Blackstone Code

Connor personally greets the FBI director, perhaps for the first and last time.

He must show his "sage" at this time, and the first impression is particularly important.

"I don't know what to bring. I hope these fruits won't look too shabby!" The director-general knows how to talk. The fruits in the fruit basket in his hand add up to hundreds of dollars.

In fact, for people like Connor, or people at his level, there is not much difference between a few hundred yuan and a few thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan.

What they care about is not what the visiting person can bring, but the visiting person himself.

Connor took the fruit basket and handed it to his wife, then shook hands with the director-general, "My daughter likes these fruits very much. It's too cold outside, let's go in and chat."

The Director-General shook the few snowflakes off his shoulders, thanked him and entered Connor's manor.

Luxurious manor.

There are many similar estates on the outskirts of Boupen, all hidden among thick vegetation, making it difficult to get a glimpse of them.

In some areas, barbed wire fences have been put up directly to inform passers-by that the fences are private areas and it is dangerous to enter without permission.

Rich people and these politicians are sometimes very high-profile, on TV, or in public, when they do certain things.

They want the whole world to know who they are, where they are, and what they are doing.

But sometimes, they are very low-key, so low-key that they are not even willing to let others take a look!

When he took off his coat and handed it to the young and beautiful maid, the director couldn't help but sigh, this is class.

He wasn't referring to himself and the maid, or the owner of the house and the maid, but to the vast class that existed between him and Connor.

Connor is a good friend of Gladstone. Gladstone is the political successor of the short old man who succeeded the previous chairman of the committee...

These top-level scepters are always circulated among a few people. In the eyes of outsiders, he is a very majestic director-general of the FBI.

But among these top political figures, he is actually not much different from that maid.

They all belong to the type that can be replaced as long as they don't like it.

Perhaps only Mr. Lynch is truly different from these people.

The things that suddenly appeared in his mind made him couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. Then he lowered his head slightly and followed Connor into the house.

The restaurant is on the first floor, but you have to pass through a long corridor of about thirty meters. There are some portraits hanging on both sides of the long corridor.

Connor briefly introduced the people on these walls. They are all first-generation immigrants.

They also participated in mass extermination operations against the indigenous people. They held slaves, opened plantations, and actively participated in current affairs and politics.

Connor paused for a moment in front of the last portrait. He pointed to a huge painting on the wall and asked the director, "Do you know this painting?"

The director-general looked at it twice and felt that it was very familiar. After thinking for ten seconds, an idea came to his mind and he almost blurted out, "When was the Federation established?"

"The Formation of the Confederacy" is a historic painting painted by a well-known artist of the Confederacy.

There are a total of seventy-four people in the picture. Except for a dozen businessmen, the others are the first executives of various departments of the federal government.

What this painting shows is the moment when the country of the Federation was officially established!

The first president stood in the crowd and read the proclamation of the Byler Federation when it was officially established as an independent and sovereign country. The people around him rejoiced.

But only these seventy-four people have clear looks, while the others have a similar abstract approach.

I only drew an outline, a rough outline.

The authentic copy of this painting is in the collection of the Federal State Museum. This one is obviously a fake, but only in a limited way.

This is actually a copy of the original work that was made by a very famous painter. Connor pointed to one of the people with a face and said, "This is the first patriarch of our family..."

The director-general didn't even know what to say except for showing an expression of wonder.

In fact, he knows more, because he holds many secrets that others don't know.

He knows that the federal Congress and the president, including the top leaders of the three major parties and two major committees, as well as the current heads of large financial groups in the federation, their ancestors are almost all in this picture!

There is a saying that the Federation is "a country of seventy-four people", and this statement comes from this painting!

In addition to the "inheritance" of some people disappearing, about two-thirds of the people and their families are at the top of the current federal pyramid!

Including Gladstone, the chairman of the Bipartisan Committee, and about twenty to thirty presidents, they are all descendants of someone in this painting!

Many people who try hard and don't get the results they want are told it's because they didn't work hard enough.

In fact, what kind of effort does it take to succeed?

