In the study, Russell sat in a leather swivel chair pinching a cigar, his face solemn and a little preoccupied.

Seeing that the godfather was so silent, Felisto sat quietly on the sofa and watched intently.

When Russell finished saying 'making friends', several thoughts popped up in his head, one of which was that Vito Corleone would not simply make friends with him, let alone make pure friendships......

There are four meanings in this.

First, Vito made his position clear, welcoming Russell to New York for business and wanting to cooperate and support.

The second is to convey a sense of reproach, as if to say: I am the host, why don't you come to New York to greet me?

The third is to test Russell's sincerity, and all the families in New York are suspicious of his purpose here, and this move happens to explain it.

Fourth, Vito is conveying a message to Russell, New York does not want to show such harmony, hidden turbulence, if you want to develop steadily, you can only choose a strong alliance, I am the head of the snake, you are the dragon crossing the river, you help me 'cross the catastrophe', I will help you take root.

At present, Russell does not see 'malice' in Vito's actions, but Russell cannot blindly trust, let alone force a lever in a calm situation.

"Reject him, teach him a lesson! Felisto, go and tell Fiorello that if he can't come up with two clean plots of land, let him abdicate with a stench! ”

Felisto stood up and answered, "Yes, Godfather. ”

"Did you get your identity and gun license?"

"Yes, we got a permanent residence permit through formal channels, registered a private detective agency in Midtown Manhattan, and entrusted the owner of the shooting club to get a gun license."

Russell held his head high and said, "Is there any news from Solaso?" ”

"No, at the moment, he doesn't seem to have any contact with the underground families in New York, maybe by phone, and our intelligence hasn't penetrated into the five families."

"And the news from Sicily said that the Turao was still transporting the opium grass by sea across Italy to the island, and then to New York by sea...... However, the people I sent to the port, did not get any information about the smuggling. ”

Russell smiled: "Of course they won't find out, they have insiders covering." ”

Felisto understood, "Are the regular guests of New York already so inhuman?" ”

"Morality is the shackles of human nature, and interests are the key to unlocking human nature!"

Once there is a quantitative change in interests, then there will be a qualitative change in people, which is a very simple philosophical problem.

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Fiorello is a short man of only 155, nicknamed 'Little Jieren', his ability is indeed very good, otherwise he would not have won the support of the public and regular friends, let him sit in the position of mayor of New York, or serve two consecutive terms.

When he looks at problems, he will not only look at the indications, nor will he investigate the causes, but directly solve the problems with the results, and is a standard doer.

Felisto drove alone, holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and knocked on the door.

Fiorello put down his coffee cup and opened the door.

"Mr. LaGuardia, I've come to visit your wife."

“… It's been three years since she died. ”

"Of course, I'm well aware. Please, can I go in? This bouquet of flowers is not cheap. ”

Fiorello frowned, and with a slight sluggishness out of the way, Felisto stepped inside.

Then he glanced around the parlor and found a picture of Fiorelllo's wife, and walked over to put the flowers in front of him.

Fiorello stood behind him and stared at him silently, without the majesty of a proper guest.

"Monsieur LaGuardia, I am an Italian businessman, you know that very well. So, I don't want to mess around with the Italian-American mafia. ”

Fiorello picked up his coffee and moistened his throat and said, "Maybe you should know that if there is not some gray background in New York, then your business will end before it starts." ”

"Gray background? You see the background behind me is black, white? ”

Fiorello looked up and saw him sitting on the couch, behind which was a huge window with endless darkness.

“…… You can only choose the two plots of land I give you. ”

Felisto got up and smiled, "Mr. LaGuardia, I have a lot of respect for you, but you are playing fools on me. Want to trick an orthodox businessman like me into complicit with your so-called grey background? Have you ever thought that if you destroy us, you won't be better! ”

Fiorello frowned: "What do you mean?" ”

"Don't play dumb, you know what I'm talking about. I repeat, I want two clean plots of land to build a factory, and we can solve the problem of 2,000 people, or even more! And you'll resign when your reputation grows, so that all New Yorkers will always remember your kindness. ”

Without waiting for Fiorello to reply, Felisto stepped out of the house.

