The city of Reggio is located in Italy at the southernmost tip of the Apennine Peninsula.

As the capital of the southern Italian region of Calabria, the city separated from Sicily by a narrow strait is also the main area of activity of the Italian mafia organization Glorious Society.

In a mansion surrounded by high walls and iron fences in the San Daao district in the south of the city.

Taking advantage of the slack police force on the weekend, Horace Stefano, the head of the Stefano family, who had been receiving goods for two consecutive nights, did not get up until more than five o'clock in the afternoon.

Leaving the bedroom and going downstairs, just as he was about to instruct the servant to prepare some food, Horace Stefano's wife reminded him that the eldest brother of the family, Giorgio Stefano, had called and asked him to wake up and have dinner together, and that there was something to talk about.

Saying goodbye to his wife, Horace Stefano walked out of the villa, teased the two pitbulls in the courtyard, fed a pot of raw beef under the low roar of the two fierce dogs, clapped his hands with satisfaction, the bodyguards had prepared the car, and Antonio Danieri, Horace's deputy whom Horace had relied on for the last two years, also rushed over from the nearby residence.

Horace Stefano wanted to know the distribution of the two batches of goods over the weekend, which was the responsibility of the three Danieli brothers.

The two got into Horace Stefano's Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car, and the driver drove out of the Stefano family's mansion, and Horace also asked about business.

After discussing for a while, Horace looked at Anthony Danieli, who seemed to be a little haggard recently, and suddenly asked very casually: "Anton, why have you been so listless lately, it seems that something has happened?"

Antonio Danelli felt Horace's seemingly ridiculous but sharp gaze, and was shocked in his heart, trying his best to control not showing anything unusual, and laughed at himself in the other party's tone: "Maybe it's a little too much time spent on that little bitch of Agnes, I'm really sorry, boss." ”

Horace Stefano knew his little brother's lustful nature, and continued to look at the other party for a moment, then smiled: "It's nothing, we don't want to work hard, it's not for this." Always pay attention to your body, though. ”

Antonio Danelli hurriedly reassured, and when Horace withdrew his gaze, he felt a fine layer of sweat on his back, even though the cold wind was blowing in the carriage.

I can't help but pray that something will end soon.

Otherwise, Antonio Danieli doesn't know how many days he will survive without being discovered.

It took just over ten minutes for the bulletproof Mercedes to arrive in a commercial area in the center of Reggio from the suburbs of San Daao, and the car stopped at the back door of a restaurant owned by a glorious club.

After getting out of the car, Horace Stefano flashed into the back door of the restaurant without stopping at all.

In a lounge next to the back kitchen inside the restaurant, Giorgio Stefano, the eldest of the Stefano family, was already waiting here, and when he saw his younger brother come in, he got up with a smile and hugged Horace, and did not forget to greet Antonio Danieli and others, which seemed very friendly.

After a few pleasantries, the others were sent to the hall for dinner, and only the two brothers were left in the room.

The 59-year-old Giorgio Stefano is the eldest of six brothers in the Stefano family, who was whitewashed after the family improved slightly, and is now a lawyer who runs a law firm in the city of Regio.

However, in the secret files of the Italian police, Giorgio Stefano is actually the 'brain' of the Stefano family, mainly responsible for giving advice, and also in charge of the money laundering work of the Stefano family.

After his subordinates came in and left, Giorgio also asked about the two batches of goods that he had just taken over over the weekend.

Facing his brother, Horace Stefano didn't hide too much, and said with a little excitement: "The Sicilian side was seized another ship last month, a full 1.5 tons, and the Colombian side can't stand it, and plans to transfer the share of 'our business' to us 30%, Condillo, and half of them and half of our side." ”

As a coastal city, the city of Regio stretches for more than 20 kilometers of coastline.

After the Second Glorious Civil War, the northern part was divided into the territory of the three families of Condillo, Imeti and Serrano, and in the south by the Tegano, Stefano and Liberi families.

The three families in the south, because of the civil war that year, the original strongest Stefano family was greatly damaged, and even the then godfather Paul Stefano died in the conflict, and now the three families are headed by the Tegano family, but in fact, they do not belong to each other, but only a relatively close alliance.

Because the Italian mafia is different from the family gang nature of other countries, there are many smaller families around these six families.

Antonio Danieli, who was a confidant of Horace Stefano, is the eldest of the three brothers of the Danieli family, and can be regarded as a small force attached to the Stefano family.

After the end of the second Glorious Society civil war three years ago, under the mediation of the regional mafia in Sicily and Campania, the Glorious Society also began to set up gang committees, transforming from loose family alliances to pyramidal gangs, just because the parties are too deep, the current Glorious Society gang committees are still only symbolic, mainly responsible for mediating disputes and avoiding another large-scale civil war, and there is no substantive power and strong cohesion of the old gang committees such as 'Our Cause' and 'Camorra'.

Giorgio Stefano was also a little excited when he heard Horace's words.

The Glorious Society is neither as deeply rooted as the Sicilian 'Our Cause' nor the 'Camorra' to rely on the world-class port city of Naples, which until the eighties had been a small operation in Calabria, a well-known Italian poverty.

Beginning in the 80s, because famous mafia such as "Our Cause" and "Camorra" became the focus of the Italian government, because of the increased risk of cooperation, Latin American drug lords began to hook up with Koei.

Two years ago, 'Our Cause' assassinated two famous anti-black judges in a row, originally intended to shock the Italian government, but it turned out to be self-defeating, attracting a large-scale anti-black wave, although the Calabrian mafia bordering Sicily was inevitably implicated, but on the whole there was no loss, but continued to take over the business that the Sicilian mafia had no time to take care of, and began to accelerate its development.

