Chapter 343: Another Force in Atlantic City
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Mr. Mei has returned to China, and I don't know when I will see you again.
Li Yaoyang knows very well that although they agreed to perform in the ugly country for three months every other year, the reality is too much hindrance, and it will take some luck bonuses to achieve it.
I have to say that Mr. Mei's personal charm is almost invincible, and few people can convince Li Yaoyang in such a short time, but Mr. Mei did it.
This is also the reason why he is willing to marry Jin Lan with the other party, he is willing to take the initiative to be the younger brother and recognize Mr. Mei as the eldest brother.
It is worth mentioning that Mr. Mei left a sum of money for Xiao Er's family before leaving, which can be regarded as the care of his cousin to his relatives' family.
Of course, the little second family is not short of money now, and the three brothers have been mixed with Li Yaoyang for so many years, and they have already saved a lot of money.
But Mr. Mei's friendship is worth remembering, and the parents of the second child are very grateful.
With this unexpected trip to the ugly country, Mr. Mei took the first step to open up his popularity in the ugly country.
It also made many upper-class people in ugly countries aware of the high level and beauty of Chinese art.
The New York Times devoted a week to the introduction and praise of Merlin's art.
This great artist, who is sought after by 50,000 people, is indeed commendable.
One of the passages is interesting:
"In the ugly country, there must be a person who wins the championship every few years, whether it includes politics, business, or academia, this is the most eye-catching person, and this person who wins the championship this time must be Mei Lan."
After the Mei Opera Troupe returned to China, Qi Shanru excitedly said to his friends - this is a very successful performance, Mei Lan used Peking Opera to completely break the inherent impression of foreigners on the Chinese, we won!
One uses 'champion' and the other uses 'won', the use of these words is enough to explain Mr. Mei's harvest in this ugly country trip.
In any case, Mr. Mei's affairs came to an end, and Lai Yaoyang also turned his attention back to his wine business.
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After more than a year of development, the sales of 'Bison' have gradually risen, and the most important thing is that the production is expanding little by little, which can meet the market demand.
Today, the monthly output is stable at 10,000 bottles, and the ex-factory price is stable at 20 dollars, that is, a fixed income of 200,000 dollars per month, and the cost is less than 5 dollars at most.
Can we continue to expand production?
Of course, you can, but expanding production means that there is no way to create a situation where supply exceeds demand.
In other words, if you expand production, you will not necessarily make more money every month than you do now, but it will lower the customer's sense of demand, and the gains outweigh the losses.
So 10,000 bottles is just right!
Two wineries in Soho and Atlantic City Cemetery, just selling wine, can contribute 5 million dollars a year.
Excluding costs and losses, as well as the cost of dotting, the annual net profit can reach 2 million, which is definitely an astronomical amount, at least in this era.
Otherwise, Li Yaoyang would not have the confidence to build skyscrapers!
And that's not counting the contribution of Xinhua Town, in general, Li Yaoyang is now one of the richest people in Atlantic City.
I dare not say the first, at least the second.
Of course, that was before, after the Northern Ireland casino in Kiel Eland, his financial resources were not as good as before, and in theory, Li Yaoyang was the richest man in Atlantic City.
It's just that he is very low-key and does not show his wealth, and many people know that there is such a person, but when he walks on the street, basically no one can recognize him.
What are the benefits of being the richest man?
Answer: In addition to being able to install B, there is no benefit.
Every day, the invitations to speeches, events, and meetings can fill a whole sack.
Most of these invitations can't reach Li Yaoyang's hands, and they don't even know that they appear, and there are very few who can reach Steven's hands.
After being screened by Steven, it can be presented to Li Yaoyang's bookcase, and he will make the final decision.
The activities that are selected must be significant.
Either it can increase his prestige, or it can make him more money, and Li Yaoyang will never participate in meaningless and time-wasting activities.
However, Steven would take care of the etiquette for him, and even if he couldn't go, he would send a check or prepare a small gift.
After a long time, it has led to many activities whether Li Yaoyang appears or not, he will send him an invitation, even if he can't get the money, he can still receive a small gift of great value, and he will not take advantage of the cheapness.
