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When the stock market crash finally triggered the global economic crisis of the century, unprecedented economic tragedies were staged in every corner of Western countries.

In the city, long lines of people looking for jobs can be seen everywhere. Sometimes, a small cafe recruiting people can attract a large group of people to apply for the job, ranging from high to low academic qualifications. There are even doctors and even senior scientific researchers who come to line up.

What's more, as one of the social assistance provided by the "government", relief bread has appeared on the streets. The huge army of unemployed people, in order to save even a penny, will queue up in the rustling autumn wind to wait for a small piece of bread that they used to have. Bread is too hard for dogs. Although a larger number of people waiting for relief have not yet appeared, the number of laid-off workers is increasing by tens of thousands every day, and there are bankrupt factories and owners everywhere.

You can see that middle-aged people, even rich ladies, in gorgeous clothes, start to go to banks and loan sharks, trying to mortgage their last property and get a sum of money just to make ends meet.[

You can see that on the street, a large group of people gathered in front of the newspaper, just to see even one word of news saying that the stock market or the economy will turn around. However, to their disappointment, not only did there not be any turnaround, the entire article was full of news. It is the economic crisis that has worsened, and it has been reported to the best of its ability.

On the street, many people were leaning in front of cars, pointing at their cars and yelling hoarsely: "Cars for sale, only $100."

The car had a sticker saying: $100 can buy this car. I lost everything in the stock market and am in desperate need of cash.

And even Zhonghua brand cars, which usually highlight the nobility of their owners, can occasionally be seen on the streets. Although the price has been increased to several thousand dollars, compared with its original price, it is still a shabby price.

President Hoover called on people to stand up bravely and use their own hands to solve the problem. He assured people that as long as they persisted for another month, the "government" would raise more funds to save the economy.

However, when the British also withdrew their capital from the United States on a large scale, a further storm began, and President Hoover's lofty speeches were blown away by the economic storm like flying catkins.

This is not the most tragic thing. The most tragic thing is that even the newspapers reporting the news are closing down one by one. In the past, even the gaps in the newspapers were filled with advertisements. Now you can no longer see them. Instead, they are completely blank. The publishing house In order to cover up the ugly appearance, large black and white photos had to be printed.

The city is in a miserable state as winter comes early, and the countryside is not much better.

Farmers and property owners who bear the brunt of the impact are the first to be unlucky. As long as you drive on a country road, you can see farmers dumping a large truck of milk in their car, perhaps destroying the autumn harvest. Truckloads of wheat are dumped directly into the river. For a simple reason, transporting the crops to the city to sell them will only lead to greater losses.

Justin is the owner of a shipyard in Philadelphia.

Before the economic crisis, Justin's shipyard, one of the three major shipyards in Philadelphia, although it did not receive many orders from the U.S. Navy and was not as prosperous as the other two shipyards, it did receive a large number of shipbuilding orders from all over the world. Order.

"As long as the sea doesn't dry up, my shipyard will receive orders."

This was Justin's famous saying before the economic crisis. Whenever he met a new friend, he would boast that he was the shipyard owner with the most orders in Philadelphia.

However, when he suffered heavy losses in the stock market and was about to find someone to share his shares in the shipyard, he found that the economy was getting worse every day, and the New Year that had just entered 1930 made him feel as cold as winter.

In the shipyard, two large container ships built for France have been completed for 90 years. However, the French suddenly said that they did not want it. They would rather break the contract and lose the advance payment than pay the remaining project fees. The three ships were built for France.

The French-built cargo ship suffered almost the same fate. The French told Justin that the payment for the ship would not be paid until 1933.

"Damn the French, this is your breach of contract, I will sell them. Damn the Italians, damn the French, damn the economic crisis, damn the shipyards, I will sell them all."

It was already March 1930 when Justin made up his mind to sell everything and return to the countryside to live a life of fishing.

At this time, not to mention other industries, even Justin's own men were almost gone. The shipyard could not afford to pay wages. If Justin had not hired a group of people to protect the shipyard, I am afraid that even the ships that were about to be built would have been destroyed by those damn greedy people.

Workers removed it.

