Jim Manz sat at the dining table at Tommy's villa, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and said to Tommy, who was sitting across the table and looking through the information: "About Professor Yunus and his poor bank, that's pretty much it, in fact, there is a project about the share farm that I haven't had time to investigate, but that thing has nothing to do with banking, plus your phone call the other day, so I flew back." ”

"I calculated according to the exchange rate you provided, that is, Professor Yunus's bank gives a loan of 50 cents a week to every poor Bangladeshi ghost, and then needs to pay back 52 cents to the bank when the other party repays the loan next week?" Tommy looked at some of the data that Jim had brought back and said:

"For 50 cents a week, what business can those poor people do? I mean, any part-time job in the United States now costs $3 an hour, and I can't imagine what kind of business 50 cents can do, and a total of 28,000 customers means that the bank will give them a loan of one dollar each, and it only needs less than 30,000 yuan in principal. ”

"Most of them are furniture businesses, they will use bamboo to make all kinds of beautiful bamboo furniture to sell to buyers, and after the buyers buy them together, they will sell them to Europe, Hong Kong or Japan and other places, 50 cents is the money they pay to buy raw materials, where bamboo is not free, 50 cents of bamboo made of furniture, can be sold for about 70 cents, after deducting 52 cents of low-interest loans, there are 18 cents left, if both husband and wife start work, they can earn 36 cents a week, deducting the most basic cost of living expenses, They can save 10 cents, which means that if they want to continue in the furniture business, they need to continue borrowing, and so on, Professor Yunus is actually ready to take out interest-free loans, but there are also expenses to maintain bank expenses. Jim looked at the array of food on the table and asked:

"Can I eat these foods? Do you eat such a sumptuous dinner alone? ”

"Of course, pasta on the table, lobster, fish, whiskey, wine...... Enjoy as much as you like. Tommy said without raising his head: "That was originally prepared to catch the wind." ”

Jim picked up a lump of sauce-stained pasta with a fork and put it in his mouth: "Thanks, I didn't expect you to prepare a meal for me." ”

"I didn't know that you were going back to China today, but it was actually for the two guys you met, Dennis and Palm, who suddenly came to visit me in California today, and then I asked the chef to prepare a table dinner in advance, and Stephen and Jason took them to Los Angeles."

"The food on this table looks very rich, look at this lovely oyster~ it's so delicious." Jim swallowed the food in his mouth, picked up a piece of oyster meat and threw it into his mouth, and said with satisfaction: "So oysters in Los Angeles are more delicious?" ”

"Stephen chartered a nightclub and 120 beautiful girls in Los Angeles to pick up Dennis and Pam for him." Tommy said in a calm tone.

Jim suddenly stopped eating and looked at Tommy, "...... It's the same thing, why do you just treat me with such a bunch of junk food that others don't bother to look at, why don't you respect me? ”

"But you just praised the oysters for their deliciousness."

"I'm complimenting against my will, you know? I had praise on my face, but I was actually bleeding inside. Jim poured himself a glass of wine and said, "So, what do you mean when you say on the phone that your girlfriend wants to know about banking?" ”

Jim folded the information and looked at Jim, "She wants to do something meaningful, and what could be more meaningful than what we do." ”

"Your girlfriend also thinks that making money from will make her life meaningful?" Jim asked Tommy, pushing the food into his mouth.

Tommy picked up a few spaghetti sticks and sent them to his mouth, and when he heard Jim's words, he couldn't help but swallow and shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, my girlfriend is an angel, understand?" She is responsible for helping people, bringing hope to people, allowing people to follow her light, and when those people have set foot on that path from which there is no turning back, she will redeem the other lambs while you take her place and continue to guide those on her path. ”

"Religious propagation, the missionaries who have just begun to preach show mercy, and when the brainwashing is completed, and those people have faith, they will put on a different face and tell each other that God loves the world, but he also needs the world to love him, and now your gods are short of money, and they need you to give everything you can give." After Jim understood Tommy's words, he couldn't help but tease him:

