Chapter 185: A Difficult Choice
Batman is a good hand at catching criminals, investigating like a detective and sneaking up on extraordinary powerhouses behind his back, but he is like a dog in the political struggle, he has been running Gotham for decades, and he can be defeated in the election by the Joker who has been sober for less than two days with countless criminal suspicions, and he almost became a public enemy of Gotham, and was surrounded and suppressed by Gotham in black and white, his Batman reputation and image in the minds of the people of Gotham City How bad does it have to be to lose so badly?
In terms of dealing with people, Bruce Wayne is still a little too upright, unwilling to lie and unwilling to trick people, disdainful of engaging in those tricks, and doesn't care whether the people like him or not, all kinds of personality traits cause him not to be very popular with the public, and he has never been misunderstood, thinking that he is not like a good person.
In the more than a year since he took office, his support rating in the polls has been declining sharply, and the criticism of public opinion has also intensified, and opposition voices have begun to appear within the party, believing that if he continues to stay in that position, it will affect the prestige of the entire party and drag down the results of the midterm elections for other members of the party.
The decline in his prestige has also led to a fatal impact on his effectiveness in governance, with bills being rejected by Congress, orders ignored by government departments, and trapped in the White House, although nominally the supreme leader of the Hope Nation, cannot be issued by decree in Washington.
Damian blatantly announced in the news media that he wanted to invest in a competitor of the Wayne Group, and he wanted to issue a bill to ban Bredrow's investment, but there was a legal problem with it, that is, he could not issue a decree related to his interests.
Although he resigned as president of the Wayne Group, he still owns the shares of the Wayne Group, as the president, he cannot make any national decisions that have an interest in the Wayne Group, Damian invests in the competitors of the Wayne Group, if he orders a ban, it is to use the power of the president to protect the Wayne Group, which is against the Constitution, public weapons for private use, and will be impeached and removed from office immediately, and it is very likely that he will be imprisoned after stepping down.
The magic of banknotes is extraordinary in the Hope Country, and Bruce also used his invincible money ability to become the leader of the Justice League as a mortal, and this time he experienced how uncomfortable it was when others used their money power to clean him up.
The Wayne Group is rich, but Damian, the most important superhero job in the DC Universe, is even richer to do it as a business, and what profession in the DC Universe is the most high-end and best represents the world's most advanced productivity?
There is no doubt that it is a superhero, this world is a world with superheroes as the core, without superheroes, this world will become unremarkable, and no one will regret destroying it on the spot.
Treating superhero services as a business is equivalent to contracting the Hunter Association in the world of "Full-Time Hunter", accepting all pirates as junior brothers in the world of "One Piece", and being the master of all ninjas in the world of "Naruto".
The profit of Bredero's company's fee-based crisis relief business is countless times higher than that of selling arms, trafficking in people, and selling banned drugs, and the cost of investment is still very small, the orcs, Bai Jue, and the ninjas he took from the Assassin League are all cheap labor, and all the skills of his subordinates are trained by himself, and the labor cost is very low, and the gross income is not much different from the net income.
It stands to reason that the world's strongest superhero team, Justice League, should be very profitable, but superheroes want to flaunt their glorious image of impartiality and selflessness, and they can't be as cheeky as Damian to collect money, and operate purely as a non-profit public welfare organization, so they only maintain a balance of payments and symbolically collect more than a billion headquarters maintenance fees from the United Nations, which is not profitable at all.
With the support of this high profit, it is really not difficult to smash the Wayne Group with endless money, not to mention that Damian also took out a lot of black technology that he bought from the high-IQ prisoners of Arkham Asylum at a high price to convert the military to civilian development and utilization, which greatly improved the scientific and technological strength of the competitors of the Wayne Group.
The Wayne Group lacks Bruce at the helm, although Lucius Fox, who replaced Bruce as president, is also a talent, but the degree of business talent and cunning is far from that of Damian, and it has been defeated in this already very unfair business war, and the share price of the Wayne Group has fallen three times a day, becoming the only stock in the stock market that has soared across the board.
The downward trend of stock prices seems to be irreversible in the short term, and investors know that there is a super market maker who is shorting Wayne Group shares at any cost, and if they do not sell Wayne Group shares at this time, they will be lining up on the rooftop in a short time.
At the same time as impacting the share price of Wayne Group, Damian also began to maliciously acquire the shares of Wayne Group, increase the proportion of shares, and publicly declared that once he got 51% of the shares and obtained the decision-making power of the company, he would directly dismember the Wayne Group, and divide all the industries with the highest profitability in the Wayne Group to reorganize and split up to form a new company, so that the unprofitable industries could continue to be retained.
The business tycoons of the All-Hope Country assessed the financial strength of the Braidro Company, combined with the current situation of the Wayne Group, and made a judgment, that is, the Wayne Group is afraid that it will be difficult to escape, and it is impossible to survive under the pressure of capital of this scale.
The share price of Wayne Group has plummeted, and the proportion of Damian, who bought the shares of Wayne Group, is getting higher and higher, and it is about to reach more than 50%, and Bruce is about to go bankrupt and become a poor egg.
The prestige of the political arena has plummeted, the family business is on the verge of bankruptcy, and his main business of Batman is about to be unable to do it because of the activity of the orc rescue team - the rescue service quality of any orc rescue team is higher than that of Batman, after all, the four plush super orcs who cooperate tacitly and are much cuter than Batman are more righteous than him in terms of cuteness, not to mention strength.
The situation continues to deteriorate, if he is impeached from the presidency and leaves the scene, he will probably have to rely on his son for the rest of his life, after all, he doesn't even have a skill except for fighting, it is impossible to work part-time, and superheroes can't be a superhero, if you want to be re-employed, in addition to driving a batmobile as an Uber driver, you can only open a private detective agency and team up with an orangutan as a private detective to make a living.
Late that night, in the living room of Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne sat on the living room sofa with a dejected face and drank sullen wine, his heart was very struggling, if he continued to stick to his principles and not play a little dirty with Damian, with those dirty methods that he hated the most, it was only a matter of time before he failed.
With Bruce's intelligence, if you are unscrupulous, don't look at the embarrassment now, but there are also ways to turn the tables around.
However, once he broke through the bottom line of being a man and slid into the deep darkness, Bruce didn't dare to guarantee whether he could climb out, whether he would be blackened and degenerate, and completely incarnate as a black-hearted politician Batman.