God's imitator

Chapter 161 Each had half an idea

Lin Sizhi continued, "As the age structure changes, the selection rules for management will also change."

"For example, under the 'stable period' age structure of 3, 5, 3, 1, the chaebol family will inevitably control the management team regardless of whether they have money or not."

"With the 'baby boomer' age structure of 5, 3, 1, 3, once someone seizes a position in the senior management, they can achieve 'one-man rule,' making all decisions by themselves."

"The 'aging' phase of 3, 1, 3, 5 makes it almost impossible to seize control of the management office, but a large number of elderly people will die by the end, so the zaibatsu should pay special attention to raising inheritance taxes as a defense. Of course, this is also the best opportunity if the zaibatsu is willing to break off relations."

"Based on the current wealth of everyone and the wealth distribution strategies within each community, it is possible to roughly estimate the opponents one would face and the wealth required to seize management positions in a specific round."

"In most cases, to wrest management from the tycoons, you must ensure that an elderly player from an ordinary family is wealthier than the tycoons."

"Just like the original 4th community."

"But as long as the conglomerates remain vigilant and ensure the absolute advantage of older players, this method will be difficult to use again."

"There is another way to take over the management room: take over all three of the middle-aged players and squeeze out the middle-aged players among the chaebol players."

"In this way, with 3 votes to 2, they can still control the management office."

"Because it is quite demanding for three ordinary adult players to surpass the tycoon adult players in terms of wealth at the same time, and it is impossible to do so even if one person is missing, most tycoon players will be less vigilant."

“而做到这一点的前提，必须是在1、3、5、3的『爆发期』人口结构之下，也就是在第3、4轮，或者第11、12轮，又或者第19、20轮。

"In reality, there is only this one chance in the 11th and 12th rounds."

"Based on the age structure of the players in the 3rd and 4th rounds, we can deduce the list of middle-aged players in the 11th and 12th rounds."

"At that time, the four players in our game who met the requirements were Aunt Zhou, He Ming, Qin Yao, and Cai Zhiyuan."

"The choice then becomes clear."

“I specifically asked Aunt Zhou if she and Zhou Rong were related, because I was worried that if Aunt Zhou got too close to other people in the 4th community, it might lead to an accident due to emotional reasons. Since they weren’t that close, we could consider further probing and contacting her.”

"Of course, if the initial personnel structure is different, then we will have to consider other strategies."

"Suppose that the players who met the requirements in the 12th community were Fan Zehui and He Ming, and we didn't trust either of them, we could only choose to take over the management room in other rounds. For example, we could gather all the vouchers we had hoarded at the beginning and forcefully take over the senior management room."

"If luck is too bad, and none of the conditions are met, or if the Fourth Community's attempt to steal the chaebol's identity fails..."

"Then of course we need to change to other strategies."

"But in any case, hiding expired investment vouchers will give us enough leverage."

Wang Yongxin still found it hard to accept this result: "According to this statement, the strategy of hiding investment bonds was something you thought of a long time ago, and you also started contacting this Aunt Zhou a long time ago."

"But what if Luo Wei hadn't betrayed us?"

Cai Zhiyuan picked up the conversation: "Let me explain this."

"First of all, we really didn't intend to kick Luo Wei out. If Luo Wei hadn't betrayed us, we wouldn't have let Aunt Zhou in."

"Not kicking out any player is our community's principle and bottom line. Aunt Zhou, I hope you can understand this."

Zhou Guifen quickly nodded: "Of course."

Cai Zhiyuan continued, "We actually have two different plans:
"If Luo Wei doesn't betray us, then it will be very difficult for the Fourth Community to find a breakthrough in the civilian community."

"Han Mengying looks down on the players of Community 12, so it's unlikely she'll deliberately poach them. That would make it difficult to create a prisoner's dilemma in round 10, and Community 12 wouldn't experience a collapse-style betrayal."

"Of course, we didn't initially intend to continue working with Community 4. Regardless of whether they change their minds, we will use the investment vouchers we've stockpiled to seize control of the management office."

"However, if the 12th community does not betray us, we will not exterminate them. In the end, the four of us plus Luo Wei will take the lion's share of the profits, and the other three members of the 12th community will also take some profits."

"As long as there is no major falling out, Aunt Zhou can certainly return to the 12th community."

"But since Luo Wei has betrayed us and we've broken ties with the 12th Community, we have no choice but to implement another plan: abandon Luo Wei and bring Aunt Zhou back to the 17th Community."

"We will not kick out any of our comrades, but we will never forgive any traitor."

"No matter how indispensable her abilities are, it won't work."

Fu Chen raised his hand and said, "Let me interject. I suddenly thought of a new question."

