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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 885

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:26:58 PM


Chapter 885: 885

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South America is a place with many scenic spots. Many people travel to South America every year.

In South America, one place I have to go is Iguazu Falls. As one of the three major waterfalls in the world, Iguazu waterfall has long become the business card of South America. More than two million tourists come here to enjoy the waterfall every year.

Yang Jing has previously enjoyed Niagara Falls, one of the three major waterfalls in the world, but he has never seen the other two falls, Victoria Falls and Iguazu Falls, which are located at the junction of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Victoria Falls is far away in Africa. When you can go depends on the situation. But Iguazu Falls is on the edge of Paraguay, less than 300 kilometers away from Asuncion. Compared with China thousands of miles away, it is almost equivalent to standing at the gate of Iguazu Falls.

If you don't go and have a look, you're really sorry for yourself.

Although she has been to many scenic spots in the world before, she has never seen Iguazu waterfall, so she is also happy to enjoy the widest waterfall in the world.

Both the boss and the landlady wanted to go. Naturally, these bodyguards didn't say anything.

Just go.

From Asunci ó n to Iguazu Falls, you don't even have to take a plane. It's not troublesome enough that the plane even has to descend if it can't climb to the flight altitude for a distance of 300 kilometers. So they decided to drive to Dongfang City and enjoy the tropical rain forest on the way.

The car rental service in the small town of ITA is still quite prosperous. Chris and his team rented four silver Mercedes Benz big G without much effort.

After driving out of the small town of Itar, go directly to Highway 1, then drive all the way East, balaguari, then drive northeast, drive into highway 2, then arrive at Colonel ovido Town, then enter Highway 7, and then go all the way east to reach Dongfang City.

It took them less than six hours to drive to Yangjing, about 300 kilometers away. Of course, this is in Paraguay. It's quite good to have such a road in the tropical rain forest that can drive at a speed of 60 or 70 kilometers per hour. If you take the highway for 300 kilometers in China, it will take three hours

However, the road condition of this road is not bad, but this road is very similar to China 20 years ago. There are many toll stations and toll sections, which makes Yang Jing very angry.

You said this is not a highway. What's the charge

Really poor!

As we approached Dongfang City, it suddenly rained cats and dogs. The rain was so heavy that we couldn't even brush the wipers on the car. Helpless, the team had to stop at a spacious place on the roadside, and then a group of people sat in the car and stared at the rare spectacle - the East half of the sky was sunny, while the west half of the sky was covered with dark clouds.

The scene of the sun shining high and heavy rain reminds Yang Jing of a famous song once sung by his younger brother Qi Qin - "sun rain".

The heavy rain came and went quickly. More than ten minutes later, it was like an invisible hand turned off an invisible faucet. The heavy rain that had poured down the moment before suddenly stopped, and then the dark clouds in the sky turned into white clouds with different images

Bruno smiled and said, "this kind of rain is very common in tropical areas. Have you seen the classic film Forrest Gump?"

Ge Ge and Yang Jing nodded, and Bruno continued: "There is a set of scenes in the film about Forrest Gump when he was in Vietnam. The film introduces all kinds of strange heavy rain in Vietnam in the form of a narrator. Forrest Gump said that in Vietnam, there is rain from top to bottom, rain from across, and rain from bottom to top... In fact, that is the real situation. In the tropical rain forest, you can often encounter this kind of non preaching It's raining hard. "

Greg smiled and said, "I remember that group of scenes. It's so interesting. I like Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks."

Yang Jing said with a bitter smile, "daughter-in-law, do you think it's good for you to guard your fiance and say such words?"

Ge Ge laughed, "so you'll be jealous..."

Bruno in the co pilot's seat and Clark in the car immediately shut up.

When it rained, the motorcade had traveled about 30 kilometers away from Dongfang City, so when the motorcade continued to walk not far, it saw that houses began to appear on both sides of the road.

This is already the suburb of Dongfang City.

Bruno has been here before, so he is very familiar with it. After seeing that the couple no longer tune with each other and play each other, Bruno began to introduce again.

