Hardy Empire 1945

The 1960s was the era of large industries. Hardy had already set out in mining, petroleum and other industries in advance, and also set foot in the metallurgical industry, but it was not the ore smelting route, but scrap metal recycling and smelting.

As early as the early 1950s, Hardy laid a chess piece in the urban waste recycling industry, not only involving Bill, but also inviting other mafia families to do this business together. There is no one more suitable for waste recycling than the mafia.

Don't look down on the trash,

Collecting waste is a very lucrative business.

In the U.S,

You have to pay to throw out the garbage, and the garbage can be sorted when you take it back. Plastic can be recycled, metal can be recycled, and paper can be recycled.

Money inside and out.

So in the mid-1950s, Hardy sent people to buy several small smelting enterprises and smelted them with recycled scrap metal.

This business is relatively profitable from the very beginning.

Moreover, Hardy also knew that in his previous life, after the era of great industry passed, large steel companies in the United States went bankrupt one after another, including dominant companies like Carnegie United Steel, but steel plants that smelted scrap metal could always make money.

In later generations in the United States, 70% of the steel was smelted and recycled from scrap metal.

 …

After Nixon came to power.

Hardy is even more comfortable.

Whether it is the United States, or the industries in the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, Cayman, and Penang, they have all been rapidly improved.

There is no hindrance at all.

During this time,

Hardy did a lot,

A private university was established in the United States, and the name is Hardy University. The name is not a joke, but a convention.

For example, Harvard University, whose name comes from John Harvard, and Stanford University, whose name comes from former California governor and railroad magnate Henryland Stanford and his wife.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Hardy establishing a university named Hardy University.

Hadi established this university with a clear purpose. One is to establish a famous school of his own in the United States, and the other is to use Hadi University to reach better cooperative relations with universities in the Dominion of Penang, Singapore, and even Hong Kong. .

In order to improve the teaching strength over there.

Hardy University is located in Los Angeles. It spent a lot of money to buy an 8,000-acre land in the suburbs of Los Angeles, including two small lakes and a river. The natural environment is very good.

The nature of Hardy University is a non-profit private university, so the government will not collect taxes. Of course, shareholders should not even think about earning a penny in the university.

Almost all prestigious schools in the United States are non-profit private universities.

So at the beginning of the establishment of the school, Hardy invited many people to invest. Hardy has always been very good at using other people's money to do his own business.

Investors are also beneficial. In the future, it will be much more convenient for their children to enter Hardy University, and the school director can directly send an invitation letter.

Prestigious schools like Yale, Harvard, and New York University are no exception.

This is also the reason why many people donate money to prestigious schools, just to put their children in it.

The main direction of Hardy University is economics, law, sociology, medicine, pharmacology, life science, electronic information engineering, computer, communication and media.

While cultivating talents for the society, it can also cultivate talents for Hardy Group itself.

After the university was established,

Hardy tried every means to hire many well-known professors, scholars, and teachers, so as to attract a large number of students and foreign students. After several years of development, Hardy University has developed a large scale.

These few years,

All of Hardy's industries are developing at a high speed.

By the end of the 1960s, some people estimated that Hardy's industry might have reached the terrifying value of 50 billion US dollars.

Hardy's industry spreads all over the United States and dozens of countries and regions around the world.

 …

1968.

The new U.S. presidential election begins.

The candidate of the Democratic Party is Mike Corleone. After more than ten years of whitewashing, the Corleone family has completely become a political family.

Even the former Italian mafia families, under Hardy's leadership, turned around and started legitimate businesses, slowly abandoning some underworld businesses.

In fact, as long as the underworld does not rob, kill, or oppress the people, business people don't care at all, even if it is drug trafficking, it is not a business.

There are so many businesses in the world. If it is done well, righteous business is definitely more profitable than underworld business. Hardy led them to transform, and now the Italian mafia has become more secretive, and many have even become groups and companies.

Mike Corleone's competitor was a Republican candidate named Rudolph Ford, and the supporters behind Ford were the Rockefeller family and some other forces.

From the beginning,

The two started a fierce competition.

At the same time, a large-scale publicity campaign was launched. News reports of the two candidates can be seen in the newspapers every day. Every time they go to a city, they will give speeches. Now that the TV industry is more and more developed, it can be broadcast live.

 …

Hardy and the helm of the Rockefeller family are sitting together drinking tea and chatting at the moment, chatting about the future economic direction of the United States.

For the presidential election, whoever the two sides support does not affect their friendship. They are the fathers of the funders. No matter who comes to power, they are the spokespersons of their interests. It's just a matter of how much cake is divided.

During the Nicholson administration,

Other big families, including the Rockefeller family and the Morgan family, also have agents in the cabinet.