He watched Felisto's departing figure, slowly disappearing into the darkness, and his heart was cold.

Fiorello certainly knew whose subordinates he was and who he was working for.

He turned to look at the bouquet in front of his wife's photo, and in annoyance he raised his hand and tapped his forehead.

Then he walked over to his desk and picked up the phone.

"Mr. Mayor."

"Vito...... What you asked me to do was rejected. Just now Russell Corleone's subordinate Felisto came to my house, presented a bouquet of flowers to my deceased wife, and told me that they didn't want to be in the same league as the gray background of New York, but only two clean plots......"

When Vito Corleone heard this, his heart thumped, and his abacus was shattered.

“…… You can do what he wants, and it will give you more good name. ”

End the call.

Vito Corleone is wearing a suit with a red square scarf in his breast pocket, and a two-color cat in his arms is enjoying his petting.

As soon as he put down the phone, his face froze.

A few years ago, Vito Corleone had heard of Russell, saying that he was self-made in Sicily, had a close relationship with the Italian government, and after just a few years of development, his net worth exceeded hundreds of millions of dollars, and the whole of Sicily was under his control.

"I do have some ...... minds"

Vito has worked hard in New York for more than 40 years, and the Corleone family is also a well-known family in New York, but there are some issues that cannot be put on the table after all.

Why?

Although the Corleone family is the nation's largest importer of Italian olive oil, it owns several real estate and construction companies. However, during the Prohibition period, the family made huge profits by selling a large amount of moonshine, and took control of several casinos in Manhattan, setting up horse gambling and private lottery tickets...... Pumping water from it.

This means that the Corleone family, led by Vito, has always been in the gray area and has never stepped into the light.

Russell Corleone, on the other hand, although he was famous and prestigious in Sicily, identified himself as an Italian businessman in New York, and did not have any gray industry at all.

This rejuvenation gave Vito Corleone some hope, because he knew that the gray industry, although profitable, was not legal......

That's why Vito Corleone suggested that after Fiorello called, he sold the land in the hands of the Corleone family to Russell, so that the two sides could get in touch and maybe sit down and talk.

But Russell refused.

Vito put the cat on the table, looked up at his godson, Tom Hagen, and said, "Tom, fill in the name of the invitation to Connie's wedding." ”

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On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was successfully tested in the Alamogordo Desert.

This marks the beginning of the era of nuclear weapons in the world today.

The development behind it is very funny, and the atomic splitting experiment in the field of physics has been successful in Germany for 39 years.

On the eve of World War II, scientists who emigrated to the United States in order to escape German persecution were very worried that Germany would build the atomic bomb first, so they recommended the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein to write to US President Roosevelt, suggesting that the use of nuclear fission process should be strengthened to make super bombs.

Later, after the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States accelerated the process of research and development, and began to implement the 'Manhattan Project' plan in 42 years, with the US Army engineering unit taking full responsibility for the development, with a planned investment of $2.5 billion and the mobilization of more than 100,000 scientific and technological personnel and workers......

If Germany had not surrendered, then all three atomic bombs produced in the same batch would have fallen on the German army.

And now it's cheaper, a good devil who lives a small life.

Only 20 days after the successful test, that is, on August 6, 1945, the US Air Force dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, destroying a city of 42 square kilometers, destroying more than 70% of houses and killing 140,000 people!

On the morning of the 9th, the second fell in the harbor city of Nagasaki, a city of 270,000 people, and a huge mushroom cloud rose immediately, destroying 140,000 buildings and killing more than 70,000 people.

Six days later, the Emperor issued an edict of surrender to the world.

At this point, the war was over, and the era of peace had arrived.

During this period, New York City Mayor Fiorello planned two light industrial plots on the border between East Queens and Nassau.

The goal is to give New Yorkers close to the border a sense of belonging, to make them feel grateful, and to show that New York has not forgotten them.

