Chapter 846: People are stupid and money comes quickly! (Part 2)
Savage is not stupid. He knows that in living hell, the cost of living for ordinary people cannot be so high. However, he is not here to be an ordinary person. He has a career to complete.
Savage began to compare in his mind. Before, he had given Mirror Master and Piper some activity funds, but at that time, the funds started in five figures, less than tens of thousands of dollars. How could the great king afford it?
?
Not to mention ordinary people like Leon and Mrs. Goethe. Every time they came to him for funds and rewards, he spent thousands of gold to buy horse bones. Not only did he spend money, he also ate a lot of the treasures.
When Savage calculated, he found that if all those products were converted into cash, the money he spent on ordinary people would be at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But what did these ordinary people and the superpowers he hired previously bring to him?
There was almost nothing. Leon and Mrs. Goethe disappeared. Mirror Master and the Pied Piper also disappeared. His hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted, and no information was obtained.
But on the other hand, after spending thousands of dollars, Savage basically figured out the tricks of the gang bosses in the living hell, and learned some of their temperaments, habits and weaknesses.
Moreover, the nearby newsboys have become familiar with him, and their words can bring out a lot of information. He has even met with the boss of the previous medium-sized gang and initially formulated a battle plan against the living hell.
It only takes a few tenths of the original cost to achieve several times the original results, so the money is not wasted.
Moreover, after the money spent on hiring others is spread out, it is enjoyed by others, while the money spent by oneself is ultimately enjoyed by oneself.
You eat the food by yourself, enjoy the service by yourself, drink the wine by yourself, and spend your time by yourself. Even if the product itself is not worth the price, you have earned the extra benefits.
With this in mind, Savage began to make his next plan. He invested a sum of money to the boss of the medium-sized gang and asked him to purchase weapons and overthrow his own leader.
Unexpectedly, this matter went very smoothly. The boss of the medium-sized gang killed the leader with two shots, and he became the boss of the large gang.
After discovering the importance of the benefactor, the boss relied even more on Savage and simply obeyed his orders. Not only did Savage get the most luxurious room in the entire area, he also had many gang members at his disposal.
This is the greatest progress he has ever made in Gotham.
Savage wanted to kill the gang boss and lead the gang himself, but after he had just been in contact with gangs for a while, he discovered that the gangs here have their own set of rules.
If he killed the gang boss and did it himself, he would still have to nod and bow to the members of the Twelve Families, and he might even be rejected by them.
Savage didn't want to be subordinate to others, so he could only retreat behind the scenes and control remotely, letting the gang boss work for him.
Although the goal was not achieved satisfactorily, Savage was already pleasantly surprised by this progress because of his long-term setbacks. After all, this is a city of lunatics, and he was able to take down a gangster in such a short period of time.
, which is already quite good.
Now that a big gangster has been taken down, the next step is to unify the Living Hell. However, there are five or six big gangsters gathered in the Living Hell alone. They must all be killed to achieve the goal of unification.
If you want to compete with other big gangs for territory, two things are necessary, one is people, and the other is weapons.
Money is needed to recruit people, money is needed to pay people, money is needed to buy weapons, money is needed to maintain weapons, money is needed to shoot bullets, and money is needed to stop the opponent from shooting bullets.
The gang boss was very sensible. He took over the commercial street first and obtained a few stores and a steady stream of funds. However, preparing for a fire required a lot of funds. The money in the stores was simply not enough. Savage's consumption
Had to upgrade again.
Gangsters usually recruit people from small gangsters. But if you want someone to work for you, you have to pay a sum of money first. An ordinary adult male usually gets a one-time payment of 400 US dollars. Other types of jobs with special abilities, here
Basically, it will increase by about 30%.
If he survives a firefight, he will be paid a steady salary, and the weapons he holds will belong to him, and the gang will need to pay him maintenance fees and bullet fees for the weapons.
When buying weapons, it's not enough to just buy the guns in the hands of thugs. The Gotham gang's fire is not just about hiding behind a car and firing two shots.
First of all, to build a defensive front, the best choice is a tank. If not, an ordinary modified vehicle will also work.
Then cross fire and side fire are needed, and fire coverage is needed. In order to deal with the police helicopters, anti-air fire may be needed. If the opponent is a member of the Twelve Families, anti-missile fire may be needed.
Everyone knows that arms are a bottomless pit, and the firepower is not the most powerful, only more powerful.
In the beginning, Savage was unwilling to spend so much money on arms, and as a result, he was beaten back and forth.
Then he discovered that the consequences of losing the war were even more terrifying. The people he recruited were gone, his salary was in vain, and all his weapons were lost. It was equivalent to the previous wave of investment being in vain.
