Some people may say that the low salaries of civil servants in Cuba are only superficial, and that people have gray income.

Please, it's really not like that, don't use conspiracy theories to look at people: the government departments in Cuba are not as heavily guarded as in China, except for the top few people, what ministry-level leadership offices, any Cuban citizen as long as he is politically innocent, he can enter after registration, just like the Huaxia Library!

What is this special purpose for? That is, to supervise at all times whether the work of officials is clean or not! Whether they really serve the people! Who would dare to make any articles under such circumstances?

Therefore, in Brazil, we can neither see the street political and military police repression with Western characteristics, nor can we see the large-scale petitioning and interception with Eastern characteristics.

Moreover, the whole country, except for Castro, there are no special security measures for any high-ranking officials, including his younger brother! After Castro's death, the officials of the whole country have no special protection, and the common people go up and hug or scold them when they see them。。。。。。

Well, although the efficiency of work is a bit really bad, is it the inevitable result of the social-social-ist-righteous big pot of rice? But there is really nothing to say about this incorruptibility alone.

However, there are a lot of problems with lower-level workers, that is, the problem of collecting tips, and it is really common to encounter people asking for tips in Cuba, especially in state-run hotels, restaurants, airlines and other places to use their positions to ask for tips, so the director let his daughter learn foreign languages to be a foreign-related service personnel, and the waiter earns much more than a doctor!

After all, a foreign tourist can pay a red peso or two casually, which is worth the salary of an ordinary Cuban person for a day or two. Who made them not regard the tipping of lower-level staff as 'bribery'?

In such a situation, it also gave Xiao Peng and the two a super big problem------ what should I do with this Nima? I have to find a way to stamp my passport!

Xiao Peng thought about it for a long time and sighed: "Dude, let's go, we can only take the next step!"

"What's the next step?" Yang Meng asked.

"What's that Oscar? It's the doctor I saw at the airport, let's see if he can help!" Xiao Peng took out a small note and looked at the number on it, yes, his fans in Cuba depend on you!

If you want to call Oscar, you can make Xiao Peng and the others tired enough. This Nima Cuba's communication is too inconvenient, right??

Because of the blockade of the Stars and Stripes, the satellite network rented by Cuba is slow and expensive, so whether it is making calls or surfing the Internet, it is really slow and expensive. There are very few places to access the Internet, individual Internet cafes are lined up, the price is not cheap, and the hotel can spend money to access the Internet slowly, and it is super expensive. Although there are dozens of public IFI points in Havana, you can spend money to surf the Internet, but Xiao Peng and the two basically did not find it.

As for phone calls, the phone bill here is called expensive, almost a minute and a half red pesos, which is exchanged for four yuan in RMB, and about one yuan for a text message, and it is even more expensive to make a foreign call. The first thing all tourists who travel to Cuba should do is to turn off the mobile phone network, once a Chinese tourist came to Cuba, and as soon as he landed, he received a few text messages and a few online news pushes, and the 8,000 yuan was gone。。。。。。

As for buying a phone card, not to mention the need for identity to board the plane, the price is quite ruthless, buy a phone card for 40 red pesos, and the phone bill is calculated separately。。。。。。

Xiao Peng finally asked someone to help, and used the phone card used by the locals to get through, similar to the 201 card originally used in China, dial 166 before dialing, and then enter your own card number and then enter the phone number, the price is very cheap, but it's okay to break the line or something。。。。。。

But I finally got in touch with Oscar, and after waiting for a long time, I saw Oscar driving a sky-blue Chevrolet Bel Air convertible with a burning bag!

In Cuba, there are really not many private cars, most of them are state-owned, and in recent years, they have finally opened up, allowing private individuals to buy cars, but the price of tens of thousands of red pesos at every turn can make ordinary people unacceptable------ a salary of only 25 red soles a month, and it takes hundreds of years to save enough to buy a car? Cuba has been in place for so many years to allow private people to buy cars, and as a result, less than 100 cars have been sold。。。。。。

In Cuba, you only need to look at the color of the license plate to know what the car is used for: the license plate of a high-level government official is white, the license plate of a foreign mission in China is black, the olive-green license plate is the Ministry of the Interior, the mint green license plate is a military car, and the yellow license plate is a private car. Executives of state-owned enterprises, foreign journalists, religious figures, and Cubans working for overseas companies have different color license plates to distinguish them.

