The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 1647 No time to die (37)

Judging from the era background of the main universe, it is not like the era where Schiller’s universe is still in an era of economic upswing. The United States, which has experienced two economic crises, has gradually drifted away from the golden age. Under such an era background, People's expectations of leaders naturally change.

In the period of economic boom, people hope that the leader will be wise, have a long-term vision, and have the potential to become a great man, lead the whole country and the world to a further step, and create a real miracle.

However, during the economic downturn, people always complain that they can’t earn money and the price of goods is high, and the quality of life keeps declining. People don’t care about the affairs of the family and the country. life gets better.

Most voters in this era of the main universe think so. They don’t want those great men who brag about the eternal glory of the United States, but they hope that someone can actually see the plight of the vast majority of people, and let the economy develop. The road is back on track.

As a result, from the presidential election to the election of governor and mayor, voters are more inclined to people-friendly doers. A wise and diligent image of a solution that has been put into practice, and at the same time use some small hobbies that are close to the people to get closer to the voters and make them feel that they are standing with them.

Both Lincoln March and the current Mayor Magan’s campaign team have rich experience, and having sufficient campaign experience in this era means that they have created such an image for several candidates, so when it comes to Magan and March On the head, they naturally want to eat a fresh trick all over the world.

The image created by the campaign team for Ma Qi is a talented businessman who has made remarkable achievements at a young age. He has a keen business sense and a genius investment vision. Because he is worried about the current economic downturn, he wants to participate in politics. Turn things around with your own hands.

Therefore, when he delivered a speech, he often borrowed some famous quotes from Roosevelt's rescue of the city, emphasizing that professional people should do professional things, and claimed that he would manage the city as his own industry. can be resolved.

Ma Gan's campaign team chose an image of an old fox with rich political experience and maturity, and emphasized that he came from a farmer's family and climbed to today's position by virtue of his own ability, showing a poor boy who counterattacked into the political circle The Miracle of the Reds.

In his speeches, he would often call his opponents "Maotou boy" to take advantage of his age. At the same time, he belittled other opponents for being too idealistic. Steady development while stabilizing the status quo.

Obviously, among these two people, March wants to win the favor of the upstarts, while Ma Gan wants to stabilize the support of the wealthy family, but both of them have forgotten one thing - this is Gotham.

If other cities are now at the bottom of development, then Gotham has always been an abyss. If the citizens of other cities have the impression that the leaders who can turn the situation around are just economic doers, then I am afraid that the impression of Gotham citizens may improve this situation. The image of the leader of this city must be the iron-blooded emperor.

Smart and capable doers are already called hardliners in other cities, but in Gotham, this level is far from enough. Strong leaders often appear in times of war, because the people of this era need clear guidance and tough leadership. attitude to build their confidence.

And Gotham can no longer be said to be in a war for a long time, it is more like going through a very complete defeat every few days, so even a leader with an iron fist will not work. To put it bluntly, all this place needs is a tyrant.

Maybe a sufficiently domineering and tough emperor can't solve Gotham's darkness from metaphysics at the root, but he can at least tell the people of Gotham what to do now, even if it's going to death without looking back, it's better than It is better to live in a daze now.

What Gotham needs right now is not justice, but a path.

Gangster-style violence, tyrant-style power, and even a theology that is centuries behind, as long as someone can firmly follow the line to the end, the situation will be much better than it is now, even if darkness will still bring Gotham The people suffer physically, but they have a spiritual support, which can be regarded as salvation in a certain sense.

Looking at the comics, it is not difficult to find that the vast majority of Batman choose to change their route to stand in the world before the stage, and the possibility of Gotham's salvation is much higher, but the question is whether a Batman in a universe can change his route. He decides for himself.

In some remote universes, editors may of course make decisions against their ancestors in order to play tricks, but the main world represents the face and face of the DC world, and the games played by Batman and villains are the most popular DC comics. content, so it is impossible for Batman in the main universe to stand in front of the stage.

It’s just that Batman is still Batman, Gotham is still Gotham, and even Penguin is still the ambitious Penguin. The fact that Penguin became the mayor itself has happened in thousands of universes , but the arrival of the Robins accelerated the process.

But maybe they don't realize that the change of language and style itself will also affect the actor himself, that is, the so-called character set comes true when the actor is acting.