At first glance, Li Yaoyang seems to be stupid, but he is actually using this way to put an end to ineffective socialization, spending a little more money is nothing, and he can earn it back soon, and wasting time really can't be allowed.
No, today I received another invitation, and the owner of the invitation is interesting, named Erie Norris.
This man is an "elephant", and is considered the backbone of "elephant" in Atlantic City, but he belongs to a different faction from Kil'elander.
On the surface, he does not hold any official positions in Atlantic City, but in fact he controls all of the underground women's branches and exclusive products in Atlantic City.
First of all, let's clarify the power structure of Atlantic City, the main power is made up of black and white, just like the power structure in the world.
Of course, the mature Hey Dao and the White Dao are dependent on each other, black with white, and black with white.
Interestingly, the powerful races in Atlantic City are white and black, of course, that means before, and now there is a Chinese.
White people are undoubtedly the mainstream of local society, and the most powerful gang is the two hooligans of the 'donkey' family and the 'elephant' family, who manipulate everything behind the scenes.
Add to that the Ku Ks and other gangs, bureaucratic gangs and capitalist gangs who like to use violence against people of color.
These people are at the top of the food chain, and these are the people who are deciding the fate of Atlantic City.
Erie is a stalwart of the 'Elephant' family, controlling a part of Atlantic City's underworld, and through the power behind it, he can even influence the direction of New Jersey.
Of course, in order to achieve the goal, Yili not only has to cooperate with the elephant family, but even needs to cooperate with other families in some cases.
With the efforts of Erie, the internal managers of the system share the interests of Atlantic City, which can be clenched into a fist on the surface.
But not counting the airborne figures in other regions, the former Atlantic City boss Kiel Eland, in the past, had to overpower Erie, after all, Kiel himself was a member of the government, and he had deep connections within the 'elephant' family, and he was the boss of the capitalist gang.
And Erie is both his rival and the heir of the 'Elephant' family in Atlantic City.
With Kiel's rise to the state level and its prestige, it's hard to pivot on Atlantic City in the future.
This led the Atlantic City high society to believe that it was in their best interest for Ely to be in power than for Kiel, and because of Kiel's old age and frailty, the confidence of the upper class in him was no longer comparable to that of Ely.
Of course, Kiel hasn't completely abandoned Atlantic City, after all, he's entrenched here and has plenty of interests to support his nostalgia.
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The reason why Yili was able to gain a foothold in Atlantic City through the unique product is entirely because the ugly Chinese people have been very familiar with the unique product from the beginning, because the American continent is originally the hometown of the unique product, and one of the three major "single triangles" in the world is in South America.
For example, the well-known caustic indium is a specialty of the Americas, and South America has always had the custom of "chewing leaves", it is said that when chewing, you have to add lime to your mouth, and you need an alkaline environment to extract caustic indium from the leaves, which is a very advanced way to play.
But those who haven't tried it, even if they use their beastly imagination, can't imagine the feasibility of putting lime in their mouths.
When the ugly country was still in its shadows, the American colonies used this thing on a large scale, mainly as a painkiller.
At that time, there was any disease, everyone relied on the support of Cakan indium, after all, even Washington was sick, and the best treatment was to keep bleeding, when to let him die, and when to finish, Washington was really bled to death in the end.
Through this incident, we know the level of medical care at that time, and indium has become an important supplementary treatment.
This is also normal, pain relief has always been a big problem in the East and the West, and it is also a big problem, and at the same time, Daqing was also using duck slices to relieve pain.
By the way, at this time, there were no ice independence and hi indium, these two were technological innovations made by German scientists before the Second World War, and they represented the latest achievements of German industry.
To put it bluntly, it is no longer extracted from plants, but synthesized with cheap industrial raw materials, with lower prices and higher purity, the favorite of addicts, opening a new chapter in the human system of monopoly and monopoly, but now the people of the ugly country can not enjoy it, they have to enjoy it from their grandchildren.
On the whole, at this time, everyone is still more controversial about the harm of duck slices, and due to inconvenient transportation and communication, many malignant incidents caused by duck slices have been regarded as isolated cases.
