The Fourth Disaster Begins at the Dawn of the Millennium

Or a company that mainly deals in Internet advertising, which emphasizes the advanced nature of its technology platform, claims that its advertising delivery system can accurately locate users and improve advertising effectiveness. It also claims that it has established a strong big data analysis capability, which can help advertisers better understand user behavior and advertising effectiveness, and that its commercial value is immeasurable. In the end, it tricked Yahoo into becoming its partner...

All of the above-mentioned "money-making enterprises" controlled by players are in line with what is said in the report. They cannot be sustained by burning money. But it doesn't matter. Players have no intention to maintain these enterprises anyway. What players need to do is: sell Internet enterprise stocks with poor qualifications at high prices before the market turmoil comes; short Internet enterprise stocks and related indexes in advance, use leverage tools to amplify returns; create and intensify market panic; when the market turmoil reaches its peak, do the opposite operation in time, buy seriously undervalued high-quality assets, and wait for the market to rebound and make profits.

In the meeting room, Cao Boyuan is calling his subordinates (NPC) to hold a meeting here to unify their thoughts and prepare for the next unified action. These subordinates are still very surprised by the boss's decision, because the stock market still looks thriving, why did the boss decide to short?

"Because the speed at which they are burning money has far exceeded the growth of users and revenue, the game is over." Cao Boyuan sighed by the window, "Once the market falls into liquidity contraction, these Internet companies, especially those that rely on short-term financing, will not have the opportunity to "burn money to keep warm". The coming winter will definitely be very cold."

Historically, the “canal fever” and “canal panic” after the first industrial revolution, the “railway fever” in the steam age and the stock market crash in 1847, the investment boom brought about by the steel revolution and the subsequent crash, the automobile mass production revolution in the early 20th century and the great craze and crash in the 1920s all verified the evolutionary logic of “prosperity-bubble-burst”. The emergence of the US Internet bubble in the 1990s will not escape this fate either.

"'Technology revolution - financial bubble - collapse' has always been a cycle in history. During the outbreak of technological revolution, new technologies, new industries and new products always develop and grow explosively. Financial capital is attracted and quickly intervenes, becoming the 'risk capital' that promotes new technologies."

Cao Boyuan spoke in the conference room like a university finance professor:

"High profit expectations have led to overinvestment in the core industries of the technological revolution. Financial capital's frantic pursuit of emerging technology systems has caused an "irrational prosperity" in the economy. The monetary economy has been divorced from the real economy, and the stock market value has been divorced from economic growth, which has led to the continuous accumulation and expansion of bubbles. However, the bubble that exists between real value and book value is unsustainable, and it has caused the degradation of income redistribution and the imbalance of market supply and demand. The various imbalances in the economic structure have made it impossible for the bubble to continue. When it reaches its limit, the bubble will burst and the economy will decline."

Then, he threw out the investigation report in his hand and continued in an unquestionable tone:

"I can stand here and become a rookie on Wall Street not because I have a higher IQ than others, but because my sense of smell is more sensitive and I am more decisive! Gentlemen, the data will not lie. The financial bubble in the United States has accumulated to a very alarming level. Therefore, I decided to short these companies and related indexes! As for why I chose now, I have to say that on the one hand, it is the data that speaks, and on the other hand, it is my intuition! Okay, let's do it!"

Like Cao Boyuan, a group of "investment rookies" who have sneaked into Wall Street since 1997 have started the same operation at this moment. However, unlike Cao Boyuan, those "investment rookies" are a group of "gray members" and have no direct connection with the Universal Group. The reason why they started the same operation at almost the same time is probably because "great minds think alike".

Anyway, we can't tell the truth, can we say: "We know that on the next x month x day, our accomplices will rush to the New York Federal Reserve vault to steal gold?"

The players in the game have spent two years planning funds, building characters, and mobilizing manpower, not only to grab a treasury, but also to make a fortune in this financial crisis. Since the Internet bubble is destined to burst, why can't the players be the ones to burst the bubble? If the market is destined to have great turbulence, then Cao Boyuan and a group of players hope that this turbulence will start because of the players.

