Drug trade in Daxia: Difference between revisions

One of Daxia's oldest criminal organizations, the Syndicate is rumored to be the group that provided opium to the imperial court during the time of the Qian dynasty and is believed to have existed in some form or another since at least the mid Zhong dynasty period. It reinvented itself from a supplier of drugs solely for the royal elites into a group that sold to all social strata and to foreign markets too. It survived the military crackdowns of [[Qiu Heng]] and his successors in the military regime albeit with its structure much changed by the ordeal of government sponsored bloodletting. From a pyramidal, highly hierarchichal structure, nowadays the group operates with a more flat organizational chart, being made up of many semi-autonomous territorial cells that each have an assigned province to operate in; government contacts and transport fleets are shared by the cells. The syndicate is rumored to be engaged solely in transportation and street level sales of opioids within the Audonian mainland and the southern Cathay, with production shifted to other entities. Security experts believe a man named Zhenli Ye Gon to be the top leader of the organization, its 'General Director'. If he has any actual operational control or is only a puppet that follows directives from the government cannot be ascertained. Zhenli Ye Gon has led the organization since the mid 1990's after carrying out a palace coup against the previous leadership during which older bosses died in a string of car bomb explosions.