Chapter 213: Greeting in Advance, Buying a Piece of Land, and a Phone Call

Wofuli, who hung up the phone, bit his cigarette and sat back at the gambling table. He picked up the cards stuck on the table, glanced at the others, bit the cigarette holder with his teeth, tilted his head, and narrowed his eyes, "Whose turn is it to speak now?"

Wofuli is Fleming's cousin. His father and Bandi are brothers. Although Bandi Koda currently controls the entire Koda family, Wofuli's father can also be considered half a patriarch.

The relationship between the two brothers is very good. They are the last batch of people who experienced the turmoil in New Jincheng. They are not only brothers, but also have hardships of living and dying together, so they trust each other very much.

Consequently, they also hope that their children can continue to manage the family together like them.

Wofuli is responsible for managing the gangster side. He has no talent for schooling, but he has some talent for gambling.

And Fleming has good learning ability, so he was arranged to go to university, and Fleming is responsible for the company's affairs.

Bandi hopes that the brothers can shine together and ensure the continuation of the Koda family.

He has no great ambition, and he is satisfied as long as he can stabilize for a hundred years.

As for whether it can be done, he feels that there is great hope.

Wofuli is thirty-four years old this year. He has a side part, and his dark brown hair is covered with enough hair wax. The traces left by the comb have not changed at all.

At this time, he is wearing a dark shirt, with a beige vest on the outside, and the golden pocket watch chain shaking on his chest swings back and forth with his movements.

There are some gentlemen with status at the table. This is a private gambling game. The Koda family will be responsible for organizing the gambling game and a series of work.

Some people don't like to play at the casino's gambling table, or they don't trust those dealers. They always feel that the dealers will do some tricks, and it is difficult to win money from the dealers.

So they hope to play with other players, at least other players will not be so professional!

As long as they have this idea, the Koda family will help them match the cards.

They provide all services from organizing the card game to the end of the card game. The gambling game will be arranged in the Koda family's casino, the Bay Area villa, the beach area sunroom, or any villa by the sea.

They can arrange beautiful dealers and provide all gambling games and chips.

And the price is a venue fee of two hundred to two thousand dollars, and a 3% service fee is charged from the winner for each game.

When 3% is less than one dollar, it is calculated as one dollar.

It sounds like a lot, but for truly rich people, they don't think it's unreasonable.

After all, the service fee is obtained from the winner, not from the loser.

For those who win money, they may win tens or hundreds, and they are very happy to give a few dollars in service fees.

This is a private gambling game. Wofuli likes to play cards, and he has some amazing talent in this regard.

The person sitting opposite him smiled and said, "It's your turn to speak."

Wofuli swept across the faces of these people, picked up two chips with a face value of five hundred and threw them onto the table, "One thousand dollars.", he said, seeming to think of something, and threw two more chips with a face value of five hundred, "Add another thousand."

"Wofuli, playing so big right from the start?"

Wofuli smiled, "I have something to do, I need to leave for a while, so I just gamble."

He looked at the cards in his hand, "And my cards are not small, although there is still one card, I believe in myself."

Several other people thought for a while and gave up following the bet.

It's not that they can't afford to follow, but they don't want to raise it too high.

Not long after the card game started, if they piled up thousands of dollars at this time, the card game would lose control after two or three hours.

Watching others choose to give up, Wofuli smiled and asked the dealer to collect his chips. He won about two hundred dollars on the table.

"I'll be back later, you play first..."

After he left, others asked to see Wofuli's hand cards, and the dealer satisfied their request.

Looking at the smallest cards in their hands, Wofuli won two hundred dollars from them. These people were all crying and laughing.

Looking at this card, it's better not to look.

Wofuli drove back to the office and found his cousin who was responsible for doing dirty work in the family.

Whether it is the Koda family or the Pasleto family, or the other three families.

Most of the middle and high-level cadres in their organizational structure are held by family members with blood relationships, because they know very well that most people in criminal organizations are actually unreliable.

But compared to people without blood relationships, people with blood relationships are a little more trustworthy, because betraying strangers will not be blamed too much, but betraying relatives, even if this person is right, will be blamed morally.

"Ailike, that bitch-born mongrel, hurt Fleming. He has a nightclub and several bars in the Empire District. You take people to fix them."

Wofuli's cousin considered it, "No problem, but I heard that the Lans family in the Empire District has been very popular recently. Will they have anything to do with Ailike?"

Hearing his cousin say this, Wofuli's brows immediately twisted. This was the second time he had specifically heard about the Lans family.

He had heard of it before, but they were all guests chatting casually, and he was not interested in this.

