The Beggar King was currently celebrating his victory in his lair. He had no idea that he had been put in a big scapegoat.
But while he was eating and drinking, the Beggar King was always feeling a little unhappy.
"Boss! Come and have a drink! We have found a lot of women today! Don't be alone in drinking!"
In his lair, the Beggar King is not as majestic as outside. Perhaps the more a person lacks something, the more he has to show something. For example, he is the Beggar King. No matter whether he is a king or not, he is always a beggar. This identity makes him a beggar.
When facing outsiders, he would always raise his identity to make himself more suitable for the title of 'Beggars King'.
So many of his partners think that the Beggar King is a little sick... He is obviously a beggar, but in the end he acts like he is a noble... Everyone is shady, so what's there to show off?
But he still enjoys it. But in his underground lair, in front of his key brothers, he is not very good at pretending.
After all, if you don’t know anyone else, who are you pretending to?
"No, you go ahead and play." The Beggar King shook his head and rejected his brother's invitation.
Don’t think that people like them who hang out in the underground world are really miserable. In fact, it is the same everywhere in the world. Poor always refers to the bottom class. As long as classes are distinguished anywhere, no matter how poor the place is, it will not
Poor old men.
The most obvious examples are those third world countries in the world.
Take the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example. Not many people actually know about this country. Even most people can't tell the difference between Congo (Brazzaville) and Congo (Kinshasa)... In fact, they are two different countries.
Although both are called "Congo", one is the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) and the other is the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa).
What we are talking about is the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Which city in the world has the most French speakers? When hearing this question, most people may think that the largest city in the French-speaking world is naturally Paris! In fact, the city with the most French speakers in the world is Congo.
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has a population of more than 12 million, which is slightly larger than the population of Paris. However, neither the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo nor the city of Kinshasa has any sense of existence in the world. Kinshasa has almost no presence in the world.
The population of 12 million is far larger than New York and Hong Kong, but the media really cannot report anything about it. Because in this country with a per capita GDP of less than 600 US dollars, there is nothing except garbage dumps, slums and the HIV virus.
There are other elements. For many years, the only things that the world can remember about Congo are the world's number one corruption, the most brutal war in Africa, and their leopard-print President Mobutu.
In the second year after taking office, Mobutu publicly proposed the theory of "stealing to save the country." Afterwards, he began to unscrupulously plunder national property. From large copper mines and diamond mines to medium-sized rubber plantations and cocoa plants, and small-scale
A few cows and several carts of spare parts were all included in his pocket. At his peak, Mobutu controlled 14 of Congo's largest plantations. One-quarter of the country's cocoa and rubber exports originated from Mobutu.
There are countless smuggled copper mines and diamond mines. Through continuous wealth accumulation over the years, Mobutu’s personal assets exceeded tens of billions of dollars. At the same time, he also became one of the richest people in the world.
.What should you do after you have money? Of course, squander it wantonly. Exquisite watches, luxury cars, and luxury goods are all basic equipment. In order to make it easier to buy and buy everywhere, Mobutu also purchased a special shopping plane. No matter what
Be it Britain, France, Switzerland or Portugal. Mobutu would always go on a money-spending trip from time to time.
The poor people in the country were peeing blood, but Mobutu still lived a luxurious life that many billionaires would be ashamed of. Because he bought too many things, there was really no place to put them. So Mobutu cut down 100,000 trees.
Then he built an African Palace of Versailles with 20,000 tons of marble. Needless to say, the configuration inside is all the luxurious configurations you can think of or can't imagine. In addition, Mobutu also purchased a large number of real estate around the world.
For example, wine cellars in Portugal, farms in Switzerland, apartments in Paris, etc.
It’s not just Mobutu who is such a ‘benevolent person’.
Another example is the Teodoro family in Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea has considerable oil reserves, with proven oil reserves of 5.6 billion barrels. In addition, natural gas, gold, bauxite, phosphate and other resources are also very abundant.
