Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

August 1983, Niudongping Village, Yunlan City.

Zhou Xiaoqing is going to the city center today to buy a new outfit to prepare for his blind date next week. Several other villagers are doing the same thing.

Hou Xiaoqiang drove Zhou Xiaoqing and the other young people to the city center.

This time, however, they went not to the nearby small town, but to Yunlan City.

Wow, it's so beautiful!

Along the way, Zhou Xiaoqing and the others kept exclaiming in amazement because the scenery around them was truly breathtaking.

"Yes, the scenery is indeed very beautiful. Otherwise, I definitely wouldn't have recommended that you buy a car. If you have time, you can drive out and take a look around. Did you see all those cars along the way? Especially those convertibles."

After Hou Xiaoqiang's introduction, Zhou Xiaoqing and the others became even more eager to try it.

The convertible is very beautiful, but almost all the owners are tourists. Few locals in Yunlan City buy such cars because they are neither expensive nor cheap, with a price of around 200,000 US dollars.

If you're a local from Yunlan City, you probably wouldn't spend 200,000 to buy such a convertible; it's not very practical.

Only tourists would rent a car like this.

Driving a convertible with your beloved girl, or even your family and children, and enjoying such beautiful scenery, wouldn't that be even more enjoyable?

For example, the golf course they see now is picturesque.

There were also golden, glistening rice grains, and in short, everything in front of me looked absolutely perfect.

"Brother Qiang, you said Yunlan City doesn't need to collect agricultural taxes from us, so how exactly do you get paid?"

Before they reached their destination, Zhou Xiaoqing and the others chatted for a while and eventually brought up the same topic again.

"Later I'll take you to visit the military museum, as well as the financial district, the casino, and other places. You'll see for yourself after you've been there."

Hou Xiaoqiang didn't explain immediately, but said with a smile.

The core of Yunlan City consists of farmers like Zhou Xiaoqing, but there are still too few of them.

In Zhao Mancang's plan, commercial tax is the main source of income for the entire Yunlan City, and to collect more commercial tax, the commercial sector must be developed.

However, a thriving commercial sector cannot rely solely on export products; the consumer market within Yunlan City is also extremely important.

But without a sufficiently large population, how can more consumption be generated?
Therefore, Zhao Mancang still needs to make more efforts in this regard. Only by increasing the population of Yunlan City can he collect more commercial taxes in the future.

Upon arriving near the center of Yunlan City, Zhou Xiaoqing and her companions exclaimed in even greater surprise, for they witnessed even more incredible things.

The city center is filled with high-rise buildings, making it quite prosperous.

Yunlan City only has a few million people, and most of them live in rural areas. There are also other satellite cities. So where did so many people come from in the center of Yunlan City?

Because there are so many tourists!

In the center of Yunlan City, many tourists are long-term residents. Their passports only have 30-day visas. They may not be able to renew their visas, but they can fly away for a few days and then come back.

Zhou Xiaoqing and the others responded with "oh, oh," indicating respect despite not fully understanding.

Yunlan City is incredibly prosperous; it's the most bustling metropolis they've ever seen.

When Hou Xiaoqiang took them to a clothing store that wasn't too expensive, Zhou Xiaoqing and the others were shocked to see the prices. A shirt was priced at ninety-nine US dollars.

too expensive!
Having no other choice, Hou Xiaoqiang took them to another store, but the prices there weren't much cheaper either; a shirt still cost sixty-nine US dollars.

Then there's really no other way, because this is the cheapest one.

Zhou Xiaoqing and her friends are going all out to find a girl they like on their blind date next week.

However, during their clothing purchase, they were entangled by several attractive saleswomen.

Especially Zhou Xiaoqing, he's not exactly handsome, but he's not ugly either, just average-looking. However, he's 1.78 meters tall, which is pretty good.

One of the saleswomen, a beautiful woman with an 85 out of 100 looks, excitedly pulled Zhou Xiaoqing aside and whispered when she learned that Zhou Xiaoqing had a Yunlan City ID card and that she was buying clothes for a blind date next week:

"If you just show me your ID card, I'll go on a blind date with you, how about it?"

