Luo Youyou was sleepwalking for a few minutes, following the crowd into the car like a zombie. It took him a long time to calm down in his seat before he regained consciousness.
The bus they took is a sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz. The structure is very simple and elegant, the lighting is very good, the windows are large, and it is a tram, which is very quiet. Although the endurance of the tram is poor, it is very popular in the city.
There is no pressure to travel around. After all, the distance between the two farthest points on the main island of Lanfang is only 70 to 80 kilometers.
Before getting on the bus, Luo Youyou secretly asked and learned that this bus costs more than 2 million yuan, which is really shocking. It is designed to be fully loaded with 40 seats, but in fact, each bus only seats 30 people.
It has a considerable margin and looks very spacious.
"Lan Fang is really rich. The buses are all Mercedes-Benz. Brother Han, you said you were here before. Was this like this at that time?" Luo Youyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva before asking about the tourists sitting next to him.
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The man he sat with was also an Internet cafe owner named Han Xiang. However, his business was much bigger than his. He came from Fangzhou City, the provincial capital of a coastal province.
Luo Youyi's hometown is in a suburban county next to the capital city of Shu Province, close to Meishan. The Internet cafe in his hometown only has about a hundred machines, plus all the other expenses for house decoration, it only cost 150 to open an Internet cafe.
Ten thousand.
This capital of 1.5 million was earned by him starting to open a game arcade in 1995. It took him five or six years to upgrade from a game arcade owner to an Internet cafe owner.
Han Xiang has five Internet cafes in the urban area of Ark City, which is almost a chain. Except for the largest one, he manages it himself, and the other ones are left to relatives such as brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. In total, there are thousands of machines, and the business is
The scale is nearly ten times that of Luo Youyi.
In terms of the time when the two of them joined Alipay as customers, Han Xiang was more than half a month earlier than him, and during this period, Han Xiang's performance in purchasing online game points and cards using Alipay was dozens of times that of Luo Youyi.
However, this time, Alipay offered to pay for air tickets and enjoy the financial visa-free treatment of Lanfang people to travel. Han Xiang and Luo Youyou's preferential treatment was quite the same.
Because of this, Luo Youyi has always been cautious in the group. When faced with peers who are much more powerful than him, he will politely pass cigarettes to anyone he sees to learn from them, and make friends with peers who are richer than him. Han Xiang followed him on the plane.
Sitting next to him, he was even more like Brother Han, and he didn't hesitate to ask for advice on anything he could ask for. He also said that he would invite Brother Han to drink in the evening after landing.
At this moment, Han Xiang was asked by him and casually replied: "I came to travel almost three years ago. At that time, just taking advantage of the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, people in Lanzhou fully switched to RMB, so prices suddenly dropped by three percent.
One percent. I thought it was a good deal, so I took the opportunity to come there at my own expense.
The best hotel at that time was a five-star Hilton building, and the road in the city was from the port to the Hilton area. It was relatively neatly paved and incomparable to what it is now. I only stayed on the main island for two days at that time.
One day to experience Hilton for foreigners is a worthwhile trip.
I didn’t even bother to do more activities on other main islands. I spent the remaining week on Galloping Horse Atoll. It’s really comfortable to see the sea there. It’s a real sea of glass, and it goes from near to far, from green to blue. It’s nowhere else.
I've never seen it before. It doesn't matter if you go to Bali. It's not an island made of pure coral. I heard from those really rich guys that if you want to see a sea like Galloping Reef, you have to at least go to the Great Barrier Reef or Tahiti.
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Han Xiang looked like Lao Lan Fang at first glance, and it was definitely not his first time here. Luo Youyi just asked casually, and he showed a lot of knowledge. He looked like a second-week visitor in the tour group or even a regular guest.
Point the country in front of the players in the first game.
After Luo Youyi heard this, he not only felt a little scared, but also humbly praised online: "Brother Han, since you played so deeply back then, why are you willing to sign up for such an expensive tour this time.
The tour price this time is not cheap. Although I paid for the air tickets, I think it is still several times more expensive than the price I found for other low-priced tours. This was my first time, so I gritted my teeth and endured it.
For a veteran like you, you can't afford to join such an expensive tour."
The reason why Luo Youyi said this is because the price of the "Exclusive Group for Alipay's Early Batch Customers" they took this time was really exaggerated. Even though the air tickets were paid for by Alipay, the remaining money was still as high as
Fifty thousand yuan per person!
Of course, the reason why it is so expensive is actually because the quality of the whole trip is good and the enjoyment is very high-end. The travel company here of the Lanfang people definitely did not cheat their money.
For example, during my five-day stay on the main island of Lanfang, I spent three days in the newly opened Burj Al Arab Hotel! The most basic standard room in the Burj Al Arab Hotel costs 10,000 yuan a night. The standard room can sleep two people.
, evenly divided, it’s 5,000 yuan per night!
For the next two days, I stayed at the five-star Hilton Hotel. It was a bit worse than the seven-star Burj Al Arab Hotel, but compared with domestic hotels in 2001, it was the first-class service experience and quality.
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The group meal included in the tour group is also guaranteed to have large red lobster and salmon for every meal. For a table of ten people, on average, each table will have a large salmon of three to five kilograms per meal, and an Eastern star grouper of the same size.
There is one orchid red dragon each. As for the cedar lobster, it is open to you like a buffet. All other tropical local seafood is free.
