Sunday, June 1, 1625, Shuangwan City, Bermuda. (

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The biggest direct beneficiary of the first phase of the "Atlantic Checkers Program" can only be Shuangwan City at present. A port town with a population of just over 1,300 people, including garrisons, has become a vast distribution center for supplies, as well as a hub for the arrival of domestic immigrants and European immigrants in Guadeloupe's colonization plan.

Excluding the natural population growth of less than 100 births per year, the annual immigration quota set by the Ministry of Immigration for Shuangwan City is actually only 300. While this figure is almost equal to the number of immigrants sent to North America by European colonial powers each year in the early 17th century, such a quota was a ruthless crackdown on Di Zugong, who was bent on developing the city of Shuangwan into a commercial port in the heart of the Atlantic.

In the eyes of Congress and the government, even though Double Bay is still one of the core nodes in the Atlantic layout, its greatest value lies in the maritime military deterrence of southern North America and the Caribbean, as well as transit trade in the Caribbean Sea of Central America. Bermuda's Shuangwan Island covers an area of just over 50 square kilometers and has a single economy, so it is impossible to carry out large-scale population expansion as on the mainland.

Aside from the pig breeds and cypress trees that Europeans have brought to the island over the past 100 years, Bermuda's natural resources are actually very poor. Therefore, under the careful management of Di Zugong, the cultivation of vegetables, fruits and flowers and the raising of livestock are the core economic industries of Bermuda, in addition to the entrepot trade. In the past few years, the state-owned Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Group has developed nearly 3,000 acres of various agricultural parks and contracted them to more than 100 households on the island. Fruits and vegetables are shipped to Manchon, accounting for almost 20% of the country's total market supply every year, and in winter, it is the only source that can supply fresh fruits and vegetables other than greenhouse planting. Flower cultivation has introduced several special varieties that can be used to make perfumes, and for this reason Bermuda is also home to the only industrial enterprise, the "Double Bay Perfume Company", a small fragrance and flower water distillery.

On the first day of June, the city of Twin Bay welcomed two Spanish fleets, the first from Cuba. A large amount of cotton, tobacco, crude cane sugar, chromite and nickelite have always been long-term orders of COSCO International Trade Group. Bermuda's free port trade policy was extremely "tolerant" and convenient for Spain, and these European nouveau riche from New Spain had even bothered to mint Spanish silver dollars. In many cases, silver ingots from Mexico were used to pay for cargo taxes, leaving customs and tax collectors and local bank clerks scrambling between determining the fineness of the silver and converting the currency.

The Holguín region of Cuba is not only fertile, but also thriving with cotton, tobacco and sugar cane, and the "red earth belt" that stretches for hundreds of kilometers in the east is a thick open-pit mine. Nickelite and chromite, "inferior iron ores that are difficult to smelt", were regarded by the Americans, and to the Spaniards they were used as silver coins. A shipload of ore can be exchanged for all kinds of luxury goods and industrial goods. It's a thousand times more comfortable than traveling between Europe and the Caribbean. It is said that Fernando, the newly appointed governor of Mexico in New Spain, signed an order to increase the introduction of black slaves and increase Cuba's mineral exports to China and the United States, in order to support the huge military expenditure of the entire Spanish kingdom in the war in Europe.

The second flotilla. from Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia. The English, who had not yet recovered from the Bohattan Indian War a few years earlier, were able to trade with the city of Twin Bays in Bermuda with a pitiful look of goods, three brigs of no more than 500 tons of combined displacement, loaded with hardwood, coal, and peat.

Unlike the shyly checkout attitude of the merchants of the English colonies, the city government of Double Bay smiled coldly in their hearts. Peat, a "mud" that may not have been used as a substitute for firewood in the 17th century. At present, it is what Double Bay City needs most.

As the highest coral island on Earth, Bermuda's soil layer is fragile, so peat from Jamestown can be used as a high-quality soil-based raw material to strengthen the soil layer. Peat is rich in nutrients such as organic matter and humic acid, which is a suitable natural nutrient for improving Bermuda's local soil environment. But Jamestown was too thin to trade one or two hundred tons of peat a month to feed Bermuda's huge demand.

