Chapter 100: Vanity Fair
To see whether a person is cultured or not, whether he is an unscrupulous pragmatist, it is often enough to see his evaluation of the history of the founding of the United States. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the eyes of ordinary slings, or liberal arts and illiterates, the history of the founding of the United States is a pure great history.
But in the eyes of black-bellied readers, no matter what the final result is, at least the original trigger is ridiculous:
Although the British did reiterate a stricter tea tax system before the founding of the United States, the confrontation between the two sides was also serious. But the fuse that triggered the anger and resistance was that a group of poor people destroyed their goods and burned their ships because "the East India Company wanted to sell them cheap tea for them to drink".
Anyone who has used his brain knows that the most motivated person to destroy tea and coerce the people is John Brown, the richest man in Boston and the richest man in North America 230 years ago. Hancock. That guy imports 6 million pounds of oolong tea from Wuyishan every year, monopolizes the tea smuggling trade throughout North America, and finally signed the "Declaration of Independence" the largest and most conspicuously.
As for the first batch of people who really did their hands to eat melons, if they didn't collect Hancock's money, it can only be said that the IQ of those people is not as good as the Internet trolls 200 years later.
"You admire someone like Hancock?" Gu Cheng looked at the ruins outside the car window and asked Saverin in a playful whisper.
"Man is not for himself...... Hehe, it's not about worship or worship. Saverin slurred the question with a Tai Chi.
"Yes, a guy who can take advantage of it." Gu Cheng thought secretly in his heart.
The car soon arrived at the Poncelet Club.
It was a traditional New England building, built in the middle of a hill by the sea, but it didn't have large windows and didn't look very well lit. It is completely different from Gu Cheng's impression that the IT elites in the United States like to be bright.
It may be because Boston is located at a high latitude and has very cold winters, even though it is supported by the North Atlantic Current, it still can't withstand the all-glass structure. And Gu Cheng's impression of preference is obviously at the level of those luxury houses in Sunny Beach in Southern California.
It's a pure and serious WASP world, and even the word Poncelet is actually derived from French, and English can't be spelled at all.
The fact that an elite club in the United States is proud to be named in French shows that it has a long history, at least before the founding of the United States - it was only in that ancient times that people on the North American continent generally believed that French was more high-end and literary than English.
Under normal circumstances, Saverin's Kalai can't bring so many friends with you, at most you can bring a female companion. But he apparently had the contact details of the club's top management, called ahead to explain who he had brought with him today, and then naturally all the way unimpeded.
A VIP who will have the opportunity to land on the NASDAQ next year can't go anywhere in this world.
"Be mentally prepared, don't look at the house outside is so rigorously decorated, it's a bunch of crazy people inside." Before entering the hall, Saverin gave Gu Cheng a preventive shot.
Sure enough, as soon as he entered the house, Gu Cheng smelled a strong smell of hemp leaves, as well as the smell of alcohol and various gonadal secretions, and the flamboyant cologne.
Of course, with his pure goodness, he must not have known that the big-hemp flavor is the big-hemp flavor, he only knew that it was a strong smoke.
"This is the elite of the rice people?" Gu Cheng suddenly felt a contrast. Even Zuckerberg, who had never been to such a place behind him, felt uncomfortable.
They were just looking for a place to have a drink.
"Hey, the house is built in a decent way, and it's like that inside. What do you think those stockbrokers on Wall Street do every day? It's not at least two or three handfuls of Jeck-off, and then a few more in three or five bottles. Saverin looked like a veteran of the flowers, and after speaking, he lowered his voice and emphasized, "I mean that if there is a woman, it is still Jeck-off." ”
It's really a bunch of flies and dogs.
Gu Cheng suddenly felt a little sympathetic to the poor worms who stared at the index every day and counted life and death, and had to masturbate angrily to relieve pressure every moment for missing a fluctuation.
"Find a cleaner compartment, you can do whatever you want." Gu Cheng looked around the environment and took out a card for Saverin to swipe casually.
"No, tonight's PARTY is a $10,000 admission fee, and after you come in, it's all up to your ability, and there is no additional spending." Saverin pushed Gu Chengdika back, then went straight to arrange the place, and then beckoned the bartender to order a bunch of things.
The green apple Martini, the bright red Bloody Mary, the orange Tequila sunrise, and the dark brown Cuba Libre are all served in the "big road" cocktail category, but most people who know wine can taste the four major base wines used behind the blending, and the selection of ingredients is very extraordinary.
Out of curiosity, Gu Cheng chose a glass of Freedom Cuba. He had the impression that this wine was only enjoyed by tropical vacationers, and it seemed a little out of place in a serious city like Boston. The rum is sweet, and when mixed with cola, it's basically just for people to drink.
Through the glass windows of the cubicles, a group of restless and dancing flesh can be seen in the hall; There are also some young people who sit in the booth and play cards, and they actually take off their clothes while gambling, which is no different from the gold cave in Hong Kong films.
