America's King of Poetry

Chapter 66 The Shadow

Barnard's Farm on the Hudson, Yonkers, late at night, June 1973.

Montolo patted the soil on the pit with a shovel, shoveled some floating soil, weeds and stones to cover it, and pulled it twice with his feet, making it impossible to see that a pit was dug here and a person was buried.After burying the person, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to Luther who was beside him, and the two took a puff to relax.

"Rejuvenation Street?" Luthor asked, stepping on the freshly filled pit where the most famous pimp on Spring Street was buried.

"No, I want to go back tonight...cough cough...to be with my daughter." Montoro coughed. He was sweating all over his body. Digging a hole was a tiring job. His lungs felt empty, and the air and smoke were trying to drill in, choking him.

In addition to following Luther to collect usury, Montolo, with the support of his family, began to get involved in the growing porn industry.

On the other side of the earth, the war is brutally going on in the jungles of Southeast Asia, but what is destroyed is the thoughts and values ​​of the people in the country where the war was initiated.The moral code of conservatism is no longer the golden rule, and the vigorous social spirit after the war is rapidly declining. This is an era when the old world is collapsing. People's desires are expanding and they need to vent unscrupulously.

Old things are dying at a faster rate, and new things are still emerging. Chaos has become the theme of this city, and it has become a paradise for gangs to show their talents.The last such golden age was 50 years ago, in the 1920s.Luthor instructed Montolo to open a brothel on Spring Street to compete with those street girls. These wild or pimp-controlled street girls can no longer satisfy the appetite of the city of New York.Pornographic films, coin-operated projectors, and private movie theaters flourished, and brothels arose.

"Tomorrow, take this to Spring Street and show them, they will understand." Luthor handed a gold ring in his hand to Montoro.This was picked up from the hands of the pimps who were killed. These pimps who held the resources of street girls were unwilling to cooperate with the Luciano family. Luthor could only make an example of them and give them a little wink.

Montolo took the gold ring and put it in his pocket. He said, "I need a helper. I have too many things on my hands to be busy. You know, I just started a corner job. I have a lot of land to manage, a lot of money to collect, and I have a daughter... Send me one more person, a smart and capable Italian."

In the 70s, the Luciano family was undergoing renewal and expansion, and the outbreak of war was a huge opportunity for the Mafia.A large amount of drugs from Southeast Asia are transported to New York through the military channel, and Italians, blacks, Mexicans, and Irish are all grabbing this cake.The illegal drug market is rapidly expanding under multiple effects. A large number of young people have begun to take drugs. The old-school Italian gangs insist on the principle of not touching drugs, but they have already fallen apart under the temptation of huge economic interests.

Montolo is Luthor's capable man. Luthor has not long been in power, and he needs Montolo to make some achievements.Luther walked over to the Cadillac Coupe DeVille parked not far away with its headlights on. He knocked on the window. The window fell. A young man with a broad chin was sitting in the driver's seat, listening to the radio.

The game was played in Los Angeles on the west coast, Game [-], and it wasn't over as New York rolled into the night.In the era when television broadcasting was very underdeveloped, only the most die-hard fans would use the Play by play commentary on the radio to learn about the game in real time.

"How did the match go, Rogue?"

"10 points, the Los Angeles people are finished, the Los Angeles people are finished!" The young man with a wide chin looked very excited, but the voice on the radio suddenly weakened, and the signal was not very good. He clapped hard twice, but the sound fell silent.Luther asked Montolo to come over, introduced the young man to Montolo, and said, "This is Matt's nephew. You will be my good helpers in the future. Let's work together now and take care of Spring Street for me. I will handle it at the police station. Work hard. Remember to find a good manager. We need this income."

Montoro held out his hand and shook hands with the broad-jawed young man in the driver's seat. "Hi, I'm Montoro, Montoro-Kagliani."

Wide Chin also stretched out his hand out of the car window, and said, "Hi, I'm Silves, Silves-Tonatore."

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6月17日，1994赛季NBA总决赛第五场在麦迪逊花园广场打完，纽约尼克斯在主场91:84，7分的优势击败了休斯顿火箭队，以总比赛4:1拿下了当年的总冠军。

This is 20 years later, the Knicks once again stood at the pinnacle of the basketball world, and 10 years later, Patrick Ewing once again defeated Hakeem Olajuwon on the highest stage.Although Olajuwon missed the third and fourth games, the Rockets were defeated and completely lost in Madison's crazy shouts.

At the end of Game [-], the crowd flooded the floor of Madison Square Garden, with people rushing toward the center of the arena.Ewing raised his arms high, and at this moment, he felt that he had become the real king of New York.In the stands, Arthur Luciano slowly got up from his seat, turned and walked towards the aisle, leaving Madison Square Garden.Many New York fans who could not buy tickets gathered outside the square. After they learned the result of the game, they started to celebrate and cheer wildly.

It is conceivable that for a period of time, New York's media pages and TV programs will be flooded with news of the Knicks winning the championship.

Arthur walked through the noisy crowd, straightened his messy hair, and walked on the streets of New York.After coming to this time and space again, a major event that was completely opposite to the history in memory finally happened. I wonder what kind of impact this will have on future history?Jackie Gandolfiel suffered a major blow in this Finals, and the casino was on the verge of bankruptcy.But this tyrant was really ruthless, and he shot and killed several black bar owners who had made big bets with him, and the New York underground world was bloody for a while.Once the war started, it was the time when the grievances broke out, and the undead people would not stop.

The Luciano family has gone through a purge, but they stay out of it. If some territory and interests are lost, they will be lost. Arthur doesn't care.The family is preparing for whitewashing.Arthur decided to gradually divest those industries with low profits and huge maintenance costs, such as bars, brothels, underground casinos, including restaurants, cinemas, etc.These industrial families all have white gloves at the front. Arthur is going to find an opportunity to sell all these industries to these white gloves at a certain price, and then get rid of these "small profits" and enter the larger world of money.

Of course, Arthur will still keep in touch with the black part, and he needs a shadowy armed force to turn the tables when necessary.In America, Arthur didn't want to be a law-abiding person who played by the rules of the game.

He wants to be the one who makes the rules.

As Arthur walked and thought, he remembered Olajuwon's lonely eyes looking at the basket at the end of the game just now in Madison.This time, it was really fate that ruined him, and it was Arthur who ruined him.Arthur later asked Abramovich what exactly Paul put in that McDonald's fried chicken.Abu told Arthur that Paul found a pharmacist and added a very small amount of crude ricin to it.This is a highly poisonous poison, which can kill people in a small amount. Olajuwon can survive because of his strong body, and the fact that the crude ricin is less toxic and has a very small amount of poison.But it is still quite dangerous, causing Olajuwon to miss two games, and the fifth game is also completely out of shape, and he no longer has the prestige of the regular season MVP.

Both the New York Police Department and the NBA officially stated that they would thoroughly investigate the poisoning case, but no matter what the investigation was, the result of the game would not change. The Knicks won the championship.And a month later, a pharmacist told people that he made the toxin that made Olajuwon incapacitated. Soon, he was hit and killed by a stolen car on his way from get off work.The driver fled by car, and finally there was only one car left in the bushes on the side of the road, and the person disappeared without a trace.

Walking east along 33rd Street, Arthur passed the Empire State Building, brightly lit at night.As the tallest building ever, walking beside it still feels suffocating.Arthur looked up and almost bent his neck at a 90-degree angle to see its famous spire.

Suddenly, Arthur saw a black shadow on the building, moving towards him.

(End of this chapter)