Chapter 102 Black Pyramid

Bruce never dreamed that after he returned to Schiller and gave him a positive answer, he would hear such an amazing plan from Schiller.

His professor, who claimed to be an ordinary person and a good man, told him personally: "It's not Gotham that is wrong, but the world."

And for this, Schiller took out a plan, a plan that made Bruce a little bit resigned, although the professor said that it was just a flash of inspiration one morning.

In this plan, Schiller elaborated in detail how he would bring a new order to Gotham. If Bruce had to make a summary of this plan, he could only say that the name Schiller Rodriguez would likely go down in history, but it would not be because of any good reputation, but because his professor would likely be hailed as the "father of modern crime."

In this plan, Gotham was described by Schiller as an "excellent" city that occupied the right time, right place, and right people, but this "excellent" was for the black industry.

The first step of this plan is to connect the three major ports on the east coast of the United States, namely Gotham Port, Chicago Port and Miami Port. Coincidentally, the specialties of these three cities are all gangs.

When gangs meet, their eyes are filled with tears. What's more coincidental is that Gotham has a unique advantage in this regard. The gangs of Chicago and Miami cannot beat the gangs of Gotham together.

Connecting these three cities in series, with Gotham as the leader, almost controls more than half of the port trade on the east coast of the United States.

No matter which of these three cities, it is impossible to digest the black industry in the United States alone, but if the three port cities are added together, it is definitely not as simple as 1+1+1=3.

The black industry chain that cannot be completed by an independent port city will be further improved by other downstream cities. The three ports echo each other, with the same order structure as the twelve gang families in Gotham, and subdivided layer by layer, they will be able to bear more than 70% of the black industry chain in the United States.

Most cities on the west coast of the United States are still orderly cities, such as the coastal city where Green Lantern Hal is located, and Los Angeles and Seattle. Although the overall crime rate is not low, it is actually much better than that on the east coast.

Looking at these cities on the east coast, Gotham is the largest crime center in the universe, Miami's specialty is tornadoes and gangs, Chicago is known as a crime paradise, and Chicago typewriters are famous throughout the United States.

The average crime index in the United States is 30~40, but the crime index of Gotham, Chicago and Miami may exceed 300 when added together. It is a strong combination.

What Schiller didn't say in the plan he showed Bruce was that as a time traveler, he knew that about 7 months later, in October 1987, there would be a Black Monday, and the country would usher in a severe stock market crash, with stocks hitting the limit, companies going bankrupt, a large number of unemployed people taking to the streets, and the crime rate almost doubling.

The gangs were replenished with countless fresh blood, a large number of unemployed financial personnel began to go into business, many street gangs that were not well-established began to transform into professionals, and the big gangs with a new batch of professional talents took a big step towards the corporate system and the joint-stock system.

Then, the Cold War will end, a large number of arms will be removed, and the consequences of excessive investment during the competition period will gradually emerge. Many personnel will be laid off. Most of these people have undergone professional military training, but they have no livelihood skills. After arming their brains, the gangs can also improve their physical strength.

Later, the large amount of hot money caused by the stock market crash in 1987 created the Mexican economic crisis in 1994. Yes, Mexican specialties are also...

It can be predicted that if this plan is followed, the next few years will be the most prosperous years for Gotham.

Of course, Bruce does not have clairvoyance. He only knows that one of him and the person who made this plan must be abnormal.

When you want to bring a new order to a crime capital, what will you do?

Most people might think about how to suppress the gangs, or be more violent, and use absolute violence to eradicate the root of crime from the root.

But anyway, it will never be "Since I can't get better, then everyone will rot together."

However, if this plan can really succeed, Bruce's genius brain will calculate very clearly. Once the Gotham gang model is applied to the entire East Coast, Gotham will become the top of the black pyramid, just like the current status of the Falcone family in Gotham.

Becoming the top of the pyramid of the largest criminal industry chain in the United States means that Gotham is likely to become the most developed city in the United States. Everyone in this city will passively become the head of the phoenix. Even the last feather of the phoenix head will definitely be more glamorous than other feathers.

Of course, Gotham will not change its nature as a crime capital because the top of the black pyramid is also black.

But what makes Gotham different from other cities is that whether it is the head of the phoenix or the tail of the chicken, it has been rotten to the bottom. Gotham has no lower limit to break through, so it's all rotten anyway, why not be more prosperous and thriving?

Bruce had a lot of opinions to express about this plan, but he kept them to himself.

