In the movie "The Godfather", whenever the major families in New York fought each other, a peace talk would be initiated. The Tang of a certain family (usually the one with the highest status) organized a meeting with the elders of the major families. Negotiate an armistice agreement. After all, everyone is asking for money, and there is no need to fight for money. Business is completely impossible. After all, the Mafia in New York is not a gang of barbarians in Chicago. They only fight and kill. In New York, only money has status and can buy politicians. And the police. And the security of each peace talk meeting needs to be guaranteed. You must ensure that no one family will kill all the other family bosses at the meeting. This requires the big families' peace talk tool in the United States-the Buccio family.
To put it simply, if the fighting family wants to negotiate a meeting, they will contact the Buccio family. The chief of the Bucchio family personally mediates the first few negotiations and arranges the necessary hostages. For example, remember that when the drug dealer Solazo asked to negotiate with Mike Corleone, who was not involved in the family business at the time, a member of the Butchio family stayed at Corleone’s house to ensure Mike Corleone’s safety. , The cost is borne by Solaro. The reason why Mike's safety can be guaranteed is because in Solasso's eyes, Mike's life is not as valuable as the Buccio family hostages. There is no need to take such a big risk to kill Mike. Only when Mike returns home safely, the Corleone family will release the Buccio family hostages back.
If Sorasso kills Mike, then the Corleone family will kill the male hostage of the Butchio family. Next, the Buccio family will seek revenge on Solasso for this tribe. The Buccio family is too uncivilized. If you are betrayed, then you will not be able to guard against them anyway, because they want revenge for their lives.
After Mike assassinated the sheriff and drug dealer Solasso, the melee of the five big families began in 1946. The old godfather was ill in bed due to physical reasons, so the Corleone family is completely led by Shanny Corleone. They are sending family buttons (thugs) to sabotage the other family’s business and even assassinate the other’s family chiefs, of course. Family chiefs will hide when they go to war, and it is generally difficult to assassinate them. Before the assassination of Shanny Corleone, other families in New York began to reduce their counterattacks. For a time, Shanny Corleone thought they were afraid and could not fight. Of course, his strategist Tom Hagen also thought so. It was not until Shanny Corleone was killed at the toll booth that Tom Hagen understood that he was not worthy of being a wartime adviser to the family. It is also mentioned in the movie that after Mike took power, Tom was not allowed to be a military division.
In fact, the reason why the major families in New York dare to deal with the Corleone family, this is also an important reason. Before that, no one would be stupid enough to assassinate the old godfather based on the position of the old godfather in the hearts of major families. But when the old godfather’s original military adviser, Zhanko Abandando (Sicilian) (the man who watched the drama with the young Vidor Corleone in Godfather 2) died, the great Don Corleone chose Tom. · Hagen, the Irishman, was a military division. In this way, other families feel that the old godfather no longer has the strength of the past, and that he is already old. He unexpectedly chose a non-Sicilian as the military division. The military division is the second in command of the family. All tasks and actions will be passed by the military division and then passed to the big bosses (Crimanza, Tessio) and then they will find someone to perform. In this way, even if the executioner is arrested, as long as the person above does not violate the law of silence, then the head of the family cannot be traced anyway. However, only Sicilians would obey the law of silence. Tom Hagen was an Irishman. If he rebelled, the whole family would be traced. Of course, Tom, as the son of the old godfather, would not betray him. Tommy Hagen made a fatal mistake when he was a military officer for Shanny Corleone. He was fooled and fooled. The five big families deceived him with superficial withdrawal. They were silent and ambushed. They plan carefully, wait patiently, and do not take action no matter how provocative. Their waiting is to launch a fatal attack. They did it, they killed Shanny Corleone. The old military division Zhanke Abandando couldn't make this kind of mistake. It was strange. He would definitely try to figure it out, and he would be three times more careful. Even if the five big families lied to Shanny, because Shanny didn’t have the brains of the old godfather, butIt was Tom Hagen, who was a family strategist, who had also been deceived, and Shanny's death could be explained.
After Shanni's death, the old godfather Don Corleone did not want revenge. When the heads of the five families went crazy and began to resist the bloody battle of revenge that would erupt, Don Corleone made peace talks with the five families.
At the beginning, the heads of the five big families still had doubts, thinking that the old godfather was going to avenge his son with a mass murder at the meeting. However, Don Corleone soon proved his sincerity. He invited all the families across the country to participate in the meeting, and finally took the final decisive step, proving his intentions and making everyone confident that the meeting could be held safely: He asked the Buccio family to come forward as security and send each family out A hostage. It is precisely because of this that the meetings of the major families can be held. So, what is the origin of the Buchiggio family, so that the big families dare not violate the regulations.
