National Juggernaut

Chapter 750

No matter how hard life is, life still needs to go on.

The little girl Xiang from Yujun traveled all the way and met Zheng Li. She was already considered lucky. As a local resident of the Iron Man Autonomous Region, a native local resident, she has experienced too much.

If she hadn't met Zheng Li, even if she had survived by luck, she would probably be dead in some rotten brothel or gray gang now.

This is not an exaggeration, nor does it mean that she has problems with her personality and conduct, but that in the overall environment of the Iron Man District in the past, adult women without a backstage probably only have this fate.

This is determined by the general environment. People have to live. Without an employment environment and no educational opportunities, there are only a few paths that can be chosen. Do you not go astray?You have to survive first to choose your path.

"...You see, these years have really changed a lot here. Now there are no gangs, and most of the mutual aid associations have been cancelled. Now there are only trade unions. Although everyone calls them scabs in private, it is much better than it was back then."

Walking on the spacious street, Yu Junxiang, a local resident, introduced the surrounding environment to Zheng Li, the factories and companies that have sprung up one by one, and the busy crowd.

"This is the original site of the Python Gang. Now, in the factory area of ​​the Wright Seamless Steel Tube Factory, most gang members have become workers, and a few who don't want to work have gone to prison."

Zheng Li didn't know how to evaluate Yu Junxiang's words.

Social transformation has never had only beneficiaries and no victims. Some people take advantage of it and others are naturally unlucky.

In the original Iron Man Autonomous Region, there were only gangsters and the slightly whiter gray gangs. Survival resources were extremely limited in the cruel social environment. If you want to survive, your personal strength is definitely not enough. You must find an organization. Since it is an organization, there are Up and down, there are blood-suckers and blood-suckers.

However, under the extremely poor living conditions in the Iron Man District in the past, the very few existences on the pyramid lived a life that the people below could not even imagine. When the order was reorganized, the pyramid was turned upside down, and the one who was the richest in the past A batch of blood debts due to the past were naturally liquidated, some were executed on the spot, and some were thrown into prison cells to rot.

When they continue as the upper echelons?Save it until they form new gangs against the local order?Gangsters are the result of social vacancies when there is a lack of order in the local area. It is the result of criminals who can obtain a better social environment. They only commit crimes and are used to making quick money. Let them create factors that continue to cause social instability. ?
At that time, after Qiancheng re-invested in the governance of this area, those former "big bosses", "BOSS", and "MR.big" were arrested very quickly one by one. After all, if they are really powerful in this era, It's not like mingling in the slums to grab the leftovers.

Under the pressure of the official violent agencies, most of the organizations were directly disbanded, and when most of the members entered the arena, it was necessary to name and perform the Iron Man and the local rulers.

".I never thought that you would actually do this. It obviously has nothing to do with you.
Hearing this, the female district chief, who had been accompanying her all the time, smiled.

"This is your hometown, naturally it is my second hometown, and the harvest here is also a harvest, and it will help the family to some extent. Well, I know you don't believe me, then you owe us a favor, wait When you need to work hard, work harder."

Looking at the "Athena" Zheng Hongqi in front of him, Zheng Li could only nod silently, acknowledging this great favor.

Compared with that year, "Red Flag" has not changed much. The six years have been a complete qualitative change for a little girl like Yu Junxiang, and it has indeed passed by in the blink of an eye for a hundred-year-old myth.

Now she wears epaulets and a cloak, and is still the top leader in the local area.

Iron Man District is the three poles of Shiqian City, and it is also its own "inner fief". Its quality is directly related to Zheng Li's political status in the city.

Before, Zheng Li didn't even have time to understand his changes. It's not that he didn't pay attention to this "fief", but that he didn't have enough resources and energy to focus on things other than his "outer fief".

In his opinion, the land of monsoons is his foundation, his source of resources and territory, private plots in the city, etc., which he has no ability to manage, and even taking the initiative to touch it may not be a good thing.

After all, a city’s resources are limited, and if you eat a bite, I will lose a bite. It’s not worthwhile to offend the other big bosses in Shiqian City in this regard. It still has to be broken.

"Then, I'll just follow the route of the local vassal faction. After developing my own territory, I will consider further places. The Iron Man District, let's just ignore it for the time being."

The manpower and resources in Zheng Li's hands are limited, and the distance is too far to make it unrealistic for the two-headed development, so he simply gave up the development here.

"Actually, Shiqian City Officials and I are just an environment for development, and the real driving force is the returning iron men."

Zheng Hongqi didn't take the initiative to take the credit, and explained the changes in these places over the years in a few words.

In recent years, Zheng Hongqi has also earnestly fulfilled her duties as acting district chief, but it stands to reason that it is quite difficult for her to develop without connections and background.

If you want to stir up a piece of stagnant water, you need enough power. To be straightforward, you need money, a lot of money.

