Chapter 777: Mediation

When both sides are evenly matched and are persuaded to stop, it's called mediation.

Then what is it called when one side is unilaterally beating the other and is persuaded to stop?

It's called admitting defeat.

One person is being beaten by another, he doesn't want to continue being beaten, and then calls his elders to stop the person beating him; this is a sign of admitting defeat.

In opposition and fighting, there is no reason to talk about; just do it!

Now, if they don't get back at them and look for someone to mediate, people will only think the Perez family is afraid!

At this time, someone knocked on the door outside again; it was Bob. "Can I come in?"

Fran was just about to speak, but Robin pointed to the newspaper in front of him.

Actually, Fran didn't want to hide the newspaper; he hadn't done anything wrong, but subconsciously, he stuffed "Tide News" into the drawer, fearing these bastards would see it when they came in.

Ensuring there was no problem, he took a deep breath. "Okay, come in."

The door opened, and Bob poked his head in. He looked at Robin first, confirmed there was no one else, and then asked, "They also want to come in."

Fran signaled it was okay, and then Bob pushed the door open, giving up the position blocking the doorway, letting the others in.

Over a dozen people came.

"We found that your breakfast situation wasn't right. What happened?"

Fran looked at Robin; this kind of bad news shouldn't be spoken by his mouth as the head of the family.

Robin shrugged his shoulders. He walked to the window, pushed it open, and lit a cigarette. "Ted is finished."

"And it didn't achieve the result we wanted. Now, if we let the senator mediate, it will give people the feeling that we are not the Lanse family's opponent and are actively seeking peace."

"Those who are waiting to see our jokes will laugh us to death."

The expressions of the people in the room were different. They inquired in detail about the process and results of what happened, and some people left to make calls.

Finally, they confirmed that Ted had indeed rushed into Lanse's manor for Miro and had indeed died there.

"What a stupid fool!" The lawyer brothers pushed up their glasses. "Rushing into someone else's lair on someone else's territory, how was he selected as a direct member?"

Being selected as a direct member must have been agreed upon by most of the people here. A direct family member who mainly pushed this matter interrupted his words and changed the topic. "Discussing these now has no meaning. How should we respond next?"

"Continue to go to war with the Lanse family?"

"Is doing so appropriate?"

"And, will the Congress, the Presidential Palace, allow us to do so?"

He looked at others who also advocated for Ted to be selected as a direct member, and soon they began to discuss these issues, leaving the lawyer brothers' words empty.

The lawyer brothers didn't really want to find trouble for them, just said it casually.

Ted could have done better; for example, he could have fired in the city, creating a huge disturbance.

Even if Lanse had great ability, it would be very difficult to suppress it.

The speed of spontaneous propaganda by the masses is sometimes faster and more outrageous than newspapers.

Maybe they only fired a few shots, and after some people modified it to satisfy their own fantasies, it became their large-scale firefight, and then it became that both sides used explosives, and finally, they might die thousands or tens of thousands of people!

These are all possible; after all, the imagination of the masses is processed on top of the results they hear, and it will only get more and more outrageous!

But Ted was stupid enough to attack Lanse's manor, which can only be said that he was either really too stupid, or his behavioral ability was controlled by hatred.

Or it was that his desire and determination to avenge Lanse had exceeded his loyalty to the family!

No matter which one it was, for the current Perez family, it was a very bad situation.

They must solve the problem as soon as possible, before the situation ferments.

The room fell into gloom. Bob wanted to speak several times, but finally held back.

If this matter had to be blamed on someone, it must be him.

If he hadn't been so confrontational with Lanse, perhaps there wouldn't have been subsequent things.

Fran could see that his good brother Bob had always wanted to say something. "Bob, say the thoughts in your heart."

Everyone's eyes were focused on Bob. His dark circles seemed to become darker, and the only thing that didn't change was his oily hair.

"We can continue to take action against Lanse, this time with more momentum, turning 'we are seeking a senator to mediate and make peace' into 'the senator took the initiative to mediate and make peace for us'."

"Although doing so doesn't necessarily cover up Ted's failure in Jincheng, at least we didn't appear weak!"

"We can gather more people, make the momentum bigger, and naturally they will take the initiative to mediate for us."

"In addition, we can't do nothing during the period after mediation. We must continue to put pressure on the Lanse family."

Fran looked up, thinking, and others were also thinking about these things he said.

Some constructiveness.

This might be the best way for the Perez family to save face now. On one hand, it's telling people they admit a failure but won't accept failure.

By then, gathering over a thousand party members will also be a deterrent to those gangs or forces waiting to see their jokes.

After all, their core is a violent gang, and these people are villains.

