OBS Chapter 1893: Application for World Heritage (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!!
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To put it bluntly, the Twelve Families don't really care how much profit the high table can make. The killers earn their money through hard work. I've never heard of a killer getting rich. How much does it cost to kill a person? There's no exact number for this. For example, in New York, if you want to kill someone, you can even take a few hundred dollars of drugs and find a drug addict... Some drug addicts who are high can even do it for a dozen dollars. These bastards are high and can do anything.
But be careful... drug addicts are the least trustworthy. They may run away with the money at any time, or sell you out after killing someone.
So only the most unreliable ones would look for drug addicts, like street thugs. Then there are the ones who are not so clear-headed, who kill people... They find people on the Internet. That's right, the Internet!
These idiots don't understand how unreliable it is to find a killer online. Let alone a liar like Ah San, isn't it that you go online to leave evidence? Don't say that you can just delete the evidence on the computer... In fact, the most secure way he can think of is to delete the chat history. Don't expect them to have much brains. People with brains won't do this.
People like this will probably say goodbye to crime, and if there are brainless cyber killers who take orders, they will be caught quickly.
Then you can find a gangster killer, which is a more reliable method. Generally speaking, if you find the right way, the gangsters will really take this kind of job. How many small thugs who want to rise to the top are just one opportunity away!
Although the essence of the gang is to make money, but in order to make money you must have ruthless robbers, otherwise you make money, others will make money on you. Therefore, the gang sometimes selects some ruthless characters who are willing to kill people.
You pay them to kill someone, which is like a win-win situation for them...they win twice.
Those gangs have procedures, and it is best to find those young boys, because it is easier to get away with it! More importantly, it is easier to fool them. To be honest, there are always only a few people in this world who really dare to kill people. After all, in a civilized society, butchers who sell pork are considered murderous people. Killing people? Are you kidding? Except for a few perverts, not many people dare to do it. But young boys dare to do it. On the one hand, these young boys don’t know what fear is.
According to the author's hometown dialect, it is called "no fear of action". They only have a rough outline of what they are doing and have no idea what the consequences will be.
Of course, there are even more extreme cases, that is, he knows clearly what the consequences will be.
But they are not afraid.
This is the other aspect, which is... the protection provided to them by various countries.
The same is true in the United States. Many states adopt a lenient policy towards their crimes and do not impose too severe sentences.
So many gangs will trick those people into committing crimes and killing people, because they will be released in a few years anyway, and if the lawyer is good, they may be sentenced to community labor. For those people, going to prison is not scary at all... at least that's what their so-called big brothers say.
They will tell those people that their brothers are everywhere in prison, and that they will be well taken care of after they go in, just like going to school. After they are released from prison, they will be able to become the big brother, drive luxury cars, date all kinds of girls, spend money lavishly, and be as powerful as they can be.
Then, after being convinced by words like loyalty and manliness, I got carried away and did it.
Of course, you can't expect this kind of killer to be very professional.
Real professional killers are introduced by middlemen. But even for such killers, a single order is not too expensive, ranging from tens of thousands to two hundred thousand at most.
Orders exceeding this value are rare in the assassination business. (In the movie "The Hunt", John was offered a reward of 7 million by a rich second-generation man at the beginning, and countless assassins cried out. This is the norm. Being an assassin is not as profitable as imagined.)
Therefore, even if you monopolize the killer business, you won't make much money. After all, this thing is not a rigid demand. In a normal society... even in this not-so-normal world, the demand for killers is not as great as you might imagine!
Not many people would think about killing others all day long. The direct profit of the assassin business is not much. At least with the status of the Twelve Families, the profit that the high table gets from the assassins is not as big as imagined.
But why do the Twelve Families still care so much?
The answer is the same as for all wealthy people...How many of them really made their fortunes through physical business?
How do they make their fortune?
Stocks!
For example, Musk is said to be worth $250 billion, but is he really that rich? This estimate is actually very inflated. As for him personally, the funds he can fully control are estimated to be only a few hundred million dollars. If he wants more, he needs to borrow from the bank.
