Brooklyn didn't know that Mark Milley had made a decision, but from Mark Millay's attitude that he never called back, he could guess a thing or two.

Mark Milley was already sleepy with regret. A good idea suddenly popped up in the misty lake, and the little sleepiness he had just come up dissipated instantly.

He sat up with a spirit. Brooklyn is doomed to defeat and cannot escape being used and then discarded by the military, but Brooklyn is not defenseless.

His defeat, and even the execution of the military's plan after being 'captured' by the military, will take time.

In the meantime, he can continue to work with Brooklyn and get as much as he wants, maybe not only to get back to his roots, but also to make a fortune!

When Brooklyn became the garbage of history, his daughter, Anne Aldington, was just a widow who had been married for two years.

It's even better if you don't have a child, maybe you can change hands. He remembered that the wife of a general in the Navy or the Air Force seemed to have died, and that general had no children...... Mark Millaine lay back on the bed, and after clearing his thoughts, his sleepiness quickly welled up, and he fell asleep with a smile on his face.

Brooklyn was not so lucky. He contacted Walter O'Brien and asked him to help gather information about Patrick Nestor, especially about his recent public speeches, events, and itineraries.

Now, Brooklyn can't care less about being suspected of bad intentions by Walter O'Brien. He then contacted Michael and asked him to gather information and study Patrick Nestor's position.

Patrick Nestor has been very low-key since his son's death and announced that he would not run for president, and he is a little transparent in the turbulent Washington.

Michael had not collected information about Patrick Nestor before. Unlike Mitchelson, Michael was paid a salary by him — though he was also transferred from Harvard — and was hired by him, and was a veritable man of his own.

The only thing to worry about is Michael's loyalty, after all, Michael's purpose of defecting to him is to clear his name, but now he can't care so much.

Brooklyn informed Michael of his speculations, including a phone call with Mark Meaille, and made his own request.

Instead of immediately hanging up the phone to carry out the mission, Michael helped Brooklyn analyze it.

"Boss, I've gathered information about Mark Milley Aldington, and I've built a model of his character, although he is easily shaken after being disrupted, but according to past examples, this kind of vacillation is negligible after so long."

"I speculate he should have come to a conclusion. If he hasn't spoken to you on the phone, it means that he is planning to give up his relationship with you. ”

"In the way Mark Milley Aldington behaves, he would have chosen to maintain a limited degree of cooperation during the life of the relationship, without involving himself." After a pause, Michael said

"Boss, ...... your marriage to Lady Anne"

"It's part of the deal." Seeing that Michael had already guessed, Brooklyn admitted directly. Michael said after a moment of silence

"It was a lost, even a loss-making deal, in his opinion."

"Mark Milley Aldington never loses money, he's probably going to find a way to recoup the costs he put in and turn it around as much as he can. That's why he will continue to maintain the relationship. ”

"All things considered, Mark Milley Aldington is no longer credible. At least in my rating, the boss, Mark Millay Aldington, has been reduced from an A-tier ally to the lowest tier. ”

"You still have that rating?" Brooklyn asked curiously.

"Absolutely. Long before I returned to New York, I set up a file specifically for your situation, assessing several of your political allies. ”

"Mark Milley Aldington was upgraded from a C-tier ally to A-tier after your wedding to Lady Anne, and now downgraded to D-tier."

"Grades are not an indication of strength, but rather reliability as a rating criterion. The rating results are also not constant. After explaining, Michael gave another example.

"Governor Reilly Winston, for example, is an A+ in this rating system, which means he's an infallible ally. However, in this case, due to factors such as Mr. Governor's own identity and political affiliation, his rating may be downgraded to a B-. ”

"He's a Republican, and the New York incident is over, and he doesn't have a relationship with you. That is, his position can change at any time. ”

"And then there's Director Frank Reagan, who has an A rating in the rating system, and it could be downgraded to a C in this matter."

"There is nothing good for him to be involved in this at all, he has no position to help you."

"And ......"

"What about Bob and you?" Brooklyn asked. Michael was silent for a moment and said

"Sorry boss, this rating system includes information about your political allies, and Bob Allen and I belong to your employees, not political allies, so they are not included." Brooklyn

"Hmm". He wasn't sure what Michael was doing at this time. If it was Bob, it was Ray, it was David, he wouldn't have any superfluous thoughts.

But it was Michael who came up with the system. Michael not only has a criminal record, but also a criminal record. He has a grudge against the military!

He was 'kidnapped' by the military, and inexplicably ran to live in a war-torn area for half a year! In this case, Michael's position is necessarily in opposition to the military.

Because apart from Brooklyn, he couldn't find, or rather could not reach, a higher level of people who could oppose the military.

Help Brooklyn against the military, his only chance to get revenge. And it is indeed possible that Winston and Frank will sit idly by, or even fall into the trap, as he said.

But this is only a possibility, not a necessity. Brooklyn's own family knows his own affairs, and although he and Winston are not as iron as Ray and David, they can also entrust their relationship with the aftermath.

There may be differences in political positions, but when it comes to life and death, neither side will die without help.

Brooklyn is highly suspicious of Michael's example as an attempt to test his resolve to confront the military. As a result, Brooklyn mentions Michael himself and Bob and warns Michael not to play tricks.

At about four o'clock in the morning, Brooklyn received a call back from Winston. Winston somehow contacted Patrick Nestor's chief of staff and helped Brooklyn make an appointment after New Year's Day.

Brooklyn didn't say a kind word, just thanked Winston solemnly. After hanging up the phone, Brooklyn chose a guest bedroom to rest.

This night, he didn't sleep well, and he had a lot of bizarre dreams. When she woke up in the morning, Brooklyn's very different mental outlook from yesterday immediately caught Anne's attention.