Rich. Under the rule of the Teodoro family, Equatorial Guinea has vigorously developed its oil industry and is now Africa's largest oil producer. However, people's lives are very difficult. According to the World Bank, 76% of the country's people live in poverty.
Below the line. In 2021, Equatorial Guinea's GDP growth rate is -2.3%. On the one hand, it is Africa's largest oil producer, and on the other hand, its citizens are impoverished. This actually explains the problem.
The Teodoro family enjoys unimaginable wealth, such as Teodoro Nguema, the son of the current President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Vice President of Equatorial Guinea.
Ma Obiang Mange, from 2004 to 2011 alone, Mange’s personal spending on real estate and luxury goods in the United States reached an astonishing US$315 million.
And this is just a drop in the bucket. This man's property was confiscated by many countries later (at least one billion in assets, or even more), but others don't care at all. Britain, France and the United States won't let us squander it, so we can continue to spend money in another place.
Go to Brazil and continue spending money.
In addition, there are the Duvaliers and his sons in Haiti, Haiti! It is the poorest country in the world. The people are so hungry that they eat dirt... This is not an adjective, but it is true. They really eat dirt. Hungry
Haitians would make mud biscuits from local clay to satisfy their hunger. Under the poor rule of the Duvaliers, the survival of Haitians was a problem. Data from 1985 showed that the average life expectancy in Haiti was 47 years old and the neonatal malnutrition rate was 87.
%, the mortality rate is 18%, and up to 75% of the population is illiterate. This father and son are simply weird in the wool industry. They have squeezed out every bit of value from the people. They have used all means to make money. When they have no money, they have no money.
But if they were squeezed out, they would simply let the citizens sell their blood. Selling blood was not enough, and in the end they even directly exported the bodies of the citizens!
A liter of plasma can earn four or five dollars, which is just a small amount of money for little Duvalier. The real bulk comes from international aid. The United States cannot just watch a serious humanitarian disaster in its own backyard and just pull the plug.
Other countries provided aid to Haiti. Young Duvalier was very courageous and directly withheld international aid funds. The most exaggerated incident was in 1980, when he embezzled 20 million US dollars in aid funds from the International Monetary Fund of 22 million US dollars. Not only was he greedy for money,
Materials were not spared either. In order to assist Haiti's industrial development, Mexico sold a batch of oil to Haiti at a very low price. As a result, this batch of oil was resold to South Africa by Duvalier Jr. At that time, South Africa was undergoing a war due to nuclear weapons and racial discrimination.
The communist policies were unanimously blocked by Western countries.
In short, poverty is not absolute. No matter how poor you are, can you still be poor?
The same is true in the underground world. A large number of people here are hovering on the line of life and death, and they may die one day.
But for people at the top like the Beggar King, their lives are even comparable to those of the rich on earth!
There will be no shortage of any luxury goods here. He can decorate his underground lair like a palace, and even have a lot of women. They know many smugglers, and will even use their underground smuggling routes to help those smugglers transport
population.
So beauty?
At least it's not unusual for the Beggar King, he can even enjoy beauties from all over the world.
But now he is really in no mood.
The caring little brother saw that the boss was thinking: "What's wrong, boss? We won the battle, why are you not happy?"
"Tony... do you think I should be happy? Two people, just two people! They beat more than twenty of us like children. If we hadn't taken out alien weapons, we would have been finished.
!”
Thinking of the previous battle... the Beggar King didn't feel the slightest comfort. Why, they were outnumbered and still ambushed, but just like that, they were beaten violently by two people without even a chance to fight back. Ordinary weapons were useless at all. That
The nigger with the long face can actually dodge bullets!
Just say it’s an exaggeration or not!
"But we won, didn't we?"
The considerate Tony obviously doesn't think this is a big deal. They are not a gang that makes a living by being brave and fighting hard. As long as the result is good, he doesn't bother to care!
"Yes, we won. But what happens next? There are only two of them? Is it possible? What if we meet again? What if we meet a bunch of people? Let's wash our necks and wait for death?" The Beggar King was really a little scared.
