Chapter 32, Mutual Aid Associations Mutual Aid

Looking at the tour introduction, Li Ya fell asleep unconsciously.

Located at the southern tip of British Columbia (British Columbia), Canada, Vancouver is a beautiful city. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side, it is located at a high latitude similar to Heilongjiang Province in China, but it is affected by the Pacific monsoon and warm currents in the south, and is shielded by the Rocky Mountains that run through the North American continent in the northeast. Li Ya slept comfortably this night, and didn't get up until noon.

The small hotel is in Chinatown, Li Ya just took a look when he came in yesterday, and the house design that blended the British Victorian period and Chinese tradition was very impressive, and he could walk around today.

Walked to the door, said hello to the hostess, walked slowly down the road, and entered a restaurant for lunch.

After a few days, I visited Vancouver. Gastown, Robertson Street, Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver Harbour and many more. The Port of Vancouver is the largest port in Canada, with an annual throughput of 50 million tons, mainly exporting grains, timber, pulp, fish, flour, etc., and importing coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, steel, cement, etc. It is the material distribution center of Western Canada.

On May 13, Li Ya came to the Mutual Aid Association and saw more than a dozen people in shabby clothes standing at the door. Hurriedly walked in and saw that everyone was busy.

The person in charge, Sister Huang, was on the phone, apparently talking to the mayor of Vancouver to solicit refugee assistance.

Li Ya patiently waited for Sister Huang to finish the call before asking, "Sister, how is it?"

Sister Huang said angrily: "The mayor said that he can't make the decision and has to hold a meeting to decide." Hmph! Meetings and meetings! When they were done, everyone starved to death! Conscience was eaten by dogs. ”

Li Ya comforted: "Eldest sister, dissipate your anger." Without Zhang Butcher, you still have to eat hairy pigs? It's okay, isn't there still all of us? In this way, I will take out two million first, and solve the problem of eating first. ”

Sister Huang was overjoyed and said, "With these two million, there will be no problem for the time being, and everyone can free up time to help them find jobs." Thank you, everyone. ”

Li Ya smiled: "Eldest sister, I am also Chinese, everyone is Chinese, this is what I should do." By the way, I asked the refrigerator factory I was looking for to find if I couldn't find one willing to transfer, preferably one that had just gone bankrupt. In this way, we can open the factory first, and we can also solve the work of some people. In addition, buying another piece of wasteland that can be cultivated can also solve the work of some people, anyway, I was going to buy land, and I just happened to have manpower. ”

Sister Huang said happily: "Great, this is the best of both worlds." ”

Li Ya thought for a while and said, "Eldest sister, it seems that the compatriots in the province should be notified to come over for a meeting, and everyone will gather together to come up with ideas." It is said that the three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang, and those who have money contribute and make powerful efforts to make the compatriots from afar survive as much as possible. ”

Sister Huang nodded in agreement: "You have a good idea, they are all Chinese, and they are a family." It is necessary to notify not only the province, but also the Chinese in Ottawa, Toronto, Wimbernee and other places, and everyone should work together to make the compatriots live as much as possible. ”

Almost all of the Chinese in the province live near Vancouver, and the meeting place is Zhongshan Park in Chinatown, next to the refugee camp that was built yesterday.

This was the first meeting of the mutual aid association, and almost all of them came, and the camp was crowded with people.

At the beginning of the meeting, Sister Huang walked up to the stage and said loudly: "Compatriots, descendants of Yan and Huang! There is only one purpose in recruiting everyone today, that is, how to arrange for the suffering compatriots who have fled thousands of miles from Vietnam, so that they can live, work, seek medical treatment, and study in Canada. Some of the compatriots present should know that Vietnam's anti-Chinese exclusion has become more and more serious in recent years, and it has become more and more rampant recently. Drive, extort, and shoot indiscriminately. We, the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the Chinese nation, have always been an industrious and kind-hearted people, who use our hands to create a better future. However, these compatriots next to them, these compatriots who have finally escaped from hell and come here, they are penniless, they are hungry, they have to live!" The voice came out of the speaker along the microphone, and the people present listened quietly.

