Mr. Sorrin's banquet was held in a luxury hotel in the heart of the city. According to Yang Wei's introduction, I know that this hotel seems to have a part of the shares of Sorin, the ground floor of the hotel has been hollowed out, here is a three-dimensional underground parking lot, when Yang Wei and I got off, directly from the VIP channel into the elevator, before we came up, we have seen that the VIP parking space below has almost been parked luxury bridge car.

"Mr. Sorin has always had a lot of pomp." Yang smiled, and there was a hint of mockery in her tone: "Although the Angel of Hell is very powerful in Canada, after all, it has only been strong for a few decades, and it has only been more than ten years since it has been in the leading position of dominating the Canadian underworld......... and North America, especially those long-established traditional underworld families in the United States, are still a little bit behind. She smiled and whispered, as if she was a little dismissive of Thorin's nouveau riche temperament.

Along the way just now, Yang Wei had already introduced Mr. Solin to me about the banquet......

Half an hour ago...

This woman is indeed not simple! Suffice it to say, I've almost never met someone as thoughtful as she did!

On the way just now, Yang Wei casually threw her mobile phone to me, and a copy of information was stored in the mobile phone!

That's all the list of guests that Tholin invited to today's banquet, and the identity and background of each guest!

"Mr. Sorin has been moving closer to the mainstream in the past two years. Personally, I admire him for having such a big-picture vision and a long-term plan. After all, the traditional underworld activities have gradually become obsolete, especially in developed countries in Europe and the United States. Traditional pornography, gambling and drugs will eventually be eliminated, and if you continue to dwell on this aspect, you can only let your organization gradually be eliminated by the society! Moreover, the traditional underworld, whether it is pornography, gambling and drugs, is harmful to the society and the state...... You are on a certain small scale, making a small fuss, and the official will turn a blind eye. As long as you are willing to spend money to buy and pave the way. But these must be within certain limits! If you exceed the limit, no matter how rich and powerful you are, once your social harm reaches a jǐng threshold, then no matter how many officials you bribe and how many jǐng you visit, it will be useless. You can't buy the whole zhèngfǔ! Therefore, it is destined to the traditional pornography, gambling and drug activities. Never really grow! To develop, to grow, can only be a bleaching route! Moving closer to the official and social and economic mainstream is the right way. Yang Wei said this quickly.

I was starting to be a little surprised. Because most of the people in the underworld don't have this concept at all, and those who have this concept are like the eighth master, such as Mr. Sorin. are all top people in the underworld.

Yang Wei, a young girl, can have this kind of insight, and say it so casually and calmly, I am slightly surprised. But this woman's mind is clearly superior!

She then sighed, "It's just a pity that Mr. Thorin is walking too fast...... and then she thought for a moment before continuing to say this.........

"We Chinese have a saying, called: yù speed but not reach." Yang Wei said lightly: "The development process of those traditional big families in the United States has gone through the efforts of several generations and a relatively long time before slowly penetrating into the mainstream Duhui. At the same time, it also infiltrated into the upper jīng English class. Moreover, it is undeniable that there are some historical chances in the process. For example, during World War II, such as during the Great Depression. The post-war period of rapid development and so on and so forth...... But that's not the case in Canada. The Angels of Hell lack foundation, and the more desperate they are to show their way into mainstream society, the more they will cause some panic. Moreover, the situation in Canada is also very different from that of the US authorities.

For example, the process of legalizing gambling in the United States has led to the development of a large number of gambling syndicates. But there are also historical reasons for this. In the late eighties of the last century, the US authorities at all levels were in financial difficulties. The deficit was serious, but there was no way to levy new taxes, and under this opportunity, under the joint promotion of gambling interest groups and some high-level politicians, a gambling legalization activity was slowly made. As a result, gambling has been legalized to a certain extent in many states, and federal, state, and local governments have received large gambling taxes as a result! This is what I call a 'historical opportunity'. ”

