Chapter 463 American Fascism (1)

Thirty-five-year-old Franz is a skilled worker at the New York shipyard.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the orders received by its working shipyard were scheduled for after 1946.

In order to ensure that more ships can be obtained earlier, the U.S. government gives high incentives to shipyards that can complete orders ahead of schedule. Correspondingly, the shipyard also uses high overtime wages and bonuses to stimulate workers' enthusiasm and encourage them to work more overtime.

The old Francis, who has a wife and three children to raise, is a welder, and he is very enthusiastic about overtime, working more than 12 hours a day on average in May, and even giving up rest on holidays. By June 1944, he had completed the construction of three Casablan-class aircraft carriers. Now his shipyard is undertaking the construction of a light aircraft carrier of the Independence class.

However, on June 12, the elder Francis surprisingly did not ask for overtime. Not only if, but he even asked the shipyard for leave the day before.

On this day of leave, old Franz was surprised to find that many of his colleagues in the shipyard were also asking for leave like him.

There are various reasons for everyone to take leave, such as having a sick child, a sick wife, a sick father and mother, something at home, and so on.

But the real reason is actually the same for everyone.

June 12 is the "Birthday of God" of the Saphiroth Religion.

For the Sephiroth faithful, it is the most important day of the year, even more than Christmas.

Old Francis's family was a loyal and senior believer in the Saphiroth Sect.

He had been a Christianity for more than 12 years, at the end of President Hoover's administration. It was the Great Depression in the United States, and the whole country was in desolation. All industries are in ruins, and unemployment is piled up.

Franz, who had just become a father at the time, was unemployed by the Great Depression, and he was so desperate that he almost wanted to jump off the New York Bridge when he looked at his first child who was waiting to be fed and couldn't find a dollar in his pocket.

Later, under the "guidance" of a friend. He joined the Sephiroth Church, and with the help of the "spontaneous" mutual aid of the faithful, he and his family survived the most difficult period in the United States at that time, and ushered in the "Ghana New Deal".

Early in the morning of June 12, Franz called his family, drove his wife, and his family of five out of New York to a private farm 60 kilometers away to participate in the "feast of God" of the Saphiroth religion.

The United States today. Freedom of belief has long since died, the smell of imprisonment has become stronger and stronger, and the Saphiroth religion has been officially characterized as a "cult." However, there are some things, the more you try to stop him, the more counterproductive it will be. After the Holy Shock in 1943, President Dewey completely banned Sephirothism in the United States, but this year. Lin Han and Hannah absorbed more faith from American believers than before. Not only is the number of believers rising. Quality (faith loyalty) is also rising in tandem.

Due to the pervasive persecution of the authorities, the activities of the Sephirothian followers have now gone underground, and the scale of the activities has been reduced to zero. For the sake of safety, the Saphirothians now practice religious activities, usually in family units. There are rarely more than ten people. Even on such a "holy" day as Feast's Day, the size of the believer's gathering is forcibly limited to less than 50 people, mainly because the American religious police have been put in a bad position to prevent being informed.

The farm was made illegal after the U.S. government designated Sephirothism as an illegal religion. The farm became a place for the secret meetings and associations of the Safiro devotees. After the Holy Impact, the missionary structure of the Sephiroth Church in the United States changed from the former branch-like tandem missionary to a parallel and parallel mission.

The so-called branch-like serial missionary structure is the German headquarters - the American branch - the American city branch - the city church - the ordinary parishioner family.

The current structure, the city branch and the church, which were important nodes, have been abolished, and only the most basic parishional families have been retained. It became a parallel structure in which ordinary parishioners were directly connected to the American branch transferred to Canada. As for the development of believers, it is carried out by the members of the house church, and not by the church as before.

The advantage of this structure is that even if it is caught by the religious police in the United States~~, only a few branch nodes at the bottom are destroyed, instead of pulling ~~ out of the radish and bringing out the mud, and a grab is a chain reaction.

At today's gathering, there were only forty-two people and ten families gathered on the farm, including the owner and the Franz family. They and the Francis family are old acquaintances who have known each other for more than a decade, mostly during the Great Depression.

On the farm, the devotees bathe and change their clothes in a special pool before preparing food for the "Birthday Celebration" in the evening.

In times of economic crisis, the so-called "mutual aid" of the Sephiroth Sect, which was engaged in charity work in the United States at that time, was not complicated to put it bluntly. The first was in the United States when the Sephiroth Church granted interest-free loans to bankrupt farmers across the country to help them tide over the storm and resume production.

During the economic crisis, the price of grain fell to the point that it could not even pay for the labor and freight costs of harvesting it and sending it to the city to sell. This kind of "inverted low price", which is seriously detached from the value of the commodity itself, is the key to the success of this "low-cost" self-help method designed by Lin Han.

In the spring, the Sephiroth Church provided these farmers with interest-free agricultural loans to help them produce, while mobilizing the "faithful" to do "voluntary" labor. At the time of the harvest, the faithful were mobilized to "volunteer labor" to help with the harvest, and then the grain produced on the farm was used as a "loan repayment" at the market price to the Sephiroth Church as the product of "charity" activities.

In the United States, farmers not only grow food, but also often have a range of industries such as raising dairy cows, growing grapes, and even secretly making wine.

The output of these farms can be used as labor payments to believers.

What should be explained here is that the philanthropic method of helping each other in times of economic crisis formulated by Lin Han is only suitable for a country like the United States, which has a large number of bankrupt farmers in the economic crisis, and the farmer's land is the key to everything.

The so-called value is the undifferentiated human labor hidden in the commodity. Limhan plays charity in the United States. Therefore, a large part of the reason for the low cost is the use of the "voluntary labor" of these many believers. In the name of charity, these believers squeezed the value of their labor to serve his "charity", and these believers were grateful to him while working for Lin Han almost for free.