Sister Huang choked up, wiped her tears, looked at the shack not far away, and continued sadly: "There are only two thousand people who have arrived here now, but there are more to come. Since they have come here, how can we watch them wander around, dying of sickness, starvation, and freezing? We come from the same place, we are the same nation, we speak the same language, we write the same words, we have the same roots! The Chinese people in the world are one family!"

Chen Zhidong saw that Sister Huang was too excited to speak, so he hurriedly walked on stage to comfort him, and then said loudly: "Yesterday, Li Ya took out two million US dollars, and these two million US dollars were used to buy food, medicine, and so on. Although it can prevent compatriots from starving to death for the time being, this is only a drop in the bucket and will soon be used up. He didn't come over today, and Zheng Tianhua and Zheng Lao didn't come over. As a lawyer, Zheng Lao went to negotiate with Li Ya. They are now in talks with a refrigerator factory that has just gone bankrupt and closed down, and if the contract is signed, the reopening of the refrigerator factory will solve the work of hundreds of people. In addition, he also plans to buy a piece of wasteland to open up wasteland, so that it can solve the work of some people. Today, we are recruiting everyone to come and donate money and materials is not the main thing, but the main thing is to discuss and solve the problems of their work together. It is not easy to acquire a factory, and it may even lose money, which is not cost-effective. However, the price of wasteland is low, and although it does not make much money, it will not lose money. There are also those who work in factories, docks, forestry farms, etc., and ask if they want workers. Even if you go hunting and fishing, it's good to have someone familiar with you take the lead. ”

Most people are ordinary working families, and it would be good to have two or three hundred thousand Canadian dollars in savings, which is still to save money. If you enjoy it like a white man, you can only borrow money to get by. However, although they don't have the money, they can help find jobs, and most of them work in factories, which is an advantage that others don't have.

At the meeting, everyone put forward any suggestions and then discussed whether it was feasible.

After the meeting, donations and materials were donated, and everyone accepted the task and took action according to their own abilities.

Li Ya and Zheng Lao also ran non-stop, signed the purchase contract of the refrigerator factory, bought land, and hurriedly solved it for two days. Then Zheng Lao went back to lead the mutual aid association to communicate with ** and strive for assistance. Li Ya rented an ocean-going fishing boat at a higher price to prepare to go to sea to fish, make money to support the mutual aid association, and if the harvest is high, he can also enrich his small treasury. As for the factory and land, it was handed over to Shu Yue to take care of it, and the account was also handed over to her.

After the fishing boat departed from the port of Vancouver and reached the open sea, Li Ya began to search for valuable fish.

Half an hour later, the first mate lifted the net according to Li Ya's order, and was dumbfounded when he looked at the full catch in the net. Then he was so happy that he provoked an ugly dance, and Li Ya said with disdain: "I said Mr. First Mate, has no one ever told you that your dance is really ugly?"

The first mate said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter if it's good or not, anyway, I only know that I'm going to get rich this time! Boss, you are really a good boss given to me by God! After this vote, I will change my villa and drive a luxury car when I go back." ”

This has been going for nearly two months, and in the middle of the trip, I have stopped at several ports, cleared and sold fish, and bought ice and daily necessities.

Shu Yue saw that Li Ya's account kept coming in, and then received a call from Li Ya and transferred the money to the account of the mutual aid association. So far, 10 million US dollars have been transferred, and Li Ya still has more than 10 million in his account. According to the price of fish at this time, you can imagine how desperate Li Ya has been in the past two months, and how bad his luck is.

In fact, Li Ya doesn't have a golden finger, how can he have such good luck against the sky. During this period, many shipwrecks and other things of greater value were just quietly put into the space and not taken out, otherwise Li Ya's account could easily have tens of millions, which was not enough for outsiders.