Nan Yi did not stay in Hollywood for long. The next day, he introduced Gong Xue to Barry Diller. He soon left Hollywood, seemingly fleeing in a hurry.
This is all because of Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, a reporter working for NBC. She has the label of a Kennedy family member and is also Scarlett's not-so-close best friend. The combination of these three identities means trouble.
It is natural for Nan Yi to continue staying in Hollywood and meet directors and leading actors. What can he say when he meets Schwarzenegger? Can he say that your wife and my girlfriend without a formal relationship are best friends, so we should get closer to each other?
Nan Yi has both political and emotional concerns, so running away is his best option.
When the plane landed in New York, it was nearly eleven o'clock in the evening. The car was driving on the road, and Nan Yi was flipping through the information about Mexico in his hand. When the car reached the Manhattan Plaza section, Nan Yi's upper body suddenly rushed forward and the seat belt cut tightly into his flesh.
After pulling himself back and sitting firmly, Nan Yi asked the tiger cub, "What's going on?"
Tiger Cub turned his head to the back and said to Nan Yi: "Suddenly a woman rushed towards the front of the car."
"I didn't hear any noise. Did they crash into each other?"
"No, it's stopped."
The tiger cub responded, turned around and looked through the windshield at the front of the car. Several bodyguards from the car in front had already gotten out, holding guns in their hands with the muzzles pointing downward at a 30-degree angle. Judging from the angle, they should be pointing at the woman who was sitting or lying on the ground.
Jincuibao seemed to say something to the woman. After a while, the woman on the ground, or to be exact, the girl, stood up, grabbed the gun in Jincuibao's hand, pulled it, raised it, poked the gun tip into her forehead, and said something to Jincuibao.
The angle was not good enough, so Nan Yi could only see the two people from their sides, not even giving him the chance to guess what they were saying by looking at their lips.
The girl's shoulder-length hair was reflective and the color of her hair could not be seen clearly. Through the sparse, hanging hair, one could see her chubby face. Her lips were thick and had a rounded outline. She was wearing a leather jacket with studs, a typical punk style.
Nan Yi looked at the part of the girl that he could see and came to a conclusion: the girl was very similar to a certain Hollywood female star who he didn't know whether she had made her debut or not.
Seeing the changes outside the window, Tiger Cub has contacted the outside through the intercom to inquire about the situation. Nan Yi can also hear the answer from outside - the girl wants to commit suicide and is trying to provoke Crunchy Burger to shoot her.
"What the hell is this?" Nan Yi muttered, and said to the tiger cub, "Carry the man to the roadside and leave."
Nan Yi's order was quickly transmitted to the outside through the tiger cub. Jincuibao quickly put away his gun, then grabbed the woman's waist, lifted , and put her on his shoulder.
The girl was restrained and her body struggled violently, with her head swinging left and right. The moment it swung to the left, Nan Yi saw the girl's entire face.
"Huh? A slightly plump version of Angelina Jolie?" Nan Yi was surprised for a moment, then reacted, "What do you mean by slightly plump? It's obviously baby fat. This is fucking Angelina Jolie."
After confirming that it was safe, Nan Yi opened the car door and walked to the side of the Crispy Burger. Seeing someone approaching, Angelina Jolie struggled harder and cursed at Nan Yi.
Through the thick lips that opened and closed, Nan Yi keenly saw the tongue stud on the other person's tongue and smelled a very bad odor.
“Stop.”
After saying this to Chongjin Crispy Burger, Nan Yi took a bold step forward, raised his left hand and slapped away Angelina Jolie's hands that wanted to block him, pinched her chin, and with a little force, pried her mouth open. He glanced at her teeth, which showed signs of acid corrosion. She exhaled sharply, and a chemical smell similar to that of metal entered Nan Yi's nose.
"Bad luck." Nan Yi spat, loosened his hand, rubbed his jeans a few times, and sniffed it. He didn't smell anything, so he said to Jincuibao, "Put her down, don't worry about her."
Angelina Jolie's mouth regained its freedom, and she immediately sprayed a string of words starting with F, C, and S towards Nan Yi's face.
Nan Yi ignored her and walked back to the car and got in.
After the car drove out, through the rearview mirror, you could still see Angelina Jolie standing there continuing to spray dirty words. Perhaps she sensed Nan Yi's gaze, and she even raised a big middle finger.
"Nansheng, do you want to teach me a lesson?"
