Chapter 716: Restless (3)
Separated from Grace last night, Simon stayed overnight at his villa on East 92nd Street for the second time.
By the way, punished a certain restless woman.
Simon treats the Graff mother and daughter far beyond the standard of living they once had.
A top mansion close to Central Park, a team of fully professional servants, 30,000 US dollars a month without a job, almost no restrictions on what to do on weekdays, and want to join some of the top clubs in Manhattan, the woman and Grace talked about it, and soon got a membership card, and the family of three can even use a private jet of the Westeros system.
However, people's hearts are insufficient.
After Simon stayed overnight at his villa on East 92nd Street for the first time, the intelligence team responsible for monitoring the family discovered that Laura Gralph had intentionally or unintentionally inquired about the Michael Jackson case last year, apparently intent on doing the same.
Michael Jackson paid $20 million to settle last year's case, accusing the Chandler family of the popular emperor who have now bought a mansion in Manhattan to live an upper-class life. Laura Grahlf probably thinks that with Simon's natural wealth, she may be able to get ten times more compensation from him, and at the same time completely get rid of his control.
Simon just quietly watched from the sidelines.
The truth of the Michael Jackson ** case is destined to be a confused account, and the possibility of this emperor superstar being innocent is very high, but everyone prefers to see the result that the other party is not innocent.
Simon himself is not innocent, but he is not Michael Jackson.
Hold down instructions to the surveillance team, and as soon as Laura Gralf tries to contact a lawyer, she is immediately restrained and disposed of completely.
Because of the original assassination, the Graff family should have been eliminated.
It was only Simon who stayed in the first thought.
Let them follow the trajectory of life that they should have, and Simon will not be soft-hearted at all.
Fortunately, after so many days of hesitation, Laura Grahlf hesitated, and finally did not be hopelessly stupid enough to take action.
Simon also directly provoked the woman's mind last night, punished by the way, and completely extinguished all the illusions of a stupid woman.
Speaking of which, after the release of the Forbes America 400 list at the beginning of the month, there are a lot of restlessness around the Westeros system, and Laura Graff's small actions are really insignificant in comparison.
First of all, the most restless is American politics.
In the final run-up to the midterm elections, even though the Westeros system has been widely perceived to have worked for most of the last six months, many of the congressional candidates have been mildly and fiercely asked about Simon's personal wealth, with the basic rhetoric that the wealth of the super-rich should be restricted.
Because that's a form of political correctness.
If Simon is just an ordinary person, seeing the increasing personal net worth of the super-rich, he will also be unbalanced, he will also hate the rich, and he will try to seek more so-called fairness.
It happens to be these ordinary people who hold the votes of the parliamentarians.
The $300 billion personal fortune is beyond the limits of the public's imagination, and few people can figure out what such a huge fortune means, but instinctively think that Simon's personal wealth should not continue to grow.
For this kind of public opinion tendency, Simon will certainly not let it go.
The Forbes list for the new year has just been released, and Simon amp; The Janet Westeros Foundation is the first to announce a new large-scale philanthropic opportunity.
At the same time, the Westeros-controlled media began to steer public opinion.
Simon's attitude was clear.
Perhaps beyond the imagination of ordinary people, Simon's personal wealth is completely legitimate.
Private property is sacrosanct.
If you want to limit the wealth of the super-rich, you can do it, but you have to treat all the rich equally.
If someone wants to target Simon alone, then, sorry, the Westeros system doesn't mind targeting one person specifically.
Simon doesn't mind doing anything to protect his legal property.
Secondly, some of Simon's flaws have once again become the object of attention of people with intentions.
For example, the gang massacre in Reggio in the Calabria region of southern Italy in August.
Because Simon later issued a clear warning to the entire Italian and even global gangsters, don't try to provoke yourself, otherwise the Stefano family will be a lesson from the past, therefore, compared with the Pittsburgh Woodfield Manor bombing that only a very few clues were released in the first half of the year, the truth of the Stefano family's murder incident is known to many people.
