Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 486 The Conflict Between Ideal and Reality
"What's bothering you?"

Rick looked up and down, and looked at Carter carefully:

"I didn't see it! Zhangkou is a person with an investment of tens of millions. What are you bothering about?"

"What annoyance, brother! I have to wait for the interest rate on the national debt to get the investment money. That is the future, not the present! Moreover, it has been almost a month, and the interest rate on the national debt is still above 13, which is too exaggerated! "

After lighting an after-dinner cigarette and throwing one to Rick by the way, Carter confided from the bottom of his heart:
"If the interest rate on the national debt does not come down for a day, I will have no living money in my hands. Several projects in Georgia are full of funds. In addition to this problem, there are other aspects. What annoys me the most is .Do you know about the current drug abuse problem in the United States?"

"I know, do you still want to get involved in this matter?!"

"No, I didn't"

Carter suddenly didn't know how to describe his current situation.

Did you mean completely uninvolved?Isn't that a lie? !But if you want to say that you really got involved, it doesn't seem to be the case at all.

"I don't know what to say, but you know that a large amount of drugs in the United States are landed in Florida, and then transported to the whole of the United States through Georgia?"

"And the location of my hometown. I thought that blocking it would definitely not stop it. A small city police station can't stop this from happening at all, so I and our local mayor made a plan."

After telling Douglas' story, Carter sighed faintly:

"From a rational point of view, this is one of the best ways to develop Douglas at present. Take a thing that we can't change at all, in exchange for a huge sum of money, enough to make Douglas make a leap forward. This money is basically equal to white"

"But emotionally, I always felt that I might be playing with fire. Later, I even took over the drug business in the prison. Of course, I didn't do it myself, and I had already transferred the legal risk. I was going to Use these free things to squeeze out the last value of this group of addicts, and then..."

"To put it simply, I don't intend to let that group of people come out again! As long as you find drug addicts in Douglas, they will be arrested! I have a lot of beds. If I don't catch more people in, I will lose money. After being arrested , I will provide you with smoking, but it is more expensive than outside. At the same time, once he is in prison, he still can’t get rid of the addiction. Then there is no need to go out. Every time the sentence is about to expire, create a small situation and continue to postpone it Imprisonment. If you can’t quit for a day, you won’t even think about going out for a day.”

"I want to gradually reduce the number of drug addicts in the city by transferring them to prisons. At the same time, I can also use drugs, or the free drugs offered by the gang of drug dealers, to attract more people. More funds are used for development! As for those local people who are related to drug interests, our place is small now, and we will find some business to compensate and reach a balance. It should not be difficult to persuade them to give up the drug business. In fact, they are now Some business is related to my legitimate business!"

"I admit that I am greedy for the huge profits, but I don't plan to use that profit in other places. To put it bluntly, it is the money I squeezed out some Douglas. Well, the flesh and blood of those who have gone astray! It will only be used in Douglas, and I don't want to build too many archways. Because Douglas is my base camp and capital, the better it develops, the more rewards I will get, but objectively, it can Promoting the development of Douglas is just like the description of the moral utilitarian theory: when I do things driven by interests, it also objectively promotes the overall development of society!"

"Since you have a clear plan, what are you bothering about? Morality?"

Rick seemed to be asking a question, but actually smiled with certainty and reached out to pat Carter on the shoulder:

"I don't know how to say some words. I don't know if you have heard a saying. Behind the United States, there are a pair of hands manipulating it."

"Ok?"

Carter was taken aback, not knowing what Rick wanted to say.

"Actually, this statement is not entirely true, but it cannot be miscalculated. You have been to Cincinnati, and you know a little about my family. But there are some things that you may not know. For example, the 27th president of the United States is my great-grandfather, my grandfather Robert Taft, once known as Mr. Republican."

"I said this not to show off my family status to you, but... just because of this reason, I have this foundation, so my growth experience may be different from yours. I have seen too many dirty things, or, in any country, any region, any group.”

"Those really powerful and powerful people usually have one characteristic: pragmatic! They value practicality very much. It doesn't matter what morality or law is. I think about what I should say. Let's take my family as an example. My family can’t be what it is today without the help of one person.”

"Who?"

"William Huntington Russell, have you heard of it?"

Should I have heard of it?
Carter looked confused.
"This is a graduate of Yale's class of 1833, a member of the Connecticut Communist Party, and a general of the Connecticut National Guard. But it doesn't matter. The important thing is that the Russell Company in charge of his brother was the largest opium company in the United States at that time. smuggling ring"

"But at that time, the biggest mistake of the Russell Company was not drug trafficking, but smuggling. Therefore, they are often hailed as one of the largest smuggling groups in the United States. Customs and taxation have made them trouble. But it is smuggling that brings Huge benefits, only then."

Rick smiled sarcasticly, feeling that the topic was a bit off track:
"You have to know that the United States did not promulgate the law of comprehensive prohibition of marijuana until 1937. Before that, let alone marijuana, even cocaine and heroin were as easy to buy as buying cold medicine. So Russell At that time, selling opium at home could only be regarded as a smuggling crime, not... well, let’s talk later, the United States later banned marijuana, including the abuse and illegal sale of other narcotic drugs, but the US government is abusing these things in large quantities!”

"It's the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War had two impacts. After World War II and the Korean War just ended, many people were unwilling to join the army. In order to avoid military service, they deliberately stabbed themselves with needles. Some of them became real once they were stabbed."

"On the other hand, you should know that the tactics of the Vietnamese army are rather sloppy. They basically don't fight you head-on, and make sneak attacks from time to time, which makes the frontline soldiers very tired. In order to solve this problem, you know what the military was doing at that time ? They actually distributed large quantities of amphetamines to the front line!"

"A soldier is provided with 6 capsules as standard, and can be replenished at any time when they run out. The addictiveness of amphetamine is not lower than that of cocaine, or even higher! After these people use it and become addicted, they will return to China At that time, it happened to be the outbreak period of the hippie movement, and all kinds of random hedonism and indulgence of liberalism prevailed."

"I'm the same as you. I also don't think drugs are a good thing, and I don't think the United States did the right thing at the time. But... I think about how to say it."

"This is the real society! You should be now, the reality and the ideal in your mind have conflicted"

(End of this chapter)