In this world, no one can eat alone.

If you are too independent and selfish in your behavior, you will definitely end badly, and you will be attacked by groups.

So even though they all launched agents, it does not affect their relationship. No matter who comes to power, they can divide a part of their interests.

 …

During the election period, a major event happened in the United States, that is, the head of American intelligence who was in power, and the director of the FBI, Edgar Hoover, who made countless people fearful, died in his own home.

After testing, the cause of death was myocardial infarction.

in history,

Hoover died years after the world, and as to the true cause of his death, no one knows at all.

After reading the report in the newspaper, Hardy silently closed it.

This Hoover, who rose to power during Roosevelt's time, gradually covered the sky with one hand, relying on mastering the secrets of the president, congressmen, officials, and wealthy businessmen, no one dared to provoke him.

Johnson did not touch Hoover.

Eisenhower failed to move Hoover.

Under Nicholson, Hoover remained firmly in place.

And this time.

Hardy was ready to kill him.

Because Henry learned that Hoover and Mike's opponent had formed an alliance through someone who was placed next to Hoover, and planned to report Mike's black information.

Although there is nothing wrong with McCorleone himself, he is from a gangster family after all. The current Italian mafia has not been exposed to the public's sight. In the 1970s, a major member of the mafia family was arrested and he was shaken out of the mafia. Only then did the whole world know the Mafia.

If Hoover exposes Mike's situation, Mike's competitors will inevitably make a big fuss and embarrass Mike.

It used to be all right,

Hardy never paid attention to Hoover, and now, Hardy decided to make a move.

Since the Johnson period in the 1950s, Hardy first saw Hoover in the White House, and arranged for Henry to step in to investigate things about Hoover.

Ten years have passed in a flash.

According to Henry, the manpower he placed has now reached a very high position in the FBI.

Henry had reported it before, and Hoover had also sent people to investigate Hardy's situation. Of course, many of them were destroyed by Henry.

Henry to Hoover.

The collision of two intelligence chiefs,

Although the FBI is very powerful in the eyes of outsiders, Hoover may not have worked in Hardy's intelligence organization. Hardy has invested a lot in the intelligence organization.

Hoover is in the office,

Someone dropped a drug into the water glass.

This kind of drug is very hidden, it is specially made, it is extremely difficult to find, and it is not a toxin. It will only cause changes in the beating frequency of the heart, and it will not attack immediately.

And the person who performed Hoover's autopsy was also in charge of a high-level person placed by Henry.

after hoover's death, the valley

Another major event happened inside the FBI. The second person in the FBI, Deputy Director Clyde Tolson, was investigated. Who is Tolson? The man second only to Hoover in power.

And his other identity is, the man behind Hoover.

Historically, after Hoover's death, Tolson took over as director, but in this life, such a thing would never happen, and he was directly taken away for investigation.

The reason for the investigation is the embezzlement of funds from the Investigation Bureau.

In fact, the real reason is that he holds the secret files in Hoover's hands. Why Hoover can stand still and make so many people fear him is because Hoover uses the investigative function of the FBI to investigate the privacy of the president and senior officials. to blackmail them.

Whoever dares to touch him will be punished by him. It is very likely that Hoover will not go down, but the president may step down in disgrace.

Now that Hoover is dead, the legacy is left to Tolson, how could Hardy make him bigger.

The person who arrested Tolson was George Hans, who was also the deputy director of the Bureau of Investigation. There were a total of 8 deputy directors in the Bureau of Investigation, who were in charge of more than a dozen departments. Before that, George Hans was in charge of the FBI’s internal investigation committee and did not have much real power. .

Tolson was very annoyed at George Hans catching him. He wanted to struggle at first, but how could George Hans give him a chance to show the evidence he had prepared long ago and shoot it directly in front of Thorson.

To know,

Henry has been staring at the other party for more than ten years, and the evidence is sufficient and impeccable.

You have to let me go, otherwise many people will suffer, I promise. Tolson looked at Hans and said.

Hans smiled, and leaned closer to Tolson's ear and whispered, Are you talking about the materials hidden in the villa's vault in the suburbs?

Thorson was taken aback, and looked at Hans in disbelief.

He never expected that the other party even knew those things.

Now his amulet was gone.

Not long after, Tolson committed suicide in prison. As for the information, there is no trace. After all, there are very few people who know about it.

Five days after Hoover's death, Nicholson appointed George Hans as the new FBI director, and no one outside knew anything about the struggles going on inside the FBI.

George Hans is the person Henry placed in the FBI, that is to say, he is Hardy's person.

 …

As election day approaches.

People are looking forward to the new president.