Look, we've built two factories for you on the border, and then your jobs are in place, and the area is going to be developed.

After Felisto and Russell talked about the location, he asked Felistto to get their hands on the two plots of land at a very good price.

In the United States, land is privately owned, and in theory it can be passed down for a lifetime, but it is subject to various taxes......

The two plots of land are less than 300 meters apart, and in the middle is a river that leads to the sea.

From this, it can be seen that Mr. Mayor is very good at being a man, and he has taken into account that the factory needs to discharge sewage, so he has found a very good land and has been very careful.

Felisto found five construction firms in New York, including one controlled by the Vito Corleone family, to build factories and office buildings.

Two plots of land were used to build a garment factory and a shoe factory.

Russell was not idle, he first contacted Ancos, who was in charge of import and export trade, and asked him to find skilled craftsmen who could make shoes and clothes in various European countries, and give these craftsmen safe asylum and the right to immigrate to the United States.

It's so appealing to craftsmen, and who wouldn't want to go to the United States, where they wouldn't?

Encos then found two factories that made shoes and clothing, packed all the equipment in them, and shipped them to New York, USA.

When the factory and office building were completed, the equipment and craftsmen were in place.

It was September 2, 1945, and the Japanese side signed an unconditional surrender.

Russell also signed the factory's recruitment documents and submitted them to the trade union.

After signing the paperwork, Felisto said: "Godfather, the people of the Buchzio family have been standing guard at the door, and they will not leave no matter how they drive them away. ”

In recent days, Felix Buccchio did not know what kind of trick he had smoked, and stood at the gate of Russell's manor for five days in a row, and Felisto's subordinates threw him into the sea, and he got up and continued to stand guard without saying a word, and he did not pay attention to anyone when he accosted him, and his angry subordinates beat him again.

Russell certainly knew why he was here, because the patriarch of the Buchzio family was on the phone with Russell, and he wanted Russell to take care of this waste son, but he refused outright.

Are you kidding? Letting the people of the Buchchio family join Russell Corleone is not telling the other families that Russell is going to enter the gray industry, and you all have to be careful.

Whether Felix is a lawyer or a vagrant, his surname is Buchchio, and he is destined from birth.

"Let him in."

"Okay."

Felisto walked to the door, looked at Felix, who was stinking and disheveled, and said, "The Godfather wants to see you." ”

Felix's lowered head was raised, his eyes were blank to look at him, and his mouth was open: "Thank you." ”

Just as Felisto was about to turn around, a brand new car drove in the distance.

The brothers at the door immediately stood on guard, and kicked their hands under their armpits, ready to do it at any time.

When the driver of the car saw this, he poked his head out and shouted, "My name is Tom Hagen, the lawyer of the Corleone family!" Vito Corleone's lawyer! Came to Mr. Russell Corleone. ”

Felisto frowned, and motioned for his subordinates to go down to the doorman's phone booth to inform the godfather.

Russell received the message and asked them to come in.

Tom shook hands with Felisto after getting out of the car, and both of them knew each other a little, after all, if they didn't know each other, they were walking with death.

The two walked in front, and Felix walked behind.

Tom asked nonchalantly, "Isn't this from the Buchchio family?" How to be here. ”

"Who knows." Felisto replied.

"He looks like he's in trouble."

"Who knows."

"I heard you built a factory in New York?"

"Who...... Yes. ”

“……”

The three of them came to the door of the study, and Felisto knocked on the door, "The Godfather, Tom Hagen and Felix Buchchio are here." ”

"Come in."

When Tom heard Felistto call Russell's godfather, his eyebrows furrowed, and it felt like he was calling his own father, and he had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

At the same time, he also knows very well that those who can be worthy of the title of 'godfather' must be respected, admired, and loved, just like his adoptive father Vito.

And the location of Russell's godfather is Sicily, the mother land of all mafias in the world.

Tom walked into the study, and when he saw the man sitting at the desk, his face pale, and his heart was as shocked as the waves crashing against the reef, and the wind swept through the dark clouds, and the flames burned the forest......