"Forget it, the girl's father is an Oscar winner and will attract a lot of attention from reporters."
The tiger cub was not curious about how Nan Yi knew Angelina Jolie, but just imagined that Nan Yi had seen her photo in the newspaper.
Nan Yi stayed in the manor for a few days reading information about Mexico. When the beef burger that went to Mexico first sent back a message that "everything has been arranged", Tianxian took the sissy team, the mama-san team and the barbecue team and flew there before Nan Yi.
At the same time, a batch of unregistered weapons were smuggled from Texas to Mexico by truck gangs active on the US-Mexico border who specialize in smuggling and smuggling business.
While waiting for security to prepare, Johnny came to the manor to find Nan Yi.
"Boss, CCA is recruiting investors. I want to expand the business scope of Peace Industrial Group."
"Are you kidding me?" Nan Yi confirmed.
CCA is the abbreviation of “Corrections Corporation of America”, which means “Corrections and Reform Corporation of America”.
In the early 1980s, drug dealers were rampant in the United States. At the most exaggerated time, people could be seen selling contraband in every street and alley. For the sake of profit, drug dealers began to seize territory. In the United States, where guns were rampant, the fights between drug dealers were particularly fierce and cruel. Cases of gang fights, theft, robbery and even intentional murder occurred every day.
In order to combat this evil force, the United States has dispatched a large number of police forces. The most direct reaction is that there are too many criminals and the prisons are very crowded. However, the United States cannot stop combating crime just because the prisons are crowded. So the United States came up with a solution, which is to add more beds to the original 6-person room and turn it into a 10-person room.
Now, criminals continue to be arrested, but the laws in the United States are too strict, so strict that if you are not careful, you may be imprisoned for several months, and many crimes are punishable by heavy penalties, so it won’t be long before American prisons can no longer accommodate so many criminals. What should be done?
If there is not enough space, just build a few new prisons, but where is the money?
Hundreds of millions of dollars is not a small amount, and this money has to come out of the pockets of taxpayers, so new contradictions arise.
Taxpayers protest that our money should be used to improve medical care, housing, education, and increase infrastructure. These key areas have not yet been improved. Why should we use our money to build prisons for criminals and help them improve their living standards?
American people in many states began to march and protest against the US government using taxpayers' money to build new prisons.
On the other hand, after the relatives of the criminals learned about the dirtiness and disorder of the prisons, they also began to march and demonstrate, because American law stipulates that the basic living standards of criminals must be guaranteed, but this has not been done yet. The US government is very troubled. If it builds a new prison, taxpayers will not agree. If it does not build a new prison, it will be criticized by the relatives of the criminals. What should it do?
In 1981, Tom Bestley, chairman of the Tennessee Elephant Party, realized that these contradictions could perhaps be resolved with "private prisons," and so the Corrections Corporation of America was established.
In 1986, Tennessee enacted the Private Prison Contracting Outsourcing Act. Since then, other states in the United States have also allowed private companies to establish prisons to undertake prison services outsourced by the government at the legal level.
By 1989, against the backdrop of the sluggish US economy, the development of private prisons in the United States had become even more rapid, becoming a new business model.
Johnny shook his head, "Not really. I think private prisons are good business."
Seeing that Johnny was serious, and noticing that he was holding a folder in his hand, Nan Yi said, "Let me see the information."
Johnny handed the folder to Nan Yi, who took it, opened it and started reading.
The US government has a set amount of money to spend on each prisoner every day, and each state has a slightly different amount. In order to make more money, private prisons naturally want to have as many prisoners as possible, but in order to prevent over-incarceration and reduce the living conditions of prisoners, the US government only subsidizes 90% of the costs for private prisons.
For example, a state stipulates that each person must pay $10 per day, but the state government will only give $9. The implication is that no matter how many people a private prison holds, it is useless because it is forced to maintain a $10 living standard for criminals. The state government does not care whether the private prison pays $1 or achieves this through other means.
This decision seems very humane, but it still underestimates the determination of private prisons to make money. Since the subsidy cap is only 90%, they should start by saving on their own costs.
One obvious point is that the number of guards in private prisons is far lower than that in public prisons. In a CCA prison in Lawrenceville, there are only 5 guards for 750 prisoners. Based on 8-hour shifts, there are only 1.5 guards per shift. Labor costs are high in the United States, so staff expenses are reduced. Even so, private prisons still have their own management methods.
