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In this way, Xia Feng became a general under Richie in the simplest and most crude way.

As the saying goes, you have to eat the meal one bite at a time and walk the road step by step. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

But Xia Feng obviously doesn't have the time to grind tofu. He understands the truth, but in his eyes, Richie can't be called a top-notch dish, at most it can be regarded as an appetizer.

The next morning, Xia Feng appeared on the fifth floor of the casino.

As agreed, Richie's right-hand man Reddy will take him to familiarize himself with the casino business today.

Reddy's race is Liboli, which is a Gugu beast like Helmer and his second uncle. It can be seen that although Reddy's external identity is just an assistant, in fact he is basically Richie's stand-in.

He is responsible for all the industries of the Frido Chamber of Commerce in Happy City, including cooperating with the Leaf family's light manganese mine. He is considered a capable and practical man.

At the dinner table yesterday, Richie mentioned the recent changes in the light manganese ore cooperation with the Leaf family. Xia Feng guessed that this should be related to the fact that he blew up Tang De's chemical plant. The third plant has not been built yet, which is missing. One, the output of finished light manganese ore will definitely be greatly reduced.

The smuggling of light manganese ore is like a big river. In order to gain profits from the river water, all forces work hard to maintain the river bed. When preparing to harvest, everyone is holding fishing rods by the river and waiting for the fish to take the bait. At this time, the water is suddenly It's broken, what do you think we should do?

From transportation to storage and finally to export, the entire chain is now in a standby state because the source has been cut off. People cannot use it dry. At this time, there will be a lot of things to change, such as when the water flow will resume and whether personnel need to be adjusted. , whether to raise prices to reduce losses, etc.

Of course, the light manganese ore business currently has nothing to do with Xia Feng, although the current situation is all thanks to him.

In a separate office on the fifth floor of the casino, Reddy explained to him in detail the operation mode of the casino.

This is very simple, and is similar to what Xia Feng had expected before. A casino of this size no longer relies on small tricks such as cheating. On the contrary, cheating of any description is strictly prohibited in the casino, whether it is the banker or the guest. , once discovered, it will basically disappear from the world.

Paying attention to rules and reputation is the basis for a casino to make money. From a coin machine that costs a few cents to a million games with dozens of people participating, a casino as a banker will always only make profits but never lose money. Xia Feng didn't quite understand the specific rules, but he knew that it involved a probability issue.

Just like tossing a coin, the probability of heads and tails is 50%. If you toss 10 times in a row, the result will have many possibilities, such as 5 heads and 5 tails, 6 heads and 4 tails, 7 tails and 8 heads, or even 10 tails or 10 heads. It's all possible, but as the number of times you throw increases indefinitely, the number of heads and tails will become more and more balanced, eventually reaching a perfect 50%.

In the eyes of gamblers, they see variables, but from the casino's perspective, what they need to create is the fixed number among the variables.

The smaller the chance of winning, the greater the benefit, and vice versa, but the casino will never let this probability exceed 50%.

For example, a person uses 200 chips to win 200,000 in a casino. This may happen, but the casino will not go bankrupt because of the loss of 200,000. Just like tossing a coin, as long as the person continues to play, the casino will not go bankrupt because of the loss of 200,000. In other words, as long as someone continues to play, the probability will return to the casino's default as the number of times increases infinitely.

This sounds ironic, but the casino, as a bookmaker, will not choose to gamble. As long as someone plays, they will always make money but not lose money.

After listening to Leidy's explanation, Xia Feng almost fell asleep. His mother had taught him not to gamble since he was a child, so he had no interest in these things.

There is a separate department responsible for probability calculations and the introduction of new gameplay, while dealers, props, chips, drinks, waiters and waiters are all handled by the casino general department, in addition to finance and security.

These things sound complicated, but when you think about it, they are very simple, just like opening a barbecue restaurant.

As long as there are enough people and a clear division of labor, all you need to do is lie down and collect the money after everything is arranged. Some people are obviously not the boss, but they worry more than the boss, while some people are obviously the boss, but do more work than the employees. This is wrong.

Xia Feng felt that regardless of whether he was the boss or not, since Richie had said that the casino would be responsible for him, he would be the most relaxed boss.

After Reddy basically introduced the operation of the casino, it was already close to noon. Before lunch, Xia Feng had one last thing he needed to know, which was also what he was most concerned about.

How much money can the casino make, or in other words, how much benefit can he get from it?

To be honest, although this casino in Hapi City is the largest casino in the city, its scale is not very impressive. It is just that the interior decoration is relatively luxurious. As we all know, casinos rely on traffic and local economies, such as some tourist cities or special economic zones. A medium-sized city like Hapi City is, how should I put it, just average.

After reading the accounts of recent months, Xia Feng felt that it was similar to what he had guessed.

The monthly gross income of the casino is basically around 4 million to 8 million. Of course, this is only the money recorded, except for some special gambling games. This income must also be deducted from the salaries of casino employees and the shares of each supervisor, because it belongs to Foley. For industries with multiple chambers of commerce, the headquarters in Notting City will also take 20%, and the remaining money will go to Rich.

Now Xia Feng is fully responsible for the casino. The treatment given by Rich is 30% of the net income after excluding all expenses. In other words, if the casino can bring Rich a net income of 10 million a year, then Xia Feng will have The 3 million share, of course, is assuming there are no mistakes.

To be honest, Xia Feng doesn't understand these things very well, but regarding the split into Richie, he must be doing things according to the rules. Xia Feng doesn't need to doubt this. What he cares about now is that this is a little different from the plan he imagined, and it has nothing to do with money. .

At noon, Leidy took Xia Feng and a group of guys in suits and ties to have a meal.

After introduction, these people were all local officials in Hapi City and had some relationship with the casino business.

Xia Feng obviously had no interest in these guys. Except for the director of the security bureau and the mayor's secretary, he didn't remember anyone else's name.

Returning to the casino office in the afternoon, Reddy gave him two things.

An envelope, a car key.

"This is a red envelope from Boss Rich to you. It contains 200,000 yuan. In addition, you can drive this car temporarily."

He immediately became happy when he saw Qian Xiafeng.

"Hey, Boss Rich, it's really fun to get paid before you do any work."

Reddy patted Xia Feng on the shoulder.

"Work hard and there will be many opportunities to make money in the future."