It must be said that the community reconstruction plan went smoothly, thanks to him leaving these matters to Fergie and Matt. Other lawyers are only focused on making money, but these two are special. Matt is a man who really doesn't care about money and thinks about protecting the country and the people every day. Fergie's idea has something to do with money, but not directly. His dream is to make the firm bigger. Generally speaking, if a law firm grows bigger, it must make money, and it cannot expand if it does not make money.
But the direct purpose is not to make money after all.
Compared with many lawyers who are completely focused on money when they first get started, these two are undoubtedly willing to do more. Like community redevelopment plans, the first thing other firms consider is definitely how much money they can make. Or how much profit can be brought by expanding your fame. Foggy and Matt had almost no such thoughts, because they were old residents of Clinton District, and they had complex and deep feelings about this "Hell's Kitchen". They're willing to put in the effort to make it a little better.
In fact, strictly speaking, Hell's Kitchen has changed a lot recently. As the Defenders Alliance organized by Matt began to get on the right track, under the large-scale attack by a group of super humans, all the gangsters understood that Hell's Kitchen was no longer their paradise. For these scum, there is no nostalgia. Since they can't stay here, they will go somewhere else. As a result, these people began to move to other areas, and the security situation in Clinton District improved dramatically. Although the Clinton District is known as Hell's Kitchen, after the Kingpin quietly retreated and the Hand was severely damaged, it no longer has the terror it once had.
But the further south it goes, the closer it is to the NYPD headquarters, where it's difficult to mix. To the north is Central Park and the Upper East Side and Upper West Side to its left and right. The security in this area is the focus area of the NYPD and is not suitable for gangs to conduct business at all. Therefore, these people could only go further north to Harlem and East Harlem. Compared to Hell's Kitchen, which is full of tough men and ferocious police, today's Harlem and East Harlem are definitely a vast world with great potential.
Of course, those mentioned here are all sneaky gangsters. There are still many large gangs entrenched in Hell's Kitchen. There is no way, Hell's Kitchen's location is great. There is a dock for smuggling and transporting goods, and it is on Manhattan Island, next to the most prosperous area in New York, with a huge market and rich oil and water. How could the gangsters turn a blind eye to this?
However, they also know that it is too dangerous to carry out operations in Hell's Kitchen. If you are not careful, you can easily be blamed by the police. Therefore, the remaining gangs adopt a low-key strategy in Hell's Kitchen. They can use Hell's Kitchen as a springboard. , but we can’t be as rampant as before, we need to be careful.
As the director of the 15th Precinct, Kai is naturally happy to see Hell's Kitchen getting better. As for those gangsters moving to Harlem...that's not a problem he needs to consider.
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Kai is still in charge of community reconstruction. He is not good at it either, and joining them rashly will only hinder Matt and the others' performance. It's better to just do what you are good at from the beginning, such as... looking for trouble with the gangs who are still in Hell's Kitchen. These guys are such an eyesore to stay in Hell's Kitchen.
In the days that followed, Kai lived a peaceful life, chatting with the bosses of the gangs and exercising, nothing surprising, and no one paid much attention to him. But New York is gradually becoming noisy and noisy.
Something has finally happened to our slutty playboy Tony.
It is said that after Tony moved back to New York from Los Angeles, he was immediately swarmed by groups of financial reporters, news reporters, and paparazzi like flies that had smelled the scent, keeping a close eye on this "news-making machine." Among them, the paparazzi were the most excited. They just loved Tony's scandal.
It's a pity that the eldest son has no longer "favored" the cover girl in the past few months. He stays in his home every day and has become a dead house-like existence. This is not in line with the "Stark spirit". Not to mention that this young man is also the first superhero "Iron Man" to reveal his true identity on TV (although Kai's identity is public, he has never revealed it on TV, only Tony is so cool)
Are the cover girls favored by Iron Man and the cover girls favored by Playboy the same thing? That must not be it.
At least in the minds of gossip readers, they are two different things.
In the past, when people saw the news about Tony, the most they would say was that he is a big dog and has money to burn. But now Tony's identity is different. From the rich guy who was envied by others in the past, he suddenly turned into a superhero responsible for justice. How can his identity be the same?
This was especially obvious after the Los Angeles battle. This was Iron Man's truly world-famous battle. Although it was not as brilliant as Batman and the final appearance of the deity Kai, and the scenes were not even as good as those of the three Chicago heroines, the problem is that people felt that So kind.
After all, I saw his scandal every now and then. In comparison, other superheroes are much more mysterious. As for Kai, because he was held back by the federal government, the American people, like the ancient world, did not like court eagle dogs.
As a result, this top-notch news-making machine has not had any interesting news for several months.
Tony without gossip is nothing like Stark or Iron Man. Everyone is waiting to see who is the first woman to claim to be Iron Man, and this woman will surely be treated like a rising star and become the darling of the media.
To this end, countless women are working hard, including but not limited to celebrities, hosts, socialites, ladies, gays and so on.
Unfortunately, paparazzi, beauties, and gays are constantly disappointed. In recent months, Tony has either been busy researching steel armor, busy with group affairs, or occasionally going out to do heroic things. Except for a few appearances in public, the only person he has flirted with and been sticky with is Star. Pepper, the president of Gram Group, rarely goes out to wander around.
This kind of Tony makes everyone very uncomfortable!
However, just recently, this situation has changed.
The Congressional Military Committee is preparing to summon Tony. Many members of Congress believe that the steel armor is a major killer that threatens the stability of human society and ask him to hand over the steel armor.
This news came out from Congress and immediately aroused public opinion!
