Darkstone Code
Chapter 273 - 0271 (Yes, this - has no title, you read that right)

Chapter 273: 0271 (Yes, this Chapter has no title, you read that right)

"It seems Truman appreciates you a lot!", Mr. Wardrick teased with a laugh from afar, "But being appreciated by him is not necessarily a good thing, he’s a guy who’s different from us."

Lynch knew this was a kind reminder, so he looked at Mr. Wardrick earnestly, with a touch of curiosity on his face, "Why?"

"Why?", Mr. Wardrick glanced again at Truman in the distance, "Speaking of him, he’s from a military family, his grandfather’s grandfather, his grandfather’s father, his grandfather, and his father, including himself, have all served in the military."

"Truman performed exceptionally well during his time in the military. If he hadn’t wanted to come back himself, you might have to call him ’General’ when you see him now."

When talking about these things, Mr. Wardrick’s face seemed to lack certain tendencies, but Lynch could sense that the gentleman in front of him, refined and elegant as he was, inherently didn’t like Truman.

Precisely because of his dislike, he spoke more detail about this person, which is actually a way of seeking recognition.

Highlighting the most dissatisfactory aspects of someone to resonate with others and become like-minded allies isn’t a particularly special social skill.

"He brought his military style into the President’s Mansion, leaving people unsure if it’s good or bad. You know, I’ve heard a joke that on Truman’s first day in office, he demanded the President’s security personnel do daily military drills according to military regulations, which led to an argument with the President’s chief security advisor!"

Mr. Wardrick clinked glasses with Lynch, "His style is just not appreciated!"

In mainstream society, whether they’re generals or soldiers, politicians and big capitalists within mainstream society inherently do not like these people.

They always hold the stereotype that military personnel, like those from centuries ago, are nothing but gangs of thieves, robbers, social scum with no culture, impulsive in actions, and that only greater violence can suppress their violence.

Of course, this is also related to the military occasionally exposing some scandals, those scandals always make people feel like the military has become some people’s independent little kingdom, making it hard to accept.

Even more unacceptable is their style. In fact, whether they are politicians, big capitalists, or other people, it is absolutely impossible to do things so rigidly as one is one and two is two.

Flexibility in doing things has become a kind of behavioral norm observed by the whole society, standard has already become the baseline, people are accustomed to working a bit below the standard, but military personnels are different. For them, standard is standard, one is one, and two is two.

In fact, Wardrick is not clear that the reason Truman left the army, giving up a great future to switch to a civil service role is because he realized that the military couldn’t let him fulfill his ambitions and ideals.

Truman is a militarist with aggressive nationalism, and the situation in the military is largely the same. In the years he served, he found that even if he became a General in the future, became a Federation Army Marshal, he still couldn’t decide anything of practical significance.

He had to respect the opinions of the Ministry of Defense, he had to listen to the requirements of the President’s Mansion, even if he was the Army Marshal!

So he simply withdrew and instead devoted himself to the new president. The Progressive Party has always had a good relationship with the military, and the military has basically become one of the representatives of the radicals, so Truman easily mixed into a decent position within the Progressive Party.

He quickly rose to prominence using his experience accumulated in the military, connections, and his abilities.

Especially when the conclusions he arrived at in analysing some trends and relationship trends of international wars generally matched the results of developments, the new president thought of him immediately when setting up this international affairs policy research office, making him the first head of this important department.

He has always hidden his ambitions, aspirations, and kept waiting!

He knows that many people don’t like him, dislike him, but he doesn’t care, these traits he displays are exactly what he wants people to see.

People dislike his unappealing military style, but that’s it, he has hidden his true self.

After finishing the topic, Wardrick paused for a few seconds before quickly turning the topic to another direction, "I heard you have a big plan in York State, planning to build a transaction hub for idle goods in every city?"

Lynch nodded in agreement, "I noticed there’s no such place in the urban planning of the Federation cities, and currently second-hand goods transactions often involve stolen goods, where buyers are easily plagued with problems."

"There is a market and a demand, so I’ll do it, it’s just that simple!"

