Chapter 2092

Auction site.

To be honest... this place doesn't look like a so-called auction house at all, it's more like a dance party.

Of course, it wasn't like this at the beginning. At least the Albanian gangs didn't plan to do this. They did this in France before, but they were not the main organizers. They were suppliers. They would give their "dealers" who were naive or particularly beautiful "goods".

That is, the kind of brokers who wandered among the powerful.

They are the ones who made the most profit. In fact, they don't care how much the goods can be sold for. What they care about is actually the connections brought by this kind of activity!

Only when people have done bad things together, can the relationship be unscrupulous! After all, everyone has their own handles, and they don't worry about who betrays whom. This is also a common method used by brokers.

Of course, there are many kinds of brokers. It doesn't necessarily have to be a three-way.

For example, the man named Remy Denton in "House of Cards". He wandered among politicians, but he was not a politician. It turned out that he represented the big company Sanko Company to promote legislation that was beneficial to the company and find protectors of the company in the government. He once donated to the company of Claire, Underwood's wife, in order to maintain his relationship with Underwood; he also donated to the construction of a library at Santino College. His intention was obvious: this school is a bridge between the military and political circles in the United States. People like Remy are called brokers in American politics. They are active in Congress and other government departments in large numbers, forming an off-campus lobbying group with American characteristics. The United States is composed of thousands of different interest groups, and each group has the right to lobby for political decisions that are beneficial to itself. Brokers are middlemen, and the means they use are mainly donations to support politicians to participate in elections or other political activities. As long as the money is not directly sent to the politicians and used by the politicians for private purposes, it is legal and not bribery.

Broadly speaking, Claire is also a broker. She can get donations from Sanco by blowing "pillow wind" to her husband to make Congress legislate in favor of the latter. "Pillow people" are powerful, but this is the backstage, which is invisible to ordinary people.

Brokers have great power. In the play, Congressman Peter wants to run for governor, but Remy and Sanco "buy" the wavering congressmen through donations, so that the basin bill that is not conducive to Sanco's oil and gas exploration cannot be passed. This detail shows how the bills of the US Congress are proposed and voted on, and makes people feel how powerful capital can effectively regulate politics.

The alliance between capital and politics is seamlessly combined in the United States through the so-called "revolving door". Not everyone can be a broker, it requires conditions. Remy used to be Underwood's assistant. He quit his political work and turned to work for a wealthy company. The original political resources just came in handy. This is common in the United States. There are two types of elite groups in American society, one is the political elite, including members of Congress, the Secretary of State, the President, etc., and the other is the career elite, including financial tycoons, business leaders and professors from well-known universities. These two roles can be easily interchanged in the United States. In the view of Italian sociologist Pareto, elite convection can achieve effective connection between academic resources, business experience and political wisdom, so that all kinds of scarce intellectual resources in the whole society can be maximized.

This is a good aspect. The bad thing is, who can guarantee that there will not be a strong alliance and the strong will take all? After the financial crisis in 2008, ordinary Americans were tightening their belts to live, and the "Occupy Wall Street" movement took place. However, the financial executives on Wall Street did not reduce their year-end bonuses, but increased them. Looking at the surface, big companies have "people in the court". The Secretary of the Treasury was "rotated" from the largest financial company Goldman Sachs. In the play, President Walker once expressed his intention to invite the rich man Stark to be vice president. He always had to listen to Stark's opinions when he made political decisions.

In theory, the United States has a good judicial system that can prevent political elites from being pawns for powerful capital. However, the judicial intervention is more about form, and it cannot determine the essence everywhere. Political elites can introduce policies that are beneficial to large companies in the case of public debate and procedural justice. The Commodity Futures Trading Modernization Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000 and known as the "Enron loophole", was the result of the bankrupt Enron giving millions of dollars to U.S. congressmen to influence decision-making. The bill is the most radical deregulation measure in the field of financial derivatives trading supervision since the 1980s.

Money talks. In the past few years, U.S. President Obama spent a lot of time and effort to promote the health care bill. Even after it was passed, there were still concerns that the bill would be abolished. Why is that? The rich are "unhappy", and the poor have no money to make politicians "happy"! The situation that brokers and "revolving doors" have "spun" the United States in the past two or three decades is a return to the Gilded Age. Social wealth is accelerating to concentrate on a few people, and class mobility is far less easy than before. If you tell Americans about the "American Dream" today, many Americans who can't find a job will roll their eyes.

The exchange of interests between politics and capital is of course hidden. Underwood wanted to "talk" directly to the executives of Sanco, but the latter pushed him around and told him that he could only go through an agent, that is, a broker, because he didn't want to be caught. However, the work behind the scenes must be done more thoroughly.

The United States plays this way, and so do Europe and the United States.

The Albanian gangsters are indeed famous, but in Europe, they are naturally ostracized. They cannot hook up with the upper-class bosses, and the bosses will never have anything to do with them. But what if the bosses need their services?

Of course it depends on those brokers!

Brokers are also happy to do these things, after all, this is the best way to develop contacts. When those gentlemen came to play with him, they naturally handed over the handle to him.

After this back and forth, everyone is on their own, so naturally it’s easy to talk about anything.

But in the United States...Albanians don't have this channel. No way, it's too niche.

The Albanian gangsters can't bring anything that the men are interested in. They can't bring votes to the men... The number of Albanians in the United States is too small. It doesn’t represent an ethnic group either… They are too special.

It is a special existence wherever it is.

They are one of the very few Islamic countries in Europe.

