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Chapter 668: The Capital of the Tang Dynasty (Second update, please subscribe)
Opportunities are for those who are prepared.

Just as Wang Songnian and his party were starting their educational inspection in Kuala Lumpur, a plane landed at Chang'an Airport.

Among the passengers who had just gotten off the plane, there was a young man with a suitcase who couldn't help but look at the place.

The airport looks very modern and is huge, even London's airports can't compare.

After Lee Kuan Yew came up with this answer in his heart, he even felt a little excited. After all, he finally set foot on the place he had been looking forward to for a long time.

He graduated from Cambridge University last year and was qualified to practice law in London three months ago. I just returned to Singapore a month ago and started working as a lawyer.

This time I came to Nanyang not on purpose, but because of work.

This job is not complicated at all. As a representative of a company in Singapore, I come here to litigate a lawsuit with a company in Nanyang.

Following the flow of passengers who disembarked from the plane, they arrived at the airport customs. However, facing the channels for nationals and foreigners, Lee Kuan Yew couldn't help but feel a little melancholy - because most people used the channels for nationals.

Lee Kuan Yew, holding a Federation of Malay passport, could only pass through customs through the foreigners' channel.

The young man opposite was very handsome and was wearing a decent suit. Lee Kuan Yew was not surprised by this. Although the weather in Nanyang was very hot, places like law firms had air conditioning, so it was normal to wear a suit and tie. operate.

"You must be Lawyer Tang from Dacheng Firm, right?"

Lee Kuan Yew walked up to the young man holding the airport pick-up sign and asked politely.

"Well, let's use Mandarin, otherwise it will be too troublesome to use English."

Even though he had never been to Chang'an, Lee Kuan Yew knew these data very well. After all, even when he was in London, he had been paying attention to this place and the changes here.

"You must be Lawyer Lee Kuan Yew. In the next few days, I will fully cooperate with your work. You will have no problem speaking Mandarin."

"Let's go, Lawyer Li. I'll take you to the hotel first, and then I'll show you Chang'an tomorrow. This is the largest and most modern city in Asia."

Nodding slightly, Lee Kuan Yew did not refute. Chang'an is indeed the largest and most modern city in Asia. Not only does it have the largest airport in Asia, but it also has the longest subway - 128 kilometers. It has more than 600 million residents living in a city circle with a total area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers centered on Chang'an.

Putting away the cards, Tang Botao smiled affectionately.

Soon, Lee Kuan Yew passed the airport customs.

After walking out of customs, in the airport lobby, people waiting to be picked up raised their feet and then raised improvised pick-up cards with the person being picked up written on them.

He reached out to pick up Lee Kuan Yew's suitcase. Lee Kuan Yew handed the suitcase to him without hesitation. Tang Botao said as he walked away:

When filling out the entry registration form, Lee Kuan Yew couldn't help but have this idea in his mind. In fact, in the past few years, many people in Singapore have applied for Nanyang overseas Chinese passports. Nanyang not only recognizes dual nationality, but also all Tang Chinese overseas Chinese. You can apply for a Nanyang expatriate passport.

In fact, Lee Kuan Yew should be fortunate that his identity as a Tang nationality also allowed him to receive certain preferential treatment. Tang nationals holding foreign passports can enjoy a 30-day visa on arrival, while Malays and Indians in the Federation of Malay States , there is no such treatment.

"No problem at all."

"If you apply for an expatriate passport, it shouldn't be so troublesome."

As a foreigner entering the country, you will encounter a series of problems, such as needing a visa and filling out an entry registration form.

There were not many passengers traveling by plane at the moment, so Lee Kuan Yew didn't waste much effort to see the person picking him up holding his name in the air.

What's more, I'm curious about what kind of power turned this place from a wild forest into a modern city, not one, but several.

……

After getting in the car, Lee Kuan Yew was surprised as he felt the cold air blowing from the car as it drove. "The cold wind is blowing out here. Is this car also equipped with air conditioning?"

In Lee Kuan Yew's understanding, air conditioners are installed in hotels, cinemas, and office buildings. However, the biggest feeling when returning to Singapore this time is that there are more and more air-conditioned office buildings in Singapore.

