Chapter 575 Joins Hongmen
Every U.S. presidential election is always like a national speech conference, with candidates touring various states in the United States, promising every voter that they will bring them a better life and employment opportunities.
In addition, there are TV speeches, including various media exposures, which require huge money to support, and it is definitely a big joke to run for president in the United States without money.
Therefore, in addition to the earliest presidents of the United States in Washington, the subsequent presidential campaigns always have a huge think tank team behind them, and certain consortia are providing huge campaign funds for the candidates.
As the saying goes, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and the presidential election is like this.
In foreign countries, organized underworld has always been based on the illegal intake of black income, and a strict gang system coupled with clear distribution of rewards and punishments can make the organization develop and grow.
For example, Mexican gangsters are mainly engaged in drug trafficking, and occasionally participate in human smuggling business, while the Canadian mafia that infiltrates the United States is mostly engaged in the pornography and processing industries, and drugs are also one of their main sources of income.
Although among these gangs, there is also a pyramid system, and those huge wealth are often held by a very small number of people, but it is undeniable that even ordinary gang members can enjoy treatment far beyond that of company white-collar workers.
Of course, these treatments are all exchanged for them at the price of their lives or freedom, so any higher-ranking member of the gang will not and does not dare to easily touch the interests of the grassroots members of the gang, and will try to improve their treatment as much as possible, all of which requires a lot of money as a basis.
And a super gang like Hongmen, which has existed for hundreds of years and has hundreds of thousands of children, the role of money is even more important, because many forces in the sect are operating some profit-making industries themselves, and the huge profits bred by these industries are maintaining their status.
If the superiors cannot bring them more generous benefits, then even a super boss in the Hongmen like Lei Zhenyue will not be able to get their support, not to mention that Lei Hu is only Lei Zhenyue's son, and his prestige is not enough to convince the public.
Originally, Lei Zhenyue thought that with his prestige, he could successfully let his son ascend to the throne, but later he found that although the big guys in Hongmen respected him very much, everyone did not buy it in this matter.
The attitude of the elders in the door made the old and strong Lei Zhenyue have a pimple in his heart, and the elder Lei Da, who has never been selfish in his life, held a breath in his heart and resolutely sent his son Lei Hu to the position of the leader of Hongmen.
The first door rule in Hongmen is that it is strictly forbidden to kill each other, so although Lei Zhenyue is still in charge of the most elite armed force in Hongmen, he cannot use it to help his son ascend to the throne of the sect master, and he can only follow the rules, so at this time, strong financial resources become crucial.
In fact, based on the relationship between Lei Zhenyue and the Song family, as long as he makes a request, the Song family will definitely support it, which itself is also in the interests of the overseas Song family.
But what is wrong is that Song Weilan basically stayed in China last year, handing over the group's affairs to the few subordinates she trusted the most, and looking for a trustworthy custody fund, which is relatively less connected to Hongmenzhong.
Lei Zhenyue once sent two invitations to Song Weilan, but Song Weilan did not go to the United States, but only instructed his subordinates to deal with it as appropriate.
However, the funds needed by Lei Zhenyue were quite huge, and those professional managers under her had no authority to allocate money at all, so they naturally rejected Lei Zhenyue's request, and did not inform Song Weilan of this matter afterwards.
Lei Zhenyue, who was rejected, was very angry at the time, coupled with the deliberate provocation of some Song family children, he did not ask Song Weilan or Song Haotian for verification, but was ready to teach Song Weilan, an ungrateful niece, a lesson in his own way.
The custody fund was arranged by Song Xiaolong, and then recommended by Lei Zhenyue to Song Weilan, Song Weilan, who had no defense against Lei Zhenyue, so he did so.
After tens of billions of dollars of investment, after various means, this huge amount of money was reasonably and legally transferred to a company controlled by Song Xiaolong and others, and it was precisely because of this matter that Song Weilan rushed to the United States, wanting to explain to Lei Zhenyue in person.
After listening to Du Fei's explanation, Ye Tian pondered for a while and asked: "Mom, can I recover the money lost from this investment?"
Song Weilan shook her head and said, "I can't get it back, but I can terminate the custody relationship with that fund and hold them legally responsible!"
After a pause, Song Weilan continued: "Xiaotian, Mom doesn't care whether the money can be recovered, she just wants to explain it to Uncle Lei, after all, the Lei and Song families have also had a friendship for more than half a century, and this money should be regarded as some compensation made by Mom to Uncle Lei."
