Chapter 489: Puerto Rico
"Boss, Isabella is almost there." Listening to Bell Lester's voice in his ears, Jiang Hai also woke up from his sleep, rubbed his eyes, looked at the land in the distance, and couldn't help but stretch his waist.
"Ah, it's finally here!" Supporting the platform in front of him, Jiang Hai said with a smile on his face.
This is the ninth day after Jiang Hai departed from Winthrop, the first seven days, he has been playing off the coast of the United States, after arriving in Miami on the seventh day, in order to send Selena Gomez back on the eighth day, Jiang Hai deliberately rested in Miami for a day.
After everything was settled, Jiang Hai galloped south on the ninth day.
And their destination this time is Isabella, of course, this is just the name of a city in this country, this country is called Puerto Rico, speaking of which, there is a reason why they chose this country.
South America is not much more peaceful than Africa, and it is particularly chaotic, especially near the Caribbean Sea.
After all, from the very beginning, this place has been the backyard of all parts of Europe, and the war and turf grabbing have never been broken.
There are 20 countries on the Caribbean coast, namely Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Antisprivate and Barbuda, the Dominican Federation, Trinidad and Tobago, etc., although there are many countries, but Jiang Hai has not many places to choose from.
These countries are either in the midst of chaos. Or maybe it's the territory of other countries. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.
Jiang Hai is not a gentleman. But he's at least afraid of death, you say that if this passes, who is it that he is targeted?
In addition to these countries, there are some that are not friendly to the United States, such as Cuba.
This is a nail planted next to the United States by our great Red Alliance, and if the island nation is an outpost of the United States, then this Cuba is our outpost. Although Jiang Hai is now a member of the imperial court, after all, this ship is an American ship.
And the people on the ship are also Americans, in case they go and provoke others, it will be a big trouble.
So Cuba is also not allowed to go to these countries, this back and forth, forget it, the only country you can go to, Puerto Rico.
Speaking of this country, it's quite sad, you say that this country is a serious country. They don't recognize themselves as a country, you say they are not a serious country. But they are still a serious country.
Puerto Rico was originally inhabited by the Indian Taíno tribe, and was later discovered by Columbus in 1493 and named San Juan Island, and in 1508 the Spanish established a colony here and became a Spanish dependency.
Until the end of the 19th century, the Spanish-American War broke out, and Spain was defeated by the United States because it was finished.
It became American territory, and the United States wanted to turn it into its own colony.
But the people here were miserable by the Spaniards, so they were unwilling, resisting, and even assassinated the president of the United States in 1950. So in 1952, the United States said to Puerto Rico, you are free, you can go to self-government! I don't want you anymore, it's just for defense and the UN vote, so defense, diplomacy, and tariffs are still up to the United States.
The rest of you do it yourself, you love it, you love it, and then the Puerto Ricans are blindsided.
They didn't think that freedom came so easily, and they were happy at first, but then they became more and more blindsided.
Freedom is coming, but they don't really have any on this small island, except for being able to sell a little cocoa beans.
There was no heavy industry, no light industry, not even the processing of agricultural and sideline products, and Puerto Ricans were stupid again in an instant.
Without the support of the American godfather and the dumping of a large amount of food, they really have a problem even eating.
This is different from the relationship between big countries and big countries, for example, in China, your American things come in, which is to impact my market, and these things can be done by me, so there will be taxes and restrictions.
But Puerto Rico has nothing, and he is a beggar himself, and there is a rich man who says, you can work for me, and I will give you money to spend.
As a result, after two days of work, the beggar felt that the rich man was exploiting himself, he felt unhappy, he wanted to be free, and he began to resist, and at first the rich man was still saying, don't go, you will starve to death if you leave.
But if he doesn't, he must go, and if he doesn't go, he will kill the rich man, and the rich man will say you go......
When he came out, he found that he was still a beggar, who knew nothing and had no way to go elsewhere to work.
So he can only want to come back with a shy face, but the US government doesn't want him to come back, and he doesn't want you anymore.
In 2012, Puerto Rico held its fourth sub-vote, voting whether to change relations with the United States, with a total of three options, to become a state of the United States, expand in autonomy, and become completely independent.
