Savage's plan to radiate the entire East Side from living hell to conquer Gotham can be said to have its ups and downs.
After almost dominating the living hell, he began to expand his territory and wanted to cover the entire pan-living hell area with his influence. However, in this step, he encountered unprecedented difficulties.
The big gangsters around him were like they had eyes in the back of their heads. If Savage made any move, they would be able to detect it immediately.
Moreover, they were very despicable. They cheated and carried out sneak attacks all day long. All the trucks carrying Savage's goods were intercepted by them, and all the informants sent out were abducted by them. Even the merchants who sold weapons were 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 just now.
If there are no trucks to transport goods, then hire them at a high price, recruit 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 intelligence personnel sent out cannot come back, then they can recruit them in the living hell at a high price, or spend money to bribe the newsboys outside.
If merchants selling weapons can't get in, then they can find intermediaries at high prices. As long as the problem can be solved with money, it won't be a problem for Savage.
After spending a lot of money, Savage discovered that there was really progress. He once again broadened the scope of his activities 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 funds, there will be progress. He stopped moving forward. After several attempts, Savage found that he had become somewhat numb to the amount of money he spent.
To put it simply, he has been domesticated.
At first, he took a step back in the face of Batman's threat of force. He felt that he should avoid the edge for the time being. Everything was for the greater good, so he planned to change to a hotel.
But facing the hotel, he took another step back and came to the East District to rent a house. During the process of renting a house, he faced the gangsters guarding the living hell. He took another step back, and then he took another step back.
In this process, he was not unaware of what he had 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 have been ripped off.
However, he calculated the gains and losses related to his career in his mind into reality. Although he did not actually gain anything, his brain was telling him that his plan had taken a 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.
After that, this domestication process was repeated again and again. Each time, before Savage had made any actual progress, the actual money had already been spent. After that, some actual progress would be made, but these progresses were inconsistent with the actual progress. What he expected in his mind was different, and it was often much less than what he expected in his mind.
First imagine, then spend money on the imagination in your mind, and then accept the reality that the reality is not as good as imagined. After repeating this process many times, a thinking process will be perfectly tamed.
That is to say, when I spend money for an imagination that cannot be realized in reality, I am also spending money for myself. So as long as I spend money for myself, I will make a sure profit without losing money.
Once the gap between imagination and reality is too wide, the final reality will not be able to meet the imagined expectations, which will make people feel anxious.
For example, after Savage took charge of the entire gang of living hell, he found that the situation here was not satisfactory and 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 into this pit, and will not be willing to leave no matter who persuades him.
On the one hand, it is because of sunk costs, and on the other hand, his thinking process has been tamed and becomes more single-threaded.
Repeatedly recalling the plan in his mind, spending money on the plan, and achieving results that were not as good as imagined... He has become very able to accept it all.
Originally, the money paid and the actual results gained should be equal, but as long as imagination is mixed in, people can find an excuse to convince themselves even if they are not equal.
Savage spent a huge amount of money. If these funds were injected into an east coast city slightly worse than Gotham, he might have ruled the entire city by now, but as long as he added his imagination of ruling the entire Gotham, then he would You will feel that the efforts you make now are worth it.
Investment, reward, and imagination are like three young men and women with a complex triangular relationship. Everyone looks like a third party.
Whether the investment is rewarded, whether the investment complies with 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 blurred, and the purpose of deceiving people can be achieved.
When the domestication came to an end, Savage couldn't feel the loss. He could only understand the difference between investment and reward and the distance from imagination, so he almost instinctively wanted to invest in it.
To put it bluntly, this is a pig-killing plate scam set up by the entire Gotham City for Savage.
At the end of the pig-killing game, the victims will always instinctively invest a large amount of money, and even their closest relatives cannot persuade them 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, and even the principal and relationship will be lost. Savage has no choice. He just wants to continue until he comes back.
The liquidity in his hand had bottomed out, so he began to sell off his collections. At first, he sold some items that were not very valuable for collection, such as modern cultural relics and works of art.