Sell ​​them, leave the damn city, and go back to the country to live a good life. Justin is determined as never before. Of course, this is not a sudden whim, but he has just read in the newspaper that a machinery factory owner,

He had just sold his factory, reportedly to a businessman in San Francisco. Damn the Western guy, he was so rich. The owner of the machine factory happily threw away the machine factory and replaced it with the machine factory that had just been replaced less than a year ago.

The precision equipment was sold at a price slightly higher than that of scrap metal. Then he drove his newly purchased Zhonghua brand car back to the countryside to retire.[

Similar situations occurred in various places. When even the New York Times began to report on the news of selling products home, many people were inspired to exaggerate factories, batches of machinery and equipment, and even entire ships for export.

equipment, put them in newspapers, advertise them and sell them.

"Damn factories, damn machines, damn industry, damn 'government'...fu yu, I'm going back to the countryside with the dollars."

Many people are paying attention to this. The economic crisis without any hope has made a large number of factory owners or businessmen choose to sell what they have on hand at a cheap price, then hold the US dollars and return to the countryside or live in the city.

The days of the rich. Wealth is relative. When ordinary people can afford a car, they are millionaires. When ordinary people can't even afford to eat, they can afford to drive a car and take a vacation, and their wealth has shrunk.

Nearly 90% of them are still rich.

Justin was lucky enough to find a buyer who came to the door.

"This one, and this one, and that one, and the one further away, these five damn boats, you can buy them all. Buy the big boats, give away the small boats, oh, look, there are more than a dozen small boats in that area,

It’s all yours.”

When Justin saw a black man getting out of a high-end Chinese brand car, he cursed in his heart, the damn economic crisis, why didn't these black men be killed? Of course, he was very willing to throw this broken stall to the black men and let them

Go wait out the economic crisis.

The black guy also brought a few young people, and there were actually yellow-skinned people among them. Damn it, Justin hated black-skinned and yellow-skinned people the most. But in order to sell a damned ship, he had to disguise himself.

"I have plenty of money." The black man's first words made Justin furious. He once had plenty of money, but that was before the damn economic crisis. "I want to buy your entire shipyard. I need to build a hundred ships from the United States.

Heading to Rwanda…”

Damn Rwanda. Justin cursed in his heart, who knows where Rwanda is? You just build a ship and sail to the moon. The kind-hearted Justin has no objection.

"All the ships and shipyards, 10 million U.S. dollars." Justin increased his psychological price several times and finally spoke. Compared with other business owners around him selling assets, he was a little worried that the price he paid was too high. Although, the shipyard

The total investment and the value of the five ships is much greater than this figure. "Look, the largest ship has a displacement of more than 20,000 tons. Damn the Italians, they always aim too high."

The black man and his yellow-skinned technicians looked towards the ship, and everyone was ready to take a look at these large ships. After passing through the messy shipyard equipment and steel bars, everyone stepped onto the largest ship among them.

The upper part is almost empty, with a wide upper deck and a direct access to the ship's deck without redundant buildings.

The yellow-skinned technician nodded. What a good cargo ship. It only takes less than a year to convert it into a powerful aircraft carrier. What the country needs most are these large ships that can be converted into aircraft carriers.

?

The black man who received the yellow-skinned young man's nod smiled inadvertently, then turned to Justin who was yelling curses there, "Mr. Justin, I bought all of this, even a screw.

.2 million, in cash”

"Damn it, two million dollars? Any big ship here can be sold for two million dollars once it's built. The biggest one can be worth hundreds of thousands if it's scrapped and sold for scrap. It's too low, I won't sell it." Justin became angry with embarrassment.

, this price was actually US$1 million lower than his psychological price, which was really hard for him to accept.

"Mr. Justin, if you don't sell to us, you won't be able to find a company in the entire United States that can take over your shipyard. Of course, if you are willing to sell to your rivals, the other two shipyards, I think they will be willing.

After all, they produce warships for the "government", and the economic crisis cannot shake them. Of course, if you don't sell them to anyone, these ships and equipment will just stay in the shipyard to rust, and no one will even collect the scrap metal..."

