Peninsula Estate.

In the backyard, Victorio was rolling on the track on a small tricycle made by Russell.

Russell and Marlena sat on wooden chairs, hands on the rocker and coaxing Kuchi and Mantha lying inside.

Seeing Victoria wrestling, the two did not move, but looked at each other and laughed.

"Daddy, Mommy! I fell. Vittorio shouted as he fell to the ground.

Marlena covered her mouth and smiled, and replied, "Get up if you fall, hurry up!" Don't let your younger siblings laugh at you. ”

"They're not laughing, it's just you and Dad laughing."

Marlena made a straight face: "My dad and I are joking, it has nothing to do with you, get up quickly, the ground is cold." ”

"Okay."

Since finishing off Bassini and the others at the docks that night, Russell has been idle and spends his days playing with Marlena and the children. It belongs to the child during the day, and it is Marlena's at night.

Russell was called by many people, including Mayor Dwyer and governors and senators.

However, the topic of conversation is not nutritious, it is nothing more than words of thanks. Russell was tired of hearing this, but both Dwyer and the governor proposed to give the 'Kachimansa' shoe and clothing company a tax deduction and to expand the factory.

Russell would not have expanded during such a period, which meant that New York would be a base for him and his family.

Moreover, more than a month after the mafia started the war, that is, on January 27, 800,000 steelworkers in the United States went on strike!

The cause of the incident was the end of the war......

In wartime, a large number of supplies are needed on the front line, and coffins are needed for soldiers who die in battle, so the wages of workers in all walks of life have increased.

But after the end of the war, how can it be promised that coffin workers first cut their wages, then tentatively laid off their workers, and changed them to billable income?

Therefore, the coffin workers went on strike, causing the corpses or ashes that were being transported back to be lost from the coffins for burial.

Then the taxi drivers also went on strike, because in the past, passengers tipped little, but now there are fewer or no tips, and when I asked, I learned that all walks of life have cut wages.

The driver saw that this was not good, and his parents had no money for food and clothing, so could they have good fruit to eat?

Plumbers, telephone workers, packers, and more......

In the end, the steel industry, the leader of heavy industry in the United States, saw that the situation was not good, and also threw off its arms and joined the strike.

If you don't join, you can't do it, you have to fight for your own interests.

Sure enough, the million-worker strike alarmed Washington, and Truman hurried to appease and introduce legislation on housing, employment, civil rights, and more.

On 10 February 1946, he signed the Employment Act, which stated that the Federal Government must be responsible for coordinating and utilizing all its plans, policies, powers and resources to provide employment opportunities for those seeking work.

In layman's terms, it is strictly forbidden to arbitrarily reduce workers' wages to ensure the interests of workers...... Truman did just that, amending 12 of the Fair Labor Standards Act and raising the minimum wage for workers from 40 cents an hour in 1945 to 75 cents in 1950.

And now the workers have only been back to work for less than half a month, and it is the time for the unemployed to look for work.

Russell was too lazy to add to Dwyer's performance, and it didn't do him much good.

Besides, the sales of clothing, shoes and hats of the Kachi Mantha brand have been rising in an orderly manner, and clothing is not food, it is a consumable, and it is difficult to sell it when it expires.

Now the output of the two factories is enough to supply the sales of the whole of the United States.

However, Russell had the idea of making a fashion mecca, not to Paris, France, but to Hollywood, California.

Find a group of good-looking girls to walk a show, or run a magazine about fashion, and when the time comes, combine the major studios of Hollywood, dig out the ratings of newcomer stars, and unite the film union to make a benchmark!

These ideas will be slowly realized in the near future, because although the 'Kachimansa' brand has been launched in the United States, men's formal wear and women's formal wear do not sell well, and the best sales are nightdresses and stockings designed by Marlena......

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Russell didn't want to make 'Kachimansa' Victoria's Secret, so the brand has limitations, and if you want to do it, you can do all kinds of categories.

But before that, Russell had to move his family to California, which was close to Las Vegas and less than an hour's flight away.

The last time Oriyatu and Ancos came here, in addition to buying land to build a hotel, they also negotiated aviation cooperation with the local Zhengfu airport.

Sicily Airlines is officially stationed at California airports and Las Vegas, and currently has five passenger aircraft in the United States, with a branch in Nevada, because of the generous benefits that can reduce many taxes.

Any regular business in the United States is subject to taxes, and failure to pay taxes is illegal, and the federal government has the right to destroy them, and the recalcitrant will die from the shells of the army.

Individuals cannot confront the federal government, even if they have the authority of the president. Unless you master the military supply chain of the federal government.

