The Red Devils are middlemen, but middlemen are not involved in specific matters, firstly to keep it confidential, and secondly to avoid wrangling.
When you do something, there will always be success and failure. If it succeeds, everyone will be happy, but if it fails, it will be hilarious. No one is willing to fail, especially a business involving tens of millions of dollars. Once it fails, things like passing the blame and shirking responsibility are absolutely inevitable.
Middlemen only make money from introductions. If they get involved, they can easily become the ones taking the blame. After all, one is the victim, the other is the agent, and you, a middleman, get involved in the middle. If something goes wrong, you are the biggest suspect.
Nonsense, these two companies are directly related. If something goes wrong, they will suffer the most losses. You are the only middleman, and you have nothing to do with whether it is good or bad. Naturally, you are the one who is most suspicious!
Therefore, the Red Devil will not be deeply involved in this commission of Taskmaster. He only knows who hired Taskmaster.
Naturally, Kai also knew who hired him and who the target of the mission was.
This time, Taskmaster was tasked with dealing with Robin Chap, the head of the New York Disaster Control Bureau!
An extremely shrewd accountant, he has his own accounting firm and is well-known in New York. His firm cooperates with many large companies. Of course, this does not make his career a breakthrough. After all, there are many similar firms in New York, but the real big business is all controlled by the Big Four accounting firms. They are the real giants, and they handle the accounting business of large multinational companies. , basically all are contracted by them. It is impossible for Xiang Chapu's firm to get a share of the pie from them, and they even need to be careful to prevent their own firm from being acquired by them.
Don’t think that this is unfounded worry. In the United States, as we get more modern, it becomes more difficult for small companies to develop. Once a small company has development prospects, big companies will immediately come to acquire it, unless it is an emerging industry, such as the Internet before.
But now that the Internet is no longer working, it is hard to see it in Silicon Valley now. The story of a small company having a good idea and then soaring into the sky. Those Silicon Valley legends are still stuck in Apple, Google or Facebook, and other small companies. , as long as there is a prospect, it will be directly acquired by a large company.
For example, if a small company develops a new technology, large companies will not catch up and come up with a better one. They will directly acquire all the people and technology.
The accounting business is definitely not an emerging business. The pattern has been fixed a long time ago. It’s very, very difficult to develop.
It is not an emerging industry, which means that the industry rules are controlled by those giants, and it is difficult for newcomers to get ahead. The more you develop, you will find that those giants... are really dirty!
They do everything they can to ensure their monopoly position.
Chap has seen the bottleneck of his career, either... he sells the company, and with the money, he can achieve financial freedom, and he can eat, drink and have fun in his life. Or join those giants and become someone else's little brother.
Chap was unwilling to give in and had struggled for so many years, but this was the result?
Fortunately, he soon got an opportunity.
His old classmate Anne Marie Hogg became the leader of the Disaster Control Bureau!
Here I would like to introduce Anne Marie Hogg, a strong woman who has worked in the government for a long time. She has been working in the U.S. Government Accounting Accountability Office, which is an important department under the Congress. Due to the Battle of New York, the battle between superheroes and alien invaders caused great losses to New York... and a problem was born.
Who will take care of the ruins after the war?
Even this problem can be extended. Since both heroes and villains have very powerful abilities, the battle between them is also very destructive. This can range from destroying a single building to destroying an entire neighborhood or city.
Who is responsible for these damages?
Leave it to the people and let them take responsibility?
Believe it or not, if the government dares to say this, the people will collectively take to the streets and oust it the next day.
So after discussions between Congress and the White House, the Disaster Control Agency was established.
(In the movie "Spider-Man: Homecoming", the Disaster Control Bureau appeared and expelled Adrian Toomes and his cleanup team who were cleaning up the New York battlefield, causing Adrian to become the villain Vulture. And Anne Marie .Hogg is the fat woman who drove Adrian away.)
Damage Control, also called the Disaster Control Company, is essentially a construction company that specializes in repairing property damage caused by heroes and villains fighting. Of course, a company needs to make a profit, and it is the U.S. governments at all levels that pay to repair the damage. Sometimes the parties who caused the damage also need to pay, but the heroes and villains are mostly anonymous, so it is difficult to find them.
