Chapter 847 Savage Is in Bad Luck (Part 1)

Savage's plan to radiate from the Living Hell to the entire East District and even conquer Gotham can be said to be full of ups and downs.

After almost ruling the Living Hell, he began to expand his territory and wanted to cover his influence to the entire Pan-Living Hell area, but at this step, he encountered unprecedented difficulties.

These big gangs around him seemed to have eyes on the back of their heads. They could find out any action of Savage at the first time.

And they were very despicable. They cheated and attacked all day long. All the trucks that Savage used to transport goods were intercepted by them, and the informants sent out were kidnapped 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 stable base. It is impossible for him to give up.

If there is no truck for transporting goods, then hire 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 recruit them in the Living Hell at a high price, or spend money to buy off the newspaper boy outside.

If the merchants selling weapons can't come in, then find an agent at a high price. As long as the problem can be solved with money, it is not a problem for Savage.

After spending a lot of money, Savage found that there was really progress. He once again expanded the scope of activities and almost took over the entire area around the living hell.

In this way, as long as he spent money, there would be progress, but once there was a lack of capital investment. He stopped again. After repeating it several times, Savage found that he had become a little numb to the number 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, thinking that he should temporarily avoid the edge, everything is for greater benefits, so he planned to change a hotel.

But facing the hotel, he took another step back and came to the East District to rent a house. In the process of renting a house, facing the gangsters guarding the living hell, he took another step back, and then he retreated again and again.

In this process, he was not unaware of what he had lost. For example, when the first newspaper boy approached him and asked him to pay a high price for newspapers and milk, he knew that he had been ripped off.

However, he took the gains and losses of his career into reality. Although he did not actually get anything, his brain told him that his plan had made a step forward.

This progress was virtual and an illusion. He had actually paid money before he made any real progress. This was actually the first step of domestication.

After that, this domestication process was repeated. Every time, before Savage made any real progress, the actual money had been spent. Only after that would some real progress be made, but these progresses were not the same as what he had expected in his mind, and were often much less than what he had expected in his mind.

Imagine first, then spend money for 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 domesticated.

That is, if I spend money on an imagination that cannot be realized in reality, I am also spending money on myself. As long as I spend money on myself, I will make a profit.

Once the gap between imagination and reality is too large, and the reality that finally lands cannot meet the expectations in imagination, it will make people feel anxious.

For example, after Savage led the entire gang in Hell, he found that the situation here was not satisfactory and could not provide as much help for his great cause as he imagined.

But after discovering this fact, he would not choose to give up, but would plunge into this pit. No matter who persuaded him, he would not be willing to leave.

On the one hand, it is because of sunk costs, and on the other hand, his thinking process has been domesticated and more single-threaded.

Repeatedly thinking about the plan in his mind, spending money on the plan, and getting less than imagined results... He has been able to accept all this.

Originally, the money paid and the actual results gained should be equal, but as long as imagination is mixed in, even if it is not equal, people can find an excuse to convince themselves.

Savage paid a huge amount of money. If he had injected the money into the East Coast city which was slightly worse than Gotham, he might have ruled the whole city now. But as long as he added his imagination of ruling the whole Gotham, he would feel that the current investment was worth it.

Investment, return, imagination, just like three young men and women with a complex triangle relationship, who look at each other as the third party.

Whether the investment is rewarded, whether the investment complies with the imagination, and whether the return satisfies the imagination, respectively represent three different value judgments. As long as someone guides one of them, the value can be distorted, the gains and losses can be distorted, and the purpose of deceiving people can be achieved.

When the domestication was carried out to the end, Savage could not feel the loss. He could only understand the investment and return and the gap from the imagination, so he almost instinctively wanted to invest in it.

To put it bluntly, this is a pig-killing scam set up by the whole Gotham City for Savage.

At the end of the pig-killing scam, the victims will always instinctively invest a lot of money, and even the closest relatives can't persuade them to come back, because their behavior and thinking patterns have been domesticated very firmly.

Investing will bring a little return, but not investing will bring nothing, and even the principal and emotions will be lost. Savage has no choice but to keep going until he can turn things around.

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The liquidity in his hands has reached the bottom, so he started to sell his collections. At first, he sold some things that were not very collectible, such as modern and contemporary cultural relics and artworks.

It is very strange that logistics trucks and arms dealers cannot come in, but antique dealers can come in, and the new antique dealers are very good at talking. They cut the price in half and there is no room for bargaining. If you want to sell, you can sell it. If you don’t want to sell, forget it.

Savage wanted to pick a high-priced one, but he found that the later the people came, the lower the price. On the contrary, the first few antique dealers who came were still sincere. Although they were very aggressive in lowering the price, they said they would buy a lot.