According to prison guards who have worked in CCA, prison guards have to be ruthless and support a small group to help them manage the criminals. This makes their work much easier. Those who perform well can get better food, such as soda, etc., so the criminals there are generally very honest.
In addition to the small number of guards, private prisons also make changes to the food standards for prisoners, in order to make up for the missing $1.
In addition, private prisons also provide differentiated services. U.S. law only stipulates the lower limit of the living standard of criminals, and there is no standard for the upper limit. In theory, as long as the criminals do not receive parole permission and do not leave the prison, they can enjoy everything "not excessive" in prison.
As long as the criminals are willing to pay, they can enjoy a single room, a sofa, a TV, a private bathroom, 24-hour hot water, books and newspapers, drinks such as coffee and juice, exemption from forced labor, etc.
Nan Yi looked up at this and said to Johnny, "How do we solve this problem?"
"In principle, private prisons cannot provide services for women, but they can open special visiting rooms where prisoners can spend half an hour with their 'family' without being disturbed."
"Um."
Nan Yi nodded and continued to read the information.
Private prisons do not discriminate among the criminals they accept. They accept both rich and poor criminals. There is no room for choice.
Rich criminals can make profits by providing personalized services, while poor criminals are forced to participate in forced labor in the name of "helping criminals learn survival skills, so that they can find jobs more easily after being released from prison and will not easily return to the path of crime again" (in fact, criminals in prison have to work themselves, otherwise there would be no such thing as labor reform).
Nan Yi turned to another page and found the provisions on the intensity and hours of labor for criminals. After glancing at them, he smacked his lips and said, "Tsk, this labor schedule is more humane than the factories in India. Except for the lower wages, it's almost the same as the perfect world of utopia."
After quickly reading the rest of the information, Nan Yi put it aside, stood up, twisted his waist a few times to relax, and thought about the pros and cons of entering the private prison industry.
As for the benefits, Nan Yi quickly figured it out. First of all, the daily funding standard for criminals was calculated by the US government based on the purchase price of small wholesale quantities. In this regard, the Peace Industrial Group could make a profit.
In order to ensure the quality of its vegetable products, Akesa Vegetable Company needs to pick and trim them when packaging. The part that does not meet the market sales standards will be sent to vegetable canning companies, and some will be destroyed on the spot. The part to be destroyed can be carefully picked and supplied to prisons.
The Shennong Nanliang system can completely supply the criminals’ meals with leftovers, and the added labor and transportation costs are insignificant compared to the procurement costs.
Suppose you want to build a prison that can accommodate 2,000 criminals. The annual food cost is 2,000 people x $9 x 365 days, multiplied by 70% of the profit. The final figure is $4.599 million. Without considering other things, the construction and land costs can be recovered in about five or six years.
Expenses on prison vehicles, medical care, prison uniforms, daily necessities, sports equipment, etc. can all be included in the cost of personalized services and forced labor and enter another accounting system. Rich criminals are provided with prison-style high-end hotel services, while poor criminals are responsible for processing some products that need to be kept confidential, or are paid higher wages to do heavy and dangerous work.
With this calculation, the profits of private prisons are still considerable and worthwhile.
As for the disadvantages, Nan Yi could only think of the pressure from public opinion and the possibility of offending desperate criminals. There was no need to worry about public opinion. If he really wanted to build a private prison, Nan Yi had no intention of exploiting criminals to death. Perhaps his prison would become a model prison in the United States. In this case, the probability of offending desperate criminals would be very low.
Besides, what can happen if he offends them? This is reality, not a movie or TV series. It is impossible for one person to kill a group of well-trained and armed security guards.
"Johnny, I agree. Go ahead. Once the prison is built, we'll take in as many skilled or intelligent criminals as possible. Those in the financial field are also fine. I've always wanted to set up a shadow bank that's different from the popular ones. I need some financial talents that are easier to control."
"Understood. I'll find a way when the time comes."
After Johnny left, Nan Yi walked to the dock, holding an Olivetti Quaderno MP3 notebook in his left hand and an internal Nan's notebook in his right hand. He lay down on a beach chair, opened Nan's notebook to receive emails, and opened Olivetti to listen to music, but the secondary screen showed that the battery was about to run out.
Cursing inwardly, he turned the laptop over, opened the battery compartment cover, poured out the six AA batteries inside, put them in his mouth one by one, bit them, then pressed them back into the battery compartment, turned the computer over again, and the secondary screen showed that there was about 15% power left.
