Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1231 A Fateful Encounter

There are densely packed buildings like a forest, large glass windows, and a wide variety of goods... She almost lost her way in all of this.Li Huamei wandered around Dongmen City and the county for a day in vain, looking for people everywhere.But nothing.Although she herself knows that her sister is unlikely to be called by her original name, she is still a lot worse when describing the character image - she has not seen her for many years, and her impression of her sister has been completely deviated. She is still used to thinking that her sister still has fair cheeks and smiles Like the spring breeze, and a head taller than myself - if there is such a tall woman, it will become a topic of talk in the streets without her looking for it.

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 trespass, and the general affairs department of the General Hospital, where idlers are not allowed to enter. 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 was fruitless, and it seemed that she couldn't do it without Miss's information—she was still invisibly locked by Miss's chains, and she couldn't help but feel discouraged.And vaguely felt that the young lady seemed to be hiding something from herself.

In addition to looking for her sister, Li Huamei also wanted to find a house.She was the first maritime merchant to do trade in Australia and Song Dynasty, renting rent to set up a shop.But the people in Li's business house are all Li Siya's cronies.Whether it is to find my sister to live with in the future, or to avoid the eyes and ears of my sister, I need my own house no matter what.This place is different from Macau. No matter how powerful the young lady's subordinates are, it is absolutely impossible for them to cause any trouble on the Australian territory.

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

Once a woman has the expectation of a family, she will become a miser overnight, and Li Huamei is the same.After deducting the necessary expenses from the profits earned this time, she handed over the rest to the cabinet of the shop and remitted it back to Macau—this can be regarded as compensation for the shortcoming of "going alone".But she was not polite about the gold coins, gems and jewelry found under Veshui's bed.

Lingao's housing prices have risen a lot compared to two years ago.The influx of large numbers of immigrants has made building land very tight.The arrival of more voluntary immigrants who are not planned by the Planning Institute makes local housing prices and land prices rise together.

Not only a large number of local aboriginal tenants who "eat tiles" appeared, but also many people who speculated on the land.Therefore, Li Huamei wants to buy a house and spend more money than she expected.Fortunately, she has another heavy bag of gold coins: most of them are Portuguese gold coins, and there are many Indian and Persian gold coins.It is also a 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 the house price is relatively cheap.The owner of the home is a local farmer, who decided to sell the land to a state-owned farm because he couldn't bear the tax of the Australian Song Dynasty government, and moved to the newly built Standard Village by himself.She took a fancy to this place mainly because it was more secretive and not very desolate, so it was easy to hide gold and silver treasures.And there is a tributary of the Wenlan River next to it, and I am ready to get on a small boat and escape at any time if there is any trouble.This is a habit she has developed for many years as a pirate-you must first look at the way out when you go ashore.

Once the decision is made, it will be bought immediately, but the seller hopes to settle the bill in silver.Although Lingao currently promotes the use of negotiable bills for settlement, the direct circulation of silver is prohibited.However, due to traditional habits, farmers still trust real money more.Therefore, the private use of silver is quite common.Since the use of silver is a "crime", the price of any bulk transaction using silver will go down to a certain extent, which is more than [-]% cheaper than that of negotiable certificates.

李华梅手里只有金币。只是黄金在东亚不值钱。明清金银比价大约在1：5-1：8之间浮动，产黄金的日本甚至曾经达到过1：3。而在欧洲，金银比价通常在1：10-1：15之间，这也是欧洲人一直用白银而不是黄金购买中国商品的原因。欧洲人同时把用白银收购中国和日本的黄金贩卖到欧洲作为一项有利可图的贸易来做。

Here in Lingao, gold has no currency status, so it cannot be circulated.Only in Delong Bank can it be exchanged for silver or negotiable notes.However, according to Li Huamei's view, the exchange rate is not very cost-effective.The best deal is to find the Italians in the Dutch business house.Leibtrini had long discovered that the gold-silver ratio in Asia was much lower than in Europe.He didn't dare to intervene in this kind of company's monopolized business in Batavia, but he had no scruples in Lingao.There are often scattered gold in the hands of merchants here, and Trini buys it at a price of 1:8-1:9, and Vanderlan Tron also shares some of the fat 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. What needs to be worried is that if the gold is not in the hands of the Eurasian and African indigenous people, it will not be able to form the purchasing power of industrial products in Australia and Song Dynasty.

