Chapter 1296: Fifty Years

People will not believe what a despicable person says.

At least they will not believe it at the first moment. Whether they are federal people or people from other countries, they are all like this. They are always not so trusting of people who have a bad record.

But for the middle class who at least once had good and stable social relations, people will hold a positive attitude toward some statements they make.

This is like a theft case that happened. Now there are two suspects. One is the bottom of society who has always been very poor, has a criminal record, and the last criminal record was not long ago.

And the other suspect is middle class, has good social credit, actively participates in public welfare undertakings, has no criminal record, and not even complaints from neighbors in the community.

These two people both say they are innocent, but one of the two must be a criminal. Then what will you choose?

Almost one hundred percent of people will think at the first moment that the tramp with a bad record must be the criminal suspect. This is a very typical stereotype.

Pipi confessing that Little Porter, the grandson of the federal president, might be a criminal suspect, indeed gave the media a big surprise.

An ordinary foreigner becoming a criminal of a vicious crime is not big news.

But if this person is a member of the presidential family, this is absolutely big news!

It is just that the gap between the two people is too large, Pipi and Little Porter, so people do not necessarily conclude that what Pipi said is true. They might also question it. If someone stands out at this time to indicate that this might be a frame-up, it is possible to reverse public opinion.

But when the victim, still a middle-class victim, appears, then people have more trust. They believe that this matter might be what people are discussing.

Therefore, the victim must be in Lanse's hands, in the hands of the Socialist Party.

Actually, it is not just these people; there are also those families and women whom Little Porter played with before. They were also found by Lanse's people and protected. These people can also become an important part of the entire evidence link.

They are also victims, just that the degree of victimization is not so high, and at the same time, they can prove that Little Porter indeed has such bad habits.

The Ruli police came very quickly. Except for a ground of foreigners' corpses, they could not find any clues.

That evening, the media in Lapa released the latest news about this case again.

The victim lady was hijacked by "mysterious people" from the Federation and was about to be taken away when she successfully escaped and, with the help of some friendly people, fled into Lapa and contacted the local police and media for the first time.

The Lapa government expressed deep regret and sympathy for this terrible thing that happened in Ruli territory and was willing to provide necessary legal aid and humanitarian care for this victim lady, and also help her spread this news.

In the auditorium of the City Hall, the flash made this place so bright that people could not open their eyes. The victim lady was wearing a pair of sunglasses, and there were still some scars on her face.

"Madam, does the scar on your face have anything to do with his violence?"

"Madam, are you sure the person who tried to rape you that day was Little Porter?"

"Madam, I have a new statement here, which mentions the transaction between you. Do you admit that there is such a plot?"

Reporters asked questions constantly, which also made this little woman's stomach ache with nervousness. She glanced at a government official who provided help to her beside her, and the latter nodded slightly.

Before opening this press conference, this government official talked to her about this matter and also made her realize the seriousness.

Those agents from the Federal National Security Agency taking her away was to silence her, not to help her seek so-called justice.

And from this, she finally understood why this case, which looked very simple, actually became complicated.

That devil was actually the federal president's grandson!

At that moment, she was almost suffocating with despair!

She could not seek justice and righteousness for her husband, and would also live in fear until death!

But this government official told her that this matter was not as bad as imagined, because there are people standing on the president's side, and there are people standing on his opposite side.

Now it is those people standing on the opposite side of the president who stood out. This is like two people fighting, and she is a brick that appeared beside the two people, a prop that can be used to hit the opponent hard!

If she can play a role in this fight, then she is valuable. Those political enemies of the federal president will help her obtain the fair justice she wants—

This is actually just a dagger they use to stab the president. Helping her is just incidental.

But if she is unwilling to do so, unwilling to become a sharp blade in the hands of the Socialist Party, then she is valueless. The Socialist Party will not help her. Once there is no attention and protection from the Socialist Party, her fate is almost foreseeable.

The instinct of living things is to live longer, and then it is the needs of material and emotion. The little woman was persuaded for the first time. She was willing to stand out and accuse Little Porter. The government official also did some psychological counseling for her, letting her reveal the entire fact more exhaustively to every reporter.

