America 1982

Jim Manzi sat at the dining table in Tommy's villa, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He said to Tommy who was sitting across the dining table and looking through the information: "About Professor Yunus and his poor man's bank, that's pretty much it. , there is actually a project about share farms that I haven’t had time to investigate, but that thing has little to do with banking business, plus your call a few days ago, so I flew back.”

"I calculated it based on the exchange rate you provided. That is to say, Professor Yunus's bank provides a loan of 50 cents to every poor Bangladeshi every week, and then the other party needs to pay back 52 cents to the bank when he repays the next week. ?" Tommy looked at some data that Jim brought back and said:

"With 50 cents a week, what kind of business can those poor people do? I mean, any part-time job in the United States now pays $3 an hour. I can't imagine what kind of business can be done with less than 50 cents. There are a total of 28,000 customers. The scale means that the bank will grant each of them a loan of one dollar, which only requires a principal of less than 30,000 yuan."

"Most of them are furniture businesses. They will use bamboo to make various beautiful bamboo furniture and sell them to buyers. After the buyers buy them together, they will then sell them to places like Europe, Hong Kong or Japan. They will buy them for 50 cents. The money for raw materials, the bamboo there is not free, furniture made from 50 cents of bamboo can be sold for about 70 cents. After deducting the 52 cents of low-interest loans, there will still be 18 cents left. If both husband and wife start working , they can earn 36 cents a week, and after deducting the most basic living costs, they can save 10 cents. In other words, if they want to continue the furniture business, they need to continue to borrow money, and start over and over again. Professor Yunus is actually prepared to Interest-free loan, but maintaining bank expenses also requires fees." Jim looked at the dazzling array of food on the table and asked:

"Can I eat this food? Are you eating such a sumptuous dinner alone?"

"Of course, you can enjoy the pasta, lobster, fish, whiskey, wine... on the table as you like." Tommy said without raising his head: "That was originally prepared for catching the wind."

Jim picked up a piece of spaghetti covered with sauce and put it into his mouth with his fork: "Thank you, I didn't expect you to specially prepare a meal for me."

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

"The food on this table looks very rich. Look at these lovely oysters~ They are 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 the Los Angeles Are oysters more palatable?”

"Stephen hired a nightclub and 120 beautiful girls in Los Angeles to pick up Dennis and Pam." Tommy said calmly.

Jim immediately stopped eating and looked at Tommy: "...it's also Jie Feng, why do you only treat me with such a pile of junk food that no one else bothers to take a look at? Why don't you respect me?"

"But you just praised the oysters for being delicious."

"That was a compliment I didn't mean, do you understand? I had praise on my face, but actually my heart was bleeding." Jim poured himself a glass of wine and said, "So, you said on the phone that your girlfriend To understand what banking means?”

Jim folded up the documents and looked at Jim: "She wants to do something meaningful, and what else can be more meaningful than what we are doing."

"Does your girlfriend also think that making nigger money can make her life meaningful?" Jim asked Tommy while putting food in his mouth.

Tommy picked up a few strands of spaghetti and put them in his mouth. After hearing Jim's words, he shook his head without even bothering to finish swallowing: "No, no, no, my girlfriend is an angel, understand? She is responsible for helping people and bringing them happiness." To hope, let people follow her light, and after those people have set foot on that road and cannot turn back, let her redeem other lambs, and you will take her place and continue to guide those on the road.”

"In the spread of religion, the missionaries who just started preaching showed kindness. After the brainwashing was completed and those people had faith, they changed their faces and told them that God loves the world, but he also needs the world to love him. Now your god is missing. Money requires you to give everything you can." After Jim understood what Tommy said, he couldn't help but tease him:

"I thought you would continue to play the American idol, the righteous man from heaven. Now it seems that you are planning to bring another female righteous man into the world? Are your children going to have some strange phenomena at the moment of their birth? Come out, or help your girlfriend perform an operation before giving birth, and first put a Bible and a cross on the baby's hand in the belly?"

