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What is the essence of a businessman?

The people who make a profit by selling high and buying low are called merchants.

How can we maximize the benefits?

Answer: Monopoly.

How can a monopoly be achieved?

Answer: Unite all German businessmen in the same industry to form an absolute alliance of interests, and achieve unity of action within this alliance.

Seven centuries ago, agriculture in Europe was in decline, but by this time, commerce and commerce had taken the place of agriculture and were moving forward. It was the characteristic of the whole of Europe at that time to obtain profits from business, to raise industry with commerce, to promote war with commerce, to use commercial behavior as a war, to affect the whole body, and to use commerce as an industry to promote the development of various industries.

Some people may scoff at this: how can business be as powerful as you say, the so-called Ministry of Commerce and Trade is a freight logistics for buying and selling?

Wrong.

A businessman is an organizer and operator. He first had to pay for the goods, and then there were a lot of risks in the process of trade and freight logistics: thieves, armies, wars, these are all part of it. Merchants have to travel between various countries and regions with different customs, legal systems and religions, and more often than not, they cannot even effectively guarantee the safety of their goods or even their own personal safety.

Businessmen need to face the customs taxes of various countries, pay kickbacks from local officials, and win over or pay a myriad of relevant people (or to put it another way, need to pay protection fees). They need to organize and feed the corresponding intelligence network to decide what goods they should choose; It is necessary to recruit and absorb the corresponding appraisal personnel to distinguish the quality and fineness of the goods; To recognize the collaborators, we must not only trust the collaborators, but also prevent being abducted by the collaborators; Sometimes you have to organize relevant violent people to collect debts because of bad debts.

For these reasons, most businessmen eventually form or join business alliances in their respective industries. In fact, in the beginning, the role of these business alliances was to exchange information and share an additional expense - for example, some people who carry out violent debt collection, such as logistics security personnel. These personnel are not always needed by every businessman, but you can't hire them every time you have a demand, and get rid of them when there is no demand, right? In this case, how can the loyalty of the corresponding personnel be guaranteed? In this way, the establishment of such business alliances became more and more necessary: it was not necessary for a merchant to provide for them, and it was easy for everyone to provide for them together after forming an alliance.

The development of business alliances gradually created a gap between the rich and the poor, and various large conglomerates and chaebols began to appear. Lao Ma has a saying that is very correct, if there is a 300% profit, capital dares to trample on all the laws of the world.

Five centuries ago, a semi-commercial and semi-military alliance called the Night Alliance was born, with nearly forty members. These more than 30 people are the largest businessmen in various industries in the whole European countries. They sparked what became known as the "Age of Discovery" colonization frenzy, in which the Night Alliance used money to bribe those in power to send troops to acquire colonies, monopolizing resources and blackmailing those in power to lower tariffs and open doors. Their actions eventually angered a baron in power at the time, who led his troops into their meeting place and killed most of the organizers and members of the Night Alliance on the spot. The other surviving members of the Night Alliance eventually used the other authorities they already had in their hands to have the baron executed for murder.

After this upheaval, the Night Alliance began to change its way of acting. They manipulate the state and those in power in a more subtle way, hiding their presence behind the actions of the state. After nearly a hundred years of development, the Dark Night Alliance secretly grasped the actual authority of the Netherlands, they controlled the commodity trade between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, replaced the position of the Hanseatic League in the northern trade, and became the monopoly of the distribution of grain, timber, iron, leather, flax and other commodities in the Navian countries and Russia. To make matters worse, the Night Alliance also seized control of the Portuguese trade in their colonies, meaning that the commercial trade between European countries, as well as between European countries and their colonies, could ultimately only be carried out through the merchants of the Night Alliance.

However, at this time, the English Civil War ended, the route of expansion was resumed, the navy was vigorously developed, and in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Dutch were directly banned from participating in the British maritime trade. How could the Night Alliance, as the de facto controller of the Dutch secrets, allow its trade hegemony to be violated in such a way? Thus the war between England and the Netherlands broke out, and three times in a row over trade rights.

For the first time, Britain won, but the Night Alliance suffered no actual losses; The second time, the defeat of England, coupled with the outbreak of the plague and the fire of London, forced to sign a series of treaties; After absorbing the lessons of the previous two wars, Britain adopted both overt and covert assassinations, hunting down a large number of high-level businessmen of the Night Alliance, and at the same time taking the initiative to trigger the third Anglo-Dutch War, due to the assassination and death of a large number of high-level leaders of the Night Alliance who actually controlled the Netherlands, the Netherlands was defeated again, and this time there was no chance to get up again, and Britain became the first generation of world hegemon.

The death of a large number of high-ranking members of the Night Alliance has brought about a change in the thinking of this alliance. Decades later, they returned in a more stealthy and strategic way. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, they bribed politicians in large numbers, and through national acts, Britain and France were the mainstay, and the major European countries began global colonization. Over the next two centuries, they became the world's supercolonial, commercial, and military powers in this era with the powerful navies of European countries, waging colonial wars all over the world, bringing huge economic benefits to merchants - of course, as the actual promoters, the Night Alliance made super-profits in the process. They encouraged colonization initially only to plunder industrial raw materials such as cotton, wool, fuel, coal, and metal ores, but later to open up new markets to digest the finished industrial products they produced, and even to the point of exterminating indigenous peoples to seize space for industrial development, or to plunder populations outright to meet the needs of their big merchants. In the middle of the 19th century, the flames of colonization burned to the land of China, and two tablet wars broke out, and European powers began to annex a large number of Chinese lands. At this time, the high-ranking members of the Night Alliance had reached more than a hundred big businessmen who had never been seen since the beginning of its establishment.

