Chapter 365: Credit Card Machine
In the future, in addition to building coal mines, Guajira's side will manage the 400,000 or so people well.
To be honest, they are quite poor, and most of them are dangling below the subsistence line.
Guajira is close to the Caribbean Sea, and the abundant resources of the sea are not enjoyed, but disasters such as typhoons have been completely endured!
With the passage of typhoons, collapsed houses, and torrential rains, there is no way to develop the planting industry, and some of them are small-scale cultivation in family units.
The entire Guajira, except for Rio Acha, has a fairly complete education system, and the others, in Sean's opinion, are at most towns in the city, and there are elementary and junior high schools, but the literacy rate is miserable.
This place is really poor!
So poor that Sean couldn't think of any development strategy for a while.
Not to mention marine fishing, not to mention whether to buy a boat or not, without the support of meteorological satellites, the changing marine climate of the Caribbean can easily make fishing boats go out and not come back!
In the case of Rio Acha, the largest coastal city, offshore fishing is okay, but not far away.
"What about taxes?" Xiao Bu said, "Especially those residents scattered around the town, mainly agriculture, the difficulty of collecting taxes is one thing, the main thing is the cost, and the collection is not enough labor. ”
"That's what you have to take too." Sean said without hesitation: "Collecting taxes is a demonstration of dominance, even if you lose money, you have to collect it, at least for a long time, you can't consider the cost." ”
"Wait until this kind of rule is recognized, by the way, let the Cadip people follow when the taxes are collected, and no one else will know about it in the end."
After that, Sean shook his head, in 1987, it was the same as 300 years ago, and he had to collect taxes manually.
The things here are almost explained, Sean is only responsible for the general direction, and the specific things are still the responsibility of the team below.
Now that the negotiations are over, Sean no longer lingers here, and takes the little cloth on the plane and flies only to Newark.
It's been a long time since I've been back, and I just took a quick look at it last time I came back.
It's still the small courtyard next to the Newark umbrella base, which looks really small now, but as soon as I walked into the yard, I suddenly felt very relaxed, well, kind.
Especially when a few women hula rush out, Sean is so satisfied!
"All come, all come!" Sean opened his arms, and several women stood in a row, each hugging and kissing.
Well, the life of a rich man is so simple and boring.
In a flash, three days passed......
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Sean slumped on the couch with sunken eye sockets......
"All gone?"
"They're all gone!" Norris stood beside him and bowed his head back.
"Whew!!" Sean let out a long breath.
is an iron man, thrown on this kind of Shura field, he will be completely squeezed dry!
"Go back and let the yoga company send a coach over, I'm old, I really have to work out, otherwise, my body won't be able to stand it!" Sean raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, "Oh, by the way, I want a male coach, don't get a woman over, my body hasn't recovered yet, and I've been squeezed dry by those snake spirits." ”
"How's it going on in Kashima?" Sean finally remembered to get down to business.
"The reclamation work has been completed, and the island has been replaced, all of which are black soil from the other side of the Mississippi River, according to your boss's request."
Sean nodded, fine.
There are only three big black lands in the world, one red and black land!
This is talking about large ones, and those with small areas are not included in the calculation.
They are the Ermaozi Plain of Ermaozi, the Mississippi Plain of the United States, and the Northeast Plain of China.
However, the black soil of Ermaozi and the Mississippi Plains has suffered a lot of damage.
Black Storm!
After large-scale logging, there was no forest protection, and the wind and sand swept up the black soil into the sky, forming a black storm.
At present, only the black soil of the Northeast Plain is the most intact and the development time is short.
(PS: By the way, there are black soil sellers on the Internet, and some of them are simply marked with HLJ black soil, which is dug directly over there to make this money, and it will be the last!) )
Ahem, of course, Sean doesn't care about that, he directly asks people to transport black soil back from the Mississippi River Plain, truckload by truck, not bad money, he is ready to replace 30 centimeters of the surface of the island with black soil.
It's called style!
It doesn't have to be a meter deep, it's all about being a U.S. citizen now!
"Did you arrange for someone to do a comprehensive design for the island?"
"I've found four, and the design draft has come out, just waiting for the boss to choose."
"Okay, I'll take a day off, and tomorrow, I'll go directly to the island to have a look."
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Finally got a good night's sleep, but fortunately, Sean finally recovered his spirit the next day, at least on the surface, there was no problem.
Took a helicopter to the island, and now the island is suddenly full of light, in order to prevent the sea breeze from blowing the black soil and draining, Norris also specially asked people to cover the whole island with a net.
There is no way, the cost of transporting these black soil is very high, and one pound of black soil is more expensive than ten pounds of rice!
