Chapter 110

Developing tourism in Cat Getan?

If someone had said this to Bruce in the past, he would have suggested that person go to Arkham Asylum to have their brain checked.

Who would be so blind as to dare come to Cat Getan for tourism?

If someone really did come, they might as well just buy a one-way ticket; they wouldn't need a return trip anyway.

But to Bruce's surprise, the friends around him didn't seem surprised by this at all, and many even held a supportive attitude.

"Actually, Cat Getan's natural conditions are not bad, right? Our latitude isn't high, it's not cold, it belongs to a subtropical monsoon humid climate, there are no natural disasters like tornadoes, and there's a golden beach; the quality of the beach is also among the best on the entire East Coast..."

"Of course, of course, I know the gambling industry isn't much better, and gamblers aren't any nobler than those junkies, but it's still much better than drug trafficking, arms dealing, and the smuggling of dangerous goods, right?"

Harvey took a sip of his drink, patted Bruce on the shoulder beside him, and said, "You haven't graduated from college yet, so you might think the world is black and white. If Cat Getan wants to get better, it has to get better all at once..."

"But in reality, that's unlikely. Even looking at it now, for Cat Getan, a city like this, wanting to get completely better is impossible. It's either rotten, or even more rotten."

"However, the large number of jobs that casinos can provide can reduce unemployment. When more formal jobs appear, the possibility of gang violence and shootouts will be weakened, and it will also become more stable."

"This is a good thing for any city. Although I don't think it's likely that Cat Getan will become like the Imperial City and become a normal city, at the very least, it will definitely be much better than the current situation..."

"But..."

Bruce's current state is that he understands the logic; he is a genius, and of course, he can see the benefits brought about by this industrial transformation and upgrading, and even the Wayne family would benefit from it.

However, he just feels it is extremely absurd right now.

Bruce's attitude toward Cat Getan is actually quite negative. He knows better than anyone how rotten this city is, and he has never expected this city to develop in any good direction.

But now it seems that Cat Getan is not developing in a good direction, but rather on the road to ruin, having switched to a different bad road. It's just like turning a dead end into a dead end; it's a series of operations performed by the black, turning it into a colorful black, changing from the original City of Sin into a flashy City of Sin.

The connection between Cat Getan and Chicago alone has already brought some changes to this city.

As everyone knows, the transshipment of smuggled goods requires warehouses for storage, and the cooperation with Chicago has greatly widened the routes for smuggled goods. The increase in the quantity of smuggled goods means more warehouses are needed for storage.

To build warehouses, you must have land. Everyone wants a bigger slice of the growing cake, so the Twelve Families began a frantic land-grabbing operation, and the price of land in the suburbs of Cat Getan was driven up by them to double the original cost.

Moreover, it's not enough to just buy the land; warehouses don't just appear out of thin air.

To build a warehouse, you need designers to draw blueprints, engineering teams to construct, and inspectors to verify. To transport things into the warehouse, you also need people to move them and people to transport them. This back-and-forth easily created thousands of jobs out of thin air.

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

Victor had never imagined that he could receive 89 job invitations within a week, and every one of them offered a high salary that dazzled his eyes, enough combined to freeze his wife until the next century.

When he stayed up for several nights earning extra money and was exhausted to the point of collapse, and couldn't hold on any longer and had to call his classmates to come to Cat Getan to make big money, he himself felt, was he crazy?

The sudden widening of smuggling channels is like a huge cake, and the way to divide the cake is that those who are fast get it, and those who are slow don't. If you want to be fast and grab the biggest cake, you must build a series of supporting facilities earlier than others. After seeing this, the gang leaders, before other industries started cooperating, began to scramble to build supporting facilities in advance.

The docks in Cat Getan, which hadn't been renovated for decades, began to bustle with construction again. In order to allow larger ships to dock, they had to start considering raising funds to build a deep-water port, and in order to make the transshipment at the docks faster, land reclamation projects were also put on the agenda.

Moreover, if you are dealing with sources of goods all over the world, you always need airplanes. As soon as the Mayor's office revealed a hint of this, almost all the big gangs moved at the news, expressing that everyone is responsible for Cat Getan's construction, so why not leave the airport project to us to do?

And they soon discovered that compared to shipping, air transport also has great potential. Of course, some bulk commodities are better transported by cargo ships, but for some precise small equipment and instruments, air transport is faster and safer.

To have air transport, you need larger airports, more warehouses, and a faster internal logistics circulation system, which also requires more land, more warehouse builders, and more professional management personnel and technical workers.

