Chapter 760: Fight for the Future
With the addition of the 'Sharp Knife Squad', Joga's manpower is enough.
In the three locations, the Sharp Knife, Jazz and the A team led by Boss Joe are each responsible for one.
Each of the three teams led a 10-member P· B support group, these 'jackals' recruited from their hometowns are not bad.
Compared with Wagner, who stayed in Tubrug to work, they even have a slight advantage in technology and equipment.
The three groups set off at 10 o'clock and pounced on their respective targets.
Joga chose a residential building near downtown Newark, New Jersey......
From P· It took about an hour to drive from Farm B, and they arrived at the predetermined location.
It was nearly twelve o'clock in the middle of the night......
Joga and the others sat in low-key vans, cut through the streets, and finally stopped in a driveway sandwiched between a neighborhood and a low-rise commercial street, across from a dense low-end neighborhood.
Newark's downtown roads are really rarely carried, and the occasional pass-by seems to be in a hurry.
The large number of homeless people, buddies wandering on the streets, street girls standing under street lamps, drug dealers hiding in hidden alleys, and drunken punk youths opened Qiaoga's eyes.
Probably because of his profession, Joga didn't think it was dangerous, and the fabled addicts didn't appear everywhere, but the truth was that white people were rarely seen here at night.
Joga's time in the United States wasn't long combined, and he never really got to know the people of the country.
In the past, he had only heard about it, but after seeing the actual situation, Joga realized that what he had told in the past that the so-called middle class in the United States lived in the suburbs, and that the night in the city center would become dangerous.
Unemployment, racial issues, gangsters, drug dealers, and a large number of homeless people in the gray area all gather in the middle of the night towards the city center.
What attracts them here is the public facilities in the city centre.
The United States is indeed too big, and New Jersey, which is close to New York, is not as bustling as one might think, and the population is far from dense.
Everywhere there is an underground trade that needs a place, and the city center, with street lights, neon and even a 24-hour convenience store, has become a hotbed of the gray world.
And the most critical source of popularity is those homeless homeless.
They are the main consumers of cheap drugs, and the market based on them naturally attracts people who need them.
Because drug dealers need a fixed source of customers, and those addicts who want to find drug dealers have to come here, after there is traffic, there are street girls here.
They can satisfy some of the needs of the addicts who buy the virus, and even have fun themselves.
And the gangsters will naturally gather around......
And the reason why the 'homeless people' who are the basis of everything gather in the center of the city has a very cruel logic, that is, they cannot live anywhere else.
Most of the urban areas are public facilities, and they have the right to find shelter from the elements.
The suburban neighborhoods, on the other hand, are private places where homeless people can quickly recruit the police or be violently chased away by a coalition of locals.
Choga, who has gradually developed a bit of a ruler's mentality, can easily see the core logic from this kind of nightlife with American characteristics or capitalist country characteristics.
The city center is the place with the highest concentration of service industry in any city, and it is also where many people work.
In the past, Joga always heard people advocate that Lao Mei is more advanced, and they like to live in the suburbs, live in big houses, and breathe fresh air.
Actually, it's all bullshit!
Joga didn't see any convenient place to live in the suburbs?
Luxury homes aside, the low- and mid-level neighborhoods are actually really average.
Not only is the location remote, but the cost of transportation is high.
It takes 40 minutes to drive to the supermarket, what is the 'convenience'?
In fact, it is the same all over the world, and when the living area and security situation are very different, they all want to live closer to the place where they work.
But the area around the city center of Laomei is a more dangerous place, and many apartment communities that should be considered good locations have turned out to be cheap neighborhoods.
The core reason for this is that the public facilities in the city center can provide the resources that the homeless rely on to survive.
Then the homeless people gather a series of gray industries, which will naturally lead to a decline in law and order.
The decline in law and order will naturally lead to a drop in housing prices in the surrounding area, making it difficult to rent out homes, and landlords will have to accept immigrants, or those who have lost their credit and cannot rent in good neighborhoods.
How good can this be?
People all over the world think that the old American middle class loves the suburbs, perhaps simply because not all places are Manhattan.
According to Joga, the ultimate dream of many people who work and live around New York is to have an apartment around Central Park.
It's easy to get around, life is convenient, and it's not dangerous at night.
At the root of all of this lies in over-urbanization and structural poverty.
These homeless people who are lazy or bankrupt have nowhere to go, they live on handouts, and the loss of credit due to bankruptcy means that they cannot find suitable jobs or even rent better houses.
Public facilities became their last refuge, and then the bustling area during the day became a gray trade rampant area at night, and even the police did not like to come here.
Many people in China are now advocating the privatization of land, and even want to allow farmers to put their fields on the market to buy and sell.
But those with vested interests would never consider what would happen to the landless peasants once they went bankrupt in the cities.
What will happen to the cities once a large amount of land is annexed, the peasants are driven into the cities, and the Chinese enterprises simply do not have so many labor jobs?
