Chapter 42 Section 9 Mysterious "Historical Records"

That morning, instead of going to class with the group, I was taken to another courtyard by Dazhi and the two thugs to make a phone call. When walking in the village road, I saw several men still standing at the entrance of the village.They pretended to be chatting nonchalantly, but their eyes fell on the road and village road from time to time.When they encounter strange people and strange license plates, they are very nervous, and they hurriedly take out their phones to make calls, and the village roads will be empty. Dazhi grabbed my arm, walked into a nearby house, closed the door, and looked out through the crack of the door.There is only one old man basking in the sun in the courtyard of this house, with a dangling drop of saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth.He looked at us blankly, and continued to enjoy the warm sunshine.In this village, every household is rented by MLM people, and they have long been familiar with it.

I looked around and saw a shovel behind me more than ten meters away.I fantasize about law enforcement officers appearing outside the door.If they really came, I would first break free from Dazhi's arm, take a shovel and chop them down, and then open the gate of the courtyard to let law enforcement officers in. Unfortunately, I waited for more than ten minutes, but no one passed by the door.A thug opened the gate of the courtyard and saw several stalkers at the entrance of the village smoking and chatting leisurely, so he told Dazhi, "It's all right." Dazhi led me out again.

Continue walking for tens of meters along the village road, and come to a family.The family had a telephone, and they took me into the room and closed the door behind them. The room was small and empty, except for a wooden table and a telephone on the wooden table, there was nothing else.I thought it might be because of the conflict that the room was so empty. Dazhi took out a piece of paper with a few words written on it, asking me to call the director and tell him what was written on the paper.He especially emphasized: "Only use Mandarin." I think that this call cannot be refused, and the refusal will only attract fists and kicks.I have to make a quick call and tell the director about the situation I am facing here.

Dazhi pressed the hands-free button and motioned for me to start calling. I dialed the mobile phone number of the director, and after a few beeps, the phone was connected. I followed the words on the piece of paper and said, "I live a good life here, and I am doing big business. There are many brothers and sisters here, like a Like a big family." The director hesitated for a moment, he obviously felt that my words were inexplicable.Beforehand, I had mailed all my valuables to him, and he also knew that I was visiting the MLM dens unannounced.He believes that I, who have gone through countless unannounced visits, will never be easily brainwashed."Are you under control?" he asked in English.

Taishi obviously didn't expect the person on the phone to talk to me in English.They were flustered and their faces were ashen. One hurriedly stretched out his palm to cover the phone, one waved at me repeatedly, and the other pushed me to a corner away from the phone, and covered my mouth with his hand.These three pyramid schemers all have elementary school education and equivalent education, and they can't understand English at all.After waiting for half a minute, the director could not hear my answer and understood everything that happened here.In a slow tone, he said casually in Mandarin: "I'm reading "Historical Records" recently, what book are you reading?"

Dazhi pushed me to the phone again. However, this question was not written on the slip of paper. He didn't know how to guide me to answer it, so he just tapped the phone on the table with his fingers.I said, "I'm also watching "Historical Records." "I saw the family of Goujian, king of Yue. You should take a look too." The director said on the phone. Dazhi picked up the piece of paper, put it in front of my eyes, and asked me to say what it said on the piece of paper.I had no choice but to say: "I am about to succeed in my business. I need 2,800 yuan. Please transfer it to my account."

The director said, "Okay, you can call back in an hour." After hanging up the phone, Dazhi and the others let out a long breath, and they said to me bluntly, "Just wait in the yard and call when the time comes." I stood in the yard, and they stood at the gate, in case I should escape suddenly.I looked at the high and far blue sky, and the white clouds like a few gauzes in the sky, carefully appreciating what the director said to me just now.Why did he talk about "Historical Records"?Why do you talk about "Goujian Family"?I remembered the story of Goujian, the king of Yue, who endured humiliation in the state of Wu, and finally recovered the state of Yue.Could it be that he is persuading me to endure and wait for the opportunity?

