Chapter 222： : Clash

Chapter 224 Mafia Committee Confrontation

Hardy received several calls. The first one was from the old godfather. The old godfather told Hardy that Basini was going to convene a meeting of the Mafia family. What should be studied was the matter in San Francisco. Hardy and the old godfather were talking on the phone. It took nearly an hour.

Next, Hardy answered and connected to a few more calls, the head of the Lucerce family in Miami, the head of the Bruno family in Philadelphia, the head of the Marcelo family in New Orleans, and so on.

They are all shareholders of "The Venetian Hotel" and are very concerned about what may happen.

Hardy explained with a smile: "It's not that the Los Angeles Gang wanted to annex the site, but the Selton family themselves had infighting. There was a vacuum in the site. Those Hispanics wanted to take the opportunity to invade. Do you think I can just let it go? ?"

"Although the Los Angeles Company is not a member of the Mafia Committee, it is still born out of the Mafia. I always think we are a family, what do you think?"

Hardy asked rhetorically.

I heard that Hardy expressed his desire to become a member of the Mafia family, and these Mafia family patriarchs listened very comfortably.

"But you know, the committee has always refused to accept people outside the Italian ethnic group. I understand this, but it is also a bit sad. I always feel that if a business wants to grow, it should be open to all rivers. If possible, the Los Angeles company hopes to become the committee. Part of it."

It is not easy for the Mafia to convene a full committee meeting. After all, more than 20 patriarchs must be assembled, and these patriarchs will gather in New York a week later.

Vito Corleone took Tom into the conference hall. When other family chiefs and military officers saw the old godfather coming in, many people stood up to say hello.

"Vito, how is your health lately?" Someone greeted with a smile.

"Yes, very good. Cuneo often asks me to go hunting. I shot an elk a few days ago." The old godfather smiled.

The chief of the Cuneo family smiled and said, “That was the biggest deer on my farm. He killed it with a single shot. I guess that deer will escape far away, and it won’t be easy to fight again.”

The others laughed together.

Tom followed the old godfather.

He has only one feeling.

respect.

The patriarchs of these families have become more respectful of the godfather than before.

The last committee meeting,

The godfather is like a wounded lion, facing the siege of a group of hyenas, and now, these people all put on smiling faces.

Why did this happen, Tom knew very well in his heart.

It's all because of Hardy.

Although Hardy is not on the Mafia committee, and he is not even a member of the Mafia, he has a strong influence on the Mafia.

The Corleone family can be restored to their current state, which can be said to be entirely due to Hardy.

Emilio Basini, Patriarch of the Basini family, Philip, Patriarch of the Tataquilia family, Colobo, the patriarch of the Strache family, and others walked into the conference hall and saw the old godfather and others talking and laughing. It's a little heavier.

Basini is the rotating chairman, and he sits in the chair.

Other family patriarchs took their place one after another, and the meeting began.

Basini glanced at the two dozen patriarchs who were doing it, and finally glanced at an empty seat, and said, "Have you noticed that our committee is missing one patriarch."

Everyone looked at the empty seat by appointment. They all knew that Basini was talking about Lebselton in San Francisco, and they all knew why the committee was convened today.

Basini said with a sullen face: "Someone robbed the Selton family's turf. I know you should all have received the news. It is the Los Angeles Gang. I convened this meeting to discuss with you and take back the San Francisco turf. "

"The Selton family is a member of the committee. When we joined the committee, the charter we formulated clearly stated that the committee resolves internal disputes within the family and establishes an offensive and defensive alliance. If external forces invade our interests, we must act together to deal with the enemy. "

"The Selton family was killed and the site was robbed. I summoned the committee members to discuss how to deal with this matter. I am going to fight the Los Angeles Gang!"

Bassini finished speaking and looked at everyone.

The atmosphere of the venue was a bit silent.

None of the patriarchs who can sit here are fools. They all know who is involved in this matter. Is it really that easy to fight against the Los Angeles Gang?

The Los Angeles Gang is Hardy’s.

More than half of the people here invested large sums of cash, millions of dollars, in the Venetian Casino. That was all the cash of their family. They would not be so stupid because of the falling out of Selton and Hardy and letting their investment fall apart. .

Many people look at the old godfather Vito Corleone, intentionally or unintentionally.

The old godfather looked at Basini and asked faintly: "Basini, go to war with the Los Angeles Gang. I want to know why?"

"Because they attacked the Selton family and robbed San Francisco." Basini said with a cold face.

The old godfather pursed his mouth and shook his head slightly. "But what I heard is that the Selton family themselves had infighting. The people of Selton and the second-in-chief of Troto were fighting. After a large number of people were killed and injured, all the rest was destroyed. The police arrested, there seems to be no help from Los Angeles."

The patriarch of the Lucesse family nodded, “The news I heard is the same, it seems that the second-in-charge Troto wanted to usurp the throne, and Selton sent someone to kill him without success, and then the two sides started fighting together.”

Speaking of this, the head of the Lucesse family pouted and said disdainfully: "Selton is really unbearable to manage the family in this way."

Basini said with a sullen face: "I suspect that the whole thing is a conspiracy of the Los Angeles Gang."

"Why do you say that?" the old godfather said.

"They benefit the most because of the whole thing." Basini said.

The old godfather shook his head, "Basini, this reason cannot convince us. After the Selton family feud, the site was vacant, and there were Latinos who wanted to enter the site. The Los Angeles Gang saw this and sent someone to control the site. stand up."

"It's better to land in the hands of Los Angeles than to the Mexicans, don't you think?" the old godfather said.

