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Chapter Eight: The Encounter of Fate

 Buildings as densely packed as woods, large glass windows, and a dazzling array of products... She almost lost her way in all of this. *ww w. om* Li Huamei spent a day in vain in Dongmen City and the county, looking around.

She asked someone to inquire, but she had no clue. Although she herself knew that her sister was unlikely to be called by her original name, she was still far behind in describing the character - the impression she had of her sister after not seeing her for many years was completely different.

, she was still used to thinking that her sister still had fair cheeks, a smile as bright as spring breeze, and was a head taller than herself - if there really was such a tall woman, it would become the talk of the town without her looking for her.

The most important thing is that Li Mo has always lived in seclusion, basically between the dormitory of Nanhai Farm, where the natives are not allowed to enter, 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 time. These two people did 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 she couldn't do it without the lady's information - the lady's chain was still invisible to her, and she couldn't help but feel discouraged. She also vaguely felt that the lady seemed to be interested in

What did I hide?

In addition to looking for her sister, Li Huamei also wanted 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's business hall were all Li Siya's confidants. No matter whether she would find her sister with her in the future

You need your own house no matter what, whether you want to live there or avoid the eyes and ears of the nanny. This place is different from Macau. No matter how powerful the nanny’s men are, they will definitely not cause any trouble on the Australian territory.

For many years, she has made the boat her home. Even in that home in Macau, she rarely stayed there for a few days a year. In the empty and cold mansion, if it weren't for the presence of the young lady, she would simply not want to stay for a minute longer.

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Once a woman has the expectation of having a family, she will become a miser overnight, and the same goes for Li Huamei. After deducting the necessary expenses from the profits earned this time, she will put the rest on the counter of the store and remit it back to Macau - this is also the case.

This was to make up for the debt in her heart that she was ready to "leave alone". However, she was not polite about the gold coins, gems and jewelry found under the bed of Veshay.

Lingao's housing prices have risen a lot compared to two years ago. The influx of a large number of immigrants has made construction land very tight. The arrival of more spontaneous immigrants who were not planned by the Planning Institute has caused local housing and land prices to rise together.

Not only did local aboriginal tenants who "eat tiles" appear in large numbers, but also many people who speculated on land appeared. Therefore, Li Huamei wanted to spend more money than she expected to buy a house. Fortunately, she also had a heavy pocket of gold coins: there was a lot of money inside.

Most of them are Portuguese gold coins, and there are also many Indian and Persian gold coins. It is also a considerable wealth.

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 the housing prices are relatively cheap. The owner is a local farmer. Because he could not afford the 10,000 tax from the Australian and Song government, he decided to sell the land to the state-owned

Farm, she moved to the newly built Standard Village. She liked this place mainly because it was relatively private and not too desolate, making it easy to hide gold and silver treasures. And there was a tributary of the Wenlan River next to it, so it was a bit troublesome to get on a boat.

You can escape at any time. This is a habit she has developed as a pirate for many years - when you get ashore, you must first look for your escape route.

Once the decision is made, buy it immediately. But the seller hopes to use silver to settle the bill. Although Lingao currently promotes the use of circulating coupons for settlement and prohibits the direct circulation of silver. However, due to traditional habits, farmers still trust real gold and silver. Therefore, the use of silver in private is still quite common.

Generally speaking, since the use of silver is "illegal", the price of any large-scale transaction using silver will fall to a considerable extent, and it will be more than 10% cheaper than circulating bonds.

Li Huamei only had gold coins in her hands. But gold was not valuable in East Asia. The gold-silver ratio in the Ming and Qing Dynasties fluctuated between 1:5 and 1:8. In gold-producing Japan, it even reached 1:3. In Europe, the gold-silver ratio

Usually between 1:10-1:15. This is also the reason why Europeans have been using silver instead of gold to buy Chinese goods. Europeans also use silver to purchase gold from China and Japan and sell it to Europe as a profitable business

To do trade.

Here in Lingao, gold has no currency status, so it cannot be circulated. It can only be exchanged for silver or currency notes at Delong Bank. However, according to Li Huamei, the exchange rate is not very cost-effective. The most cost-effective way is to find Italians at Dutch business houses.