This might make her feel that she was offended, as if she was stripped clean layer by layer in front of the public.

But this is also necessary.

At this time, she took a deep breath, and a trace of firmness she had never had before appeared in her resolute eyes. She also nodded.

The government official looked at one of the reporters and pointed at him.

That reporter stood up immediately, his face full of excitement. He thanked the government official for giving him this opportunity to ask questions, and then threw out his sharp question.

"I heard that this was a transaction, just like solicitation. Is this true?"

This question is also what people are very concerned about. The Socialist Party is attacking, while the Liberal Party is defending. They found someone to spread some news.

Saying that this victim family is not that simple, this is a disaster caused by some differences arising from solicitation.

It is not that pure. These statements try to lower people's hatred for criminals by stigmatizing the victim!

This method is very simple, but also very effective.

If people know that a wealthy person killed an ordinary person because he could not vent his desire, then almost all walks of life will be angry.

But if the person who was killed has many problems himself, and this is not a one-sided homicide, but an accident during a struggle, then people's acceptance of this result will be much higher.

And, most importantly, from a legal point of view, one-sided killing and accidental killing are two completely different results.

And this rumor is very—humiliating to personality. They hope the little woman cannot bear it.

It is just that they obviously underestimated the little woman's determination at this time. She faced these reporters and took off her sunglasses.

Although the matter has passed for a period of time, about a week or more, the scars on her face still exist, and one can still see that the person who attacked her at that time used a lot of strength.

"We urgently needed a sum of funds for some reasons. At that time, Pipi, that is, the middleman, contacted us. He said he could provide us with a sum of startup funds, but there was a requirement."

"There is a big shot from the Federation who hopes to communicate with me at close range. He—hopes to obtain sexual satisfaction from me."

"We looked for banks and some financial companies, and in a situation where there was no way, we agreed to Pipi's transaction conditions."

"Subsequently, he brought that officer to our apartment located in—place, and then we negotiated the details of the transaction and even signed a contract."

"This money was not given to us by him, but lent to us. I obtained this loan and interest-free through service."

"Then he brought me into the room and did not close the door. I think he might hope to obtain more perverted, twisted pleasure by humiliating me and my husband in this way!"

"He tore my clothes. I was very scared, and he also hit me. I begged him for mercy, and then my husband rushed in, pushed him away, and terminated this transaction."

"Then he used the desk lamp on our bedside to kill my husband."

"This is what happened at that time. I am willing to bear all the consequences for everything I said and promise its authenticity!"

Reporters recorded these things constantly. They began to pursue some details, such as—how Little Porter hit her, how he tore her clothes, whether there was more communication between them, etc.

These questions could obviously hurt this little woman, but in order to avenge her husband and protect herself, she said everything in detail with an ugly face, which greatly satisfied the reporters' requirements.

Finally, in a total of three rounds, ten photos per round, she easily picked out Little Porter's photo to prove that this person was the murderer who killed her husband at that time.

Originally, everyone thought this press conference ended here, and the government official also sent this little woman away, but soon they knew they were wrong.

Because subsequently, they brought in another couple.

"They are the first couple Pipi and Little Porter contacted. Next, they will say what happened when they contacted Little Porter—"

There are four such couples. An image of a federal dignitary with a twisted and perverted psychology appeared in everyone's heart. Even some well-informed reporters felt at this moment that Little Porter was a damn pervert!

And they also completed the process of accusing Little Porter through photos.

This news was not transmitted back to the country for the first time, but first entered Ruli territory.

When people saw this news, they were completely angry. What they saw was not a murderer with a twisted and perverted psychology, but the arrogance of federal dignitaries high above!

A large number of ordinary people, under the organization of some people, began to strike and demonstrate. They gathered in large numbers on the open space outside the government office in the capital, holding signs demanding severe punishment for Little Porter.

The strike caused more than half of the enterprises in the entire Ruli to stop completely, especially some enterprises and factories invested by the Federation, almost all of which stopped production and work.