In the late 19th century, during a skirmish, Australia stumbled upon the existence of the Night Alliance and their actions over the past two hundred years. As a result, a secret alliance of rebels within a colonized nation was formed. After a long period of preparation, a group of fierce assassins from dozens of colonized countries such as Australia, Asan, Korea, New Zealand, and Huaxia raided various known gathering points of the Night Alliance. Since then, their base camp in Europe has also been swept away from the European homeland. Due to the thinning of the population after the large-scale assassination of the Night Alliance, all European countries tried to get rid of the secret control of the Night Alliance, and the attitude of various countries towards the colonies also changed greatly. The remnants of the members of the Night Alliance have also been completely hidden and no longer appear in front of the world.

During World War II, the Night League finally found and took control of what they considered to be the paradise country of the United States. They have made the most of the war of globalization by providing much-needed steel to the invaders, holding the parliament and allowing the United States to watch the war for the purpose of prolonging the war. Everyone says that the United States became the world hegemon because of World War II, but it is better to put it another way: American businessmen made a lot of money because of World War II. The twentieth century was the most active century of the Night Alliance, and no one could know whether a certain big businessman was a member of the Night Alliance, and they had learned from the previous failures, and all of them had sneaked into the shadows - because almost all countries in the world began to crack down on monopolies, prohibiting business gatherings in the same industry to negotiate the price of goods.

However, in the late twenties and the twenty-first century, due to the development of human technology, it became easier for people to connect with each other, and the merchants of the Night Alliance no longer needed to assemble, and they were no longer limited to the monopoly of the same industry. And because of the gradual change of values around the world, the development of the Night Alliance has become unstoppable.

Why did the Dark Night Alliance come into being and grow? -- Because of the union of interests. Even if there weren't the Night Alliance, there might be a Twilight Alliance or the Dawn Alliance or something.

How does the Night Alliance gain access to the resources of a small country? -- They can choose to sponsor and support their presidential candidates, and they can choose to assassinate presidential candidates who oppose them. More often than not, they collude to control the price of rare raw materials. For example, how can the price of mung beans suddenly increase sevenfold or even as high as ten times in a year? Because a group of people partnered to buy mung beans from all over the country with a large amount of money, hoarded them, and then released them in small quantities. How did things such as garlic you ruthless, beans you play, ginger you army, sugar Gaozong, and not all because of the consequences of the monopoly made by some big businessmen?

Because of the change in world values, people are proud to make money and make a lot of money. Therefore, the invitation ticket of the Night Alliance means that your success has been recognized by top businessmen, and it means that you have reached the top of the food chain. Being able to become a member of the Night Alliance has a strong desire for control and control, and this kind of person will not feel satisfied after achieving one achievement after another. Therefore, although the Night Alliance has been recognized as an illegal organization by almost the whole world because of its monopoly strategy, those who want to join the Night Alliance are like carp crossing the river. Some people want to join the Dark Night Alliance because they can become friends with the giants and get countless business benefits and opportunities, while many more want to be recognized for their success.

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Apple's Cooker is a member of the Dark Night Alliance.

Just yesterday afternoon, after the press conference of Bangxing Technology, the Dark Night Alliance held a small-scale video conference. The participants are basically giants in the electronics industry, and almost all of them have come to the same conclusion about the high-profile product launch of Bangxing Technology: if Bangxing Technology continues to develop, the electronic product merchants of the entire Dark Night Alliance will lose the high profits they are proud of, as well as their high social status, and even bankruptcy and unemployment are not impossible.

"Well, gentlemen, it seems that everyone has come to the same conclusion. We have to snipe at this Oriental company that has popped up out of nowhere, but we all know that even if we mobilize our own energy to prevent their products from entering our country, it will not improve much. So, gentlemen, what is your conclusion? Pressure and persecution on that eastern country, or use our special funds? Microsoft's Steve asked.

"Putting pressure on that eastern country, Steve, haven't you woken up yet?" "That eastern country, hundreds of years behind, and now they have a chance to catch up with or even surpass us, do you think just some political pressure can make them give up?" ”

"I agree with the Kuke. The way of thinking in that Eastern country is very different from ours, and more of them care about development and strength than about good money. So, my opinion is that we should use a special fund. Herman from Qualcomm said. Since they are not willing to submit to the will of capital, then it is better to let them obey the power of capital. ”

Steve whistled. "Well, gentlemen, in that case, let's activate our Special Fund for the Protection of Interests. What I propose is that a billion dollars be allocated for the indiscriminatory competition action mission. Gentlemen, what is your opinion? ”

"Agreed. But is a billion dollars a little too much to look up to them? ”

"Agreed. Mr. Bob, I think a billion dollars is not only too much, it's simply too little. What I would like to suggest is that the amount of the mission be increased to $2 billion, but there are two ways to complete the mission. The reward for being able to capture the beautiful little boss of Bangxing Technology alive is 500 million US dollars, and the reward for killing is 50 million; The reward for capturing the mysterious boss alive is two billion dollars, and the reward for killing is 20 million dollars; The family members and important technicians who captured them alive will be rewarded with $100 million, and there will be no reward for their killing. In this way, it is estimated that our mysterious super genius will soon appear in front of us. A genius who lives to work for us is worth far more than a dead enemy, isn't it? I believe that those mercenaries will work hard to earn such a high reward, what do you think? ”

"Agreed, perfect solution."

"Agreed, that's a genius idea, Cooler!"

And just like that, a $2 billion indiscriminate competitive bounty was released in the Underworld.

At the same time, the scanning probe suspended in space collected all the contents of this transnational video conference and sent it to the data terminal in Jiangzhou.

Thus, the countdown to the demise of this alliance of top merchants that had existed on Earth for five centuries began.