After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 179
Meng Yuanyuan was very happy thinking about her own thoughts alone, and then went back to the bedroom to rest.

She plans to take her mother to meet relatives and friends in Hangzhou in the next few days, then take a look at the scenery of Hangzhou, and then go to Southeast Asia to play together, relax and let her mother enjoy life together.

But my mother was right in reminding me that in the future, I will have a facial spa every other day, a body class, and a yoga class.

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Li Zhuo stayed at Xie Wenxi's place for two days, and then he received the visa and other materials for going to Indonesia from his secretary.

So, on the morning of the third day, he made an appointment with a Didi car, took a suitcase, and asked Didi to take him to Xiaoshan Airport.

I didn’t drive this time. I used to park for several days each time, and the parking fee was not low.

There is no direct flight from Hangzhou to Surabaya, but it’s okay. Jakarta is not far from Surabaya. Both are on the island of Java. It’s easy to go there by plane or train.

The distance from Hangzhou to Jakarta is nearly 5000 kilometers, which is still relatively far.

Fortunately, the secretary helped him buy a first-class seat to Jakarta, Indonesia.

The plane was operated by China Southern Airlines, the service was pretty good, and the first-class cabins were also available, and because of the long distance, they not only provided two meals, but also distributed several snacks one after another.

The staple food of one meal is noodles with chicken fir oil, which tastes very good, and the staple food of the other meal is rice, but it is also delicious with Beijing spring onion fish.

The flight attendant was very meticulous and provided blankets and other items. Li Zhuo ate and slept as usual. It took about 7 hours before he arrived in Jakarta from Hangzhou.

After getting off the plane, at the exit of the hatch, he saw a welcome guest from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel waiting for him holding a sign with his name on it.

It is comfortable to live in this kind of global chain hotel when you are away from home. They can help you check in, which is more convenient.

This staff member is of Chinese descent. Although he is not very fluent in Chinese, it is enough.He shook his hand politely, then pulled the suitcase for him and went straight to the parking lot.

There, Li Zhuo got on the welcome car sent by the hotel and went straight to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

The distance to the hotel is very short, and the straight-line distance is only 7.7 kilometers. After a while, the car he was sitting in arrived at the hotel.

The secretary helped him book an Oriental king-size bed suite with an area of ​​140 square meters. The price plus tax was 1650 million Indonesian rupiah per night, equivalent to about 7500 RMB per night.

Li Zhuo went in and took a look at the room, he felt that it was still very tidy, only the carpets in the living room and the bedroom were a bit of a fake style, and the rest were standard modern facilities.

This hotel has an affiliated Chinese restaurant called Lai Fung.

After checking in, Li Zhuo walked to this Chinese restaurant for dinner.

A Chinese waiter came over and greeted him in Chinese.

After Li Zhuo sat down, he looked at the menu handed over by the waiter, and felt that the Chinese food here should be authentic, not improved, the price is rather expensive, and there is also a service charge.

But it’s normal, it’s rare to be able to eat authentic Cantonese cuisine in Jakarta.

Li Zhuo ordered nostalgic imperial roast duck, abalone and sea cucumber, beef with orange peel, shrimp dumplings, and fried rice noodles.

The dishes came one after another, but the taste was a little hard to describe.

The roast duck is relatively mediocre, obviously much worse than the craftsmanship of the imperial capital, and even worse than that of any roast duck restaurant on the roadside in China.

The dishes are relatively sweet, especially the orange peel beef, which is not very appetizing.

But the Shrimp Emperor Dumplings were good. After eating, he paid the bill and then took a walk near the hotel.

Jakarta is the largest city in Southeast Asia, with a population of over [-] million. It is a seaport city. It was famous for producing spices and pepper hundreds of years ago. Overseas Chinese call it Coconut City.

Historically, it has been a place where different cultures meet. Chinese culture, Indian culture, Arabic culture, and Dutch culture have all influenced it.

Of course, it also shows from the side that it has been colonized many times in history, especially because of spices, it has been occupied by Portugal, the Netherlands and other powers.

Li Zhuo walked around here, and accidentally saw a lot of Wuling Hongguang.

Li Zhuo thinks this car is very kind. His father used to own one, and seeing them in foreign lands shows that domestic cars are rising rapidly.