But even so, who would have thought that Lawyer Tang's car was actually equipped with air conditioning.

Lee Kuan Yew's surprise made Tang Botao proudly show off.

"That's right, how about it? I didn't expect it. This is the latest car air conditioner unique to Alfa Romeo. I really can't believe how the engineers of Chunlan Company invented this kind of air conditioner and actually installed it in the car. It’s very cool in the car no matter how hot the weather is.”

Install the air conditioner in your car!
Feeling the cool breeze blowing from the air conditioner, Lee Kuan Yew opened his mouth in surprise. He didn't know much about cars at all, and car air conditioners were unheard of. However, he still learned some information from Tang Botao's words.

"Lawyer Tang, this air conditioner was also invented in Nanyang?"

"Yeah, how about it, I didn't expect it."

In fact, what Tang Botao didn't know was that this type of vehicle air conditioner, whether it was a single air conditioner or an integrated heating and cooling vehicle air conditioner, was the result of Li Yian's "smuggling" for personal enjoyment. Although the American luxury car Packard provided a refrigeration air-conditioning system as early as 39, it did not achieve commercial success due to its high price.

The tropical climate in Nanyang made Li Yi'an focus on air conditioners early. After learning that car air conditioners had not been really invented, he directly adopted the borrowing principle and "smuggled" several air-conditioned cars from the system mall. , and Chunlan, as the largest air conditioner manufacturer in Nanyang, naturally took over the task of imitation.

After more than two years of improvement and debugging, it was not until last year that Chunlan Company launched a single-cooling car air conditioner. At first, due to limited production, it was exclusively used by BMW. It was not until a few months ago that it appeared as an optional accessory on Alfa Romeo. On the options list.

The hot weather in Nanyang makes this kind of car air conditioner very popular in the market. Air conditioning has also become the biggest product advantage of BMW and Alfa Romeo cars, and thus they have successfully entered the southern US market. After all, the weather in the southern US is also very hot.

"It's really hard to imagine that air conditioning can be installed in a car. It's really a pleasure to drive in such a comfortable environment."

"Yes, if Lawyer Li likes it, he can buy one when he returns to Singapore. There are also BMWs and Alfa Romeos there."

"Yes, that's right. The biggest change in Singapore after returning from the UK is that there are many more cars on the road. They are all BMW and Alfa Romeo cars made in Nanyang."

Once upon a time, the streets of Singapore were dominated by British cars. However, in the past three years, Nanyang cars have swept across Southeast Asia, and BMWs and Alfa Romeos have also appeared on the streets of London.

"When I was studying in the UK, I saw a lot of BMWs."

Lee Kuan Yew specifically emphasized this.

"Last year, BMW exported 1.1 vehicles and Alfa Romeo exported 2.5 vehicles."

As a business lawyer, Tang Botao naturally has a certain understanding of these two major automobile manufacturers in Nanyang.

"They have all introduced automated car production lines from Detroit, but in terms of output, they are not as good as Wuling. Now I heard that its orders have been scheduled for half a year. Even ordinary workers can afford it, let alone employees. car!"

"Ordinary workers can also afford a car... It's really, really unexpected!"

There are also many workers in the UK who have their own cars, but that is the UK and this is Nanyang... However, soon the workers here will also have their own cars.

“I don’t know when Singapore’s workers will be able to live such a life.”

While feeling emotional, Lee Kuan Yew looked out the car window. At this time, the car had already entered the city. The rows of high-rise buildings, the neon billboards with feasting and entertainment, and various cars running on the wide avenues were very similar to the London he had stayed in, except that there were not so many high-rise buildings in London.

And more importantly, this is not London, England, but Chang'an in Southeast Asia, a city of the Tang Dynasty! At this time, although I had seen photos of Chang'an countless times when I was in the UK, the feeling of being there was completely different. The straightforward visual impact of the bustling city directly shocked Lee Kuan Yew. In his heart, he couldn't help but sigh.

"This is Chang'an...the capital of the Tang Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)