Chapter 1: The Dark One

At the beginning of May, Italy is full of spring, and the banks of the Po River basin and the Tiber River basin are densely green, and the most beautiful season in Italy has arrived.

Contini quietly withdrew from the crowd of people on the third and outer floors, avoiding the eyes and ears of the reporters concerned, and then boarded the car waiting on the side with a happy face and drove away, looking like a complete "Union Fan".

Today is the day when the first co-branded flagship store was unveiled in Rome in accordance with the requirements of "United Speed", all co-branded image stores were named "United House" by Contini, which will be opened in 17 cities across the country in addition to Rome, and will open at a rate of one per month - Rome flagship store in May, Milan flagship store in June, and then Venice, Genoa, Naples, Florence, Turin and a series of cities.

The flagship store in Rome covers an area of more than 1,400 square meters, not only involving all the business categories currently operated by the United Group, but also placing the industrial planning of the United Group in the next three years in the exhibition hall, which is generous for people to visit and review, and specially made nearly 6 square three-dimensional exhibition models, identifying a variety of industrial layouts, and there is a series of industries in the name of the United on the planning map, in addition to the United Power, United Chemical, United Iron and Steel, United Shipbuilding announced by Contini in public, there are also United Real Estate, United Advertising, United Electric, United Film, and even United Machinery and United Electric - dubbed by the media as the 18 Apostles of the United Department.

However, a careful analysis of Contini's industrial layout basically has nothing to do with the light industry in which Italy has a traditional comparative advantage, and he entered either the media category or heavy industry, although household appliances and radios were called light industry in later generations, but in the 1920s they were all out-and-out heavy industries.

In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of the outside world and a consortium, Contini did not put more core industrial ideas such as military industry, automobiles, and exploration, which are all on his blueprint, but it can be done slowly and then said, or it can only be done without blowing, and what really needs to be blown is the media and innovative industries, such as the second product of United Motorcycle, a sidecar three-wheeled motorcycle aimed at the military - United Force S1 series has completed the drawing design and is expected to be launched to the market in 1924, which will become a trend leading the industry.

Against the backdrop of blue skies and white clouds, the logo of the Union Group, two hands clasped together, conveys strength and trust, and a new route is born that is completely different from traditional Italian fashion design. Italian industrial products usually give people the feeling of luxury and taste, but the United Group takes the main route of the middle class, even the luxury version does not see much jewelry, but exudes the modern atmosphere of industrial civilization, full of a sense of the times, science and technology and refinement. The ingenious opening, signing, pre-sale, and membership system further distinguish the "United House" from other stores.

However, no matter how good the industrial design and store design are, it is troublesome for consumers not to buy it, so Contini is very concerned about the opening of the "United House" flagship store, and now this coaxing atmosphere makes him very satisfied, in addition to the motorcycle exhibition area, other exhibition areas are also surrounded by many people pointing fingers, he thinks it is more sensational than when Apple crosses, if you hire a few more to set up a tent in front of the store to line up it would be more perfect, he plans to try it next time he opens in Milan City. In addition to business model innovation, other equipment innovations will also keep up, such as the installation of air conditioning units imported from the United States at the Naples "United House", which is scheduled to open in August.

As for the next step, the design and production of household air conditioners, refrigerators, fans and washing machines will be the main development direction of United Electric.

In order to maintain order, the guards of the Warrior Club of the United Group were loaded with live ammunition to maintain order at the scene, and the Roman police were also very cooperative, and Grandini dispatched more than 100 policemen to assist in dispersing the crowd, and 17 of the 20 standard combined motorcycles donated to the Roman police and painted in the color of the police logo appeared at the opening site and around the flagship store, and each police officer who used them was arrogant, as if to say: See, you have dreamed of it, and the combined motorcycle that you can't get by breaking your head has now become my car!

"Boss, do you want to return to the company?"

"Nope." Contini shook his head, "Go to the base, Gian is waiting for me." ”

Unlike other large conglomerates, the headquarters of the United Group is not in the center of Rome but in the suburbs of the aviation base, and the newspaper office of the "Youth Daily" in the city of Rome is the location of Contini's daily office - in less than half a year, the headquarters of the newspaper has moved three times, although they are all near the University of Rome, but the house is more and more magnificent, the area is larger and larger, only the center of gravity around the University of Rome has not changed, the reason is because many of the newspaper's right-hand men are still students of the University of Rome, and they do not have the privilege of Contini. As long as they submit a few papers, they don't have to go to class, and most of the time they have to juggle their own studies. Therefore, the "Youth Daily" newspaper is different from other newspapers in that it not only has a fairly large library, but also arranges study classrooms, and at the same time hires a group of service personnel to provide catering and transportation services, so that the members of the newspaper can balance work and study.

However, Contini's office is separated from the light and dark, and generally the work on the bright side is done in the newspaper office, and the dark line and economic and industrial work are mostly done in the Roman base, so as soon as he heard that he was going back to the base and mentioned Gian's name, Enzo guessed that he had a major task to be arranged.

"Boss, I just got the news that the Supreme Court has agreed to accept Matteotti's request for a retrial. During this process, we kept a close watch, and found at least five or six contacts with Supreme Court judges and other members of the legal profession with key members of the Socialist Party, in addition to Socialist MPs and Socialist Party cadres, although there was no photograph of Matteotti himself. In addition, the Socialist Party may have hired several relatively well-known lawyers...... "Just returned to the headquarters of the United Group, Ji'an, who had been waiting for a long time, delivered the news."

As a brave captain, commander, and decorated scout, Gian was once a fish in the army, but he was eventually removed from the army because of the end of the war and the fact that he offended some of the military figures in some ways. After quitting, he thought that he was going to the Club of Rome to teach others to shoot targets, although it was a little more bland, but it was better than doing nothing, although there were also private detective companies that invited him to come over, but he was not interested in this kind of pediatrics, but he didn't expect that after more than a month, Contini gave a new task - to form the "dark ones".

He didn't know what the dark ones were for, but when he heard the personnel and job requirements for the dark ones who were selected for the dark ones, his eyes lit up - they are all special personnel with a skill, including fighting, assassination, disguise, espionage and other skills, which means that the boss wants to form a new secret agency, and there are two deputies who are selected, one is drawn from the Roman police, which is considered to be a local snake who is familiar with all aspects, and the other is drawn from the Contini family, which is a manager who is proficient in the business world and high society.

Although Contini's opinions are vague, and the Dark Ones look like ordinary intelligence gathering and data analysis, Gian is well aware that if he only does this kind of work, his future achievements will be limited to this, and if he has higher pursuits, he will have to run this secret organization well.

Stalking the Socialist Party is the first battle of the dark ones!

Ps: Help recommend a historical author's book "Daming Werewolf Killing", it is said that the author is a very cute young lady, everyone is interested in moving to a glance......