Friday, July 1, 1622

As soon as the Baxia Flying Shear merchant ship returning from the Azores docked at the port, a group of European or Indian dock workers hurriedly surrounded it, and the boat planks of the boat boards, the ropes of the ropes, and a newly built large human pulley crane were also slowly pushed to the corresponding position under the call of dozens of European workers.

Swenbo led his Spanish wife Ana to the dock and took a deep breath.

Well, in addition to the natural smell of the sea, it still feels good. Even though the sanitation management of the American Concession in Port Heroes is very strict, when it comes to the natural freshness of the air, it is still a few advantages here.

The entire Long Island New Area, including the port, is covered with flat ground compacted with gravel and asphalt, snow-white lines divide the port work area, neat dock warehouse buildings are scattered, and some lawns or street lampposts along the green belt of trees are painted snow-white, and beautiful windproof oil lamps are hung on them.

Workers of European or Indian descent dressed in port uniforms push carts or lead horses, shuttling back and forth, while police officers in teams of two walk leisurely with batons around their waists. Occasionally, you can see European housewives in clean and beautiful dresses picking and choosing from a row of wooden tubs in front of the fish shop on the side of the pier.

Looking south along the wide streets, the chessboard-like neighborhood of the Long Island New District is hidden among the lush greenery, and on the side of the street, the stone-concrete drainage ditch and the large pool of the distant green belt combine several beautiful patterns on the block map.

The more upscale urban area on the other side of the East River is much more mysterious.

It hasn't been back to North America for a year, and now the scene of Long Island's port terminal and the southern side of Manchester on the other side of the East River have changed. Shi Wenbo, who was more mentally prepared, was still secretly surprised.

Obviously, after being fed up with modern urban diseases such as snail dwelling, traffic jams, and environmental pollution, a group of young people completely regarded this new world as their own simulated garden city. Just such a small city with only a few thousand people can catch up with the tens of thousands of towns in later generations in terms of size and construction layout.

Although she has been listening to her husband's "Chinese American civilization" for more than half a year, and she is used to a large number of various goods from the novel country of North America, this beautiful and fresh city in front of her still brings great surprises to Anna.

"Where's our new manor, my dear?" This question suddenly came to mind. Anna clung to her husband again, her mouth full of coquettishness.

"I've already commissioned Captain Adelaide to help us build a villa estate on the other side of the South End." Seeing the two carriages coming slowly in the distance, a smile appeared on the corner of Shi Wenbo's mouth.

Come to the port to greet you. Sure enough, it was Adelaide, the former captain of England who had become the shipping director of the merchant fleet of the state-owned import and export group, and was greeted with an exaggerated smile at this time. Next to her was a European girl in a Western-style dress, with a name tag on her chest that read the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which should be a staff member arranged by the government to greet her.

In the back carriage, three people got off, the front was Liu Yun in a suit and leather shoes, followed by two internal military police officers from the Department of Homeland Security.

"Oh, my honorable Excellency the Consul General, welcome home!" Adelaide stretched out his hands and grabbed Swenbo's hand in a manner that was as good as a superior person, shaking it vigorously. On the other hand, he deliberately looked at the young Spanish aristocratic woman beside him in surprise, "Ah! And a beautiful lady! ”

"Is my house all done?" Shi Wenbo nodded slightly at Liu Yun, who rarely interacted with, and looked at the European staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs beside his old acquaintance Adelaide.

"Yes, Mr. Shi!" The European girl raised her skirt and bowed down to salute, and her fluent Chinese surprised Shi Wenbo a little. "Mr. Adelaide has offered to help a lot this time." …,

"Haha, yes, I'm sure you'll love it, it's like a garden, trust my eyes! $8000, if it's me. I'll build a castle! ”

Adelaide is as proud as his chest and his face is ruddy, obviously Adelaide has become more local this year. Adelaide is said to have even invested US$500 in COSCO International Trading, a situation in which only nationals with permanent residency have such economic participation.

