Since signing a secret agreement with China's defense supply company, the string that John had been holding on to seemed to have suddenly broken. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The development of the INFO company is gradually on the right track, and the volunteer aviation team for China is also preparing for training in an orderly manner. Seeing his subordinates busy on all fours, John suddenly felt that it seemed a little redundant for him to go over and point fingers. So, in the late spring of 1938, John's "otaku disease" happened again, and the whole person became a little lazy and couldn't lift his spirits.

Finally, even Adele couldn't stand her husband's stay at home all day with nothing to do, and she dragged John to accompany her to a cultural salon in Atalanta (actually a feminist party). It is said that Adele's idol, the famous writer Margaret Mitchell, will also attend. That's right, this Margaret Mitchell is the legendary female writer who has only one famous work in her lifetime, but has a high place in the history of world literature. Her work is "Gone with the Wind".

The former Atlanta News reporter spent 10 years writing her masterpiece, which broke many sales records in the U.S. publishing industry when it first came out in 1936: the highest daily sales were 50,000 copies; 10 million copies were issued in the first six months; 20 million copies in the first year. In 1937, the novel also won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Publishers Association Award. In the future, the novel will be translated into 29 languages, and it will be second only to the Bible in global sales. The film "Gone with the Wind", based on this book, has also taken the world by storm and won 10 Oscars.

This was the time when Margaret Mitchell was in high demand, and she was regarded as a hero and idol by housewives all over the United States. Every day, there is an endless stream of people who come to their homes to ask for interviews, invite her to tour various places, and even ask her to donate to various charitable causes. Every week, more than 300 copies of Gone with the Wind are sent to her from all over the country, and these admirers want her to sign it before paying to send it back. The ensuing disputes over copyright and translation rights entangled her in a series of legal affairs.

Margaret herself has openly stated: "I didn't know what a writer's life would be like this. If I had known beforehand, I would never have tried to be a writer. In recent days, my life has completely lost that quiet and tranquil atmosphere. "It's no wonder that the female writer hasn't had a decent work since then.

However, although Adele loves the novel so much, John still has the same feelings for the book as in his previous life. He also admits that the book is indeed well written, but he is not very interested in the strong feminist overtones in it. Perhaps because he had suffered from those fierce "savage girlfriends" in his previous life, he didn't like to deal with women who were too strong, and naturally he didn't like the image of Scarlett, the heroine of the book.

And he has some instinctive resistance to these feminists, which is not to say that John discriminates against women. He is also very supportive of advocating equality between men and women and respecting women. But in John's view, the growing wave of feminism in American society today is just a political show by politicians who cheated women out of votes in order to curry favor with female voters after they gained the right to vote.

Like the ridiculous "Prohibition" of 1920, which was once touted as a victory for feminism. At the time, these feminists emphasized that alcohol abuse was the main cause of domestic violence, and they advocated that the prohibition of alcohol should change men's behavior in order to protect the environment in which children grew up and to allow women to have an equal position with their husbands in the family. But after the promulgation of the "Prohibition", the development of events was completely different from what they imagined, and finally turned into a farce.

First of all, the market began to sell a kind of "grape brick", which is actually the raw wine sold in the form of raisins and yeast packaging. Producers also add this "insider tip" to the packaging: "If you accidentally add this stuff to a gallon of water and put it in an airtight jar, beware that it could turn into wine in twenty days!" ”

Then, a long queue began to form in the hospital. Because whiskey can be prescribed to patients by doctors. Although the prescription clearly states that all uses other than medical are illegal, there is no specific department to regulate this. Many doctors issued prescriptions at will, and the "number of patients" increased dramatically during this time, and hospitals became a good place to buy alcohol during the prohibition period.

Then, the bootlegging trade began to emerge within the government. At that time, some small-scale wine production was still legal in order to ensure the use of wine for religious activities, but their supply had to be centrally managed by the government. As a result, the problem of official corruption has become more serious.

In the end, and worst of all, smuggled liquor and the underground trade became a lucrative business for a while. At that time, many criminal syndicates were built on the profits from these smuggling businesses. And these gangsters rely on their growing power, and in turn, make the bootlegging business bigger and bigger. Prohibition indirectly contributed to the culmination of the development of gangs in the United States in the 20s.

The whole incident has become more and more absurd at this point, and more and more people have been admitted to the hospital for drinking low-quality moonshine liquor. Originally intended to reduce the crime rate, it has become an incentive for organized crime; The desire to control corruption has led to more officials colluding with gangsters during this time, either actively or passively. So when Roosevelt announced the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, there was a national rejoicing.

Although John is not very interested in feminism, he has been a bit bored lately. Even though he felt that it was a bit of a shame to travel hundreds of kilometers to accompany his wife to Georgia to attend a feminist party, he still agreed, who loved Adele deeply. Take little Ella with you, and it's like a family going out for a spring outing.

John's personal assistant and pilot, Tom Jr., had been spending all day in Dearborn spending time with the pilots. The Ford proving ground has been converted back to the airfield by John, where pilots from the Volunteer Air Corps are learning to fly H1s. John didn't plan to get him back, and the family of three got into the family's Lincoln car and set off.

The distance from Detroit to Atlanta is not close, and it is more than 1,100 kilometers through the three states of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and it takes more than a day to drive. But fortunately, they are not in a hurry, and it is considered a road trip along the way. Although the current traffic is not as convenient as the highways of later generations, the scenery of some country roads is still good.

Stopping and stopping along the way, it was time for dinner when John and the others arrived in Kentucky. John parked his car across the street from a Cobin gas station where there was a restaurant. He chose this place because he saw several FedEx trucks parked in front of the restaurant. The experience of his previous life taught him that if he didn't know what to eat when he was running long distances, then it was right to follow the truck drivers. These truckers who are on the road all day long can always find a cheap and good place to eat. Let's eat here, and take the opportunity to chat with the company's grassroots employees, which can be regarded as a "micro-service private visit".

While making up for Qianlong's head, John pushed open the door of the restaurant with his wife and daughter. Suddenly, he smelled a familiar scent, and then looked at the fried chicken on the tables of customers in the restaurant and the middle-aged fat man busy behind the kitchen counter. John reflected, isn't this the predecessor of KFC - Sandoz fried chicken restaurant? The fat man who was busy in the kitchen was the famous "KFC grandpa".

In this life, I was fortunate to be able to eat fried chicken made by Mr. Colonel himself, and John felt a little excited when he thought about it. If he had a mobile phone at this time, he would have rushed to take pictures and send them to Moments. Fortunately, during this time, he somewhat resisted these "historical celebrities" who appeared in his life. After all, even the president has seen it, let alone a colonel who sells fried chicken.

Soon after the Johns sat down, the fried chicken they ordered was served on the table. It's still the original recipe, and it's still a familiar taste. While eating, John reminisced about the first time he ate KFC as a child in his previous life. At that time, he was still in elementary school, and his parents took him to the provincial capital to visit a sick and hospitalized relative. When I was in college, a senior brother in Beijing once told him that when KFC first entered China in the late 80s, it opened its first store near the front door. At that time, there would be two long queues in Tiananmen Square every day, one team went to the memorial hall to pay homage to Grandpa Mao, and the other team went to eat KFC.

Looking at the bustling customers in the restaurant, John couldn't help but think that Colonel Sanders should not have started to franchise now. With such a "money" business, shouldn't he also get involved? Although John has no money of his own money now (he is a big loser who owes millions to the bank), Adele's dowry of $150,000 has never been touched. Do you want to invest in it? It's like managing Adele's finances.