Loading and unloading at the port is still intense, with huge steam-powered harbour cranes constantly hoisting tons of cargo, and more than 300 local dock workers hustling around the warehouse area and several sailboats. Outside the tavern in the dock trading area, merchants from outside the wharf were chatting and signing contracts. Unlike the European war that you live and die, on the island of Bermuda. Whether it's an English, a Spanish, a Portuguese or a Dutchman, they all know each other as naturally as old friends.

In order to ensure overseas trade and the transit and transportation of goods in Guadeloupe, the port operations in Shuangwan City have basically been overtime for half a year, which has made the income of local residents grow rapidly, but also made many people tired enough. Especially the local hospitals. Today, nearly 100 beds have long been filled with injuries and illnesses sent from Guadeloupe. The military's occupation of Shuangwan City's medical and nursing forces will inevitably affect the normal medical security of local citizens, and once again arouse the secret dissatisfaction of local citizens.

On more than one occasion, he has privately expressed concern to the government about the Guadeloupe development plan, which threatens to weaken Bermuda's status. But anyway. After all, Di Zugong is still a person who understands the overall situation, and is encouraged by the city government. The citizens of Shuangwan City are also very busy. As long as several mature trading areas such as Mexico and Cuba are still around, and English and Dutch merchant ships have gradually visited Shuangwan since the beginning of this year, citizens who once feared that the twin ports of Guadeloupe will steal most of the maritime trade in the future.

As soon as he got off the boat the day before yesterday, Yan Xianping tried to sneak into the city to see the strangeness, but he was chased back by the European police waiting outside the apartment of the city government guest house, on the grounds that they must have an entry visa to enter the city. The daughter of the Yan family, who felt humiliated, almost drew her knife against her, but Luo Da was so frightened that she hurriedly apologized to the police who were about to blow the whistle.

Even if there are special arrangements, the Yan family and his party still have to undergo special door-to-door health quarantine in the apartment, and Yan Xianping, who was pulled into the small black room by the nurse for half an hour, and other female dependents, the feeling of being "asked to the bottom" is simply unspeakable, and everyone blushed for several days.

Today, the entry visa has finally been processed, and Luo Da and a few henchmen are going to a special warehouse in the port area, intending to accept the goods that are ready to be shipped to Macao this year. Luo Da really couldn't get out, but Yan Xianping didn't care about this, and rushed out of the door directly with the little maid and a few entourages. However, according to the special instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the United States. The local police station still arranged two Chinese police officers to follow in order to prevent possible accidents.

The streets of the city are lined with Bermuda cypress trees, and wooden fences divide the dwellings. On the main road of several spacious asphalt roads, several horse-drawn rail buses and horse-drawn carriages full of vegetables and fruits run back and forth. is passing through the city in an endless stream in the direction of the port; In the green area of the square. At the banner celebrating Children's Day, hundreds of children wearing uniform were planting cypress seedlings under the leadership of teachers. A group of younger children, accompanied by their parents, are throwing fish food into the large square reservoir that doubles as a fish pond. also shouting from time to time; In the small street bar with dazzling glass walls and windows, there are all kinds of laughter, and people in fancy clothes come and go......

A small urban area that can be walked around in the future in just half an hour has made Yan Xianping walk back and forth countless times, although he keeps muttering disdainful words such as "in vain" and "Huayi is not distinguished". But the daughters of the Yan family, who are still childish, still watch it with relish.

In the southern part of the capital, there are already no less than 10 five-storey towers of various types, and many more early humble neighborhoods are being converted into multi-storey apartments to meet the needs of the growing urban population. However, in Bermuda's Shuangwan City, there is only a four-storey "Shuangwan Plaza" on the commercial street, and the sitting area is not large.

Shuangwan Plaza is a joint venture between Di Zugong and Guanyun, which is not only a landmark building in Shuangwan City, but also one of the core real estate of Di Zugong as a happy charter company, and it is also the place where Yan Xianping spends the most time in the morning.

The first floor is a food store. The operators are all local individual small businesses. On the square stalls, bright red and green vegetables and fruits can be seen everywhere. The shelves are neatly stacked with various imported spices, olive oil, refined salt, refined sugar and other condiments, and a variety of fruit wines and locally produced canned foods are also placed in a conspicuous position. The ham, marinated in the local specialty spotted pork, is even more aromatic, almost overshadowing the aroma of the other ingredients.

In order to take care of his eldest lady, several Yan family followers are inseparable. The little maid walked even closer, but Yan Xianping obviously hated the entourage arranged by his father now, but asked the two little policemen questions. The Chinese police, who have only been immigrating for two or three years, still retain the same caution as the Ming magnates. Except for polite words, I basically didn't dare to say more than half a word.

