Everyone has his or her own circle of life, even homeless people living on the streets have their own small circles and territories, and capitalists are no exception.
In the evening, Mr. Williams changed into a set of casual clothes and went to a bar three blocks away from his home to get drunk. The name of this bar was Pink Temptation, but it was extremely "clean." It is not as easy for skilled women to find jobs in the Federation as it is in the Empire. They need to have a health certificate and a professional qualification certificate and a complete tax certificate within three months. Only after the certificates are complete will the bar hire them and pay them an hourly commission. . Of course, in addition to this part, the tips earned by skilled women based on their outstanding abilities and skills will no longer be taken by the bar.
If there is a requirement in this regard, guests can exchange a token to a bar or other business venue as the currency used in the business venue, because the skilled ladies and sisters have received this additional fee and need to pay taxes. The federal government never lets anyone go. A way to get tax revenue that covers this fee.
Williams sat on the bar and ordered a bottle of liquor. The declining performance of the company and the losses that began to accrue made him mentally and physically exhausted. He has now mortgaged his house to the bank. If there is no improvement within three months, he will Consider whether you need to borrow high-interest loans or mortgage other things you own to the bank.
This is a very cruel thing. In order to get these things, such as his villa, his luxury car, and all the luxuries he owns, he spent several years accumulating bit by bit to get where he is today. scale. But the speed of losing them was so fast that he would lose them forever in less than half a year.
Anger, dissatisfaction, grievance, hatred, countless negative emotions were tearing at his soul. He needed to get himself drunk so that he could enter his dream without being tortured.
After just two drinks, he sat next to a guy he knew, who was also the owner of a small factory. In the past few years, similar companies have emerged one after another. Sometimes some people have grown from three to five machines and a dozen workers to hundreds of machines and nearly a thousand workers, creating myths of wealth one after another. But today, these wealth myths have been shattered one by one. If you come to the bar at this time, you should be a loser like yourself.
"Hey, Mark, do you want a drink? I bought one!" Williams shook the wine glass in his hand, the amber liquid kept hitting the ice cubes, and made a crisp sound of ice cubes hitting the glass, "At this time Drinking a little will help you sleep well at night.”
The gentleman he called Mark glanced at him, smiled and waved to the bartender, "I'll treat everyone to a drink tonight, and William's consumption will be signed on my bill." Following Mark's words The quiet bar became lively in an instant, and people turned to Mr. Mark and toasted him for his generosity.
"Have you encountered something good?" Williams moved his stool to the side, asked the bartender to bring out a glass and ice cubes, and poured him a glass of wine. Although he has done something like buying a drink for every guest in the bar, and it actually only costs a small amount of money, for Williams now it is still an expense that should not be wasted.
Like him, Mr. Mark runs a small light industrial product export company. He sells blankets, while Mr. Mark sells leather shoes. They do not do internal sales, but only export dumping. The last time we met was more than a month ago, and times were already very difficult at that time. Did Mr. Mark find another way? This makes Williams very excited, and perhaps it means that the low point in his life will soon be over, if Mr. Mark is willing to give him a hand.
There is no overlap between his products and Mr. Ma's products. There is no competition issue. The two of them have a good relationship. Maybe he can help him.
Mr. Mark laughed twice, turned his back to the bar, and Williams turned sideways. The two of them formed a small environment. Mr. Mark took a sip of the cooled liquor, which was easier to drink. He smiled and said, "It's not bad, it's not as difficult as it was some time ago."
Williams felt as if some small animal was scratching him in his heart. Not so uncomfortable was just a subtle way of saying that Williams knew that Mr. Mark had made a lot of money. For "decent" people like them, if the current situation only improves slightly, they will exaggerate and say that they have started to make a lot of money. This is to maintain their own dignity and not let others look down on them. circle of people.
No one wants to be friends with an entrepreneur who is on the verge of bankruptcy, because that means they will soon be calling or visiting to ask for money.
But if you really make a lot of money, you will say that you have not actually made much money and are still working hard. This is to prevent the money you have discovered from being known to more people, increase your competitiveness, and even make it possible for you to make money. They will all be eliminated by these good friends.
