If this little gangster had been left alone in the past, Portman wouldn't have needed to go to such trouble and could just kill him. At that time, they all had a license to kill, and their job was to kill people. If a gangster selling drugs dies, he will die, and no one will trouble them because of this.
But it's different now. They have retired and are civilians. That's why Portman didn't stab him through the neck with a dagger, but just kneed him in the crotch, making the guy roll around on the ground holding his balls.
Kai looked at the gangsters looking at Portman with hatred and fear, and shook his head. After leaving the army, I was really not used to the scene before me. "Call the police. Now that we are all civilians, it's better not to go too far."
The United States is a society governed by the rule of law, at least on the surface. They have no law enforcement power. Even if these bastards really get into trouble, they will still be held criminally responsible. The United States is no better than China. In China, the amount of "washing clothes" measured just now is enough to impose a sentence of 15 years in prison, life imprisonment, or death, and confiscation of property. But it's not that serious here, because this fact is so common.
Although the United States may not have the most places producing and manufacturing drugs, it certainly has the most drugs shipped to the United States in the world. According to a large amount of data, nearly 70% of the drugs produced in other countries around the world are shipped to the United States. It can be said that the United States is the number one drug consumer in the world.
According to statistics I don’t know where to find, one in ten Americans is a drug addict. Especially among young people, the proportion of illicit drug use is particularly high.
The reason is that the United States does not strictly regulate various illegal drugs. Therefore, the maximum sentencing for these guys is one or two years, which is still too much. According to the sentencing level, they only committed minor crimes. If the injuries were serious, the police and prosecutors would still find trouble for Portman, so they simply turned out to be out of sight and out of mind, directly taught him a lesson and left it to the police.
Saji also understood this truth. He glared at his sister fiercely, and then asked his friend to call the police.
At this time, Saji's parents also rushed over. Seeing the mess on the ground and the gangsters lying on the ground, the veteran immediately understood what was going on.
He roared angrily at his daughter.
"I warned you a long time ago that you are not allowed to bring these scum into my house! Angel! You must pay for your actions! Now go upstairs, you are in solitary confinement!" This veteran is a typical Old-fashioned, he does not accept the so-called popularity of today's young people.
"Dad, you can't do this! I have grown up and I have my own freedom!" Angel was also a sixteen-year-old girl. She could not accept that her father would embarrass herself in front of her friends. Moreover, Americans like to talk about freedom at every turn.
"Let's wait until you are eighteen years old! You are not qualified to talk about freedom now. Go upstairs! Immediately!" Although the veteran is also used to his children's independence, that happens after they turn eighteen.
"You're unreasonable!" Although Angel was angry, she didn't dare to really resist. Although the veteran is not a violent person, everyone knows his stubborn personality.
So I could only struggle to the death, and then go upstairs obediently under the angry eyes of the old man. As for her friends, they immediately wanted to run away when they saw this situation. Kai had no interest in those girls aged 16 or 17. But it's not that easy for those gangsters who don't look like good people to escape.
Just as a gangster was about to leave, Kai tripped him and fell to the ground.
"You wait for the police to come."
A few gangsters, perhaps with a strong desire to survive, actually planned to rush out. However, before others could react, they saw a few gangsters fly back, clutching their stomachs and screaming.
…
After restraining a few gangsters, Saji's father apologized to Kai. He didn't expect that an ordinary barbecue party would turn out like this.
But Saji couldn't help it.
"What's going on with these people? I remember the town wasn't like this before!"
Although Jiade Town is not considered poor, it is located in a remote area and its folk customs are relatively simple. Saji has never seen a group of young people gathering together to take drugs before. In fact, compared to big cities, Jiade Town is a very conservative place, and people here are not very accepting of drug taking.
These words made his father and neighbor friends feel depressed. In fact, they did not plan to talk about it today. After all, Saji only came back after a few years away from home. If there is any nonsense, we have to leave it to later. But now...
"Guade Town...is no longer the same Guard Town it used to be."
So he told Saji and the others about the changes in Jiade Town in the past few years.
It turned out that five years ago, a wealthy businessman came to Jiade Town and planned to invest in Jiade Town. To be honest, this kind of thing is rare in Jiade Town for a hundred years. What does Jiade Town have? Apart from the beautiful scenery, there is basically nothing. So at first, people just watched the fun and didn't take it seriously.
