Chapter 4: Chinatown

Li Guang wandered around New York for two days, and keenly found that his business vision was indeed too poor. A man who was decades ahead of his time had his eyes on making money only on ballpoint pens. Just by looking at the flowers, Li Guang inadvertently found several business opportunities. The first Coca-Cola bottle in the United States is still all glass. The style of the hiking boots on the second Li Guang's feet is also novel enough, and the design is advanced enough. In the third year, whether it is a dignitary or an ordinary person, smoking is not a filter, most of the cigarettes are lit with matches, and although there are lighters, they are not surnamed.

These things are the daily necessities of later generations, and even a child knows the knowledge. Li Guang has listed dozens of designs for supplies, all of which are not difficult, but there is definitely a market. After several days of drawing by Li Guang, these design patents were all handed over to the Jewish merchant Rapangamariel, who entrusted him to sell the patents on his behalf.

Li Guang expected that these things would be able to raise up 200,000 US dollars, so he would no longer continue to work on these designs. Wouldn't it be better to leave a few ideas for yourself?

A penny is hard to beat a hero, and this is true. Although Li Guang has not gotten the money for the time being, he has a cushion in his heart at this moment, and he is suddenly arrogant.

Li Guang, who had been confused for a long time, has now made up his mind and taken the naval route to resist. China paid a huge price in the War of Resistance against Japan, but in the final victory, it cannot be said that China defeated Yuben, at least in Li Guang's heart. This is the eternal regret of a generation of Chinese, and one of the most important reasons is that China's weak navy was basically wiped out soon after the war.

However, the Chinese Navy has the third most powerful navy in the world, and the number of ships in the Chinese Navy is simply not even a fraction of the number of ships. If the United States had not entered the war and killed the navy, then even if China could win the war on land, it would not have been able to win the final victory at all, and it would not have been able to swim across the Pacific Ocean to reach the mainland.

Li Guang set his own goal. For this reason, Li Guang walked into Chinatown, hoping to recruit a few suitable people for himself.

For New York's Chinatown, Li Guang once visited it once in his later life. But the Chinatown that is unfolding in front of Li Guang at this moment is full of sewage and dilapidated.

The Chinese people on the street were in a hurry, lifeless, and they were not energetic at all compared to the foreigners in New York. As you can see from the gait, there are very few people here who strut with their heads held high, as if they are always living in a foreign country. They are here just to survive, to have a good bite to eat.

Li Guang was extremely depressed by this kind of atmosphere, and the original little excitement disappeared. Li Guang has never seen a Chinese in Uruguay at all, and although the white people there do not say much about Li Guang, the contempt in their eyes cannot be hidden.

However, Li Guang, as a guest of later generations, has a sense of pride in the country and the nation from the bottom of his bones, so he doesn't care about those eyes at all. He even despised the European immigrants in his heart, and the declining aristocracy had nothing to stink.

But when he arrived in Chinatown, Li Guang really felt for the first time that the motherland was poor and weak, and overseas travelers were also humiliated, and he could not walk on the streets of foreign countries as boldly as later generations.

Li Guang, who was not interested, found a labor agency and reported the manpower he needed. There was no talent pool these days, and the labor agency actually just wrote the content of the recruitment on a large blackboard.

However, looking at the number of people waiting for odd jobs around, it is estimated that this labor agency is still popular. Therefore, Li Guang chose to recruit workers through an intermediary, for which he paid only one dollar, and the labor agency promised to recruit qualified personnel for Li Guang within 10 days. As for whether he is really qualified, Li Guang has no bottom in his heart at the moment.

Li Guang turned around and went out, and a young man greeted him: "Sir, are you recruiting?" ”

Hearing the voice, Li Guang turned around and saw a young man standing under the steps, about twenty years old, about one meter eight tall and Li Guang. But this young man was different from the other Chinese Li Guang saw in Chinatown, Yingting.

Although the clothes are thin, they stand there like a green pine. Exuding a sense of vitality.

Li Guangdao: "Yes. As soon as the words came out, Li Guangcai felt a sense of intimacy. Only then did he realize that the young man in front of him had the same accent as himself.

Previously, Mr. Li had not met a single northerner in Chinatown, most of whom spoke with Cantonese and Fujian accents.

So he hurriedly asked, "Where is your hometown?" ”

"Luoyang."

Li Guangxi turned out to be a fellow countryman. Then the two became acquainted, and the young man in front of him was a native of Luoyang Guanlin, named Xu Zhan. After studying in an infantry school in the United States for two years, he unexpectedly had a situation at home and financial difficulties, so he dropped out of school for half a year and now only relies on odd jobs to earn a living.

In recent years, Chinese have rarely come to the United States to study military affairs. In general, the army went to Germany, and the navy went to England. Xu Zhan went to the United States to study military affairs, which is a very special one. Li Guang originally hoped to recruit an officer who studied the navy, but although the man in front of him was not a navy, he was a soldier after all. So Xu Zhan became the first subordinate recruited by Li Guang in this era.

Li Guang hasn't spoken Chinese for a long time, and Xu Zhan has also found a job. The conversation between the two was very pleasant, and Li Guang quickly threw out the thesis that he was going to launch an all-out attack on China.

Compared with Xu Zhan, Li Guang knew that people were called real anti-hot-blooded youths. Xu Zhan immediately said: "To protect the family and defend the country, my generation is rising up at this time." "At that time, I was going to quit my job and prepare to return to China to fight.

Li Guang hurriedly stopped, and said in his heart that he had just found a subordinate, so he would leave too much to give the pig's foot halo.

Hurriedly talked about his anti-war plan, Xu Zhan listened with great interest, and finally stayed, ready to follow Li Guang first. However, it was agreed that if China said that there was a full-scale war, he would still return to China to participate in the war anyway.

When the two parted, Li Guang took out ten dollars and handed it to Xu Zhan, asking him to find more books about submarines and torpedoes. It's not that Li Guang is stingy, he only has a few dollars left on him now. It is not known when the patent will be sold. Now the small hotel that Li Guang rents is half a dollar a day, it is dirty, the environment is terrible, and the low-level women shuttle back and forth.

Li Guang lamented that he had suffered more than he had in the previous 20 years combined. A few days ago, he almost starved to death, and now he lives in a small hotel in the slums. If Rapangamariel can't sell his patents for a few more days, let alone hiring people, Li Guang will probably be reduced to doing odd jobs on the streets.

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