Chapter 1681 No Time to Die (Part 44)
Batman has never doubted whether Gotham needs him. Gotham needs everyone who has justice in their hearts. Even if they can't save it, they can at least make it a little better.
Batman's way to save Gotham is to fight criminals, but now there is a problem, who is the criminal?
Or, who is not a criminal?
It's like, in a group of ten people, one person uses a knife to cut the other nine people. Batman will definitely go to fight this person, but if ten people each have a knife to cut each other, things will become a little difficult.
If these ten people are cutting and robbing, robbing and being robbed, but at the same time they enjoy it, and even don't run away at all, then most people will choose to respect and bless them, don't let people die at my doorstep.
Now the upper and middle city areas are in a mess, and the residents of the densely populated areas in the lower city are actively participating in the war. Seventy percent of the population in a city are fighting, and they are fighting happily, without the kind of decadence and sadness destroyed by war.
It can even be said that the recent period is the most prosperous period in Gotham in the past ten years.
First of all, fighting for territory requires increasing the population. The settlements of various families have absorbed a large number of people from the downtown area, which has effectively solved the layoffs caused by the economic downturn due to sanctions. Gangs are a specialty of the unemployment era.
Secondly, consolidating the security measures of the family settlements requires a large amount of materials, and transporting materials requires logistics. Building a logistics system requires more materials, which greatly boosts the city's domestic consumption. The various things in the settlements are built in a real way, which can be regarded as the development of industry to a certain extent.
Finally, war will inevitably consume vulnerable individuals, and at the same time open up a channel for the rise of strong and young individuals. Because of the high loss of personnel, the positions are quickly replaced. The positions of gangsters do not require any difficult skills, and there are almost no educational and class barriers. As long as you are not afraid of death, you can ride on the east wind of the times and move forward all the way, going further and further on the road of crime.
There are a lot of job opportunities, a lot of capital is invested in the real economy, and economic dividends are distributed to the bottom. The upward channel for seeking more benefits or realizing self-worth is opened, which can temporarily eliminate almost all contradictions, so that the poisonous weeds on this chaotic land can take root downwards, and then climb upwards to grow new, good, and healthy branches.
Of course, war can never be beautiful. Such chaos means the passing of thousands of lives. When Batman stood at the highest point of Gotham and looked down, he could hear desperate cries every minute and every second, but the sound of artillery fire was even more deafening.
To be shattered on a battlefield with artillery fire, or to die silently on a delicate and lingering rainy night, these two are not good choices, but Batman knows Gotham people too well. If they are given a million chances, they will still choose one.
These few evil people in the world never feel sorry for themselves. They will only spray smoke hotter than the flue of hell from the trachea like the barrel of the gun. Even if they die, their evil blood will splash farther, so that everyone knows that no one except them deserves to be deeply sinful.
Batman didn't pity them, because this bloody flower that only needed a rain to fully bloom was the good fruit they had been seeking, but Batman couldn't accept it, and he couldn't accept that there wasn't even a drop of him in this rain.
Gotham, whether good or bad, Batman couldn't just be a spectator, and it was even more impossible for him to leave Gotham alone in this era of drastic changes. Even if someone had to stand on the crest of the wave in this era, it must be him, always him.
On another rainy night, the black cloak that was darker than the night cut off the rain line and swooped down. Listening carefully, the sound of gunfire was more dull than before, like the shocking spring thunder when the cold retreated and all things began to grow.
Batman joined this chaotic feast, but not as Batman.
Even though his birds were still guarding him, this time, Batman became the leader of the Neville family, and walked through the process of the gangster family's establishment and hegemony as an insider rather than a law enforcer.
Batman once mixed up with the gangs under the fake identity of Match Malone, but as I said before, in the years after his debut, the Gotham gangs have long since become a thing. If they are called gangs, they are just half-black and half-gray interest groups like the Iceberg Restaurant created by Penguin.
But this time, Batman participated in the process of establishing a complete traditional gang family, or it should be said that the process of establishing an Italian family-style gang.
The biggest feature of family-style gangs is that many things cannot be based on profit first, but on justice first, and they must value feelings and family affection. The bond of family blood or feelings is the cage that restrains violence, and it is also the biggest driving force for the knife to be quick, accurate and ruthless.
The essence of manipulation is love. If the gang leader only talks about interests, then his subordinates will betray him one day because of interests. If you want to hold the dog chain firmly in your hand, you naturally have to talk about love and feelings.