Thinking about how much the 30% share of 'our business' would bring to Glory, Giorgio Stefano said: "In this case, we may need to find some other channels for money laundering, otherwise we will not be able to absorb that much." ”

Horace Stefano said, "I was also going to discuss this with you. Joe, did you read the newspaper over the weekend, last Friday, that Melisandre and Bulgari reached an agreement to buy it, and it seems that they are still looking to buy Vacheron Constantin in Switzerland. I think that maybe we can start with this company, not to mention anything else, but Christie's, a subsidiary of Melisandre Company, can wash hundreds of millions of lira from one auction item, and this restaurant can't be washed for hundreds of years. ”

Giorgio Stefano was mainly in charge of the money laundering affairs of the Stefano family, and of course he was more familiar with this, but he said cautiously: "Actually, I felt that it was inappropriate for you to send someone to the United States last month to warn Sofia Fesse. Don't forget, that woman is Simon Westeros's lover, a super-rich man with a net worth of $300 billion, and we'd better not provoke it. ”

Horace Stefano was unimpressed and said, "Joe, you're too careful. The richer the guy, the more timid and afraid of death, just like the little tailor who has been hiding in the United States for so many years and is afraid to come back. Whether it's Sophia Fercy, or Simon Westeros, it seems to me the same. As you can see, after I asked people to warn them, Melisandre immediately issued a statement in the newspaper that it would not buy Versace, and it was not scared. ”

Giorgio Stefano said: "I remember that the statement seems to have been issued before you sent someone to the United States. ”

Horace Stefano waved his hand and said, "It doesn't make a difference, Melisandre hasn't turned its attention to Bulgari yet." So, Joe, I'm going to have Anton go to the United States again in the near future and kidnap Sophia Faisi's two children directly. We don't have a lot of demand, and Melisandre can clean up our share of the growth in the business. As long as the woman agreed, even if she wanted the little tailor's company, it would be fine. Hey, I was angry when I talked about that little tailor, if it weren't for Paul's support, how could he, a poor boy from a small village on the outskirts of Regio, have the ability to create an empire of luxury goods, and now he still wants to get rid of us, how can there be such a good thing in this world. ”

Giorgio Stefano didn't have the confidence of his reckless brother, and even though there was a lot of water, he still got his lawyer's license in college. Knowing more, I instinctively felt that it didn't seem like we should continue to provoke the mighty Westeros system.

A business empire of hundreds of billions of dollars is dozens of times more than any old plutocracy in Italy.

It's just that why you can't provoke it, Giorgio Stefano can't quite understand.

Now that he heard so much from his younger brother, he quickly relented.

In the estimates just now, the share of the Colombian drug lords planned to transfer from Sicily is already larger than all the related businesses of the Glorious Society, and judging from the current situation, as the Italian authorities continue to suppress the Sicilian mafia, the Glorious Society will definitely take over more in the future.

Expanding the scale also means a huge flow of funds.

If the huge amount of cash cannot be washed away and recirculated in the first time, it will inevitably affect the next development of the Glorious Society.

With a large number of luxury brands and international auction houses, Melisandre is the perfect platform for money laundering. As Horace has just said, the turnover of a single collection at Christie's is enough for hundreds of years of Honorable Society's restaurants and bars dedicated to money laundering.

After thinking about it for a moment, Giorgio Stefano nodded and advised: "Send more people over this time, and don't hurt the child, otherwise the matter will be difficult to discuss." ”

Horace Stefano agreed, and the brothers continued to discuss some details as they ate.

It wasn't until he finished eating a three-ripe steak on his plate that Horace Stefano put down the cutlery, remembered something, and asked, "Joe, before you came, Shaw Shanna said that you had something to discuss with me?"

Giorgio Stefano had also finished the meal, and said, "Yes, have you noticed that Reggio seems to have a lot of strangers recently?"

Horace Stefano narrowed his eyes: "Stranger?"

Giorgio Stefano nodded and said, "Yes, besides, I've always felt a little uneasy these days, knowing that you don't believe in such things, but I felt this way before Paul's incident. ”

As the capital of the Calabria region, the city of Regio is far from being compared with Rome, Milan and other metropolises in Italy, but hundreds of thousands of people have gathered along the coastline of more than 20 kilometers, plus the city also has some cargo seaports, and even many stowaways from Eastern Europe and North Africa like to log in from here into the interior of Italy, and some strangers appear, usually not noticed.

However, since his brother said this, Horace Stefano immediately became vigilant and said, "Could it be that the police are also planning to do something to us?"

Giorgio Stefano shook his head: "That guy Nazari charges us so much money every month, and the government and the police department still have a lot of eyeliner on us, if the authorities plan to target us, there will be no rumors." ”

Horace Stefano raised his hand and pointed to the north: "Condilo them?"

This time Giorgio Stefano was not sure.

It's not the police, it's really likely that the three families in the north have moved their minds.

Moreover, what Horace just said made Giorgio have a little more similar speculation.

Although everyone stopped the war three years ago, the civil war that lasted for six years and killed so many people that the hatred could not be resolved.

Perhaps in the past, they were able to barely maintain the peace, but this time, if the three companies in the north can monopolize all the business transferred by the Colombian side, their own strength will be directly improved, even if it is not impossible to compete with 'Our Business' in the south and 'Camorra' in the north.

Even if I know in my heart that once the strength reaches the level of 'our cause' and 'Camorra', it is easy to become the target of the Italian government, however, just as the saying that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, for the mafia, the two major forces of Sicily and Campania are the ultimate goal of many people.

Giorgio Stefano didn't say a word, but Horace Stefano's expression quickly became fierce: "I'll arrange this later, no matter who thinks about it, as long as I catch it, throw it directly into the sea." ”

Giorgio Stefano nodded slightly, and said: "Don't let our family act, I'll call Giuseppe and them later, and we will discuss it." ”