Now that I've gotten in touch with the organization, I don't panic like I used to.I believe that the organization must be trying to find a way for me now. I was thinking again, why did the director say to let me call in an hour, wouldn't he call?This phone must have been equipped with a special device, and the phone number was not displayed on the director's cell phone.MLM gangs are really painstaking. About an hour later, I called again, and the director said straightforwardly, "Tell me the card number, and I'll call you the money." I was stunned, I didn't expect such a result. 2,800 yuan, this is not a small amount, it was my monthly salary at that time.The director knew that I was deeply involved in a pyramid scheme, so why did he send the money?

Afterwards, with the membership fee of 2,800 yuan, their attitude towards me was much better, and I also pretended to be brainwashed successfully, and followed them to talk about life, ideals, etc., and a bunch of nonsense about great principles, pretending to be burned by dreams of getting rich Dazed, followed them to shout slogans, sing, and give speeches with enthusiasm, turning myself into a "pure person" from the inside to the outside. Every day when I go to the toilet, I close the wooden door and secretly read a page of "Training Materials" hidden on the roof.The more I read it, the more I am filled with deep admiration and fear for the person who wrote this material.

The pamphlet says that the principle of invitation is to "be intimate first and then alienate, from near to far, from strong to weak, from horizontal to vertical". The specific explanation is to take down your immediate family members first, and then get rid of distant relatives and friends; because immediate family members are more likely to believe what you say.Start with the people around you and those who are close to you first, and then deal with your former friends; people around you are more convenient to operate.Find those with strong economic strength first, and then deal with those with weak economic strength; because the economic strength is strong, it is not a big deal to spend a few thousand yuan.First develop horizontally, get rid of your relatives and friends, and then let them develop their relatives and friends.In this way, the MLM team will increase exponentially.

