Something interesting about the New York chapter

1. The plot of the gangsters in the first half of the New York chapter refers to some settings of Batman in DC Comics, which is very interesting, because the prototypes of Gotham City in the original comics are New York and Chicago.

New York is referred to as "Gotham" in 1807 by the American short story writer Washington Irving, who means "village of fools" in English in an article satirizing the culture and politics of New York City. The term quickly became popular in the 19th century, and soon Gotham became synonymous with New York in many works and publications.

2, the setting of the character of Torio refers to the "ugly man" to a certain extent, with some commonalities, but many details are different; But it's clear that our protagonist isn't Batman, except for being as rich as he is.

3. Torio is indeed a person in history, he is the second-generation leader of the "Five Points Gang", and some later members of this gang may be familiar to everyone, such as "Scarface" Al Capone, and the godfather Luciano.

4. The Tammony Society, which controlled the city of New York for decades and was repeatedly overthrown by the imprisonment of key figures, was soon revived, and they were representatives of 19th-century American city boss politics.

5. Theodore Roosevelt did try to reverse the atmosphere of the police department during his tenure as police chief of New York, he took the lead in recruiting and using minority police officers and female police officers, and forbade police officers to ask for bribes from below, but met with strong resistance and ultimately failed, as can be seen in Mr. Roosevelt's autobiography.

6. The passage of the financial crisis is a fusion of the two financial crises of 1895 and the 1907 market liquidity crisis. Morgan.

7. Morgan is very fond of cigar smoking.

8. The words that President Cleveland said in his office, "Mr. Chen, what do you think?" "History says it to Morgan.

9. There are some small details, which will not be detailed here, you can explore them by yourself.

10. In addition, due to some reasons, everyone can't see the comments that may start in the past two days, but I can see it in the background, and everyone should be able to see it after recovery.

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