Zhou Xiaoqing was stunned. Could there really be such a good thing?

Before they arrived, Hou Xiaoqiang had told them that they might be approached by strangers, but they should be careful because many of the beautiful women in the city center were not locals of Yunlan City; they were foreigners.

Even though they all look Chinese, they are not locals of Yunlan City.

Yunlan City initially had relatively lenient policies towards foreign immigrants. Anyone who was Chinese could immigrate and settle down in Yunlan City, obtaining a Yunlan City ID card.

However, over time, many restrictions have been imposed on foreign immigrants.

For example, some Chinese immigrants who are not from mainland China need to have a certain number of years of work experience or a net worth of more than 100,000 US dollars to obtain an ID card in Yunlan City.

Therefore, many people were screened out.

In particular, some of the beauties who had previously participated in the Yunlan City Supermodel Competition have obtained short-term work visas for Yunlan City, such as one-year or two-year visas.

If a woman can achieve five years of residency or have assets exceeding 100,000, she can actually obtain a Yunlan City ID card very quickly.

But there is another shortcut: marry a man who has a local ID card from Yunlan City. Then you can get the ID card after giving birth to your first child.

They can also enjoy the same preferential treatment for newborns.

These beauties were selected from supermodel competitions. Now they either work in clothing sales, or as restaurant servers, hotel receptionists, etc.

These are the only legitimate jobs they can choose; there are basically no other informal jobs available.

Yunlan City is cracking down on the existence of such sex-related industries.

Although these women were selected through supermodel competitions, they all possess excellent looks, height, and figure.

However, even so, they are still very picky.

They are also frequent visitors to the matchmaking market, but they are all the ones who are left over.

To reiterate, there are almost no single women holding local ID cards from Yunlan City.

Because it's important to know that most of the new immigrants who come to Yunlan City are men.

Just like Hou Xiaoqiang, he was already married and had children before he immigrated here.

How could a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl possibly sneak off to Yunlan City?

There might be some, but even if there are, they would be very few.

This has resulted in a large number of single men in Yunlan City, but a very small number of single women. This large-scale migration from the Three Gorges area is unprecedented.

As for how the soldiers of the Black Cross get married, that's even simpler and more direct.

Zhao Mancang owns many companies, such as entertainment companies, accounting firms, and translation companies, all of which are companies with a concentration of beautiful women.

If you select candidates based solely on their appearance during the recruitment process, then all the women who enter these companies will undoubtedly be stunning beauties.

Since these companies are dominated by women and lack men, they should absorb the problem internally and go directly to matchmaking.

So solving the matchmaking problem for the Black Cross troops is quite simple.

Some soldiers had money and would try to find beautiful women elsewhere.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoqing had completely forgotten what Hou Xiaoqiang had said earlier.

His face turned bright red; he was very shy and also quite shocked, thinking to himself, "What a wonderful thing!"
The beautiful woman in front of him had a card with the words "Xie Fangfang" written on it. It didn't quite match her pretty face, but Zhou Xiaoqing felt it suited her very well for some reason.

Xie Fangfang is not short either, she is nearly 1.7 meters tall, or even taller.

His face turned red, and then he took out his ID card.

Xie Fangfang was immediately thrilled when she saw his ID card.

"Are you sure you've never been married? You can't lie to me, because in Yunlan City, you need to go through very strict checks to get married."

Having lived in Yunlan City for nearly a year, Xie Fangfang learned a lot about it.

She learned about financial investment from the newspaper and even tried investing in stocks before, but she wasn't very good at it and lost $20,000.

Therefore, she never pursued this financial investment again.

She had been to Las Vegas several times, but it was clear that she wasn't cut out for it. After paying over eight thousand US dollars in tuition, she made the difficult decision to cut ties with the city.

She only wanted to stay in Yunlan City, but that was extremely difficult.

Longing to be noticed by the wealthy people of Yunlan City?