But then things changed. First, there was a lot of construction work in the town, and an entertainment city and several hotels began to be built. Then the wealthy businessman found the local aborigines and opened a casino in partnership with them. Porn, gambling, and drugs, these three things are rarely separated. If there is gambling, the other two are naturally not far away. (Indians can open casinos in their own territories without being controlled by state laws. In many states in the United States that prohibit casino operations, white people will pretend to be or partner with Indians to open casinos)
Then the atmosphere in the town changed, people began to become addicted to gambling, and the dirty prostitutes and illegal drugs outside began to spread in the town. Not only that, the wealthy businessman also began to vigorously attack local businesses, bankrupting many local merchants, and then purchased them at low prices.
Most of the white people in Minnesota are from Scandinavia. They are typical Nordic people who are extremely tough and tough. Of course they refused to do it, so they had a conflict with the wealthy businessman. As a result, the wealthy businessman had many thugs under his command, who used violent methods overtly and covertly to cause death and injury to some opponents. After this, the town was completely reduced to the private residence of the wealthy businessman.
By now, almost everyone understood what kind of wealthy businessman that guy was, and he was obviously a gangster.
"So...there's no one to care about him?"
Saji found it incredible that a gangster could actually take charge of a small town. This is really ridiculous to Sage. Does he think the United States is Mexico? Can you tolerate those criminals?
"Care? Who cares? Those policemen have been bribed, and the mayor has also started doing business with him. Who dares to care?"
In fact, many things in the world are the same. Don't think that the United States is really a paradise. The officials there are as clean as water. People who think so are either cents or pure idiots. Collusion between government and businessmen occurs everywhere in the world, and it is certainly not uncommon in the United States. It's just that Saji didn't expect that this guy would act so openly, not even bothering to cover up.
"Sigh... In fact, even if these bastards are handed over to the police, it won't be long before they come out." Saji's father sighed and said helplessly.
And now, the police came.
These police officers were very dissatisfied with this police dispatch. They even told the Saji family very clearly not to cause trouble. This made Meatball, who was eating, very unhappy. Is this what the police should say?
When the police saw the four tough men standing there, Rouqiu, Kai, Portman and Saji, they knew that these were all retired soldiers, so they ignored Rouqiu's displeasure. They arrested the gangsters very simply, including the drugs.
But what puzzled Kai was that the police did not take them away.
This is not because Kay has any masochistic tendencies, but according to the formal procedures, at least Portman and the buddy who called the police must go to the police station. Whether it is to explain the situation or to record a confession, the person involved and the caller need to describe the situation. But these police officers, firstly, without asking about the situation, and secondly, without taking them to the police station, just walked away with a few gangsters.
"Isn't this... too obvious?" Kai was shocked. These bastards didn't even bother to cover up.
Saji was even more angry. These grandsons came to his house to harm his sister, but looking at the situation, they turned out to be a family of policemen and criminals.
"Alas..." Seeing this situation, the locals sighed and stopped talking.
The barbecue party just ended like this.
…
Kai and his party of four stayed overnight at Sage's house, and the next day they set off together to Kai's hometown, no, it should be Adam's hometown.
Adam's family situation is much better than others. Although his father is missing, his mother is dead. But there was a lot of property left to him. The Milligan family is also a relatively well-known family in the local area. During Adam's grandfather's generation, their family immigrated here from England.
His maternal grandfather was a surgeon, and his maternal grandmother was the daughter of a British nobleman. Although she did not inherit the title, she was of aristocratic descent. When immigrants came here, they also brought a lot of property with them. In Adam's mother's generation, although it has declined a little, it still has a rich family fortune.
For example, in terms of real estate, his mother left Adam three buildings, two farms and an old house, but not much cash. Because all taxes are paid.
So in fact, Kai is quite rich. Of course, this doesn't matter to Kai. He doesn't take this money seriously at all.
But it was different for Saji and his group.
When they walked into Kay's old home (which belonged to Adam), they were immediately smitten.
Big, so big!
This is a manor! And just deep in the wealthy area, there is a forest and lake on the edge. The architecture of the manor is a typical British architecture, grand and full of classical style. The main building is 4 stories high, with forty-five rooms, twenty-five bedrooms, six halls, fifteen fireplaces, four kitchens, thirteen bathrooms, and covers an area of about fourteen acres.
The price of the manor alone is almost millions of dollars, and this is because Wyndham is only a small city. If placed in some more prosperous areas, the price of this kind of classic manor would definitely exceed tens of millions.
The only drawback is that there aren't many people here.
