"Then why no one abolished it?" Sturgeon was a little puzzled.
"If you want me, I won't do it. Anyone who does it means losing votes. If you don't promise not to abolish government workers after being elected, those people won't vote for you. The more government workers there are, the stronger this force will be."
, the further it goes, the less likely it will be to abolish it, 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 based on logical analysis, it was still very possible.
"Isn't this a tragedy? The Argentine government is unlucky enough!" Fatty Bu understood it after a simple translation.
"Do you know Borges?" Fernando suddenly said a name, and then looked at Hong Tao with a look like you didn't know you were a country bumpkin.
"I don't know!" Hong Tao has never been afraid of being a country turtle. What's wrong with the country turtle? The country turtle is also a kind of medicinal material!
"I know, magical realism! He's a great writer! He's a great poet. I've read his novels, but I didn't understand them." Hong Tao was surprised that Fatty Bu was not a country bumpkin.
"I really didn't realize it! Fat brother actually has some literary talent. How about we go to a museum tomorrow or something?" Hong Tao began to attack those who were better than him.
"Come on, goodbye, I confess, I originally watched these things just to seduce little girls. You also know that there are always a few good-looking girls in the bar who like this tune. When we chat, they will be like "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
It's very profound. If I don't recharge my batteries, I won't be able to talk to people at all!" Fatty Bu finally told the truth under Hong Tao's contemptuous eyes.
"Yes, Argentina is a country like Borges and Marquez, full of magic and reality." Fernando said this like a poet. He even summed it up.
Magical or not, Argentina is really a strange country. In the urban area of Buenos Aires, all streets are divided into 100-meter intervals and are staggered in one row. What does this mean? That is, if you
The street you are walking on now is a one-way street going east. Then the street to the north or south of you must be a one-way street going west. The same is true for the north-south roads.
A road with only one lane is called (calle), which means street. A road with more than 4 lanes is called (avenida), which means avenue. Every fourth calle, there must be an avenida, which is very standardized!
In addition, Fernando also revealed a small idea to make a fortune to Hong Tao, but Hong Tao rejected it. The idea was to resell foreign exchange.
According to Fernando, the Argentine government forcibly pegged the peso to the U.S. dollar, which is about 3 pesos for 100 million U.S. dollars, but on the black market, 100 million U.S. dollars can be exchanged for about 6 pesos, which is double the profit inside and outside, so some smart people
The Argentines started a business of reselling dollars.
They used smuggling methods to go to Uruguay and Paraguay across the river, exchange U.S. dollars for pesos, and then return to Argentina to buy U.S. dollars privately with pesos. They can make a small fortune as they go back and forth. It is said that in order to cope with this
According to this phenomenon, the Argentine government froze the foreign exchange savings of all Argentine citizens a year ago, and then forcibly converted them into pesos according to the official exchange rate. This was tantamount to openly robbing money from the people.
The main reason why Fernando doesn't let Hong Tao and the others leave the hotel at will is because Argentina's current economic deterioration is very serious, and with it comes security problems. It's better for the locals, especially for foreign tourists like Hong Tao who don't understand Spanish.
For example, it is already very unsafe to stay 100 meters away from the hotel. Thieves, swindlers, and prostitutes will all target you. Otherwise, people and property may be damaged.
It is said that Argentina has a lot of foreign debt, unemployment, and landlords. Due to Argentina’s economic recession, there is nothing to export except beef, so inflation is very high. In order to preserve value, rich people in Argentina buy large quantities of food in big cities.
real estate.
But after I bought a house, the economy still declined, and I couldn’t sell the house anymore. Even if I rented it out, I couldn’t get a high price. Take Buenos Aires as an example. If the houses here are rented out,
It will take more than 200 months to recover the cost.
Seeing that things were not going well, these wealthy Argentines had no choice but to find another way out. So they took advantage of the fact that the U.S. economy was hit by the subprime mortgage crisis and went to Miami to buy a house. It is said that the cost can be recovered by renting it for 103 months. However,
For these things, Hong Tao thinks it's just drizzle. It takes an average of 500 months for landlords in China to recover their costs. Compared with these Chinese landlords, Argentinian landlords are really happy!
Drink wine, eat beef, fall in love, and watch football!
This is Fernando’s summary of Argentinians. They don’t like anything except these 4 things. If you want to say that life here is happy, it is indeed very good. They just play all day long. If you want to say that they are unhappy, it is true.
