The fifth is to ask for a guaranteed monthly pass after 12 o'clock, and there is a chapter at 12 o'clock, and I want to explode more on a rainy day today!

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On this day, Guedes, like the rest of the Franc Mission, wore his most decent clothes, and after carefully dressing up, he followed the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs out of the house.

Because this is the first time they have really gone deep into the ancient country of China, and it is still the capital of the Tang Dynasty, they are naturally reluctant to dress up like a rooster because they are wearing tatters, so they all dress themselves up like a rooster.

Most of the people in these years are actually very narrow in their life circles, and they have never seen foreigners in their lives, so when Guedes and them appeared on the street, they inevitably became monkeys in the eyes of everyone.

In the teahouse, several scholars were leaning on the railing while looking towards each other, and at the same time commented: "These people are the Franc machine people mentioned in the newspaper, tsk, this appearance is really very different from my Chinese people!" ”

"That's it, it's like a demon and a monster, if you see it in the middle of the night, it is estimated that it can frighten a lot of people!"

"And this clothes are also colorful and messy, even more ugly than the barbarians on the grasslands in the north and the Western Regions!"

In the eyes of Guedes and others, everything on the street makes them extremely curious, but in the same way, for the people in Zhaoqing City, they are also extremely curious.

However, although the two sides would be curious and even watch each other, there was a group of Guards soldiers watching from the side, but no one looked closer, they all watched from a distance.

Guedes sighed while watching at this time, this place is worthy of being the capital of the Tang Dynasty, it is extremely prosperous, and what makes him even more noticed is that the quality of the residents in this city is outrageous, and the phenomenon of queuing can be seen everywhere, and no one is seen defecating or defecating in the open.

In addition, he also saw an intersection with a large number of people and carriages, and he originally thought that such an intersection with many people and carriages would definitely cause chaos, and even be blocked, and no matter how bad it was, the crowd panicked and avoided the carriage.

But what surprised him was that when some of the carriages arrived at the intersection, they actually stopped in front of the intersection and let the carriages on the other side pass first, and after waiting for a short while, the carriages on this side passed one after another, and more importantly, not only the carriages, but also the pedestrians.

Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages went their own way, and they were in order, so that there was no congestion at this intersection with a large flow of people and dense carriages

This scene, Guedes was dumbfounded!

He had never seen such a thing in other places, whether it was the big cities in Europe or the colonial cities in the Americas and Southeast Asia, etc., he had never seen such a scene.

Of course, it is only used at several intersections where the flow of people is very dense, and when it comes to peak hours, there will be patrols on duty to direct traffic at intersections through gestures to avoid large congestion!

The cleanliness of the whole city of Zhaoqing is also surprising, this city is even cleaner and tidier than the business district.

Originally, he was because the cleanest and tidiest city in the world should be the suburban business district of Guangzhou, and when he first came to the business district, he was amazed by the cleanliness and tidiness in the business district.

He had been to so many places, but he had never seen a city as clean and tidy as the business district, and the buildings on both sides of the street were very neat, and there was no clutter to be seen.

But I didn't expect that the cleanliness and tidiness here in Zhaoqing are even better!

He didn't know how much hard work and how much money he was fined in order to make Zhaoqing's city appearance meet Li Xuan's requirements!

After two years of rectification, it can be regarded as today's results!

And after a long time, people are also accustomed to not defecating in the open, if it is not at home or in a shop, then you need to go to the public toilet to make it convenient, otherwise, you will be caught by those people in the city management office, and the fine is not a small amount.

And sometimes when you encounter some grumpy people, not to mention the fine, people will directly talk about the baton and beat people directly!

Living in Zhaoqing City must abide by the rules, and those who do not follow the rules often end up miserable!

After two years of hard work, Zhaoqing's appearance has reached the level initially required by Li Xuan.

In fact, Li Xuan's requirements are not high, it is nothing more than to be clean and hygienic, people must know that they can't rush up in a swarm to do anything, but even so, it took two years for the Zhaoqing City Management Office!

