old dream

Chapter 127 Order in the Shadows
Since last week, five hands have worked together to complete the investigation of the Capello family.

The five families also each sent several monitors to the Capello family to "guidance" the newborn organization's next neutral actions.

Among them, the monitor representing the Chestalo family is Colin himself.

At the same time, as the proposal proposer, Julio naturally became the person in charge of the entire plan.

Just as the five hands are the de facto law and order managers of South Stade, the Capello family has also subtly become the "alcoholic detectives" of this land.

For two weeks, they squandered the guns and explosives they had hoarded for the gang war, sweeping up any bootleggers who had invaded the Sincilian community.

The reason is simple, since the five hands have not decided to move the cheese, no one is allowed to reach out in advance.

In the hands of "Dirty Finger" De Qiao and others, they have already mastered the addresses of many black bars.

In the first week after the Capello family resumed operations after their nirvana, these beasts robbed ten underground bars like a bamboo shoot, harvested more than a thousand boxes of bootleg alcohol, and nearly [-] Ori in cash.

But gang members are not real detectives after all, and they will not destroy these wealth for nothing.

If Prohibition proves to be unenforceable, the spoils will probably be worth close to a hundred thousand Ori.And this is just the first week of seizures.

Even Marizio and Barain, who have a big business, can't help but be speechless at this amazing profit.But Marizio calmed down very quickly, and he said to his eager men:
"Things become real money only when they are sold."

Simply multiplying the number by the market price does not make sense.If Prohibition ends up being successful, these things are all hot potatoes.Or it fails, and the price of wine in the market will naturally fall back by then.

But even so, several patriarchs were deeply shocked by these figures.

Seeing more intuitively than ever the transformative potential of the bootleg trade, they locked their eyes on each other more closely.They began to be more circumspect when dealing with bootlegging.

Marizio designated a huge secret warehouse for the unified storage of these seized bootleggers, and the five parties jointly sent people to guard it.Until the situation in Stade becomes clear, it will be decided whether to distribute this huge wealth fairly or destroy it all.

At least, that's what everyone agreed on.

But only an idiot would fully believe in these beautiful scenes.

Colin once worried that the Capello family might bump into a wizard partner like "Horst" in the process of sweeping up the bootleggers.

But judging from the results, only three "soldiers" were lost in more than a dozen firefights in the first week, and one of them was accidentally killed by a stray bullet.

Because of the large number of light machine guns, the Capello family has an absolute advantage in firepower against bootleggers.

Casualty rates among operatives were normal or even low.Perhaps powerful wizards did not appear, or even they were unwilling to confront such heavy firepower in a narrow space.

However, most people understand that such a ratio of pay and benefits will not be maintained forever.

From the second week until Wednesday, the Capello family found only three speakeasies.Two of them were found through the information provided by Colin.Because of the tracking device used before, Colin also has the addresses of many underground bars.

Perhaps the clues in the hands of "Dirty Finger" Dejo and others have gradually run out, or the bootleggers have withdrawn their hands after being hit in the head, and they have begun to learn to make the contraband business more covert.

Capello's rough-and-tumble heist no longer suited here and the gains soon started to fall back.Estimated from the current situation, this week's harvest should be less than half of last week's.

The era of picking up money on the street is over.Next, Capello's members will collect evidence during unannounced visits like real detectives, and determine the address of the speakeasy through details.

Like children following the ants to their nests, empty out the treasures hidden in the corners.

However, they are not bound by the laws of the principality and the alliance like the police detectives, coupled with the encouragement of high profits from robbery, so the efficiency is destined to be much higher than the current police department of the authorities.

In just ten days, a black order dominated by the Five Hands began to be established in the bootlegging trade in South Stadt.

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As the five hands completed their investigation of the Capello family, Giulio also moved out of the single-family apartment that Luca had arranged for her, and returned to the old mansion of "Mind" Nevio.

The pain of killing Aresio with her own hands seems to have disappeared from her body.At least after that night, she never talked about what happened on the train again, as if it had nothing to do with her.

But even after regaining his freedom, Julio no longer goes out at will.She didn't smoke another cigarette, probably because Alessio used to keep telling her to quit.She began to devote all her energies to family affairs, tirelessly arranging raids on speakeasies, and coordinating old and new feuds among several leaders and assistants.

In her small body, an unprecedented power of action began to burst out.

"Let's agree on a secret sign with each other."

She put down the pen in her hand and looked up at Colin at the desk.The tone is a cold and alienated, business-like attitude.

The plan discussed before the train incident still had to continue, and Julio himself knew that the threat of "never think about cooperating again" was just an angry sentence.

Alessio's death was not Colin's fault, but some relationships inevitably changed.Once a rift appeared, it seemed difficult to close it.

"What code?"

"Distinguish which are your people's codes."

According to the earlier agreement, the "alcoholic detectives" of the Capello family will spare Colin's people.

Julio wants the treasure-hunting dogs in the family to remember the customers and places they shouldn't touch.

And this also means that all the blank markets that have been cleared out under Capello's sweep will be attributed to Colin.

Colin was still uncertain about her target's motives.Perhaps the Capello family itself was being monitored too closely, so she planned to use her own people to occupy the market in advance and obtain benefits.

When the five hands guarded against each other and stared at Capello, Julio and Colin had already started anew and started to expand under the noses of everyone.

Perhaps from the beginning, she intended to profit in this way.

With Julio's cover, Colin could at least turn his back on Five Hands later.The longer the showdown is delayed, the better, because time is clearly on its side.

"730 Naval Battle Medal." Colin said after thinking for a while on the leather chair.

This kind of commemorative badge can still be bought in the streets and alleys of Stade, and not many people wear it to go out.

"This week, I made the guests have to wear the '730 Naval Battle Medal' to enter the venue. I will tell you the password in the future."

Let the hounds below know that once they see a person wearing this kind of medal, they will immediately stop chasing and cannot contact him.

"For our cooperation, I can pay you 20% of the moonshine profits every week, all in cash, and no one will find out."

Colin tapped the desktop and said:

"However, if I find out that any of the Capello members are stalking my customers and sneaking into my bar by code. Or someday I start to think for no reason that you already know the location of which speakeasies."

"Then, our cooperation will come to an end."

Ke Lin will regularly check the security of his address, and will not give Julio any chance of destroying his underground sales network.

After these days of contact, he is already familiar enough with the Capello family.At the same time, he also has the identity of a supervisor, and Colin can grasp the movements of most of Capello's members.

For this, Julio has no objection. She knows that this is the premise of cooperation, but she asks for profit sharing:
"I was going to ask for 30.00%," she said, looking at Colin.

Impossible, Colin's bottom line is 20.00%, but when he was about to speak, Julio continued:

"Or I can take nothing now, but you have to agree to two conditions."

Colin opened his mouth, and after a while he motioned for her to continue with his palm.He understood that this was Julio's real proposal.

"First, you must ensure that there is no 'poisoned alcohol' in your place. If the number of poisoning incidents in the area exceeds [-]/[-] of the number of people, then the cooperation will be terminated."

Julio should be referring to the poisoning caused by excessive methanol. Colin was startled while nodding.Because he originally planned to use the blended wine after rectification.

Could it be that the real purpose behind her series of actions is to keep the Sincilians away from the poison of industrial alcohol?
But Julio didn't stay on this point for too long, as if he knew that Colin would not use denatured alcohol.She then said the second condition:

"Now I don't need to take any share, but if one day."

"If one day, you control the entire bootlegging market in Stade."

She said with burning eyes, as if she had seen that day come:

"I want 20.00% of your territory to be assigned to Capello."

(End of this chapter)