Chapter 1130

On the largest square in New Jincheng, Mr. Potter was already standing on a high podium. Below the stage were his supporters, waving flags printed with Mr. Potter's campaign slogans or portraits. The enthusiasm was as charming as this damn weather.

Mr. Potter really liked everything he enjoyed at this moment. People's support gave him a feeling that he was the core of the world!

He waved his arms at the voters. This might be the most intimate moment between the presidential candidate, the future Mr. President, and his voters!

Only at this moment are their hearts tightly stuck together—

Mr. Potter hoped to do something to please these voters, and the voters also hoped to support Mr. Potter in taking office through their own actions.

It's just that this scene won't last long. As long as he really takes office, after he takes the oath to become the federal president, all this will change.

The bottom people of the Federation always can't remember the lessons of the past. They have chosen one president after another, but almost none of them are truly good to them.

Every time after being hurt, they will find reasons for the president's betrayal of them, then comfort themselves, and start the next round of the game.

They can't remember the lessons, but from another aspect, this might be the biggest tragedy of the bottom voters.

Because they are powerless, they only have the right to accept, not the right to choose. When the people above make changes, they can't do anything else except silence and acceptance.

Just like this moment, the last moment, every moment.

This is not an advertisement.

When the atmosphere at the scene had reached the requirements of the campaign team, people from the team walked to Mr. Potter, who was chatting cordially with the voters, and whispered to remind him that he could start.

He said goodbye to the group of people he was chatting with in a friendly manner, then returned to the podium and stood straight, bowing slightly. The whole scene erupted with thunderous applause and cheers.

Then he walked into his "workstation," raised his hands, and said through the microphone, "Quiet, quiet down, my brothers and sisters!"

The voters at the scene were like being possessed by magic. Almost the moment he said these words and made these movements, they closed their mouths.

They seemed to have forgotten their souls that would never yield, and the toughness of cursing a few words even when pressed to the ground and beaten by the police.

The control of the scene was very good. Mr. Potter nodded, "Say something."

"What should I say?"

"When I see you, I actually don't want to say too much, because you are the best!"

"I don't need encouragement, don't need any words, you will all be the best!"

"But I still have to say something, because they gave me a task, today, right here!"

"So, I thought about it, starting from some recent things."

He paused, glanced at the speech draft on the podium. In fact, he had already read this draft yesterday and simply memorized it once.

But please forgive him for being a bit old; he could only vaguely remember some of the key points, and basically couldn't remember the rest.

But as a candidate who is about to become a top politician, he still has the political literacy he should have.

This speech draft is not the same as the kind of speech draft in ordinary company meetings. The words on it are larger, and some key words are marked in different colors.

For example, the content in orange is the core of the speech paragraph, and you should revolve around these to speak, while those in yellow can be said or not.

Like the green ones, you can consider ignoring them. At the same time, some red content will be marked, which is absolutely not allowed to be said.

Any big shot, powerful character, they will have their own interpretation method. Maybe the person who wrote this speech draft has a conflict with what they want to say, so they only need to remember these keywords or key sentences, plus some of their own thoughts, to make a relatively off-the-cuff speech.

Just a quick glance, and Mr. Potter kept these keywords in his heart, which is also an excellent performance of his political literacy.

"A few days ago, you should know that a vicious attack incident happened here."

"A gang attacked the car of a legitimate businessman and almost threatened the safety of his life and other innocent people."

"This is a naked provocation to federal law and social order."

"This is also why I am always emphasizing that gangs play no role in the stability of federal society. They only destroy stability and destroy production!"

He suddenly increased his tone, linking the two things together, and at the same time, he called Lans a "legitimate businessman" and hid the fact that there was a Major General from the Department of Defense in Lans's car.

After all, saying it out is indeed a bit... let people have more reverie. Why would a high-level official of the Department of Defense be in the same car as a legitimate businessman who was attacked?

Is there any shady behind-the-scenes transaction in this?

In order not to offend the Department of Defense, Mr. Potter consciously hid this sensitive information of "innocent people."

He looked at these supporters below the stage, "The problem of gangs has existed for a long time. In the past many years, the most ridiculous thing I have heard is that gangs are an extension of the federal government's management of society!"

"Some people think that the existence of gangs is to help the federal government manage this country. This is simply nonsense!"

"The most ridiculous joke I've ever heard isn't as funny as this!"

"The federal government does not need gangs to interfere with our management of the country. Their existence is not benign. They are like tumors on the giant that is the Federation. If they are not removed, they will bring terrible changes!"

"But many people don't understand this truth, or rather, they understand this truth, but they won't say it out."

"I don't know if there will be more problems behind this matter, and I don't care if some people have colluded with gangs, but to me, no matter what, de-gangsterization is necessary."

"Otherwise, attacks like this will happen again, and happen more times around us."

"Even ordinary people, innocent passersby, may be implicated, or even just because they looked at them more, they were killed by them as eyewitnesses."

"Social stability shouldn't be like this, and social order shouldn't be expressed like this. Cracking down on gangs and crime will become the top priority after I take office!"

"I will save the entire Federation from this unhealthy social relationship. No more gangs, no more extortion, no more violent crime."

"Starting from today!"

Mr. Potter passionately instilled in the people this policy program that has the smallest implementation cost and the most negligible reaction among all his plans.

