Chapter 103: Gotham Longzhong (I)
“…… And what I'm saying is, that's it, as you can see, everybody knows what I used to do......"
On the counter of a bar, on an old TV screen, Roy Brown pulls a violin case out from under the table and places it on the table, then clicks the lid open, revealing a gun.
"I'm from Chicago, yes, I was the leader of the gang there, the mafia you know it......"
"This is my weapon, see? You call this pretty little darling a typewriter, but I like to call him Huff......"
"What do you think this is? What do you think I'm doing now? Do you guys think I should sit in the mayor's office and drink tea? I'm telling you, it's not a threat......"
"I was born and raised in Chicago, and so did my dad and grandfather, and they said it was going to be the second mountain, and a lot of people came here, and they all had a dream of making a fortune, a lot of big companies, big machines, and all nights......"
"But this group is gone, leaving behind a fire and a bunch of pollution, what is left of my hometown after Prohibition? It's a mess! ”
"What can we do when riots are raging and everyone is in danger? We must pick up guns and defend ourselves......"
"So you say, oh, Chicago is full of gangs, it's hell out there, I'm going to tell you right now, it's hell out there! Hell that can eat you bastards alive! ”
"When those immigrants are here with guns and killing, the governor will just say everyone should calm down, after the gangster problem is rampant, the police department? Ha! Are you too embarrassed to mention this? ”
"I'd like to ask you, where did the police department's money go? Why is it that Chicago has the largest police training school in the East, but none of the new police officers want to stay here? ”
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"Can you believe it? A year ago, Chicago had an average of only one gun for every three cops, and some logisticians had to use sticks to protect themselves! ”
"This is what you call the Law of the Order?"
"Why are those damn public housing streets? Because there are so many unemployed! ”
"Why are they unemployed? Who is to blame for the economic problems? What did those old men who sat on Capitol Hill like fat pigs do? He left the people of Chicago to fend for themselves! That's it! ”
"Now that you've telegraphed and condemned Gotham for making a gangster mayor, I'm going to tell you that I'm going to be the best mayor here!"
"Because I'm a member of the gang, if you don't solve the economic problems for us, then we will solve it ourselves, and we can do whatever I want!"
"I know, some people say Gotham is worse than Chicago, oh, who else? Miami? Bloomhaven? Imperial City? ”
"Yes, our eastern cities are a piece of shit in their eyes, but they just want to watch this piece of shit in front of them, do we get a little help from them?"
Roy pulled the Chicago typewriter out of the advance box, then slammed it on the table and said, "Don't expect me to listen to your, those good baby talks, you go talk to the West Coasters!" ”
"That's what the hell the hell the East is, there's only one thing I have to do here, get a gun, kill everyone who stands in my way, and then, lead everyone to get rich together, I don't care if they're gangsters or anyone else!"
After the speech, the screen of the TV at the bar flashed twice, and the bartender patted the TV and said, "Well, it looks like this old guy is broken again." ”
The guests complained a few times in dissatisfaction, and a big black guy sat on the side of the bar with a wine glass and said, "It seems that the new mayor is not bad, he is a tough guy, he said what I wanted to say......"
"I was born in Gotham, yes, just two blocks away, you know, our boss took me out once before, where did I go? Oh yes, it's Met, and when people hear I'm from Gotham, it's like they've seen something dirty......"
"If you want me to say, this mayor is quite special, the one who used to sit in the mayor's office, in the face of the reprimands of those reporters, will only be a turtle with a shrunken head."
Then he let out a sneer and said, "And then he died, he had a car accident more than a month ago......"
"Oh, it's him, I don't even remember his name, but I've heard that he's the second-longest mayor of Gotham."
"I think this one will definitely break the record now, he's the godson of the old godfather, and he's much better than those soft mayors."
The black man also said, "He has a point, whether it's Gotham or Chicago, this place was like this before we were born, we live here, we want to make more money, what's wrong?" They just call us bastards all day long......"
"If I could be like the people in the metropolis, study since I was a child, go to college, wear a suit and tie after graduation, and blow the air conditioner in the office, I want to be a gangster and get shot!"
"He's just talking." Another black man came over, ordered a glass of wine and said, "Could it be that he can really be a mayor and lead all the gangsters to make money together?" How can there be such a mayor? Even if those reporters don't scold him, the state government won't agree......"
"I don't ask him to take us to make money, I just hope that he won't be like those mayors in the past, who can't come up with any civilized city regulations and anti-gang law and order laws at every turn, and talk about them every day......
