Reggio Calabria, Italy.
At the port late at night, Antonio Danieli was quietly smoking a cigarette surrounded by a group of subordinates. It was not until a cargo ship slowly approached the dock that he dropped the cigarette butt in his hand and faced it.
Giovanni Danieli, the third son of the Danieli family, jumped off the boat first, smiled and came forward to hug his eldest brother. He felt the strong smell of tobacco on his brother's body, and couldn't help but persuade him: "Anton , you should smoke less." x
Antonio just patted his brother on the shoulder: "How many did you bring this time?"
"Five tons," Giovanni said. Seeing that his elder brother had already walked to the ship's deck, he had to follow him and said: "In addition, I also met the Ukrainian Boris Orlevich in Albania. They recently visited A planting base has opened up in the mountains south of Ferraro."
Albania is due west of southern Italy, facing each other across the sea. The closest distance between the two countries is only 80 kilometers.
As a former Warsaw Pact ally of the Soviet Union, Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe. In the past few years, it has been affected by the Bosnian War, and its economy has become even more depressed. People are poor and have short ambitions, and they happen to be located on the Mediterranean coast with convenient transportation, so Albanian gangs have risen rapidly in the past few years.
These are still next.
Closely related to the 'Ndrangheta family, the three Regio Danieli brothers, is the underground force from the Rivne Oblast in Ukraine that has quickly taken root in Albania. Although this makes cooperation between the two parties in drugs, arms, etc. more convenient, such a close distance, in Antonio Danieli's opinion, is a deliberate arrangement by a certain super tycoon.
Although the three Danieli brothers have long accepted their fate as puppets, someone is obviously still saying, I am still watching you!
Hearing his brother mention a certain name at this time, Antonio paused for a moment, then quickly continued walking, while asking: "How many people do you think they have there?"
Giovanni understood what his brother meant, and subconsciously looked around, then shook his head slightly and whispered: "I can't judge, but one thing is certain. The manpower they summoned is the same as those two years ago. Most of them are A veteran, someone who has been on the battlefield and kills without blinking an eye."
Antonio heard this and fell into silence.
Giovanni didn't think that much. He hesitated and said, "Anton, actually, it doesn't matter? As long as we don't betray... that person? It'll be okay? We didn't even think about betraying, right?"
Antonio nodded almost subconsciously this time.
In the past two years, while developing their own power, the three Danieli brothers would receive instructions indirectly from someone from time to time, including some of their businesses, from which someone would take a commission.
Obviously treating them as subordinates.
Knowing that they could not resist, the three Danieli brothers unknowingly gradually accepted this almost puppet status.
The two brothers said this and came to the boat together. Except for the two younger brothers who had just followed Antonio, who were closely following their boss, the others dispersed in an orderly manner and were on guard. If there is an expert here, it would be easy to distinguish these people. Have received specialized training.
This is also true.
Some of the direct subordinates of the three Danieli brothers have been called to Eastern Europe in the past two years and have received a lot of professional training.
This also made the three brothers even more trembling.
Because any fool can guess it? Among these people, there must be people who have been recruited over there. It is not difficult to imagine that if they have different intentions, maybe overnight, they will be like the Stefano family two years ago. People replace.
It's been more than two years since something happened.
Regio Calabria, a small city in southern Italy where the 'Ndrangheta was once entrenched, has undergone many changes in just over two years.
After the Stefano family was destroyed overnight, and then received a warning from Simon Westeros, the entire 'Ndrangheta system had been in turmoil for a long time, and they were worried that their family would also be killed overnight.
However, when things gradually calmed down and it was discovered that the big shot seemed to have no follow-up, some people inevitably became restless again.
In particular, some forces that were previously close to the Stefano family or even related by marriage, even if they could not travel far across the ocean to fight against the increasingly large Westeros system in private, it would not be a problem to expose the matter. It is impossible for the Italian government and even the international community to watch dozens of citizens being killed overnight and remain indifferent
However, some people's operations have just begun, and the nightmare comes again.
