Chapter 1084: Gambling and meeting

Gambling and meeting. "Jeffery and the others have expanded their influence in the Congress very quickly...", at the side of a gambling table in a room, a man who looked to be in his fifties, with a square face and graying hair, said such a sentence while looking down at the poker in his hand.

He seemed to have focused all his attention on the gambling table, but also seemed to be focused on the chat. Then he put down the poker in his hand and took out a few chips and threw them into the betting area.

"I found someone to do an investigation. The reason for the rapid expansion of Jeffery's influence lies in the fact that he went to Jincheng, and everything happened after that."

He looked at the next family on his left hand, "This person Lansi White is a bit interesting."

The one on his left was also a middle-aged or elderly federal male of about the same age. He had also looked at the poker in his hand and picked up a few chips of the same denomination and threw them into the betting area, "Follow."

After saying this sentence, he also followed the topic of the gray-haired man, "The Jincheng gambling city and Lansi's wine, as well as income from other aspects, more than half of which flowed into the pockets of Jeffery and his group."

"I heard that the benefits transported by Jincheng and Lansi himself every year might exceed one hundred million federal Sol. This sum of money is enough to support them to do anything they want to do."

The other gentleman sitting opposite them continued his words, "So if you want to stop their influence from continuing to expand and inflate, you must first solve the problem of Lansi White constantly transporting benefits."

The first person to speak nodded, "Everything is based on interests. If these people cannot transport so many benefits to them, they cannot maintain the scale of their team now."

"You know, everything needs money!"

"Rent, staff wages, various expenses, maintenance costs, and various items they came up with that I don't know where or how they thought of!"

"Can you imagine?"

"They cut their fingers because of paper, and then gave me a hospital receipt for one hundred and fifty dollars!"

People around the gambling table couldn't help laughing, some continued to follow, and some folded.

Their laughter was because everyone had experienced such things as making up names to take money from their pockets.

Like a water cup worth twenty dollars, a coffee machine worth several thousand, who hasn't experienced such things? But they won't break this game rule that everyone knows but doesn't say, because they will also get some money from it.

These money all come from those capitalists who support them, or some... legal or illegal operators who have bound interest relationships. They transport benefits to these people's hands and obtain stable returns from them.

On political trends, policy changes, and necessary help when needed.

Everyone is like this. Wanting to expand one's influence, in the Congress, is actually very simple, that is, having a certain status, and then spending money.

The Senate of the Congress itself represents the top political status and status. They possess this innately, but money is still a bit difficult to get.

Senator Cleveland has the support of Lansi and some capitalists. The people behind these people also have similar groups supporting them, but their supporters don't give as much or as frequently as the gold masters behind Senator Cleveland.

Like Lansi, who can contribute a scale of one hundred million in donations every year, there is not one. Without money in hand, it is very difficult to satisfy some people's pursuit of material desires, and how can they get people's support and help?

Joining the small group of Senator Cleveland, as long as you can join, the minimum guarantee every year is tens of thousands or millions of legal income, and it is possible to have more.

But joining their side, maybe twenty or thirty thousand income a year, and at most fifty or sixty thousand.

Several times the gap, when everyone is nominally equal in power, whoever can give more money can naturally get more people's support.

Politics needs money, and it is a lot of money. From the beginning of the party nomination election, one has to spend money constantly.

The federal political ecological environment allows for voting, and even in the Congress, they will specifically give participants a time and space to vote.

Promising favors is the last resort, and most of the time, spending money is the core way of voting.

So, having money equals having power.

And having greater power will have more power, which is a constantly circulating process.

Can go up, can also go down.

A circle around the gambling table returned to the position of the first gray-haired man. One of the guys who folded started to place public cards. "Lansi Poker" has become a phenomenal game play, applied more in the entire Federation, especially in high-end occasions.

Gambling and entertainment are taken into account, and it can be played very big, which is what people like.

The gray-haired man glanced at the public cards on the table and took out a few chips and threw them on.

He pulled out a cigarette from the gemstone-inlaid cigarette case and lit it for himself, "I recently chatted with Roland, he will find a way to clean up Lansi White and these people."

"If he can do this, I have already promised him that I will not have any changes to his position after I take office, and I will not even intervene in the work arrangements within the Federal Bureau of Investigation."

