The four cities of Xiangkeng, Jingcheng, Yangcheng and Qindao do not indicate the identity of the counterfeit credit card gang. The gang's base could be in any city. However, from an idealistic point of view, Nan Yi ruled out Qindao first, then hesitated for a while and ruled out Jingcheng, leaving only Xiangkeng and Yangcheng.
If the newly emerged gang is just one rather than multiple, Nan Yi would be more inclined to focus the investigation on the people from Guangdong Province who have become Hong Kong residents in the past two years, and one or more of the gang members have been abroad, especially Canada.
In the past two years, the FBI in the United States arrested several gangs that counterfeited credit cards. The source of the counterfeiting technology was pointed to the Vancouver area in Canada. There is reason to believe that there is an industry chain of counterfeit credit cards in the underground world of Vancouver.
"They were able to swipe more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars in a month. This gang definitely did not work alone. They must have been divided into different gangs according to the steps."
Nan Yi muttered to himself, took out a piece of paper, wrote the words "card making" on it, drew an arrow, wrote the words "card manager", and then wrote "dog brushing" and "washing room".
The card maker is responsible for producing counterfeit credit cards, which are then sold out to the general distributor, the card manager. The card manager then distributes the credit cards to individual swipe dogs, who may sell them out at a higher price, or the swipe dogs are just laborers who receive commissions based on the amount swiped.
No matter which situation, goods purchased with a credit card must be exchanged for cash through the water room, that is, the person responsible for selling the stolen goods. This link is the easiest, and it is still a seller's market. With some discounts, the goods can easily be sold out.
After thinking for a while, Nan Yi called Nan Ruoyin and asked her to call her connections in the Xiangkeng Club to ask about the market price of the card set.
While waiting, Nan Yi continued to check other emails.
Baoguo Migu sent an email of project application submitted by Baoguo Agricultural Machinery. Baoguo Agricultural Machinery wanted to launch a new project "rotorcraft" in the company. The main research and development direction is pesticide spraying rotorcraft, fertilizer rotorcraft and short-distance transport rotorcraft.
Nan Yi was delighted when he saw the content of the email. He was very familiar with gyroplanes. He had seen them and ridden them before. They were not expensive and cost only 298 yuan for a flight. They were also known as the "three-wheeled helicopter" in the sky. Their advantages were fuel efficiency and their fuel consumption per 100 kilometers was lower than that of a car. They were also safe and could glide slowly in the air even if they ran out of fuel. Their disadvantages were that they were too noisy and could cause a lot of headaches.
However, the gyroplanes he had seen were all small and could only seat two people. Would they be reliable for carrying heavy loads?
With doubts, Nan Yi continued to read the emails.
The email explained the development history of rotorcraft. Rotorcraft has a long history. People have been developing it since the beginning of the century, almost in parallel with the development history of airplanes.
Speaking of modern rotorcraft, the Ka-22 designed by the Soviet Union's Kamov Design Bureau in the late 1950s was one, and the British Fairey rotorcraft in the early 1960s was also one, but both projects ended in failure.
Small rotorcraft have certain value in the military. They can be equipped to carry out armed infiltration against the weak. It just so happens that the Nan family needs to face relatively weak opponents, so the equipment is not bad at all.
However, this alone is not enough for Nan Yi to make up his mind to develop the rotorcraft. Its role is too limited and can be replaced by other solutions.
Nan Yi is quite optimistic about the role of rotorcraft in farmland inspection, grazing, and forest inspection. However, these tasks can also be done with helicopters. It remains a mystery whether the fuel costs saved by using rotorcraft can offset the investment in research and development.
Whether to invest in the research and development of the rotorcraft depends on its future prospects. If it can bring some inspiration and assistance to smart travel, it can still be invested in. It’s just that this project is not suitable to be put under the name of agricultural machinery for serving the country.
Nan Yi replied to the email and asked Baoguo Agricultural Machinery to submit a more detailed report, focusing on analyzing the future development prospects and directions of rotorcraft.
Just after I replied to the email, Nan Ruoyin called me back.
