After Elvin took Alan to the lounge, he directly told everyone that Alan was now a captain.
This had a huge impact on many of the young men who were still at the bottom of the gang, but it also provided them with ample motivation!
Alan’s relationship with everyone was good, plus his special relationship with Elvin, he was very popular here. People constantly came over to ruffle his hair or give him a hug.
He smiled so widely his mouth couldn’t close. Perhaps this was the direction of every young person’s dream here.
After Elvin returned to the office, he sat in the chair opposite Lance, “Seeing them like this, I think of when we first came to the Federation.”
Lance lit a cigarette, “Life was really tough back then.”
He used the hand holding the cigarette to support his chin, his slightly squinted eyes seemed to be recalling that most difficult time.
With no money and no legal status, Lance chose to go to the city to find something to do, while Elvin and the others stayed at the port.
Thinking of this, Lance couldn’t help but want to laugh. Some people welcomed a new life, some welcomed destruction, but there were also some who witnessed his growth, for example, Johnny.
He quickly gathered his scattered thoughts, “We know Alan’s situation very well, including his family’s situation. Did he recruit that Beno himself?”
Elvin shook his head, “We recruited him when we were recruiting. He came from out of town, wanting to find some opportunities, and then joined us.”
Lance nodded noncommittally, “Also, the other two people next to Alan, check these few people.”
Elvin became a little worried, “Are you saying they might be undercover?”
The word undercover, he had learned it from Lance, a lurker who collects intelligence.
Lance neither admitted nor denied, “We now have a grasp on two undercover agents. One was sent by the Bureau of Hazardous Materials, but we are not clear who the other one belongs to. I even suspect whether we might have mistaken the target.”
“So we can’t rule out that they will send more undercover agents in. This time, the matter is a bit of a coincidence. I had just arranged for Alan to help solve a problem, and Beno found a Wolf Gang bar.”
“I’m not saying there’s definitely a problem with these two things, I just feel it’s too much of a coincidence.”
“So you check it out, and we can also be a little more at ease.”
“If they have no problems, we can arrange more important work for them. Promoting brotherhood is a correct thing to do.”
“If each of them can go further, then it will be enough to set an example for others!”
Lance spread his hands, “I’ve heard some people complain. They feel that because they joined us later, they have no opportunities.”
“Alan is a good choice to let them know that as long as they have good enough ability, or can establish meritorious service for us, they can also get a rapid promotion.”
“Captain, high-ranking cadre, or something else.”
The purpose of the existence of a ladder of advancement is to allow people to stably exert their own value and role, and to find their suitable position. This is actually the same as the current education in the Federation.
Although the high schools in the Federation are still very responsible in teaching knowledge, the intensity is not as high as before.
The issue of education reform has been repeatedly raised, for a simple reason.
Those children from upper-class families, even if their test papers are blank, they can easily go to those prestigious universities with letters of recommendation, and then work in large companies or political groups.
On the contrary, those students who study hard may not necessarily receive corresponding positive feedback.
The universities of the Federation have never been purely based on academic performance to decide whether a person is qualified to enter a university. Family background is sometimes more important than grades.
Those who are admitted without an exam because they have rich social activities, sing well, can cook their own steak, or have a letter of recommendation from a famous alumnus, no one has ever considered whether their grades are suitable.
Even if an ordinary person is lucky enough to meet all the conditions, do they have the money to go to school?
This place has never been some utopia, never!
What Lance needed was not such a lifeless gang. In the end, everyone would be dissatisfied because of this.
What he needed was a vibrant place that let people know that as long as they put in the effort, there would definitely be a reward. This was the only way to make everyone more united.
Elvin nodded, “No problem, I will arrange it.”
After ending this topic, Lance asked about the situation at the labor agency. The money Lance had spent had had an effect. Roben the lawyer had already sent the invitation over.
He had also had Officer Braden solve Sean’s identity—
For Lance’s sake, Officer Braden only charged $1,500.
Originally, something that only cost a few hundred dollars quickly went up to a thousand. The families of those missing children were not fools. Maybe at first, they didn’t know that this matter could be so profitable.
But when some people started to think about doing these things over Officer Braden’s head, and this matter quickly spread within a small circle, more people came to know about it.
Many people, few resources. In a seller’s market, those families who had a way to help people settle down would no longer be satisfied with a benefit of $200. They wanted more benefits.
$500, $800, $1,000, and now it’s $1,500.
His asking price to the outside was $1,800 to $2,000. He could get a profit of $300 to $500, which also made Officer Braden’s life very comfortable, and not just him.
Many other police officers in other districts who could do this were all doing it. Everyone was trying to find ways to put money in their own pockets.
Lance had many reliable connections in the police force. In just two days, Sean had become a native-born Federation citizen.
