Chapter 845: People are stupid and money comes quickly! (Part 2)
There was a knock on the door. Savage turned around and found that his door was knocked. As soon as he opened the door, he saw no one at first. When he lowered his head, he saw a man with baby fat on his face.
The child was holding a stack of newspapers and looking at him expectantly.
"Sir, do you want to order a newspaper? 80% of the residents here have already ordered. I will deliver today's latest daily newspaper to your door at 6:30 in the morning. If you also ordered milk, the milk will also be delivered.
And delivered, other breakfast foods and daily necessities will be delivered at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m...."
Savage frowned, but the child was not afraid at all. He took two steps closer, handed the newspaper to Savage and said, "You can take a look first. We have cooperated with Gotham Daily and we guarantee that we will give you the newspaper."
The quality of newspaper ink is the best, and you can see it clearly even without ironing!"
"Of course, we also provide free newspaper ironing service, but you must order newspapers and milk for at least one year to receive this service."
"Believe me, sir, our Majiaoer Gang is the most professional newsboy in the living hell. The milk we can order is also the best. It is all just shipped from outside the city. If you order it all, I can still go
Help you negotiate discounts..."
The kid was selling hard, but Savage focused on the newspaper.
He discovered that the construction site information he had asked the flute player to collect before was now clearly written in the newspaper. Not only that, but also the start time, completion time, how long the work was done every day, and even the completion time of each construction site.
The renderings were written on the front pages of newspapers.
Savage snorted coldly. He thought that Wayne Group was just a private company and did not understand the importance of intelligence at all. Such an important thing was written so clearly in a newspaper that everyone could read. If anyone
If you want to cause trouble, can't you just get information easily?
"Sir, do you want to order? Please, order one. Our recent performance is not good. If I can't fulfill the order, our boss will beat me. Please..."
Amid the child's pleas, Savage returned the newspaper and said, "How do I order it?"
The child immediately showed a happy smile, then pulled out a notebook from his pocket and said: "You only need to write your name and address here, pay the fee, and then you can get the newspaper every week."
"If you order the newspaper alone, it costs 10 US dollars a week, but if you add it with milk, the total is 16 US dollars a week. If you want to subscribe for a year, it can be cheaper. If you want to hire, long-term errand services can also be paid on a monthly basis.
It’s $60 a month…”
Savage snorted coldly and said, "Do you think I don't know that you deliberately asked for a high price? And the house rented to me by the gang here is at least ten times more expensive than outside."
"Of course, sir." To Savage's expectation, the newsboy didn't panic or even deny it. He just said seriously: "It's very expensive for outsiders to order newspapers here because we need to pay extra."
Deliver newspapers for you."
After saying that, the newsboy plucked his fingers and said: "Let's put it this way, if something happens to you here, or if you hurt someone here because you don't understand the rules, we will all be taken to the gang for questioning..."
"Once something big happens, we will all be affected. At least we can't work for a few days, and at worst we may lose our lives. Therefore, the cost for you to hire us will be more expensive. This is reasonable. This is the case for all outsiders.
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After finishing speaking, the newsboy curled his lips and said: "It's just that some poor people from other places just say they can't afford to order. They have to find all kinds of excuses and want us to sell to them cheaply..."
"Before, there was a ghost guy from out of town who got drunk and broke a vase. The fragments of the vase hurt the head of a patrolman. I was taken for questioning on the second and third days. I was not able to do anything for two days.
Work, or borrow money from others to buy food..."
"As a result, the drunkard had no money to pay compensation, so I was scolded by the gang leader, saying that I knew he was drinking but didn't remind them."
The newsboy looked at Savage with wide eyes and said: "They said you are very rich, that's why I came here. If it were those poor people with no qualifications, I wouldn't even knock on the door!"
Savage's eyes widened and he was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the children here would be so reasonable.
What he said made people feel quite reasonable, and they would sympathize with him, so Savage said: "Money is not the problem, the problem is, I gave you so much money, how much can you do for me"
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The newsboy's eyes widened immediately. He looked around and lowered his voice and said, "Oh my God, sir, you don't really plan to do something here, do you?"
Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Savage took out ten cents from his pocket and handed it to him. The newsboy took the money and continued: "In the first month when outsiders come here, the children will focus on it."
Keep an eye on him, and if there are any problems, he will be reported immediately, but you must not do anything here."
"If the gangs can't be controlled, they will call the police. The police in Gotham are very scary. In our area, not many people can survive to go to court, and even fewer have sound limbs. There is also that bat that often runs around here.
Xia, I heard that he eats children..."
Savage narrowed his eyes and said: "No, I don't want to cause any trouble here, but you also know that I am a newbie here and I am not very familiar with the rules here. If I am willing to order your newspapers and milk, you
Are you willing to tell me some of the big things that happened recently?"
The newsboy scratched his head and said, "But all major events can be seen in newspapers? All you have to do is subscribe to the newspaper."
"I'm talking about the big things in living hell..."
