Chapter 44 Section 11 Live version "Prison Break"

In the afternoon of that day, Liu Yun took me, a university teacher, and a middle-aged man to attend a lecture in a room in another building. The MLM group called this method "networking".The middle-aged man wore a cropped cut and looked loyal and honest. This time, it was a man in a suit and tie who gave us a "little lesson" with his hair in perfect order.This image is very similar to the "successful person" or "office golden collar" in the eyes of people today. The so-called string network is free talk.We can ask all kinds of questions, and the suit will answer them for us.In this atmosphere, even if you have suffered some grievances before, such as beatings, scolding, and personal threats, after you get in touch with people at the level of suits, you mistakenly think that this company is full of humanistic atmosphere. The higher-ups are full of care for us, and the grievances we suffered before were only caused by individuals like Dazhi.

In the books on the art of leadership, and in the ancient art of emperors, it is said that one thing is to use both kindness and strength.The leaders of MLM gangs are very good at using this.They are not only proficient in psychology, but also proficient in management. Since you can ask anything, and since the atmosphere is very democratic, I will simply express all my doubts and see how they justify themselves. I said, "I called my friends and they said it was a pyramid scheme." The suit said: "How can this be a pyramid scheme? We are direct selling, and the product we sell is real estate. As we all know, real estate is a huge profit industry, and we are making more people rich together. Besides, the country will soon legislate for direct selling. "

I said, "We don't have any business now, but we want to lie to our friends and family that our business is successful. Why?" The suit said: "This is a white lie. I only lied to you for a while, but two years later, you will become a millionaire, will you be grateful to me? Therefore, a white lie is not only a lie, but also the most precious and honest friendliness." Cun Tou asked, "Why do people follow us everywhere we go? They don't let us go out?" The suit said with a smile: "When you come to a strange city, it is easy to get lost. This is like a child who has just entered kindergarten. You can't let them wander around. This is to protect you and consider your safety."

Cun Tou continued to ask: "Since the business is so good, why don't you dare to do it openly? Why do you want to avoid the police?" The suit smiled again, and said with a dismissive look on his face: "Think about it, can everyone do a good business? How can we make money if everyone else does it? Of course the police will manage it. If everyone If they all come to do business like ours, who will go to work and produce with peace of mind? Think again, a few decades ago, setting up a street stall to do business was called speculation, and the police were also arresting them, so they finally let it go completely?"

Once again, I have to admit: liars have excellent eloquence. The university teacher has never said a word, I don't know what is thinking in his heart.Liu Yun always looked at the suit with infinite admiration, just like Yang Lijuan looking at Andy Lau a few years later. It was also during this online series that I got to know Cun Tou.Later, Cun Tou secretly told me that he was captured. One day a month ago, Cun Tou came to an abandoned building to pick up junk.Picking up junk is his profession.He didn't expect that there were four men in a meeting in the building.They seized him immediately, took everything from him, and forced him to come to the village where I took a taxi.In that village, every household lived with people engaged in pyramid schemes.

Cun Tou asked these people to let him go. He said he didn't want to get rich, but these people beat and kicked him, even scalded him with boiling water, and forced him to call his relatives and ask him to pay the money, and then let him go after paying the money.However, how can the position of picking up rags and households come up with 2,800 yuan. In order to escape from here, Cun Tou thought of many ways, even hit his head against the wall and passed out; another time, he intentionally sprained his foot.However, the MLM elements are unmoved.Later, while eating, Cun Tou deliberately swallowed the paper clip, and rolled all over the floor in pain.The pyramid schemer was worried that he would die, so he had to send three people to take him to the hospital for a physical examination.

In the X-ray room, the doctor shut the three pyramid schemers out and gave Cun Tou a physical examination.Cun Tou suddenly knelt on the ground and begged the doctor to call the police, saying that the three people outside the door were robbers.The ruthless doctor actually opened the door and scolded Bunny to go out.There was no other way, and Cun Tou returned to the MLM den. Inch survived a catastrophe. "These are inhuman things." Cun Tou said angrily. "Here, no one can save us." Cun Tou said again. Two days later, the MLM group held a monthly meeting, and I heard that they will hold a summary meeting every month.The main content of this summary meeting is to promote the silver manager, and then let everyone feel the motivation to move forward.This should belong to the reward mechanism.

