Chapter 633 Hong Tao looks at the United States II
Compared with these fat people, the body shape of Chinese people is far from the level of concern. If we see a person on the street whose waistband is longer than his pants and is wider horizontally and vertically, we must look at him a few times, right?
But in the United States, on the streets, in bars, in public
You can see this kind of people everywhere in the garden, and nothing more exaggerated than this is nothing. So, just eat what you have to eat, and don’t make it hard on yourself. Nine times out of ten, life will be unsatisfactory. It’s hard to tolerate eating meat even if you like it.
Wait, when you die and close your eyes, won't you regret it?
In addition to fat people, there are also street performers who make a living in various ways. These people cannot be called vagrants because they have skills and they clean up very clean. It is hard to imagine that in the airports of Dallas and Seattle, there will be
There are people who shine shoes for tips, there are people in downtown Miami who make little flowers out of leaves for tourists, and there are people who perform tricks on the street on Fifth Avenue in New York.
What makes Hong Tao feel even more comfortable is that these people don't have urban management to chase them like dogs chasing rabbits, so they clean up neatly. It doesn't affect the appearance of the city at all. On the contrary, it makes people feel that this street and this city are very humane.
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Speaking of the appearance of cities, does the "psoriasis" problem that has been plaguing many cities in China exist in the United States? To be honest, there is, but not much. Urban psoriasis here in the United States is not a small advertisement, because who dares to post a small advertisement will soon be
The police will come to your door, and you haven’t earned the money yet. The fines came first, and they are not worth it, so no one posts them. The main problem here is urban graffiti, those people who carry a bottle of spray paint in their pockets wherever they go.
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However, this situation does not exist in every city, nor does it exist in the entire city, but in individual areas. For example, in subway stations in New York, especially those that pass through black areas, from the door to the rails.
The artistic inspiration of those black brothers can be seen everywhere. Furthermore, there are more graffiti in black neighborhoods, which is mainly related to local income and public security.
The U.S. government is also trying to guide these people who like to use their inspiration. They have set up special graffiti areas on campuses, neighborhoods, and communities. Some are a wall, some are an abandoned car, and some are a big stone or statue. Anyway, they have all the functions.
Similarly, it allows people with too many artistic talents to have a place to vent.
Another thing about farmers in the United States. When Hong Tao was driving across the United States, what he saw the most were farmers driving tractors and driving slowly in front of your car. There were also farmers riding tall horses standing on the roadside looking at the road.
Cowboys driving back and forth. They all have one thing in common. They are very slow, calm, and leisurely. They may be wondering where this Chinese guy is driving with an American girl? Why not?
How about riding a horse?
As a farmer, if you were born in the United States, it would be paradise. If you were born in China, it would be below the horizon. Hong Tao believes that China can catch up with the United States economically, which is very possible; it can also catch up with the United States technologically, which
It's a little troublesome, because now Chinese people are all focused on making money, and no one wants to do it in a down-to-earth manner.
Doing research, so it will take some time to catch up; it is very difficult to catch up with the United States militarily. Because if science and technology cannot catch up, the military will not be able to catch up. This is a logical problem; as for agriculture, China is likely to not undergo earth-shaking changes in agriculture.
Under such circumstances, we will never be able to catch up with the United States. It’s not that Hong Tao is unpatriotic, but that the gap is too big.
The average farmer in the United States has one thousand acres of land, while the average Chinese farmer has less than one acre of cultivated land. Even if your family has 20 people, it only has 20 acres of land. But how many people have 20 people? Hong Tao was once involved in a car accident in Texas.
The tire was rescued by a farmer's tractor by chance, so I stopped by his house for lunch. The family was just an old couple and owned 1,200 acres of land, growing sorghum and corn. For this purpose, they hired two Mexican immigrants to help as workers.
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Their family only grows one season every year. And the planting area will never exceed 500 acres. When Hong Tao went to their house, there were harvested corn fields on the left, but there was bare land on the right. Hong Tao asked the old man this
Why? The old man replied that the land cannot be used to grow crops every year. The land needs rest just like people, so they only plant about one-third of the land every year and let the rest of the land rest.
Listen, how annoying this is! All the land in the United States is on annual leave! What’s even more annoying is that American farmers receive a large amount of agricultural subsidies from the state and federal governments every year, about US$20,000.
The elderly couple only earns a total of US$50,000 per year, 40% of which comes from government subsidies.
But in China, the land not only doesn’t want to rest, but also has to work overtime. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are fiercely greeted. In fact, it is not the farmer brothers who want to use chemical fertilizers. Chemical fertilizers are not free, they are bought with money. But if you don’t use chemical fertilizers, your land will not grow.
Crops and land are already barren, so we can only rely on chemical fertilizers. This is a vicious cycle.
