Although the city he saw was large, there were few people, which was very different from Ceuta. However, George was not surprised by this, because he knew that Porto Alessandro was different from Ceuta, and it did not have the same characteristics as Ceuta.
The large number of temporary residents are mainly from the Tang Dynasty.
People in the Tang Dynasty don't like to live in dense urban areas. This is something almost everyone knows.
Although George has stayed in Ceuta all year round and has never been to other overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty before, he is smart and studious. He has been studying hard over the years and bought a lot of books to study on his own. Therefore, he has a lot of knowledge about the Tang Dynasty.
The atmosphere is very familiar.
Otherwise, he would not have been accepted by the people of the Tang Dynasty as a temporary resident and become a gentry.
The urban area of Alibaba is not small, but the population density is relatively low and the buildings are not high. However, the area is generally large and the streets are also large.
At the same time, most urban areas are said to be urban areas, but in fact they are more like communities, with most of them being residential buildings.
Only the side close to the port has denser buildings, with tall buildings and more commercial buildings. It is the center of the entire Alibaba City.
The Egypt branch of Hotel Europe is located in the central city.
After arriving at Alex Port and initially settling in, George began to work hard. He and his colleagues had to recruit and train employees in advance to prepare for the opening of the hotel.
But when recruiting employees, George discovered that the subsequent operating expenses of this Egyptian branch were probably much higher than those of the European hotels in Ceuta.
Because the salaries of employees here are relatively high!
The reason for this situation is very simple. The number of temporary residents here is very small. According to official statistics, the number of temporary residents living here year-round is estimated to be only 10,000 people, which is far less than the tens of thousands in Ceuta. Moreover,
Except for a few thousand of these temporary residents staying in Alex Port, most of them are not here, but in several surrounding small towns.
Most of the people here are immigrants from the Tang Dynasty who immigrated from the mainland.
The Tang Empire paid far more attention to the governance of the Red Sea Affairs Yamen area, especially the Egyptian area and the Canal Zone, than the state of Ceuta.
In fact, the Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention to Ceuta, but Egypt and the canal area were different. In order to avoid changes in the Egyptian region and the canal area decades or hundreds of years later, Datang officials implemented very strict policies from the beginning.
isolation measures.
When the Ottoman Empire evacuated, almost all the indigenous people were taken away. The remaining indigenous people were also moved by the Tang Dynasty to Central Africa and other areas. There were still many fish that slipped through the net.
We went to the canal area to dig canals.
The Red Sea Affairs Office can proudly announce that in the four provinces, one district, and four continents under the Red Sea Affairs Office, that is, the Egypt Province, the Canal Zone, the Peninsula State, the Banja State, and the North Africa State, there is not a single indigenous person, even a temporary resident.
The number is also very small, only more than 20,000.
The regional expenditures of the Red Sea Affairs Office are centered on the Egyptian Province and the Canal Zone. These two areas are built according to the core overseas territories, and are even preparing to relax some import and export restrictions.
As for the peripheral peninsula states, Banja State, and North African states, most of these places are desert no-man's land. The role of these three states is actually more of an isolation zone.
Just like the Bengal State to the west of Burma Province in the Tang Dynasty, it acted as a native barrier to prevent indigenous people from entering.
Egypt Province, as the core area, naturally does not have many temporary residents. There are hundreds of thousands of local immigrants, but if you hire these overseas immigrants from the Tang Dynasty, the salary will not be low.
After these immigrants from the Tang Dynasty arrived in Egypt, each one of them was given a land ranging from dozens to hundreds of acres for free. This was for individuals, not for a family.
If it's a single family, each household basically owns several hundred acres of land.
To put it bluntly, everyone is a small and medium-sized farmer.
People can live a very good life just farming and herding. If they go out to work, the salary they need is not low.
In order to recruit enough employees, European hotels offer quite high salaries.
In order to reduce staff salary expenses, the European Hotel even thought of hiring some temporary residents in Ceuta, but they were unable to obtain approval from the Egyptian provincial government.
As soon as people heard that the European Hotel was going to bring in a lot of temporary residents, they kicked out the people from the European Hotel.
What a joke, the Egyptian Province now wants to relocate the remaining nearly 10,000 temporary residents.
Why?
It’s all about localization!
For import and export restrictions.
Although the Tang Dynasty had already abolished the so-called Import and Export Committee, now there is a National Defense and Security Committee and various other institutions. Import and export in overseas areas are still greatly restricted.
In theory, the high-level officials of the Tang Empire have relaxed various restrictions, but this relaxation is only targeted at areas that have completed localization.
Take North America, for example, where there are no indigenous or temporary residents.
Nowadays, the overseas territories in various parts of the Tang Dynasty are working hard to localize themselves in order to lift various import and export restrictions. The indigenous people will definitely not want them, and most of them will not want them even if they are temporary residents.
Therefore, some overseas territories have more temporary residents, but some places have very few or even no temporary residents.
This is also the reason why temporary residents of the Tang Empire cannot move at will like the people of the Tang Dynasty. Even if temporary residents go from Ceuta to other overseas territories, they still need passes, and such passes are generally not approved.
The original temporary residents here in Egypt Province were the first batch of temporary residents who moved over to carry out early development when the Red Sea Affairs Office was first established and the construction and development of Alex Port began. George's younger brother, Qiao Han, belonged to this group.
Under this situation, after the subsequent development of Egypt Province reached a certain scale, Egypt Province stopped the import of temporary residents.
Therefore, if the European Hotel wants to recruit temporary residents from Ceuta or other places to come and work in Port Alexandria, the government will not approve the permit.
In the end, there was no other option. The European Hotel could only recruit local temporary residents, and on the other hand, raise salaries to recruit people from the Tang Dynasty.
Anyway, we finally recruited more than 100 employees and started preliminary training.
During this period of time, George was busy recruiting and training employees every day. He was busy without touching the ground. After several months of such busy work, the initial training costs for employees were spent, and the European Hotel was about to usher in its opening day.
However, when he was preparing to open for business, George received a notice that he would temporarily suspend the reception of the general public and conduct informal business for about half a month.
Why?
Because the Tang Empire was about to hold a negotiation with the Ottoman Kingdom to negotiate on the navigation issue of the Black Sea Strait.
The venue for this negotiation is Port Alexandria, and after lobbying by the top management of the Hotel Europe, the Egyptian branch of the Hotel Europe will be used as the venue for the talks and the accommodation location for the imperial negotiation delegation.
This means that the European Hotel Egypt branch will welcome many imperial dignitaries!
This will greatly enhance the reputation of the European Hotel Egypt branch and further establish the brand of high-end hotels.
For this reason, European hotels do not hesitate to postpone their opening hours to the public!