Chapter 104: Gotham Longzhong Confrontation (Part 1)

"... What I want to say is that, as you can see, everyone knows what I used to do..."

On the counter of a bar, on an old TV screen, Roy Brown took a violin case out from under the table and put it on the table, then opened the lid with a click, revealing a gun inside.

"I'm from Chicago, yes, I was a gang leader there, a member of the Mafia you know..."

"This is my weapon, see? This beautiful little baby, you call him a typewriter, but I like to call him Herv..."

"Where do you think this is? What do you think I'm doing now? Do you think I should be sitting in the mayor's office drinking tea? I want to tell you, this is not a threat..."

"I was born and raised in Chicago, and so were my father and grandfather. At that time, they said that this would become the second Gold Mountain. Many people came here, and they all had a dream of getting rich. There were many big companies and big machines that worked all night..."

"But this group of people left, leaving behind a big fire and a lot of pollution. After Prohibition, what was left of my hometown? A mess!"

"Riots are rampant, everyone is in danger, what can we do? We must pick up guns to defend ourselves..."

"So you say, oh, Chicago is full of gangs, it's a damn hell, I'm going to tell you now, That's hell! A hell that can eat you bastards alive!"

"When those immigrants were killing people with guns here, the governor would only tell everyone to calm down. After the gang problem became rampant, the police department? Ha! You still have the nerve to mention this?"

"I want to ask you, where did the funding for the police department go? Why does Chicago have the largest police training school in the East, but no new police are willing to stay here?"

"Can you believe it? A year ago, there was only one gun for every three police officers in Chicago, and some logistics personnel could only use batons to protect themselves!"

"Is this what you call the security bill?"

"Why did those damn public housing streets appear? Because there are too many unemployed people!"

"Why are they unemployed? Who should be blamed for the economic problems? What did those old men who sit on Capitol Hill like fat pigs do? He let the people of Chicago fend for themselves! That's all!"

"Now you are sending out telegrams to condemn that Gotham has let a gangster boss become mayor. I want to tell you, I will be the best mayor here!"

"Because I am a member of the gang. If you don't solve our economic problems, we will solve them ourselves. I will do whatever I want!"

"I know, some people say Gotham is worse than Chicago. Oh, who else? Miami? Blüdhaven? Imperial City?"

"Yes, our eastern cities are a pile of shit in their eyes, but they just have to watch this pile of shit in front of them. Have we got any help from them?"

Roy took the Chicago typewriter out of the box in advance, and then slammed it on the table and said, "Don't expect me to listen to your nonsense, those remarks about being a good boy, you go and tell the people on the West Coast!"

"The East is like this. There is only one thing I have to do here, take a gun, kill everyone who stops me, and then lead everyone to get rich together. I don't care if they are gangsters or anyone else! ”

After the speech, the TV screen on the bar flickered twice, and the bartender patted the TV and said, "Well, it seems that the old guy is broken again."

The guests complained a few times, and a big black man sitting on the side of the bar with a glass of wine said, "It seems that the new mayor is not bad, a tough guy, he said what I want to say..."

"I was born in Gotham, yes, just two blocks away, you know, our boss took me out once before, where did we go? Oh, yes, it was Metropolis, people heard that I was from Gotham, it was like seeing something dirty..."

"If you ask me, this mayor is quite special. The one who sat in the mayor's office in the past would only be a turtle in the face of the rebukes of those reporters."

Then he sneered and said, "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 heard that he is the second longest-lived mayor of Gotham. ”

“I think this one will definitely break the record. He is the godson of the old godfather, and he is much better than those soft-ass mayors.”

The black man also said: “What he said makes sense. Whether it is Gotham or Chicago, this place has been like this before we were born. We live here and want to make more money. What’s wrong? They just call us bastards all day long…”

“If I could be like those people in Metropolis, studying since childhood, going to college, graduating in a suit and tie, and blowing air conditioning in the office, I must be crazy to want to be a gangster and get shot!”

"He's just talking." Another black man came over and ordered a glass of wine and said, "Can he really be a mayor and lead all the gangs to make money together? How can there be such a mayor? Even if those reporters don't scold him to death, the state government will not agree..."

"I don't ask him to help us make money, I just hope he won't be like those mayors in the past, who always come up with some civilized city regulations and anti-gang law and talk about it every day..."

