Chapter 593: The years have worn away the edges and corners of the youth

After "The Avengers" was released around the world, the box office did not break the film history record, but it was already very close - 19 billion.

Hundreds of millions of miles away.

Of course, some movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars have failed to get back their costs at the total box office, that is to say, they don't even have a box office of hundreds of millions.

Therefore, in fact, the gap of several hundred million is not small.

Then, "Iron Man 3" was released.

The story follows Tony Stark who has been plagued by an unprecedented anxiety disorder since the events of Gotham City in Avengers 1.

He frantically invested in the development of the upgraded version of Iron Man, forgetting to sleep and eat for it, and even ignored the feelings of his girlfriend Pepper Potts.

Meanwhile, the notorious terror boss Mandarin is responsible for a series of bombings, and Tony's most loyal bodyguard back then, Harpy, is seriously injured in a recent attack.

Tony, Pepper, and Maya, a botanist with whom he had a relationship, are nearly killed in a heavy artillery attack at Tony's home, all of which seems to be related to the research of Aldridge Kirlian, the scientist he met by chance 22 years ago, and his ultimate creature......

Although this movie has mixed reviews, the box office has also exceeded 10 billion.

Pingyang Wang's fans admire him very much, and they all say that he is middle-aged after thirty, but a middle-aged actor like him, his figure is still super punctual, not so much that he protects his career line, but that he respects fans and admires his profession.

Like middle-aged male stars in some countries, how many can show off strong muscles at this age?

In fact, during the release, when the reputation of "Iron Man 3" was not very good, some people in China jumped out and wanted to fall into the ground.

But soon frightened by a piece of news.

That is the news that "a hundred years of scam has been planted, and the biggest lie of mankind has been exposed".

De Beers, the world's largest diamond manufacturer, announced that its sales last year fell 26.9% year-on-year and nearly $1.5 billion from the previous year, according to the news.

That means last year was the worst year in De Beers' 100-year history.

Although the previous two price cuts of 5% have not been able to reverse this outcome.

Since Pingyang Wang's Weibo, the De Beers family has been getting sadter year by year.

It wasn't all his credit back then, the De Beers family's biggest crisis came from the rise of artificial diamonds.

To be precise, it was a technological breakthrough for Daewoo's artificial diamonds, which the diamond giant did not expect.

De Beers, the world's largest diamond giant, was jointly established by several major diamond manufacturers in the British Empire, with the purpose of controlling the world's diamond mines, thereby monopolizing the global diamond business, which controlled more than 90% of the world's diamond mining and trade at its peak, and still has 80% of the market share today, and is a legal monopolist.

Knowing that too much is not worth much, De Beers strictly limits the amount of diamonds produced each year, creating the illusion that demand exceeds supply, but when synthetic diamond was introduced, diamonds were nothing but dazzling in appearance.

Zeng's family, in order to continue to sell diamonds at a high price, De Beers did one thing: to bind diamonds to love, and the biggest scam in human history was born.

The De Beers family was very angry, this scam was actually designed by King Pingyang, and it turned out to be his entry point for attacking the De Beers family.

I thought the design I bought back was a treasure, but it turned out to be a bomb.

In the past two years, with the advent of low-cost diamonds in many African countries, the complete monopoly began to be unsustainable, and the De Beers family thought of a bad trick: that is, to start diamond processing, in order to distinguish their own diamonds from those mined in other countries.

They invented a variety of round, cushion and marquise cuts, with one principle: the more troublesome the process, the better, and the purpose was to make it difficult for the African natives to imitate, so they could only sell rough diamonds at a low price.

In order to make it more difficult for all opponents, De Beers set the 4C valuation standard for the diamond industry, and began a career as both a referee and an athlete.

This standard is still used today by the global diamond industry.

Until the emergence of Wang Zi'an and Daewoo people, the De Beers family's dream of making money for a hundred years was completely shattered.

Daewoo developed its own six-sided top press to manufacture artificial diamonds, and as a latecomer, although Daewoo was not the first country to make man-made diamonds, it was the first country to carry forward this technology and thus pull diamonds off the altar.

Daewoo people abide by De Beers' standards and craftsmanship, but they have made man-made diamonds that are no different from natural diamonds in terms of color, texture, and hardness.

Initially, their approach was to combine the characteristics of diamonds and use in-house developed machines to press and synthesize diamonds, which was of course the mainstream of the global man-made diamond industry in the early days.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the industrial level, Daewoo's man-made diamond technology has long been unique in the world.

De Beers began to panic, once again using his marketing talents to promote rare diamonds as a sign of sincerity, and even spent $40 million to build a "man-made diamond appraiser" to encourage people to buy natural diamonds.

But it still can't save countless people who see the reality clearly, "Isn't buying diamonds just for others to see, so why should I spend 10 times more money to buy natural?"

Finally, De Beers unleashed his ultimate move – joining the ranks of man-made diamonds himself.

Two years ago, De Beers started selling its own man-made diamonds, and it continues to fool the world: my man-made diamonds are more distinctive, hand-polished, and more valuable than other brands......

But none of them can hide an ironclad fact: De Beers, which has been rampant in the world for more than 100 years by monopoly and marketing, lost to Pingyang Wang and Daewoo Manufacturing.

Many people prefer to believe that the king of Pingyang alone put the giant De Beers on the ground.

Daewoo is too big and abstract as a target, and people don't want to show admiration, so let's make it the king of Pingyang alone.

"King Pingyang has been so quiet in the past few years, and he always feels that he has to hold back his big moves. ”

"It's normal that the years have worn off the edges and corners of the youth. ”

"I had forgotten the fear of being dominated by the Great Demon King, and this news brought back my unbearable memories of the past. ”

When many netizens who were about to move wanted to take advantage of the box office of "Iron Man 3" to spray people instead of rising compared with the previous part, they were collectively silent because of the century-old lying news.

In fact, they don't know that although the king of Pingyang is no longer a forbidden word, as long as he is subjected to online violence again, he will not hesitate to be suppressed.

Especially after the Marvel Universe took shape and developed better and better.

The investigation of the door-to-door case has been restarted in the past two years, and two murderers have been found.

As long as one is found, under the interrogation of professional interrogators, it is a matter of time before all the murderers are found.

It's just that not all of those murderers were acquaintances, and most of them met on the Internet.

After the door-to-door trouble, most of them have lost contact with each other over the years, and it is a bit troublesome to find.