0515 REBIRTH III: Welcome to Miami
"Mr. Bunkron, Miami welcomes you."
As Raul was thrown out of the hall of the Immigration Department like a messy little boy, the misunderstanding and uneasiness of the Bucklon family were reduced by half.
The free people are well-deserved inferior people in Spain.
Although because of "freedom", the law gives them human rights protection. Compared with the inferior bankrupt people, the powerful and the rich will at least restrain themselves in public and will not abuse lynching them.
But this limited respect is only in the so-called public occasions. To put it more realistically, it is "chapel", "chapel", "memorial square" and "north palace".
They were used to bullying and tolerating. Raul even made a fuss about this tumbling blockade and was ready to be eaten. Although there were the loyalty and fantasies of young people, more of them were their predictions of life from the perspective of their own class.
Unexpectedly, the Drakes just threw him out...
There was no insult, no beating, no selling him to slave traders, and no handing him over to the cannibal Indians.
After Mr. Pilots personally drew a map for them, the Berkrons felt the tenderness from Miami for the second time, which made them ashamed and flattered.
Dad and mom completely put down their guard, pressed Raul's head and walked into the Immigration Department's door again, wanting to apologize to the British in the house, and sincerely ask the address of the real Immigration Department.
Then...
After Mr. Berclone explained his purpose and identity, they were taken to Vivian and Faramin by the guards.
"At 10 a.m. on January 15, my carriage will wait for you at the fountain in the Garden Square on time, Miss Vivian."
"I'm looking forward to it, Mr. Section Chief..."
Miss Vivian spoke English shyly. Although her father couldn't understand, he still vaguely smelled the sour smell of passionate love.
He was struggling whether to come forward to disturb him, weighing whether he would repeat his son's mistake by interrupting love words, and was thrown away by someone.
He was still hesitating, but Vivian instead changed into an impeccable business smile.
"Mr. Bunkron, Miami welcomes you."
"Ah! Thank you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Dad was in a panic and rushed, rolling his hands at the back of Raul's head, "Boy, apologize!"
"No need." Vivian spoke in a skillful Spanish. "Spain and Great Britain have a lingering historical past. We can understand the guards in our children. After all, you only see that Drake is the chamber of commerce in Great Britain, and it is natural for human beings to take preconceptions."
Dad was so moved that he was about to cry.
"That... ma'am, we... we just came from the countryside. The people on the boat asked us to find the Immigration Agency. We never knew that the Miami chamber of commerce also had its own Immigration Agency, so..."
"There is only one." Vivian interrupted with a smile. "The entire Miami area, including all the mountains, water, land and islands on both sides of the Bay of Biscay, are legal properties belonging to the Drake Chamber of Commerce."
"Resettlement of immigrants requires land, and on private land, this kind of thing is certainly not suitable for being dominated by the city hall, at least not entirely by them."
"So this is the real Immigration Agency in Miami. Except here, all offices in the city that are under the banner of immigration affairs are illegal, even if they are official, they are illegal."
Illegal...official?
The father's eyes were full of stars. With his common sense, he could not understand the circumstances under which the official law would be illegal.
And why did His Majesty the King have to establish towns on the land of the British? Isn’t other places possible? Isn’t Florida the whole of Florida? Isn’t Miami in Florida?
Vivian completely entered the state of a shopping guide. With the unfading blush, she nodded and lowered her head and raised her skirt, and bowed to Berkelon's family.
"Mr. Bunkron, the Drake Chamber of Commerce thanks you for choosing Miami as its second home. My department will provide you with home-friendly immigration services based on the principle of customer first. We believe that it will not take long before our hometown will become a vague mark in the depths of your soul. Only here is worthy of your dedication."
"Dedicate everything?" Dad's eyes were filled with tears.
Little Sophia grabbed her mother's sleeve and asked in a slight voice: "Mom, are we going to be sold?"
...
Unlike other colonial towns, Miami has established the special reality of the separation of property rights and administration since the date of its establishment.
This feature makes Miami unique in many ways, and the biggest difference is probably the commercial immigration program designed by Carmen Xavier and supplemented by Lorraine Drake.
Compared with the immigration procedures in other towns, Miami's procedures are undoubtedly complex, but at the same time they appear formal, fair, and law-based, just like hitting the cornerstone of a town, showing Miami's characteristics at the beginning of its foundation.
The first step in this program is naturalization.
Last year, new immigrants needed to first ferry to Hekou Town Town City Hall to provide certificates and registration information to the household registration department there, and then dispose of old books in exchange for new local household registration.
This year, under the initiative of the Drake Chamber of Commerce, the Household Registration Department added a special naturalization business processing window in the Chamber of Commerce Immigration Department's lobby. New immigrants finally don't have to go through the two sides of the Bay of Biscay.
They can directly complete a series of instructions such as naturalization in the Immigration Department, and then go directly to the second step to purchase land independently.
The Drake Chamber of Commerce promotes the commercialization of real estate across the region in Miami. Xavier House’s elite team labels each piece of land, and each label has a different coefficient behind it.
As long as the benchmark price is adjusted, the land prices in Miami will be adjusted year-on-year, which means that there is no free land in Drake's hands.
However, pioneers often have poor backgrounds. They leave their hometowns to find new homes because they can't live in the old land.
It is not realistic to make money from them. Lorraine and Carmen have a clear understanding of them and know that their greatest value to Miami lies in popularity, manpower, and the votes of congressmen given to them by household registration in the future.
The competition for pioneers is the competition for control of Miami. Lorraine personally concocted the independent "land purchase" with Miami characteristics for this.
There are four land purchase windows for the Immigration Department, one is a commercial house and luxury house with a unit price of 10,000 yuan or above, the other is a 10,000-yuan apartment, and 100-yuan fertile land. Those who can't afford anything will go to the last window and randomly distribute land by drawing lots.
The Bunkron family is of course the last one.
After completing the naturalization procedures, Vivian solicited the opinions of the family of four and quickly guided them to the lottery window.
"Miami now has six districts, administrative center Hakka area, trade center Miami Beach, cultural and educational center college district, Virginia Island Huokou District, agricultural center Tianyuan District, and Jackdaw District that does not accept immigration applications for the time being."
"In addition to Jackdaws, immigrants can freely choose a place to live, but only Tahara District enjoys immigration subsidies."
Dad blinked: "Subsidy?"
"Yes, if immigrants give up their own choices, they can randomly obtain ten acres of fertile land, a large tent that can live in eight people, two octagonal gold coins and a quota of 300 kilograms of potatoes per person."
"The last three subsidies are the welfare policies given by the Drake Chamber of Commerce to new immigrants. Good land is a form of transaction. The Drake Chamber of Commerce will sell the land to immigrants at the market price. The transaction costs will be borne by the chamber of commerce and the transaction tax will be borne by the immigrants."
"Tax?" Dad felt nervous.
Vivian showed a regretful expression on her face: "Miami's land transaction tax is 10% of the transaction volume, both directions. The chamber of commerce bears the seller's part, and the immigrant bears the buyer's part."
Chapter completed!