The summary meeting was held in a movie theater in this city. Looking at the crowd of people under the stage, I was shocked to find that there were nearly a thousand members of this pyramid scheme. The leaders of the gang came on stage one after another, and the host introduced them one by one. After each leader was introduced, there would be thunderous applause from the audience.People stood up, their faces flushed with passion, some were sobbing, some were shouting, some were almost fainting, that kind of scene was like seeing Supergirl Li Yuchun. This time, a man in his 20s was promoted to the silver manager.As soon as he stepped onto the stage, the university teacher sitting next to me shouted: "My brother, my brother." His voice was hoarse, and tears flowed out. I don't know if it was because of excitement or grief.

The levels of this MLM gang are: employees, directors, silver managers, gold managers, and emerald managers. After the summary meeting, the university teacher and I found the younger brother who was promoted to the silver manager.When he saw his brother, he was not surprised at all. On the contrary, he patted his brother on the shoulder like a leader and said, "Work hard, and one day, you will be like me." Monthly salary can only be a few hundred yuan.But to be promoted to this level, I don’t know how many people have been cheated to join this pyramid scheme organization, and I don’t know how many 2,800 yuan have been cheated.

MLM means that 99% of the people are dreaming of getting rich, 1% of the people enjoy the benefits, and 99% of the people want to be that 1%.This is really a dream. Back in the dormitory that night, the intellectual was crying, exchanging tears, banging his head on the door frame, he was crazy. In the taxi I picked him up, he fantasized about buying a house in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square one day. Now, he doesn’t even know where Tiananmen Square is. The doors and windows in the room were closed tightly, so people outside could not hear the cry of the intellectual, and people inside were indifferent to him.Later, when the intellectual was tired from crying, he fell asleep.

