The buildings were densely packed like a forest, the large glass showcases, and the dazzling array of merchandise... She almost lost her way in all of this. [No pop-up novel website] Li Huamei spent a whole day in Dongmen City and the county, looking for people to inquire. But there is still no clue. Although she knew that her elder sister was not very capable and still called her by her original name, her ability to describe the character was still very poor - her impression of her elder sister was completely different after not seeing her for many years. She was still used to thinking that her elder sister still had fair cheeks and a smile. Like a spring breeze, and a head taller than Ziji - Ruguo is really a tall woman, and she will become the talk of the town even if she doesn't have to look for her." "Novel chapters are updated the fastest.
The most important thing is that Li Mo has always lived in seclusion, basically between the dormitory of Nanhai Farm, where the indigenous people are not allowed to enter without permission, and the General Affairs Department of the General Hospital, where no one is allowed to enter. His daughter Li Quan usually lives on campus and goes home once a week. It was around dark. These two people do not exist in the lives of the vast majority of naturalized people and indigenous people.
Her search in Dongmen City yielded no results. It seemed that Miss Meiyou's information was still not available - Miss Meiyou's chain was still locking her invisibly, and she couldn't help but feel discouraged. I also vaguely felt that the young lady seemed to be hiding something from Ziji.
In addition to looking for her sister, Li Huamei also wants to find a house. She was the first maritime businessman to do business in Australia and Song Dynasty, renting a house and setting up a business hall. But the people in the Li family store are all Li Siya's cronies. Whether he wants to find his sister to live with him in the future, or to avoid the nurse's eyes and ears, he needs his own house no matter what. This place is different from Macau. No matter how powerful the young lady's men are, they will definitely not be able to cause trouble on Australian territory.
Over the years. She has always called the boat her home. Even in her home in Macau, she rarely stays there for a few days a year. An empty and cold mansion. There is no lady in ruguo, and she simply doesn't want to stay for a minute longer.
Once a woman has the expectation of having a family, she will become a miser overnight, and so does Li Huamei. The profits earned this time, excluding the necessary expenses, she handed over the rest to the store counter and remitted it back to Macau - this can be regarded as compensation for Yidiǎn's internal preparation of "walking alone". But she was not polite about the gold coins, gems and jewelry found under Wishuy's bed.
Housing prices in Lingao have increased a lot compared to two years ago. The influx of immigrants has made building land very scarce. The arrival of more spontaneous immigrants who were not planned by the Planning Institute has caused local housing and land prices to rise.
Not only did local aboriginal tenants who “eat tiles” appear in large numbers, there were also many land speculators. Therefore, Li Huamei wanted to spend more money than she expected to buy a house. Fortunately, she had a heavy bag of gold coins: most of them were Portuguese gold coins, and there were also many Indian and Persian gold coins. It is also a considerable fortune.
Li Huamei took a fancy to a small courtyard. Between Bopu and Lingao, this area has not yet been developed on a large scale and housing prices are relatively cheap. The owner is a local farmer. Because he couldn't bear the tens of thousands of taxes from the Australian and Song government, he decided to sell the land to state-owned farms. Ziji moved to the newly built standard village. She likes this difāng mainly because it is relatively secretive and not too desolate, making it easy to hide gold and silver treasures. And there is a tributary of Wenlan River in pángbiān. Be prepared to get on a small boat and escape at any time if there is any trouble. This is a habit she has developed over many years as a pirate - when you land, you must first look at your escape route.
Once you’ve decided, just buy it. But the seller hopes to settle the bill in silver. Although Lingao currently promotes the use of circulating coupons for settlement, direct circulation of silver is prohibited. However, farmers still trust real money more due to traditional habits. Therefore, the private use of silver is still quite common. Since the use of silver is "illegal", the price of any large-scale transaction using silver will fluctuate to a considerable extent, which is more than 10% cheaper than circulating coupons.
Li Huamei only had gold coins in her hand. It’s just that gold is not valuable in East Asia. The gold-silver ratio in the Ming and Qing Dynasties fluctuated between approximately 1:51:8, and in gold-producing Japan it even reached 1:3. In Europe, the gold-silver ratio is usually between 1:101:15, which is why Europeans have always used silver instead of gold to buy Chinese goods. Europeans also used silver to purchase gold from China and Japan and sell it to Europe as a profitable trade.
Lingao here. Gold does not have currency status and therefore cannot be circulated. It can only be exchanged for silver or negotiable bonds at Delong Bank. But according to Li Huamei's opinion. The exchange rate is not very cost-effective. The best deal is to find the Italians in Dutch shops. Leib Trini had long discovered that the price of gold and silver in Asia was much lower than in Europe. In Batavia, he did not dare to interfere in this kind of corporate monopoly business, but when he arrived in Lingao, he had no scruples. There are often merchants here who have scattered gold in their hands, and Trini buys it at a price of 1:81:9. Van Drentron also shares some of the profits in this small business. The Senate turned a blind eye to this matter. Anyway, San Francisco is there, Siberia is there, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia are there. In a few years, all the gold in the world will belong to the Senate. The Senate really What needs to be worried about is that if the gold ruguo is not in the hands of the natives of Eurasia and Africa, it will not have the purchasing power to purchase industrial products from Australia and Song Dynasty.
