Chapter 224 The Roman Conference
Seryozha stayed in Canada for a few more days, and after explaining some things, he took a flight back to Moscow. Yakovlev remained in Canada to fight for the rights of the Soviet Union. Tonya, Eva, and Karim all have things to do, and they will go to Zurich to settle down together after they deal with these things.
When Sergey returned to Moscow, his mood was different. Since Mr. An’s anti-corruption campaign started, Sergey and his brothers were forced to go abroad to open up new markets. As a result, their strength has not weakened, On the contrary, it became stronger. However, the rapid expansion also brought many problems. Since the business is scattered in various regions in Europe and North America, management is not a small difficulty. In addition, Seryozha lacks effective armed forces to deal with emergencies, so Seryozha has to be careful when doing business abroad. For fear of being blackmailed by others.
However, in the last few operations, these mercenaries recruited by Ivankov and Yakov allowed Seryosha to find a new way to prepare his own armed forces. Seryozha now understands a truth, instead of raising a large group of thugs to attract attention, it is better to recruit more elite soldiers like Romanian mercenaries or Aruba mercenaries, which will be useful in the future. In this way, Seryozha can keep his sword in the sheath on weekdays, and control the enemy with one move at critical moments. It is not easy to attract the attention of the judicial departments of various countries, and he can also have some loose violent action groups.
Therefore, Seriosha specifically explained Yakov and Ivankov, encouraging them to recruit more capable mercenaries as peripheral organizations, thereby creating a safer operating environment for the Gorky Brotherhood. From the current stage, Ivankov's situation is pretty good, but Yakov's situation is a bit chaotic.
Since Yakov came to Italy as Nikolai's agent, he quickly became a guest of various families, and his business expanded very smoothly, even winning the reputation of a mafia banker. But the situation here is far from that simple. Although the mafia has a national committee, it is not a unified organization after all, and there are various contradictions and conflicts of interest among the various families and organizations. Yakov is here to make money, not to cause trouble, and he has no interest in the conflicts of various families. So Yakov's strategy in Italy is similar to the policy of British glorious isolation.
Yakov's closest associates have always been Sicilian Mafia families, like the Gambino and Genovese. They belong to the same business family alliance called ours in Italy, and the main sites of this alliance are in New York and Sicily. Since they established a business partnership with Sergesha, the strength of the entire family alliance has greatly increased, and gradually began to recover from the suppression of the Italian and American police. But Yakov didn't want to become an outsider who was pulling sideways. It would be too dangerous for his partner to dominate in a foreign country, so Yakov developed the Gamora family alliance in Naples. To check and balance our cause. However, this does not guarantee that Yakov can maximize the interests of the Gorky Brotherhood.
On the land of Italy, there are nearly a thousand mafia families, large and small. But the strength of each other is very different, some families have thousands of members, and some have only a few people. Therefore, in order to survive, the small families joined the family alliance dominated by the big family. According to Yakov's understanding in Italy these days, in addition to the family alliance, Our Cause and Camorra, which have established a cooperative relationship with Yakov, there is also Calabria, which is located in the toe part of the boot-shaped map of the Apennine Peninsula. The Honorable Society of the region, the Holy Crown League of the Puglia region. With our business and Kamora making a fortune under Yakov's funding, the Glorious Society and the Holy Crown Alliance began to be a little jealous, and they also eagerly wanted to become Nikolai's customers.
Yakov knows very well that doing business here must not be biased, and that playing a balance is the safest strategy for the Gorky Brotherhood.
In Tyumen back then, Yakov single-handedly controlled the forces of various factions in the Tyumen region by relying on this. Yakov still has to rely on this method to protect himself in Italy.
Yakov then suggested that everyone sit down and talk, so the heads of the four mafia alliances gathered in Rome and began to sit down and discuss cooperation with Mr. Nicholas. This is something that hasn't happened to the Italian mafia for many years.
The location of the meeting was strictly kept secret. Except for Yakov, the five parties participating in the negotiation could only come with one bodyguard, and no one could carry weapons. On that day, Yakov's people carefully checked the whole body of all the guests before allowing them to enter.
At this meeting, Yakov told them that Mr. Nicholas welcomes anyone to become his client, but Mr. Nicholas also has some agreements that his clients need to abide by. Contradictions between the two will not unilaterally assist one faction to attack the other faction. However, the interests of Mr. Nicola in Italy need to be guaranteed. Before a loan is repaid, Mr. Nicola will not approve a new loan. Depending on the size of the funds, it will also be linked to past credit. If a family or organization defaults on Nicholas' funds, all families in Italy will regard them as enemies of the entire Mafia.
It can be said that Yakov's conditions are very harsh, but so what, is there a second gangster banker like Nikolai in this world? Absolutely not! Sergiosa is engaged in a unique business, and now he has to face the underground financial market in Italy with an annual transaction volume of hundreds of billions of dollars. Is there any law that can guarantee what everyone does? Therefore, it is necessary to use a special way to gain mutual trust, so that the business can continue to be done well.
The powerful representatives of Sicily and Naples immediately agreed to Yakov's conditions. They have long been Yakov's regular customers, and now most of the funds in their hands are handed over to Yakov to take care of them. I don't know how many times faster than in the past. No matter how harsh Yakov's conditions are, they are reluctant to refuse.
The representatives of the Honor Society of Calabria agreed after a little hesitation. They couldn't think of anything that would be detrimental to them. Subsequently, the weakest Puglia Crown League also agreed to Yakov's conditions.
After the meeting, Yakov participated in the ancient and traditional mafia swearing-in ceremony as a foreigner, and confirmed Yakov's conditions in the form of an oath, which also meant that Yakov's plan became the Mafia's plan. One of the codes, those who disobey will be hunted down by everyone. From now on, the Italian market will be completely open to the Gorky Brotherhood.