For Song Weilan, since she decided to quit the business world to be a good wife and mother, money and career are really not very important to her, and the reason why she still has nostalgia for the business empire she built with her own hands is just out of a responsibility to let those who followed her to fight the world have a good home.
"Wei Lan, I don't think you need to see Uncle Lei, in fact, after this incident, I visited him and explained the matter, but for him, he will never regret what he has done, even if he is wrong, he will go to the dark one by one."
Du Fei is Lei Zhenyue's nephew, and he knows his character very well, like them, the older generation, who regard face as bigger than the sky, and want him to apologize to Song Weilan, that is almost impossible.
"One way to the dark? Why, you still want to leave my mother here?"
After hearing Du Fei's words, Ye Tian's pupils couldn't help but contract, since he arrived in the United States, he had a sense of crisis, but he didn't expect the danger to come from Hongmen, which made Ye Tian feel quite unhappy.
"I know one thing about the agreement between Song Xiaolong and Lei Hu, they want your mother to hand over all the shares that belong to her, and then the two of them will divide these shares equally, and the company will be run by Song Xiaolong......"
Du Fei sighed, looked at Song Weilan and said: "I didn't let you come before, just because I was afraid that they would put you under house arrest.
No matter how white Hongmen is now, they still can't escape the rules of the gangs, and at some point they will not hesitate to use some means to achieve their goals, even if those methods are very unclear.
Du Fei had lived with Song Haotian for a while since he was a child, and his relationship with the Song family was closer than that of Lei Zhenyue.
"My mother is under house arrest? Who wants to do this?" Ye Tian sneered when he heard this, "Is it Lei Zhenyue or Lei Hu, or was it proposed by Song Xiaolong?"
For Ye Tian, his reverse scale is his family, Lei Zhenyue designed Song Weilan for wealth, Ye Tian was not very angry, but if he wanted to hurt Song Weilan, it would definitely be a taboo against Ye Tian.
Du Fei thought for a while and said: "It was Song Xiaolong who proposed it, this matter was planned by him and Lei Hu, and Uncle Lei may not know about it."
"How did Xiaolong, this child, become like this?"
Song Weilan is also a person who has seen strong winds and waves, and in her early years, when she was in the ups and downs of the business sea, she experienced a more sinister environment than at this time, she was not afraid, but a little sad.
At that time, Song Weilan poured all her thoughts and feelings for her son into Song Xiaolong, and it can be said that she treated him like a parent and son.
But Song Weilan never expected that Song Xiaolong had calculated his son first, and now he had attacked himself again, could it be that the kindness of more than ten years of nurturing was really worthless in his eyes?
"Mom, you should understand that greed is one of the original sins of people."
Seeing his mother's sad look, Ye Tian gently hugged Song Weilan's shoulders, turned his face to look at Du Fei, and asked: "Is Song Xiaolong in San Francisco? , where are Lei Hu and the others?"
"Song Xiaolong heard that you were coming the day before yesterday, so he left San Francisco, and his air ticket itinerary should be back to Africa."
Calculating his aunt with outsiders, if this matter spreads, even if Song Xiaolong can get those shares, it will be difficult for him to fully control that business empire, after all, many important positions in this consortium are all old courtiers who followed Song Weilan to fight the world.
Although none of these people were the core leaders of the consortium, the power they gathered together was enough to cause this business kingdom to collapse in an instant, and the consequences were beyond Song Xiaolong's ability to bear, so he had to hide in Africa to avoid suspicion when Song Weilan had an accident.
"Where's Lei Hu?" Ye Tian asked.
"Master, what do you want to do?"
Hearing Ye Tian's second question about Lei Hu, Du Fei's expression became a little nervous, "Lei Hu is now the hall master of Hongmen Punishment Hall, young master, I know your kung fu is very powerful, but no matter how powerful you are, you are no match for hundreds of thousands of disciples of Hongmen, right?"
"What do I don't want to do......"
Ye Tian waved his hand, looked at Du Fei with a nervous face, and said: "I want to follow Master's last wish and join Hongmen!"
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PS: Yesterday I just said that I would have to work hard for a few days, but I didn't expect it to be so hard, I caught the plane at six o'clock in the morning, and I didn't settle down until now.
All kinds of exhaustion, at this time, only you can comfort the fat man, monthly pass, recommendation ticket, let the fat man who wants to sleep while lying on the bed write another chapter!
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(End of this chapter)