Tommy sighed and continued to put food in his mouth: "You lack the fear of God, Jim, and this is wrong."

"The fact that you have survived until now has completely turned me into an atheist. If God really existed, you should have been thrown into the nigger hell by him long ago and enjoyed the endless gang rape of niggas." Look. When this guy actually said that he lacked respect for gods, Jim immediately retorted, but then asked:

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

"No, no, no, my girlfriend helps those poor people in need, including black people, of course, but she doesn't want to mingle with them." Tommy immediately retorted.

Otilia can't get along with black people. If her character really gets along with black people, those lazy and shameless black poor people will definitely take Otilia's charity as a matter of course. Otilia may even I will also take it for granted.

"What she should have done most before was to use her kind heart to help me go to Bangladesh to influence Professor Yunus. My girlfriend has the funds and is willing to do the right thing to help Bangladesh. Professor Yunus will not Refuse good intentions, this is what we have to do, find opportunities to inject funds, make that small bank ours, and then let Yunus work for us, turn the great ideas in his brain into ours, and then Slowly develop this kind of business into an international business. There are so many poor countries in Africa and Asia, and there are countless poor people. For the poor, we will use Yunus’ brain to design many ways to help them, and Help, at some point, can also be a business. We suck the blood of black people from California to feed branches in other countries, and when the time is right..." Tommy looked at Jim.

Jim pulled off his napkin and wiped his lips, poured wine into his mouth, took another heavy drag on his cigarette, and then interrupted Tommy directly: "This is not a fucking business at all, Tommy, this is indeed a business, but … It’s not a business in the traditional sense, unless you work for a politician, but that’s impossible. The previous investigation data the firm completed for Lotus showed that you are from the countryside and do not have any noteworthy political background.”

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

Jim was too lazy to listen to Tommy's completely perfunctory nonsense. He turned his head and cursed before saying, "If a car mechanic can be considered a political figure, you can indeed say that."

"I plan to send him and Dennis to the U.S. Naval Academy, join the SSD chapter of the U.S. Naval Academy, and serve in the Navy after graduation. Therefore, the business of those countries is a transaction prepared for every promotion for him. There is nothing that cannot be sold." Tommy added, seeing that Jim thought he was joking.

Jim turned back and looked at Tommy. After making sure that the expression on this bastard's face was not a joke, he tentatively asked:

"You have to understand that if a 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 die with your own hands. Are you sure that you will not have any fluctuations in your heart when facing this possible situation?"

"Then why don't you bet that there won't be a war between the United States and the Soviet Union." Tommy said to Jim:

"Poor people want to change their destiny. How can it be possible without taking risks? Only by hard work can you get something. If the Soviet military exercises in the past two years had not frightened several major military academies and could not recruit enough students, how could those politicians give poor boys a chance to get in? ?”

Seeing Jim's silence, Tommy said while eating:

"They will be rewarded for their efforts. My brother may one day become the captain of a cruiser or some other force commander, and the same goes for Dennis. Otherwise, my brother will spend his whole life repairing cars in the countryside, and Dennis will spend his whole life as a garbage station manager. ?”

Seeing Tommy's calm expression, Jim couldn't help but ask: "Everyone, you can use them without hesitation as long as you need them? Tommy, do you have any real friends?" ? Do you have any relatives in the true sense? I mean, be it family or friends, is there anyone in this world who you can tell everything about and trust completely? "

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

"An impeccable answer." Jim lowered his head and continued to put food into his mouth, saying vaguely: "You are perfect, Tommy Hawke."

The two of them finished the food on their plates quietly, and then Tommy wiped the corners of his mouth and broke the silence:

"In addition to needing you to teach my girlfriend how to do good deeds, there is another thing. The SSD chapter of Stanford University is hosting a charity dinner for the Veterans Association to raise funds. I need a few powerful people to appear at the charity dinner. The other guests are not important. , but I want to attract SSD chapter members from West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy and those military academies to participate.”