Brazil is the most urbanized in the world, with large groups and large private farmers buying up most of their farmland.
Those landless peasants, having moved into the cities, were left with the creation of slum after slum on the surrounding public land.
Do you think people want to live in the mountains? That's because where there is a lord, there is a lord.
India's landless peasants are even more miserable because India is more crowded, and they have lost their land and end up building slums around the cities.
The slums on both sides of the railroad were built in that character, not because the people really liked it, but because the railroad was flanked by public land, and those who went to build houses on private land would be killed.
'Freedom' is indeed important, but most people in this world simply cannot control 'freedom' rationally and rationally, because most of us cannot escape the hunt of business groups.
The consequence of outright privatization of land is that the land of the majority of the population will be squeezed out by large groups.
Elsewhere Joga didn't have a say, but in Huaguo, Joga felt that those who proposed to put the peasants' land on the market and completely urbanize it should be killed.
Some of these people are spokesmen for certain capital, and most of the rest are vested interests!
It's the same as real estate developers and property speculators!
They don't break the law, but they don't see or pretend not to see other people's plight in order to protect their own interests and plunder more profits.
There is no benefit, and they rush to the privatization of democracy and freedom, and they shout nonsense, which is purely full of food and support.
China's industrialization cannot carry so much labor......
Now, as long as they don't suffer from a serious illness, as long as they are willing to work hard, they will have something to eat, and the big deal for people from the countryside is to 'go home and farm'.
Once the peasants' land is annexed, so much labor abandons agriculture and moves into the cities, it will first cause the price of labor to fall, then the price of housing will rise, and the cost of renting will rise.
As competition intensifies, more people are structurally impoverished.
In the end, even if you give up industrial upgrading and regain the labor-intensive low-end processing industry, you can only barely feed everyone.
Even if everyone can accept a very low salary, once there is a problem in the international market, the surplus product cannot find a way out, and the result will be unimaginably bad.
Joga and his car were parked on a quiet street, and the TV in the window of a second-hand electronics shop was playing the speech of the black guy in the White House to Congress......
The theme is 'Return to Asia and the Pacific'.
Joga knew that the real intra-regional competition between the great powers began at this time.
China's low-end processing industry will be impacted by the United States' involvement in the Asia-Pacific region......
Because Huaguo suffered an unprecedented imported inflation in 08 because of the Wall Street financial disaster.
Lao Mei used China's cheap materials to stabilize domestic prices, and then the massive printing of money caused the price of bulk commodities to rise wildly, so that China, an importer of raw materials, paid most of the inflation for him.
In order not to make prices bizarre, a large amount of money has poured into the real estate market and the big infrastructure industry.
The price control is OK, the stock market is evaporating a batch of redundant capital, but there is still too much money left, the financial attributes of real estate are magnified, housing prices have become bizarre, and finally even a group of vested interests have been formed, which has led to the consequences......
The wages of the people have risen a lot, but the rise in labor costs has led to a decline in the competitiveness of the low-end processing industry, which has led to many manufacturers to start moving out in order to survive.
The Jialiang trade presided over by Qiao Liang, in this context, is like being soaked in a honeypot.
The Afica and Middle East markets opened up by Qiaoga's violence have given some small and medium-sized enterprises that have not had time to adjust, providing respite and time to upgrade.
But this is simply not enough......
Choga can't help anymore because he only has one oil field and a crude oil export port in Tubrug, and the money is limited!
Qiao Liang realized this problem even earlier than his brother, because people kept giving him 'lessons'.
From the professors at their school to the heads and brains who deal with him, they are trying to instill in him a macro mind......
Both brothers are from the countryside, but Qiao Liang has a greater sense of responsibility than his brother!
Because of his special status, he has been approached more than once to inquire about the possibility of relocating the low-end processing industry to Afika.
The most typical is the highly polluting plastic, cement, ceramic tile and other material factories.
There are also factories such as leather goods and bags.
Joga has not been able to pick up because his influence is not a good investment environment.
Central Afika, as the name suggests, is in the middle of Afika, just by virtue of the traffic conditions here, once the low-end industry cannot be digested locally, don't think about exports, and the transportation cost can eat up the profits.
Qiao Liang didn't understand, but Qiao Jia understood that those people were hinting that they should bring Congo Kinshasa under control.
The Congo River wharf plan proposed by the old Kim of North Industries is the key to this.
The export-oriented economy is not only limited to products going to sea, but also the low-end industries that Chinese people are most familiar with going to sea, and even exporting capital is also one of them.
Joga is still happy to accept these proposals, but it will take a long time to plan, because if you can't balance the relationship with the United States and France, P· B's troubles will be endless.
Boss Joe has so many guys who eat with him, and he has to be responsible for everyone!
The most important thing now is the current election, if you don't get rid of that old woman, Iraq may change at any time. B will not be at peace for the next few years.
Just as Joga was lost in thought, a guy in a black hoodie leaned up to the car, tapped the window lightly, and made a gesture that he could move......
(End of chapter)