Under Baldwin's guidance, the car soon arrived at the wealthy villa area in Long Island. As everyone knew, Long Island was the area where the rich gathered in New York. Not only the rich in the United States, but also rich people from other countries liked to buy property here.
The villas in many small towns on Long Island had their own characteristics. It was also considered one of the tourist attractions for foreigners. After all, the Montague Lighthouse here was quite famous.
Baldwin also had his own feelings about the Montague Lighthouse. Although the Montague Lighthouse was not luxurious and was just an ordinary lighthouse in its natural state, it was the guiding light for foreign dreamers to immigrate to the United States.
Anyone who saw the lighthouse meant that they were about to land on the American continent. Then, they could start their dream journey.
Although Baldwin was not the first person to arrive in the United States through the lighthouse, the first time he came to New York, he also secretly took a boat. After all, he was already a notorious guy, and the United States would not welcome him.
As the car got closer to the Long Island villa area, Lin Ge liked this place more and more.
Those who could live here must have a certain economic foundation because it was prosperous but not noisy. It was fashionable but not messy. The villa was surrounded by tall trees. It was like living in a forest.
Although it was night, the car lights could still shine on the wild ducks and geese that could be seen everywhere by the roadside. It made Lin Ge feel like he was in a garden. He could not help but exclaim that it was like living in a park.
There were also many Hua Xia celebrities' properties in this place. They also liked to come here for vacation. Compared to Hua Xia, the life of picking blueberries, picking mulberries, and watching egrets and swans leisurely swaying around was like a dream.
Baldwin's villa faced the sea. It sat on a beautiful sea view. Eighty percent of the people living here were white people.
In addition to the sea view, there was a dense forest around it. There was also a huge hillside golf course!
Not to mention the villa's appearance, there was a garden, grass, and forest outside the villa. The area occupied by these greenery was larger than all the greenery in Hua Xia's residential area with more than five thousand families.
The value of residential property in the United States was based on the environment. The environment was a very important criterion. The rich lived on the top of the mountain while the poor lived in downtown apartments. This was the opposite of Hua Xia.
Hua Xia's rich people all lived in the bustling downtown area, while those who lived on the mountaintop were the elderly who stayed behind from poor families …
"The environment is pretty good." Lin Ge said to Xu Yun while driving.
Xu Yun nodded. The environment was indeed not bad.
"This is the difference between the United States and Hua Xia." Baldwin said calmly, "The rich people of the American Empire are after the environment. They want to stay away from pollution, have a climate that is neither humid nor dry, and have a quiet, bright, and elegant environment. It would be best if there were many types of docile beasts in the midst of birds and flowers … Haha, returning to nature, they want the true meaning of blue skies, white clouds, and sunshine."
In order to pursue this, the rich people of the American Empire were even willing to spend several times more US dollars to find a good location to build a villa.
"You Huaxia are different. The more polluted and noisy a place is, the more ridiculously expensive it is. What Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou? Those buildings in the city that are so noisy that it's almost impossible for people to live in them can be sold at such a terrifying price. It's simply unbelievable." Baldwin smiled.
Xu Yun and Lin Ge ignored him because what he said was the truth.
Baldwin seemed to want to use chatting to ease the tension between them. He had already admitted defeat and did not want Xu Yun to really poke a hole in his throat in Times Square.
"Actually, the difference between Hua Xia and the United States is still very big," Baldwin continued. Baldwin continued, "Where I live, there's hardly any fat people. Rich people pay attention to aerobic exercise. Fat people can be seen everywhere in Harlem and Brooklyn because there are many poor people there. The poor people only know how to stuff chicken, duck, and fish into their stomachs. It's as if they are eating government handouts and not eating them … "
Xu Yun glanced at Baldwin and felt that he was showing off.