In other words, if you want to succeed, how can you achieve it by just working hard?

This is not something that can be accomplished in one, two, or three or five generations. This is an ambitious goal that may take dozens of generations or one or two hundred years to accomplish!

Connor was very satisfied with this small "interactive session". He was relatively low-key. Before Gladstone came to power, people only knew that he came from a political family, but it was not clear which political family he came from.

After all, for some people nowadays, a family can be said to be a political family if there have been governors or congressmen in three or five generations.

But his background is far beyond what ordinary people call ordinary "political families".

The director-general is Lynch's man, he will not deny it, nor will he change it, but he must make the director-general understand one thing.

Lynch could protect him, and he, Connor, could destroy him.

After walking through the promenade and turning a corner, there is a large restaurant.

The lights are bright.

Seeing these light bulbs, the director thought of a joke he had made before.

It is said that there was a greedy couple who hoped that their rich relatives could help them, so the rich man gave them a big house.

The couple had not had time to be happy for a few days before they had to accept the fact that they could not afford this house.

The various expenses of a house are definitely not a small amount, and coupled with the expensive property taxes, their current income cannot support these expenses at all.

So they planned to sell the house and directly exchange it for a sum of money.

But soon this idea failed to become a reality because they had not yet paid the "gift tax". Only by paying the tax first could they truly inherit the house and sell it...

The end of the story is that the greedy couple not only did not get any benefits, but the house was completely bankrupt.

The story may not be true, but it may not be false either, because this kind of thing happens every year.

The first thing those rich people who were once rich but are now in poverty have to do is to sell all their luxury homes to avoid high property taxes from becoming the straw that breaks the camel's back.

For such a big house and so many lights, the electricity bill for just one day may be hundreds or even hundreds or even thousands!

"I don't know what you like to eat, so I asked someone to prepare some."

Connor sat in his seat, shook out the napkin and put it on his lap, "Beef and mutton include pork, chicken, duck, goose, fish and so on."

"I'm well prepared. You can just ask for whatever you want."

The butler sent a menu to the director-general. It was the first time the director-general heard that you could order dishes when eating at home.

He casually ordered a steak and lamb chop pair and started chatting.

"Lynch has always told me that you are a very capable person, and I have also learned about it in my own way. During your years in the FBI, the FBI's detection rate has reached a record high!"

"This proves that you are indeed very capable, and what my team needs is capable talents..."

In fact, the breaking rate is always getting higher and higher, because more scientific and technological means are invented and can intervene in breaking.

For example, people have never thought about the collection of fingerprints before, but with the collection and comparison of fingerprints, the detection rate will obviously increase significantly.

Recently, federal medical science has made new progress in blood, and it is said that some important information can be judged based on blood.

If these technologies can be quickly applied to actual eucalyptus cracking, the eucalyptus cracking rate will definitely increase significantly.

The director-general modestly stated that he was only responsible for arresting the boss, and it was the front-line agents who made the specific contributions.

These are not very nutritious contents, but such communication is necessary.

The more high-end the meeting, the more nonsense will be said.

Many people may be curious about why such a high-level conversation contains so much meaningless content?

In fact, this is all about testing each other's personality, preferences, etc., in preparation for the in-depth content that follows.

There is a saying in the Federation——

"If you don't know a person well enough, it's best not to say anything that has anything to do with him or your interests."

The dinner was very sumptuous, but Connor's wife did not accompany him. Women basically would not attend such an occasion, and the director-general did not bring a female companion.

After the meal, they went to Connor's study together. In the study, they drank light scented tea, and the greasy feeling caused by the food quickly disappeared.

"I have something that is a little tricky to do by myself. I want to trouble you, but I don't know...if you are willing?"

Connor spoke directly to the target, and the Director-General agreed, "I will try my best to do it."

This attitude cannot be said to be unreserved, but it is still passable. Connor named a few names and said, "Help me check these people."

"I need some scandals and black materials about them, including their family members."

The Director-General immediately memorized these names. Without exception, they were all Connor's "competitors".

Among them are three presidential candidates from the Conservative Party and two candidates from the Socialist Party...