"Which country did you sell your things to? Monte? Asilia?" Monte and Asilia had ended their seventeen-year war at the beginning of the year. The two countries..., no, it should be said that all Western countries We have realized that with the development of the times and the advancement of science and technology, the relationship between countries has undergone earth-shaking changes.
International integration is no longer the imagination of sociologists. People have begun to pay more attention to international relations and their country's status in the international community. Ending the war in a timely manner and building the country will be of great help in improving the international status of the country. More and more countries in war have begun to draft armistice agreements, especially in the 18-nation meeting on "sea areas included in national territory". After that, the trend of international integration became more and more obvious. Even if there is a war in the future, it will not be a war between one country and another country, but a global camp war.
Under such a broad framework, it is the stupidest decision to continue the war between countries.
As various countries began to focus on development and the international economy began to recover and take off, there would always be many dumping places for goods with higher profits. Williams thought that Mark might have discovered a good place and dumped the goods there.
But Mr. Mark laughed loudly. He raised his arm and shook his fingers, "No, no, no, William, my stuff that smells like leather is still piled up in the warehouse. I have laid off my workers and sold the factory. ”
This shocked Williams even more, "Why do you do this? Are you so negative about the export industry?"
Mr. Mark nodded solemnly and said, "Of course, we can't get the export subsidies and tax rebates from those big companies. We don't have any competitiveness at all in export trade for the same goods, and it's even difficult to maintain them." , so why are we continuing to do it? I think those people in City Hall are right, we should look elsewhere.”
"For example..." Williams drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Mr. Mark smiled mysteriously, "For example, finance!"
"Dear, have you never read newspapers? The surge in the federal shield has led to the prosperity of the entire financial industry. Now you can take your money and go to a trading house to buy any stock. You don't need to do anything every day. Hearing your stockbroker tell you how much money you made is simpler and less troublesome than doing a physical business.”
He seemed a little casual, but he also had some sense of showing off, "I mortgaged all my properties to the bank, raised 1.3 million federal guilders, and then invested the money in the stock market...", he suddenly Turning to look at Williams, he asked, "Do you know United Construction Engineering?" Williams nodded yes. Almost everyone in the federal government knew United Construction Engineering. Mr. Mark continued, "I bought this stock. After eleven trading days, the stocks in my stock account are now worth more than two million federal guilders, can you believe it?”
"In just over half a month, the share price of United Construction Engineering increased by more than 80%. If I continue to sell leather shoes, if I can sell them, it may take me several years to make a profit. The money."
“But in financial markets, it only takes two weeks!”
Williams' breathing suddenly became rapid and his eyes turned red. At the same time, he felt a force return to his body. He was now full of fighting spirit, just like he was more than ten years ago.
For the next period of time, Williams has been asking Mr. Mark about stock operations. Stocks are something that almost everyone in the federation knows and understands, and most people have even opened accounts. But for a long time in the past, there were not many people who actually did it. It was not until recently that the crazy signing of projects by the United Central Government triggered a surge in the industrial sector, as well as a lot of good news, that these people really started to invest in stocks.
It has to be said that everyone made money.
The next day, Williams got up in the morning, took a shower, changed a set of clothes, called the bank's credit department manager, and told him that he wanted to mortgage all his assets!
For such a high-quality customer, the bank naturally provided the fastest, most considerate and attentive service. Before noon, Mr. Williams entered the exchange with a cashier's check of 870,000 federal guilders issued by the Federal Bank.
He was also deeply affected by the frenzied atmosphere around him. Looking at the rising stock prices on the bulletin board, he felt that every second he delayed, a large amount of wealth was flowing around him.
It took him a long time to get the money from the trading desk. "This is my trading bank account. I want to buy United Construction's stocks."
The trader took a look at the cashier's note and asked, "All of them, sir?"
Williams' eyes glowed golden, he clenched his fists and shouted loudly, "Yes, all of them!"
(End of chapter)