OBS Chapter 2217
Chapter 2217
Chapter 2217
Great Guardian... What a wonderful name! If the United States could master such power, then the United States would undoubtedly be the hegemon of the earth. After all, this thing is first and foremost a global monitoring device. With it, the United States doesn't even need the CIA!
It can monitor the entire world at the same time!
This is only a capability known to the US government...but something that can protect the Earth from any invasion by any enemy for 10,000 years cannot be that simple!
Benjamin's idea is very simple. If the United States can control... no, it doesn't need to control, it only needs to influence Kamar-Taj to a certain extent! Then they will return to the top of the world again!
Unfortunately...there has been no progress so far.
"In fact...if possible, I think Kai is a good breakthrough point." At this time, Hill, the director of SHIELD, who had been invisible on the side, suddenly spoke.
How can we describe S.H.I.E.L.D.'s recent days? We can't say it's bad, but we can only say it's a far cry from what it was before!
Some people say that S.H.I.E.L.D. has done so many bad things, why does the US government still allow it to exist? Wouldn't it be better to merge it directly into the Shadow Bureau? Why keep it? You know, there are so many bad things about S.H.I.E.L.D.!
The most terrible things are Hydra and the Skrulls.
Damn, the original intention of establishing SHIELD was to fight Hydra, but what happened? Hydra was already on the verge of death, but it regained its vitality under the attack of SHIELD... Many congressmen are wondering if SHIELD is playing a trick on them!
This kind of speculation...is not surprising at all!
It can even be said that this is a very common operation in US government agencies!
The most typical one is the CIA!
This organization has done many things of this kind, the most typical example being bin Laden. Contrary to what many people imagine, the rise of bin Laden was the result of a lot of effort from the United States, especially the CIA!
This is just one of many examples of a strategy of nurturing an enemy and then eventually backfiring!
Other things like supporting drug dealers and causing drug abuse in the United States all belong to this category.
SHIELD vs. HYDRA is just one example!
However, the rebirth of Hydra within SHIELD still makes the congressmen a little unbearable!
Damn it, everyone is doing this kind of thing of keeping an enemy for their own protection, and it's okay if it fails, but when someone directly parasitizes you in your lair, that's too much. My goodness, once the situation is uncovered, half of the people in SHIELD are Hydra!
That’s fine, I can barely bear it, but I can’t stand the Skrulls coming behind!
This is scarier than Hydra.
Although Hydra is abstract... indeed very abstract, there is actually an organization in this world that seeks dictatorship... I don't know what they are trying to achieve.
After all, dictatorship means that one person has the final say.
In an organization as big as Hydra, it’s impossible for everyone to have the final say, right?
Of course, no matter how abstract it is, Hydra is still human after all. Even if they are in charge, the Earth is still the Earth, and humans are still humans. But the Nimaskuru people... can you dare to go a little further?
Actually, there are quite a few gentlemen in Congress who know Nick Fury. When they reviewed the incident afterwards, they actually didn't believe that Nick Fury would turn to aliens. They believed that Nick Fury was using aliens to do something.
But what they couldn't stand was that Nick Fury did all this without telling anyone!
Yes! Nick Fury kept it so secret that even SHIELD itself didn't know about the existence of such a group of aliens!
But according to later investigations, the reason why those aliens were able to gain a foothold on Earth was because of the resources of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
This is going to cost me my life.
But then again, if that's the case, why not abolish S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Of course it’s because I’ve learned from my mistakes!
In the past, the federal government completely delegated the power of supernatural events to SHIELD, and SHIELD did a good job, but it also led to a tail that was too big to be removed. Nick Fury often ignored even the president of the White House!
In fact, let alone the president, they don't even care about Congress.
After SHIELD was exposed, they found out... Damn, how many things SHIELD has done? And we don't even know about it!
Therefore, this kind of situation where one company dominates and cannot be eliminated cannot happen again. The emergence of the Shadow Bureau is to check and balance S.H.I.E.L.D. However, as S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to be exposed, the situation is reversed, and S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to check and balance the Shadow Bureau!
