Chapter 869: Current Situation of Ceuta
In terms of military, Dahua is taking big steps forward and is invincible.
In terms of economy, Dahua is also conquering cities and territories, and is even more dominant than military.
As of June 6, Yongxing 6, Dahua has established Dahua Central Bank branches in more than a dozen overseas cities such as Edo, Hekou, Haishan, and Ceuta.
The main business is to exchange currency, to exchange those miscellaneous gold and silver currencies into unified silver coins and banknotes of Dahua.
The influence of these banks on other countries is very large, but this influence is less conspicuous, not as intuitive as capturing a certain place.
Therefore, ordinary people in Dahua did not feel too deeply about this.
However, overseas Chinese and people from other countries have already noticed this change.
However, they are also powerless to this change.
ceuta.
This is one of Dahua's earliest overseas bases, and it has been developing for four years now.
Its scale has also changed from a small port to a metropolis today.
Its population has grown from more than 2,000 people to more than 60,000 people today.
Among them, about 10,000 are big Chinese, and the rest are 'gold diggers' from all over the world, who come to Ceuta to seek fortune or to make a living.
Europeans, Middle Easterners, North Africans, Indians, blacks, you name it.
People from different places have different status here.
The highest status is naturally the big Chinese, who are the privileged class here.
There are four main types of Chinese here.
One is the soldiers, who have absolute force in their hands and have the highest status.
The other is businessmen. These people are very rich, have complex social relationships, and have a hard background and background, and their status is no worse than that of Dahua soldiers.
Another type is the family members of soldiers and businessmen, whose status is not low.
The last type is the ordinary Dahua workers, crew members, and servants who come here to make a living. Compared with the other three people, their status is much lower, but when facing people from other countries, they can also be arrogant, and they are the objects of people from other countries.
The lesser ones are the Europeans.
Most of the Europeans are businessmen and ordinary people. The businessmen come here to do business with Dahua. All of them are rich in families and have high status.
Ordinary people, on the other hand, do various grass-roots service work in Ceuta.
Restaurant running hall, hotel waiter, carriage driver.
On the female side, they are prostitutes and maids for the rich.
At a lower level are North Africans and Middle Easterners.
Basically, it is proportional to national strength.
The stronger the strength of the country behind it, the higher its status in Ceuta, and vice versa.
Even if they are Europeans, the status of the Danes is far inferior to that of the British.
The ones with the lowest status are naturally Indians and blacks. Who makes their home country the weakest?
They were in Ceuta, almost like slaves.
Do the dirtiest and hardest jobs, get the most beatings, and get the least wages.
As for the grievances, who cares?
Western Europeans suffered losses and could still appeal to their own countries for help. Western European countries would also send envoys to negotiate with the governor of Ceuta, Liao Xun, to express their protests.
And Indians and blacks, who can they turn to for help?
The mainland of India has almost fallen, and even the rights and interests of the local people cannot be preserved, let alone overseas.
If they wanted to live in Ceuta, they had to be obedient. Otherwise, even if they were beaten to death, the attacker would not have to bear any responsibility.
As for the blacks, they don't even have a country, and they don't know what their country is.
Ceuta is also divided into several areas.
Military quarters, business districts, entertainment districts, shopping streets, residential areas and slums.
The largest is the commercial area, where a huge amount of goods are accumulated all year round.
The most lively is the entertainment area, where there are women from all over the world and countless casinos.
In the trade with Dahua, other countries and regions have too few commodities.
There are few exports, and naturally there is no money to buy Dahua products.
Therefore, these countries can only organize their own women to sell themselves to earn some foreign exchange.
These women are miserable. On the one hand, they have to earn foreign exchange for their country. On the other hand, their work is not recognized by the people of their own country, and they feel that they have lost the face of the country.
The brothel and the casino are the favorite places for those crew members to go.
Sailors' income is higher than that of ordinary workers, and there is no way to spend money at sea.
After arriving at the ports in various places, they need to resolve their loneliness and pursue the dream of "getting rich overnight".
Many people, fortunately, spend a few months at sea, and then spend a few days in port.
Either contributed to the brothel, or contributed to the casino.
This made the business of brothels and casinos extremely hot, and the taxes that Ceuta collected in these two areas even kept up with one-fifth of the tariffs, which was quite terrifying.
And Ceuta's tax revenue is also considerable, reaching 12 million last year, accounting for about 3% of Dahua's tax revenue.
The most luxurious place in Ceuta is the shopping street.
This place is not big, but it gathers the most high-end products of Dahua, almost Dahua
All luxury goods can be found on the shopping street.
It is also known as a shopping paradise, and it is the favorite place for aristocratic women from all over Europe.
A lady in Europe would be embarrassed to say that her family was rich if she had not visited the shopping street of Ceuta once.
If you don't wear some decorations from the shopping street, you are too embarrassed to go to a party in high circles.
Made by Dahua, it represents the word high-end and is a symbol of status.
In the residential area, a large number of Chinese people live here. It is not easy for people from other countries to live here, and they need to apply. It takes more money to buy the house inside.
The environment here is very good, inheriting Dahua's tradition of clean and tidy.
Living in this neighborhood is a joy.
The various living facilities here are also very complete, and many European nobles are willing to live here rather than live in those castles.
In sharp contrast to this community is the slum in the southwest corner of Ceuta, where the entire lower class of Ceuta is concentrated.
The houses here are small and rudimentary. Many houses hang two pieces of cloth or mats and straws on wooden shelves.
If you accidentally bump into it, you can destroy someone's home.
All kinds of cheap goods, expired food, cheap red light district, fill this place.
This place is synonymous with dirty, messy, and the sanitation conditions are extremely poor, and the law and order is close to zero. Dahua's police are reluctant to enter this place.
The ghetto has its own order, unspoken rules made by several gangs.