"Why?" Jim looked at Tommy with a puzzled face: "What can those idiots do? You won't have anything in common with them. In fact, even people my age can hardly catch you. ideas, not to mention common topics.”

"Those people are the most suitable loan business salesmen, and they may also be potential shareholders of our small business. Jim, of course I will hold a charity dinner that interests them to make them happy, and then make it look like I have a relationship with powerful people. Let’s talk about cooperation with each other under the illusion of close friendship.” Tommy patted a thick stack of information on several alumni of SSD military academies on the seat next to him:

"Whether these guys are in the military or in school, we can help us lend money to others. We can guarantee that no interest will be charged in the early stage and only the principal will be recovered. Whether they like to earn interest themselves, or they like to use interest-free loans to gain a good reputation. , they just need to develop customers, it doesn’t matter, because soon, from us needing them to they need us, as long as money can still be tempting to them, they will be inseparable from us.”

Jim was no longer surprised and nodded lightly: "Habit formation, the most stupid* behavior of SSD is to accept you as a member. You are using the banner of SSD to recruit those whose minds are far less mature than your peers, but you The guys you think are worth cultivating will become your small circle of brothers. If you are young and rich, and are willing to lend a helping hand to the SSD brothers, they will all like you."

"To get to the point, Jim, use your pimping skills at National Review and help me hook some powerful people." Tommy asked Jim.

Jim wiped out his cigarette butt and looked at Tommy speechlessly: "You have to have bait for this kind of thing. You have to show me the bait you are going to use to attract the big fish. Only then can I judge whether I can help you." pimp."

Tommy picked up a folder from the pile of information and threw it to Jim: "During this period, I relied on various military newspapers and magazines to learn about the problems, and then I tried how, as a rich man, I could help them, This folder contains my ideas.”

"I think I still have a say in choosing bait." Jim opened the folder and browsed it quickly before saying to Tommy:

“There are usually some stupid congressmen who think they have an idea to gain favor by courting active duty military personnel or veterans and want to publish it in the National Review, but they always ignore the Department of Veterans Affairs that they single out as the wrong one. The Servicemembers Health Administration and other agencies are also part of the military, so overtures are often counterproductive, and luckily you didn't make that mistake."

Jim used to work as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of National Review, and he had dealt with many manuscripts written by congressmen, which he called bait. The things Tommy gave him were not qualified manuscripts, and the ideas were not wild and unconstrained. In other words, it is very slick. It is just a plan to provide social assistance to soldiers, veterans and their families. It is very suitable for some legislators who want to seek peace with the military to propose it to earn some impression points.

But in Jim's opinion, compared to Tommy Hawke's plan to deceive people, his plan to sincerely help people was much bleaker, and it was a little less attractive to him.

Jim closed the folder and gave his opinion after reading it: "Did you hire someone to ghostwrite it? This thing is far inferior to the design level you did for your own profit, and it lacks sincerity."

"I'm going to send my own brother into the army to defend my country. Isn't sincerity enough? If you feel that you lack sincerity, you can come up with a solution. I have tried my best." Tommy took a sip of wine and said.

Jim lazily stretched his upper body and said, "If you want me to help you throw away your garbage, it depends on your sincerity. One dinner is not enough."

"So?" Tommy asked.

"You owe me a reception party with at least 120 pretty girls." Jim patted the folder and said to Tommy.

Tommy nodded: "Deal, you handle it. I'll prepare two hundred girls to accompany you in Las Vegas. I'll ask my new driver and bodyguard, Mr. Page, to help you count by the side. I won't be able to sleep until I say goodbye." Want to leave."

Damn it, I also said that I would try to update during the day, but it turned out that the child had a fever, which was quite scary. It was already past 10 o'clock after I finished my work and sat in front of the computer... Let's just take a look, I will continue to code for a while, don't wait, everyone~ We will update together tomorrow to show more...