The Fourth Financial Crisis

So far, Yang Lu's gang has a total of twenty-four people.

Although Yang Lu’s gang members are invincible in foreign battlefields, and as teammates cooperate more and more tacitly, the team’s combat effectiveness and combat experience are rapidly improving, but so far, everyone still cannot guess Yang Lu’s true purpose of forming a team .

No one would have thought that the ultimate goal of this team was actually to rescue Li Qingning.

Therefore, from the perspective of ordinary members of Yang Lu's team, there is no need for him to make this team so big.

In particular, senior members of the team such as Rong Sheng and Xi Ziang clearly felt that the team's operational efficiency began to gradually decline after the total number of people exceeded ten.

Although adding more new members can still increase the speed of the team's killing and stealing goods, if the excess income is equally distributed to everyone, the per capita marginal rate of return has already declined significantly. Continuing to recruit new people into the team will obviously have Begins to harm the interests of older team members.

At present, the optimal solution for this team is not to continue to expand its scale, but to optimize and lay off employees.

Although everyone gradually became aware of this problem, no one dared to reveal the truth. After all, layoffs in foreign battlefields are equivalent to singling out some team members for elimination. No one can guarantee that they will not be the unlucky ones who are optimized away.

Because of this, seeing that Yang Lu was still adding people to the team, the others only dared to persuade Yang Lu on the side, reminding him that the team had enough members, but no one dared to say the word "layoffs" openly. Come out, if you dare to mention layoffs, then there is a high probability that you will be the first to be laid off!

In addition, everyone has realized that the thing that Consultant Yang hates the most is others giving him opinions. There was already a reckless guy who was directly expelled from the team by Yang Lu because he gave too many opinions. And the guy who gets fired will naturally end up becoming the meritorious deeds of other members.

Logically speaking, everyone should sympathize with the unlucky guy who was sentenced to death by Yang Lu as we are all downgraded people in the world. But in fact, when most of the old team members saw someone making a mistake and being expelled, their first reaction was actually:

Finally, there is one less person grabbing food from his own bowl!

From that time on, the entire team slowly developed a culture of reporting on each other.

Since the more people in the team, the less benefits one gets, and Consultant Yang doesn’t allow everyone to give opinions, then let’s see who made mistakes and find a way to report them, right?

What's more, most of the old members of the team have been allocated a lot of property in previous hunting operations. They are richer than the newly caught fat sheep. There is no need for everyone to work hard to catch these guys and divide the fields among the local tyrants. , for the remaining team members, that is undoubtedly a benefit!

This is why, when a new member of the team tries to incite everyone to rebel, the old team member immediately reports the situation, making the other party the first unlucky person to be used as a warning to others for attempting to rebel. Then it happened that Xi Ziang came to Yang Lu crying and confessing, and said that his ancestor was Xi Jinhu, the editor-in-chief of "Xiu Zhen Financial Weekly".

It is precisely because of this wave of whistle-blowing that started at an unknown time that no one in the entire team dares to do things secretly anymore. Now everyone is as loyal as one to the other to Consultant Yang.

At least that’s what it seems on the surface!

The only problem is that there are too many people who know that Xi Ziang is plotting a rebellion. Just as Xi Ziang himself expected, Yang Lu received seven or eight reports one after another, all of which accused Xi Ziang of plotting evil and asked Yang Lu to He was kicked out of the team.

Xi Zi'ang was both a second-generation immortal and a rare illusionist. He was considered a very important united front target for Yang Lu's team. Yang Lu did not want to sacrifice him as cannon fodder to scare the monkeys.

In order to find an excuse for him, Yang Lu could only lie that Xi Ziang was an undercover agent arranged by himself, specifically to test whether everyone was loyal to the team.

This lie is full of loopholes and cannot withstand scrutiny.

Especially Rong Sheng, who witnessed the entire process of Xi Ziang's rebellion, was 100% sure that Xi Ziang had never known Yang Lu before, let alone an undercover agent.

However, Yang Lu's status in the team is no less than that of the emperor in "The Emperor's New Clothes". No matter how nonsense he talks, no one dares to stand up and correct him.

If anyone dares to stand up and correct Advisor Yang, without Yang Lu himself having to say anything, someone else will definitely come forward and propose that this traitor who undermines unity be expelled from the team.

After seeing Yang Lu take the initiative to excuse himself, Xi Ziang felt as if he had been granted amnesty. He immediately said that in the future, whoever dares to question the great leader, Consultant Yang, and whoever dares to say that our Consultant Yang is talking nonsense, Xi Ziang will be the first to refuse!

Even the rebel activists in Yang Lu's team have become such a loser, not to mention early vested interests such as Rong Sheng and Yang Chenglong, who chose to lie down early.

Gradually, the internal ideological trend of this criminal gang on the extraterritorial battlefield inevitably changed.

From the beginning, everyone was generally dissatisfied. Later, everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out. And then, everyone no longer had any evil thoughts except "Ah, yes, yes, yes."

As the reporting trend within the team intensified, even "You are not loyal enough to Consultant Yang" and "Incomplete loyalty equals complete disloyalty" have become crimes that can be reported.

Faced with this situation, Yang Lu is like a master of balancing skills. Instead of stopping this unhealthy trend of reporting each other, he secretly adds fuel to the flames by giving rewards to those who are loyal to him and rewards to those who are disloyal. The method of punishment manipulates the psychology of team members in real time.

For example, most of the time, Yang Lu's attitude towards those who are disloyal is very harsh, ranging from letting Ye Chen receive corporal punishment to being directly sentenced to death. However, when facing a more important member like Xi Ziang, He would show his kindness from time to time and extend small favors to his team members.

These team members who were "pardoned" by Yang Lu did not realize that the reason why they "committed crimes" was because the high-pressure policy implemented by Yang Lu was too harsh and he subjected them to high-intensity PUA all the time. What Yang Lu did was actually just take away what they already had and then give it to them as a reward.

In the eyes of these team members who were "pardoned" by Yang Lu, if not for Consultant Yang's "extralegal mercy", they would have been killed by other angry whistleblowers.

How can we not feel grateful after all this time?

With this fan filter, even the various high-pressure policies formulated by Yang Lu seem to be reasonable.

Things like "Consultant Yang made these rules for the good of the team", "If there weren't such strict rules, this team would have disbanded long ago", "Even if we can't understand some of Consultant Yang's orders, it must be that he is playing a big game." ", and "The external battlefield is not covered, if you think our team is not good, you can always find a chance to escape", which gradually became popular in the team.