Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2142 Development Wave ([-])

"Student, give me a newspaper." In a small wine shop at the Qingdao Port Wharf, Yu Xingguo called out to a small newsboy, handed him a few copper coins, and took a paper with ink floating in it. The fragrant "Kommersant" read carefully.

There are several small dishes on the table, including boiled edamame, lamb chops, beef tongue, and of course Yu Xingguo's favorite fish cake.Yu Xingguo liked to eat a famous Chilean dish since he was a child because he had lived along the Nanzhuo-Ocean Railway for many years: fish sticks.This dish uses the finest coho salmon from the southern seas of Chile as raw material, cut into extremely thin sashimi, dipped in sauce for human consumption.

Because the sea water in southern Chile is extremely clear and there are so many small islands, the salmon farming industry has developed rapidly. The coho salmon produced are of high quality and quantity, and gradually become famous far and wide, becoming a local specialty product.In richer areas like the Eastern Prairie, almost every month, refrigerated ships go to the Chilean region to buy coho salmon caught, and then pull them back and sell them for a huge profit.

Qingdao Port is now the most developed and affluent city on the east coast. It not only gathers rich people from all walks of life, but also has a large number of middle class with considerable purchasing power.These people are mainly skilled factory workers, school teachers, civil servants, financial institution employees, ocean-going sailors, small businessmen, and military officers. Anyway, some of them have a monthly salary of more than 7 yuan—the monthly salary of ordinary civil servants is 7 yuan, and the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is 8 yuan. It's almost the standard of middle-class living on the East Coast-at the same time, the family burden is not too heavy, and there are a few guys with a few spare cash in their hands.

These people are the main force of the so-called consumption upgrade promoted by some big businessmen in China, and some relatively high-quality (which also means high price) products are mainly sold to these people.Like the small wine shop where Yu Xingguo is sitting now, a lot of food prices are actually not low, but it doesn't matter, the people here are generally rich, and they don't slaughter for nothing, don't they?

The front page headlines of today's newspapers are still about the construction of the new capital.Although La Plata has not yet been officially handed over, this does not prevent the people on the east coast from discussing everything about the new capital with relish, and the name of Luoyang Prefecture, the central capital, is slowly becoming known to everyone.

Yu Xingguo has been active in the area of ​​the Paraná River for the past few days, and the news is a bit blocked. Therefore, after returning to a big city like Qingdao, he bought a copy of "Kommersant", which he usually likes to read, and read it here. Some big things happened in a period of time.The result did not disappoint him. The news of the new capital, Luoyang Mansion, filled every page, and even the page specially arranged for advertisements contained investment invitation information for the public sale of private houses in the North District of Luoyang Mansion.

He wasn't interested in it at first, but after thinking about it, he looked back.The number of these residences seems to be quite a lot, and there are thousands of them in total. Apart from a small number of apartments, the largest number are undoubtedly villas.The villa is on two floors, with a small yard in front and a garden behind the house. There are various styles in order to attract as many customers as possible.Of course, in addition to these, there is something even more powerful, and that is the private gardens that occupy an extremely large area.These gardens are all guided by famous architectural design experts in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Qing Dynasty. Although the construction has not yet started, the newspapers say that they must be carefully crafted and extravagant. The public price of each set is 10. Starting from 20 yuan, the highest may reach [-] yuan.

The newspapers did not cover up these houses, and clearly stated that they were to recover the construction cost of the new capital and reduce financial pressure. After all, the construction cost of several million yuan was worth buying the entire Rapp from the Spaniards. Lata's money is indeed a bit scary, so he has to do this.

Yu Xingguo read the newspaper several times, until the handwriting on the paper was blurred by his fingers, finally put down the newspaper and meditated.He had several children. The eldest was bright, strong, and learned, and the undisputed heir to his family business. What about the other children?How to protect their future life?Yu Xingguo used to plan to give them some floating money and let them go out and figure out their own way, but now he feels that giving them money might as well help them buy a house in the capital, which might have more room for value preservation and appreciation.Of course, he can't afford a private garden, and it's unnecessary, but he can still afford a few villas in good locations. When the time is right, he will give them to his children and let them live independently. It seems better to go to your own little days.

The more Yu Xingguo thought about it, the more he felt that this strategy was feasible, and he had already seriously started to think about the process of buying a house. Money is certainly not a problem, but the procedures required to buy this villa that is still on the blueprints are also very troublesome. A train went to Dongfang County, the current capital, to go through the process.

