After dinner, John found a clean hotel nearby, settled Adele and Ella, and then drove back to Colonel Sandoz's fried chicken shop. He was going to wait until www.biquge.info the business was over, and then he would have a good talk with Mr. Colonel.

The inspirational story of KFC's grandfather's entrepreneurship, John has read more than from a chicken soup for the soul in his previous life. Harlan Sandoz lost his father at a young age and did not go to school. The first half of his body can be described as a wanderer, working as a farm worker, a painter, a firefighter, selling insurance, and a soldier for a while. It wasn't until he earned a correspondence law degree that he landed a position as sheriff in Little Rock, Kansas.

At the age of 40, he came to Kentucky and opened this Cobin gas station. Seeing that the drivers who traveled long distances often had to rely on dry bread to satisfy their hunger, he cooked some daily meals in the kitchenette of the gas station to attract customers.

I have to say that Sandoz's cooking skills are still very good. His home-made fried chicken was delicious and unique, and it was quickly welcomed by customers. There are even people who come here not to refuel, but to the gas station to eat fried chicken. Seeing that the fried chicken business was so good, Sandoz expanded the restaurant with a capacity of 142 people across the street from the gas station.

In the years that followed, he worked on the special ingredients of fried chicken, and finally created a secret fried chicken recipe that is still used by generations to come. By 1935, Sandoz's fried chicken was becoming famous in Kentucky. The governor of Kentucky awarded him the title of Colonel of Kentucky in appreciation of his special contributions to the state's diet. (By the way, Sandoz's rank of colonel is just an honor, similar to the honorary professors and honorary presidents conferred by some universities.) Originally during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. military was made up of volunteer militia from 13 North American colonies, whose ranks were conferred by the various colonies. Therefore, after the establishment of the Union, the states still retain the right to confer military ranks, but most of them are honorary ranks, and they are generally not higher than colonels. Because, according to historical tradition, the colony could only award the rank of colonel at the highest, and the highest rank had to be conferred by London. ）

It's already past 9 p.m., and there are still a lot of customers at Sandoz's fried chicken restaurant. John found that Sandoz didn't use the kind of pressure cooker used by KFC in his previous life, and the speed of frying chicken was much slower. Finally, when the guests were almost gone, John called Sandoz in front of him and asked if he would like to cooperate in opening a chain of restaurants.

Sandoz initially thought John had come to buy the fried chicken recipe. There have been a few restaurant owners who have come here to buy fried chicken for the seasoning, and they pay Sandoz 5 cents for every chicken they sell, and the business is not bad. However, Sandoz is not very interested in opening a chain of restaurants at this time. He told John that he was too busy with his business now and didn't have the energy to open a chain store.

John then remembered that Sandoz started a second business and started a restaurant franchise franchise when the government implemented oil rationing during World War II, which led to the forced closure of gas stations and the verge of bankruptcy. Now Sandoz is living a prosperous life, unlike the society where he could only receive $105 a month in government handouts and had to carry a pot to sell fried chicken.

Since Sandoz himself is unwilling, there is no point in forcing it. This was originally an idle move made by John on a whim, and it didn't matter if it was successful or not. John didn't continue to pester, and after buying some fried chicken to eat on the road tomorrow, he got up and took his leave. Before leaving, he told Sandoz about his suggestion to switch to a pressure cooker. Let's just make a good fate, and wait for Sandoz to go bankrupt in a few years and then come to him to cooperate.

Back at the hotel, Ella was already asleep, and Adele leaned back on Ella's cot and fell asleep. John couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the woman who almost became the "giant of the world's chain fast food industry" still had a fairy tale book in her hand. Adele must have fallen asleep while telling Ella a bedtime story. He gently carried his wife back to his bed and covered her with the quilt. Looking at Adele's sleeping appearance, John couldn't help but kiss the tip of her pretty nose. At this moment, what money is not really important to John at all.

By the time John's family arrived in Atlanta, it was already late the next day. After a brief dinner in town, they traveled to Emory University to attend a cultural salon held there. The absolute heart of this salon is undoubtedly none other than Margaret Mitchell.