A group of people walked in the store with a grin. Seeing that they were accompanied by the police, many Chinese housewives carefully pulled their children to the side. After shopping for a while, Yan Xianping's eyes swept over the piles of strange fruits on a certain stall, and finally couldn't help but swallow his saliva gently, and then glanced at the little girl very embarrassed. The fruits that Yan Xianping finally likes are tomatoes, pineapples and mangoes.

Although pineapples were introduced to the East as early as the early to mid-16th century, it was only a hundred years later that ordinary people could really see what this fruit looked like. The mango, which is native to India, was not introduced to the New World by Europeans until the 18th century, but now this sweet fruit has already entered Bermuda through the hands of the Portuguese. As for the tomato, it is even more special, and it was not until the beginning of the 17th century that Europeans figured out that this bright red and beautiful berry was "actually" edible, and it would take years to popularize it on a large scale.

Yan Xianping and his party, who enjoy special care, actually enjoy the fruit hospitality in the government apartment, but it is all apples, oranges and grapes shipped from North America. Presumably, the European-American manager of the city hall guest house apartment took it for granted that the fruit transported from the mainland was the most high-class hospitality on the island.

What is the young lady thinking, the personal little maid is naturally the first to understand. The little maid hurriedly walked a few steps, and read in a thick Hokkien dialect: "Shop, what is the price of these fruits?" ”

It's a pity that the owner of the fruit shop is a European housewife, and she didn't know what it meant when she looked at the group of Chinese guests, but fortunately, one of the two Chinese policemen was a Fujian immigrant, so she hurriedly stepped forward and muttered a few words.

Compared to the prices they sell in home towns, these fruits are much cheaper in Double Bay, selling for only 12 cents per kilogram. But for Yan Xianping and his party from Daming, it is a sky-high price: listening to the explanation and conversion of the Chinese policeman, it is about eight cents of silver, and if you put it in Daming, you can buy three catties of pork!

Ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty can have an income of seven or eight taels of silver a year. It's all a day when God opens his eyes and is in a prosperous age. But in this Chinese America, fruit sells more expensive than pork!

"How can you be so black-hearted?! When all the fruits of your house are made of gold? The little maid stopped doing it as soon as she heard it, relying on her own young lady by her side, and shouted directly with her hands on Xiaoman's waist.

"Beautiful young lady, this is a locally produced fruit. It's all the cheapest. If the grapes are shipped from West Point, it will cost at least 20 cents per kilogram. The European female shopkeeper looked awkwardly at the Chinese policeman who was in charge of communication on the side, and the latter quickly translated into Hokkien.

Hearing what the other party said, Yan Xianping coughed lightly on the side. I decided to buy it. Yan Xianping, who used to accompany his father to run through the Liaodong Sea Trade, actually has a slight grasp of this kind of gorgeous official dialect that is a bit like the Liaodong dialect.

That's not all, when the little maid pouted and chose a few each, and handed over a piece of broken silver of about three dollars, the European female shopkeeper shook her head again and again. He also painted in half-baked Mandarin. Listening to the police's explanation, it turns out that there is no silver here, and it must be Chinese currency.

Fortunately, on the first floor of Shuangwan Plaza, there are offices of the North American Development Bank and the Manchester City Commercial Bank, and with the "fire consumption" of the evil raw silver to Huàn gorgeous coins, 75 taels of silver were used up for 100 US dollars. The little girl who got the gorgeous silver coins didn't feel that she had suffered a loss at all, but Le Zizi hurriedly stuffed the silver coins into the bags of several followers one after another. This kind of silver coin of full color, uniform weight, and beautiful appearance can be worth more than broken silver in magnification.

"It's so boring!"

After a toss. Only then did he buy a few catties of beautiful fruits and some preserved ice candies that he wanted, but Yan Xianping, who felt that he had lost face during the transaction, lost interest again. With a wave of his hand, the fruits he bought were thrown to the little maid or his followers to share, and a few entourages who were happy to have a few snacks all year round smiled.

The second floor is a home clothing store, and nearly one-third of the space is covered by the domineering "Yang Wenwen brand store". The rest are small individual shops. Operates ordinary home clothing textiles, but the goods inside are all second-tier brands under Yang Wenwen Life Art Group.

