Manhattan Reborn 1978

Blue Crystal Hotel.

top layer.

Old Morgan and his children gathered here.

Panaris and Elder, Grace, Giles and Pine, Laura and Lilith who just came back. .

Only Cheryl Norton Morgan was on her honeymoon and did not rush back to New York. This family gathering was the largest gathering of Morgan's children so far this year.

Originally, after leaving Nelson's apartment, Morgan Sr. and Seamus wanted Seamus to attend today's family meeting, but Seamus shook his head and refused.

What a joke, his own children haven't figured it out yet, how could they watch old Morgan take care of their children. .

In the meeting room.

Old Morgan told everyone about Stanley's change plan that he came to New York to chat with David Coleman today, as well as some of his new ideas. .

Grace will join David's team and take over the media company and insurance business, which somewhat surprises Giles, Pine, Panaris and Elder who don't know the news yet.

Giles, the choice old Morgan gave him was. .

First, do more basic work to accumulate experience, examine yourself, and prepare for your solo career. .

After Old Morgan asked, Pine pondered for a long time and decided to work at Morgan Stanley for a while. When Giles had his own ideas, the two of them left together.

Laura. .There is nothing to say about continuing to college.

Lilith will also join David's team together with Grace to take over the establishment of the medical research center and data center.

When Panaris and Elder heard that the old Morgan planned to let them leave Morgan Bank and form a hedge investment fund on their own, they looked at each other a little, and then they felt relaxed ~

In 1959, Morgan Bank chose to merge with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. .

After that, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, the holding company of Morgan Bank, was established, its business scope further expanded, and the amount of funds increased more than five times.

In Morgan Bank, the shares held by the old Morgan family were also diluted by more than half due to this merger, from the majority shareholder. .Became a small and medium-sized shareholder. .

The Morgan Social Development Corporation, where Panaris worked, was a subsidiary of Morgan Bank that was renamed in 1976.

Elder worked in the Trust and Investment Department of Morgan Bank to gain experience~

Both of them have been working under others and have almost no chance to stand alone. .

This time, Old Morgan's decision completely released the shackles on them, allowing them to fly freely. .

Panaris suppressed his excitement and looked at Grace and Elder. .

Of course Old Morgan noticed this and simply called out: "Grace, Elder, you go and have a chat~"

"No matter what decision you make, I think you can know one thing, you are all my children!"

"...Okay sir!"

The two people, who had always maintained a relationship as husband and wife, looked at each other and walked out of the room. .

Among everyone present, only Giles and Laura were the last to know about it. .

Old Morgan looked at their backs, lowered his head and sighed softly~

Elder and Grace were brought together by him and his wife Neria. .

As a result, they have only been married for a few years and are about to separate. .

----

In front of old Malkin's house.

David, Andy, Lawrence and the four bodyguards got into two cars respectively, preparing to take Andy home first.

In the back seat of the car, David looked out of the car silently, frowning, and said to Andy, who was sitting in the passenger seat: "I'm sorry, your trip was in vain today~"

Andy looked back at him in surprise, and said with a smile: "I feel like you are a little too impatient today?"

David began to rub his temples: "Yeah~ I'm too impatient~ and a little too naive!"

"Oh? Naive?"

Andy thought for a moment, raised his hand to Black Mike who was driving, and pressed down to signal the car to slow down.

"Are you telling me that when you met with old Morgan today, what did you say that makes you regret it now?"

"Hmm..Yes~"

Andy nodded slightly in understanding: "The plan you came up with today sounds like it's going to turn Morgan Stanley into an all-round investment bank... just like a hodgepodge of investment banks..."

"However, after you finished everything, I re-read the record... and I feel that if Stanley can really follow your plan and fully implement it... what will it become?"

David grinned, as if he had a toothache: "It will become an alien monster that runs rampant in the Wall Street financial market and eats up any financial-related business!"

"Hmm... a monster? Then aren't you... the father of this monster? Haha~"

"Um... Andy, this joke is not funny at all~"

"Haha~Okay~"

"Let's not talk about whether it will turn into a monster according to your development plan..."