Chapter 165 This turmoil is best started with us

The Nasdaq index, which is dominated by technology companies, had already surpassed the S&P 1999 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, which had been moving in the same direction, by the end of 500. A number of companies whose share prices had risen by around 4000% appeared on the market. Their rapidly expanding virtual wealth had long been seriously disconnected from the real economy, and their price-earnings ratio had reached an extremely distorted level, reaching a staggering 200 times. When the Japanese real estate bubble burst, this ratio was only 80 times.

This means either that the share price is ridiculously high or that the earnings per share are ridiculously low. At this point, the share price has basically nothing to do with the company and is entirely driven by market sentiment. There are many smart people in the financial market who have sensed the crisis, but they are not yet ready to trigger the "turmoil". Now, all it takes is for the first person to use a needle to pop the "pink bubble" of the stock market, and then the stock market, which has been fueled by sentiment, will be ready to fall.

Of course, it is possible that some people will bite the bullet and say: "This is just a technical correction! The market is fine!"

The atmosphere in the hall of the New York Stock Exchange was as cold as the winter outside. Some time ago, the news of the underground vault robbery of the New York Federal Reserve Bank was a hot topic in a short period of time, but after a few days, the media all stopped reporting on the incident. This kind of "silence" of the media is very rare, which inevitably makes those who have been dealing with finance for a long time imagine.

Although these "media mouthpieces" have lost their voices, the reaction of the financial market, which is extremely sensitive to information, will not stop because of the disappearance of the voice of the mass media. Those financial trading institutions that knew a little bit of information began to shrink one after another, and retail investors also quickly spread "rumors" that if the gold in the vault is fake, it means that even financial institutions such as the Federal Reserve have no credit. Then won't people doubt the authenticity of the balance sheets of these institutions and companies?

"Gold is regarded as one of the cornerstones of the global financial system and has a high symbolic significance. It is the ultimate safe-haven asset, representing stability and a store of value. If people believe that the gold in the vault is fake, it will directly shake their confidence in the stability of the financial system." A senior trader spoke to his companion in a low voice, holding a phone and a notebook in his hands, staring at the huge electronic screen, which kept flashing the prices and trading volumes of various stocks. The floor of the hall was littered with discarded papers and coffee cups, which looked a bit messy.

The senior trader stood in front of his trading desk, frowning. His eyes were fixed on a set of data on the screen, and his pen kept moving on the paper, recording every detail. As an experienced trader, he has been working in this industry for more than ten years and has a keen sense of market fluctuations. But today's situation made him feel extremely uneasy.

"Strange, very strange." The trader muttered to himself, with a hint of doubt and worry in his eyes. He noticed that shortly after the opening, a large number of sell orders for Internet companies suddenly appeared in the market. These sell orders were huge and appeared almost at the same time. Seeing this, the trader's colleague came over, patted him on the shoulder, and teased: "Dude, you look like you've seen a ghost, what happened?"

"The stocks of these Internet companies were sold in large quantities at the same time? This is not normal."

The colleague took a look at the sell orders, thought for a moment, and said, "I remember them. The stocks held by the founders of these Internet companies have just been unblocked, and they can now trade these stocks freely."

“You mean, these founding teams sold stocks in large quantities at the same time to cash out?”

Now, the cold air outside seemed unable to penetrate the tense atmosphere inside. Traders began to work faster and faster, without a moment's rest. The hall was filled with the sound of ringing phones, the tapping of keyboards and the hurried footsteps of people, as if it was an endless war. Their eyes were fixed on the computer screen, and their fingers danced quickly on the keyboard. The phone kept ringing, and each call might mean an important transaction or an urgent instruction.

“Still falling!”

On the huge electronic screen, the numbers were constantly changing, and the red downward arrow was particularly glaring. As time approached noon, in addition to the initial large number of sell orders, some financial institutions that reacted particularly quickly began to follow up, driving the panic in the market to spread rapidly.