Of course, in fact, the city management office did not say that they were dissatisfied with this work, and they were very satisfied, because there was a fine!

The vast majority of the Tang Dynasty's financial revenue was used for military spending, and the administrative expenses were quite small, and the various departments were even less1

Although the salaries of civil servants in local governments at all levels, such as these patrol officers, are paid by the local government, the local government does not have much land tax, and the burden is also large, so from top to bottom, except for the special department of the Ministry of Taxation, other departments are basically extremely short of funds.

Even if there are many factories under the Ministry of Industry that have a lot of funds and can still earn military spending, they are also very short of money, otherwise they would not have allowed the Zhaoqing Machinery Branch to specialize in producing some civilian machinery and equipment and then sell them to make a profit.

It's all about making money!

Although most of the revenues after the fines will be handed over to the local treasury for unified distribution, as the main executors, they will naturally be able to share more profits.

Therefore, although the work of rectifying the appearance of the city is very arduous, the city management offices everywhere are quite willing to do it!

As the current capital of the Tang Dynasty, Zhaoqing has higher requirements for the appearance of the city, and there are many people in the population, so it is more difficult to govern, but even if it is difficult, you have to do it!

Although he has come to China to trade a few times, he has always gone to the Guangzhou Trade Zone before, and he can only stay in the trade zone, and he has not even entered the Guangzhou City.

The trade zone is extremely special, it is not a normal city at all, there is a commercial house in addition to the commercial house, the whole is a super large exchange, and even if the Chinese want to enter, they have to submit an application, if they are not working in the trade zone, they basically cannot get a permit to enter the trade zone.

So today, in fact, it is the first time that Guedes has really visited the city of this ancient country!

And what he saw made him feel that this ancient country was even more beautiful than the rumors!

Yes, he did not use riches, nor did he use mighty, but he used the word beautiful!

In his opinion, the city was almost the same as the legendary paradise, so clean and smelly that even the people looked like angels.

This is comparable to the stinky ditches and cities full of and urine in Europe!

At this moment, he even had the idea of not wanting to leave and live here forever, and as a daring pirate captain, he immediately asked the translator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs next to him: "May I go there to apply if I want to settle here?" ”

Want to stay in Zhaoqing for an extended period of time? Naturally, this is not possible!

Therefore, the translator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't even ask the boss on the side, and replied directly: "No, according to the laws of our empire, foreigners who come to China to trade can only live in the trade zone, and other places are not allowed to enter or leave, let alone come to Zhaoqing!" ”

Although he had guessed that he might be rejected, he still showed obvious disappointment after hearing such a clear answer.

He doesn't know, let alone in this era, even in the 21st century, it is very difficult for foreigners to get a Chinese green card if they want to settle in China for a long time, and it is even more difficult to become a Chinese citizen.

After receiving a negative answer, Guedes sighed, and then continued to follow the rest of the mission through the streets and alleys of Zhaoqing, and later went to a pre-prepared restaurant to have an authentic Chinese lunch, although he had already eaten Chinese food many times in the trade zone, but this time he still ate himself!

The taste of this Chinese food is so good that you can swallow your tongue!

Later, I went to a few stores that were also prepared in advance to buy some special products, all of which were some gadgets, and several of them were expensive soaps that everyone bought a lot, and some people even asked if this kind of soap could be bought in large quantities, and they wanted to ship it back to Europe to sell!

This soap is a good thing, they Europeans have a heavy body odor, all day and night are stinky, can only rely on perfume to cover up the body odor, this can have this kind of bath, at the same time after washing can also bring some fragrance soap If it is shipped back to Europe, it will definitely be sought after by those dignitaries! When the accompanying officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs heard that these foreigners liked this soap, they immediately smiled and said that they would definitely buy this soap, and if there was a demand, then there would be personnel from the Ministry of Commerce to talk to them in detail.

At the same time, he also said that most of the products in this shop can be exported!

Most of the people in the Franc mission were overjoyed, although some of these products are not very suitable, but there are several that are extremely suitable for shipping back to Europe, once they are shipped back, it will be a huge profit!