Perhaps because of the jet lag, or perhaps for other reasons, Celia couldn't sleep well last night.
I woke up in a bedroom on the second floor of the villa before seven o'clock in the morning.
After a frank talk after midnight last night, Celia reluctantly acknowledged the fact that she would cooperate with Emily. The main reason was that she was really too busy on her own right now. Instead of letting her boss realize this and strip her of her authority to Others might as well take the initiative to find an ally.
However, after only chatting with Emily for more than ten minutes, a beeping sound came from the girl.
This is a summoner temporarily equipped by the team around Simon. It looks like a BP machine. Celia saw Girl A using it once in Ohio a few days ago.
Watching Emily leave at that time, Celia felt a little sour, and even maliciously imagined what she would do if she was called upstairs.
Then, I continued to sit alone in the living room until after one o'clock, when I discovered one thing. Emily was responsible for arranging the rooms in the villa, and she didn't know where her bedroom was.
August in New York is still hot summer, and in northern Ukraine, the temperature at night is already less than 10 degrees Celsius, so you are likely to catch a cold if you just make do with it.
Without the permission of a certain little man, she did not dare to go up to the third floor. She groped for a moment on the second floor and found her luggage in a bedroom, and then she rested.
After washing, I left the bedroom and looked at my watch. It read ten minutes past seven.
The villa is very quiet.
Just like last night, she secretly listened in bed, but unfortunately the villa was well soundproofed and the surroundings were quiet.
After going downstairs, I found that everyone who should get up had already gotten up.
Emily is busy in the kitchen.
Celia knew that her boss did not have high requirements for food, but he was not used to strangers preparing meals for him.
Pretending not to notice that Emily still had a certain rosy face, Celia stepped forward to help prepare breakfast, and asked casually, learning that the man was out for a run.
Huh... I must not have lasted a few minutes last night, otherwise I wouldn't have had the energy to go out for a run.
Thinking this way, I also know that I am deceiving myself.
Being in a position where she can always access the top of the pyramid of the world, Celia's most profound feeling is that most people in high positions have very strong energy, whether it is the Ministry of Defense where she once worked, or the current West In the Luo system, there are many guys who only sleep four or five hours a day.
Celia suppressed her curiosity and did not ask, and Emily had no intention of explaining.
However, until the man came back from running and the three of them had a simple breakfast together, none of the six girls from last night showed up.
Apparently still resting in the upstairs bedroom.
After breakfast, Ken Dixon, who was accompanying Simon in charge of security this time, entered the villa with two other entourages, carrying a special password box in his hand. Celia had also seen it and knew that only Simon could open the box.
Simon and Dixon entered a study room on the first floor, with two bodyguards guarding the door.
Celia came to the second floor wisely and sorted out her boss's upcoming schedule.
Simon will stay in Ukraine for two more days. Yesterday he visited the UMFS military base. Today and tomorrow he will personally go over the various layouts of the Westeros system in Rivne Oblast, including the family community that UMFS is preparing to build. Some factories acquired by Komorov and some important meeting schedule.
Compared with the huge Westeros system, many industries here are actually insignificant.
Simon will stay here for three days, so it also shows that he attaches great importance to the military layout of the Westeros system.
While looking through the planning plan for the UMFS family community, Emily walked into the living room with a pot of coffee. After she poured two cups of coffee, she sat down next to her. Celia took Oldek, who was in charge of Komorov, He handed the information about several factories under the company to Emily and said, "You take a look at these first, and you will be responsible for explaining them to the boss in the afternoon."
Emily agreed to take it, knowing that her boss was beginning to fulfill the tacit agreement the two reached last night.
Putting the information on her knees and flipping it open, noticing Celia's scrutinizing gaze sweeping over her, Emily smiled, raised her arms, spread the five fingers of one hand, and raised two fingers of the other hand. .
This is, seven
Celia was stunned for a moment, then understood and rolled her eyes: "It seems you like this very much."
Emily withdrew her gesture, opened the information, and said with a little pride in her tone: "The boss wants it, but I can't refuse it."
Celia still couldn't hold it back and said subconsciously: "Six are not enough?"
Emily's slender waist swayed slightly on the sofa a few times. The movements seemed unintentional, but with a touch of amorous feelings, she said: "They are all little kids. They don't know anything. I can only teach them."
