The customer service manager of their European hotel was a real Tang Dynasty man with black hair and black eyes. This person thought highly of George, so he wrote him such a letter of recommendation.
As for the security deposit, although his salary is good, it is still very difficult to pay a security deposit of fifty Tang Yuan. In the past few years, he saved part of it through frugality, borrowed part of it from his uncle, and borrowed some from his colleagues.
Some, and after borrowing fifteen Tang Yuan from the customer service manager, I finally got it together.
Such a large debt required him to work hard for several years and live frugally before he could pay it off.
But these difficulties are nothing compared to being able to bring my brother to Ceuta tomorrow and let him get a temporary residence permit and live a good life from now on.
Early the next morning, when the guests in the European Hotel were still sleeping, many staff were already busy, but George did not wear the messenger uniform like his contemporaries, but changed into a suit
The clean denim business attire is out.
In terms of style, this business attire is actually the same as the business attire worn by respectable gentlemen. It is all professional attire, and it is even made of woolen material. However, this kind of woolen material is of relatively poor quality and relatively cheap.
The tweed material is not the fine woolen and other expensive dress materials commonly used by the upper class.
The shirt inside is not expensive silk, but cotton.
People have a herd mentality, for example, the top dignitaries at the top of the empire, they keep an eye on the Jinling Palace. Many popular costumes in the Tang Dynasty came from the palace. Women in particular pay more attention to the trends in the palace.
The upper class, represented by most officials and businessmen, focused on the top dignitaries, while the ordinary middle class focused on the ordinary upper class.
For example, a glass thermos!
This thing actually appeared a long time ago, but it has never become popular. On the one hand, early thermos bottles were expensive, and on the other hand, it was because the early rich and powerful did not use thermos bottles at all. People wanted to drink hot tea when they went out.
, all of which are cooked freshly by asking servants to bring charcoal and boil kettles.
The power of tradition is strong, so even though thermos bottles have been around for many years, they have never become popular before.
But a few years ago, when the imperial prince Li Hao went out for an inspection, his followers brought thermos bottles to provide hot water at any time. This scene was witnessed by countless interested people.
Then, this thermos bottle got out of hand and became popular throughout the empire overnight.
When the dignitaries go out, the servants bring charcoal pots to boil kettles, but they turn into thermoses...
It sounds very nonsense to say it, but this is a direct reaction of people following the crowd, especially imitating the upper class.
When people from the upper class wore professional attire for the convenience of working and working, the ordinary middle class also followed suit. Now, in fact, even people from the lower class have also kept up with this pace.
It doesn't matter if you can't afford expensive fine fabrics, there are also coarse fabrics.
It doesn't matter if you can't afford silk, there is still cotton.
After going out dressed like this, George first left the hotel on foot through the staff passage at the side entrance, and then waited under the platform on the roadside for more than ten minutes before boarding a four-wheeled double-decker public carriage pulled by two horses.
After getting on the carriage and paying ten cents to the coachman, he went into the lower compartment. There were already more than ten people in the lower compartment. What's interesting is that among these people, there were blond, red, and brown hair.
Basically they are all Europeans.
However, when he entered, George still glanced at the upper floors. There were not many people, but several of them were Tang people with black hair and black eyes. Even the other Europeans like him, most of them were dressed in expensive and expensive clothes.
Decent clothes.
The upper level is the upper class carriage, which is more spacious, has better visibility, and even the seats are cushioned, but the fare is also more expensive.
Naturally, George was reluctant to spend several days' salary just by taking a car.
After taking a seat in the lower carriage, the people around him, including himself, although the clothes they wore were not necessarily expensive fabrics, they were all dressed decently and cleanly.
This was naturally influenced by the people of the Tang Dynasty!
The people of the Tang Dynasty, who have inherited thousands of years of Chinese tradition, are very particular about etiquette!
This can be seen from the word Huaxia. What does Huaxia mean?
The Zuo Zhuan Zhengyi of the Spring and Autumn Period says this: China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of uniforms, so it is called Hua.
This shows that Chinese people are obsessed with etiquette and dress.
This persistence is reflected almost everywhere in life, especially as the Tang Dynasty became more and more powerful and the people's living standards became higher and higher.
How can I put it, after people have eaten and drank enough, they begin to pursue spiritual things.
So you will see that many middle class people in the Tang Dynasty, even if their income is clearly not up to the upper class, but their lifestyle is trying to be closer to the upper class.
This kind of closeness is not only about what to wear, but also a closeness in behavior.
For example, when going out to work or doing errands, the middle class will put on their own decent clothes.
Because the upper-class people they see every day when traveling are all well-dressed.
The lower class people also imitated the middle class, so this gradually led to the society of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they were powerful people or peasant workers, they would always wear more decent clothes when going out.
At the same time, this can also be seen in other aspects. For example, many places in Datang, especially high-end restaurants and shops, refuse entry to those who are not neatly dressed.
The people of the Tang Dynasty were so obsessed with etiquette and dress, and so were the temporary residents who defected to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, including George, all the more than ten Europeans in the carriage were wearing decent clothes.
There are even some people wearing Hanfu robes.
After arriving at the port in a carriage, he went directly to the passenger terminal and waited for the passenger ship that would leave for Cadiz at eight in the morning!
There are regular steam passenger flights between Ceuta and Cadiz, but they are not available every day. Generally speaking, there is only one flight every five days in the off-season, and sometimes there is one flight every two or three days.
George had purchased a round-trip ferry ticket in advance, otherwise he would have come here so rashly without knowing whether he would be able to purchase the ticket.
He waited for more than half an hour before boarding the passenger ship bound for Cadiz.
This passenger ship is not big, just a passenger ship of more than 800 tons. It is not even a specialized ocean liner, but a passenger ship that specializes in sailing in coastal waters and other waters.