thefictionvixens Chapter 1648 No time to die (thirty-eight)
Chapter 1648 No time to die (thirty-eight)
Upstairs in the magnificently decorated mansion, a gray-haired middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes was yelling angrily at the phone.
"A goddamn gangster dares to yell at me on TV?! If he is so arrogant, what's the face of the federal law, and what are you doing with the FBI?! What's the problem with rushing in and catching him? !"
"Are you mistaken? I'm a member of parliament, not an agent! My job is to maintain the normal operation of the government, not to arrest people! Why don't you go when the federal government is in crisis public relations?"
The man took a deep breath, kept pressing down in mid-air with one hand on his hips, and then said, "Okay, Amanda, I don't want to hear your useless nonsense anymore, if the FBI is not afraid of losing face because of dereliction of duty Sweeping the floor, then I will play with him myself! If I can’t go to his house and arrest him, then I will let him know that he and this rotten city will never get along well!”
The man hung up the phone angrily, but when he turned his head, he felt a vague black shadow flashing in the shadow of the curtain behind him.
He twitched immediately, turned his head and stretched his neck suspiciously to look over there, and shouted sternly, "Who? Who's there?! Get out, or I'll call the bodyguards!"
A black figure stepped out of the shadows, and Batman looked at Lauder's face and said, "I'm here to remind you, don't do anything to Gotham, it's for your own good."
"Batman?!" Lauder called out Batman's name in surprise. Of course, he had heard of the Dark Knight of Gotham, but he didn't have a good reputation.
It is difficult for anyone living in a normal city to understand what kind of environment requires a tight-fitting weirdo to be a vigilante to maintain justice, so they usually don't understand Batman at all, just treat him as a grandstanding clown.
"Are you the killer sent by Cobblepot?" Lauder snorted disdainfully, raised his chin, and said arrogantly: "Does he really think that I will be afraid of him if he brags a few words on TV?" ?! Dare to kill a member of the federal government, he will only be a fugitive in this life!"
Obviously, Batman is very bad at explaining no matter who he is facing, and he feels that he doesn't need to explain at all. He just said: "Talk Gotham and deal with people here, it will not do you any good, and it may cause extreme You'd better think carefully about your decision, and don't leave yourself no way out."
After speaking, Batman turned around and left. A smart person like him more or less underestimated the stupidity of a fool. He felt that what he hinted was obvious enough.
Since Copperpot is nothing more than a gangster who doesn't stand on the stage, so what if he shouts a few words on the local Gotham show? You should have a meeting, you should condemn, as long as you don't go to Gotham, how can he put you on the guillotine?
But not everyone has the extremely rational self-control ability of Batman, or the same sentence, all disputes start with "why".
Members of Parliament are all elites who are accustomed to being superior. They have never been the only ones to criticize this and that. Even if there are political opponents who refute, they are always fighting with each other. When have they been threatened with death?
Even if there are those who do not want to die, death threats are criminalized in the laws of most states in the United States, and the FBI took them down within a few days.
But he, Oswald Copperpot, is just a gangster in a certain area of the city. He dared to threaten the congressman with death before he was elected mayor of Gotham City, and the FBI ignored it. How could the threatening Lauder bear this tone?
Of course, he really didn't have the guts to go deep into Gotham alone, and he wasn't stupid, even the FBI didn't dare to go, so didn't he deliver food when he went?
But after all, he is a state senator and a political family, and the interest groups behind him are big enough. They dare not enter Gotham to sanction, but there are ways to sanction Gotham from the outside.
First of all, give funding to the marine police to focus on cracking down on smuggling ships on the route to Gotham, and then promulgate a new draft environmental protection law that pollutes all food, medicine, textiles and other products produced by industries within the scope of marine pollution. It cannot be shipped to other cities until it passes the inspection.
This was followed by a series of common means of sanctions, such as adjusting tax rates, embargoing bulk products, and customs seizure of imported products.
It can be said that this is the first time that such various sanctions have been used in a city within the federation.
But has this affected Copperpot? Some influence, but not much.
Again, he is the boss of a gangster, and the most valuable property under his control is the Bingshan Restaurant. Even if there is no raw material and needs to be closed, it means making less money.
Coppert is not in a hurry, Wayne is.
There is one thing to say, although the law and order situation in Gotham is bad, but the geographical location here is really good. After several generations of construction, it can also be called one of the most important heavy industrial cities on the east coast.
It’s fine if you use this method to sanction other countries. If you cut off your own shipping routes and prevent the transportation of industrial raw materials, isn’t this a self-cutting arm? How many people with cerebral palsy must be able to do this? ? ?
Bruce Wayne has recently been rethinking the bottom line of the IQ of these politicians, but now he is facing a slightly embarrassing situation.
This series of sanctions by Lauder and the people behind him is not aimed at Copperpot at all, but is actually to force Wayne.
