Chapter 3301

The "half a percent" in Gordon's mouth was also a full 50 million US dollars. And this Gavin, whom he called an "old hyena," didn't have the surname Pasa; he was just an agent. This money was enough for him to live happily for the rest of his life.

The upper class is like a stock. When market confidence is sufficient, this stock will keep rising. Everyone buys in like crazy, and even if they can just touch the edge of it, they feel much more noble than others.

However, once market confidence begins to decline, people discover that the trend of this stock is not good and have a premonition that it is going to fall, then they will sell as crazily as they bought. Even before it really starts to fall, those with a keen sense of smell have already started to find ways to pack up and run away.

The exposure of the death gambling scandal was a harbinger of a major plunge in market confidence. Although Gordon's subsequent arrest plan failed, these people were also forced to jump around, no longer strategizing as they did in the past, but showing a kind of embarrassment of being stretched thin.

Except for a portion of dogs that were truly tamed and obedient, most of the running dogs of the upper class were hyenas and vultures; their noses were the sharpest, and they could smell blood from far away.

Even if the one bleeding was their master, they couldn't suppress the bloodthirsty desire in their nature, flapping their wings one after another, baring their fangs, waiting for these noble prey to become weaker, and then swarming up to devour them completely.

The upper class was forced into a dead end, but because of the preparations Shiler had made earlier, they failed to seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy in one blow when the chaos first appeared. Dragging it out, they instead dragged themselves into the quagmire, unable to move.

Professional managers like Gavin had already begun to waver. Loyalty couldn't be eaten as food, and opportunities to make enough and retire successfully were never many. Whoever could grasp it could retreat unscathed and enjoy wealth and glory for the rest of their lives.

Gavin agreed.

He would keep the warehouse matter secret and cooperate with Gordon as much as possible to cover up this matter, so that his master wouldn't be able to spare his hands to deal with it, and then look for a suitable opportunity to escape.

Gordon thus successfully obtained the weapons and, with the help of the method Shiler mentioned earlier, successfully deployed the defensive fortifications in the center of the Lower East Side. The community where he was located became the safest place in the entire Lower East Side.

The changes this brought were obvious. Experts from some surrounding communities also wanted to join; they brought a lot of able-bodied labor and also expanded the scope of Gordon's actual control to the communities where they lived for a long time, allowing Gordon to obtain more resources and support more people.

This was undoubtedly bad news for the upper class. Once the Lower East Side was completely out of control, it would also be a fatal trouble for them.

Don't look at them closing supermarkets and factories now, as if they don't care about turnover at all; that's because unorganized poor people have no resource channels of their own.

If there is no food at home, they go to the supermarket to buy it; if they have no money, they go to the factory to work. They can only do these things. So once the resource output and input ports are closed, it's enough to make them uncomfortable.

However, once they unite and become an organization, they can establish their own resource circulation channels and no longer need middlemen to earn the price difference.

For example, after controlling the traffic lines, they can send their own fleets to surrounding farms to purchase food, instead of waiting for the supermarket to finish purchasing the food and then going to the supermarket to buy it. After controlling the factory, they can produce it themselves, then sell it themselves, and then pay themselves wages.

Although it hasn't reached this level yet, if it continues like this, self-sufficiency is only a matter of time.

In a situation where resources cannot be used to restrict the people at the bottom, the rich closing their own industries becomes self-imprisonment.

Still the same sentence, this world can have no capitalists, but it cannot have no laborers.

Gordon established a sufficiently safe shelter and could also provide more job positions. Then many people would choose not to go to the factory to work, but to stay in the community to work directly. This is both close to home and safer.

Then the factories with no one working will be forced to reduce efficiency. And because the incident happened suddenly, the factory's orders could not be delivered in time, and the factory owner would have to pay liquidated damages.

In order not to let such a situation happen, they need more labor. In order to get people to come to work, they must defeat Gordon in terms of remuneration, that is, hire workers with high salaries.

But the problem now is that Gordon holds the GTO's investment funds. This money is nothing to the entire upper class, but the problem is that compared to the people at the bottom who have nothing, the upper class is the one that can never unite.

Increasing remuneration means increasing labor costs. Recruiting a large number of workers in a short period of time requires sufficient cash flow. But industries with fast cash flow like retail are closed, making their own cash flow insufficient. In short, there is no money.

The competitor's factory has to pay liquidated damages because it can't recruit people and orders are delayed, so why should I spend money to help him?

Therefore, every factory owner in urgent need of labor can only be regarded as an individual. Although all factory owners combined can definitely compete with Gordon, because of their lack of unity, individual factory owners have no way to suppress Gordon with cash.

This led to the fact that individuals among them had no way to offer better conditions than Gordon to compete for workers. The factory was understaffed, unable to deliver goods on time, and thus unable to recover funds, creating a vicious cycle.