"You said there is no extra consumption here, do Ivy League girls usually play like this?" Gu Cheng frowned slightly, judging from the performance, the service here does not seem to be contracted by the young lady who came out, so could it be that the member girls here are also so unrestrained?
"Girls can't let go of the wreckage, this is the United States, which is different from your Huaxia." Saverin stirred the straw in his glass and said jokingly, "Of course, it's true that there aren't as many girls as there are boys, and to tell you the truth, there are fifty models here every day like Cover Girls or Victoria's Secret Angels...... Make up the gap between men and women, you know. How about it, is there any interest in experiencing it. ”
Gu Cheng secretly thought, it would be similar to the dirty honey of the wild model of the sea and sky feast. This situation is more common in Hollywood, and the East Coast is such crazy that it is out of place. So he declined Saverin's kindness:
"Forget it, you know my identity, what kind of woman I don't want in Huaxia, these goods are not clean and uninteresting."
"Hehe, dirty? Then don't expect to throw money at it, just look at your personality. With your face and talent, you can also catch girls who usually hide in the cubicle and watch like you. Saverin pointed to the curtain behind the upstairs behind the curtain of glass, "It's full of people like you, just watching the excitement, or meeting customers to talk about business and scientific research projects, but if you don't end up, you can catch it." ”
Gu Cheng drank two more glasses and said that he would think about it: "Thank you, you guys go to cool first, leave me alone, I'll just take a look." ”
"You're welcome." Saverin, the rich second generation, was already a little, and called Kirkland and Orosen to go to the hall to find the girl together, and then wanted to pull Zackerberg together, "Hey, Mark, what about you?" ”
"No, Erica and I just got on the hook, so let's be a little more restrained." Zuckerberg was still a little embarrassed.
Saverin was disdainful: "you! I don't know you yet? If you're really so 'pure', why didn't you bring Erica with you today? Since you're alone, don't pretend. ”
Zuckerberg craned his neck to distinguish: "That's different, Erica is only from Boston University, how can she be worthy of this kind of high-IQ club." ”
Gu Cheng almost didn't have a glass of wine when he heard it, and said in his heart that it was no wonder that Zuckerberg wanted to share with his current girlfriend, and even looked down on his girlfriend's IQ. Any woman who has a little self-esteem and can't stand his sense of intelligence superiority will definitely be finished in the end.
Such a person, even if he is not abusive, is not because he has a good character, but because he finds it boring, or his brain circuits are different from most people. What they need is a woman to worship his intelligence, and then nothing else can be seen, which woman can give him this kind of spiritual satisfaction, and can hang such a technical nerd.
"Mark, just by your words, even if you are 'dedicated', you and Erica will not be able to last long." Saverin was laughed at by Keiyou, and he slipped Zuckerberg and flashed.
Then Gu Cheng watched the four scum houses find women one after another, and then hid in a dark corner.
The other three aesthetics are relatively normal, or the main thing to choose a woman is to look at her posture. And Zuckerberg is quite different, he was stunned to find a woman of mixed Asian and Latin descent who was almost disgusting in Gu Cheng's eyes, and the only bright spot may be that the woman's demeanor is more flattering, and at the same time, her speech and demeanor are more accessible.
After just one day of contact, Gu Cheng felt that he had grasped Zuckerberg's weakness.
This is a tech nerd who doesn't care about money or women, but is very lacking in flattery and stammering from the opposite sex. If you want to further control him for your own use, it is much more useful to give him face than to give him benefits.
GU CHENG CAN EVEN SPECULATE THAT THE ORIGINAL MOTIVE OF ZACK IN ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE TO ENGAGE IN FACEBOOK IS JUST TO MAKE HIS PRETENDING TO BE SEEN AND WORSHIPED BY MORE PEOPLE, AND TO BECOME A POPULAR BISHOP AND PRETEND LEADER ON CAMPUS. And didn't expect to become a billionaire.
At least, in 2003. As for how Zack's ambitions will swell in the future, that's all later.
Just as regardless of whether Cao Cao in his later years was inflated to the point of becoming King Wen of Zhou, at least when he first started his army, what he thought in his heart was indeed "After his death, he had to inscribe the epitaph 'The Tomb of Cao Hou, the General of the Han Expedition to the West', and the rest of his wish was enough."
Thinking of the smugness, Gu Cheng picked up a glass of Bloody Mary without chili powder and celery, put on sunglasses, and prepared to go out for a walk. Even if you don't play with women, there's nothing wrong with shopping around and seeing them.
Because there was always a faint smell in the hall, Gu Cheng couldn't help but walk to the terrace on the third floor to breathe. It's the end of May, and the nights aren't very cool.
The terrace was very empty, Gu Cheng looked at the railing, and no one disturbed him left and right. Only on the other side of the terrace, there seemed to be a woman who had drunk too much and was vomiting in the trash.