"I thought you would continue to play the role of an American icon, a righteous man from heaven, but now it seems that you are ready to make the world have one more righteous woman? Do you two children have to make some visions when they are born, or do you want to help your girlfriend have an operation before giving birth, and put a Bible and a cross on the baby's hand in the womb? ”

Tommy sighed and continued to pour food into his mouth, "Your lack of reverence for God, Jim, that's not right. ”

"You've made me an atheist by the time you live so far, and if God really existed, you should have been fucking thrown into nigger hell by him a long time ago, enjoying the endless roundabouts of niggas." Seeing that this guy actually said that he lacked reverence for the gods, Jim immediately retorted, but then asked:

"So, your girlfriend would sacrifice herself to mingle with black people?"

"No, no, no, my girlfriend is going to help the poor who need help, including blacks, of course, but not to mingle with them." Tommy immediately retorted.

Otilia couldn't get along with black people, and if she really got along with black people, those lazy and cheeky poor black ghosts would definitely take Otilia's charity for granted, and Otilia might even take it for granted herself.

"The most important thing she should have done before was to use her kind heart to help me go to Bangladesh to influence that Professor Yunus, my girlfriend has funds and is willing to do the right thing to help Bangladesh, Professor Yunus will not refuse kindness, we just want to find an opportunity to inject funds into it, turn that small bank into ours, and then let Yunus work for us, turn those great ideas in his brain into ours, and then slowly develop this business into an international business, there are so many poor countries in Africa and AsiaThere are countless poor people, and for the poor, we will use Yunus's brain, and we will devise many ways to help them, and helping, at some point, can also be a business, and we suck the blood of black people from California to feed branches in other countries, and when the time comes......" Tommy looked at Jim.

Jim tore off his napkin and wiped his lips, poured a sip of wine into his mouth, took a heavy drag on his cigarette, and then interrupted Tommy: "It's not a business at all, Tommy, it's business, but ...... It's not a business in the traditional sense unless you work for a politician, but that's not possible, and the investigation the firm did for Lotus showed that you come from the countryside and don't have any political background to watch. ”

"I wanted to work for myself, but now I decided to work for my brother." Tommy looked at Jim calmly.

Jim didn't bother to listen to Tommy's completely perfunctory, so he turned his head and cursed before saying, "If the mechanic is a politician, you can say that." ”

"I'm going to send him and Dennis to the U.S. Naval Academy, join the SSD chapter of the U.S. Naval Academy, and go to serve in the Navy after graduation, so the business of those countries is a trade item prepared for him for every promotion, and there is nothing that cannot be sold." Tommy saw that Jim thought he was joking, and added.

Jim turned his head to look at Tommy, making sure the look on the bastard's face wasn't a joke, before he tentatively asked:

"You have to understand that if war breaks out between the United States and the Soviet Union in the near future, it will be equivalent to sending your brother and friends to death with your own hands, and you are sure that your heart will not fluctuate in the face of this eventuality?"

"Then why not gamble that there will be no war between the United States and the Soviet Union." Tommy said to Jim:

"The poor want to change their fate, how can it be possible if they don't take risks, they only get if they have to pay, if it weren't for the Soviet military exercises in the past two years, which scared several major military schools and couldn't recruit enough cadets, how could those politicians give the poor boys the opportunity to get in?"

Seeing that Jim was silent, Tommy said as he ate:

"They will pay off, and there will be a reward, my brother may one day become the captain of a cruiser or some other unit commander, and the same is true for Dennis, otherwise, my brother will repair cars in the countryside all his life, and Dennis will be a garbage station manager for the rest of his life?"

Seeing Tommy's breezy expression, Jim couldn't help but ask, "Everyone, as long as you need it, you can use it without hesitation?" Tommy, do you have any friends in the sense of the word? Do you have relatives in the true sense of the word? I mean, family or friends, is there anyone in this world who can make you know everything about him and trust him completely? ”

"No, not one." Tommy didn't even hesitate for a moment, looked at Jim, and gave the answer directly with a calm gaze.

