Chapter 840: Gotham Renovation In Progress (Part 2)
The renovation plan of the East End was in full swing, but soon the first resistance came. The four gangs on Elizabeth Street jointly protested, asking the Twelve Family to give an explanation. The Wayne family was on their territory again.
He built things without telling them, and even beat several of them to death.
The heads of the Twelve Families held a meeting and decided to call Bruce Wayne over to talk, although they did not expect the playboy to give them any explanation.
So far, the Twelve Family still thinks that Bruce Wayne just suddenly wanted to save Gotham, so he got excited and started some renovation project. Maybe he lost interest after playing for a while.
Bruce no longer planned to pretend, so he led his team of staff to the meeting site.
"Now I would like to introduce to you John, the main planner of this reconstruction plan. John, please introduce to these gentlemen what I am going to do and the benefits it can bring..."
As soon as John walked up, one of the leaders of the twelve families said: "Mr. Wayne, we understand you, your kindness, and your desire to improve the living environment there, but you also have to give us some face...
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"The four bosses on Elizabeth Street have been making trouble for me for three days. They almost brought the dead man's coffin to my door. What do you want me to do?"
Bruce cleared his throat and said, "Elizabeth Street is 6 kilometers away from the place I want to renovate. How can that be their territory?"
"The Blue Jackets told me that they killed the gang boss there, regained the territory there, and became the new boss there."
"When my project was first put into production?"
Hearing the sarcasm in Bruce's tone, the gang boss said nothing with a gloomy face. Soon, John began to introduce the entire construction project.
When we first talked about the construction part, everyone's expressions did not change much, but soon we started talking about the supporting overpass.
In the concept of a three-dimensional city, overpasses are the top priority. Three-dimensional transportation will bring a lot of convenience. As long as the technology is in place, there is unlimited possibility of extension.
What are the gangsters most afraid of now? They are not afraid of change. What they are afraid of is that they will not be able to make money after the change.
Even if they don't make money from the logistics industry, more overpasses can alleviate the problem of traffic congestion and allow them to free up more time to take care of their own business. They all hope that it will be profitable or emotional.
Someone can build the road.
The problem is that most people are unwilling to spend their own money to build roads, because once too much money is invested in the construction of public facilities, their family will weaken and others will eat it.
Last time, the upgrade of Gotham's transportation system and the construction of the living hell were led by the Godfather, and the twelve families invested equally. As long as everyone is weakened evenly, there is no need to worry about the other party taking advantage of others.
But this time, the Wayne family actually said that they didn't need to pay, they just needed to cooperate with the construction. The price they paid was just a little manpower, but what they gained was an extremely convenient interchange system covering the entire city.
It is not that there are no overpasses in Gotham, but they have been built for a long time, and were built when Bruce's parents were still alive. Many overpasses have been neglected and are no longer usable, taking up space out of thin air.
There are also some bridges that are usable but very uncomfortable to use. When they were built, they were often built for temporary needs and poorly planned, resulting in the awkward positions of the upper and lower bridge entrances. Some
At that time, after getting off the bridge, you had to go around a big detour to get to your destination, which is no longer suitable for Gotham City today.
No one was willing to pay, so they had to make do with it, but now that Wayne was willing to pay, they had no reason to refuse.
"I must emphasize that the building renovation is to coordinate with the overpass renovation. Even with the technology of Wayne Group, there is no way to ensure that an overpass hundreds of meters high can stand out of thin air. It must rely on buildings."
"If I can just make the overpass levitate out of thin air, why should I change the building? Is there nothing to spend the money on?"
Bruce discovered that Schiller's way of speaking, in which he hated everyone equally, was really useful. Mental patients could say whatever they wanted without caring about anyone's face.
"I gave those people houses not out of kindness, but because if I renovated the building, there must be residents in the building. Only with residents can there be consumption, and with consumption, there can be commerce and business.
Only by entering into business can you make money..."
Bruce Wayne crossed his arms and said: "It is completely short-sighted to regard that group of people as redundant. Only the people at the bottom can continue to work to create a steady stream of income for us. If they are gone, you are going to make your own
To work? To drive a truck? To be a porter?"
"What you have to admit is that those poor people you look down on are the cornerstone of the city. In order for them to work better, you have to provide them with a house. If you drive them all away, no one will
Don’t think about it.”
Leaders of the Twelve Families, look at me and I look at you. One of them cleared his throat and said, "If this is the case, you should say hello to us in advance to prevent the people below from causing trouble..."
"I'm not worried about them causing trouble, because I have installed defense facilities on every floor. The gang members you mentioned were probably hit by it." Bruce knocked on the table and said: "The Wayne Group's
All property is my personal property, and private property is sacred and inviolable. If anyone wants to enter my construction site to steal something or cause damage, I have the right to defend myself."