More than 200 billion US dollars, most of which are the valuations of the stocks he holds. It is unknown whether these stocks can be sold, whether anyone will buy them, and whether they are worth so much money if someone does buy them.
It can even be said that Musk's actual money is not necessarily comparable to those of the wealthy people in the real economy. It's just that these wealthy people are not famous and their companies are not listed.
In short, there are really few wealthy people on the list who have accumulated their wealth bit by bit through real profits. They all rely on stocks to directly increase their net worth, and then start financial games. Then they get their wealth.
The same is true for the twelve families. They really don't live on that little commission. They have many industries. It can even be said that most of their industries are more profitable than this high table. But why do they still care so much about it and even regard it as their lifeblood?
The answer is similar to above.
Those Internet tycoons are just leeks who rely on telling stories, and the Twelve Families also use the high tables to raise their status and make themselves much more terrifying than they actually are!
Only with the high table can they be known as the Twelve Families, and only then will the dark world acknowledge them as the pinnacle of the underworld. With this thing as a backing, their other industries can flourish all over the world, and no one dares to cause trouble.
Other assassin groups are almost the same model. As I said before, the assassin industry has a limited market, and it is impossible to promote it to the grassroots level and expand the market. If they are not afraid of being killed by the government, they must play in secret. Therefore, the market is so small, how can they make money from it?
Think beautiful!
What they want is reputation. For the underworld, reputation is money! Don't think that gangs are all about violence and killing. On the contrary, gangs are the most concerned with human relationships. For example, if a small gang sees a big gang and there is a conflict, what will happen?
Will the small gangs start a war regardless of the consequences?
Don't be crazy! Admitting defeat is the first choice. And the big gangs will not go to war with the small gangs casually, because it is not cost-effective.
Why do gangs in Hong Kong gangster movies have the phrase "talking about numbers"... Because everyone is out there to make money, so if you can avoid fighting, don't fight. How can you make money if you fight? Talking about numbers means that everyone presents facts and reasons... well, probably. In fact, it's still about showing strength, how many brothers I have, how good my brothers are at fighting. As for reason... it's also about reason. When everyone's strength is about the same, reason is useful.
The twelve families did similar things. When they were expanding, they encountered local bullies.
If you expand, won't you be taking away the other party's piece of the pie?
What should I do at this time?
If you don’t know the answer to this question, the standard answer is above.
Talk about numbers.
Who the hell are you? I’m Chen Haonan, the leader of Hongxing Causeway Bay! I have tens of thousands of Hongxing brothers!
Oh, I am one of the twelve families of the High Table. I don’t have tens of thousands of brothers, but I have the High Table. What do you mean you don’t know the High Table?
Which killer is the best? Twelve high-level tables! Tens of thousands of killers, with strong skills.
Then Chen Haonan got scared, how could you beat the killer with a machete and a steel pipe? Then the business of the twelve families could proceed smoothly. In this way, the cost of their expansion would be reduced a lot invisibly!
This is what the high table means to the twelve families.
There are even many derivative gameplays, such as a local official has a rival, and the Twelve Families want to win over the official. What do they do? The high table makes him disappear. The official has nothing to do with the assassination, but the handle has actually fallen into the hands of the Twelve Families.
For example, a rich man has a project that is very profitable. But what if none of the twelve companies have the advantage to win the bid? As long as you check, you will definitely find some troubles that are difficult to solve from the rich man. The rich man's "leg" is broken! At this time, the high table comes out to help the rich man, and snap! Connect the leg in one go!
So what should we do with the project? Isn’t it natural?
This is the meaning of a high table.
Killer?
Ha, if they really relied on that little commission, they would have starved to death a long time ago. In fact, those twelve companies that took commissions would not withdraw money at all, but would invest all of it in the high-table. They even had to pay a little from time to time, but for them, the benefits that the high-table could bring them were much greater than the investment!
But now other similar killer companies have emerged and divided up their market, what does this mean?
This means that the same tactics they use can be used by others as well!
It means that they are going to be eliminated. If they don’t stand up, one day they will be threatened by others like Chen Haonan!
It's broken, I'm a substitute.
The meaning is similar.