Otherwise, they won't sell it.
Four design drafts, Sean actually looks at all of them very well.
Well, it's all traditional American gardens.
This American...... It's very interesting, the so-called the more you lack something, the more you look forward to something, although the United States is only 200 years old, there must be traditions!
The American garden is derived from the English garden, and the English garden ...... Derived from the gardens of the Song Dynasty, of course, hundreds of years of development, there is already a set of its own things.
This is not nonsense, there are indeed many things in the British style that imitate ancient China, such as the door knocker at 10 Downing Street......
Although Britain and the United States promote poverty, backwardness, and ignorance in the east all day long, they are quietly envious in their hearts, such as Marvel, the ancient one.
Gu Yi is a bald woman in the movie, and in fact her first appearance in the comics was in 1961, her real name is Yao (Yao), the supreme mage on Earth, and the master of Doctor Strange and Baron Mordo, who lives in seclusion in the Himalayas.
According to normal logic, Americans should call him 'Ming', and the reason why they all call him 'Yao' is because this title is very familiar to the public!
Coincidentally, it also naturally has a certain status in the hearts of comic fans.
To get back to the point, Sean will not engage in any Chinese-style gardens in the United States, and in American high society, anti-China is the mainstream idea.
The U.S. government is controlled by U.S. capital, and the reason why U.S. capital is able to dominate the world and take advantage of it is largely because the U.S. itself is strong enough.
A real international leading enterprise must be backed by a real big country!!
Small countries cannot raise real international leaders, such as Samsung and the like, and most of the profits have to be handed over to American conglomerates.
During World War II, the American think tank reached a consensus that there were only two countries that could pose a threat to the United States, Lao Maozi and Dongbian.
As for Europe, unless integration is completed, there is no play.
This has nothing to do with the large population of Canada, Tuao, and Asan are also rich in land, and Asan is still with a large population, but it is not good.
So, Sean won't challenge the entire American high society.
Four design proposals, Sean didn't look at the price.
What money is not money, it is nothing more than a trip...... Ahem.
PICKED ONE OF THE SOFTEST DESIGN DRAFTS AND LEFT THEM, AND THE OTHER THREE WERE PASSED BY SEAN.
Looking at the old rival complacent, the heads of the three companies couldn't understand why at all, but they didn't dare to ask Sean, so they could only work hard at the old rival.
They deliberately learned about Sean's character and the logic of his behavior.
I like warships, planes and tanks, I like to use strong and short-tempered when I encounter problems, so the design draft deliberately pursues atmosphere, toughness, and openness, and as a result, Sean chose a softer and more delicate one.
This is not logical!
Sean didn't care what they thought, and asked Norris to send people away, then pointed to the design draft and said: "I like the garden style of Chinese culture, under the condition that the main style remains the same, absorb the essence of this aspect, and ask the Chinese for advice if you don't understand, I only look at the finished product." ”
Even if the matter is over here, Sean estimates that the entire island will not be repaired in half a year, and the United States will be at this efficiency.
After that, Sean took a plane to Manhattan, got in the car and went straight to Rockefeller Center, got some supplements from the east, and sent them to Old Man David.
During this time, I have been wandering around Southeast Asia, and I haven't come back for a long time, and I haven't looked at the old man.
Although it seems that Sean's achievements today are all on his own, and the Rockefeller family has not made any efforts, it is actually not counted like this.
If it weren't for his surname Rockefeller, the two policemen would not have been so polite to him on the first day of travel.
When he first started, if Sean hadn't been surnamed Rockefeller, Newark's police chief would not have given him a chance to break the original Mexican gang.
Don't think that only the east likes to maintain stability, but any government does not like stability, even if it goes downhill, most people don't want to jump out of their comfort zone.
Later, when Sean dominated New Jersey, Mr. Governor also considered that Sean was standing behind Rockefeller, and Rockefeller acted more measured and powerful, which gave Sean a chance.
Later, when I bought the Black Hawk gunship, did I really think that anyone could equip the Black Hawk with Hellfire anti-tank missiles in the United States!!
That's because the majority shareholder of the company is the Rockefeller consortium!
When the umbrella developed and grew, when buying warships, who could buy the tatters of the US military if they wanted to?
That's really advanced, how many countries wave hundreds of times more than Sean, thousands of times more than Sean, the US military will not consider it, and it will not be sold if it is bombed!
Or is it because Sean's surname is Rockefeller!
American political scientist Huntington has this sentence in "The Clash of Civilizations and the Reconstruction of World Order": China is not a country, but a civilization disguised as a country.
The book was written relatively early, and was officially released in 1996.
