[Titanic] Harbor

This is not the first time Green has been in court. As a jury or plaintiff, he has stood here many times.For privy counselors - the courts are just a place to solve problems.

The judge is just as Lawyer Wayne said, he is a serious person.Although he wore curly white wigs and could not tell the color of the judge's hair, his deep nasolabial folds and fine forehead lines on his forehead already showed the old man's age.

In this day and age, being a judge is a lifelong career.

They interpret the law, and they write the law.

The narrowing of the maximum range of personal morality and will is all for the justice of the judiciary.

In the vast majority of cases, the truth can be revealed to the world.

Green hadn't had much contact with the judge before.After all, he is from a foreign country, and he is still in a state of groping for the high society here.

But Tom and those around him are no strangers to Judge.

In some major events every year, the judge, as an elder, always attends the event.Occasionally, he also speaks as a respected person.

Tom was especially familiar with this judge.

He is a businessman, and it is inevitable that there will be some contractual disputes in his work.

Just recently, he still has a case under this judge.

One of Tom's employees died from overwork.But his family doesn't seem to think so.Backed by some uncooperatives, they took Tom, the boss, to court.The reason turned out to be that the cause of death of the deceased was very strange.

What the hell!

The young labor force always occupies the largest majority in this era.Factory owners need workers to work for them, and all work unintentionally occupies most of the worker's day.

The days of sweatshops are over, and social legislation has developed relatively well today, but this does not mean that people will die.The reduction in proportion has diverted the public's attention away from the issue, and that's it.

Tom's status in New York is prominent, and his assets will always attract a lot of prying eyes.The public's hatred of the rich also played a big role in it.

Various reasons are intertwined, and the final result is that Tom is the headline figure in the newspaper before Green's matter is brought to the fore.

The news was quickly suppressed by Green.He has maintained a good interactive relationship with some of the newspaper giants in New York.

Unfortunately, his acquaintance with this judge was one-sided.There were not many friends and interests in the life of the old judge.He really puts justice first.

The judge pursed his lips.

Years of work experience brought some indescribable aura to him.His eyes are still sharp and clear. When he looks at you, it seems that all your secrets will be revealed to the world.

The judge nodded to the crowd.His gaze didn't focus on one point, but dispersed skillfully.Like a famous painting, no matter which direction you look at him, it seems that he is looking at you too.

This is a man to respect.Erica was sitting in a relatively secluded place. The black veil made her face hazy, which affected her visual effect to a certain extent, but her heart was never deceived.

At this moment, public affairs and private affairs were well separated. She saw Tom, and the old man saw her.

Tom recognized Erica.

However, the contract between them has ended, and all Erica's previous self-love and self-importance have also ended. The eye contact between them was only a little false, and they quickly turned their eyes away.

Tom wouldn't do anything to keep her just for a few words from her.Erica laughed at herself, the previous thing was just her own sentimentality.

She is a little self-loathing, and just wants to make the simplest judgments on some things, and then all the conclusions of the past are buried deep in the ground, and have never seen the light of day since.

"Silence!" The old judge knocked on the gavel, and the soft voice seemed to hit everyone's hearts.

Erica sat up straight and stopped her wild thoughts.

Green was charged on the grounds that he participated in the planning of the Titanic incident.The representative of Baixing Company also stood in the dock and was accused together.

The basic process of this trial is complete, the first round is mainly the testimony of some representatives of the victims, as well as some statements from the White Star Company.

All this is within Wayne's lawyer's predictions.In view of these possible situations, he asked Hugh to go to court as a witness on Green's side after the halftime adjournment.

Hugh took the witness stand.He came out of Green's office yesterday and went to see Ren again.He wants to make himself more determined, and he also wants to convince himself that people always want to develop to a better place.But even with all the mental work, when he actually took the seat, he felt a wave of panic.

All eyes were fixed on the hearing seat, "In front of justice, I think I must maintain justice." After Xio finished speaking, he turned to look at Green who was sitting obliquely behind him.

His boss didn't make any unnecessary expressions, his face was still calm and cold.

Green didn't seem to blame Hugh at all, and he didn't show any anger at Hugh's betrayal.