Any political conception is based on a certain view of human nature. The political traditions of the East and the West are full of optimistic imaginations that "human nature is good." Therefore, the imagination of good politics is the Confucian "Civilists die for remonstration, and warriors die for battle" and the Western religious nation-building. However, the representatives of the Constitutional Convention were pessimistic and believed that human nature is generally evil, and power is more likely to magnify human evil; in the political game, it must be assumed that everyone is a rogue. Madison even believed that if people were angels, we would not need a government; if angels ruled people, we would not need to set any internal and external restrictions on the government. The starting point of the American Constitutional Convention was based on this assumption that "human nature is evil."
Many people also believe that the core of politics is power, such as Machiavelli and Han Feizi. They believe that only by giving rulers supreme power can stability and peace be achieved. In fact, all politicians are unreliable, and anyone in power may become a "tyrant" or "oppressor". Absolute power will lead to absolute corruption. During the 127-day agenda, the representatives of the US Constitutional Convention repeatedly quoted Montesquieu's famous saying: "Anyone with power is prone to abuse power. This is an eternal experience." Following this spirit, Hamilton and others summarized the principle of "restraining power": only power can restrain power, and only ambition can fight ambition.
In the workplace, as a manager, are you still troubled by the struggles between different factions under your command? What's the point of watching them fighting each other all day long? You want a peaceful life, but reality does not allow it. I believe you will definitely think that as long as there are no factions, everything will be harmonious, but in fact, life is endless, and struggle is endless. In the complex workplace relationships, it is actually the wisdom of leaders that is most tested, so what should be done?
The answer is just two words: balance. This is what Guiguzi called "neutrality", which means neither too much nor too little, neither biased nor partial, just right!
A good manager must be like a professional acrobat, mastering the art of balancing power. Those who don’t understand this can easily suffer.
I believe everyone hates factions, but we have to admit that factions often exist in various organizational entities.
For example, there are two factions in my friend Zhang's company, old employees and new employees. As the boss, Zhang was very troubled by this, especially when he saw the old employees banding together to bully the new employees. He made up his mind to clear out all the old employees. It is better to suffer a short pain than a long pain. Zhang decided to get rid of the small group of old employees at all costs. Although the old employees have a lot of business and resources in the hands of the company, Zhang still spent three years racking his brains and trying his best to clear the old employees out of his company. After driving away the "old enemy", Zhang felt relaxed and refreshed. Just when he was about to do a big job, he found that the new employees who were originally squeezed out by the old employees became old employees again. Because no one restrained them, they became more arrogant, and they banded together to squeeze out the new employees and monopolized the company's business. Zhang said frustratedly: "It turns out that I have been busy for several years, but it's useless and in vain!"
In fact, Lao Zhang is not lonely at all. There are too many leaders who like to treat the symptoms rather than the cause. For example, Duke Xian of Jin is one of the best.
Duke Xian of Jin was a ruthless man. For example, he found that some old employees were disobedient. Although they were all relatives, the employees threatened him, so Duke Xian of Jin decided to strike first. He directly killed the princes of the "Hengzhuang clan" in order to prevent the princes from making trouble. It should be noted that the "Hengzhuang clan" was actually the family of Duke Xian of Jin, and they were from the same clan. But, so what? He took action when it was time to do it. While killing the princes of the same clan, he also abolished the "official clan doctor system" by the way. In other words, the nobles of Duke Xian of Jin's family had a hard time, but the nobles of different surnames and wandering scholars ushered in spring. Sima Qian once said with emotion that "there are many people with flexibility in the Three Jins, and those who say that they follow Heng Qiang Qin are mostly people from the Three Jins." Sima Qian found that there were many strategists in the Three Jins, and the source was the result of Duke Xian of Jin weakening the nobles of his family and reusing wandering scholars. Seeing that the old employees were cleared out and the employees were full of vigor, Duke Xian of Jin was very satisfied. He annexed 19 countries in one go and made the territory of Jin very large.
Happiness sometimes comes quickly and goes quickly. You have to pay for what you have done.
Duke Xian of Jin thought that he could rest easy after killing all the princes of the same clan. He thought that he had foresight and could be a step ahead of heaven.