The Dutch Merchant Store was not far from Ziji's Merchant Store. In order to avoid being noticed, Li Huamei decided not to take the train but instead took a detour to the Merchant Store District on foot. Nowadays, the commercial district is like a large construction site. A dozen small European-style buildings with brick and wood structures are being built. They are also mixed with Chinese, Japanese and even Islamic styles. They are quite exquisite and scattered in an orderly manner under the shade of green trees. But most of the homes here are empty.
The business district is a new income-generating project: it is used to rent out to Laigao business groups and big businessmen or future diplomatic missions. For example, the business building rented by Quark is a fake Tudor-style building, which is not only smaller than the Dutch one. The temporary wooden house is much higher, even the foundation is higher than the Dutch merchant house under construction, making it look much taller. For this reason, Batavia recently sent new instructions to Trini, asking him to modify the Dutch business building being built by the Australians as soon as possible and add a second floor above the original two floors.
In the old time and space, the story of the struggle for hegemony between the British and the Dutch would not fully unfold until 20 years later. Now the two sides are still allies, but the silent competition has begun. Li Huamei was dressed neither male nor female, and she looked like a little foreman unless she looked carefully. No one would notice her walking through these construction sites in the middle of the day.
Knocking on the door of the Dutch store, the Dutch servant came in with a strange look in his eyes to inform him that if Li Huamei could not speak a few words of Portuguese, he would probably be regarded as a passerby asking for directions and water. After a while, Trini came out with a smile on his face. The two parties had met at receptions and briefings held by the Ministry of Colonial Trade. Although they belonged to different camps, bijing was a stranger in a foreign land, and both of them were in the same country. They also have an undercover mission, so they can talk together before they know it.
Trini repeatedly tried his best to seduce her, including offering to paint a portrait of her and make her some jewelry. However, Li Huamei's sexual interest in the Italian méiyoushimetèbié, no matter how big or small the ghost guy is, the body odor on his body makes people's head ache, so it is better not to use spices. After incense, sleeping with him in his arms might as well be a bucket of dried herrings.
However, Li Huamei could see that Trini's smile was very forced, and her eyes were filled with worries. Don't you know that this Italian guy has something to worry about?
There were still about ten people sitting in Trini's studio and studio, painting around the plaster statue. When they saw the guests arriving, they stood up and saluted. Li Huamei, the naturalized student from Trini, probably still had some impressions - they had seen Shihou several times on the Bobu Pier when they went out to collect stories, but one of the people who got up startled Li Huamei. This person was taller than Ziji. He had a haircut and a shaved head. Looking at his skin and facial expression, he was obviously a "true Kun".
"Who is this……"
"Miss Li Huamei, right? It's a pleasure to meet you. My surname is Qi, Qi Feng, the peak of the mountain, from the construction company."
"Hello, you are... chief... chief." Li Huamei soon got used to this kind of address as a naturalized citizen.
Li Huamei was used to having a loud voice, and she didn't even know what was going on. She suddenly turned into what Australians call her coriander accent.
Thanks to the largest urbanization process in human history at the beginning of the 21st century, there are several elders who studied and worked on urban planning, ranging from Ma Qianzhu and Ji Runzhi to Qi, who is still very popular at the moment. peak. However, according to Supervisor Ma, the urban planning profession in the past time and space was purely misleading and harmful to students. According to Supervisor Yijing's mind that has evolved into a mechanical functional computer, all work in the world can be decomposed into n-dimensional and n-dimensional equations. Or matrix, urban planning is nothing more than a four-element matrix composed of industrial supporting radius, resource supply radius, local support capacity and investment scale. The urban planning major in the former time and space only taught people who studied architecture how to draw streets and sewers.
Qi Feng is exactly the graduate who was considered by the governor to have been delayed in urban planning. However, Qi Feng's view is completely opposite. He was born in a narrow alley in the old city of Hangzhou. When he was in elementary school, he saw a calendar of foreign city scenery. His heart suppressed by the narrow living environment suddenly found a way to release. From then on, he began to study architecture on his own. Painting, reading like crazy about anything to do with Eastern and Western architecture. By the time he was in high school, his hometown had also entered an era of large-scale demolition and construction. He felt that it would no longer be possible for the narrow and old streets, which at least were full of unique historical imprints, to be replaced by poorly designed concrete jungles. The belief in "aesthetics" supported his examination He went to a famous university majoring in urban planning, supported him to become a part-time architectural painter, and then supported him to change several jobs making grids on the ground. Finally, he supported him to resolutely return to ancient times, just to leave a beautiful and beautiful legacy in the new world. A city cluster full of character. (To be continued...)
