Savage's plan, radiating from the living hell to the entire East Side, and even the process of conquering Gotham, can be said to have ups and downs.

After almost dominating the Living Hell, he began to expand his territory, wanting to cover the entire Pan-Living Hell region, but in this step, he encountered unprecedented difficulties.

These big gangsters around them are like having eyes in the back of their heads, and any movement of Savage can be detected as soon as possible.

And they are also very despicable, they go to cheat and sneak attack all day long, all the trucks of Savage are intercepted by them, the informants sent out are abducted by them, even the merchants who sell weapons are robbed.

Things have come to this point, Savage has smashed millions of dollars, and he now has a very solid foothold, so it is impossible for him to give up.

If there is no truck to transport goods, hire them at a high price, recruit people at a high price, buy weapons at a high price, and build a transportation logistics security system at a high price.

If the intelligence officers sent out can't come back, they will recruit them in living hell at a high price, or spend money to buy off the newsboys outside.

Merchants who sell weapons can't get in, so they find intermediaries at a high price, and as long as they can spend money to solve the problem, it is not a problem for Savage.

After spending a lot of money, Savage found that he had really made progress, and he had expanded his range of activities again, almost covering the entire area around Living Hell.

In this way, as long as he spends money, there will be progress, but once there is a lack of capital investment. He stopped again, and after a few iterations, Savage found that he had become a little numb to the figures of the money spent.

To put it simply, he has been domesticated.

At first, he took a step back in the face of Batman's threat of force, and felt that he should stay away for the time being, all for the greater good, so he planned to change hotels.

But in the face of the hotel, he took another step back, came to the East District to rent a house, and in the process of renting a house, in the face of the gangsters guarding the living hell, he took another step back, and then retreated again and again.

In the process, he was not unaware of what he had lost, for example, when the first newsboy approached him and asked him to pay a high price for a newspaper and milk, he knew that he must have been slaughtered.

However, he counted the gains and losses in his mind about the cause into reality, and although he did not actually get anything, his brain was telling him that his plan had moved forward.

This advance is fictitious, an illusion, and he has actually paid money before he has actually made progress, which is in fact the first step in domestication.

After that, this process of domestication continued repeatedly, each time when Savage had not yet made actual progress, the actual money had already been spent, and after that, some actual progress was made, but it was not the same as he had in his head, and often much less than he had in his head.

After imagining first, then spending money on the imagination in the mind, and then accepting the reality that the reality is not as good as the imagination, and repeating this process many times, a thought process will be perfectly domesticated.

That is, if I spend money on imaginations that are impossible to realize in reality, I am also spending money for myself, so as long as I spend money for myself, I will make a steady profit.

And once the gap between imagination and reality is too wide, and the reality that finally lands cannot meet the imagined expectations, it will make people feel anxious.

For example, after Savage took charge of the entire gangster of Living Hell, he found that the situation here was not as good as it could have been, and it did not provide him with the greatest help he had imagined for his great cause.

But after discovering this fact, he will not choose to give up, but will plunge headlong into this pit, no matter who advises, he will not be willing to leave.

On the one hand, because of the sunk cost, and on the other hand, his thought process has been domesticated and more single-threaded.

Repeatedly recalling plans in your head, spending money on them, and achieving results that are not as good as you imagined...... He's been more than able to take it all.

Originally, the money paid and the actual results gained should be equal, but as long as there is imagination in it, then even if it is not equal, people can find an excuse to convince themselves.

Savage had paid a huge amount of money, and if he had poured it into an East Coast city that was slightly worse than Gotham, he might have ruled the whole city by now, but as long as he added his imagination of ruling the whole of Gotham, he would feel that the effort was worth it.

Input, return, and imagination are like three young men and women with a complex triangular relationship, who looks at each other like a third person.

Whether the investment is returned, whether the investment follows the imagination, and whether the return satisfies the imagination represent three different value judgments, as long as someone guides in one of them, the values can be distorted, the gains and losses can be blurred, so as to achieve the purpose of deceiving people.

When the domestication came to an end, Savage didn't feel the loss, he could only understand the investment and the return and how far he was from his imagination, so he almost instinctively wanted to invest in it.

To put it bluntly, this is a pig-killing scam set up by the whole of Gotham City for Savage.

In the end, the victim will always instinctively invest a lot of money, and even the closest relatives can't persuade them to come back, because their behavior and thinking patterns have been domesticated very strongly.

There is a little return on investment, there is nothing if you don't invest, and even the loss of principal and feelings, Savage has no choice, he just wants to continue to go until the tables are turned over.

With his liquidity at the bottom, he began to sell his collections, initially selling things that were not very collectible, such as modern and modern artifacts and works of art.

It is very strange that logistics vehicles and arms dealers can't get in, but antique dealers can get in, and the new antique dealers are very good-mouthed, the prices are cut in half, and there is no room for bargaining.