Why not invest again in the financial district?

Because Yunlan City has an abundance of beautiful women.

Newborn rewards and preferential treatment are just one of the benefits in Yunlan City. Soldiers also have high salaries, and civil servants earn $1,500 or more.

Besides these, in all other industries, as long as you hold a local ID card from Yunlan City, the minimum salary starts at nine hundred US dollars.

On the contrary, migrant workers like Xie Fangfang started at $600.

This is a very large gap between the rich and the poor.

Once Xie Fangfang obtains a local ID card from Yunlan City, her salary can increase to nine hundred US dollars even if she continues to work as a salesperson.

They could even become actors or take on other jobs, and their salaries would definitely rise quickly.

Zhou Xiaoqing is a farmer-worker, so he will definitely be allocated fertile land and the like, and he can also do business here.

In short, there are just too many benefits to having a local ID card in Yunlan City.

Even if you don't work that hard, lying down is perfectly fine.

Just like Hou Xiaoqiang's wife, she simply lay down and did nothing, while Hou Xiaoqiang's salary was only two thousand five hundred US dollars, which wasn't very high.

Even so, it was enough for Hou Xiaoqiang and his family to live on.

The most secure status is that of a farmer, because the crops they grow do not need to be handed over to the state.

In addition, you can also apply to become a planter for greening projects. Although the competition is fierce, the salary is very high, at least four or five thousand US dollars a month.

However, marrying a local from Yunlan City is not so easy; it requires going through several checks, such as background checks and physical examinations.

Xie Fangfang was well aware that the preferential treatment for newborns would not last for many years, and the same was true for other preferential treatments.

Xie Fangfang had also heard that the first people to immigrate to Yunlan City, even a simple concrete worker, earned more than three thousand US dollars a month.

However, the monthly salary of concrete workers nowadays is at most two thousand US dollars.

This is the gap.

This is because the population of Yunlan City is increasing, and the construction of many buildings is becoming more and more complete.

Therefore, with so many restrictions, Xie Fangfang was very eager to find a single local man in Yunlan City to marry. However, marriage is a major life event, and she couldn't just find anyone.
After all, if you're going to get married, you're going to spend your whole life together.

As for the matter of getting divorced quickly after marriage, well, Xie Fangfang has seen the divorce-related regulations of Yunlan City, which impose very heavy restrictions on non-local women like them.

So she has no choice but to marry someone she wants to get married quickly, but she can't just marry anyone. As a result, it's been almost a year and she's still not married.

Of course, if she didn't want to stay in Yunlan City, she wouldn't need to be so conflicted.

But if you stay in Yunlan City for a while, you'll realize that life here is simply paradise, it's too perfect.

And when it comes to safety, well, Yunlan City is still the best.

"what?"

Zhou Xiaoqing stared blankly and exclaimed, "Ah!" He didn't quite understand why there were any tests required for marriage.

On the other side, Hou Xiaoqiang had also noticed, but he didn't have time to come over because Zhou Datong was also being entangled by a beautiful saleswoman.

This clothing store is practically a spider's den; all the salespeople are spider demons.

However, Hou Xiaoqiang still called out and then beckoned Zhou Xiaoqing over.

After gathering the others, Hou Xiaoqiang gave them his instructions:
"I know you're all captivated by these beautiful women right now, but there's no rush for you to settle down with them. Go on blind dates next week, and you'll soon find out why."

Hou Xiaoqiang didn't say the specific reason, but he had already said it before. However, Zhou Xiaoqing and Zhou Datong didn't seem to believe it.

The facts are unfolding before their eyes; they have no choice but to believe them.

"You can accept their contact information, but trust me, they'll be bombarding you with invitations for the next few days. That's when your willpower will be tested."

After a pause, Hou Xiaoqiang continued:

"You are all quite honest and simple-minded, and you don't understand the outside world, so you must protect yourselves and keep your eyes open."

"Although Yunlan City has very good newborn reward programs, you must understand one thing: women are far smarter than you think. Don't be fooled." (End of Chapter)