Chapter 62: The Economic Crisis in the Base Area!

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Li Mengyang's lecture guarded against two people from the beginning, one was Eleanor and the other was the big man Bill.

These two people are not from the Revival Society now, Eleanor is a girl, this is very rare, you want to 'baby' it, don't you? Besides, she's a girl's family, does she need to know these things?

And that big man Bill, this guy is from an unknown source, how could Li Mengyang let him 'listen to the class'?

Of course, this matter is not explicitly stated, just that our class is about primary cultural knowledge, there are many illiterates in these years, and many of the Chinese workers are half-grown children, so this reason is really seamless.

That big man Bill himself is a traveling doctor, a doctor, he is definitely a high-level intellectual in this year, so he naturally won't come to listen, but Eleanor is a girl, and she is still a girl who is slightly younger than Li Mengyang.

At this age, girls don't have a lot of knowledge to go to school, although some women can write books, such as the famous Mrs. Stowe, but everyone is a lady, well, there are also girls' schools, but there seem to be a few in the United States, to put it simply, that is, women are still very weak, and the word 'feminism' is still very far away.

And Eleanor is a very curious girl, and she is still very bold, so why not she come to eavesdrop?

I can't stop listening to it. In particular, what Li Mengyang said was somewhat similar to the content of a newspaper that Eleanor had read at home before.

The name of that newspaper was the New York Tribune, and some people said that this newspaper was a utopian socialist newspaper, and when it comes to this newspaper, Kansas also has it, but it is rare......

"Don't capitalists have noble people? I've heard of a lot of rich people who have done a lot of noble things, and their character is noble! ”

"Admittedly, there are such people. However, I dare say that they all put their interests first, and if there were higher interests, they would definitely give up that damn nobility! ”

"But aren't the people you spurn, the capitalists, leading people to create wealth? Didn't they give? And shouldn't the leader, get more than others? ”

"I also agree that they deserve more wealth than the average person, which in itself is true, because they are indeed leaders. But! They get too much, too much. Now they are desperate, and they have gained hundreds, thousands, or even ten thousand times more than the workers! When they were making tens of thousands of dollars, how much did the workers make now? A worker in Kansas City is less than $10 a month! Is that fair? Is this correct? ”

And so on, Eleanor is a girl who likes to ask questions, not only in the 'classroom', she will come to Li Mengyang anytime and anywhere, and as Li Mengyang talks, the more acute and in-depth her questions become.

Eleanor is smart. And there are some things that make Li Mengyang pay attention, that is, sometimes some strange words and syntax pop out of this girl's mouth, which makes Li Mengyang very curious.

You must know that Li Mengyang learned English to cope with the CET6 exam, so this grammar is already very strict, that is, to find a real British American to answer the paper, they all scratched their heads, but Li Mengyang has never heard the syntax in this girl's mouth, what does this mean?

That must be Old English syntax!

So what does this mean?

"Mr. Clint, your knowledge is truly impressive, I don't think you have to mess with the Chinese workers? You're so much better than those guys on Capitol Hill, so why don't you give up on those Chinese workers and enter American politics? ”

As an American, Eleanor's statement is understandable, the United States itself is a country of immigrants, and talent has always been needed, and Eleanor's thoughts are very normal.

"I am a Chinese, and my motherland is in danger!" This is Li Mengyang's answer, which is simple, but it doesn't seem to be so simple.

Whenever this kind of question comes, Eleanor always wants to say something, but she can't say it, Li Mengyang's face is not good-looking, I don't know why, even Eleanor herself didn't notice, she gradually paid attention to Li Mengyang's every move......

Time flew by like the Kansas River, and it was fast into 1857.

It has been more than a year since he came to Kansas, and Li Mengyang's revolutionary base, that is, this farm, is growing rapidly, which is a good thing, but now it makes him very worried.

There is no money left!

Out of money? Doesn't it mean that the farm is growing? And didn't Li Mengyang have a lot of dollars from the 'sacrifices'?

This growth refers to the growth of the population, and the more the population is, the more people eat, and the money is like running water!

The northern Yankees in Kansas are not fighting with the Southern Yankees, and for this matter, even on this abolitionist movement, Li Mengyang has always adhered to the principle that it has little to do with him.

We support abolition, but we don't get involved in the fight between you!

