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Chapter 17: While planning is underway

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In the American Empire, the size and prosperity of a city are not actually calculated based on the area and population occupied by the city.

This can be seen when watching NBA games. Phoenix, where the Suns are located, ranks sixth in population in the United States, but it is not a big city. San Antonio, where the Spurs are located, ranks ninth, and is not a big city. On the contrary, It is one of the representatives of small ball markets, including Detroit ranked 10th, Indianapolis ranked 12th, Seattle 21st, Denver 22nd, etc. These places are not considered big ball markets. Directly Big cities and big cities are calculated based on urban areas.

In the United States, it can be said that it belongs to the metropolitan area. There are ten places in total. The largest is naturally New York. The entire New York State where the Big Apple City is located, plus Long Island and Northern New Jersey, are all considered to be in the New York metropolitan area. within the range.

Secondly, there are the Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Santa Ana metropolitan areas centered on Los Angeles.

Chicago plus the Joliet metropolitan area, Washington plus Arlington, and the Alexandria metropolitan area.

Houston, Sugar Land, and Bayton metropolitan areas, Dallas, Waspau, and Arlington metropolitan areas, Philadelphia, Camden, and Wilmington metropolitan areas, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont metropolitan areas, Atlanta, Sandy Springs, the Marietta metropolitan area, and last but not least, the Boston, Cambridge, Quincy metropolitan area.

In fact, speaking of Boston, the actual urban area of Boston is very small. Its territory may be the smallest among all big cities.

After all, this city was founded by European colonists when they first arrived in the United States.

From the original point of view, Boston was well built, but from the current point of view, the buildings in Boston are really short and small, and the roads are also very crowded. Traffic jams and other things are not the same in Boston. A rare thing.

Sometimes, it's even more congested than in the imperial capital. Such things are not very common in the American empire.

Maybe everyone is also trying to find some face for Boston, so they visit Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Ivory, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brookland, Needham, and Dedeham around Boston. Tomb Raider, Canton, Milton and Quincy are all considered part of Greater Boston. To put it simply, they are like those districts in the current Chinese city.

The real urban area is only a little bit in the city center. Apart from the urban area, other districts were added later.

Therefore, these county-level places were also added later.

Winthrop, where Jiang Hai currently lives, is like this. Let's say it is Boston. In fact, strictly speaking, it is not Boston. How can we say it is not Boston? It’s Boston again, everyone has their own opinion.

After determining the first thing to do, Jiang Haihe took a good walk around the manor with his first and only subordinate, Robbins-Garcia, during the next day. lock up.

I took inventory of what is available now and what is still missing.

At present, there are not too many things in this manor, but not too few. There are four all-terrain vehicles, that is, four-wheel motorcycles. These vehicles were purchased nearly ten years ago, and there is no protection on the outside. The kind that is very dangerous, and it can still be ridden now, which is also a small miracle. When Jiang Hai wants to buy a car in the future, these things will also be indispensable.

He found out that such an all-terrain vehicle, based on the current price of a new car, would cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, which is talking about U.S. dollars. In the United States, you can’t spend money on it. no

In addition to these four all-terrain vehicles, one hay truck is still usable, but it needs to be repaired and some parts replaced. However, it seems to Jiang Hai that it is better to replace it directly than to do this.

Other large vehicles, a large agricultural tractor, were left behind by the former rich man for the purpose of leveling the land and using it for sowing. He did not buy this manor purely for fun. He also considered it. However, if the beef market is not good, then he will plant wheat and vegetables, but unfortunately he will go bankrupt before planting.

Therefore, although this thing was bought ten years ago, it is still relatively new and there is no need to replace it for the time being.

The other cowsheds and horse sheds were originally built very solidly. When the villa was being renovated this time, Louis also asked the workers to use the remaining materials to strengthen these two places. Now only some people are needed to clean them. Just trim it and turn it over.

As for fishing, Robbins didn't know much about it, but Jiang Hai took advantage of his lunch break to go to the sea.

He can breathe freely underwater, so he doesn't have to think about it, but he doesn't dare to go too far.

After all, there are many dangers underwater. Not to mention those sharks, killer whales and the like, just some poisonous jellyfish, sea snakes and the like are enough for him to drink a bottle. Jiang Hai doesn't know that he is now This tattoo was of no use to these guys, but at least he felt that he had almost no chance of winning against a shark several meters long underwater.

