Shadow Empire

Chapter 753: I have been to school and I have many ideas
The thin guy looked at the uncompromising toughness on Ryans' face. After the two looked at each other for a moment, he was the first to soften.

"Lionse, how long have we known each other?"

Ryans still looked at him coldly, "If you plan to play the sympathy card, then you can consider changing your strategy. This trick doesn't work on me."

"We have always been in a relationship of mutual benefit. You are not my brother!"

The thin man cursed in his heart, why couldn't this idiot understand such a simple thing?
Those are not the city council members who are just there for show, nor are they the state legislators in the state legislature who have to listen to the governor in everything. Those are the fucking senators in the federal Congress!
His eyes were a little hard and straight, as if he wanted to kill someone, but it quickly disappeared.

He rubbed his face. "You haven't figured this out yet, Ryans."

"The people above told me to tell you not to target Lance anymore and not to cause trouble for him. Everything ends now. Do you understand?"

"It's over, it's all over!"

"Whether you killed his people or he killed yours, it's fucking over!"

"It's the Senator's decision!"

The senators of their faction did not want these things under their command to compete with the favorites in front of Senator Cleland, so avoiding them was a good choice.

When you know that a collision is of no value and will only leave you with a bloody head, avoiding is not a sign of weakness but a sign of wisdom.

But different people have different angles and views on the same thing. In the senator's view, this is a small matter that can be stopped at any time and anywhere. It can be solved with a phone call or a verbal message.

The middle class represented by the lean guys can be seen as a privileged class. They think that this is just a matter of conveying the highest order and they don't need to do anything else.

Success or failure will bring any trouble to them and the entire chain, and based on the capitalists' control over risks and profits, they believe that doing so is the most appropriate option!

But with Ryans, everything is different.

No matter how anxious and irritable the lean gentleman looked, Ryans remained the same, "It has nothing to do with me. I only know that Lance's people killed my people, more than once, and I want revenge, that's enough."

"If you're not going to help me, fine, no problem. I don't think you should do anything for me. This is your duty."

"But!" He suddenly pointed his finger across the coffee table at the skinny guy, making the latter feel ashamed as if he was being poked in the body, or even in the soul, "...don't stop me!"

"Now get out of my house before I lose my temper and drown you in the dog bowl!"

The skinny guy jumped up as if startled. He picked up his bag and walked outside. He walked with big strides, fearing that he would be killed if he walked too slowly. He cursed, "You are fucking crazy, Ryans!"

"I was trying to persuade you with good intentions, but you still wanted to kill me. You are such a lowly person. Even if you live in this..."

Ryans grabbed the wine glass on the coffee table and threw it at him. The thin guy bent down, lowered his head, jumped forward and ran out.

His yelling was no longer audible until he got into the car.

His men came in from outside, cleaned up the glass fragments on the ground, and then stood beside him.

There are more than a dozen people here, all of whom are his confidants and the core backbone of the Angel of Death.

He crossed his legs on the coffee table, leaned back, and lit a cigarette. "Any questions?"

Among the people in the room, a guy wearing glasses and looking like he had received higher education nodded and said, "Without them, we would lose our relationship with the state police in several areas here."

“And our bars in the city might also take a hit.”

The fact that the Angels of Death can plunder with impunity on state highways in several northern states is directly related to the interest groups behind them.

They control a portion of the state police, directly or indirectly. They don't need all of them, just a portion.

Allow the Angel of Death to carry out its activities, or if there is a mission to capture them, notify them in advance.

There are also the police in the city and some prohibition agents, who are more or less influenced by the capital forces of those interest groups, so they turn a blind eye to them.

But now, if he does this, will he be abandoned?
Ryans grinned, mockingly, "You've been to college, and you have the highest cultural level among us, but you're still a little behind in terms of social level."

"We're one of the biggest gangs in the North, and we control multiple interstates. They need us more than we need them!"

He shrugged. “There are plenty of people willing to take over those shipments, and other transport companies are also willing to provide us with some help.”

"So don't worry so much, we are irreplaceable!"

"Now what we need to consider is how to make Lance and the Lance family pay the price!"

The guy wearing glasses pushed the frame of his glasses on his nose and said, "I have been paying attention to Lance's movements recently. He has used some means to control the alcohol supply in the entire Likalai State."

Lance did not do this in secret, and anyone who wants to know will find out if they just look for it.

Many small workshops that brew wine privately have already received the news. As well as places that sell alcohol in various places, whether they are bars or anywhere else, as long as they sell alcohol to the outside, Lance has let them know about it.

Can only be bought from him, and can only be sold to Lance.

Ryans had also heard about this matter, and he heard it from Glasses, "Go on."

"Diamond is actively preparing to open up the southern wine market, if, I mean if."

"If there was a group of people in Likalai State who placed an order with Diamond, what do you think they would do?"

Everyone else looked at Glasses with shocked eyes, as if they were shocked that he could come up with such a plan!

After thinking for a while, Ryans nodded slightly and said jokingly, "It seems that going to school is still somewhat useful!"

The Diamond that Glasses mentioned is Diamond Perez, one of the most powerful top gangsters in the Federation. He is a Residenyan, one of the early immigrant groups in the Federation and can be said to be a branch of the old Federation people.

It’s just that the ancestors of the Perez family…did not appear in the painting like the ancestors of other big families. Even if they were just standing in the corner, their complete appearance could hardly be depicted. None of his ancestors did that.

