Chapter 22 deals with numbers

After the few people were seated, Tony had some food and wine served, and then told Becker and Edmund some information that was not clear on the phone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

These bandits were originally a group of pirates, because they failed to fight with other pirates, and the remaining remnants of the defeated army did not dare to continue to roam the sea, and the pirate ship sank again, so they took a small boat to the land and fell into the grass.

However, although these people are the losers who escaped from the sea, as former pirates, they are also a group of outlaws through and through - pirates who beg for a living on the sea, not only have to face the pursuit of the navy, but also have to be wary of greedy peers, but also have to face the unpredictable bad weather on the ocean, it can be said that they dance on the tip of a knife every day, this kind of person is not something that a gang of port village hooligans like Tony dares to provoke easily.

So when Becker asked Tony and the others if they had been in direct contact with the bandits, as Becker expected, Tony and the others shook their heads very dryly, and they didn't even dare to move the bandit who inquired about the news of the mead.

"I came to you just to ask you what you can do." As Tony spoke, he took the cigar out of his bosom, cut it, and threw it to Becker and Edmund.

Becker took the cigar, but didn't move, just played with it in his hand, he had a smoking addiction in his previous life, and he also smoked cigars, but this body in this life is obviously not addicted to smoking, and now the body is young, and he has to do heavy physical exercise, and he is not addicted to physiology, so Becker also suppressed his psychological dependence and temporarily quit smoking.

Edmund unceremoniously lit the cigar, but he couldn't smoke it at all, and coughed for a long time after two puffs, and finally only held the lit cigar in his hand to make a pretentious appearance.

Tony, Manny, and Angie also lit cigars, and the table where Becker and the others were suddenly covered in smoke.

A few men were talking about work while swallowing clouds and spitting fog, which reminded Becker of his experience at work in his previous life, he subconsciously smiled and asked Tony and the others: "Is there anyone among the thieves with a bounty, have you inquired about it?" ”

Tony said in a deep voice: "There is a bounty, their current leader, 900,000 Bailey. ”

Becker scratched his eyebrows, and seemed to feel a little embarrassed in his expression, he has been in this world for a year, and he knows a lot of things, and the reward of 900,000 Bailey is a lot, but in fact, the currency of the world is equivalent to the yen in the previous life, and the 900,000 Bailey is about equivalent to tens of thousands of yuan in the previous life.

On the one hand, since there is a bounty, it means that this pirate also has some reputation for murder on the sea where there are many strongmen, which is not something that a local snake gangster like Tony is willing to provoke, but the reward amount is so low, unless they encounter the navy directly, they have neither much merit nor much oil, and most of the navy are not interested in running to the shore to catch such a person, which shows that it is difficult for Becker and others to count on the navy - at least in a short period of time.

"I think we can consider talking to these bandits." After pondering for some time, Becker gave Tony an offer.

Tony was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "Talk?" What to talk about? ”

Becker repeated his analysis of what Edmund had done, adding: "These people dare to run from the sea to the land, and they should not be so aggressive now, so we give them a few cents, pull them into the business, and usually let them solve some problems that we are not able to deal with." ”

The reason why the business of Becker and others is so good today is because the gift market and health care market in this world are still blank, and they are the first to eat crabs.

But the businessmen of this world are not all fools, sooner or later they will react, the accumulation of capital is bloody, and the competition of capital is even more unreasonable, in the 21st century in the previous life, most of the competitors are still orderly, at most it is a soft knife to stab people, and those who enter the market first can rely on patents and other methods to restrict the novices who enter the market, but before that, the competition of capital can be much more disorderly.

In the early days of facing the imitators, in order to maintain the current profits, Becker does not mind using violence to nip them in the bud, as long as the cost of using bullets is less than the cost of using gold bullets.

