Chapter 552 The United States has not yet awakened from the nightmare

Situ Meitang couldn't help but nodded after hearing Tu Qianjun's words. Indeed, it would be great to have a place to purchase machines and house workers now that they are bankrupt! How can they take care of so many?! And this is organized by the state government. I believe this

It will also have a positive effect on Roosevelt's reputation. ("")

Therefore, it was reasonable for Roosevelt to agree to this proposal. At this time, Tu Qianjun asked Situ Meitang softly: "Uncle, how is our acquisition plan going?!"

Situ Meitang smiled after hearing Tu Qianjun's words and said: "Of course it went well! It's too late for the farmers to sell now! So if we are willing to buy it, they will give it to us at a very low price or even give it away for free!

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Situ Meitang said with a smile: "So, we purchased batches of wheat, oats and dry corn for almost no money. There are already hundreds of tons, but what are you going to do with these things?

Ah?! It’s not a big deal if they are always piled up in the warehouse!”

Tu Qianjun laughed out loud after hearing Situ Meitang's words, and whispered to Situ Meitang: "We will use it soon. As long as this proposal is passed, I believe that all our things will be used...

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Hearing Tu Qianjun's words, Situ Meitang was stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter! Yes, once this proposal is passed, the state government will naturally consider purchasing agricultural products to offset wages. And Situ Meitang and Tu Qianjun purchased

Those agricultural products will soon become hot commodities! Because there are not many agricultural products on the market anymore.

Thinking of this, Situ Meitang couldn't help but admire Tu Qianjun! He actually made a huge sum of money again with his backhand. How clever this method was! Moreover, he also took advantage of the situation and asked the Americans to send him skilled workers and a large number of them.

machine!

This point made Situ Meitang extremely admired. It can be said that Tu Qianjun’s plan was extremely successful! Due to his operation, he not only made a lot of wealth, but also made friends with Governor Roosevelt, entered West Point Military Academy and even got

The Americans rushed to send him the industrial talents that China desperately needed! It was almost equivalent to giving him all kinds of machine tools for free!

Judging from these points, Tu Qianjun undoubtedly achieved the ultimate harvest this time!

After Tu Qianjun discussed some details with the old man, Situ Meitang found him a guest room in Zhigong Hall to sleep peacefully. In the early morning, Tu Qianjun, escorted by Lin Bao, rushed to the telegraph office to report to Zhang Xueliang, who was far away.

An extremely important telegram was sent! The telegram said:

Sixth Brother, seeing words like people, are you okay?! Thousands of troops from thousands of miles away in the United States are kowtow. I have learned from the newspapers that the civil war is raging. However, America is not at peace either. The stock market on Wall Street has plummeted, and the American people are miserable.

It’s miserable and panic-stricken. Countless supplies are piled up in a miserable state with no one to buy them. Skilled workers are all over the streets, and they are miserable and have no one to hire them.

Therefore, I think this is a good opportunity for our three eastern provinces to purchase various machinery from the United States and hire skilled workers! I have heard for a long time that Sixth Brother wants to transform military industry for civilian use, but at this time, the United States has many skilled workers and machines.

If our three eastern provinces hire their workers and purchase their machines at this time, they will definitely win the favor of the United States!

During the introduction, our three eastern provinces will have more support! And our three eastern provinces can take this opportunity to improve the quality of our industry and hire a large number of skilled workers! Develop the resources of our three eastern provinces, and when my brother sends this report, the United States and even

Wheat, corn and other grains were used as firewood! Lambs and other grains were shot and abandoned in the wild, leaving them to rot!

The prices of all kinds of goods are extremely low, which is a great opportunity to buy at the bottom! I have had a secret meeting with Mr. Roosevelt, the governor of New York State, and Mr. Roosevelt promised that he will organize manpower and purchase machinery for our three eastern provinces! He will also send freighters to our place!

Now I hope Brother Six will call me back as soon as possible to confirm the order and manpower required, and then transfer the money! I will buy it in the United States for my future in the three eastern provinces! Absolutely!

My younger brother Tu Qianjun was born in the United States on November 18, 1929.

Tu Qianjun waited not long before he received a call back from Zhang Xueliang. He saw the call back saying:

My brother, Qianjun, is good at seeing words! I am very happy to have my brother's trust! Please know that Mr. Chang also said that this matter is feasible after meeting with him! Therefore, I telegraphed to my brother!

