There he saw a house for sale, a typical Neo-Tang style two-story building with a stable attached. The entire building area was actually not large, but it also came with a garden of about 20,000 square meters. The previous owner planned

It's very well maintained and the whole courtyard has a pretty good view.

This house is good, but it is expensive.

Not only is the price of the house itself expensive, but the later maintenance costs of the house are also high. East Coast Village has requirements that residents need to pay additional security and maintenance fees to maintain local security and public facilities, such as roads.

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In addition, this kind of house is relatively large and has a large courtyard. It is difficult to ensure the hygiene of the house. At the same time, the vegetation in the garden also needs to be maintained, which means hiring at least two more servants.

But after seeing the house in detail, George gritted his teeth and signed the contract, purchasing the house for 860 Tangyuan.

He has saved a lot of money over the years, and now his salary, plus bonuses and the like, earns about more than 400 Tang Yuan per year. This income is nothing if compared to his hometown of Shanghai. It is at most an ordinary middle-class person.

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But this place in Ceuta is not bad. After all, Ceuta is a big city to Europeans, but to the huge Tang Empire, it is actually just an ordinary overseas territory city.

Except for the materials that need to be shipped from the mainland, which are relatively expensive, the prices of other ordinary materials are relatively cheap, especially real estate.

The house that George purchased seems to occupy a huge area, but the main building is just a two-story building. The courtyard is mainly made of vegetation. The main cost is the construction cost of the two-story building, but these

In terms of construction costs, except for a small amount of cement that needs to be transported from the mainland, most of the other building materials are obtained locally, so the cost is not too high.

As for the price of the land, it costs nothing. The government gives it to you for free.

This area used to be a wasteland, several kilometers away from the city. Because it is on the coastline, the view facing the Mediterranean Sea is quite good.

This kind of land, which is far away from the city and is still barren, is not valuable land.

When the original owner and other neighbors chose to build a house and build a community here, the government confiscated not a single copper penny and gave away all the land for free.

The price of 860 Tangyuan is actually the price of the building itself, which does not include much added value, especially the land, which is actually not very valuable.

This can be seen from the attitude of the Ceuta government. In fact, in Datang's overseas territories, land is not very valuable. Many officials in overseas territories are even troubled by the fact that they cannot give away land for free.

As long as immigrants are willing to come and register, regardless of whether it is the government of Ceuta or other overseas territories, they will happily give away anywhere from dozens to hundreds of acres of land for free.

You say there is not enough land?

There is a lot of land outside Ceuta. What, you said those lands belong to the Kingdom of Morocco. Are you kidding me? Since the beginning of the world, those lands have belonged to the great Holy Emperor, who is greater than the sun.

Not to mention these lofty reasons, let's say that the Ceuta state government really feels that there is not enough land to accommodate immigrants. It just casually sends an official document to the Moroccan royal family and moves the border line forward 180 kilometers. That will not be a problem at all. People in Morocco

The royal family will definitely give up these places on their own initiative.

As for why, you will know just by looking at the extremely wealthy Moroccan royal family.

As far as the current world situation is concerned, if the Tang Empire wants to build a city or something like that, they don't even have to rob it, they just take the initiative to give it to them.

The problem is that the Tang Empire is no longer interested in simply expanding its territory. Even if it wants to expand its territory, it still needs to find a good place. Ordinary places are given to the Tang Empire, and the Tang Empire doesn't want them.

For example, on the European continent, many countries actually hope to give a piece of land to the Tang Dynasty. For example, the Kingdom of Spain has proposed many times that they can expand the scope of the Cadiz Embassy District to include the entire Cadiz Port.

It's possible, and what they need is very simple, that is, the Tang Dynasty people can build cities locally and develop industry and commerce.

In this way they can also benefit greatly from it.

Didn’t you see that since the Tang Dynasty established the city in Ceuta, the Moroccan royal family next door is now living a very leisurely life. There is no point in fighting or anything like that. Now they all turn around and start doing business with the Tang Dynasty.

Various businesses are engaged in on the border of Ceuta, especially those that provide various agricultural products or other mineral products and even labor force to the people of Tang Dynasty nearby, making a lot of money.

Otherwise, where would they get the money to maintain a modern army armed to the teeth to resist the invasion of the Danish Kingdom in the south?

Yes, the Kingdom of Denmark was at war with the Kingdom of Morocco recently. After the entire Kingdom of Denmark moved to the Gambia region and rebuilt the kingdom, it quickly established a foothold in the area by relying on trade with the Tang Dynasty and made a lot of money.

However, recently they have had a lot of friction over the supply of agricultural and livestock products to the Tang Dynasty.

After all, there is only one seller, and that is Datang, and Datang’s demand for many daily goods is not endless. As long as it is supplied to local urban people such as Ceuta, when demand is limited, the Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of Morocco compete for it.

Naturally, there were conflicts in the orders.

In the end, it was still a price war, but later it turned into a war. The two sides fought several battleships and naval battles, and fought several times across a large desert.

The Tang Empire has always ignored this kind of thing. The supply of main materials is constant and the prices do not rise. The rest of you, the natives, do what you want.

The Tang Empire has always believed in not interfering in the internal affairs of indigenous people!

To put it bluntly, just ignore it!

The war with the Danes cost a lot of money, but the Moroccan royal family was still able to sustain it and live a leisurely life. What did it rely on?

It relies on exporting various agricultural and livestock products to the Tang people in Ceuta, such as grain, vegetables and fruits, cattle, horses and sheep and other livestock, wool, cotton and other things.

Especially the former, although they are just grains, vegetables and fruits, they are consumed every day, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are very good at eating them and are willing to eat them. Although they also grow these things, the Tang Dynasty has more than just Ceuta in the nearby territory.

In many other places, supplies need to be transported from Ceuta to be replenished.

Therefore, exporting grain, vegetables, fruits, livestock and other food to the Tang Dynasty would make more money than exporting wool, cotton and the like.

This money may not seem like much to the people of the Tang Dynasty, but to these natives it is a lot of money.

It's even money worth them waging a war for!

The same situation actually happens in England!

From last year to this spring, a civil war called the Coal War broke out in England, and it is still going on.
Chapter completed!