696 Not Simple
"Didn't scare you last night?"
Finally leaving the capital area, Chen Yonglu breathed a sigh of relief. He asked Xiao Feng and the others a little embarrassedly.
Of course, Xiao Feng would not be scared. He had experienced more in the other world than this terrifying sea of corpses and blood.
"Haha, I'm a little scared, after all, I haven't experienced this situation!"
But naturally he wouldn't say that, and he wasn't afraid last night, Jesse was frightened. After all, the scene of the fire rising into the sky really looked quite scary.
"Hey! It's also because of the trouble from the above."
Chen Yonglu talked to Xiao Feng and the others. It turned out that he had been in China before, and knew about the situation in the Tong Kingdom, that is, climbing the wall to read the news.
But when I came back this time, I was discussing cooperation with Xiao Feng and the others with my family, but when I came back, I found that something was wrong in the Tong Kingdom.
Brazil's economy was weak, and even a crisis broke out before. People took to the streets to cause trouble. Then the crisis spread to Argentina, and Argentina also had an economic crisis and people took to the streets to cause trouble.
In the end, the Tong Kingdom, one of the three small strong men in South America, was unable to escape and the same thing broke out.
The reason for the incident was that the subway company in Tongguo announced a 40 cent increase in price, saying that it was because of the rise in international oil prices.
But the people quit because the tickets of one yuan and one yuan six are nothing to the rich, but for most people in the Tong Kingdom who are extremely poor, it is a huge burden.
At this time, under Chen Yonglu's explanation, the illusion that the Copper Kingdom was listed by the United Nations as breaking through the middle-income trap and the number one developed country in South America was also exposed.
It is true that the Tong Kingdom is very rich, but the wealthy families have always been the big families.
These big families have existed since the Spanish colonization. Later, it was these native whites who led the local Araucan people to drive away the Spanish colonists and establish the current Copper Kingdom.
These native white people have always been the highest top of the country, and they control the key departments of the Copper Kingdom.
Copper mines, saltpeter mines, and various pastures, forestry resources, fishery resources, etc. are all in their hands.
Moreover, they also have very meticulous intersections with the capital of the United States and Europe, and often unite to cut the wool of local people.
So in fact, the people in the Tong Kingdom are not in a wealthy state, and even 80% of the people live below the medium level.
It is still far from the so-called developed countries!
"...Of course, this is also related to the living habits of those locals..."
Chen Yonglu introduced Xiao Feng to local ethnic customs. In fact, this country has developed to this day, and there are no purebred Indians or whites, most of them are mixed-race.
However, the living habits of these people are very close to the Indians, and they are the ones who are hedonism first and are drunk today.
Although it is not enough to make two people, it is not much different. Today, I will spend all my salary in three days, and then I can only wait until the salary is paid next time.
Most people don’t have any idea of saving money, which is also the main reason why most people live in poverty.
"... Actually, if you say something politically incorrect, these people are just lazy. I have also seen it back to my hometown. Really, if people from my hometown come over, in a few years, everyone here will be eliminated..."
When Chen Yonglu said this, his expression was very complicated, with a lot of anger and inconvenience.
Xiao Feng can also understand his mentality. In fact, many South American and African countries face such problems.
They are not lacking in rich land, nor are they insufficient population, nor are they lacking resources, but they just cannot develop.
Why? It’s because I’m too hardworking!
God is so kind to them that it is easy to find food to fill the stomach in the wilderness, so people have no motivation to make progress. As this situation continues, the national habits of these people have been developed.
So this is also the main reason why the world's strong powers and major civilizations are currently coming to the cold Tropic of Cancer.
It is precisely because of the harsh living conditions that people living in that area need to use their brains and do more, which creates a more advanced civilization.
In Xiao Feng's opinion, these indigenous people living in South America really lived too comfortably.
The Ithaca area where Chen Yonglu’s hometown is located is located in a desert area in the north of the Tong Kingdom. The environment here is not very good.
The surrounding land is very barren. To the east is the Andes Mountains, to the north is the desert, and near the foothills are some abandoned mining areas, which are basically empty.
Ikak City is the capital of the Ithaca region. It is a medium-sized city with a population of more than one million, and almost every family has Chinese ancestry.
However, because I have lived here for more than a hundred years and have intermarried with local natives and native white people, the people here can basically no longer see the Chinese.