After the Cold War, the United States regarded the east as the first major threat, arranged the first island chain, supported the T Army S, and went all the way to Southeast Asia, a comprehensive encirclement, which was a military, economic embargo, political isolation, and economic invasion.
However, soon Lao Mei found a huge problem, and she was not adapted.
For example, when eBay played C2C, it didn't have anything to do with the old horse, occupying 90% of the market share, and eBay's management firmly implemented the North American theory, charging, and then there was no more......
There are many similar incidents, and they don't understand that many times economic negotiations are not what the company says, and not everyone has to make money to be able to do it.
They don't understand why so many TV factories are on the market at the same time across the country, dragging down the entire industry at once, and leaving many Americans with no home.
Many economic theories and sociological theories that were recognized in the West and the United States were not easy to use in the East, and they ran into walls everywhere for a period of time after the Cold War, but the economics, sociology and other disciplines of famous universities in the United States are studying this problem, and the final conclusion is civilization.
As a result, from November 1995, the United States officially entered the introduction of films.
China is not a country, but a civilization disguised as a state.
Many people in the country are proud of this theory...... It's just that everyone doesn't know that this theory was studied not to praise you, but to conquer you, and the public knowledge changed from tap water to conscious cultivation, and cultural invasion began on a large scale.
Closer to home, the counterpart to this theory is that the United States is a corporation masquerading as a state......
And Rockefeller is a shareholder of the company, so no one will doubt that Sean, surnamed Rockefeller, will betray his company, so that he can get so many resources that others are not qualified to get.
(PS: With the above explanation, many readers question why they hooked up with Rockefeller at the beginning...... It can only be said that it is not nonsense, and the adaptation is not nonsense...... Ahem, crossing can't go against the basic logic. )
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"Fifth grandfather, medicinal wine, are all good stuff, drink a little less every day to prolong life." A large jar of amber medicinal liquor, Sean placed on Old David's table.
It's rare that this jar of medicinal wine is not bells and whistles at all, it's so ordinary.
"What do you kid have to do with my old man!" Old man David squinted at Sean.
"I'm so sad when I say that!" Sean looked 'aggrieved', clutching his chest, looking pained, "I can't be sincere, just because of family affection, I don't have any utilitarian heart once?" ”
"It's really fake!" Old man David looked Sean up and down, and the corners of his mouth slowly grinned.
"Believe it or not!" Sean rolled his eyes.
Sean's appearance, old man David believed, "Then I have to take a look." ”
Old man David turned the jar to look left and right, and the things soaked in it were strangely shaped, and it looked like there was a snake, which made him look weird.
This snake is not a good thing at first glance, it must be highly poisonous, peeking at Sean, this little cub is not going to poison me!!
"Hey, stinky old man, I'm anxious if you do this again, you let the laboratory test to see if it's poisonous." Sean's face was dark, and he was rarely kind once.
"Ahem, cough, cough......" Old man David coughed lightly, not that he was seriously suspicious, but that he was in his position, it was inevitable that he couldn't help himself with many things, and the service team around him did not allow him to eat those things of unknown origin at all.
The old man really made a mistake, the service team around him was about to finish the calf, but no one pursued it, and unemployment alone was a big problem.
The old guy lives for a day, and a team of people is paid a day with a high salary, which is a really high salary!!
Coaxed Sean to sit down, the old man David deliberately sat next to Sean and chatted about what happened during this time, the old man still mocked Sean a lot, but it was also indispensable to comment, where to do it was almost hot.
"In Xingcheng, you will reply to the reporter one more time!" Old man David pouted, "If they dare to retaliate against you, you will naturally retaliate back." ”
"If Saudi Arabia wants to retaliate against whoever it wants to cut off the oil supply, the food company's retaliation must be to cut off the food supply, and the bank's retaliation is to cut off your cash flow, so of course the military security company is to demonstrate its military security capabilities!"
"What's wrong with that?"
Sean looked at Old Man David quite unexpectedly, he always felt that the old man was very stable, conservative and peaceful, but he didn't expect the old man to be so radical and irritable than himself.
"No surprise, everything has a bottom line, if I face this kind of almost lethal provocation, I will do more than you, I will directly provoke chaos in the oil market and pull everyone into the water!"
"Only if you show your fangs that the vampires will know not to provoke you!"
"You kicked the Malays in the ass hard, which can only make several countries around Southeast Asia afraid of your force, and those really big companies don't feel anything to fear, they are also capable of bringing the Malays to their knees."
"For example, Malay is the world's largest producer of palm oil, but the export channel is controlled by ADM, as long as you are willing to pay some price, you can support other countries, so that Malay loses billions of dollars every year, not much more ruthless than you."