Celia teased: "I remember you have a boyfriend."
Emily looked up and smiled even more: "We're already ex-boyfriends."
Celia knew she had made a mistake as soon as she spoke.
In any case, Emily is still single after all, and her family situation is quite happy on the surface.
Fortunately, Celia is not the kind of thin-skinned woman. She simply ignored what she just said and stopped delving into the absurdity of her boss last night. The topic turned to business, and she occasionally became curious about the young man downstairs. What are you doing at this time.
Simon is looking through the details of the Stefano family.
These days, through the collection of information by the Westeros family intelligence team, Simon has a deeper understanding of the mafia organization 'Ndrangheta' in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Compared with Cosa Nostra in Sicily and the Camorra in Campania, the 'Ndrangheta at this stage is still far behind the top mafia groups, and its structure and organization are loose and internal disputes continue.
However, this is only now.
According to some trivial information in my mind, because Cosa Nostra and Camorra were prominent members of the Italian government, they were heavily targeted by the Italian government for many years. After the new century, the 'Ndrangheta gradually began to compete with Sicily and Campania. The Mafia is parallel and extends its tentacles all over the world.
This is something.
Moreover, this time, with the intervention of the Westeros system, whether the 'Ndrangheta can still rise according to the original timeline depends on Simon's attitude.
The reason why Simon decided to launch this shock without much hesitation was because the 'Ndrangheta was currently weak. If it were Cosa Nostra and Camorra who were still strong, he would not take action rashly.
The assassination of Giovanni Falco, the famous anti-gangster judge in Italy, who planted a ton of explosives two years ago was carried out by Cosa Nostra in Sicily.
However, after that incident, due to the strong backlash from the media and public opinion, the Italian government has arrested thousands of gang members, including the current godfather of Cosa Nostra, and the Falco assassination has become the most important event for the Sicilian Mafia. The turning point of decline.
In fact, it can also be seen from this that gangsters are ultimately vulnerable to the will of the government.
To be high-profile is to seek death.
As for the Stefano family in the Calabria region, their strength can only be considered medium among the six major families in power in the 'Ndrangheta at this stage. Moreover, although three years ago, with the mediation of other mafia forces, the 'Ndrangheta's second The Second Civil War ended, but the two distinct factions within it did not truly reconcile.
These are all elements that Simon can exploit.
The Stefano family made their fortune by reselling cigarettes in the 1970s. The six brothers who initially conquered the world now have only four left, and the other two died in gang vendettas.
At this stage, if we do not take into account the mistresses and illegitimate children who have been quietly dug up by the Westeros family intelligence team, the entire Stefano family has a total of 27 people. Four of the six brothers who started the family remain. The eldest is Giorgio Stefan. He is 59 years old, the youngest Dimitri Stefano is 35 years old, and the current godfather is the third eldest, Horace Stefano, who is 46 years old this year.
Since the Stefano family sent bullets to the homes of their women and children, Simon's decision was to directly evaporate the entire Stefano family.
In fact, the Italian Mafia also has laws that do not bring harm to the family.
However, not to mention the infighting within the mafia that has gone to all lengths in recent years, there are only public reports of an 8-year-old boy who was thrown alive into a vat of sulfuric acid. The so-called harm to his family is a joke in Simon's opinion.
Therefore, Simon's bottom line when dealing with these people is that there is no bottom line.
In the study room on the first floor of the villa, Simon and Ken Dixon discussed various matters within the purview of the personal bodyguard. Based on the feedback, they also sent a series of encrypted emails directly to intelligence teams across Italy through the laptop they carried. email, finally sent Dixon away, and had a video call with Sophia.
The city of Rivni is not connected to the Internet, but Simon's security team has set up a special satellite communication system in the estate.
The anonymous email address hidden in Yigret's huge email system has encrypted content and random registration. Even if it is discovered, even if the content is deciphered due to the betrayal of the insider, there will be no evidence to prove that the sender of the command is Simon. Even the intelligence team didn't know who was giving them instructions.
This shock will not directly and violently evaporate the entire Stefano family. In fact, for this operation, the Westeros system will have arrangements within the Italian political circles, media and even the gangs, so that To the greatest extent possible, ensure that the whole thing will not produce unexpected sequelae.
Different layouts are naturally responsible for different teams.
