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On Wednesday morning, Li Mochen received a call from Kadeem Jebson. A large number of Xuri Company's employees had left. At least a third of the people they had recruited and were still in training were gone, including two of his father's old subordinates. Two renovation companies had also terminated their contracts with them.
There was nothing Li Mochen could do about it. He could only order Kadeem to continue hiring people to fill the gap and hire new renovation companies.
The war between him and Blood Hand was in full swing. While he was doing his best to attack all of Blood Hand's businesses, Antonio was sparing no effort in attacking him.
In just three days after the war started, six of their shops had been set on fire, and the company headquarters and dormitories had also been strafed by machine guns. If it weren't for the initial formation of the security forces led by Zhang Wei and Dwight Payton's connections to hire patrol officers to be stationed around these shops, two of the shops might have been burned down, and the headquarters might have been bathed in blood.
Antonio's people had even tried to return the favor by setting fire to their dormitories in the north of the city late on Monday night. Fortunately, Jeremy Burt had detected it in advance, and Sampson Brut, who was the first to receive the news, had decisively gone to support them and crushed Blood Hand's plot.
Randall Khedira of the North District Police Department was the inspector general whom Li Mochen had met at Angela's cocktail party. He had personally led a squadron of SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) to rush to the rescue and repel the criminals.
But even so, as many as seven of Sampson Brut's men had been injured or killed. The enemy also had the intention of besieging the city and attacking the reinforcements, but they had missed the new inspector general of the North District Police Department. With their friendship at the cocktail party and Dwight Payton's support, this person spared no effort in supporting Li Mochen.
Li Mochen did not hesitate either. On the same day, accompanied by Elisa Targaryen, he donated 1.5 million gold guilders to the North Police Officer Mutual Aid Foundation, 3,000 gold guilders to Inspector Richard Clair's campaign office, and 400,000 gold guilders to the North Atlanta Joint Security Action Committee. In the end, he also invested 1.6 million gold duns in the East Police Department, which was only slightly inferior to the North Police Department.
In addition, under Dwight Payton's guidance, Li Mochen also donated 115,000 gold duns to at least seven city councilors.
According to the Constitution of America, there was a limit to the amount of personal political cash that could be used to run for public office. The limit for a prosecutor like Richard Clare was three thousand, and the political party was fifteen thousand.
However, this system only existed in name a long time ago. Voters could use political action committees to bypass this restriction.
Although the political action committee could not directly hand over the money to the candidate, it could still purchase advertisements on TV and newspapers, publish political opinions that were biased, or hold cocktail parties and fund-raisers for the candidate. It could even donate to major charities, libraries, schools, and so on. It could do whatever it took to enhance the candidate's reputation.
After that, Li Mochen personally visited the Atlanta City Comptroller, Madam Iselte. She was very dissatisfied with the war between Li Mochen and Antonio. She thought that his actions were absurd and that he had destroyed the peace that the mayor of Atlanta had enjoyed for a long time.
Just as Li Mochen left in disappointment, the lady loosened her stance and said that there was a need to audit the East Police Department's finances in the near future to see if there was any corruption or misappropriation of funds.
"Did you know? André, you're really absurd. You're like a lion cub that hasn't even grown a tooth yet, challenging a jackal. "
After Madam Iselte sent Li Mochen out, she sighed slightly and said, "But your personality reminds me of your father. He would often do anything for something that he believed in. "
Li Mochen could only smile awkwardly, thinking that this had nothing to do with Li Chunchu. Q-Sword and Tao Ran in the Original Dome Realm would do the same. No one could touch the people and things that he valued and then leave unscathed.
"But since you've already done this, then try your best to win this war and defeat that Antonio. You have no way out, André."
Saying this, Madam Iselte pointed at Elisa Targaryen who was not far behind Li Mochen. "I have to remind you to use this girl's power well. I know that Angela Medichi has a very special feeling for you, but in Atlanta, her help to you is actually limited. Medichi is high up in the clouds, and there's a huge gap between him and the bottom of society. On the other hand, this Targaryen girl has many cousins in the police department. There are about sixty or seventy of them? I can't even count them. Although there aren't many of them who are really in high positions, they occupy a large number of middle positions. They're the backbone of the Atlanta Police Department. If you can gain their support, then even if Antonio bribed the entire police department, he can't do anything to you. Do you understand? You have to know that no matter what kind of decision it is, it needs to be implemented. "
"I understand."
Li Mochen's expression was solemn. "That's what I'm doing now."
In fact, this was the reason he had asked Elisa Targaryen to help him. In the past few days, he had attended two Targaryen banquets and spent nearly four million on these "Targaryens." All of them were paid in cash. Depending on the position, they gave him 300,000 or 100,000.
This seemed unnecessary. The Xuri Company hadn't opened yet, and they didn't need the police's help to attack Blood Hand's businesses. But Li Mochen had to think about the future. He didn't want to ruin his relationship with the Targaryens.
The continuous war in the past few days had already caused complaints in the police department. The frequent attendance and the continuous vicious public security incidents put a lot of pressure on the Eastside Police Department.
When Li Mochen appeared at the two Targaryen banquets, many people's faces turned green. But after Li Mochen generously spent money, the situation became much better.
An old inspector of the Targaryen family even reminded Li Mochen in a half-drunk state, "Continue! Don't stop, kid. I have faith in you. You invited Sampson Brut and that Thompson Adams. They're both genius commanders in the Special Forces. Until now, the FBI and the Major Crimes Division haven't found any evidence against them. Even excluding the Craig Community Bank, you've killed at least nine of his Outlaws. They can't do any business for five days, right? Don't you know that our current director, Mr. Yves Ryder, is in a terrible state?
"You have to make the higher-ups realize that if Antonio doesn't fall, Blood Hand can forget about doing business. The war that affects the entire Eastside can't stop either. When that time comes, you'll win. Everyone will be on your side. Do you understand? The election season is about to begin. The inspectors of the Eastside and the current councilors won't sit by and watch the chaos continue. They can only choose between the two of you. But they can't do anything to you, André. "
"Sh * t. Ever since Antonio's position in the Eastside became more stable, they've been giving him less and less money. To be honest, many people in the Eastside still want to see that guy fall. Among all the gangsters in the Eastside, this guy is the most unscrupulous and inhumane. Sometimes, we can't even bear to look at the vicious cases, but we can't do anything to him. "
"Don't worry. Leave your headquarters and the dormitory in the Eastside to us. He can't do anything to those two places."
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