Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 731 The Accelerated World
There was not much time left for him.

After going downstairs to explain to Marina, Chen Yan gave her Ned Roddy's phone number and told her that he was the night school teacher and acting principal.

Marina and other students have already received the curriculum and electronic textbooks sent by Chen Yan. They all tried to understand the textbooks by themselves, but based on their poor knowledge reserves, they couldn't understand these unknown knowledge, even if they forcefully read one or two pages, It can only reap the pain in the head.

Fortunately, they know that this knowledge is useful, plus the first week of the course is a free trial class, and the night school is relatively close to their residence, so most of them choose to go to the night school before 8:00 tonight for the evening class The first class of this semester.

Chen Yan still has more plans for the night school, but now he doesn't have enough time to implement them—he doesn't know when the shadows outside the window will burst the window, so he must leave early.

After repeatedly vowing to take good care of Messiah and send Marina away, Chen Yan took out his mobile phone to confirm the ready-to-start status of the modularization.

The energy is ready, the modular material extraction is ready, and it can be started at any time.

At the stall where Chen Yan was making mental preparations, there was a knock on the door of the apartment.

'Grass, who is this time! '

Chen Yan came to the door impatiently, looked out from the cat's eye, and saw falling snowflakes. A figure in a delicate black leather windbreaker and a gray octagonal hat was standing at the door, waiting quietly for someone to enter the door. person's response.

It was the unkillable little hoodlum, the Razorman of Birmingham Street, Thomas Gilbert.

Chen Yan thought about it carefully, and based on his curiosity about him, he opened the door after confirming that there was no shadow beside the door.

Thomas Gilbert entered the door with a cloud of wind and snow, and took off his hat to Chen Yan.

"It's really disturbing to visit in this weather."

Chen Yan looked at his beautiful light blue eyes and said:

"We need to get this conversation going fast."

Thomas Gilbert saw what he meant, and took out a piece of paper:

"It has been a long time since the last pleasant communication with you, but unfortunately we did not reach a cooperation. This time we have a new cooperation opportunity."

Chen Yan took the paper he handed over, and immediately saw a line of beautiful imperial handwriting on the header:

"Imperial Colonial Waterway First Island Chain Investment Plan"

Chen Yan glanced over and found that this is still a venture capital plan, but it is different from the previous investment plan of second-hand electricity dealers. This investment plan is more complete and formulated in accordance with the rules and regulations of the empire, with a lot less risk , the most important thing is to be able to see the light.

Chen Yan briefly understood that the general idea of ​​this investment plan is to establish a maritime trading company recognized by the empire, to travel between the empire and the islands of the first island chain built around the empire, and to acquire and sell local specialties products, and earn the material price difference.

Different from normal maritime trading companies, the maritime trading company that Thomas Gilbert wants to establish also functions as a logistics company. It not only sells goods by itself, but also provides customers with agency services to transport goods to earn logistics fees.

Chen Yan is not short of money now, so he wants to reject this plan.

And Thomas Gilbert had already prepared a plan to deal with this situation. When Chen Yan just wanted to push back the plan, he had already said:
"According to the information I have received, the entire empire will usher in a new round of drastic changes, and the changes will be as drastic as the use of steam engines to open the age of steam!"

Chen Yan replied:
"According to common experience, the 'shock body' information that people see is actually not very surprising."

Thomas Gilbert lobbied patiently:

"This time is different from before. The airport in Yanan City has been built. From now on, all economic contracts will be carried out around the airport, and the market will be opened. You see, even marginal people like me have Eligibility to share the benefits of the airport."

He spoke very fast, from which Chen Yan knew that he must be very embarrassed now.

"If a riot breaks out in Yanan City, it will definitely break out a second time. Your simulator has already given the answer, hasn't it?"

When Chen Yan heard Thomas Gilbert's affirmative statement, he immediately understood that this guy must have recognized him from the video he posted on the Internet.