"What's going on?" Anne asked with concern as she handed Brooklyn a glass of milk

"What time did you go to bed yesterday?" Brooklyn took a sip of milk and saw Anne point to his eyes, and he couldn't help but touch the bags under his eyes.

"Is it that obvious?" Anne nodded, a little worried

"Do you want to sleep a little longer?"

"No, you don't." Brooklyn shook his head in refusal. Towards the end of the year, E. There are a lot of things about Y. In addition to the normal processing of eucalyptus, a lot of statistical work needs to be done.

Statistics on the content of the work in the past year, the expenditure, what achievements have been made, and what are the shortcomings.

In addition to this, E.. It is also necessary to aggregate and multi-categorize all the pieces of the year and report the data to the partner organizations.

For example, Harvard. After Brooklyn assumed the post of Harvard Speaker, the relationship between the two sides became even closer.

Harvard Law School needs an E. Y's disaggregated data, which can be analyzed to summarize the law and order situation in the East Side of New York in the past year, and even make predictions about the future if you link it to previous years.

Brooklyn itself also needs to select representative or special pieces from the database, analyze them, and if they are universal, pass the analysis report upwards.

In short, towards the end of the year, E. Everyone is busy. Anne rolled her eyes.

"Today is Christmas, and your official website clearly says it's a holiday." Brooklyn sneered and forcibly changed the subject

"Webster found a couple of events that I needed to attend. I have already promised others, and I can't miss the appointment. Anne stared straight at Brooklyn with her eyes and didn't speak.

Brooklyn is on the opposite side. Eventually, Anne withdrew her gaze and shook her head and handed her omelette to Brooklyn.

Brooklyn stuffed the whole omelette into his mouth, smothered the milk in another gulp, hurriedly finished breakfast, and went upstairs to change clothes.

Leaving the house, Brooklyn did not participate in any activities, nor did he go to Winston or Frank, but went straight to the Metropolitan Penitentiary.

Today is Brooklyn driving by himself, Harrison gets the holidays and is preparing Christmas dinner for the evening with his family.

Before the car drove out of the neighborhood, Brooklyn felt a very different atmosphere. There were more people on the streets.

Many of the shops on both sides of the street are also open, and business is booming. In the Confederation, most of the time shops are open until the day before Christmas, and they are closed on Christmas Day.

I don't know why, but not many shops are closed today, but most of them are still open.

Although people entering and leaving the shops will subconsciously observe left and right, looking cautious, this time is constantly shortening.

People are no longer in a hurry, and although they are still wary of strangers, at least they don't need to tense up at the sight of strangers as they used to be, ready to run away at any time.

The clean-up in Brooklyn has only recently ended, but the results are already clear. This has relieved the nervous and anxious mood that has been there since last night.

Stopping at a random dessert shop, Brooklyn bought a large number of desserts based on the clerk's recommendation, and drove to the Metropolitan Penitentiary.

Today's Metropolitan Prison is also different from what it used to be. For the Federation, the meaning of Christmas is equivalent to the Spring Festival to the East, and the prisoners in the prison also need to celebrate Christmas.

When Brooklyn arrived, the warden was speaking to all the inmates. After waiting patiently for half an hour, the warden hurried back to his office, shaking hands with Brooklyn in high spirits and smiling faces.

After sitting in his office for a while, Brooklyn arrived in the interview room with a bag and met Heather Gerken.

"That big guy didn't come with you?" Heather Gerken seemed to have recovered from the last blow, and asked in surprise when he saw that Brooklyn was the only one who had come this time.

Without waiting for Brooklyn to answer, his eyes turned to the large bag on the table. He sat across from him, reached out, naturally opened the bag, and made a 'wow' sound.

He looked up at Brooklyn.

"If only it were Christmas every day!" Brooklyn bought as recommended by the clerk, and he bought as much as the clerk recommended him.

As a result, the amount of dessert brought to Heather Gerken this time was much higher than the previous ones.

"But I can't finish it, if only I could take it back." After the surprise, Heather Gerken muttered in distress.

"You can take it back." Brooklyn spoke. Heather Gerken immediately smiled. He put all the contents of the bag on the table as usual, and then picked out a few from it and put them back, and then grabbed a pleasing one to eat.

He raised his eyes to look at Brooklyn as he ate.

"You look tired?" Heather Gerken asked vaguely. Brooklyn was stunned, and subconsciously raised his hand to touch his eyes, and put it down again.

Before heading out in the morning, Brooklyn carefully looked in the mirror at Anne's prompt and found that her dark circles were indeed noticeable.

"What's going on?" Heather Gerken asked, and before Brooklyn could reply, she began to talk to herself

"With your prestige and means, it shouldn't be Harvard."

"Without me, no one in the entire justice system would be your opponent."

"The New York affair is over. As a winner, you shouldn't have that on the look. ”

"So—is it Washington?"

"You're caught up in the election?" There are also televisions and newspapers in prisons, and prison inmates are not completely isolated from the outside world, and they are ignorant of what is happening in the outside world.

Brooklyn remained silent. Being able to speculate doesn't mean anything. It's like he can follow the clues all the way according to a few small words of Harrison's small talk, completely breaking the temporary peace and beauty.

Simple logical thinking and proper information aggregation can achieve the effect. The justice system has been calm lately, except for the occasional aftermath of failed press law proposals, and Brooklyn has the means to deal with the fallout, as Heather Gerken knows.

On the contrary, the political struggle in Washington is in full swing around the general election.

"I'm afraid you're not just coming to me to bring me desserts, right?" Seeing that Brooklyn had been silent, Heather Gerken ate the cake in his hand, licked his fingers, and asked solemnly.