He nodded with satisfaction, selected a Mexican folk song "La bamba" that was converted and stored in the hard drive, listened to the music coming from the broken speaker of the laptop, and then Nan Yi opened a new email and read the text of the email.
Just after reading a few lines of the text, Nan Yi's thighs suddenly became heavy, and Yizi was already squatting on his thighs.
"Yizi, squat somewhere else."
"I'm here. What can I do for you?" With a voice of "Yizai" , Nan Yi woke up the artificial intelligence Yizai in his notebook.
The sudden sound and the vector cat that suddenly appeared on the screen scared Yizi. He shrank back and accidentally fell to the ground. After fluttering for a while, he returned to Nan Yi's thigh and looked at the laptop screen with curiosity and vigilance.
"You are so timid. You watched Tom and Jerry in vain." Nan Yi scolded with a smile.
There are several TVs in the woods of the manor. Every three days at 4:30 p.m., the TVs will be turned on to play animal-themed cartoons or BBC animal videos (original videos without dubbing in Animal World) for half an hour. This was Nan Youqiong's idea. Maybe he wanted to select a few animals with relatively high IQs to accompany him in the college entrance examination.
After making "Yi Zai" disappear and comforting Yi Zai, Nan Yi continued to read his emails.
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After the security was completely arranged, it was already June. Nan Yi found a tour guide company, hired a tour guide and Spanish translator, and embarked on a journey to Mexico.
The tour guide and translator has a beautiful name, Edith Gonzalez. The reason why it is a beautiful name is because the person is beautiful and the name is exactly the same as a Mexican TV star.
Edith Gonzalez, a famous Mexican actress, has starred in TV series such as "Between Father and Daughter" and "Bianca".
"Bian Ka", "Between Father and Daughter", "Slander" and "Bumps", these four TV series were all introduced into China and broadcasted between 1985 and 1987. Except for "Bian Ka", the other three were TV series that the post-70s generation hated. They were as boring and long as foot binding cloth, and they were completely incomprehensible. They also delayed them from watching other good TV series.
The reason why "Bianca" is an exception is that Edith Gonzalez, who plays the heroine Bianca Vidal, is really beautiful.
Since the 1960s, those who were born in the 1960s liked to watch "Slander" the most, especially women, who did not want to miss a single shot. When these four dramas were broadcast, no one could compete with them to change the channel, as they would not win the competition.
In addition to the four TV series, there is also a dubbed film called "Yesenia". If you just say "Soldier, you are not trustworthy , more than one person will definitely reply: "I waited for you for three days and three nights."
Gypsy girl Jacqueline Andre and beautiful Edith Gonzalez are Mexican stars well known to the Chinese people. Edith Gonzalez visited China with a Mexican film and television delegation in 1989 and was very popular with the audience.
Edith Gonzalez is very beautiful, full of Mexican style. She is tall, about the same height as Nan Yi, with a large frame. She looks a bit big and has nothing to do with the petite figure.
In addition to paying the fees to Edith Gonzalez's company, Nan Yi also paid the other party $50,000 in private and made an additional request - except for sleeping time, she must always be with Nan Yi and serve as a companion and translator. When Nan Yi doesn't want to understand Spanish, she is responsible for translation.
When talking about California, most people will think of California located on the west coast of the United States. However, there is also a place called California in Mexico, and before 1846, the entire land of California belonged to Mexico.
In 1846, war broke out between the United States and Mexico. The war lasted for two years. The defeated Mexico had no choice but to cede territory, including the present-day Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, California, etc., which became the spoils of the United States.
The land of California was divided between the United States and Mexico. The territory obtained by the United States was called Alta California, which is what people think of as California, while the territory retained by Mexico was Baja California.
With an area of ​​71,450 square kilometers, Mexicali is the capital of Baja California, Mexico, along the US-Mexico border. It is across from California, USA. Mexicali, with its hot and dry climate, is also known as Mexico's Chinatown.
In 1901, the U.S. trade commissioner announced that the water from the Colorado River would be diverted to the Mexicali Valley. After that, Chinese workers were hired one after another to dig the canal. After the canal was completed, many Chinese workers stayed to grow cotton. This made the originally desolate Mexicali become the most important cotton base in Mexico.
Struggling in high temperatures of 40 or 50 degrees, life was really hard. By 1915, 85% of the population living in Mexicali were Chinese immigrants. The Chinese, who had established their foothold, began to invest their money in bars and restaurants. The profound Chinese cuisine also entered the Latin world from then on.