Nan Ruoyin: "Dad, I asked Gui Ligao, and he told me that the current market price of a Hong Kong card set is 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. Not many people do this. He only knows that there is a person who came back from the Netherlands who is doing it."
"who?"
Nan Ruoyin: "It seems to be called Datianer."
"Are you sure? Which gangster would call himself by that nickname?"
Nan Yi knew that although Datianer sounded quite domineering, it was actually a derogatory term for bandit leaders in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions during the Qing Dynasty, satirizing the fact that the bandit leaders could only bully the civil servants (civilians) but could not resist the military (officers and soldiers).
Young and gangsters with some culture disdain to call him by this nickname, and those without culture dare not call him by this nickname. No matter whether it sounds good or bad, Datianer always refers to the leader of the gang, that is, the big boss. Calling him by this nickname will easily attract people to attack him, and it may even bring disaster to his family.
Nan Ruoyin: "You heard it right, it's Datianer, Dad, do you want to scrape him out?"
"Forget it, it's none of your business. Just study hard at school. I'm hanging up..."
"Wait." Nan Ruoyin shouted, "Dad, Wuwei called me and asked me to help him sign up for the skateboarding competition held in Huntington Beach."
Nan Yi frowned and asked, "How does he know about the game in Los Angeles?"
"Uh...I told him." Nan Ruoyin stuck out her tongue and said on the other end of the phone.
"Little girl, you're always looking for trouble for me. Come on, if he wants to go, let him go. When is the game?"
Nan Ruoyin: “Number 20.”
"Got it. I'll ask for leave from school for him."
"I haven't finished yet. There's more... I just participated in skydiving training recently. I told Wuwei about it, and he..."
"hiss."
Nan Yi took a deep breath, this was going to kill him. It was okay for Nan Wuwei to play skateboarding. When he was learning to surf the year before last, he immediately started skateboarding again and he was pretty good at it. Although participating in the competition required some dangerous moves, for the sake of the word "freedom", Nan Yi couldn't bear to object. But wouldn't the risk of skydiving be too great?
The most important thing is that Nan Wuwei is still too young. No matter how hard he tries to age him, he can't even look nine years old. He has never been a man, nor has he experienced what it feels like to be a father. If something happens to him, won't the price of pursuing freedom be too high?
After a long while of thinking, Nan Yi said into the microphone: "Okay, I know about this matter, I'm really dead."
After hanging up the phone, Nan Yi didn’t have the energy to continue thinking about the credit card issue. He stayed in Paris for another day and then flew to Shanghai in a hurry.
On the day of Double Twelve, Nan Yi arrived in Shanghai. After Nan Wuwei got out of school, he called him into the study and had a conversation between men.
Nan Yi: "Want to skydive?"
Nan Wuwei: “Yeah.”
Nan Yi: "Do you have to jump?"
Nan Wuwei: “Yeah.”
Nan Yi: "Do you know that skydiving is dangerous?"
Nan Wuwei: “Yeah.”
Nan Yi: “Are you sure you know?”
Nan Wuwei: "Dad, I really know."
"You are only 7 years old now, in the first grade of elementary school. You can play dangerous sports when you are older." Nan Yi rubbed his temple. "If something happens to you, do you know that your mother will be very sad?"
"Dad, tandem skydiving is not dangerous. I want to try the feeling of flying." Nan Wuwei looked at Nan Yi with anticipation in his eyes.
Nan Yi glanced at Nan Wuwei's eyes, saw the stubbornness in his eyes, smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "I really can't do anything about you, tomorrow I will go to school to ask for a month's leave for you. If you want to skydive, you can practice well on the ground first, I will let Uncle Johnny find someone to evaluate you, if you fail the evaluation, don't even think about going to the sky."
When Nan Wuwei heard Nan Yi's words, he jumped up happily, cheered, and then threw himself into Nan Yi's arms, "Dad, you are so nice."
“Go away, you’re a boy, why are you acting like a spoiled child?” Nan Yi stroked Nan Wuwei’s head with a doting and disdainful look, and said faintly, “I don’t know whose personality you inherited from. Your mother and I are not adventurous people, and we don’t like to play as much as you do.”