"Hell anti-gangster law and order, is there anyone in Gotham who isn't a gangster? Why didn't he just say that he would just blow the city to the ground? ”
The people in the tavern burst into laughter, and some made gestures for the explosion of a nuclear bomb.
The next day, Roy's speech made headlines in major newspapers on the East Coast and across the United States, you know, this is not the time of Prohibition, the mafia is mostly scattered, and the gangster culture is mostly not in its glory.
At this time, a mayor jumped out and said, I am a gangster, I am a mafia, I not only admit that I am a gangster, I also say that I want to make money with the gang, of course, it will cause criticism from major media.
The Metropolitan Daily described this as a "shocking step backwards", and the Global Times called Roy a "vulgar and barbaric villain", but in any case, the name "Gangster Mayor Roy Brown" resounded across the United States almost overnight.
However, it is somewhat strange that there are several cities that have tacitly not spoken out about this, and some of their leaders have even deliberately suppressed public opinion and shown an ambiguous attitude, including the East Coast cities mentioned by Roy.
In fact, every city with illegal industry as its pillar industry knows that Roy is telling the truth.
The histories of these cities are similar, and the gangs are all created because of historical legacies, either to fight immigrants or to leave the legacy of the Prohibition era.
Most people in these cities find Roy's scolding very relieved, because no matter who it is, they only order and urge every day, and there is no real action to improve the bad situation in these cities other than verbal condemnation and warning.
Most people will only say with a sense of superiority that the people born in these places are inherently bad, and that it is their evil that makes these criminal capitals possible.
But in reality, the economic situation is the root cause of all this, and with the exception of Gotham, which is a little more special, most of the rest of the gangster cities have become what they are because of the high unemployment rate brought about by the recession.
People in this kind of environment are born gangsters, and if you say that you want to use the law and order bill to eliminate the gangs, you might as well use a nuclear bomb to bomb these cities.
In these crime capitals led by Gotham, many of them are very dissatisfied, originally we pinned our heads to the waistband of our trousers, exchanging our lives for money, it is not easy, these people who don't talk about backache still scold all day long, and they dare not make investments, and the economy is even more sluggish.
In the past, the gangsters also felt that they were at a loss, and no matter how they said, the illegal industry really couldn't get on the table.
But now, Roy's speech reminded them that they weren't the ones who were largely responsible for the cities they were.
Not to mention those historical reasons, the inaction of the state government and Congress is also the main reason for the lack of improvement in the status quo.
I was born here, and I have nowhere to go, I joined the gang, and you say I'm a villain, and my heart is bright, but those verbal condemnations and law and order laws can't give me bread, I don't join the gang, waiting to starve to death?
Then why can't I rot? I'm rotten!
The most important effect of Roy's speech is to give these gangsters who haven't read much books a relatively centralized guiding ideology, that is, it is not my fault that I am so bad now, but the fault of the world.
Actually, if you look at the current situation of Gotham, there is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, people born in Gotham can't choose where they were born, and once you are born in Gotham, you can only choose this hellish mode of life, otherwise you can't live.
Geniuses and supermen are in the minority in this world, and ordinary people who are powerless to change class are the majority.
In fact, those who condemn may not know this truth, but Roy put this matter on the table and pointed out that it is precisely because of the inaction of various forces and the weakness and incompetence of violent law enforcement agencies that the cities with the highest crime rates in the United States have been created, which is undoubtedly like tearing off the last fig leaf of those politicians.
Naturally, this speech caused a great backlash in the orderly society, and the state government legislators who were bought by the Wayne Group were also a little unable to resist the pressure, and the state government suspended the mayor of Gotham City for review, and intended to reopen the mayoral election process.
In the past, this process in Gotham was just a formality, basically Wayne said whoever did it, and the gangsters didn't care, because the mayor of Gotham City actually didn't have any rights, and the gangsters wouldn't listen to the mayor, and everyone was the same.
But the state government thinks that Roy is too out of line this time, and even the federal government has sent a request, you are rotten, but you can't be so arrogant, how faceless are we?
So they're going to have a new mayoral election.
This is the method they often use to quell similar troubles, and by restarting the election process and letting the wrongdoer lose in the new election, to prove that his views are not popular with the people, it will naturally calm much of the public opinion and the anger from the higher-ups, which has been tried and tested in the past.
Until, the state legislators saw that the first person in the new candidate was called, Carmen Falcone.