Chapter 79
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Chapter 79: Everyone Gathers Firewood
It wasn’t until one o’clock in the early hours that Uesugi Kiyoshi returned home with his tired body.
Even though the process was very difficult, he finally saved the life of a lost beautiful girl. Thinking of this, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
"Vortex-kunn, you finally came back." Seeing Uesugi Kiyoshi returning, Saito Shuichi’s gloomy face showed a hint of a smile. "Miss Kurotani, how is she… Oh, you’re injured?"
Uesugi Kiyoshi looked at his clothes, which were covered in bloodstains, clearly visible in the lamplight.
"Oh, this? There were too many pieces of gravel on the ground."
"On the ground? Gravel?"
"Let’s not talk about that!" Uesugi Kiyoshi sighed, stretched his muscles, and took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket. "I just got some money, and with this, we can start the longhouse building plan!"
"…But this is only 800,000 yen. How many longhouses can we build?" Saito Shuichi asked skeptically.
According to their plan, to create a vortex of longhouses centered around Dragonfly Pond, they would need to build over five hundred longhouses, requiring nearly two hundred million yen.
If you include the costs of demolition compensation, it would double, totaling at least around a billion yen – a mere 800,000 yen is nowhere near enough!
"800,000 yen is sufficient," Uesugi Kiyoshi said confidently. "As long as we harness the power of the people!"
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It was unknown when a shocking piece of news began to spread in Black Vortex Town.
Rumor had it that a large tourism company had conducted a survey and was interested in the longhouses there, planning to develop Black Vortex Town into a cultural tourist attraction.
When people first heard this news, they simply laughed it off as a joke.
Longhouses are pretty common, even though they’re just old wooden houses that are a bit bigger. But they’re really run-down, so is that even considered special?
But with the establishment of the Black Vortex Tourism Subsidiary, rumors seemed to turn into reality.
More than ten remaining longhouses in town signed agreements with the Black Vortex Tourism Subsidiary, receiving 20,000 yen per day in subsidies, in exchange for the needed maintenance and repairs.
Before this, no one was interested in buying these rundown houses, even if they were priced at 300,000 yen.
The poor people who used to live in the longhouses suddenly became envied when they were given special treatment, walking with more pride.
Right at that moment, the manager of Black Vortex Tourism, Uzumaki Naruto, announced that anyone could now build a longhouse to improve tourism and reception capacity.
All it required was paying a 200,000 yen management fee to the company, getting approval, and then the newly built longhouses would receive the same benefits.
So, let’s get started!
Most of the houses in Black Vortex Town are made by residents themselves out of wood. They can be dismantled and rebuilt on the same foundation.
The land is yours, and you can reuse building materials to keep costs low. The sooner you finish building, the sooner you can enjoy subsidies!
With the motivation of money, day and night, the sounds of hammers and saws could be heard everywhere, turning Black Vortex Town into a construction site.
At that moment, Uesugi Kiyoshi made a video call to Kurotani Toshie, the father of Kurotani Azami.
"Want to invest? No way!"
"Dad!"
Kurotani Toshie remained unaffected by Kurotani Azami’s complaint, lifting his head high, his contemptuous expression undisguised.
"Kid, I know exactly what you’ve been up to recently. Such tactics may only work on the naive folks in Black Vortex Town. Your source of funds is running dry, isn’t it?"
As a well-known entrepreneur in Yuanshan City, his judgment was spot on.
The travel company had been operating for only a week, with only one fifth of the Nagaya residence completed. The income from management fees was almost equal to the subsidies being spent.
At this time, over half of the residents still haven’t started working on their houses. Some are waiting to see, while others have already identified issues.
If things continue like this, Uesugi Kiyoshi will soon be unable to afford the subsidies he owes. When the truth comes out, the plan will collapse.
If it were someone else, they would have run away by now, but he not only can’t run away, he also shouldn’t run away!
"President Heigu is indeed visionary." Uesugi Kiyoshi didn’t deny it, just smiled and said. That’s why I’m planning to expand into new business areas!
"Like what?"
"For example, Yuanshan City can also build long houses. This is not a privilege exclusive to Black Vortex Town. Yuanshan City has tens of thousands of people, so if even one percent of them are willing…"
"Hmm…"
"For example, we can allow investors from other places to claim ownership of long houses. By investing fifty thousand yen upfront, they can enjoy virtual property rights to a long house and receive a daily subsidy of ten thousand yen."
"Oh, I see!"
"But I lack the necessary funds for advertising right now, you know, in our line of work…"
"I bid 150 million yen!" declared Kurotani Toshie without hesitation, "But with a daily interest of ten percent, and the principal and interest will be repaid in ten days!"
"Deal!"
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When the new business of the travel company was announced, the remaining people in Black Vortex Town couldn’t sit still any longer.
It’s twenty thousand yen per day, and if someone claims it, they can also get a ten percent commission, with no limit.
As long as you develop ten downlines, it’s fourty thousand yen per day, you can earn back the management fee in five days, and recoup the cost in half a month, why not give it a try?
This is much better than earning from a job!
It doesn’t matter anymore whether it’s a scam or not.
What does it matter? With the new business now launched, not only the thousands of people in Black Vortex Town will be tricked, but with the expanding scale, the collapse will be postponed significantly. Smart people will definitely withdraw before that happens.
No one thinks they are not smart.
Uesugi Kiyoshi no longer has to worry, according to the current progress, all the long houses can be successfully built within a week.
The only problem is, the business seems to be going too smoothly, the long house project is gaining popularity unexpectedly on the internet. Following this trend, when it launches, there might be some challenges ahead.
"Vortex-kunn! Vortex-kunn!"
The urgent cry woke up the worried Uesugi Kiyoshi, and he looked up to see that it was Saito Shuichi.
"Why are you here, is everything settled?"
Saito Shuichi didn’t reply, he just asked while catching his breath, "Have you seen Itsutsu?"
"Her? She probably hasn’t finished school yet, what’s the matter?"
"Someone saw her at the station and said her hair had turned into a swirl!"