Although the two confusing events of "gold robbery" and "gold counterfeiting" were forcibly suppressed by Wall Street and Washington and did not cause large-scale financial turmoil, the distrust of current finance and the lack of confidence in the market have long been brewing in people's hearts, waiting for an opportunity to explode completely. It may be delayed until 2000, or it may explode in some other market first.

But since the Nasdaq index and Internet companies collapsed first, the financial institutions with ulterior motives could not sit still. The financial institutions that received the news would not "sacrifice themselves to hold up the market". They would only understand that this was another "Black Monday". There was nothing to say, and they just had to liquidate as soon as possible!

Inside the building, the heating system was running at full capacity, but it still couldn't dispel the chill in people's hearts. At this moment, with less than an hour left before the closing, everyone's eyes were focused on the huge screen, expecting a miracle to happen. "The Nasdaq index is expected to fall by 5.5%." This made even the experienced traders who were used to the ever-changing market feel uneasy.

Suddenly, the numbers on the screen fluctuated violently again, and the Nasdaq index continued to plummet. There was an uproar in the hall, and the traders' faces showed fear and anxiety. Some people began to curse loudly, and some picked up the phone and spoke incoherently.

At the close of today, the Nasdaq index plummeted 7.6%.

"It's fucking weird, why are there still so many bullish voices on TV and in newspapers? And what about the fucking technical adjustments......"

Cao Boyuan, who was sitting in the office, was puzzled like most players. Just yesterday, they joined forces to give the stock market a small shock, and the effect seemed to be quite good. They successfully caused the Nasdaq index to plummet 7.6% in a single day. A group of players holding stocks of junk companies were able to cash out at high prices. The next step is to urgently transfer their wealth and prepare to run away.

But there is still a group of short-selling players who did not wait until the "payday" comes.

"Shit, did we crash the market too early? What the hell, we are shorting with leverage. The profit from shorting is limited, but the loss is unlimited. Are we going to fail this time..." said a player.

“You know what, looking at so much leveraged capital in my hands, I am really a little scared. If this wasn’t a game but a real operation, I would probably have to keep quick-acting heart pills nearby at all times. It’s too exciting...” said another player.

"This market is not right, very wrong... Let me think about it, fuck, I have some ideas, guys, it's not that we did it too early, but that the financial institutions on Wall Street were too slow. The reason is very simple, because this turmoil started from us, we were fully prepared, sold the shit to the capitalists, and cut the leeks of the capitalists who reacted slower, then these capitalists will bear the losses themselves? Definitely not, they will continue to pass on the losses and risks to ordinary people. This is a game of passing the parcel. The capitalists need time to sell the pile of shit in their hands to ordinary people, so of course they have to stabilize the market situation and can't let the shit become worthless before it is sold to ordinary people."

Chapter 9: The financial crisis years later begins today

“The Great Depression often begins with a stock market crash, but what really brings fatal damage to the real economy is the collapse of the credit system. Credit has the ability to support a modern economic system. But the lack of credit can also destroy everything, quickly and absolutely.”

Gold and the stock market are the two sharp blows that players have stabbed into the U.S. financial credit system.

In the winter of New York, the wind is biting and the snow is flying. The high-rise buildings look particularly cold in the wind and snow. In a skyscraper in this steel jungle, the elites of the financial world are busy with their work. The big screen is all red, the stock curve on the computer screen begins to dive, the phone rings one after another, and the keyboard tapping sounds are endless. Everyone is looking for a glimmer of hope in the busyness, trying to find a ray of hope in this financial storm.

Financial crisis can make people rich overnight, or make people lose everything overnight. A guy in a tie was holding the windowsill tightly with his fingers, and his knuckles turned white because of the force. His breathing was rapid, and his chest rose and fell violently, as if he was struggling silently. After a long mental struggle, he slowly opened the window. The cold wind mixed with snowflakes blew in his face, and his body trembled slightly, but he did not retreat, but leaned forward slightly. Suddenly, he loosened his hands, lost his balance, and fell down.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, the body that fell from the sky fell heavily to the ground, staining the white snow red. His eyes were still open, as if telling of his inner reluctance. But passers-by were not too surprised by this, they just muttered:

“Which one is this this week?”