In the Balkans, they are not the mainstream Slavs. The ancestors of the Albanians are ancient Illyrians and belong to the Indo-European race. They are different from the Slavic race that later immigrated to most countries in the Balkan Peninsula. Albania is relatively independent from the complexities of the outside world. The mountainous and hilly terrain has effectively preserved the ethnic characteristics, language, culture, and customs of the Albanians, forming a unique ethnic region in the southwestern corner of the Balkans.

In other words, they are not next to anyone!

The big ethnic groups in the United States have nothing to do with Albania. Even if they want to fit into any group, no one else will want them!

They cannot unite and have no interest groups.

Donors naturally have no interest in talking to them!

In fact, the upper-class men will not give away their information casually. They like brokers who have status and money because they have sense of proportion! I won’t mess around! Everyone plays the game under the same rules.

But things like Albanian gangsters are naturally hated by politicians because they have no rules!

So, the Albanian gang's auction was actually very simple. It was almost the same as the auction of "farm tools" on the streets in the South before the Civil War. Everyone watched the goods bid.

Very messy.

But now it has become very elegant.

Everyone was very happy, and even went wild. They drank wine from bottles, laughed loudly, and then the clothes on their bodies became less and less, and the ugly flesh was exposed without hesitation. The atmosphere was warm and weird. Even the original 'goods' were removed from their shackles and began to wander among them. Their expressions were blurred and they did not look like they were being forced. They were completely different from the numb and indifferent demeanor before, where life was worse than death. They work as waiters and... understand everything.

This is a big silver party!

"Are you sure your information is really correct?"

Barry looked at the situation inside through the telescope from the outside, and he couldn't believe what kind of human trafficking den this was!

"This is a big party!"

Americans like to have parties, especially young people. Of course, such parties are always inseparable from sex, alcohol and drugs, and some even involve crime. But what does this have to do with Barry? Even if a superhero has a strong sense of justice, I won't stop others from having such a party.

Although this is not a good thing, in the eyes of most Americans, it is not a big deal.

Iris was also very deceived... To be honest, she had also participated in such parties. Especially after high school, her father no longer looked as closely as he used to. After all, once he turned eighteen, he was an adult. Although Qiao doesn't like his daughter doing messy things with those brats, but... everyone has their own social life, and Qiao is not the kind of overprotective parent, and he doesn't have such a strong desire to control his children.

As long as he doesn't touch drugs, Joe can accept it... Oh, by the way, remember to take precautions.

Don't kill anyone, Qiao will not allow his daughter to become a single mother.

Although most black people don’t have fathers, Joe would never agree to this happening to the West family!

As a child growing up in a black community, Joe had seen too many of these things that resulted in lifelong regret for the sake of excitement. It's not easy to be a single mother. Joe is from a single-parent family. His dead father ran away when he was three years old. He knows how bad this feels!

According to a US survey report, in more than 70% of African American families, the role of the father is missing. Most black people did not have their fathers by their side when they were growing up. Some people do not even know who their fathers are.

When these black children grow up, the men are very likely to "harm" other girls and leave irresponsibly after the women become pregnant; while the women are very likely to become single mothers and raise the children alone.

This has formed a vicious circle, which is even getting worse.

Getting back to the subject, if it was just a simple silver party, there would be no way Barry would go and destroy it...

"It shouldn't be! So many gangsters come here just to have a party? They don't have so much time, do they?"

Iris is also a little skeptical, but the problem is that she knows several of the gangsters. They are all so-called gangsters. These people should not be so free.

However, at this moment, the scene suddenly became intense.

That scene made Barry and Iris embarrassed.

Of course, they were not embarrassed because of this scene, but... because of each other. Although Barry is not a love expert and has not even been in love, how many boys don’t have a few folders hidden deep in their computers?

And Iris is even more battle-hardened. She has at least 80 boyfriends. Although this scene is big, she can’t escape those trivial things.

But if they are with each other, it will be different.

Barry has the intention but not the courage.

And Iris simply treats Barry as a younger brother.

So it’s awkward.

“How about... we retreat first?” Barry did have the intention. There was a voice deep in his heart that told him to hug the person next to him, but he didn’t have the courage, so he could only talk.

Iris seemed to wake up and said hurriedly: “Yes, yes, yes…”

She felt that something was wrong with her. She actually had that kind of feeling towards Barry... This made Iris very ashamed! She even felt so dirty. It seemed that there was an underage boy next to her... In fact, Barry had graduated from college for several years.

But Iris never realized this...

"Okay! Let's go now!"

Barry said immediately, his guts about to burst out!

But at this moment, the situation changed again.

The girls who were originally in a state of crazy desire suddenly took out a lot of sharp blades from nowhere, and then cut the throats of the men who were indulging in lust on them or under them one by one!

What's even more weird is that those men seemed to be unaware of this, and they were still indulging in the pleasure of the flesh. Even if the blood on their necks was spurting to the ceiling, they still didn't resist, and even their faces were still pig-like!

The whole scene was disgusting and weird!

The blood sprayed into the air, and then fell like raindrops.

The music continued, and those men who didn't have a partner were more like crazy, running over to throw the victims who had been drained of blood and couldn't move aside, continuing what they had just done, and then cutting their throats again!

Without exception!

Barry and Iris were dumbfounded.

Barry didn't even have time to save people in the first place... even though Barry has super reflexes.

The Speed ​​Force gives Barry superhuman reflexes, and his body can quickly transmit signals to his brain, so that he can even avoid lightning. His brain's ability to process information is countless times better than that of an ordinary person!

But he still had his brain crashed by the current incident!