"After inputting the airport as a variable into the simulator, things will turn around again - the lifespan of Yanan City is extended, the emergence of large companies is delayed, and there are more individual businesses like me - and only me The emergence of large companies will only be delayed when there are more self-employed people, and according to your theory, this is essentially a problem of productivity development.”

This guy!
He has carefully read the books posted by Chen Yan on the forum!

But... the actions he showed, the way he applied that knowledge, the eagerness he showed now, and the hidden "suffering" that Chen Yan felt from him...all of this has nothing to do with What Chen Yan expected was different——

This guy has probably learned the wrong way!
"Anyone is entitled to participate in the building of society, and you've said that in those books."

Thomas Gilbert looked eager.

"Actually... I know some gossip, and I don't know if it's accurate. It is said that Yanan City is so eager to open the airport and grant the right to use the airport to most of the citizens of Yanan—even a gang that can't stand like me. Opening up is to resist the William Adams Group's control of Yanan City."

Seeing that Chen Yan had calmed down, Thomas Gilbert knew that he had partially succeeded, so he continued:
"Including the new bill released today by the House of Representatives - to re-elect representatives from all walks of life and enter the House of Representatives as senators - this is also the House's way of resisting super-large business groups like the William Adams Group."

"This is our chance."

Thomas Gilbert emphasizes:
"Not an opportunity to make money."

His tone was heavy.

He knew that Chen Yan was not short of money.

He probably knew what Chen Yan wanted to do.

"Human subjective consciousness can understand the objective world, and human practical activities can transform the world with correct cognition."

"My enterprising consciousness itself is to transform the world and make it deviate from the path toward the end of [big corporations rule everything]."

"And that process itself is good for the world."

He looked into Chen Yan's eyes, and his tone gradually changed from low to passionate.

"The world is changing, Mr. Chen, the airport will not only become a road for the empire to connect the whole world - land and sea, but also a road to connect the starry sky."

"I think that Yanan City will soon import immigrants to the sea through the airport-this is the best way to release the pressure on Yanan City. The per capita resources of Yanan City have been improved, and the imported laborers have been more powerful. High wages and less stress."

"Through the airport and the Internet of Things centers that will be established at all levels of the island chain, everything on the surface will be connected together, and the productivity will be unprecedentedly developed-by then, the colonization technology in the starry sky will also be perfected, The population that broke out again will be exported to the starry sky, perfectly solving the problem of the next riot breaking out again!"

Thomas Gilbert stared:
"And we, Mr. Chen, as a small part of this world, we will return to our struggle, and we will use our own labor to obtain everything we want-this does not conflict with the development of society itself, It’s just following the development of society.”

"What we have to do—what I want to do—is to invite you to join my company, own a certain share, and participate in the operation of the company."

"As the promoter of everything, you only need to give the company operational strategy guidance, and then receive dividends based on shares—I know that's not what you care about."

Thomas Gilbert finished.

The snow outside the window is still falling.

Chen Yan digested the changes in this person, and then said:

"These things are your own thoughts, or?"

Thomas Gilbert says:
"It's completely my own opinion."

He pointed to the paper in Chen Yan's hand:
"So, this is still a venture capital investment. Unlike normal venture capital investment, you will join the entire investment and operation process as a technology investor."

Chen Yan asked:

"Since you have read the things I posted on the forum, you should know that if I join the company, the company will not be able to make a lot of money.

And you should know that when it comes to production and management, I am a complete layman. "

Thomas Gilbert responded without hesitation:
"I fully understand and understand this."

Chen Yan took out her mobile phone:

"Then, we need to exchange phone numbers—I need an electronic contract, and discuss subsequent cooperation matters in a phone call or text message."

Although Thomas Gilbert didn't know what the electronic contract was, he didn't need to know it for the time being. Since the goal had been achieved, the form of the contract didn't matter.

"definitely no problem!"

Chen Yan nodded and stretched out his hand:

"Then, Mr. Gilbert, wish us a pleasant cooperation."