Sephirothians took advantage of the economic crisis to infiltrate. In the name of charity, it can help farmers everywhere evade taxes in large quantities. Since the grain produced is only "sent" and not sold, there is no need to pay taxes because there is no "sale". The labor cost of harvesting is carried by believers who work on the farm from the grain produced in the field to their homes as wages, and there is no labor cost. After receiving the output of the farmland, many believers process the remaining part of the uneaten food privately, make it into a commodity and sell it to others in the form of private transactions among acquaintances, and there is a small supplement in addition to tax evasion. Besides. It is also a common phenomenon for believers to brew moonshine and sell it secretly to evade taxes.

Even the most powerful tax department in the United States has a headache to deal with this kind of chicken-pecking tax evasion.

It was through this act of "mutual aid" among the faithful that the Francis family survived the most difficult period of the Great Depression. In that most difficult year, Francis' first child fell ill twice. The person who treated his child was a doctor among the parishioners and did not take a penny from him. The medicine that the doctor prescribed to his child was the "black medicine" that the believers who worked in the pharmaceutical factory secretly "withheld" from the factory.

The Great Depression era. The causes of the economic crisis are the enormous responsibilities that the capitalists have to bear in the process. And it's no secret. In an era when even bank robbers are regarded as heroes, the act of stealing drugs from black-hearted capitalist pharmaceutical factories for "charity" is considered an act of "justice". Lin Han encouraged them to do so simply to reduce the cost of mission.

The missionaries instructed by Lin Han to "teach" the parishioners in the process, and this "stealing" did not violate the Bible. It's justice that allows more people to live.

In Linhan's private words to Hannah, this is called "encouraging the parishioners to use their own initiative to create value, so as to save the cost of missionary and charity." ”

Although the first year of "charity" activities allowed the Sephiroth Church to "burn" tens of millions of dollars in the United States, it laid a foundation in the United States. A large number of believers have been cultivated. With the beginning of the New Deal in Ghana and the improvement of the American economy, this kind of "charity" behavior gradually stopped, and then the Sephiroth Church began to enjoy the "dividend" of losing money in the first year, and in the second year, Lin Han relied on the donations of believers, and Lin Han recovered last year's charity expenditure and had a small surplus, and the next ten years were a "good business" with great profits.

A large number of believers who benefited from the dividends of the Sephiroth Church in times of crisis voluntarily donated to the religion every year for the next ten years, and the monetary benefits received far exceeded the investment of tens of millions in the first year. In the case of Franz himself, he donated more than $5,000 to the Sephiroslav Church in the past ten years.

Today is June 12, the "Birthday of God", and in the New York area, such "small gatherings of parishioners" are scattered in dozens of locations at the same time, all independent of each other and have no collusion, which greatly ensures security.

After bathing, these Sephirothians came out of the basement and "pleased" out of Gabriel. The statue of the twin angels of the "Sephiroth" was then erected in a local farmhouse and worshipped. Sephiroth religious ceremonies were not cumbersome, and the main work of the day consisted of the congregation gathering the faithful to perform voluntary labor on the farm, and then the host serving lunch and dinner to the others.

While the men were working on the farms, the children followed their mothers in the countryside fields to gather all kinds of edible wild fruits and vegetables for lunch.

Lunch at noon consisted of a soup of brown bread, potatoes, and wild vegetables gathered from the fields, and the taste was barely palatable. According to the teachings of "Master Gabriel," this is called remembering the bitter rice and educating people not to forget the terrible days of the Great Depression.

Dinner, on the other hand, is sumptuous, with lobster, barbecue, turkey, Mexican fruits, fine wines, and other exquisite food filling the long table, which is called "Thanksgiving Rice". According to the doctrine of the Sephiroth religion, this meal is to show everyone that only by helping each other and supporting each other can we cross the ocean of suffering and reach the other side of happiness.

Giving American believers a meal of remembrance and thanksgiving was completely an idea that Lin Han came up with. In this way, he constantly reminds American believers not to forget how the shameless capitalists harvest them, and not to forget who brought them out of trouble in the most difficult times.

In the teachings of the Saphiroth religion, on the day of the "Birthday of the Gods", everyone works collectively during the day, eats together in the evening, and gathers before 12 o'clock at midnight for a religious prayer, which is the whole program of the day.

For the followers of the Saphiroth Sect, this kind of gathering is also a good opportunity for them to communicate and communicate with each other and provide their own information.

And some German spies planted in these believers are through this kind of communication at the dinner table, stealing all the necessary information.

At today's religious gathering, the parishioners who were invited to come over the table naturally talked about their work when they chatted at the dinner table.

People who work in the financial securities industry talk about their views on the direction of U.S. financial stocks in the coming months.

People who work at the shipyard talk about the situation of orders and the progress of the works in the shipbuilding industry in their own factories.

Then people in the financial and shipbuilding industries came together to express their opinions, and they were optimistic about the American economy and the stock industry in the next few years during the war, but they were not optimistic about the American economy after the war.

Ten years ago, when these people met each other, they discussed how to get some money tomorrow to help each other get through the difficult times, but now when they get together again, they are discussing how to continue to make a fortune.

Although these followers of the Sephiroth Sect have doubts about whether the United States, which "does not believe in the true God," will be able to defeat the Japanese evil gods and complete the "God Slaughter Mission," they are still confident in the US economy in the next two years.

A financial practitioner said on the table: "Although the situation in China is good now, what will happen if the United States loses this war?" Now that we are frantically building ships with such overdrafted national strength, I am really worried that in a few years, when the war ends, whether it is won or lost, there will be a big crisis in the United States. ”

At the dinner table, the Sephiroslavs continued to discuss the future of the United States (to be continued......