"Hehe." Nan Wuwei laughed, "My great grandmother said that my great grandfather liked adventures. He put his head on his belt to start a revolution. She said I am like my great grandfather."
"You really are your great-grandmother's precious great-great-grandson."
Nan Yi felt a little jealous. To be honest, Nan Wuwei had an open and honest character, unlike Nan Yi who was full of bad intentions. Moreover, Nan Yi did not raise Nan Wuwei in a wealthy way, but he did not spoil him too much and did not always give him what he asked.
In terms of food, clothing and daily necessities, he follows the trend of the times and wears whatever other children wear; in terms of food, he puts a lot of effort into the ingredients, and we can only say that the quality of the ingredients is better than that of ordinary people, and most of the time he eats at the level of a dual-income family.
In terms of expenditure, it was quite ahead of the times and social background. It is conservatively estimated that there are only a few thousand children in the country who have access to computers, but Nan Wuwei already knows all the computer models and different systems by heart.
No matter whether it is available on the market or some laboratory products, as long as there is a channel to get it, Nan Yi will let Nan Wuwei try it. He started typing at the age of two and could play with it at the age of three. Nan Wuwei has discarded at least seventy or eighty computers.
It's the keyboard. He has come into contact with all the models that have appeared in history, so that the keyboard he is using now is an ergonomic keyboard specially customized by Nan Yi, rather than the anti-human designed keyboard out there.
[In terms of ergonomics, the common keyboards on the market today are actually anti-human designs. They are deliberately designed this way to prevent users from inputting commands too quickly. This is because early chips simply did not have that much computing power, and inputting too quickly could easily cause system crashes.
Over time, although the computing power of chips has increased, everyone has accepted the current keyboard format, so they just stick with it and the habit has continued. ]
If the current PC market is not so small that people can build a computer from scratch, Nan Wuwei might have already built one himself. In addition, many things that Nan Wuwei has come into contact with are not easily accessible to ordinary children. In terms of living conditions and cognition, he can completely crush most children;
However, Nan Wuwei did not develop a spoiled and superior character. He was good at hiding his shortcomings. He would not bring anything too extraordinary to school, nor would he show off in front of his classmates. He did not show off his wealth or pretend to be poor, and he believed in equality of all human rights.
Besides, Nan Wuwei had nothing to show off about school. He studied at the Central Primary School, which had been under renovation. The current classrooms were located on the second and third floors of the Triangle Vegetable Market.
There was no school gate, no playground, only a long and narrow passage, worn-out tables and chairs, and squashed rotten vegetables and melons on the ground. Classes were held upstairs, and vegetables were sold downstairs. If you were hungry, you could go downstairs to buy a cucumber or a tomato. Every day after school, the uppers of my shoes were always colorful, and the soles were always stained with messy things.
There are many students whose families are well-off, but in that kind of environment, the halo around them is overshadowed by 60 to 70 percent. It is better for them to be honest and live a hard and simple life with everyone else.
Nan Yi couldn't tell whether Nan Wuwei really inherited Nan Geming's character two generations apart, or whether he had a completely different character from him because of his different living environment. Maybe it's true that poverty breeds treacherous schemes and wealth breeds conscience. Nan Wuwei had no worries about food and drink, and he was rich in material wealth, so he just competed with his spirit.
"Well, maybe, my dear son's good character is closely related to his wise and open-minded father."
After ending his wandering mind with a bit of self-praise, Nan Yi went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. After the father and son had eaten, Nan Wuwei went to the garden to undergo rigorous training, while Nan Yi stood aside holding a teacup and watched the show.
Liu Zhen was attending a meeting at the head office in Beijing and had been away for several days. He took a sip of tea from time to time. Looking at Nan Wuwei who was sweating profusely due to the rigorous training, Nan Yi felt quite comfortable.
After experiencing the journey to the origin of martial arts, Nan Wuwei seemed to have truly fallen in love with martial arts. He was not just attracted by the thrilling scenes in martial arts movies. He was somewhat reluctant to practice martial arts before, but now he devotes himself to it wholeheartedly. Practicing martial arts has become a very pleasant thing for him, just like playing games or skateboarding.
