Chapter 590 Ponzi Scheme
Yang Meng supported him to go to the United States, the reason was very simple, it happened that Xiao Peng was in a bad mood because of the affairs of his hometown, so he simply went out for a walk, but Yang Meng made a request, if you want to go, you can take Geng Le with you, after all, it is not Huaxia over there, no matter how good your skills are as good as your marksmanship, you let Yang Meng rush with a gun, and it is not as good as Geng Le for accurate aiming, let Geng Le be Xiao Peng's bodyguard, Yang Meng is also relieved. The mobile phone has no ads, and it saves the most data.
"Okay, I know, it's still a few months, let's talk about it then. Xiao Peng responded, how can it be so fast to order a watch, Xiao Peng told Qi Dong that the time was four months in advance, just taking advantage of the passage of the typhoon now, Xiao Peng put all his energy on making watches for Patti Hirst.
The design drawings of the watch were designed by Qi Donglai, after all, he is the designer of Harry Winster, and it is still easy to design a watch.
Xiao Peng looked at the design of the watch, and could only describe it in two words: soil! I don't understand what the crooked nuts think, the main tone of red and green makes Xiao Peng unable to love it. In addition to the blueprints, there is only one movement. But this movement is unusual.
You know, at present, the most mainstream movements in the world's watch market are from ETA movements, which is the world's largest manufacturer of finished and semi-finished movements, which was born in 1793 as a watch manufacturer, and later specialized in making watch movements, and now has more than 9,000 employees in Switzerland and around the world, with an output of hundreds of millions.
Don't underestimate the movement of the watch, in the international watch market, the watch movement also has strict standards, different watch movements with different grades of watches, and the watch as a symbol of men's status, its grade division is quite detailed.
The top watch movements, almost all of which are carefully made by the watch factory, are generally made of complication watch movements, polished and elegant, fully showing the technical strength of the watch factory, and the watch movement that Qi Donglai gave Xiao Peng is obviously a boutique carefully created by Swatch: the surface is a map of the cosmic starry sky, and the time display function is realized in the staggered transformation of the blue sky, Sirius and the moon. The date indication function and the moon phase function, the blue tone of the surface is set with tiny diamonds to create a beautiful picture of the northern hemisphere starry sky, and at the same time delicately depict the 12 house constellations, which does not look like a watch movement, but a mysterious universe. Such a movement can increase the difficulty of Xiao Peng's production. Xiao Peng didn't want to spoil such a good watch movement, so Xiao Peng worked hard to make this watch!
For three whole days, Xiao Peng didn't go out of the room, except for Yang Meng who came in to deliver food, Xiao Peng stayed in the room to make this watch, Xiao Peng changed the raw materials slightly, and took out the emerald beryl found from the bottom of the sea before, after all, beryl is more thorough than jadeite, and it is used to make the watch shell, which looks both beautiful and noble, and the bracelet is embossed with the zodiac signs, echoing the starry sky map on the surface of the watch.
The watch was done, the weather finally cleared, Xiao Peng walked out of the room, but saw Yang Meng looking down and holding his mobile phone with a serious expression: "Mengzi, what are you doing?"
Yang Meng heard Xiao Peng call himself, suddenly looked left and right with a mysterious expression, and lowered his voice and asked Xiao Peng: "Xiao Peng, do you manage your finances?"
"What do you mean?" Yang Meng, a financial idiot, actually started talking about financial management? Xiao Peng felt as if he had taken the wrong script.
Yang Meng took the phone and said: "Some time ago, I took a girl, but I didn't expect it to be a financial consultant, and I thought it was very good to introduce me to a financial management method." ”
When Xiao Peng heard it: "Oh, it's not a liar, right?" There is no way, when you hear about financial management and investment in Huaxia, the first thing that comes to mind is a liar.
Yang Meng said: "That girl drives a Cayenne, wears a famous brand, and at first glance is not bad at the owner, only in her early twenties, and she earns money by financial management." ”
"What did she say?" Xiao Peng was also interested.
Yang Meng thought for a while: "They are an Internet finance plus financing leasing company, which is a model of the combination of financing and financing, different from the traditional P2P model, it is a new A2P business model, and it has been advertised on major TV stations, including CCVV. And the platform has a lot of large targets, with a rate of return of up to 13%, how to see how cost-effective, and the most important thing is that it allows you to redeem your investment at any time, and the risk is very small. ”
After Xiao Peng heard this, he patted Yang Meng on the shoulder: "Brother, you didn't invest money, did you?"
"Not yet, what's wrong?" Yang Meng asked.
"Of course there's a problem, it's a standard 'Ponzi scheme'!" Xiao Peng said.
"Ponzi scheme, what do you mean?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.
"The so-called 'Ponzi scheme' originated from an Italian named Charles Ponzi, who immigrated to the United States in 1903, bent on making a fortune, and went to prison in Canada for forgery, and in Atlanta, the United States, because of smuggling and squatting in prison, and later he found that the fastest way to make money is finance, so from 1919, he designed an investment plan in Boston, sold to the public, this investment plan is very simple, is to invest in something, and then get a high return. However, he deliberately made this almost very complicated, so that ordinary people could not understand it at all, he claimed that all investments could get a 40% return in 90 days, and he also gave people the evidence that 'seeing is believing', and the first batch of 'investors' did get the return promised by Pounds within the specified time, so the following 'investors' followed up in large numbers and deceived about 40,000 Boston investors, involving 15 million. Pounds finally lived the life of his dreams, living in a twenty-room villa, buying more than a hundred expensive suits, with special leather shoes, a cane with gold inlays, and a pipe with diamonds!" Xiao Peng explained.