After the opening of the era of steam-powered textile industry, the price of textiles in China and the United States has decreased a lot. The immigrants, who used to be able to tear a foot or two of cloth all year round, have gradually changed their habits over the years. Don't look at the small city of Shuangwan, whose annual consumption of textiles is not much less than that of a city of 10,000 people in Europe.

Whether it is a girl or a woman, they all have an irresistible nature for beautiful clothes, and Yan Xianping recognized at a glance that the brand store was the high-end store here.

Walking past the rows of hangers, the beautiful dresses in the style of "Former Song" dazzled Yan Xianping, especially the "Girl Series" carefully designed by Yang Wenwen is integrated with many modern art elements.

asked about the price, which made Yan Xianping, who originally didn't know the cost of oil, salt, firewood and rice, stunned again. A set of dresses from the girl's series actually costs $20! Think it's expensive? The modern girly series on the hanger next to it uses less fabric and costs only $10...... As for the cheapest one, it is an ordinary dress in the Ming style that has no special highlights in the pù store next door.

"Miss, I see that there are good cotton and silk in the store next door, why don't we go to that house and make a few pieces for Miss when we go back......" The little maid obviously felt that her young lady's eyes were a little wrong, and hurriedly whispered.

"What to do? Can't you afford it?! ”

No matter what, you can't lose the face of the Yan family, right? Yan Xianping's willow eyebrows were raised, and the little maid shuddered and chose three sets, and turned around a few male followers who could only stand at the entrance of the shopping mall building and were not allowed to follow, and when they checked out, they grinned and smoked cold air.

Whether it is European or Chinese, the expensive girl series actually sells very little in Shuangwan City, Bermuda, and the newcomer in front of her bought three sets in one go, which made the Chinese female clerk who had immigrated for more than two years secretly speechless. Walking to the more private women's storeroom, the rows of "small clothes and pants" made Yan Xianping and the little maid blush, no matter how the young female clerk recommended it, the two just didn't dare to buy it.

I just went up to the second floor, and more than half of the gorgeous silver coins I got in exchange for it were used, no matter how arrogant Yan Xianping was, he didn't dare to spend in the daily department store on the third floor and the catering viewing area on the fourth floor, and finally snorted out of Shuangwan Square with a cold hum.

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For a few hours in the morning, Zhao Mingchuan stood by the dock in a daze, staring intently at the tall steam tower cranes and rows of warehouses in the port area. It's not uncommon for the local Tessie people to linger, and there are also a lot of Francois people in Macau. But a sea town, which is not much bigger than the coastal fishing village of Daming, actually has such a busy and huge amount of sea trade transportation.

Especially from the two large flying scissors merchant ships of Ao Guang that were still loading goods in the port, Zhao Mingchuan was amazed. Zhao Mingchuan had already surprised Zhao Mingchuan by the kind of 1,000-ton short shirt-class flying shear merchant ship that "flew through the waves" from the port of Recife, Brazil, and compared with the two longer and larger gorgeous ships in front of him, it was nothing more than that. And the Macau Franco, the kind of Taixi armed merchant ship that once made the surrounding fishermen fearful. It's even more pediatric.

What Zhao Mingchuan didn't know was that at this time, the two newly commissioned light cruisers, the Silver Valley and the Shuangwan, had just entered the military port on Bermuda's West Bay Peninsula to rest. Prepare to travel to Guadeloupe for rotational operations. If he saw those majestic and gorgeous battleships again, it is estimated that Zhao Mingchuan would be even more shocked.

"Brother Zhao, are you still standing here watching the boat?"

A familiar thick male voice came from behind him, and Zhao Mingchuan hurriedly turned around. The person who came was from the Ming Dynasty, who had been taking good care of himself when he set out.

"Students are new to the school and are just having fun. Let Lord Luo smile......" Zhao Mingchuan's face was slightly red, and he hurriedly bowed embarrassedly.

"What's the laugh about? The last time I was here, it was the same. This time again, it is the first time I have seen such a huge ship on the sea, if I go to Huamei Jingshi again, I'm afraid I will be dazzled, haha!" Luo stared at the two large flying scissors merchant ships that were much larger than the Western-style warship with the largest naval division in his own navy, and even started to think about not wanting this year's aid. Directly replaced with such a huge ship, and then loaded with cannons and drove back to Daming. How imposing that must be.