There was no other way. By the time Adam's mother arrived, the family was already in dire straits. When Adam's mother passes away, inheritance tax and house and land tax alone will be enough to turn Adam into a negative asset.
Here I want to talk about some tax laws in the United States, the first is inheritance tax. The inheritance tax in the United States is very confusing. In the United States, the inheritance tax is levied starting from one million US dollars, and the tax rate is 18%-50%. What’s even more confusing is that the inheritance here is more or less all inheritances, including real estate!
The three buildings, two farms and this manor alone were worth more than 20 million, calculated at 50%... In order to preserve these ancestral properties, Adam took almost all of her mother's cash, stocks, and funds. I went to pay taxes and also paid a series of loans.
Not to mention, the housing and land tax in the United States is also very cheating. Property taxes in most states in the United States are collected in proportion to the value of the house and land, and are collected every year, as the market changes!
For example, take New York as an example. The average tax rate in New York is 2.2%, paid annually. A house worth $250,000 would have to pay about $5,500 in taxes each year. The equivalent of annual tax for a house worth RMB 1.6 million is RMB 34,650. And the real estate owned by Kai... costs hundreds of thousands a year!
So don't envy those so-called permanent property rights in foreign countries. China's 70-year property rights are so good. You don't have to pay taxes every year. You can renew them when they expire, and it doesn't cost much. It's not like the United States. If you can't pay taxes, then you're waiting to be evicted from your house!
Although other real estate properties besides the manor have produced output, overall they still cannot make ends meet. The main reason is that the manor is too complicated. Not only do you need to pay taxes, but you also need to maintain it. The annual cost of maintaining such an estate would be hundreds of thousands.
Calculating this, the biggest reason why Adam didn’t go to college was actually not because of anything else, but entirely because of poverty...
He owed millions to the bank just after he entered college, so he had no choice but to join the army. At least joining the army can afford the interest, right? This is also due to the environment in which Adam grew up. Adam was not a cheerful child. He was overprotected by his mother since he was a child, and he was a bit carefree. In the end, he was a useless scholar and nothing too big. ability. Otherwise, he wouldn't have joined the army just to escape.
If this trend continues, the Milligan family will eventually decline. After Kai inherited everything from Adam, he naturally needed to do something for him, so he helped him pay off his loan, and by the way, spent a large amount of money every year to maintain the manor.
Despite the splendid appearance of this manor now, in fact, in the hands of Adam's mother, the maintenance of the manor was already very problematic. If it hadn't been for Kai's money, perhaps the manor Saji and the others would have seen would only be a dilapidated scene.
Money has never been a big deal to Kai.
"Farke! Farke! Farke!" Portman was holding the champagne brought by the maid and kept swearing in his mouth.
He was shocked, he never knew Kai was so rich. In fact, Kai never talked about this matter. Kai rarely talked about his private affairs with other people. Firstly, it’s because it’s unnecessary, and secondly, this thing actually belongs to Adam. He just took it for himself. It’s not something worth boasting about, and it’s not something worth boasting about.
Kai curled his lips at Portman's curse words and said nothing more. Very few of the soldiers like them who kill people and set fires on the front line are of high quality. Besides, the army never promotes any lack of quality. As a soldier, you must obey orders and obey orders. If you can fight, that's it. Everything else. It's all side effects.
Kai asked the maids to go down, so that Portman and Meatball, the two beasts, could only stare at other people's breasts and butts. That was too rude. Those maids are from a housekeeping company, not hired by Kai himself. Kai has always handed over the management of the manor to a housekeeping company. To put it bluntly, these maids are all serious workers. If they are accused of sexual harassment by these maids It will be very troublesome.
"Okay, get your eyes out of those girls' asses! We need to talk."
"What to talk about?"
"From now on! Are you just going to eat like this and wait to die?"
Portman actually felt that there was nothing wrong with waiting to die like this, but in retrospect, he also knew that this was Kai's and had nothing to do with him. So he withdrew his lewd gaze and looked at Kai.
"I don't know. Anyway, whatever you plan to do, I will do it. In short, there is only one request, I want to live here! I won't go anywhere!" Portman is very single. He knows what kind of virtue he is. If Kai is gone, He himself does not know what virtue it will turn into if he is restrained. Instead of doing this, it's better to follow Kai. Anyway, he knew that Kai would not ignore him.
Meatball doesn't matter, he's more of a bachelor than Portman.
Saji, on the other hand, frowned and seemed to have some ideas.