MLM is terrible!What it extracts is not just money, it also subverts the concept of human relations formed in China for thousands of years, destroying harmonious families and precious friendships. This is the most frightening aspect of MLM. According to this "invitation principle", if Liu Yun can find me who only worked with her for a few days, then she must have found many of her relatives and friends before me.I believe that in this gang, there must be people who are more closely related to Liu Yun.Only, I don't know who they are or where they are. A few days later, at dusk, Dazhi went out with a girl. This time, they picked up an old man in his 60s.The old man has gray hair, wrinkled face, and a dull expression. The girl is his niece. At night, the old man slept next to me, and he didn't fall asleep very late.I heard him turning over constantly, so I asked him quietly, "How did you get here?" The old man said that he opened a small shop in a county in Zhejiang, and his niece called him to come here, saying that he could make a fortune here.He believed his niece's words and rushed over.He asked me: "What kind of business do you do here? Can you make money?" I looked to both sides. I was worried that someone might be eavesdropping on our conversation, so I said to the old man, "You will know after the class tomorrow." Winter in the south always comes suddenly. After a heavy rain, the cold current flows straight down from the far north and drives straight in.Winter is coming in the city. This southern seaside city on the territory of the Republic has only two seasons a year, a long summer and a short winter.Seemingly overnight, the temperature in the city dropped from 30 degrees to 10 degrees. In the cold winter, the most painful and difficult are these passionate MLM personnel.Each of them generously handed over 2,800 yuan to the MLM gang, and the stingy MLM gang was reluctant to provide each of them with a quilt, even black-hearted cotton, but there was none.They can only use flesh and blood to resist the refreshing cold, and use the fiery belief in their hearts to dispel the cold in their bodies. That night, everyone huddled together in the cold, their lips were black and blue, and they were shaking all over. The limited quilts infested with lice were not enough for two people.Dazhi called on everyone to stand outside, and he told everyone loudly: "Will overcomes everything." I remembered that when I first came to that city in the south, I lived on the top floor of a dilapidated private house in a village in the city when I secretly visited Blood Slaves.At that time, I was hungry and cold, and I couldn't eat enough.In order to keep myself from giving up and shrinking, I wrote "will overcomes everything" on the wall at the door of my room, and I wrote it in traditional characters.Many years later, when I came to this city for an interview again, I came to the door of the dilapidated house where I lived. Facing the six words left on the wall, I burst into tears. I didn't expect that a person like Dazhi with an elementary school education, such a die-hard pyramid schemer, would be able to say "will overcomes everything" from his mouth. What shocked me even more was what Liu Yun said.Liu Yun stood in front of the team and said: "The sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold." Liu Yun also said: "Only when you suffer bitterly can you become a master." "... She said that short-term hardship is for the happiness of a lifetime, and today's suffering is for tomorrow's ease. All they said was correct nonsense.We have heard these words since we were very young, and we have never doubted the correctness of these words. There are indeed countless people with lofty ideals and celebrities who have come out of hardships, but the correct goal can guarantee the road. Correct; and these pyramid schemers, their goals are illusory, how can they ensure that they will not go astray.No matter how fast they ran, it was the opposite. The ridiculous scene of that night is still fresh in my memory to this day.These MLM lunatics stood neatly in the cold, with their hands behind their backs, their chests raised, their faces expressionless like clay sculptures, and their will determined.They sang one after another.The rambling sound was like a swarm of bees buzzing in the yard, in the village, in the cold wind.They got into the tightly closed window and woke up the sleeping people. Then, angry scolding and singing sounded together, and an ordinary night suddenly became noisy and exciting. They still sang selflessly, no matter what, and unyielding.Their "will overcomes everything", and later, the voice of cursing stopped, and their singing of victory was still blowing in the wind. At first they sang "Strive hard to win" and "Get ahead" that they often sang in meetings. Later, they began to sing "We Are the Successors of Communism" and "I Love Beijing Tiananmen".Those songs that everyone sang when they were children are familiar and haven't been forgotten after many years.These childish songs are sung from the different throats of the three generations, old, middle-aged and young, which makes people feel dumbfounded. That night, these lunatics were raging until the early hours of the morning, and everyone's voice was hoarse, and they couldn't sing.Their voices condensed into ice in the cold wind, and they had no choice but to drag their tired and cold bodies into the room. As soon as they entered the room, they curled up together and fell asleep.The next morning, people kept waking up from the cold, and then, various sounds related to colds filled the rooms.Their will finally did not overcome the cold. At noon the next day, the training meeting was held as usual. Many people dragged their sick and weak bodies, sitting in that hall, and they no longer had the passionate fighting spirit they had at the beginning.They were staggering to and fro, like a field of wheat washed by a flood.The voice of the lecturer is as always, full of emotion and full of energy.He must have slept soundly and well last night, and he won't stand the cold.These poor pyramid schemers each spend 2,800 yuan to support these liars and moths. In this day's training course, I didn't see the 60-year-old man with gray beard and hair, nor did I see Dazhi.I think, at this moment, Dazhi must be in a small room, exercising power over the old man.Poor old man, he was actually lured into the MLM den by his devoid of conscience niece. The content of the lecture today is "How to use white lies".Only those who have certain qualifications can attend this class, and the qualification is that you have paid 2,800 yuan. The lecturer said: "In the beginning, we really needed to use some lies, because our business has just started, and others can't understand our future career. We invited him in to give him a chance to make a fortune, so we are A white lie. And a white lie does no harm, only good." "Yes, we are suffering now. Last night, many people endured the cold, and many people caught a cold. However, we suffer now so that we will not suffer in the future. If we catch a cold now, we will not catch a cold in the future." The lecturers of the MLM group