Bruce paused, as if he felt that he had not learned the essence of Schiller. One of the gang leaders said: "You can't do this. You have to abide by the rules here. If you want to fight with that gang, you have to...
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"Okay, okay, I will fight with this gangster, and then I will fight with that gangster, then you just wait. In ten years, I will spend nine years catching the thief, and then I will spend half a year fighting with the gangster."
There was a gang war, and it took half a year to fix the bridge. It collapsed less than half a year after it was put into use. When the time comes, you can repair it yourself."
The other gangsters were also speechless by his rogue attitude. However, although Bruce was very aggressive, what he said made sense.
No one knows the virtues of their men better than these gang leaders. Let alone the construction site of the Wayne family, even when the manure truck passes by the door, you have to dip your hands to taste the saltiness.
If those gangsters use various excuses to harass the Wayne family to start construction, then they must provide people to protect it. Otherwise, the bridge will not be built. Everyone will still have to block it together.
But if you want to provide people with protection, you will inevitably offend the people below and make them feel that you are not fair to outsiders.
But now that the Wayne family has the good sense to be the bad guy, all the Twelve Family can do is pretend they don't know anything.
The Wayne family cooperated with the government in a legal manner, spent a large amount of money to buy land, and invested countless manpower in building bridges. In the end, it was the gangs who enjoyed the benefits, especially the Twelve Family, because they had the most industries and the highest transportation requirements.
If that's the case, why not let him build it? Isn't it just an overpass? It's not a nuclear bomb. He can't threaten the gang with just a bridge, right?
After Bruce deliberately blurred the point, all the gang leaders turned their attention to the overpass plan.
But it’s not surprising. The three-dimensional transportation system designed by Wayne is indeed very novel and very eye-catching. Compared with it, the architectural renovation, which is similar to a living hell, has no highlights.
The worst thing is that there will be more living hells. This is what the leaders of the Twelve Families think. The living hells have not caused any trouble, but the rent has increased a bit, and because the public security there is relatively good, there are less troubles.
The money collected is high, so it doesn't matter if there are a few more areas like this.
In this way, the meeting where the host and guest enjoyed themselves was over. The leader of the Twelve Families said, I will take care of those thorns on Elizabeth Street. Just build your bridge. Hurry up and put it into use. Hello, everyone.
good.
Bruce discovered that the injected anesthetic had taken effect, and he quickly accelerated the construction. Before the first phase was completed, the foundation for the second phase was ready to be laid, and the construction materials for the overpass between the first and second phases were also put into production.
In fact, the technologies involved in building renovations are all leftovers from the Batcave.
These technologies were not developed by him in a day or two. When the Batcave was built before, many problems had been solved, and the chip authentication system was actually what Batman planned to use to defend the Batcave in the future.
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If he was the only one, there would be no need for any authentication, but now that he has adopted Dick and Elsa, the two assistants will inevitably have to go in and out of the Batcave in the future, and an authentication system will be established to facilitate their entry and exit.
This certification system can be used to implement the resettlement plan and prevent certain people from excessively occupying housing resources. It can also provide a basis for the subsequent permission system, so Bruce modified it and integrated it into the building.
Everything went smoothly, and Gotham began to undergo major construction, but soon Bruce encountered another problem.
He found that he had no money.
This is a very scary fact, but it is actually reasonable. Although Wayne Group is very large, most of its funds are circulated in production, and there is not much liquidity.
At this time, there are not just one or two construction sites that are under construction. Putting the first and second phases together with the overpass project, there are more than 130 construction sites that are under construction at the same time. Even the largest real estate developers in the United States rarely start construction on so many properties at the same time.
when.
Wayne Group has a professional engineering team, but they are not a professional real estate developer after all. Even if many raw materials are obtained through replacement and technology does not require additional costs, the labor and consumables alone have already hollowed out Bruce.
Almost all liquidity.
This is a very dangerous signal. Bruce knows that once a company loses too much liquidity, it means that its ability to resist risks will decline, it will lose more trial and error costs, and its business strategy will have to become conservative. If this continues, the assets will
It will inevitably shrink and form a vicious cycle.
And Bruce discovered that the project he was currently working on accounted for less than one percent of Gotham's city-wide renovation projects.
He knew that he had to find a way to make money now.
Then he discovered that, as Schiller said, living in the upper class was no easier than living in the slums. With the size of Wayne Group, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky to go further.
Make money, make money, make money...
Bruce never thought that one day he would have a headache for money.
Perhaps, this is tit for tat, not retaliation because the time has not yet come.
