Everyone knows that Luo Ke has a fondness for antique cultural relics. He not only collects antique cultural relics from the Qing Dynasty, but also collects antique cultural relics from other countries. Antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times. In the current situation in Europe, smart people know that a war of unprecedented scale will break out.
Therefore, in recent years, the antique market has been sluggish, which has brought great convenience to Roque's collection.
The Nyasaland State Museum covers an area of 170 acres, which is nearly three times larger than the Louvre in France. The number of cultural relics in the collection is comparable to that of the Louvre, and there is still a lot of room for development.
Compared with the library, Louis Botta was obviously not very interested in the museum. He stopped for a moment in front of the door and continued walking forward.
If you think about it, it is understandable that your stomach is not full yet, so your spiritual pursuits will have to wait.
Just past the museum is the business district, which contains the largest department stores and supermarkets in Nyasaland or in southern Africa. The customer groups of the two do not conflict. The department stores are for wealthy people, and the supermarkets are for wealthy people.
By the way, for ordinary citizens, Carlos actually has a supermarket membership card.
The membership system is not the first of its kind in supermarkets. Many merchants in the UK have implemented membership systems to cultivate loyal customers. The same goes for supermarkets. There are also supermarkets in Pretoria. Carlos’ membership card can also be used in Pretoria.
Louis Botta did not go in, but went to the cafe across the street. He and Carlos ordered a cup of coffee each, and spent the entire afternoon watching the flow of people going in and out of supermarkets and department stores.
The business is actually very good. Although the supermarket is open to ordinary citizens, wealthy people who drive private cars will also go to the supermarket to make purchases. When they come out, they are all smiling and don't feel any discomfort.
In Louis Botta's impression, only wealthy people could afford the department store. Ordinary citizens who took buses could also visit the department store. The security guards and doormen at the entrance of the mall also greeted them with smiles, and no bloody incidents occurred.
In Bloemfontein, this kind of scene is almost impossible to see.
In Louis Botha's impression, the people of Bloemfontein are all bitter and hateful, and they walk angrily every day, as if someone owes them several hundred rands. If you look at a stranger in Bloemfontein,
If one person exceeds two seconds, it may lead to a fight.
The people of Nyasaland seem to be very happy. The smiles on their faces definitely come from the heart. Ordinary people don’t mind giving their smiles to strangers. There is a man sitting on the table next to Louis Botha and Carlos.
The lady who was reading, when she noticed that Louis Botta seemed to be observing her, the lady was not angry, but gave Louis Botta a smile first, and then raised her glass to Louis Botta.
This feeling really makes Louis Botha very comfortable.
Although this lady was not beautiful, she was well-dressed and had a gentle temperament, as gentle and restrained as the sparkling Lake Nyasa. Louis Botha fell in love with the city of Little Rock almost instantly.
"Do you need a refill? It's free." The chubby coffee shop owner came over with a coffee pot and refilled the cups in front of everyone, especially the lady. The lady thanked her gently, and she seemed to be a regular customer.
When it was Carlos' turn, Carlos said thank you calmly, and then explained: "There is a sign at the door. In order to celebrate the establishment of the East Indian Union Government, coffee refills have been free for the past month."
After speaking, Carlos realized that Louis Botha was a Boer, so he looked very embarrassed.
East India is an important producer of coffee. The coffee produced in the Kingdom of Aceh is very popular in southern Africa. Of course, the Kingdom of Aceh has now become history, just like the Dutch colonial government.
Louis Botha didn't say anything. The result was already doomed when Nyasaland's immigrant ship was detained in Medan. Even the Germans in Tanganyika and Southwest Africa were no match for Rock. The Dutch were simply
There is no way to resist disruption by umbrella companies.
"Carlos, tell me what you think of Nyasaland." Louis Botha is not obsessed with East India. The nature of this world is that the weak eat the strong. The Dutch established the East Indian colonial government by force, and now it was overthrown by force. Everything is
God's will.
"It is difficult to describe in one or two sentences. Nyasalan is very contradictory. Sometimes she is like a violent boxer who will resolutely fight back when provoked. Sometimes she is a gentle hostess who will take good care of everyone in the family.
Member, in Nyasaland whites and Chinese can sit in the same cafe and drink coffee without any grudges. This is difficult to see in other places in the world, not even in the Transvaal, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
There are too few Chinese in big cities." Carlos was a little confused when he was asked. He was not prepared in advance and could not grasp the key points.
"I'm actually very curious about how Locke can develop the economy while also improving the overall quality of Nyasaland people. The U.S. economy is also good now, but Americans are not popular in the world. They are always noisy.
