Chapter 103 A businessman has to be shameless
Although Mars raised questions about this, her voice was very soft, and it was clear she lacked confidence.
Clearly, Mars also knew how much benefit this could bring them.
She raised questions because she had a bit of a conscience, but not much; otherwise, Mars would have resolutely boycotted and opposed the plan.
In fact, Mars regretted it immediately after speaking, as she noticed the others looking at her as if she were a fool.
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Most importantly, she understood those looks; it seemed everyone was concerned about whether there was something wrong with her head!
"Give it a rest. Can you even listen to yourself? This is hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profit. Are you sure you want to talk about conscience?
We are capitalists!
Especially you lot; you are all descendants of wicked capitalists. Ordinary people call you vampires and beasts.
If you don't do some major harm to the interests of the American people for the sake of profit, wouldn't all that verbal abuse be for nothing?
For our own benefit, and to ensure we aren't being wrongly accused, let's work together to do some harm to the public for private gain.
As for a conscience?
What is a conscience?
How many franklin can a conscience be traded for? Can anyone tell me?
We can make money when we have a conscience.
But if we lose our conscience... we can make even more money!
An extra few hundred million dollars a year becomes several billion over ten years.
If we eventually control all two thousand-plus prisons in America, there will be over two million inmates serving time in our facilities. The annual fish consumption is right there.
Now tell me, do you plan to use almost free Asian Carp to meet this demand, or do you plan to waste hundreds of millions of dollars every year to cover it!"
Wang Xiuyuan's words were very thorough, but Mars was a woman after all. Women are prone to a certain flaw: they want everything at once.
They want the easily obtainable profits, but they don't want to do the wicked things for those profits that would ruin their reputation.
So she turned to the others, wanting someone else to take over the conversation as her spokesperson and say the words she didn't want to say, as if that would lessen her guilt.
But the others weren't fools either. The fact that they associated with each other meant their intelligence and horizons were similar; who would be stupid at a time like this?
At this moment, the only person who would stand up for Mars would be someone interested in her; there could be no exceptions.
Unfortunately, this group of people had no such feelings for Mars, so no one spoke up.
You can't share in the money and let everyone else take the blame. On what grounds?
Seeing that there was no scapegoat, Mars could only resign herself to fate.
"It is hundreds of millions in annual income, after all. If everyone agrees, then let's do it this way."
"Renoson, Devik, Locke, you three are in charge of the company's daily management.
I'll leave this matter to you. Divide the regions among yourselves and act separately.
In short, Asian Carp fry and adults must be released into all major lakes and rivers in America. Try to get it done within a month.
In less than two years, our cost of purchasing fish will plummet."
After handling these matters, just as Wang Xiuyuan was about to leave, a prison guard came running over, out of breath.
"Gentlemen, Warden, a large group of TV station reporters just arrived outside the prison. They say someone reported that our prison is mistreating inmates.
They know the shareholders of the Private Prison Company are here for an inspection today, so they are demanding to interview the company's owners and shareholders."
Heh. Wang Xiuyuan sneered; this was just a minor scene.
Wang Xiuyuan didn't care much about this minor situation, but Renoson, Devik, and Locke were a bit flustered.
Seeing everyone's unease, Wang Xiuyuan's role as the backbone was immediately apparent, as everyone's eyes were now focused on him.
"What's the panic? It's just some TV reporters. Isn't this exactly what we anticipated?
They'll just try to make a fuss about food, housing, and various fees. We already prepared response measures before we started; just answer them according to the script.
If you can't even handle this little thing, how do you expect to be the top powerful figures in this country?
Reynoldson Rockefeller.
You are responsible for the operation and management of this prison. You go and receive those TV reporters later.
Remember, answer the questions according to the predetermined script, and skip any questions you can't answer.
You don't need to have any psychological burden. Think about what your surname is. Who would dare to make things difficult for you? Do they have a death wish?
Remember to emphasize your surname during the introduction! That is your advantage.
In this land of America, no one dares to offend a truly wealthy person!
The so-called Uncrowned Kings are just a joke used to scare ordinary people."
Wang Xiuyuan directly designated Reynoldson Rockefeller to deal with the group of TV reporters; seeing this, the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Wang Xiuyuan escorted Reynoldson Rockefeller to the prison gate and thoughtfully gave him some psychological coaching before opening it.
"Don't be nervous, friend. With your net worth, is there any need to worry about being harassed by a bunch of broke losers? If they really had the ability to give you a hard time, they wouldn't be out here doing interviews.
Remember, those reporters are just a bunch of loudmouths. Answer the questions you want to, and skip the ones you don't.
As long as you are shameless, none of them can give you a hard time.
Think about how I am when I'm being shameless, and just do exactly that!"
After saying this, Wang Xiuyuan tossed a folder to Reynoldson Rockefeller.
"Take this. It has answers to all the basic questions. If you can't remember, just read directly from it. Don't be a coward!"
As Renoson stepped out of the prison gate, a large crowd of reporters rushed toward him.
Fortunately, Wang Xiuyuan had arranged for a group of prison guards to form a human wall to separate the two sides; otherwise, Renoson would surely have been surrounded by reporters, with microphones shoved in his face as a matter of course.
However, Renoson's situation wasn't much better; the camera flashes from the photographers were a constant strobe, nearly blinding him.
Watching the noisy scene outside, Devik Morgan was very worried:
"Wang Xiuyuan, do you think Renoson can really handle such a large scene? Nothing will go wrong, right?"
Before Wang Xiuyuan could speak, Locke Vanderbilt followed up.
"Yeah, isn't it too much for us to let Renoson handle so many reporters alone? Wang Xiuyuan, why don't you go and help him?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Xiuyuan's expression immediately soured, and he glanced at Locke Vanderbilt.
"In all the prisons in America, Asian inmates account for less than one percent of the total population. What do you think would happen if I, a person of Chinese descent representing the company's shareholders, went to accept the interview?"
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