maybe Eugene would rather make her her own than make her the president of the United States.
Because Eugene had a lot of work to do, and in order to carry out all of those tasks without any problems, he needed talented people to match it.
Making money for Eugene doesn’t matter.
But money alone cannot change the world.
The influence of the richest Americans, who hear the voice of the world’s richest people, is only at a level that can be applied to the industry to which they belong.
True power does not come from money.
A lot of the super-rich in the tech industry spend a lot of money lobbying in Washington DC, but they get nothing out of it, only to make their company suffer a little less.
The true power that moves the world comes from the relationship between people.
So, in order to achieve what he wanted, it was necessary to build relationships and relationships beyond accumulating wealth.
In that sense, Sarah Green was at the top of the list Eugene had to recruit.
“Did you say Rubens? What kind of picture is it?”
Eugene and Sarah Green finally arrived in front of the painting Sarah wanted to see.
“It’s a piece called Athena protecting Eirene from Ares.”
Sarah Green explained, pointing to a picture with a rather long name.
“Athena, the god of wisdom, is protecting Ayres, the symbol of peace, from Ares, the god of war, and Aekto, the goddess of vengeance.”
There were more than ten characters in the painting.
It would have been difficult for Eugene to understand what the painting was if Sarah Green hadn’t pointed out and explained.
“Europe in the 17th century was a time of war. Wars were constantly happening here and there because of religion and territory. The Netherlands, the hometown of Rubens, was also constantly plagued by decades of war.”
It seems that Sarah Green has a great passion for the picture, and she continued passionately without showing any signs of tiredness or annoyance, from the description of the work to the background of the artist.
“Rubens was born in Germany and raised in the Netherlands. Although he was German, his identity was clearly Dutch. He loved the Netherlands, but Rubens, who had a great reputation in the European royal family at the time, was serving the Habsburgs as a royal painter and diplomat of the Habsburgs who ruled the Netherlands.”
“Are you a diplomat?”
“As the greatest painter of his time, Rubens was also an outstanding diplomat. Every royal family welcomed the great painter Rubens, so he was well-suited to the role of traveling around, painting and arranging interests between the royal families.”
Eugene responded appropriately, listening to her.