Chapter 979 The Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Zhang Tuohai bought off some marketing accounts and self-media celebrities and began to disclose in large quantities how the state legislature was plundering and using basic resources to exploit the residents of Free City. Sky-high bills were posted and exposed on the entire Internet.
There are also many real and fake victims who came forward to tell their stories.
Seeing those videos full of true feelings or full of emotionally provocative copy, the people of the Beacon Country were angry.
High basic resource costs, a parliament that does not help, an unprotected social order, parliamentary staff that do nothing but eat, and greedy capitalists...
Each contradiction directly hits the pain points in the hearts of the people of Lighthouse Country.
These are the pain points they often encounter, and now they are magnified and placed in front of them one by one, allowing them to empathize more.
"Becoming a free city is not the end. Even if the city is autonomous, those big corporations and big capitalists can still exploit us with resources. Therefore, only by overthrowing those big corporations and big capitalists can we gain true freedom! For freedom, kill those capitalists!"
At the end of the video, a loud slogan was shouted.
Although the video platform deleted the video quickly, more and more videos appeared on the Internet, making it impossible to delete them.
More and more people saw similar videos, which were then forwarded crazily, and then deleted and banned.
Humans all have a curiosity instinct. The more posts are deleted and comments are banned, the more people want to know what those deleted videos are about and why they were deleted.
As a result, some hackers with better skills started to use scripts to find those videos and repost them to spread them.
Some people even created a small website to publish these restricted and deleted videos.
Later, there were some exclusive interviews , and the videos were so well-made that many of them were comparable to special effects movies.
It's hard to believe that there is no dark force behind this.
However, the spectators did not care about that and kept watching excitedly.
Soon, this little website spread extremely quickly, to the point where everyone with a mobile phone knew about it.
A unified consciousness has been planted in the minds of those spectators, that is, autonomy is not the ultimate goal, but only a beginning. If you want to achieve true freedom, you must get rid of those big capitalists.
Otherwise, even if they are free, they will still sell these poor free people junk food, expensive electronics, virus-infected vaccines and endless bills.
Only by killing those capitalists can they obtain true happiness and eternal freedom.
Consciousness has been planted, and it only needs a spring rain to take root and sprout, and bloom into the flower that Zhang Tuohai wants.
Zhang Tuohai also thoughtfully prepared for them this spring rain.
On a rainy night, the headquarters building of the Lehman Brothers Group collapsed due to the explosion of high explosives.
The headquarters building, which was originally a landmark building, was reduced to ruins. Fortunately, all the staff on duty that night were driven out by a group of masked armed men, and no casualties were caused.
However, the destruction of the headquarters also caused irreversible losses to the Lehman Group.
The most important thing is that all of Lehman Group’s servers were damaged in the explosion.
Lehman Brothers Group is a consortium with insurance services as its core. Although it has many branches and involves many industries, the insurance industry is its core foundation.
However, the damage to the server directly resulted in the loss of customer and insurance information.
All this information is lost, which means that all customers' insurance policies are invalid.
Naturally, the customers were unwilling to do so and came to the Lehman Brothers to demand compensation for their losses.
The parade even blocked several nearby streets.
If it were just some ordinary people, Lehman Brothers might be able to use its strong connections to suppress the protests and apply for a loan, and it might be able to survive.
But the problem is that the insurance business of the Lehman Brothers Group is too large, and there are many big figures and large companies involved.
These people were like a group of hungry hyenas. When they saw the weak and fallen Lehman Group, they wanted to pounce on it and take a bite.
Now that they have such a good opportunity, it would be really against their conscience if they don't take action.
With these big companies taking the lead, the rest of the ordinary people naturally did not want to be outdone and took Lehman Brothers to court, demanding huge compensation.
The momentum was so huge that it even overshadowed the recent boom in urban autonomy.
Although the Lehman Brothers Group had a dedicated legal department to handle these issues, it was quickly defeated in the face of the sea of lawsuits and became unable to sustain itself.
When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter; when the drum is broken, everyone beats it.
Seeing that the Lehman Brothers Group was about to collapse, many people within the group began to think carefully and started to pave the way for themselves.
Some began to secretly transfer money from the company's account to their own overseas accounts, some secretly resold the company's confidential information, and some resold the raw materials in the company's warehouse...
There was a branch company whose general manager was the most awesome. He forced all employees to take annual leave. When the employees came back from their leave, they were shocked to find that everything in the company had been sold off by the general manager. Even the office space had been sublet. The entire branch company disappeared, leaving them all staring at each other in dismay.
Under normal circumstances, no one would dare to do such a thing.
However, in the current situation, the Lehman Group itself was tied up in a lot of problems, and the various dirty things of its branch groups began to increase.
With the leader's example, the subordinate groups naturally followed suit. Within a dozen days, the subordinate groups of the entire Lehman consortium were broken up and sold, and then swallowed up completely. The entire Lehman consortium was left with only an empty shell of the group headquarters and a few farms directly under the group. This was because these assets were difficult to sell, otherwise, they would have been completely taken away.
The Lehman Brothers, which was at the end of its rope , had no choice but to declare bankruptcy, and the once invincible giant conglomerate collapsed.
Countless people took to the streets to cheer and celebrate their victory. This was the first time they defeated a powerful financial group. Everyone shouted "Long live freedom", although they gained nothing but freedom.
In fact, it cannot be said that they gained nothing. The most obvious thing is that when they received the bill in the second month, they found that a large part of the money they had to pay was less.
Now that the insurance company is gone, there is naturally no need to pay the huge insurance premiums.
Since, by defeating one Lehman consortium, we can save such a huge expense, then if we defeat several consortiums, can we avoid paying the bills?
Many people came up with this idea.