"Mr. Adam, the first group of Chinese who came to Mexicali did not come voluntarily. On May 6, 1882, facing the sluggish economy, the U.S. Congress passed the first law in its history to restrict foreign immigration, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which strictly prohibited Chinese labor immigration.
Many Chinese were brutally beaten because of racial issues. A group of Chinese who could not stay in the United States crossed the border to Mexico and settled here near the US-Mexico border.
The place we are in now is called Chinatown, and the locals call it 'La Chinesca'. When the second batch of Chinese immigrated here in 1915, in order to avoid the high temperatures on the ground, they started to build underground cities one after another and connect them together. "
After Nan Yi and Edith Gonzalez flew to Mexicali, they came to visit the famous underground city.
Nan Yi stood in front of an entrance to the underground city, looking at the four characters "Han Han Han" written from right to left above the entrance. The upper couplet on the right wall read "The intersection of Yin and Yang, good and evil", and the lower couplet on the left read "Inheriting the past and the present, China and the outside world". There was also a couplet written on the wooden board in the middle that served as a wooden door. He could only understand a few of the words, and there was no way to restore the couplet by reading them in connection.
"Fuck, you want to show off your culture, right? There's oracle bone script, bronze script, and... damn, what kind of writing is this?"
Nan Yi cursed inwardly in annoyance, went down through the entrance, walked through the dark staircase tunnel leading to the underground, entered a small and dark basement, and stepped into the mysterious underground city.
"In the past, these basements were connected by passages, allowing residents to move freely underground. Now, most of the basements are abandoned, dilapidated and in disrepair."
Edith Gonzalez followed Nan Yi and told him about the past of the underground city.
"La Chinesca was once bustling with activity, as a large number of Chinese workers came to Mexico in search of work and living opportunities. Compared to local workers, Chinese workers are cheaper and are favored by Mexican employers.
Coupled with the United States' anti-Chinese policy, the number of Chinese in Mexico once surged, and many Chinese immigrants settled in Mexicali, which became the largest Chinese city in Mexico.
The Chinese once used Mexicali as a base camp for finding job opportunities such as building railways, developing water conservancy projects, and agricultural planting on the U.S.-Mexico border. Some people opened shops and cafes here and started small businesses.
Because Mexicali is located in a desert basin, the climate is extremely hot. In the midsummer, there is little precipitation and the temperature can reach 49 degrees Celsius. In order to stay away from the scorching heat, Chinese immigrants opened up underground space, which became a shelter for Chinese immigrants to escape racial persecution.
As time went on, these places ceased to be simple residences, and in the 1920s, some Chinese businessmen began to open illegal bars, casinos and brothels in the basements.
This place once attracted many Americans to go south to indulge in sensual pleasures, and some smugglers even used a complex underground network to smuggle alcohol and hide drugs.
In the 1930s, there was unrest in Mexicali and many violent conflicts occurred. The Chinese were also involved. They rose up to resist and defend their homes. Many people were tortured and massacred during the resistance.
At that time, some Chinese left here and went to other places in South America, while others insisted on staying here, guarding the industries they had accumulated with great difficulty and surviving tenaciously.
By 1970, Mexicali had experienced several major floods, and the underground city was flooded many times. The Chinese residents had to abandon their lives in the underground city, and most of them moved to Chinatown.
Nan Yi didn't know how to view this period of history. To be honest, diverting internal conflicts by creating external conflicts is a common political tactic. Outsiders who are extremely rich, have no power, form their own faction and do not integrate with others are simply the best candidates for diverting internal conflicts. If he put himself in their shoes, Nan Yi would have made the same choice.
In this world, there are few places where outsiders and local indigenous people can coexist peacefully. Either the indigenous people bully the outsiders, or the outsiders massacre the indigenous people. The strong side regularly reaps the weak side and restricts the development of the weak side. This is self-evident.
After wandering around the dungeon for a while, Nan Yi felt a little bored. He had no similar experience and could not resonate with it or immerse himself in the previous history. In addition, the dungeon had not been developed for tourism. All that could be seen were beams and walls, and the musty smell caused by the darkness and closure. In less than an hour, Nan Yi and the others left the dungeon.
Coming out from underground, Nan Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, adjusted to the strong sunlight, and turned to Edith Gonzalez and said, "Do you know who is the richest Chinese in Mexicali?"