A native of Atlanta, Margaret is the pride of the city. For the local feminists, Margaret was their hero. Her maternal grandmother, who was president of Atlanta's most radical women's organization, often stood on a public stool and spoke out in a missionary sermon voice denouncing society's injustices against women. Influenced by this family environment, Margaret Mitchell has always been a staunch feminist. When she married her current husband, John Marsh, the director of advertising at Georgia Heat, she was adamant about not taking her husband's last name. This shocked the conservative Atlanta social community at the time.

The topic of discussion in the salon tonight is very interesting, denouncing the scandalization of the image of housewives in American literary and artistic works. It's an interesting cultural phenomenon. Before the 20s, married women in the United States had a very low social status, not only did they have no say in public issues, but they could not inherit property or even work for a salary. But at the same time, in literary and artistic works, housewives are the embodiment of sweetness, elegance and morality, and the literati sing the praises of housewives with tenderness and sweetness, as if they were the source of all goodness.

But when women gained the right to vote in 1920 and women began to actively participate in various political, economic, cultural and charitable activities, the image of housewives in literary and artistic works plummeted. Men are fed up with women's power in public deliberation, and housewives go from being the embodiment of sweet little angels to nagging and neurotic vixens all day long.

The feminists present had a very lively discussion, and Adele also actively participated in it. As one of the few men on the scene, John had to awkwardly shrink into a corner to avoid becoming a target for these "resentful women". Fortunately, there was little Ella with him, and the little guy couldn't understand the adults' discussion at all, and his attention was mainly focused on the dazzling refreshments.

Just as John was feeding little Ella cake and eating Atlanta's most famous specialty, Coca-Cola, he suddenly heard someone behind him talking about China's War of Resistance. He turned his head and saw a middle-aged woman in her 40s saying to the people around her with some emotion: "China will never give in to Japan!" The Chinese will not surrender, and the Japanese will not be able to conquer them! ”

"Well said, ma'am! The Chinese have never been conquered for thousands of years, and the Japanese cannot do it. John couldn't help but step forward in solidarity with the venerable lady, even though he didn't know who she was.

"Thank you, sir, who are you?"

"John Vanderbilt, dear lady, I am a lover of Chinese culture."

"Hello, Mr. Vanderbilt. I'm Pearl Walsh. ”

Pearl Walsh, whose name John is unfamiliar: "Mrs. Walsh, have you ever been to China?" ”

"Pearl went to China with his parents when he was four months old, and he has lived there for more than 30 years." A friend close to Pearl Walsh proudly told John, "She wrote a famous Chinese novel." ”

"Allow me to take the liberty of asking, what is Mrs. Walsh's work?"

"The Earth, which won the Pulitzer Prize a few years ago."

John finally knew who the lady in front of him was. Pearl Booker, the only female writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature (Booker was her ex-husband's surname, and now she married publisher Charlie Walsh, so she changed her surname to Walsh), but Chinese are more familiar with her Chinese name, Pearl Sai.

This female writer, who grew up in China, regards Chinese as her first mother tongue and Zhenjiang as her second hometown, is an ambassador of folk cultural exchanges between China and the West. She created more than 100 works about China in her lifetime, and before the 70s, the American public mainly learned about China through her works. It is no exaggeration to say that the reason why the American people are generally sympathetic to China's plight is largely due to her. Some American historians have described her as "the most influential person to write Chinese stories since Marco Polo in the 13th century."

Pearl Race has carried out a large number of anti-Japanese activities to aid China since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, not only actively exposing the atrocities of the Japanese to American dignitaries and people, but also raising a large amount of aid funds and medical supplies for China. In this era, it is not easy for the United States to find an American who truly loves China and is willing to work hard for its destiny. John felt like he had finally met a like-minded "soulmate".

Throughout the evening, John and Pearl Race discussed Chinese issues, and the two quickly became friends with a common idea. At the end of the salon, John promised Pearl Race that he would go to the anti-Japanese march in New York on May 9. After getting to know Pearl Race, John felt that this trip to Atlanta was worth the trip.