The citizens of the country are very free, and they can do whatever they want in many places, even if it is illegal activities, the official does not care much. They can theoretically go anywhere, but many can't get out of their neighborhoods. For example, the place where Charles grew up was only a few kilometers away from the relatively prosperous trading area, but he rarely came here.

It's like a kind of barrier, invisible but extremely tough, isolating people on isolated islands, so the local neighborhood culture still has a semi-tribal character. Smart and capable like Charles, the elders seem to be able to only mix gangsters themselves, and his former ideal is only to replace Jin Datou as the gang leader in the block.

Perhaps a developed industrial civilization can break down many invisible barriers, because it requires a large number of high-quality and freely mobile labor. In a relatively stable and safe social environment, access to education and employment opportunities represents more and different choices. And the so-called fate is the range that a person can choose.

However, the status quo itself rejects the modern industrial civilization system and makes it lack a foundation, which seems to have become an inextricable dead knot. To open this knot, there must be radical change from the bottom up, and that's what the new coalition is going to do. And the nominal leader of the new alliance, Charles, was still ignorant at this time.

Society not only progresses but also declines, and this decline is sometimes visible to the naked eye, the most typical feature of which is that in the once prosperous states, many parts of the country have been reverted to the invisible islands of Shire life.

People on isolated islands may be vicious and polite, but they lack empathy. As if another neighborhood is another world, which has nothing to do with one's own life, this indifference is often engraved in the cultural genes. For example, the people living in the trade zone have neither knowledge nor interest in what is happening on the territory of the Big Heads, and that is not their responsibility.

Sometimes they also show concern, often out of curiosity or curiosity, or subconsciously to show a sense of moral superiority. Such a sense of moral superiority is sometimes repugnant, but it is not useless, at least it gives rise to charity, but it does not solve the root cause.

If someone is lucky enough to break down the barriers of the island and make a class jump, like going from the Shire neighborhood to the trading district and becoming a member of it, the social reality will not change.

Sober people are often miserable, such as Hua Zhenxing, the more he grows up and understands, but the more unhappy he becomes. The three old men gave him extremely wise teachings, developed network information, and enabled him to understand the things of the world in the past and present, but it made him feel out of place here.

Charles still has at least his own neighborhood, and although Hua Zhenxing has learned a lot, despite his unique skills, and can walk hundreds of miles of wasteland alone, the world that really belongs to him is actually only a small grocery store.

Hua Zhenxing is very smart, and tries not to reveal his youthful troubles in front of the three old men, but how can the three old men not see it? His world is small, but his ideals are big, that's why he has such a dream. The dream was very childish, but it made him feel the joy of a child. Only children think that they can create such a happy country, and the three old men actually appreciate this kind of naivety,

Hua Zhenxing's ideal is not to paint on graffiti, but to draw on a blank piece of paper and then show people that the world can be like that. But in reality, he had to start with Filso Harbor and build a Kling district and use it as a base.

Therefore, in the eyes of Shire, the prosperous and rich trade area is the biggest obstacle to building the Klin District in the eyes of Hua Zhenxing. Hua Zhenxing stood outside the gate of the Golden Dian Store and waited for Shire, looking at the surrounding street scene, and these thoughts were in his heart.

There are two banks on this street, neatly lined with parking spaces, cafes and fast-food outlets, and bright windows. Diagonally opposite the Jindian Bank is the Dongguo Bank, with the sign of the business department of the Feisuogang branch of the Jiliguo Branch. A short walk further on is the branch of Yinguo Huifeng Bank.

Police officers are on duty at both ends of the street, and police cars patrol the street from time to time. The policeman's eyes swept over the roadside Hua Zhenxing from the car window and did not pay special attention. He was dressed neatly and neatly, with a typical Dongguo Chinese face, and he didn't look like he was in danger at first glance, and he didn't look like he had a weapon.

Why didn't Hua Zhenxing go in? Because he had to be searched when he went in, and he was really armed with him. Not only the guns, but also the paratrooper knives and the knuckles were brought, but they were cleverly hidden and not easy to see. He leaned on the lamppole and swiped his mobile phone as a cover, extending his divine sense to sense the situation in the Golden Dictionary.

The counter of the Golden Dian Store is separated by bulletproof glass, and there are many goods displayed inside with price codes, most of which are overdue and unredeemed collateral, but more good goods will not be placed outside, because many of the things here are stolen goods, and the owner will see them if he can't get it. The Gold Gang also runs a gray business, which is to help people recover valuable and lost property, and collect commissions.

The place where the gold sand is purchased is next door to the pawnshop, the counter is open, and there is nothing of value in the house except for the gold sand brought by the customers themselves, but some inspection equipment is placed. There were three men at the counter, who were in charge of receiving and inspecting the goods, all of them not local natives but Westerners, much whiter than Charles.

Small batches of bulk gold are not accepted here, usually starting at 10 ounces.