This principle is not wrong, but I didn't expect that this had an unexpected consequence, that is, there are more and more people on Li Mengyang's farm!

Why?

Didn't the southerners have a unique advantage in newly developing land, and they even shipped black slaves from the slave state of Missouri, which was just east of Kansas, which made them very comfortable in the competition with the northerners.

But the northern Yankees are not stupid, although they are not as good as the southern Yankees in terms of land reclamation, but they also have methods, and they also have people!

Li Mengyang didn't know what the state of the north of the United States was at this time, because what the textbook said was that the industrial capitalism in the north was developing very quickly and very well. Maybe that's true, but the reality is that there are a lot of homeless people in the north.

The most emblematic of them is the Irish.

The Great Famine in Ireland has not yet passed, and these guys who can't eat have fled to the United States, hoping to find a job to make ends meet, but how can it be so easy?

What industry needs is workers, qualified workers, not all cats and dogs, plus the virtues of the capitalists now, let them hire more people, pure nonsense, then these individuals will not take advantage of it?

Whether Kansas is free or slavery, this is what needs to be voted, then voting is a matter of head. As for the eligibility to vote, it's even simpler, the state governments are all Yankees, and if you say you're eligible, you're eligible.

So, someone came up with a trick and spent money to buy tickets!

Come to Kansas, homeless people, you have dollars here!

Anyway, there is a money owner, otherwise 3,000 people could have registered and made 6,000 tickets before?

The idea of these people is strange enough, and as a result, Li Mengyang has more and more farm people.

Because it's just you, and everywhere else it's all fighting with each other, and after the Sumner incident, more than 200 people died in Kansas in two months, and so much chaos is pure land on your farm.

The strength of the international column is very strong, although there are few people, they have all seen blood, and the US army has done it, so it is needless to say that the result will be against some rabble.

As a result, a large number of people, especially the Irish, ran to our farm, and John Brown sometimes took the initiative to arrange people to come in. Among them, there are quite a few women, mostly Irish...... Everybody gets the idea.

The population is swelling!

In addition, the most important thing in Kansas right now is the struggle between the North and the South, something else, what economic development, what infrastructure, who the cares!

In addition, the later people themselves were idle, and they were all a group of slackers, even the Irish before them looked down on them.

The market is not prosperous, even if we Chinese workers have a stunt against the sky, that is, to make food, but it is not good. But the catering industry is dependent on other industries, and the catering industry will only live well if the economy is prosperous, so in Kansas, this industry cannot develop.

So, today, the mountains and rivers are exhausted, what can I do?

"I'm not going to lecture today, let's think about how we can make money today."

Li Mengyang really had no choice, he didn't expect that his revolutionary base would come to such a field, and he would not be able to hold on for more than a year. So, he gathered several core figures of the Revival Society, namely Matthew, Yang Guangren, and a few Chinese workers and Irishmen.

"......" Li Mengyang is nothing more than thinking about brainstorming, but these people, you look at me, I look at you, no one has any ideas.

After a while, Matthew spoke, "Eastwood, you have the most ideas, or you say, we'll listen to you." ”

Very good, I've always listened to Li Mengyang, but now, 'If I have a way, I'll still look for you?' I wanted to have a democratic centralism. ’

Well, Li Mengyang didn't say this, he is now a leader, this kind of thing can't be said, it will shake the prestige that has been established with great difficulty.

It's really a little tangled, but at this time, there was a bang, and someone came uninvited.

"Hahaha......" It's none other than Eleanor, this girl doesn't feel like a lady at all, she is smiling and waving a piece of paper at Li Mengyang, "Look! Hahaha, you're worth $2,500 now! ”

"......" Everyone present at this time was taken aback, to say that this Eleanor girl is still very good, this year, a little bit of a big girl, but where does she look like a girl?

However, Li Mengyang really saw that Eleanor was holding a wanted warrant in her hand!

Yes, it's the kind of wanted warrant that Xiao Shanzi found at the Lawrence Post Office before, and it's basically the same, except that his 'Clint Eastwood' worth has increased, and now it's $2,500.

"There it is!"

After Li Mengyang saw the wanted notice, he suddenly said this, and everyone present looked sideways.

"Why are these two people so surprised?"

What exactly is 'there'?

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