"Troublesome?"

Rick looked up and down and looked at Carter carefully:

"I didn't see it! You are talking about someone who has invested tens of millions of dollars. What are you bothering about?"

"It's annoying, brother! I have to wait for the government bond interest rate to come down before I can get the investment money. That's the future, not now! Moreover, it's been almost a month, and the government bond interest rate is still above 13. This is too exaggerated!

"

After lighting up an after-dinner cigarette and throwing one to Rick, Carter spoke from the bottom of his heart:

"If the interest rate on government bonds does not come down, I will have no living money. Several projects in Zuo Georgia are fully funded. In addition to this problem, there are other aspects... What worries me the most is

What I feel irritated about is... Do you know the drug epidemic problem in the United States now?"

"I know, do you still want to get involved in this matter?!"

"No, I didn't..."

Carter suddenly didn't know how to describe his current situation.

Saying that he was not involved at all? Wouldn’t that be a lie?! But to say that he was really involved, it doesn’t seem to be true.

"I don't know what to say, but you know that a large amount of drugs in the United States now land in Florida and are then transported throughout the United States through Georgia, right?"

"Then the location of my hometown...I thought that there would be no way to stop it. A small city police station couldn't stop this from happening, so my local mayor and I decided..."

After telling Douglas’s story, Carter sighed quietly:

"Rationally speaking, this is one of the best ways to develop Douglas at the moment. Take something that we have no power to change in exchange for a huge sum of money that is enough to make Douglas progress by leaps and bounds. This amount of money is basically equal to

Come for nothing..."

"But emotionally, I always felt that I might be playing with fire. Later, I even took over the drug business in the prison. Of course, I didn't do it myself, and I had already transferred the legal risk. That's it... I

The original plan was to use these free things to squeeze out the last value of this group of drug addicts, and then..."

"To put it simply, I don't plan to let those people come out again! As long as drug addicts are found in Douglas, they will be arrested! I have a lot of beds. If I don't arrest more people, I will still lose money. After being arrested and sent to prison

, I will provide you with smoking, but it is more expensive than outside. At the same time, once he is in prison and can't get rid of the addiction, there is no need to go out. Whenever the sentence is about to expire, he will create some small situations and continue to postpone it.

Imprisonment. If you can’t quit for a day, you won’t be able to get out for a day..."

"I want to gradually reduce the number of drug addicts in the city by transferring drug addicts to prisons. At the same time, I can also use drugs, or drugs provided by the drug dealers for free, to attract more drug addicts.

More funds should be used for development! As for those local people who are related to drug interests, our place is small now, so we can find some business to compensate for it and reach a balance. It should not be difficult to persuade them to give up the drug business. In fact, they are now

Some business has to do with me...legitimate business!”

"I admit that I am greedy for those huge profits, but I don't plan to use that profit in other places. To put it more difficult, it is the money I got from draining the flesh and blood of some Douglas...well, misguided people.

! It will only be used in Douglas. I don’t want to build too many archways. Because Douglas is

My base camp is my capital. The better it develops, the greater my returns will be. But objectively, it can promote the development of Douglas, just as described in the moral utilitarian theory: when I use interests

When we do things for motivation, we also objectively promote the overall development of society!"

"Now that you have a clear plan, what are you still bothering about? Morality?"

Rick seemed to be asking a question, but actually he smiled and patted Carter on the shoulder with a firm smile:

"There are some things I don't know how to say. I don't know if you have heard of a saying... that there is a pair of hands behind the United States..."

"Um?"

Carter was stunned, not sure what Rick wanted to say.

"Actually, this statement is not completely correct, but it cannot be wrong. You have been to Cincinnati and know a little bit about my family. But there are some things you may not know. For example, the 27th president of the United States is my great-grandfather, my grandfather Robert

·Taft, once known as Mr. Republican..."

"I'm not saying this to show off my family status to you, but...just for this reason, I have this foundation, so my growth experience may be different from yours. I have seen too many dirty things, or in other words, in

Any country, any region, any group..."

"Those who are truly powerful and powerful usually have one characteristic: pragmatism! They attach great importance to practicality. It doesn't matter what morals or laws they have. I think about what I should say. Let's take my family as an example.

My family cannot be what it is today without the help of one person."

"Who?"

"William Huntington Russell, have you ever heard of him?"

Should I have heard of it?

Carter looked confused...

"This is a graduate of Yale class of 1833, a member of the Connecticut Communist Party, and a general of the Connecticut National Guard. But this is not important. What is important is that the Russell Company controlled by his brother was the largest opium company in the United States at that time.

Smuggling group..."

"But at that time, the Russell Company's biggest fault was not drug trafficking, but smuggling. So they were often hailed as one of the largest smuggling groups in the United States. Customs and taxation often caused them trouble. But it was smuggling that brought about it.

Only with huge benefits..."

Rick smiled brightly, feeling that the topic was a little off track:

"You have to know that the United States did not enact a comprehensive prohibition of marijuana until 1937. Before that, let alone marijuana, even cocaine and heroin were as easy to buy as cold medicine. So.

At that time, the Russell family was selling opium and dying could only be considered a smuggling crime, not... Well, later on, the United States banned marijuana, including the abuse and illegal sale of other narcotic drugs, but the U.S. government was abusing these drugs in large quantities.

thing!"

"It's the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War had two impacts. Just after the end of World War II and the Korean War, many people were unwilling to join the army. In order to avoid military service, they deliberately pricked themselves with needles. Some people actually pricked themselves with needles.

..”

"On the other hand, you should know that the Vietnamese army's tactics are rather sloppy. They basically don't fight you head-on, but only carry out sneak attacks from time to time, which makes the frontline soldiers very tired. In order to solve this problem, you know what the military was doing at that time.

?They actually distributed large amounts of amphetamines to the front lines!"

"A soldier is provided with 6 pills as standard, and he can get replenished at any time after using up. The addictiveness of amphetamines is no lower than that of cocaine, or even higher! After these people use it and become addicted, they return to the country.

...At that time, it happened to be the outbreak of the hippie movement, and all kinds of random hedonism and indulgent liberalism were popular."

"When the two are combined... I'm the same as you. I don't think drugs are a good thing, and I don't think the United States did the right thing at the time. But... I think about what I should say..."

"This is the real society! You should be here now. There is a conflict between reality and the ideal in your mind..."
Chapter completed!