Chapter 107 Finding the Right Partner is Important

Numerous reporters, equipped with cameras and video recorders, followed Reynoldson Rockefeller into Clinton Prison for a tour.

Reynoldson Rockefeller did not restrict the reporters from taking photos, allowing them to interview the inmates at will.

The inmates were all shrewd; they might not have much culture or high educational degrees, but these little people who had spent years struggling in society possessed a wisdom unique to their kind.

They could certainly complain to the reporters, and there was a high probability the reporters would publish it, but what would happen after the reporters left?

Who was managing this prison? They were still the ones serving time inside.

Their lives were still in someone else's hands; anyone with a bit of intelligence knew what should and shouldn't be said.

It wasn't that there were no reckless hotheads, but the probability of such a person appearing was very, very low.

In fact, the vast majority of inmates hoped a few hotheads would stand up and expose the truth, but they themselves certainly wouldn't be the ones to do it.

So, these reporters were destined to be unable to interview any useful material—after all, this was a Maximum-security prison.

The inmates held in Clinton Prison all had sentences starting from ten years; if anyone dared to speak out of turn, there was plenty of time to deal with them slowly.

"Everyone has now completed a full tour of the prison and interacted with the inmates; you've all seen our prison's management style.

At the very least, the vast majority of inmates serving their sentences here are satisfied.

In the future, we will open skill training classes in the prison, providing free technical training for the inmates so they can have a skill to support themselves after release.

All of this is free of charge.

We will also negotiate production orders with some enterprises, making it convenient for inmates to improve and consolidate their learned skills through practice.

At the same time, we will provide skill subsidies to the inmates, giving them pocket money to buy daily necessities and cigarettes; we have considered the inmates' needs very thoroughly.

After all, our company's business philosophy is 'People-Oriented'!"

Reynoldson Rockefeller delivered his speech with passion, everything sounding perfectly logical, as if every decision was made with the inmates in mind.

But after tasting the prison food, the reporters were absolutely certain of one truth: behind every word spoken by the capitalist Reynoldson Rockefeller hid a blood-sucking fang.

What did 'free skill training for inmates' mean? Did it mean the inmates would work for Reynoldson Rockefeller for free, and he was being so merciful as to not charge them for it?

What did 'taking orders to let inmates improve technical levels through production' mean? Wasn't that just turning the inmates into labor for the prison factory?

Free labor that could be dismissed with just a bit of 'living allowance'—and that bit of money would still end up back in the prison's hands, since the inmates had nowhere else to spend it anyway!

However, there was nothing wrong with the Private Prison Management Company's philosophy: People-Oriented!

Inmates are people too, so it was only right to catch them and squeeze them to death; this business philosophy was very good and very apt.

Regardless, these reporters were left speechless by Reynoldson Rockefeller, because all of this truly left one with nothing to say.

It wasn't that you couldn't find faults if you tried; as long as you wanted to, you could always find a flaw in anything.

But the question was, do you have a death wish?

On this magical land of America, the capitalist lords are the true masters of the soil.

Unless a capitalist lord's business has truly major problems or causes a massive impact, no one can nitpick or find trouble with them, except for fellow capitalists and politicians of the same class attacking each other.

That is the rule.

The capitalists at the top of the American pyramid also spontaneously maintain this rule, so Reynoldson Rockefeller wasn't afraid at all that the reporters would talk nonsense when they returned; after all, the name Rockefeller itself was one of the creators of the rules.

This was also why Wang Xiuyuan insisted on bringing in so many Second-generation rich to do business together; their surnames were themselves a titanium-alloy bulletproof wall—announcing a surname could filter out over ninety percent of troubles.

This logic applies anywhere in the world.

How large an enterprise can grow depends on having an equally large power behind it to safeguard its journey; otherwise, something will definitely go wrong.

If a company wants to develop into one of the largest and wealthiest in a city, it must have one of the city's most powerful figures backing it.

By the same logic, if a company develops into a national enterprise with branches all over the country...

...then there is no doubt that behind this enterprise, there must be a figure standing at the pinnacle of the nation's power to safeguard it.

But even if this enterprise becomes national, its development will have regional biases; it's impossible for it to be equally strong in every state—it will inevitably do well in some and poorly in others.

Is this because the branch managers are incompetent?

Perhaps... but human factors still play the biggest role; those who know, know.

The Private Prison Management Company formed by Wang Xiuyuan and these people was exactly like this; now that the Nine Great Families had exerted their influence to take over eleven prisons, the states where these prisons were located were inevitably the states where their political allies were strongest.

That's why these prisons were taken over so quickly.

Only two months had passed from the moment they finalized the plan to the takeover of the prisons; such speed would be a miracle anywhere, but the families behind these people made it happen through sheer force.

As for the other states where management rights had not yet been secured, the political influence of these Nine Great Families' allies was surely weaker there.

Wang Xiuyuan had taken the initiative to give up eighty percent of the shares in this business; on the surface, it seemed like he suffered a great loss, but in reality, he had made a killing.

Without these Nine Great Families safeguarding him from behind, it would be Wang Xiuyuan himself standing at the front being interrogated by reporters right now.

Given his skin color and lineage, there would surely be many racists seizing upon that point, labeling him with all sorts of accusations until they tore his good business to pieces.

Even if he were lucky enough to escape such a fate, the company's subsequent speed and scale of development would be severely limited; those politicians making the decisions also need to consider the issue of grassroots political impact.

After all, the people hold the votes in their hands.

Unless absolutely necessary, which politician would be willing to offend their voters?

The money belongs to the government; if it's spent, it's spent—besides, this kind of money has been spent for decades, and no one can find fault with it.

But their official positions belong to themselves; if they were to lose votes and their jobs because of this, that would be the real loss.

It's clear how to choose in such a situation, isn't it?

So, if Wang Xiuyuan had tried to run this private prison management business alone, it would have been nearly impossible to cover every state and city in America.

After all, there are many rich people in this world, and even more in America.

You can doubt a rich person's character, but you must never question their intelligence.

In three or four years at most, once everyone saw Wang Xiuyuan making money, wouldn't other rich people try to snatch it from him?

They might even be richer than Wang Xiuyuan, and their connections would be far stronger; how could Wang Xiuyuan compete with them?

(Sorry for the late update today; I was feeling a bit unwell and planned to take the day off, but seeing the recommendation tickets and monthly passes sent by you brothers, I conscientiously dragged myself to the computer to type.)

(The book might be bad, and the results a bit poor, but at least my attitude is good.)

(Brothers, please give me a four-in-one: collection, follow, recommendation tickets, and monthly passes! Thank you, brothers.)