The most important thing is that most of the people here believe in Catholicism, so it is still very different from traditional Chinese people.
The only way to identify them is to see if there is a Chinese character pinyin in the middle of their names. If there is one, it is basically Chinese.
Although the surrounding area of this city is very barren, it can be seen that the people in this city are not in trouble, and even look at their mental state, which is better than the capital they went to yesterday.
This confused Xiao Feng.
"Xiao Chen, what are the main industries here?"
"Ah! This is the main part of it is agriculture, there are some pastures and plantations in the south. The cherries and some herbs produced here are pretty good. In addition, it is fishing."
Xiao Chen was a little hesitant when talking about this, but Xiao Feng didn't believe it. These low-yield industries alone could make the more than one million people in the city live so well.
They stayed in a villa in Chen Jia in the city at night. According to Chen Yonglu, they stayed here for one night today and took them out to sea for inspection tomorrow.
And in the evening, Jesse explained the situation of the city to Xiao Feng.
"Xiao, there were many things in the report before. Since we have all come to Ithaca, I'd better tell you about this city! At present, this city is mainly managed by four major families, namely the Chen family, the Li family, the Weng family, and the Mai family! The Chen family and the Weng family are old families, but the Weng family fell a little decades ago, but the Li family came from behind and rushed over."
Jesse introduced Xiao Feng to Ithaca's situation, and Xiao Feng listened very seriously.
It turned out that when they came here as miners as the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the early years, the Weng family and Chen family took the lead in the movement and were later recruited by the Tongguo government.
He joined the army to attack Peru, and for his outstanding performance, he received a reward, so he got a homemade land like Ithaca.
In fact, the leader was the leader at that time, but the leader was killed in the battle. Later, in order to commemorate the leader, others helped the descendants of the Weng family up.
This led to the two major families of Chen and Weng families. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tong Kingdom produced an iron-fisted leader to suppress the young people who were in the domestic movement, and also sorted out the domestic environment.
The Weng family suffered a lot of losses because they stood in the wrong team and were later barely protected.
And that period was the most chaotic event in the South American continent, with various large DU owls rampant.
The most popular ones at that time were Colombia's Medellin Group and Cali Group, but in fact, there were also many invisible industry tycoons in other countries, such as Bolivia, Brazil and other countries.
Later, Colombia's first bird was wiped out, but the big DU owls from other countries still lived happily.
In the Ithaca area where life was trapped by life, many young people with dreams of getting rich overnight went to Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and other places to make a living.
With ruthlessness, loyalty and mindfulness, that group of young people quickly became famous and established networks with many local DU owls and made a lot of money.
Even now, there are some families who still have unclear relationships with those guys.
Because of such an underground passage, this Ithaca area does not have any decent industries, but the living standards of the people here are not bad.
This is also the main reason why Chen Yonglu contacted Xiao Feng to cooperate this time, because their family wanted to clean up and did not want to continue walking on the original road.
Now that the world is peaceful, no one wants to do such a business at home all day long. Not only will they not have a good reputation when they go out, but they will not have much development in the long run.
However, it is obvious that some people in these families do not think so. For example, the rising star Li family is very opposed to the Chen family's idea of going ashore.
After several consecutive meetings, the Chen family's proposal was opposed by the Li family.
Now in this city, the mayor basically takes turns to sit in these families, and the parliament is basically representative puppets of their families. This area is firmly controlled by them, and even their power has penetrated into the center.
But to really solve the problem, several families have to hold a meeting to decide. These families are equivalent to the local emperors here.
After hearing Jesse’s introduction, Xiao Feng nodded. It seemed that this trip to South America was destined to be not that simple!
It seems that the water is very deep inside!
But the more this happens, the more beneficial it will be to him.
The next morning, after a simple breakfast, Chen Yonglu took them away from the villa, came to the dock, and got on a yacht directly.
"The Copper Kingdom has more than 800 islands of all sizes, with an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers, of which more than 700 are uninhabited islands, and only about 100 people live in it now. The Kalapag Islands we own are the most favorable, with a total of more than 100 islands, with a total area of 387 square kilometers..."
Chen Yonglu took Xiao Feng and others to sit in the cabin, drinking coffee while introducing Xiao Feng and others to the situation of the Kalapag Islands, which belongs to their Chinese ethnic group.
It took about a morning to drive, and finally the land gradually began to appear in the distance...
Chapter completed!