"In fact, it's not so troublesome, just release the news of stopping the introduction of Malay palm oil, which can make the entire palm oil industry chain in Malaysia turbulent, causing huge losses, and Malay doesn't dare to let go of a fart afterwards."
"This is called a big company, quietly controlling life and death!"
Sean blinked his eyes, ADM Of course he knew that the world's four major grain merchants controlled the lifeblood of many countries, and because of the Sri Lankan matter, Sean still owed them a favor.
"Alright, let's not talk about that." Old man David waved his hand, his expression became solemn, "In the past year, most of your business has been abroad, and some of you have neglected the United States too much, this is your foundation, you should pay attention to it." ”
"I understand." Sean looked down in deep thought, then nodded heavily.
Back in Newark, Sean locked himself in his home for a few days to tidy up, and in the future, it was time to draw attention back to the United States.
Only when the foundation is stable enough can he wave unscrupulously outside.
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"Good afternoon, Mr. Sean!" Speaking a strange English, Takashi Iwashita knelt on the ground as soon as he entered the door, and there were three bangs.
Takashi Iwasita,The president of the Burseth company,Sean went to the book to buy the company.,Later, it was transferred to the name of Akina Nakamori.,A company specializing in making credit card machines.,Cash register machine.。
Sean beckoned, and Akina Nakamori, who came with Takashi Iwasita, took small steps, bowed her head slightly, walked to Sean with a smile on her face and sat down, and naturally grabbed his arm, just laughing from beginning to end, without saying a word.
"These are the two sets of finished products I brought with me." Seeing Sean's gaze look again, Takashi Iwasita immediately got up and opened the two boxes.
One is an all-in-one cash register with a small screen, a main unit and a scanner.
One is a separate handheld credit card machine.
Sean picked up the handheld credit card machine and fiddled with it, yes, it was designed according to his requirements, and it was almost no different from the credit card machine of later generations, except that it needed to be connected to a phone line.
With this thing, Sean's next plan can be implemented.
Well, it's a new company!
It's just that it's not enough for this company to just swipe the credit card machine, Sean thought was simple before.
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"It's a good idea, very ahead of its time." Monroe Diff played with the credit card machine, and after listening to Sean's application of the credit card machine in the consumption place, he praised: "When we have a large amount of consumption, we either carry a huge amount of cash with us, or carry a check, which is actually inconvenient and unsafe, and the merchant will also be afraid of the authenticity of the check and the problem of cashing." ”
"If you have a credit card machine, it's so convenient."
"The only problem with genius is that there are no other cat cakes other than impractical." Monroe Diff put down the card reader and looked at Sean helplessly, "Yes, very, ahead!" ”
"What's it, it's not practical?!" Sean's expression was distorted, the corners of his mouth twitched, you are so blind!
"Yes, there is no way to use it, if you want to make a credit card machine 'drop' to complete the deduction, then this thing needs to be connected to the internal system of the card issuer to query how much money is in the card, this alone can not be completed, oh yes, after the inquiry, you have to complete the deduction, and transfer the money to another separate account, is it the same bank? Inter-bank transfers are still available by phone. ”
"No bank is going to open up the database for you, and you have the right to operate, boss, do you know how dangerous that is? Once something goes wrong, it's devastating! ”
"So, boss, don't think about it, not even Rockefeller."
Sean: "......"
Blinking his eyes, he just thought about the 'drip' in his previous life, and immediately became interested after hearing about the credit card machine, but he forgot that the current credit card machine is only used by the bank, and it is not open to the public at all.
"No, I remember that VISA has long had the concept of swiping a card!" Sean was puzzled.
"It's for travel and business, it's equivalent to opening a separate sub-account in each bank, and the user's money is in the sub-account of this sub-account, which is a different concept from yours, and the place where it is used is also a bank, not just a small shop that sells hamburgers."
"I don't believe it anymore, this thing can't be realized!" Sean lost his temper, "Our bank is starting to use a computer system now?" ”
Monroe Diff rolled his eyes, "We have been using IBM's servers for 30 years, otherwise, boss, you wouldn't think we are still copying by hand!" ”
"IBM, IBM, IBM ......" Sean muttered, there was always a feeling that the world was unreal, 87 years, what is the current IBM computer? What does the system look like?
"Okay, let's do this first, you don't have to worry about it, I'll go back and ask a professional!" Sean waved his hand, and Monroe Diff shrugged, got up and walked out.
Sean sat still, squinting, feeling as if he had overlooked something important!
It's important, it's important.
It's worth it, it's worth it!