They make noise and attract attention everywhere, for fear that others will not know that they are rich now." Louis Botha was also confused.
"This is the charm of traditional culture. The United States is a country without history. The first batch of immigrants slaughtered American Indians for land and used this method to establish the current United States. Therefore, it is difficult to demand excessively high moral standards from the United States.
Saran is different. The white people in Nyasaland are all high-quality talents hired with high salaries from Europe. Their moral standards are definitely higher than those of thieves and robbers. And the Chinese have strong self-discipline. When I was a child, my family was also very
Poverty, but my parents taught me that even poverty cannot harm others. I didn’t know what it felt like to be full until I was ten years old. Before me, I had a brother and a sister, and they both died of hunger.
Carlos said with red eyes.
Louis Botta was extremely surprised. He had never thought that Carlos's background was like this: "Sorry, I thought you were from a noble family from the Qing Dynasty."
In Louis Botta's understanding, only those born in aristocratic families can have a good education and have excellent qualities such as confidence, optimism, tenacity and courage. Children from lower-class white families in Europe, even if they receive education, will not be able to grow up when they grow up.
He is incompatible with upper class society.
Americans are the representatives.
"Mr. Minister, will the aristocratic families from the Qing Dynasty come to southern Africa? When my parents immigrated, their employer, the landowner of our small village, threatened them, saying that Nyasaland people are all liars and cannot be believed.
It was my uncle who gave our family a sum of money, and we learned that he really made a fortune in Johannesburg. My uncle had a 600-acre farm in Johannesburg." Carlos took several deep breaths and finally calmed down.
"Six hundred acres, that's quite a lot, a lot of money." Louis Botha also knows how expensive farms in Johannesburg are now.
"My family's farm is near Port Edward. Although it only has less than a hundred acres, it is already a large piece of land. We didn't have that many landowners in the village before." The smile on Carlos's face was contagious, and Louis
Botha was also happy from the bottom of his heart for Carlos' family.
Happiness is also contagious.
At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the lights in the cafe were turned on, but the lights were still a little dim. At this time, the cafe owner came to the lady's table and wanted to add a candle to the lady to make it easier for her to read.
But the lady had already closed the book and was about to say goodbye: "Thank you for the coffee Ronald, but please don't put too much sugar next time. I didn't dare to say it just now for fear of breaking your heart."
"I'm so sorry Sophia, I remember it." The coffee shop owner took the initiative to open the door for Sophia and watched Sophia leave.
"Let's go and find a place to eat." Louis Botta also stood up.
"Thank you for coming, please go slowly." The coffee shop owner was equally attentive, probably because Carlos tipped more.
The service industry in Nyasaland does not require tipping. In restaurants, bars and cafes, you can give it if you want to. If you don't want to tip, the waiter will not take the initiative to ask for it. Of course, if you give it, you will definitely get more enthusiastic service.
If it were in Bloemfontein, Louis Botha would not dine outside at all. The main reason is the hygiene. Based on Louis Botha's understanding of restaurants, in Bloemfontein, even restaurants that look bright and glamorous,
The hygiene in the kitchen is also disturbing.
Although Louis Botha has no specific understanding of the hygiene level of Nyasaland restaurants, he has inexplicable confidence. Nyasaland people, who have performed so well in other places, believe that the hygiene level of the kitchen is also impressive.
It's reassuring.
Then it was really just a matter of finding a place to have something to eat. Carlos chose a restaurant with a Chinese-style decoration. After entering, it turned out to be a Chinese-run restaurant.
Regardless of the signboards, many restaurants run by white people in Nyasaland also use Chinese decoration styles.
Although the hygiene level of restaurants run by white people can also be reassuring, the level of cooking is hard to describe.
"Come on, take some." Louis Botta asked Carlos to order without even looking at the menu. It must be in Chinese and English. Louis Botta was in a good mood at the moment, so he didn't bother himself anymore.
"What's the staple food?" Carlos first decided on the staple food.
"have what?"
“Let me take a look, it’s not bad, there are quite a lot of varieties, including noodles, dumplings, and rice.”
"What are noodles? Spaghetti?" Louis Botta asked casually.
"No, no, no, noodles were not invented by the Italians, but by the Chinese. In the 13th century, Marco Polo brought noodles back to Sicily, and then spaghetti was invented." The waiter who took the order must have explained it many times.
, but still take the trouble.
"The Chinese invented it again. How many things have you invented?" Louis Botta is not surprised. Now even if someone tells Louis Botta that everything in the world was invented by the Chinese, Louis Botta is not surprised.