"What do you think you gained after meeting old Morgan, Nellent, and Seamus today?"

David understood what Andy meant, began to organize his thoughts, and concluded: "Old Morgan, the Morgan family is not as powerful as I once imagined!"

"Of course, the resources that old Morgan controls are probably far less scarce than he said...!?"

"During our conversation, he once said two things that I didn't understand..."

"One of them is that most of the family's wealth is concentrated in the Morgan Bank Trust."

"The other one is the Morgan family's internal fighting!"

After listening to the questions summarized by David, Andy couldn't help shaking his head and laughing: "There will be internal strife within the Morgan family over the distribution of property. This is not new~"

"When I first started working in the financial industry, I grew up listening to the stories of the Morgan family!"

"I have to say that JP Morgan is a genius with extraordinary leadership!"

"In the United States, where the Federal Reserve was not yet established, he helped Wall Street survive the financial crisis of 1907 entirely on his own."

"But after his death, his only son Jack no longer had the ability of JP Morgan!"

David adjusted his sitting posture in surprise, and said with some gossip: "Only son? Jack? That's not what old Morgan said!"

"Oh? What did he say?"

"He said...his grandfather was Henry...Jack was JP Morgan II"

"Haha~ As far as I know Henry should be Jack's cousin~ Anyway, they are all members of the Morgan family..."

"In 1929, when the Great Depression occurred, Jack once wanted to learn from JP Morgan and stand up to save Wall Street and save the U.S. economy and financial industry."

"But Jack...he is far from his father's prestige and ability..."

"In 1934, President Roosevelt passed the Antitrust Act, intending to forcibly break up J.P. Morgan, a huge trust monopoly group formed during the J.P. Morgan era."

"Jack and the dozens of remaining shareholders of JP Morgan discussed the spin-off plan of JP Morgan on a small island estate in Maine~"

"No one knows the content of their meeting at that time. They only know that after this meeting, JP Morgan, a giant trust group that once monopolized many industries such as the financial industry, banking industry, steel industry, and railway industry in the United States, completely fell apart."

"The reputation of the Morgan family has slowly begun to decline because of this~"

"Their family should be considered very low-key in recent years!"

"Over the years I have been in prison, I have often seen various stories about members of the DuPont family in newspapers...infighting and gossip..."

"The DuPont family should be considered among the wealthy families in the United States...the family with the most stories of internal strife~! Haha~"

"Dupont? Have these things been reported by the newspapers?"

"Hehe~"

"David, whatever old Morgan has said to you or promised you, you don't need to take it too seriously now!"

"In his eyes, you should be just a lucky boy with some strange knowledge and abilities~"

"If you want to talk to him on an equal footing, how to strengthen yourself is what you need to consider!"

David was speechless, then nodded: "That's why I feel like I'm a little too naive~"

"I thought if I could come up with more business ideas, he would take me more seriously~"

"Haha~ You don't need anyone's evaluation, David!"

"You are you~ Do whatever you want to do. If you have difficulty, stop first, keep yourself awake and rational, and think about it seriously!"

"With your intelligence, you will definitely be able to figure out anything!"

"Of course, we will always be by your side!"

"Okay~..Thank you, Andy!"

David thanked Andy seriously, leaned back and leaned on the back of the chair. .

The interior of the car returned to silence.

Old Man Andy's words temporarily made the sense of failure that arose in David's heart subside temporarily. .

After a while.

The car arrived at the door of Sally's house. Andy got out of the car and waved to David with a smile: "I don't think it's suitable for you to go drinking tonight~"

"It's a good choice to go back, take a shower and have a good sleep!"

"ok~thank you~!"

"Haha~ Okay, you should go back too~!"

David watched Andy take out the keys and enter the house, and then motioned to Black Mike to drive.

After ten minutes.

They returned to the building below David's apartment.

David asked Lawrence to go to Black Mike's apartment first, and then called Cohen.

When David came upstairs and opened the apartment door, he looked around and found that Susan was not there. . ?

Don't know where she went. .

David curled his lips and walked into the bathroom to take a shower.