The next day, before school was over, Nan Yi went to the Central Primary School and easily asked for a month's leave for Nan Wuwei.
On the third day, the father and son appeared in New York again. The three of them appeared in a shoe store called "Blue Style" on the Boulevard, formerly known as Fourth Avenue.
Last year, Nan Yi ordered a pair of leather shoes here, and today he came here to try them out for the third time.
Usually, top leather shoe brands will provide three options: RTW, MTO, and Bespoke. RTW is the abbreviation of "Ready to wear", which means finished shoes with the right size, which can be taken away after payment; MTO is "Made to order", which means it is produced according to orders, and the material, style, etc. can be requested;
Bespoke means full customization, which is at the top of the gentleman's clothing contempt chain. It takes six or seven months to customize the first pair of shoes in a new store. The reason why it takes so long is that the production process is relatively complicated.
The first step is to make a mold of the customer's feet. The feet are cast in plaster and the foot shape is traced. Then a shoe last is made according to the foot shape. The second step is to use the shoe last as a foot mold and use waste leather to make a pair of sample shoes. The third step is to invite the customer to the store to try on the shoes. This step is to understand the actual problems and disadvantages after the shoes are put on, especially in terms of fit. Trying on can make timely corrections. During the trial process, the toe, toe side, and heel will be directly cut to fully observe the shape of the foot in the inner cavity.
The last time Nan Yi came to try on shoes, it was because the shoes fit too well and he was a little uncomfortable wearing them. He still liked the shoes to be a little looser and not too tight, so he tried them a second time, and now, he came for a third try.
"Charlie, I'm so sorry to bother you."
When the shoemaker Charlie brought a pair of used leather shoes to him for trying on, Nan Yi expressed his apologies. It took him almost two years to make this pair of shoes. If every customer was the same as him, he would not be able to do business with others.
"Mr. Adam, you're welcome. It's my honor to serve you." Charlie helped Nan Yi put on his shoes and asked, "How does it feel?"
Nan Yi twisted his left and right feet, tried to walk a few steps, and kicked the toe of his shoe on the ground. "The right foot fits too well. Relax it a little. There is no need to make a new last. Go directly to the next step."
"OK."
Charlie was very patient in serving Nan Yi, which was not only related to his business philosophy, but also because Scarlett was a distinguished guest here. Scarlett didn't like to wear high heels, and she would only wear them when attending banquets. She usually wore fully customized women's leather shoes. "Blue Style" was her designated store, and she needed to customize seven or eight pairs of shoes a year. She would also introduce a few customers to Charlie.
After taking care of the shoes, Nan Yi took his two sons to a tailor shop not far away (which does private custom-made clothes). The Spring Festival is not far away, and it is time to prepare new clothes for Nan Wuwei for the New Year. It happened that during the New Year in the past two years, it was popular for children to wear suits with leather shoes, so Nan Yi thought about making a set for him, and Nan Youqiong was just a byproduct to make things even.
Because it was urgent, the process was accelerated. After the tailor measured Nan Wuwei, he found a suit that was the right size for Nan Wuwei and put it on him. While looking at the details, he asked Nan Wuwei how he felt. If there was a place that needed to be gathered or given, he would use the tailor's scissors to cut the suit open, and then sew and piece it together on the spot with needle and thread, and asked Nan Wuwei how he felt again...
After repeated revisions, more than three hours had passed by the time the design of the suit was finally finalized.
Next, the tailor needs to speed up the production of the suit. At the same time, he needs to pray to God, praying that Nanwuwei will not grow too fast during this period. The custom-made slim-fit suit will be wasted if the body grows and the body shape changes.
Fortunately, Nan Youqiong was also doing it simultaneously, otherwise, Nan Yi would have to stay here for more than seven hours.
After leaving a check for $9,000, Nan Yi walked out of the store with his two sons.