As a country that likes to capitalize everything, the government likes to push everything to the market.
So this Disaster Control Bureau is actually jointly funded by Stark Group and Wayne Group. On the one hand, the two companies have sufficient technical reserves and strong financial support. On the other hand, the two consortiums have jointly established a foundation that will help superheroes pay part of the compensation... Of course, the US government cannot let good people suffer...
Well, it’s actually a black-box operation.
Forget about the Stark Group, others really have strong technological reserves, and they can transform those alien technologies - the US government values this very much.
Wayne Group... To be honest, it's a lot worse. Wayne Group is very big, but it's not really a technology company.
Although it has one of the world's leading cutting-edge laboratories such as Star Laboratory under its name, it cannot change its attributes.
This is pure black-box operation.
But no one will bring it up. After all, the owner of Wayne Group is the superhero Kai Wayne.
In short, with the participation of the two major capitals, the Disaster Control Bureau has completely taken over.
Later, Mrs. Hogg found her old friend Chap, who served as the actuary of the Disaster Control Bureau.
this point is very important.
Because the Disaster Control Bureau needs to deal with insurance companies and the government, there cannot be any mistakes in the accounts. Chapu also saw the prospects of the Disaster Control Bureau. As long as his office was bound to the Disaster Control Bureau, the benefits would be great.
Later, as the situation developed, the Disaster Control Bureau was promoted, not just in New York. After all, Miami and Hawaii were razed to the ground by monsters, and reconstruction also required the intervention of the Disaster Control Bureau. Mrs. Hogg also left New York, and the person in charge of New York became Chap.
Speaking of which, these two reconstruction projects alone have brought tens of billions of revenue to the Disaster Control Bureau, and the subsequent revenue will even continue to increase. (It’s revenue, not profit)
Anyway, in the United States, as long as you cooperate with the government... No, it is like this all over the world. No matter what business you do, as long as you cooperate with the government, it is really difficult not to make money.
Otherwise, the military-industrial complex would not spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year lobbying the government.
Because the money you spend will be earned back ten times or dozens of times!
But with the development of the Disaster Control Bureau, there is no doubt that another group of people will lose the opportunity to make profits, such as Adrian, who was directly led to bankruptcy because of the Disaster Control Bureau. Eventually he had to turn to crime.
And Adrian was not the only one who was harmed by this.
For example, this mission came to United Construction Group, a huge construction group in New York.
Does this name sound familiar?
Yes, it's the place where the beauty who had an affair with Matt - Karen Page - used to work. Kingpin used to be the actual controller of this company, and he used this company to launder money.
Therefore, Karen was framed for murder.
Although in the end, with the help of Matt and Fudge, Karen's suspicion of murder was cleared, but the company did not collapse because of this. After all, the person involved...that is, the chief financial officer of United Construction has surrendered.
Then he committed suicide during the trial of the case.
It was true suicide.
Not suicide.
But his family received tens of millions in compensation and can live without worries for the rest of their lives.
Although it was clear that he was taking the blame for someone else, the police couldn't get enough. First of all, they had no clues. Secondly, although the actual controller of this company is Jin Bing, not all the shares of this company are in the hands of Jin Bing. On the contrary, Jin Bing does not have many shares in his hands. Most of the shares of this company are all in the hands of those big shots. .
Even if Kingpin laundered money and gained profits, he would not keep it to himself, and those big shots would also share in the profits.
Real big shots don't make money in public.
For example, the most famous Enron incident. Enron was once one of the largest energy, goods and services companies in the world, ranking seventh on Fortune magazine's "American Fortune 500". However, on December 2, 2001, Enron The company suddenly filed for bankruptcy protection in the New York Bankruptcy Court, making the case the second largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Due to false accounting, 29 people including Enron's former founder, CEO, and chief financial officer were sued. In addition, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and other investment banks were eventually found guilty of financial fraud and were ordered to pay 2 billion and 2.2 billion to the victims in the Enron case.
But you wouldn’t think that there were only those 29 people who were making huge profits, right? As for those investment banks suspected of financial fraud, they only made 2 billion and 2.2 billion during the Enron incident, right?
Anyway, I don’t know how many people jumped off the building after losing money, but how many people were able to get their wealth back?
The real boss has already settled down.
