Chapter 1034: Kuirut Patriarch
After hunting a deer and a wild boar in the jungle, they carried them back to Sam's cabin, packed up their prey and roasted it, and the two women, Emily and Lille, set up the tables and chairs.
Jacob and Paul drove to Fox Town to buy alcohol, and Jiang Hao gave them $1,000 at once, which was a huge amount of money, a few dollars a pack of beer, a few dollars a dozen dollars a bottle of liquor, and Jacob's pickup truck was full of a bucket.
When Jacob and the others returned, the wild boar and venison were just roasted, and everyone couldn't help but cheer when they saw so much wine, and the banquet officially began.
There was a lot of frolicking outside Sam's cabin, and now they were a family, the Kuirut Werewolf Family, halfway through drinking, Jiang Hao raised his glass and said, "I have something to announce." ”
As soon as the others heard that the leader had something to say, they immediately lowered their voices, Jiang Hao smiled, and finally looked at Sam and said: "Sam was the first to awaken in our generation, and the people who awakened later have all been taken care of and taught by Sam, and Sam has contributed to the Kuirut Wolf Clan, so I propose that Sam be the deputy leader of the Kuirut Wolf Clan." ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then cheered, "Okay, we support!" ”
In fact, in the current wolf pack, Sam's prestige is very high, he was the first to awaken, often the path is the most difficult and tired, and the people who awakened one after another, such as Paul, Embry, Gerled, Jill, Brady, Colin, all grew up under Sam's teaching, and even included Jacob and Seth later, Jiang Hao just woke up and grabbed the position of the wolf king, some people are inevitably a little uncomfortable in their hearts, but his bloodline and strength are there, so he suppressed others, but Jiang Hao understands that he wants to stabilize the group, Sam is a very important part, and if Sam is stable, he will stabilize most of the race.
Another point is that Sam has a very calm temperament, does things steadily, and is also a suitable manager, fully qualified to be a deputy commander.
In contrast, Jacob is a little worse, and he is a little too emotional, and Jiang Hao feels that Jacob still needs a period of learning and growth.
Sam was also a little surprised by Jiang Hao's appointment, he was silent for a few seconds, then stood up and walked in front of Jiang Hao, looked at Jiang Hao and said: "My great-ancestor Livai Uli used to be the deputy commander of the Kuirut Wolf Clan, following the King of Ten Thousand Wolves, Karene Black, and now I, Sam Uli, swear to follow Jon Black. ”
After Sam finished speaking, he put his right hand into a fist on his chest, and bowed his head slightly in front of Jiang Hao, this is Sam expressing his surrender and loyalty.
Jiang Hao was not worried about Sam's plot to betray, so he pulled up his team to fight against Jiang Hao, because this is not the character of a werewolf, and humans will play those tricks.
The wolf clan is one of the most rule-oriented races, and loyalty to the wolf king is engraved in their genes, since they recognize the wolf king, they will not betray easily, unless the wolf king betrays the clan first.
The wolf clan also has a tradition, if you want to compete for the wolf king, you can, but you have to defeat the wolf king head-on, and win the position of the wolf king with your strength, otherwise you will not be recognized by other werewolves.
Is Jiang Hao afraid of head-on challenges?
unafraid
He has absolute confidence that with his strength, he will serve every giant wolf.
In fact, even if someone wants to play conspiracy, it doesn't matter, Jiang Hao himself is from a conspiracy background, has experienced so many worlds, and has seen so many conspiracies and tricks, he is really not afraid that someone will play tricks, and it is really in vain to see our Sun Tzu's Art of War and Thirty-six Strategies.
The party lasted until the afternoon, and many people drank too much, Jiang Hao drove Jacob home and saw Uncle Billy in the living room, "Uncle, I'll send Jacob to the room first." ”
"Go ahead."
Throwing Jacob on the bed, Jiang Hao returned to the living room, Billy was obviously waiting for him, Jiang Hao smiled at Billy, "Uncle, my bloodline has awakened, I defeated Sam, and now I am the new generation of Kuirut Wolf King Alpha." ”
Billy had a smile on his face, but he didn't show too much surprise, "When I heard the wolf howl this morning, I had a little guess in my heart, and I was very much looking forward to you, Jon, I am very relieved that there is another alpha in the Black family. ”
But then, Billy's face became solemn, looked at Jiang Hao and said, "Jon, alpha is not only a right, but also a responsibility, and the responsibility of the wolf king is to lead the clan to live better and let the clan multiply." ”
Jiang Hao nodded, "Yes, uncle, I understand my responsibility, and I will do my best to make the Kuirut people and the wolf clan live better." ”
The uncle and nephew talked a lot, talking about the current situation of the Indians, who are a race at the bottom of the United States, and the infrastructure of the reservation area is very poor, and there are no roads, no water, electricity, and no Internet in many places.
