Wine and Gun

So now Garland rests his hands on the steering wheel with ease, pallid fingertips pounding the leather steering wheel in boredom. She gazed at the scenery that flashed across the windshield, a mix of extremely modern-looking high-rise buildings mixed with Baroque or Gothic buildings, all pressed against a bleak, leaden sky. .

Then she said, "We can start with the history of the city of Flora - I think you know, Flora wasn't Hoxton's capital from the very beginning."

"Yes, the capital of this country was originally located in the more western city of Phil Grant." Albarino nodded, although he did not know what the other party meant by mentioning this history, but he did listen to it many years ago. After the story, "The city was occupied by the Netherlands during the Thirty Years' War, and the royal family chose to flee east, and they fled all the way to Flora - the place was called 'Schwerin' at the time - and established here a new capital."

"That was in the first half of the seventeenth century, and it was during that time that Hoxton's mafia was formed." Garland nodded and continued.

"During the war, the kingdom lost nearly half of its territory, and the entire domestic order was in chaos. As you can imagine, a large number of people suddenly flooded into the small land north of Flora, some of them were landless farmers fleeing the war, and the rest were It was aristocracy: the royalists who fled east after the king, the peacemakers who took the wrong side in the war and were stripped of their titles, and some were pro-Dutch, most of their leaders were hanged, and the rest All were exiled to the border... In this chaos, a large-scale criminal chain was formed for the first time.

"In the beginning, all these things were small nobles who lost their territories and had nowhere to go. They lost the source of funds brought by taxes, and their weight was not heavy enough to be reused by the royal family. However, they quickly used their personal connections. He started a business of selling all kinds of contraband. They smuggled weapons and food from war materials, robbed refugees and sold them as serfs, and so on.

"Most researchers now believe that this was the origin of the Hoxton mafia, and its next major development was the peaceful revolution of 1849. At that time, Hoxton experienced several Pudan wars, everywhere All were displaced poor people; at the same time, the power of the aristocracy was diminished, their ownership of their territories was more of a reputation, and the actual control was greatly diminished. Besides, that revolution was not as 'peaceful as its name' ', the king gave power to the council, and in the process, some stubborn nobles ended up in a very miserable end, and their descendants fled in all directions..."

"And then go down the same path as those nobles who lost their territories in the Thirty Years' War?" asked Herstal, who had roughly guessed what story Garland was telling.

Garland nodded: "Yes, the run-down nobles formed a secret association, and a large number of unemployed poor people acted as their thugs and engaged in professional criminal activities. This was Hoxton's first Mafia."

She paused for a moment, her eyes still falling on the imposing high-rise buildings outside the window. After a moment, she continued: "And the most important thing: they started too early compared to the mafia in other countries. The mafia in this country developed with this country and participated in the whole The process of parliamentary reform, by the time there is real awareness of the dangers of the mafia, which have infiltrated every aspect of the country."

Then she pointed casually out of the window, and Albarino looked in the direction of her finger. Outside the window, she could see a skyscraper with a gleaming glass façade and a giant lettering on the roof: Ramires Pharma.

"Ramirez Pharmaceuticals," Garland said, with a bizarre sneer in her voice that was almost unpredictable, "this whole business was set up in the first half of the twentieth century for money laundering, For a hundred years, this family has been exporting drugs to Hoxton continuously - then the whole business was cleaned up, maybe they finally found out that it is more profitable to open a pharmaceutical company than drug trafficking, and now this company is the entire Hoxton One of the largest pharmaceutical companies."

Herstal was silent for a moment, then he said simply: "I see what you mean."

Obviously, the influence of this country's mafia on the entire country is more ingrained than he imagined, and their forces must have been inextricably entangled with the country's political forces, constantly generating more energy than he previously estimated.

This is the real reason why the Security Service must also take the opinion of Gabriel Morgenstern seriously.

And that means-

"That's why the crime rate in this city is actually not high, because almost all the land is divided and all the rules are in place."

Garland spoke as if she could read minds, and she gave a sharp, cold smile.

"Here, the fire caused by territorial friction is many times lower than that of a city where gangs are prevalent, and those larger mafia have some strict constraints on their subordinates. On the territory they control, stealing, robbery, etc. Instead, there are fewer cases than elsewhere. Riots have been replaced with more targeted assassinations that have less impact on ordinary citizens, non-gang-related cases are handled by the police, and gang-related cases are almost never seen in the public eye. In the field of vision, it will not appear in the police file-those mafia have their own principles for dealing with disputes that occur in their territory. In a sense, their way of solving problems is far more neat than the police. ."

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