As long as sufficient evidence can be obtained to persuade the Italian government to investigate the incident, there is no doubt that Simon will get into serious trouble.
During this time, there were indeed many forces with such thoughts, and the French government was one of them.
Manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.
In a study room in the villa, Celia Miller waited for Simon to hang up a phone, and roughly heard the news that someone was injured and admitted to the hospital, seeing that the man did not take the initiative to explain, and did not ask more questions, and continued the topic just now: "So, just let Rwanda issue a press release accusing the French government of being involved in the massacre in April, right?"
Simon nodded: "You communicate with the Rwandan side as soon as possible, someone from Igrete will contact you in the afternoon, and after the Rwandan government expresses its position, the relevant press release will be released through the Igritt portal." ”
Celia didn't know why Simon suddenly called him over and arranged such a never-ending task, but she still dutifully suggested: "Do you want the president or vice president of Rwanda to make a public statement?"
"No, you should realize that this has nothing to do with Rwanda, but I'm reminding the French government not to forget something. Therefore, the key point in the press release is to make it clear that the Rwandan authorities have obtained key evidence of the French government's involvement in the Rwandan genocide through investigations. ”
Celia nodded.
In fact, she also knew that the Rwandan government had no key evidence in its possession, but that the Westeros system had obtained a large number of confessions from the French government that had been captured by the French army in the first place.
In the first half of the year, Simon launched a war in Rwanda, Africa, in a private name, and in addition to the overthrown Hutu regime, France, which supported the former Rwandan government behind the scenes, also suffered heavy losses, and the layout of the years was ruined.
Therefore, this time, Simon offended France the most.
As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, France's overall strength is unquestionable, and it is easy to find trouble with the Westeros system.
If Simon hadn't taken the moral high ground in advance through his massive news coverage of the Rwandan genocide, and had secretly seized on the grip of the French government, the Westeros system would never have been so easy to get out of.
Noticing Celia's desire to speak, Simon said, "I know what you want to ask, but I can't explain this matter to you, you just need to do what I say." ”
This is already an explanation.
Simon didn't say it, Celia could roughly guess that the French government, which was unwilling to be defeated, had made some small moves in private to target the Westeros system.
Continued to confirm some details, and discussed a few more matters with the man about the layout of Ukraine, it was already noon, and seeing that Simon had no intention of staying with him to eat, Celia took the initiative to get up and leave.
Sending Celia out of the study, Simon returned to his desk and reopened a survey document he had been reading before the woman came.
This information is from Italy.
The Stefano family's extinction incident has been boiling for a while, and it seems to have calmed down, but the ripples under the surface of the water are still continuing.
Not long after the incident, the Honorable Society, which had strengthened its monitoring of its own territory like a frightened bird after the Stefano incident, and the Westeros family's re-infiltration of the intelligence team arranged in Reggio City, began to find that some people showed unusual curiosity about the incident.
Under the repeated warnings of the glorious society that intends to calm things, and even after some guys who are too curious have evaporated from the world, everyone else basically chooses to die down.
However, there are always people who work tirelessly.
Two investigative reporters from the famous French newspaper Le Figaro have been cautiously contacting people involved in the extermination during this time, and there are also suspected government agents sneakily investigating the extermination.
Simon also received news two weeks ago that the French government had tried to lobby the Italian authorities to launch a large-scale official investigation into the Stefano family's murder.
At this point, some things are more obvious.
The French government wanted to strike at Simon through the Stefano family's annihilation.
After the incident, through Simon's advance arrangement at the level of public opinion, many super-rich people and even Latin American drug lords have become suspected targets of the Stefano family's extermination.
However, many people know the real facts.
In fact, it's like the JFK assassination back then.