Take their Kuirut reservation as an example, their reservation is a community, there are more than 3,000 Indians in total, primary, middle and high schools, but here from teachers to students are Indians, the dropout rate is very high, many families here live a simple rural life, engaged in planting, hunting, animal husbandry, etc., a family can have an income of 10,000 or 20,000 a year.
They only have one village here, and there are about 1,000 people living in the village, and the remaining 2,000 people are scattered on their own land in the reserve, just like Jiang Hao owns his own land, and his home is in his own land.
In this way, it is still in a semi-agricultural life, how can there be great development, Jiang Hao looked at Billy and said: "Uncle, I have some ideas, I hope to change the status quo of the reservation area and make people's lives better." ”
"Oh, tell me?" Billy asked.
"Uncle, what do you think is the most inseparable from the development of a place?" Jiang Hao asked.
"Money, investment."
Jiang Haoxin said that you are really real, "Yes, if you want to develop, you can't do without investment, but if you want to invest, you have to find a way to make money, do you say yes?" ”
"Yes."
"My idea is to use the unique advantages of the reservation to make money, so that people can make more money and improve people's lives." Jiang Hao said.
Billy frowned, "You mean opening a casino?" ”
Except for some specific places in the United States, such as Las Vegas and Atlantic City, most states are prohibited from gambling, but the government has decrees that allow casinos to be opened freely in Indian reservations.
"But we're too remote here, in the Olympia Mountains, with only a few thousand people nearby in Fox Town, who would come here to gamble?"
Jiang Hao shook his head, "Casinos don't work here, I thought of several ways, the first is to use the government's exemption of luxury tax and tobacco and alcohol monopoly tax in the reserved area to sell luxury goods and high-end tobacco and alcohol." ”
Billy said: "I know that the Navajo tribe is selling luxury goods and high-end tobacco and alcohol, and I use this one, but because there are casinos there, and there are tourists and gamblers who go to sell them, we have no one here, and it is difficult to make money by selling things." ”
The Navajo Nation is the largest American Indian reservation, located in the wilderness of the western Colorado Plateau, a large part of the Grand Canyon is in the Indian reservation, the area of this reservation is 70,000 square kilometers, twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of almost 300,000 people, and it is also the largest group of North American Indians.
The Navajo Nation is also the head of the Indian Reservation Alliance, of which the Quirut Reservation is also a member, and Billy is one of the League members.
The Navajo tribe can do that, but they can't do it in their Quirut colony, where their reservation is too small, a few thousand acres in size, about the size of a large farm, and it's deep in the mountains, so there are no tourists and no buyers for luxury goods.
"Uncle, I'm going to sell it on the Internet." Jiang Hao had already planned for this.
"Network?"
Billy had heard the term, but he didn't know anything about the web.
"Uncle, the Internet can connect people all over the United States, and even the world, I plan to put some high-tax luxury goods, tobacco and alcohol on the Internet for sale, if someone buys it, mail it to him, as long as it is a commodity from our residential area, it can be tax-free, so that even if the shipping fee is deducted, it can be much cheaper than the outside store." Jiang Hao said.
Jiang Hao wants to get the American version of Taobao and Jingdong out, it is now 2003, Amazon has just begun to sell things other than books on the Internet, Taobao was also established this year, he set up a low-cost online store that sells luxury tobacco and alcohol, it should be very marketable.
You must know that the luxury tax in the United States is generally 30%~50%, and the tobacco and alcohol monopoly tax is as high as 60%, and this tax does not have to be paid in the reserved area.
Billy still didn't understand, "Wouldn't it be troublesome?" ”。
"It's not easy, such as websites, such as payment methods, such as express transportation, etc., but you can make money if you do it well." Jiang Hao said.
"Wouldn't it be illegal to do that, you know, the government people are actually keeping an eye on us all the time?" Billy asked.