Now my brother has transferred 5 million to Citibank to fund the acquisition with my brother! As for the hiring of machines and workers, my uncles from the three eastern provinces will discuss and finalize the list and then telegraph it to my brother.

Brother Zhang Hanqing was born in Fengtian on November 18, 1929.

After receiving the telegram, Tu Qianjun finally breathed a deep sigh of relief. Holding the telegram in his hand, he slowly walked out of the door. Escorted by Lin Bao, he boarded the car and drove to Huaxing Tower, where Situ Meitang was there.

Waiting for news from him.

Along the way, the entire streets of New York were filled with a dead air, and the people walking around seemed to have lost their souls! Looking at these soulless people, Tu Qianjun somehow suddenly remembered those zombies in later movies. ("")

How similar to these people! They have lost their spirit, and there is no light of hope in their eyes. They are walking on the streets like zombies. How similar to this situation!

In fact, New York is indeed in a state of bleakness right now. A box of 200 apples in New York now only costs four cents if they are all in good condition.

Butter: 3.9 cents per pound, prime steak: 2.1 cents per pound, eggs: 4.1 cents per two dozen, movie tickets: 2.5 cents. Chevrolet: ex-factory price 445 yuan, a load of oats is also available

"Tom McCann" brand leather shoes for less than four yuan a pair.

Using corn cobs as fuel is more cost-effective than selling corn to buy coal for burning. A sheep is sent to the market for a dollar and a dime, and the selling price is less than a dollar. A rancher in Montana got some bullets on credit and spent two hours to get them.

A group of animals were all killed and thrown into the ravine to rot because the money from selling the animals was not enough to cover the feed.

Before leaving, he muttered to a reporter who came to visit: "Oh, this can be regarded as a way to deal with depression!"

The entire city, and even the entire United States, was in a state of gloom and misery.

What is more frightening than the actual economic situation is the disappearance of confidence. Due to this severe crisis, neither the big family's actions nor market regulation are effective, and President Hoover has no solution, which has led to the collapse of most of the United States.

People are gradually becoming desperate.

There are even people who are constantly looking for ways to leave the United States! Go to other countries, or sit idle every day in their tattered newspapers and cardboard houses, waiting for the unknown future.

Tu Qianjun, who was sitting in the car, looked coldly at the miserable and panicked people outside the car window. He knew in his heart that the stock market crash lasted for four years, and nearly 4,000 Americans committed suicide by jumping off buildings; the impact spread to the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.

, Italy, Spain and other countries, eventually evolved into a major economic crisis in the Western capitalist world. After that, the United States and the world entered a period of 10 years of economic depression.

However, there are many people who keep a cool head. Joseph Kennedy, the father of US President John F. Kennedy, is one of those who got out of the stock market early. He said to himself, if even shoe shiners are buying stocks, I don’t want to do it anymore.

Stay inside. (The same applies to all industries, and I would like to warn readers: Once there is an industry that even shoe shiners think is profitable, then this industry has become saturated. Just like we have tried in previous years to

Even the grocery shopping aunts tell you that when you make money by buying stocks, you should stop investing in stocks.) This wise choice allowed him to withdraw funds early and laid the foundation for the future of his family.

In this stock market crash, nearly 4,000 people committed suicide by jumping off a building due to bankruptcy. Irving Fisher, a great economist, lost millions of dollars in a few days, went bankrupt in an instant, and was heavily in debt from then on, until he was in poverty in 1947.

passed away.

This stock market crash has completely destroyed investors' confidence. People's opinions changed after hearing about stocks, and their investment mentality cannot be restored for a long time. The stock market crisis, the banking crisis and the crisis of the entire economic system are a vicious circle that promotes each other. After the stock market plummeted, investors suffered heavy losses.

, consumer spending has dropped sharply, and the backlog of goods has become more serious. At the same time, the stock market and bank crises have caused companies to find no financing channels, and production has been sluggish, which in turn has aggravated the crisis in the stock market and banks, and the national economy has worsened. Due to the U.S.

It occupies an important position in the world economy, and its economic crisis triggered the Great Depression throughout the capitalist world: 50 million people were unemployed, countless people were displaced, hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth were wasted, production was stagnant, and all industries withered.