"The seventh? Or the eighth? I can't remember......"

This man who lost everything in the stock market and chose to end his life was once a powerful investor on Wall Street, but with his death, his glory in life also disappeared. Wall Street has seen too many people who are pretentious and then fall to pieces (literally fall to pieces). People who survive on Wall Street will not have any sympathy for such losers who choose to jump off the building, but just dislike that they will accidentally hurt people on the street by jumping off the building. The New York City government has also issued an initiative to persuade these investment failures not to use suicide methods that hurt innocent people.

"Corporate warriors, you don't have to feel guilty about those investors who jumped off buildings, because they were already prepared for this when they took on leverage! You can leave your limited compassion to others. When those financial 'engineers' messed up the economy, the real engineers lost their jobs. The latter did nothing wrong, but they had to pay a huge price for it."

Cao Boyuan and the players who worked together to push the stock price collapse and the first domino of the financial crisis received a letter from the board of directors in the background of the game. In the letter, Lin Dengwan comforted the players, asking them not to attribute the cause of the financial crisis to themselves (in fact, basically no player felt guilty about this, on the contrary, there were many people who just wanted to have fun). This was the fault of those financial tycoons and senior government officials. We just brought it forward a little bit.

In the letter, Lindenwan also congratulated everyone on having successfully accomplished everything that was planned.

"Through the gold robbery, we now have a small treasury. The gold we hold exceeds the gold reserves of many ordinary small countries. If we add the 'tuition fees' from India (the tuition fees paid by the 'Communist Indian Communist Party' are also gold)', the board of directors even has the capital to issue currency. Of course, we don't need to act so arrogantly at the moment."

"You were the first to cause market shocks in the Internet bubble, and you successfully got out of the game of passing the parcel, making a lot of money online, which was much more efficient than your past cash robbery through classical financing methods. Looking back a few years ago, when our business was just starting, our financial strength has been greatly enhanced compared to the embarrassing situation when the group only had a car modification shop in Los Angeles."

"But unlike the logic of capitalism, which uses whatever means to achieve the goal of 'pursuing value-added', making money is a means to achieve 'our business', a tool, not an end. This is true for paper money, gold, and a string of numbers in an account balance."

"Colleagues in China will use this wealth to rescue assets belonging to the people, support and help local workers and peasants; colleagues in Eastern Europe will use this wealth to hire personnel and strengthen our forces, including unemployed soldiers, agents and scientists; colleagues in the United States will use this wealth to invest in potential enterprises, infiltrate the Republican and Democratic parties and the military, economic, political and cultural circles of the United States; colleagues in India will use this wealth to arm the 'Maoist' People's Liberation Army of the Communist Party of India, and perhaps an Indian 'Yan' will appear there; colleagues in East Timor need money for construction; colleagues in South America and Africa..."

After reading Linden Wan's letter from beginning to end, players active in the eastern United States have finally understood that this is essentially a letter of thanks, thanking those players who robbed the vaults, triggered the financial crisis, and played the role of "money bags" in "Our Cause". Without the support of the "money bags", the "gun" will not be strong enough and the power of the "pen" will be very limited.

"This time, we have earned the start-up funds for the next ten years of operations," Cao Boyuan joked in the voice channel, "I don't know when we can do something big like this again. Oh, since the game is so realistic, I think there is no reason why there won't be a bigger financial crisis when the game time advances to 2008, sooner or later, that time......"

Americans never dreamed that before the arrival of the new year of the 21st century, what greeted them was not "beauty and hope" but a financial crisis. In order to ease the downward pressure on the economy brought by the bursting of the Internet bubble, the US government had to slam the brakes on the policy of direct and continuous interest rate hikes and instead use interest rate cuts to inject funds into the market.