Charles brought ten ounces of mineral gold, which was actually prepared by Mo Shangtong for Hua Zhenxing, and had not yet been refined. He sat down at the counter, with two security guards not far behind him. On the way here, he was very apprehensive in front of Hua Zhenxing, but at this moment he completely returned to his usual nature, put down the small bag in his hand, and waved proudly: "Take a look, how much is it?" I want Mijin! ”

The first person at the counter poured the brushed gold from the bag into a tray, weighed it on an electronic scale, and then handed it to the second person. The second man crushed several large pieces of gold with his pliers, and then lit a small spray gun, burned all the broken gold in the tray red, and brought it to the third man.

The whole process was very simple, according to the rules, the plate of broken gold never left Charles's sight, and no other equipment in the room was used to inspect it. The third man sat there just for a moment, then closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he said something that seemed to be an internal code word, which Charles didn't understand anyway.

Hua Zhenxing outside didn't understand, but he was taken aback, because his divine consciousness seemed to sense a faint disturbance, and he didn't know what the situation was, he immediately withdrew his divine sense and no longer sensed those gold grains.

Hua Zhenxing only used his divine sense to sense the situation, and did not really probe the inside of those gold grains, which was equivalent to just looking at it without moving. But those gold grains are "moving", this kind of movement is not real movement, but the physical properties are disturbed, Hua Zhenxing has refined the gold grains many times, so he can be so sensitive to detect this change.

Could it be that the man who sat there was searching for the golden grains with his divine sense? This kind of physical disturbance Hua Zhenxing is very familiar, just like his "in-depth observation" every time he refines gold, but he has not really started refining gold yet. Hua Zhenxing knew that he was not the only person in the world who had mastered divine sense, and he was not a master in this regard.

That stranger should have also mastered his divine sense, but he didn't expect that there were such "special talents" in the Golden Gang. Hua Zhenxing's first feeling was surprise, and at the same time a little excited.

His Yuan-raising technique was taught by Old Man Yang, and Old Man Yang was never willing to say too much about this aspect in addition to cultivating Yuanshu, but just let Hua Zhenxing practice and summarize by himself. And the cosmetic technique taught by Kefuzi and the alchemy taught by Uncle Mo are all application skills after reaching the realm.

That person has also mastered divine sense, so what kind of kung fu he is cultivating, what is the difference between it and the Yuan Cultivation Technique, and what abilities and exquisiteness he has, are all of Hua Zhenxing's interest. On the other hand, with such a person, the Golden Gang seems to be more difficult to deal with than originally expected.

Hua Zhenxing cautiously withdrew his divine sense, not because he was afraid, but because he didn't want to alarm the other party, but the movement in the room was still clear. The first person opened a check and put it in front of Charles and said, "Three thousand meters of gold, go to the nearby Huifeng Bank to withdraw money, or you can deposit it into your account." ”

Charles protested loudly: "So little? ”

The man replied, "Your gold is not pure, and we will charge for inspection, processing, and refining." ”

Hua Zhenxing outside was taken aback again. He knew very well that the purity of these gold grains was about seventy percent, not to mention how accurate the inspection was, and the stranger who had mastered the divine sense should also know it.

Hua Zhenxing can find that the current gold price is about 2,000 US dollars an ounce, which is similar everywhere in the world. Those ten ounces of mineral gold can be refined into seven ounces of pure gold, which is worth 14,000 dollars.

Even if you take into account the costs of inspection, processing, refining, etc., no matter how ruthless it is, it is expected to be at least 10,000 US dollars, right? Because gold itself is a hard currency, stronger than the local currency value of a few miles, gold trading is different from general commodity trading, there is not much room for price spreads, almost equivalent to a currency exchange.

It's like taking US dollars to exchange for Dongguo currency on the black market, according to the real-time exchange rate, 2,000 meters of gold can be exchanged for 14,000 Dongguo dollars, but the exchanger has to charge a handling fee, so you can only give 3,000 Dongguo dollars. Is there such an exchange? No matter how black the black market is, it's not so black, is it? This is many times higher than the cost of money laundering, and it is still a legal business that is open for business!

Hua Zhenxing thought about it for a while, and then realized the reason, and sympathized with the local natives who were panning for gold in the rainy season. They didn't have the means to inspect it at all, and they harvested some small gold grains in scattered and fragmented pieces, not knowing its purity or even the price of gold, let alone purifying and processing it independently, but they only knew that it could be exchanged for money.

Those who can go to Jindian to do transactions are no longer ordinary people in the local area. Usually the leader of a certain tribe, or the organizer of the gold rush, or the gang that controls the territory, collects the gold nuggets of the locals, often for a very low price. Some people buy these mines through channels and then take them to the gold shop to realize.

Only a place like Jindianxing has enough financial resources and power to buy mineral gold in large quantities, and it also monopolizes the channels for processing and trading. Even if ordinary people find gold, they have no other choice, and they are not even qualified to trade in the gold shop.

Not to mention what Hua Zhenxing thought, the Xia Er inside didn't care too much, anyway, according to the plan discussed in advance, no matter what price the Golden Dian Bank offered, he didn't plan to sell it, he stood up and said, "It's too low, I won't sell it!" Recommended reading: "Reading Files 2013"