Naturally, Las Vegas opened the handicap again. This time, it was publicized that the two candidates were basically evenly matched, but in the eyes of many people, Mike Corleone still had the upper hand, so Mike had the lowest odds on the handicap.

American gaming industry,

After so many years of hard work by Hardy, more than 30 states have released lotteries, and handicap is also part of the lottery.

After people bought lottery tickets, they paid more attention to the general election.

this election,

Get ready for a live broadcast.

Now that we have entered the era of color TV, ABC TV is the first TV station to launch TV programs. Under Hardy's deliberate guidance, American TV programs have become more abundant and have become the most common form of entertainment for the American people.

ABC TV now has 5 channels.

Early November 1968.

Today is voting day.

ABC TV station occupies a dedicated channel and set up a live broadcast room to broadcast live broadcasts of the results of each state. The signals from each state will be sent over, and the audience across the United States can know the results as soon as possible. There are a group of guests in the live broadcast room, constantly analyzing.

The results come out state by state.

The atmosphere in the live broadcast room is getting more and more enthusiastic.

With the announcement of the verdicts of the last few continents, the election that lasted more than 20 hours finally came to an end. The final result was that Mike Corleone defeated his opponent by a fairly good margin and became the next president.

 …

New York.

Corleone Manor.

When the election results were announced on TV, everyone in the Corleone family cheered excitedly. Mike jumped up to Hardy and hugged Hardy tightly.

Hardy, we succeeded, thank you. Mike said holding Hardy.

Don't say thank you, have you forgotten what we are? Hardy said.

brother.

Mike squeezed Hardy's hand tightly.

Mike's wife and children also came to congratulate his father. Mike has three children. The eldest son Anthony is 20 years old this year and is still in college. He is Hardy's godson. His daughter Jane is 17 years old and looks very beautiful. The younger son Jon is 14 age.

Mike and Hardy came to the study.

Mike specially asked the eldest son to come in,

Anthony came in and called Hardy respectfully to his godfather, then looked at Mike and said, Father, what do you want me to do?

Now that the election results are out, you should be more careful in your words and deeds in the future. You are still in college, especially in school. I don't want you to behave differently from other people.

Anthony nodded, I know father, I will not be inflated, let alone arrogant.

Well, go out and talk to Jane and Jon. Mike said.

Okay father, father, godfather, I'm going out. Anthony politely said goodbye and left.

When Anthony went out, Hardy said to Mike: Anthony has been well educated by you, and I hope to continue to make the Corleone family brilliant.

I hope so, where are your little ones? Mike handed Hardy a cigar.

Thinking of his group of children, Hardy smiled, They are all good and lively. Everyone has their own interests and hobbies. My expectation for them is to develop freely.

Mike smiled, Following a father like you is the luck of those 14 children.

No, 15.

Mike was taken aback.

Another one added?!

Well, I had a younger son a few months ago, haha. Hardy said with a smile.

Mike was speechless and could only admire.

Then the two chatted about other things. They chatted a lot about the candidates for the cabinet, the influence of various forces, how to govern in the future, the direction of the US economy, international relations and foreign policies, and so on.

When talking about international relations, the Soviet Union is naturally the focus that cannot be avoided.

Hardy said: In recent years, Nixon has had a lot of ideas about the Soviet Union. In fact, about them, the eastern countries next to them are a good breakthrough.

The relationship between them is not good now. There have been many differences and even confrontations. In the past few years, Nixon has established communication channels through several countries. After you come to power, you can do more work in this regard.

Our first target is the Soviet Union. An enemy's enemy is a friend. We can use a lot of chips. They are not members of the United Nations, and they can even become permanent members.

Establish diplomatic relations.

We can also carry out technical cooperation, including weapons and equipment, production technology, electronic technology, and invest in and build factories in their countries.

China and the United States also had a honeymoon period.

Hardy's proposal was only a few years ahead of schedule.

 …

February 1969.

Mike took an oath on Capitol Hill to become the new president of the United States. In this life, there will be no Watergate incident, and Hardy will not let that happen.

Not long after,

Nicholson became the honorary president of Hardy University, using his status to increase the popularity of Hardy University, and Nicholson can receive a generous bonus from the Hardy Group every year, as well as various benefits provided by the group.

Mike enters the White House.

Cabinet members have been confirmed.

Andy entered the cabinet list again and became the Secretary of State of the United States. Many people were not surprised by this appointment.

George Hans was reappointed as FBI director.

As for other candidates,

It includes many forces.

Dr. Ji, known as an old friend of the Chinese by later generations, became the Assistant to the President for Security Affairs and also served as the Director of the National Security Council.

He was the one who came out of the Rockefeller family.

Just two months after Mike became president,

Dr. Key travels in secret.