Chapter 2081 Knight's Horror Night (Fifty)
"Just in time, Peter." Schiller poured Peter a cup of hot tea, but Peter, who was sitting by the bed in the hotel room, seemed a little restless. He took a sip of tea, but it was so hot that he almost spit it out.
"Cough cough cough..."
Schiller looked at him with disapproval and said, "What's wrong? Drink slowly, no one will compete with you."
Peter coughed violently again, then wiped his mouth with the sleeves of his sweatshirt. He spread his arms again and slumped on the chair and said, "I just want to come over and take a look to confirm that everything is going well."
Then he straightened up like a fake corpse and said: "Really, doctor, it is a very bad thing for superheroes to have their identities exposed. They cannot withstand the pressure from criminals and the public at the same time. I have experienced it, so I know How difficult it is."
Schiller looked at the sad look on Peter's face. He put down the teacup, sat down opposite Peter and said, "Peter, there is such a story in the ancient East. It tells that an ancient dynasty was in war, and the emperor was young. The Queen Mother has no power."
"A general was ordered by the emperor to go to the frontier to quell the rebellion. On the way out, his subordinates told him that war has broken out in the country. The country is too weak and the emperor cannot convince the people. If we risk our lives to fight, I am afraid there will be no success. People know.”
Peter's attention was gradually attracted. He remembered that Schiller always told him some interesting stories when he was in the clinic, such as a man who bought jewelry and returned it, but left the box behind and opened it alone. After landing on the boat, the sword fell into the water, but left a mark on the boat...
"What should we do?" Peter asked.
He originally thought it was a story about a brave general who comforted his subordinates, and how the soldiers fought bravely and served the motherland. Unexpectedly, Schiller changed the subject and said.
"They cut a yellow suit that only the emperor could wear, put it on the general and said, the current emperor is still young and there is no one worthy of trust. Why don't we fight back to the capital first and you become the emperor? Then lead everyone together to put down the rebellion..."
Peter squirted out a mouthful of tea.
"I didn't expect that this was not the end." Schiller continued.
"After the general returned to the capital, all the ministers felt very nervous. When meeting with the ministers, he took off his yellow robe and cried to several veterans about how the soldiers forced him to become emperor."
Peter choked and coughed again.
"At this time, another general came forward and said, anyway, we can't accept a child ordering us. Someone has to be the emperor, why not you."
"So the general became the emperor, and that's the end of the story."
Peter coughed until his neck and face turned red. It took him a long time to catch his breath. He covered his eyes and said, "What kind of nonsense is this story? What do the people in it think?"
"Didn't these people leave the capital to fight? Why did they still have time to sew clothes during the march? If the general who put on the emperor's clothes didn't want to be the emperor, couldn't he just take it off on the spot? Why did he have to wait until he returned to the capital? ?”
"Those ministers knew that he was going to rebel, so why did they go to see him? Aren't they afraid of being killed by him? And it was obviously you who didn't take off your clothes on the road, so why should you cry?"
"That's so sharp, Peter." Schiller sighed while blowing on the tea: "You perfectly captured the point of this story."
Peter was a little confused. Following Schiller's words, he began to think about the answers to these questions.
"If it's ancient times in the East, they should have fought on horseback." Peter began to flip through the historical knowledge in his mind. He said, "Even if he was walking, he would not have brought scissors, needles and thread. Soldiers are not tailors, so their clothes must be I didn’t do it after leaving the city.”
"If clothes of this color can only be worn by the emperor, the fabric must be difficult to buy, and it must be made secretly. There are probably not many people who dare to make it, and it will take a while to find a tailor."
"Then this can't be a spur-of-the-moment idea. It has to be prepared three months in advance, right? So he must have planned it in advance, so he didn't take off his clothes on the way back."
"And knowing that he was going to rebel, and still going to see his ministers, I'm afraid they have colluded with him. After all, they didn't know whether the other party was sincere or forced before they went. From common sense, it is unlikely that he was. It’s forced.”
"If they are really loyal, they must know that going to see the rebel leader is a dead end. Isn't the right thing to do at this time to notify the emperor quickly and let him gather troops to fight?"
"So..." Peter concluded: "This general, the soldiers he led out of the city, and the ministers who went to see him later must have colluded. They were just acting."
"The soldiers were impulsive, the general was forced to do nothing, and the ministers had no idea. In this way, there would be no culprit in the whole thing, only the victims, and no one would be scolded."
Peter heard applause from the seat across from him, and Schiller clapped and shook his head and said, "That's perfect, Peter."
"Is history really like this?" Peter asked a little surprised. He knew that many of the Eastern stories Schiller told him were things that actually happened in history.
"No one knows." Schiller shook his head and said: "History books are written by the victors. Even if they are not, there will always be fallacies after being passed down for thousands of years, but the truth is not important. Peter, do you think you are a smart man?"