The Butchio family is a unique force, once a particularly vicious branch of the Mafia in Sicily, it became a tool for peace talks after coming to the United States. This group of people used to live by brutality and determination, but the way of making a living now can even be called the way of sages. The Bucchio family has a strong point. They are closely linked by blood. When in Sicily, plus cousins of three generations or less, the Buccio family once had more than two hundred people, completely dominating the economy of a small area in southern Sicily. The family's income mainly comes from flour mills and drinking water. They own four or five flour sheets and the dams they built. The way they can get income from this kind of business is that they don’t allow others to build flour mills and dams, which means that you have to buy from me to get flour and water. If someone builds a dam or a flour mill privately, then his family will be retaliated by the Buccio family. This is similar to the Corleone family’s olive oil business in New York back then. Remember that Mike once said that if the store in New York doesn’t buy Zhanke olive oil (the olive oil company run by the old godfather), then they can prepare fire extinguishers. The house was out of fire. This life of the Buccio family continued until Mussolini took power. In order to solve the mafia cause, the government at that time sent a senior police officer to handle this matter, and the police officer’s solution to this problem was also very simple. He threw everyone into jail or exiled to the island of hard labor. In just a few years, he simply arrested anyone suspected of the Mafia at will, breaking the power of the Mafia and, of course, destroying the families of many innocent people. At this time, the Buccio family chose to fight violence against this unconstrained right. They confronted the government, half of the men died in armed conflict, and the other half were exiled to the island of hard labor. In the end, a handful of people were left and arranged by friends to go to the United States. There were less than twenty immigrants. They settled down in a small town not far from New York, starting from the bottom, and later had their own garbage removal company and several trucks. They have no competition, because those who compete with them will find that the truck is burned or destroyed, and even suffocated by being buried under the garbage. They took women from Sicily and their children were to be born, but the rubbish business was far from satisfying them to lead a more refined life in the United States. So the Buccio family broadened their minds and began to act as mediators between the warring families. And hostages. Because they can’t compete with other Mafia families in other fields, they go straight and they may also give gifts to the police, but they don’t know how to contact politicians. Without politicians, they can’t do business like other big families in New York. , After all, this is not Sicily in Italy. Their capital is only two: credibility and cruelty. The members of the Buchiggio family never lie, never betray, they will never forget the harm they have suffered, and have revenge at all costs, so they accidentally discovered this most profitable business for them.
Speaking of the Buccio family, it is precisely because of their family Mike Corleone that they can safely return to the United States from Sicily. After peace talks with the five major families, the old godfather told Tom that the first task is to get Mike Corleone back. After all, the old godfather is indeed old. If Mike comes back to take over as the head of the family, he must pay back what he gave him and what he taught him. There are many. In fact, from the beginning, the old godfather thought that Shanny was not suitable for the family leader. He always wanted to let his youngest son Mike take over as the family leader, but Mike assassinatedThe sheriff and Solasso sent him into exile in Sicily, which wasted several years and completely broke the plan of the old godfather. He could have started training Mike a few years earlier. The old godfather knew that when Mike came back, he was not worried about the Basini and Tataquilia family but the police. They were not worried about the waiters and bystanders in the restaurant, because they would not testify nor dared to testify that Mike was the murderer. But they worry that the police will concoct fake evidence because the informant convinces them that Mike killed the sheriff. So they have to come up with a special way so that Mike will never have to worry about this and return to the United States safely to take over as the head of the family.
However, nearly a year later, the old godfather made arrangements for Mike to smuggle back to the United States. The solution to this problem is due to a misfortune for the Buccio family. There is a little cousin named Felix in the Buccio family. He was born in the United States and he was more intelligent than any member of the family. He refused to enter the family's garbage handling industry and took a girl of British descent to further draw a line with the family. He studied for lawyers at night and worked during the day, during which time he had three children. He had a lawyer friend who persuaded him to do a small favor. This small favor was very complicated, seemed to be legal, and involved bankruptcy fraud. The probability of being exposed is very low. So Felix Buccio wanted to try his luck. This scam requires his legal knowledge, and he feels that it does not seem to be a serious crime. The key is that the scam was exposed in the end. The two main criminals of the scam were both shrewd businessmen. They blamed Felix's legal methods for being too clumsy because of the mistakes in the plan. Then they pleaded guilty and cooperated with the government and named Fei by name. Rex Buccio is the mastermind, saying that he used violence to force them to cooperate and implement those secret plans. The testimony linked Felix with his uncles who had a violent history, and the evidence was conclusive and deadly. The businessman received a suspended sentence and was at large, Felix was imprisoned for one to five years and served three years. The family did not ask any family or Don Corleone for help because Felix refused to ask them for help. All in all, after serving three years in prison, Felix Buccio returned home and lived quietly for a year. Then he proved by his actions that he is still a member of the Buccio family after all, and he bought the first one. He shot and killed his lawyer friend, then he found the two businessmen, calmly shot them through the head, then walked into a small restaurant, ordered a cup of coffee, and waited for the police to arrest him. The trial was swift and ruthless, Felix was about to be sent to the electric chair. The Buccio family is finally proud of him. As long as they can appeal to a higher court, they are willing to spend any money, but the conclusion cannot be changed. Although it can be delayed for a while, Felix will eventually die in the electric chair. The Buccio family wanted to do something for this young man, so they turned to the Corleone family for help. The old godfather just refused decisively at the beginning, after all, he is not a magician, and the request of the Buccio family is completely impossible to fulfill. But the next day, he asked Tom to tell the whole story from beginning to end. Then the old godfather asked him to invite the head of the Buccio family to meet on the boulevard. The old godfather promised that they would pay a large pension to Felix Buccio's wife and immediately hand it over to the Buccio family . In return, Felix must plead guilty, and it was he who killed Solasso and Sergeant McLauskey. After all the arrangements were made, the money was in place, and the death row prisoners were properly contacted, instructions and suggestions were communicated, and the guilty plea made the headlines of all newspapers. The whole thing was a huge success. The old godfather was as cautious as usual. He waited four months after Felix’s execution before ordering Mike to go home.
is such a family. On the surface it was very stupid. Will be violent. But they are smart enough to live a good life without having to fight and kill, they just lack the Sicilian brains.
