Chapter Twenty-Six: New Missions and New Roles
"It's really a thief, I don't understand how this group of guys are so interested in TV and cassette radio, and I can't say that it is that there are often commercials for watermelon and fried chicken on TV? Every time there is a street riot, they are always the first to rob the appliance store, and the damn TV is so heavy, but they can run with the speed of a touchdown after holding it...... You don't have to ask about the TV he 'consulted' you, it must have come from the wrong way, and it can't be sold at a high price, so it's obviously not a Japanese product. FXXK are really eyeless, and they don't know how to steal good things! Let's go, let's go inside. ”
"I wonder, what do you mean by traditional business?"
"Well, open a casino, collect protection money, and organize girls...... Well," Ferry gave a knowing look, "these are the traditional trades of the major families. It's all gray or black industry, but it doesn't make too much money, at best it's hard money."
Edward sneered, "You're too modest......"
Now the two have a good relationship, Fetcher is a solid-eyed man, and after the Dami case, he really regards Edward as a friend of life and death, and he can be said to have nothing to talk about.
And love someone, whenever I always think at this time, the personalities of these two brothers are really one day and one place, if there is a conflict one day, who should I help?
"It's true. Opening an underground casino is the most convenient way to buy and sell money, and this is the case all over the world, but this is Millican, the place where gun crime is rampant around the world, and it was originally only necessary to pay the price of injury to the casino, but now it is considered to be a game. Moreover, since it is an underground casino, it is definitely necessary to pay money to the characters on the ground, whose appetite is much greater than that of Sicilian officials. More than half of the table fees we earned were fed to the top. There is really not much left after deducting all kinds of service fees, free drinks and drinks, plus pensions for fallen 'soldiers'. ”
"As for the 'protection fee', this thing is actually a kind of service, yes, it doesn't look good when we collect money, but this is a serious business, as long as the merchant who pays the money will never have trouble coming to the door, even if it is robbed by the, we will help them make up for the loss."
"As for organizing the girls, the fare, the viewing fee, and the part handed in are all deducted, and then the girls take the lion's ......."
Edward felt that Ferichet was about to cry, "This is too miserable...... Isn't there a 'traditional business' where the money comes quickly? ”
"Yes, but we Italians have the wisdom of the Italians, and those who come quickly usually die quickly, because this means that this is an excess risk, for example, in the nineteenth century, our MAFIA's power was not large, and it was rarely in the limelight, until the era of 'machine gun Capone', that the Italians were officially famous, but you also know the fate of this guy......" When Féricher said this, he changed his arrogant spirit in the past, and it actually seemed a little vicissitudes, with his appearance of a very ancient Roman warrior, It is estimated that a large number of girls can be fascinated.
"At that time, the most famous ones were the FXXK German gangsters and the FXXK you Jewish gangs, I'm not scolding your people!" Fetcher explained
"I understand that without this F-word, you're no different from a dumb person. With this word, you are the brightest star on the talk show stage! ”
"The main business of these two groups of people is to rob banks, rob bank cash trucks, and rob postal trains, for which Millican has also specially set up a unique postal armed police in the world, and by the way, there is also a special postal special force." "But after all these years, only we are still alive......"
"Uh......" Edward didn't know what to do, and listened to Ferric, the government didn't give them the medal of exemplary citizenship, and they were a little sorry for the Italian gangsters who went after them.
"Don't laugh, the old thing once said that why these 'traditional industries' we operate can be tolerated by the government is because in fact we are maintaining order, and there are some things that the government is inconvenient to come forward directly, or the cost of coming forward is too high, so let the professionals do it, anyway, as long as it doesn't make a big fuss, the government can still collect money and FXXK eats us to death, isn't this model very good?"
This time it was Edward's turn to cry, and silently complained, "You are the grassroots builders of capitalism, and the grass you eat squeezes out dollars!" ”
"Because FFXK is so bitter, over the years, it has also begun to march into industry, monopolizing certain industries by controlling unions, which is much faster to be honest. ”
"So, what about white powder?" Edward gestured for an injection.
"No, no, no, this is absolutely not allowed, FXXK is absolutely not good, FXXK is absolutely not allowed." Féricet's expression was extremely serious, "We don't do it, neither do the five major families, Italians are all devout believers, and they respect traditions, this kind of thing that makes people go to hell will never be touched." Besides, it's similar to robbing a bank, and it will cause unexpected trouble. Even if the FBI goes to arrest the leaders of the five major families, that is, to shoot a few agents, they will go. And you should know how to clean up the Jewish and German gangs back then, and you can't wait to drive the tank up! ”
"Clams?" Edward felt that his forehead was beating wildly, his face was crawling with black lines, and a huge bead of sweat hung from his ear, and his heart said, God didn't let you open a casino as a chicken head.