On the next morning, Nan Yi first took Nan Wuwei to the Adler Clinic in the suburbs for a physical examination, and then on the way back they went to Nanpotang in Long Island. Both the Adler Clinic and Nanpotang are currently quite Buddhist. Although they are open to the public, they never shout out to customers. If there are patients who come in, they will see them. If there are no patients, they will do research, such as dissection and human experiments.
The human experiments were not like those conducted in Unit 731, and were not that evil. The Adler Clinic would look for patients with incurable diseases, provide them with free treatment, and give them a resettlement allowance. If they were cured, they would have a good life, and if they were not, they could leave some money for their families.
Of course, diseases are usually incurable. Reality is not a movie or TV show. Although the Adler Clinic recruits top medical experts in various fields, they are not powerful enough to tease the god of death. They cannot cure other people's incurable diseases.
The diseases that can be cured are often those of the poor. A disease that requires $500,000 to cure only costs Adler Clinic tens of thousands of dollars. The salary system for medical experts is there, and they have to be paid whether they work or not. Without considering profits, medical costs are not as high as imagined.
After opening his own hospital, Nan Yi realized that medical care is more profitable than monopoly tobacco. The only difference is that there are more people who have to share the profits in the medical industry, and the customer base is smaller than that of tobacco. Therefore, the total profit is not as high as that of tobacco, but the profit margin definitely crushes tobacco .
For this reason, Nan Yi has decided to invest heavily in the medical device industry, not only investing in external medical device companies, but also engaging in research and development itself. While doing so, it will also seek authorization from advanced companies to produce versions specifically for certain countries, such as versions 5.5, 6.4, and even 8.2.
For a machine that sells for $1 million, the actual revenue is $500,000, $400,000, or $200,000, and the rest of the money can be paid to the customer at his discretion.
In addition, in order to protect the rights and interests of customers, it is entirely possible to launch a version with the same appearance but slightly reduced functions; or it is possible to launch a super invincible version with fancy functions to facilitate customers to expand their business model and increase profits, with additional advantages - such as the title of the world's most advanced, filling some gaps, providing a few places for overseas training, etc., so as to ensure that there are explanations from the top, benefits in the middle, and appeasement at the bottom.
Of course, "myself" is not equal to the Nan family or Nan Yi. It may be the Dong family or the Bei family. It doesn't matter what you call it, as long as you don't have any connection with the Nan family on the surface.
Nan Yi is thinking about adjusting Nan's development model. Perhaps in the near future, Nan's will launch a "gratitude-based" business model, first squeezing 10 yuan from the customer, and then giving back 3 yuan. Not only will it make money, but it will also make the customer grateful.
However, looking at the present, Nan Yi is worried about the huge expenses of the medical team. Currently, he can only guarantee the support of a few of his own people and a team of only a few hundred people from the Nan family's senior management. However, the budget expenditure for next year exceeds 300 million US dollars. Although he runs a bank, he does not have a money printing machine.
Back at Scarlett Manor, Nan Youqiong took Nan Wuwei to his grove to show off the various animals he brought back. Nan Youqiong has turned the grove into a cat conservation park, which includes the cat's close relatives, such as the manul, jungle cat, bobcat, leopard cat, ocelot, lynx, serval, caracal, etc., except for those that are too aggressive and may endanger the safety of other species.
Nan Yi sat down in the garden. Yizi came over following the smell. He was not alone, but there was a group of kittens following him. It was unclear whether they were his children, or the children of his great-grandchildren or some other great-grandchildren. Nan Yi could no longer figure out how many generations of Yizi had lived together.
Just like nuclear fission, there are already more than a thousand cats with Yizai's blood. They have dispersed again and again, and now Scarlett Food Group has Yizai's descendants on its farms and ranches in the United States. This is under the premise that not every kitten can survive successfully, as there will always be inexperienced mother cats who will eat a few of their own kittens.
Yizi came in front of Nan Yi, jumped onto Nan Yi's thigh, stretched out his front legs to pat Nan Yi's belly, and meowed at him.
Nan Yi knew that Yizai was begging for petting, so he held him in his arms and gently stroked the fur on his forehead. Some of the other cats lay quietly at Nan Yi's feet, some were acting wildly at his trouser legs, and some were biting at the bottom of the table legs, probably because they were cowards and couldn't get the teething sticks normally.
