Chapter 732: Two or Three Things in the Americas (1)
The docks of Manhattan are bustling with people, and you can hear the languages of all European countries, most of course, the strange Mandarin of Europeans who live in the Americas and are about to integrate into the Song Empire.
Foreigners speaking Mandarin always sounds weird.
At least, that's what Zhang Tie thinks.
In Manhattan, Mandarin is the most popular.
Because the standard of living on the side of the Song Empire is very high, and it is the country that European dicks yearn for in the seventeenth century, so the European dicks who come here feel that being able to speak Mandarin can make them superior.
Of course, this so-called superiority refers to what they did to their former compatriots.
So you can often see that here in Manhattan, when a couple of Europeans are talking, they will say their native dialect with a word or two of Mandarin.
This is just like the truth that in later generations in China, some so-called elites always popped out a few English words from time to time when they spoke.
It's just that in the American continent of this era, in a country with the Chinese ethnic group as the highest, this situation has to be reversed.
Here, everyone is proud to speak Mandarin.
The better you put it, the more you understand it here.
If you can speak and write, then congratulations, you definitely have a great way out here in the Americas.
Therefore, the first thing they need to do is learn Mandarin well.
However, as we all know, Huaxia is the most difficult to learn, so it is difficult for many Europeans.
But under the hope of a happy life in the future, and the yearning for a better life, the potential of these Europeans who came to Manhattan in the Americas was forced out.
This person, as long as he is forced, can basically always exert his potential to the extreme.
So, after the average person came to Manhattan. Basically, I can speak a few stumbling words of Huaxia in half a year, at least there are no obstacles in the communication process.
As a result, they have a foundation for living in Manhattan.
It's just that Europeans speak Mandarin, and that tone always gets very weird.
And because the people they come into contact with are not the same, the Mandarin they learn is also different.
The Chinese gene people under Zhao Hongyu's command are basically the gene people in the poor mountainous areas of southern China in the virtual world, so the tone of these Europeans also has the taste of the south.
Southern languages such as 'take you black' and 'silly mouth' can often be heard in Manhattan.
Zhang Tie was helpless about this.
After all. The easiest language to learn in the world is swearing.
So, it is not surprising that these Europeans living in Manhattan took these words as a spoken language.
Zhang Tie even maliciously thought that if the genetic people who cultivated Huaxia and Sichuan came out in the future, would these Europeans even learn the words of 'Japanese ancestors are banban' or 'mom sells skin'.
Of course, Zhang Tie just thought about it, he wasn't so bored.
Besides, now is not the time to cultivate Chinese gene people from other regions.
After all. The language of the Chinese is also a problem.
Now these Europeans in Manhattan have finally learned the southern style of Mandarin, which makes them dizzy if they hear the Mandarin of the Sichuan dialect.
Fortunately, the students in the school are taught Mandarin with a Beijing flavor. Later, when the children at those schools grow up, there will basically be a lot of "you guys" greetings here in Manhattan.
At least, this tone is better than the southern style of Mandarin.
Want to live in Manhattan. Language is a certain foundation.
At the same time, the regulations on the Manhattan side and the rules of urban life are also what they need to learn.
Over here. You can't defecate in the open, and you can't throw away household garbage at will, these are things that are very strictly managed.
Once such a rule is violated, then not to mention the punishment, there will be a big obstacle when applying for citizenship of the Song Empire in the future.
Those who refuse to change their ways will also be sentenced to hard labor.
There is no way to formulate such a policy.
The Europeans of this era praised them when they said that they were buried.
You must know that in this era, Europeans, they basically live in excrement and urine.
The reason for this is that they are too unhygienic.
Therefore, every batch of those who come to Manhattan in the Americas, their arrival will cause a headache for many people.
They don't follow the rules here, and always throw garbage and feces and urine on the road or at the door, letting those disgusting smells waft in the wind.
As you know, Manhattan is very clean.
And the first Europeans who settled in Manhattan also got used to and liked the clean city.
Because living in such a city makes them feel very comfortable.
If they were to be sent back to that pile of and urine in Europe, it was something they really didn't want.