are all A born speaker.They let these people who are in dire straits feel that it is a kind of happiness to be in dire straits. The passion in the audience is slowly being ignited.Thus, the singing of "Fight Hard to Win" resounded loudly.The person who created this song at the beginning, if he knew that his work became the song of the MLM group, how would he feel? Today, the content of the course is still how to invite people, which is the first step for pyramid schemers to deceive people.The lecturer divided the telephone invitation into four steps: make up a white lie, make a greeting call, make an invitation call, and make a record of the entire call. In a white lie, you must make the other party think that you are making a lot of money, and you must fabricate it in a reasonable manner; in the same circle of friends, you must use the same lie, otherwise you will be cheated; you must talk about the industry you are familiar with, not the one you are not familiar with. industry; if you don’t understand the timber business, don’t say that you are in the timber business, lest the other party ask questions, and you will be speechless, causing the other party’s suspicion. During the greeting call, you should tell the other party what you are doing now, how much money you make, and also understand the other party's current situation, what job, how much income, and what ideas you have, so that you can know whether to invite him or not. During the invitation call, you should inadvertently tell the other party about your recent consumption, how much you spent on clothes, how much you spent on meals, and try to talk about the amount of money as much as possible, so that the other party will feel envious of you.Then invite the other party, using cooperation, management, play, part-time job, etc. as an excuse to invite the other party over. When the lecturer talked about the invitation, he repeatedly urged: the call should not exceed three minutes, and only one person can be invited at a time, and the words must be highly confident; if it exceeds three minutes, too many words will fail, and the other party will continue to ask questions; invite multiple people, If you guess together, you may not be able to figure it out; if you remain confident, the other party will not doubt it. Every call must be recorded well, so that we can constantly analyze and summarize and improve continuously. Being able to summarize is a very effective and immediate thing.The teacher said that continuous summarization can improve academic performance.The manager said that by constantly summarizing, the scope of business can be expanded.Military strategists say that by constantly summing up, you can lose fewer battles.The conspirators say that if you keep summing up, you can kill the other party. For MLM elements, summary is a very scary thing.They can find your weakness in the summary and hit it off. I admit that the lecturers in the MLM gang are all masters of psychology. After a few days of observation, I learned that the business of this MLM gang is to constantly attract people and snowball. Each person pays 2,800 yuan. As the number of people increases, the amount of money will also increase.Later, I learned from my unannounced visits to multiple pyramid schemes that the pyramid schemes of this century and those of the last century have made a qualitative leap.They've gone from selling sky-high cosmetics to selling nothingness.This already has the nature of the underworld such as kidnapping and fraud. When I go to the bathroom every day, I take out the "Training Materials" from the gap between the boards and tiles, and read it carefully.I know that this material will definitely not be taken out in the future, so I want to memorize it in my heart. This booklet is actually the "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in pyramid schemes. The weather is still cold, and the climate shows no sign of warming up. The number of people with colds and fevers is increasing.One day, someone brought a bag of Chinese herbal medicine from outside, boiled a big pot of black soup, and everyone drank a bowl. Then, Dazhi led everyone to run outside, chanting while running : "One, two, three, four, one, two, one", "Exercise, defend the motherland".By the time the sun rose the next day, the men had miraculously recovered from their colds.These skinny people are really as hard as a rock. I saw how the university teacher's body changed from stout to thin. The rosiness on his face disappeared and replaced it with a malnourished sallow; the flesh on his cheeks also disappeared, and his cheeks collapsed.However, his eyes were piercing, and he looked like he would go through fire and water at any time.In this gang, there are also white-collar workers with a monthly salary of four to five thousand, civil servants, and former millionaires.And now, they are blindly happy African refugees. The old man may not have paid the money yet, because he was not seen again during the daily morning meeting training.He may have been taken care of by Dazhi and thugs repeatedly, and the old man has scars on his face.One night, I secretly asked the old man, but the old man just sighed, unwilling to say a word. I was ordered to write down the phone number again. This time, the phone number was the phone number of the person I was inviting. I had to write not only the phone number, but also the characteristics, job, salary, and family of the person so that the director-level personnel of the gang could be selected. I don't want to harm others, I just wrote the director's phone number. "Isn't this the same person you called last time?" Dazhi asked.Every phone call they make is recorded. I said, "Yes, he has money and wants to make a fortune, so he's a good fit." I was still in the same room last time, still using the speakerphone. I followed what they wrote on the paper, and told the director about my business situation in the past few days, and said that the weather was cold. down jacket. The director had a good understanding. He said that he also wanted to do business with me. The past few days were very annoying. The business was not good. He closed the door all day to read "Historical Records", and now he saw "Li Guang Lie Biography". After putting down the phone, I carefully recalled the plot in "Biography of Li Guang", and remembered such a story: Once, Li Guang was injured and captured while fighting the Huns.The Xiongnu made a net bag and put Li Guang between the two horses.After Li Guang regained consciousness, he got up suddenly, pushed a Hun off his horse, snatched a horse, and escaped successfully. The director's call must have made me escape from the MLM den. A month later, when I returned to the newspaper office, I heard from the director that once he saw me reading "Historical Records", he thought of using the stories in "Historical Records" to remind me.In fact, the content of each of his phone calls is decided by the newspaper leader.The 2,800 yuan given at the beginning was also paid by the newspaper. I was very moved at the time, and remembered an old saying: A man dies for a confidant, and a woman looks good for a man who pleases him.