Chapter 1194: A sonorous response

"I'm not lying, because I was admitted to college when I was three years old, my memory is fine, I still remember that my father only had a salary of thirty dollars a month, well, equivalent to six dollars, my mother is about this salary level, my grandfather's salary is better, almost seven dollars, we have a total of nine people in the family, only my grandparents and my parents have income, only more than forty dollars a month, these money has to support nine people, what do you think of our life?"

Liu Lang's words shocked everyone, a person's monthly income is only six or seven US dollars?

Of course, Liu Lang is also a bit exaggerated, ten years ago the exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar was very high, one yuan of RMB can be exchanged for three US dollars, at that time Liu Donglai could get more than 30 yuan a month, equivalent to ten US dollars, but in recent years, the RMB has depreciated abroad, which is conducive to exports, according to the current exchange rate, it was indeed only about six US dollars at that time, but even ten US dollars is an incredible thing for Americans, the average monthly income of the United States today is more than 3,000 US dollars, a difference of hundreds of times!

Liu Lang continued.

"Ten years ago, the per capita annual income of our country was less than 100 US dollars, so what about now? The per capita annual income has exceeded 500 US dollars, a five-fold increase, and many people no longer worry about food and clothing, and they have begun to think about whether to eat a meal of KFC, whether to buy a pair of Nike shoes, why haven't those who sarcastically seen this change?

Of course, our country is still very poor, especially in remote areas, the problem of eating for the people has not been solved, but the state has noticed them and given them various policies, which are of course very important, but it takes time to accumulate to bear fruit, and it may take several years or even more than ten years, which is too slow, so our country simply directly sent staff and invested a large amount of money to support them, so that they have the ability to be self-reliant, and at the same time, all sectors of society also reached out to help and subsidized poor students.

There is a documentary that records the support of a youth foundation in our country, which is completely formed by the people, and now receives more than 7 million US dollars in aid every year, which is used for education, medical care, and poverty alleviation.

Our determination is obvious to all, so why don't those people see this? Is it true that in their eyes our country should be like the developed countries? If this is the case, they should return the property that was stolen from our country in the first place, such as the "Treaty of Nanjing" more than 100 years ago, the "Treaty of Xincho" that was robbed of 50 million US dollars, the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" The billion dollars that have been robbed, I am afraid that this money will have to increase to tens of billions of dollars now, but the money is only a small part, and there are also taxes, land and resources, etc., if those developed countries give us all these things, then I believe that our country can be much better all of a sudden, can they do it?"

Liu Lang was indignant, and the audience was quiet, and no one dared to make a sound.

No one in the United States knows these things, after all, this is foreign history, and there are very few people in the United States who specialize in history, and many people do not know much about their own history.

But when they heard Liu Lang enumerate these data in detail, they were all shocked, this is tens of billions of dollars! Too much, these money are really "given" by China to other countries, if so, then this country is too sad.

Aopura was silent when she heard Liu Lang tell this history, she was not an uneducated person, maybe before she was a teenager, but when she had an "epiphany" one day, she began to work hard, and constantly enrich herself through hard study, otherwise she would have today's achievements?

Liu Lang's words resonated with Opura, she remembered the tragic history of the black people in the book, since the Europeans developed the American continent three hundred years ago, they planted tobacco and sugar cane on this land, which required a lot of labor, and the Europeans thought that their status was so expensive, and they scoffed at manual labor, so they brought a large number of black people from the African continent, no, it is not accurate to describe them as blacks, in their eyes these are not people, they can only be called black slaves.

In just two hundred years, more than four million blacks were brought to the American continent, and they were engaged in the lowest jobs, bringing great wealth to the whites, and at the same time building the North American continent into a land of abundance, but what about themselves? It was not until the Civil War more than 200 years later that the Black People were given an identity and recognized as Americans.

But the identity of this American is still low, and there is a huge gap with whites, they are not allowed to go to white schools, they are not allowed to engage in some "expensive" professions, there are not many blacks on Wall Street, and even more than 30 years ago, racists who killed blacks appeared in many parts of the United States, let alone 30 years ago, even now, blacks are regarded as "garbage" in society and are troublemakers.

Opra has lived in a black neighborhood since she was a child, where everyone seems to have been abandoned, and all she sees is violence and disorder, and if she wants to live, she must either follow the crowd or fight violence with violence, and there are very few people like herself who can repent of it, and compared to those white neighborhoods, this place is like hell.

Oprah couldn't help but feel sad when she thought of these past events, and she couldn't help but cry involuntarily, tears running down the corners of her eyes, and she hurriedly wiped them away with her hands.

"Jimmy, what you said is so good, it reminds me of my childhood, my childhood was like your country was misunderstood and ignored, at that time I had no hopes and dreams, I just wanted to try to live, and your country is different, the people are full of hope and the spirit of struggle, I believe that the people of your country will overcome many difficulties, and through their own efforts to silence those who abuse you completely, I believe that this day will come!"

"Ha, thank you Opura, this is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard, thank you!"

"Okay, let's put this sad topic aside, let's talk about an interesting topic, last year the Forbes annual wealth list ranked you as the 31st richest person in the United States, saying that you have 500 million dollars, and you are also the first self-made billionaire under the age of 30 in the world, wow, 500 million dollars, Jimmy, you are really rich! Then I want to ask, how do you manage such a large asset? Do your parents still eat only one pound of meat a month?"

"Haha, that's an interesting question, of course, the Forbes ranking is all the wealth in your name, including your stocks, your options, etc., all of which are virtual values in the capital market, which change every day, and I don't pay much attention to the capital market, and that money is also put in it.

In fact, my life is very regular, whether it is in the United States or in China, I have to spend enough time every day to enrich myself by reading books and then writing something, by the way, last year I also started a bank on Hong Kong Island in my spare time, which is another business of mine!"

"What? You started a bank? Didn't I hear me right?"

Oprah shouted.