"Just in time, Peter." Schiller poured Peter a cup of hot tea. 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 opened 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 his tea cup, 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 broke out in the country. The country was too weak and the emperor could not convince the people. If we risked our lives to fight, I'm afraid there would be no success.
People know.”
Peter's attention was gradually attracted. He remembered that when he was in the clinic, Schiller always told him some interesting stories, such as a man who bought jewelry and returned it, but left the box 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 comforting his subordinates, and the soldiers fighting bravely to serve 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 spat 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, we can't accept a child ordering us anyway. 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?
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"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, it should be fought on horseback." Peter began to flip through the historical knowledge in his mind. He said: "Even if you are walking, you should not bring scissors, needles and thread. Soldiers are not tailors, so their clothes must be
You didn’t do it after you left the city.”
"If only the emperor can wear clothes of this color, the fabric must be difficult to buy, and it must be made secretly. Not many people 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, and that's why 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 had colluded with him. After all, they didn't know whether the other party was sincere or forced before they went. Judging 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 was no culprit in the whole thing, but only the victims, and no one would be scolded."
Peter heard applause from the seat opposite. Schiller applauded 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 smarter than other people in some ways."
"Too modest. In fact, you are very perceptive, Peter, and the conclusions you have drawn are what most smart people would draw, and they are better at conspiracy theories than you."
"They are good at deducing the process from the results. Whoever has a vested interest in a thing may be the mastermind behind it. This is usually the case."
"But sometimes we can also use this kind of thinking in reverse to push a person to a position he shouldn't be in."
Peter leaned forward, wondering exactly what to do.
"When you become the only theoretical beneficiary of something, even if it hasn't happened yet, people who predict the future will think that you must be the one leading the matter."
"Because if this happens, you will get a lot of benefits, so why don't you do it?"
"Just like the general, although the rebellion had not 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 feel that he must have planned it in advance and that this series of events was just an act."
Peter nodded thinking and said: "I can't deny that when I made this judgment, I did think that if it happened, he would be the emperor. Who can resist this temptation? It is normal to have premeditated it.
Bar?"
"So, people with this view will definitely target the vested interest in advance. Even if the matter has not actually happened, the vested interest has not received any benefits. They want to eliminate the other party in the cradle.
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"Once they take action, they will inevitably damage this person's existing interests, and in order to protect himself, he will fight back. As long as he fights back, his ambition will be confirmed."
"People will think, look, this is really his conspiracy, otherwise how could he fight back?"
"If this person had fought back a little faster and struck a little harder, it would be even more difficult to explain. Everything would be attributed to him being prepared early enough and ambitious enough."
"The tense situation will definitely turn into actual combat with real swords and guns, and once the fight starts, it will not end easily."
Schiller raised his head slightly, with a hint of coldness flashing in the smile in his eyes. He gently put down the tea cup and said: "A bloodthirsty wolf will never allow the alpha wolf to cease fighting once he has tasted the wonderful feeling of biting off a piece of meat from the opponent.
, in the end there can only be one side standing here alive, and I believe that will be Bruce Wayne."
In this late autumn season, storms are blowing unbridled across the unobstructed American plains, taking the entire land toward the depths of winter. And this autumn, there is a storm that is more violent than a hurricane.
You can be a successful businessman, a successful politician, the manipulator behind the scenes of a big country, or a hero who upholds justice.
But you cannot be a successful businessman, a successful politician, the man behind the country, and a true hero at the same time.
There cannot 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 and gaps cannot allow such a thing to happen.
The Wayne Group, once synonymous with glory and prosperity in this country, suffered an unimaginably powerful attack this autumn.
The most important business partners in various fields broke their contracts without any reason. Competitors who had already had frequent frictions began to pursue and block him without any scruples. Congress revised the anti-monopoly bill 15 times in two months, and there were twelve volumes of military books, each with his name on it.
The FBI has successively discovered that five major shareholders of Wayne Group are suspected of economic and national security crimes. The military has accused Wayne Group of colluding with terrorists to launch wars in order to increase the number of military orders. Many companies owned by Wayne Group have
False reports were exposed in newspapers and news media, and editors-in-chief were imprisoned one after another.
Immediately afterwards, the entry and exit channels for raw materials in the Wayne Group's industrial sector were blocked, and many batches of export goods to third world countries were found to be non-compliant or in violation of local anti-dumping laws.
Then Wayne Group's factories in various countries were accused of labor occupation and environmental violations, and all preferential land lease and tax policies were canceled on the grounds that Wayne Group factories violated human rights.
Finally, Bruce Wayne himself was subject to 67 charges related to sexual assault and harassment within two months, 30 of which were from women, 27 from men, and 10 from underage children, all over New Jersey and Maryland.
13 states including Colorado and Colorado.
More than 200 news media reported nearly 100 times in two months about Bruce Wayne's arrest and imprisonment, more than 60 times about the death of his adopted son, and 12 times about the resurrection of the Waynes.
More than 70 serving and retired district attorneys general mentioned in interviews with the media that the Wayne Group interfered with the administration of justice through physical threats, and more than a thousand cases of potential interference were mentioned.
Dumping, monopoly, job embezzlement, sexual assault, murder, personal threats, overnight, Bruce Wayne fell from the altar.
At the center of the storm is still the relationship between the members of the Bat Family. Speculations that may have only appeared in the gossip pages of some newspapers are now openly popular in all major media, and everyone is serious about it, and they are sure to be fake.
They put Bruce Wayne in a desperate situation.
But they don't know that it will only be Batman who stands up to turn the tide in a desperate situation.
They made Batman no longer a god.
But they don't know that when Batman breaks through the last line of procedural justice, he doesn't fall from the altar, but the gods return to their throne.
When they say Batman has the power to turn the country upside down, of course he does.