Han Mengying clapped her hands happily, "Very good, very good!

"Those who understand the times are wise; you are indeed all smart people."

She looked at Lin Sizhi, "It feels great to confront the strong.

"Of course, it feels even better to defeat them.

"Thank you, Lawyer Lin, this has been the best experience since I entered the New World."

Lin Sizhi's face still showed no extra expression. Clearly, this outcome was normal and reasonable.

The reason Han Mengying dared to break ties so early was not merely a gamble but because she had a profound understanding of community dynamics and an accurate read on people.

She dared to recruit Luo Wei because through probing in several conversations, she saw that there was no place for Luo Wei in the ecology of Community 17.

For a capable player, the power to speak within a community is likely more important than anything.

And Han Mengying dared to create a prisoner's dilemma again because she saw through the ecology of Community 12.

Obviously, Community 12 is an utterly weak community.

They came to participate in group games, and the leader they selected was merely someone like Fan Zehui.

Slightly stronger than pure weaklings but limited in strength.

Such a community is fundamentally incapable of forming good organizational power and binding force. To put it bluntly, it's loose sand.

Even if He Ming bows his head first, somewhat contradicting the community's collective decision, he's unlikely to face retribution upon returning to the community.

Because a group composed of weaklings is unlikely to clearly reward or punish.

Most likely, everyone will get along in mediocrity, hiding conflicts in old-fashioned deals, eventually dying in droves in the games.

The reason weaklings are weaklings is that they cannot build sufficient organization.

Conversely, because there is no organization or strict punishment mechanism, members tend to disregard these seemingly "harmless" betrayals.

When questioned, they would only respond with "I can't help it" or "What else could I do?"

Han Mengying turned proudly, waving goodbye to Community 17.

"Sorry, everyone, but we won this game.

"You are indeed smart, but unfortunately, this is a victory in community philosophy."

...

...

Soon, the 10th round of the game was over.

Han Mengying looked at the commoner players continuing to work diligently despite the high taxation, showing a satisfied smile.

There are still 10 rounds left, and from now on, all profits in the game will mostly go to the Wealthy Community.

In the end, each person will definitely bring back over a hundred thousand in visa time.

As for the remaining three people in Community 17...

Han Mengying didn't know if they were hatching any plans, but she knew that as long as they tightly held the management in their hands, the other side had no chance to turn the tables.

Achieving this was actually simple: ensure that the elderly players of the Wealthy Community have over 150,000 in visa time every round.

Because they had already set a high tax rate targeting commoner players, with a 70% work tax and a 70% investment tax.

Commoner players had no means to save up for 100,000 minutes in visa time.

Of course, to avoid these commoner players fighting back desperately, Han Mengying cleverly chose not to impose inheritance tax on them for now.

This gave the working commoner players an illusion: it seemed as if they could keep their current wealth.

But Han Mengying was obviously not that benevolent; she had decided to max out the commoner inheritance tax by the end of the 14th round.

Because in this round, four commoner players would die and be reborn.

Through the inheritance tax, they would squeeze all the commoners as much as possible, only leaving them just enough not to trigger punitive deductions of 50,000 in wealth.

As the game progresses, it's increasingly unlikely for commoner players to unite and refuse to press the button, letting their wealth shrink.

Because even if the wealth of Wealthy Community players shrinks, it wouldn't hurt them significantly, and they can choose Departure anytime.

However, commoner players were very likely to trigger an extra penalty of 50,000 minutes deducted from their visa time.

So, they would most likely have no choice but to continue cooperating helplessly, working in vain in this game.

Bottom lines are broken like this step by step.

For smart people, this game is just that simple.

Han Mengying's name badge beeped, and the information on it changed.

[Community 4 - Han Mengying]

[Identity: Wealthy Conglomerate (Management)]

[Age: 60 years old (Elderly)]

[Wealth: 166,450 minutes visa time]

Because taxation had started, wealth numbers also began to show some decimals.

The four Wealthy Community players were still continuously transferring assets and redistributing.

Of course, every time a Wealthy Community player died, their visa time had to be temporarily transferred to another Wealthy Community player. For example, Han Mengying's current wealth of over 160,000 included the inheritance from a deceased Wealthy Community player.

In the two rounds of the game before her death, she must try her best to redistribute the wealth within the Wealthy Conglomerate.

The current wealth distribution among the four Wealthy players is approximately 160,000, 70,000, 70,000, and 0.

Before Han Mengying dies, she will ensure that the next senior player exceeds 150,000 and transfers 70,000 to the young player.