As for the current Dongfang County, after the new capital Luoyang Mansion surfaced a while ago, there was news that this place might be changed to the Eastern Capital Dongfang Mansion.However, it turned out afterwards that this was just a farce based on rumors, and Dongfang County seemed to have been abandoned by the big shots.After the capital is moved, this place will become an ordinary county and return to the ordinary.However, the capital has been established for decades, and a lot of wealth has been accumulated. This is doomed that even if Dongfang County does not become the capital, it will still be a strong and rich county, and it will probably not decline sharply within a few decades.

According to current rumors, the real Eastern Capital may be either Qingdao or Shanghai, rather than Dongfang County with poor natural endowments.However, there are also people who swear that the Eastern Metropolis is the Hue Province in the north of Brazil, where the port conditions are good and the economy is also developed, making it an ideal choice for the Eastern Metropolis.

Yu Xingguo could only smile at these complicated news.What is the truth, no one knows, maybe whether the East Metropolis will be established is a question, let alone other things?At present, it seems that Shanghai County and Luoyang Prefecture have the most investment value. The former is an emerging city, and the latter is the new capital.Qingdao County, as the largest city and a financial center, is of course very valuable for investment, but unfortunately, the land price has been hyped up, and the cost performance of investment is not high.Do not believe?Let's go and see the Exposition Avenue, where every inch of land is expensive. It is a place where the rich and famous really hang out. There is no other area in the East Coast that can compare with it.

Then invest in Luoyang Prefecture!Yu Xingguo breathed a sigh of relief and made up his mind.

"This is really bad. Why doesn't Luoyang government allow foreigners to invest?" At this moment, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a young man with golden hair walked in, walking towards him people complain.

Yu Xingguo raised his head and saw that it was Oleg Naryshkin, a Russian businessman who had been active on both sides of the Rio de la Plata all year round, so he greeted him aloud.Seeing that he was an old acquaintance who had several business cooperations, Oleg waved enthusiastically, then walked over and exchanged greetings with Yu Xingguo.

Yu Xingguo's perception of Oleg Naryshkin is quite complicated.On the one hand, he felt that this person was impulsive, irritable, knowledgeable, and his taste in life was like that of a country nouveau riche.At the same time, he also admired this man's keen investment vision. The Naryshkin Building built by him has now become a famous landmark building in Nancun Port, and he has made a lot of money just by collecting rent.Moreover, the Yanbu Railway it invested in was not favored by many people at the beginning, but as the wave of development in La Plata became more and more fierce, the stock of Yanbu Railway rose sharply, and Oleg held a large number of stocks. It brought tens of thousands of floating profits to him, which made people dumbfounded.

But recently Oleg seems to be a little unlucky.Because the relationship between the East Bank and Russia tends to be cold, some of his investments have repeatedly hit the wall. Some members of the Congress who dislike him even accused him of taking advantage of the convenient relationship to steal some East Coast companies stationed in the Naryshkin Building. Its technology and management secrets caused a lot of trouble at one time.Although it calmed down in the end because of the lack of evidence, Oleg Naryshkin was undoubtedly disgraced and very helpless.

Yu Xingguo also had doubts about whether Oleg had done these things, but he was not a government official, and he had no control over these things, but he just subconsciously wanted to distance himself from him, so as not to get into trouble.Unexpectedly, I ran into him again in this tavern today, and I was a little embarrassed.

Oleg seems to have drunk some wine outside, and his head is already a little tipsy.When he met Yu Xingguo, he didn't chat for a few words. He felt that the relationship between the two was fairly close, so he complained about the East Bank government in front of someone.Oleg said that the agents of the State Intelligence Bureau on the East Bank asked him to drink tea and asked him to send a letter back to Moscow through his own channels (the East Bank and Russia have not yet resumed diplomatic relations), and asked Tsar Peter to give up his marriage with the Courland House The idea, calling it "very dangerous", would anger the East Coast government.

Oleg's father, Naryshkin Sr., was the uncle of Tsar Peter and also the Prime Minister of the Empire. It was a good trick for the people on the east coast to pass on the message through Oleg.The news about the marriage between Frederick, the Duke of Courland, and Moscow was also obtained by the people on the east bank through reliable sources in Courland. It should not be false, so they immediately issued a stern warning to the Russian Empire, let They don't put their hands in the Baltic Sea, the consequences will be very serious.

People on the east coast may seem to have double standards in doing so, that is, you can make troubles in Ukraine and the Caucasus, so why are you not allowed to marry Moscow and Courland?But this world is not an absolutely reasonable world. People on the east coast do not allow you to say that black hands reach out to Courland, so they are absolutely not allowed. If you forcefully reach out, then be prepared to be cut off.

Of course, while warning Moscow, the people on the east bank immediately summoned the envoy of the Principality of Courland to the east bank and asked him what was going on.Some red lines cannot be crossed. People from the East Coast can help you up, and naturally there are ways to make you sink.A lot of things, or think twice before doing it.

(End of this chapter)