Xio secretly squeezed the pills hidden in his pocket.

This was what he had planned, and if Green had a heart attack because of his betrayal, he could provide the potion as soon as possible.First, this can save Green's life, and second, in the eyes of others, his image can be relatively positive.

None of this worked.

The development of things is a little different from what he thought.

Xio's hands were trembling, but at this moment, he could no longer turn his head back: "I have thought about it for a long time, but now, I feel that I must stand up and speak the truth.... Mr. Green When Bai Xing's stock was extremely hot, he secretly summoned me and told me to sell the stock..."

Xio was already prepared for what he wanted to change his words, but after saying this, he never had the courage to turn back.

The nobles of the jury began to whisper after hearing this turning point.

Not only them, but even Tom who was listening frowned, which was an unexpected reversal.

"Mr. Tom, I thought you'd be happy with it." Lane was sitting right behind Tom.He didn't disturb Green when he came to observe, but the act of observing that he chose for himself had already stated his position.

Ryan was very dissatisfied with Green's dominance in the company.

Back then, he and Green opened up the raw material market and founded the company together.But over time, Ryan's ability to work eventually made him a company shareholder who could only eat dividends.

On the contrary, it was Green, who became a director and took full control of the company.

A few years ago, the company's financial director resigned and left to find another job.The supervisor had a pretty good relationship with Lane, but Green turned around and took the supervisor to court on the grounds that the company's accounts were not in harmony.

At that time, Ryan and Green had a big fight.

Afterwards, it was Ren who took the initiative to apologize.Because the result of the court trial showed that the executive did something that was detrimental to the company.But Green's behavior of taking someone to court without discussing it with him, in Ryan's view, did not give him face.

Ren made a note of this sum in his heart, and in the following time, he silently placed people in the company.

It was also after that time that Green began to plan to expand his business abroad, and he finally set the expansion location in New York.

"You are...Mr. Ryan." Of course, Tom had a comprehensive understanding of his enemy, but he didn't have a comprehensive understanding of this Mr. Ryan. After all, the other party seemed to have no practical experience in Green's company. right to make decisions.

"I'm glad you still know me. After Green, we may be the biggest competitors." Ren said with a smile. This expression on his rough face made people frown.

"So, you arranged this witness? Is my opponent going to change?" Tom has a low opinion of Ryan, but no matter how he does it, as long as he can beat Green, he will not climatic.

Ren nodded.

He looked at Hugh White who was visibly trembling with disdain.This person is completely useless.

Wren's plan was simple.Since he started from scratch with Green, and he also owns a large part of the company's equity, as long as he rises strongly after Green's death, he will naturally be able to control the entire company.

On the issue of managing the company, Rennes has always been confident.He felt that he was just being suppressed by Green all the time, and he didn't get the opportunity to display his talents. In addition, he didn't agree with Green's business methods very much.

——Ren advocates continuous expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and finally forms a complete chain of interests.Under this big goal, his plan will be more radical. If Green's plan takes 15 years to complete, then in his plan, it only takes five years.

Tom said nothing about it.

The entire courtroom was filled with small voices of discussion, and most of these voices were gloating.

The sound is getting louder.

The judge sat in the center, raised his gavel again, and struck twice: "—Silence!—Silence!"

After a while, people quieted down again.

The judge looked at the document in his hand, "The next witness."

This is really unexpected.

People who are familiar with the trial actually do not have much hope for this trial. They all believed that the final result of this case depends entirely on the opinion of the jury.

That is to say, who can win the lawsuit depends entirely on who has more power and can get the support of more seats.This is no different from running for president!

From the beginning to now, the first variable is Hugh. Green's secretary has become a tainted witness, and stabbed him seriously, as if what he said is true.

Immediately afterwards, Your Honor presented a second witness, which brought the case into an unknown.

"The witness was temporarily joined by the defendant's lawyer yesterday. After review by the court, he clearly has the qualifications to appear in court."

Erica took the spot where Hugh had been before.

She took off her black hat and stood under the blue sky, there was nothing she couldn't say.

She explained in detail what she had said on the Titanic, and pointed the finger at Mr. Hugh White.