After returning to the dormitory that night, I also summed up the deceptive tricks of pyramid schemes in my heart.I believe what the MLM lecturer said: Only in continuous summary can you improve; only in continuous summary can you achieve success.Now, pyramid schemers are summing up how to deceive people, and I am summing up how to prevent fraud in my heart.If one day I escape, I must make this public. For ordinary people, how can we identify pyramid scheme scammers?I summarize as follows: 1.If your friend suddenly calls you one day with an unacceptable enthusiasm, you should pay attention. 2.If your friend says on the phone that he's getting rich, and you don't feel like he's capable of making a lot of money, pay attention. 3.If your friends talk about career, ideals, outlook on life, etc. on the phone, or even say millions or tens of millions of words in an understatement, you should pay more attention. 4.If your friend is always slow to answer when talking to you, or deliberately changes the subject of your topic, or answers out of the question, you should be very careful. 5.If your friend reveals on the phone that he will introduce you to a job, that he wants to do business with you to make a fortune, start a business together, or invite you to go on a trip, you should be very careful. 6.If your friend calls you without a number displayed, or the number is a public phone (there are more 4 in the number), or if your friend is not answering after you call many times, you must pay special attention. Because, your friend is very likely to be engaged in pyramid schemes. At this time, you can use the counterattack method to prove whether he really made a lot of money, or to trick you. 1.You borrow money from him.The MLM people are all so poor, where can I lend you money?If you refuse, it may indicate that it is a pyramid scheme. 2.Ask for their company address.The MLM people live in dark and remote places, and they can't tell the exact location.If he is unwilling to say, it may be a pyramid scheme. 3.Ask him about the details of his business.People in pyramid schemes are not in business. If he says he is in a certain business, you should ask about the details of this kind of business.If he couldn't answer, it might be a pyramid scheme. 4.Talk in dialect on purpose.MLM requires the use of Mandarin, which is for the leadership to monitor.If you deliberately speak in tongues with him, if he doesn't speak in tongues, it may be a pyramid scheme. 5.To his QQ number.MLM members are very poor and do not use the Internet.You deliberately asked for his QQ number, but he didn't want to say it.You think, how can a rich man who does big business not surf the Internet?That could be pyramid schemes. 6.You ask him for a photo.If the men in the photos are all in trousers and shirts, none of them have long hair; all the women have no makeup, and their short hair reaches the ears, but there is no new hairstyle.Everyone is thin, but in good spirits, then it may be a pyramid scheme. If the person you meet meets all or most of the characteristics I mentioned above, then it is 100% a pyramid scheme, and you should never go there. What should you do if you do go and get caught in the MLM vortex?I don't know either, because I got stuck in it and haven't gotten out yet. But one thing, if you fall into the MLM network one day, you must not be head-on.Your own strength cannot compete with this powerful organization. I've been wondering, who are these MLM gangs?I've never been able to find a suitable animal analogy.mouse?They are more ferocious than rats; wolves, they are far more numerous than wolves.I didn't know until I saw Monkey Mountain in the safari park one day that they were a group of monkeys. In the world of monkeys, there is no kinship, no morality, no ethics; whoever is strong and powerful, and whoever is cruel, can become the monkey king.After becoming the Monkey King, Sangong and Liuyuan can do whatever they want and enjoy their achievements.Those who have not become monkey kings are all slaves.The apes, which are close to the monkey race, became humans after millions of years of evolution. In the human world, an individual forms a family, and each family forms a society. People have a moral bottom line, families have seniority, and society has legal norms.When everyone abandons evil and promotes good, the family will be stable and prosperous, and the society will be strong and prosperous.However, MLM makes people abandon the foundation of being a human being, destroys family and friendship, makes people no longer abide by moral norms, and makes people return to the age of monkeys millions of years ago overnight. Cun Tou wants to run away, he still has a wife and children.His wife and children are in remote Henan.They only knew that he was picking up junk in the coastal city in the south, but they didn't know that he was already under the control of the pyramid scheme gang, and it was difficult to get out. The weather is cold day by day, and it is almost New Year's Day, and every year on New Year's Day, Cuntou will go home early, take the money from picking up the tatters, clean up the house, buy new clothes for the children, and wait. Chinese New Year.And this year, all his money was taken away by pyramid schemes, leaving him empty-handed.Now, he just wants to escape from here and go home early. Home is the safest and warmest place. I also want to escape quickly, I want to go back to the newspaper office.Now, I haven't signed a contract with the newspaper, but signing a contract means that I will be a member of the newspaper for the next year.After two years in this job, I was about to sign my first contract, and I finally found an organization. However, I still can't get out. One day, I whispered to Cun Tou, "I want to run out, how about you?" I saw Bunny's eyes light up, and he held my hand with rough palms and said, "Take me." His hands were trembling with excitement. I said, "You will follow me from now on, and we will run together when we find an opportunity." It