"An impeccable answer." Jim lowered his head and continued to pour food into his mouth, muttering, "You're done, Tommy Hawke." ”

The two of them quietly finished eating the food on their plates, and Tommy wiped the corners of his mouth to open his mouth, breaking the silence:

"In addition to needing you to teach my girlfriend how to do good deeds, there is one more thing, the SSD chapter of Stanford University is going to host a charity dinner for the veterans' association, and I need a few powerful people to show up at the charity dinner, and the other guests are not important, but I want to attract the SSD members of those military academies at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, to attend."

"Why?" Jim looked at Tommy with a puzzled face: "What can those stupid* do?" You don't have a common topic with them, in fact, even someone my age is about to catch your thoughts, let alone a common topic. ”

"Those are the most suitable loan salesmen, and possibly potential shareholders in our small business, Jim, and of course I'm going to throw a charity dinner that interests them and make them happy, and then talk to them about cooperation under the pretense that I'm in good hands with powerful people." Tommy patted the thick stack of SSDs on the seat next to him for the information of several military academy alumni:

"Whether these guys are in the army or school to help us lend money to other people, we can guarantee that no interest will be charged in the early stage, only the principal will be recovered, he likes to earn interest on his own, or he likes to use interest-free loans to win a good reputation, whatever they want, just need to develop customers, it doesn't matter, because soon, from we need them, to they need us, as long as money will be tempting to him, they are inseparable from us."

Jim was already surprised, and nodded lightly: "Habit formation, the stupidest behavior of SSD is to admit you into the club, you are using the banner of SSD, turning those guys whose minds are far less mature than your peers, but you think are worth cultivating, into your small circle of brothers, you are young and rich, and your SSD brothers are willing to lend a hand, and they will like you." ”

"To the point, Jim, use your ability to pimp at National Review and help me catch some powerful people." Tommy asked Jim.

Jim extinguished the cigarette butt and looked at Tommy speechlessly: "This kind of thing always needs bait to fish, you have to show me the bait you are going to use to attract big fish, so I can judge whether it can help you pimp." ”

Tommy picked up a folder from the stack and tossed it to Jim: "I have learned about the problems I have learned from various military newspapers and magazines during this time, and then I have tried how I can help them as a rich man, and this folder is my idea." ”

"I think I still have a say in the choice of bait." Jim opened the folder and took a quick look before he said to Tommy:

"There are usually foolish congressmen who think they have an idea to win favor with active-duty military personnel or veterans and want to publish it in National Review, but they always ignore that the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans Health Administration, and other institutions that they have singled out are also part of the military, so overtures are often counterproductive, and you're okay that you didn't make that mistake."

Jim used to be an assistant to the editor-in-chief of National Review, and he had handled a lot of congressmen's manuscripts, which he called bait, and these things that Tommy gave him were not a good manuscript, and the ideas were not fanciful, or very slippery, just some plans to provide social assistance to the military, veterans, and their families, but they were very suitable for some congressmen who wanted to seek peace with the military to make some impression points.

It's just that in Jim's opinion, his plan to help people with sincerity is much bleaker than Tommy Hawke's plan to pit people, and it is a little less attractive to him.

Jim closed the folder and gave his parity after reading it: "Did you find someone to ghostwrite it?" This thing is a lot worse than the design you make for your own profit, and it lacks sincerity. ”

"I'm going to send my brother to the army to defend my family and country, isn't sincerity enough? If you feel that there is a lack of sincerity, you can find a way, and I have done my best. Tommy said, taking a sip of wine.

Jim stretched his upper body lazily: "If you want me to help throw your garbage out, it depends on your sincerity, a dinner is far from enough." ”

"So?" Tommy asked.

"You owe me at least 120 girls for a pick-up party." Jim patted the folder and said to Tommy.

Tommy nodded: "Deal, you get it, I'll prepare two hundred girls to accompany you in Las Vegas, and I'll let my new driver and bodyguard, Mr. Paige, help you count on the side, don't want to leave if you can't sleep." ”

Damn, I also said that I would try to update it during the day, but the child had a fever, which was very scary, and it was more than ten o'clock before sitting on the computer after I was busy...... Make do with it, I'll continue to go for a while, don't wait, guys~ Tomorrow will be more together, show more......

(End of chapter)