After Liu Jin finished writing his reply to his son Liu Da, he stood up and looked at the prosperous Hong Kong outside the window.
This previously unknown place on the island of England has taken off rapidly since it became a colony of the Ming Empire.
It has developed to this day, and it is already full of high-rise buildings, bustling and noisy, and extremely prosperous.
The Ming Empire could collect more than 50 million taels of silver from Hong Kong every year. From here alone, you can see how prosperous the business in Hong Kong was.
In later generations, Hong Kong relied on the entire mainland, radiated throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia, and was the commercial, trade and financial center of the entire huge region.
The Hong Kong in front of us relies on the entire Western Europe region and is the commercial, trade and financial center of Western Europe.
Almost all goods coming to Europe from the Ming Empire, especially those going to Western Europe, passed through Hong Kong and were transited here.
Most of the goods from Western European countries passed through Hong Kong and then were resold back to the Ming Empire or overseas vassal states, colonies, vassal states and other parts of the world.
In such a position, Hong Kong can become extremely prosperous just by developing transit trade, among other things.
"Haha, it seems that people all over the world are actually the same. There are people who worship foreign things and favor foreigners everywhere!"
In addition, you can also receive advanced education from the East in Hong Kong.
Here there are not only numerous large and small firms from the Ming Empire, but also firms and merchants from overseas colonies, vassal states and Ming vassal states, and even from all over the world.
One of the most outstanding points is that housing prices in Hong Kong are extremely expensive, even exceeding those in the Beijing-Tianjin area of Ming Dynasty.
Medical treatment is also an important reason why many European nobles choose to immigrate to Hong Kong. The medical technology of the Ming Dynasty developed very quickly and was very advanced. Many diseases that cannot be treated in Europe are only minor problems here in Hong Kong.
Even with such an expensive price, it is still hard to find a house here. No matter how expensive the price is, people will buy it, because there are not only a large number of wealthy Ming people here, but also a large number of immigrants from the European continent.
of European nobles.
Not only can you have the status of a citizen of Hong Kong, a colony of the Ming Empire, but you can also enjoy the convenient services here, as well as the advanced education and medical care here.
These are the reasons that attracted European nobles and wealthy people to immigrate to Hong Kong, and they are also the reasons why Hong Kong prospered rapidly.
In this way, you can have straight black hair that only Oriental women can have, and you can have more Oriental women's beauty, and you can make your husband love you more.
There are many things that money in mainland Europe cannot buy, such as electricity, movies, football matches, etc. These are unique to Hong Kong and are rarely available even in the most advanced Spanish empire in Europe.
Seeing such a scene, Liu Jin also laughed.
The number of women in Hong Kong is several times that of men. If you look around, you will often see a Ming Dynasty man going shopping and shopping with several concubines, enjoying being hugged from one side to the other.
At the same time, because of the turmoil on the European continent, a large number of European nobles were attracted to deposit their funds in banks in Hong Kong. The scale of this is probably beyond the imagination of outsiders.
Backed by the powerful Ming Empire and the most advanced civilization and technology, this place is destined to be prosperous.
Therefore, it is also possible to immigrate to relevant places at home. As long as you spend some money and have a deposit in a bank of the Ming Dynasty, you can obtain the citizenship of Hong Kong, a colony of the Ming Empire, and live a stable and prosperous life in Hong Kong.
They looked at everything here curiously and carefully looked at everything here.
Secondly, it is very prosperous and lively here. While cities in Europe are dark, Hong Kong is already brightly lit. There are numerous football fields, racetracks, theaters, brothels, movie theaters and many other lively places for consumption.
The huge wealth accumulated by European aristocrats over hundreds or even thousands of years has been flowing into Hong Kong continuously. Such huge wealth has naturally driven the development here.
Because these people actually dyed their hair black and straightened their hair.
Because no matter the clothes and shoes they wear, the hairstyles they wear, the makeup they wear, etc., they are all of oriental color.
This directly led to the turmoil on the European continent, which also led to the emergence of a large number of warlords and military aristocrats on the European continent. The existence of these military power seriously disrupted the aristocratic order and spirit that had been left behind in the past.
