Chapter 257: Welcome to Green Horn

"This is the Green Corner Port, to be honest, this port is not green at all, the locals like green sè to call this Green Corner, plus the volcanic islands (Cape Verde Islands) to the west form the Green Corner Special Zone of the Chinese Empire (there is no military base, only the colony's direct district, theoretically the same level as the Viceroyalty of Socotra)." Bai Jia explained to everyone on the deck.

"I think so, is this the western part of the dividing line between the Xuanzhou rainforest and the savanna? The Dakar Rally and the capital of the Republic of Senegal are not the home of the Dakar Rally in the old time. I don't think it would have been possible to develop here in 100 years without the support of the North Atlantic trade network. Bai Jia sighed.

"We can't control the development here! This matter should be a headache for the Governor of the Green Corner, this can be regarded as the westernmost point where our influence has developed to the extreme, it is too remote, there are no products and resources, and there is no status of the transportation artery that relied on water and draft in the old time and space, we are just passers-by here, why spend time and effort to engage in this level of planning, the Governor here is your beloved disciple! You sent him here to train her, why are you so doting again? Liu Jiao ridiculed Lao Bai's words.

"Is this the dividing line between the rainforest and the savanna? I remember that rally was a race in the desert! ”

"There is no desertification here, and the Sahara Desert has not expanded here! It will take 100 years to see the Desert Rally! Li Ji pointed to the grassland in the interior and said, "Look, isn't there just a herd of zebras?" The area of the grassland is still very large. If this becomes a large port with a population of more than 100,000, the ships going south and north must have at least 10 million tons of transportation to support, and the Suez Canal is being prepared at this stage, and I think it will be a small port with a population of more than 10,000 in two generations. ”

"I don't care what industry is going on here, I just have to eat something, there are no Southeast Asian spices here, I can only make some local curry rice and stew! Do you want to eat? Sun Chang asked as he got off the boat.

"I want to try it, but let's say it first, I don't eat the disgusting mush, and the basic requirements of three dishes and one soup are still required. It's best to eat some vegetarian dishes, and I want to vomit when I eat fish and cured meat every day. Wu Qi complained.

"This is easy to do, fruit salad and silk fruit are considered vegetables, there is no commercial vegetable plot here, you just take a few carrots and top it, let's eat a few roast camels!" Sun Changjiān got off the boat with a smile.

"You have been tricked, I saw Lao Sun hiding in the kitchen and eating bean sprouts and potted tomatoes, he is not short of vegetarian dishes to eat, we have the benefit of stealing food, you don't, you are busy making a report on the endemic disease of Xixuanzhou every day, and you don't go to the restaurant to eat, he specially serves you all the meat we are tired of."

"No wonder I've been eating meat lately, I'm almost constipated, the terroir here is good, let's go down and see what the vegetable market has to say."

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After three hours, we arrived at the best restaurant recommended by the tax collector at the port terminal, 'A Hotel'.

"Is this a branch of a hotel subsidiary of a group in the empire?" Lee Ki asked the waiter.

"No, this is the property of the wife and brother of the Governor of Hong Kong, and it has nothing to do with a local syndicate! However, the Governor is the nephew of the general agent of Xuanzhou, which is a group, that is, he borrowed the fame of a group. ”

Li Ji did not ask common questions such as whether this would cause disputes like ordinary people, which made the waiter hold back until his eggs hurt. Everyone sat down one after another, and Sun Chang called the chef of the hotel to come out and handed the waiter a book printed with the Imperial Food Association and asked him to show it to the chef.

After a while, the chef ran out of the kitchen with a stream of urine, "I don't know that Master Zu has arrived, I have missed the distance, I deserve death, please forgive Master Zu!" The chef knelt in front of Sun Chang with his certificate held high and said with his head bowed.

Sun Chang gestured to the other traversers with a smug face, as if to say, 'How about it, it's still a brother!' There's a little brother here.'" Sun Chang took back his documents silently, "It's nothing, it's not your business, these are my friends, I came here to eat to eat the local specialties here, the local cuisine is free, and you can't get those materials, if you want to satisfy us this time, I'll give you a vacancy for promotion." ”

"The little one will do it immediately, thank you grandpa for your kindness!" The chef immediately got up and went back to the kitchen to prepare the dishes.

The waiter and the lobby were stunned, what did these guys who looked like big names really have a background? Can the chef with his eyes on the top of his head be shocked like this?

"Master, what are those people?" A chef in charge asked.

Wiping the sweat on his forehead, the chef said in a low voice, "I don't dare to say, that book is printed with the tenured professor and lifetime achievement award of the Imperial Culinary Academy, as well as the anti-counterfeiting watermark and code, the lowest identity can get these things, and the ancestor level of the invention of a cuisine is also a big man, Lao Tzu, I came to this far area to learn these barbarian dishes, and I don't expect to be promoted to become a professor." These masters above moved their mouths, and Lao Tzu struggled for at least ten years. It's all a little bit sharper, wait a minute, take out the strength to eat nǎi, do a good job, I'll teach you a unique skill! ”

"Yes, master!" Hearing this temptation, both the apprentice and the chef in charge of the cook became excited.