Of course, he and some other native-born Federation citizens had a roughly similar situation: they were abducted as children, and now that they had grown up, they had run back.
Sean left the labor agency, and the work there was put on hold. Elvin was very familiar with the docks, and no one else was very suitable for this job besides him.
The two were chatting about some things when Morris pushed the door open and came in, “I heard you were looking for me?”
Lance had him sit down and then gave him an address, “Go check this place out. One of our people said there’s a Wolf Gang bar here. See if it’s true.”
“If it is, let them be finished in these few days.”
Morris glanced at the address in his hand and nodded, “I know.”
Lance asked another question, “Have those people around Jobav made any moves these past two days?”
The members of the Wolf Gang had been following Mr. Jobav all along. Even if Lance wanted to make a move, it wouldn’t be easy.
They always appeared in crowded places, and most of the time, Mr. Jobav personally appeared.
Elvin inserted his cigarette into the ashtray, a few times repeatedly, to make sure it was completely extinguished, and at the same time asked, “Should we find a chance?”
Lance considered for a moment, and in the end, still shook his head.
It wasn’t that he was unwilling to make a move on Mr. Jobav. When he recruited the members of the Wolf Gang, it meant that there was no more friendship to speak of between the two sides.
He didn’t make a move because he was considering many complex problems.
The operating mode of this society was not simple.
The mayor was right there.
He took a car to and from work every day. Most of the time, he didn’t bring bodyguards. Let alone the Five Families, even Lance had a way to arrange for someone to get rid of him.
But the war between the Five Families and the mayor had been going on until now, so why hadn’t anyone suddenly stood up and gotten rid of him?
If the mayor could die, Lance believed that Paul, Keane, and Tita, these families, would be very willing to do so.
Or they would be willing to take out a large sum of money to find an assassin to get rid of the mayor.
But still, no one did so because they all knew, including the mayor himself.
Once the mayor dies, the problem will become huge!
At that time, higher-level forces will start to intervene, and in the end, they will purge the entire Golden Port of its restless forces.
This country ultimately belongs to the group of people who sat together and watched a certain gentleman announce the founding of the Federation, to their families, and their descendants. As long as you don’t break their rules of the game, they don’t mind letting the Federation become a holy land for people who pursue freedom in the eyes of the people!
But someone has broken these rules, the foundation of rule will be shaken, and their rule will also be gradually dismantled!
So they will not allow this kind of thing to happen. At that time, the Five Families of Golden Port will have to face the Federation’s army.
Many people feel that the Federation army is not very good. They will make jokes about the army, and some people say that they are actually evolved from the slave catchers of the slave owners.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there is indeed such a situation, but that is ultimately an army!
As long as you don’t think about rebelling or becoming independent, then in this country, no one is the military’s opponent.
Dealing with the mayor cannot be done with such simple and direct violence, and the same goes for most politicians.
In history, the presidents who were assassinated, the ones who assassinated them were not assassins, not gangs.
Because they couldn’t do these things.
The ones who really created these were their once-close political partners, the ones who could sit at the same table with them, and even the normal masters!
The others were nothing more than tools, means.
A tool doesn’t have to be very good, but it absolutely can’t prick your hand, let alone pierce it.
The Five Families were unwilling to be the tool that pierced their hand, and Lance was also unwilling.
As for the police chief?
No one had ever really treated the police chief as a politician. That was just their tool of rule!
“There are a little more than two months until the election (in October). We can wait a little longer.”
“But we can give the Wolf Gang some trouble first. Go and confirm the situation of the bar.”
After the chat, the three of them went their separate ways. Morris had many people under his command. His network was no longer limited to the Empire District.
The residents of the Empire District also needed to work, go to the port, to the docks, to the factories, to other places.
A portion of them could provide intelligence for Morris, and it was not very easy to be discovered. This was the biggest difference between him and Bolton.
Bolton’s tentacles could only be within the Empire District. Outside the Empire District, he became a blind man, but the two of them had their own roles and values. You couldn’t say that Bolton was useless, or that Morris was useless, just because of some single reason.
Just as Morris was about to go and verify whether the bar that Beno had mentioned really existed, the remaining few people at Basil Investment Bank also gradually realized that something was not right.
It had been almost a week, and the few people who had left first had not sent back any message. Even if the place they had gone to didn’t have a direct phone line to the Federation, sending a telegram should always be possible, right?
And the place they had gone to was not that very primitive. There were convenient means of communication.
But it had been almost a week, and they hadn’t sent back a single piece of news. This couldn’t help but make people feel that something was not right.
Everyone had cooperated for so long and knew each other very well.
Plus, with the two people who had disappeared before, these people who had stayed in the Federation to make one last big score also vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
Once a person starts to question, even if they discover the truth, they will continue to question, and even question whether the truth is the real truth!