The days passed in an uneventful manner. Except for the time when Liu Zhen called and had a quarrel with him, Nan Yi lived a relatively comfortable life.
I flew to Los Angeles on the 19th and watched Nan Wuwei's skateboarding competition on the 20th . In school and among street enthusiasts, Nan Wuwei may be considered a skateboarding master, but compared with other players who are obsessed with skateboarding or regard it as their life, he is not good enough.
Nan Wuwei was ranked ahead of a five-year-old girl in the order of performance. When the two were compared, Nan Wuwei was directly crushed by the other. Fortunately, the little girl was not disappointed. Instead, she enthusiastically appreciated the superb performance of the adult master.
When the competition was over, Nan Yi's heart, which had just been relieved, began to hang in the air again. Skateboarding was gone, and skydiving was about to begin.
Fox Airport, Fox Township, Montana.
Since Nan Ruoyin was elected as the mayor here, she has sought some benefits for the town, such as placing a helicopter in the agricultural airport on the original farm, restoring the helicopter flights that existed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
The operating cost is very high. Although the town will provide subsidies, passengers still need to pay high ticket prices. Unless there is an emergency situation where someone needs to die, the residents of the town will not choose to take a helicopter. Now it has been used for medical purposes and the only thing missing is a red cross to completely identify it.
Since the airport was already half open, it was decided to fully open it. The airport was first renamed Fox Airport, and then the control tower and runway were upgraded. It not only became a public agricultural airport, but someone also set up a skydiving club at the airport.
In order to ensure Nan Wuwei's safety as much as possible, Nan Yi invited Ben, the best coach in the club, and also called Superman, a part-time skydiving instructor from Peace Dove. Superman had served in the 24th.STS (U.S. Air Force Special Operations Squadron), where he had been a skydiving instructor for more than 20 years. He was proficient in all kinds of skydiving techniques, and he had practical experience in dealing with almost all kinds of problems that might be encountered during skydiving.
Nan Wuwei was learning skydiving skills from two masters. Nan Yi stood by and listened with his heart pounding. Although the probability of skydiving accidents was not too high, and he also found out that a five-year-old child had performed independent skydiving, Nan Yi was still very worried.
After one day of study, Ben and Superman assessed that Nan Wuwei was suitable for skydiving. Nan Yi disagreed and studied for three more days. Nan Wuwei had memorized all the precautions by heart. Only after his pleading did Nan Yi reluctantly agree to board the plane the next day.
December 25th.
It was a cloudless, sunny day in Montana.
With unspeakable emotions, Nan Yi watched Nan Wuwei board the DCH-6 Twin Otter plane, watched the two propellers on the wings spin, watched the plane roll forward from slow to fast, watched the plane take off from the ground. Nan Yi rubbed his heart with his teeth, and got in the car and headed for the parachute jumping point.
As soon as he arrived at the skydiving point, Nan Yi looked up and gazed at the sky through the telescope. He knew that the plane would not arrive until five minutes later, but he couldn't help it.
"Have you ever risked your life for anyone in your life?"
This sentence has been in Nan Yi's stomach for a long time and would occasionally come up for questioning. Because he has never faced a situation that requires him to make a life or death decision, he has never had a clear answer.
Now, he has the answer. For the sake of his children, he dares to fight with any force. If a clan is his enemy, he will destroy the clan. If a country is his enemy, he will destroy the country. If the universe is his enemy, come on, let the magnificent Big Bang of the universe begin.
He can kneel down and beg for life, but his children cannot. They have to live standing with their heads held high. They do not deserve the demographic dividend, the six decimal places in statistics, the etc. in the introduction, or the ellipsis in the report.
They either hold trillions of funds and open their mouths and stamp their feet to shake up the financial economy; or they spend their whole lives talking nonsense, ah, this, that, about this issue, we will hold a meeting to study it next time, and what about what everyone is more concerned about at the moment...
As long as they keep justice in their hearts, they can live freely all their lives!