Chapter 845: People are stupid and money comes quickly! (Medium)
There was a knock on the door, and Savage turned around to find that there was a knock on his door, and when he opened the door, he didn't see anyone at first sight, and when he looked down, he found a child with baby fat on his face, holding a stack of newspapers, looking at him expectantly.
"Sir, do you want to order a newspaper? Eighty percent of the residents here are booked, and I will deliver today's latest daily newspaper to your door at 6:30 a.m., and if you have ordered milk, it will also be delivered with it, and other breakfast items and daily necessities will be delivered at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ......"
Savage frowned, but the kid was not afraid at all, he took two steps closer, handed the newspaper to Savage and said, "You can take a look first, we have cooperated with Gotham Daily to ensure that the quality of the newspaper ink for you is the best, and you can read it even without ironing!" ”
"Of course, we also offer free newspaper ironing, but you have to order at least one year's worth of newspaper and milk to give it away."
"Believe me, sir, our Majiaoer Gang is the most professional newsboy in living hell, and the milk we can order is also the best, it has just been shipped from outside the city, if you order both, I can also help you negotiate a discount......"
The kid was selling hard, but Savage was fixing his eyes on the newspaper.
He found that the information he had asked the piper to collect was now clearly written in the newspaper, and not only that, but the start time, completion time, how long the work was done every day, and even the renderings of the completion were written on the front page of the newspaper.
Savage snorted coldly, he thought, the Wayne Group is just a private enterprise, and it doesn't understand the importance of intelligence at all, such an important thing is so clearly written in the newspaper that anyone can see, if someone wants to make trouble, can't they just get the information?
"Sir, do you want to order it? Please, order one, our recent performance is not good, if I can't fulfill the order, our boss will beat me, please......"
In the midst of the children's pleading, Savage returned the newspaper to him and said, "How do you order it?" ”
The child immediately smiled happily, then pulled out a notebook from his pocket and said, "All you need to do is write your name and address here, pay the fee, and you will receive the newspaper every week." ”
"Newspaper is $10 a week if you order it alone, but it's $16 a week with milk, it's cheaper if you want to order for a year, and if you want to hire a long-term errand service for a month, it's $60 a month......"
Savage snorted coldly and said, "Do you think I don't know that you deliberately asked for a high price?" And the house that the gangsters here rented to me was at least ten times more expensive than the outside. ”
"Of course, sir." To Savage's surprise, the newsboy did not panic, or even deny it, he just said very seriously: "It will be very expensive for outsiders to order newspapers here, because we need to pay an extra price to help you deliver the newspaper." ”
After saying that, the newsboy grabbed his finger and said, "Let's put it this way, if something happens to you here, or because you don't understand the rules, and you hurt someone here, we will all be taken by the gangsters on our heads for questioning......"
"Once something big happens, we will all be affected, at least we will not be able to work for a few days, or we may lose our lives, so the cost of hiring us will be more expensive, which is reasonable, and all outsiders are like this."
After speaking, the newsboy pursed his lips and said: "It's just that some poor ghosts from other places can't afford to book, so they say they can't afford to book, so they have to find all kinds of excuses, and they want us to sell them to him cheaply......"
"There was a ghost guy from out of town before, he got drunk and smashed a vase, and the fragments of the vase pierced a patrolling little head, and on the second and third days I was taken for questioning, and I couldn't work for two days, so I borrowed money to ask others for food......"
"As a result, the drunkard had no money to pay, so I was scolded by the leader of the gang, saying that I knew he was drinking and didn't remind them."
The newsboy glared at Savage with wide eyes and said, "They say you're rich, that's why I'm here, and if it's those poor people with no quality, I won't even knock on the door!" ”
Savage's eyes widened, a little surprised, he didn't expect that the children here would be so reasonable.
After saying this, it makes people feel quite reasonable, and they will sympathize with him, so Savage said: "Money is not a problem, the question is, how much can you do for me when Ju gave you so much money?" ”
The newsboy's eyes widened at once, he looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "Oh my God, sir, you don't really plan to do anything here, do you?" ”
Seeing that he had something to say, Savage took ten cents out of his pocket and handed it to him, and the newsboy took the money and continued: "For the first month that the outsider has been here, the children will keep an eye on him, and if there is any problem, they will report it immediately, but you must not do anything here." ”
"If the gangs can't take care of it, they will go to the police, the police in Gotham are very scary, in our place, there are not many people who can go to court alive, even fewer who are able-bodied, and the Batman who often runs around here, I heard that he eats children......"
Savage's eyes narrowed, and he said, "No, I don't want to do anything here, but you also know that I, a newcomer, am not very familiar with the rules here, and if I am willing to order your newspaper and milk, would you like to tell me some of the great things that have happened recently?" ”
The newsboy scratched his head and said, "But, big things can be seen in the newspapers?" All you need to do is order the newspaper. ”
"I'm talking about the big things in living hell......"
