Since his successful naturalization, George's life has undergone earth-shaking changes.
This change is not a change in material life. In fact, George still lives in a rented apartment. He still travels mainly by public carriage. He occasionally rides a taxi. He still works in a European hotel and is still his guest manager.
Even the salary didn't increase by even a dime.
The real change is in other people's attitudes.
George could clearly feel that the attitude of the people around him had changed dramatically.
For example, those fellow temporary residents or guests used to have a friendly attitude toward George, but this kind of friendliness or even kindness was more due to his position and his own dignity.
Many of the guests who were temporary residents regarded George as a kindred spirit, and more as one of their own.
But now, George found that these people no longer regarded him as one of their own, and they no longer spoke with kindness, but with respect.
what does that mean?
This means that these people also know that George is no longer the same kind of person as them, but a Tang Dynasty person who is superior to them.
Rather than being friendly or cordial, George would naturally prefer to see them respect him!
The bigger change came from the Tang Dynasty people. In the past, Tang Dynasty colleagues in European hotels were also very friendly to George, but this kind of friendliness would even make people feel polite.
And to whom would the gentry of the Tang Dynasty be friendly or even polite to?
To the disadvantaged!
A standard and decent Tang gentry must have a character that is to maintain respect for the disadvantaged!
When a Tang Dynasty gentleman checked into a European hotel, the temporary resident employees who provided services to him would usually smile and say words like "thank you for your hard work".
At first glance, they may seem polite, but in fact, this kind of politeness often represents two different groups of people. It can even be thought that the Tang Dynasty people felt that these disadvantaged groups were quite pitiful, so they maintained their superficial politeness.
But now, when George meets some guests from the Tang Dynasty in European hotels, they are not too polite to George. Some guests will even make harmless jokes with George, and some older people will even call him by his name.
, as some of his peers would call him.
Heaven and earth conscience, he has worked in European hotels for so many years, but not many people have called him by his name. They all call him Manager Qiao, and they have also called him by his first name in the past.
However, no decent Tang Dynasty gentry ever called him by that name or the elders called him by his given name. They all politely called him Manager Qiao.
Even his old boss who thinks highly of him calls him Manager Qiao.
On the surface it seems very polite and respectful, but this politeness and respect also represent distance.
It implies that we should be polite and don't get too close.
But now, he found that the people in the Tang Dynasty around him had changed the way they called him. There were more people calling him brother and brother, and more people calling him son. Only those who were not familiar with him would call him by his position.
What does this change in name mean?
It means that they accepted George and recognized him as one of them and a Tang Dynasty man.
Rather than temporary residents.
The Tang Dynasty and temporary residents are two completely different concepts. Even George himself is very clear that the temporary resident system created by the Tang Dynasty was initially just to arrange for the indigenous people in the occupied areas who could not be arranged, but this kind of
The situation did not last for a few years, but soon changed, and the Tang Dynasty began to recruit a large number of various types of indigenous people as temporary residents.
What are these temporary residents recruited for?
Provide various services for Datang people!
This situation may not be serious in other places, but it is even more serious in Ceuta, because this place faces Europe, and a large number of Europeans squeeze their heads into Ceuta and become temporary residents. This has also led to places like Ceuta
The number of temporary residents is relatively large.
For example, in the state of Ceuta, immigrants and their descendants have increased the number of residents here to about 50,000, while the number of temporary residents has reached more than 80,000.
Each of these 50,000 Tang people owns land. Even George received a piece of 80 acres of land for free after he was successfully naturalized. He did not need to pay a cent. As long as he registered in Ceuta,
can be obtained.
Like the Tang people in most other overseas territories, every one of the Tang people in Ceuta can be considered a small farmer. At the same time, many of them will go out to work, but they are all doing relatively decent jobs.
Work.
But a place always needs people to do some low-end jobs, such as the service industry.
The employees in these low-end jobs are often temporary residents, especially maids and messengers. Most of them are temporary residents, and there are almost no people in the Tang Dynasty to do these things of serving people.
Even if it happened occasionally, it would be as a housekeeper in some wealthy families.
Of course, most of the Tang people and temporary residents in Ceuta are not in the city of Ceuta, but in the suburbs and rural areas.
Even though it is an overseas territory, Ceuta has maintained the same tradition as the local area, that is, no one with certain conditions is willing to live in the city.
George was no exception. He was planning to buy a house, but he had never thought about buying it in the urban area. There were not houses in the urban area, but they were all apartment types, targeting ordinary people.
As a respectable gentry of the Tang Dynasty with a high income, he could no longer live in the urban area, and it was not feasible to live directly on the land he was allocated. He was allocated the land late, and the land he was allocated was dozens of kilometers away from the urban area.
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So he plans to buy a house in the suburbs, and it must be in a community with better conditions.
After buying a house in the suburbs, he also had to buy this private carriage. After all, he was getting married.
He can't get married in this kind of apartment, or even continue to live in this kind of apartment with his wife and children in the future, otherwise he will be laughed at.
When Deputy Section Chief Song came to mediate before, George had already agreed. Now the two parties have entered into the follow-up formal process. According to the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, the wedding process must include a complete six rituals.
George's life is undergoing earth-shaking changes, and all these changes begin with buying a house.
After personally visiting several suburban communities, he finally chose Ceuta East Coast Village, a medium-sized community that is currently home to more than 300 households, all of which are Tang families.