As autumn progresses, the temperature in Gotham begins to drop, and the morning is extremely cold, but the conference room on the top floor of Wayne Building is full of mob bosses in suits and leather shoes.

Bruce stood at the front and said, "I'm sorry, but Wayne Group only accepts cash investments......

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and Lawrence immediately stood up and said, "Wayne! Are you kidding us? How is it possible to only accept cash investments in urban and transportation construction, and you don't need raw materials and transportation costs?"

Bruce cleared his throat and looked down at the document in his hand, in fact, there was nothing written on the document, and the technical information was all in his head, but he still pretended to read it as if he were reading a speech written by the staff team:

"Rest easy, I only accept cash investments, and there is a good reason for that, because now that the construction level of the Wayne Group has reached a technical fault, the raw materials and transportation costs that you can provide are not worth mentioning in our opinion."

"You can take a look at the TV screen, which shows the raw materials used by our company in the first and second phases of the project, and all the parts that are marked with vague marks involve technical secrets......

There are a lot of professional and technical terms that the leaders of the twelve families can't understand at all, unfamiliar English words, which can only be guessed by root affixes, and the words, roots and affixes of most professional nouns are also relatively obscure, if you don't know them at all, you can't even guess.

Bruce raised his voice and said, "As you can see, the materials I used to build my house are not ordinary concrete and steel bars, the whole structure of the house is one, earthquake-resistant, fire-resistant, and even tsunami-resistant."

"The raw materials you can buy, the workers you can hire, the engineers you can recruit on the market can't participate in this kind of construction, because their technical level is not enough, and it is much worse."

"Now. Only Wayne Group's production line can produce similar buildings, and those defense systems. It can only be used on such a building, otherwise. A laser cannon hit, a big hole was punched in the floor, and the whole building collapsed, so what else should I build it for?"

Bruce said very reasonably, and to the core, he didn't dwell on the amount of investment, but directly said, you don't understand my technology, so you don't have to think about technology or production line materials, the only way to get involved is to invest money.

Originally, the leaders of the twelve families were not short of money, especially the twelve families combined, and the injected funds could also give a shot in the arm to the entire project, but they had just spent a lot.

Although the price of the rare collectibles sold by Savage is very low, it is also based on its market price, and there is no need to talk about how much the original works of the three masters of the Renaissance, Van Gogh, and Monet were worth in their heyday, and on the basis of this price, even if it is discounted, it is very expensive.

And Savage doesn't sell one or two, from paintings to sculptures, from antiques to rare and precious stones, he owns a collection of tons.

He was in a hurry to cash out, the discount was very ruthless, and the amount was very large, and the twelve families collected it sharply, and as a result, the liquidity in their hands also bottomed out. ….

Everyone is hoarding their collections, intending to buy them at a low price and sell them at a high price, and some people still want to collect them themselves, and the liquidity in their hands can only be maintained on a safe line.

It was at this point that they realized that the construction plan that Bruce had come up with was a threat to their very foundation, and at the same time, they realized that as long as they could get involved, the future rewards would be amazing.

But Bruce only needs cash, and the leaders of the twelve families are a little uncomfortable, to keep their heads or their butts? This is an eternal question.

After the meeting, the leaders of the various clans, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and they rushed out of the conference room, all talking in low voices.

"I only got an authentic Van Gogh painting two days ago, and the appraiser of the auction house I knew told me that as long as I go through the auction process, I should have at least this amount, but if I sell it privately, ......it will be difficult to save the principal."

"Who isn't? Didn't I buy two sculptures too? The appraiser also said that it was true after appraisal, but if you don't go through the auction process, you won't be able to sell at all......

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"If you sell it urgently, you have to lower the price, and they will push it down by one percent, but it is millions of dollars, who can afford it?"

"But this damn Bruce just wants cash, you say, he shouldn't cover the whole city so quickly this project, right?"

Lawrence coughed and said, "If you want me to see, we'll drag it out, make some trouble for him from time to time, and talk to him when we have the money in our hands."

"I think it's the same, the art market has been very good recently, as long as I can go to the auction house, at most it will only be a year, and I will have money on hand again."

"Yes, everyone is the same, since everyone has no money, then don't worry about them taking the first step and leaving the others behind, let's join forces to drag him until he has money?"

The leaders of the twelve families exchanged opinions, and they all felt that there was nothing wrong with this method.

This is also very common in the business field, where you don't have enough liquidity in your hands, but you want to win the project, it's nothing more than a "drag", if there are competitors. Just make a mess, wait until you have enough money, and then make money.

But Bruce, who walked out of the conference room, knew that he had won this battle.

In fact, the biggest difficulty of the Gotham transformation plan is that once the core interests of the gang are touched, they will be united. Violent resistance, and once the gangs start to fight, it will endanger many people.