In addition, the letters in the license plate of the same color also have different meanings, for example, the yellow card with the P prefix is a taxi.

This Oscar can use a yellow plate K head car, which is a private car.

However, with the reform of Cuba, especially the restoration of diplomatic relations between the Stars and Stripes and Cuba, and the relaxation of a number of sanctions that have lasted for more than half a century, many foreign cars have entered Cuba------- so now almost all the streets of Cuba are Chinese cars, and the Cuban classic cars that originally belonged to the state have also fallen into private hands. This has also created a funny phenomenon: those who drive cheap Chinese cars are all civil servants, while those who drive expensive classic cars are ordinary Cubans。。。。。。

"Mr. Xiao, you finally contacted me!" Oscar got out of the car and gave Xiao Peng a warm hug: "Mr. Yang, hello hello!"

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "I know you alone in Cuba, so of course I can only contact you! Actually, I have something I want to see if you can help。。。。。。 ”

"Everything else is a trivial, let's go home and talk, go home and talk!" Oscar pulled the car door and motioned for the two to get into the car.

Xiao Peng smiled after getting into the car: "This car is good!"

Oscar shrugged: "But this car is too old, look at how good that car is!" After speaking, he pointed to a black car speeding by, Xiao Peng looked at the rear of the car, and said 'EmgrandGT', well, this car has a famous name in China, called 'Geely Borui'!

Oscar was still there and said enviously: "I want to buy that car, but you also know that even if I can go abroad as an appointed doctor, I will only get it for more than 400 US dollars a month, and if I buy some things for my family, it would be good to save 300 red pesos, but it will cost more than 120,000 red pesos to buy this car." I'm going to save up until the Year of the Monkey?"

"Poof!" Xiao Peng and Yang Meng sprayed together. A Geely Boyue sells for 120,000 red pesos? What kind of international jokes? It doesn't cost 120,000 yuan to buy it in Huaxia!

"Actually, I'm more optimistic about the EmgrandX7, which is better, but it's too expensive. 190,000 red pesos!" Oscar continued.

"What's the EmgrandX7?" Xiao Peng asked curiously, he now knows that this Emgrand is Geely's brand, but what is X7? When does Geely still have X7? Isn't that the serial number of a BMW?

As a result, Oscar pointed to a car parked on the side of the road: "That's no, that's it!"

Xiao Peng was speechless again, it turned out to be Geely Boyue。。。。。。 The Cuban government is too ruthless to make money, isn't it? A car worth 150,000 yuan sells for $190,000? This is even more ruthless than Li Jiapo! Li Jiapo is just a Chery QQ that sells for $65,000。。。。。。

Don't underestimate the Huaxia Automobile brand, in recent years, because of the high quality and low price, the export volume has continued to grow year after year. It turned out that Chery was outstanding, but now it is blossoming in many aspects, especially since Geely's acquisition of Volvo, it has been deeply involved in overseas markets, and there is a trend of catching up with Chery.

Of course, the most bizarre domestic brand is Lifan.

Although Lifan Automobile has made people complain countless times in China, and has been labeled as the 'Copycat King', and the recognition is very low, in the Vietnamese and Russian markets, Lifan Automobile is definitely the most popular Huaxia car. Even in the eyes of local consumers, Lifan's influence is even higher than that of Ford。。。。。。

And this Cuba is obviously the world of Geely and BYD. BYD is now even more awesome, directly transforming into new energy, becoming the world's second largest battery producer, exporting to 59 countries, and even the Stars and Stripes Eagle Country has to import BYD's electric vehicles. And what about the original production of energy vehicles?

Cars like BYD F3 have directly become cars that can only be driven by big stars here, such as Cuban hurdler Dai Long Robles, who broke Liu Xiang's world record and ran up to beat Liu Xiang, he drove a BYD F3.

