The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

In Savage's plan, the process of radiating the entire Eastern District from living hell and even conquering Gotham can be said to have ups and downs.

After almost ruling the living hell, he began to expand his territory and wanted to spread his influence to the entire living hell area, but at this step, he encountered unprecedented difficulties.

These big gangsters around seemed to have eyes in the back of their heads, and they would be able to spot any of Savage's movements immediately.

And they are also very despicable, cheating and sneaking all day long, they intercepted all the trucks that Savage was transporting, and abducted all the informants they sent out, even the merchants who sold weapons would be robbed.

Things have developed to this point, Savage has invested millions of dollars, and he now has a very solid base, it is impossible for him to give up.

If there are no trucks to deliver goods, then hire them at a high price, then hire people at a high price, buy weapons at a high price, and spend a high price to build a transportation logistics security system.

If the dispatched intelligence personnel can't come back, they will recruit them in the living hell at a high price, or spend money to bribe the newsboys outside.

If the merchants who sell weapons cannot come in, they will find an intermediary at a high price. As long as the problem can be solved with money, it is not a problem for Savage.

After spending a lot of money, Savage found that there was really progress. He expanded the scope of activities again, and almost included the entire area around the living hell.

In this way, as long as he spends money, there will be progress, but once there is a lack of capital investment. Then he stopped, and after repeated several times, Savage found that he had become a little numb to the figures of the money spent.

To put it simply, he has been domesticated.

In the beginning, he took a step back in the face of Batman's threat of force, and felt that he should avoid the edge for the time being. Everything was for the greater good, so he planned to change to another hotel.

But facing the hotel, he took another step back, and came to the East District to rent a house. In the process of renting a house, facing the gangsters guarding the living hell, he took another step back, and then retreated again and again.

During this process, it’s not that he didn’t realize what he lost. For example, when the first newsboy came to him and asked him to order newspapers and milk at a high price, he knew that he must be slaughtered.

However, he calculated the gains and losses related to his career in his mind into reality. Although he didn't actually get anything, his brain was telling him that his plan had advanced one step forward.

This kind of progress is virtual and an illusion. He has actually paid money before he has made actual progress. This is actually the first step of domestication.

Afterwards, this domestication process was carried out repeatedly, each time when Savage had not made actual progress, the actual money had already been spent, and after that, some actual progress would be made, but these progress and What he expected in his mind was different, often much less than what he expected in his mind.

Imagine first, then spend money on the imagination in your mind, and then accept the reality that it is not as good as imagined. After repeating this process many times, a thinking process will be perfectly domesticated.

That is to say, when I spend money on an imagination that cannot be realized in reality, I am also spending money on myself, so as long as I spend money on myself, I will make a steady profit.

And once the gap between imagination and reality is too wide, the reality that finally lands cannot meet the expectations of imagination, which will make people feel anxious.

For example, after Savage led the gang in the entire living hell, he found that the situation here was not satisfactory, and it could not provide him with as much help as he imagined for his great cause.

But after discovering this fact, he will not choose to give up, but will plunge headlong into this pit, no matter who persuades him, he will not be willing to leave.

On the one hand, it is because of sunk costs, and on the other hand, his thinking process has been domesticated and more single-threaded.

Going through the plan over and over in his head, spending money on the plan, getting less than expected results... He has been very comfortable with it all.

Originally, the money paid and the actual results obtained should be equal, but as long as imagination is mixed in it, even if they are not equal, people can find an excuse to convince themselves.

Savage paid a huge amount of money. If these funds were injected into a city on the east coast that is slightly worse than Gotham, he might have ruled the whole city now, but as long as he added his imagination of ruling the entire Gotham, then he would You will feel that the effort now is worth it.

Devotion, return, and imagination are like three young men and women who have a complicated triangle relationship. Everyone looks like a third party.

Whether the investment is rewarded, whether the investment follows the imagination, and whether the return satisfies the imagination represent three different value judgments. As long as someone guides one of them, values ​​can be distorted, gains and losses can be blurred, and the purpose of deceiving people can be achieved.

When the domestication is at the end, Savage can't feel the loss, he can only understand the difference between investment and return and the distance from imagination, so he almost instinctively wants to invest in it.

To put it bluntly, this is a hoax scam set up by the entire Gotham City for Savage.

At the end of the slaughter, victims will always instinctively invest a lot of money, and even their closest relatives cannot be persuaded to come back, because their behavior and thinking patterns have been domesticated very firmly.

If you invest, you will get a little return, if you don’t invest, you will get nothing, even the principal and feelings will be lost. Savage has no choice, he just wants to keep going until the comeback.

The liquidity in his hand had bottomed out, so he began to sell his collections. At the beginning, he sold some things that were not worth collecting, such as modern cultural relics and artworks.