After Jason completely imparted Roy's style of speaking and doing things in his universe and his experience of running for the mayor of Gotham City to Penguin, Penguin suddenly realized that this trick is so fucking easy to use.

The so-called "as long as I have no morals, you can't kidnap me morally", can also be said "I'm so bad, why can't I be bad?" In short, as long as you clearly understand the positioning of Gotham as a city, and Let your own moral bottom line perfectly fit this position, then living here is like a fish in water.

Penguin’s predicament before was that he was born in the chaotic city of Gotham, and he used gangster methods to accumulate resources for himself, but after he achieved some success, he gave up such direct methods and wanted to put himself in the cloak of civilization. Mixed into the so-called high society.

But the fact is that it will take a lot of manpower and material resources, and it needs to be done step by step and extremely cautious.

But in fact, there is no need to be so troublesome in Gotham, as long as the opponent is as bad as yourself, and then defeat them with rich experience, this is the biggest advantage of Gotham's home game.

The war that took place in the middle of Gotham now made Penguin realize this, and then he abandoned the pretense of his civilization as quickly as possible, and started to do what Gotham people should do.

What deep-water port approval, what do Gotham people need approval?I'm about to knock the first stake on the pier into the sea right now, come and beat me if you don't accept it.

What?Environmentalist organizations condemned from public opinion?But even if Gotham is more environmentally friendly, there will be no less condemnation!So why should I care about condemnation?The deep-water port has been built with great efforts, and the sewage has been discharged with great effort. Even if a Godzilla rushes out of the sea, we have to solve it ourselves.

Penguin's criminal connections are much stronger than Robin's. He directly recruited several regular customers of the Iceberg Restaurant, and brought along the smugglers he had contacted from other places. The group directly ignored the environmental protection bill and the state assembly, and the engineering team It drove to the location of the pier in a mighty manner.

Of course, the deep-water port was not built so quickly, but the smugglers' smuggling boats couldn't wait. The big boats couldn't stop, and the small boats were fine too.

Do you ask the Gotham police to ignore it?Isn't this a small war being fought in Midtown?Even if Gordon has three heads and six arms, it is impossible to fight normal crimes, prevent wars, and inspect smuggling at the same time.

Here again, Gotham has insufficient police force, so why didn't the FBI come?Small wars have broken out here, why is there no army?
If it weren't for the federal government and the state legislature, how could Gotham be so rotten?Then why can't we be rotten, we will be rotten!
Facts have proved that as long as a person has a smooth logic that can throw all the mistakes to others, then the waist will not hurt, the legs will not be sore, and life will become better.

The Penguin not only built a deep-water port in violation of the regulations, and specially sent people to meet the smuggling boats, but also directly explained all the things he did in his speech.

"Dear listeners, I think you've heard that our dear state legislator yelled at Gotham again at the last regular meeting, and especially yelled at me, Oswald."

"But do I care about him? No, I don't care at all, no matter what they say, I don't care because they never care about me."

"They never cared how superior the geographical conditions of the Gotham Bay are, and how suitable the delta at the mouth of the sea is for transshipment and trade. How many people could have gone to the pier to work as porters to earn money, and how many people could have gone to the ship as sailors. Live peacefully, and they never cared."

"What do they care about? They only care about the shitty environmental laws!"

"Just last week, our Congressman Lauder just bought a private jet for his newly married wife, and traveled between the Metropolitan City and San Francisco a dozen times in a week. Just now, he said on his private media Claims that 80.00% of the six factories in Gotham have energy waste problems, and requires the violating factories to shut down for self-inspection.”

"They're not only after Gotham, they're also after me, because I hired over 2000 workers to build the pier without getting approval, and I introduced thousands of strong lads to my business partners to run ship, I let them smuggle, work as mercenaries, and join gangs."

"But no matter how terribly sinful I am, it's not their turn to be a group of soft-spoken bastards to point and point at me——Andjis Lauder, listen to me, didn't you say that I'm dirty? A remnant of the gangsters, an executioner with blood on his hands? When I put you on the guillotine and chop off your head, you'd better pray that the environmental law in your hand can save your life!"

The Batman in front of the screen slowly narrowed his eyes, the Penguin wants to kill the congressman?No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

Batman's brain was running fast, and he immediately guessed Penguin's intentions. After a short pause, he disappeared from the Batcave, and then a Bat fighter flew into the sky and disappeared into the vast night of Gotham.

(End of this chapter)