So, if you don't care about these newcomers to Manhattan, it won't be long before beautiful Manhattan will have a dump of garbage and urine in the cotton city.
But the people who live here don't want this to happen.
It is precisely because the earliest Europeans got rid of some of their vices and became citizens of the Song Empire, so they really don't like the vices of their former compatriots.
Moreover, I hated it from the bottom of my heart.
Even, because of these vices, they began to look down on these compatriots.
This kind of mentality is just like those who have been gilded in Huaxia in later generations, or who have stayed abroad.
They will also have this mentality, because they are used to some things abroad, and then when they return home and see some unqualified things of their compatriots, they will feel that they have become a little higher.
Often, such people will be very annoying to everyone.
However, as long as you understand their mentality, you can understand it completely.
Of course, a small number of people who are completely pretending to be compared can be excluded.
Therefore, in the concept and in thought. Here in Manhattan, the Americans, Europeans began to polarize.
This kind of polarization is very good in Zhang Tie's view, because the so-called differentiation refers to the differentiation of quality and concept.
Europeans who identify with and have acquired an imperial identity believe that the quality of European communication needs to be improved so that they can fully integrate into the city, and cannot discredit the city.
And those new Europeans who have come here feel that the punishment for throwing garbage or something is so severe, it is simply a bit of a fuss, don't they all live like this in Europe.
Europe is so dirty, it's all because everyone throws away garbage for hundreds of years.
But here in the Americas, it's very clean because people don't have a lot of garbage.
Precisely because of this. It doesn't matter if everyone throws away the trash.
Anyway, judging from the environment in the Americas, it is enough for everyone to throw away garbage for hundreds of years before it becomes like Europe.
So, why should everyone worry about this?
These two ideas collided in the old and new European populations.
Fortunately, the newcomers who have come to this side of the Americas, they have to make a living on this side of the Americas.
Therefore, in order to live, they slowly tend to be disadvantaged, whether they want to or not, they have to accept this concept.
In fact, the old Europeans who lived here had fully embraced the whole idea of the empire.
Especially with regard to some ideas and policies on the environment.
Know the way. As for the environment, Zhao Hongyu and Professor Liu, who is far away in Ontario, are very serious.
Zhao Hongyu's time and space in that era of China, precisely because the environment is not very good. So every year there are natural problems of one kind or another.
Even, looking at some photos sent back from outer space, the green area of China is very small, and the yellow area representing the desert is constantly expanding.
These. It's all because of the consequences of not paying much attention to the environment.
Therefore, both Zhao Hongyu and Professor Liu take the issue of the environment very seriously.
Although the environment here in the Americas is very quaint. And there was little damage.
But I can't use it destructively for such reasons.
If this head is opened, it will not be easy to get it.
The people at the bottom don't pay attention to that much.
Therefore, Zhao Hongyu and Professor Liu decided that they couldn't even open this head.
Of course, there are some natural resources that should be used or used, but they must be replenished again when they are developed.
For example, after cutting down those trees to obtain timber and selling them to the virtual world, Zhao Hongyu will also buy a batch of saplings to plant.
In this way, it will not cause too much damage to the nature of the Americas, and it will also leave something precious to future generations.
In short, here in Manhattan in the Americas, people live a completely different life than in Europe.
There are no lords and nobles who oppress the people, and there are no taxes of all kinds, and there are no vicious tax collectors.
The taxes here are very clear.
Business tax, personal income tax, and a number of other taxes.
In addition, these taxes will be written on some blank paper and posted on the public message boards at those intersections so that everyone can see them clearly.
At the same time, those tax propagandists will be obligated to publicize to everyone every day what they are paying taxes for.
In this way, everyone knows what the taxes they pay are being used for.
Instead of thinking that the taxes they pay are all eaten, drunk and entertained by the old men as before.
Of course, that's really the case in Europe.
However, not on the American side.
The people's tax money is spent on education and public facilities, as well as for the army.
For this, the people are very much in favor.
Therefore, everyone is also willing to pay taxes.
Here in Manhattan in the Americas, you don't see any tax resistance happening, which is unimaginable in Europe. (To be continued......)