Who would have thought that that group of people were so fierce... You said you were so fierce, why did you come to target these bitter rats? What couldn't you do?
Tony thought about it and felt that what the boss said made sense.
But he thought of a way.
"Boss, I have a solution!"
"explain."
Tony is his caring little brother, and this guy is an unlucky guy. He used to work on Wall Street, but during the 2008 financial crisis, he was hit by a thunderstorm and lost everything. His wife and children also left him, and his house and all assets were confiscated to pay off his debts.
Coupled with the support for his wife and children... he became a homeless man, and it was the Beggar King who took him in.
This guy has a smart mind and gradually becomes the Beggar King's caring little brother. Of course, the Beggar King treats him well. Although he hangs around in the underground world, his wife and children receive a lot of child support and live a very wealthy life.
, and the Beggar King knows where his wife and children are.
So Tony would never dare to betray him.
"Remember the woman who came to see us last time? She was from that killer organization."
"The one with a bad face and a shaved head?" The Beggar King remembered, "The people at the high table... have they found you?"
"I searched for them, but I refused. I know what you think, boss. We have a pretty good life, and getting mixed up with them will do us no good."
High Table, a name that has disappeared in New York for a long time, was once the largest Continental Hotel in North America, located in New York. However, due to the vampire riots and Kai's attack, all members of High Table in New York died.
Afterwards, High Desk wanted to enter New York again, but Kai quit. He pretended that I didn’t exist, right?
You are a killer organization. If you are doing things secretly, I, the police, will pretend that you cannot see it. But Nima, you opened a hotel on the street! You just didn’t advertise directly in Times Square. What’s wrong with you?
Are you still planning to run for President of the United States?
So they are absolutely not allowed to return to New York again.
But the question is, can high-end tables give up? This is New York, the center of the universe! What a huge market this is.
So over the years, High Table has been trying to find a way to return to New York. Unfortunately, the New York gangs are changing so fast that they can't find a local partner even if they want to. Who knows whether that partner will be there the next time?
He'll be killed by the police or superheroes every day.
The existence of the Beggar King also attracted their attention at this time.
The Beggar King has been active underground in New York for a long time. In the past, the Continental Hotel in New York had cooperated with the Beggar King. He was the intelligence service provider of the Continental Hotel. As a result, the Continental Hotel was destroyed, but the Beggar King was still alive and kicking.
They were thinking about changing the way they operate. Since they can't be as open and aboveboard as before, they should go underground. Anyway, the New York market must not be lost.
As a result, the Beggar King refused... He was afraid. He was living a good life. Although he was still committing crimes, it was impossible for the New York police to go underground and hunt him down just for such a trivial matter, let alone a superhero.
He would be so idle that he would leave so many evil villains alone and only come out to embarrass a small character like him.
This kind of 'high or low' situation is very good, life is nourishing, and there are no risks. If he eats too much and goes to hang out with the people at the high table, he will definitely die a good death if he is really discovered.
Tony was also very honest and didn't hide the fact that his boss, Gao Dadai, had approached him.
The Beggar King nodded to express his satisfaction. In fact, he knew everything about Gao Dai table's contact with Tony, but he also knew that Tony did not agree, and Tony did not hide it from him. This was good.
"But isn't the situation different now?" Tony said with a smile: "Let's let the high table deal with them! If they win, we are great, so we can work for the high table again. Anyway, if there is really a problem, then sell it
It’s okay to go to the high table once. But if they lose, then they have no reason to come to us again. You know, it’s the high table, and we reject them again and again...who knows what they will do?”
The Beggar King idea is okay!
In fact, the Beggar King didn't want to have anything to do with Gaotai Table, but he also knew that Gaotai Table was never a good bird.
"Okay! Just let them dog eat dog!!!"
But thinking about that expressionless girl with short hair... The Beggar King still felt uncomfortable all over. That was the judge at the high table... That woman was definitely a lunatic.
