Chapter 1057 Murder (Repair)
Richard Mellon Skye met with Julian Robertson almost the same time, and Washington and the White House were also hosting a small reception.
It is also a celebration, but the celebration party on the day of the victory is much smaller in scale and higher in specifications.
For example, as long as you pay a little attention to the current political and economic structure of the Federation, you can easily select several core figures of the Westeros system, which is the most powerful in the United States, from the more than 30 guests present. Joseph Schrapp, one of the heads of the political lobbying team of the Westeros family, Celia Miller, Simon Westeros' personal military affairs assistant, and Philip Miller, and Philip Rebeld, who should be considered to be another brother-in-law of Simon Westeros.
These are just on the surface.
As for the cabinet officials or MPs present who were spokespersons supported by the Westeros family, only guests with deeper political connections can distinguish them.
"Yes, Celia, Somalia's failure was the first time. The Ministry of Defense intends to outsource some of its business this time, but I have seen the quotation plans submitted by you. There are only two companies headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and Perth, Western Australia. I have not seen the team plans in Ukraine. As far as I know, is the price of mercenary teams in Ukraine the most affordable?"
Celia Miller, holding a cocktail, faced Hillary's inquiry, explained: "Madam, it's mainly because we hope to give the federal and Australian teams more opportunities, not to mention, they are all their own people, aren't they?"
The two discussed that the United States would restart increasing its military deployment in Africa.
As the scars of the Black Hawk's fall gradually disappeared in 1993 and the current strategic situation in central Africa is tense again, of course, due to lobbying by interest groups from all parties, Clinton intends to re-enforce military deployment to Africa during his second term.
On the other hand, the successful cases of the Weijia Private Army are ahead. Seeing this private army obtaining large orders in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and even Latin America in recent years, this legitimate poaching of the national fence... Oh no, it is an opportunity to contribute to the country, and of course other interest groups will not let it go.
In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the US military in Somalia three years ago, the Ministry of Defense is increasingly favoring military outsourcing.
All parties hit it off.
Hillary did not believe Celia's so-called "her own people". She believed that this was Westeros taking the opportunity to strengthen her private army in the United States and Australia. After all, a powerful army had to be tempered by the battlefield. The Ukrainian private army two years ago was successfully formed after the baptism of the Rwandan War and directly became an important private army force in Simon Westeros.
Unfortunately, Ukraine is too far from the United States after all.
The federal and Australian sides are limited to various rules, and it is impossible to make a random arrangement like in Eastern Europe. It has been quietly operated for more than two years before it is considered to be formed. According to the information seen by Hillary, the total number of troops in the Westeros system that can be directly sent to the battlefield has reached 3,000 people, which is far from being a simple and simple way to get some military training orders through a small number of teams at the beginning.
Since everyone knows these things well, Hillary will not look at the bottom of it. What she said just now is just a hint of "I know your intentions."
Celia Miller would not take the initiative to admit anything. The two sides chatted warmly for a while and basically finalized some tacit understanding. Celia took her husband to the other side.
Hillary looked at the couple walking away intimately, and couldn't help but think of a word, "Best Friend", just smiled and walked to her husband. Clinton was chatting with his Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin and another young man named Philip Rebeld.
The topic is about Yale.
Whether it is the president, his wife, the current Treasury Secretary, or even a certain Westeros brother-in-law, they all graduated from Yale Law School.
"Skull and Bones Society, Philip, you are right to refuse to join. Well, I'm not saying that because I was not qualified to join back then. After the 1970s, the Skull and Bones Society quickly declined, and you were wasting time when you entered. Speaking of which, the members that the Skull and Bones Society joined before the 1970s were gathered as elites, just like the eldest son of our former president."
"Although I'm a little stupid."
"Haha, Bob, I've never heard this."
"Hey, do you know, our Texas governor was a cheerleader at Yale back then."
"Well, why do I want to laugh again when I hear it? Haha, it's a shame for men to steal a woman's business."
"Actually, it's quite enviable."
"Well, that's right, haha." The President laughed a few more times, and did not neglect a young man. He asked with a smile: "By the way, Philip, are there any interesting things in the past few years for Yale and Harvard football teams, as their mortal enemies, in recent years? We were a carnival every time back then."