All in all, all details will strictly follow Simon's 'split execution' strategy.
At nine o'clock, after finishing the matters on the Italian side, Sergey Komorov had arrived. Everyone left the manor in the city center and rushed to the west of Rivni City, where the planned UFMS family community is located. there.
When I returned to Rivni last night, it was already dusk and I didn’t see the situation around the city clearly.
This time, the black Mercedes-Benz sedan shuttled on the wide road in Rivni. As far as the eye could see, it was a bleak scene.
In the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz, Celia was sitting next to Simon. She noticed the man's gaze and said proactively: "Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population of Rivni was about 290,000. However, according to recent statistics, the city has only Most of the 220,000 people moved to the countryside, and a few fled to Western Europe through Poland."
Simon nodded slightly.
Celia didn't need any more explanation, he knew why.
Ukraine's GDP has plummeted by more than 30% in recent years. The completely collapsed domestic economy has led to severe material shortages. In order to avoid starvation, many urban residents have no choice but to move to the countryside and become farmers in order to be self-sufficient.
Ordinary people living in a peaceful and prosperous country always have a hard time imagining why in a modern civilized country, such a thing as starvation still happens, which seems to be something that should not happen.
In particular, Ukraine, a European granary, not only supplied the entire Soviet Union, but also created a large amount of foreign exchange for the former Soviet Union through the export of agricultural products.
In such a country, no matter how much food is grown on the land, it seems that people who lack material resources should not starve.
Russia, which occupies the largest territory in the world next door, should not do the same.
So, why
The answer is simple.
It was the 'modern civilization' that everyone subconsciously relied on that caused all of this to happen.
As far as agriculture is concerned.
Modern agriculture is far from the backward, inefficient and self-sufficient agricultural civilization of the feudal era. Instead, it is closely linked to the entire country's economic system.
Because modern agricultural production is different from primitive farming in ancient times, but requires a large amount of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, machinery and other substances.
When the country collapses, severe inflation will first impact the industrial system, causing factories that produce agricultural materials such as fertilizers, pesticides, and machinery to close down due to serious losses due to currency depreciation and other reasons, and can no longer supply the entire country's agricultural production needs.
On the other hand, also because of the economic collapse, agricultural production actually no longer requires so many materials.
Because farmers can no longer afford it.
This creates a vicious cycle.
People cannot afford to buy production materials such as fertilizers and pesticides, and resources such as electricity and fuel in the farming process are also in short supply. Not only will the output of farmland per unit area be significantly reduced, but even the agricultural products cultivated after the reduction in production cannot be sold due to currency depreciation. Good price.
As a result, farmers must significantly reduce production inputs. Perhaps a farm originally has 10 hectares of land, but due to various reasons, the farmer will only cultivate 1/10 of it, or even reduce it to the point where it can only be self-sufficient and has no excess output.
When this phenomenon spreads to the entire country, you can imagine the disastrous consequences that will occur.
At this stage, Ukraine's GDP has only plummeted by 30%, but because the all-round collapse of the industrial and financial system has been transmitted to the agricultural system with the weakest ability to resist risks, Ukraine's food production has actually plummeted by more than 50% compared with the former Soviet Union.
Under such circumstances, it is natural for people who lack material resources to starve.
In Simon's memory, until more than 20 years later, because the entire country has never been fundamentally stable, Ukraine has never been able to regain its status as the breadbasket of Europe. A large number of urban residents still need to distribute food in order to ensure basic material needs. He spends a lot of time taking care of his farmland in the suburbs.
At this stage, Russia and Ukraine are in exactly the same situation.
Many people always ridicule *** for failing to achieve his goal of "give me 20 years", but compared with Ukraine, which is still experiencing political turmoil, economic decline, people's poverty and national poverty, oligarchs and even civil war more than 20 years later, The Russian people are definitely very lucky to meet a leader who truly cares about their country and nation.
Simon certainly has no intention of helping Ukraine change the status quo.
Simon firmly believes in a cold truth: when an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is truly innocent.
Moreover, the more turbulent the country is, the more favorable it will be for the layout of the Westeros system.
Just like this time.
Because of the economic collapse and a large number of residents fleeing the city, the Westeros system was able to easily allocate a large amount of land on the west side of Rivni City to build a UFMS family community.