is absolutely impossible to escape from the dormitory, and the only hope is to escape outside.The farther you get from the building, the easier it is to escape. However, such opportunities are rare.The best opportunity is the monthly meeting, and the monthly meeting has just been held, and I don't want to wait until the next monthly meeting. Dazhi and I said: "The phone call I made several times is probably okay now, and I should accept my invitation." Dazhi wanted to take me to the seventh floor to make a phone call, so I deliberately said, "Will he be suspicious of me if I keep calling on the same phone?" Dazhi shouted: "You still want to make a phone call on the street? Don't even think about it." He seemed to have read my mind. Later, I heard from an accomplice that someone escaped by making a phone call on the street.MLM gangs have since stepped up their vigilance. On the seventh floor, I dialed the director's phone again using the speakerphone.I invited him to come here to start a business together, and I said: "Our business is booming, and our team is facing the sun." This is Dazhi's words written on a piece of paper. The director said: "I will call you in the near future and bring tens of thousands of yuan from the partnership. I have now read the last chapter of "Historical Records" 'Biography of Sun Bin'." Putting down the phone, I was expressionless.Dazhi smiled, and he believed the director's words. The last chapter of "Historical Records" is not "Biography of Sun Bin", and there is only "Biography of Sun Tzu Wu Qi" in "Historical Records", there is no "Biography of Sun Bin".I think what the director told me should be to imitate Sun Bin, pretend to be deaf and stupid, escape from here, and then report to the police. When Sun Bin was imprisoned in Wei State by Pang Juan, Pang Juan cut off his kneecap and made him a disabled person.Sun Bin secretly met the envoy of the State of Qi, smuggled him to the State of Qi in a cart full of firewood, became a general of the State of Qi, and used a series of tricks to pierce Pang Juan's heart with ten thousand arrows. The next day, the opportunity came, and Dazhi wanted to organize people to participate in the study session.This time, I heard that a manager who just met with the President of the United States is coming to give a lecture.All the MLM members were enthusiastic and burst into tears with excitement. I think this is a great time to escape.I said to Cun Tou: "Follow me, have more eyes." Cun Tou was so nervous that he trembled all over and couldn't say a word. In the afternoon, the team of more than 30 people walked out of the old and dark residential building and walked to an auditorium in the city center, where the MLM manager who "had a cordial conversation with the President of the United States" gave a lecture.Everyone in the MLM gang wants to touch the palms touched by the President of the United States.This is a blessing that takes many years to cultivate. The team came to an alley.I saw that the alley was winding and winding, and I couldn't see the end at a glance. I thought this was a good opportunity to escape, so I pulled the short hair beside me, and then ran towards the alley. I felt that Bunny was running behind me, and I also felt that the team froze for a moment.Dazhi shouted: "Chasing!" Countless people chased after him. I ran down the alley.The floor tiles in the alley were so broken that I almost tripped over me several times.Cun Tou followed closely behind me.I heard his heavy breathing.I also heard Dazhi's voice getting closer and closer: "Catch the thief, catch the thief." Frustrated, I grabbed a half brick on the ground and threw it at Dazhi who was running in the front.Dazhi was only a dozen meters away from me, he dodged and dodged.Taking advantage of his time to dodge, Bunny and I ran a few meters away, widening the distance from them. There is another alley on the side of the alley, which is even narrower.There is a shop in the alley, and there is a stove at the door of the shop, and two wooden sticks as thick as arms are burning in the stove.When I ran to the door of the store, I said to Cun Tou: "Call 110 quickly." Then I pulled out two wooden sticks from the stove, holding one in each hand.The wooden stick was more than one meter long, and a burning flame spewed out from the top.I waved the wooden stick, yelled, and swung at the pyramid schemers who were chasing after me.Cun Tou made a call, but luckily the shop had a public phone.The shop owner is a middle-aged woman. Seeing this scene at the entrance of the shop, she was frightened and shivered with her arms folded. A pyramid schemer wanted to rush to the position of the phone call.I stood at the door of the store and swung the wooden club and hit him on the body.His crisp suit immediately burst into flames.He beat the flames with his hands, almost crying out of distress. I said, "Whoever dares to come over, I will burn him to death." MLM elements were intimidated. Dazhi said: "Why do you have to do this? We are friends, why hurt our peace? If you want to leave, we will let you go and take your things away." I know these guys are terrible, they can use both soft and hard, and they can pull out any kind of conspiracy.If you listen to what they say, you will be fooled, and you will be taken back by them, and you will lose half your life if you don't die. I said, "Wait for the police to come, let's go there together." Dazhi said, "Why call the police? What's the matter with the police?" I saw him visibly panicking. The fire of the wood was nearly extinguished, but the police had not yet arrived.I was secretly anxious in my heart, but I pretended to be calm on the outside.These difficult minutes, before the police arrived, were psychological warfare, and whoever retreated first would lose. Dazhi is still earnestly speaking, and Zhang Hao is also earnestly teaching, all the men are chasing after him, and the women may all wait in place. I said nothing.Cun Tou found a kitchen knife from the store, holding it in