The Dutch shop is not far from her own shop. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, Li Huamei did not take the small train, but detoured to the shop area on foot.Now the commercial area is like a large construction site, and a dozen small European-style buildings with brick and wood structures are being built, which are also mixed with Chinese, Japanese and even Japanese styles. .But most of the houses here are empty.

The business hall area is a new income-generating project: it is used to rent to business groups and big businessmen in Laigao or future diplomatic missions. The temporary wooden house is a little higher, even the foundation is higher than the Dutch business house under construction, which looks much more majestic.For this reason, not long ago, Batavia sent new instructions to Trini, asking him to modify the Dutch business house being built by the Australians as soon as possible, adding a second floor to the original one.

In the old time and space, the story of the hegemony between the British and the Dutch will not be fully unfolded until 20 years later. Now the two sides are still allies, but the silent comparison has already begun.Li Huamei's clothes were neither male nor female, and she looked like a small foreman if she didn't look carefully. No one would pay attention when passing through these construction sites in the middle of the day.

Knocking on the door of the Dutch business house, the Dutch servant went in with strange eyes and reported. If Li Huamei could not speak a few words of Portuguese, she 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 sides met at the reception and briefing held by the Ministry of Colonial Trade. Although they belonged to different camps, after all, they were both strangers in a foreign land. And undercover mission, we can talk together without knowing it.

Trini repeatedly tried to seduce her with all his might, including offering to paint her a portrait and make her some jewelry.But Li Huamei doesn't have any special sexual interest in Italians, no matter how big or small the ghost is, the smell on his body is annoying, it's okay not to use spices, after the incense, it's better to hug a bucket of dried herring to sleep.

However, Li Huamei could see that Trini's smile was very forced, and his eyes were full of worries.I don't know what's bothering this Italian guy?

A dozen people were still sitting in Trini's studio-studio, painting around the plaster statue.Seeing the guests coming, they stood up and saluted one after another.Those naturalized students of Trini, Li Huamei, probably still have some impressions—they met several times on the Bopu Wharf when they went out to gather scenery, but Li Huamei was startled by one of the people who got up, and this person was taller than herself He has a short head and a short shaved head. Looking at his skin and expression, he is obviously a "real hair".

"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"

"You are... the chief... the chief." Li Huamei will get used to this kind of address for naturalized people for a while.

Li Huamei was used to having a rough and loud voice, and she didn't know what was wrong with her, so she suddenly changed into the coriander accent that Australians call her.

Thanks to the largest urbanization process in human history at the beginning of the 21st century, there are several veterans who studied and worked on urban planning, ranging from Ma Qianju and Ji Runzhi to Qi, who is still very soy. peak.However, according to Ma Dugong’s words, the urban planning major in the previous time and space is purely misleading and harmful to the place. According to the supervisor, he has evolved into a mechanical functional computer mind, and all work in the world can be decomposed into N-element N-degree equations Or a 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, while the urban planning major of the former time and space only teaches architecture students how to draw streets and sewers.

Qi Feng happened to be a graduate of urban planning.However, Qi Feng’s opinion is completely opposite. Born in the narrow streets and alleys of the old city of Hangzhou, he saw a foreign city landscape calendar when he was in elementary school, and suddenly found a way to release his heart suppressed by the narrow living environment. From then on, he began to study architecture by himself. Drawing, binge reading about everything related to Eastern and Western architecture.When he was in high school, his hometown also entered the era of large-scale demolition and construction. He felt that the narrow and old streets and alleys full of unique historical imprints could no longer be replaced by poorly designed concrete jungles. The belief in "beauty" supported his research. I 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 on the ground, and finally supported him to resolutely go back to ancient times, just to leave a beautiful place in the new world. Urban agglomeration full of character.

(End of this chapter)