Chapter 1639

On the floor of a mansion decorated luxuriously, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes with graying hair was holding a phone and roaring at the other side.

"A damn gang boss dares to shout at me on TV?! If he is allowed to be so arrogant, where is the face of federal law, and what the hell is your FBI doing?! What is so difficult about rushing in and catching him?!!"

"Are you mistaken? I am a legislator, not an agent! My job is to maintain the normal operation of the government, not to catch people! Why didn't you go when the federal government was doing crisis public relations?"

The man took a deep breath, put one hand on his waist and kept pressing down in the air with the other, then said: "Fine, Amanda, I don't want to hear this useless bullshit anymore. If the FBI isn't afraid of losing face because of dereliction of duty, then I will play with him myself! I can't go to his house and catch him out, then I will let him know that neither he nor this rotten city will have a good time!"

The man hung up the phone angrily, but when he turned his head, he felt a blurry black shadow flash in the shadows of the curtains behind him.

He immediately twitched, looked back suspiciously, stretched his neck to look over there, and shouted fiercely: "Who? Who is there?! Get out, or I'll call the bodyguards!"

A black figure stepped out from the shadows. Batman looked at Lauder's face and said: "I'm here to remind you, don't do anything to Cat Getan. This is for your own good."

"Batman?!" Lauder called Batman's name with some surprise. Of course he had heard of this Dark Knight of Cat Getan, but it wasn't a good reputation.

It is very difficult for any person living in a normal city to understand what kind of environment needs a freak in tights to be a vigilante to maintain justice, so they usually don't understand Batman at all, only treating him as a clown who seeks attention.

"Are you an assassin sent by that Cobblepot?" Lauder gave a disdainful snort. He raised his chin and said arrogantly: "Does he really think that if he boasts a few words on TV, I will be afraid of him?! Daring to kill a federal government legislator, he can only be a fugitive for the rest of his life!"

Obviously, no matter who he faces, Batman is very bad at explaining, and he also feels that he doesn't need to explain at all. He just said: "Dealing with Cat Getan and dealing with the people here has no benefit to you, and this may cause extreme evil consequences. You'd better think carefully about your decision and don't leave yourself without a way out."

After speaking, Batman turned and left. Such a smart person like him more or less underestimated the degree of stupidity of idiots. He felt that his hint was obvious enough.

Since Cobblepot is just a gang boss who can't get on the table, then what can he do if he shouts in a local program in Cat Getan? You should hold meetings, you should condemn, as long as you don't go to Cat Getan, how can he put you on the guillotine?

But not everyone has Batman's extreme rational self-control. Still the same sentence, all disputes start from "Why."

Legislators are used to being high and mighty. They have always pointed fingers at this and condemned that. Even if there are political opponents refuting, they are just fighting with words. When have they ever been threatened with death?

Even if there are those who don't want to live, in the laws of the vast majority of states in the United States, death threats are criminal, and the FBI takes them down in a few days.

But he, Oswald Cobblepot, is just a gang boss in a region of a city. He hasn't been elected Mayor of Cat Getan yet, and he dares to publicly threaten a legislator with death. How can Lauder, who was threatened by name, endure this breath?

Of course, he also didn't have the guts to go deep into Cat Getan alone. He isn't stupid. Even the FBI doesn't dare to go. Isn't he sending himself to be a dish if he goes?

But after all, he is a state legislator and a political family. The interest groups supporting him are also big enough. They don't dare to enter Cat Getan to sanction, but they also have ways to sanction Cat Getan from the outside.

First, provide funding to the Coast Guard, let them focus on hitting smuggling ships heading to Cat Getan to dock, and then promulgate a new environmental protection law draft. Products produced by all industries including food, medicine, textiles, and others within the scope of marine pollution environment cannot be transported to other cities before passing inspection.

Immediately after, it is a series of common sanction methods such as adjusting tax rates, bulk product embargoes, and customs detention of imported products.

It can be said that such a variety of sanction methods are used for a city within the federation for the first time.

But did this affect Cobblepot? Some influence, but not much.

Still the same sentence, he is just a gang boss. The most valuable industry under his command is just the Iceberg Lounge. Even if there is no raw material and he needs to close, he just earns a little less money.

Cobblepot is not in a hurry, Wei En is in a hurry.

To be honest, although Cat Getan's security situation is rotten, the geographical location here is indeed very good. After several generations of construction, it can also be called one of the most important heavy industrial cities on the East Coast.

You can use this method to sanction other countries, but cutting off your own sea routes, not letting industrial raw materials be transported—isn't this cutting off your own arm? How brain-damaged must one be to do this???

Bruce Wei En is currently rethinking the bottom line of the IQ of this group of politicians, but now he is facing a slightly awkward situation.

This series of sanction measures by Lauder and the people behind him are not aimed at Cobblepot at all. In fact, they are to force Wei En.

You Cobblepot are hiding in Cat Getan and not coming out, right? Then we will negotiate directly with Wei En, exchange people for goods, you press that bird that jumps the most fiercely to death, everyone continues to make money together, what's wrong with that?