"Well... I guess I'm a little smarter than other people in some ways."
"Too modest, in fact, you are very sharp, Peter, and the conclusions you draw are also what most smart people would draw, and they are better at conspiracy theories than you." "They are good at inferring the process from the results. Whoever has a vested interest in something may be the mastermind behind it. This is usually the case."
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"But sometimes we can also use this kind of thinking in reverse and push a person to a position he shouldn't be in."
Peter leaned forward, wondering how to do it specifically.
"When you become the only beneficiary of something in theory, even if it hasn't happened yet, people who predict the future will think that it must be you who is in charge of it."
"Because if it happens, you will get a lot of benefits, so why don't you do it?"
"Just like that general, although the rebellion hadn't really happened when he was put on the yellow robe, it is conceivable that as long as the rebellion succeeds, he will be the emperor, and he will be the biggest beneficiary, so you will think that he must have planned it in advance, and this series of events is just his acting."
Peter thought and nodded and said, "I can't deny that when I made this judgment, I did think that if it succeeded, he would be the emperor. Who can resist this temptation? It's normal to have planned it in advance, right?"
"Therefore, people who hold this view will definitely target this vested interest in advance, even if this vested interest has not actually happened, and has not yet gained any benefits. They want to eliminate the other party in the cradle. . "
"Once they take action, it will inevitably damage the existing interests of this person, and in order to protect himself, he will fight back. As long as he fights back, his ambition will be confirmed. "
"People will think, see, this is indeed his conspiracy, otherwise why would he fight back? "
"If this person fights back a little faster and a little more ruthlessly, it will be even more difficult to explain. Everything will be attributed to his early preparation and ambition. "
"The tension will surely evolve into a real fight, and once the fight starts, It won't end easily. "
Schiller raised his head slightly, a cold light flashed in his smile, he gently put down the teacup and said: "The bloodthirsty wolf has tasted the wonderful feeling of biting a piece of meat from the other side, and will never allow the leader wolf to stop fighting. In the end, only one side can stand here alive, and I believe that will be Bruce Wayne. "
In this late autumn season, the storm that blows unscrupulously on the unobstructed American plains is marching towards the midwinter with the whole land, and this autumn, there is a storm that is more violent than a hurricane.
You can be a successful businessman, a successful politician, a manipulator behind a big country, and a hero who upholds justice.
But you can't be a successful businessman, a successful politician, a behind-the-scenes helmsman of a country, and a real hero at the same time.
There can't be such a person in this world, because he is destined to overcome everything and walk out of a broad road without ditches and deep rivers. The snakes, insects, rats and ants that originally lived in these cracks can't allow such a thing to happen.
The Wayne Group, once synonymous with the glory and prosperity of this country, suffered an unimaginable strong offensive this fall.
The most important business partners in various fields broke their contracts without reason, and competitors who had frequent friction began to pursue and intercept without scruples. Congress amended the antitrust bill 15 times in two months. The name of the master was in every volume of the twelve volumes of military books.
The FBI successively found that five major shareholders of the Wayne Group were suspected of economic and national security crimes. The military accused the Wayne Group of colluding with terrorists to start a war in order to increase the number of military orders. Many newspapers and news media in which the Wayne Group invested were exposed to false reports, and the editors-in-chief were successively imprisoned.
Immediately afterwards, the raw material access channels of the Wayne Group's industrial department were blocked, and many export goods wholesaled to third world countries were found to be non-compliant or violated local anti-dumping laws.
Then the Wayne Group's factories in various countries were accused of labor occupation and environmental violations, and all preferential policies on land leasing and taxation were cancelled on the grounds that the Wayne Group's factories violated human rights.
Finally, Bruce Wayne himself was accused of 67 sexual assault and harassment charges within two months, including 30 from women, 27 from men, and 10 from minors, in 13 states including New Jersey, Maryland and Colorado.
More than 200 news media reported nearly 100 times that Bruce Wayne was arrested and imprisoned, more than 60 times that his adopted son died, and 12 times that the Waynes were resurrected within two months.
More than 70 incumbent and retired local prosecutors mentioned in media interviews that the Wayne Group interfered with judicial justice through personal threats, and more than a thousand cases were mentioned that might have been interfered with.
Dumping, monopoly, embezzlement, sexual assault, murder, personal threats, Bruce Wayne fell from the altar overnight.
And the relationship between the members of the Bat Family is still at the center of the storm. Those speculations that may have only appeared in the gossip pages of some newspapers are now openly popular in major media, and everyone is serious and true.
They put Bruce Wayne in a desperate situation.
But they didn't know that the only one who would stand up and save the situation would be Batman.
They made it impossible for Batman to be a god anymore.
But they don’t know that when Batman breaks the last line of procedural justice, he doesn’t fall from the altar, but the gods return to their positions.
When they say Batman has the power to subvert this country, of course he does.