It's only possible unless your level is raised higher.

So he didn't swim too far, but after getting into the water, Jiang Hai was still very pleased. His fishing ground was a private fishery, and in the original seven years, it belonged to the world's third largest auction house. There are not many things, but there are many lawyers and they are very narrow-minded. Therefore, the natural environment in Jiang Hai's fishing ground has been extremely well protected in recent years.

All of a sudden, Jiang Hai saw a lot of corals nearby. Although they were not connected into a large area, they were still a very good scene. It seemed that there was no need to plant corals in the future. They only needed to be protected. Among the coral reefs, there were many There were many fishes that were passing through Jiang Hai's eyes, and there were many fish that he knew, such as the cod that Robbins always cooked for him at night. This cod was different from the ones eaten in China. The Atlantic Ocean The fish in the Pacific Ocean are originally larger than those in the Pacific Ocean.

Especially in this place that has been protected for seven years, there must be thousands of Atlantic cod that have entered Jiang Haiyan. They are divided into several groups and swim back and forth in the middle and upper levels of the ocean. The largest one is even nearly two meters long. It's really amazing.

In addition to large cod, there are also a lot of herring here. This fish is also an economic fish, but it is much smaller and has only one cartilage on its body. Europeans like to eat this fish very much, and it is also very popular in the United States.

In addition to these fish, there are also many seawater fish. On the beach below, there are many flounder, also known as flounder. There are also many sea bass swimming in the middle and upper layers, and an extremely large number of barracuda. , Stonehead, this thing is also a yellow croaker, but the skin on its body is not yellow, but red. It is called red kingfish, also called channel bass, and gray black stonefish, they are all here.

In addition, there are many marine fish, groupers, sea bream, and some migratory fish in some places offshore.

For example, there are big salmon, Pacific salmon, the legendary three-striped fish, and so on.

But what really attracted Jiang Hai was not these, but the sea cucumbers, sea crabs, and large lobsters on the sea bed. Jiang Hai checked when he came here. The lobsters in Boston are known as the best in the world. One.

The lobster here is called Boston lobster, also called Maine lobster. The taste is said to be quite good, but Jiang Hai has never eaten it. Just when he was about to catch two to satisfy his craving, he couldn't help but feel a meal. …

With these sea creatures, there are naturally those who prey on them, such as sharks. What Jiang Hai saw now was a shark about three meters long. He didn't know what type it was, so he was frightened. Then he swam up.

Although he returned empty-handed, he was quite happy at this time. From visual inspection, he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking this time.

After happily returning to the villa for a walk, Jiang Hai took Robbins's old pickup truck and headed for Winthrop.

If you want to hire someone, there is no use posting a notice here. You have to go to the town to find someone.

Winthrop is located on the easternmost edge of Boston, separated from General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport.

After all, it's a bit far apart, and it's mainly people who run various family farms, so the town is not big. Those who work in Boston prefer to live nearby, such as Chelsea and Cambridge. , Somerville and the like.

If this kind of terrain was in the west, maybe it would be good to have a few thousand people in the town, but after all, this is the east of Europe, and towns in the east have one characteristic: there are more people than in the west.

Along the way, Robbins also introduced Jiang Hai to the situation in Winthrop. There are nearly 30,000 people in this town, which is considered a small town. In the town, everything is very complete, with dozens of There are large supermarkets, car dealerships, gun shops, shipyards... Almost everything Jiang Hai wants to buy can be bought here, so he doesn't have to rush to Boston to buy it.

While talking, Robbins brought Jiang Hai to the door of a bar called Cowboy's Song.

"Okay, boss, it's time to get out of the car." After parking the car, Robbins said to Jiang Hai with a smile on his face.

"Okay." After saying this, Jiang Hai jumped out of the pickup truck and looked at the bar in front of him.

This bar seems to be old. The entire bar has only one floor and the entire structure is made of wood. On the door in the middle, there is a sign made of wood. The sign has been smoked very black. If it wasn't Because of the colored lights surrounding it, Jiang Hai couldn't tell what was written on it, but precisely because of the colored lights, the bar looked even more shabby.

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