The people in the restaurant were interested when they saw this. "I said Lao Sun, your disciple still respects you very much!"

"Don't you say, the professional hierarchy and academic hierarchy system that the boss engaged in at the beginning is really a good thing, all the professions graduated from higher education and vocational education colleges have more than a dozen levels from interns to tenured professors, if you want to get a higher income to get a higher status, you have to take exams and competitions and come up with a variety of results that meet the corresponding standards, this kind of system of urging people to make progress plus the traditional respect for teachers and the construction of educational ethics, it is indeed very convenient for us to establish authority and grasp the hearts of the people! This chef may be the apprentice of my apprentice, but since he has entered this industry, he has to obey the rules of this industry, and it is a normal reaction for me to stammer. You eat in the special canteen every day, or the special ingredients are made by the home chef and nanny, when have you ever eaten at the hotel? It's normal that I haven't seen the importance of food competitions and chef qualification levels, and it's not strange to come out for a few meals in a down-to-earth manner. ”

"Eating a bully meal is definitely not the same as eating someone else's filial piety, and we still don't seem to be low-key enough to eat an overlord meal." Liu Jiao said stupidly when he saw the almost unreadable prices on the menu.

"How to speak! It is a bad atmosphere for a ruffian to eat an overlord meal, and if you eat a bully meal, it is to give him face, who can catch the big face you give, and the golden book and iron coupon are nothing more than that, right? Li Ji glanced at Liu Jiao dissatisfied, "These dishes are just a strange food, just like a gourmand trying all kinds of game." Do you expect to make five-star food here? (According to the grade of the sè aroma of the dishes, the lowest one-star cuisine is the main dish of the star-rated hotel, the two-star can add points to the promotion of the chef who sold it, the three-star can give the hotel extra points, the four-star can be selected into the imperial dining room recipe, and the five-star can be immortalized in the textbook)

The atmosphere was a little wrong when he spoke, and the lobby manager came up and asked, "Welcome to Green Horn Port, our store has special offers and discounts on drinks today, what kind of drinks do you want to write?" The shop offers a wide selection of juices and liqueurs, as well as some fresh wines that have just arrived. ”

Liu Xin immediately called out, "A bottle of sugarcane wine, a bottle of aperitizing sour plum wine." ”

"We'll all have a chilled banana, a glass of soda, and a bottle of sparkling wine." Li Ji also commanded into the lobby.

After writing it down in the lobby, I went to the bar and said to the bartender, "You see, these people are very particular!" These are the pre-dinner preparations of the aristocracy, sugar cane wine and sour plum wine are both to moisten the throat and enhance the sense of taste, nǎi used to be considered desserts after the meal, and the temperature was just right after eating the main meal without hurting the stomach. Soda is rinsed when changing dishes, so as not to interfere with the taste in the back, sparkling wine is a table wine, where would ordinary civilians order so professionally? Don't keep drinking in the water, these uncles must be very big, don't drop the chain at a critical time, take out the real thing, if these people are not satisfied, your salary is not enough to compensate. ”

The bartender could only seriously prepare the wine and start to divide the wine. One cup per person, no more, no less.

It is said that Sun Chang was not accustomed to the meal system, and after making a few big dishes, he promoted a xing chopsticks and a joint meal system, but the joint meal system is still only used by a small number of people on the family festival dinner, and the speed of advancement is very slow.

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"You don't understand the romance of foodies at all, you look at Liu Xin's real foodies, the dishes have never stopped as soon as they are served, how can you only ask some nonsense like you." Sun Chang complained to Wang Xinyu.

"If I'm a foodie, you'll be finished, when I was a soldier, I had to eat six meals a day, and now I have to eat four or five meals, and if I don't eat 2 catties of dry goods in one meal, I will be hungry. If it weren't for the cheap and sufficient food in Henan, my family would have been bankrupt by me, and I have always only paid attention to the amount and not the taste, and I will understand what romance there is. Asking some questions is also to limit my appetite and distract me, and in order to control my appetite, I almost had to go to Lao Wu for stomach reduction surgery! ”

"Don't say it, the stew here still has a bit of the taste of Northeast cuisine, the breeds of cattle and sheep here are different from those in China, and the taste of the leaves is also different, which is not easy. The tomato sauce and thickening of the sweet and sour tofu are still in place, and this sweet cabbage is also very well fried. Bai Jia commented.

"This chef can be regarded as the level of an assistant counselor in a culinary school, it seems that it should be no problem to rate a one-star hotel!" Liu Xin, who often goes to Sun Chang's Culinary Academy to play the autumn breeze, was full and commented while picking his teeth.