However, the financial crisis will not end because of the US government's unilateral rescue measures. Market panic is still spreading. Economists pessimistically estimate that the US telecommunications industry alone will suffer a trillion dollars in asset losses and hundreds of thousands of people will be unemployed.

The continuous interest rate cuts have stimulated the rapid entry of low-interest funds into the market, but Americans, who were deeply hurt by the Internet bubble, are no longer willing to invest in Internet companies, or to be more willing to invest heavily in stock market financial assets represented by Internet companies. Where should the massive amount of funds go......

Of course, go to the real estate market!

First, supporting the real estate market is the national policy of the United States. There are many benefits to real estate development. Promoting home ownership can stimulate the development of related industries such as housing construction, home decoration, and home appliances, so that the economy can get out of the Internet bubble crisis as soon as possible and make the economy recover; professionals once said: "Promoting home purchases is a factor in making the United States safe." Families who own homes are usually more stable, reducing social unrest and crime rates; policies that support the increase in home ownership are also conducive to gaining voter support............

Secondly, various fancy financial innovations also emerged at this time, promoting the development of the real estate market. Such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS), collateralized debt obligations (CDO), and credit default swaps (CDS). The birth of these financial instruments allowed banks to relax the threshold for mortgage loans (providing loans to people with lower credit scores). Anyway, these "rotten fish and shrimp" subprime mortgages can be packaged into fancy CDOs that even professionals can hardly understand and sold to global investors.

Finally, before the new millennium, the United States passed the Financial Services Modernization Act, repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, a legacy of the Roosevelt era. This change allowed the business barriers between commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies to be broken down, allowing for mixed financial operations. Now, professional institutions can better take advantage of the "thriving and competitive" real estate market to fish in troubled waters.

Standing at the threshold of the new millennium, a group of "money bag" players of the Universal Group represented by Cao Boyuan said that we are also ready for the opportunity to make a big splash in the financial crisis a few years later, but that time, our capital will be stronger, and we will not just seek to "put the money in the bag" like the Internet bubble did.

Chapter 167: Inside the Capitalist Base Camp

There was a damp and cold air in the air, and even breathing seemed to become heavy. There were few pedestrians on the street, and occasionally a few cars drove slowly by, and the headlights seemed particularly bright in the gray sky. The outlines of high-rise buildings were looming in the fog, like an unfinished sketch. The cold wind came in through the window cracks, making people shiver.

The fireplace in the room was burning, slowly dispelling the chill, and the firelight was reflected on the surrounding walls, casting dancing shadows. There was a desk in front of the fireplace, and a man was sitting at the desk, staring down at the paper in front of him, frowning and relaxing from time to time.

Lindenwan's gesture of holding the pen seemed particularly skillful. At this moment, he was concentrating on writing a long string of words on the paper, and the tip of the pen made a rustling sound as it moved across the paper.

"During this crisis, we 'feasted' at the same table with those 'carnivores', using the 'flesh and blood' of the United States to strengthen the power of our cause. But when the next crisis comes, we don't want to be hypocritical with these 'carnivores' anymore, but directly send them to the 'dining table', suck their 'flesh and blood', and give back to our cause. I am confident in this goal strategically, but we must be extremely cautious tactically. Because we are in a world where capitalism is dominant, especially in the United States, the capitalism world's base camp, it is not easy to move fast and steadily. "

The wind outside the window was still blowing the curtains, the fire in the room was still burning, Lindenwan's pen tip paused for a moment, then continued to dance on the paper, and the rustling sound echoed in the silent room.

"To operate in the capitalism, intrigue and deception are inevitable. We must use strategies and acting skills to make up for the current gap in strength. However, many things cannot be concealed by lies and acting skills. For example, in this Internet bubble, some of our corporate warriors were investigated by Wall Street and the government and had to sacrifice themselves to keep secrets. In order to expose the enemy's lies, some of our corporate warriors need to sacrifice themselves. There is a famous saying in the West that the flower of freedom needs the blood of patriots and tyrants to be watered. The same is true for our cause. It needs the blood of warriors and the blood of class enemies to be watered."