"Semian, let the servants hurry up and get all the luggage down!" The newlywed young woman, who was only 17 years old, was already impatient at this time and began to urge the housekeeper behind her.

The middle-aged butler, who was still dressed in a 17th-century European tights, pumpkin pants, and leggings, hurried back to greet a group of nervous male and female servants as soon as he heard his young lady's command.

The family of the Marquis of Santa Cruz in Spain, who had a big family, bought a dowry for Anna, and there were more than 30 ordinary servants alone, except for the people who stayed in Port-Santa to take care of the house, more than ten ordinary servants were brought with them, in addition to housekeepers, cooks, florists, middle-aged female nannies and several others.

"It's hard work, Brother Shi, I haven't seen you for a year." Liu Yun had the opportunity to step forward and shake hands at this time, and quietly glanced at Shi Wenbo by the way.

His own people are his own people, not to mention that Liu Yun is on his side with Su Zining and himself in the political position in China. Even though he rarely dated before, Shi Wenbo still shook hands and patted each other very affectionately. Secretly, he nodded slightly, indicating understanding and respecting the other party's work.

Liu Yun's job was to monitor the housekeepers and the dozen or so servants brought with Anna for a period of time afterward, after all, these people were not ordinary immigrants.

seemed to meet Liu Yun's eagle-like gaze, and the butler Semien, who was standing behind the hostess with his head held high, just turned his head slightly and avoided it.

Disembarking at noon, the servants were guided by the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a ferry to the outer islands for health quarantine, carry their luggage and settle their new home, and the task fell on the handymen hired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Anna, on the other hand, twisted Swenbo in a horse-drawn carriage and walked around the upscale neighborhood commercial street north of the Long Island New Area by the East River.

Although the size of the shopping street is only a few intersections, Anna still lingers in the shops.

With the exception of some of the apartments where the travelers stayed while working on Long Island, most of the families of European seafarers and high-level mechanics from various companies lived here. The income belongs to the upper salaried class of the country's wage earners, so you can see many local high-end goods that are not available in the shops of the American Concession in Anglo Heromas, and the prices are much cheaper than the shops in the American Concession.

Coupled with some of the entertainment and dining with the cross-border boss as the backstage boss, the commercial streets of the high-end communities in the Changdao New Area are beautiful and magnificent, and the bustling Cheng Dù in terms of environment is one of the hottest neighborhoods in this small city.

Unlike Shi Wenbo, who lives on a few hundred dollars a month in government salaries and overseas allowances, Anna, who has a well-funded family, is much more generous. Not only did he buy land for his husband to build a mansion, but he even bought a European sail galen ship to dock in Angra Sangra for his own use.

A set of luxury-style Victorian dresses with a price tag of $199, and I chose several pieces almost without blinking. The plain style of the court Hanfu with a price of 299 US dollars was purchased in three different colors at one time, and as for the scarves, shawls, and handkerchiefs of dozens of dollars each, a lot of them were packaged. So that the butler Semian could no longer hold anything else in his hands. At the end, Anna also complained about why Swenbo didn't ship a batch of these clothes from mainland China to Angra Sangra in the first place.

Well, this brand store belonging to Yang Wenwen Life Art Company, Anna spent more than 2,000 US dollars, according to her words, it is simply too cheap, to put it in Europe, these American imported clothes and accessories will cost at least tens of thousands of Spanish silver dollars, and the European owners of the Lede store are smiling crookedly. …,

This was not over, and the couple immediately went to the Carrefour supermarket again. The supermarket has finally ushered in a super-nouveau riche today. No matter how much she can use, Anna has selected hundreds of soaps, toilet water, high-end furniture, and exquisite quilt covers, and the settlement price is more than $1,000.

Even though his wife has a rich dowry as the only daughter in the family, and the annual income of the family territory exceeds tens of thousands of Spanish silver dollars, Shi Wenbo, who signed the order, still has a straight mouth. If such a loser girl really stays in the country and takes care of the children like Mi Gu's bad idea. God knows if one day the whole family will be destroyed.