Because he had already given Schiller a positive answer.

He originally thought that this was just a question that Schiller had asked on a whim, just like the countless questions that the professor had asked him before. He just needed him to think about it for a while, and then give him an answer, and the matter would be over.

Empiricism hurt him. When Bruce gave Schiller the answer, the professor quickly came up with a set of such a thorough, absurd and potentially very effective plan.

Bruce suddenly felt like he was being tied to a pirate ship.

But he had already promised Schiller, and he always felt unwilling to lose face in front of Schiller, so he agreed to participate in the preliminary arrangements.

The first step in the preliminary arrangements was to replace a new mayor for Gotham. The previous mayor died in a traffic accident, and Gotham had not had a new mayor for some time.

Generally speaking, the mayor of Gotham cannot be appointed because no one is willing to come here to risk their lives, so most of them are hired by the Wayne Group. Among so many politicians, there are always a few who want money but not life.

But this time, Gotham is looking at the former mayor of Chicago. Just like Gotham, the two previous mayors of Chicago, one had a car accident, and the other committed suicide with two gunshots in the back.

The former mayor is still alive because he is the leader of the Gospel Gang, the second largest gang in Chicago.

Schiller believes that such a resume should be suitable for being the mayor of Gotham City. At least he manages Chicago's traffic well. After all, most drivers will be very courteous when facing Chicago typewriters.

So this is the scene at the beginning of the story, where Bruce appears in Chicago and successfully picks up the sister of the boss of the Gospel Gang.

Of course, this was not the original plan. Batman certainly would not come up with a plan to get close to the target by picking up women.

But the problem is that if Bruce wants to accomplish this, he can't use the identity of Batman. After all, Batman is not so famous now. He is just a little famous in Gotham and can't control Chicago's affairs, so of course he uses the identity of Bruce, the world's richest man.

When the playboy Bruce arrives in a city, of course he has to eat, drink and have fun for a few days, otherwise he will seem a bit too dedicated.

As soon as he heard that the world's richest man was coming, of course he would be invited to every dance. Bruce attended several dances in two days. Almost all the socialites in Chicago were invited, including Roy Brown's sister Tina Brown.

She was very beautiful and a good dancer. They were in love and got together very quickly.

Bruce hugged Tina's shoulders and said, "... This is the thing. I really can't find any suitable candidates. Politicians can only live for a short time in Gotham. I can't always spend such a large sum of money to buy only a few months of peace, right?"

Tina gathered her hair and said to Bruce, "I almost doubt whether you are here at this time. My brother has been in a lot of trouble recently. He is worried about where to hide."

"What happened to him? What trouble can make the boss of the Gospel Gang avoid him?"

"Just a few days ago, a seven or eight-year-old boy died in a gang fight. Of course, he was a white man. He was shot by a bullet on the way home from school. This incident has a great impact. If you have read the newspaper The paper should know that many places have sent condemnations. "

"The Gospel Gang was not involved in this incident. After all, we are a branch of the Mafia and do not advocate shooting every day. But unfortunately, this incident happened on the territory of the Gospel Gang. I don’t know which blind person shot the bullet so far..."

"My brother is not afraid of local gangs, but the joint investigation team is very troublesome. They are composed of legislators from several states, and there are different forces behind them. It is not something that can be solved by giving them a few shots..."

"So your brother wants to hide away from the limelight?"

"Of course, if you are willing to spend some money to help my brother solve this trouble, the Brown family will thank you." Tina said.

Bruce didn't care about the purpose of her words. He knew from the beginning that Tina was coming for him. After all, Bruce's own purpose was not simple. This was just a show.

"You should think it over carefully. It's not easy to be the mayor of Gotham."

Tina raised her eyebrows in surprise and said, "Don't you know? The godfather of the most famous Falcone family in Gotham is actually a branch of the Chicago Mafia. They are actually the same as us. My father has been in contact with this godfather. After he died, my brother even went to Gotham to visit Mr. Falcone."

"Of course, I also know that my brother can't stand firm just by this favor, but if you stand on his side, things will be much easier."

Bruce didn't say anything, but he felt that the most important thing that the future new mayor might rely on was the crazy plan of the professor.

The meeting with Roy was still one morning in Gotham. He was a very typical Chicago gang leader, wearing a windbreaker, a felt hat, and carrying a violin case, which contained the most famous Chicago typewriter.