"The current situation looks very bad, and I don't know how the country plans to solve this problem." In a high-rise building in the center of Ruli port city, some federal people gathered here.

A gentleman wearing a formal suit stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a worried face, looking at the local people who were constantly coming and demonstrating.

This building was built by the company he belongs to. Almost all buildings in Ruli with more than ten floors were built by federal people, so it is very simple for the locals to choose a target; they just need to find those high-rise buildings.

Beside him stood several guys dressed similarly to him. They are a comprehensive import and export company.

They acquire some local cheap raw materials and handicrafts here, transport them back to the Federation for sale, and earn a sum of money.

Then they bring some goods from the Federation to sell here, and earn another sum of money locally.

This company expanded very quickly in Ruli, and at the same time, they belong to the Liberal Party camp's enterprises.

After President Porter took office, capitalists in the Liberal Party camp, especially import and export capital and enterprises, obtained a large amount of policy inclination.

For large consortiums, like the Eastern Consortium and the Jingang Consortium, the president's attitude cannot change the preferential treatment the country gives them.

Even if President Porter knows that the Jingang Consortium is on Lanse's side and is in the Socialist Party camp, the policies that should be given are still given.

If there is any institution or group in the Federation that can be transcendent, it must be the consortium.

These policy inclinations have little impact on them, but the impact on small and medium-sized enterprises is very large.

They are also doing business in Ruli. Merchants in the Liberal Party camp can get subsidies and tax rebates, which means they have stronger competitiveness in terms of price and can compress more profit space.

But for merchants in the Socialist Party camp, they are not given these policy preferences, or the range of policy given is not large.

For the same product, worth one dollar, transporting this one-dollar product from the Federation to Ruli, its price actually became seventy or eighty cents because of tax rebates and subsidies.

Merchants on the Socialist Party side cannot obtain such large policy preferences and might maintain a price of one dollar or ninety cents.

Then two merchants sell this product in Ruli at the same time. Who will occupy the market here in the end?

Undoubtedly, it is the merchants in the Liberal Party camp. They only need to take out a cost price that almost does not pursue profit to quickly clear out the competitors in the Socialist Party camp in the market.

After clearing out these competitors, occupying the market, and monopolizing the market, then come back to make money.

So now most small and medium-sized enterprises in Ruli are more or less from the Liberal Party camp.

They are the beneficiaries after the Liberal Party and President Porter took office, but in this suddenly erupted major strike, they also became the main victims.

As for those large consortiums, the impact on them is actually not that big.

A gentleman standing beside him shook his head, his face a bit solemn, "They said—that is President Porter's grandson. You can't think that our Mr. President will really let his grandson bear these crimes, right?"

"This matter is probably not easy to solve, and once it is admitted that it was Little Porter who did these things, the Porter family's face will fall to the ground and be smashed to pieces."

"Everyone will talk about this point: Little Porter is a perverted bastard who likes other people's wives!"

People in the room let out some malicious or contemptuous chuckles because of his words.

In their view, Little Porter has the Porter family, as well as the identity and relationship that his grandfather is the president. What kind of woman does he want that he cannot get? Why does he have to fancy other people's wives?

For those federal people who have "moral cleanliness about others," this is simply fatal!

They were chatting about the news, when suddenly a store across the street had its door pried open by a group of thugs. A large group of people rushed in and quickly began to loot the goods inside.

Some ladies who were also observing the situation outside in the distance could not help but exclaim. God seemed to choose to do nothing at this time.

At this time, the phone in the office suddenly rang. Some of the people who were watching started to answer the phone, but soon everyone's expression became serious.

One of the employees could not help but say in a panic, "Those thugs rushed into our building, and the security guards have been knocked down by them!"

When hearing this sentence, everyone's expression underwent a huge change, from the playful banter of watching the fun just now to panic, and even fear!

Some people thought of something and ran toward the elevator immediately, while others ran toward the stairs.

When they rushed to the stairwell, they heard screams and noisy scolding from downstairs, and even gunshots came up. Everyone's face turned pale!

