Chapter 155: The show is about to begin
"One hundred thousand?"
When the master heard the other party's offer, his eyebrows couldn't help frowning.
It's not that he hasn't inquired before, like a similar murder bounty, a thousand dollars at the level of a gangster is enough, if the target of the murder is a small gang leader, 10,000 dollars is considered the sky, but this time the other party didn't even have room for negotiation, and directly offered 100,000.
You must know that Yonglian's recent financial situation is very bad, and it is dispensable to kill Zhou Yu, and you can do it for 1,800 US dollars, but you have to take out 100,000 yuan at this critical moment...... With this money, it is better to wait for the election to be used to canvass votes, which is really more than worth the loss.
However, this is someone's territory, and the other party obviously doesn't want to take this deal at this price.
The bespectacled master didn't say much, and took off the silk top hat on his head and pressed it to his chest.
"Then Mr. Charlie, I'll pass on your offer to our chief, excuse me."
After the master left, Charlie, the current head of the Collobo family, had a blank face and put the cigar in his mouth in the groove on the side of the ashtray.
At this time, a person walked out of the inner door on the other side of the room, and it was Lu Xiucai, who was wearing a formal suit and a polite head with a recessed top.
"Hehe~ How do I guess? The other party is not sincere to cooperate with Mr. Charlie at all, but our Mr. Zhou is quite sincere, and our C13 and the Collobo family have also been born and died together, Mr. Charlie, do you want to think about our conditions again? ”
It turned out that Zhou Yu had asked Lu Xiucai to follow Song Qing to visit all the other gang forces around Chinatown, but when Lu Xiucai visited the Kolobo family, he unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance.
Yes, many of the men of these family gangs from Sicily lived in France before they came to New York, and many of them were passively conscripted into the French army and became soldiers during that brutal and dark war.
Just like the three Tommy brothers of the Razor Party, among the male members of the Collobo family who survived the battlefield, there happened to be someone who was rescued by Zhou Yu, and of course they also knew Lu Xiucai.
Mr. Charlie, who had long cheeks and drooping eyes, stretched out his left hand and leaned down on his forehead, and his fingers tapped lightly a few times, as if he was thinking.
After a while, he elegantly raised his right hand and motioned for Lu Xiucai to sit opposite him, and snapped his fingers and instructed his subordinates next to him:
"Give Mr. Stephen a glass of the best red wine."
In order to facilitate communication with the local gang, Lu Xiucai deliberately gave himself an English name, Stephen Lu.
At this moment, he knew that the matter was already inseparable, and the other party left him and poured a glass of fine red wine, which was all a disguised conveyance of goodwill, and there were signs of cooperation.
Because the Collobo family borders Chinatown and is also a major force in Manhattan, it is the top priority of Lu Xiucai's visit.
And Zhou Yu waved his hand and promised that as long as the other party could actively cooperate with him to form an alliance, he would pay a thank you fee of 100,000 US dollars, which is why Mr. Charlie broke out 100,000 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth.
He thinks so, since you want to kill my partner, the God of Wealth, at least it can't be lower than the price he promised to pay me.
But it was obvious that Yonglianshe and Liao Baihua were not willing to pay this high price, so he had no reason to refuse Zhou Yu and the kindness of the Longxing Chamber of Commerce.
Just after Lu Xiucai and the Collobo family reached a preliminary alliance consensus, a shocking news came from Chinatown.
Li Xiling, the owner of An Liang Tang, the founder of Chinatown, the president of the Chinese United Trade Union, and a respected local businessman, has been rushed to the nearest hospital after falling ill last night.
According to the people around him, the old man has relapsed from an old disease, and it is menacing, and this time it seems that the situation is quite not optimistic.
When Zhou Yu received the news, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said, "This old man is really anxious, has this started?" ”
The news of the serious illness of Li Xiling, the boss of An Liangtang, soon spread throughout the Chinese circle in New York, and even the leaders of other gangs, politicians, and police officers turned their attention to this place, in the direction of Chinatown on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that once this old man breathes, the Lower East Side is bound to set off a bloody storm, and the Chinese who were already targeted by federal law have a more confusing future.
If they start a new round of fighting at this critical juncture, then the radicals in the parliament will solve the problem and bring about the introduction of laws that will completely raze Chinatown to the ground and expel all Chinese from the New World.
At the same time, the influential New York Observer newspaper opened a column with the title "What is the future of Chinatown?"
This report not only explains the cultural significance behind the creation of Chinatown, but also explains the root cause of the rampant gang ban, which is directly aimed at the Chinese Exclusion Act.
This time, however, the newspaper's rhetoric was not sharp or overtly biased in favor of one side over the other, but rather as a bystander listing numerous facts, allowing the spectators to vote for which side to vote for, and the results would be announced later.
Because this report is continuously serialized, it immediately attracted the attention of all walks of life in New York and became an important topic of conversation after dinner.
At the same time, the gangs in Chinatown are surging with dense and frequent personnel exchanges, and many of the gangs even transfer helpers from other cities, which suddenly adds a bit of depression to the already high-profile Chinatown before the storm.
As for Liao Baihua, who originally wanted to find a gunman to kill Zhou Yu, after being rejected by the Collobo family in disguise, he only spent $1,000 to hire a few idle homeless people on the street, and stuffed them with two pistols, promising a reward of $1,000 after the deed.
It's just that what embarrassed Liao Baihua was that after the two homeless men got the pistol and a thousand dollars, they ignored his threats and temptations, and ran away.
Almost that afternoon, in the villa of the Dragon Club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, two Gonda and his gang, who were disguised as homeless men and stationed near Chinatown, handed over a thousand dollars and a pistol to Wu Xiaolong.
Zhou Yu and Wu Xiaolong glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "This ...... Do you mean that we are lucky, or is it that the other party is too lucky? Buying two people on the street casually found our people...... Liao Baihua wanted to kill me, and I was reluctant to bleed, and he deserved it. ”
Wu Xiaolong encouraged the two intelligence officers disguised as homeless people, and after getting Zhou Yu's signal, he directly distributed the 1,000 US dollars given by the other party to the two of them, leaving only the pistol.
However, because of their actions, they not only got the appreciation of the boss and the attention of Wu Xiaolong, the top leader, but also got a reward of five hundred dollars per person! This amount of money was more than they had seen in the first half of their lives combined, and it immediately caused a small sensation among their friends.
"Liz, Merbet, you two are so lucky~ five hundred dollars each! It's enough to buy a car and there's still leftover! ”
The two people who received the reward had happy cheeks flushed and were very proud.
"As long as you work hard for the boss, you will also have a chance, everyone has a chance, anyway, I will follow the boss in my life!"