I'm a Demon Cultivator, Not a Conscientious Capitalist
Chapter 771

You're Pretty Bad Too

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Chapter 771: You're Pretty Bad Too

After learning how the Inspectorate currently worked, Jiang Wen talked through its procedures with Deng Zixing and streamlined the workflow.

When Deng Zixing heard that Central District also had a sizable homeless population, he was surprised. "Central District has homeless people too? How many are there?"

Jiang Wen counted the homeless people he had seen and factored in the area he had covered. "About 1.2 million."

"How are there so many? Why haven't I seen them before?"

"They get hauled off to become Iron Men."

"Right—"

Deng Zixing covered his mouth and coughed. He calculated Constant Law City's annual influx of residents, births, and current population, then subtracted its annual deaths. The result was roughly the number of people who had gone missing in the city.

Most of them had probably gone bankrupt and become homeless. In the end, they either became Iron Men or died under murky circumstances.

Once he finished calculating, Deng Zixing found that his figure was close to Jiang Wen's estimate. He immediately realized the man in front of him had talent.

Leaving the tractor Iron Men to recover on their own, Deng Zixing pulled out a bag of sunflower seeds and gave Jiang Wen half. "What do you think we should do about all these homeless people?"

"Food, drinking water, then jobs in exchange for pay."

"I agree with the approach, but where do we find the jobs?"

"Send them to Heaven Origin?"

"The Regional Lock is still in place, and it's hard for homeless people to travel. Most areas are off-limits to them. They can only go somewhere no one manages, maybe somewhere that isn't even a designated area."

Jiang Wen took out a map of Longevity Prefecture and studied it with a troubled look. "And it would

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