Similarly, United Construction's chief financial officer was only suspected of money laundering. There was no problem with the company, and the police had no way of liquidating this guy's company.
Not only does the company still exist, but it's doing well, it's just that there's no Kingpin involved in it anymore.
This time the person who wants to kill Chap is the current boss of United Construction Company. He joined the company after United Construction experienced a scandal. Originally United Construction was strong and well-connected, but had it not been for the scandal, the boss would not have been able to win.
He made a mistake.
Unexpectedly, with the emergence of the Disaster Control Bureau, most of the fat in the New York reconstruction project was obtained by the Disaster Control Bureau.
United Architecture cannot get involved at all.
They have tried to win some projects through Chapu, but Chapu is concentrating on his career at the moment and does not want to engage in any evil deeds. If they can use this to get in touch with the Wayne Consortium or the Stark Consortium, then his firm will It took off, and the Disaster Control Bureau was about to take off. Why would he do such a thing? Also, do they think that the supervision of the Stark and Wayne-faced consortium is just a waste of money?
So I rejected the request there.
This is a hornet's nest. You must know that United Construction is not a one-person company, but an interest group!
They could have taken a big chunk out of New York's reconstruction project! But with the entry of the Disaster Control Bureau, their fat is flying!
Isn’t this just stealing money from them?
Oh, the bosses behind the Disaster Control Bureau are Kai and Tony...then that's okay.
An acquaintance!
Who among you is following whom?
Let's not disturb the two superheroes. We can't eat the fat meat. Let the people below leak their fingers and drink some soup.
As a result, here in Chapu... it doesn't work!
That goes without saying. We can’t deal with Kai and Tony, so we can’t deal with you?
Don't think that big shots are doing things in a very orderly manner and that everyone is fighting in a civilized manner... bullshit! Real business war is very cruel!
Poisoning, fighting, and grabbing official seals.
Those are all lowly!
The real business war is not in business, but in the website!
Kill her!
Who says big men can't be simple and crude?
So this happened.
…
As usual, Chap worked overtime until late at night. After finishing his work, Chap drove home from the underground parking lot with his bodyguard.
His home is not in Manhattan.
Chap is black and grew up in Brooklyn. Later he went to Yale, which was very rare. At his age, when he was young, racial discrimination was still very serious. He was able to get into Yale at that time, so he was definitely the best among people. It was also at Yale that he met his old classmate Anne Marie Hogg.
Chap is a nostalgic person, so his home has always been in Brooklyn...just not in the original neighborhood. No matter how nostalgic he is, he can't live in a slum, right? Brooklyn also has wealthy areas.
So he needs to cross the Brooklyn Bridge every day to get to and from get off work.
"Hi! Angel. How are you today?" After leaving the office, Chap greeted his bodyguard.
"Not bad, sir. Just a little boring."
Angel sounds like a woman's name at first glance, but this woman does not look feminine at all. She is not tall, but very strong, with obvious muscles. In addition, she wears a jacket, long-sleeved shirt, soft leather gloves, a camisole, Jeans and boots make him look more like a man!
Looking at her breasts, you can't tell whether they are fat or muscle...
Yes, this is another acquaintance.
Remember Wade Wilson...well, that funny guy in Deadpool.
When Wade's girlfriend was kidnapped to the old shipyard, there were two mutants, one of whom was Wade's mortal enemy Ajax, and the other was Ajax's assistant Sand Angel Angel Dust.
Then Ajax died and Angel was arrested.
But because Angel was not the mastermind, and because of the government's policy on mutants, she was released after spending a few years in prison. After all, she was not the mastermind... plus she spent her property to hire a good lawyer, so she naturally came out early.
But also because of the lawsuit, she ran out of money.
So you need to come out and make money.
But she has a criminal record and is a mutant, which means that she has to be careful when she does bad things... superheroes may come to her door at any time.
So she honestly worked as a bodyguard for others.
Chapu happens to be afraid of death and rich.
Chap is not a fool. He knows that he has blocked many people's financial paths, so of course he must pay attention to his own safety.
He still has a bright future!
I don't want to die so early.
"I'm sorry, Angel, you have to be considerate of an elderly person like me. I'm past the age where I like to run around..."
(End of chapter)