However, he also had sons, and he had eight. In the end, God played a joke on him. Starting from the "Li Ji Rebellion", the sons of Duke Xian of Jin began to fight against each other and kill each other. Prince Shensheng, Xiqi, and Zhuozi successively received box lunches. Then, an interesting thing happened. Although Duke Xian of Jin conquered a large country, there were not many noble princes who could be enfeoffed, because they all went to another world. Retribution finally came. Life is too impermanent, and the big intestine wraps the small intestine! Without the noble princes of Jin to accept the enfeoffment, how should such a large territory be managed? The county system, a concept that originally existed in history textbooks, came onto the stage of history and became the main solution. The princes of Jin sent county and county officials to help them manage their territories. Although these county governors had power, they were not nobles and could not be inherited. The cooperation between the two parties was similar to an employment relationship. When the labor contract expired, the power was automatically recovered. Therefore, power was ultimately in the hands of the princes themselves. This was the original prototype of the concentration of power by the ancient emperors and princes, that is, to establish local administrative agencies and appoint local officials to achieve direct management. Among these appointed people were the strategists who were proficient in expediency. However, history is always full of variables. If the princes of Jin wanted to implement management, they had to form a team. Since they did not use their own family power, they appointed retainers of different surnames, which buried a huge hidden danger for Jin.
Originally, Jin was a family business, with blood ties as the bond. Although the same clansmen did hate each other, they were of the same blood, and at the very least, the wealth would not flow to outsiders. However, after the weakening of the clans, it meant that the retainers of different surnames had the opportunity to rise, including the retainers of different surnames, such as the Han, Zhao, and Wei families. Duke Xian of Jin, who killed all the princes of the same clan, never expected that the retainers of different surnames, who had lost their checks and balances, launched the "Three Families Dividing Jin" incident and directly divided up Jin.
What is balance? Just like the plot in the TV series "Iron Mouth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan", Emperor Qianlong actually knew that Heshen was not a good person, but Heshen had the value of checking Ji Xiaolan. It was precisely because of the mutual restraint between Heshen and Ji Xiaolan that Emperor Qianlong could rest assured. Otherwise, once the balance is broken, either the east wind suppresses the west wind, or the west wind suppresses the east wind, and the spearhead will be directly aimed at oneself, and the person who suffers the greatest loss may become the manager. This is the balance of the power ecology. Poor Chongzhen is like Lao Zhang, naively thinking that as long as the eunuch party is eliminated and the Donglin party is reused, everything will be fine. Finally, when he was about to die, he suddenly realized that "all civil officials can be killed". Without the checks and balances of the eunuch party, the sanctimonious civil officials began to act recklessly. Checks and balances can bring balance, and once the balance is broken, it means endless chaos!
When SHIELD fell, the Shadow Bureau took over a lot of resources, which led to the Shadow Bureau expanding very, very quickly.
The most important thing is Carter.
This legendary female agent has been working in the intelligence front since World War II, and her qualifications are enough to be called the ancestor of agents. You know, many of her cases are now classic cases of various intelligence agencies, and she is a textbook figure.
At the same time, she was also a veteran in the founding of S.H.I.E.L.D. It can be said that she was the one who made S.H.I.E.L.D. grow from nothing to a powerful entity.
When S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, there were three great founders.
She, Howard Stark and, lesser known, Hank Pym.
Hank Pym was originally a scientist employed by S.H.I.E.L.D. to study Pym particles, but he resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D. after discovering that Mitchell Carson was trying to replicate Pym particles.
But Howard is a super scientist and a playboy. He is good at doing research and picking up girls, but when it comes to communicating with the government, it can only be Carter.
Carter built the infrastructure of S.H.I.E.L.D., and it was also her who used her identity as Captain America's widow to connect with various political resources. Otherwise, S.H.I.E.L.D. would not have been able to develop so fast!
Now Carter is back, and time has not only failed to fade her legend, but has made it even more legendary.
This also makes the resources she can mobilize and influence even more terrifying.
Therefore, the Shadow Bureau has developed very rapidly in the past few years!