PFC Chapter 3312 Bloody New City (61)
Chapter 3312 Bloody New City (61)
Chapter 3312 Bloody New City (Sixty-one)
The "half" Gordon mentioned was 5000 million US dollars. And Gavin, whom he called "old hyena", was not named Pasa, he was just an agent. This money was enough for him to live a carefree life for the rest of his life.
The upper class is like a stock. When the market is confident, the stock will continue to rise. Everyone buys it like crazy. Even if they can get a little bit of it, they will be much more noble than others.
However, once market confidence begins to decline, people find that the stock is not going well and have a premonition that it will fall, and they will buy and sell as frantically as they can. Even before the stock really starts to fall, people with a keen sense of smell have already started to think of ways to pack up and run away.
The scandal of the death bet was a sign of a sharp drop in market confidence. Although Gordon's subsequent arrest plan failed, this group of people was forced to jump up and down, no longer strategizing as they did in the past, but showing a kind of embarrassment of being stretched to the limit.
Except for some dogs that have been truly tamed and obedient, most of the running dogs of the upper class are hyenas and vultures. They have the most sensitive noses and can smell blood from a long distance.
Even if it was their masters who were bleeding, they could not suppress their natural bloodthirsty desire. They flapped their wings, bared their fangs, and waited for these noble prey to become weaker, then they swarmed over and devoured them all.
The upper class was forced into a desperate situation, but because of Schiller's previous preparations, they were unable to seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy at the beginning of the chaos. They dragged themselves into the quagmire and could not move.
Professional managers like Gavin have begun to waver. Loyalty is not a meal. There are few opportunities to make enough money to retire smoothly. Whoever can seize the opportunity can retire unscathed and enjoy wealth and glory for the rest of his life.
Gavin agreed.
He would keep the warehouse matter confidential and cooperate with Gordon as much as possible to conceal the matter so that his master would not be able to deal with it, and then look for a suitable opportunity to escape.
Gordon successfully obtained the weapons and, with the help of Schiller's previous method, successfully arranged fortifications in the center of the downtown area. His community became the safest place in the entire downtown area.
The changes brought about by this were obvious. Some good people from surrounding communities also wanted to join, and they brought many young laborers, which also expanded the scope of Gordon's actual control to the communities where they had lived for a long time, allowing Gordon to obtain more resources and feed more people.
This is undoubtedly bad news for the upper class. Once the downtown area is completely out of control, it will be a fatal trouble for them.
Even though they are closing supermarkets and factories now, as if they don’t care about turnover at all, it’s because the unorganized poor have no resource channels of their own.
When they run out of food at home, they go to the supermarket to buy it. When they run out of money, they go to work in the factory. That’s all they can do. So once the output and input of resources are shut down, it’s enough to make them miserable.
However, once they unite and become an organization, they can establish their own resource distribution channels and no longer need middlemen to make a profit from the price difference.
For example, after controlling the transportation lines, they can send their own convoys to the surrounding farms to buy food, instead of waiting for the supermarkets to buy all the food before they go to the supermarkets to buy it. After controlling the factories, they can produce and sell their own food, and then pay themselves wages.
Although we have not reached this point yet, if we continue in this way, self-sufficiency is only a matter of time.
When the rich are unable to use resources to restrict the lower class, shutting down their own businesses would be a trap for themselves.
As I said, there can be no capitalists in this world, but there cannot be no workers.
Gordon has built a safe enough shelter and can provide more jobs. Many people will choose not to work in factories anymore, but to work directly in the community. This is close to home and safer.
Then the factory without workers will be forced to reduce efficiency. And because the incident happened suddenly, the factory's orders could not be delivered in time, and the factory owner would have to pay liquidated damages.
To prevent this from happening, they need more labor. To get people to come to work, they have to beat Gordon in terms of wages, that is, to hire workers at high salaries.
But the problem now is that Gordon holds the investment funds of GTO. This money is nothing to the entire upper class, but the problem is that compared to the lower class who have nothing, the upper class is the one that can never unite.
Increasing salaries means increasing labor costs. Recruiting a large number of workers in a short period of time requires sufficient cash flow. However, the closure of industries with fast cash flow such as the retail industry has left them with insufficient cash flow. In short, they have no money.
My competitor's factory has to pay penalty for breach of contract because it can't recruit workers and orders are delayed. Why should I spend money to help him?
Therefore, each factory owner who was in urgent need of labor could only be regarded as an individual. Although all the factory owners combined could certainly compete with Gordon, due to their disunity, individual factory owners had no way to suppress Gordon in cash.
As a result, no one of them could offer better conditions than Gordon to win over workers. The factory was short-staffed and could not deliver on time, which meant that it could not recover funds, creating a vicious cycle.