It's one thing to be unable to compete with Gordon within the legal scope. After Gordon obtained a large number of weapons and ammunition, they could no longer occupy an advantage within the illegal scope either.

Market confidence is like sailing against the current; if you don't advance, you retreat. Being unable to continue rising means falling. Repeated setbacks in front of Gordon consumed the last bit of market confidence. The wavering of a large number of middle-level managers became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The so-called "guarding against thieves day and night, it's hard to guard against domestic thieves." For the upper class, the poor are like vegetables in the field. Even if they all wither, it at most means they eat a little less.

But these middle-level personnel who have been working for them for a long time are at least cattle, horses, or tractors. Don't look at them as seemingly docile at ordinary times, but once they go crazy, they can really kill people.

They don't need to jump ship immediately; they just need to waver slightly and loosen their grip on certain key aspects, which is enough for these pampered rich people to suffer.

Although Gordon's initial arrest plan failed, he didn't intend to give up. He could still control the GTO, and the squad members had been collecting evidence, preparing for arrests.

Nightwing wasn't just sitting around, and Batgirl was even more pervasive. After the middle-level managers began to slack off, they really seized the opportunity and caught a few big fish.

It was precisely the success of these few operations that made Gordon finally understand why Shiler was so confident, as if he hadn't taken the shadow that had been hanging over them seriously at all.

Fundamentally, are there real elites among the rich?

Of course there are. Whether it's the pioneers of the first generation or the later rulers who maintained the status quo, their ability to maintain the operation of such a huge industry proves that they are capable.

However, are all rich people elites?

This is of course impossible. Even if all the rich people holding a large amount of resources are excellent far above the average line, what about their descendants? Their relatives? Their partners? Their subordinates?

Just thinking about it, you know they can't all be excellent, and the probability of producing fools is not small. Searching through the entire circle of friends, you can definitely find a few heavyweights.

The foundation of the upper class is resources, and the foundation of controlling resources is connections. If you want to build connections, you must cast a wide net and catch more fish. If you can pull people closer, you won't push them away.

In this way, it is inevitable that there will be a few rat droppings in the pot.

It is very difficult to cook a pot of soup to be fragrant, but it is too simple to make a pot of soup stink. Let alone rat droppings, just matching a few ingredients with conflicting flavors is enough to make it stink to the sky.

In this regard, the proletariat has the advantage, which is the so-called "those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes."

As long as there is a fool in your circle of friends, if you grasp him, you will eventually be able to harm yourself. Shiler did the same.

Whether it's Miss Charabanc or Fills, they are not smart people, their brains are not that sharp, and it doesn't take much effort to play them around.

Of course, smart people should choose to decisively abandon the car to save the commander when the fools around them are being used, so as not to be dragged down by them.

But in fact, it is not that simple. Building connections also requires market confidence. I make friends with you so that we can pull each other when the other is in trouble. If your first reaction is to abandon me, then why should I make friends with you?

Many times, the seemingly loyal actions of the rich are actually "buying a horse bone for a thousand gold," paying some benefits to build confidence for their partners. Only in this way can they expand more connections and control more resources.

In addition, the network of connections that has been established will only get bigger and bigger, not smaller and smaller. Because at this time, the class has solidified, and there is no suitable elimination mechanism, leading to fools not being screened out, accumulating more and more, and having more and more flaws.

This is the reason why class solidification becomes more fragile the more it solidifies. Finding a key point and hitting it hard can pull a large group of people off their horses. Fundamentally, it's not that the elites are not smart enough, but that too many fools dilute the probability of drawing smart people.

Therefore, dealing with the upper class seems very difficult, but as long as you find the right method, you don't need to spend any effort at all. Many times, as long as you make a start, they will play themselves to death.

Shiler showed Gordon his approach and used Pasa Military to let Gordon understand what the correct operation method was. Gordon wasn't stupid either, and he immediately understood how this game should be played.

After mastering the correct operation method, Gordon of course first solved the future trouble. He took the initiative to contact Gavin and told him that there was no need to rush to escape. Although 50 million is a lot, if you can get 500 million, who wouldn't want it?

The boss of Pasa Military was not involved in the death gambling scandal, but that doesn't mean he had no other flaws. Gordon successfully persuaded Gavin and soon dug up the old account of the maritime arms smuggling case.

Soon, Pasa was accused of smuggling, human trafficking, and terrorist attacks. The GTO struck hard and surrounded the Pasa Manor.

Very coincidentally, the helicopter used by the boss of Pasa Military for travel broke down. When he left through the tunnel in the house, the front of the tunnel suddenly collapsed, and he was caught right in the act by Nightwing, who was chasing behind.

Now it's good, although the previous crimes haven't been confirmed yet, resisting arrest and assaulting the police are solid facts. Once caught, throw them directly into the security prison without bail; it won't work no matter who comes.

Now, it's the turn of those elites hiding in safe houses to sweat.

(End of chapter)