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新概念三 Lesson 14 A noble gangster 贵族歹徒
There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to
There was a time when
gangsters in return for protection. If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out
in return for out
of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining protection money is not a modern crime. As long ago as the
of business As long ago as
fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather
would rather
pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence.
He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian
made a name for himself came to be known to
city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the
at war with
high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a
In times of
city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them.
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