Chapter 45 Buying People's Hearts

   "Tell me, what's going on?" Sending Margot into the house, Josie returned to the car and motioned for the driver to drive, while asking Dix, "Is it cigarettes or candy?"

  Josie is talking about sugar, not corn syrup.

   This new product, corn syrup, has signed an order with the military, and all of them must be supplied to the military.

  But in addition to the normal production of syrup, Josie's sugar factory is also producing white sugar.

  As for the raw materials, there is no doubt that it also came from the transaction with Daenerys.

   Obtain cheap crude brown sugar or sugar cane from Westeros, process it into pure white sugar, part of it is sold back to Daenerys at a high price, and part of it flows into the black market in Chicago, earning huge amounts of cash.

  Sugar and tobacco, these two shady businesses, actually brought Josie far more benefits than the military orders.

  But at the same time, since it is an illegal business, it is naturally easy to be coveted.

  So Josie is not surprised that this day is coming.

"All of them, 10,000 cigarettes, 1 ton of sugar, all of them were ready to be shipped to New York, they were robbed at the pier, 5 brothers died, 2 were seriously injured, only one escaped and called to inform Me." Dix replied dully, the people who died were all his subordinates.

  Josie couldn't help squinting his eyes when he heard the words, good guy, based on the minimum price of ten dollars for a cigarette and twenty dollars for a kilogram of sugar, it's a full 120,000 goods.

   "Did you find out who did it?" Josie asked.

"Not yet. The other side is very efficient. When we arrived, the goods had already been shipped." Dix shook his head, "But I have notified Mr. Schneider and Mr. Dietrich. I don't know if they have Find useful information."

  Josie nodded when she heard the words, closed her eyes and thought about something, but didn't speak again.

   About half an hour later, Josie and his party came to Anna's restaurant in three cars, which is the widow of Louis who was shot and died of serious injuries in the jewelry robbery.

Originally, Dix just wanted to take care of his wife out of friendship, but let alone, although Anna is just a little woman from the bottom of the society, her appearance and figure are indeed first-rate. It's no worse than some of the celebrities Josie usually sees, or even those so-called stars in the United Labor Organization that Josie sees in the past.

  Because of this, Dix really became your wife after taking care of her. I raised her and even planned to get married recently.

  Because of this relationship, this restaurant has gradually become a meeting place for Josie and his subordinates.

   And the reason why there are three cars is naturally Josie's bodyguard.

  There may still be a gap between the current Josie and those top leaders in Chicago, but he is also rich and powerful, and he is also famous. Naturally, it is impossible to always act alone like before.

  So now he has recruited more than 20 people as his bodyguards.

  These people were all recruited by Josie from the port refugee camp.

  Although Chicago is a city in the middle of the United States, as the third largest city in the United States, it is very attractive to immigrants. Moreover, Lake Michigan has a direct route to Europe through the Great Lakes route, so there are many refugees from Europe.

   Those who have money and connections can naturally enter Chicago.

   But those who have no money don’t matter. There are more than 30,000 refugees who can only stay in the refugee camp at the port, eating rotten and smelly poor-quality food distributed by the government every day, waiting for the review of the Immigration Agency.

  Hungry is not starving to death, but there are quite a few people who died of illness, freezing, and various reasons.

  The harshness of the environment is barely better than a concentration camp.

  So it is very easy for Josie to recruit people.

And the people Josie recruited belonged to the families, old and young, and most of them had served in the army. They were mainly "fellows" such as Germans and Austrians, and a small number of Nordics... As for why they didn't recruit Asians, Don't worry, the refugees from Europe, where are the Asians from? The Asian refugees are all in Los Angeles, half a continent away.

   This kind of escape will bring the old and the young, and they all pay more attention to the family.

   Enough settlement allowances, coupled with the unified placement of family members, are enough to buy the loyalty of these people.

  Because it is already late at night, the restaurant has already closed.

  So there are no extra people in the store except Lyndon Schneider and Dietrich who have been waiting inside for a long time.

   "How's it going? Did you find any clues?" Josie sat down on the sofa and asked a few people.

   "Mr. Sheriff has some clues." Obviously, before Josie came, the two had discussed it, and Lyndon Schneider directly pushed Dietrich out.

   It's not surprising that among the people under Josie, the one who is really regarded as the local snake in Chicago is actually Dietrich.

   Josie looked at Dietrich when he heard the words.

"I have some informants in various districts. After receiving the news from Dix, I went to ask someone to inquire. There are five gangs that have relatively large operations tonight. One is Moretti from the Italian. The family, one is a fat man from Ireland, but the suspicion of these two families is not great, because their actions are a firefight. The killer of the Moretti family was killed by the fat man. The other three groups are also Italian The Faconi family of the old man, one group is Spanish wild dogs, and the other group is Jewish. I personally think that the possibility of the Faconi family is unlikely. After their boss Salieni was imprisoned five years ago, they It's gone," Dietrich said.

   "In other words, the suspicion is mainly on the Spaniards and Jews?" Josie knocked on the table and asked.

"Yes, but this is just my guess. I can only say that they are the most suspected. Who did it, I'm afraid I have to find out the whereabouts of that batch of goods first. After all, I can't guarantee it. Damn, could it be some young people who have just debuted." Dietrich shrugged.

  No way, as the third largest city in the United States, various ethnic forces are extremely complex. There are more than a dozen relatively large gangs alone, and even more small gangs.

   Small gangs appear or disappear almost every day.

  Josie nodded upon hearing this. Although it’s not necessary to give evidence like the police, if you’re playing black, you still have to investigate clearly when there are multiple suspects.

  Otherwise, finding the wrong partner is still a trivial matter, and being used as a gunman would be fatal.

"Then let's do this first. Keep an eye on this matter and let me know as soon as there is news. Although we are not an official gang, we are not something that the rats in the sewer can handle casually. In addition, Schneider, allocate a sum of money from the payment for Dix, 10,000 for the dead brother, and 5,000 for the seriously injured, and tell everyone that as long as they are willing to work hard for me, I will not treat them badly." Josie ordered one by one.

  Hearing the pension price quoted by Josie, everyone present was a little moved.

   You must know that for the death of ordinary gangsters these days, if the boss can give one or two thousand, that is all kindness.

   Most of them are dead when they die, and they don’t have a dime.

  This is why many young people prefer to join the army.

  In addition to the high salary, the death subsidy of up to 6,000 US dollars is also a very important reason.

  In fact, even in the 21st century, the U.S. military’s death allowance is still 6,000... However, after World War II, the main compensation for soldiers killed in battle is already based on insurance, and the 6,000 is already dispensable.

   Therefore, Josie's pension of 10,000 yuan can be said to be very high in this era.

  So even if everyone understands that Josie is buying people's hearts, so what? Who doesn't like this kind of boss who is willing to throw money away?

As for Josie, in terms of money, he may be nothing compared to those top crocodiles now, but spending tens of thousands to buy people's hearts is really nothing. With a plane trader, making money is really so easy.

  Not to mention the dollars brought by selling sugar and cigarettes on the black market, just the transaction with Daenerys, Josie’s warehouse still has a lot of gold and silver.

  (end of this chapter)