Chapter 552: What I Saw and Heard on the River
and Seoul in winter. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info average sub-zero cold weather is different, most of the territory is a tropical monsoon climate of Vietnam, the winter is still warm, the breeze is gentle, especially the Mekong River with extremely abundant water resources, it is rich in vegetation, everywhere gives people a feeling of spring flowers.
After getting off the plane, he followed the tour guide hired on the Internet, and took a taxi directly to a busy wharf along the river, Zhang Longchu looked around and said in English with a smile: "The Mekong Delta is known as the Tunisia of Asia, with 9 major rivers and countless branches, so that the water transportation here is far more convenient than the land transportation.
Tour guide Nguyen, since we want to use the boat as a means of transportation, then we might as well rent a pointed wooden boat unique to Vietnam, I feel that this kind of boat looks primitive, but it is actually much more flexible than a motorboat, and it should be accessible to many narrow waterways, and it seems to be more comfortable to sit on. ”
He said to the ground, the world's most famous self-service travel website has the highest level, 5 stars of service quality, aged about 40 to 50 years old, thin body, always smiling, speaking fluent English tour guide, immediately thumbs up and said: "Mr. Xin, I heard that you are a traveler who has traveled all over the world, and you know how to enjoy different customs and customs in various places."
Coming to our Mekong region, of course, it is the most comfortable and convenient to take a pointed boat, and the means of transportation handed down by the ancestors, if it is not convenient, how can it still exist now. While talking, he had already guided the guests to a familiar wooden boat, talked to the owner in Vietnamese, and then invited Zhang Longchu and Jin Xiuzhen to get on the boat.
After a while, a female boatman wearing a hat and a long traditional costume held a long bamboo pole and slowly drove the three of them out of the dock and into the wide river.
At this time, a warm breeze happened to blow across the water, rippling shallow waves.
Jin Xiuzhen took a deep breath of moist and fragrant rice-scented air, looked at the endless green fields on both sides of the shore, and unconsciously showed a relaxed and happy look on her face, looking at Zhang Longchu and saying: "It's so good, Haisheng, it feels like I'm on vacation."
I knew that Southeast Asia had such beautiful fields and scenery, so why bother to relax away from the hustle and bustle, that is, to go to Provence, Lake Rhine so far away..."
As she was talking, she suddenly saw several teenagers in short coats and trousers holding rifles of various styles on a raft across the opposite side, smoking hookahs with 'cooing...', flashing in front of her eyes, and couldn't help choking.
The tour guide sensitively noticed the changes in the psychology of the guests, and quickly explained with an unchanged smile: "Don't worry, Miss Jin, those are the boys of our Meituo City Guard, they are all serious young people, equivalent to your vigilantes, and their main job is to maintain law and order." ”
"Oh, that's right..."Hearing this, Kim so-jin nodded in understanding, but her expression became obviously stiff, obviously regretting what she had just said, feeling that a group of young people who did not even have a uniform and were of middle school age used as an official supplementary force to maintain law and order in the area were really incomparable to the highly civilized Europa.
Zhang Longchu felt the meaning behind his girlfriend's dry expression, and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart, and continued to enjoy the beautiful scenery on the riverbank without thinking, and thought inexplicably happily: "It's really better to see than to hear, such a fertile, three-year-old land, plus a year's production of the river, it is easy to feed hundreds of millions of people."
In addition to hydropower generation, there is basically no shortage of civil energy, and the first place to be won when expanding strength is here..."
When he was thinking nonsense, the tour guide, at the request of Kim so-jin, proudly pointed to the rice fields on the shore and said, "... For the sake of good taste, the rice here is completely from farmer's own seeds, not high-yielding varieties bought in the laboratory.
But even so, because of the relationship between water quality and land, the yield per mu is more than 1,000 catties, and there is really no place in the world that is more suitable for growing rice than the Mekong River Basin...
According to our ancestors, our rice fields are the land that has been cast by the rice god, 3 crops in 1 year, 7 crops in 2 years, one acre of land can catch up with a few acres in other places, and the food is delicious..."
"And what is the price of your rice here now?" Patiently listening to the tour guide's speech, Kim so-jin asked the most critical question.
"When I bought rice last night, it just rose to 24,000 dong," the tour guide's face changed, and he sighed and said: "Merchants from China, the Middle East, and even rice and Europa have recently come to us to buy a large amount of grain, and this price has been controlled by the government with great efforts." ”
24,000 dong according to Asia's most powerful currency, Huaxia currency, is about 8 yuan, such a price of rice seems acceptable, but the Mekong Delta is the world's largest rice producer, the price of rice here is at least 1 times higher than the price of selling to consumers in various regions abroad, plus all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, and the cheapest grain price of 16 Chinese yuan 1 kilogram is a bit high.