After a while, David, who was drying his hair, was attracted by a knock on the door outside the apartment.

He opened the door, and Lawrence was standing at the door: "The call to Cohen has been put through. Would you like to go over and listen to it now?"

"Ok~Wait until I put on a pair of pants~"

David gestured to the bathrobe on his body, smiled and asked Lawrence to wait~

A few minutes later, David picked up the phone at Black Mike's apartment.

"Hello~Cohen?"

"Yes, I'm Cohen~"

"Um...you're in Miami?"

"Yes, boss~"

"Boss? Haha~" David suddenly had some bad premonitions. .

"Every time you call me boss, it's always up to you, Cohen."

"Where are Jackal and Rambo? Are they with you?"

Cohen couldn't help scratching his chin and whispered: "Yes, they are all next to me~"

"Okay, let me hear what trouble you made this time?"

"Um... do you remember that Miami drug lord, Griselda Blanco?"

"You're talking about...the female drug lord who dances so happily?"

"That's right~"

"What happened to her? Have you seen her? Have you talked?"

"Well... we haven't talked to each other in person yet... I'm... arresting her now!"

"What?" David was shocked~!

"You said you captured her...what do you mean?"

Cohen took a deep breath and glanced at Jackal, who was looking down at his toes, and Rambo, who was sitting by the window looking out at the wind. .

"We...attacked one of Blanco's campsites tonight, killed some of her men, captured her alive, and imprisoned her in...the basement."

"Forehead..."

David's eyes were unfocused. .Somewhat confused. .

"Didn't I ask you and... to go for a walk in Miami and send a message? Why did you give her to... and capture her?"

"No~! Cohen!"

"There are only a few of you? How did you catch her?"

Lawrence, who was sitting next to him with four bodyguards, lowered his head and began to study why the floor was like this. .Bright?

Cohen stuttered for a moment, then whispered: "I transferred a dozen helpers from our security training base."

David frowned: "Where are they? Did they all participate in tonight's operation? Was anyone injured? Was anyone... shot?"

"There is no boss ~ they are all fine!"

"Hush~huh~"

When David heard this, he let out a long breath: "Are you sure none of them were injured? No one died?"

"No~ only one person suffered a little scratch and minor skin injury, and no one died!"

"... Where are Jackal and Rambo? Turn on the speaker phone... and tell me what is going on?"

"Good~"

Cohen turned on the speakerphone, lit himself a cigarette, and began to tell the story.

Bog Beru, the newly promoted DEA director in Florida, came to Miami and talked to Cohen about some of the things he learned.

Miami, sitting in the southeastern corner of the United States and the second largest city in Florida, has now been completely used by Colombian drug lords as a window city for dumping cocaine into the American market. .

With a large amount of drugs pouring into Miami, this once resort city has completely turned into a battlefield where various gangs fight for profit. .

This already very chaotic city has rapidly transformed into a magical style after welcoming Griselda Blanco. .

Blanco used the motorcycle killers she created to kill most of the middle and high-level gangs in Miami within a few months, almost achieving a monopoly on the entire Miami cocaine market, making one family the only one. .

After knowing these details from various sources, Baog Beru came up with a very bold idea!

"Working with Griselda Blanco to manipulate the cocaine market in Miami?"

"fxxx!"

"Isn't he the director of the DEA? The Federal Drug Enforcement Agency cooperates with drug lords to fight drugs? How did he come up with this?"

David really admired this Bog Beru, whom he had never met before. .Stomp your feet. .

"What kind of brain circuit does this person have?"

"He is such a person, and you still choose to cooperate with him?"

"Cohen, is your brain broken too?"

Emm. .

Cohen glanced at the jackal who was enjoying himself, smacked his lips and said, "He came to me at that time. He just wanted to use our hands to beat Blanco in pain, and then ask her out for a chat~"

"Chat? Negotiate? What to talk about?"

"Talk...Does Blanco send him some cocaine every month as a reward for his anti-drug efforts?"

"That's right~ That's what Bog Beru thinks~!"

"fxxx! This is such a fucking talent!"

Cohen felt his mouth was dry. .

