Chen Che nodded with satisfaction and mentioned, "There are some businesses you can expand, like smuggling, which benefits everyone else but the government.

You could consider expanding a bit."

Bobby scratched his head, "I've never fallen behind on smuggling, but Master Chen, although the market is large, if we want to continue expanding... I actually have an idea."

"Speak."

"Lower City District has always been a territory that major gangs dare not step into. If we could expand the market in Lower City..."

Hearing this, Xia Na and Chen Che both turned to look at Bobby. This guy really had some guts.

The Lower City and Upper City Districts are entirely separate political arenas.

The Lower City is completely under the control of that Underground Emperor.

No one from the Upper City has ever dared to invade the Lower City; the Lower City has its own survival rules.

Bobby noticed the change in Chen Che's expression and quickly added, "Compared to us in the Upper City, although the Lower City is more dangerous, it also offers more opportunities. The Upper City has many things that the Lower City lacks!

Master Chen, you might not know this, but Lower City's light industry far surpasses that of Upper City's, while Upper City's heavy industry tops the Lower City's!

But due to conflicts between the two districts, people from the Upper City are afraid to go to the Lower City, feeling it's like a dangerous flood, going there means death, and people from the Lower City won't come to the Upper City!

When they come to the Upper City, they face scorn from the Upper City folks.

In this situation, gangs from either the Upper or Lower City seldom have interactions.

The Upper City focuses on developing heavy industry, various minerals, oil, and some machinery... These are things the Lower City doesn't have.

As far as I know, most of the Lower City's industries are handicrafts, the real slums are in the Lower City, and these civilians can only make some light industrial products by hand to exchange for food.

Damn, often some caravans go to the Lower City to purchase these light industrial products, buying them at extremely low prices, then reselling these products to other safe zones.

These cheap Lower City products can fetch quite a good price in the Upper City because the Upper City's light industry is truly pathetic.

These damn profiteers won't bring the Lower City's cheap products to the Upper City because they fear both districts will discover each other's differences.

Mutual trade would cut off their income.

Master Chen! If we could engage in smuggling trade with the Lower City... It would be an enormous fortune!"

Seeing Chen Che's hesitant expression, Bobby immediately added, "Master Chen, you should have always heard that our Special Zone Nine has a population of around a million, but I can tell you the Upper City now has a population of 1.44 million!

And that's just the Upper City! The Lower City's population has never been counted.

Do you know how many people live in the Lower City?

Under the leadership of that Underground Emperor, the Lower City only needs to pay a minimal residential tax, so despite its mixed fish and dragon inhabitants and being very dangerous, there is a large number of residents."

"I estimate there are about 700,000 people in the entire Lower City!

These people usually fill their bellies with melons and are severely lacking Upper City's heavy industrial products.

The citizens of the Lower City develop things themselves, like homemade water purifiers, breathing valves... These things don't exist in the Upper City. If we could bring them here to sell in the Upper City, it's definitely a profitable business, and then bring Upper City's stuff to the Lower City!

If we do it, Master Chen, I can guarantee that the numbers in the accounting book will at least double!"

"But there's only one difficulty with this... If we want to get to the Lower City, we must negotiate with that Underground Emperor, who is the real power holder of the entire Lower City... a person who has the final say."

Bobby looked at Chen Che expectantly, hoping Chen Che would agree.

Chen Che looked at Bobby with keen interest. Bobby's knowledge of these details showed he had started his research on the Lower City long ago.

"Bobby, it seems you've been doing a lot of things behind my back. You're quite knowledgeable about the Lower City..."

Upon hearing this, Bobby immediately scratched his head and said, "Master Chen, the Lower City is indeed a huge market, I... I just know a little bit...

Without your permission, I wouldn't dare to arbitrarily initiate business engagements.

Plus, without you... to be honest, the biggest challenge is negotiating with that Underground Emperor... In my opinion, you are the Underground Emperor of the Upper City, only you have the capability to engage with that Underground Emperor, to persuade him."

When Xia Na heard this, she immediately glared at Chen Che and said, "You're not allowed to go! Deer Kamon is a very dangerous character! He's one of the top three absolute figures in the entire Ninth Special Zone! Even my sister is extremely wary of Deer Kamon!

Anyway, you're not allowed to go. If you do, I'll tell my sister and have her break your legs!

Broken legs are better than you dying in Lower City for money!"

Chen Che pinched Xia Na's cheek in annoyance, "Haven't disciplined you in a long time, and now you're riding over my head, huh? Shall we take a bath together later?"

Xia Na glared fiercely at Chen Che, snorted coldly, and stood firm.

Seeing Xia Na's strong opposition, Bobby shivered. Observing the intimate gestures between Xia Na and Chen Che, he realized their importance to each other, and he didn't want to upset Xia Na and thereby anger Chen Che with his suggestion. He immediately gave himself a slap and said, "Master Chen, I was just talking nonsense! Please don't pay any attention to me!"

Chen Che, however, shook his head and smiled, "I actually think it's a great idea."

Both Bobby and Xia Na looked up at Chen Che simultaneously.

Chen Che's lips curled into a slight smile.

The reason he agreed was because a system prompt appeared in his mind.

[Random task triggered.

[King of the City 2.0]: Achieve 50,000 reputation points in the Lower City!

Reward: Random Yellow - Earth-Level Recipe.]

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