Valley Emperor

Going along the Xinnan River and the Xinnan Canal, Feng Xinyuan, who took the river ferry, arrived at Xiaoxi Lake in the middle of the Great Lakes in a short time.

Then his boat docked at the largest city in the Great Lakes region, and it was also the newly established West Lake City of the Five Lakes Province.

Listening to the name, it is known that it has a strong Jiangnan style.

Not only this place, but in fact the names of many overseas places of the empire have strong local characteristics.

For example, Xinnangang, this place existed as a new Jiangnan from the beginning, because this place is so rich, anyone who sees it will think that this is the second Jiangnan.

At the same time, among the names of the five great lakes, the second largest lake is called Xiaoxi Lake, which is naturally the same as the local West Lake in the south of the Yangtze River.

West Lake City, this city was the earliest city established by the empire in the Great Lakes region. After the first batch of imperial immigrants arrived here, they established the first port city in the Great Lakes region in this excellent geographical environment.

With the increasing number of immigrants, especially the development of the Great Lakes region, West Lake City has become the largest city in the Great Lakes region.

There are currently more than 30,000 residents in the entire city.

At first glance, these 30,000 people seem to be very few. In the mainland of the empire, many ordinary state capital cities have such a population, and some medium-sized cities have a population of more than 100,000 people.

As for large cities, they all have a population of hundreds of thousands, and there are not a few extra-large cities with a population of over one million. The three major coastal cities of Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou all have a population of over one million.

However, cities with more than 30,000 people are relatively rare in overseas areas. Rao is a North American region with a total population of more than 10 million, and the population of Xinnangang has reached 100,000. Other so-called big cities are only tens of thousands.

And more are actually small towns with only a few thousand or even a few hundred people.

After all, more than 10 million people sounds like a lot, but if it is distributed to the vast North American region, it is not much.

What's more, there are too many areas for development in North America, so the population division is relatively even.

This can be reflected even in a city like West Lake City.

When I first arrived in West Lake City, Feng Xinyuan's first impression was that this place is not that good, there are no high-rise buildings, but when he left the wharf in a carriage and went all the way to the city center, he felt this place. A huge difference from the home city of the Empire.

The first impression is big!

The second feeling is that there are few people!

He was surprised at first, it was a city of more than 30,000 people, why so few people, but he abandoned the idea not long after.

Because the entire urban area of ​​West Lake City covers dozens of square kilometers, there are only 30,000 people in such a large urban area.

Looking at the buildings on both sides of the road, there are no high-rise buildings, and the buildings are not dense, and most of them are not commercial buildings, but ordinary residential buildings.

But these residential buildings surprised Feng Xinyuan.

Oh my god, all the residential buildings I saw were almost all two- or three-story buildings with huge gardens in the front and back.

This kind of building is placed on the mainland of the empire, which is the standard configuration of the proper high-income middle class.

In the surrounding suburbs of the city center of Songjiang Prefecture, basically these small buildings form a community!

However, this kind of single-family western-style building in the suburbs of Songjiang Prefecture starts at least 5,000 Tang Yuan, even if it is a row of western-style buildings, it will cost several thousand Tang Yuan. Even a high-income middle-class family with dual workers wants to buy such a small house. Building, also have to accumulate for many years, to the bank loan.

But here, all of them are small buildings of this kind, and they are all single houses with gardens in the front and back.

What surprised him even more was that when his motorcade passed by, he happened to see a two-and-a-half-story building with a garden of at least a thousand square meters. There was a for-sale sign in front of the courtyard. Eighty yuan!

"The house here is so cheap?" He turned around and asked his advisor, with doubts, "Lin He, the real estate price here is so cheap?"

This Lin He is a man in his twenties, wearing professional attire. Don't look at this young man. He is the second generation of immigrants from the Americas. Before immigrating, he was also from Yangzhou, and he has an old relationship with the Feng family. He was admitted to Guozijian University a few years ago. After graduating, he participated in the imperial examination and became an official, and previously served in the Ministry of Rites.

Because he is the second generation of American immigrants, he is familiar with the customs of the Americas, and because he has an old relationship with himself, Feng Xinyuan specially asked him to serve as his secretary.

For a young man who has just entered the official career, it is naturally a good thing to be able to serve as the secretary of a provincial governor.

This secretarial position sounds a bit similar to the master of the former Ming Dynasty, but it is not a concept at all.

Former Ming's master's position is private.

And this secretary Lin's secretary position, that is a serious official position, the seventh grade!

Lin He immediately said: "Sir, this price is a normal price in the Americas, and two hundred and eighty yuan is not cheap!"

"Our family bought a house in Xinnangang a few years ago~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is also a small building of this kind, covering an area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters, but it only cost more than 300 yuan. !"

"The land price here is cheap, and the main cost is the construction cost, and most of the construction here is made of wood. The wood here is abundant and the price is cheap. The main cost is the cost of hiring labor!"

"And this kind of wooden building needs constant maintenance. Not only is the wood not durable, but there are too many wild animals around here, which often destroy the building. If it is not maintained frequently, it will not be able to live for a long time!"

"If it was a reinforced concrete building, the price would not be so cheap!"

Great, Feng Xinyuan was speechless when he said that, and he also knew that the land price in America was indeed cheap.

You must know that in order to attract immigrants, the empire gave away large tracts of land for nothing. As long as immigrants came, they would directly send dozens or even hundreds of acres of land.

After the local price is not expensive, the main cost of the building is only the cost of the building itself. The small building just now looks exquisite, but if you look closely, you can see that most of them are made of wood. Where there are many forests, wood is very cheap.

It seems that there is a huge difference between this America and the mainland!

The land is vast and sparsely populated, the land is fertile, and the resources are abundant. This is Feng Xinyuan's intuitive feeling after he arrived in the Americas.

This road is heading towards the city center. Gradually, the buildings on both sides of the road are denser, and dense commercial buildings can be seen, and there are more people.

Pedestrians and carriages crowded the streets, and they could even smell the familiar smell of coal char, which made Feng Xinyuan feel familiar.

This is the empire!

The scene I saw on the road just now was not an empire at all!

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