They might not be good at fighting on Lanse family's home turf, but they definitely have no problem dealing with others on their own turf.

This is indeed a good method.

Fran put his head down. "What does the second sentence mean?"

This means Bob's first proposal passed.

He let out a sigh of relief. "The second sentence means that although we temporarily make peace with him, we can send people to mess up his business."

Robin frowned. "We don't have any reliable allies in the south, it's hard to deal a blow to the Lanse family's business."

Bob shook his head. "The south doesn't only have them as a gang; there are many gangs."

"This time they crossed the state to burn our farm in Indeno State, which is actually a provocation to the local gangs. We can send people over to persuade them to fight the Lanse family."

"Gentlemen, we don't lack money."

"We can provide them with money, guns, ammunition, anything they want, and they only need to do one thing."

"That is to fight, to fight the Lanse family!"

"We provide them with all the convenience."

"And we can also sell our wine over there."

Everyone fell into thought again. What he said still made some sense.

After all, people who can become Fran's good brothers, besides really being brothers, are at least not fools.

"We can try, but let's not consider it for now."

"The seaside is all smuggled wine, the price is lower than ours, we don't have a market over there."

"Let's mobilize our people first to solve the most difficult problem we currently have, and then consider others."

"Then, does anyone object?" Fran looked at the others. The gentlemen in the room looked at each other and finally shook their heads.

After a few days, news about Ted suffering a big loss in Jincheng and even not being able to return alive began to spread.

The competition between the Lanse family and the Perez family, and the results people guessed, became uncertain again.

The Lanse family didn't look weak at all, having already slapped the Perez family twice, and they had no good way to deal with it.

Also on this day, two large packages from Jincheng made the Perez family fall into rage!

"What is this?"

Robin saw the butler bringing people pushing two small carts walking toward the house, and he asked curiously.

The butler also shook his head. "This was sent from the south, saying it should be opened in front of the master. There is a paper box, and there are some things inside, not very heavy."

"But this large cabinet is very heavy. Could it be that some things are displayed inside?"

The butler's guess was not unreasonable, and the shipping label also wrote "artwork." Maybe there was a glass cabinet inside.

Robin felt curious. The Perez family didn't have any particularly good friends in the south. Who could have sent this?

He didn't know, and wasn't sure, but he wanted to watch the fun. Soon, the things were sent into the house.

Fran also knew about this in advance. He didn't let the butler send it to his study or collection room. What if it wasn't a good thing inside?

So they were unloaded in the hall. Fran stood by the railing on the second floor, looking at the butler in the hall on the first floor with one foot on the ground. "You can open it."

Many family members were gathered here to watch the fun. They opened the small box first.

Inside was a box about one meter square, and inside was flour or some powder, giving people a feeling of being very dry and choking.

At the butler's request, a warrior went to touch it and found nothing special. The butler indicated that he would find someone to figure out what this was.

Then they opened the second cabinet, and immediately they saw the anti-collision frame made of wood, and then they saw the things inside the frame.

A whole set of... I don't know how to say it, anyway, it was a whole set of lifelike equipment supported by special utensils?

Robin was very interested in these things, at least more interested than the white powder in the box next to it.

He walked to the display cabinet, opened the cabinet, and used his hand to touch the things that looked like some animal leather.

A whole set.

A hat, a leather jacket, a pair of leather pants, a leather wallet, and something covered, I don't know what it was.

"What animal's skin is this?" He leaned closer. "Pigskin?"

"Who would use pigskin to make things?"

These leathers went through a complete process because they didn't need coloring, filling, or hardening. After the whole tanning process, they only needed to be made into these shapes according to the form, sewn well, and then put on the model inside, and then dried.

These leathers felt very delicate and didn't look like the roughness of pigskin, and they were soft and tough. Robin had never seen this kind of leather.

Fran on the second floor looked at these things with inexplicable familiarity. Countless memories rolled in his brain. After rolling I don't know how many times, a piece of memory from the deepest part floated to the surface.

That was when he was a child, when he visited his grandfather's exhibits, he saw a set of similar things. At that time, he also tried on those leather boots, and then he asked his grandfather what this was.

"Human leather goods."

He said a sentence, Robin looked back at Fran. "What did you say, I didn't hear clearly."

While he was speaking, he raised his hand to lift the covered thing, and then at the moment he turned his head, this guy who could talk and laugh without blinking even when killing was scared into a scream!

Ted's facial skin was completely peeled off, and some fillers were used inside to make him look like a swollen ball.

It had no eyes, it was hollow, but the more hollow it was, the more scary it was!

Robin cursed a lot of dirty words, crawled back far away, and kept rubbing on the ground with his hands.