The key is to be timid, right?
Timid and afraid to say it openly, he could only push it on God's head, but Fetcher was quite honest and handed over everything in a few words.
"In short, the underworld is actually the maintainer of order, of course we are not good people, but bad order is better than no order. We set the rules, and everyone follows them, so that it will naturally be peaceful, and white powder is the root of all evil, and will destroy all the rules! When drug addiction comes up, people are no longer human. The committee has held a special meeting to discuss this issue, and no one else can control it, at least MAIFA will never participate in this transaction, and no matter how much money there is, it will not touch. If that guy is disobedient and gets his hands dirty, just wait for the bosses to 'sanction' it personally. ”
Looking at the big red stick of Shuanghua talking eloquently, Edward inexplicably came up with a sentence in his heart, "Beat Hongxing, Sizai Dongxing".
"Then if someone in the family takes the risk of drug trafficking, what will be the consequences?" Edward was a little curious.
“? His body would sink to the bottom of the Hudson River. ”
"This, this ......" Although he hates drug dealers, he is also a little unaccustomed to the gangsters' careless disregard for human life.
Fetcher was very calm, "Then what do you say?" Call the police? ”
"Uh......" Edward didn't know what to say, after all, they were serious mafia, and it was a bit unreasonable to let the police clean up the portal.
In the previous life, it was said that the Yamaguchi Group of the Fuqing Gang called the police, and this kind of thing will only appear in strange places like Dongying.
"It's not that I haven't reported it before, but the police at FXXXK want to take the opportunity to plant ......"
"Oh...... All right...... I understand you. "It seems that the devil's police are more reliable than Millican.
"By the way, after the last meeting, old Nizo had a very good impression of you, praised you for being a very good young man, let me tell you, go and see him more if you have nothing to do, his door is open for you at any time."
"And what about your proposal?" Edward asked
"Well, it doesn't hurt for you to sit and sit once in a while, the old thing has been whitewashed, and he has thrown a lot of money at charity over the years, and he has a good relationship with the leaders of the civil rights movement, and I heard that Dr. King is coming to New York this time, and the old thing will participate in his public speech."
"Wow, the wisdom of the old man is unfathomable."
"It's an old fox, but he says you're a little fox!"
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In the end, however, Nizo Sr. did not wait for a formal invitation from Pastor Martin Luther King Jr.
A few days later, on April 4, 1968, the latter was shot and killed by repeat offender James Earl Ray on the second floor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
For a while, the public opinion of the whole rice was in an uproar!
Even the most senior racist in the South, although secretly celebrating with the crown, does not dare to gloat on the surface, and at best maintains a "glorious silence".
The black side is completely different, the black people of Quanmi were enraged by this shameless murder, so they took to the streets, demonstrations and protests continued, and the police from the beginning of inaction to the later super-force suppression, and let the form deteriorate sharply, all kinds of smashing and looting and other traditional black arts were staged repeatedly.
All the media was at full speed, broadcasting the news 24 hours a day, and the news about the assassination was all over the place, and Edward was not very interested in it, because he had more things to do.
He became a campaign aide for New Haven Attorney General George Duffy in his campaign for Connectigo House of Representatives.
This is an election year, and not only the president will be elected, but one-third of the seats in the Senate and 435 seats in the House of Representatives will be re-elected.
In fact, in the United States, parliamentarians are the controllers of the country, and to some extent they have more power than the president: the president serves a four-year term and can be re-elected for a maximum of one term; And the term of office of a senator is six years, as long as you have the ability, you can be unlimited connection, in contrast, the representative is more pitiful, can also be unlimited connection, but the term of office is only two years.
The Senate and the House of Representatives, collectively known as the Congress, are the national legislature, and the power to promote legislation is completely in the hands of the senators (except for a few areas such as tax law and education, which can be initiated by the House of Representatives).
For the United States, which has always regarded itself as the new Roman Empire, the Senator is the real Senate, and the status is extremely respectful, and the Senate complex is located on the north side of the Capitol Villa, but it is well versed in the architectural layout style of the northern and southern lowly of the Chinese Imperial City, well, the House of Representatives building is in the south.
So the House of Representatives is much weaker than the Senators, after all, there are many people, 435:100, and the term is shorter by 2:6, but in the end, the election of the House of Representatives still makes politicians break their heads.
In addition, usually the Senate is called the House of Lords, and the House of Representatives is naturally the House of Commons.