The black man held a cigar in his mouth and said slowly.

"No, never, damn, never sell it to them. The deal will be done for 2.5 million, and I won't sell it for a dollar less." Justin gave in again. He couldn't imagine that if this price was rejected by the other party, he could still wait for the next one.

A buyer? Creditors have been blocking the door for days, just for a damn hundred thousand dollars.

"Deal, Mr. Justin, but we have a request. You need to provide us with employee information and help us invite them back so that the shipyard can start work."

"I'll give you a piece of information, damn you greedy workers."

The deal was done, and Justin was even happy because he could go back to the countryside with a huge sum of US$2.5 million to become a millionaire without waiting for the economic crisis to kill him.

This kind of thing is happening all over the United States. Some people have sold the machinery and equipment bought from Zijingang, some have sold their own production lines, some have sold shipyards, and more people have sold their own products.

new cargo ships because there was no cargo to do business with. Others sold their overseas oil fields and mines.[

At the same time, some extensive recruitment plans began to appear overwhelmingly.

"With a monthly salary of US$60, only skilled workers are needed."

"A monthly salary of US$80 is needed for teachers in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, etc. If you are a scientific researcher and have your own patent, the monthly salary can be negotiated."

"A monthly salary of US$500, recruiting outstanding scientific talents, or independent scientific talents..."

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The streets and alleys are full of advertisements recruiting people, and large numbers of people will be sent to different places.

And when the U.S. "government" received reports that there were countless Europeans, Jews, Asians and even Chinese Americans leaving the United States for Asia, the "government" responded like this.

"Damn the unemployed army, they are going abroad to create income. If they are not allowed to go out, will they be allowed to starve to death? Besides, the U.S. government will not allow a great scholar to leave the United States. Anyone who leaves is a failure.

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However, it was these so-called losers, these foreigners and foreigners who were originally full of hope for the United States, who left the United States one after another and went to a mysterious country: Southwest China.

There, after conducting safety investigations, they will be assigned to countless new factories, new schools, corporate research institutes, etc. to use their expertise.

Along with this wave of "going abroad to earn income" came to Fangcheng Port in Guangxi, China, countless materials, and even entire ships of equipment, machines, materials...

These goods bought from the United States, France, or the United Kingdom at shabby prices were bought by blacks, whites, Japanese, or Europeans on the pretext of being shipped to all over the world. Unfortunately,

, under the chaotic current situation, these materials went around in a circle and were transported to China.

What's particularly ridiculous is that when the British warships boarded the ship for inspection, the sailors would rather believe in the dollars or gold they got than to suspect that these things placed together with dead chickens, dead fish, and stinky shrimps were actually extremely dangerous.

Advanced high-precision machinery and equipment. As for ordinary cargo ships, they are even more restricted. The economic crisis has even affected the patrol fleet. They have food and drink, but their family and friends at home are suffering. The Chinese are really incomprehensible, and they even bribe them.

The entire patrol fleet was blocked. The sailors were also willing to let the Chinese people recycle the scrap iron or garbage from the civilized world, which was considered to be paying for the economic crisis.

As long as what is shipped to China is not aircraft or artillery, it doesn't matter if there was a war between the two countries. It will be allowed. It will be allowed.

"Mr. Gruney, I have seen land, China, that is China."

When the sailors who had been sailing for a week finally saw Fangcheng Port, a whole fleet led by Gruni crossed the ocean and finally landed.

Accompanying him were more than 20,000 Jews who had left the United States, in addition to the mechanical equipment and supplies of a fleet that he bought "by the way."

"China is really a good place." Gruni ordered his men to sell the goods of these ships to the Chinese at a 50% discount to show friendship. This small amount of money is nothing to the Jews. Unfortunately, he

We cannot distribute money to these unemployed Jewish workers or teachers and researchers, but can only bring them to this country with countless job opportunities.

After meeting Zhang Shusheng's representative, he resolutely decided to use China as his destination. The United States was enough to leave the wealthy Jews to enjoy themselves. Ordinary Jews, what they need is work and a promising life, not

The United States is riddled with holes and has tens of millions of unemployed people.

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