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Grand Rich Village I Background: Long long ago, there was a fishing village by the South sea. One day, some foreigners came in junks and rented the village for 500 years w/ some silver chunks. Since then, they have stayed and interacted w/ local ppl, though each living in each's camp. At first, the village ppl did seatrade but later another bigger port took the biz over. So, the foreign village manager granted gambling concession to a consortium, which finally was submerged by a mogul. The mogul held the monopoly for 40 years until two years after the foreingers handed back management to the new village manager, a true native of the village. Gambling shops stay there doing their own biz. The villagers stay away, living peacefully - they have willow trees, nice waterfronts, fusion bread and coffee were pop in their low price cafes. The new village management, consist of a group of villagers, are ambitious. They casted their vision to the west: 'ah ha, our village can be after the pearl on the western desert. We can develop our small place into a MICE centre.' They started to grant more casino licenses. The most notable is to invite two grandnew runners from the desert pearl, who built grand casinos on the reclaimed land from sea. Then the village's supervisory body, a huge nation, started openning the borders for nationals to flood in the village. Great amount of chips were wagered and tax income boosted. In one or two nights, the once old fishing village turned itself into a glamourous town. Its area doubles, population reaches a small town's standard, avarage income doubles, housing price triples. After junior school, the villager's can get a wellpaid job in casino. Most of them can afford to buy cars. Cars swamp the village's alleys, traffic cannot move. The previously comfortable buses are now overloaded w/ppl, local or tourists. What's the problem? Build carparks, build flybridges. The village manager decide on projects to destroy the parks for building carparks, to fill up the waterfront for roads. If the old is not gone, how can the new come? But there arises complaints during the old/new clashes created by the village officials who's now managing a town. How to quench? Very easy, open up the treasury! Money is a great heal, not nature. Officials know it well. Next time let's see - the grand rich village's grand rich race. |