Aren't you Cobbot hiding in Gotham? Then let's negotiate with Wayne directly, hand over the person and deliver the goods, you kill the most jumping bird, and everyone continues to make money together, what's wrong?
Batman feels bad.
Leaving aside the fact that Batman would never hand over the villains of Gotham to anyone else, Bruce Wayne couldn't even make a statement to arrest Cobblepot in the police station, or find a way to shut him up .
Because Lauder's actions actually tied the Wayne Group and Coppert together, and pushed the two of them aside. Wayne Group's handing over Coppert meant that he was subdued, but Bruce Wayne can't be subdued, otherwise, wouldn't anyone be able to sanction the Wayne Group?
The default rule in the business world is that everyone is a wolf with sharp teeth and green eyes, wanting to bite off other people's flesh. Anyone who dares to show their own wool will be eaten soon. Not left.
So even for the sake of Wayne Group's face, Bruce Wayne can't attack Coppert.
From Batman's point of view, he could use the illegal things Penguin said on TV that he did and arrest him in Arkham Asylum.
The problem is, now that the Penguin disappears, people will not feel that someone is upholding justice, but that the Wayne Group must be behind the scenes. It must be that the Wayne Group and the state legislature have reached some kind of agreement to find ways to make Ke Potter shut up.
This matter has become a big issue, and it is a hot topic on the east coast recently. Copperpot's slight decline, and Wayne Group's jumping into the Yellow River can't be cleaned up.
Batman only imagined that he was caught in a dilemma by the clown's crazy setup. He never thought that he would be dragged down by these stupid politicians with their unexpected IQ bottom line. It doesn't make sense.
And the most frightening thing is that these sanctions, which were originally intended to exchange interests with the Wayne Group, have aroused extremely strong public anger in Gotham. .
Everyone was sympathetic to the federal government. It is estimated that no one dares to come to this rotten city. It’s fine if you don’t help. Everyone has made do, but now that they have imposed such sanctions, people are shocked that their life, which was already rotten to the bottom, is still alive. There is room to fall!
The most serious consequence of the raw material embargo is the shutdown of factories. Although there have been no layoffs for the time being, there will be no wages if you don't work.
However, the new environmental protection law adjustment draft has caused food suppliers to divert the middle link of the transportation chain. They are afraid that they will be labeled as Gotham pollution, which will make their products difficult to sell. They would rather give up this part of the market than transport them here, bringing This is the inevitable result of rising prices.
Wages are lowered, prices are higher, and if people don't make trouble, there will be ghosts.
The people of Gotham, who were able to buy things with wages in the factory, still had a sense of superiority and could barely survive. Now this group of people can't survive, so what are you waiting for if you don't fall into the grass?
With no work to do and no way to sit at home and starve to death, Gotham's rain-scrambled little brains had a flash of light. Isn't there a war in Midtown? A few days ago, I saw their announcement that they were recruiting thugs. Being a thug is better than starving to death!
As a result, many migrant workers living in low-cost apartments in Lower Gotham yelled "Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng!", and joined the battle in Midtown.
As we all know, a certain area has a certain war potential, including strategic depth, combat readiness material reserves, personnel activities and other conditions, and only a certain number of troops are allowed to fight here.
This is why many large-scale city defense battles look like refueling tactics on the attacking side. Many network commanders question why they don't directly press down on the border with a hundred thousand troops, and one person and one foot can crush the defense line. But the fact is that there is not so much tactical space to accommodate so many people, and the people who are squeezed out are really pork in a meat grinder.
As the residents of the lower urban area continued to join the war, the manpower in the sites of various families and interest groups increased suddenly, and the materials needed also doubled, but the sites they owned and the materials in the sites they could grab were simply not enough to supply current manpower.
What choice do they have? Of course, we must continue to expand outwards to occupy a larger territory and grab more things before we can feed more people.
However, due to the different urban structures, the division of labor and positioning are also different. The lower urban area is the main densely populated area, and most of them are residential land. Although everyone is poor, if you want to rob my house, the resistance is still very strong. Even if you rob it There is no money, so it can be said that it is thankless.
But Uptown is different. It is full of wide and flat parks, high-end restaurants, luxury jewelry stores with a lot of liquidity, and even many established banks.
Of course, Shangcheng District is also the home of this group of interest groups, but their location is more inward, that is, Shangcheng District in Shangcheng District.
Don't the rich feel that they belong to the same class as the so-called middle-class poor living on the fringes of the upper city, so what if the middle-class community is robbed?
Besides, as long as I have money, I can hire people to surround my own home. It doesn't matter what the chaos outside is like. If this is the case, it must be the more money I rob to build my own defense system. It will be more sufficient, so why not grab it?
Therefore, there was no intentional guidance at all, and the uncontrollable greed after indulgence prompted Gotham's behind-the-scenes masters to completely open the Pandora's Box. In an instant, chaos swept the entire Gotham like a plague.