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Chapter 105: Gotham Longzhong (2)

Developing tourism in Gotham?

If someone had said this to Bruce before, he would have suggested that person go to Arkham Asylum to get their head checked.

Who in their right mind would dare to come to Gotham for tourism?

If someone did come, Bruce could just offer them a one-way ticket because they probably wouldn't need a return ticket.

But to Bruce's surprise, his friends didn't seem shocked by this idea, and many of them even supported it.

"Actually, Gotham has decent natural conditions, right? We're not at a high latitude, it's not cold, and we have a subtropical monsoon climate without natural disasters like tornadoes. We also have a golden beach, and the quality of the beach is one of the best on the entire East Coast..."

"Of course, of course, I know the gambling industry isn't great either. Gamblers are no nobler than drug addicts, but it's still better than drug trafficking, arms dealing, and smuggling dangerous goods, right?"

Harvey took a sip of his drink, patting Bruce's shoulder, and said, "You haven't graduated from college yet, so you might think the world is all black and white. If Gotham wants to improve, it needs to improve all at once..."

"But in reality, that's unlikely, and even from the current perspective, it's impossible for Gotham to completely change for the better. It's either rotten or even more rotten."

"However, the large number of job opportunities that casinos can provide can reduce unemployment. As more regular jobs appear, the possibility of gang violence shootouts will be reduced, and the city will become more stable."

"This is good for any city. Although I don't think Gotham is likely to become a normal city like Imperial City, it will definitely be much better than it is now..."

"But..."

Bruce understood the logic, he was a genius and could see the benefits of this industry transformation and upgrade. Even the Wayne family would benefit from it.

However, he found it absurd.

Bruce's attitude towards Gotham was actually quite negative. He knew better than anyone how rotten this city was, and he never expected it to develop in any good direction.

But now it seemed that Gotham was not developing towards a better direction but rather down a bad road. It was like changing from one dead end to another dead end. Black had undergone a series of operations, becoming a colorful black. The city had gone from the capital of sin to a flashy capital of sin.

The connection between Gotham and Chicago alone has brought about some changes to this city.

As we all know, smuggling requires warehouses for storage, and the cooperation with Chicago has greatly expanded the routes for smuggling, increasing the amount of smuggled goods that need to be stored in warehouses.

To build warehouses, one must have land. Everyone wants a bigger piece of the growing cake, so the Twelve Families began a crazy land-grabbing campaign, causing prices of suburban land in Gotham to double.

However, just buying land isn't enough. Warehouses don't just magically appear.

To build a warehouse, you need a designer to draw plans, a construction team to build it, and inspectors to check it. To get things into the warehouse, you need people to transport and move them. All of this has created thousands of new jobs.

Furthermore, some dangerous chemical smuggled goods require special warehouses for storage, such as cold storage.

Victor never imagined that he would receive 89 job offers within a week, all of which offered eye-popping high salaries, enough for him to freeze his wife until the next century.

After working a few sleepless nights to earn some extra cash, he was so exhausted that he had to call his friends to come to Gotham to make big money. He even wondered if he had gone crazy.

The sudden expansion of smuggling channels is like a huge cake, and the mode of sharing this cake is "the quick take and the slow lose." To grab the biggest piece of cake, one must build a series of supporting facilities faster than others. After seeing this, gang leaders started to build supporting facilities ahead of other industries.

The long-neglected Pier in Gotham, which has not been renovated for decades, has now started bustling with construction activities. In order to accommodate larger ships, they have to consider funding the construction of a deep-water pier. To facilitate faster transportation at the pier, land reclamation projects are also on the agenda.

Moreover, with your dealings with suppliers all over the world, air transportation is necessary. The mayor's office has just shown some signs, and almost all the major gangs are eager to take charge of the airport construction in Gotham, stating that everyone has a responsibility to contribute to the city's development.

They quickly realized that air transportation has great potential compared to maritime transportation. While bulk commodities are better transported by cargo ships, smaller and more delicate equipment and instruments can be transported faster and safer by air.

To enable air transportation, they need a larger airport, more warehouses, a faster internal logistics system, as well as more land for construction, more warehouse builders, more professional managers, and skilled workers.

The local labor force in Gotham is limited, and most of them are already members of various gangs. Now, Gotham is gradually moving towards a direction where jobs are given based on qualifications and skills.