"Do you mean this kind of investment is a scam?" Yang Meng said. "That's on CCVV TV. Moreover, a bunch of banks cooperate with them, such as Huaxia Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Industrial Bank, and China Construction Bank, all of which are well-known state-owned enterprises. ”
Xiao Peng nodded: "The yield of more than 13 percent is enough to catch up with the loan sharks! What happened to the CCVV? The 'Ant Power God' scam and the '10,000 miles of afforestation' scam, which one of them had never been advertised on the CCVV? That sketch king surnamed Zhao also patted his chest to the people of the whole country in the CCVV1 set to assure the people of the whole country! Money can be channeled, as long as you can make a bloody investment, the Great Hall can put advertisements, as long as it is profitable, everyone is willing to cooperate, and just hyping up the concept will not make money. ”
"Don't fool me, why did you hear you say so scary?" Yang Meng was still skeptical.
Xiao Peng said: "Don't be stupid, the rate of return is more than 13%, the bank interest rate is 2%-3%, and the highest wealth management product is 5%-6%, what did he do to have such a high return? I really think that everyone is Xue Manzi, invested 250,000 meters of gold, and earned 960 million Chinese dollars? 250,000 meters of gold invested in Cai Wensheng, and earned tens of billions? Ordinary financial investments, without such high returns, such as domestic pyramid schemes, are all Ponzi schemes, and you are definitely too." It won't take three years, and I'm sure I'll be done!"
Seeing that Yang Meng still didn't believe it, Xiao Peng smiled: "In recent years, almost all domestic financial cases have been Ponzi schemes, Wu Ying case, little girl case, as well as the Northeast Double Ants, Ant Lishen Case and Gaixian Ant Case, Pan Asia 430 Case, Inner Mongolia 10,000 People Afforestation Case, which is not such a 'Ponzi scheme?' In the end, it is always the people who suffer and the people who invest in it." If you have to invest, I won't stop you, anyway, be prepared for the money to go down the drain. ”
Yang Meng nodded and said, "You said so, I'm stupid to steal money from it again, Made, that girl looks good, and I want to play with her a few more times." ”
Xiao Peng smiled: "How can you cheat money from you if you look ugly? If it is really as you say, it won't take long to get caught, don't believe it, let's see." What Xiao Peng said is also very true. Female sex is always one of the best ways to deal with men.
Yang Meng asked another question: "Why do so many Ponzi schemes succeed? It stands to reason that now that people are getting smarter and more knowledgeable, why are so many people still fooled?"
"It's very simple, pull the tiger skin as a banner, spend money to promote in the media, create a regular image, and then invite celebrities to make endorsements, and use the popularity of celebrities to achieve their own purpose of cheating money. Don't talk about others, just say that you're not all tempted?" Xiao Peng said with a smile.
"These celebrities are all special bastards! Help deceive so many people, don't they take responsibility?" Yang Meng scolded.
Xiao Peng said disdainfully: "Take responsibility? Back then, a certain sketch king and ant power god case defrauded 300,000 people! The amount involved reached 20 billion Huaxia coins! The collusion between officials and businessmen is called a, and the main culprit is a philanthropist and a member of the top ten outstanding young pioneers, if it were not for the arrest of the main culprit in the end, I am afraid that this case is still according to relevant laws, regulations, and policies, and some search results have not been displayed! Even today, this matter is still confused, because I don't know how many years the sentencing is! The deceived ant farmer did not receive a penny of compensation in the end, and the Northeast sketch king, who worked hard for the 'Ant Power God' back then, is driving a private jet and a luxury RV today, living a rich life!"
"He's not responsible?" Yang Meng's eyes widened.
Xiao Peng said with a smile: "Of course I am responsible, but people have said that I just took my salary to make an endorsement, and now there are so many false endorsements, why can you bear with him? Therefore, it really makes sense to say that the drama is misleading the country! We in Huaxia must rectify the entertainment industry and the media as soon as possible, and we are all going to do things for criminals for money! If we don't rectify it, if the current situation continues to develop, our Huaxia will suffer a big loss sooner or later!"
Yang Meng frowned and said: "But if you ask young people now, nine out of ten want to be stars, and even on the Internet, the most popular is entertainment literature, find a blockbuster." ”
"Do you still read the Internet?" Xiao Pengle said: "I remember that you hate reading the most!"
"Idle, idle. Yang scratched his head violently, still a little embarrassed.
Xiao Peng also smiled: "I'll tell you why there are so many entertainment essays, because entertainment essays are best written, conceiving some plots, copying ancient poems, copying lyrics, and the manuscript fee will be paid." Don't you believe it? You go and see, nine out of ten entertainment articles are like this. ”
"What about the one who doesn't copy the lyrics?" Yang Meng asked.
"Oh, that's street entertainment that no one reads. ”
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