Compared to truly wanting to make government departments efficient and clean, wanting to do medical, education, social security, and civil servant reforms—these problems that touch on more people's interests and will have more confrontation and trouble.

De-gangsterization and cracking down on crime are the plans with the best effects, the fastest results, and the smallest losses.

Many people are paying attention to this campaign public speech. Mr. Potter's speech gave them a reminder that this society is developing. The "Great Gang Era" is heading towards the end of the road, so these people, officials, celebrities, and dignitaries who have connections with gangs.

Their attitudes and their ways must also make corresponding adjustments.

This is actually not Mr. Potter's idea to change the Federation through cracking down on gangs, but society's own choice.

People in society are more eager for the arrival of a peaceful and stable social order, so these things have emerged as the times require.

At this time, those gangs who don't care about politics don't know yet that a vigorous crackdown on crime against the entire federal gang is about to strike like a rainstorm!

At the same time, in the old city, Lans and Director Roland have already gone through a short and friendly "conversation."

This time Director Roland came to the front line in person, which was also the request of Mr. Potter. He hopes that during his tenure, he can have a law enforcement department under his control that can go deep into the state and city levels to do things for himself.

In this way, his degree of control over the Federation is stronger. He doesn't want to be like the previous presidents, facing the provocations of those governors, or even mayors, with no way to deal with them.

He needs the FBI to become the sharp blade in his hand. Coincidentally, this sharp blade also needs to seek a master, and the two hit it off.

This crackdown on the Perez family has great significance for the FBI.

First of all, the Perez family, as one of the five major families of the Federation known to everyone, can be said to be long-established.

As soon as they came up, they pointed their spearhead at the Perez family, and the social effect produced after eliminating them was also immediate.

You crack down on a small gang that people might not have even heard of, and that only has seven or eight people. Those voters might think you are wasting taxpayers' money—

In the past, when they said these words, they might not have had such great confidence. After all, they didn't pay taxes at that time.

But after this tax reform, they started to pay taxes, so they were righteous when they said it.

This was originally a good campaign propaganda direction, so Mr. Potter decided to take this opportunity to make a big one.

When people find that the famous one of the five major families of the Federation was eliminated in a very short time under his request, then he will harvest a large amount of public opinion in a very short time!

What is public opinion?

It is votes, it is the chance to win the election. This matter does not allow any mistakes to happen, so even if Roland is reluctant, now he must stand with Lans.

It can be said that this is... Mr. Potter's protective behavior towards Roland and the FBI.

But it can also be said that this is a lack of trust in their ability.

After all, it hasn't been a long time since the FBI truly became a law enforcement department. Mr. Potter is very worried about whether they can complete this arduous task.

If in the process of the task, they are defeated by the gang... then this will be a shame for the FBI, and at the same time, it will be a huge shame for him, the future federal president—

So, this matter does not allow any mistakes.

He is not the president yet; he is not even a governor. He has no way to mobilize the militia or federal army to serve him, so he can only pin his hopes on the Lans family, this... energetic group that has always made the Perez family suffer, to help him realize this plan.

This is a cooperation, a cooperation between gangs and the FBI.

"Next, what do you plan to do?", Director Roland sat opposite Lans and asked this question.

Besides Lans's people, there were many FBI people in the room. The eyes of these people looking at Lans were filled with inquiry and curiosity.

This was also an absurd day for them, because they were actually sitting at the same table with Lans and discussing how to eliminate another gang.

This is very funny, everyone thinks so.

But politics is like this, amidst the ridiculousness, it reveals a kind of wisdom that people cannot understand.

Lans didn't answer this question directly, but threw it back to Director Roland, "What do you plan to do? Let me listen to yours first. After all, you are dealing with gangs...", he glanced at the senior agent supervisors beside Director Roland, "... are the professionals."

The expressions of some people immediately changed. This was obviously a provocative statement full of tendency, and it was in front of them!

They had never suffered such anger, but fortunately, Director Roland still had a high status in their hearts, and Lans also had a strong deterrent power. They were just angry, but didn't speak.

Director Roland laughed dryly, not expressing his attitude towards Lans's provocative and biased remarks, "The local police station should have criminal files about the Perez family. We will arrest them according to some things recorded in the files."

"I believe that through the mouths of these people, we can pry out more facts about their family's crimes. When the time comes, one will implicate a large area."

"Even if some people are stubborn and don't speak, there will always be people whose mouths are not hard enough, don't you think?"

This is actually a hidden counterattack. He is also warning Lans that it is impossible for everyone in the Lans family to be hard bones. There will always be people who will lean towards the other side when facing threats and temptations.

Lans smiled, "This method is good, but it is not applicable now."

"Your...", he paused, "Mr. Potter hopes to solve this matter as soon as possible. If you want to investigate slowly, you might not finish catching them until next year."

"A gang with a scale of tens of thousands of people, Director Roland, have you considered what those people you really want to catch are doing while you are interrogating those you can grasp criminal evidence of?"

"It's not that I look down on you, you know nothing about them, about gangs like the Perez family."

"All your ideas are based on 'I think'."

Roland was not angry either, always maintaining a smiling appearance, "Then what do you think we should do?"

Lans took the ashtray from the middle of the table to his front and flicked the ash into it, "Go straight up!"

(End of chapter)