Bruce's biggest goal is to eliminate as much violence as possible before it turns into a city-wide war.

Before, the anesthetic injected into the gang was quite useful, but in the end, the twelve families will definitely react, and at this time, the knowledge of psychology and behavior will be used again.

When it comes to investing, people want to maximize their returns, and the lower the price, the better, so when Savage began to sell his collection at a low price, Bruce handed the olive branch to the leaders of the Twelve Families, and they naturally took it.

At present, there is no sign of a collapse in the art market, and the experts they invited have come to the conclusion that as long as they can get those precious collections from Savage at a low price, it is equivalent to increasing the value of their family's assets. ….

But. Assets and liquidity are not the same, they are paying liquidity now, and what they are increasing is estimated assets in the future.

At that time, they made the right decision, because at that time, they didn't need as much liquidity.

But Bruce was at this point, asking them to pay more liquidity, and downplaying the matter into an investment.

If you don't have money, you can't invest, this is a fact that everyone recognizes, you don't have money yourself, you can't blame me for not taking you, Bruce stood on his feet from the perspective of axioms.

And the members of the Twelve Families will adopt the procrastination trick, which is also based on the fact that Bruce is a businessman who wants to recoup his costs and make profits, in their opinion, Bruce cannot invest uncontrollably, since he wants their investment, he can naturally be dragged down.

But this is exactly what Bruce wants, what he wants is a buffer period of this year, and the twelve families can rely on this year to make money, and he can too.

The reason why he was in a hurry to use the money before he planned to build everything in one go before the gangsters reacted, so as to prevent them from reacting and fighting back violently halfway.

But since they plan to drag it themselves, then Bruce will drag it with them, it is the same year, Batman's money-making speed is not at the same level as others, and Bruce is sure that he can earn the funds to complete most of Gotham's transformation in one go.

After a year, the twelve families who have regained liquidity will find that they may be facing a half-terminer, a full-fledged Batman, and it is only a matter of time before they buy the earth.

It can be said that this injection of anesthetic was not given to them by Bruce, but by themselves.

The leaders of the twelve families want both, both want the collection to appreciate and make money lying down, and they want to participate in Bruce's investment and completely control everyone in Gotham.

Therefore, they failed to be so decisive, the gecko broke its tail, broke the boat, sold the collection urgently, took out the funds to enter the market, and played with Bruce.

In the final analysis, it is still the interests that move people's hearts.

"That's what I'm saying, we can take advantage ......of the fact that they don't have a long-term vision," Schiller smiled in the office and said, "The price they get for those collections is too low, so the profit margin is too big, and it's very certain that they can get the money, and they won't want to give it up."

"But at the same time, they are reluctant to say that the future you said, and they can't see your fundamental purpose, so they made the choice you want most, that is, not to raise a gun to resist, not to fight fiercely, but to drag on peacefully for a year, eating both ends."

Bruce gently rubbed his fingers and said, "One year......

He shook his head and sighed softly, Alberto turned his head to look at him, he knew that it had only taken Bruce 20 years to learn almost everything in this world, and a year was already an unbelievably long time.

"Don't forget our agreement." Alberto said, "The Twelve Families are just my father's dogs, maybe he will sigh with emotion, but I'm different, I just want to move forward in the new era."

"Aren't you afraid that he'll average you?" Schiller asked. ….

"I'm not going to stay just in Gotham, that's not the end of the Falcone family." Alberto looked down at his watch and said, "My father wants to go back to Italy to retire."

"Maybe one day, Wayne really rules the world......" Alberto glanced at Bruce and said, "Then we might be able to go further afield, you wouldn't mind, would you?"

Bruce turned to look at him and said, "Your father spent forty years establishing the order of Gotham, and if you want to surpass him, Gotham is indeed not your end......

Alberto stood up, looked at Bruce and said, "Actually, I don't care at all about how the people here are doing, I don't care what the end of the Twelve Families is, and I don't care when the gang will die, and the same is true for the Godfather......

"In that era, he did his best, and it didn't matter whether he succeeded or didn't succeed in the end, because he knew earlier than you that this road is not the one who reaches the end of the road to win."

Before leaving, Alberto turned his back to Bruce and said, "He also asked me to tell you that he didn't like this because it sounded like an excuse for a coward to give up on running to the finish line."

"Bruce Wayne, Godfather says you're not a coward...... You'd better not."

Bruce sat there in silence for a long time, and then he asked Schiller, "Do you think I'm going to change?"

"People change." Schiller paused and replied.

Then he said, "You might as well ask your butler about this."

Bruce left in silence, while Schiller looked out the window.

The rich greenery is fading, and the most luxuriant vitality of summer, with the autumn wind gradually withering, the red of the maple leaves is like the blood of the earth, telling everyone in the midst of great changes that the autumn of Gotham is coming.

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