In fact, Tony had an intention to summon him this time. In the final analysis, it is still due to the competition of interests. The competition between new and old energy sources is much more intense than imagined. After all, before this, oil and energy groups had always been a very large force on the American political map. Even the oil and energy group is not limited to the United States. It is a global interest group. The world's major oil companies and major oil-producing countries, especially the few big dogs in the Middle East, have been encircling and suppressing new energy. It just never stopped.
The United States is known as the world's most powerful country, and its own technological level is beyond doubt. But looking at the development of new energy and even nuclear energy in the United States, it seems to be very slow. Some people say that the United States' nuclear energy is currently the first in the world! Why is it stretching your crotch?
This is true. The United States ranks first in the world in terms of number of nuclear power units, total installed capacity, and total nuclear power production.
However, all reactors with nuclear power production capacity in the United States were built during the large-scale construction period from 1970 to 1989. The construction approval of these nuclear power reactors was all before 1982, and no new nuclear power plants have been approved since.
What are the reasons for the stagnation of nuclear power development in the past thirty years? Isn't it obvious?
Now, 70% of the electricity in the United States is generated by fuel.
It can be said that Stark Group’s new energy projects are tapping the lifeblood of these forces. Can these energy groups not fight back?
But when it comes to market means, the Old Energy Group is no match for the Stark Group. After all, Stark Group's energy is... cheap! The price advantage of oil is not worth mentioning in the face of new energy. Of course, this also includes various aspects of problems, which will not be clear for a while. In short, Stark Group is not afraid of business competition. After all, new energy is the future. Everyone knows this. Capital is profit-seeking, and old energy The group is very strong, but it is not yet as big as the capital market.
With the support of countless capitals, the old energy group wants to use conventional means to restrict the Stark Group's new energy development, which is obviously ineffective. After all, old energy groups can’t stop everyone from making money.
So you can only use off-board moves.
Their current idea is to link Tony's new technology with national and social security. Once the Stark Group's new technology is linked to these things, it must be controlled. Once controlled, the scale must be limited or even sealed.
In short, the calculation is very good and the cost is small. Anyway, the public relations expenses spent by energy groups on lobbying Congress every year exceed hundreds of millions of dollars. If you don’t worry about two things, it’s equivalent to spending nothing.
However, there is a problem. That means Tony also has a chance to resist.
After all, Tony is not an ordinary person. After all, if he were an ordinary person, it would not be the Senate issuing a subpoena, but the army coming to encircle and confiscate. At that time, whether they kill the soldiers who came under orders or flee, it will be equivalent to failure.
The problem is that Tony isn't.
He also has his own supporters. It is impossible for the Stark Group to reach today's scale without supporters in Congress and the military. Especially Congress, don’t forget that not long ago, Stark Group was a military-industrial complex!
He does not lack connections, but now the Stark Group suddenly gave up the arms business, causing the original interest group to go bankrupt and reorganized, making him look a little weak. But the problem is that with the development of new energy business, a new interest chain is forming, and as time goes by, this new interest group will become stronger and stronger.
That's why Congress is so impatient.
Before the Battle of Los Angeles, this hearing was supposed to have started, but that disaster happened at that time, and the federal government did not perform well in the disaster. Instead, Tony and a group of superheroes shined, which made Congress had to pause.
Now that more than half a year has passed since the Battle of Los Angeles, its influence is quietly diminishing. People always have new hot spots to chase, and they are not as crazy about superheroes as before. Holding hearings at that time would make people think that the federal government was shirking its responsibilities, but that problem no longer exists now.
This time, Congress was definitely prepared. They even found a bunch of so-called experts to prove that Tony's invention was dangerous, unsafe, and would even affect social stability.
In short, the public opinion in the early stage was very good.
Most Americans are stupid, or they always think that they have the ability to think independently, but in fact the vast majority, remember, the vast majority of people's thoughts are actually controlled.
The most obvious example is that after the United States and the Soviet Union competed for hegemony, the United States has been committed to finding itself an opponent, an opponent that can scare the American people. They set this enemy to be North Korea! As for whether North Korea is really capable of destroying the United States, that is another matter. Anyway, just hard propaganda, since North Korea is the enemy anyway.
As a result, the American people, who generally knew nothing, just started making noises and really felt that North Korea was the life-or-death enemy of the United States. But if you ask him, where is North Korea... 90% of people don't know at all!
What’s even more interesting is that the United States has always used this method. Russia, North Korea, Iran, and now it’s China’s turn.
Do these countries really threaten the United States? Maybe, but definitely not what they advertise. But those Americans were not fooled into being stunned.
Even now.
A large group of idlers who ran out of nowhere really thought so, so they ran to the downstairs of Stark Group to protest.
The funny thing is that they themselves don’t know what they should oppose at all. In short, they all have messy slogans, and there are even people from environmental protection organizations who are making noises... Compared with oil and natural gas, new energy is more environmentally friendly, right? But others don’t! They insist on saying that new energy sources have radiation... light bulbs also have radiation!
But they don’t care. These people’s brains are like cement and they only believe what they believe. The Stark Group provided radiation parameters and safety verification documents, but others just didn't believe it and thought that the Stark Group had manipulated the government. These things were all fake.
Well, these people are just a bunch of idle idiots. After all, there are still people who believe that the earth is flat and the birds in the sky are all fake.
But you can’t knock down a whole boat of people with one stroke. Some people are really stupid, but some people are not necessarily stupid. You must know that energy groups also like to fund environmental organizations.
What? Old energy itself is not environmentally friendly, so why support environmental organizations?
Haha, the pattern is broken.
Without these environmental groups messing around, why would the development of nuclear power plants around the world be so slow?
Two days later, countless people watched live news broadcasts of ongoing Senate hearings.
Tony said matter-of-factly: "...I think it is a high-tech prosthetic limb. This is the best adjective I can think of..."
