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Chapter 552: The United States in the Nightmare Has Not Woken Up Yet

Situ Meitang couldn't help but nod when he heard Tu Qianjun's words, it is true that they are all bankrupt now, it would be good to have a place to buy machines and contain workers! Because of his operation, not only did he earn a lot of money, but he also befriended Governor Roscher, entered the West Point Military Academy, and even asked the Americans to rush to send him those industrial talents that China desperately needed! It's almost the same as giving away all kinds of machine tools for nothing!

Judging from these points, Tu Qianjun has undoubtedly gained the ultimate this time!

Later, after Tu Qianjun chatted with the old man about some details, Situ Meitang found him a room in the Zhigong Hall and slept peacefully. In the early morning, Tu rushed to the telegraph office under the escort of Lin Bao and sent an extremely important telegram to Zhang Xueliang! The telegram said:

The sixth brother sees words like a person, is it okay?! Brother Qianjun kowtowed to the United States thousands of miles away, and now the civil war is in full swing, and my brother has learned from the newspaper. However, the United States is not calm, the stock market on Wall Street has plummeted, and the American people are miserable. Countless materials were piled up unbought, and skilled workers were all over the streets without anyone to hire.

Therefore, my brother thinks that this is a good opportunity for my three eastern provinces to acquire all kinds of machinery in the United States and hire skilled workers! It has long been heard that the sixth brother wants to transform the military industry into civilian use, but at this time, the United States has many skilled workers and machines. If we hire workers and buy machines in the three eastern provinces at this time, we will win the favor of the United States!

At that time, my three eastern provinces will have more backing! The three eastern provinces can take this opportunity to improve the quality of our industry and hire a large number of skilled workers! To develop the resources of our three eastern provinces, the United States even used wheat, corn and other grains as coal and firewood at the time of the report! And the lambs and the like are shot and abandoned in the field, and left to rot!

All kinds of prices are extremely low, and it is a good time to buy the bottom! My brother has met secretly with Mr. Roosevelt, the governor of New York, and Mr. Roosevelt promised that he would come forward to organize manpower and purchase machinery for our three eastern provinces! And send a freighter to me!

Now I hope that the sixth brother will call back as soon as possible to confirm the order and the required manpower. Then send the money! So that my brother will buy it from the United States for the future of my three eastern provinces! Be sure to!

Brother Tu Qianjun, born in the United States on November 18, 1929.

And Tu Qianjun didn't wait long for Zhang Xueliang's callback. Then I could see the call back:

My brother of a thousand soldiers, see the words well.

Even more frightening than the actual economic situation is the loss of confidence, because of this serious crisis, neither the intervention of the big families nor the market regulation has been effective, and President Hoover has no solution, which has led to the gradual despair of most Americans.

There are even people who are constantly looking for ways to leave the United States! Go to other countries, or spend your days doing nothing in your own torn newspaper and paper room waiting for an unknown future.

Tu Qianjun, who was sitting in the car, looked coldly at the miserable people outside the car window, knowing in his heart that the stock market crash lasted for 4 years, and nearly 4,000 Americans committed suicide by jumping off buildings; The impact spread to Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and other countries, and eventually evolved into the economic crisis of the Western capitalist world. After that, the United States and the world entered a decade-long period of economic depression.

However, there are also quite a few people who keep a cool head. Kennedy's father, Joseph. Kennedy was one of those who emerged from the stock market early. He said to himself, if even the shoe-shiner was buying stocks, I wouldn't want to stay in it anymore. This wise choice led him to withdraw his funds early, laying the foundation for his family's future.

In this stock market crash, nearly 4,000 people committed suicide by jumping off buildings due to bankruptcy. Irving. Fisher, the great economist, lost millions of dollars in a matter of days, went bankrupt in an instant, and went into debt until his death in poverty in 1947.

The crash has completely hit investor confidence. People smell that the stock color has changed, and the investment mentality cannot be recovered for a long time. The stock market crisis, the banking crisis and the crisis of the entire economic system are a vicious circle that promotes each other, after the stock market crash, investors have suffered heavy losses, consumption has plummeted, and the backlog of goods has become more serious. At the same time, the crisis in the stock market and banks has made it impossible for enterprises to find financing channels and production has been sluggish, which in turn has aggravated the crisis in the stock market and banks, and the national economy has become even worse. Because of America's position in the world economy, its economic crisis triggered the Great Depression that spread throughout the capitalist world: 50 million people lost their jobs, countless people were displaced, hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth were lost, production was stagnant, and industries withered.

The reason for this attitude was that the morality of Protestantism in the United States was still very strong at this time. Millions of people are not to blame, of course, for their desperation, but social workers have repeatedly said that the unemployed are ashamed.

In February 1932, a man who was evicted by his landlord told a reporter for the New York Daily News: "I have not had a regular job for more than two years, and sometimes I feel like a murderer." How can I not even take care of my own children?"

At this time, the morals and values of Americans still tended to strive to get rich, work hard, and so on. But it is a pity that this style gradually became missing later.

But as far as Tu Qianjun was at this time, due to the relationship between upbringing and Protestant ethics, such people believed since childhood that whoever worked hard would have a chance.

Now, because of the Great Depression, everyone is unlucky, and everyone is depressed. As Walter. Lippmann said at the time: "The whole nation is in low spirits, everyone feels that they are alone, they don't believe in anyone, they don't believe in anything, and they don't even trust themselves." ”

Seventeen years later, in his book The Lonely Crowd, Riesman analyzes how an introvert suffers when he finds himself in such a predicament: "If he tries and fails repeatedly and has a hopeless future, a person is likely to no longer have the inner strength to resist external pressures, so he is full of guilt and only hates himself for being incompetent." ”

In fact, at that time, someone would rather commit suicide than live on handouts, and there were many reports of this in the newspapers at the time. Emir. Durkheim, French sociologist. -- The translator coined the term "altruistic suicide person" long ago, saying that such people would rather sacrifice themselves than become a burden to society.

And such examples were not uncommon at that time, because from a certain point of view, Tu Qianjun actually saved many lives. But the way he did it may have had its own benefits.

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