I am not very happy. I am drunk all day long and have no hope. No matter how delicious the beef is, I will probably not be happy at all.
Regardless of whether Argentinians are happy or not, Hong Tao is quite happy now because he won money!
Last night, everyone chatted in the restaurant until 12 o'clock, and then returned to the hotel with a full meal. Early this morning, Fernando came to pick them up as agreed, and first went to Florida Street for a walk. It was just as Fernando said.
, there are small shops on both sides of the street here, one next to the other. Except for a few shops to buy other goods, they all sell leather goods and silverware.
Argentina is known as the country of silver, and you can’t go wrong with silverware. This can be seen from the container of yerba mate yesterday. If a country uses vessels carved like handicrafts as daily utensils, it means that this country
The level of making this kind of utensils is already very high.
Hong Tao was not polite and bought a set of yerba mate tea utensils because Fernando said that yerba mate tea contains countless kinds of immeasurable elements and is very good for the human body. Although Hong Tao didn't believe it, bringing a set back to Argentina was considered a worthwhile trip.
One trip.
Fatty Bu and Sturgeon were not idle either. They were not very interested in silverware, but they were very fond of cowhide, another specialty of Argentina. Argentina’s cowhide products use local materials, and the leather is very soft and soft.
It feels like pure cotton, molded into the hand, and does not feel heavy when worn on the body. It is very comfortable.
Leather jackets, leather trousers, leather bags, wallets, leather shoes...these two didn't leave anything behind. It's just that they didn't exchange many pesos. They all paid in US dollars, so after converting them according to the black market price, the things here are
It's really cheap. This was also Fernando's idea for them. It seems that it is very, very important to find a tour guide with professional ethics when traveling to an unfamiliar place.
After the purchase, everyone had lunch at another restaurant, then took the ferry boat from Pier 1 of the port and boarded the ferry floating outside the port. The reason why the Argentinian who runs this casino located the casino in a
On the boat, it was not to attract attention or highlight any style, but to evade the legal regulations of the Argentine government.
According to Argentine law, no casino can be opened within 400 kilometers around Buenos Aires, but the people who set this law at the time forgot to include the water surface and only stipulated land. So this person
The smart casino owner figured out a way to set up the casino on the water, so it would not be within the restrictions of this law.
It can also be seen from this point that democracy is not completely useless. If you are in a dictatorship, let alone water, even if you are located in the sky, as long as the officials think you are an eyesore, a few missiles will still kill you.
Beat it down! As for what kind of laws? It's nothing, laws are what they use to disgust others, not themselves. If necessary, we can give you several laws in a minute!
Perhaps because he didn't bring Irene with him, Hong Tao was very lucky this time. He spent three hours and actually won more than 300 pesos. This made him overjoyed, and he quickly rubbed oil on his feet and ran away. He knew very well that if
If you don't leave, not only will the 300-plus pesos not belong to you, but you may have to dig out your pocket for another 300 pesos, so take it while it's good!
When everyone left the casino, it was already past 4 p.m., and they had to rush back to the hotel because the evening game started at 6:30. Since they joined the spectator group, they had to return to the hotel's meeting point to wait for the spectator group's bus.
Come to pick people up, this spectator group is not free of charge. In addition to the tickets, you can also enter the Boca Juniors honor room to visit, and there are at least 3 security personnel and a team leader on the bus to take charge of the team members.
personal safety.
However, once safety is achieved, personal freedom cannot be guaranteed. All team members must come and leave in unison, and cannot move around at will. Even if they want to go to the toilet during the game, they must be accompanied by the team leader and security personnel.
Argentina's top football league is called the Super League, with a total of 20 teams participating. The last two teams are relegated each year, and the top two teams in the first league are promoted. The schedule of the Super League is not very similar to that of our country's league.
Similarly, they are multi-year. The new year's league starts in July every year and lasts until December. Then it takes a 2-month break. It starts in February of the next year and ends in June. It is played almost all year round.
Watch the game.
I have to say that Argentinians really like watching football matches. When Hong Tao and his team's bus arrived three blocks away from the Youth Stadium, home of Boca Juniors, they could hardly walk.
Fans' vehicles and teams were everywhere, holding trumpets, flags and carrying musical instruments. Most of them were Boca fans wearing blue and yellow colors, because today was the home stadium of Boca Juniors.
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