Savage wanted to pick one of them with a high price, but he found that the later people came, the lower the price, but the first few antique dealers were quite sincere, although the price was also very strong, but he said that he would buy a large number of them.

Eventually, Savage partnered with several of the antique dealers, who helped him sell the art and collectibles, exchanging the collection for cash.

After selling his collection and getting some liquidity, Savage felt that he should build a sustainable base first, and develop the business within the living hell first.

Then there is the cliché of spending money on building shops, expanding transportation routes, reducing warehouses and transshipment points, recruiting people to open their businesses, implementing various policies to bring people here, and Savage even came up with rent subsidies and reductions to enhance the vitality of the place.

Perhaps many people know that the most profitable thing for the gang industry is not to collect protection money on the spot, but to smuggle, the cost of smuggling is low, but the output is high, except for the more dangerous, there are almost no disadvantages.

Savage has no smuggling channels and only points to local industries, which means that he has to spend a lot of money to build a business district like a normal business.

The population density of Living Hell is very high, and in order to fully develop the business here, money is spent like flowing water.

Savage had a very good background, and after selling the less decent collectibles, he took out some treasures to attract the antique dealers.

Savage originally wanted them to bid, but he didn't expect that these antique dealers collectively lowered the price as if they had made an appointment, and you were lower than you, and they didn't care whether Savage sold it or not.

Savage found that there was something odd about it, because if the less good collectibles didn't sell for a price, a lot of the things he had were masterpieces.

Among them, there are many authentic works of famous painters, and it is difficult to find a painting in the world, and even some works will cause a global sensation as long as they appear, but these antique dealers are as if they are blind, and they will not let go of their mouths if they bite a price.

Savage has not thought of other ways, such as going outside to find some formal art companies to go through the auction process, but in this case, it will be too time-consuming, from appraisal to publicity to auction, the fast is a year, the slow is several years, only suitable for those who are not short of money in a short time.

Of course, he can also contact the local tyrant private buyers directly, but the problem is that there is no one to endorse him, and the private buyers cannot be sure of the authenticity of these works.

There's no way Savage could have told them that I lived for 50,000 years, and I picked it up at Michelangelo's sculpture, right? Even if he said it, the other party would definitely treat him as a psychopath.

But after the end of the appraisal, and the process is the same as that of an art company, if you want to sell urgently, you have to accept the price reduction, and the antique dealer repeatedly instilled this concept in Savage, and in the end, he still had to sell his collection at a low price.

And the people who bought these collections were the heads of the twelve families.

"I don't understand, Professor, why let the leaders of the Twelve Families take over these collections? And at a lower price? ”

In the middle of his office, Alberto asked as he looked at Schiller, who was standing in front of the whiteboard, with Bruce on his left and Victor and Copote on his right.

Schiller tapped the whiteboard with the pen in his hand and said, "What do you think the twelve families are buying these products for?" ”

"Well......" Alberto thought for a moment and said, "The Falcone family also bought some, and we mainly wanted to keep them for ourselves, after all, we also knew them." Compared with many families with a long history, we lack heritage, and these real works of art, no matter what age they are, as long as human civilization is still there, they must be valuable. ”

"But ......," Alberto's voice changed, he said, "As far as I know, many people in the twelve families are planning to wait for a high price to sell, after all, the art investment market has been possible in the past two years, maybe it will be even hotter in the future, get these treasures at a low price now, sell them at a high price in the future, and make money lying down." ”

Schiller nodded, and then said, "Either way, I don't think they will choose to make a move anytime soon, right?" ”

Alberto nodded and said, "Of course, anyway, I plan to collect it myself, and most of the patriarchs of the twelve families will also leave the more precious ones for their own collection, and even if they want to sell them, they should find an auction house, and it will take at least a year and a half to complete the process." ”

Schiller smiled and said, "That's enough." ”

"What do you mean?" Bruce looked at him and asked, "Why do you have to buy these collections from the Twelve Families?" ”

"What is the source of your predicament of not having money now?" Schiller asked.

Bruce narrowed his eyes and asked, "Where did it come from?" ”

"Actually, it's not that you don't have money, you just don't have time." Schiller tapped on the whiteboard again and said, "Your strategy is to build everything before the gangsters react, so that they don't resist too much, so it takes a lot of investment in a short period of time to cause liquidity shortages." ”

"I have to do this." Bruce said: "If the time drags on too long, they will react and will inevitably assemble to resist with force, and then the whole city will be dragged into the war." ”

"But what if they volunteer to drag you along and give you time to earn money?"

"How could they volunteer to drag me along?" Bruce thought for a moment and said, "The leaders of the Twelve Families are not stupid, once they find out that these transformation plans are actually digging up their foundations, they will react immediately. ”

"But at this time, your attitude is very important." Schiller looked at Bruce and said, "It seems that you didn't listen to the behavioral lessons properly. ”

"How they react depends on what they think you want to do, and what they think you want to do depends on how you behave."

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