Lindenwan stopped writing again. He suddenly found that the sun had penetrated the thick clouds and shone through the gaps in the clouds. The sun shone through the glass window and into the room, and the whole room suddenly became much brighter. Standing by the window and looking into the distance, the sun shone on the glass curtain wall of the high-rise building, reflecting a dazzling light, as if the whole city was coated with a layer of gold.

After a moment of silence, Lindenwan returned to the table and wrote:

"Keeping secrets has enabled us to achieve considerable success in our infiltration of the United States. Comrade Linden, who goes by the alias Underwood..."

Underwood relied on the celebrity route and became the mayor of Los Angeles as an ordinary congressman. Ji Tianping and many members of his management team were transferred to Los Angeles to carry out work. Ji Tianping himself became the executive officer of the mayor of Los Angeles, implementing many specific policies on behalf of Congressman Underwood. Ji Tianping and the players only need to carry out municipal management step by step, while Congressman Underwood has to deal with the struggle between Los Angeles and the various factions of the Democratic Party, and he has a lot to consider.

As for Ji Tianping himself, he was very happy with this arrangement. Compared with the beginning when he could only repair cars and rob banks with guns, the current gaming experience of Ji Tianping is much richer than when the game was first launched. He has changed from a "thief" who broke into houses and picked locks, to the owner of a Los Angeles car modification shop, to an administrator who is specifically responsible for the municipal management of a city with a population of several hundred people.

Those NPCs who are familiar with Ji Tianping all regard Ji Tianping's life experience as a typical example of realizing the "American Dream"; those players who are familiar with Ji Tianping will also tease Ji Tianping. In the face of these, Ji Tianping just said in the same teasing tone, "modestly":

"If it weren't for Chief Lin's order, I might still be repairing cars at Car King in Los Angeles. There's nothing wrong with opening a small shop to repair cars, but the Los Angeles City Government will give me a lot more opportunities."

Ji Tianping was transferred from Long Beach to Los Angeles to take office, but this did not mean that the players had to give up the municipal management power of Long Beach, which they had fought so hard for. The city manager of Long Beach was still in the hands of the players and the city managers of the "Universe System". On this basis, a group of city managers of the "Universe System" were actively taking over the positions of city managers in other cities in California. As long as the city implemented the city manager system, it would be the target of the "Universe System" city managers.

Players set their sights on two other cities not far from Los Angeles that implement the city manager system. One is San Diego and the other is San Jose. The former is located in the southernmost part of California, the southwest corner of the continental United States, bordering Mexico to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Everyone prefers to call it San Diego; the latter sounds ordinary, except that the Santa Clara Valley in the southeast suburb of the city is known as the "Silicon Valley"...

When Lindenwan carefully sorted out the above contents, he hesitated for a moment. Logically, the board of directors should arrange a reliable comrade to be placed on the Republican side. It is a prudent move to bet on both sides. However, the subjective initiative of the corporate warriors made the two old leaders, Lindenwan and Lindentu, have other ideas:

"Why not let the corporate warriors have a try? We only need to give them a vague main mission and let them play freely. In a dozen years, some will enter Congress and become senators, representatives of the House of Representatives, or enter the US judicial system; some will stay in the local area and may have the opportunity to become governors of Texas, Ohio, West Virginia, and become... We don't know who among them will achieve such success, but when they become the local power holders in the United States, Comrade Lin Dengsheng will issue orders in the White House, so that the end of the government's orders will not be beyond Washington's reach."

The idea sounds so bold, but considering that corporate warriors always bring surprises to the board of directors, this bold idea may become a reality.

After a while, Lindenwan turned back to the desk, picked up the written paper, folded it carefully, and put it in an envelope. He picked up the envelope, walked to the fireplace, and placed the envelope next to the flame, as if performing some kind of ritual. His movements were slow and solemn, and there was a hint of piety in his eyes. The flames quickly devoured the paper, and the handwriting on the paper gradually blurred in the flames until it turned into ashes. Lindenwan stood in front of the fireplace, staring at the flames intently, as if he was having a silent conversation with it. The firelight reflected on his face, which seemed particularly bright.