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 intervene in this kind of corporate monopoly business. When he arrived in Lingao, he had no scruples. There are often merchants here.

There was some scattered gold in it, so Trini bought it at a price of 1:8-1:9, and Van Delantron also shared some of the profits in this small business. The Senate turned a blind eye to this matter, and San Francisco was there anyway.

That's it. 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. What the Senate really needs to worry about is if the gold is not in the hands of the natives of Eurasia and Africa.

, there is no purchasing power for Australian and Song industrial products.

The Dutch Commercial Building is not far from her own. In order to avoid being noticed by others, Li Huamei did not take the train but took a detour to the Commercial Guan District on foot. Now the Commercial Guan District looks like a large construction site, with more than a dozen brick and wooden buildings being built.

The structure of the small European-style buildings is also mixed with Chinese, Japanese and even Islamic styles. They are quite exquisite and well-proportioned under the shade of green trees. However, most of the houses here are empty.

The commercial hall area 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 commercial hall rented by Quark is a fake Tudor-style building, which is not only smaller than the Dutch one.

The temporary wooden house is a little higher, and even the foundation is higher than the Dutch merchant house under construction, making it look much taller. For this reason, Batavia recently sent Trini new instructions, asking him to quickly

Modify the Dutch business building being built by the Australians, adding 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 comparison has already begun. Li Huamei's clothes are neither men nor women. If you don't look carefully, you will notice

Like a small foreman, no one would notice when 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. If Li Huamei hadn't spoken a few words in Portuguese, he would have been regarded as a passerby asking for directions and water. After a while, Trini was all smiles.

Welcoming them out, the two parties had met each other at various receptions and briefings held by the Ministry of Colonial Trade. Although they belonged to different camps, they were both strangers in a foreign land, and they both had undercover missions, so they could talk about it without realizing it.

Together.

Trini tried every means to seduce her many times, including offering to draw a portrait for her and make some jewelry for her. However, Li Huamei had no special sexual interest in Italians, no matter how big or small the ghost was, or his body odor.

It makes people's heads big, so it's okay without spices. After incense, it's better to hold a bucket of dried herrings while sleeping.

However, Li Huamei could see that Trini's smile was very forced, and his eyes were full of worries. I wonder what is troubling this Italian guy?

There were still about ten people sitting in Trini's studio and studio, painting around the plaster statue. When they saw the guests, they all got up and saluted. Li Huamei, the naturalized student student of Trini, probably still had some impression - they went out

I had seen him several times on the Bobu Pier when I was collecting stories, but one of the people who got up startled Li Huamei. This man was a whole head taller than her, with a shaved head. Looking at his skin and facial expression, he was obviously a "real person".

Kun".

"Who is this……"

"Miss Li Huamei? It's a pleasure to meet you. My surname is Qi, Qi Feng, the peak of the mountain. I am 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 is used to having a loud voice, and she doesn't even know what happened to her. 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.

Feng. However, according to Supervisor Ma, the urban planning profession in the past time and space was purely misleading and harmful to the local area. According to Supervisor Ma, the mind has evolved into a mechanical functional computer. All work in the world can be broken down into n yuan.

A quadratic equation 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 past time and space only taught people who studied architecture how to draw streets and sewers.

Qi Feng is exactly the graduate who the governor thought was 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 foreign city scenery calendar and was attracted by the narrow alleys.

The oppressive living environment suddenly found a way to release his heart. From then on, he began to teach himself architectural painting and read crazily about everything related to Eastern and Western architecture. By the time he was in high school, his hometown also entered an era of large-scale demolition and construction, and he felt that he could no longer do it.

Narrow and old streets but at least full of unique historical traces were replaced by poorly designed concrete jungles. The belief of "aesthetics" supported him to be admitted to the urban planning major of a famous university, supported him to become a part-time architectural painter, and then supported him

He changed several jobs on the ground, and finally supported his decision to return to ancient times, just to leave a beautiful and characterful city group in the new world.


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