When Yang Wei said this, he sighed slightly: "It's a pity, although Mr. Suo Mo is very far-sighted, he is a little anxious. He was too hasty. The mainstream circle is not so easy to enter, and those traditional families in the United States have worked hard for several generations to infiltrate. And Thorin's move was too much fanfare...... After all, you let those mainstream societies take one overnight. It is very difficult for 'drug dealers' and 'underworld tyrants' to become one of them. If he is a little smarter, he should not show that the carriage and horses operate in this way, but should focus on 'infiltration', and everything should be done slowly. Because any society is wary of the 'underworld'. How to get others to reduce their vigilance to a minimum is the problem. ”

I already had a little respect for this woman and blurted out, "What should I do then?" ”

When Yang Wei heard my question, she suddenly smiled, and she smiled a little strangely: "This question, every underworld boss wants to know the answer." Every underworld boss wants to be able to squeeze into high society, if this problem is so easy to solve, wouldn't I become a god? ”

However, she thought about it seriously and said slowly: "Actually......, if I were Thorin ......"

When he said this, a hint of jīng appeared in Yang Wei's eyes! She is such a delicate and beautiful girl, and she actually has a faint majestic momentum that looks down on everything!!

At this time, Yang Wei doesn't seem to be the calm, rational and gentle girl anymore, she seems to have suddenly become Mr. Sorin's commanding underworld hero-like tone!

“…… If I were Thorin, I wouldn't make things too obvious! Hmph, getting closer to the mainstream, it's not as simple as setting up a company today, donating some money to a charity fund tomorrow, and finding two tabloid reporters to write two gun articles the day after tomorrow! She said slowly in a calm tone: "I will make at least a ten-year plan!" First of all, I will look for one or two politicians with potential! Although it is cheesy to take the political line, it is an essential step in the development process of every big family! I'm going to fund some politicians in the middle of the stream to make long-term investments. If once one of them is on the big stage of politics in the future, it means that I have the right to speak in the upper class! The official policy is tilted, but it is the most effective! Then, I will spend at least ten years gradually getting rid of the shady business of the underworld and reorganizing the organization. Let the legitimate business dúlì be up, and then look for a suitable agent, who must be clean and highly educated. Such a person can look for a young successor from within his own family and train him from an early age. Finally, it is necessary to find a suitable industry to start with, or directly invest in the acquisition of a legal company with a certain scale, and the company must have a certain number of talents. Then start with business, and spend a generation to run the business to a certain scale. At that time, there should be someone among the politicians I invested in who could come to power, and if there were one or two partners in Congress, or other real power departments, it would make the business easier...... This is only the first generation, the second generation continues to repeat the same process, and then, if all goes well, in the third generation, it may make people forget about our family's former underworld background...... At that time, it was really integrated into the mainstream society! ”

After saying this, Yang Wei made a summary with some disdain: "It is unlikely that Solin will succeed like this." When he was young, he killed people, set fires, smuggled and sold drugs, and did everything...... I bet that in the database of the Canadian jǐng party, his case is full of a file rejection! Now, he himself wants to dissolve into the mainstream society, even if he spills more money, it will not have much effect, because in the eyes of people, he has been identified as a 'drug dealer'! Unless he is willing to patiently make a long-term plan, first train one or two suitable successors, and then start with the next generation of successors......"

But speaking of this, Yang Wei suddenly smiled: "Well, but then again, Mr. Suo Mo can't help it...... He only has one daughter himself, and this daughter is really too angry. If you can count on cultivating Her Royal Highness the princess into a suitable successor, I'm afraid there is no hope for Thorin in this life. It's no wonder that he is in such a hurry now, after all, with his age, he doesn't have many years to live. ”

When Yang Wei said these words, he was driving while talking so eloquently. These can't help but surprise me again with this woman!!

"You ......" I swallowed and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "If Thorin hears your words, he will be surprised!" After a pause, I added, "I'm surprised, too!" ”

"Strange, isn't it?" Yang Wei was suddenly a little embarrassed, and then she sighed faintly: "I think these are actually boring, aren't they...... Horizontal, that's not what I should have thought about in the first place. It's something that the head of the family should consider...... As for me, Yang Wei, I am just a member of the younger generation of the family, and these issues should be considered by the helmsman and successor of the family. And I'm ...... It's just a woman. ”

I could hear that she was biting the word "woman" hard.

