480: Chapter 76 How Can I Join You on a Grand Adventure If You Won’t Tell the Truth (8281/16000) 480: Chapter 76 How Can I Join You on a Grand Adventure If You Won’t Tell the Truth (8281/16000) Gru’s villa was truly unusual, just like its owner.
The thick walls seed impenetrable, but the person they enclosed was also vulnerable in a way.
Powerful gangs had helped Gru to where he was today, earning him the favor of many big players in Arica.
However, after exhausting his luck, he had indeed lost so of the initial control he had over the gang he had established.
Control.
When a team only consists of three to five people, control is a rather uninteresting term.
The number of people is too small, and the complexity of various issues is destined to be low, manageable by anyone with a bit of intelligence.
However, when a team’s size reaches over a thousand people, even an extrely capable leader cannot possibly maintain efficient control on their own or through simple patterns.
“…,Chan, the situation is roughly like this, do you have any suggestions?”
Being old foxes and having known each other for so ti, Gru spoke frankly about many problems within the gang in great detail.
CEO Cheng pondered for quite a while, as the situation Gru faced was extrely complex, the kind that goes beyond any existing theoretical exploration.
His organization was not a business, so he couldn’t adopt the profit-oriented, efficiency-oriented approach.
Profit and efficiency are well-suited for modern market developnts, but Gru’s gang carried a significant personal force component, even resembling a “non-typical warlord”.
Indeed, CEO Cheng felt that using the term ‘gang’ was no longer appropriate to describe Gru’s situation.
If he wanted money, he had plenty of dirty cash.
If he wanted power, he had position—the chief of LAPD.
If he wanted people, he had over a thousand, with more than three hundred core mbers.
Having money, power, and people, even the Italian mob had accepted him.
What concept was this?
If Arica were to have a civil war tomorrow, Mr.
Gru would be the commander of Saint Rodu’s security forces, qualified to contend for power—though success was another matter.
Having thought it through, CEO Cheng finally spoke.
“Mr.
Gru, do you know which is the largest gang-like organization in the world?”
As a top-notch dirty cop, he knew the police business well, and he was quite knowledgeable about gangs; CEO Cheng’s question seed very simple to him.
Excluding those who had gone legit or were eliminated by the tis, Gru gave CEO Cheng an incorrect answer.
“Aryan Brotherhood, they have several thousand mbers, but I can’t recruit that many people because…”
Cheng Daqi interrupted Gru, sighing.
“Wrong!
Mr.
Gru, it seems you have so racial prejudices.
The largest unofficial gang-like organization in the world has so many mbers they can’t all be counted, two hundred thousand, and most of the top ten are likely from East Asia’s underworld.”
Gru was shocked; he trusted CEO Cheng’s data, as Cheng Daqi had no need to lie.
He was also aware of Hongn in Arica, but what CEO Cheng described was terrifying; one branch of Hongn had two hundred thousand mbers—that was rather desperate for the police.
Moreover, Gru realized that perhaps, it seed, probably, when comparing himself to these gangs, was he just a small shrimp?
After decades of struggle, he had built such an empire, only to be at the starting point?
Seeing Gru’s expression change, CEO Cheng continued with a smile.
“Interestingly, the gang size in East Asia can expand to tens of thousands in the gray area, while in Europe and Arica, so well-known gangs have less than a hundred mbers.
Mr.
Gru, do you guess, is this a coincidence?”
Of course it wasn’t a coincidence!
“Of course it’s not a coincidence, do you an to say, if I figure out why Hongn is successful and follow their model, I could…”
Gru was not really racially biased; it was just that the transformation and disintegration of Hongn had been so profound that he had forgotten about it.
“It’s different, Hongn and East Asian gangs mainly consist of people from the Huaxia civilization, while your white-collar and black-attired gang is mostly Europeans and Aricans.
Their gang mbers responsible for violence are made up of hooligans, whereas your n are all police officers.
With different cultures, different beliefs, different ethnicities, and fundantally different identities, you can’t simply replicate their model, do you understand?”
Gru finally understood; this might be much more complicated than he thought.
“Chan, so what should I do?”
Gru looked at Cheng Daqi with anticipation.
“Advisor, I’m hungry, please feed directly, thank you.”
“The first step, cut your workforce; in your current situation, one thousand three hundred people is too many.
There are less than twenty thousand people in the LAPD, and now you’ve got nearly one-tenth of them, that won’t do.”
CEO Cheng’s first suggestion imdiately t with Gru’s disagreent, wasn’t that counterproductive?
The more n he had, the greater his power and influence, and the more respect he garnered from others.
Cut workforce?
“Sorry, that’s impossible!”
Gru’s stubbornness was sothing CEO Cheng could understand, so he explained.
“Just analyze it simply from four perspectives.
First, with too many people, it’s difficult to divide interests fairly and maintain high welfare.
Second, with too many people, others will steal your power, and you’ll have to clean up the sses they make.
Third, with too many people, the marginal effect diminishes, and you’ll beco more conspicuous.
Last, and most importantly, with fewer people, you can manage with more precision, and that leads to a question—Mr.
Gru, what do you want to do?”
At this point, Cheng Daqi paused, looking intently at Gru.
This terrifying man seed to have no real purpose; everything he did appeared only to be about climbing higher.
Having been single for so many years, his only pleasure seed to be indulging in prostitution.
But CEO Cheng could sense that Gru, like himself, was one of those who kept their ideals hidden deep within, not sharing them with anyone.
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