Batman thinks it's not good.

Not to mention that Batman could never hand over Cat Getan's villains to anyone else, even if he made a statement to catch Cobblepot into the police station, or find a way to make him shut up, Bruce Wei En couldn't do it.

Because Lauder's move is actually tying Wei En Enterprises and Cobblepot together, pushing the two of them to one side. Wei En Enterprises handing Cobblepot over means he has given in. But Bruce Wei En cannot give in. Otherwise, couldn't anyone come to sanction Wei En Enterprises?

The default rule in the business world is that everyone is a wolf with sharp teeth, wanting to bite off other people's meat with green eyes. Whoever dares to expose their sheep's wool will soon be eaten up without a trace.

So even for the sake of Wei En Enterprises' face, Bruce Wei En cannot take action against Cobblepot.

And standing from Batman's perspective, he could use the illegal things Penguin said on TV to catch him into Arkham Asylum.

The problem is, once Penguin disappears, people won't feel that someone is upholding justice, but will only feel that it must be Wei En Enterprises playing tricks behind the scenes, it must be Wei En Enterprises and the state legislature reaching some kind of agreement, trying every means to make Cobblepot shut up.

This matter has caused a big stir and is a hot topic on the East Coast recently. Cobblepot shows half a sign of decline, and Wei En Enterprises won't be able to wash itself clean even if it jumps into the Yellow River.

Batman only imagined himself being set up by the Joker's madness and falling into a dilemma, never imagining that he could be dragged into the water by this group of stupid politicians with their unexpected IQ bottom line. It can only be said that the sentence "fools defeat masters" is not completely unreasonable.

And the most terrible thing is that these sanction moves, which were originally to reach interest exchange with Wei En Enterprises, aroused extremely strong public anger in Cat Getan. Gothamites were already driven crazy by the rain, and this was adding fuel to the fire.

Everyone originally understood the federal government, estimating that no one dared to come to this rotten city. Even if you don't help, everyone just makes do with it. But now they are sanctioning like this, and people are shocked to find that the life that was already rotten to the bottom actually has room for decline!

The most serious consequence caused by the raw material embargo is the shutdown of factories. Although there are no layoffs for the time being, there is no salary to get without working.

And the newly introduced environmental protection law adjustment draft led to the detour of the intermediate links of the food supplier transportation chain, fearing that they would be labeled with Cat Getan pollution, making their things hard to sell, preferring to give up this part of the market rather than transport them here, resulting in the inevitable result of rising prices.

Wages are lower, prices are higher, it would be a ghost if people don't make trouble.

The Gothamites who could originally get wages in factories to buy things still had a bit of superiority and could barely live. Now this group of people can't live either, so why not become bandits?

Can't work and can't sit at home and starve to death. The chaotic little brains of Gothamites stirred by the rain flashed, isn't Midtown fighting a war? I saw their recruitment announcement for thugs a few days ago. Being a thug is better than starving to death!

As a result, many working people living in cheap apartments in Downtown Cat Getan shouted "Great Chu rises, Chen Sheng is King!", and joined the war in Midtown in a mighty way.

But as everyone knows, the war potential possessed by a certain region is fixed. Including conditions such as strategic depth, war material reserves, and personnel activity range, they only allow a certain number of troops to fight here.

This is why many large-scale city defense battles look like "adding oil tactics" to the attacking side. Many online commanders tap their keyboards and question why they don't directly press the border with one hundred thousand troops, and one kick each could trample the defense line. But the fact is, there is no tactical space to accommodate so many people at all. The people squeezed out are really pork in a meat grinder.

With the continuous joining of Downtown residents in the war, the number of people in the territory of various families and interest groups increased sharply, and the materials needed also increased exponentially. But the territory they possess and the materials they can grab in the territory are fundamentally insufficient to supply the current population.

What other choices can they have? Of course, it is to continue to expand outward, occupy larger territory, grab more things, and then be able to support more population.

But due to the different urban structures and different positioning of division of labor, Downtown is the main densely populated area. Most of them are residential land. Although everyone is a poor brother, the resistance to grabbing my house is still very strong. Even if it is grabbed, there is no money, which can be said to be outputting without reward.

But Uptown is different. Here are wide and flat parks, high-grade restaurants and hotels, and a large amount of liquid funds in jewelry stores, and even quite a few old-fashioned banks.

Of course, Uptown is also the home of this group of interest groups themselves, but their positions are more inward, which is the Uptown of Uptown.

The wealthy don't feel that they are in the same class as the so-called middle-class poor living on the edge of Uptown. What if the middle-class community is grabbed?

Besides, as long as there is money, I can hire people to surround my own home tightly. It has nothing to do with me how chaotic it is outside. Since that's the case, it must be that the more you grab, the more sufficient the funds used to build your own security system, so why not grab?

As a result, no one deliberately guided it, and the greed that got out of control after indulgence completely opened Pandora's box for the masterminds behind Cat Getan. In an instant, chaos swept through the entire Cat Getan like a plague.