The five major families have ruled New Jincheng for many years. There are twenty or thirty large gangs in the entire New Jincheng. If you count the buds of gangs like street families, then there may be hundreds or thousands here!

As for unifying a district?

Wofuli didn't want to waste time to understand the "countryside" of the Empire District. Before entering the city center, Starlight District, and Bay Area, he had no interest in understanding these rising and falling small gangs.

But hearing this gang from his cousin's mouth again, he had a little interest in understanding, "Are they very powerful?"

His cousin didn't know how to answer this question, "They fixed the Kamila gang in a very short time, and now they have driven the Red Dog Gang out of their territory, and have completed the unification of the Empire District forces."

"Although there are not many people, they are very united.", this is his understanding of the Lans family, or this is the understanding of this group of people in the entire New Jincheng.

Wofuli didn't care at all. When he began to contact and operate "family business," he knew how deep the Koda family's strength was.

"Can't you fix them?"

His cousin scratched his head, "They are not our opponents, but I heard they work for Paul."

Paul is the name of Mr. Pasleto.

This made Wofuli pay a little attention. The most disturbing thing about the Pasleto family is the gunmen from Sumuli.

Alcohol, tobacco, and gunmen are the specialties there.

It has been circulating in the Federation for a long time—don't provoke Sumuli people at will. No matter where you are, they will always find you and give you a shot.

This is also one of the reasons why the Pasleto family can stand firm in New Jincheng. Their gunmen who succeeded one after another in the early stage indeed made people feel troublesome.

Wofuli can look down on Lans and his Lans family, but he cannot underestimate the Pasleto family. He thought for a while, "Continue to do as I said, I will communicate with Paul."

His cousin knew that it must be moving, so he nodded, "You have a count in your heart, I'm going to prepare now."

Mobilizing gunmen, thugs, and distributing guns and ammunition, as well as mobilizing vehicles, all need time.

In fact, the actions of large gangs are not like what people imagine. They make a decision, and then they rush up without organization or arrangement.

They need to be planned and arranged before they enter actual work.

In the afternoon, Lans took Haila Mu to look at a piece of land in the Port District. This piece of land used to be a small import and export trade company. It also had a warehouse, covering about six hundred square meters, which could build a cinema.

Recently, with the box office of the first sound film constantly creating new highs, many people have noticed the film industry.

Before, capital was not keen on investing in the film industry because this industry had low output. Except for those who really liked it, no one was willing to do this.

Calculated by five cents for a movie ticket, even if one million people watched this movie, the box office was only fifty thousand dollars.

At this time, the Federation had about 110 million people. Assuming that one in ten people watched this movie, that is, ten million people watched this movie.

Then the box office was only five hundred thousand.

But in fact, it is impossible for so many people to watch, because in some backward areas in the West, there are no cinemas at all, and in some poor areas, people don't even want to give five cents to the cinema.

But calculated by a box office of five hundred thousand, after removing the part they shared with the cinema, the production company could get at most two or three hundred thousand, taking a median value, two hundred and fifty thousand.

Two hundred and fifty thousand needs to pay taxes, and taxes have to take away a small half, leaving only one hundred and fifty thousand.

This one hundred and fifty thousand, after deducting costs and the needs of various links, when it appears in the report in the form of net profit, only a few tens of thousands are left.

But in fact, not all movies are so popular, with ten million people watching.

The reason why the film industry doesn't make money is actually caused by "watching movies for five cents."

Previously, the media touted that the federal film industry was developing rapidly. They proposed the saying of "the Federation produces one thousand movies every year," which shocked the whole world!

Making everyone feel that the Federation is a country with equally highly developed civilization and economy.

But in fact, 90% of the so-called "movies" in this period refer to those movies from ten minutes to twenty minutes.

These silent films play for a while and then play dialogue screens. Maybe their actual content is only eight or nine minutes.

In this case, filmmakers shouted the slogan of "watching movies for five cents," causing the entire federal film industry to enter an involution era.

But fortunately, now this situation seems to be broken. The first sound film brought not only the reform of the film industry, but also the normalization of ticket prices.

Capital will never change its pathological demand for profit, so they will start to invest in this field.

In fact, from the perspective of grabbing profits alone, selling private alcohol surpasses 99% of industries, but people cannot always stare at illegal businesses.

As society gradually begins to stabilize, some things will eventually exit the historical stage.

And the role of cinemas is more than that.

"Mr. Lans, the situation here is roughly like this. If you want it, I only need fifteen thousand dollars, and it will be yours."

The manager of the trade company looked helpless. It can be seen that this place should have been very busy, with many desks and many filing cabinets.

