"So formal? Have you been bullied on rope street? No, it's very safe, and the St. Pauli police station is right in the middle of the street. When Marx heard Hong Tao's words, he immediately reacted.

"Oh, it's not that question, it's about ...... How to say, when we were eating by the lake today, we met a young German man......" Hong Tao pondered for a while, and still repeated the young man's original words.

"Oh, I'll answer you these questions, Marx and Schweeder are Germans, and they're probably not going to judge their country fairly, and I'm Norwegian, so my point of view is more neutral, a little more fair, what do you say, Marx?" After listening to Hong Tao's retelling, Pan immediately became excited, as if it was her greatest honor to be able to bury her husband's motherland.

"No problem, my dear, Schweeder and I are not nationalists, the current problems in Germany are also very troublesome, although we are not politicians, but it is still necessary to discuss and discuss, and I also want to know if China has better solutions in these areas." Marx was generous, not blaming his wife for exposing the shortcomings of his country, and seemed to be planning to hold a seminar on the problems of Germany.

Most people are very interested in criticizing others, at least Hong Tao and Wang Jian are happy to do this kind of thing. Marx and Schweeder don't look at it as rich N generation, but their thinking mode is very simple, and some places don't seem to be as comprehensive as Hong Tao thought. Pan is simply a female Nazi, and her questions are sharp, her solutions are straightforward, and she has a serious tendency to violence.

Four people, you say a few words, I ask a few words, and I can't figure out a question in the middle of the night, and in the end it is Pan who thinks about her appearance. I didn't want to stay up late, so I ended this seminar at the level of the country's prime minister for the time being. But she also put down her words, and will continue to talk tomorrow after dinner, and it will not be finished until she talks thoroughly.

Back in the room and lying on the bed, Hong Tao was not able to fall asleep for a long time, probably because his brain was too active when he was chatting just now, and he didn't feel sleepy at all. Since you can't sleep, don't get tired in bed anymore, the more greasy you are, the more you can't sleep, and the best way to do this is to calm yourself. By the way, stop your high-speed brain and wait until you feel a little sleepy before going back to bed.

Hong Tao put on the big nightgown prepared by Pan, walked barefoot to the balcony, sat on a wicker chair and lit a cigarette, looking at the Elbe River in the night and the brightly lit Hamburg port area on the other side of the river. Not only did the brain not stop, but it remembered the topic just discussed. And I can't erase it even if I want to.

In fact, there is no need for Hong Tao to be so concerned about the problems existing in Germany. But these things touched him too much, or too much to surprise him, whether it was surprise, surprise, or shock, anyway, it subverted Hong Tao's original view of Germany and even the whole of Europe.

Originally, Hong Tao's understanding of Europe or Germany was cobbled together from many indirect, abstract, and scattered sources of information, and this view is generally recognized by Hong Tao or many Chinese. But through the conversation with the German boy and Marx's family, Hong Tao felt that his original views on Europe and Germany were compared with reality. The gap is a bit far.

Originally, Hong Tao believed that Europe, as the continent with the most developed countries, had experienced the devastation of World War II and was kidnapped by the United States economically and militarily, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. In terms of science and technology, economy, culture, and social welfare, it should still be at the forefront of the world, and even in some respects it will not lag behind the United States.

But what came out of Pan's mouth was not at all like that in Germany, and this was not Pan's words, and the brothers Marx and Schweeder also agreed, and everyone was talking about these things all night.

First of all, there is the problem of the wealth and poverty of the Germans, of course, the majority of ordinary Germans cannot take the rich N generation like the Marx brothers as an example.

According to Pan and the German boy who smoked cigarettes, most Germans are poor, and Pan also gave an example of this move, once a German research institute did a survey, and stopped a hundred people on a random street in several large cities in Germany to investigate the cash on them, and the result was that Hamburg, the richest city in Germany, ranked first, with a total of 1,997 euros, which means that the money on these 100 people did not exceed 2,000 euros.

Some people may say that foreigners don't like to carry cash on them, so they all swipe their cards. Hong Tao also refuted this just now, but was ridiculed by the Marx brothers, they said that it was the habit of Americans, Europeans both swipe cards and love to bring cash, especially the middle-aged and elderly people in Europe, just like the Marx brothers, unless they want to buy very expensive things, such as cars, as long as the other party does not strongly ask for a card, they are still willing to pay cash.

In addition, Schweeder also added that even if they swipe the card, ordinary Germans don't have much money in their cards, and many employees in their company often ask him to borrow money to buy things, and then pay him back after the salary is paid on Monday, so the salary on Monday is not the time when the Germans are happy, at least in Schweeder's company, because their wages have just been paid, and they have all been repaid, and there is still nothing left in hand, which is equivalent to working for nothing.

Then someone said that they wouldn't save some money!

This sentence is nonsense, there is no money left every week, what to save! And Europe, like the United States, can pay in installments for everything, you just fix a faucet, you can also pay in installments with a repairman, this kind of stimulating consumption has made most European people become singles without savings.

But Europeans obviously earn more than us Chinese, so why can't they save money if they don't have enough to spend? Hong Tao thinks this is very unscientific!

Indeed, the rest of Europe does not know the way, at least in Germany, the average salary of ordinary people is indeed much higher than in China, in the city, the average salary is about 2,000 to 2,500 euros per month, which is equivalent to almost 20,000 yuan, which is also a high income in any city in China, in any company, pay attention, this is the average salary of people!

But here's the problem, not to mention that Germany's consumption level is many times higher than China's (Europe's consumption level is getting higher and higher from south to north, from west to east), and it is this tax that will kill the ordinary German working class. Germany is a high-tax, high-welfare country, and taxes account for half of income, so even if you work in the city and earn 2,000 euros a month, you will only get 1,000 euros, or even less.

Get 1000 euros, of which 300-400 euros have to pay rent, a hamburger card for a month costs another 60 euros, a month for cooking and eating by yourself also has to be about 300 euros, plus other pocket money, there is basically nothing left, unless your parents leave you a property or something, but this inheritance tax is not affordable by ordinary people.

As for the price level in Germany, which is both cheap and expensive, it is generally higher than that of China. Milk, juice, beer, chocolate, wine are cheap, cheaper than in China, and the quality is very good, the cows are really milk, the juice is really juice, nothing else.

In addition to these things, others are basically much more expensive than China, such as eating in a restaurant, the price of a dish is basically equal to the price of an ordinary restaurant for two people in China, this is not a high-end restaurant, the price of high-end restaurants is generally 45 euros to 150 euros a dish, even if it is a local tyrant, you have to feel distressed to eat every day.

High taxes, high consumption, high welfare, which has caused more and more young Germans to be reluctant to go to work, rather rely on government relief to make do with life, the young man Hong Tao met by the lake in the afternoon is this kind of person, lazy and poor, no pocket money without work, but still want to smoke, what to do? I had to go to the tourist area to ask foreign tourists for a smoke, anyway, people don't cheat, and it's very polite to ask for it, if you want to give it, don't pull it down.

The work efficiency of the German government is not very high, and in some places it is even more procrastinating and bureaucratic than China, so let's not compare this issue, this thing is more sensitive, and it is not good to talk too much. (To be continued......)