"Boss, do you know what drug lords care about most?"

"Uh...how do I know this? I'm not in this business!"

"Haha~ What they care most about is whether they can make money and whether they can make more money in the United States!"

"Griselda Blanco, as the drug monopoly and general underwriter in Miami, USA, has reached an agreement with all drug lords in Colombia."

"She was responsible for underwriting all the cocaine that was being smuggled in from Colombia."

"As long as these smuggled drugs land in Miami, Blanco will settle with the drug lords at the wholesale price. The rest of the retail and secondary wholesale business will be done by Blanco himself!"

"Baoge Belu received information that throughout last year, all the police in Miami seized more than a ton of drugs!"

"The amount of drugs that were not found should be more than ten times, dozens of times, or hundreds of times greater than these quantities!"

"After these drugs were transported to Miami, Blanco didn't worry about sales at all. He only worried about making too much money and couldn't store them at all."

"And the police have no good way to deal with the increasingly secretive ways of smuggling drugs that drug lords have come up with!"

"We met a DEA agent named Murphy here."

"He told me that what these drug lords who smuggle drugs in Colombia are most worried about is not the lack of sales, but how they will transport the money they received in the United States back to Colombia!"

"If you sell a ton of cocaine, you will receive more than a ton of cash."

"All this money was earned by Blanco, as the general underwriter of drugs in Miami, from distributors who came to wholesale from all over the world!"

"Murphy said that the top brass of the U.S. government and DEA have not yet made a correct judgment on the extent of the harm of cocaine."

"These DEA agents caught drug dealers smuggling cocaine in Miami, and their superiors didn't even care."

"On the contrary, if they catch the drug dealer smuggling leaf cigarettes, his boss will praise him greatly..."

"In this way, it adds an inexplicable boost to Blanco's behavior of monopolizing the cocaine market, making her a less important drug dealer in the eyes of the DEA."

David turned on the speakerphone, slapped his forehead and sighed: "Talents~ These shitty bastards are all talents~!"

Cohen chuckled, and then said: "According to Bog Belu's idea."

"Since the police, FBI, and DEA can't control the increasingly chaotic situation in Miami, it's better to find Griselda Blanco, the most unstable factor, and have a good chat~"

"As long as Blanco is willing to cooperate with the police in vigorously investigating leaf cigarettes, the police can turn a blind eye or close an eye in investigating the smuggling of cocaine."

"To achieve the goal of making Miami calm and safe~"

"This kind of cooperation has truly brought benefits and political achievements to police representatives such as Bog Beru."

"For Blanco, a drug lord, she can do the cocaine business more safely, and she no longer has to worry about threats from the police!"

"Uh..." David was speechless. .

"Then...will Blanco agree?"

"If you look at it according to Bog Beru's thinking, it should be possible!"

"The police gained the merit of detecting drugs, and Blanco lost some goods. She can make a fuss about this matter and slightly increase the wholesale price."

"From now on in Miami, as long as the police seize a batch of goods, Blanco can increase the price."

"After the loss is recovered, she can lower the price according to the price of the drug market, so as to achieve the goal of occupying the right to say the price of the drug market in the United States~"

David interrupted Cohen with some confusion: "Then... why did you arrest Blanco now?"

"Do you want me to join the drug business?"

"No, boss~"

"This business is indeed... hugely profitable~"

"But I know you don't look down on this kind of business that benefits yourself at the expense of others!"

"fxxx! You still understand this!"

"You were in Bonini's and heard those words from Richie Roberts."

"Drugs, I will never touch these things in my life!"

"It will only bring madness and destruction to people~"

"On this point, Cohen, you need to know my thoughts!"

"Understood~Boss!"

"That's why I moved forward the action time. I wanted to catch Blanco first and asked you for your instructions...my next move!"

David thought about what Cohen said over and over again, feeling that the guy on the other side of the phone might have something to say. .

"Cohen, besides what you said, why did you arrest Blanco?"

"Forehead..."

Cohen glanced at Jackal and Rambo.

The corners of Rambo's slightly crooked mouth slowly turned up. .