Lans sat opposite him, looking at the warehouse outside, a little curious, "Why can't you operate it?"

"This question is a bit presumptuous, you can not answer."

The manager looked very indifferent, "We lost a large sum of money in the financial market, and we no longer have more funds to maintain the company's operation, so you see."

There are no employees here, and the warehouse is left with some garbage, everything has become empty.

After talking about this topic, he seemed to have a lot to say.

"At first we made a little money, Mr. Lans, I don't know if you have any research on stocks?", looking at Lans nodding, he continued, "Then you should understand the feeling of getting rich overnight."

"We initially invested five thousand dollars, and in less than a week it became more than thirty thousand..."

Lans could already guess the next story. The short-term windfall brought by the financial market made their eyes red, and then they invested more money.

The most important thing for a trade company is cash flow. Reasonable use of funds to make funds continuously roll to generate profits is the core profit model of a trade company.

But the windfall brought by the financial field is too crazy. They invested more funds in the financial market instead of continuing to operate their trade business.

Accompanied by rounds of harvesting, their money eventually became "past tense," so much so that they needed to sell the industry here to exchange for a part of the funds.

Lans could even imagine that after giving them this fifteen thousand dollars, they would invest in the stock market again, trying to earn back all the lost money.

But in the end, they are likely to become penniless, which is also the result of many people who blindly enter the financial market.

The freer the financial market, the more it is the dining table of capital crocodiles. No one can escape the fate of becoming food.

Lans listened to his story and expressed some sympathy, "I hope this fifteen thousand dollars can help you."

"You agreed to our offer?", he felt incredible. He felt that Lans should bargain again, but Lans didn't have any idea of bargaining, and said this sentence that basically decided the matter.

Lans nodded, "If you support cash payment, I can pay you now."

"But if you want a check, then we have to continue to negotiate on this price."

The manager knew what Lans meant. These gangs are not short of money, they have a lot of cash in their hands, but the money they can use in the bank is not much.

But he didn't care about black money or not, more money is the most important!

"Mr. Lans, we accept cash payment!"

Being able to get a little more money, he wouldn't care whether the tax bureau would investigate him.

They can reinvest this money into the stock market to earn more money.

If possible.

The manager had no objection to receiving cash, so this matter was decided, and the rest was for the lawyers to talk about.

Just walking out of this company, Mo Lisi greeted him.

"Anything?"

Mo Lisi nodded, "Just now Alberto called and said that you should return the call as soon as possible, so I found it."

After listening, Lans entered the phone booth on the side of the road and dialed Alberto's number.

"Lans?"

"Yes, is there any urgent matter?"

"I heard about the matter between Ailike and Fleming. The Koda family intends to move against the nightclub and bars. Paul asked me to tell you."

"Don't get involved!"

Lans took a deep breath, "I see, I will ask people to withdraw."

The two chatted about the two friends Alberto brought back, talking about their ugliness during the investigation process in the Federation, which seemed to be a very funny thing!

After chatting for seven or eight minutes, the two ended the call. After walking out of the phone booth, Lans lit a cigarette. He stood on the side of the road looking at the busy city street corner, and turned into the car.

The gentle atmosphere of the city fills every street. Perhaps for ordinary people, this life and rhythm are very comfortable, but for ambitious people, it is too comfortable.

After returning to the nightclub, Lans called Ailike, but it didn't get through.

It wasn't until after ten o'clock in the evening that Ailike called back.

His head was stitched, but he also received the praise of his uncle the mayor. He was proud.

He didn't want to see Shaina these days. On the one hand, he was a bit embarrassed now, and on the other hand, because Shaina suffered such a big loss, he suddenly had... a feeling that he couldn't say.

It's like not wanting to pursue Shaina anymore, suddenly feeling boring.

It's like your favorite magazine. Every time you see it, you can't help but glue it, but occasionally you suddenly feel that this magazine is just like that, there is nothing special, and you don't want to use it.

This is Ailike's feeling at this time, a bit boring.

On the contrary, the things he experienced that night made him feel stimulated, his blood was surging, and he suddenly became obsessed with this feeling.

These two days, Lawyer Aosen introduced him to some new friends from other cities. They also had the special breath of Lans and other gang members.

These people surrounded him, making him a bit floating for a while!

"I heard you have been looking for me?", his tone to Lans was not polite. When he knew that his uncle was going to challenge the local traditional forces, he would not be polite to any locals!

Blowing in the group all afternoon, ate a little, I'm going to eat, and there is one more later. ===== CHAPTER 214 =====

Spent the afternoon bragging in the group, ate a little, I'm going to eat, there will be another update later.