Chapter 841: Danger Savage Danger (Part I)
The Wayne Group is very rich, but perhaps many people know that assets and liquidity are two different things.
Liquidity, to put it bluntly, is cash, many people may have a car and a house, which is considered an asset, if the car and the house are counted, many people are millionaires, but to say that the liquidity that can be called, most people do not have so much.
Wayne Group is the same, as long as it exists in the real world, companies and enterprises will be subject to liquidity, if you make a lot of risky investments at the same time, it is very dangerous to empty the company's liquidity, maybe many people have heard of the term "capital chain breakage", but may not understand what is called capital chain breakage.
In folk parlance, sooner or later the day when the east wall is demolished and the west wall is repaired, and the credit card is set up, and sooner or later it will not be repaid.
So what Wayne needs now is not new assets, but the means to be able to liquidate assets immediately, or to obtain a large amount of liquidity.
If Bruce invents a new technology now, and he wants to monetize this new technology, then there are two ways for it to take advantage of the Wayne Group's industrial advantages and put it into civilian use to make a lot of money.
But the problem is that the process from putting in the means of production to production and then to selling is very long, and the return cannot be estimated very accurately.
Another way is to sell the technology, which is a way to monetize quickly and earn liquidity, the only question is who to sell it to.
To be honest, most of Bruce's technology is not very related to civilianism, and he rarely wants to use practical technology to improve people's livelihood, perhaps geniuses are always like this, they prefer to use their wisdom to change the fate of an entire race, rather than spend time on small happiness.
Most of the technologies that Bruce can come up with are related to bat equipment, such as the material of the batsuit, the storage device of the bat belt, the defensive weapon of the bat cave, the engine system of the Batmobile, etc., these things are closer to the military from the name.
If Bruce is willing to take out these techniques, it must be the military who will eventually take over, but the problem is, Bruce doesn't trust the military.
Many people say that the Joker is an anarchist, but in fact, from the point of view of ideas, Bruce is the real anarchist, he never trusts the military and the government, he never expects anyone else, he doesn't even believe in himself, how can he believe that the military will do good with these things?
It's not impossible to downgrade these things to civilian versions, but there are many problems with private acquisitions, one is that they can't sell them at a high price because they have limited budgets, and the other is that they may not choose to pay for them all because they have limited liquidity.
In this way, it becomes a little difficult to get a large amount of cash in a short period of time, and in the process of thinking about these problems, Bruce has to sigh that Schiller once said that the way to make money is in criminal law, and now he realizes what this sentence is talking about.
In fact, if he is willing to lower his moral bottom line a little, then it is not a problem to get money at all, and the physical and virtual defense of any bank or website in this world is not worth mentioning in his opinion, even if it is to gamble, it is easy to earn tens of millions of dollars.
When Bruce was worrying about these problems, it was time to submit the internship summary at the end of the second round of internship, and Bruce did not participate in the second round of internship, but he was still involved, so he also had to submit the summary.
Although he didn't know what else needed to be summarized as a research object, Bruce still wrote a summary, and when he went to Schiller's office to hand in the summary, he heard Schiller say to the other end of the phone with a phone:
"You found out? So what's that Vandal Savage? โฆโฆ Of course it has something to do with me, Jason Todd, you know, it's that kid, and I'm very optimistic about his talent in psychology and I'm going to train him."
"The day it turned out...... Yes, it was a month or two ago that day when he went to the big hotel to investigate the traces of this Savage, and he ended up being injured, and I was very angry......
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"No, it wasn't Savage who injured him, but it had something to do with Savage, and if Savage wasn't wandering around the city, how would he investigate? He's only 11 years old, can he lie?"
"The wound was very deep, just under his ribs, and if it wasn't for the timely treatment, it would definitely have been suppurated and infected, and then it rained so hard in Gotham, and he had no parents, so he had to be hospitalized alone......
"Really? That Savage said he was an immortal? Lived for a long time...... How long is it? 50,000 years?? Oh my God, has he ever eaten a dinosaur?"
"He's lived so long and amassed so much wealth, but why did he come to Gotham when he's so rich? He doesn't want to rule the world, does he?"
"He has lived in this world for 50,000 years and has not been able to rule the world, and now he is still persevering, so I can only say that he is disabled."
"Yes, James, I mean, if Alberto is looking for him, and if he does, tell me, I'm really angry about what happened to Jason!"
