"Tell me, what's going on?" After sending Margot into the house, Josie returned to the car and motioned to the driver to start, while asking Dix, "Is it cigarettes or candy?"
The sugar Josie is talking about is not corn syrup.
For this new product, corn syrup, we signed an order with the military, and all of it must be supplied to the military.
But in addition to the normal production of syrup, Qiaoxi's sugar factory also produces white sugar.
As for the raw materials, there is no doubt that they also come from the transaction with Daenerys.
Get low-priced crude brown sugar or sugar cane from Westeros, process it in the factory and turn it into pure white sugar. Part of it is sold back to Daenerys at a high price, and part of it flows into the Chicago black market, earning huge amounts of cash.
Sugar and tobacco, these two shady businesses, actually brought benefits to Qiao Xi that far exceeded the military orders.
But again, since it is an illegal business, it is naturally easy to be coveted.
So Josie was actually not surprised when this day came.
"They all have it, ten thousand cartons of cigarettes, and a ton of sugar, all of which were destined for New York. They were robbed at the dock. Five of the brothers died, two were seriously injured, and only one escaped and called to notify
Me." Dix replied somewhat dullly, the people who died were all his men.
When Qiao Xi heard this, he couldn't help but narrowed his eyes. Good guy, based on the lowest price of ten dollars for a pack of cigarettes and twenty dollars for a kilogram of sugar, that's a total of 120,000 yuan.
"Have you found out who did it?" Josie asked.
"Not yet. The other party is very efficient. When we arrived, the goods had already been shipped." Dix shook his head. "But I have notified Mr. Schneider and Mr. Dietrich. I don't know if they have it."
Found useful information."
Qiao Xi nodded when he heard this, closed his eyes and thought about something, but said nothing.
About half an hour later, Josie and a group of three cars arrived at the restaurant of Anna, the widow of Louis, who was seriously injured and died after being shot in the jewelry robbery.
Originally, Dix just wanted to take care of his mother and daughter out of friendship, but not to mention, although Anna is just a little woman from the bottom of society, her beauty and figure are indeed first-rate. Although she is not as good as Margot, she is not the same at all.
No worse than some of the socialites that Qiao Xi usually saw, or even the so-called celebrities in the United Labor Organization that he met.
Because of this, Dicks really became your wife by taking care of her, and I raised her, and even planned to get married recently.
Because of this relationship, this restaurant has gradually become a meeting place for Qiao Xi and his men.
And the reason why there are three cars is naturally that they are all Qiao Xi's bodyguards.
There may still be a gap between the current Qiao Xi and those top bosses in Chicago, but he is still rich and powerful, and with his fame, naturally he can no longer act alone like before.
So now he has recruited more than twenty people as his bodyguards.
These people were all recruited by Josie from the port refugee camp.
Although Chicago is a city in the middle of the United States, as the third largest city in the United States, it is very attractive to immigrants, and Lake Michigan has a direct route to Europe through the Great Lakes route, so there are many refugees from Europe.
Those with money and connections can naturally enter Chicago.
But those who don't have money don't care. There are more than 30,000 refugees who can only stay in the refugee camps at the port, eating rotten and smelly low-quality food distributed by the government every day, waiting for the review of the Immigration Department.
You won't die from hunger, but there are quite a few people who die from illness, freezing and various causes.
The harshness of the environment is barely worse than that of a concentration camp.
So it was very easy for Josie to recruit people.
The people Qiao Xi recruited were those with families, old and young, and most of them had served in the military. They were mainly "fellows" like Germans and Austrians, as well as a small number of Nordic people... As for why they didn't recruit Asians
, Stop making trouble, where did the Asian refugees from Europe come from? The Asian refugees are all in Los Angeles, separated by half a continent.
This kind of escape will take the young and old with them, and they all attach great importance to their families.
If enough settlement allowance is paid, coupled with the unified resettlement of family members, it is enough to buy the loyalty of these people.
Because it was already late in the evening, the restaurant had already closed.
Therefore, except for Lyndon Schneider and Dietrich, who had been waiting inside for a long time, there were no extra people in the store.
"How's it going? Have you found any clues?" Qiao Xi sat down on the sofa and looked at several people and asked.
"Mr. Sheriff has some clues." Apparently the two had discussed it before Josie came, and Lyndon Schneider directly pushed Dietrich out.
It's not surprising that among the people under Josie, the one who is truly considered a local gangster in Chicago is actually Dietrich.
After hearing this, Josie looked at Dietrich.
"I have some informants in various districts. After receiving the news from Dix, I went to ask people to find out. There were five gangs that had relatively large operations tonight. One of them was the Italian Moretti.
One family is a fat man from Ireland, but the suspicion of these two families is not high, because their action was to merge with each other. The killers of the Moretti family were killed by the fat man's people, and the other three groups were also from Italy.
The Falconi family, one group is a Spanish wild dog, and the other group is a Jew. I personally think the Falconi family is unlikely. After their boss Salieni was imprisoned five years ago, they
I can’t get over it anymore,” Dietrich said.
"In other words, the suspicion is mainly focused on Spaniards and Jews?" Qiao Xi knocked on the table and asked.
"Yes, but this is just my guess. I can only say that they are the most suspicious. Who did it? I'm afraid we have to find out the whereabouts of that batch of goods first. After all, I can't guarantee that I will do this.
Damn, could it be some young guy who just debuted?" Dietrich shrugged.
There is no way. As the third largest city in the United States, various ethnic groups in Chicago are extremely complex. There are more than a dozen large gangs, and there are countless small gangs.
Almost every day some small gangs appear or disappear.
Qiao Xi nodded when he heard this. Although you don't need to present evidence like the police when you are a gangster, when you suspect that there are multiple parties, you still have to investigate clearly first.
Otherwise, it would be a trivial matter to find the wrong person, but it would be fatal to be used as a weapon.
"Then let's do this for now. You all should keep an eye on this matter. If you have any news, let me know. Although we are not a formal gang, we are not something that the rats in the sewers can manipulate casually. In addition,
Schneider, allocate a sum of money from the purchase price to Dix, ten thousand for the dead brother and five thousand for the seriously injured, tell everyone that as long as they are willing to work hard for me, I will not treat them badly." Josie ordered one by one.
Everyone present was moved when they heard the pension price quoted by Qiao Xi.
You must know that these days, when a gangster dies, if the boss can give him one or two thousand, that is because he is kind-hearted.
Most of them are dead and don't have a dime.
This is why many young people prefer to join the army.
In addition to the high salary, the death benefit of up to 6,000 US dollars is also a very important reason.
In fact, even in the 21st century, the US military's death allowance is still 6,000... However, after World War II, the main compensation for soldiers killed in action has been through insurance, so these 6,000 are no longer dispensable.
Therefore, Qiao Xi's pension of RMB 10,000 can be said to be very high in this era.
So even if everyone understands that Qiao Xi is trying to win people's hearts, so what? Who doesn't like this kind of boss who is willing to spend money?
As for Qiao Xi, in terms of money, he may be nothing compared to those top predators now, but spending tens of thousands to win people's hearts is really nothing. With the plane trader here, making money is really a big deal.
so easy.
Not to mention the dollars brought in from selling sugar and cigarettes on the black market, just from the transaction with Daenerys, Josie still has a lot of gold and silver in his warehouse.