In those alleys or streets of Lower City where they set up stalls to sell upscale second-hand goods, most of those guys are burglars or robbers.

They don’t have stable channels for fencing stolen goods, and they’re forced to sell these things by the roadside.

If they don’t get caught later, that’s somewhat better. If they do get caught, the first thing the Police Station would do is recover the stolen goods, and those buyers have a large chance of being found.

Then the items they purchased with money will be seized by the police and returned to the original owners, and as for the lost money, the police will provide them with two solutions.

One is to pretend nothing happened and accidentally lost some money, understanding that the police not pursuing their purchase of stolen goods is already considerate of them.

Second is to prosecute the thief and let the court rule him to return the purchase price, whether the cost of prosecution exceeds their cost of purchasing stolen goods is another matter.

But whether it’s the first choice or the second, ordinary people find them hard to accept. Of course, more often than not they choose to drop it rather than prosecute.

Wardrick’s face had a hint of approval, "You’ve seized a good opportunity, are you willing to accept investments?"

"Of course, why not?", Lynch quickly responded, immediately asking further.

Wardrick considered it slightly, "If I put in two million cash, how much shares can I get?"

"If you don’t have other demands, at this stage maybe about ten percent."

This company, which was spun off from the Interstellar Trade Company, has only completed a solicitation for subscription of old stocks and has not yet been publicly offered, accounting for the actual received funds, in reality Mr. Wardrick’s money already exceeds 50% of the company’s book assets.

But some things aren’t simply calculated by the numeric relationship, like in transactions like these, actually in Mr. Wardrick’s two million, part of it is used to subscribe for shares, while another part is used for capital increase for the company.

Simply put, if all this money was used to buy shares, the money would eventually fall into Lynch’s pocket, this is a transaction.

Mr. Wardrick used his money to buy this portion of shares from Lynch’s hand, he got the shares, Lynch got the money, and the equity transfer was completed, but the company did not benefit in any way from this transaction, no revenue behavior occurred.

Its net worth before is the same as it is now.

But if it’s for subscription and capital increase, it’s completely different. First, Mr. Wardrick used part of the money to buy about ten percent of the shares, then the excess money was infused into the company’s assets, and the company’s net worth instantly boosted significantly.

During this boost, all shareholders benefited from it, the reason is simple because the company’s net worth increased, which also means the shares in their hands became more valuable.

This kind of investing behavior is very common, and investors won’t generally have objections. Perhaps purely from the current stage Mr. Wardrick seems to be at a slight loss, but from a long-term perspective he actually profits.

Specific other contents will be listed in more detailed contracts, such as adjustments in shareholding ratios, some additional notes during increase or decrease of holdings, these can well ensure that this investment isn’t a massive loss.

Moreover, maintaining a certain rate of capital increase can effectively and rapidly boost the company’s net worth, before the company goes public, this is an extremely effective method to quickly heat up a company’s market net worth, and also makes the financial statement look much better!

Mr. Wardrick’s investment in Lynch wasn’t impulsive behavior, maybe he did somewhat overestimate him, but that’s it.

For people like Mr. Wardrick, investing has already become a normal part of life.

Even if it seems like having Lynch Company’s shares has no other uses, but when needed, he can exchange this portion of shares into cash and replace it with shares of another company or discounted cash from others.

Anything with value, in the eyes of these big capitalists, has already become digitized, regardless of their external representation, they are merely numbers now.

After confirming this investment, Mr. Wardrick and Lynch clinked glasses once more, and then he started with his own social interaction, and Lynch had his own matters.

His excellence drew those who may have similar thoughts to gather around him, discussing some matters about international affairs, including the upcoming international trade boom.

Unconsciously everyone shifted from mutual discussion to listening, Lynch skillfully leveraged his strengths, once again becoming the focal point of attention.

Whether this event was a success, whether the president achieved what he wanted, Lynch completed his own plan.

He presented himself in front of numerous social elites, gained an investment, and incidentally instilled a terrifying concept in others!

That profits earned through honest business are never as fast or as much as plundered ones!