As a result of the big purchase, the butler Semian had to hire a few porters to go to the ferry pier together, and the number of onlookers on the streets grew. People were surprised to see the European girl in the kind of Chinese palace skirt that only the "powerful old man's family" could afford, and the dejected Chinese young man next to her, all whispered.

When night fell, Svenbo and Anna walked out of the "one-pinted spoon". The total number of signed orders has exceeded $4,000, and the couple's great contribution to the stimulation of domestic demand in the domestic consumer market is estimated to have spread throughout the Long Island New Area.

The next day, after coming out of the luxury villa estate in the southern part of Manchuria, Anna, who suddenly became much more well-behaved, accompanied by her husband, went to the National Hospital in the capital for a routine prenatal check-up.

After a night of twisting and turning, Anna knew that her husband was a "big official and aristocrat" in this country, and as the newly married mistress of the family, she must abide by the country's rules and low-key principles, especially must "deeply understand" some of the virtues that Chinese upper-class women must possess.

In the 17th century, even if the European social etiquette was still in a "period of exploration", Anna, who had a deep aristocratic family education, naturally understood her identity in the United States very well, especially in the Azores, after Yang Wenwen's "high society demeanor" training, Anna is actually more adaptable to today's life than any European immigrant, and the biggest change is to take a bath every three days.

But now, Anna, lying on the bed of obstetrics and gynecology, is wearing only a hospital gown. Facing the snow-white examination room and a room of male and female doctors and nurses in white coats, Anna was so frightened that she trembled, if it wasn't for Swenbo's psychological vaccination beforehand, I'm afraid she would have cried and cried to leave.

Dean Wang Suhong listened carefully to her bulging abdomen with a stethoscope, while explaining the contents of the examination to the nurse next to her.

"Hehe, Aunt Wang, is it a son or a daughter?" Shi Wenbo stared at the gynecologist and smiled sheepishly.

"Hehe, how do I know. Although we don't have B-ultrasound now, according to my observation, the fetal position is still very positive, and the child is developing very healthily. Dean Wang Suhong smiled and instructed the nurse to take Anna to the locker room, and said to Shi Wenbo, "Xiao Shi, now European science and technology are still very backward, but there are also many studious people, you should pay more attention to the introduction of talent immigration in this area." ”

When Shi Wenbo heard this, he blushed. He knew that the other party must be reminding him not to just remember to mess with those "European beautiful girls" in his homeland all day long, because the other half of the other party is the country's highest mascot.

It was on this return that he brought back a few more, but all of them were female employees of the Consulate General in Europe, and in his words, they were absolutely "untouched original goods".

Ostensibly to provide long-trained clerks to government departments, but in substance. He wanted to dispel Anna's suspicions and get them home, so that Anna might be relieved that she would return to the Azores to continue her work.

"Supporting" Swenbo and "downfalling" Swenbo's remarks. There are many people in the country, and all kinds of thoughts behind the scenes are naturally self-evident. …,.

After all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred, a week later, Shi Wenbo completed a simple cabinet report. After eating and drinking with a fox friend and dog friend, he is now about to leave his new wife and return to the Azores.

In the garden, Anna changed into a ladylike Han dress and sat at the coffee table with Yang Wenwen to talk and laugh. The belly that is more than four months pregnant is already more obvious.

"Anna, my company is very promising! Don't you think it's an honor for us to have all the ladies of Madrid wear these clothes? Now that my fur products are about to hit the market, as long as the investment is in place, we can all get a good return! Yang Wenwen's smile was holding the diluted honey juice, and a pair of beautiful eyes swept around the other party's face.

"But I want to listen to my husband." The aristocratic daughter, who did not have any concept of money management, sat upright, with a polite smile on her face that was in line with the demeanor of high society.