The Spanish Empire's war to unify Europe is still going on, and the war with the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire's coalition forces has been going on for many years. The fights between the two sides seem to be endless.
Housing prices in the Beijing-Tianjin area of the Ming Dynasty have increased relatively little over the years, remaining at the level of 6,000 taels of silver for a house, but here in Hong Kong, the price of a house has already risen to tens of thousands of taels of silver.
These European ladies wear skirts with rich oriental colors. You can't see the skirts popular among the nobles in Europe. The colors and patterns are also full of oriental flavor.
There is no way, the hair of Oriental people is black and straight. The people of Ming Dynasty like straight black hair. As concubines, these people naturally want to follow their fancy, so they also dye their hair black.
He also went to straighten his hair.
Liu Jin took a car and arrived at the bustling commercial street in Hong Kong. He saw that the entire bustling commercial street was very lively and crowded. A large number of nobles from Europe could be seen shopping leisurely.
It can be clearly seen that these European nobles worship the East.
People of the Ming Dynasty liked to shave their beards and cut their hair short, and so did the European aristocrats. Originally, for the European aristocrats, beards were very important and could never be cut off, and the same was true for their hair.
Now the situation is reversed. Here, there are also many people who worship foreigners, many, but their identities are reversed. It is these Europeans who worship the Ming Dynasty and everything that comes from the East.
You can have a place to spend money day and night. As long as you have money, you are the boss.
In addition to business, it is finance.
The finance here is very developed. Banks and banks from all over the world have offices here. It is very convenient to borrow and save money here, and financing is very convenient.
But now, following the example of the Ming Dynasty people who cut their hair short and shaved off their beards, they found that people's lives are more convenient and more comfortable, so people are willing to accept this, and slowly shaving their beards, and keeping short hair has become a trend among European aristocrats.
trend.
Here you can receive traditional private school and academy education, you can also take part in the imperial examinations held by the Ming Empire, and you can also receive new-style education.
Compared with the backward aristocratic education on the European continent, the education system of the Ming Dynasty is more complete and more reasonable. Immigrants here will have many benefits for future generations.
Here, there are many Ming men who often go shopping with several concubines. These concubines are basically Europeans. If you don't pay attention to each of them, you will think that they are from the Ming Dynasty.
The clothes worn by the men are also the most popular styles and clothes in the Ming Dynasty. Classical style clothes give people a strange feeling when worn on these Europeans.
Many nobles lost their territories, castles, lands, etc. because of motivation, and they did not want to continue living a turbulent life.
Coupled with the Spanish Empire's aggressive attacks on the old aristocrats, European aristocrats have transferred their properties to the safer Hong Kong, which has greatly promoted the prosperity and development of Hong Kong's finance.
In addition to these, Liu Jin also made obvious discoveries.
Human nature is like this: we worship the strong and despise the weak.
There are many people in later generations who worship foreigners and favor foreigners. Some people even say that they would rather go to Europe and the United States to be dogs than to be human beings in China. They worship foreigners and favor foreigners to the extreme.
In Hong Kong, the slave trade is very popular, and the largest number of them are female slaves. The Ming Dynasty people in Hong Kong will basically sell a few female slaves as concubines, servants, servants, etc.
It is no exaggeration to describe that every inch of land is valuable here. The amount of commercial transactions involved in each commercial building may be very huge.
As long as you have money, you can buy many medicines here that are simply not available in Europe, and can cure many diseases that cannot be cured at all.
Hong Kong is not the European continent. It is very stable here. It is a colony of the Ming Empire. No one dares to provoke the Ming Empire.
To fear the strong and bully the weak is true human nature.
The Ming Empire was extremely powerful and advanced, with developed science and technology, a prosperous economy, and a prosperous people. However, at this time, Europe was in great turmoil, full of chaos and darkness.
There is a sharp contrast between the two, which is vividly reflected in Hong Kong, and it will naturally form the current phenomenon.
This made Liu Jin feel that all the slaves he had traveled through time were worth it.