Downstairs, several members of the First Mobile Brigade glanced at the security guard who was shot dead in the stairwell while trying to close the fire door, revealing an indescribable feeling of satisfaction on their faces.

For the past two years, the federal people have put too much pressure on the Ruli people. They are high above, arrogant, and mean. It cannot be said that every Ruli person does not like federal people, but at least one out of every three or two Ruli people does not like federal people.

The reason why this major strike evolved into a riot so quickly is that someone is pushing it behind the scenes. It is not just the First Mobile Brigade doing such things; there are also some resistance organizations doing such things.

The Socialist Party's goal is this: to make the entire Ruli chaotic.

This is like—a child doing a bad thing. If this bad thing did not cause any serious consequences, for example, he just ignited a few pieces of paper, then the child's family would not punish him, nor would they take away the lighter in his hand, but instead feel that his playing with fire is an interesting thing.

But if this child ignited a building, burned many people to death, and among the people burned to death were their own people, then the child's father, his mother, would be furious, and he would also be severely punished.

A large number of federal people stranded in Ruli suffered losses because of what Little Porter did. Regardless of whether they were attacked or their property suffered losses, they would all record these losses on the president.

And this country, which tends toward the Federation, has become like this because of the things Little Porter did, which will also produce huge adverse effects internationally.

Even if President Porter tries his best, it is very difficult to erase the sequelae brought about by these things.

The greater and more serious the losses people suffer, the stronger their anger and hatred toward President Porter.

The riot came very, very quickly. Several cities with more federal people became victims of this "political game." Looted shops could be seen everywhere on the streets, and a large amount of blood remained in some places.

President Porter has not had a good rest for three days. He sat at that desk, the whole person looking very haggard and exhausted.

In front of him were the Secretary of State and some people from the Ministry of National Defense, as well as cabinet members.

He just had a daze and lost his mind.

"Mr. President?" the Secretary of State called out softly.

President Porter came back to his senses. He looked at the Secretary of State, "Sorry, I haven't rested well these past few days. Where did you just talk to?"

The Secretary of State smiled, "I just talked about the fact that we must solve this turmoil as soon as possible. The Yalan Alliance has already protested and conducted diplomatic negotiations against our practices in Ruli, demanding that we severely punish the criminals."

"And many enterprises and capitalists who have invested in Ruli are now also strongly protesting to us, demanding that we guarantee their investments in Ruli while solving this turmoil caused by—as soon as possible."

"Turmoil!" President Porter sighed and repeated this key word, "Where is that son of a bitch now?"

He rarely cursed in front of so many people, but he really couldn't stand it anymore.

He caused trouble for him again and again, and the trouble he caused was bigger than the last.

Perhaps when he was bullying his classmates for the first time when he was a child, he should have let his son teach that bastard a lesson, instead of helping him solve this matter.

Maybe it wouldn't have led to his ability to cause trouble becoming stronger and stronger now!

A major general sent by the Ministry of National Defense said softly, "Mr. Little Porter has been controlled by us and is still in the barracks on the Ruli side."

President Porter sat there supporting his chin and seemed to have lost his mind again.

After about twenty or thirty seconds, his eyeballs moved, and he looked at the cabinet members, "Gentlemen, if we want to—

try him, what kind of legal responsibility will he bear?"

It is impossible for Little Porter to go to jail in Ruli. Not to mention how the law is there, in prison, once he is stabbed in the ass, the entire Porter family will become a joke.

Mr. President does not think this is impossible. Those people in the Socialist Party, including Lanse, what things can they not do?

Even behind this turmoil, there are the Socialist Party and Lanse as pushers.

So Little Porter will definitely be repatriated to the Federation for trial, if necessary.

Then now, he needs to consider whether this is acceptable.

An official in charge of legal aspects replied, "At least it is a second-degree murder charge. The judge might determine it is a first-degree murder charge because it is too vicious."

"And there are crimes like rape, plus the things he caused to happen, he might face a sentence of more than twenty years!"

"Up to fifty years!" ===== CHAPTER 1297 =====