"The students saw that these big ships were slender and magnificent, and they were very different from the generous sea boats of the Francose man, and they were quite strange when they rode the waves and moved very fast. I'm afraid it's in the country of the former Song Dynasty. Skilled craftsmen have the skills that I don't know. It's a pity that Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty expelled Mengyu and rebuilt the Qiankun of Shenzhou, but he never found the exquisite craftsmanship of the former Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Mingchuan pondered for a moment and said his opinion. The corner of his gaze subconsciously swept over the steam tower crane by the dock. Different from the extremely yearning look that Luo Da revealed, Zhao Mingchuan's face was slightly sad.

"Although I don't have such a huge ship. Isn't it also the Heavenly Empire of Ten Thousand Miles? The former Song Zhihua United States, after all, is still the country of the remnants of our Ming Dynasty's overseas refugees. Such a small country, with only a few ships, I am afraid that it can't be compared with my Ming Dynasty sailors! A henchman of the Yan family, who followed Luo Da to Shuangwan City for the first time, muttered disdainfully on the side, looking very unconvinced.

A glimpse of the leopard can be seen, Luo Da, who has been fighting at sea with Taixi Fanyi for many years, is also specially responsible for receiving the assistance of the Chinese and American troops, and he knows that the Chinese and American weapons are strong. China and the United States crisscross the West Sea and deter Taixi Fanyi, how can there only be "a few ships"? Luo Da frowned and was silent, but Zhao Mingchuan turned his gaze to the tight and smooth asphalt gravel pavement under his feet, at first he thought it was rammed earth paving, but more and more he felt that this was not the case.

"Black mud mixed with stones, but the rain does not soak away, dense and smooth, and the water is self-permeable...... There is no pain in the carriage and horses, and there is no worry about breaking the shoes, so the road is smooth, and thousands of people come and go without leaving a trace......" Zhao Mingchuan muttered to himself, and felt more and more that every detail here was worth pondering.

Unconsciously, it was past noon, and several European dock workers began to eat on the spot by the dock with lunch boxes, Zhao Mingchuan and Luo Da felt hungry, and the two talked and chatted, and walked along the avenue towards the city, intending to return to the restaurant of the government apartment to eat together. As soon as he walked a few steps, he saw a man dressed as a follower of the Yan family running on the path on the far side.

"Toji-sama! Toji-sama is not good! The attendant ran out of breath, sweating profusely, panting while pointing in a certain direction in the city, "Miss she, she has an accident......"

"What's going on?! Bastard thing, didn't you want you to follow Miss today? Luo Da knew at a glance that the other party was Yan Xianping's entourage, and now he was shouting and running, and the implication seemed that something terrible had happened, and his face suddenly changed, "If Miss has three long and two short, I want your dog head!" ”

"The young lady got into a fight with a local cook! Those local officers didn't persuade them, and the little ones had no idea! I can only run to find adults! The attendant was terrified.

"This is not good, Miss has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, if she hurts the Chinese Americans. But it's ......" Luo Da was about to continue, when he suddenly remembered that Zhao Mingchuan beside him was still watching, and quickly shut up.

"Lord Luo, if the students want to take a look around, they won't bother." When I heard it, it was the other party's "family matter". Zhao Mingchuan hurriedly pretended to look at the scenery and walked aside.

"Quick! Lead the way! ”

Smiled awkwardly. Luo Da hurriedly followed Miss Yan's escort in the direction of the city government. Along the way, I finally understood the reason, and I couldn't help but be surprised and laughed.

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At noon, Yan Xianping was hungry after walking for a long time. followed the guidance of the Chinese police and arrived at a hot pot restaurant on the commercial street. In later generations, hot pot was a common meal, but in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, it was an extremely novel way of eating.

I think about the time when chili peppers were introduced to the East in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It's just an ornamental plant, and it really started to be eaten during the Kangxi period. In the past, oriental spicy seasonings were made with the fruit of dogwood.

In a small shop owned by Chinese, Yan Xianping and others chartered a large cubicle. On the table is a small brass pot divided into two parts, boiling spicy red soup and snow-white seafood soup respectively, and various vegetables and meat are cut into small plates, which need to be cooked and eaten by customers themselves.