In the eyes of foreigners, BYD is a 'road tank', it is a god car! It is all kinds of endurance! Eh, what about in China?

At least now, in the eyes of Oscar, Huaxia is the world's top luxury car。。。。。。

"Oscar, how much did you spend on this car?" asked Xiao Peng.

"This is a government return car purchased with a quota, and it can be regarded as taking care of us expatriate doctors. It cost me three thousand red pesos!" Oscar said with a little pride.

His pride was justified, three thousand red pesos was not something that an ordinary doctor could take. Only expatriate doctors like him can afford it. Xiao Peng had already made a small calculation: three thousand red pesos, it's better to buy a bunch of these things and go back and look at them.

Oscar didn't take Xiao Peng home directly, but took the two of them to shop first, Xiao Peng also thought it was very good, after all, it was not good to come to the door empty-handed, didn't it?

There are no high-rise buildings in this Havana, almost all the stores are two or three stories high, the materials are not rich, and there are not many things to choose from, but Oscar told Xiao Peng that this is much better, since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the Stars and Stripes, there are now much more material options than before! In the takeaway stores that can only use red coins, Xiao Peng can even see Stars and Stripes domestic products, such as Coca-Cola and Sprite.

1.5 red pesos a bottle, this price is no one. Xiao Peng knew that Oscar's family had two children, so he bought a box. It's not that Xiao Peng doesn't want to buy more, he really can't buy it------- even if it's involved in the takeaway, there aren't many things. However, there is an advantage to buying things here, you don't have to worry about shopping around or anything like that, all stores are at the same price。。。。。。

This also made Oscar very excited. It's not that Xiao Peng spoiled the child. Xiao Peng didn't listen to him, and continued to buy, buy, buy.

In fact, at this time, Xiao Peng realized that his special impression of Cuba was all wrong!

When people mention Cuba, they always think that Cuba is poor, but in fact, the people here are not poor at all! They just have fewer choices of living materials, and their life is really not bad! Especially the food, which is really cheap!

One lobster is one red peso; two red pesos can buy more than 20 large crabs! You can fill your stomach just by eating these things! Here tourists go to the red peso market to spend, and the price seems to be not low, but the locals go to the blue peso store to buy things, and the price is not too low!

It is said that Cubans smoke cigars and do not smoke, ahem, if Xiao Peng is here, he would not smoke, an ordinary cigar is one blue peso, and it can be exchanged for three cents of yuan! No matter how low the income is, it can be smoked? And cigarettes? The cheap ones also start at five red pesos。。。。。。 No wonder the bureau chief who hitchhiked Xiao Peng was so excited after receiving two boxes of cigarettes------- it was tobacco from China! National leaders may not have it。。。。。。。

After strolling around Havana with Oscar for an afternoon, Xiao Peng has already changed his impression of Cuba! Who said that the people here are poor? The living standards of the people here are really no worse than those in China!

The reason why the Chinese people feel that Cuba is poor is also a matter of course, and they feel that the long-term blockade of Cuba by the Stars and Stripes countries will inevitably lead to poverty in Cuba, and Huaxia also aids Cuba.

This aid really doesn't mean everything, China has also helped Brunei with $4 billion, but Brunei has a total population of only 400,000, which means that they have been given $10,000 per person, and Brunei's per capita GDP is seven times that of China! From this point of view, is Brunei poor?

Of course, the account can't be calculated like this, the key depends on where the money is used. If it is used to build high-speed rail, 4 billion US dollars is the price of 280 kilometers of high-speed rail。。。。。。

The situation is similar in Cuba, where the GDP per capita is almost the same as that of China according to the National Bureau of Statistics, and if you look at the IMF data, Cuba is even higher than China. Moreover, in the WWF report, the only country in the world that has achieved sustainable development is not China, but Cuba!

Cuba is often known through the media, and the mainstream Western media have always spared no effort to smear Cuba.

When I arrived here, I realized that the people living here ------ really happy!