The newsboy seemed a little puzzled, but he said, "Well, if this allows you to order a newspaper from me, it's not impossible, but I don't have that much time to write, so how can I tell you?" ”
"If you can't write, then I'll find someone who can." Savage squinted his eyes and stroked his arm, and said, "There should be a lot of newsboys here who can deliver newspapers......
The newsboy shook his head and said, "Morning and evening are the peak times for us to deliver things, and no one will want to waste time to write a long essay, and if we don't write it ourselves, we will have to hire someone, and it will cost money." ”
"I've said it all, money is not an issue." Savage took a timely step back and said, "I will pay you appropriately, but you must ensure that this information is timely and true." ”
The newsboy struggled for a long time and said, "Okay, but you've got to give me an extra $10 a week...... Ah no, $5, $5 is enough, and I'll put the written stuff under your vase at 5 o'clock every night. ”
"But......" the newsboy raised his voice, emphasizing, "you must order a year's worth of newspapers and milk to make up for my lack of orders for the month, or it will not be worth it......
The two tugged for a long time, and in the end, Savage took out the money, and the newsboy got the order.
Savage Yi thinks that he has found a breakthrough, although these children want money to die, but at least they are much better than those gangsters who are unreasonable and can only break out.
It doesn't matter if they want a high price, it doesn't matter if they even slaughter themselves as fat sheep, as long as they agree to their first condition, the follow-up will be easy.
That's right, Savage's thinking is the same as Schiller's thinking before him, and he feels that as long as one group here opens the door to him, as long as they are willing to take a little step back, then the rest will be a matter of course.
The newsboy ran quickly through the corridors, across the somewhat narrow covered bridges, and came to the South District.
He knocked on the door of an office, and before anyone inside could answer, he opened the door and rushed in, saying, "Boss Copote, it's done!" You're just like a god, and he really asked me to send him information! ”
"How much do you ask him?" Copote, behind his desk, asked.
"I wanted $10, but I ended up asking for $5, isn't that a bit too high?" The newsboy asked, and he said, "After all, I told him to order a newspaper for $10 a week......
"It's not high, I think it's just right." Copote smiled and said, "This price will let him know that he has been slaughtered, but it is nothing to him at all, this is what Professor Schiller said, obscuring his judgment of loss." ”
"$10 a week is an outrageously high price for living hell, and he should know this, but because he is very rich, he thinks it's okay to try, and the next step is to increase his cost step by step and test his bottom line......"
"It's a good show, it's about to start."
With Copote's smile on his face, several flyers on his desk flew out of the window and landed in front of Savage's door.
There will be a mailbox in front of every apartment in Living Hell, and Savage found that most of the mailboxes here were stuffed with advertisements before he moved in, but he didn't expect that he would be greeted by the merchants here the day after he moved in.
Food, daily necessities, even weapons, bars, restaurants, and some unspeakable pharmacies, almost all the businesses that can be found in the living hell have placed a lot of advertisements in these corridors.
Savage is not like the residents here, he will buy his own food and cook, he will only go to high-end restaurants to eat, the restaurant food in the living hell is not expensive, but all kinds of additional fees are amazingly expensive, 30% service charge, 20% tip, and even the cost of packed lunch boxes cost more than a dozen dollars.
However, Savage used to spend at the Sokoworth Grand Hotel, and the restaurant here in Living Hell is less than half the cost of the Sokoworth Grand Hotel, even if you add these messy expenses.
In this comparison, Savage felt that they were overcharging, but it was actually nothing, because the total price was not expensive, and the service attitude was much better than that of the Solkworth Hotel.
The style of all the shops here in Living Hell is that as long as you see Savage coming in, you will greet him with a smile, from the store manager to the waiter, standing in two rows and bowing with a smile and greeting, Savage will immediately come and ask him what he is going to do.
When it was time to sign the tip slip, the employee with the best service came over and looked at him with a smile on his face, and Savage simply waved his pen, anyway, it was only a few dozen dollars in total.
Of course, after seeing these ads, Savage also wanted to check out the bar, because it was the place where the gangsters were most active, and there should be a lot of information.
When you enter the bar, you must order a drink, the most ordinary water-cut whiskey is a few dozen dollars, but as long as you add a little more money, you can order a pretty good drink for more than 100 dollars.
When Savage spent money at the Sokworth Hotel, it was about the same price, so Savage wasn't surprised.
When sitting at the bar, a group of gangsters sitting next to him often drank too much and talked about their boss, Savage sat next to him and listened, the wine in his hand could not be broken, and it was normal to drink a few hundred dollars a night.
These are only double-digit or three-digit spending, and they are not taken seriously by Savage, and it is not much to go to a meal for more than $200, to go to the supermarket for more than $100, to go to bars and nightclubs for information, and to come down in one night, $500 is not much.
However, after two weeks of staying, Savage was stunned when he looked at the recent bill.
In two weeks, he spent close to $3,000, which is now the nineties, which is a huge amount of money even for the middle class of Gotham.
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