At the same time, an email notification popped up in the game background of players in the United States, indicating that a letter had arrived from Linden Wan.

Chapter 168: Inside the Capitalist Base Camp (Part 2)

At a high school party in Los Angeles, the host enthusiastically introduced that there would be a mysterious guest on the next show.

As soon as he finished speaking, the lights in the auditorium suddenly dimmed, leaving only a few spotlights on the stage, projecting onto a figure wearing a shiny black jacket and a black hat. The audience was silent, and everyone's eyes were focused on that person. As the music started, the figure began to move. His steps were light and flexible, as if every step was on the beat, and his body swayed with the rhythm of the music, with clean and neat movements. His dancing posture was very similar to Michael Jackson, especially the iconic "moonwalk", which made people feel like they saw the shadow of the King of Pop.

"WTF! Could this be........."

The cheers of the students resounded throughout the auditorium, and some even stood up and applauded excitedly. The performer was not distracted by the enthusiasm of the audience. He became more and more devoted to his performance, and every move was precise. At that moment, he was the focus of the whole world on the stage. As the music reached its climax, his movements became more complex and gorgeous. When the performance was coming to an end, he ended with a perfect rotation and freeze-frame movement, and thunderous applause and cheers broke out in the auditorium. The students stood up and cheered for this wonderful performance.

Voices such as "MJ", "Michael Jackson", and "King of Pop" were heard at the scene. The dancer's dancing posture was so similar to Michael Jackson that people could not help but think that this was really Michael Jackson. However, the dancer's figure seemed to be quite different from Michael Jackson's, and... a high school could invite Michael Jackson to perform? This was too outrageous!

The performer on the stage bowed slightly, then took off his mask, revealing a face that was very familiar to the students.

"Oh my god, it's the principal!" "WTF!"

Who could have imagined that this usually extremely serious "witch", this "female devil" who usually patrols the campus in a cowboy hat and "violently enforces the law" against students who smoke, drink, smoke marijuana and engage in prostitution, actually has such a unique skill hidden away? Well, the contrast is a bit too strong.

But the students liked it very much, and their surprise was soon replaced by even more enthusiastic applause and cheers.

The principal then went on stage to perform a wave of "rock and roll", which once again refreshed the students' original stereotypes of this principal and also made the teachers present dumbfounded. Some even joked: "Our new principal never told us that he could do these things. This is so cool. Well, I have to say that after she did this, the rebellious young people in the school will probably calm down a bit, because they don't seem to be as cool as our principal."

At this moment, the principal on the stage muttered to herself: "It's good to be a celebrity. No matter whether you are running for mayor or becoming a principal, the end result is the same: you have to attract popularity!"

Very similar to Ji Tianping who was appointed by Chief Lin, this female player was also promoted by exception and became a high school principal. This was probably because other players in the US area had either entered the political and business circles, or became members of the black action team to fight and kill. So when Chief Lin needed to arrange someone to plant a nail in the education sector, he found that there was no one available? Oh, it’s not that there was no one available, there was still a player who was lying flat here...

Most players, after getting a game account, often spend only a few minutes to quickly finish face-shaping, fill in basic information, and then enter the game immediately. But this female player named Rachel in the game, she first spent several hours to sculpt her face, and after entering the game, her style of playing the game is the same as before, she likes to "take it slow", that is, although I complete the tasks assigned by the group step by step, such as doing community service, becoming a high school teacher, and improving diplomas in the game... But after completing some daily routines, she prefers to live a life in the game that cannot be lived in reality, hoping to complete the dream that she cannot complete in reality.

In reality, this player was originally a dancer, but a car accident made her unable to dance anymore, which was why she had to calm down. After she obtained the qualification to play this highly realistic game by chance, she gradually gave the "rebellious soul" deep in her heart to the character in the game. As for herself in reality, she is still a quiet girl, but real life has become boring and she has only become a "starter" to log into the game world.