Wayne and she finally agreed that as long as the matter was changed from a conspiracy theory to an internal company dispute, Green would be able to get out of the case and regain the initiative.

As for the exact reason for the sinking of the Titanic, this is a question for the White Star Company to explain.

By the end, Erica felt as if she had been split in two.Half of them floated in the air, listening to the discussions of the people around them from a third perspective, while the other half calmly introduced their origins and some processed truths.

"Combining the above reasons, I think I have to apologize to Mr. Green for my carelessness." She turned her head and bowed seriously to Green, avoiding Green's brown eyes and Green's complicated expression. eyes.

It's over.

The judge called an adjournment, and whatever happened next, Erica had done everything she wanted to do.

After that, it was time for her to go back to London.

"Miss Erica." Wayne chased after her out of breath. Erica walked too fast. He just exchanged a few words with Green and disappeared!

"Lawyer Wayne." Erica turned her head, but she didn't take the black gauze hat away.

"I have something to say to you."

"I would like to hear more about it." Although Erica left the gate of the court, she hadn't figured out where she was going yet.Those thoughts of creating a career were washed away in the vortex of ups and downs for more than a month.

Now she stood in the warm sun at noon, but felt that she had lost heart.

"My secretary has already contacted Mrs. Dalton, you can wait here for a while." Wayne saw that Erica's face was a little bit wrong, and couldn't help comforting him, "Mr. Green... also has difficulties. ... If you ... have a chance in the future ... you can also hang him a few times to let him know that he was wrong."

"Mr. Green and I, one will be in New York and the other will be in London in the future. There will be no contact." Erica smiled reluctantly. Some of the stupid things she did before were probably seen by the lawyer. Feel a little ashamed.

"I wanted to tell you when I was inside just now, isn't this Miss Erica Dalton? Why did she suddenly disappear from the afternoon tea and appear in the court in New York?" Elizabeth walked away from the court come out.She saw Erica at first sight.

"Mr. Hockley is not with you?" Erica saw Elizabeth's ugly face, and she probably guessed how exciting the follow-up incident yesterday afternoon was.

Elizabeth didn't answer Erica's words, and she ignored Wayne who was standing beside Erica, and interrupted their conversation forcefully, "I was just thinking about how much you like Mr. What you said in front of the judge is so affectionate. Tsk tsk, even I was so moved that I was about to cry!"

The judge who heard the case this time is notoriously stern.But Erica has always believed that there is still something that can impress the judge.She spoke her testimony very sincerely, hoping to add some points to Green.

Elizabeth reluctantly leaned into Erica's ear and whispered, "Now I finally know who injected funds into the Dalton family. Erica, after you took the money, don't you feel like a bitch?" Is it the same?"

Erica looked numb.In fact, from the moment Green rejected her until now, she has been in a state of numbness. Elizabeth's words can only pass by her ears, but they cannot bring more substantive effects.

The heat that Elizabeth brought out when she spoke in her ear made her ears itchy.She tilted her head subconsciously, and turned back slowly after the other party returned to her place, "I... didn't expect that you would say such a rude word."

Elizabeth heard that Erica's reply was completely out of focus, she was already in such a mess, and dared to teach her a lesson!So, her voice became even sharper: "Do you think your Mr. Green can show up now, and then do something for you! Erica, stop dreaming! You..."

Her hand was raised high, ready to slap Erica.

Erica moved her finger, and if Elizabeth made a move, she would be able to block it immediately.

Actions can be blocked, but what about words?

Erica was heartbroken.

Elizabeth's childhood environment was very different from Erica's.As a distant relative of the Hockley family, the word 'far' was really far away in her childhood, both in terms of blood and geography.

The means of their family were in dire straits, and they received little assistance from the Lord's family.So Elizabeth's childhood was spent herding sheep.

That life didn't change until she was a teenager.

The Hockley family established the welfare model of the family school in that year, and she benefited from it, which changed the second half of her life.

Therefore, for Elizabeth, some bad words in the quarrel, and hitting people when she is angry are very natural things.

Etiquette does not constrain her obviously, but interests do.

But she didn't know that the Green she mentioned was standing behind her.