Although this time it was not as drastic as the Stefano family being wiped out, the six leaders of the other two 'Ndrangheta forces suddenly died again overnight, making the entire Italian underground once again realize that Simon Westeros' The shadow has not disappeared from this land.
On the other hand, the Italian government has been quite indifferent to the massacre of the Stefano family, with most news reports characterizing the incident as a gang vendetta.
During this period, a young prosecutor with a strong sense of justice stated on local television that an investigation into the matter should be launched, and directly hinted that a certain super tycoon was behind the matter.
This is clearly an insider.
As a result, the young prosecutor was removed from his position the next day and was later criticized by the media, saying that the Italian judicial system should pursue the crimes of gangs instead of protecting gangs.
At that time, the violent incident in which Judge Giovanni Falco was killed by a ton of explosives used by the Mafia was still vivid in our minds. For the treatment of the Stefano family, few ordinary people expressed sympathy, and most of them clapped their hands. Applause.
No matter what, the dark underground world continues after all.
In just over two years, the three brothers of the Danieli family, who were once attached to the Stefano family, not only took over all the power of the Stefano family, but also subsequently eliminated some of Regio's other opponents, quickly Grow into one of the most powerful gangs in southern Italy.
During this process, of course some people doubted them.
Unfortunately, in the face of absolute strength, others could only keep silent. They even had to actively seek cooperation because of the rapid rise of the three Danieli brothers.
With the secret support of the Westeros system, although their roots are still in the remote areas of southern Italy, the three Danieli brothers have extended their influence to all parts of Italy, and even France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Danieli, a branch of the 'Ndrangheta force.
At the same time, this part of the underground forces in Western Europe and another underground force in Eastern Europe, which is also controlled by the Westeros system and is based in Ukraine, are becoming more and more closely connected, and their power is gradually covering the entire Europe.
Ukraine, Rivni city.
Entering mid-March, the weather is no longer so cold, and it is like a city that has been dormant for a short period of time and is coming to life again.
Sergei Komorov had just walked through the resettlement community in the northeastern part of the city that was reopened in early March in the morning. In the afternoon, he participated in an important meeting of the municipal government as a business representative, mainly discussing the upcoming establishment of Rivni City. Population Control Act.
The current population of this border state capital in northwest Ukraine has officially exceeded 1 million, and has almost quintupled in less than three years.
Although there is still a long way to go compared to the 3 million people in the capital Kiev, but even though Rivni's economic expansion in the past two years has been nothing short of miraculous, the influx of so many people started to cause some indigestion for a while.
Therefore only restrictions can be made.
Next, Rivni City plans to control the inflow of people through forms such as residence permits, allowing as many people as needed to enter, and at the same time, it will only absorb young and strong laborers as much as possible.
Although these restrictive measures have to be taken, the entire Rivne gang is still very excited that Rivni can become a city with a population of one million.
Of course, no one will ignore that the foundation that supports all of this is still one word, money.
After the merger of East and West Germany, in just a few years, the former West Germany invested the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars in East Germany, which stimulated the rapid economic recovery of the former East Germany.
Similarly, the Westeros system has almost spared no effort to spend money on the Rivne State in the past two years. Coupled with the rapid formation of the Rivne Gang's strong control over this area, it has avoided a waste of resources and all funds have been spent on On the cutting edge, it also created a miracle of development in this area.
In the current city of Rivni, companies such as Nokia, Cisco, Tinker Bell, and Melisandre are directly related to the Westeros system, and even world-class companies such as Dell, Mars, and IKEA are connected by the Westeros system. , have all set up factories here, and together with the furniture, food, alcohol, building materials, breeding and other enterprises involved in the Rivne Gang, a total of more than 300,000 long-term employment opportunities have been created.
This does not include the work in peripheral chains, service industries and municipal infrastructure driven by these companies.
For Ukraine, where the unemployment rate in most areas is as high as 30% at this time of economic downturn, one job opportunity is enough to support a family. This also makes Rivni now the best destination for Ukrainian people besides smuggling to Western Europe.