Thomas Gilbert shook hands with Chen Yan as a matter of course.

The moment they shook hands, Chen Yan knew something.

"Goodbye, Mr. Chen, I still need to go to the next investor as soon as possible. Building a fleet is not an easy task. It takes a lot of money."

After negotiating the cooperation, Thomas Gilbert said goodbye to Chen Yan, and left No. 33 Walker Street, entering the dark street with light snow.

Chen Yan looked at the back of this person who disappeared into the darkness, a gust of cold wind blew by, and his body felt a chill.

In the moment of synaesthesia when shaking hands, Chen Yan understood that this person only thought about money, and the impassioned rhetoric just now was just to persuade him, not his own real perception and understanding.

And the real purpose of this person is to use the trading company to traffic illegal items that are not allowed to be sold in Yanan City - all contraband items including people, the stolen goods that the bottom of the society that the Razor Party can touch like to use to erode others !

As for the logistics company mentioned by Thomas Gilbert just now, it is even more outrageous. Chen Yan knows from his synaesthesia that the reason for building a logistics company is because the Gilbert family gang sent some people a while ago Going to the empire's overseas colonies, I came into contact with the entire chain of interests based on the exchange of maritime resources——

From this, they know that some contraband that is not allowed to be sold in normal trade can be transported through logistics——

For example, some electronic products, more precisely, e-waste:

Due to the rapid development of electronic technology, the first batch of electronic waste in Yanan City has been produced. Most of these electronic wastes are some damaged mobile phones due to various reasons.

There is no shortage of such things as mobile phones in Yanan City. Because of financial subsidies, everyone in Yanan City has one mobile phone, and due to the excess production capacity of mobile phones, even if they are damaged, they can buy a second one at a lower price. cell phone.

But overseas is different. Overseas imperial colonies do not have production lines for the mobile phone industry. If overseas people want to own mobile phones, they need a lot of money—all reasons including tariffs, consumption taxes and production costs have led to the shortage of mobile phones overseas. Prices have skyrocketed, and on many islands there is no market.

Some speculators have spotted this situation, and there are various ways to make money through mobile phones:
They either buy broken mobile phones at a low price, and hire electronic repairers to repair them in batches. When these mobile phones are shipped overseas, they are usually sold at a price several times higher than the original price-because this kind of trafficking hurts the empire's mainland. Because of the interests of selling normal mobile phones outside the country, they were explicitly prohibited by the customs, so they had to find ways to traffic them through "special" channels;
Or disassemble the waste mobile phones into batches of parts-mobile phones cannot pass through customs, but parts can-they transport these parts in batches. Used to assemble mobile phones - after leaving the coastline of the empire, these parts are usually assembled by electronic repairmen on board, and when they land, they can flow into the local black market and sell for incredible prices.

……

In addition to mobile phones, there are various other electronic products, and various methods of shipping these electronic products out of the imperial customs...

Chen Yan perceived all this from Thomas Gilbert's memory.

In Thomas Gilbert's plan, the role of this logistics company is to complement the shipping capacity of the trading company, and transport some materials that are not allowed to be sold by overseas trade through logistics channels.

No one has tried this road yet, so the probability of success is very high. According to Thomas Gilbert's plan, when this road is discovered and blocked, he has already made a lot of money, and his whole body will die. Retreat—he even found a way out—he got acquainted with and captured a son of a nobleman in the House of Lords through some means, and obtained the promise of the nobleman in the House of Lords through coercion—once there was a business problem, The noble will personally extract his criminal record from the archives of the Yharnam Customs.

As for why he did this...

He just wanted to make money.

As for why he invited Chen Yan...

He just wanted to use Chen Yan as a backup option, and just throw Chen Yan out in the event of an accident.

Recalling his previous impassionedness, Chen Yan sighed in his heart, this is another person who only regards theory as a tool, but has no kindness in his heart.

He took out his phone, this time without hesitation, and clicked on the [Start ship modularization process] option next to the apartment data model.

(End of this chapter)