The country's 1.8 million people had the right to vote, and 1.3 million people voted, with 61 percent of the population supporting becoming the 51st state of the United States.
Thirty-three per cent want to have their autonomy expanded, while only five per cent favour full independence.
But when the vote came out, the Americans still said, I don't want you! How do you like it......
This makes Puerto Rico very embarrassed, so now, nominally, although it is an independent country, the people in this country are saying, we are Americans, we are the fifty-first state of the United States!
What does it mean to kneel and lick? This is called kneeling and licking! Jiang Hai is nothing at all, and the Americans are here, naturally they will be treated best, so Jiang Hai decided to come here in the end, while fishing for tuna, you can also go to find treasure, of course, treasure is the most important, tuna in Jiang Hai looks like something to play, and treasure is the foundation of his own life.
And the place he chose, Isabella, is a city that can't even be found in the Encyclopedia of Du Niang.
One is because the city is too small, and the other is because there is nothing to say about this city, and everyone is not very familiar with it.
This city is the same for Jiang Hai, this city has it, basically the Caribbean.
Coral reefs, all kinds of fish, sun, sand, beauty, these things are the least valuable in the Caribbean.
So there is really nothing to say, and there is nothing special to speak of, when Jiang Hai's ship is close to the harbor of Isabella, the entire harbor, the largest ship, is Jiang Hai's yacht.
Jiang Hai also looked out of the captain's room, and only saw a row of low bungalows, and the town formed by it appeared in front of him.
Of course, this is not the city center of Isabella, which is at best a marina town, but it can be seen from this.
When the boat arrived at the dock, even the person in charge of the dock was alarmed and immediately ran out of his cabin.
"Hello, are you tourists from the United States?" Seeing Jiang Hai and the others tethering the boat to the stone pile on the dock, the person in charge walked over with a cautious face and stammered to Jiang Hai and asked them.
"Oh yes, we're here to fish for tuna." Although Jiang Hai wanted to laugh at the careful appearance of this person in charge, he didn't laugh out loud, because he was really scared, he smiled and frightened this guy.
"Oh, welcome, welcome, your arrival is really to make our town flourish, I am the chief of the security guard of this dock, are you going to Isabella, or is it in our town?" Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the guard chief here continued to speak in his somewhat unfamiliar accent, and said excitedly to Jiang Hai.
"Oh, we're staying on the ship, but we should be here to buy something or something to eat." Seeing that he was so enthusiastic, Jiang Hai was a little blindsided, these guys didn't want to wait for their people to get off the boat and sell the boat to him.
This person is not familiar with the place, it is better to be careful, hearing Jiang Hai's words, the guard captain here also smiled and nodded.
"Be careful, I always feel like these people are too affectionate." After meeting with the chief of the guard, Jiang Hai deliberately pulled the people around him and followed them to say, to be honest, Jiang Hai was a little confused......
Hearing what Jiang Hai said, although everyone may not think so in their hearts, after all, Jiang Hai is the boss, and whatever he says is what he says.
At this time, the boat had been driving for a day, and it was getting late, so Jiang Hai asked Dalena, Marianne, Azalina, and Harriman Firth to stay on the boat, carefully guarding these close locals, while he went to the town with Belle Lester, Jiang Hai brought a lot of food this time, especially beef or something, a lot.
But they always have to replenish fresh water, and sooner or later they have to deal with the residents here, so come and find out first, and if the residents here are kind, then get some local food, wine, etc., it's not bad.
Obviously, Jiang Hai and they thought a little too much, when Jiang Hai and Bell Lester walked into the town, almost everyone who saw them would nod their heads kindly, and it was understandable to think about it, after all, among the 1.3 million people, only five percent of them were about the same as the angry young people in China, and they wanted to kill all the Americans, and the remaining ninety-five percent of the people were quite fond of the Americans, and there were even many young girls, when they saw Jiang Hai and them, they would secretly send Qiu Bo.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Hai couldn't help but be happy, it seemed that he was a little too nervous, and Belle was even happier, compared to Jiang Hai, he was much freer than Jiang Hai, these beauties secretly sent Qiubo, then he galloped unceremoniously! (To be continued.) )
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