Riding the wind of rebirth

"People know too little about our motherland." McGeve shook his head and sighed.

"But I don't think it's our loss." Zhou Zhi expressed his thoughts. This situation will continue to exist even for a few decades. In fact, it is not a bad thing. China has quietly seized the opportunity for decades to develop in a low-key manner. Finally, when the world really began to pay attention, China had become a presence that was difficult to suppress and control.

If we were targeted at this time like we would be decades later, the consequences would be hard to predict.

"In the case of the Alliance, public opinion has turned around just as you expected, Elbow," said Louise.

"I've been too busy these two days and haven't paid much attention to the details. What's the current status of the case?" Zhou Zhi asked with concern.

The reversal of public opinion was quietly arranged by Huron and Tony Huang, and the first breeze started with the cause of Charles Chernow's death.

According to the conclusion of the police investigation, Charles Chenow died of an overdose of "drugs" injected into his body.

This is indeed a "suicide", but in the minds of the general public it is completely different from the "suicide" rumored in the initial news.

Then another detail was revealed, that is, Charles Chenow's suicide note was written very illegibly.

Therefore, a question still arises on the forum, which is about what was Charles Chenow's state when he wrote his suicide note. Is it possible that he had already had strong hallucinations at that time?

Soon after, another user posted screenshots of several chat rooms on the forum, arguing that a powerful creative force on the Alliance Forum, namely free creators, may not actually be free. Judging from the chat content, there is a force that is secretly controlling these free creators, or at least a considerable portion of them.

The post ended here, but various replies soon appeared, indicating that this phenomenon does exist, and there were also many anonymous users who provided a lot of evidence, including the most commonly used methods of the masterminds behind the scenes.

Many of the freelance creators are blacks and Latinos from the slums. They do have talents in singing and dancing that are rare in other races. The difficult environment seems to inspire their creativity. They publish many works on the alliance forum that criticize the city government and reflect social realities. These works are quite influential and well received by rebellious young people.

But once it is confirmed that such a group of people will be controlled, it is easy to infer the means used by those who control them.

Underground gangs, drug control.

Due to the anonymity of the forum, there is now another possibility: many of these creators are "black households" in the black and Latino communities, that is, illegal immigrants. Even if they are not, they are very likely to have relatives or friends with such identities.

The gangs can easily control them by threatening to report them or their relatives and friends.

As public opinion grew, the police finally took action.

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but sneer when he heard this. He was not naive enough to believe that the police were completely unaware of the actions of the New York gangs. Even to open a KTV in Jiachuan, one had to have a background like Brother Dayong. The existence of this phenomenon in the entertainment industry was almost certain.

Now that the atmosphere has been set to this point, everyone's attention is focused on Truney, the president of the North American Music Practitioners Association.

This man was a worker who grew up in the dock area. He used his fists and strength to gain the favor of the former gang boss and control of several small "unions" in the gang-controlled areas. These so-called small "unions" are actually small groups that control workers in labor-intensive industries and then blackmail the capital. They may not be as "black" as gangs, but they are definitely not "white".

In the subsequent police operation to reorganize the dock area, traditional gangs suffered a brutal blow, and small trade unions took over their functions, growing into large trade unions and ushering in their "golden decade" of development.

Truney became the leader among them, and before launching an attack on the alliance, he had even run for district congressman.

However, the police were very efficient this time and quickly filed a search request for the Alliance Forum chat room, from which they copied a large amount of information, which even caused system congestion for a time.

There are so many users of the Alliance Music Forum all over the world that this unconventional "system maintenance" announcement was quickly leaked on the forum. The news that the police were investigating the "Charles Chernow case" spread on the forum.

This news happened to coincide with the "reversal window" of public opinion pointed out by Zhou Zhi. Soon, a number of reporting posts appeared on the forum, all of which were in the capacity of free entrepreneurs to accuse the controllers behind them, and the spearhead began to vaguely point the finger at the Practitioners Association.

"Didn't the forum re-post an announcement a few days ago?" Zhou Zhi smiled slyly, "There are normal ways to report it. In New York, you should call 119 instead of posting on our music forum and affecting everyone's mood."

"In the future, we will immediately forward such posts to the police and hide them from the forum to avoid any legal disputes."

Louise rolled her eyes at him. "This was your idea, wasn't it? Malmut just raised objections and asked you to apologize and remove those comments that were unfavorable to the Practitioners Association on the forum, and you immediately followed suit? Since when did the Alliance's legal representative and attorney listen to the opponent's lawyer so much?"

"Malmut made a bad move under tremendous pressure. They probably didn't expect you to come up with such a 'surrender statement' right away." Louise smiled and said, "But the result of doing so is exactly the opposite. Public opinion now strongly demands that the police give an explanation. For the issues that everyone on the forum is focusing on, an investigation must be launched immediately, and the time for the investigation must be announced in a timely manner."

"Hasn't the police already started investigating?" Zhou Zhi flipped the grilled steaks, sprinkled some fresh chopped grass leaves on them, and brought them to the table.

"They are under a lot of pressure now." Louise sneered, "I think this method is good. Since there were rumors on the forum that were unfavorable to the Practitioners Association, the Practitioners Association and the police had no choice but to respond in this way, and then things had to evolve in this direction..."

"In Chinese, this is called... being cunning and sly?"

“No, no, no…” Zhou Zhi quickly shook his head: “What we do is to find out the objective laws and necessary prerequisites for the development of things, and then configure all these conditions at the right time.”

"In this way, as long as the prerequisites are sufficient and complete, things will inevitably develop along their objective path and will no longer change according to the will of the pros and cons."

"We Chinese call this kind of strategy an open conspiracy, and the opposite, a strategy that relies on hiding key conditions to ensure the development of things, is called a conspiracy."

Zhou Zhi spread his hands and said, "A conspiracy is easy to break because as long as the key conditions behind it are exposed, its development can be destroyed; but an open conspiracy is difficult to break because there are only two ways to break it."

“Either you discover that the original conditions are not necessary, or at least not sufficient, or you discover through research that the known objective laws are not objective.”

"No matter which direction you choose, it will be painful to crack the conspiracy." (End of this chapter)