But the military industry has long been controlled by the Rockefeller family, the Morgan family, the Mellon family, etc., and they also know that this thing is fate, and if it loses its life, it will be gone.

Russell, on the other hand, dared to confront the Union if he dared to hold the handle of Hoover and Truman.

It's just that the federal guests are not stupid, and they don't want to provoke him easily, he has been in New York for less than a year, and the entire New York State has to give him some thin noodles.

Don't give? Then you step down, and I'll get the machine running like that.

Dwyer visited Dwyer twice and three times, wanting to ask Russell to help solve the problem of unemployment, but he directly rejected Dwyer, clearly telling him not to kick his nose in the face.

During this time, Russell and Vito talked on the phone twice, only chatting about feelings, not about business.

Both of them understand that business should be done slowly, and opportunities should be met slowly.

Now, an opportunity is quietly coming, and Russell knows that Vito will definitely take it, but Vito is a little late in the layout, allowing Russell to seize the opportunity.

That is, the regularization of Las Vegas casinos, and the local economy must be driven, and only by creating a 'casino' signboard can there be a chance to turn over.

Otherwise, it is a barren land, who will build a city there and develop? Isn't that a cannon in the head!

Vito's son Mike had a good time in Sicily, and he and Vito would talk about the changes in Sicily every time they communicated, and he knew that Vito was happy to listen to such words, because Sicily was Vito's hometown, and who wouldn't want to see his hometown get better.

Sicily has indeed changed a lot, with every coastal road being built wide, nearby villages organizing weekly debris to clean up the beaches, and environmental protection associations have been formed.

The most prosperous cities are Palermo and Catania, Palermo is the capital of the region and is bound to develop rapidly, and the Chris government has produced many people from the hand, such as the director of the General Department of Construction and Transport, a former special engineer of the trade union, and the executive president of the Mechanics Association.

And Catania is in charge of Harvey and Hagen, and the two work well together......

This year, the blood oranges and grapes produced in Sicily are not only supplied to the winery as raw materials, but also exported to various parts of Europe, ensuring the income of local residents.

The Sicilian populace is full of praise for Corleone, because it was the first year after the end of the war, known as 'Year Zero'. The lives of the people were greatly improved, and Corleone should be grateful, without whom the people of Sicily would have been even more miserable than the people of the Apennines.

See what kind of life the people of the Apennine Peninsula live? People begged in rags, were beaten and did not dare to speak, countless people were killed for stealing food, and the disaster of hunger made people cry and complain......

At this time, the conservatives appeared, first stirring up the hearts of the people, and let out the words that as long as the king was put down, their lives would be better.

Then, on June 2, Italy held elections for the Constituent Assembly, and at the same time held a referendum, officially abolishing the kingdom and establishing the Italian Republic.

This day is also designated as a national day in Italy.

The vote went well, with all the adults in Sicily voting in favor and 70 percent in the north.

The kingdom was abolished, the king officially stepped down, and Vittorio Emanuele III and his son went into exile......

Vitini complied with the rules, and when his companion Enrico became president, he imposed self-governance on Sicily, and granted the right to exploit natural minerals and oil fields, but to pay part of the profits and land use taxes to mainland Italy...... and a series of taxes.

That's the price of legal mining, it's the same everywhere.

Mike witnessed all this in Sicily, found the girl of his heart, and married in the presence of her parents.

Vito quipped, "If Mike hadn't been surnamed Corleone, with his broken Italian, he wouldn't have been able to get a Sicilian girl to marry him." ”

At the same time, Vito also invited Russell to meet at the Garden Villa when Mike returned to New York with his wife.

But Russell may not be able to attend the appointment because he is moving his family to California.

Vito was full of regret when he learned about it, so he had to give up.

On this day, dinner ends.

Marlena made black tea for Russell with her own hands, and the two sat on the sofa and hugged each other sweetly, so that Victoria, who was passing by, covered his eyes shyly.

"Tonight, my dear, will be our last night here."

Russell put his arm around her shoulders and looked down at her.

"Do you want to impress?"

"Yes!"

Russell raised his hand and slapped her round, laughing, "You can put on a queen's costume and wait for me in bed like Hedy Lamarr did." ”

Marlena rolled her eyes and said, "I knew you had thoughts about her, and the last time I watched her movie in the cinema, you did something to me......"

Russell smiled and said, "It's just that the love between the two of us has nothing to do with her, don't you think it's fun in the cinema?" ”

"Fortunately, it's only us, otherwise it would be a shame."

Marlena got up and said, "Honey, will you come into the room in ten minutes?" ”

Russell looked up into her eyes, "...... Good! ”