Fran's face was ugly to the extreme. Yes, human leather goods, human leather goods made using Ted.

This was not just a mockery for their kind of first-generation immigrant family, it had already risen to the level of personality insult to the family!

This is like a group of dark-skinned people holding guns and stepping on the corpses of old federal people, with faces full of triumphant smiles, absolutely a work that can arouse huge anger!

Plus Ted's "peaceful" face, Fran grabbed something beside him and threw it over. "Fuck, fuck!"

"Burn it, go now!"

While speaking, someone found a string of ears and scalp from the other side...

Huge humiliation!

Lanse clearly wanted to anger them. As long as they were angered and they broke the rules while losing their minds, Senator Cleveland could use official means to cooperate with him and directly overturn the Perez family!

Now that the nest was hit and the bait was dropped, it depended on whether he wanted to hook it.

Everyone in the house who was older knew what this meant. Everyone's face was extremely ugly. In their family's collection room, there were similar things.

That was once a symbol of their ancestors' heroism!

But now, it had become a means to humiliate them!

Almost quickly, the surrounding executives, combat captains, and collateral family members began to gather toward the Perez family manor.

The last time such a large-scale gathering happened was about seventeen or eighteen years ago, when old Perez passed away, Fran had just taken power, and both internal and external problems appeared. The Perez family faced an unexpected challenge.

Then Fran decisively gathered these core backbones of the family and solved the problem with iron-blooded means.

So this time they did this and immediately shocked many people. Many people wanted to know who made Fran lose his mind again, even the senator called him to inquire about these things.

"Lanse must die!"

This was the slogan he gave to the outside world. At first, the senator behind him told him not to overact, but soon found that he didn't seem to be acting, and then realized the seriousness of the matter.

The senator found him and talked to him about staying calm, talked about the current situation in the country, and also talked about if he messed around, Lanse's people would find a reason to clean him up.

In short, he said a lot of things, and finally barely appeased the furious Fran. At the same time, the senator also saw the human leather goods that looked like artwork.

In mid-to-late June, after many days of fermentation, Fran finally represented the Perez family and accepted mediation.

This time no one dared to talk nonsense, and didn't dare to continue to stimulate Fran.

Because they also heard that stopping the Perez family's war footsteps took a lot of effort for some people.

If someone talked nonsense at this time, it would not only offend the Perez family to death, but also offend those who contributed to this matter—

They tried their best to solve the matter. If it was destroyed by someone in a few words, they would definitely hope this person would die more than anyone else!

So the entire social public opinion, especially the public opinion of the underground world, suddenly became very clean!

No one publicly discussed the strength comparison between the Perez family and the Lanse family, nor did anyone mention that they did nothing after two failures. Suddenly everyone closed their mouths.

This time mediation Lanse didn't need to meet Fran. Both sides were conducted through agents. They didn't have any coverage in territory or business. Both sides just expressed that this matter was considered turned over, which was all.

But everyone knew that this matter wouldn't be turned over, just paused.

The Perez family couldn't take action against the Lanse family's industry for no reason, and Lanse also told Fran the identity information of the mastermind.

Actually, he didn't know if that was true, but he believed his guess was correct.

Fran, who got the news, couldn't wait to get back face from the Death Angel. For a time, many "accidents" occurred in the central region of the Federation, causing many casualties.

And there were more than one firefight on the invisible interstate highway.

After the matter was solved, Tang Mu took the initiative to call Lanse to ask about his final idea for this matter.

"I have tried to anger them, but these people are very calm, much calmer than those I met before."

Tang Mu said, "You mean what they showed this time is fake?"

"I'm not sure, but I know they very likely didn't think about launching a comprehensive gang war."

Tang Mu was thoughtful. "I will mention this to the senator."

He paused. "In short, you still have to be careful."

"In addition, the senator is a bit interested in your movie."

Some rumors about Lanse filming a movie finally reached Jinzhou, and the Navy also participated in the filming. This was the first time in history!

And it is said that this script is Lanse's, and Lanse himself is the producer. They are very curious about what kind of story a gang leader can tell for them.

As long as it wasn't Lanse directing, they wouldn't feel it couldn't be watched. If it was Lanse directing, Senator Cleveland might have called him long ago to tell him not to mess around.

Lanse didn't reveal the answer. "The progress of filming is very fast, and it can be released earlier than I expected. Maybe we can catch up with the summer vacation."

The speed of filming is fast, which completely depends on the funds he invested, which has exceeded 1.5 million. This is currently the undisputed highest-cost movie in the Federation, and even the world!

Giving one person's things to ten people to do, naturally it won't be too slow!

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