Once the high table collapsed, it would mean the collapse of the stocks of the twelve companies, which would cause a chain reaction and drag down their original industries! In this case, the twelve companies couldn't even close their positions because they were the original shareholders and the largest shareholders, and they couldn't find anyone to take over.
So in order to avoid bankruptcy, they choose to directly leverage and hold a large position!
You think their investment in New York is exaggerated?
In fact, it is far from enough. If they can, they will even sell other assets to increase their holdings. Because if the stock does not rebound, they will all be finished!
After receiving the promise from the Beggar King, the Twelve Families began to continuously mobilize the most elite killers from other regions to rush to New York.
New York is a good place, with lots of people and a lot of money. Correspondingly, there are a lot of conflicts, so there are a lot of killer orders, and even the unit price of orders is higher than other places. Occupying the market here is equivalent to ringing the bell in the stock market, which will wake up a large number of leeks.
The only pity is that there are too many evil spirits in New York, the police are extremely powerful, superheroes are everywhere, and the citizens are so careless that it makes people's eyes water. All these reactions make gangs like the high table feel difficult.
In the past, they opened the Continental Hotel on the busiest street in New York. How impressive! Which assassin organization in the world has this ability?
police?
To them, the police at that time were like the police station in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu", where they were responsible for getting slapped in the face and cleaning the floor. (In the movie "Speed Chase", the police knocked on John's door and saw bodies all over the floor, and said it was okay... You can imagine how arrogant the high-table was)
At the beginning, when Kai directly attacked the High Table New York Guesthouse (Continental Hotel), the High Table's first reaction was to kill this stupid policeman who was blind.
Then I asked around, oh. You can't do anything, the elites were all killed overnight, what can you do? Deliver food?
Okay, if the hard way doesn’t work, let’s try the soft way!
Go directly to Kai's boss and ask him to mind his own business, otherwise... Before I could finish my words, the person on the other end hung up. When I called again, the person on the other end started to scold me.
Damn it, don’t drag me into this, you idiot. Can a mere high-ranking official like him touch Kai?
Others are superheroes, who am I?
He is a good friend of the owner of the White House and he chats and laughs with a bunch of military and political bigwigs. Who am I?
He's Tony Stark's good friend, who am I?
Others are the bosses of the Wayne Group, who am I?
I was threatening him? Do you believe that if he was unhappy, he could just make me leave immediately with a phone call? Moreover, how stupid was I to jump out and deliver the food? He didn't know that I had any relationship with you guys, and I fell into his trap?
The high table was stunned by the scolding.
Then I thought, since the soft approach doesn’t work, can I try an even softer approach?
Send money!
Then he was scolded again, "Do you have as much money as him, all of you on the high table, if you add them up? Does the Wayne Consortium know about this? No? Then what the hell are you doing, intelligence work?"
What about free seats? The high table has a long history, more than a hundred years old. Join us and your family will be strong forever!
He was scolded again. He has a long history? Is it as long as Asgard? Others have a history of more than 10,000 years! He is on good terms with other crown princes and drinks happily with Odin. By the way, Asgard can live for thousands of years!
As long as Asgard does not decline, their family will always be strong.
Oh, what did you say? Join what?
The high table hung up the phone directly.
Damn, what should I do? I can't accept anything. I can't beat him or scold him. I'm just a copper pea.
The twelve senators at the high table were almost bald as they could not think of a solution.
In the end, it was a younger congressman who slapped his forehead.
Why do we have to open a mainland hotel openly?
We are a criminal organization, and we are underground, so there is nothing shameful about it. Besides, we at Gaotaizhuo were not so high-profile at the beginning. When we started our business, we also started from "a small stall to a big boss". It is normal for entrepreneurs to have difficult conditions.
So the underground of New York becomes the best place to go.
There is really no one in charge of this place, not even Kai. The Beggar King can live so comfortably, why can't we?
The best we can do is to be more covert, more costly and more confidential.
But is this a problem?
Doesn't count.
That's good.
At all costs, we must cooperate with the Beggar King. We are originally rats in the sewer. We have been on land for so long that we really think we are poodles?
(End of this chapter)