Philip Rebel was both the conscious and timid as a junior. He laughed and said, "The most exciting thing should be when I was sophomore. We recomposed the Harvard school songs, and turned to the Yale school songs halfway, and then guided Harvard students to sing them together before the game."
Bob Rubin also became interested: "This is much more exciting than stealing the Bulldog mascot back then. Philip, how did you turn it? Sing it."
Philip looked for a feeling and soon started singing a cappella. He turned to the Yale school song section. The president and his wife and Mr. Finance all followed him to echo, and the atmosphere seemed more active.
The singing here attracted envious gazes, but when you find out about the identity of a young man, everyone can only envy him.
Can't compare.
It was impossible for Mr. President to leave all his time to Philip. He just chatted for five or six minutes, and did not forget to ask about the other party’s work, encouraged him a few words, and then turned to other guests.
Until the meeting was coming to an end, Joseph Schrapp once again came to Mr. President and talked about some serious matters.
The Westeros system has been promoting some bills in the fields of telecommunications, networks, entertainment, etc.
In this election, the Westeros system was extremely low-key.
However, there is no shortage of resources to be given here. In order to avoid attracting attention, the investment cost of indirect operations is even higher. The core of the American political election is actually the exchange of interests. Whether it is the exchange of politicians and the public, or the exchange of politicians and capital, in short, I give you support and you give me benefits.
Compared with the cautious first term, Clinton, who could not pursue the third term, was much less concerned about it. Moreover, the reason why the Clintons became the most rapid political giants around the millennium was the exchange of interests, loosening the capital of all parties in the federal government, and eventually gained continuous support from the post-Clinton era.
Therefore, the two had a great time talking.
"About Igrit's antitrust investigation, Joseph, you know my difficulties. Now that the prosecutor's offices in 23 states of the federal government are involved, I need time. And, at the beginning... you should understand why I did this. The Justice Department launched an investigation, which would definitely be much better than the result initiated by Congress."
"I understand, but, Mr. President, you should have said hello to Simon last time."
"I'm sorry, too, the matter was too urgent at that time. I could only start the rumor in Congress in advance. Moreover, the election situation at that time, you also know that the White House is not suitable for contact with Simon."
"Well," Joseph Schrapp agreed, before ending the conversation, he mentioned another thing: "And, Mr. President, maybe you don't know that some time ago, Simon and Richard Mellon Skyve of the Mellon family had some unpleasantness."
Bill Clinton immediately became energetic and his eyes lit up.
Richard Mellon Skyve, one of the important driving forces behind his blackmail in the past few years, said Bill Clinton was not too much to say that he was gritting his teeth. However, even the president had no choice but to face the Mellon family, which had been deeply rooted in the federal family for more than a century. He would only give him a handle if he did anything.
In the Federation, it is often another capital that can fight against capital.
Thoughts flew around, Clinton did not hesitate and lowered his voice slightly, saying, "If you need any help in this matter, you can speak at any time."
As a mature and old politician, Clinton will not easily act out of the rules, but within the rules, if he can suppress the Mellon family, which has left him in the past few years, he will be merciless.
After all the things to be discussed, Joseph Schrapp said goodbye to the president and his wife, left the White House, and hurried back to New York early the next morning.
Long Island, East Hampton.
It's Saturday, November 9th.
Although it was a weekend, Joseph Schrapp still rushed to Long Island after returning to New York to report to his boss about the results of his operations in Washington over the past few days.
The meeting location is in the practice room of the National Style Art Troupe located in the seafront of East Hampton.
The A girl next to the boss was personally taken into the largest room in the practice room. As soon as I entered the door, the light song and dance that came into my eyes came with a warm fragrance. The first snowfall in New York in November could be at any time. A stage was built in this 500 square meters of practice room. Under the stage, which was only 50 cm high, is a sofa set.
Joseph Schrapp took his eyes back from the girls on the stage and looked at the sofa below the stage. His boss sat in the middle, with a lazy posture, hugging left and right, and his legs were raised and placed on the kicks in front of him.
In addition to the four young girls dressed on both sides of the man on the couch, there are seven or eight women of all kinds standing or sitting next to them, surrounding a young man like a king. Joseph thinks, this scene is very similar to the classic scenes of some big villains appearing in the movie.
Then the protagonist is often thrown away by the lair amid the exclamation of women.
All right.