In addition, mechanization in rural America has been developing for decades. Most families have their own harvesters, seeders, tractors and other large agricultural machinery, or several neighboring farmers pool their money to buy and use them together. Anyway, 3,
Five people can serve thousands of acres of land, which is extremely efficient. In addition, farmers also
There are trade unions, and those agricultural product purchasers cannot control prices, so they cannot cheat farmers. However, in the past few years, the price of what was planted has fallen and what has been harvested has become worthless everywhere in China. After those interest groups have cheated the shareholders, they have already taken control of the situation.
Reaching out to farmers is simply digging into the country's roots.
Finally, let me talk about something interesting. It is called "Greyhound Bus". It is the only long-distance passenger transportation company in the United States. The company's logo is a running hound, which is very similar to the Jaguar logo. Hong Tao met on the highway
He had been to many tall buses with black glass. At first, he was lamenting that the Americans were really rich and used Jaguars as long-distance buses. Later, Irene overheard and told him with a smile that that one was not a leopard, but a squid.
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This kind of bus is almost all over the cities and rural areas of the United States. They can go to places that trains and planes cannot go. And they have a rule that is very suitable for tourists. When buying tickets, these buses not only have one-way tickets, but also a ticket based on the number of days.
Calculated promissory note. What is a promissory note? It just gives you a stack of tickets. The ticket only has the destination you want to go to, the time when you buy the ticket, your name, for example, 3 days, 7 days, 15 days, etc.
When you get on the bus, tear up a ticket and give it to the driver, and then you can look at the scenery. If you think it is fun, you can get off the bus at any time and wait for the next Greyhound bus to come and get on the bus again.
Tear up a ticket and give it to the driver, then continue towards your destination.
For example, if Hong Tao and Irene want to go from New York to Seattle, well, according to the Greyhound bus itinerary, it will take more than 3 days to get there. If Hong Tao and Irene want to stop in various states along the way, then buy a 15-day bus trip.
Promissory note. Take this promissory note, Hong
Tao and Irene can get off the bus and get on the bus at will. As long as they arrive in Seattle within 15 days, this ticket can be used unlimited times. If the tickets in your hand are used up, you can still go to any city.
Greyhound bus stations continue to collect tickets free of charge.
The price of this kind of bus is much cheaper than airplanes and trains. In order to experience it, Hong Tao once bought a set of three-day cashier's tickets. The fare from Seattle to Yamaki, 200 kilometers away, only costs a little more than 75 US dollars.
, you can visit all the places along the 200 kilometers in these three days. Of course, Hong Tao only got off the bus once, which means he only tore up one ticket, and the rest were wasted.
The body of this Greyhound bus is very tall, even larger than domestic long-distance sleeper buses. There are 4 rows of seats inside, with an aisle in the middle and a toilet at the end of the carriage. The distance between the front and rear rows of these seats is
It's very big. You can adjust the angle of the back of the chair, so you can sit or half-lie down. Of course, you can't lie down completely. The windows on the car are very large and black, so you can hardly see the inside clearly from the outside.
But from the inside, it has no effect on the outside at all, similar to one-way glass.
Most of the people riding this bus are ordinary people and poor backpackers. In some areas, there are more blacks and Mexicans. It is a little chaotic, but safety is not a problem. There is only one driver on the bus, and he is the driver.
, and the police officers also act as part of the tour guides. These drivers
They are very professional. They change shifts every 4 hours. If you want to drive for half an hour longer, you can’t do it because this is a requirement of the union. If any company dares to violate it, it will go to court and get a huge fine. So they will never drive while fatigued, and the road conditions
It’s also very good. Even if you drive very fast, you don’t have to worry about driving safety.
After driving about 200 kilometers, the car will stop and rest for 15 minutes. At this time, everyone can get in and out of the car at will, walk around, and come back before driving. At meal time, the driver will drive the car into a special rest area.
It usually stops for about 40 minutes. This
There are all the same fast food restaurants. You don’t have to worry about the driver taking you to those shady restaurants to defraud you of your money. Whether you like to eat or not, these fast food restaurants are all chain stores, with different sizes, decorations, and even the placement of tables and chairs.
They are exactly the same, the only difference is the waiter.
Hong Tao and Irene also ate in these fast food restaurants. Sometimes you will have an illusion, because you were sitting in the same seat yesterday, and now this seat is exactly the same as yesterday. What is outside the window is still the highway, but it is just a restaurant.
The people there are different, as if you have really traveled through time.
The above are all fun, but there are also some that are not fun, such as gas stations. Except for the large gas stations around the city, many gas stations in the United States do not have service personnel. Even if they do, they will not care if you refuel, they will only charge you.
Money, so you have to refuel yourself. Hong Tao
It was a joke the first time he played with the gas pump. He wanted to fill up the gas tank, but forgot that the unit here was gallons. As a result, the gas came out directly from the tank, and Hong Tao paid nearly 4 times the amount.
When it comes to gas, people only charge according to the number on the gas pump.
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