It was fine that they couldn't compete with Gordon within the legal scope, but after Gordon obtained a large amount of arms and weapons, they could no longer gain an advantage within the illegal scope.
Market confidence is like sailing against the current. If you don't move forward, you will fall back. If you can't keep rising, it means you will fall. The repeated setbacks in front of Gordon consumed the last bit of market confidence. The wavering of a large number of middle-level managers became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
As the saying goes, you can guard against thieves at home even if you guard against them day and night. The poor are like vegetables in the field to the upper class. Even if they all wither, the most they can do is eat less.
But these middle-level staff who have been working for them for a long time are at least cattle, horses or tractors. Although they seem to be docile at ordinary times, once they go crazy, they can really kill people.
They don't need to defect immediately. They just need to waver a little and relax their grip on some key points, which will be enough to give these pampered rich people a hard time.
Although Gordon's initial capture plan failed, he did not intend to give up. He was still able to control the GTO, and the team members were also collecting evidence and preparing for the capture.
Nightwing is no idler, and Batgirl is even more omnipresent. After the middle managers began to slack off, they really took advantage of the opportunity and caught a few big fish.
It was the success of these operations that made Gordon finally understand why Schiller was so fearless, as if he did not take the shadow that had been hanging over their heads seriously at all.
When it comes down to it, are there real elites among the rich?
Of course there are. Whether it is the first generation of pioneers or the later rulers, the fact that they can maintain such a huge industry proves that they are capable.
But are all rich people elites?
Of course this is impossible. Even if all the rich people with a lot of resources are far better than the average, what about their descendants? Their relatives? Their partners? Their subordinates?
If you think about it, you know that they can't all be excellent, and there is a high probability that some of them are even idiots. If you search through your entire circle of friends, you will definitely find a few heavyweights.
The foundation of the upper class is resources, and the foundation of controlling resources is connections. If you want to build connections, you must cast a wide net and catch more fish. If you can draw people closer, you won't push them away.
In this way, there are bound to be a few rat droppings in the pot.
It is difficult to make a pot of soup fragrant, but it is too easy to make it stink. Not to mention rat droppings, just a few ingredients with conflicting tastes can make it stink.
In this respect, the proletariat has the upper hand, that is, the barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.
As long as there is a fool in your circle of friends, if you can control him, he will harm you sooner or later. Schiller did the same.
Neither Miss Charabon nor Fields were smart people. Their brains were not that sharp, so it didn't take much effort to fool them.
Of course, smart people should choose to decisively sacrifice their own strategy to save their own when the fools around them are being taken advantage of, and not be dragged down by them.
But in fact, it is not that simple. Building connections also requires market confidence. I make friends with you so that we can help each other in times of crisis. If your first reaction is to give up, then why should I make friends with you?
Many times, the seemingly righteous actions of the rich are actually just a way of paying a lot of money to build confidence in their partners, so that they can expand their network of contacts and control more resources.
In addition, the network of contacts that has been established will only grow larger, not smaller, because at this time the class has been solidified, and there is no appropriate elimination mechanism, which makes it impossible to screen out the idiots. The more they accumulate, the more flaws they will have.
This is why the more the class is solidified, the more fragile it becomes. If you find a key point and strike hard, you can bring down a lot of people. In essence, it is not that the elites are not smart enough, but that too many idiots dilute the probability of picking smart people.
So, dealing with the upper class may seem difficult, but as long as you find the right method, it actually doesn't take much effort at all. Many times, as long as you start, they will kill themselves.
Schiller showed Gordon how to do it and used Pasa Military Industry to let Gordon know the correct way to do it. Gordon was not stupid, and he immediately understood how to play this game.
After mastering the correct operation method, Gordon of course solved the problem first. He took the initiative to contact Gavin and told him not to rush to get out. Although 50 million is a lot, who would not want to get 500 million?
The boss of Pasa Military Industry was not involved in the scandal of the death bet, but that doesn't mean he has no other flaws. Gordon successfully persuaded Gavin and soon dug up the old account of the maritime arms smuggling case.
Soon, Pasa was accused of smuggling, human trafficking and terrorist attacks. The GTO immediately struck hard and surrounded Pasa's manor.
Coincidentally, the helicopter used by the boss of Pasa Military Industry to travel broke down. When he was leaving through the tunnel in the house, the front of the tunnel suddenly collapsed and he was caught by Nightwing who was chasing behind.
Now, although the first few crimes have not been proven, resisting arrest and assaulting police officers are real. If they are caught, they will be thrown into a safe cell without bail, and no one can stop them.
Now it's the turn of the elites hiding in the safe houses to sweat.