Intelligent animals are like this. The more they think, the more fear they have, the more anxiety they have.
On the contrary, those animals with no wisdom, driven by instinct, don’t have so many worries.
The few people had indeed made a lot of money these past few days. In the end, after some discussion, they decided to run away.
In the morning, they arranged for one person to go to Jincheng Bank and submit a transfer application. This time they used Plan B. They decided to go to another place.
A super-large transfer would definitely require the bank’s personal approval. In the office, the bank president looked at the guy opposite his desk with a grin.
In terms of “position,” this person was the head of the asset management department of Basil Investment Bank, and could also be said to be a person of high rank and power.
“Mr. Minister, can you tell me why all this money has to be transferred away?”
The bank president had a half-smile, “I noticed that if you transfer all this money away, there won’t be much left on your investment bank’s books.”
The minister had done sufficient homework before he came, “We will inject new funds before the 25th. This money is to be transferred to the headquarters’ account for overseas investment.”
“It will not actually affect the company’s operation, and there are still hundreds of thousands of liquid funds on the books, which is enough to support us in dealing with various special situations.”
The bank president nodded noncommittally, “I have also been paying attention to the development of your investment bank recently. I noticed a very interesting thing. You don’t seem to have any investment projects in the Federation.”
“But you have many, many investment projects abroad. Why is that?”
“The economic development of the Federation is obviously better than other countries. I don’t quite understand the reason for you doing this.”
“Giving up a place with obvious advantages to not invest, and going to invest in places without advantages.”
The minister felt a little troubled, but fortunately, he was also a professional in this area, “We are very worried about the subsequent economic development trend of the Federation, and you know, a large-volume investment is not a simple matter.”
“We need to make a decision after a comprehensive evaluation, but at present, the economic development of the Federation has tended to be stable, and some regional reports have even shown a decline in economic development.”
“Under this circumstance, in order to ensure the interests of us and our investors, and to be responsible for our money, we can only, and must, choose more advantageous regions and assets for investment. I hope you can understand.”
There was a problem with this statement, but the problem was not that big. And the bank president just wanted to give him some pressure, not really to ask him until he couldn’t speak.
He pursed his lips, showing an attitude of disapproval, “I still believe that the Federation is the future!” He paused, “Alright, I approve your application…”
After returning to the company from the bank, the minister told the others about his worries, “Maybe our profile has been too high recently. When I was talking to the bank president about the transfer just now, he didn’t immediately agree, but was a little questioning. Fortunately, I fooled him.”
“We have to leave as soon as possible. This place is getting more and more unsafe. Once they don’t let us leave, we’ll be finished!”
At this time, actually, some people were already starting to regret not having left before, but not particularly regretting it, because the first batch of people who had left had all lost contact.
The unknown is the core of fear. If they knew what had happened to these people, even if it was a very bad thing, they would not be so scared.
But it was precisely because they didn’t know that they were uneasy, that they were afraid.
In the afternoon, after confirming from the bank that the money had been transferred, the group bought boat tickets to leave in the early morning of the next day.
This will be their last day in the Federation. Although they all knew very well that if they continued to do this, a large amount of funds would come in, but whether this money would ultimately belong to them, they were not sure.
But now they had already made a lot of money, enough for them to squander for a lifetime!
They let themselves go for a while. Golden Port did not lack girls who were willing to do anything for money. They had a farewell party. Of course, this was just their own idea; they would not say it out loud.
It was not until late at night that they fell into a deep sleep.
In the early morning, before the sky was bright, they rubbed their eyes and drove their luxury cars to the docks. It was quiet here, which instead gave them a sense of security.
A cruise ship was parked at the dock. There were lights on, and from time to time, people were boarding.
After confirming their tickets, they boarded this ship, carrying their yearning for a beautiful future, and were about to end their lives!
Those assassins were already waiting on the ship. What the masters of the Bay Area needed was a group of underwater ghosts who would keep their secrets forever, not them alive!
The next morning, Barbara came to the company. She was a little… excited now!
William had persuaded her father to give up the idea of continuing to add to their stake, but Barbara thought this was a wrong decision.
But the family’s money was basically in the hands of her parents, so she actually didn’t have much money.
But she didn’t want to give up this opportunity, so she used her previous product purchase records to borrow a sum of money from someone, and then threw this money in as well.
The money was not much, but not little either, $60,000.
She had already gotten $9,000, and by the end of the month, she would have another $9,000.
She felt that William was ridiculous, and also pitied him, including the other members of the family who had not invested. They had missed an opportunity to get rich!
They didn’t understand finance at all!
When she arrived at her post, she found the manager and several supervisors standing in the main hall, talking with frowning faces.
She walked over with some curiosity, “Gentlemen, what happened?”
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