For example, Lin Zexu gave advice to the emperor, and he believed that the main reason for the ban was financial considerations.
Doctors generally abuse duck tablets, very simply, you can relieve the pain of patients, patients will naturally come to you next time, and a small amount of duck tablets will not be harmful in a short period of time.
So at that time, the people who liked duck slices the most were doctors, such as Sigmund Freud, who played unique products for a long time and recommended them to his family and friends.
In Freud's view, indium was a great gift for family and friends when traveling at home.
The iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck, who could not be relieved of long-term gout, was also a lover of unique products, relying on caustic indium to relieve his pain.
In the early days, too, doctors found that patients were becoming more and more dependent on painkillers for a long time, and then they simply couldn't do without it, and they only thought about it every day after leaving.
Doing everything in order to get a unique product is not a simple medical problem, but a social problem.
In other words, the first to promote the proliferation of unique products was mainly to use this thing as a painkiller.
The ugly country has always been hesitant about the anti-drug thing, mainly because the doctors like this thing, until later generations, there are also ugly country scholars who write articles criticizing the ugly country doctors who will not work without painkillers.
The doctor's obsession with unique products has affected the judgment of the ZF department to a certain extent.
It wasn't until 1915, when more than 250,000 people were registered nationwide that the federal government introduced a bill called the Harrison Act, which was going to restrict the use of unique products.
In other words, until 1914, the well-known duck slices, muffy, hi indium, caustic indium or something, were still legal drugs in the ugly country, and some people said that "they can be obtained as easily as aspirin today".
Then it reached its peak in 1956, when the ugly country was also at war, and during the war, the law was more stringent, and the "anti-monopoly products" in the ugly countries became more and more severe, and even once stipulated that anyone who sold the only products to minors would be sentenced to death.
In this process, the unique products of the ugly country almost disappeared for a time.
Until the 60s, the unique product staged a good show of the return of the king.
Because in the 60s, things suddenly changed.
Two main things happened in the 60s:
First, in the context of the Cold War, many people have a feeling of getting by, feeling that today is the last day every day, and that a dirty bomb may fall from the sky tomorrow.
Since one day is one day, many people begin to be confused about the future, and they don't think about the future, they just want to have fun in time.
The concept of "justdoit" was born at that time, drinking a little wine every day, snorting something unique, doing a little thing that you love to do, and so on.
And at that time, there was also a niche group that China had basically never heard of, called Doomsday Survivalists, who loved to dig underground fortresses, hoard food, tools and guns, and be ready for the end at any time.
The second is the escalation of the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War was mainly due to the conjecture of some hawks in the ugly country, or the attack of persecution paranoia, and the common people in the ugly country were generally extremely disgusted with the Vietnam War.
Later, it was always said that the most harmful thing to the ugly country was the Vietnam War, which almost tore the country apart.
Demonstrations in the country and various civil rights movements reached their peak in those years, such as the Black Uncles taking to the streets to protest against unequal treatment.
These super-large associations, almost without exception, are accompanied by and sex, which are similar all over the world.
And there was also a background at that time, when the Vietnam War was at its highest, the U.S. military was crazy about ice independence in Vietnam, and the U.S. military stationed in Vietnam was particularly close to the "Golden Triangle".
The Golden Triangle knows that Jiang Guangtou's team has sold independence there, and many US troops stationed in Vietnam have become addicted to independence, which is also a reasonable thing.
So at that time, a large number of unique products and smoking habits were brought back to the ugly country from Southeast Asia, and the ugly country had the demand and potential to absorb the independence, and the unique product and the addict hit it off, and that's it!
Let's say one thing, the ugly people do this purely for themselves.
It may also be that the superior did not take the unique product seriously, which led to the development of a vicious circle, but if it was banned from the beginning, there would not be so many people who were curious about the unique product.
Having said that, the stinky problem of the natural freedom of the ugly people is also the root cause of the proliferation of unique products.
These guys who want human rights at every turn, want to be liberated, and want to be free, let alone unique products, give them the whole waist to stay awake all night, what kind of calf is it?
The harm of unique products is not small, and the key is that people can't control their desires.
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.