Only those who have money can set up businesses to provide employment, and only those who have money can pay mercenaries to make this area safe. Everyone knows that once the rectification and development are successful, it will become a new stable source of finance and taxation, a prosperous market, and a human resource base, but The initial astronomical funds for infrastructure construction, demolition, resettlement, training, and suppression, even the Shiqian City officials can't afford it. Wouldn't it be nice to produce more weapons for the front line and develop more resource worlds?

Therefore, in the early days of the war, even with the support of Shiqiancheng's official policy, even with special squads and personnel dispatched for the "reform", and with Zheng Hongqi's peak combat power to suppress it, the progress was still quite slow.

"The returned iron people collectively funded and set up a special development company, which is responsible for land development and infrastructure construction. It is the one called 'Tieren Autonomous Region Economic Development Co., Ltd.'."

Listen, listen, Zheng Li's feeling is getting more and more subtle.

He is really familiar with this thing. Isn't this the development model of a development zone in a certain "ancient" oriental country?
It is inconvenient for the government to directly engage in local demolition and infrastructure projects, and there is no money to do so, so it set up a "private company" that specializes in this, and borrows funds from banks and private individuals to carry out projects. income to return investors.

".No return? Isn't this an empty glove Aries? What are those returning iron men willing to do?"

"Of course they are willing. Not only are they willing to pay for nothing, they are even willing to help clean up the 'garbage'. If it is not to avoid a new round of 'racial conflicts', we can also save some money for hiring mercenaries."

Different from conventional land acquisition and development, the Iron Man Autonomous Region is not an unowned wasteland. The cleanup of the old forces is similar to a big country’s campaign against prostitution and crime, but the local official combat power also costs money. It’s easier and more convenient to hire mercenaries. .

At this moment, Zheng Li nodded, understanding the subtext of Zheng Hongqi's words.

"Returning Iron Man is Kaizi, very rich and willing to spend money."

In this war, the most embarrassing position is the Iron Man. Their fellow villagers on the side of the Atel people are still relatively easy to stand in line with, but those who have already had a relationship with humans or even lived here for a long time must think about themselves of the future.

Loyalty is not absolute, but it is absolutely disloyal. The all-out war between the Atels and humans has wiped out Iron Man's status as a lubricant and an indirect bridge.

In the past, if we maintained the grass on the wall, we could eat both sides. Now that the two sides are in full-scale war, continuing the grass on the wall is almost equivalent to taking death.

At this time, quite a few powerful and wealthy individuals among them will consider themselves and their own ethnic groups, and relocating to the "legal" safe zone is obviously the worst result of the excellent option, and it can also be the worst result with other people. Clansmen with similar positions report to the group together to keep warm.

And under such a delicate environment, they are naturally willing to spend money to transform their future living environment. This war made the "bug" that there were no iron men in the Iron Man Autonomous Region be corrected by the times itself.

At the same time, when there is an opportunity for them to be paid by the local government, they can't wait to take the initiative to cover it all, and they can't wait to donate half of their wealth to express their loyalty.

At the beginning, most of the iron men here were war refugees who were implicated, but now, most of them have become successful people with all their wealth in a certain city or place.

Zheng Li couldn't help laughing. Out of nowhere, a group of big bosses who don't lack money came and offered to give money. Is this the bonus of the times?
And these iron men can do business and live in the human world, so they naturally have a certain social status, often open certain companies, and have some unique technologies.

As capitalists and mature operators, although many of them don't work all their lives and don't have to worry about food and clothing, they feel panicked when they keep their money and resources at home, so they naturally want to take them out to increase their value.

To set up factories, start businesses, especially the military industry that Shiqiancheng needs most now, and use the rare technology from the Ater people to the Ater military industry, not only has unlimited economic prospects, but also an exceptionally good investment politically .

Pigs standing on the cusp can fly, not to mention that Zheng Hongqi is not a pig but a mythical boss who can bring victory. In the past six years, the economic growth rate of the Iron Man Autonomous Region has doubled.

The birth of the military industry also gave it a more important political position.

The Iron Man Autonomous Region has eaten up most of Iron Man's assets and technology in the entire Shiqian City area, and has countless professional production sites for military technology that can only be found here. What was an idle game back then has now become an important place that can change the balance. chips.

Now, this delicate "third pole" shows a delicate balance between the central faction and the local faction. Zheng Hongqi is destined to be just a passer-by. In the eyes of other high-level officials, the real decision-maker and owner is always Zheng Li.

Managers don't need to stand in line, but owners have to determine their own position. At this time, Zheng Li understood the meaning of those vague words from the central government.

"Uh, so I'm having a lot of fun? My standing in line can directly determine the direction of Shiqian City in the future."

"Yes, and there is one thing you must participate in, and it is also related to you. Due to the war six years ago, the speaker who has been wounded and sick is about to come down. The election of a new speaker is coming soon, and you have to make a decision. Who to support."

(End of this chapter)