Anna's cousin is completely different from what she used to be in the Azores, and she used to be able to take out a large amount of money to buy things without hesitation following Yang Wenwen's recommendation. Now that she is open and closed to listen to Shi Wenbo, Yang Wenwen can't help but secretly itch.

"Then if I negotiate with Mr. Swenbeau, would you be willing to invest in my company?" Yang Wenwen kept smiling, but her tone changed again, "Anna." We women also have to be assertive, those stinky men think about how chic they are all day long, for fear that we women will do better than them! ”

"Then I'll think about it again!" After Anna finished speaking, she picked up her teacup, and then looked at the former idol in front of her with a grin.

Yo! A few days after this little girl married Shi Wenbo's flowery big radish, she learned to serve tea and send guests? Yang Wenwen was secretly surprised. After a few casual conversations, he said goodbye and went out.

As soon as Yang Wenwen walked on the front foot, Shi Wenbo appeared in the garden.

"Husband, I listened to you and told her! You're so good, you can guess that she came to me to invest money. Anna quickly got up and walked to Shi Wenbo's side, shaking the small fan in her hand proudly.

"Well, my dear, keep the money, we are going to start a big entertainment and leisure company in the Azores Heroísmo, for the sake of those European aristocrats, this great cause is not comparable to her garment factory!"

Swenbo waved his hand proudly, and a scene seemed to appear in his eyes: in the American concession of Angra de Grasíno, Terceira Island, in the leisure and entertainment city named "Atlantis", all kinds of beauties, all kinds of depravity, all kinds of erosion, all kinds of unspoken rules......

"The doctor said I would have a baby around Christmas, so you must come back!" Thinking that her husband had only been with her for a week and was about to leave for the Azores, the little young woman Anna could not help but bow her head and weep.

"Of course, I'll bring your greetings to His Excellency the Marquis de Santa Cruz!" With a tap on his wife's forehead, Svenbeau left, because a pre-departure banquet was about to be held at the Phantom Bar.

In a small locked study, Semien, the butler, was carefully writing down what he had seen and heard in a book.

"It is extremely wealthy, every citizen has several sets of clothes, and white bread is available to every family. Almost every shop is filled with American goods that can only be found in a few cities in the Kingdom of Spain, and which in the Azores sell for several times the price...... That strange cement was used here to pave the streets, and we had to buy it at a high price to build the royal palace in Seville. ”

"They have fortresses with good terrain and a small fleet, and at the moment, there should be no more than ten of them. But as rumored in Europe, the warships they designed were significantly stronger than those of Europe. The size of the army is unknown, but it is extremely well equipped, and the range of their fortress cannons is almost more than two-thirds of a league! Therefore, I carefully judge that any attack from the sea is ineffective. ”…,

"I can be sure that this is a colony carved out by the Orientals in North America, not a native country. Their parliament and officials were all Oriental aristocrats, who held control of the state here, the Indians and Europeans depended on them, the Oriental language and dress became a kind of identity pursuit, they reveled in the affluence and security here, but their faith in God did not change, and my concern was whether the Catholics were in a stable position here. ”

“…… They are not resting on their laurels, it is clear that the French and the English have limited the expansion of the Americans in North America, and even the Dutch have the possibility of insertion, and we should use this relationship to make the Americans dependent on the mighty Kingdom of Spain in North America and the Atlantic! ”

"The Marquis de Santa Cruz, as the marriage of high-ranking American officials, is for the present advantageous to the whole Kingdom of Spain, which will allow us to concentrate on dealing with the troubles of the Northern Netherlands, Germany, and Bohemia......"

Semian carefully examined what was written, closed the booklet gently, locked it in the bookcase, and finally straightened his clothes, opened the door, and walked out.

After a while, a middle-aged European maid who had been employed for less than a week walked out of the back garden and went out into the street with a basket, apparently preparing to go to a nearby store to buy imported fruit.

The middle-aged maid began to slow down after walking through a street corner and looked around, and not far away, a young Chinese man in a suit was leaning against a lamppost and smoking...... (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )

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