If it were other communities, they might prefer to redistribute the wealth later, but Community 4's situation is special.

First of all, as an elite-led community, they absolutely cannot pass motions such as evenly distributing visa time. What you bring back from the game is what you get.

If the distribution is unequal, it will cause conflicts.

Secondly, although it is possible to readjust the wealth distribution in the last three or four rounds, Luo Wei's special identity might cause a time constraint.

Although Luo Wei is confirmed to join Community 4, she is still a Commoner in the game.

This means that distributing profits to Luo Wei will trigger various Commoner tax rates.

If the Commoner tax is cancelled before that, it will affect the harvest of the Commoners' wealth, so Han Mengying plans to cancel the Commoner tax in the last two rounds and then allocate some visa time to Luo Wei.

In this way, trying to simultaneously average the wealth among the three Wealthy players becomes more complex.

Given the current stable game situation without any threats, it's better to do some allocation work early to avoid a last-minute rush in the last two or three rounds.

By then, all that needs to be considered is how to concentrate a portion of wealth onto Luo Wei.

...

Han Mengying has automatically obtained a management identity, which is unsurprising, as no one has more wealth than her at present.

Without adjusting the tax rate, she doesn't need to enter the Management Room. She can just watch the Commoners laboriously work outside.

However, at this moment, Qi Fan, who should have entered the management as an adult player in this round, looked at his Identity Card and exclaimed.

"What's going on? Why am I not in the management?"

Han Mengying was startled, and she hurriedly walked quickly to Qi Fan, took his chest badge to check.

Indeed, there was no management tag.

"Why?"

Han Mengying hurriedly looked up at the field and then felt her heart skipped a beat for a moment.

Qin Yao, Cai Zhiyuan, and Zhou Guifen had already been waiting at the door of the Management Room in advance and swiped their Identity Cards to enter at the first opportunity.

Han Mengying instantly understood something.

These three players, through some means, let their visa time exceed Qi Fan, and thus grabbed 3 slots for the adult management!

This is the only explanation.

But the question is, how did they do it?

You must know, Qi Fan currently has a Wealth Value of 70,000 minutes of visa time.

All three adult players must exceed him to push him out of the management.

But how is this possible?

Han Mengying has been keeping track of the players' Wealth Value. While Qin Yao, Cai Zhiyuan, and Zhou Guifen have relatively more wealth among Commoners, it's only over 40,000.

Since the inheritance tax on Commoners hasn't been levied yet, they can retain this wealth.

Among them, Qin Yao and Zhou Guifen are from Finance, so their higher Wealth Value is normal.

And Cai Zhiyuan's Wealth Value is slightly higher, depending on the wealth distribution within Community 17.

Although Community 12 and Community 17 have approximately the same total wealth ratio, the three in Community 12, except for Zhou Guifen, have roughly equal visa times.

While in Community 17, it's relatively concentrated on Qin Yao and Cai Zhiyuan, with Lin Sizhi and Luo Wei having little wealth.

Han Mengying has long noticed these specific wealth figures, but this is far from threatening the Wealthy Conglomerate.

To let these three players' visa time all exceed Qi Fan's 70,000 plus, at least another 100,000 would be needed, ideally more than 120,000.

Han Mengying has already raised the investment tax on Commoners, and in every game round, the Wealthy players exchange for investment first and take the larger share of investment returns. Commoners absolutely can't obtain that much visa time through investment.

In terms of inheritance transfer, the person must have died in the previous game round, but surely only one Wealthy player died.

Not a single Commoner died, so naturally, there can't be inheritance transfers.

How could they suddenly conjure up 100,000 out of nowhere?

As Han Mengying was puzzled, a series of broadcast notifications followed.

[A player has proposed a motion to ban Community 4 from occupying the 'work' button. All management players, please proceed to the Management Room to vote immediately.]

[The motion has received 3 'agree' votes, exceeding the majority and thus takes effect immediately.]

[A player has proposed a motion to change the tax rates. All management players, please proceed to the Management Room to vote immediately.]

[The motion has received 3 'agree' votes, exceeding the majority and thus takes effect immediately.]

[The current Commoner wage tax is adjusted to: 0%]

[The current Commoner investment tax is adjusted to: 0%]

[The current Wealthy wage tax is adjusted to: 100%]

[The current Wealthy investment tax is adjusted to: 100%]

[The current Wealthy inheritance tax is adjusted to: 100%]

[The current Wealthy departure tax is adjusted to: 100%]

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