"Damn anti-gang law, isn't there anyone in Gotham who is not a gangster? Why doesn't he just flatten the city?"

Everyone in the bar laughed, and some people even made gestures of nuclear bomb explosions.

The next day, Roy's speech made headlines in major newspapers on the East Coast and even across the United States. You know, this is no longer the era of Prohibition. Most mafia are scattered and the gang culture is no longer glorious.

At this time, a mayor jumped out and said, I am a gangster, I am the mafia, I not only admit that I am a gangster, I also said that I will make money with the gangsters, which will of course cause criticism from major media.

Metro Daily commented that this is "an appalling regression of the times", and the Global Times said that Roy is a "vulgar and brutal villain", but no matter what, the name "Gangster Mayor Roy Brown" resounded throughout the United States almost overnight.

However, it is somewhat strange that several cities tacitly did not speak out about this. Some of their leaders even deliberately suppressed public opinion and showed an ambiguous attitude, including the East Coast cities mentioned by Roy.

In fact, every city with illegal industries as its pillar industry knows that Roy is telling the truth.

The history of these cities is similar, and the reasons for the emergence of gangs are also historical problems, either to fight against foreign immigrants or as a legacy of the Prohibition period.

Most people in these cities feel that Roy's scolding is very satisfying, because no matter who it is, they only give orders and urge every day, and apart from verbal condemnation and warnings, there is no actual action to improve the bad situation in these cities.

Most people will only say with a sense of superiority that people born in these places are born bad, and it is their evil that creates these crime capitals.

But in fact, the economic situation is the root cause of all this. Except for Gotham, which is slightly special, most of the other gangster cities have become what they are now because of the high unemployment rate caused by the economic recession.

People in this environment are born gangsters. If you say you want to use the public security law to eliminate the gangs, it would be better to use a nuclear bomb to flatten these cities.

Many gang leaders in these crime capitals headed by Gotham are very dissatisfied. It is not easy for us to put our heads on our belts and exchange our lives for money. These people who talk without any pain in their waists are still scolding all day long, making investment even more afraid and the economy even more sluggish.

In the past, the gangs also felt that they were in the wrong. After all, illegal industries were not fair.

But now, Roy's speech reminded them that it was not them who had to bear the main responsibility for the current situation of these cities.

Apart from the historical reasons, the inaction of the state government and Congress was also the main reason for the lack of improvement in the current situation.

I was born here and had nowhere to go. I joined the gangs, and you said I was a villain. I was looking forward to the light, but those verbal condemnations and public security bills could not give me bread. If I didn't join the gangs, would I starve to death?

Then why can't I rot? I will rot!

The most important role of Roy's speech was to give these gangs who had not read much a relatively concentrated guiding ideology, that is, it was not my fault that I was so rotten now, but the fault of the world.

In fact, if we look at the current situation in Gotham, there is nothing wrong with this idea. People born in Gotham cannot choose their birthplace, and once you are born in Gotham, you can only choose this hell-like life, otherwise you can't survive.

There are only a few geniuses and supermen in this world, and the majority are ordinary people who are unable to change their class.

In fact, those who condemn may not be unaware of 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 of violent law enforcement agencies that the cities with the highest crime rates in the United States have been created. This is undoubtedly like tearing off the last fig leaf of those politicians.

This speech naturally caused a great backlash in the orderly society. Some state government legislators who were bought by the Wayne Group could not withstand the pressure. The state government ordered the mayor of Gotham City to suspend his post for review and planned to restart the mayoral election process.

In the past, this process was just a formality in Gotham. Basically, whoever Wayne said was good would be good, and the gangs didn't care, because the mayor of Gotham City actually had no power, and the gangs would not listen to the mayor, and it didn't matter who was in power.

But the state government felt that Roy had gone too far this time, and even the federal government sent a warning. You may be rotten, but you can't be so righteous. How embarrassed are we?

So they plan to hold a new mayoral election.

This is the method they often use to quell similar troubles. As long as they restart the election process and let the person who did something wrong lose miserably in the new election to prove that his views are not supported by the people, they can naturally quell most of the public opinion and the anger from their superiors. In past experience, this method can be said to be tried and tested.

Until the state government legislators saw that the first person in the new candidate was called Carmine Falcone.