Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"Yes, and it's not just robbery and kidnapping, but also smuggling, bribery, and financial crimes that use illegal means to obtain funds. The crime rates of these crimes may increase because of the existence of the Black Canyon," Chi Fei paused. "Even bounty hunters and monster thieves sometimes use this funding channel."

Yuesui Nanatsuki: "..."

Speaking of which, it seems like there are many people around her who are customers of these banks.

Mr. Ike is, Kaito is, and her teacher Kaitou Lady is too...

"Although those banks are not all opened by branches of the Warburg family, the Warburg family controls 90% of the shares in those banks," Chi Feichi said in a gentle tone, standing in front of the window, lit a cigarette, and stretched out his hand again Pulling the ashtray on the windowsill aside, "Therefore, many managers behind bounty platforms and black market trading platforms will not offend the Warburg family, because once the Warberg family lists them and their platform in the bank Blacklist, they and the platform's capital flow will be affected. Because of this, if the Warburg family needs help in the black field, there will be many platforms willing to help, such as helping to introduce and contact top killers, or helping in the blacklist. Be on the lookout for a certain scarce resource in the black market.”

After Koshimizu Nanatsuki digested the information in Ike Feichi's words, he remembered something, "I remember you told me before that the current FBI Director Alan Mackenzie was supported by the Harrison family, right? Waugh. Berg has dealings with criminals, Harrison is a supporter of the FBI director, and Warburg and Harrison are allies in the same interest alliance. Wouldn't there be conflicts in their development, for example, Harrison's support? The FBI director needs to catch a big criminal in order to be promoted, and that criminal is a big customer of the Warburg banking system and also runs a large platform. The Warburg family needs that criminal to continue to provide value to themselves, so Isn’t there a conflict between the two sides’ development directions?”

"Both parties can resolve conflicts through negotiation, which is one of the benefits of an alliance," Chi Feichi said seriously. "Without an alliance, when conflicts arise between the Harrison family and the Warburg family, the two parties may not be so It is easy to give in, and then confrontation and fighting will occur, causing losses to both parties. However, after forming an alliance, Harrison and Warburg can negotiate first when they encounter conflicts in development to see how to maximize their interests. How to balance the interests of both parties so as to avoid losses caused by struggle.”

"I see... Then will there be cases of forgery of merit?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki pondered, "For example, the Warburg family secretly handed over part of the criminal information they possess to the Harrison family, and asked Harry The Mori family can use these things to support more people in the police and FBI."

"This kind of thing can be done, but unless there are special circumstances, these two families will not take the initiative to do this kind of thing." Chi Fei saw Yuesui Nanatsuki looking at him in confusion, and patiently explained, "Don't forget, There is another interest alliance in the United States, and the overall strength there is no worse than this one. If Harrison and Warburg join forces to play this kind of trick, and are investigated and exposed by the other party, the agents supported by Harrison and Warburg will The reputation of the bank run by the Warburg branch will be damaged, and people with another interest alliance can take the opportunity to pull down the people supported by Harrison and push their own people into power. They can also take advantage of the reputation of the Warberg family branch bank to be damaged. Losing and robbing the customer resources that originally belonged to the Warburg branch bank. For Harrison and Warburg, the risks of doing this kind of thing are too high and the hidden dangers are too great. If they fail, they will suffer heavy losses, and the people who are supported in this way are Without ability and lack of training, it is easy to be squeezed out by the opponent's people. There is really no need to take risks..."

Koshimi Nanatsuki nodded in understanding.

In this way, Alan Mackenzie can become the director of the FBI. In addition to the help of the Harrison family, he should also be a capable person himself.

"Actually, the exchanges between alliance members are not that frequent. Everyone usually manages the affairs of each family separately," Chi Feichi added, "This time it is because the Chi family has just joined, so there is such a situation where all members are present. If it weren’t for this reason, then the leaders and heirs of the various families would probably gather together like this only when the members of the alliance planned to rob together.”

"1. Let's go rob together?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki wondered if he heard wrongly.

"It can also be said to be embezzlement." Chi Feichi lowered his eyes and looked at the ashtray beside him, shaking the ash from the burning cigarette into the ashtray. "Each company helps one company invade the market of a certain region or country, and After achieving a monopoly in a certain field, that company will then bring in allies, return the help of the allies, and help the allies to monopolize in other fields. According to the main business development of each company, the alliance members divide the regions or countries into One point, try to fully control the resources of that region or country, because it may cause a lot of tragedies in the process, so I thought of the Bandit Alliance..."

The robbery methods of the Bandit Alliance are actually similar.

For example...

First, let multiple companies controlled by you or your allies place a large number of orders to factories in a certain area, creating a scene of prosperous industry development. At the same time, use the media to release the news that "this industry has great prospects", and let such factories There are signs of shortage of goods, driving up commodity prices.

