An jade appraisal event caused New Yorkers to shift from arrogance to sighing in disappointment. Mu Lin did not say anything to打击 them, despite their disbelief in him. However, this jade appraisal incident indeed brought great delight to the Boston leaders.
In the afternoon, Mu Lin was set to leave Boston for New York. In his clinic, he once again reassured the Boston people, guaranteeing that their monthly treatment quotas would remain unchanged. Only then did he bid farewell to everyone.
Mu Lin did not allow the women to see him off, mainly to avoid drawing attention. Accompanied by Finney and the other two women, he got into his car, followed closely by the others.
To save face for the New York leaders, the Boston elites specially arranged for police cars to lead the way, and a line of various expensive luxury cars formed a long convoy all the way to the airport.
The New York leaders’ arrangements indeed surprised Mu Lin. They had specially arranged a private business jet to pick him up. Only after Mu Lin boarded the plane did those who came to greet him finally relax, having completed their mission.
Sitting comfortably on the private jet, Mu Lin began to think about the information on New York already stored in his mind. He had already digested all this information when he first arrived.
New York is the largest city and commercial port in the United States. It is not only the financial center of America but also one of the world’s financial centers. Located at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York State, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, it is composed of five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, covering an area of 780 square kilometers. The city’s population is over 7 million, and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the suburbs, has a population of 18 million. New York is also the location of the United Nations headquarters, whose headquarters building stands on the banks of the East River in Manhattan.
Manhattan is the smallest of the five boroughs, covering only 57.91 square kilometers. However, this narrow east-west, long north-south island is the heart of New York. Major banks, large insurance companies, big industrial firms, transportation companies, and the world-famous New York Stock Exchange are all concentrated here. More than a third of the top 500 companies in the United States have their headquarters in Manhattan. Wall Street, located in the southern part of Manhattan, is the symbol of New York and the nerve center of American monopoly capital, synonymous with financial oligarchs. Both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange are located here, making it one of the central hubs of American stock trading.
New York is also a cultural, artistic, musical, and publishing center in the United States, with numerous museums, art galleries, libraries, scientific research institutions, and art centers. The headquarters of the three major American television networks and several influential newspapers and news agencies are located here.
New York is also one of the industrial centers of the United States, leading the nation in industries such as clothing, printing, and cosmetics. Machinery manufacturing, arms production, oil processing, and food processing also play significant roles. Most of the city’s rivers lead to the Atlantic Ocean, and its port is massive and well-equipped, remaining ice-free year-round. New York is also a crucial transportation hub for railways, with an underground subway system over 1,000 kilometers long, currently the longest and fastest subway system in the world. The city has three international airports, with the famous John F. Kennedy International Airport handling 50% of the country’s import and export cargo air transport and 35% of international passenger traffic.
New York also has the most skyscrapers. Representative buildings include the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, and the former World Trade Center (which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001). Both the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center had over 100 floors, towering majestically into the sky. Thus, New York earned the nickname “the city that stands.” New York is also a cultural, artistic, musical, and publishing center in the United States, with numerous museums, art galleries, libraries, scientific research institutions, and art centers. The headquarters of the three major American television networks and several influential newspapers and news agencies are located here.
New York is the most concentrated area for ethnic minorities in the United States. There are over one million African Americans, mainly concentrated in the Harlem district. The famous Chinatown has 150,000 Chinese residents and around 50,000 Southeast Asians. There are also many Italians and Jews.
These are all the surface-level details. In the underground world, apart from Chinatown, New York is mainly dominated by five major families: the Hudsons, the Blacks, the Stanleys, the Mawcys, and the Poole families. They control their own territories corresponding to the five boroughs, each not encroaching on the others. The development of these families has paralleled the city’s growth.
This time, the offenders were the Hudson family in alliance with the Black Tiger Gang from Chinatown.
In the small Chinatown area, there are four gangs. One is the historic Lion Gang, another is the Black Tiger Gang. There is also the Rising Sun Gang, mainly composed of Japanese members, and finally the Red Star Gang, mainly made up of Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians.
Mu Lin would never allow a threat to exist right under his nose, endangering his safety. This was the perfect opportunity for him to completely resolve the entire New York gang problem.
When the plane landed at the New York airport, as Mu Lin stepped out of the open cabin door, he saw a dark mass of prominent figures lined up at the plane’s entrance. As soon as he appeared, a warm cheer erupted. As he descended the gangway, the mayor was already waiting in front of him, giving him a big bear hug first.
Then he raised Mu Lin’s hand, facing the welcoming crowd, “Today, we warmly welcome Daniel to New York. Let us honor him with the highest courtesy—first, please allow him to review the honor guard we have prepared for him.” The crowd cheered and stepped back. Mu Lin saw an honor guard lined up along one side of the airport corridor. The mayor accompanied Mu Lin as he inspected the honor guard.
Mu Lin hadn’t expected the New York leaders to go so far as to welcome him with the highest honor usually reserved for state guests—the inspection of a tri-service honor guard. This was a very public and grand gesture.
There wasn’t a single media reporter at the airport. It seemed they all knew his preferences and understood he disliked being approached by journalists. The airport staff were left puzzled, as they had no idea who the VIP they were welcoming was, only following instructions to complete their tasks.
Mu Lin hadn’t expected these people to dare go this far. It seemed that unless both political parties had reached a consensus on this matter, such an act could potentially trigger a political earthquake. Thinking of how, on the surface, he was just an ordinary doctor, he realized he should indeed feel proud that these people would go to such lengths for him.
Although previously Mu Lin had focused on cultivating Daoist immortality and feared getting entangled in troubles that might hinder his cultivation, since forming his golden core, his thinking had undergone a fundamental transformation. With the immense power and endless time of a cultivator, ordinary people appeared as insignificant as ants in his eyes.
Now, he simply wanted to enjoy life, to savor a life of freedom and doing as he pleased. Within this enjoyment, he would consider his path of cultivation.
After the inspection was complete, the mayor invited Mu Lin to speak. “Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends gathered here today, I am thrilled to have arrived in New York, and I am honored to have received such a warm welcome. From now on, as your friend, I will wholeheartedly serve you all.”
Mu Lin controlled his emotions, delivering a brief and calm speech—exactly the kind of words the New York elites had hoped to hear. This book is first published on Qidian.
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