"No, I've already checked the federal law, this way of operating is completely legal, and the tax office can't do anything about us." Jiang Hao said with a smile.
You must know that in the United States, the most bullish is not the CIA and FBI, but the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service.
There is an American proverb: "In this world, only death and paying taxes are eternal." The IRS has huge and pervasive powers, and the FBI has all of them, and has been hailed as "the most feared government department in the United States." Breaking the law in the United States does not mean going to jail, but not paying taxes will definitely go to jail.
"It's a lot of money, right?" Billy asked.
"Not a lot, I'm afraid the initial investment will not be less than 3 million US dollars." Jiang Hao said.
Billy had a shocked look on his face, "3 million, this money is not something that anyone can come up with, it seems that this business can't be done." ”
Jiang Hao smiled, "Uncle, I will find a way to raise money." ”
Billy took a deep look at his nephew a few times, and suddenly felt that he had matured a lot, perhaps because of the awakening of the bloodline, after the werewolf awakened the bloodline, he would quickly mature and become a young man about 25 years old, but Jiang Hao gave him a greater feeling that he was mature in his heart, he seemed to know what he was going to do, and he was very confident in what he was doing.
"Okay Jon, I can feel that you are very confident, I support you, as long as Uncle can do it, I will do my best to help you." Billy Road.
"Thank you, uncle."
Jiang Hao thanked him, and then continued, "I still have some ideas, but these can be done slowly, now the land in the reserve area is very scattered, many of them are cultivated by themselves, and the way is very backward, I think it can be made into a large farm and ranch, and find someone to operate it, of course, everyone is a shareholder, in addition to the profit of the farm, some people will be recruited to work on the farm, so that there will be wages to earn." ”
"Big farms? Can you make money? Billy asked.
"Grow ordinary crops, and then you can grow cash crops, although we are humid here, there are still cash crops that can be planted, and I have checked, some tobacco likes our humid environment here, and when it is planted, we can make cigars, if we play the brand, then we can make more money, and the most important thing is that there can be many people to work." Jiang Hao said.
"Another one is that it can be opened up as a tourist area, maybe tourists from the United States don't like to come to such a remote place as ours, but tourists from some countries may like it." Jiang Hao said with a smile.
"Where are the tourists?"
"China, the Chinese are now becoming richer and richer, and more importantly, they are numerous, several times the population of the United States, many of them like to travel, like to come to the United States to see, as long as we do well, open a tourist route should be no problem, such as building garden-like hotels in the village, advocating eco-tourism, raising dozens of horses, tourists can ride at will."
"Appreciate the dances, songs, and music of the Indians, learn about the history of the Indians, and at the same time spread our culture."
"To establish a shooting range, China completely bans guns, and many people have never touched a gun in their lives, and they come and shoot casually, of course, they have to pay for bullets."
"Or take them into the mountains and forests to hunt, there are so many animals in the mountains and forests, wild boars and wild deer, hunting a wild boar is $1,000 and a deer is $2,000, I think they will be happy to pay."
"Do you have to charge money for hunting prey? A wild boar costs $1,000? Billy looked at Jiang Hao in surprise, thinking that he was wrong.
"Uncle, you know, you can't hunt casually in other parts of the United States, but we can reserve areas, this is the uniqueness, you say, for those prey, we can help the guests make food for free, hold a bonfire or something." Jiang Hao said with a smile.
After listening to Jiang Hao's words, Billy pondered for a while, then suddenly looked at Jiang Hao and said, "Jon, are you willing to become the patriarch of the Quirute people, I mean now?" ”
Now Jiang Hao is the wolf king, and he is also the heir of the next generation of patriarchs, when Billy dies or can't do it, the patriarch will naturally fall to Jiang Hao, Billy originally wanted to work for a few years, but after listening to Jiang Hao's thoughts, he suddenly gave birth to the idea of handing over the patriarch position to him, maybe this is the best for Kuirut talents.
Jiang Hao was slightly surprised in his heart, "You want to pass on the position of the patriarch to me now?" ”
"My legs are inconvenient, many times I can only stay at home, I am also old, and many things have not been exposed to at all, such as the online sales you just mentioned, I think your idea is very good, after you become the patriarch, you can do things better." Billy Road.
Jiang Hao pondered for a while, Billy didn't urge him, and after a few minutes, Jiang Hao raised his head and said, "Okay uncle, I am willing to be the patriarch of the Kuirut people." ”