It is very strange that logistics vehicles and arms dealers are not allowed in, but antique dealers can come in, and the new antique dealers are very talkative, asking prices are cut in half, and there is no room for bargaining, sell as much as you like , do not sell pull down.

Savage wanted to choose one with a high price, but he found that the later the person who came, the lower the price. On the contrary, the first few antique dealers who came here were quite sincere. Massive acquisitions.

In the end, Savage established a cooperation with several of the antique dealers, who helped them distribute these artworks and collections, and exchanged the collections in their hands for cash.

After selling a wave of collections and getting some working capital, Savage felt that he should first build a sustainable base and develop businesses within the living hell first.

The next step is to spend money to build shops, expand transportation routes and reduce warehouses and transshipment points, recruit people to open businesses, and implement various policies to gather people here. Savage even came up with rent subsidies and reductions, just to strengthen The vitality here.

Perhaps many people know that the biggest source of income in the gang industry is not collecting protection fees on the spot, but smuggling. The cost of smuggling is low, but the output is high. Apart from being more dangerous, there are almost no disadvantages.

Savage has no smuggling channels and only refers to local industries, which means that he has to spend a lot of money like a normal business to build a business circle.

The population density of Living Hell is very high. To fully develop the business here, money is spent like water.

Savage's family background is very rich, and after selling those not-so-respectable collections, he brought out some treasures to attract those antique dealers.

Savage originally wanted them to bid, but unexpectedly, these antique dealers collectively lowered the price as if they had made an appointment. You are lower than me, and I am lower than you. They don't care whether Savage sells it or not.

Savage finds this odd, because it's okay to say that the lesser collectibles don't sell well, and many of his items are masterpieces.

Among them are the authentic works of many famous painters. It is hard to find a painting in the world, and even some works will definitely cause a global sensation as long as they show up.

It's not that Savage has thought of other ways, such as going outside to find some regular art companies to go through the auction process. For several years, it is only suitable for those rich men who are not short of money in a short period of time.

Of course, he can also directly contact those wealthy private buyers, but the problem is that no one endorses him, and private buyers cannot be sure of the authenticity of these works.

It is impossible for Savage to tell them that I have lived for 50,000 years. I picked this up at the scene of Michelangelo's sculpture, right? Even if he said it, the other party would definitely treat him as a psychopath.

But it’s all about appraisal, and the process is the same as that of an art company. If you want to sell it urgently, you have to accept a lower price. The antique dealer repeatedly instilled this concept in Savage. In the end, he still had to sell himself at a low price. collections.

And the one who bought these collections was the leader of the twelve families.

I don't understand, professor, why should the leaders of the twelve families take over these collections? And at a lower price?

In the office, Alberto looked at Schiller standing in front of the whiteboard and asked. Bruce was sitting on his left, and Victor and Coppert were sitting on his right.

Schiller tapped the whiteboard with the pen in his hand and said, What do you think the twelve families bought these products for?

Hmm... Alberto thought for a moment and said, The Falcone family also bought some. We mainly want to keep them for our own collection. After all, we also know it. Compared with many families with a long history, we lack However, these real works of art, no matter what age they are, as long as human civilization is still there, they must be valuable.”

However... Alberto changed his voice, and said, As far as I know, many members of the Twelve Families are planning to sell at a high price. After all, the art investment market has been fine for the past two years. Maybe it will be even more popular in the future, now you can get these treasures at a low price, and sell them at a high price in the future, and you can make money while lying down.

Schiller nodded, and then said, No matter which one it is, I don't think they will choose to make a move in a short time, right?

Alberto nodded, and said: Of course, anyway, I plan to collect it myself. The elders of the twelve families will probably keep the more precious ones for their own collection, and even if they want to sell them, they should also find them. It will take at least a year and a half for the auction house to go through the process.

Schiller smiled and said, That's enough.

What do you mean? Bruce looked at him and asked, Why do you have to ask people from the Twelve Family to buy these collections?

Now you have no money, where does it come from? Schiller asked.

Bruce narrowed his eyes and asked, From what?

Actually, it's not that you don't have money, it's just that you don't have time. Schiller tapped the whiteboard again and said, Your strategy is to build everything before the gangsters react to prevent them from overreacting, so you need to A large amount of investment in a short period of time will lead to a shortage of liquidity.”

I have to do this. Bruce said: Once the time drags on for too long, after they realize it, they will definitely gather for armed resistance. At that time, the whole city will be dragged into war.

But what if they voluntarily drag you along and give you time to earn money?

Why would they voluntarily drag me along? Bruce thought for a while, and said, The leaders of the Twelve Families are not stupid, once they find out that these transformation plans are actually digging their roots, they will react immediately.

But at this time, your attitude is very important. Schiller looked at Bruce and said, It seems that you didn't pay attention to the behavioral class.

How they react depends on what they think you want to do, and what they think you want to do depends on how you behave.