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The local labor force in Cat Getan is limited, and most of them are already members of various gangs. Now in Cat Getan, it is gradually beginning to develop in the direction of jobs waiting for people.

And at this time, people discovered that the reason why there are many jobs but not enough people is actually not because there are few people in Cat Getan, but because they are not professional enough.

Even a porter has to learn techniques for exerting force; otherwise, after working for a whole morning, they will be exhausted, and of course, there will be no one in the afternoon.

Because Cat Getan's basic educational facilities are insufficient, most people are street urchins before they become adults, and it can be said that they can't do anything and can't learn anything.

The gang leaders discovered that the current batch of people probably couldn't be saved, so let's start from the next generation. I need truck drivers, so I'll find a way to open a driver's school; I need tower controllers, so I'll find a way to open an aviation technical training school; at the very least, the docks also need porters, and they can be taken to work after two classes.

All minors over 14 and under 18, stop wandering around the streets all day, hurry up and go to class. Don't you know that people are in short supply right now?

You don't say, in a godforsaken place like Cat Getan, using gang methods to popularize education is very effective, because in a family of three, at least one member is a gang member, and most of the time both are.

Your immediate superior now tells you that there are plenty of jobs waiting for people to work and get paid, while your child is still wandering the streets every day, causing trouble everywhere. The vast majority of gang parents will choose to grab their children back, beat them up, and then throw them to learn some skills. Anyway, even if they can't learn, it's better than causing trouble outside.

Of course, the current school model is basically just finding an open space, then finding someone who knows how, and gesturing while talking. How much they can understand depends entirely on their comprehension, and applying it basically relies on practical experience. It can't even be considered the prototype of a school; it can only be said to have just broken away from the educational model of oral tradition in the Middle Ages, but having it is still better than nothing.

Those among the Twelve Families with more foresight have already started to rack their brains. If they could open schools that belong only to their own families and educate a batch of professional personnel that belong exclusively to their own families, serving only their own families, wouldn't that allow them to lead other families by an entire era?

As long as they hire better teachers with high salaries and educate stronger professional management personnel, their industries will also be stronger than others, and they will be able to get a bigger cake when dividing the cake.

This idea was actually not put into practice immediately, because this atmosphere of Cat Getan relying on heaven for food has lasted for decades. Gothamites have no habit of education or being educated, and their investment in education is almost equal to zero, so they didn't dare to take risks all of a sudden.

But as this industrial model gradually develops, they will discover that the root of everything actually lies in education. They will find that the large amount of money they are currently spending to hire those technical personnel from outside, if invested in cultivating local residents and their own direct descendants, would not only harvest professional technical personnel but also bring with it a large amount of reputation and benefits.

The older generation of strongmen, including Falcone, have already seen the future from this model. The 21st century will be a century belonging to talent cultivation. All competition, in the end, depends on who can cultivate more and stronger talents.

Once this relatively advanced model is introduced, those smart people whose vision is limited by the times will soon complete everything that follows. Therefore, it is not surprising at all that the old godfather Falcone was the first to take the lead in wanting to open a family school.

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

Members belonging to the Falcone family, of course, all want their children to enter this school, because once they enter this school, it means entering the godfather's line of sight. If they can achieve excellent grades, it is very likely that they will be assigned a better position and move higher and further.

The godfather's small actions obviously couldn't be hidden from other families. Although this school only has seven students so far, and the teaching location is just in a reception room of the Falcone manor, the other twelve families haven't learned anything else in all these years, but copying—that's all there is to it.

This Cat Getan Longzhong Plan, proposed by Schiller, improved by Falcone, and carried out jointly by all the gangs in Cat Getan, stunned everyone with its significant results in the early stages of implementation.

People resist reform, not because they resist the part of the reform that can bring benefits, but because they resist the overly drastic changes in the way benefits are distributed and the changes in lifestyle.

When a reform actually doesn't produce any changes in people's lifestyles—gangs are still gangs, no one wants to eradicate them; the Twelve Families are still the Twelve Families, no one wants to eliminate them—but instead, everyone unites to exchange small investments for the qualification to divide a bigger cake, then everyone will feel that reform is just a means to seize more benefits.

And those who benefit from it will be swept along to continue, using the profits already obtained to invest more into this reform, in the hope of being able to get a bigger cake.

More importantly, the first step taken by the Cat Getan Longzhong Plan proved one thing to everyone in Cat Getan—it's not that gold can't come out of a mud pit; the point of panning for gold in shit isn't the shit, as long as the gold is real gold.

They may be rotten, but making money, well, that's nothing to be ashamed of.