Chapter 545: Football!

"Then why is no one to cut it?" The sturgeon was a little confused.

If you don't promise not to dismiss government workers after you are elected, those people will not give you votes, the more government workers there are, the stronger this force will be, and the more you will be able to do so, the more you will be unable to abolish them in the future, which is tantamount to kidnapping the ruling party!" Although Hong Tao didn't know whether what Fernando said was true or false, he understood the meaning, and according to logical analysis, it was still very possible.

"Isn't this a tragedy? The Argentine government is also unlucky! After a simple translation, Fat Man Bu also understood.

"Do you know Borges?" Fernando suddenly said a person's name, and then looked at Hong Tao with the kind of eyes that you don't know that you are a turtle.

"I don't know what to do!" Hong Tao has never been afraid of being a turtle, what's wrong with the turtle! Turtle is still a kind of medicinal herb!

"I know the way, magical realism! He's a great writer! Great poet, I've read his novels, but I don't understand them. "The fat cloth is not a turtle, which surprised Hong Tao.

"I really don't see it! The fat brother still has a literary cell, why don't we go to the museum tomorrow or something? Hong Tao began to crack down on people who were stronger than himself.

"Well, don't, I'll confess, I just watched these things to seduce little girls. You also know that there are always a few good-looking girls in the bar who like this tune, and when they chat, they are like "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which is particularly profound, if I don't charge it, I can't talk to people at all! The fat man finally told the truth in Hong Tao's contemptuous eyes.

"That's right, Argentina is a country like Borges and Márquez, full of magic, reality everywhere." Fernando said this, like a poet, and pulled out a summary.

Magical or not, this Argentina is a strange country anyway, in the city of Buenos Aires. All streets are divided at 100-metre intervals and are staggered by one-way streets. What does this mean? That is to say, if the street you are walking on now is a one-way road to the east, then the street to the north or south must be a one-way road to the west, and the same is true for the north-south road.

The road with only one lane is called calle, which means street. A road with more than 4 lanes is called an avenida, which means main street. Every 4 calles, there must be an avenida, which is very standardized!

In addition, Fernando also revealed a small idea to Hong Tao to make a fortune, but Hong Tao broke down. The idea is to resell Forex.

According to Fernando, the Argentine government forcibly pegged the peso to the dollar, which was about 3 pesos for 100 million US dollars, but on the black market, 100 million US dollars could be exchanged for about 6 pesos, which was double the profit inside and out, so some smart Argentines began to resell dollars.

They used the method of smuggling, ran to Uruguay and Paraguay across the river, and exchanged dollars for pesos. Then go back to Argentina and buy dollars privately in pesos, and as soon as you come and go, you can make a small fortune. In response to this phenomenon, the Argentine government is said to have frozen the foreign exchange savings of all Argentine nationals a year ago. Then forcibly convert it into pesos at the official exchange rate, which is tantamount to stealing money from the hands of ordinary people.

The reason why Fernando did not let Hong Tao and them go out of the hotel at will was mainly because the current Argentine economy has deteriorated very seriously, and there will be public security problems. Ok better for the locals. Especially for foreign tourists like Hong Tao, who don't know Spanish, it is already very unsafe to leave the hotel 100 meters away. Thieves, liars, and prostitutes will all target you, and if you don't get it right, you will lose your money.

It is said that Argentina has more than three foreign debts, many unemployed, and many landlords, and due to the recession of the Argentine economy, there is nothing to export in the country except beef, so the inflation is very strong, and the rich people in Argentina buy a large number of properties in big cities in order to maintain their value.

But after buying a house, the economy is still declining, and the house is all smashed in my hands and cannot be sold, and I can't even rent it at a high price. In Buenos Aires, for example, it would take more than 200 months to recoup the cost of renting out a house here.

These wealthy Argentines saw that things were not going well, so they took advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States to go to Miami to buy a house, which was said to pay for itself after 103 months. However, for these things, Hong Tao feels that it is all drizzle, and those landlords in China can only recover their costs in an average of 500 months, compared with these Chinese landlords, Argentine landlords are really happy!

Drinking, eating beef, falling in love, watching football!

