50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 646 Grasshopper after Autumn

Sun Zhiwei was buying shrimp dumplings inside the Fulimen Restaurant, while outside, Seventh Master's men were already cleaning up the mess.

The bodies of the six men in black were dragged away, and the bullet casings and bloodstains on the ground were quickly cleaned up.

Soon the streets returned to a peaceful state, with new people and cars quickly filling them up.

When Sun Zhiwei and Zhu Hongfei came downstairs to the door again, Seventh Master and his men had all left.

The streets were still bustling with people, as if nothing had happened.

As expected of the "happy America" ​​where gunfights happen every day, ordinary people remain so calm in the face of shootings.

Seeing that no one was outside, Sun Zhiwei was happy to relax. Having achieved his purpose for coming today, he got into the back seat and then instructed Zhu Hongfei to drive home.

As for the meeting originally scheduled for the morning at the group headquarters, he selectively ignored it.

Since it was an internal company meeting and the matters discussed were internal company matters, he had already granted Huang Mingyu full authority to handle these matters; Huang Mingyu was fully capable of handling them himself.

The reason Huang Mingyu invited Sun Zhiwei to attend was mainly because Huang Mingyu habitually used Sun Zhiwei's status to back him up, so that those unruly guys would behave themselves.

This was also one of the reasons why Sun Zhiwei stayed in New York during the integration of the Robert Group: to cooperate with Huang Mingyu's integration work.

It's not that anyone wants to rebel; it's just that the management of each company used to be in charge.

Sun Zhiwei is someone who likes to delegate authority, so in the past, they were quite content as long as they ensured the operation and growth of each company.

Now that a de facto emperor has suddenly appeared above them, few managers in various companies are happy, which is only natural.

Sun Zhiwei stayed behind to show his stance: he agreed with the integration of the group company and told them not to cause any trouble.

Although this may damage President Huang Mingyu's authority, it can reduce friction and adjustment time during the integration process.

February arrived quickly, and during this time, Tong Jia, an older pregnant woman at high risk of pregnancy, experienced very unusual pregnancy symptoms.

This is mainly reflected in her diet. One minute she wants to eat tropical fruit, the next she wants to drink dragon soup. She eats whatever she wants, from all over the country.

Fortunately, several large hotels in New York's Chinatown have top chefs and ingredients can be air-freighted from all over the world.

Sun Zhiwei is a man who is not short of money; otherwise, it would have been really difficult to take care of this unborn third child.

Sometimes, Tong Jiajia would get a little worried after calming down, because she had never been this troublesome when she was pregnant with her first and second children. Was she carrying a gourmet in her belly?

Of course, what Sun Zhiwei didn't know was that Seventh Master from Chinatown had also intervened behind the scenes.

Seventh Master is a man of principle; he wouldn't simply settle for a bowl of shumai with his savior.

Otherwise, those big hotels in Chinatown are century-old establishments; they don't need to be subservient to him.

Their manager's notebook lists countless important figures among the gourmet diners.

It's fair to say that these established businesses have far more solid networks than he, a nouveau riche, and don't need to bother serving a wealthy man like him.

Their efforts to procure hard-to-find food for Sun Zhiwei weren't solely motivated by money; the influence of "Seventh Master" in Chinatown was also a significant factor. This "Seventh Master" is now the head of the largest community organization in Chinatown, while the gunman who attacked him that day came from a community group in the surrounding Italian neighborhood.

The two sides have been vying for control of the underground sphere of influence around Chinatown for the past two years, with interests encompassing both legal and illegal businesses.

In this day and age, the two most powerful Chinese community groups active in the United States are Huaqing, which mainly operates on the West Coast, and Ghost Shadow, which is centered in New York.

However, Sun Zhiwei, who is well-versed in history, knows very well that now, whether in the past or in the future, ghosts are like grasshoppers in autumn.

Previously, they only operated in New York, but they knew how to hide. It was only after they defeated other community groups in New York's Chinatown that they became famous.

Their true strength is no match for the Chinese youth on the West Coast.

The Chinese youth on the West Coast are truly formidable. They maintain excellent relations with the Sicilian family in Italy and do business with bigwigs in Mexico. Their influence extends to dozens of cities along the West Coast of the United States and Canada.

Reports indicate that Hua Qing owns an armed island off the coast of the US-Mexico border, and that the armed forces of ordinary small countries are not as strong as those on the island.

The Ghosts in New York's Chinatown now face many challenges. In addition to competing with the Italians for territory, they are also internally divided into several factions that are fighting each other.

Most fatally, they were also infiltrated by the FBI.

The FBI has formed a special task force called the "Jade Unit," which is using undercover methods to gather information on members and criminal activities of various criminal organizations.

As far as Sun Zhiwei was concerned, Ghost Shadow was captured by the FBI this year.

Immigrant groups in the United States generally have their own community organizations, and they typically control the underground interests of their respective ethnic communities.

These interests include businesses such as casinos, nightclubs, smuggling, money laundering, and trafficking.

Although they are not good people, as long as they can control the underground forces of their own ethnic community, they can prevent other ethnic groups in the vicinity from invading their own ethnic community.

Once the community of one's own ethnic group is destroyed, leaving a gap in the underground forces, not only will the underground interests be seized by other ethnic groups, but the surface interests will also be encroached upon. At the very least, the protection money will have to be handed over to others.

The rise of the Ghost Shadows was originally due to their defeat of the Sicilians in Italy and their occupation of Chinatown.

Now they too are on the verge of extinction, but on a remote beach in New York Harbor, a group of illegal immigrants from Changle County are landing.

No one could have imagined that they would soon fill the gap left by the disappearance of the ghost, while also blocking the invasion of other forces in the surrounding area.

Changle is a magical place. This small county with a population of 70 has 30 people who have settled in the United States, including 20 in New York alone.

They live together as a village. A small village of a few hundred people in China can gather thousands of fellow villagers in New York.

They did not appear as a community organization, but rather as a hometown association.

In just a few years, they transformed East Broadway in Manhattan into "F-State Avenue," and dialect became a passport: "If you can speak Chang Le dialect, you won't starve in New York."

Chinese restaurants are their stronghold; 5000 takeout shops cover New York, 90% of which are run by people from Changle. The cleavers in the restaurant kitchens can be used to cut vegetables or chop people.

They monopolize 70% of Chinese wedding dress shops; even the long-distance transportation industry is dominated by trucks from their hometown.

(End of this chapter)