Therefore, Jin Xiuzhen quietly converted the currency value in her heart, and said in surprise: "Guide Ruan, do you have to pay about 1,300 won a kilogram of rice here!"
It's no wonder that the price of foreign rice in our Korean supermarkets is now more than 3,000 won, but the price of rice in the Mekong River Basin, which I saw on the Internet before I came to Vietnam, is not so high..."
"Miss Jin, the current price of rice changes a lot in the morning and afternoon of a day, let alone online," the tour guide shook his head and interjected: "What, you didn't come to Vietnam to travel, but to do a rice business?" ”
"Yes," Kim so-jin nodded, "I run a large chain restaurant in South Korea, and the amount of rice consumed every month is more than 1,000 tons.
A series of sudden noises from the distant village interrupted Jin Xiuzhen's words, and the girl was slightly stunned and blurted out: "This seems to be a gunshot, Guide Ruan, is anyone shooting here at any time?" ”
Since the birth of human civilization on Earth, the rainforests of Southeast Asia have been equated with wild lands.
Until the new era, although the vast jungle here has long been reduced due to the expansion of the population, due to the inertia of geo-cultural inheritance and the relationship between some great powers, there are still many warlords and civilian armed forces here, and the truly developed regions are still like two worlds.
"It's not uncommon to let go of guns, but the cause is our own Vietnamese," the tour guide smiled and tried to calm Kim so-jin's emotions, "It has nothing to do with you foreign tourists, so don't worry." ”
He was telling the truth, because tourism, as the backbone of Southeast Asian countries' economies, has always been a major concern of those in power, and even the warlords who lead the separatist forces will not easily harass foreign tourists.
And this is also the reason why Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other regions have a good score of 'safety' on major travel websites despite the chaotic political situation.
However, people's hearts are delicate, and what they see and hear on the river still makes Jin Xiuzhen lose interest, and she obviously sees the same scenery, but she no longer has the feeling of being in a place far away from civilization and enjoying the idyllic scenery before.
"Thousands of tons of milled rice every month, such a purchase volume is not big, but it is not too small," but at this moment, the tour guide's attention has shifted to other aspects, and he said in a deep voice: "It may be difficult for ordinary agricultural trading companies to meet your needs at one time in the current situation, and even if they can meet it, the asking price may not be too low."
I suggest you go to our largest rice market in the United States 'Zabang' to see, although the process is a little more troublesome, and the quality of the goods may be a little inferior, but you can get the lowest price. ”
"Guide Ruan, in addition to being a tour guide, are you also a food broker?" Hearing this, before Jin Xiuzhen could speak, Zhang Longchu had already asked with a smile.
Guide Ruan smiled and replied bluntly and politely: "I can't talk about being a grain broker, but I don't want to let go of any job that can earn some extra money."
Mr. Zhang, I can't compare with a proud son of heaven like you who has a good family, knowledge and ability, but I am a poor boy from a peasant family, and when I was a child, I was playful and didn't even get into high school, I was a farmer, I joined the army, I did business, and even went to the heterotopic plane for a few days to work as an explorer, and finally I ate the safe meal of the tour guide..."
"You've been a plane explorer before," Zhang Longchu's eyes lit up and interrupted him, "Is it in an alien plane in the frontier zone of Vietnam, or is it abroad?" ”
"It's the frontier of Cambodia," the tour guide replied with a reminiscent expression, "It's very close to the border with China, but it's still in the Indochina Peninsula." ”
Southeast Asia in the traditional sense is composed of two major parts, the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago, of which the Malay Archipelago, which covers an area of more than 2.4 million square kilometers, except for the island of Guinea, which is divided into two parts, and part of it is not included, and the rest of the region has become the territory of Haihua.
As long as he occupied the Indochina Peninsula, which covers an area of about 2 million square kilometers, Zhang Longchu could be regarded as a veritable king of Southeast Asia, completing his goal of expanding his power for the first time, and firmly wedged the first nail into the Asian continent.
And if you want to achieve this goal without causing a backlash from many powerful forces on the earth, especially Huaxia, the smartest thing to do is to repeat the incident of the loss of control of the frontier zone on Central Borneo, and take advantage of the chaos to pick up the results of the battle.
After all, although Zhang Longchu's mastery of the Heroic Spirit Armament is enough to directly swallow the earth, the consequence of this can only be to get a master plane with a complete collapse of social order in most areas and chaos.