What is very strange is that neither logistics trucks nor arms dealers can come in, but antique dealers can come in, and the new antique dealers are very talkative, and their asking prices are cut in half, and there is no room for bargaining. They just sell what they want. , Don’t sell it.
Savage wanted to pick the one with the higher price, but he found that the later people came, the lower the price. On the contrary, the first few antique dealers who came were fairly sincere. Although they kept the prices low, they said they would Big acquisitions.
In the end, Savage established cooperation with several of the antique dealers, who helped him distribute these art and collectibles and exchange the collections in their hands for cash.
After selling a wave of collections and obtaining some working capital, Savage felt that he should first build a base that could sustain development and develop business within the living hell first.
Next is the cliché of spending money to build shops, expanding transportation routes and reducing warehouses and transfer points, recruiting people to open businesses, and implementing various policies to bring people here. Savage even introduced rent subsidies and exemptions, just to strengthen the The vitality here.
Perhaps many people know that the biggest source of money 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, it has almost no disadvantages.
Savage had no smuggling channels and only pointed to local industries, which meant that he had to spend a lot of money like a normal enterprise to build a business district.
The population density of the Living Hell is very high. If you want to fully develop the business here, money will be spent like water.
Savage's family fortune was quite strong, and after selling the less-than-decent collections, he took out some treasures to attract 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 lower the price and I lower the price than you. They don't care whether Savage sells it or not.
Savage found that there was something strange in this, because even if those mediocre collections could not be sold at a high price, many of the things in his hands were works by famous artists.
Among them are many authentic works by famous painters, which are hard to find in the world. Some of the works will definitely cause a global sensation once they are revealed. However, these antique dealers are like blind, and they will not let go of the price.
It’s not that Savage has never thought of other ways, such as finding some regular art companies outside to go through the auction process, but this would waste too much time. From appraisal to publicity to auction, it can take as fast as one year, or as slow as one year. For several years, it is only suitable for rich people 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.
There was no way Savage could tell them that I had lived for 50,000 years and I picked this up casually at the Michelangelo sculpture site, right? Even if he said it, the other party would definitely treat him as a psychopath.
But it’s all about appraisal, and it’s the same process as art companies. If you want to sell quickly, you have to accept low prices. Antique dealers repeatedly instilled this concept in Savage. In the end, he still had to sell himself at a low price. of collections.
The people who purchased these collections were the heads of the Twelve Families.
"I don't understand, Professor, why should the head of the Twelve Families take over these collections? And at a lower price?"
In the office, Alberto looked at Schiller who was standing in front of the whiteboard and asked, with Bruce sitting on his left and Victor and Cobot sitting on his right.
Schiller tapped the whiteboard with the pen in his hand and said, "Why do you think the Twelve Families purchased these products?"
"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 know that. Compared with many families with a long history, we lack Heritage, and these true works of art, no matter what era they are in, will definitely be valuable as long as human civilization is still there.”
"But..." Alberto changed his words and said: "As far as I know, many people in the Twelve Families are planning to wait for a high price to sell. After all, the art investment market has been OK in the past two years. Maybe it will become more popular in the future. If you get these treasures at a low price now, 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 take action in a short time, right?"
Alberto nodded and said: "Of course, I plan to collect it myself anyway. The heads of the Twelve Families will probably keep the more precious ones for themselves, and even if they want to sell them, they will probably find them." The auction house will take at least a year and a half to complete 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 Families to buy these collections?"
"What's the source of your current problem of having no money?" Schiller asked.
Bruce narrowed his eyes and asked, "Where does it come from?"
"Actually, you don't have money, you just don't have time." Schiller knocked on the whiteboard again and said: "Your strategy is to build everything before the gangs react to prevent them from overly resisting, 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 goes on too long, after they react, they will inevitably gather for armed resistance. By then, the whole city will be dragged into the war."
"But what if they voluntarily drag you along and give you time to make money?"
"How could they voluntarily drag me along?" Bruce thought for a moment and said, "The leaders of the Twelve Families are not stupid. Once they discover that these transformation plans are actually digging into their foundations, they will react immediately. "
"But at this time, your attitude is very important." Schiller looked at Bruce and said, "It seems that you did not 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."
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