"Boss, do you remember the killer outside the restaurant on the day of the heavy rain in New York?"

"Of course~ He has contact with Blanco?"

"No, Blanco has contact with the killer's employer!"

"..who is it?"

"A drug lord from the Cali Cartel over there in Colombia, Chepu Santacruz Londono!"

"This is the man who accidentally learned about you from Alto and hired a killer to assassinate you!"

"so..?"

"You want to... kill this Rondono?"

"That's right!"

Cohen narrowed his eyes and nodded: "Blanco has close connections with Colombia. She will definitely be able to find this Rondono. I want her to bring this person to the United States."

"Then what? Kill him~"

"You...don't want to prepare for a complete war with this Cali group, right?"

"If they can bribe a killer to do the assassination, they will definitely be able to do it a second time...a third time~!"

"I understand, boss~"

"That's why I thought...catch this Rondono first and learn about the situation from his mouth..."

"If conditions permit, we can go to Colombia and kill all the people in this Cali group!"

"Are you fucking crazy?"

At this moment, David felt a rush of blood begin to surge into his head. .

"Cohen, I admit, I'm afraid of death!"

"But I don't agree with your idea."

"I once said that as long as there are huge benefits from the drug business in the world, we will never be able to kill all the drug lords!"

"Besides, it's not our turn to take care of these things!"

"I established Da Security Company just to make my life safer and to help more Vietnam War veterans!"

"How many retired soldiers are there in the security company?"

"Can you really kill all the drug lords of the Cali Cartel when you go to Colombia?"

"Wouldn't we die in the process?"

"Even if you all can fight like Rambo, in the end...how many of you will come back alive?"

"fxxxyou! Cohen!"

"I didn't just gather them together and ask you to take them to kill the drug lord!"

"I have always treated my own life and the lives of you soldiers equally!"

"If I agree to this plan of yours, it will be like murdering you!"

"You bastard, do you understand what I'm saying?"

"say!"

Cohen was silent for a moment and took a deep breath: "Understood!"

David sat upright and resisted the urge to continue to curse: "Rambo, are you there?"

"Here~!"

Rambo, who had been by the window, heard David calling him and strode to the phone.

"You take over Cohen's command now!"

"That Jackal guy wears the same pants as Cohen~"

"I fucking don't believe him now!"

"Now you're in charge! Rambo~"

"Wait a minute...about that Blanco..."

"I need to think carefully..."

"You are right next to the phone, wait for me for a while!"

"Okay, boss~"

Rambo smiled and hung up the phone, and raised his head to Cohen: "You are under my control now, soldier! Haha~"

"fxxxyou!"

Cohen gave him the middle finger unceremoniously, and he felt relaxed. .

----

David put down the phone, glanced at the four bodyguards and Lawrence, couldn't help but jump up, and gave Lawrence a few kicks.

"You damn thing, don't you know about such a big thing?"

"Do you think I'm a fool?"

Lawrence lowered his head and rubbed his calf: "If you are still not relieved... you can try... harder!"

"fxxx!"

David sat on the sofa in frustration, pointed at Lawrence with his hand, and held back for a long time before speaking. .

"God blessed Cohen and the others, and nothing happened to them."

"If someone really dies in this operation, Lawrence, you who fucked him are one of the accomplices! Did you know?"

Lawrence continued loading the wood without saying a word. .

The four bodyguards all looked at each other in silence. Mike Bai took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed it out to everyone, and finally lit it for David.

David took a long drag on his cigarette and exhaled a cloud of smoke, thinking about the whole thing in his mind. .

Let Cohen really go to Colombia to kill all the Cali Cartel?

This is the worst idea!

Even from David's selfish perspective. .

How many soldiers will die in this operation?

The name Cali Group doesn't sound like it can be easily killed by Cohen and the others. .

Can't kill them all. .That means endless trouble!

At that time, the enemy will be in the dark, and David will be in the open. .

Live cautiously every day, always on guard against killers who might jump out?

Is this what he is doing as a human being?

David puffed on his cigarette, thinking of ways to break the situation. .

Griselda Blanco! ?

Could she be someone to take advantage of?