Meng Chao seized the chance of the era and responded to the voices of tens of millions of normal citizens, so he did not run into much resistance when it came to the reconstruction of the lair.
Of course, the reconstruction of the lair was not as simple as flattening the squatters and building beautiful skyscrapers.
Instead, he had to activate the human resources that were stuck in the lair and the slums and pour them into the construction of the new areas and new industries at the borders of Dragon City.
On one hand, it allowed the labor force of the right age to earn their own living and even become rich. On the other hand, it stimulated the city's economy and allowed it to walk down a virtuous cycle.
In this regard, the Broken Star Club and Blue Home, which had a lot of small and medium-sized enterprises, were quite useful.
The lair had a lot of human resources. Even if the lair citizens were not skilled workers who were used to working in dangerous jobs, they were hardworking, experienced, and could work while killing people.
Everything had to start from scratch in the endless wild at the borders of Dragon City. The working environment was definitely not comfortable, and the work was rather boring and difficult.
But to the lair citizens who had been suffering for decades, it was still very attractive.
Through Meng Chao's matchmaking, the small and medium-sized enterprises from the two organizations and the skilled workers in the lair came to an agreement.
In just a short month, the lair sent more than two hundred thousand high-quality laborers to the outside world.
There were also a lot of people of the right age who were going through labor training. They were ready to contribute to the second great construction era in Dragon City at any moment.
Aside from labor, the lair also had its own capital.
The gangs in the lair, including Golden Tooth, Poison Scorpion, and Black Bone, operated all sorts of legal and gray businesses.
Since the Underground Emperor had died, the lair had to be fully integrated into Dragon City. Based on Meng Chao's opinion, many of the gray industries could not last for long and had to be closed down.
Then, they had to search for new projects and new profits for the money that had settled in the gray industries.
After all, Phantom Bear Xiong Wei was a ruthless person. He acknowledged Meng Chao as the master of the lair not because he was impressed by Meng Chao's charisma, but because he hoped that Meng Chao could make everyone rich.
Meng Chao knew nothing about doing business.
But he had a vision that surpassed the times. He had a general idea of which industries would grow in popularity in the next few decades and which industries would suffer so much that even their parents would not recognize them.
For example, the automated underground exploration and construction machine project, which was very popular right now, was something that all sorts of funds had high hopes for.
It seemed like runic symbol machines could be used to explore and mine spirit energy ley lines and build underground cities and fortresses automatically.
Once the relevant technology matured, it would be a profitable business.
Just like the driverless cars on Earth, it had become a hot topic of speculation.
But Meng Chao knew that once Dragon City's civilization became fully connected to the races of the Other World, they would have to face the dwarves, who were born with the ability to dig tunnels, modify stones, and refine metals. They were also hardworking and had practically zero manpower costs.
The underground exploration and construction machines were expensive, complicated in structure, expensive to maintain, and malfunctioning every other day. They were basically garbage and had no foreign trade market at all.
Dragon City only had a few tens of millions of people. They could not develop any industries with just domestic demand.
Taking the path of an export-oriented economy was an inevitable choice.
As for those damned dwarves, they seemed to have realized that the underground machinery of the Earthlings posed a serious threat to their natural craftsmanship. They even often secretly dug next to the underground rune machines such as the shield tunneling machines of the Earthlings to carry out despicable destruction and attack the reputation of Earth's machinery.
Except for the dark elves and a few other races, no one could play the game of cat and mouse with the dwarves underground.
And while the dark elves did not like the dwarves, they did not like the rumbling Earth machines that could destroy their nests at any moment.
In the end, the fully automatic underground machines produced by Dragon City could not be sold at all. The investors who had bet all their money on the machines lost everything.
Meng Chao would naturally not throw his money into this kind of pit.
Speaking of which, he could be considered to be a millionaire.
Underground Emperor Jin Wanhao's treasure trove contained quite a number of bearer bonds and trading coins from the deep web black market.
They were all carefully prepared by A 'Ji for his life after he regained his youth. He could withdraw them without the owner showing up.
After Meng Chao and Lu Siya patiently persuaded him and educated him, A 'Ji finally agreed to it with tears on his face. He was still young and should not spend his money recklessly. He should ask Big Brother Chao and Big Sis Ya to help him manage his money and increase his investment.
And as the gang leader of Golden Tooth, Meng Chao had a lot of authority when it came to the liquid funds of Golden Tooth.
Superstar had been developing really quickly over the past two years. Even though it did not have a lot of liquid funds, there were plenty of investors who were willing to participate in Superstar's projects.
Meng Chao had killed a lot of monsters, so he had naturally accumulated quite a lot of money.
In fact, quite a number of investors were willing to throw a lot of money at him just because of his potential and help him maximize the leverage.
Among them, the investor who was the most confident in him was naturally Lu Siya.