In the end, Savage still established cooperation with several of the antique dealers. They helped him distribute these artworks and collections and exchanged the collections in their hands for cash.

After selling a wave of collections and getting some working capital, Savage felt that he should first build a base that can be developed sustainably and develop the business within the living hell.

The next step is to spend money to build shops, expand transportation routes, reduce warehouses and transfer points, recruit people to open businesses, and implement various policies to gather people here. Savage even came up with rent subsidies and exemptions to enhance the vitality here.

Perhaps many people know that the most profitable part of the gang industry is not collecting protection fees on the spot, but smuggling. Smuggling has low costs and high output. Except for being more dangerous, it has almost no disadvantages.

Savage has no smuggling channels and only relies on local industries, which means that he must spend a lot of money like a normal enterprise to create 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 background is very rich. After selling those not-so-good collections, he took out some treasures to attract those antique dealers.

Savage originally wanted them to bid, but unexpectedly, these antique dealers collectively lowered the price as if they had agreed. If you lower, I will lower it even lower, and they don't care whether Savage sells it or not.

Savage found that there was something strange about this, because if those mediocre collections could not be sold at a high price, it would be fine. Many of the things he had were works of famous artists.

These included the original works of many famous painters. It was hard to find a painting in the world. Some works would cause a global sensation as long as they appeared. But these antique dealers seemed to be blind and would not let go of a price.

Savage did not think of other ways, such as going out to find some regular art companies to go through the auction process, but in this case, it would take too much time. From appraisal to publicity to auction, it would take at least one year at the fastest and several years at the slowest. It was only suitable for those rich old men who were not short of money in a short time.

Of course, he could also contact those wealthy private buyers directly, but the problem was that no one endorsed him, and private buyers could not confirm the authenticity of these works.

Savage couldn't possibly tell them that he had lived for 50,000 years and that he had picked it up at the Michelangelo sculpture site, right? Even if he did, they would definitely think he was a psychopath.

But it was all about appraisal, and the process was the same as that of an art company. If he wanted to sell it urgently, he had to accept the price cut. The antique dealer repeatedly instilled this concept in Savage, and in the end, he had to sell his collection at a low price.

And the ones who bought these collections were the heads of the twelve families.

"I don't understand, professor, why do you want the heads of the twelve families to take over these collections? And at a lower price?"

In the office, Alberto asked Schiller, who was standing in front of the whiteboard. Bruce sat on his left, and Victor and Cobert sat on his right.

Schiller tapped the whiteboard with the pen in his hand and said, "Why do you think the twelve families bought these products?"

"Hmm..." Alberto thought for a while and said, "The Falcone family also bought some. We mainly want to keep them for our own collection. After all, we also know that compared with many families with a long history, we lack the foundation, and these real works of art, no matter what era, as long as human civilization still exists, they must be valuable."

"But..." Alberto changed the subject and said, "As far as I know, many people in the twelve families are planning to wait for a high price. After all, the art investment market has been good in the past two years, and it may be even hotter in the future. Now the low price is good. Get these treasures, sell them at a high price in the future, and you can make money without doing anything. "

Schiller nodded, and then said: "No matter which one it is, I think they will not choose to sell it in a short time, right?"

Alberto nodded and said: "Of course, I plan to collect it myself anyway. The patriarchs of the twelve families will probably keep the more precious ones for their own collections, and even if they want to sell them, they should find an auction house and go through the process, which will take at least a year and a half."

Schiller smiled and said: "That's enough."

"What do you mean?" Bruce looked at him and asked: "Why do you have to let the people of the twelve families buy these collections?"

"What is the source of your current predicament of having no money?" Schiller asked.

Bruce narrowed his eyes and asked: "What is the source?"

"You don't have no money, you just don't have time." Schiller tapped the whiteboard again and said, "Your strategy is to build everything before the gangs react to avoid their excessive resistance. Therefore, a large amount of investment in a short period of time will lead to a shortage of working capital."

"I have to do this." Bruce said, "Once the time is too long, they will inevitably gather for armed resistance after they react. At that time, the whole city will be dragged into the war."

"But what if they voluntarily drag it with you and give you time to make money?"

"Why would they voluntarily drag it with me?" Bruce thought for a while and said, "The leaders of the twelve families are not stupid. Once they find that these transformation plans are actually digging their foundations, they will respond immediately."

"But at this time, your attitude is very important." Schiller looked at Bruce and said, "It seems that you didn't listen to the behavioral class carefully."

"How they will react depends on what they think you want to do, and what they think you want to do depends on how you behave."