Hearing this, the gentlemen around the table all showed some unexpected expressions.

"Can he do it?", someone immediately questioned the ability of Director Roland (director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation), "He didn't show this ability before, and Lansi has Jeffery and these people behind him. I heard that another life-tenured judge has fallen to them."

"If you can't let their attention move away from Lansi, and restrain the power they abuse, even if Roland has the opportunity to do it, it is very likely that he will be called to stop in the end."

"After all, this involves such a large benefit transportation problem. It has too many links, and every link has people benefiting. If you do this, you are challenging the entire interest system on Jeffery's side."

From their conversation, it is not difficult to see that the gray-haired man thinks he has a great possibility of winning, so this is an internal gathering of the Liberal Party.

The gray-haired man is one of the nominated candidates. The reason he has confidence in winning among the nominated candidates, besides his two ancestors appearing in that oil painting.

He himself is a very powerful political force within the Liberal Party now. With the previous inappropriate means of the current president, the Liberal Party has also begun to receive more attention from voters in recent years, and naturally, their influence in the political arena is also constantly expanding.

This gray-haired man has been preparing for this moment. As long as there are no other accidents, he will very likely win.

Facing the questions of his friends at the same table, he seemed not to care so much, "Although Jeffery and the others are very strong, this does not mean that they can become the only will in the Congress. Haven't you discovered it?"

"As their influence gets stronger and stronger, more and more people in the Congress are disgusted with them!"

"This is a trend, a trend, no one likes a group or individual with ruling power to appear in such a place!"

These few sentences received the approval of all the gentlemen around the gambling table. Senator Cleveland's performance in the Congress is getting stronger and stronger, so he is getting less and less liked by people.

He can now be said to have mastered the veto power. From the perspective of their political interest group, this is a good thing. Any bill they don't want to pass will be stopped here.

But from the other side, they are standing on the opposite side of everyone else outside their interest group.

To put it nicely, they can conduct interest transactions or interest exchanges to achieve the passage of certain proposals, but between friends, between good friends, will they use such a way? They distinguish "me" and "them" too clearly. The stronger they are, the stronger the resistance force will be, although it might not be seen clearly now.

But with the change of term election, after the new president takes office, the seats in the Congress need to be readjusted, and Senator Cleveland's political interest group will be challenged.

And this is also why Senator Cleveland thinks they only allow Liberal Party people to govern for four years, because the time is too long, and after eight years, the variables will be too big.

In four years, the variables will be much smaller. Their control over the Congress will still be very strong. At this time, pushing their own president to take office can maintain their rule over the Congress until after twelve years!

Or even longer!

This is almost no different from standing at the peak for a lifetime. They have been there for a period of time! The multiple parties of the game actually know very well at this time, so they are also constantly using their means to profit for themselves at this time. When everyone's demands at a certain stage have common points, they can see a harmonious Congress—

Pushing the Liberal Party to take office.

But this harmony cannot be maintained for long.

The next family of the gray-haired man hesitated, and finally threw the poker in his hand onto the table, "If you say Roland can do these things, then everything is established, but I am very worried that Roland cannot do these things."

The gray-haired man shrugged indifferently, "If he can't do it, change him, someone will always be able to do it."

"Letting the Federal Bureau of Investigation increase the centralization of power for the central government is the core goal of the Congress. Even Jeffery and the others will not change this idea, which means 'de-gangsterization' will become a long-term goal."

"I noticed that Lansi White and this group of people are actively washing white, which is actually a good thing for us."

"A crab stretches out its two pincers, which will make us worry about whether we will get hurt when catching it."

"But if it breaks its own pincers, then we don't need to worry about these."

"Gangs washing white and losing the violence that makes us fear is when they walk into a dead end themselves."

His expression was a bit scattered, but the gentlemen sitting around the gambling table knew very well the meaning of these words he said.

Washing white for bottom-level gangs is a general trend. The de-gangsterization proposal has been passed, which will become a long-term law enforcement work.

Only by washing white can these gangs continue to hold their wealth and status stably. But once they are not gangs, they become enterprises, even if they are enterprises that can't distinguish between gray and white, their life and death are not up to them.

It is not an easy thing to handle a large-scale gang, such as a group like the five major families of the Federation.

Take the Perez family as an example. If you count the peripheral members, the number of people in this gang might be tens of thousands or more.