his hand, it looked majestic. Finally, the siren came from far away, and Dazhi led the MLM members to flee like birds and beasts. Two policemen got off the 110 van, asked about our situation, and then took me and Cun Tou to the police station. In the police station, I briefly explained my situation, and then said that I was a reporter and an undercover agent who broke into a pyramid scheme.A policeman said to me kindly: "We are colleagues and do the same thing." The police asked for the address of the MLM den, but none of us could tell.The MLM boss never told his subordinates where they were active, and the dilapidated building didn't seem to have seen the house number or anything, but Cun Tou and I both knew the path.The police said, let us lead the way tomorrow morning and take down that pyramid scheme. At that time, we were penniless, and a policeman gave us 100 yuan.The policeman was tall, with bushy eyebrows and big eyes, and he was full of vigor. I still remember it now. That night, Cuntou and I ate a big meal in a small restaurant not far from the police station. We ordered several dishes, fried pork with chili, shredded potatoes, and eggs with tomatoes, and ate several bowls of rice. , I couldn't even find a shredded vegetable in the dish.We patted our round bellies and belched happily, feeling that the old landlords and riches in the old society were nothing more than that. Consumption in small cities is very low. It cost less than 30 yuan to eat such a few large dishes. Then, we found a hotel next to the hotel and told the boss to wake us up at five o'clock. We closed the door, lay on the bed, stretched our limbs, as comfortable as floating on the water, infinitely relaxed and infinitely comfortable.Cun Tou pulled the heavy sofa and blocked it behind the door. I smiled and said, "This place is two steps away from the police station. Even if you give them ten guts, they won't dare to come." Then, we turned on the TV, looked at the colorful pictures on the screen, and suddenly felt that life was so beautiful.We didn't say a word, we concentrated and greedily looked at those dazzling and beautiful pictures, and the sound of breathing almost stopped.We have been isolated from the outside world for too long, we have no idea what is going on outside.We watched very attentively, even the advertisements were not missed. Later, Cuntou said, "It's almost Chinese New Year, and I'm going home." I thought, I'm about to go back to the newspaper too, back home. In the early morning of the next day, we brought the police to the old residential building. It was still dark at that time, and the police were banging on the anti-theft doors on the seventh and eighth floors.I heard chaos inside.The lights on the eighth floor flickered on for a moment, then went off in a hurry.The police ordered them to open the door, but no one answered. Later, the master lockpicker came, and the anti-theft door and wooden door of the two-story building were opened.None of the more than 30 people in this pyramid scheme slipped through the net.They didn't expect the police to come at all. Some people ran out before, but they were all safe and sound.They thought that the police would not come this time either. However, when the police came, they were all downcast, as if they were mourning. I want to get back the 2,800 yuan given by the newspaper and my own living expenses of more than 200 yuan, and I want to get my own money back.Several MLM leaders were arrested, while the rest were dismissed. The thick-eyed policeman said that when they searched the room, they saw a copy of "Practical Information on Chain Sales" under the quilt, as well as a lot of change, amulets, and other small things.They judged that someone with a more special identity might be hidden here, and after investigation, they found an online fugitive.This online fugitive is a thief. He is very skilled in this pyramid scheme. He steals everything he sees. He even stole the brochure I hid in the hem of my clothes.A few months ago, the online fugitive got caught up in the incident, and he washed his hands of the gold basin, and also fantasized about making a fortune through pyramid schemes. However, many pyramid schemes have been deeply poisoned. After they were dismissed, they did not want to go home. They still contacted each other and organized pyramid schemes again. After many days, I consulted a lawyer about MLM.He explained: In previous judicial practice, according to the different circumstances of the implementation of the pyramid scheme, the criminal responsibility of the pyramid scheme leader can be investigated according to the crimes of illegal business operation, fraud, and fund-raising fraud.However, these convictions involve illegal gains, and it is very difficult to pinpoint illegal gains.Because MLM gangs are deeply poisoned, they will deliberately cover up MLM leaders and say little or not about the amount of their "investment". Therefore, if certain standards cannot be met, MLM investment cannot be convicted.This standard is generally 50,000 yuan. In 2009, after the introduction of the Criminal Law Amendment "Organizing and Leading Pyramid Selling Crime", the behavior of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities is criminalized, and it does not need to wait until it has illegal income.However, since there is no specific prosecution standard for the "crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes", the "crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes" can only be defined at what level and how many people are developed.There are no specific provisions and interpretations in the criminal law. Even now, it is difficult to convict pyramid schemes! And for those pyramid schemers who are extremely poisoned, it is even more difficult to pursue their legal responsibilities.If they are caught, they can only be released; if they are released, they can only continue to be arrested if they continue to join the MLM gang. There is a long way to go to rectify pyramid schemes.