For food, the supply of chicken, duck, fish, beef, and sheep has also been opened up (Lanfang Red Dragon is the original Aolong. After Aolong was discredited and Australia's largest seafood company, kg Group, was bankrupted by Gu Kun, those Indonesians put them in the Arafura Sea.
The Olong he caught was renamed Lanfang Red Dragon and sold in the northern market. Gu Kun earned a price difference in vain as a middleman)
So for these five days on the main island, the original price alone for accommodation and meals would be 20,000 yuan.
This trip lasted a total of two weeks. In addition to the five days on the main island where we would visit the recently renovated Zhaoming Palace Museum, stay at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, visit the Aircraft Carrier Museum, Lanfang Hollywood Studios, and several natural attractions.
Most of the time left is to go to Penma Atoll for a Maldives/Tahiti-style coral reef archipelago tour. There are water sports every day. You can also go to a fitness center where many Hollywood stars do health management to exercise, lose weight, and follow bodybuilding photos.
The actress in the movie struck up a conversation with a personal trainer. The white female personal trainers in the fitness center here are all famous on the small screen.
For such high-end enjoyment, the two-week tour fee is 50,000 yuan, which is really a reasonable price.
Luo Youyi has never seen the world, after all, he has not played to the end, so he is worried about gains and losses and is afraid that the money spent will not be worth the ticket price.
Han Xiang looked at his stingy look and shook his head: "You are such a bad person! I came here three years ago, and it is indeed expensive this time. But I believe that it is expensive.
Besides, do you know how much the visa fee cost when I came here three years ago? It’s true that I was rich at that time, but when I opened an Internet cafe, I didn’t even register a company. I used the name of an individual business owner.
, I was still young at that time and didn’t care whether I paid for pension insurance or not.
It was a struggle later. I had no company, no serious job, no insurance, and as a self-employed person, I must have had a working capital of one million on hand at the time, but I never signed a contract, and they said all my money was current.
, it’s not frozen, I don’t know if I’m cheating, I’m afraid I’m setting up accounts to deceive people, but I’m actually a poor guy who wants to go to Lanfang to do illegal work to make money.
Fortunately, I took the real estate certificate of three houses in the provincial capital and had it notarized to prove that I was a serious person, so they gave me a visa. This time it was different, we were early users of Alipay! Lanfang Bank recognized that we have a sense of social responsibility
People! They are exempt from financial scrutiny! I don’t argue with others, just for the freedom of coming and going. Then I have to come and have fun. Only when I go back can I have face in front of my colleagues who have trouble getting visas."
Many readers may not understand it, but even at the beginning of the 21st century, in fact, domestic people want to go to certain countries where visa requirements are relatively tight - the so-called "relatively tight" is generally considered to be tighter than going to Japan in the same period, or less stringent than going to Japan in the same period.
It’s almost the same as going to Oceania, even if it’s tighter – “not having a serious job” is still a flaw that makes it easier to get stuck.
If you register a company, become your own boss, and the company's finances are indeed profitable, and it is not a handbag company, then it should be no problem. If you are a doctor or lawyer with a decent career and a high formal income, it will be no problem. What I am afraid of are those who are obviously rich.
But I’m a self-employed person who doesn’t have a company and doesn’t have much taxable income.
At that time, there were still many self-employed people who were actually quite wealthy, but the income that could be proven by serious Mingmianshan evidence was vague, and it was easy for such people to make a living in foreign countries, so they were stuck miserably.
(Under the same income situation, foreign countries do prefer self-employed card, because self-employed people have more flexible ability to make a living. For example, if you are a good cook and open a small restaurant by yourself, if you successfully sneak to Oceania, you can still work in Oceania.
Small and successful Chinese restaurants have been opened in communities in some corners of the country. Therefore, the tighter the visa surveillance is for people who "can easily find flexible jobs after their skills have been transferred abroad".
On the other hand, in the same way, if you are a government agency and rely on staff to make a living. Even if the salary is low, foreigners will believe that "such people have no livelihood skills after leaving", then they will be very comfortable with you traveling abroad. In short, the better your livelihood skills are
Flexible people are more wary)
When Han Xiang talked about this, it seemed to bring back some bad memories from the past, and he sighed with emotion.
Luo Youyi listened with deep emotion: "It seems that Mr. Gu's move is that as long as he opens Alipay, even self-employed individuals with flexible employment can be released directly without checking their finances." It is really a clever move and he has discovered how many original
There is a market blind spot that other developed countries’ tourism markets dare not do.”
Rich self-employed people, including Internet cafe owners in leather goods companies, these groups are all wealthy people who can spend one million in a period like 2001. But originally this group was separated from the "very easy"
Outside the circle of "you can go to developed countries and travel abroad", Gu Kun pockets the money that these people want to spend but can't. Even if it is only a small part, it is enough to fill the pot.
A big country with 1.4 billion people, and a small country with a population of 70,000 nationalities and 300,000 permanent residents, share the same language and race, and there is no language barrier at all. As long as the big country has a little bit of the spending power of the rich, the population will only be two.
Only one ten thousandth of a small country can feed itself to its fullest.
Although the trip has not yet started, he is already full of expectations, and the original thought of "worrying about wasting money" has completely dissipated.
"I'm so lucky. I am the first user in our city to join Alipay's real-name authentication, and I can actually get such an honor. I don't know how many benefits others can get."