The new mayor was very satisfying to Schiller, because within a short time of smoking a cigarette, he fully understood Schiller's intention to make the Gotham and Chicago gangs work together in a friendly manner and develop together.

And he fully agreed that there was a lot of potential in this.

This Roy was also a ruthless person. In the era when Chicago public housing gangs were rampant, he relied on the legacy left by the Mafia to defend the territory of traditional gangs.

Although the Chicago gangs are not as scary as Gotham, they are actually more complicated, because it involves disputes between traditional gangs and modern gangs, and also involves fights between people of different skin colors. Those who can fight out of such a complex situation are certainly not stupid.

As a gang leader in Chicago, he certainly doesn't dare to think about connecting with the Gotham gangs, which is no different from inviting a wolf into the house. But if he can join the Gotham gangs and then connect with the Chicago gangs, he will become the wolf that enters the house.

And he is also legitimate. The Falcone family is also a branch of the Mafia, and the old godfather Falcone is the most authentic Roman, with Italian blood flowing in his body.

What does it mean that the Mafia is orthodox in Gotham? This wave, this wave is called returning to the source and recognizing the ancestors.

It is precisely because Roy knows the gangs very well that he knows that this plan has a great chance of success.

In this era, the idea of ​​uniting to make the pie bigger is relatively rare. Everyone is a scattered soldier, but as long as the smart people among them can see the huge benefits that can be obtained by doing so, they will naturally unite together.

So Roy became a spiritual Gotham man without any burden, and he would rather fast forward to that broken place in Chicago.

A foreigner from Chicago came to Gotham to make decisions, of course he would be rejected by the gangs, but if this person is the godson of Godfather Falcone, it would be different.

Some people also speculated that perhaps it was because his biological son Evans made the Godfather feel that he could not take on the responsibility, so Roy came to Gotham. Although Roy is indeed older than Evans, he is not much older and is still very young. He is a good candidate for successor.

The first step of this plan has achieved relatively significant results. The first largest gangster family in Gotham and the second largest gangster family in Chicago have joined forces, and the effect is very outstanding.

They subdivided the cargo sources at the docks, and reallocated the landing locations of the cargo ships according to the different types of smuggled goods and the distance of logistics transportation. All the docks controlled by Gotham and the docks controlled by the Gospel Gang in Chicago united to quickly sort out the smuggling routes that were fighting each other and somewhat chaotic.

Of course, they did not forget to attract foreign investment. Smuggling is basically a matter of connections for all parties. At this time, they only need to pay a small price to enjoy the berthing and transportation rights of the important docks of the two cities at the same time with preferential policies, and even open up a new logistics channel between them to speed up the circulation of smuggled goods on the entire East Coast.

The effect of this measure is very significant. The economic report in Falcone's hands that continues to rise is the strongest evidence.

Originally, the old godfather has reached his old age, and his greatest wish is to quickly hand over the Falcone family smoothly so that his life's hard work will not be wasted.

But now, Schiller suddenly brought a big cake and claimed that it was just an appetizer. Falcone's appetite, which had been declining for a long time, suddenly revived.

Falcone has been invincible in Gotham for too long, but the Godfather's appetite has never been small. When he saw Schiller's somewhat crazy plan, Falcone suddenly felt that it was not impossible for him to rule Gotham for another 40 years.

Falcone thought that if the black pyramid described in this plan could really be realized, no, as long as half of it could be realized, then perhaps the entire world's black industry would usher in a major reshuffle.

The cigar in the hand of the Godfather, who had been dominating the world for many years, went out, but what rose again was the huge ambition he had when he first set foot on this land.

Standing in front of the French window of the manor, he heard the bells of Gotham Cathedral ringing again, just like decades ago when he stepped on the waves on the coastline to go ashore and floated in the tide of sin in this city.

In countless dreams of glimpsing the truth, Falcone remembered that in every Gotham rain, the dark clouds that blocked most of the raindrops were the first half of the Godfather's life.

He thought that dark clouds are also clouds, just as black pyramids are also pyramids.

He hoped that he could live to see a pyramid rising from the land that he hated and loved so much, facing the rain that ate away his bones and soul.

In his office, Schiller stood in front of the window, listening to the dull bells echoing over the city, passing through the curtain of clouds, drifting farther and farther away.

Now, the thinning clouds are about to dissipate, and next, Gotham will face all this malice.

He thought that here, the only thing that can deal with evil is evil, and the only thing that can resist darkness is deeper darkness.