How difficult is it to deal with so many people? But if they become an enterprise, need a policy, a few adjustments, they will go bankrupt.

Forcing gangs to transform, letting them enter the game system of the federal government, and then eliminating them, is a very clever and easy-to-use method. These people in the federal government are too familiar with this set of game methods!

They started playing like this very early.

With the fourth public card issued, a smile appeared on the gray-haired man's face, and he invested a part of the chips again.

"After Lansi White and this guy are solved, we can free up our hands to deal with Jeffery and those people. I believe many people will be willing to join us in dismembering them."

"After all, they have mastered too much power in these few years, and they have offended too many people."

Others nodded one after another, agreeing with his point of view.

In the Congress, the top ruling organ of the Federation, a force being too strong will not make others submit, but will only bring targeting, attacks, and conspiratorial subversion.

With the last card issued, the gray-haired man pushed all the chips on his desktop out. There were probably several tens of thousands of dollars here.

Others looked at him pushing the table without hesitation and shook their heads, throwing the poker in their hands onto the table.

This allowed the gray-haired man to get all the chips without showing his cards. He laughed and circled the chips in front of him, and then with a slightly proud expression and emotion, he threw the two cards in his hand hard onto the table and showed them to everyone.

The gentlemen around the table saw his cards and couldn't help but show surprised expressions, and some even cursed, because his card face was the smallest among all the players' hole cards on the table, as well as the card types combined.

He stole a victory that didn't belong to him like a thief!

But perhaps, this is the greatest charm of Lansi Poker and gambling! Soon a new round of games started on the table, and the things they discussed also became other things.

For them, this is the process of discussing some work matters, and at the same time, they can pass the time, play cards, have some wins and losses, and obtain some emotional value.

Sometimes being able to influence the policies of the entire Federation is determined, submitted, and passed by them in such an environment, between wins and losses.

At the same time, in the study of that senior agent supervisor, after hesitating again and again, he decided to meet Lansi.

Lansi's words made him feel some discomfort and uneasiness, and the feeling of uneasiness was more.

Since they decided to take Lansi as the first target to act on, as well as the Perez family, then they must definitely do all kinds of homework for these two gangs in advance.

In understanding Lansi's past, he found a problem—

Lansi is like God's illegitimate child, either his luck is very good, or he can always think of the emergence of some problems earlier, and prepare solutions earlier.

So except for the beginning, when the Lansi family started, they often encountered accidents and dangers, but from the time they grew up, their whole development process was very smooth.

And the accidents and dangers in the early stage were not because they couldn't think of it, mainly because the influence was too small and the strength was too weak.

Whether at the gambling table or in reality, using capital to hurt people has always been the most unsolvable attack method for "poor people."

That Lansi and his family could survive this shows that they are definitely not ordinary.

In the mind of this senior agent supervisor, this person Lansi White can rank in the top three among all gang leaders in the Federation.

If given another opportunity to develop, he might become a legend in the underground world, someone who cannot be ignored, and will become a history of the Federation!

"Are you going out?", he had just dressed and came to the living room, and his wife, who was watching TV, sat up from the sofa.

Although she was used to her husband sometimes going out to work at night, seeing him go out so late, she was ultimately a bit worried.

After all, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is different from before. They used to be a group of clowns, but now their work has begun to become dangerous.

The senior agent supervisor nodded, "There are some materials at the investigation bureau that I forgot, I'll go get them back, and I'll be back soon."

Hearing this, his wife finally felt relieved and lay back down, "Bring me some coffee and food when you come back, remember to add more salad dressing!"

The senior agent supervisor nodded, said "Good," and left home without looking back.

He lied, mainly because he didn't want his wife to worry, and also because he was afraid that this outing would become a stain on his career. If his wife didn't know what he went to do, even if he encountered some inducement, he wouldn't reveal any flaws.

He drove the car and didn't go directly to the place agreed with Lansi, but first went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and registered a time at the gate.

The gatekeeper wouldn't ask these senior agent consultants too carefully. After all, they are the true core members of this organization.

So when he filled in the time in the registration book, he deliberately wrote the wrong time by ten minutes. He believed that ten minutes was enough for him and Lansi to talk.

After a while, he left here and went to the place agreed with Lansi...

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