Basini looked at the old godfather and said in a serious tone: "Vito, do you want to violate the rules set by the committee and support an outsider?! I know you have a good relationship with Jon Hardy."

Faced with Basini’s accusation, the old godfather was not in a hurry.

"After the incident in San Francisco, I did call Hardy to communicate. He told me that he didn't want to see the territory belonging to the Mafia fall into the hands of others. This is the only reason why he sent people into the Selton family territory. "

"Hehe, would he be so kind?!" Basini sneered.

"Why is it impossible? It is said that Los Angeles was born out of the Mafia. We could have been a family. Hardy told me that if the committee agreed, he would let Los Angeles join the committee." The old godfather said.

At this time, the head of the Lucesse family opened his mouth and said: "Los Angeles is now the largest gang on the West Coast. It is very powerful. If they can join, it will definitely be an improvement to our Mafia."

The patriarch of the Bruno family of Philadelphia also nodded: "Yes, our strength on the west coast is too weak, there are almost no families. The strength of Los Angeles is obvious to all. If we want to develop business on the west coast in the future, we need a strong partner."

Many clan chiefs also spoke up, thinking that the Los Angeles Gang should be absorbed. Basini's face became extremely ugly. The purpose of his meeting was to solve the problems in San Francisco and eliminate the Los Angeles Gang, but these guys actually discussed letting the Los Angeles Gang join. Committee.

This makes Basini very angry.

Basini stood up fiercely, and said solemnly: "I firmly oppose it. All our families here are of Italian ethnicity, and the committee family must also be of Italian ethnicity. Others are simply not credible."

The old godfather also stood up, looked at Basini, and said in a hoarse voice: "Basini, I think your thinking should be changed."

After speaking, I scanned other family patriarchs and said loudly: "The Mafia originated in Sicily. There is no doubt that we came to the United States in order to survive and develop our own business. At that time, every city had large and small families. Good development, we formed a committee."

"The original intention of establishing the committee was to resolve disputes and to promote our better development. This is not a reason for complacency."

"In our families, there are now many people of non-Italian ethnicity, and many of them have been seated in high positions. There are also many of us who were born in the United States. For example, Alcapone was born in Brooklyn, New York. What counts? , Is it an American?"

"If you have to restrict the area, you have to exclude non-Sicilian talents, Basini, I remember you are of Neapolitan origin, right, Tatagilia, you are of Calabri, right, and there are many people here, too. so."

"Basini, the times are different now. We must learn to keep pace with the times. Only by accommodating more capable people can we have better development. Some old ideas need to be changed. Anything that hinders our development and hinders us to make money is the rules. They must be eliminated."

Basini looked at the old godfather blankly.

Xin said these words of Vito are so familiar.

It seems that when he forced Vito to release political resources to support the drug business, he said something similar.

Today Vito used it to attack himself.

Originally, this committee was convened today to jointly deal with the Los Angeles Gang, and then he took the opportunity to take back control of San Francisco.

Basini’s idea is very simple. Although Los Angeles is very powerful and Hardy is very powerful on the West Coast, as long as all members of the Mafia committee pressure him together, that Hardy will definitely be timid, and then obediently give up San Francisco.

Unexpectedly, Vito turned the topic in another direction, discussing whether the Los Angeles Gang should be included in the committee.

And to his surprise, there are so many people who support it.

Especially those families that have worked with Hardy.

this moment,

Bassini felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart, and these guys probably won't listen to them anymore.

is a group of greedy bastards.

Who can bring benefits to them, they will listen to whom.

The meeting of the Mafia Committee broke up.

The matter of dealing with the Los Angeles Gang together was naturally not negotiated. Of course, the proposal to let the Los Angeles Gang join the committee was also not passed.

The committee is now clearly divided into two camps.

One is a power group headed by Basini, and the other is a power group headed by the old godfather. Now these two forces are evenly matched, and no one can control each other.

But in general.

Basini failed.

Can't unite the Mafia committee to deal with the Los Angeles Gang. Only relying on Basini's own strength, even if he is called the hardest, he does not dare to go to war with Hardy.

So he lost San Francisco forever.

After the meeting, the old godfather talked to Hardy on the phone and told Hardy what had happened at the meeting, “I’m afraid that the Los Angeles Gang’s membership in the committee needs to continue to operate.”

"Hehe, don't worry, our goal is to cooperate to make money. There are already more than a dozen families, which is enough."

"Mr. Vito, I want you to do me a favor?" Hardy said.

"How can I help?"

"You helped me contact all the families, including the families that we cooperated with, and the families that we didn’t cooperate with before, so Hardy wanted to do business with them I recently had the idea of ​​opening a casino in Cuba. Ask them Would you like to invest." Hardy said.

"Open a casino in Cuba?"

"Yes, Cuba opens casinos. If we can contact more families, I believe it will be much easier to promote the development of the committee to accept new families." Hardy said.

"Okay, I will contact them." The old godfather said.

Hang up, Hardy showed a smirk on his face.

He lied to the old godfather.

Actually, Hardy’s real purpose is not to invest in Cuba, but to dig a hole for Basini, but he did not tell the old godfather, because only if he really does it, he will not show it.

Currently, Cuba has not yet started a revolution. It is still under the control of the United States. The current prime minister is called Fulgencio Batista. He has some connections with Basini and is considered a good friend.

However, Hardy knew that just three or four years later, a young man named Lao Ka turned out to be upset and generous in Cuba. The investment of the United States here has all been wiped out. Hardy just wanted to bring Brazil. Neil introduced into this quagmire.

Anyway, it’s just one sentence, and you don’t have to work hard.

(End of this chapter)