Chapter 106 City Streets
The news of the establishment of the Longhan Republic did not spread. Zhang Feng only planned to experience the feeling of being president, lay a solid foundation and leave, leaving behind only a legend of being indifferent to fame and fortune.

Large-scale construction began in each state. Since the entire island had been conquered previously, all the property on the island, including the land, belonged to the Meihua Company.

Therefore, each state owes a large loan to China United Bank and Maple Leaf Bank, and no one knows when it will be repaid.

Youzhou Yingtian City.

"Old Li, I have decided to move the company to Zhongzhou."

Wan Peng is in the business of building materials. As a supplier to Meihua Construction Company, he has been living a very comfortable life in recent years.

Meihua Company did not require him to advance the payment for materials and gave the money very promptly.

This is because in Longhan Country, it is not allowed to withhold workers’ wages, otherwise the company will be auctioned directly.

"Why, aren't you doing well now?" Lao Li asked puzzled.

"It's not bad now, but Zhongzhou Chaoge can be the capital, and it has greater development potential. I have already borrowed 10 from Maple Leaf Bank and sent my eldest son to Zhongzhou to build a factory."

In fact, what Wan Peng wanted to say more was that before Yingtian, it was called Zhangjiacheng, so there was no room for them to develop.

All immigrants from the Far East no longer disembarked in Youzhou, but went to populate the other three states.

In addition to Meihua Company and Maple Leaf Company, many smart businessmen also choose to sell their local industries to Meihua Company and develop in other states.

Zhang Feng is also happy to see this happen. After all, if you want to develop quickly, you need businessmen like this who are brave and daring enough to fight and fight.

The Zhang family only needs to control the country's lifeline industries, and then by exporting capital, they can both control these businessmen and make them make money for themselves.

Moreover, the efficiency and profits are extremely high, while the costs are very low. No wonder developed countries all like to build their countries based on finance.

Currently, the entire Youzhou has a population of nearly 800 million, and Yingtian City has a population of more than 200 million. After 8 years of construction, the city is quite prosperous, but there are no high-rise buildings. The tallest headquarters building of the Meihua Company is only 10 stories high.

The wide streets were bustling with people, most men wore shirts and trousers, and women wore long skirts and sandals.

This era was still relatively conservative. Women's skirts could not be shorter than the knees, and the arms of tops could not be exposed above the elbows and below the neck.

The most common means of transportation on the streets are bicycles produced by BMW.

"Buzz~" Occasionally a few BMW motorcycles would pass by.

"Beep!" A traffic policeman on the street whistled at the motorcycle that just passed by.

"Pull over, stop!" More than a hundred meters ahead, another traffic policeman in a green uniform stopped several young men on motorcycles.

"You're speeding and overloading, did you know that?" The traffic police continued after seven or eight teenagers got off the car obediently.

"Why are you riding so fast? What if you hit someone? Ah!" A strong man suddenly came from behind, grabbed one of the teenagers, and slapped him twice in the face, then kicked the other teenagers a few times.

At this time, several passers-by gathered around and looked at them with unfriendly expressions.

"Okay, okay, these kids know they are wrong, I will punish them."

The traffic policeman did not stop them at the first moment. He was also annoyed by these lawless teenagers who always caused him trouble. However, due to his duty, he could not do it himself. So after they were beaten, he saw a few more people gathered around them. He was afraid that something might happen to them, so he started to persuade them.

The citizens here are not the kind of people who are submissive and indifferent to others' affairs. They are passionate and tough, and they like to help those who they don't like.

Just now it was because they were riding too fast and we couldn’t stop them, otherwise we would have been beaten up.

When the man heard the police speak, he loosened his hand and turned to the passers-by who had gathered around him and said, "Brothers, it's fate that we met. Let's find a place to have a few drinks?"

"Okay, brother, you're really quick. You didn't even give us a chance. Let's go and have a drink."

One of them said this, and several other tall men echoed him.

This is the way the Longhan people deal with things. If they see someone they don't like, they will fight. If they like someone, even if they don't know each other, they can quickly drink together. After they left, the teenagers quickly got up from the ground. They didn't dare to fight back when they were beaten just now, otherwise the passers-by would soon beat them up.

It would be better to just take a beating.

"Uncle police, don't dare to do it again next time. Let us go."

Jerry rubbed his blue face and spoke in unfluent Chinese.

This group of young people are the children of several engineers from American Chinese companies, including five white boys and three Chinese boys.

In today's Yingtian City, the richest people are the Chinese, but the majority of the middle class are indeed white people.

Because the white immigrants are the elites among white people, including formerly bankrupt bankers, laid-off engineers, educators, and so on.

There is no way that trashy white people will be eligible for immigration, and they never will be.

Therefore, those who can afford the Kirin motorcycle worth 3500 dragon coins are all middle-class families or above.

Jerry's father is a senior engineer and earns more than 500 yuan a month.

"Yes, police officer, please be flexible." Lin Jun dusted off the dust on his body, took out a pack of Vanilla cigarettes from his trouser pocket, and handed it over quietly and covertly.

Vanilla is a high-end brand of cigarettes under the American-Chinese Tobacco Company, which ordinary people cannot afford.

"You guys, you've been fined so many times, and beaten so many times, but you just don't learn your lesson. Forget it, I'll just fine one car for speeding this time so that I can report it. Ride slower next time, and don't do it again."

The traffic policeman said in a low voice, then wrote down the license plate number and issued a ticket.

He was about 30 years old and was a militiaman who had experienced the first MCA War. After the war ended, he was not selected and unfortunately could not become a regular army.

After retiring, he received training at the police academy and became a road guard policeman. Later, when there were more bicycles and motorcycles, he became a traffic policeman.

Traffic management is not very strict now, and those who can ride motorcycles are all rich and powerful. They have been beaten before, and they don’t want to make things difficult for them anymore, so they just take some benefits.

However, we cannot completely ignore it. With so many citizens watching, it is easy to receive complaints.

That's why he spoke very quietly just now, so as to avoid being discovered by other citizens and being beaten up.

It will definitely be reported in the newspapers, and then citizens will go to the police station and the Supervisory Office to complain, and then his job will be over. After all, he is just a small policeman.

"Beep!" Just after issuing the ticket, a horn sounded behind me.

Everyone looked back and saw a silver-white car slowly approaching.

This is the first car launched by BMW Motorrad last month.

Kirin Group paid 20% of BMW's shares to obtain the engine technology from Raytheon Military Industries. It took two years to build the first car. Its current selling price is as high as 2 Dragon Coins, which is three times the price of a Ford car.

In addition to the high product quality, the most important reason is the relatively high production cost.

The current Longhan Kingdom does not have a complete automobile industry, and some parts need to be imported from the United States.

The only people who can afford it are scientists at the Meihua Scientific Research Institute, private business owners, and senior executives at Meihua and Maple Leaf Corporation.

Qilin Group was originally established with Zhang Feng's private investment holding 60% of the shares, Maple Leaf Group and Meihua Company each holding 20% ​​of the shares.

At present, Qilin Group's business products include BMW bicycles, Qilin motorcycles, BMW cars, Zhulong watches, etc.
After BMW developed its first car, Meihua Company also announced its entry into the automotive industry and started competing with Kirin Group.

The Meihua Company also obtained the sole oil operating rights in Longhan State, importing crude oil from the Meihua-Yemen Oil Company. It currently operates a refinery and five gas stations.

(End of this chapter)