The impact of 120,000 underground refugees on the city of Gotam is huge, but this is Gotam after all, so nothing is surprising.
In addition to supporting various newspapers, there is also the tourism industry. Gotam's tourism industry has always been lukewarm. Of course, there has always been a tourism industry, but the public security here has always been criticized. A complete underground city can be developed to a deeper level. In fact, many people do not understand why the mayor insisted on completely sealing off the underground - because they did not know about the problem of the magma pool.
After careful consideration, Weiwei chose to give those poor people who were neither alive nor dead due to the magma a place to rest in peace.
And...she has not completely given up on the underground attraction that only exists in Gotam. She can use "searching for the underground" as a gimmick to attract tourists.
What bothered Weiwei was another thing——
Even if you have enough money, you can't completely change this city.
Moreover... the game system does not seem to issue missions to help citizens. Weiwei looked back at all the missions she had received, and all of them changed the city of Gotan, but did not involve the citizens themselves.
But how can we transform a city without considering the people in it? she thought.
She was standing on the second floor of the Seaness Steel plant in Odisburg, and the sky was a little darker here than in other parts of the city.
Odisburg is the industrial center of Gotham. However, compared to the most prosperous areas of the city, this place has long been deserted because Gotham completed its industrial transformation within a hundred years - the most classic example is Wayne Enterprises, and the entire city has transformed from heavy industry to high-tech industry.
"Then... the original workers lost their jobs," she looked into the distance without turning around, and just said to the penguin behind her, "At the same time as the workers lost their jobs, the Mafia happened to rule the inner world of Gotan, so the workers got the most convenient and fastest-paying jobs..."
Join the Mafia and work for Romani or Falcone. After the fall of these two bosses, new forces in Gotham will take turns to appear, and the children of the workers can continue to work for other bosses. In the Mafia, they can always find a job.
Those who cannot be found are either in prison or dead.
"You want to provide them with jobs?" The penguin man smiled awkwardly. "Didn't you already provide them with jobs?"
In the early days, Weiwei realized that the rampant crime was entirely due to too many adult men wandering the streets with nothing to do, so she had been looking for work for them, sometimes by force, and sometimes by active attraction. The former is now in Blackgate Prison, and the latter has almost become an ordinary employee, and some of them have even taken the initiative to go to the adult school in the East District to study.
——These were the people who initially rebuilt the city’s sewer system.
However, after the construction of the sewer was completed and all the money that Weiwei had cheated and robbed was distributed, there was so much labor in this city, but the jobs she could provide were limited - if patrols and supervision had not been strengthened later, the crime rate would still have risen.
Because some people's only life skill is crime.
In the past few months, Weiwei has been using her own money and the city hall's money to hire workers on a small scale, from repairing bridges to repairing roads. After receiving taxes, she left all the political work to Two-Face, Old Jia and the new parliament, and then invested the taxes to the greatest extent possible in rebuilding the city.
A hundred years ago, the infrastructure of Gotham was very advanced, surpassing the level at that time. However, because it was too advanced, almost no part of it was rebuilt. A hundred years have passed, and now, although these facilities are still operational, they have become outdated.
——Especially some parts, such as the Gotan Police Headquarters, which has been bombed three times. Each time, only part of it was demolished and repaired. This time, Weiwei simply tore it down and rebuilt it.
She demolished and rebuilt all the buildings that could still be built, and even renovated the town hall - all in order to provide jobs for those who only had the strength, so that money could flow into their hands legally and prevent them from robbing.
So Weiwei thought about it and decided to smuggle out the Penguin Man, the criminal who was best at business, and make use of him.
"I need them to get permanent jobs and settle down."
"Everyone?"
"Everyone."
The penguin man touched the bird that had flown to the brim of his hat and said bluntly, "Impossible."
He smiled, his face full of helplessness, and even a hint of mockery in his eyes: "You can't support a city, so the city will find a way out for itself."
He walked from behind Weiwei to her side, and together they looked out the window, his back straight but his expression complicated: "In this land right under our feet, as far as I know, there have been organ trades, sex slave trades, weapons smuggling, biochemical transformation experiments... Our men profited from these transactions, and the money flowed from one person to another, but no matter what, 'profit' means that we paid the principal."
He paused. "Those organs that were sold, the slaves that were killed, the weak ones are the capital. The weak ones will be devoured, and the strong ones will eat their flesh and blood to survive... And you, including the mayor, want to feed them by yourselves? Like Bruce Wayne's charity fund? But Bruce Wayne, his industry will not provide jobs for these guys who have never been to school. They have no jobs, and the existence of Wayne Enterprises has squeezed their space. Then Wayne returns the money to them, saying it is 'charity'."
