Chapter 37: The Gap Between Reality and Virtuality
"There is only a small gap between people, but this small gap makes a huge difference" - Napoleon Hill
The experience of ordinary people mostly comes from the reception of information, but now it is a society with an explosion of information, and information is pouring into each individual from all sides.
But for Huadongqiang, he has always resisted the erosion of the flood of information.
He doesn't use a smart phone, because a variety of APPs, a variety of sensors and a variety of information collection channels on the smart phone will leak his privacy, and he doesn't want everything about himself to be naked in the outside world.
He doesn't use a desktop computer, because after the desktop computer is connected to the Internet, all kinds of videos, all kinds of games, and all kinds of concerts erode people's will, making him addicted to the illusory world and unable to extricate himself.
He doesn't drink, and he hates to drink and brag with friends who don't seem to be reliable, and he doesn't know anything but blind comparisons.
He is not promiscuous, the ancients said that Gentle Township is a hero's mound, and the red face is also a disaster.
He has familiar people and a beautiful female companion, he often chats with his friends through the laptop, also chats about business, also learns knowledge on the laptop, occasionally travels on business, and often takes the female companion to different places.
He also has a regular life, opening the shop at 8 a.m. and closing at 8 p.m. every day, and after closing, he either sleeps peacefully or chats with friends.
The only thing that can be called a bad habit may be smoking, but it is only to the extent of one pack every three days, and smoking fine cigarettes with low tar amount and low nicotine.
It can be said that the life of East China Qiang is simple and rhythmic, and it is more relaxed and comfortable than ordinary office workers, except for smoking, and it is healthier and more upward than ordinary dead houses.
Well, although his business has nothing to do with relaxation, comfort, health, and progress.
He sells ice.
Huadongqiang debuted 20 years ago, starting from smuggling and smuggling, getting bigger and bigger, and then gradually extended its tentacles to the ice cube business, once monopolizing all the supply in the entire East China region.
At a time when his predecessors, eldest brother, younger brother, peers, cross-river raptors, yin damage head snakes and overseas professionals were all killed or injured, Huadong Qiang, as a well-known "Hua Ge" on the road, has been in the poison circle for more than ten years, and has single-handedly supplied the demand for ice in the entire East China region, satisfying the desires of elites, ordinary and scum users in various industries and fields, ordinary and small doses.
Daily contact with the most basic Nokia feature phone, away from all smart devices, daily business contact only through the laptop in the private set up chat tools, and even for privacy and security, Hua Ge also taught himself to program, through some friends on the road, in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other overseas set up servers, their own development of exclusive chat tools.
Later, the business became bigger and bigger, sufficient funds, cautious character, deceptive appearance, strong gang management ability, ruthless style, amiable appearance, technical means that kept pace with the times, legal trade in traditional Chinese medicine, and controlled the chemical processing business through hidden methods, coupled with several restaurants that were extremely difficult to conduct financial audits and the official internal undercover agents set up after throwing a lot of cash, as well as various types of military reconnaissance and monitoring systems purchased with heavy money, also made him repeatedly escape from being pursued, attacked, and destroyed by the authoritiesγ
And this transaction, if it were not for the extremely large amount and the importance of this transaction, he would never have personally risked his life.
With brains, ideas, funds, technology, and firepower, to some extent, you must not just call Brother Hua an ice seller.
In real life, Hua Ge also scoffed at the black suits, black shirts, black pants, black ties, black sunglasses, black gloves, black pistols, black suitcases, black cars and white ice cube packaging bags in TV movies.
Fuck, you're dressed in black, for fear that others won't know you're the underworld, right?
Brother Hua sat quietly in a Volkswagen Suteng car, with Su A's license plate, the body was covered with the dust of a long journey, and the back butt still had traces of scraping and rear-end collision two days ago.
With a professional smile unique to businessmen, he looks like a middle-aged worker at work more than a small boss.
The white and plump hand carried a Rossini's watch, which was displayed at 23:12, fifteen minutes before the meeting.
There were four other people in the car, a thin young man with a pale face who looked like a programmer with poor sleep, and a middle-aged man with five big and three thick, holding a travel bag, which weighed eighty or ninety kilograms, but he didn't look laborious at all.