Those factory managers have received a large number of orders and seen rising commodity prices. It is easy to believe the news that "the industry has a great future". In order to occupy the market as soon as possible, they will start to invest funds for expansion.

After a large number of factories in the market have completed their expansion, the second step will be taken - no longer placing orders for the goods of such factories, so that those factories that have completed expansion will enter the dilemma of 'producing a large amount of goods but not selling them', and at the same time use The media publicizes that 'such products are going to drop in price'.

At this time, there will definitely be factories that lose their composure and lower the price of goods due to previous debt expansion and other reasons. And after one person starts to lower the price, there will definitely be a second and third one that will lower the price of the goods. The constant pull down, coupled with some exaggeration by the media, caused factory managers to panic and sell the goods in their hands at lower prices, causing commodity prices to plummet.

Those factories previously spent a lot of money on expansion, including investment in space, equipment, and manpower. When commodity prices plummeted, some factory managers would suffer from problems such as a break in the capital chain due to lower-than-expected profits and an inability to withdraw funds, leading to bankruptcy. Then sell the factory at a low price.

At this point, capital can buy factories at low prices, then wait for other factories, continue to use publicity to create panic, and finally buy most of the factories on the market at low prices, and then integrate them to form a monopoly in their hands. The power of the industry to achieve industry monopoly.

This seems to be just a commercial fight and does not affect the lives of most people. However, in this process, not only the factory owners will go bankrupt, but there may also be many workers who cannot get their wages because the factories cannot operate normally, and they have been banned in the industry. After monopoly, capital can set the price of goods at will, so that ordinary people have to pay more to obtain goods.

What's more, what capital is interested in and wants to monopolize will not be things that are dispensable in ordinary people's lives, but things that can be the lifeblood of mankind - medical care, food, and even water resources in some special areas. …

Before Umbrella officially entered China for investment, the two major alliances had actually sent people to the Chinese market to test the market.

Some of them used this method. They first used orders to raise the price of soybeans and used the American media to promote the prospects of soybean trade, which led to a large increase in the number of soybean plantings in China. A large number of soybean merchants purchased soybeans at high prices. After that, capital stopped the orders. , began to publicize that "soybeans can't be sold", causing soybean prices to drop and causing panic among soybean farmers and soybean merchants. After the soybean merchants went bankrupt one after another, they would then purchase the soybean merchants' channels, factories and soybeans at low prices to complete the market monopoly.

A similar thing happened in his previous life. The Chinese soybean market was monopolized by four international grain merchants using the same method. In his previous life, after the soybeans were monopolized by the international grain merchants, the international grain merchants focused on other Chinese grains and began to purchase the market. The grain on the market is preparing to increase grain prices. However, China has absorbed the lessons of the last soybean monopoly. Moreover, China established a grain reserve management company affiliated with the state in the 1990s. After discovering market abnormalities, the grain reserve management company The company released more than 5 million tons of grain into the market, stabilizing grain prices.

International grain merchants obviously underestimated the grain reserves of a country with a large population that had suffered from hunger. They were eager to take advantage of snowstorms and reduced grain production in some areas of China to raise the market price of wheat. As a result, China's grain reserves The management company threw more than 4 million tons of wheat onto the market, causing wheat prices to fall instead of rising.

The two failures did not make the international grain merchants give up. After that, the international grain merchants prepared to put a large amount of grain on the market and cause the grain price to plummet. At the same time, they also carried out media propaganda that "grain prices will plummet this year." However, the international grain merchants All the grain put out by grain merchants was purchased by the China Grain Reserve Management Company, but it still failed to make a splash in the market.

And similar things are happening in this world.

When he was leading the Chi family to develop quietly, an international grain merchant was making trouble in China and was overwhelmed by the large amount of grain that poured into the market. When Umbrella was established, an international grain merchant continued to make trouble in China and was overwhelmed by a large number of grains. The grain that flooded into the market was thrown into confusion; when Umbrella stepped up its investment in China due to the lease of giant pandas, an international grain merchant was still making trouble in China and found that the large amount of grain he released could not even stir up water splash. Facing the empty warehouse, I was confused; and this time when Shinnosuke Ike went to China to discuss investment, an international grain merchant had stopped making any noise. I don’t know if he had given up on making trouble or decided to lurk quietly...

However, China blocked the attack of an international grain merchant, but other countries did not. Grain prices were still manipulated to rise, and an international grain merchant made a lot of money, causing ordinary people in many areas to suffer misery.

In this world, members of the two major alliances have been 'robberying' all over the country, even at the risk of provoking war. However, most people don't know the inside story. Even he only relied on the intelligence information of the Chi family and Fang Ark. A little bit of understanding of what the major leagues have done.