"I don't want to be treated with charity, so I go and grab what I want myself," the penguin coughed twice and continued, "They are the same. You have to put yourself in the position of the weak, so that when they have eaten your flesh and blood, they will still go and grab what they need, because Gotham is such a city, and Gotham only taught them to do this."
By then, a new mafia will emerge and Gotham will slowly become what it once was.
Changing her will not be achieved in just a few months. It may require the next generation, and then the next generation, to receive education, move up the social ladder, and catch up with the changes of the times, rather than standing still.
If the person standing here was an ambitious person who was determined to completely save the city of Gotham, he would probably be persuaded to back off, but the person standing here is a gamer who likes to take advantage of loopholes to pass the level.
"That's not important," Weiwei kicked him and kicked the guy standing side by side with her to the back, "but charity can speed up all of this, speed up the changes that can only be completed in generations, so that children have money to go to school, and the homeless will not starve to death in the winter. Don't talk so much, just tell me how to spend the money."
Penguin: “…”
But what is the difference between this and throwing money into the water? Is money just a number to you?
Wouldn't it be a pity for you to let the person who is the best at making money teach you how to spend your money in a semi-charitable way?
Weiwei's conscience didn't hurt at all. The money in the game was just numbers to her.
She opened the list and map, pointed out the buildings on the map, and decided to build more hospitals and schools, which would also consume a wave of labor. The new parliament could continue to discuss this issue, as the money had to be spent every month anyway.
By the end of July, construction of new stadiums, hospitals, police stations, and schools was underway, old buildings were being renovated, many roads were closed for hammering, and a strange white tower was quietly built in the center of Blackgate Prison.
It took Weiwei half a month to receive enough materials to build the [Golden Drawings: Thinking Electric Field] that she had obtained in June. The City Hall had to increase revenue while cutting costs.
As for how to save money...
"Criminals are going to die sooner or later anyway, so why do they need to eat?" the warden said to the Death Shooter standing beside him.
Deadshot Floyd: "..."
As a mercenary killer, he had been arrested for a long time. After much consideration, he did not escape from prison. After all, his daughter lived in Gotham.
"They are like a group of belligerent monkeys, wasting police force and medical equipment," the warden said calmly, with his hands in his pockets, his forearm muscles faintly visible. "If you can contribute to this city even if you don't eat, drink or sleep, that would be great."
[Thought electric field: All thought energy in the electric field can be transformed into pure point energy]
[Gensokyo: Drag humans within the scope of the rules into the space during the Children's Day event]
This time, the "space scene" that Weiwei chose was no longer a movie. She realized that the larger the map in the game, the more uncontrollable the "players" would be. The map in the movie was the entire Gotan city, which was too troublesome.
The criminals who were dragged into Gensokyo and disappeared were all thrown into a strange circus. Under the influence of the rules, they were forced to fight as small animals. The identities of the small animals were randomly assigned. They were slimes in nature and did not need to eat anything in the illusion scene.
There is also a way to pass the level, which is to stand on the final gladiatorial arena on the seventh day and win the game.
Only three to five people can escape at a time. As for the others, they can do it again in these seven days - who would complain about having too much clean energy?
After watching for seven days, the criminal who suddenly appeared became dazed and even behaved like an animal for many days. He only recovered after psychological counseling. Death Shooter: "..."
He gave in.
"What exactly do you want us to do?" He knew that this threat was not just for him.
Bella Bettivan wants to conquer criminals with special abilities?
"Rather, what can you do? Find a use for yourself other than being a human battery, Floyd."
At the end of July, several "foreign aid" secretly appeared in the special forces SWAT, militia, and guards, and the deadly shooter changed his appearance and became a shooting instructor who had to wear special electric shock handcuffs.
...Sometimes he couldn't understand why he felt that the warden would relax his supervision on other people but was always strict with him.
...What he also couldn't figure out was whether he succeeded in assassinating Mayor Anna Ellech.
It can't be that this is revenge for him hurting Alec?
However, in the eyes of Mrs. Rothesay, the bustling urban reconstruction, the secret personnel transfers, the even more closed-off Blackgate Prison, and the suddenly famous South Hinckley Town are not important.
On the tenth day after returning to Gotham, and a month after losing contact with Lincoln March, she finally couldn't sit still anymore.
A grand banquet was held at the Rosset family's manor, and many celebrities were invited to the banquet, especially the mayor was specifically invited to attend.
Weiwei knew that it was Mrs. Rosset who decided to take action.
That means she is coming to give her money.