Therefore, even the Kiev authorities paid close attention to the news that Rivni was about to restrict population inflows.
Everyone understands how important a large number of job opportunities are to maintaining social stability. Although Rivni can only cover one-fiftieth of the country's population, the country itself is actually sufficiently accommodating, and Rivni is completely an extra 'accident'.
A straw may break a camel's back, and the reverse is also true.
Rivni's accident is crucial to buffering the country's internal conflicts.
Chechnya, Grozny.
The city remains devastated after the armistice was signed last year.
The 27-year-old French youth Niels Vico arrived in this war-torn city with his girlfriend Isabelle and a French humanitarian relief organization three days ago.
Just at the beginning of this year, after Niels' organization received a large donation, it began to continuously provide relief to war-torn areas in Eastern Europe such as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chechnya. At the same time, it joined forces with other humanitarian groups to lobby the French government.
Under strong pressure from public opinion, the French government officially adopted a proposal in early March to accept 10,000 refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chechnya into France.
This time, Niels' organization will assist the government team in selecting refugees to be accepted.
In a dilapidated building in Grozny, Nils felt heartbroken when he looked at the poor refugees in ragged clothes and their families who came to receive relief supplies and sign up at the same time. His girlfriend Isabel even had tears in her eyes as she waited in line until Refugees took photos on the streets where the remains of bomb craters were still preserved. They planned to take these photos to the French domestic media and publish them so that the authorities could provide more help to these poor people.
There are only 10,000 refugee quotas in total, which in the eyes of these volunteers is too few.
As for the protests from the Russian government, go to hell with those politicians. Those devils who start wars cannot see that the world can become a better place.
Moscow.
Entering 1997, Vladimir's position in the Kremlin Palace was once again promoted, and the heavy work also made him feel that his hair was thinner.
At the national economic policy meeting in the morning, Vladimir felt that it was a farce.
The reason was that Berezovsky lost to Potanin in the battle for Russia Telecom Investment Corporation. Berezovsky, who claimed to be the biggest contributor to Yeltsin's re-election last year, has been irritating almost everyone during this time, even the president. They were not very polite, and even used the media they controlled to attack and smear Potanin.
In this meeting that was supposed to be serious, the two oligarchs, a deputy secretary of the National Security Council and the first deputy prime minister of the cabinet, attacked and cursed each other like shrews. Yeltsin was so angry that he stood up and walked away. Vladimir just tried. After trying to persuade him, Berezovsky yelled at him to shut up.
At a certain moment, Vladimir, who had always been very calm and indifferent to emotions and anger, couldn't help but put a bomb in the conference room, sending all the oligarchs flying into the sky.
This country is being dragged down by these people.
Especially recently, regarding the French government's acceptance of Chechen refugees, Berezovsky, who is also the chief negotiator on Chechen affairs, not only did not try to reverse this embarrassing thing for the country, but also took the initiative to add fuel to the flames. For this country, It's a completely gloating bystander gesture.
Damn the oligarchs.
It was a farce, and the meeting was naturally fruitless.
After lunch, Vladimir was once again summoned to the office by the president. Yeltsin, who was obviously very angry, had to make a decision to remove the position of First Deputy Prime Minister of Potanin's cabinet.
Because public opinion has been fierce recently and the target is pointed at Potanin, the Kremlin has to give an explanation to the public.
Mr. President is not stupid. Of course he knows that Berezovsky is running all this. However, the Kremlin has nothing to do with Berezovsky now. What Yeltsin is thinking about is that he and his family can be fully recovered in a few years. retreat.
A farce in the morning made Yeltsin feel some urgency again.
After more than half a year of inspection, Yeltsin became more and more aware of Vladimir's loyalty and reliability.
As for Simon Westeros, he really couldn't worry too much. In fact, compared to the increasingly ugly oligarchs in the country, they were just oligarchs. Yeltsin felt that Simon Westeros was more reliable.
In the end, it was decided to promote a subordinate again and put him in charge of the Russian Federal Security Service, which was reorganized from the KGB.