It's February 13, 2o14 A.D., and the streets of London are breezy and the streets are in a hurry. www.biquge.info Sitting in the back seat of a British-made Jason car (produced by the state-owned Jason Industries Group after the nationalization of socialist Britain by Jason Holdings, founded by Zhu Jishi), Ye Yiren looked at this familiar city with curious eyes.

Ye Yi people have been to London many times, of course, in another time and space, it is a very cosmopolitan and diverse metropolis, very prosperous, and the streets are full of tourists and immigrants from all over the world." And in this time and space, when she came out of the Marquis Engels Airport, Miss Ye did not see a few colored people again, and almost all of the people walking on the streets were white. I don't know if it's because there are too few immigrants, and the streets of London are a little cold. The only thing that made Ye Yiren feel friendly was the billboards set up everywhere...... But these are all traditional characters, I really don't know if it's to London or Hong Kong?

Another thing that makes Ye Yiren feel friendly is the road name of London, Marquis Engels Airport, Marx Square, People's Avenue, and the Working People's Cultural Palace...... It seems to have arrived in the USSR! It's just that Engels became a marquis, and it sounds a little twisted! In addition, this seemingly socialist Britain actually has a king named William VIII, and I don't know what the relationship is with Queen Elizabeth?

"Britain is a socialist country?" Ye Yiren looked at the scene outside the car window and asked Luo Yaoguo beside him in a low voice. Just now, she didn't have time to see the whole brief history of World War II before the plane landed. But looking at the respect that the Chinese received in Britain, I think it was to win the war. But shouldn't China's victory be the defeat of socialist Britain?

"Yes, Britain is a socialist country. However, it is not quite the same as the Socialist Republic of Slavia. ”

"Because...... Britain has carried out reform and opening up? Ye Yiren's mind seems to be stuck in another time and space.

"Reform ...... Opening? Oh. You mean innovation and openness, right? Luo Yaoguo said with a smile. It was Nikolai, the leader of the Slavic Union. Bukharin's New Deal, which began more than 4o years ago. However, the socialist countries of Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Ireland did not pursue a similar policy, because it was completely unnecessary. ”

"There are so many socialist countries!?" Ye Yiren took a breath. She's just a little girl, and although she likes to watch time-travel, she doesn't have much interest in politics or anything. Of course, I don't know another time and space, and the government leaders of Britain, Germany, and many other countries have openly declared their country to be a socialist country in their State of the Union address......

"So are there private companies and foreign companies in the UK?" Ye Yiren suddenly found that there was a department store outside the car window with a sign of "Da Rong Department Store", which looked a bit like it was opened by Chinese.

"Yes, there was Mr. Engels when he was prime minister, but at that time there were stricter controls on private and foreign companies, and there were many state-owned enterprises. There has been a lot of relaxation now, and many state-owned companies have been sold to private individuals or foreign businessmen. However, there is not much investment from Chinese companies in the UK, and there is a lot of investment from Indian countries. ”

"India...... Queen Bayi's India? Ye Yiren's face turned cold, and there is an introduction to Zhu Jishi's concubine in the history series written by Professor Zhu Bangqi, among which Queen Bayi occupies a lot of space!

"Queen Bay's country is called the Kingdom of Bengal, not one of the Indian kingdoms. The current Empress of India is Elizabeth II. ”

Elizabeth II became the Empress of India! The image of an old lady and empress wearing an Indian liza belly dance suddenly appeared in Ye Yiren's mind......

"Isn't India poor?" Ye Yiren frowned, the dirty and messy India in the later generations impressed her too deeply.

"India's poor ......" Luo Yaoguo looked at this little girl who always asked some inexplicable questions a little strangely, "India is just a relatively large gap between the rich and the poor, but it is definitely not a poor country, you must know that half of the world's 1o richest people are Indians, and 5 of them have a large investment in India." It's an investor's paradise. ”

"India is richer than China?"

Ye Yiren's question still sounded inexplicable to Luo Yaoguo. Because the international trade rules and monetary system implemented in this time and space are different from the original time and space of Ye Yiren, there is no global trade liberalization here, only regional trade liberalization.

After the end of World War II, which lasted for 15 years. In this world, the Great Chinese Empire was formed; Western Roman League (the League of States created by Jujuan, which can be regarded as a continuation of the Roman Empire, including all of the Western Roman Empire); the Slavic Union (due to Nechayev's betrayal of Germany later in the war, the Slavic Union not only recovered the territories lost by Russia in the West during the First World War, but also took large swathes of Eastern Europe and the Balkans); The European Union (composed of Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and other countries, not a unified country, with the Great Chinese Empire and the Western Roman Union providing security protection) and other four super economies. Except for the Slavic Socialist Republic, these four super economies are all practicing thorough free trade internally, and barter trade is actually a method of import and export control to maintain balanced trade, of course, precious metals can also be used as commodities for balanced trade, and capital export can also be used as a means of balancing trade, but the exported or imported capital can only be used for industrial investment.