"I know a rich person from Hua Xia. It's said that he started a coal mining business more than ten years ago." Baldwin said, "He's probably one of the richest people in China. The villa he lives in is also luxurious. Although he's not tall, he's extraordinarily fat. He told me about his life, and it's indeed extravagant! The milk he drinks is human milk, the eggs he eats are chickadee eggs, the daily essential nutrients are sea cucumber, bird's nest, lobster, and turtle. For beef, he only eats' Wagyu 'beef that is flown in from Japan. The potatoes are from Nuwarmuj, the caviar is albino fish from Iran, and the desserts must be accompanied by black truffles or even white truffles … "
"Stop, the person you are talking about is a nouveau riche from Hua Xia more than ten years ago," Xu Yun said, "Now, the rich people from Hua Xia don't eat like that anymore."
Baldwin was stunned for a moment.
"Don't treat us rich people from Hua Xia as country bumpkins and nouveau riche, okay?" Lin Ge was also unhappy. "Don't look at people through colored glasses, okay?"
Baldwin smiled awkwardly. "The person I am talking about is the truth. It's not a fabrication."
"In Hua Xia, there are country bumpkins and nouveau riche who eat more extravagantly than this person you know." Xu Yun said, "Not all the rich people in New York are like what you say. The nouveau riche in New York is the same. They can be as extravagant as they want."
"Yes … that is indeed the case." Baldwin nodded.
"It takes three generations for one aristocrat to be born. A real aristocrat does not pursue money, but good interpersonal relationships," Xu Yun said, "Aristocrats and nouveau riche are different. Their views on money are completely different. In the eyes of nouveau riche, only money equals money. In the eyes of aristocrats, information is money, and they are very wary of the tendency to pursue money and material things. The rich people you are talking about in the American Empire must be from aristocratic families that have been rich for three generations. Their ancestors were aristocrats in Europe. "
Baldwin nodded in agreement.
"And the rich person from Hua Xia you are talking about is a country bumpkin who got lucky and made a lot of money by relying on his luck." Xu Yun said, "He can't be considered a rich person from Hua Xia. The rich people from the big families in Hua Xia wouldn't do something like that."
"Yeah, Hua Xia has been around for thousands of years. The big families must be even more unfathomable." Baldwin said, "It's said that the Kong Consortium can be considered the number one aristocratic family in the world."
"That's true. I'm afraid there really isn't a family that has a longer history than the Kong Consortium in this world." Xu Yun said, "There are already 80 generations. Let's not talk about those before that. Starting from the fifth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, there were Xing, Yu, Chuan, Ji, Guang, Zhao, Xian, Qing, Fan, and Xiang. Then to the 19th year of the Qing Dynasty, there were Ling, De, Wei, Chui, You, Qin, Shao, Nian, Xian, and Yang. The 80th generation should have reached the You generation. There are still Qin, Shao, Nian, Xian, and Yang. But the modern Beiyang government added another 20 characters and directly determined the generations from the 86th generation to the 105th generation of the Kong Consortium. "
It was true that the world was big, but which family dared to say that they could last more than 100 generations?!
This was an unbelievable deification!
"The Kong Consortium already has 80 generations of descendants?" Baldwin's eyes widened in surprise. He had only heard some superficial information before, but when he heard the details today, he was completely dumbfounded. It was much more amazing than he had imagined.
"But let me tell you first. The Kong Consortium is not the aristocratic family you think it is." Xu Yun said, "The Kong Consortium emphasizes that even if they live in poverty, they will never complain about the environment they live in. Even if they live in poverty, they will still pour all their passion into educating their children. The more successful they are, the more they have to learn and understand by themselves. Even if they fail, they will never be discouraged. They will use their tenacious spirit to arm themselves. "
"Amazing." Baldwin gave him a thumbs up in admiration. This admiration came from the bottom of his heart.
The closer the car got to Baldwin's villa, the more people there were. Needless to say, these were all Baldwin's subordinates. More and more of them rushed over to help Baldwin after hearing the news that something had happened to him.
"It looks like many people want to see with their own eyes if you will be able to keep your life." Xu Yun smiled. "Mr. Baldwin, you can be considered a successful person. So many of your subordinates rushed over after you got into trouble. It's not easy."
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