"Boss, go further and you will enter Dongfang City. Dongfang City is the second largest city in Paraguay, with a population of almost 400000. Before the 1960s, it was just a border town close to Brazil. However, in the 1960s, the Paraguayan government designated it a free trade area, and preferential policies made a large number of foreign businessmen flock here, Dongfang City is slowly prospering. Because Dongfang City is a duty-free City, it is now almost a super large market. Many businessmen from Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and other countries gather here. Oh, by the way, there are many Chinese here, most of them from the bay island, and many businessmen in the mainland of China. Boss, Sofia, wait a minute We can go to the largest Qiaotou market in Dongfang City. When you get there, you will certainly meet Chinese villagers. "

Hearing Bruno say so, Greg was interested. She asked, "are there really many Chinese here?"

Bruno nodded: "That's for sure. Chinese people are really hard-working. When I came here more than a decade ago, many Chinese people were opening supermarkets and restaurants. At that time, 70% of the supermarkets near Qiaotou market were opened by Chinese people. Because the goods from China are not only of good quality, but also cheap, and are very popular with the people in South America, Chinese people are here The supermarket is very, very popular. "

Yang Jing smiled, nodded and said, "yes, we Chinese people can make a success there no matter where we go. The most hardworking, intelligent and hardworking nation in the world is not just talking about it."

While talking, the motorcade had already driven into the suburbs of Dongfang City, and the houses on both sides of the road began to become dense. Looking into the distance, even if it was more than 20 kilometers away, you could see the tall buildings in the center of the urban area. In contrast, there were more tall buildings in Dongfang City than in bisensen.

The No. 7 highway crossing the whole Dongfang City is the main street of Dongfang City. After crossing the Dongfang City, the highway starting from Colonel Oviedo town will enter Brazil through the astamead bridge across the Parana River, that is, the bridge known as the "friendship bridge".

As the name suggests, the bridgehead market mentioned by Bruno is located in the west of the friendship bridge.

Although the core area of Qiaotou market is located in the north of the road at the west end of friendship bridge, in fact, as long as you enter Dongfang City, even if you enter this super large market, because just entering Dongfang City, a large number of Van trucks are parked on both sides of the whole highway 7.

This kind of large truck is called "big car" locally. If it is in China, it is a large van similar to container truck.

"Both sides of Highway 7 are the core area of Dongfang City and the most prosperous area of Dongfang City." Bruno pointed to both sides of the road. Yang Jing and Ge Ge looked to both sides and found that more and more high-rise buildings appeared, restaurants, supermarkets and shops can be seen everywhere, and even many luxurious casinos with decoration.

But more people - those shirtless porters.

The porters loaded boxes of heavy goods into the vans. They were busy like a group of worker ants who didn't know they were tired.

"Further ahead is the bridgehead market," Bruno said, pointing to the left front. Because there are too many vehicles here, the driving speed of the team can only be maintained at about 20 kilometers per hour, "Qiaotou market is a little inconspicuous. If the local people didn't tell me that it was Qiaotou market when I came here, I don't believe that it was the largest late night shopping market in South America!"

"Late night shopping market? What does this mean? Does this market trade at night?" Ge asked puzzled.

Bruno smiled, nodded and said, "that's almost what I mean. Although there are a lot of people here, it's noon now. In the early morning, there are several times more people here than now. There are people all over the street, and the car can't run at all."

After a pause, Bruno continued to explain: "The formation of bridgehead market is not only due to its favorable position of connecting with Brazil, but also suitable for Paraguay's low tariff policy. When it was developed here, Paraguay's tariff was very low, and Brazil imposed punitive tariffs on all foreign imports in order to protect its domestic market. For example, for a toy, the market price is one dollar, Brazil may have to draw 100% tax, but Paraguay only takes a 5% tax, while Brazil has to pay goods circulation tax and state taxes. This unbalanced tariff policy makes many Brazilian businessmen flock to this border city. They directly import goods to Paraguay, and then transport cheap goods to Brazil for sale in large quantities through tax evasion. Most of these happen at night Late, so this market has become a late night shopping market. "

"All the goods here are traded at the exchange rate of that day, and the price of each commodity is more than 4 ~ 6 times cheaper than that of Brazil. Therefore, don't underestimate this market. The annual turnover of this market is as high as 6 billion US dollars, which is more than five times the income of the whole Paraguayan government! Moreover, this market also supports many locals, because although in Paraguay and Paraguay There is no visa for exchanges between Brazil, but there is a limit on the goods carried by each Brazilian when leaving the customs. Therefore, there are many locals who specially carry goods for others in this market. These people are called laria by Brazilians. "





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