"Just wait and see the service, if you can satisfy Gao Jing, a pervert, it's not difficult to give a three-star rating!" Sun Chang was also very satisfied with the unexpected surprise in this remote place.

"Are there any rooms here? We decided to stay for a few days. Li Ji, who was well-fed and drunk, beckoned to the lobby and asked.

"Yes, there are guest rooms, there are three floors upstairs, and the second floor is the registration office, which can be moved in at any time."

"You took this famous thorn to the house of the president of the local chamber of commerce, and said that I want to invite him to meet, can you do it?"

"The little ones are going now." The lobby was suppressed by the aura of Li Ji's superior, as if he had returned to the novice who was still a waiter in the running hall a few years ago, and he actually used the self-title of 'small', and took the name and ran out of the hotel.

A quarter of an hour later, a sweaty middle-aged fat man followed the lobby into the hotel. Li Ji and the others had already gone upstairs to open their own rooms and washed up separately.

"Where did those uncles go just now?" Ask a clever waiter in the lobby. "The man who gave you the name thorn went to room 301 and told me to meet at the president's house after the dinner was over."

"What else did he say?" The president asked eagerly. "No, I closed the door after that."

The president left after listening to it, and the lobby couldn't help but start to guess the identity of these masters, the name thorn was just printed with the logo of the Chenji Group and a dark dragon with a golden sè, this kind of thing should be the management of the Chenji Group, as for which level of management it is, it is uncertain, seeing the performance of the president who is almost on an equal footing with the governor of the Green Horn Port, how can it be a regional general manager and a high-level executive.

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Li Ji and the others were about to go out for a walk after dinner, and a plan was formed at the dinner table. The Americas are really the best raw material producers, Africa because of the smooth coastline, very few ports, excellent deep-water ports can be counted with one hand, it is impossible to establish modern logistics, modern industrial system is even more impossible, destined to be the last continent of globalization to develop and enter industrialization. Green Corner may only be used as a wedge, a rare port in Western Xuanzhou, but the tragedy is that it is difficult to build heavy industry and labor-intensive industry here. Land constraints, insufficient population, limited fresh water and a large energy gap are all constraints to future development. In Li Ji's plan, the largest city and industrial base in the western part of Xuanzhou is located here, echoing the eastern port of Zude, one east and one west, for complementary trade.

In addition to the high-tech products and large-scale equipment that must be imported from the mainland, Xuanzhou does not need too many imports, and the port of Zude and the Green Corner Port are heavy industry cities that develop metal mineral processing and machinery industry, and a light industry city that develops fishery, food industry and non-metallic mining exports. This is the inspiration point for the east coast of the future Atlantic route, and theoretically it is as promising as Edo, the inspiration point for the west coast of the Pacific route.

The ports of call along the way are not as important as this port, the westernmost port of Xuanzhou is the only place to pass from Europe to the South Atlantic, and it is also the first stop of West Xuanzhou and South Chizhou to Europe from the north. The potential is great, but the software and hardware foundation at this stage is too low, if you want to build this place into the key and important town of the Chinese Empire to control the Atlantic, you must vigorously attract investment for construction and layout. Meeting the local snake is also one of the preparations.

At midnight, after Zhao Shouzhong, Liu Xin and others walked out of the chamber of commerce's president's house and boarded the carriage, the ecstatic president and the governor couldn't help but jump up. It is estimated that the upfront investment of tens of millions of dragon yuan and more than 30 major projects will be enough to make this far and poor place initially become well-off, and he can also earn enough political achievements and wealth, which is simply a blessing from heaven.

Three days later, when Li Ji and the others left the Green Corner, a huge wooden billboard was erected on the side of the main road in the dock and warehouse area, with the words "Welcome to the Green Corner" written on it, and the surrounding background was a bird's-eye view of a bustling big city. Unlike Gibraltar, the main direction of operation here is to the south rather than to the north and east. Almost all tropical Atlantic routes pass through this port, so the potential for development here is much greater than Gibraltar. Perhaps in the near future, it will become one of the top 10 cities in Xuanzhou with a population of more than one million after Zude Port.

A few years later, the lobby of a hotel became the founder and chairman of the largest Green Corner Hotel Group in West Xuanzhou, and the chef became a generation of chefs who pioneered Xuanzhou forest cuisine, founded his own culinary school, and became the grandfather of half of Xuanzhou's chefs. When they recalled the biggest turning point in their lives in their later years, they unanimously believed that the reception of Li Ji and others who were playing in the Green Corner was the beginning of their lives. Green Corner has also become the birthplace of countless Xuanzhou Junjie, the development speed here quickly entered the fast lane after Li Ji and others left, the two ports of Green Corner and Zude attracted more than half of the investment of the entire Chinese Empire in the Xuanzhou area, and the development speed of Green Corner Port exceeded that of Zude Port after the rise of Chizhou development fever. (To be continued.) )