Based on what Lu Siya said, she had already bet all her money on Meng Chao, so she could only continue down this path.
Meng Chao would definitely not disappoint Lu Siya.
To have more authority in Dragon City in the future, he had to use more than one thousand percent of the leverage to invest in gold projects and complete his strategy so that he could become one of the greatest beneficiaries of Dragon City's conquest of the Other World!
Meng Chao referred to the memories from his previous life and thought about it carefully. Then, he set up a few projects.
One of them was naturally the creation of weapons.
When it came to the upcoming colonization war and the Other World war, the firearms industry was definitely a profitable business with little capital.
Of course, Meng Chao did not have the skills or the capital to create high-end weapons.
For example, he had never thought about creating super armored airships or using Huge Dragon's Might Cannons to fire tactical nuclear weapons.
Meng Chao still invested in the creation of low-end individual weapons like sabers, automatic rifles, grenades, and armor.
And they were even more low-end and cheaper than the current low-end products in Dragon City.
They were basically "monkey versions" that were meant for export.
The lair and Leprosy Village had a tradition of creating special weapons in illegal workshops.
Even now, the illegal workshops had been destroyed, but the related skills and skilled workers were still around.
During the process of crushing the super monster horde, the humans discovered a lot of crystals and metal mines at the borders of Dragon City. Of course, most of them were low-grade minerals that were filled with impurities.
They used the blueprints from the middle of the twentieth century on Earth, the craftsmanship of the lair, metals and crystals that were filled with impurities, and they created individual weapons with the lowest cost. Basically, they were crude, crude, and had great recoil. Their accuracy was practically zero.
They could be considered the modified version of the Other World's AK47.
In any case, in Dragon City, even the militia formed by the middle-aged women on the streets would not consider this sort of trash.
But Meng Chao was very satisfied.
This was because the few models that had been trial-produced all perfectly met his requirements.
The main reason was that they were cheap.
The second reason was that they were durable. Even if they were eaten by insects, drowned in water, or burned by fire, it would not stop him from grabbing them and firing them.
The third reason was that they were easy to use and maintain. In fact, they did not even need any maintenance. All he had to do was pull the trigger.
The creation process was also very simple. When necessary, the production line for the modified AK47 could be moved out of Monster Mountain Range, and with some scrap metal, they could create it endlessly.
Meng Chao did not have his eyes on the small market in Dragon City.
Instead, he was looking at the boundless Other World and the entire blue ocean of intelligent races.
It has to be known that among the races in the Other World, the number of orcs alone was several times that of Dragon Citizens.
To Dragon Citizens, the problems such as low accuracy, strong recoil, interference and radiation from low-quality crystal bullets did not exist in orcs, and even if they did, they did not care.
They were practically the perfect customer.
Of course, Meng Chao treated money like dirt. He was not just thinking about earning money.
What he was thinking about was how to have Dragon City join the Other World war as an offshore balancer so that he could control the situation and have the last laugh.
Based on his previous life's experience, Dragon City's fatal weakness was its population.
If tens of millions of people were thrown into the boundless Other World, it would be like sprinkling salt into a pond. No matter how many people there were, it would not be enough.
In his previous life, Dragon City relied on the machines and technology that were ahead of the current era to suppress the Other World with a steel army.
In the beginning, they advanced boldly and were successful in everything they did.
But when they faced the endless Other World races, they soon sank into a dilemma. In trench warfare, guerrilla warfare, and unrestricted warfare, they wasted the precious lives of tens of millions of citizens.
When Dragon Citizens came to a realization and thought about looking for a servant army, it was already too late.
On one hand, Dragon City's strength had been greatly reduced, and it was not enough to suppress the ambitious Other World locals.
On the other hand, the Survival Committee was controlled by the mega corporations, and they lacked strategic vision and judgment. The servant armies they supported were all ingrates who would bite their masters at any moment.
Since Meng Chao had returned from the apocalypse, he had to help Dragon City carry out the correct strategy from the moment they walked out of Monster Mountain Range and search for and support a servant army.
The modified monsters would make a pretty good servant army.
But monsters had limited intelligence, and they could not help Dragon City rule over the Other World.
Through the memories from his previous life, Meng Chao vaguely remembered that some of the intelligent races in the Other World were relatively weak right now, and they had deep grudges against a few of the stronger races. Even though their fighting strength was not high for the time being, they had a lot of people. Once they were equipped with Earth's weapons, they could become the vanguard of the other races.
Once he got rid of the ambitious ingrates, the remaining ones were pretty good servant armies.
These "monkey version" weapons that were specially exported were prepared for the servant army.
Through the cross-border weapons trade, Meng Chao could not only earn a lot of money, but he could also rope in and nurture the factions of the Other World races that were pro-Earth. He could help them seize the leadership of their own races so that they could become Dragon City's vassal races.
Killing two birds with one stone was naturally Meng Chao's greatest investment.
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