Chapter 147: The National Gangster Convention
One Saturday afternoon, hostages from the Buccio family came to Corleone's house. Santino arranged for some people to play cards with him. The same thing happened in other places in New York.
The Bu Qiqiu family endorsed the safety of the meeting with their confidence and ferocity. Once someone was killed at the meeting, the hostages of the Bu Qiqiu family who stayed in his house would also be killed; so Bu Qiqiu In the name of the killing of members of their own family, the Qiu family can openly seek revenge on those who did the fighting at the meeting.
The revenge of the Bu Qiqiu family has always been endless, unless someone can directly uproot the Bu Qiqiu family, otherwise no one dares to bear the consequences, and it is not easy to uproot the Bu Qiqiu family. , in Sicily have a large number of family members.
Of course, all of this needs to be paid, and this is also one of the main sources of income for the Buqiqiu family. If the American mafia wants to negotiate, they will choose them to provide security protection.
The godfather took Shen Long and Tom Hagen into the car and drove to the office building of a small commercial bank in the center of New York City. Santino looked at their disappearing backs and felt a little disappointed because he knew that this meant that he was the heir of the family. has completely failed in the competition.
But thinking about everything that happened before, if it wasn't for Shen Long to save his life, he would be finished, and when the godfather temporarily handed over the family power to him, his performance was indeed not good enough.
In a short while, we arrived at the meeting place. Although the bank was listed under the name of the president, it was actually the property of the Corleone family; the president handed over a stock agreement to the old godfather to show his loyalty. The old godfather hated this very much. He felt that a promise was enough. This document was an insult to their mutual friendship.
But Shen Long didn't think so. This kind of behavior might be normal in old Sicily, but the United States is a commercial society after all, and it is better to have a contract to compare each other. He doesn't believe that if the old godfather dies, the president will still abide by this Commitment, so he insisted on signing a formal business contract with Mo Green.
The place where the meeting was held was the manager meeting room of the bank, and a small bar and restaurant were specially prepared for the meeting participants, so that they could hold meetings more conveniently.
According to the rules, each gang leader can only bring one entourage. Shen Long's participation was the result of the godfather's communication with other families in advance. The other families quickly guessed the intention of this move.
The old godfather sat at the top, Shen Long sat on his left hand side, and Tom Hagen sat behind the godfather, quietly waiting for the arrival of other gangsters.
The first person to arrive was Carlo Tramonti, who dominated the southern United States. He controlled the gambling industry in Florida and owned a high-end luxury hotel in Miami Beach.
And cooperated with the Cuban government to build casinos and brothels in Havana to attract Americans to spend there.
He came with his military advisor, and at such meetings, most of them were duos of patriarchs and military advisors, Tramonti gave the godfather a hug.
Then there is Joseph Zaluqi of Detroit. His family owns a local racetrack and controls most of the local gambling industry. After accumulating enough wealth, he has already begun to consider whitewashing. The marriage of big American families may develop in the political arena in the future.
Then there are two bigwigs from the West Coast, Franco Falcon, who controls the major labor unions and flesh and blood businesses in Hollywood, and Anthony Molinari, who is in charge of the sports betting industry in San Francisco. Traveling to Las Vegas provides security.
Dominique Pancha, the gang leader in Boston, was at odds with the old godfather. He made a mess of Boston, and both his subordinates and partners were very dissatisfied with him.
Vincent Fleur from Cleveland is in charge of the largest underground gambling force in the United States. His family is called the Jewish gang, because he, like the old godfather, did not choose a Sicilian as his military adviser, but found a Jewish.
His style is also different from many old-fashioned Italian gangsters. His organizational efficiency is extremely high, and he is also very good at enlisting politicians to protect his own industry. Gloves.
Ten patriarchs from all over the country have arrived one after another. They include almost all families with great influence in the United States. They control the largest and most economically developed areas in the United States. Except for Chicago, because of Al Capone, The gangs in Chicago were far more brutal and irrational than anywhere else, and they saw no point in having such a mad dog in a meeting.
Everyone is here, and the patriarchs of other families are paying attention to the empty chairs intentionally or unconsciously. Compared with the previous meeting, there are a few fewer people attending this meeting, Emilio Basini, Philip Tata Leah, Anthony Strachey and Tirion Cuneo will never be in a place like this again.
Two days ago, they were still discussing the meeting. Turning around, the first four patriarchs were killed, and the four families whose original strength was almost the same as theirs fell like this. This made them look at the old godfather with some trepidation; Focusing on Shen Long, they more or less got some news, vaguely knowing that this incident was led by the young man in front of them.
They were observing Shen Long, and Shen Long was also observing them. Some of these people looked like lazy millionaires, some looked like melancholy scholars, and some wore amulets of the Pope's blessing, like pious Who can know that all of them have blood on their hands?
Most of these people came from Sicily and grew up in the United States. Shen Long couldn't help complaining in his heart, this is really a simple and honest American country, and Sicily is full of talents!
"Everyone is here, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you, thank you for being able to attend this meeting under such circumstances." The old godfather welcomed everyone, "I came here not to quarrel with anyone, but to I don’t want to explain anything, but I want to explain the truth to everyone.”
No one objected, some were smoking cigars, some were sipping wine, all of them were good listeners and patient people.
The godfather likes to reason with people the most, and he can always persuade others. He sighed, "How did things get to this point? Well, it's nothing. Things have already happened. It's unfortunate that these stupid things don't matter. If necessary, then I will talk about my personal opinion!"