The newsboy seemed a little puzzled, but he still said: "Well, if this allows you to order newspapers from me, it's not impossible, but I don't have so much time to write, so how can I tell you?"
"If you can't write, then I'll find someone who can." Savage squinted his eyes and stroked his arm. He said, "There should be a lot of newsboys here who can deliver newspapers..."
The newspaper boy shook his head and said: "Morning and evening are the peak times for us to deliver things. No one is willing to waste time writing a long essay. If we don't write it ourselves, we have to hire someone, and that will cost money."
"I've already said, money is not an issue." Savage took a step back at the right time and said, "I will give you appropriate remuneration, but you must ensure the timeliness and authenticity of this information."
The paperboy struggled for a long time and said: "Okay, but you have to give me an extra ten dollars a week...ah, no, five dollars, five dollars is enough. I will put what I have written at 5 o'clock every night."
Under your vase."
"But..." the newsboy raised his voice and emphasized: "You must order newspapers and milk for a year to make up for my insufficient orders this month, otherwise it is not worth it..."
The two argued for a long time, and finally Savage paid and the newsboy got the order.
Savage thought he had found a breakthrough. Although these kids were desperate for money, at least they were much better than those gangsters who were unreasonable and only wanted money.
It doesn't matter if they ask for a high price, or even if they want to be slaughtered as fat sheep, as long as they agree to their first condition, the follow-up will be easy.
Yes, Savage's thinking is the same as Schiller's before. He feels that as long as a group here opens the door to him, as long as they are willing to make a little retreat, then everything will fall into place.
The newsboy ran quickly through the corridor, crossed the somewhat narrow covered bridge, and arrived at the South District.
He knocked on the door of an office, and without waiting for the people inside to answer, he opened the door and rushed in, saying: "Boss Copot, it's done! You are so good at knowing things. He really asked me to do it."
He sends information!"
"How much do you want him to pay?" Cobot, who was behind the desk, raised his head and asked.
"I originally wanted $10, but I ended up paying $5. Isn't this price a bit too high?" the newsboy asked. He said, "After all, I told him that it would be $10 a week to subscribe to the newspaper..."
"It's not high, I think it's just right." Cobot showed a sinister smile and said: "This price will make him know that he has been ripped off, but it is nothing to him. This is Xi
What Professor Le said blurred his judgment on the loss."
"Ten dollars a week is a ridiculously high price for a living hell. He should also know this, but because he is rich, he thinks there is nothing wrong with giving it a try. The next step is to increase his costs step by step.
Test his bottom line..."
"The show is about to begin."
With Cobot's smile, several flyers placed on his desk flew out along the window and landed in front of Savage's door.
There is a mailbox in front of every apartment room in Living Hell. Before Savage even moved in, he discovered that most of the mailboxes here were filled with advertisements, but he didn't expect that the next day after he moved in
, and received a warm welcome from the merchants here.
Food, daily necessities, even weapons, bars, restaurants and some unnamed pharmacies, almost all the businesses that can be found in the living hell have placed a lot of advertisements in these corridors.
Savage will not buy and cook his own food like the residents here. He will only go to high-end restaurants to dine. The restaurants in the living hell are not expensive, but the various additional fees are astonishingly expensive, and the service
The fee is 30%, the tip is 20%, and even the packaged lunch box fee costs more than ten dollars.
However, Savage had always spent money at the Sokworth Hotel before, and the restaurant in the Living Hell, even if these messy expenses were added, was not half as much as what he spent at the Sokworth Hotel.
After such a comparison, Savage felt that they charged more, but it actually didn't matter because the total price was not expensive and the service attitude was much better than that of the Sockworth Hotel.
The style of all the stores here in Living Hell is that as soon as Savage comes in, he is greeted with a smile. From the store manager to the waiters, they stand in two rows and smile and bow to say hello. With every move and look of Savage, he immediately...
Someone came over and asked him what he was going to do.
When it came time to sign the tip sheet, the employee who had provided the best service came over and looked at him with a smile. Savage simply made a big stroke of his pen. Anyway, the total was only a few dozen dollars.
Of course, after seeing these advertisements, Savage also wanted to go to the bar to find out what was going on, because that was where gang members were most active and there should be a lot of information.
When you enter a bar, you must order a drink. The most common Mizuki whiskey costs dozens of dollars, but as long as you add a little more money, you can order a pretty good drink for more than 100 dollars.
When Savage spent money at the Sokworth Hotel, the price was almost the same, so Savage was not surprised.
When sitting at the bar, a group of gang members sitting next to them often drank too much and talked about their bosses. Savage sat nearby and listened, unable to stop drinking. He drank hundreds of dollars in one night.
is normal.
These two-digit or three-digit purchases were not noticed by Savage at all. A meal cost more than 200 US dollars, a trip to the supermarket cost more than 100 US dollars, and a trip to bars and nightclubs to gather information, all in one night.
,500 US dollars is not much.
However, after living here for two weeks, Savage looked at his recent bills and was stunned.
In two weeks, he spent nearly $3,000. It was the 1990s, and even for Gotham's middle class, this was a huge sum of money.