"No, of course not, it has nothing to do with money, you know I'm a person who doesn't like fame and fortune, it's just a wealth accumulated over 50,000 years...... ยท
Bruce, who was outside the door, grabbed the doorknob but paused, but at this moment, Schiller put down the phone and said to the door: Who? Why don't you knock?"
"It's me, Professor......" Bruce pushed the door and walked in, placing the summary on the table, and then paused, Schiller looked at him and said, "What's wrong?" If it's okay, just go back and read, Gotham University doesn't have a place to buy a graduate school......
Bruce, whose head was full of money, suddenly sobered up and said, "Baoyan? What is the research institute?"
"Aren't you going to prepare for your graduate exams? Do you expect me to write you a letter of recommendation? Do you want me to write in your letter of recommendation, dear Mr. Bruce Wayne, that I have hung twelve subjects in four years, I did not participate in the first round of internships, I participated in half of the second round of internships, and I submitted my internship summary two days later than others?"
Bruce covered his forehead and said, "No, Professor, I'm not going to go to graduate school......
"Oh, yes? However, Lex said that he would read, and that your helicopter engine was ready for research, and that by then, you would be the least educated of the three of them......
"I'm going back to reading." Bruce turned and left, and he said, "But I'm going to move to physics......
"It's okay, it's Victor who teaches physics, and if you don't turn in your homework, I'll just make you think about it mentally, but he'll make you calm down physically."
Bruce, who had no hope for his future studies, left the office building under pressure, but Schiller's phone call just now gave him a way to break the game.
Bruce actually knew that Savage had broken into his batcave, but he ignored it, firstly because he had been busy lately, and secondly, because as Schiller said, you have broken into the batcave and have not taken anything, and the priority of dealing with the mentally handicapped is always the lowest.
However, Bruce didn't know that Savage was actually very rich, after all, judging from the surveillance cameras, Savage didn't look like a traditional rich man, but people have lived for so many years, and it is normal to be low-key.
If Savage does have a lot of liquidity, then Bruce doesn't mind letting him volunteer to contribute to the construction of Gotham, provided that there is a lot of money, and it must be voluntary.
If you want to deal with Savage, you have to gather information about him, and it just so happens that Bruce knows who to turn to.
"Savage, you say?" In the cafeteria at Gotham University, Captain Cold touched his cheek and said, "Actually, he took the initiative to find us, saying that he could give us a large sum of money and the power to rule a city, and let us work for him......
Bruce's focus was on a large sum of money, and he asked, "How much is he willing to give you?"
"The initial agreement was 10 million dollars, but we didn't really have much hope, if he was so rich, why did he come to us?" Captain Cold cut the steak off his plate and said, "If he's going to be like you, a millionaire who can come up with tens of millions of dollars casually, then why doesn't he run?" Although it is not necessarily possible to rule
world, but certainly to rule the United States."
Bruce thought to himself, now I can't just come up with tens of millions of dollars, even millions of dollars have to be saved, and the construction sites that started are like blood-sucking machines.
However, he is still unwilling to make do, he has to use the best for everything, plus the area of Gotham is already large, the first phase of the project is the third phase of others, more than 100 large-scale construction sites have been opened, and money is flowing out like flowing water.
"Still, we think he's quite rich." Captain Cold touched his chin and said, "Last time, Master Mirror ran an errand for him, and he directly gave Master Mirror two big gold ingots, which are quite valuable."
"And, according to Master Mirror, he has a lot of collectibles in his room, from all over the world and from all periods, and I heard that there is a famous painting that can sell for tens of millions of dollars."
Bruce frowned and said, "What you said before makes sense, if he is so rich, why hasn't he ruled the world yet?"
Bruce felt very strange, this is actually not logical at all, a person lives for 50,000 years, even if he starts to be a tribal chief from the time of Homo sapiens, and then rules each tribe one by one, this should be all unified, right?
Taking 10,000 steps back, he didn't have this idea before, but now that he thinks about it, then he can organize his own campaign team, first become the president in name only, and then gradually rely on his wealth and experience to achieve reunification.
The worst thing is that as long as he lives long enough, he can meet enough people, have a large enough network, and can easily do a lot of things, so why do he have to go to Canterlot to find strangers to work for him now?
Captain Cold shook his head and said, "According to my observation, he doesn't seem to have been awake until now, maybe he needs to sleep for a while every once in a while, and he has to readapt to society after getting up, it is estimated that the recent development of human society is too fast, he didn't react."
"Just woke up", "not adapted to modern society", "haven't reacted yet", when these words are put together, Bruce knows who to turn to.