This is Fernando's summary of the Argentines, they don't like anything but these 4 things, you have to say that life is happy here, it's really good, it's all about playing; If you want to say that you are not happy, you are indeed not very happy, drunk and dreaming all day long, there is no hope, even if the beef is delicious, it is estimated that you will not be happy.

It doesn't matter if the Argentines are happy or not, Hong Tao is quite happy now anyway, because he has won money!

Last night we talked in the restaurant until 12 o'clock, and then returned to the hotel with a full meal, and Fernando came to pick them up early this morning as agreed, first going to the Florida street and going around. Sure enough, as Fernando said, the streets here are lined with small shops, one next to the other, all selling leather goods and silverware, except for a few shops that buy other goods.

Argentina is known as the country of silver, and silverware cannot be wrong, as can be seen from yesterday's yerba mate container, if a country uses carved utensils like handicrafts as daily utensils, it means that the country has a very high level of making such utensils.

Hong Tao was not polite and bought a set of yerba mate utensils, because Fernando said that yerba mate contains countless kinds of immeasurable elements, how good it is for the human body, although Hong Tao doesn't believe it, but it is not in vain to bring back a set of tea utensils.

Fat cloth and sturgeon are not idle, they are not very interested in silverware, but they are very fond of another Argentine specialty, cowhide. Argentine cowhide products are made of local materials, the leather is very soft, soft as if it is pure cotton, molded in the hand, worn on the body without a heavy feeling, very comfortable.

Leather jackets, leather pants, leather bags, wallets, leather shoes...... None of these two were left behind, but they didn't exchange many pesos, they all paid in dollars, so according to the black market price, the things here are really cheap. This is also the idea that Fernando gave them, it seems that it is very, very important to travel to an unfamiliar place and find a guide with professional ethics.

After shopping, everyone had lunch at another restaurant, and then took a ferry boat from Pier 1 and boarded the ferry boat floating outside the port. The Argentines who run the casino set up the casino in a boat, not to attract attention or to stand out for anything, but to evade the laws of the Argentine government.

Under Argentine law, casinos could not be opened within 400 kilometers of Buenos Aires, but the people who set these laws at the time forgot to include the water surface and only defined the land. So the clever casino owner came up with a way to set the casino on the water, which was not within the limits of this law.

It can also be seen from this point that democracy is not completely useless, if you are in a dictatorial country, let alone set up on water, even if you are set up in the sky, as long as the officials think you are an eyesore, a few missiles will still beat you down! As for what law? Count it as a hair, the law is what they use to disgust others, they can't disgust themselves, if you need to, you can give you a few new laws in minutes!

Probably because he didn't take Erin with him, Hong Tao was very lucky this time, and it took three hours to win more than 300 pesos, which made him overjoyed, and then hurriedly smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran. He knew very well that if he didn't leave, not only would the more than 300 pesos not be his own, maybe he would have to dig out his pocket and put another 300 on it, so take it while it's good!

When everyone left the casino, it was already more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they had to rush back to the hotel, because the evening game started at half past 6, because they participated in the viewing group, so they had to return to the meeting place of the hotel, waiting for the bus of the viewing group to pick up people, this viewing group is not in vain, in addition to the tickets, you can also enter the honor room of the Boca Juniors to visit, and the bus is also equipped with at least 3 security personnel and team leaders, responsible for the personal safety of the team members.

However, safety is safety, personal freedom is not guaranteed, all members of the team have to come and go in unison, can not move at will, even if they want to go to the toilet in the middle of the game, they must be accompanied by the team leader and security personnel.

Argentina's top soccer league is called the Super Pro League, with a total of 20 teams participating, with the bottom two teams in the bottom two teams being relegated each year and the top two teams in the first division being promoted. The schedule of the Super League is not the same as the league in our country, they are cross-year, the new league starts in July every year, lasts until December, then rests for 2 months, and then starts playing in February of the following year, and plays until the end of June, and there are games to watch almost all year round.

I have to say that the Argentines really like to watch football games, when Hong Tao and their bus just drove to the Youth Stadium, the home of Boca Juniors, it was basically impossible to walk, the road was full of fan vehicles and fan teams, holding horns, flags and carrying musical instruments, most of them were Boca fans wearing blue and yellow colors, because today is the home of Boca Juniors. (To be continued......)

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