"Rogue ......" Hong Tao blocked all the excuses, Jiang Zhuyi and Diane knew that they couldn't hide, scolded in unison, and then stopped squeaking.

"Let's go with two boats, I'll arrange to go around Rottnest Island, where the scenery is very nice and there are special surprises. "Conley doesn't need to wear clothes when she hears about the sun, so it will be embarrassing for her to follow her on the boat, but she is not at ease if she doesn't follow. is worthy of being Mrs. Zhang's big housekeeper, her brain is really good, and she immediately came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

After this day's tossing, Hong Tao has figured out the general appearance of Perth, which is a habit of him, no matter where he goes, the first thing he always wants to form a more comprehensive map of the local area in his mind. Once you have this map, you can know where you want to go.

Perth, like most of the world's coastal cities, is built at the mouth of a river, which is also a common human disease, and it is inseparable from fresh water. The Swan River, or Swan River, divides the city into north and south, and forms a relatively large lake area.

But it also has something different from other coastal cities, which can be described in two words: desolation. It's not a desolate city, it's a modern metropolis with high-rise buildings, upscale neighborhoods, and lakeside docks.

But as soon as you leave the city limits and head east, the more you look, the colder your heart becomes. There are endless wastelands, rivers and woods, but there are no people.

So Perth also has a name, the loneliest city in the world. Because if you want to find a metropolis from here, you have to walk thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers.

Peppermint Grove, which means mint grove in Chinese, has a wine brand that also has this name. But it's not wine, it's a neighborhood in the northwest corner of the Lake District, where Mrs. Zhang's home is located.

It is a very upscale community, Conley said that it is the most expensive area in Western Australia, and it can be ranked among the top few in Australia. However, the Zhang family did not spend much money on the construction of the estate, and of course, it was not allocated by the government.

Because they came early, they bought it in the mid-sixties. At that time, there were no wealthy communities, and the city of Perth was not so big, much like the western region before the development of the western part of the United States, with only two words, backward.

Speaking of which, we have to briefly talk about the history of the Zhang family, Hong Tao has not inquired before, and in addition to sightseeing, he did not forget to communicate with Kang Li on this day, and the most talked about is the situation of the Zhang family.

This is not gossip, I am going to become the main executor of their family's will, I can't say that I don't even know the old lady's family history, I have to understand it somewhat.

The Zhang family is actually not just Mrs. Zhang, they are really a big family, and they have a long history. Before liberation, the family mainly lived in China, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and mainly operated rubber forests, banana forests, and shipping industries.

After the liberation, the Zhang family could no longer operate in the mainland, so they wanted to find another place to continue to develop. But let's go to Southeast Asia, where the pits are occupied by others, and they can't develop just by relying on relatives.

So the old lady chose to go to Australia for development as soon as she was ruthless, and Australia was a big rural area at that time, with few people and many land. At that time, Australia had always pursued a white Australian policy, and rarely approved non-white immigrants.

But Mrs. Zhang's life is good, just in time for the end of the Korean War, and the Australian government is forced by the United States, and it is unwilling to accept some political asylum seekers, and it can't be too discriminatory.

At first, the Zhang family did not settle in Western Australia, but chose Queensland, which has more fertile land and a better climate. With the help of other branches of the family, they ran a local farming and animal husbandry business, and in less than ten years, they made a lot of money by relying on the virtues of hard work and borrowing.

At this time, the Australian government was preparing to develop Western Australia, where there were a large number of minerals, and due to inconvenient transportation, it could not be exchanged for money. But developing a region requires a lot of money, and the Australian government can't afford that much money. What to do, like the United States, they only come out with policies, and then encourage private investment and foreign investment to open up in Western Australia.

The Zhang family was originally in the shipping industry, and they had a natural sensitivity to the transportation industry, and as soon as they heard that the Australian government wanted to develop the western region, they immediately smelled business opportunities. What Western Australia lacks most is railways and large ports, without which no good mine can only be regarded as soil, and there is no use for it.

At this time, the Australian government doesn't care about race or non-race, as long as it gives money, it will give policy. So the Zhang family followed a large number of Japanese investors to Perth, first investing in railways, then in ports, and finally simply moved their home.

In order not to live with the local whites, the Zhang family deliberately chose an area with more Japanese people, which was later known as the mint forest. If I had known that this would become a high-end community in the future, it would not have been a big deal to buy this large piece of land. At that time, the most valuable thing was land, and a mouth was to buy tens or hundreds of square kilometers, not to talk about acres and square meters, there was really no change to find.

This time, the Zhang family bet on the right treasure, the land is not worth much in Western Australia, wheat and cattle are not worth much, the mine is worth much, but no one wants it without a railway and a port.

With the shares of the railway and the port, the Zhang family's business has taken a big step. Not only can they continue to run farms and ranches, but they can also export local wheat and beef to the Middle East, and re-export rubber from Southeast Asia to Europe and the United States. As both an owner and a second-hand dealer, Perth is the distribution center of the Zhang family's goods.

In the 80s, Mrs. Zhang, a branch of the family, became the leader of the entire Zhang family, because the business of several other families also had to rely on her.

This old lady is very politically minded, not only has she integrated several branches of the Zhang family into her business, but she also keeps marrying other local families.

In less than 20 years, he spread his children and grandchildren all over Australia and Southeast Asia like a spider's web, and any one of them had a bit of an industry, or it was a local political dignitary. The family industry has not stood still, and has penetrated from traditional agriculture and animal husbandry and transportation to mining, oil extraction and banking.

Shi Hongtao still admires this old lady's fortune, if she doesn't have those memories, she can't really compare with her, even if she has these memories, she will have to catch up for many years.

But this old lady did not get complacent at all because the family was big and powerful, she drove her children and grandchildren out, no one was allowed to develop in Perth, all had to go outside to eat by themselves, the family only provided the necessary help and opportunities, whether it could develop or not depended on its own ability. Diane's parents, of course, were also kicked out and ended up in Hong Kong.