While those masters were busy running for the establishment of the Union, his ancestors were doing illegal business, so that crime runs through the entire history of the Perez family. During the slave liberation movement, the Perez brothers formed a slave-catching team to capture escaped slaves and sell them for money.

Gradually, these people made some money, and they began to arm themselves to make themselves stronger, so that they could capture more slaves, exchange them for more money, and build a more powerful force.

They did so at the time and thought so, but some deviations occurred during the execution process.

After they grasped the guns tightly in their hands, some subtle changes occurred in their thinking.

Those people walking on the road, do you say they are slaves or citizens?

At that time, the older brother of the Perez brothers proposed a method of judgment: if these people could not prove that they were not slaves, then they must be slaves!

As for why there were slaves with light skin, it might be because they had been mixed race for too long. Although their skin color looked light, their bloodline could not be escaped.

Using this method, they frantically turned all the people with slightly darker skin in their sight into slaves, completing the primitive accumulation for the family's rise.

Over the next few decades, they continued to grow stronger, bolder and more cautious, and soon became one of the few evil forces in the central region of the Federation.

Like the capitalists, they work for Congress while trying to infiltrate Congress. They have several representatives in Congress, and their criminal business spans dozens of lines!

This naturally includes wine, which has been very profitable recently.

They also found a licensed winery to cooperate with. The winery produced the wine, and in addition to meeting the military's orders, it focused on selling the rest through its own channels.

In fact, Congress and the military also know that these wineries do not make much money from these wines, and they also know that some of them are secretly selling wine.

As long as these people don't go too far and blatantly sell their products, Congress will just pretend not to see it.

What they lose, they have to make up from somewhere else. This is the way to cooperate.

If a mafia heirloom, the Perez family, placed a large order for alcohol, would he accept it or not.

Does Lance allow their liquor into Likalai State, or does he not allow their liquor into Likalai State?
This becomes a problem.

Wearing glasses and analyzing his plan, Ryans and others were very satisfied.

"As long as the Perez family takes action against Lance, we can assist them. This way, we can explain to the higher-ups and make Lance and his people repent in hell for what they did!"

After listening to it, Ryans pondered for a while and said, "Yes, it is indeed a good idea. Let's do it!"

He didn't ask why bars or gangs would order alcohol from the Perez family. Someone would do that anyway. Even if no one did it, some would come up with some to do it.

Lance was not aware of what was happening in Xinjin City. The filming of "Sneak Attack on Jin Port" had already begun in earnest.

In recent years, because Jingang City is close to Xigu City, sometimes the filming teams from Xigu City will come to Jingang City to shoot.

In particular, some casino content clips were shot almost all in Jingang Casino.

People have become accustomed to seeing a group of people suddenly appear, chasing after a few actors with various cameras.

At first they would watch in surprise and even disrupt the order on the set.

But as more and more people were arrested for causing trouble, the filming environment has improved a lot now.

At the beginning of the film, people must feel the leisure and beauty of Jingang City.

It just so happens that this is the right season. When Barbara appeared in the picture wearing a bright red sleeveless long dress and a straw hat, and her skirt rustled in the wind, the feeling of summer seeped into people's hearts.

The two directors watched and chatted with Lance, "Barbara is a very good actress. She acted very relaxed."

"Many actors, even if they have participated in many shoots, will still unconsciously look in the direction of the camera or be distracted by the camera."

"Barbara doesn't have any of that. She acts clean and pure, and we can feel that she enjoys being exposed in front of the camera."

Lance didn't quite understand what they were saying about the experiences that only artists could have. He just looked at Barbara in the venue. She was indeed very relaxed.

No matter the movements or anything else, expressions or dialogue, everything is very relaxed and not nervous at all. This is a very good state for shooting.

Barbara walked out of the guest room by the sea, the sea breeze lifting her long skirt. She held the hem of her skirt with one hand and held a camera with the other, walking towards the distance.

She played the role of a female reporter. The two failed feminist movements in the Federation did not leave nothing behind, at least they won freedom for women in movies.

There were almost no female photographers in the past, and young women who could afford photography were most likely not interested in it.

People who are interested in this may not necessarily be able to afford a camera.

This rarely seen character caught people's attention right from the start, and coupled with her good figure and pretty face, both directors were very satisfied with the resulting pictures.

The filming was very intense, because Lance wanted the film to be released around the Feast of the Holy Farmer, which meant that they only had three months at most for the entire filming, and they also had to prepare for the "sea battle" and the "landing battle", both of which were large-scale scenes.

Fortunately, there is a large group of cheap labor in Jingang City. For just one dollar, they are willing to work for Lance for a whole day.

During this process, many small wine-making workshops came to us and said that they would cooperate with Lans and sell wine only to Lans.

For Lance, it is not important whether or not to make a written document for this kind of thing, because he believes that these people would not dare to lie to him. At least they would not use their own lives as bargaining chips to deceive Lance.

The entire state's liquor market was cleaned up thoroughly, and some small wine-making workshops that were unwilling to cooperate and believed they could make a living elsewhere moved out of Jingang City.

Lance has also set up offices in various cities, including towns, to record the exact number of bottles of wine consumed in these areas each month.

In this way, Lance firmly controls the entire liquor market in Likalai State.

The film also filmed a climax in the early stage of the film, when the Dantra Navy began to bombard the Golden Port City...

(End of this chapter)