Chapter 453:

Gaziantep is the sixth-largest city in Turkey, and there is no doubt that the infrastructure is not bad. Ｘ

Of course, don't think that Turkey is weak and poor, it is a candidate country of the European Union, a member of NATO, and a member of the G20, with a GDP ranking in the top 20 in the world, with a data of more than 70 million US dollars in 2015, or 10,000 US dollars per capita.

Turkey is not an oil exporter, it is not a country that makes money lying on the ground like Saudi Arabia, and its economy is based on complete industry.

Not only that, the standing army of 700,000 troops has made Turkey a hegemon in the Mediterranean region of West Asia, at least, the surrounding Russia, Israel and other powerful countries dare not underestimate this lost neighbor.

You know, it was once one of the top empires in the world, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but unfortunately it collapsed at the end of World War I.

Therefore, the country should never be underestimated.

Xiao Mubai did not underestimate Turkey, although he witnessed the black gold transaction at the Karcamos border checkpoint, which showed that the Turkish border guards were not as clean as they appeared, but after entering the country, he behaved very honestly.

If you are not honest, you can't do it, you enter the country as a smuggler, and if you are found to be staying illegally, you will be deported, Xiao Mubai's Croatian EU Schengen visa has not been filed with the Turkish entry and exit customs, so it is nothing to stay, and it is only a problem if it is discovered by the police.

How humiliating it is when you deport.

Pretending is also very useful, Xiao Mubai did not plan to stay in Turkey for a long time, as soon as he arrived in Gaziantep, he was ready to leave, from here he got on the bus and passed through Ankara directly to Istanbul, where he finally left the country.

Turkey has a well-developed transportation area, with 780,000 square kilometers of land, and every city or town has long-distance buses directly to the capital Ankara.

In Gaziantep, for example, there is a long-distance bus to Ankara every 15 minutes from early morning to late at night, taking about 9 to 12 hours and costing US$9 to US$11, which is very cheap.

It is almost 600 kilometers, and the long-distance bus is 60 or 70 yuan, which is about the same distance as Shanghai to Jiujiang in China, and the cost is only about one-third of that in China, which is indeed very cheap.

The train is faster, more than 600 kilometers from Gaziantep to Ankara, and the national railway takes 4 hours and 30 minutes, which is only an hour and 20 minutes slower than the domestic bullet trains.

However, it should be noted that trains with the names "yolcu" and "posta" are surprisingly slow, so you should choose the trains with "ekspres" and "mototren", which are faster but more expensive.

Xiao Mubai doesn't care about this, if you have money, you don't need to think about spending dozens of yuan more.

Xiao Mubai stopped in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and came directly to Istanbul.

Istanbul, Turkey's number one city, is more internationally famous than Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and more importantly, Istanbul Ataturk International Airport has many flights to international cities.

Ankara, the second largest city, is more of a rural area than it is.

This is similar to the difference between Beijing and Shanghai, Istanbulites look down on the countryside Ankara people, look down on this small city that is only more than 70 years old, just like Beijingers look down on Shanghainese people who are uneducated.

Istanbul is a rich and wealthy city with a long history, and was the ancient capital of three dynasties until 70 years ago, but the capital of Turkey is only Ankara, a city of only a few tens of thousands of people when it was established.

When Xiao Mubai arrived in Istanbul and talked to the driver while taking a bus, he heard that he had just come from Ankara, and the driver was full of contempt for the capital, and regional discrimination was everywhere.

When the driver saw Xiao Mubai's face, he thought that when he met a Chinese, he actually said "hello", although Xiao Mubai heard it as "Ni Hao", but this could not hide the driver's hospitality, just this sentence of Chinese, or learned for a long time.

Why does a driver learn Chinese, Xiao Mubai asked curiously.

The answer is that the Chinese are stupid and have a lot of money, and the Chinese who come to Istanbul for tourism are generous and generous, and they are completely an image of an upstart, buying and buying everywhere, and he has to pick up a Chinese customer almost every week.

For the sake of Chinese customers, learning a little Chinese is nothing, but he used to learn English for daily transactions.

When he said that there are many Chinese people coming to Istanbul, he seems very happy, and more tourists mean that there are many customers, and there is no need to rob the small number of domestic customers.

Most of the time, when you go to Ataturk International Airport to leave, many times you will have too much luggage to fit in the trunk, and when you mention this, the driver is full of ridicule.

In his words, he always thought that socialist China was very poor, but it turned out that he was wrong, they were the richest country in the world, and there was no one. In this case, it is obvious that they are all developed countries, so why not take more responsibility and occupy the resources of developing countries.

Moreover, the Chinese are so rich, they don't tip at all, they are stingy to death, and almost everyone is Grande.

What can Xiao Mubai say, he had to shut up, Turkey belongs to the European cultural circle, many people are prejudiced against China, this is not short-term, and more importantly, the behavior of Chinese abroad is not very good.

Compared with the Japanese, people in the international community have a far worse impression of the Chinese.

Xiao Mubai talked to the driver in English, he thought that Xiao Mubai was a Chinese abroad, and he didn't see anything at all, and talked a lot, and finally the car stopped outside the Garden Hotel.

"Old man, although my countrymen have many shortcomings of one kind or another, can you stop chewing on the root of your tongue behind your back when you are earning their money, a devout Catholic should be grateful, but I don't see this in you."

Xiao Mubai sat in the car, stared coldly at the Armenian Turk, and said word by word.

"Although I am not a gentleman, as a member of the Chinese, I don't want to evade the ticket and shame the Chinese, but it doesn't mean that I won't do anything else, I'm not satisfied with the service this time, so I'm sorry, the tip is gone."

Xiao Mubai got out of the car, stared at the driver and said, took out his wallet and took out a euro and threw it to the driver, holding ten euros in his hand, in the driver's eager eyes, not only did not hand it to him but took back the wallet.

When passing by a teenage girl flower girl, Xiao Mubai took a tulip and smiled sweetly at the flower girl's smile, Xiao Mubai handed her ten euros.

"You will have good luck, sir." The flower girl smiled with cute eyes.

Xiao Mubai smiled at her, and when she turned her head to stare at the driver, her face was already full of mockery: "Look, you claim to be a Catholic, not even as good as an Islamic girl in her teens, I'm really ashamed of you." ”

The Armenian driver was already blushing.

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