When most players were practicing shooting, she was practicing dancing; when other players were practicing fighting, she was practicing musical instruments.

Since the characters in the game can often perform some movements that are extremely difficult for real dancers to perform, she came up with the idea of ​​paying tribute to her idol Michael Jackson. The first step was to imitate him, until every aspect of his dancing posture was infinitely close to that of Michael Jackson himself. It was at this time that Chief Lin came to call for help.

"After comprehensive consideration of various aspects, the organization has decided to arrange for you to be the principal of this high school. What? This will attract too much attention? Don't be afraid. Congressman Underwood is a hot new star in the Democratic Party. What's the problem with arranging you to be a high school principal? After becoming the principal, the organization will assign you heavier tasks, and you have to be able to bear them. Of course, you have full autonomy in how to complete them..."

Rachel had communicated with several veteran players in real life on WeChat, and knew that the quality of American middle schools varied greatly. The very good private middle schools were full of elites, and the probability of campus problems was relatively low. The difference between public middle schools was huge. Some schools were as chaotic as prisons, while some were like the key middle schools that everyone was familiar with in China.

Long before Rachel became the principal, she had already worked as a teacher in this school, a typical school with both good and bad sides. Although the situation was not so bad that the Giant God Security was needed to restore order, there were still many problems, but the degree was not that serious.

If it is just to restore the basic order of the school, it is not particularly difficult. Rachel can ask the administrator of Los Angeles to help allocate more funds and get more support from the police to improve the security of the campus. Moreover, players are "creatures". Apart from other things, their learning ability is first-class. If necessary, Rachel can also learn combat and shooting and become a "Piltover Policewoman". Although she is not as fierce as the players who specialize in combat, she is still enough to deal with ordinary high school students.

But... Chief Lin has given me another task: "As the saying goes, 'It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to cultivate a person.' If we want to succeed in our cause, we need to start from now on, subtly influencing students so that they gradually accept and identify with our cause... You can start with a pilot project here."

This is really difficult for players.

In the United States, the establishment of the country and the establishment of the capitalist system are synchronized. Patriotism means loving the American system: the capitalist system. Loving the capitalist system is an affirmation of the capitalist system, and also a negation of other non-capitalist systems, especially the socialist system. Therefore, we can see the traces of anti-communist education in American civic education.

This kind of education was most evident during the Cold War. At that time, most primary and secondary schools in the United States offered courses centered on anti-communism, such as "Communism, its methods, and its destructive consequences." Various special reports on anti-communism were held outside of class. The requirements for teachers' political attitudes were even higher. At that time, the number of teachers who were fired for dangerous political inclinations was far greater than the number of teachers who lost their jobs due to other reasons.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States began to use a comparative method to teach communist knowledge, but the purpose remained unchanged: to allow students to discover the superiority of the capitalist system through comparison, so that they will love the American capitalist system and the United States more.

Pilot projects in education are not only fraught with dangers and could easily attract the attention of the authorities, they also have to be interesting and attractive, otherwise students will ignore you and let what you impart to them go in one ear and out the other.

"First, we cannot tamper with the textbooks directly. Second, we cannot speak well of the Soviet Union or the benefits of communism..."

Rachel thought about it and slowly came up with some ideas in her mind. "Since we can't tamper with the textbooks, we can tamper with the teaching and mix our own ideas into the school-based curriculum. Since we can't talk about the Soviet Union or socialist China, we can talk about the history of the American labor movement and Charlie Chaplin..."

It was difficult to get students to listen and get started. Rachel was not sure whether these students, who were influenced by the West Coast culture and whose minds were full of hip-hop music, would reject what Rachel wanted to promote to them. Rachel had no choice but to let the students accept her first and then accept what she said. So, Rachel decided to participate in the evening party and perform a show to tell the trendy boys and girls in the school that your principal is also a trendy person who plays music!