The reason why so many people and physical evidence were cleared one after another, and why the Kennedy family members died if they had the slightest idea of entering politics, is that many people also know the truth of that incident, because the truth is too simple and uninvestigated, so they have to constantly destroy the evidence, and at the same time prevent the Kennedy family from regaining the power to investigate certain things.
For most of the year, whether it is the Woodfield house bombing or the Stefano family murder, the truth is not top secret, and what Simon needs to do is also continue to annihilate evidence and prevent deeper investigations.
Also, it's about delaying as much time as possible.
The power of time is always the strongest.
It won't take too long, and in five years' time, it will be more than 10 times more difficult for the authorities to investigate something that used to be there.
In the end, there will be no truth.
When things start again, people with intentions will no longer pursue the truth in vain, and may only become a bargaining chip at another level.
Now, since the French are making small moves, Simon will not sit idly by.
Accusing France of being involved in the Rwandan massacre, which killed hundreds of thousands of people in the first half of the year, through the Rwandan government and the Igrete portal, is only an overt counterattack and warning, and if the French authorities do not know to stop after this warning, Simon will not be polite in the future.
Although two strikes in one year can be called violent, Simon has always known that some tactics must not be used too much.
However, when it was time to make a move, he did not hesitate at all.
At Simon's current level, many things can no longer be done on the basis of moral or legal norms, because opponents will not do it. If you limit yourself to a certain framework, you will only end up being eaten until there is nothing left.
Because of the scandal generated by the Rwandan genocide, it is difficult to ease the relationship between the Westeros system and the French government.
In this case, it is to see the move.
As an old capitalist power, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, and one of the world's top five large economies, France's comprehensive strength is beyond doubt.
However, it is not impossible to bring such a country into decline.
Combing through the memories of the past, there are too many flaws in France.
Moreover, because of the long-standing discord between the United States and France, the U.S. government can also become an aid to the Westeros system.
On the other hand, Simon, who is pessimistic at heart, believes that mankind will inevitably self-destruct in another world-class large-scale war, however, for a long time to come, the game between countries will be an economic game.
The current Westeros system is already a super plutocracy that surpasses most countries in the world, and it can even be said that it is a separate economy beyond the plutocratic level, not only that, compared to the countries that need to be considered too much, the Westeros system is completely controlled by Simon alone.
If necessary, the Westeros system could have waged an economic war, one far more destructive than Soros's attacks on other countries' currencies.
A knock on the door interrupted Simon's thoughts.
Girl A appeared at the door of the study and reminded, "Boss, lunch is ready, and Miss Graff has arrived." ”
Simon nodded, motioned for Allison to take Victoria Graph to the dining room, locked the items he had just flipped through into the safe, and left the study.
At the restaurant, Alison and Alia had already set up lunch.
Simon had just not explained it, and two servings were placed on the table, and the other was obviously prepared for Victoria Grave, who was standing obediently next to him.
Send Alison and the others out, and ask them to bring the door to the restaurant.
Simon sat down at the table and looked at the meek and slightly uneasy girl not far away.
Victoria Grave wore a white jacket and washed jeans, and looked like a harmless girl next door, but Simon didn't think the girl was as harmless as it seemed.
The phone call she had just received during her meeting with Celia was about Laura Graff being stabbed in the chest and taken to the hospital.
The assailant was standing across from Simon.
Moreover, there is not only lunch on the table, but also two thin daggers with classical styles that can be seen at a glance, both of which are only about ten centimeters long, and if you find the right place, killing people will not be a problem at all.
Not in a hurry to eat, playing with one of the daggers, Simon looked at the girl who could only stand there without his permission, and asked, "Why did you do this?"
Victoria Grave didn't dare to look at Simon, avoiding the man's gaze, but quickly said: "I, I want to give my mother a warning, I don't want her to do stupid things again, and even, maybe even kill me." ”
"Oh, you seem to be quite smart. ”
Simon raised his eyebrows slightly, then made a look, his voice was a little colder, and said to Victoria: "Come here." ”