The other was an old man of about fifty years old, with gray hair and a few deep wrinkles on his face, who was peeling an apple with a knife.
"Brother Hua, do you want to eat apples?" asked the old man.
"If you don't eat, I'll call again and ask when it's going to be there, and I'll go down and smoke a cigarette. β
Hua Ge came out of the cab, took out the cigarette case, and the Dupont lighter made an ethereal flame, and after a while, a burst of light blue smoke floated in the air.
Before he was halfway through his cigarette, a few dim lights in the distance began to flicker, and after another two minutes or so, the dull sound of the engine could be faintly heard.
"Here", the young man also came out of the passenger seat, took out a military night vision binocular, and looked at the place where the headlights were flashing.
"Three cars, a total of eight or nine people, Hangzhou license plates, right. β
The telescope did its job well, and could still see the general situation clearly from a great distance.
"Gangzi, send a signal to a few brothers outside, let the awl set up the trolls, and strike first if something is wrong"
"Well, good", the thin young man answered, pressed the walkie-talkie, whispered, and then everything was calm again.
"Turn on the lights, get the guys ready, Lao Gong, you look at the car, don't turn off the engine, we won't come back in fifteen minutes, just go over", Brother Hua ordered again, and everyone responded.
Lao Gong answered, got out of the car, came to the driver's seat, pulled the car door and sat in, adjusted the seat and rearview mirror, and gestured to Brother Hua.
Brother Hua and his gang, who were ready, quietly waited for the arrival of the convoy, but the bulging things in their waists and the things in the trunk of the car were displayed, and this transaction was by no means as simple as placing an order online and receiving the goods offline.
The three cars stopped in turn, and they didn't turn off the engine, and the five or six people who came down, Brother Hua took a look, and acquaintances were also inside.
"Hahahaha, Boss Liu is still very punctual, not bad, I like it. β
"Oh, Brother Hua is polite, you are a senior in our circle, how dare you be late in front of you. β
"Don't don't, the brethren have praised it, and they can't be called it. β
......
Business blows each other in under a minute.
"Boss Liu, do you have enough money? β
"Don't worry, you must have brought it all, it is one percent more than the market price, and you must not let Brother Hua suffer, I just don't know how Brother Hua's goods are. β
"Don't dare to say anything else, my goods must be pure, if they are not pure, I will send you for free next time." β
"Okay, good, come according to the rules, pay the money with one hand, deliver the goods with the other, the money is here", Boss Liu on the opposite side signaled, and three big men in sportswear pulled out three boxes from the car and opened them, and the pink light covered Brother Hua's vision in an instant.
The greed in Brother Hua's eyes flashed, but looking at the number of people on the opposite side and the bulging bulge on his waist, he reduced the idea of black eating black, and turned his head to the middle-aged man sitting in the car on his side.
The middle-aged man turned around and got out of the car, first took the big bags in the car, and then took out two big bags from the trunk, and walked out from behind with three big bags as soon as he exerted his strength.
Middle-aged man carrying a bag. , put the bag on the open space in the middle, squatted down, and opened the package with a "snort".
Boss Liu waved his hand, and a small man in a casual suit came out, first raised his hands with both hands, indicating that he was not carrying a weapon, and then took out a small box from the backpack behind him, under the gaze of more than ten pairs of eyes, at a speed that would never cause misunderstanding.
After opening it, there were several reagents commonly used in chemical analysis and testing, and then he raised his head and looked at Brother Hua.
Brother Hua nodded, and the little man quickly picked out three packs in his travel bag, took a little ice from them, added them to each test tube, and threw the last one into his mouth.
Two minutes later, looking at the reaction of the test tube, I carefully tasted the taste in my mouth, and nodded at Boss Liu.
Whew, both sides relaxed slightly.
The travel bag containing ice was thrown into Boss Liu's car, and the three boxes were also returned to the trunk of Brother Hua's car.
The two of them, who were more happy to trade, walked to the middle again and stood still.
"Hahaha, doing business with Boss Liu is a pleasure, next time you need to find me, everyone can earn together. β
"It's easy to say, Brother Hua, you are too, you are really a sincere person. β
The happy man's hand shook the honest man's hand, and the two people with their own thoughts had satisfied smiles on their faces.
Just when the two were about to let go of their hands and go back to make arrangements, a sudden change occurred!