Blackstone Code

A small round table, surrounded by five well-dressed men, they are playing poker in their hands attentively.

Gambling is always an effective way to quickly build relationships. When Lynch, who officially settled in the community, expressed his desire to hold a small friendship card meeting at a community event for the first time, he quickly attracted the attention of some people.

Thanks to Lynch's recent frequent appearances in the newspapers, and even overthrew the leader of the investigation team of the Sabine City Taxation Bureau, some people may subconsciously avoid excessive close contact with him, but some people are willing to get close to him.

The tax bureau is the enemy of every high-income group. Someone can make the tax bureau stumble. For these people who rack their brains every month to avoid taxes, it is definitely something that can make them feel happy.

What's more, being able to move into this community also means that at least Lynch already has the ability to talk to them on an equal footing at the economic level, and they don't mind broadening their personal connections.

In such an environment and atmosphere, this first fellowship of card-based members was successfully held.

This is a game that is different from any game that Lynch knew in another world. It has five people playing, each with ten cards. The rules are simple, and the core is the exchange. After the exchange is over, the comparison Card.

Before the start of the game, everyone has to place an ending card type for themselves. After the final hand is formed, it must meet the card type requirements proposed by themselves, and then score and deduct points according to the size of everyone's card type.

In addition to the "cards" used for exchange, the exchange of cards also used game points. Before the game, everyone took out 200 yuan, of which 100 yuan became their base points - 100 points.

Another hundred yuan will become the public points in the point pool, which is the remaining five hundred points.

After the game is over, everyone can get the same amount of money as the points in their hands.

This is a very popular game that has swept the whole world. Many people think that it already has the core foundation of commercial trade. Every game is a fierce trade war. Everyone represents a company, a The chamber of commerce is even a group, and the points pool represents the bank.

Victory is not as simple as winning as much as possible, because the trading of points often occurs in the process of changing cards. This is a real game. Sometimes the person who always wins loses money in the end, always loses That guy might have won a few more.

The name of this kind of gameplay is called "piaiwa", which is a word with many meanings. It can be regarded as the "payment" at the core of the game, and it can also be regarded as the "request" after victory. Its charm is unmatched. Unstoppable, popular all over the world.

Not far from these gentlemen, several ladies were sitting on wicker chairs near the floor-to-ceiling windows, sipping the finest scented tea while competing for beauty.

Of course, their topics are always inseparable from those fashionable things, from fashion conferences, to new season jewelry design exhibitions, to newly released movies and the movements of some celebrities and dignitaries.

Sometimes it is difficult for men to find that their wives are so knowledgeable and versatile, as if they know everything, which is completely different from the stupid and ignorant when they are alone.

Just like when women sit together, their vanity keeps growing and they start to compete for beauty, men will also talk about things when they sit together, not just things on the poker table, but also things outside the poker table.

"The economic development index in the first half of the year has dropped by 11 percentage points compared with last year. The economic recession is already very obvious. How long do you think this will last?"

The person who spoke was a gentleman sitting across from Du Lin. He was wearing a shirt with a silver border. At this time, he rolled up his sleeves not so elegantly, exposing the thick body hair on his arms, giving people a very strange look. Feel.

It's like... there is an orangutan disguised as a human and mixed in with us.

He is a factory owner. The cheap labor and various expenses in second-tier cities have become the favorite place for factory owners to gather. Setting up factories in second-tier cities can save a considerable part of various expenses compared with opening factories in first-tier cities.

Land use costs, warehouse rental management costs, including the largest expenditure, labor costs.

Another gentleman shook his head, "We all feel that the market is shrinking rapidly, commodities cannot be sold, and profit margins are falling, but the financial market is still very prosperous. It is said that the Baylor Industrial Index has reached a new high!"

The other gentlemen, including Lynch, couldn't help laughing, and their laughter was full of sarcasm. Maybe they didn't know why they had such emotions and why they laughed.

They just rely on their own feelings to feel that these things are not normal. The stagnation or even regression of economic development not only does not affect the performance of the financial market, but frequently creates miracles, which is very problematic.

In fact, some economists had expressed their views long before Lynch traveled through time, believing that the Federation's economy would soon be hit hard, but most people ignored these views in a kind of fanaticism that seemed to be brainwashed.

The truce around the world has brought long-lost peace to the world. Most people think that the war is gone, people start to develop the economy, and the economy will only get better and worse.

Some economists timely put forward the unheard-of saying of "peaking and rebounding", which has successfully become the only cognition in the eyes of the public. They believe that the current short-term downturn is just that the whole society is digesting the economic achievements. The economy will usher in another round of rapid development.

People are willing to believe those statements that are beneficial to them, even if they know in their hearts that such statements may be incorrect, they have to force themselves to believe that this is correct.

The gentleman sitting on Lynch's left took out a card and put it on the table. Now it was his turn to call, "One point, I need a card Ⅸ◆...", he picked it up and put it on the ashtray. The holding pure color took a breath, and then slowly spit it out, "If the financial market maintains such a high momentum, it may last for a long time."

Having said this, the other gentleman threw him a nine of diamonds, and took from him his exchange card and a chip representing a point.

The game is still going on. Everyone knows that the unexpected prosperity of the financial market means that many people are still benefiting. It began to flow from the real economy into the financial market.

The digital game market is more prosperous because of the rapid inflow of hot money. Many business owners are shrinking their physical businesses and investing money in the financial market to make money. Much simpler and easier.

The gentlemen in this room almost all have their own stock accounts and futures accounts. In addition to socializing everywhere, they listen to stockbrokers or futures brokers telling them how much money they have made today.

Although they have been making money, they are still worried. This is a phenomenon that goes against common sense, but they don't know what to do, so they can only silently follow the development of the times and rush towards Unknown ahead.

"By the way, Lynch, can I call you that?" After getting confirmation from Lynch, the guy who spoke continued, "What business do you do?"

Lynch reached an exchange agreement with another gentleman, and he sorted the items in his hand while replying, "I have a service company, an auction house, if you have any good business that can take care of me, please feel free to come and see I."

People are always curious about what they don't know, "Auction house? Is it easy to make money in this industry?"

Lynch shook his head. "No bank is easy, gentlemen. We only make hard money."

People asked some more questions, such as the name of Lynch's auction house, and when they heard that Lynch's auction house was not aimed at serving the middle and upper classes of society, they lost interest.

Of course, the game is still going on...