Seeing Schlap enter the door, Simon signaled the dancers on the stage to pause and did not get up. When Schlap sat on the single sofa next to him, he asked the girl beside him to hand over a beautifully bound 32-open manual with Chinese landscape scrolls printed on the cover, and said with a smile: "It just so happens, Joseph, accompany me to listen to it, and see how their performance is like with your eyes."
Schlapp nodded, listening to his boss's instructions in Chinese, the dance when he first entered the door was accompanied by a Qingyue girl's English screening commentary, and started over.
When Joseph Schlap heard a name, he opened the handbook that was obviously enough to make a small collection. He quickly found that under the background of light landscape paintings, there were two Chinese characters printed on the homepage of the catalog, "There is a fox". Schlap was not familiar with Chinese. Through English annotations and page background, he quickly understood the general meaning of this oriental poem.
Use things to describe people, and through the story of a fox, a woman's lonely mood while waiting after her husband goes to war.
On the stage, accompanied by the oriental classical music, the performance has also begun.
The dancer who is exquisitely and tender as a white fox slowly appears on the stage, like walking through the forest, like drinking water by the stream, whether it is music or scroll, it looks lonely and ethereal. Occasionally, he meets some companions and looks cheering from others, but he cannot integrate into it in the end, and he is still alone in the end.
In addition to the dance posture and soundtrack, there are occasionally misty female accompaniment.
*...
*There is a fox Suisui in the other side of Qiliang. His heart is worried, and his son has no clothes.
*There is a fox Suisui, who is in the other side of Qi Li. His heart is worried, and his son has no lead.
*There is a fox Sui Sui who is on the side of the Qi. His heart is worried, but his son is not convinced.
*...
Apart from not understanding Chinese chanting, Joseph Schrapp had to admit that everything was perfect.
At the end of the song on the stage, the girls bowed slightly to thank them with Chinese classical etiquette, and then floated down like flowing water. They turned to the backstage and raised their hands to applaud and saw that no one else had to give up. Joseph Schlapp turned around and said to his boss: "It's so beautiful, Simon, I read the manual that it will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 6th. Is this true?"
"Of course, the pre-promotion warm-up has begun," Simon said as he still hugged a charming girl, and asked again: "I mean, Joseph, do you understand?"
Joseph nodded: "It's easy to understand, plus the notes of the manual, and just once I read it, I wrote down the whole story."
"That's good. Actually, this is the result I want. If a culture wants to spread in another cultural atmosphere, the first thing is to make people understand it. This is very simple and difficult. If everyone can't understand it at that time, it will be embarrassing."
"How is it possible? Even if I can't understand it, the dance just now is a visual feast." Joseph said, and seemed a little embarrassed, and then said, "Simon, since I'm going to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, can I book some tickets in advance?"
"No problem, I'll give you 10 pictures. If you have interested people around you, you can give them the gifts," Simon nodded, finally straightened his waist and said to the girl around him: "You guys keep practicing. I'll talk to the guests and come back soon."
Joseph Schrapp actually didn't want to leave much. Staying here to talk about things is enjoyment, but his boss has already stood up and he can only follow him.
The two of them came to a lounge next door and waited for the waitress to deliver the coffee. Simon asked the girl A to hand over a document to Schlap and said, "I'll talk about other things later. You can take a look at this first. It was just delivered from Ukraine a few hours ago."
Joseph Schrapp took the document and opened it, and quickly browsed the content.
This is a murder that happened in Donetsk Prefecture, eastern Ukraine this morning. Yev Sherban, a businessman in Donetsk Prefecture, and his wife, traveled in the morning. He just left his home and was sieve by several long-awaited gunmen, and the driver and a bodyguard were killed.
The document also includes some photos of the murder scene.
It's a terrible sight.
The Weijia lobbying team also has an office in Ukraine. The boss attaches so much importance to that country and works from the top to the bottom. Joseph Schlap has also learned in detail about the various forces in Ukraine.
When Schrapp saw the name of Yev Sherban, he knew that this was the leader of the Eastern Uttartsk Gang.
And you can roughly guess the ins and outs of it.
After all, in order to compete for industrial assets left over from the former Soviet era in eastern Ukraine, the conflicts in recent years have become increasingly acute as Razalenko takes office as prime minister. This time, Yev Sherban's assassination was not surprising.
Chapter completed!