Just when I thought of this, Yang Wei couldn't help but sigh softly, as if talking to herself: "It would be nice if I wasn't a woman......

When she said this, there was a deep regret in her eyes, and a little bit of unwillingness...... The smile on his face was also a little lonely......

I don't hesitate to believe it...... If Yang Wei is not a girl, she is definitely the one who can do great things!

She's got that kind of ability!

At this time, I said to the gods: "If you are not a woman, then many men will regret it." ”

After saying this, I immediately regretted it.

I just wanted to comfort her, but I didn't expect this casual remark to sound a little strange, and there seemed to be a few divergent meanings in the words......

Sure enough, Yang Wei's eyes seemed to be stunned, and then he glanced at me meaningfully, and his face seemed to be a little faintly red, and he muttered in a low voice: "Yes, yes?" Is that what you think......

Yang Wei's accidental head lowered, that kind of coquettishness with three points of shyness, such a beauty made me stunned, but then I quickly restrained the distractions in my heart, quickly shook my head, coughed, turned my head to look out the window, and said with a hidden smile: "Well, by the way, you show me this guest list on the phone......"

The confusion in Yang Wei's eyes was only a few seconds. This girl, who was extremely good at controlling her emotions, quickly regained her rational and calm appearance, and she instantly changed back to the attitude of the calm woman who was "exhausted", and said slowly: "Hmm." These are the guest lists that Thorin invited, and I've made some notes later, some of which may be helpful for us in a moment. ”

I took a look at it. Most of them are "celebrities", but this guest list is far from the real "mainstream". Most of the people invited were second- and third-rate people, far from reaching the "jīng English class". Looking at it, they are all the heads of some charitable foundations, the heads of a certain news media companies, some politicians who are not very proud, and some leaders of second- and third-rate opposition parties, as well as some officials who are not very prominent.

There are only two or three people who can barely be called "upper class".

"It's a pity. Thorin spends at least a few million dollars a year on these people, but the effect is so little. Yang smiled, "As far as I know." Thorin also invited some people from the Chamber of Commerce, but legitimate businessmen in the right industry, sanity, would not do business with the underworld. Everyone knows, doing business with the underworld. The danger is too great, and if you don't get it right, you will burn yourself by fire. That's why Thorin has made a lot of effort in the past two years, and has spilled a lot of money out. The reason why the effect is not significant enough. Pity...... If he had one or two good successors, he would be in a much better position. But now, I could even clearly feel that old Thorin was too impatient, and he seemed to know that he was getting old and that God was running out of time for him. He seems to want to get it all done before he dies...... But this, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is impossible! ”

Speaking of these topics, Yang Wei returned to her calm appearance, and her tone was without any emotion: "Solin's biggest problem. Not from the outside, but from the inside! He tried to make the angels of hell a family type. But his time was too short. Moreover, he encountered problems that are inevitable in the development of any family...... That is, there is a lack of talent. The organization of the family is maintained by blood ties, but Thorin has only one daughter. His choice was to either give up the family inheritance model, but when Thorin unified his forces, he was very strong-willed, and anyone who disobeyed him was purged by him. Now the Angels of Hell are almost all his own. Unless he re-gives away the power in his hands and divides it up with other powerful figures in the organization, the result will be that his hard-won unity will fall into a state of disintegration. Of course, if he has a suitable successor, with Thorin's many years of prestige and his power, as long as the power can be smoothly transferred, then the Hell Angels will become a typical family organization from generation to generation. There will be no 'Angels of Hell' in the future, only the 'Thorin Family'! But now...... He only has one daughter, and he is such a ridiculous chick as Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

I understand that expecting Her Royal Highness the Princess to be a capable successor is more likely than expecting a gorilla to become president of the United States.

I finally understood the reason why Yang Wei always had a sour taste in her words when she mentioned "woman" and Her Royal Highness the princess!

Actually, Yang Wei may be envious of the princess!

Yang Wei definitely has the talent to become the helmsman of the family, and she definitely has that ability! But she doesn't seem to be in her own family. No, her fatal flaw is: she is a woman!

The princess is also a woman, but she has a chance to be a hundred times stronger than Yang Wei...... In Sorin's case, the princess is his only candidate for succession!!