No one can explain feelings clearly. It is a confusing account that cannot be calculated. If a person makes everyone else feel loved, then everyone owes him, and everyone must respect him, love him, and be loyal to him.
In order to truly develop the Neville family, which is actually just an empty shell, Bruce must first recruit people. However, in the process of recruiting people, he found that almost all the leaders of the families adopted the method of personal charm to recruit people.
To put it simply, I won’t talk about money or treatment with you. You only need to know that I never treat my subordinates badly. If you follow me, you will get something to eat. I can accept you, understand you and make good use of you better than others. What matters is the conduct of a scholar. He who knows his friends dies.
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Bruce, who has sufficient experience in running modern companies, had to start comparing the human resources model of modern companies and the traditional gangs, and why the corporate recruitment model did not work.
After several attempts, Bruce discovered that the key problem still lies in the difference in the nature and danger of the work.
How about doing ordinary work in an office with the air conditioner blowing and typing on the keyboard? It has little to do with the boss's personality. Even if the boss fails to manage the business well and the company goes bankrupt, the worst he can do is to lose his job and just find another job.
But war is really about killing people. Although all candidates who are aspiring to be gangsters are ready to die, who doesn't want to live longer?
They must be assured that their immediate superiors must be principled, empathetic, intelligent, and energetic, so that they will not drag their subordinates to death out of selfishness or stupidity.
If you don't even like your boss's charisma, then what smart people will be willing to follow him? If there were no smart people and professionals, wouldn’t going to the battlefield mean death?
Under this circumstance, Bruce had to adjust his conversational style. The previous image of an elite businessman who was shrewd and capable and had thorough knowledge of various market data and market trends had to be abandoned. No one here will talk to you about the stock trend.
What everyone is concerned about is whether the defense line on the flanks of the base has been arranged, how to arrange the attack on the adjacent street tomorrow, whether there are enough bullets, and how long the people of a certain family on the opposite side can hold on.
Almighty like Batman, he immediately changed his old style and almost instantly adjusted into the kind of leader that gangsters like most, a leader who walks with wind, is domineering but loyal, attacks as fast as fire, and defends as steady as an old dog. image.
But soon, Bruce discovered another problem. The thugs gathered in the Neville family were all incredibly young, and most of them were teenagers of sixteen or seventeen years old.
Although the people who dare to do this work have already developed relatively strong bodies, and even if they are young, they look like strong young men, but Bruce really can't understand it. It doesn't matter if there are a few young men like this. At least eight out of ten are such young people.
There is another thing that is wrong, which makes Bruce a little puzzled. Although he has changed his behavior and is as close to the gangster style as possible, he occasionally shows his Batman side. Bruce is trying to avoid such situations as much as possible, mainly because He also knew that as the patriarch of a gangster family, Batman's personality was not very likable.
But whenever Bruce inadvertently reveals his side of Batman, his young men will show expressions of fanatical admiration, and the more silent Batman is without explanation, the more fanatical the atmosphere becomes.
Although these two phenomena are strange, the development they have brought to the Neville family is indeed very positive. On the one hand, boxing is afraid of young people, and the gang war is, to put it bluntly, an enlarged version of street fighting. The age advantage is still very beneficial.
Young people dare to fight hard, have quick reactions, are more receptive to new knowledge during training, and are very flexible in mind. Even with Batman's extremely picky and demanding eyes, he can pick out a few malleable ones among them. Materials occupy key positions.
Moreover, they almost worshiped Bruce, so they were naturally loyal and had no problem with their execution. They could even be called to fight wherever the instructions were given and enforce the orders and prohibitions. This was something that many other gangsters could not do, so they were naturally able to help Neville. The family has the upper hand.
But even so, Batman, a hopeless skeptic and control freak, still wants to know what is causing this phenomenon?
So, he began a comprehensive investigation and visited among his subordinates, trying to figure out why all the young people in Gotham seemed to have gathered here.
Batman checked for three full days. From the research on the problem of Gotham's low birthrate to the prospect of Gotham's aging era, he checked the entire population and fertility structure of Gotham. After careful analysis, he found that the problem should be Not on Gotham, but on him.
Then, he conducted some self-investigation and reflection. Just when he almost thought it was his own problem, Batman suddenly realized-
The person responsible for the initial recruitment of members of the Neville family is Tim Drake, his Red Robin.