In this case, why not invest a little more money in the early stage to strengthen the firepower? At least after winning, you can eat the opponent's equipment.
Relying on his intelligence superiority and the firepower of spending large sums of money, the gangsters in Living Hell were defeated one after another by him. Soon after, all the big gangsters moved away.
Because he was facing competition all the time, Savage had no time to stop and calculate the costs. When he achieved a staged victory, he realized that just by making this gang the biggest gang in the living hell, he would at least
$3 million was thrown in.
The expenses include, but are not limited to, a variety of commercially available arms, Soviet tanks of unknown origin, and some armed helicopters that look like they are in service but can be bought for extra money, and even
Includes two missiles with production batch numbers and markings partially worn off.
Savage didn't even know where this gang boss came from to buy these.
At that time, all he could think about was firepower. Whenever a weapons dealer came to his door, he would just spend money to buy it. Now he has a bunch of strange weapons that cannot be taken out, and there is no place to sell them.
In the past, the tension created by gang wars forced Savage to spend a lot of money, because as long as he refused to spend money, the gang opposite would somehow get the money, buy these weapons, and then
It was my side that suffered heavy losses.
After going through this several times, Savage simply collected everything he needed and bought everything he needed. It didn't matter where he came from. It didn't matter whether he could use it in the future. Just buy it.
After calculating this price, Savage felt a little guilty. In fact, the US$10 million he told Captain Cold and Mirror Master at that time was equivalent to the value of the collection, and he did not have that much cash on hand.
Although he also felt physical pain, at least he had made considerable progress. The entire living hell area was now under the control of the gang he controlled. This could be said to be an unprecedented victory.
But soon, new troubles came again.
Many people know that conquering the world and sitting in the world each have their own difficulties, but when it comes to spending money, sitting in the world is the real bottomless pit that cannot be filled.
If you want to conquer other areas, you have to recruit more people. Not only that, but you also have to let these people master the newly purchased weapons. If you have a tank, you have to be able to drive it, right? If you have an armed helicopter, you have to make it fly into the sky, right? Yes.
Missiles...well, they can't be launched without a silo, but even if they want to deter you, you need to know some knowledge, right?
Moreover, Savage also knew that in order to achieve sustainable development, he could not just throw money into it alone. He had to make the area under his control be able to make money.
If you want to do this, you have to upgrade the industry here to attract more people to consume. Only when the business makes money can he receive more protection fees. But if you want the business to make money, you have to upgrade the industry. If you want
To upgrade industries, you have to invest money...
Moreover, this time it is no small matter. Living Hell has developed to the present, the population has not decreased but increased, the business potential is huge, and the initial investment is also huge.
Savage soon fell into the same predicament as Bruce. He had assets, but not so much cash. Construction was going on everywhere, and money was being asked for everywhere. If he didn't quickly find a wall to demolish, the capital chain would be broken.
But it was completely over.
However, Savage still has other ways to make money. He has lived for such a long time, and a bowl he picked up casually in his youth is now a cultural relic. As long as he can sell his unimportant collection, he will soon be able to make money.
A large amount of liquidity can be obtained.
There are still many people in this world who are willing to collect, but as long as the word "urgent sale" is added to anything, there is not much room for negotiation in terms of price.
Especially for collectibles, whose value cannot be measured by hard and fast rules, the price will be greatly reduced when you are in a hurry to sell them.
When things got to this point, Savage felt that he was in sight of victory. He thought that once the most populous East District was captured, other areas would not be a concern at all. Even if they took these people as hostages, they would have to have a good talk with him.
By then, no matter how much capital you have invested, you will be able to get back your money.
But what he didn't know was that in a conference room in Wayne Tower, Bruce was sitting at the head table, and the heads of the Twelve Families were sitting in two rows.
There are many big gang leaders at the end, two of them just died in the fight with Savage, and one died twice.
"Okay, friends, I didn't lie to you, did I? As long as you cooperate with me in a play, this Savage will definitely be forced to sell those collections at a low price."
"As long as you can get it through various channels and resell it at a high price when the time comes, you can make money while lying down." Bruce said in a relaxed tone.
The leader of the Twelve Families was a little geared up, but Bruce said again: "However, it is obvious that he has not been pushed to a dead end yet. The price at this time may not be as low as you think."
These gang leaders understood quickly. They looked at each other, and one of them said: "In other words, as long as he is driven to a dead end, there will be a price we are satisfied with?"
Bruce nodded and said: "The more anxious he is, the lower the price will be. After those ordinary collections are sold, it will be the turn of the real treasures..."
"The harder you push him, the more he will spit out."
All the gang leaders looked at me and I looked at you, with a light shining in their eyes.
In this world, the thing that can best stimulate people's potential and enhance their wisdom is called interests.