In addition, the prosperity and poverty here are closely combined. The street he walked was very prosperous and modern, but if you turn a little corner and walk around, you can see a large number of low-rise tile-roofed houses mixed with high-rise buildings. between.

It is really poor, the alleys are only four or five steps wide, the garbage is not cleaned up, and the nearby river water is seriously polluted.

It feels like a small Chinese city in the 90s, but its development is still not working.It is said that Indonesians are generally lazy and therefore relatively poor, but they are willing to be poor and do not want to change. It is hard to understand.

Li Zhuo took a walk and went back to the hotel without daring to go too far.

Early the next morning, he checked out and took the hotel's courtesy car to the airport.

The distance from Jakarta to Surabaya is about 800 kilometers, and it takes about an hour by plane.

The name of the city of Surabaya is very unique. There is a county of Sishui in China. It is said that this is the name given by the Chinese. In order to commemorate the Sizhou Buddha, the Chinese from afar built a temple of Sishui, which gradually evolved into the name of the city.

After getting off the plane, Li Zhuo went to take a taxi after exiting the station.

The driver has a Chinese face, speaks Chinese well, and speaks Mandarin, so the two can communicate without hindrance.

The two chatted for a while, and the Chinese explained that he knew that he was Chinese, but he only remembered that his ancestor's surname was Chen, who probably came from southern Fujian, and his ancestors had been here for two or three hundred years.

He said that in the 50s, in order to avoid the persecution of the local people, his grandfather registered himself as a Batavian. After two or three generations, he basically could not speak Chinese. He himself learned Chinese because of the power of the Chinese Empire:

"I know that I am of Chinese descent, and more and more mainlanders come to do business. This is also an opportunity for me. When I went to the Chinese class, I told myself that if I couldn't even learn the language of my ancestors, it would be too shameful. Turns out I did learn fast, maybe it's in my genes."

Li Zhuo asked:

"Are there many cases of this kind of ethnic change in Indonesia?"

"Ah, there was a period of time in history when the government did not allow Chinese to use Chinese names. There should be 1000 to 2000 million Chinese in Indonesia, but when the official registration of ethnicity shows that there are only 200 million, most of them have changed to other ethnicities..."

"Is Indonesia still xenophobic towards Chinese now?" Li Zhuo asked again. This is a question that ordinary people are concerned about.

"There are still some xenophobia, many of them are brainless and unmotivated, and generally poor, because the Chinese are hardworking, and the money is with the Chinese. For example, there are about 50 Chinese in this city of Surabaya, accounting for only 1 of the total. 7/80 of the population, but [-]% of the local economic industry and wealth are in the hands of the Chinese..."

In terms of the ability to do business and engage in economics, the Chinese are much better than the locals.

He continued:

"However, if you really get in touch with the locals, you will find that most of the locals are actually meek and honest, and they treat people very well. It is not these people who are bad, but those politicians with ulterior motives who persecute the Chinese by inciting national sentiment. Now that Huaguo is strong, they won't dare..."

Li Zhuo chatted with him, then left a contact information of him, and agreed to use his car to travel here.

After arriving at the Marriott Hotel in the city, Li Zhuo checked in and booked an executive suite of 128 square meters. The price including tax was 484 million Indonesian rupiah, about 2200 yuan.

Afterwards, Li Zhuo continued to ride in the old brother Chen's car and started wandering around in the name of traveling.

I went to Genrangi Beach, Dutch Castle, and Zhenghe Mosque.

This mosque is not big, and in the Chinese residential area, it is richer than other places as a whole.

The mosque is in Chinese style, and not many people may know that Zheng He's surname is actually Ma.

Li Zhuo went in to have a look, and found that many envoys and celebrities had left letters in the temple.

After he came out, Li Zhuo asked Brother Chen to drive him out of the city and headed for the northeast under the pretext of wanting to see life in the country.

After leaving the suburbs, the car continued on the dirt road for another two or three kilometers, and Li Zhuo sensed the locked monkey.

Li Zhuo directed the taxi and finally stopped outside a plantation farm, where Li Zhuo saw the monkey through the fence.

It was chained to a tree and was standing up and watching them curiously.

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