However, the princess does not have Yang Wei's talent.

Poor thing...... One is talented, but he has not shown it. The other one, the opportunity is almost at hand, but he doesn't have that ability.

Perhaps, if Yang Wei and the princess can be replaced, Yang Wei will definitely be able to get the stage to give full play to herself!

I was thinking nonsense in my head, but Yang Wei continued to talk eloquently: ......... In fact, any family that is maintained by blood will encounter the problem of insufficient blood supply of internal blood in the process of development. And a healthy and well-developed family, once the internal blood supply is insufficient, and there are not enough talents within the family to continue to develop, there is a mature solution. ”

"What?"

"Absorption." Yang Wei said decisively: "Through marriage, marriage, and all other means, absorb talents from the outside world, and then absorb those talents into your own family." ”

"A family development model that is on a mature and healthy track should be a combination of internal and external. On the one hand, the family cultivates its own descendants within the family, and countless outstanding internal young talents will emerge in each generation, which is internal "self-hematopoiesis", and on the other hand, it needs to constantly absorb new blood from the outside! In this way, the continuous exchange of blood inside and outside the generation can ensure the long-term development of the family. Yang smiled and said, "Now, it is best for Solin to find a good in-law for his daughter, and then find a way to hope that his son-in-law can do something." This is the absorption of new blood from the outside. But the surname Thorin is unlikely to be passed on. ”

Speaking of this, she glanced at me meaningfully: "Her Royal Highness the princess has a very good impression of you, and it seems that she likes you very much...... Maybe you might have a chance to become the son-in-law of the Thorin family! In the future, he may be at the helm of this family! ”

I couldn't help but smile wryly: "She? Princess? Forget it! I don't think a man with a slightly normal brain would choose to marry this kind of woman as his wife! Of course, it is not excluded that there are some little white faces who are greedy for wealth and are willing to marry this kind of woman...... But I, Chen Yang, am not that kind of person! ”

Yang pursed his lips and smiled: "Well, but the kind of little white face who is corrupt and rich and willing to marry a princess is not the person that Tholin needs." What Sorin needs is real talent. But a really smart man wouldn't marry a princess...... Woman's. ”

I shook my head.

I know it in my heart, princess? Forget it!

Susan, the woman, being called a "princess" is simply an insult to the word. To put it mildly, how can she have a little noble appearance all over her body? It's just that disgusting yín mess......

"Don't you think it's strange?" Yang Wei finally revealed his hole cards: "You came to Toronto yesterday, well, from yesterday to today, Thorin didn't see you, and as soon as you got off the plane, you were picked up by the princess." You came with the eighth master...... Can the princess take you without Thorin's acquiescence? And for a day and a night, Thorin didn't even look for you, not even see you. According to common sense, you are a guest, how can there be a guest who comes, but the host does not show up for a day and a night? Even if Thorin doesn't see you, why doesn't that Eighth Master Fang contact you? Just let you go away from him? How is all this, without the meaning of Thorin himself? ”

I opened my mouth......

Indeed, from yesterday to today, the eighth master simply threw me aside and left me alone...... Could that be what Mr. Thorin meant?

Looking at me as if I had swallowed bitter gall, Yang Wei said leisurely: "Any family, when the internal hematopoiesis is insufficient and it needs to absorb new blood externally, there is usually a routine...... It's that the new members who are absorbed in must not have a deep background. If the other party is the successor of another major power, they are usually not allowed to intermarry...... Because they are worried that their family will wither internally, and then intermarry with powerful forces outside, then there will be a danger of being annexed! Therefore, it is often the case that internal talent withers and new blood needs to be sought externally...... It's better to look for the kind of person who is talented, but has no background...... In this way, on the one hand, it can ensure the loyalty of such new members to the family after entering the family, and on the other hand, it is also easy to control. ”

She glanced at me, and although she didn't say anything, the meaning of that look seemed to say: Oh, aren't you a very suitable "new blood"?

My face turned white as soon as I sè!

No wonder! No wonder I was picked up by Thorin as soon as I got off the plane! No wonder Thorin would let me be left to her daughter for a day and a night, while he himself ignored it!!