After the New York stock market crash, the U.S. Senate immediately investigated the stock market and found serious manipulation, fraud, and insider trading! But it was of no use. All investors had lost confidence in the stock market. Then in 1932

The wave of bank failures has exposed many problems in the financial sector.

"Glory and Dreams", which records the history of the United States, once wrote: "Millions of people were saved from death only because they lived like animals." This scene describes the people's livelihood conditions during the Great Depression in the United States. In 1932

, there are about 2 million Americans wandering around - more than 250,000 of them are between the ages of 16 and 21. Among these "wandering people" who were called by the media at the time during the Great Depression, there were empty-handed sharecroppers;

Due to the three-year drought, farmers have left their hometowns; there are a large number of young people who have just graduated from college and cannot find a job; there are also sad-faced middle-aged men with sick babies who are suddenly unemployed - these people are running around every day and have no fixed residence.

Therefore, among these people there are many well-dressed middle-class people - high-spirited bank presidents or famous writers who have commented in famous newspapers, but now they knock on doors at night to beg for food or huddle in the crowds queuing up in the city to receive bread. This is

A microcosm of the real life of Americans since the Great Depression that started on "Black Tuesday" in 1929. According to an estimate by Fortune magazine in September 1932, 34 million adult men, women and children in the United States have no income, which is close to the total population.

28%. And this research report, like other reports, does not include the 11 million rural households suffering in another kind of hell. Regarding finding a job, there were many legends around 1932, some of which sounded bizarre.

But it’s not true at all. There are indeed people standing all night at the door of a Detroit employment agency. There is indeed an Arkansas man who walked 900 miles to find a job. An employment agency on Sixth Street in Manhattan hired 300 people, and 5,000 people did apply. Washington State

It is true that some people set fires in the woods so that others can hire them as firefighters. In such an era of economic depression, more than 15 million people were looking for jobs, but there were no jobs anywhere. "Business Week" conducted a survey

, confirmed that many people no longer like the United States, some have already left the United States, and some are trying to leave. In the early 1930s, the number of people who moved abroad exceeded those who moved in every year.

John E. Edgerton, chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers at the time, said that the Great Depression was caused by some people's laziness and slacking off at work. He said: "Many people who are clamoring for work now either go on strike when they have work or go on strike.

They just don’t want to do it at all. They just want to take the opportunity to advocate for the Communist Party.” In response to this insinuation and accusation, many people in the unemployed ranks actually tolerated it silently.

The reason they adopted this attitude was that the moral values ​​of American Protestantism were still very powerful at this time. Of course, millions of people were in desperate situations, and it was certainly not their own fault, but social workers repeatedly said: unemployed people feel ashamed.

In February 1932, a man was evicted by his landlord. He told a reporter from the New York Daily News: "I have not had a regular job for more than two years. Sometimes I really feel like a murderer. What should I do?

Yes, you can’t even take care of your own children?”

At this time, American moral values ​​and values ​​still tended to strive to get rich, work hard, etc. But unfortunately, this style gradually became missing later on.

But as far as Tu Qianjun was concerned at this time, due to the relationship between upbringing and Protestant ethics, such people have believed since childhood that whoever works hard will be successful. (Speaking of which, readers are recommended to read the book "Protestant Ethics and Capitalism"

Spirit" Max Weber's book)

Nowadays, due to the Great Depression, everyone is unlucky regardless of whether they are diligent or lazy, so everyone feels depressed. As Walter Lippmann said at the time: "The whole nation is depressed, everyone feels that he is alone, and no one believes him."

, I don’t believe anything, I even don’t trust myself.”

Seventeen years later, Lisman analyzed in the book "The Lonely Crowd" how painful it is for an introvert to fall into this predicament: "If he keeps trying and failing, and his future is hopeless, a person is likely to never be able to succeed again.

I don’t have the inner strength to resist external pressure, so I feel guilty and only hate myself for being incompetent.”

In fact, at that time, a certain person would rather commit suicide than live on relief. Such reports appeared in many newspapers at that time. Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (1858-1917).——Translator has long since

Coined the term "altruistic suicide", saying that such people would rather sacrifice themselves than become a burden to society.

Such examples were common at the time, so from a certain perspective, Tu Qianjun actually saved the lives of many people. However, the method he used may have only benefited himself.
Chapter completed!