"There should already be imitations of our products on the market now, right?" Becker saw that Tony was smoking a cigar and did not speak, so he continued, "Now use the thunderous power to press this trend, our profits can be maintained for a long time, and these thieves are in charge of this." ”

Tony muttered a little unwillingly, "It's not that my people can't do it." ”

Becker raised his eyebrows contemptuously and said, "If you want to kill people and set fires, do your subordinates dare to do it?" Did you do it? ”

Tony didn't say anything, he was as vain and good-looking as ordinary gangsters, but he also understood that it was useless to be stubborn with Becker at this time, his gangsters were good at blackmail, beating people and setting snakes, but when it came to killing people and setting fires, he was 100% guts, and he couldn't do it well if he had the guts, and it would be even more troublesome to be caught by someone when the time came.

Tony smoked a cigar with his head down, and only looked up after a while, and asked Becker with some anxiety: "Pull these hungry wolves in, aren't you afraid that they will eat us without even a single bone?" ”

"You hold the channel well, the two of us echo in the dojo, unite, and don't be afraid of a few of them being defeated."

In fact, Becker's real mind is in this sentence, he is an old fritter, there are many people in the workplace, and he is most worried about others pit himself, when it comes to power, there are far more ways in his stomach than Tony and Edmund, the gangsters and young people.

Becker is a power-hungry man who likes to plan ahead, so he doesn't mind bringing in foreign capital to neutralize the current internal power structure of the mead business, as long as it is controllable.

A disorderly market, even if you are a businessman, cannot avoid relying on bullets and fists. Becker will inevitably have to make a living at sea in the future, he must protect his own force, and his main energy before his personal art is definitely still on the dojo, the training of the dojo will consume a lot of time, and the mead business will want to expand in the next period, and the most important thing is to seize the market, but Becker has no time to do it at all, so his influence on the mead business will become more and more diluted.

When the business gets bigger and bigger, Tony's consideration for Becker and Edmund will become smaller and smaller, so Becker has grown up to a certain age, whether it is prestige, seniority or force, he has completely overwhelmed Tony's group, and before the entrepreneurial team is dominant, he will not have many ideas to encourage the business to expand to the point that it is difficult for him to control, and when Becker grows up in a few years, the health care market and gift market must have been developed to a certain extent, and the situation of Honoré Mead's dominance is 100% gone. There is bound to be a whole bunch of competitors popping up in the market.

So even now, Becker didn't think about how big the business would be, but it was just a random layout at the beginning, on the one hand, for the living expenses of the dojo study, and on the other hand, if the pirates had a small rear in the future, they could be replenished at critical moments; When the navy has a small coffer, it can make friends and bribe superiors to support its own private soldiers; When the maritime has the start-up capital.

What he values most is his ability to control this business, at present, Tony's group has too much power, and the introduction of a gang of bandits can indeed crack down on imitators and protect the profits of the current mead business, but the most important thing is to make Tony jealous of the pirates, and Becker gets closer, Tony in the province always has someone who is jealous of the forty percent of the profits, and encourages Tony to kick himself and Edmond away, after being kicked away, even if Becker and Edmund and Tony fight for a victory, lose Tony, the head snake, The mead business is also considered yellow.

The most important thing is that although the bandits are ferocious, they are actually controllable for Becker, the identity of this group of people cannot be put on the table, although the navy is not profitable early, and may not be interested in catching the bandits, but as long as Becker gives money, the navy will definitely not mind adding a small merit in the case of oil and water, and when Becker feels that these people are not easy to control, he can spend a sum of money to bribe the navy to come to the door to "eliminate harm for the people".

Tony is just a gangster leader, how can he count Becker's scumbag thinking so much, the business has just started, and the money has not been made for long, so he remembers to change the power structure of the business, calculates himself early, and he is still seriously thinking about Becker's excuses.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that what Becker said made sense—or that it was not cost-effective to provoke the bandits—and agreed with Becker's opinion, and decided to let people pass on the news to the bandits, and the two sides negotiated.

In front of Becker and Edmond, shouting and arranging for the man to negotiate with the bandit when the time comes, Becker watched Tony toss noncommittally, and inexplicably thought of watching Hong Kong gangster films in his previous life, and the scene of the two gangs of underworld "talking about numbers".