"Actually, conglomerates can play a rather extreme game: they can max out the tax rate for all ordinary people from the very beginning and then run their own business. They can choose to pool their money and run away in the 10th round, or they can choose to stay and endure the shrinking wealth to keep going. Wouldn't that mean ordinary people would have 100% of their visa time deducted?"

Cai Zhiyuan nodded: "Yes, but that's just an extreme theoretical situation. In reality, the probability of this happening is very low."

"Because for conglomerates, playing this game is completely unprofitable."

"Based on the standard returns that Fu Chen and his group of conglomerates received: even if they didn't know anything, as long as they secured their conglomerate positions and received 40% of the profits, each person could bring back 80,000 to 90,000 in visa time to the community."

"If we don't involve civilians at all from the beginning, the benefits they can bring will be far lower than this figure. It will be difficult to reach a consensus among the four people inside, and it cannot be implemented if any one of them disagrees."

“If you keep playing despite your wealth shrinking, your returns will decrease; but if the management team runs away in the 10th round, ordinary people can directly control the management office and play their own game.”

"The eight civilians will not trigger a reduction in wealth, and their wealth value will be enough to reach 500,000, so the returns will not be too bad."

"Moreover, if the tycoons do this, it will greatly damage their reputation and create a great enmity with the two ordinary communities."

"What if I encounter this in another game later?"
"To put it another way, there's nothing that ordinary communities can do if they encounter this situation. It's like when you're playing cards or video games, what can you do if you encounter a teammate who's trying to take revenge on society? You can only start the game and wait for the next round."

"So you should save up more visa time in normal times, so you won't be afraid of it being deducted if you really encounter this situation."

"For players with longer visa durations, the ability to 'not be afraid of being detained' is a psychological advantage that can increase the room for maneuver in a lose-lose situation."

Everyone fell silent. Through the debriefing by the three groups, everyone had a pretty good understanding of all the details of the game.

The rest I'll just have to process on my own.

After a long silence, Wang Yongxin asked, "One last question: were all these strategies devised by Attorney Lin alone?"

Lin Sizhi frankly said, "Strictly speaking, we each thought about half of it."

"After we first sent Luo Wei away, the two of us quickly formed a strategic framework through discussion, and only made some additions and fine-tunings during the actual implementation."

Wang Yongxin looked at Cai Zhiyuan with some suspicion.

Cai Zhiyuan shrugged: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Have you forgotten what my job is?
"I write algorithms. You don't think this level of computation is something I can't do, do you?"

Lin Sizhi observed Wang Yongxin's expression and it was clear that Wang Yongxin didn't quite believe what he was saying.

Wang Yongxin is more likely to believe that Lin Sizhi came up with the whole plan, while Cai Zhiyuan was only responsible for 30-40% of the auxiliary and calculation work.

The statement that they each received half was merely Lin Sizhi's deliberate attempt to share credit and elevate Cai Zhiyuan's status in the community.

But in reality, Lin Sizhi was telling the truth; they had indeed each completed half of the task.

From the very beginning, Cai Zhiyuan was consciously trying to keep Luo Wei away and was actively discussing countermeasures with Lin Sizhi.

Although Lin Sizhi came up with the idea of ​​hoarding expired investment vouchers, he suspected that given Cai Zhiyuan's abilities in this game, he might have thought of this strategy sooner or later.

Of course, considering Cai Zhiyuan's background as an algorithm programmer, it's perfectly normal for him to have one or two moments of brilliance in games that are highly computationally intensive.

In any case, Cai Zhiyuan's overall ability in this game surpassed Luo Wei's and was in no way inferior to Wang Yongxin's.

This further highlights Wang Yongxin's awkward position in this community.

The outcome of this game is very much a microcosm of Wang Yongxin's time in Community 17:
Although he is very good at breaking through game barriers and always earns the most in games related to making money, the problem is that this is not enough to establish a significant advantage in the community.

Although Cao Haichuan and Li Renshu are not as good at cracking games as Wang Yongxin and can hardly find the optimal solution, they can always find the least bad solution.

Each game doesn't earn much, but it's stable, and there's almost never a situation where you get ripped off badly.

In other words, they lack offensive capabilities but have ample defensive strength.

Even if Lin Sizhi doesn't side with the five-person group, the abilities of Cao Haichuan, Li Renshu, and Cai Zhiyuan are enough to suppress Wang Yongxin, making it difficult for him to achieve much in the community.

If Wang Yongxin had switched to another community, he might have already become an absolute core member.

However, in the 17th community, it is in an awkward position, neither high nor low.

Fu Chen stood up and stretched: "Alright, that's enough for today's debriefing. Everyone must be tired, go back and get some rest!"

(End of this chapter)