At this moment, people realized that the reason there were many positions available but not enough people to fill them was not because there were too few people in Gotham, but because they lacked the necessary skills.

Even if it was just a manual labor job, one still had to learn the proper technique for lifting, otherwise, they would collapse from exhaustion after just a morning's work, and there would be no one left to work in the afternoon.

Due to Gotham's inadequate educational infrastructure, most people were street kids before reaching adulthood, meaning they couldn't do anything and didn't know how to learn anything.

Gang Boss realized that this current group of people was probably beyond saving, so they needed to start with the next generation. "I need truck drivers," he said, "so let's figure out how to open a driver's school. I need air traffic controllers, so let's open an air technology training school. At the very least, Pier needs manual laborers, and two classes are enough to send them straight to work."

All minors over 14 years old and under 18 years old shouldn't be wandering aimlessly on the streets every day. They should hurry up and go to school. Don't they know that there's a shortage of people now?

It turns out that using Gang's methods to popularize education in this hellhole of Gotham is very effective because in a family of three, there is at least one member who is a Gang member, and most have both parents in the gang.

Your boss tells you that there are many positions waiting for people to work and earn money, but your children are still wandering the streets every day, causing trouble everywhere. The vast majority of Gang parents will choose to bring their children back and give them a beating, and then send them to learn some skills. Even if they can't learn, it's better than causing trouble outside.

Of course, this school model is basically finding an empty space, finding someone who knows what they're doing, and explaining it while gesturing. How much the students can understand depends entirely on their aptitude, and application is mainly based on practical experience. It can't even be considered a prototype of a school and can only be said to have just moved away from the medieval oral transmission education model. But having something is always better than having nothing.

The more foresighted members of the Twelve Families have already begun to think. If they can open schools that belong only to their own families, and educate a batch of professionals who are unique to their own families and only serve their families, wouldn't they be leading other families by a whole era?

As long as they hire better teachers and educate stronger professional managers with higher salaries, their industries will be stronger than others, and they will be able to get a larger slice of the pie.

This idea has not yet been put into practice because Gotham's tradition of relying on luck has persisted for decades, and the people of Gotham have no habit of education or being educated. They are not willing to take risks for a while.

However, as this industry model gradually develops, they will realize that everything fundamentally relies on education. They will find that the large amount of money they spend on hiring out-of-town technical personnel can be invested in training local residents and their own family members, which will not only produce professional technical personnel but also bring in a lot of reputation and benefits.

Including Falcone, the previous generation of strong people have already seen the future in this model. The 21st century will be a century of talent cultivation. All competition, in the end, will depend on who can cultivate more and stronger talents.

Once this relatively advanced model is introduced, smart people who have been limited by the times will quickly complete all the following tasks. So it is not surprising that the old Godfather Falcone took the lead and wanted to establish a family school.

Of course, this school is not for civilians, but for the descendants of the Falcone family members. They will study a large number of elite courses here to better manage the resources of the Falcone family in the future.

Every member of the Falcone family wants their children to enter this school because once they enter this school, it means they are in the sight of the Godfather. If they can achieve excellent results, they are likely to be assigned to better positions and reach higher levels.

The Godfather's actions are obviously not hidden from other families, even though this school currently only has seven students and the teaching location is just a reception room in the Falcone estate. But for the past many years, the other twelve families have only learned to copy and nothing else.

This Gotham Rising event, proposed by Schiller, improved by Falcone, and jointly launched by all the gangs in Gotham, has amazed everyone with its significant effects in the early stages of implementation.

People resist reform not because they resist the part of reform that can bring benefits, but because they resist the change in the distribution of benefits and lifestyle that is too drastic.

When a reform doesn't actually change people's way of life, the Gangs are still Gangs, and no one wants to eradicate them. The Twelve Families are still the Twelve Families, and no one wants to eliminate them. Instead, everyone joins forces to exchange a small investment for a bigger share of the pie. Then everyone will feel that reform is just a means to seize more benefits.

And those who benefit from it will be carried along to continue, using the profits they have gained to invest more in this kind of reform, hoping to get an even bigger share of the pie.

What's more important is that Gotham's first step towards reform has proven one thing to everyone - that even in a rotten mud pit, gold can still be found, and the key to panning for gold in feces as long as the gold is genuine.

They may be rotten, but when it comes to making money, it's nothing to be ashamed of.