In addition, there are a large number of so-called "free trade countries" in this world, such as India, Turkey, the Black African Empire, the Kingdom of Java, and the Kingdom of Bengal. These countries all pursue a free trade policy, of course, a unilateral open market, welcome foreign investment, but also willing to bear the impact of trade imbalances, South Africa, which is making a black revolution, is such a free trade country, because it is rich in gold, it was occupied as a colony by the Ming Empire before the end of World War II, so there are many Chinese living there. Of course, there is free trade between free trade countries, and trade with the four super economies is also subject to the principle of barter.

In short, in this time and space, the flow of commodity capital between countries or free trade zones of various countries is not as convenient as in another time and space, and the scale is far smaller than that in another time and space. One consequence of this is that changes in foreign exchange rates are all led by the government, and have little to do with real purchasing power, and there is no such thing as the central bank opening up the local currency of the bank to purchase foreign currency to lower the exchange rate and promote exports, on the contrary, many countries like to overvalue their own currencies to earn face, and then use export subsidies to balance trade. Therefore, to measure the wealth and poverty of a country, it is not possible to simply use the official exchange rate to convert income into comparison.

"Uh...... Rich and poor or something, in fact, it is not much worse than per capita income, and it is of course better than welfare in China, and the prices are much cheaper in China. But the number of billionaires is of course more than the total net worth of urban households in India......" Luo Yaoguo shrugged his shoulders and showed an exaggerated expression, "You must know that the average house prices in the five major cities of India, such as Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Karachi and Bangalore, are all converted to more than 4oooo dollars, and I can only buy a square meter without eating or drinking for 1o months!" ”

'An Air Force captain only earns 4ooo dollars?' Ye Yiren was a little disappointed in the great Chinese empire that dominated the world. "What about housing prices in Shanghai?"

"This ......" Luo Yaoguo said in his heart, this girl doesn't even know this, where did it come from?

"It depends on what kind of house it is....... if it is a townhouse provided by the government, a house with a usable area of about 75 square meters, it is generally the average salary of the local area for three years, and it is about 9oooo yuan in Shanghai. If purchased directly from the market, the same house can be around 5% 1o% more expensive. ”

&nb block to buy a house in Shanghai!! It seems that the economy of the Great Chinese Empire is really not very good!

Ye Yiren was so shocked that his eyes were about to bulge. "Such a house...... It must be far away from the city, very inconvenient, right? ”

"It's inconvenient...... Luo Yaoguo wanted to ask Ye Yiren if he was an alien. How can it be inconvenient? The townhouse areas are all close to the light railway, and you can reach the most central area of the province within one and a half hours of walking. ”

"That's good...... But it's hard to get your hands on a house like this, right? "Ye Yiren didn't have to worry about the house, first, his parents had already bought two sets of three-bedroom and two-living rooms with very good locations; Second, she is still a good-looking girl and will have a good job, so she doesn't have to worry about finding a wishful husband at all...... But now there is no way, history has been tampered with by Zhu Jishi, so that Ye Yiren has nothing, so he can only find a way to buy a house by himself.

"Of course it's not difficult," Luo Yaoguo was almost sure that Ye Yiren was abnormal, either there was something wrong with his mind or an alien was pretending. "According to the regulations, any Ming citizen is eligible to buy a townhouse in his lifetime, and theoretically he can pay the money and receive the keys within 12 months of submitting the application, but in practice, he ...... 12 hours will definitely be able to get a room. ”

"How many houses do you need!?"

"Not much...... The total population of Daming is so small, less than 1.1 billion, and the whole of Greater China is less than 2.5 billion, and it is getting smaller and smaller every year, so no one is applying for terraced houses now. Luo Yaoguo was used to Ye Yiren's surprise, and just replied lightly.

The urbanization process of this time and space began more than a hundred years earlier than in history, and the progress was much faster, completed around 19oo years. By 2o14, the population of the Ming Dynasty, which covers an area of more than 250,000 square kilometers, was only 1.o8 billion, and it was already in a downward trajectory, while the total population of the entire Great Chinese Empire, excluding the colonies, was about 2.4 billion 100 million. Considering that Greater China already occupies half of the world, the per capita land and resources of these more than 2 billion people are quite abundant.

"No one is going to apply!?" Ye Yiren almost gritted his teeth and spoke, but he thought in his heart: 'Such a cheap house is still in Shanghai, and not everyone applies for it...... What the hell is going on? The economy of the Great Chinese Empire collapsed, right? No matter what, I'm going to buy one! (To be continued......)