Not to mention vegetables and aquatic fish and shrimp, the characteristic Bermuda spotted pork is fat but not greasy, so that a few followers who eat red soup are sweating all over their heads. Cry out for joy. Yan Xianping and the others were very satisfied, and directly rewarded the Chinese shopkeeper with a dollar of silver. But then there was a tragedy, the shopkeeper who got the reward was self-righteous, and served a plate of beef for Yan Xianping and others for free, and then boasted that this was a young tender cow that had just been slaughtered.

It's worth it. Actually slaughtered ploughing cattle at will, or calves! A few former tenant farmers began to accuse the shopkeeper with red eyes. Who knew that this store was also a hard-mouthed person, and after a few rounds, he ignored it, so he sneered a few words.

Then it's time to get busy. A few of the little henchmen who were accustomed to being pirates directly dragged the shopkeeper outside the store for a "just trial", and knocked the shopkeeper to the ground in three or two strokes. The aggrieved shopkeeper was crying at the door of the store. A European-American policeman rushed over with a whistle, and he was going to catch Yan Xianping's follower who caused the accident. Yan Xianping didn't think it was anything to eat some beef, but it was the right thing to protect the short, and he kicked over the policeman who took out the handcuffs with a single kick.

Dare to attack the police?! The whistle of the European policeman who fell to the ground was blowing loudly, and more and more policemen came from the nearby streets, but they were all beaten by the Daming pirates who broke the jar after being addicted to this gang, and even Yan Xianping himself was beaten with eyebrows.

The only ones who did not participate in the brawl were the little maid and the two Chinese policemen who accompanied them on the street, especially the latter, who saw their colleagues in the police station being beaten one by one, and they didn't know what to do, because the task of the two of them was to "protect" Yan Xianping.

In the end, the matter got bigger, and the policemen who couldn't bear it finally pulled out their guns and directly hit a Yan family attendant in the leg. The sound of gunfire shook the group of beaters, and also woke Yan Xianping and the others to their senses. Not long after, a platoon of local Chinese and American Army garrisons also rushed over, and without saying a word, Yan Xianping and his party were escorted directly into the police station.

In the afternoon, the mayor Di Zugong and Luo Da who got the news hurriedly came, and in the face of Yan Xianping's special "diplomatic status", the European police chief was helpless. In the end, on several charges of undermining public order, intentional injury, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and attacking the police, and other crimes, several followers except Yan Xianping and the little maid were detained, and then released on bail pending trial after paying 500 US dollars, in addition to Yan Xianping also paid a large amount of medical expenses.

During the whole processing process, Luo Da's face felt embarrassed all the time. It's nothing to accompany a little silver, so wouldn't it make people in China and the United States laugh at the Yan family for not knowing the rules? Maybe in the future, I will have to keep this little aunt and grandmother of the Yan family every step of the way!

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On Friday, June 6, after the personal mediation of Mayor Di Zugong, the owner of the Chinese hot pot restaurant who was beaten finally gave up the judicial process of "fighting Bo Gongtang" with Yan Xianping and other people who could not be provoked. For this reason, Luo Da paid the shopkeeper $10 for his health support, so that the lawsuit was completely settled without delaying the scheduled trip.

On the same day, Luo Da, Yan Xianping, and others, who were holding "diplomatic visas," boarded the frigate Dongfang, which was stopping in Shuangwan City and preparing to return to the mainland for rest, and set off for Mancheng, the capital of the United States.

And Zhao Mingchuan stayed in Shuangwan City for special embarrassing reasons. Because Zhao Mingchuan made it clear that he was not an immigrant who "changed his court", nor was he a diplomat like Luo Da, he could not set foot on the mainland of China and the United States.

Di Zugong was very enthusiastic and directly applied for his first ever "tourist visa", but it was only limited to local activities in Shuangwan City, Bermuda. What's more, Zhao Mingchuan, a poor scholar, set out from Daming and only brought a few taels of silver, which was exchanged for less than 10 yuan in dollars.

In terms of the price of living in Shuangwan City, it will take two or three months at most to save money, and if there is no source of income, Zhao Mingchuan will become the first beggar in Shuangwan City. As a result, Di Zugong helped again, hired Zhao Mingchuan to be his private secretary for non-official preparation, usually helped to copy some administrative documents and other things, including food and accommodation, and could also get a $15 remuneration from Di Zugong's salary every month.

Of course, as soon as he heard the monthly salary of $15, Zhao Mingchuan was dumbfounded for a while. Copying some documents every month is a silver tael of ten taels, which is really exciting.

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