Chapter 94 Brown's death, Yuanmingyuan and the economic crisis!
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When Li Mengyang saw who it was clearly, it was OK, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hello! Mr. Thoreau!" It turned out to be Henry David Thoreau, which was really a coincidence.
"Haha, I didn't expect to meet you here. I didn't dare to recognize you at first. Your clothes were so strange." Thoreau had met Li Mengyang, and it was the grand event of Engels coming to the United States and the literary and artistic circles.
"Ah, I'm just studying a new way to wear this clothes." Of course, Li Mengyang's clothes were strange. Because he was shot before, his jacket and shirt were naturally torn. Fortunately, Li Mengyang had a way to cut off a large piece of the jacket symmetrically, and tucked the shirt into his pants hard, lifting the pants up hard, and it was a way to wear them in later generations. But don't say that, although it looks a little strange, you are not attending a banquet, and no one will say about you in such a dress.
But Thoreau noticed it, but it doesn't matter. The great writer Clint Lee always has amazing actions.
"Ha, this may become the trend of the future..." The old man Thoreau is quite fashionable.
"Trend?" But at this time, Fiona stopped doing it because she could hardly imagine that the things worn by this thief would become a trend, and... the person in front of him was Thoreau, right? How could he know a thief?
"Haha..." At this time, Li Mengyang finally realized the crisis, a major crisis, "that..."
But before he could speak, Thoreau said first, "This is your girlfriend, right? She is so beautiful! Hahaha, it's good to be young."
"Girlfriend? God, I'm not his girlfriend!" Fiona felt insulted!
"Ah, yes." Li Mengyang replied embarrassedly. He really hoped that the chat between the three of them would end quickly.
"oh! My God! Are you really not his girlfriend? But dear lady, I think you two are very compatible from the bottom of my heart. Let me say one more thing, if you don't hold him tight, hehe, then many girls in New York will take action." The old guy Thoreau said with a smile.
"He?" Fiona couldn't believe her ears. A big thief, are the girls in New York crazy?
But then, Fiona felt like she was going crazy!
"Clint Lee, what's wrong with you? Don't this beautiful lady know that you are the famous Clint Lee?" Thoreau still seemed to be joking, because he felt that the man and woman in front of him were joking with him.
"This, I... this..." Li Mengyang could only force himself to smile at this time. He really didn't know what to do, because an important secret was known by outsiders!
Clint Eastwood is Clint Lee!
This is the information Fiona just got, and it was told by a famous figure in the American literary world to her. There would be no deception, but this made Fiona feel bad.
"..." Li Mengyang also felt bad, but what should I do?
However, something unexpected happened.
I saw a rose-like smile blooming on Fiona's face, then pulled Li Mengyang's arm and said to Thoreau: "Mr. Thoreau! Yes, I am his girlfriend. We were just kidding you."
"Ha! That's right!"
Solona naturally had no special feeling. He just felt that young people like to joke, but Li Mengyang felt this feeling.
Something seems wrong?
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On December 2, 1859, John Brown was sent to the gallows, and the northern states lowered half-staff for him. Almost all tall buildings were decorated with black objects. The church bells were ringing to mourn. It was as if the death of the American president or the founding father.
At this point, on the issue of slavery, the north and the south of the United States have no room for mediation. Now we are waiting for the division to happen after we have already had a fight.
Time soon entered 1860. In the memory of our Chinese, there was a particularly important historical event in 1860, that is, the burning of the Old Summer Palace!
As part of the Second Yafan War, burning the Old Summer Palace is always an indelible scar in the hearts of us Chinese. The ruins that have always stood in the imperial capital remind us Chinese that we must not forget this history.
Li Mengyang is now in the United States, that is, abroad, which gives him another perspective to look at this historical event.
At this time, Europe was in an economic crisis. Britain fell into a crisis in 1858. At that time, 18,000 textile workers in Manchester were unemployed, and all other economic data were in recession.
Now that the economic crisis has expanded, not only Europe has been affected, but Germany is also in a miserable state, France is developing well, and the United States is also in a great impact.
There were already a large number of unemployed people in the past two years, and now it has reached a terrifying level. The streets of New York have almost become camps for unemployed people, with dull eyes everywhere, with unemployed vagrants today but not tomorrow.
In this way, it can be a good explanation for why the Second Ya Film War was so long and delayed, and why the Old Summer Palace was robbed again, even the British despised the behavior of that guy Erkin.
This can actually be explained financially, they are really fucking short of money!
So, will Li Mengyang just watch this situation?
"Comrades! Brothers of the proletariat! Today! I have invited you a gentleman, and you must want to hear what he said!"
"Who?"
"Who is it?"
"Ah? Is it Mr. Clint Lee?"
In an auditorium surrounded by crowds, Li Mengyang walked to the podium in the middle under countless anticipated gazes.
"Coworkers! Brothers! I am Clint Lee. What I bring to you today is something you have never heard of before. Some of these things don't want you to know!"
This starts with a targeted approach.
"Who is it? Who doesn't want us to know? First of all, let me tell you why we are like this, why we are unemployed, why so many workers and dedicated workers lose their jobs."
Li Mengyang's voice was sonorous and powerful, and the entire auditorium was shaken off. Well, this was a relatively dilapidated auditorium. As the proletariat, where can the meeting be held in a high-end place?
"Let us be like today, the culprit is capitalists!" Li Mengyang immediately put forward his own point of view, "It is these people! Their stinginess and selfishness have led to the emergence of this situation today! Why do you say so? It's because of one word! Market!"
Market, this concept is not used much now.
"If our workers produce products in factories, they naturally have to sell them. If they sell them, they need to have a market. What we are seeing now is that the United States, Britain, and European countries are loading their goods to the East and dumping them there. Why is this? Because there are money in the East and there are people in the East! My motherland now has a population of 450 million! What about India? What is this a large market? But they want such a distant market, but they ignore their near market, and that is us!"
Li Mengyang's speech made all workers and unemployed workers open their eyes because they had never heard of these things, and no one wanted to tell them.
"We are also human beings, and we also have to spend money to buy things, but what is the reality? I want to ask everyone, can anyone of you make ten dollars a month now?"
The problem is coming, but the people in this auditorium are all looking at me and I will look at you.
"No!"
"Yes! USD, I haven't seen it for a long time now!"
“The salary the factory paid us was not enough to buy a bucket of flour!”
What the workers said is true. The salary is so small now, do you like to do it or not.
"That's it! It's because of this! Our wages are too small, and our labor returns are too small. In this way, how can we have any money to buy things? We can't buy things, so who can the things produced in the factory be sold to? How can the market appear? Without the market, how can the goods in the factory become profits, and how can capitalists pay us wages? They only see the market in the Far East, but they don't care about our lives or death. These guys are synonymous with greed, stingy, and shamelessness! Now, who doesn't want us to know the truth?"
"capitalist!"
"Yes! That's those bastards!"
"They are too stingy!"
The enthusiasm of the working class in the United States was incited, and they were excited, and they suddenly realized that this was because of their own experience.
The theories mentioned by Li Mengyang were actually done by later European and American economists in analyzing the Great Depression in 1929, but to put it bluntly, this is even more so now. The so-called economic crisis, when it comes to the direct cause, is that the distribution is uneven, and the income of workers and farmers is too small.
In the words of later generations, the labor they paid at this time was absolutely bargain!
Therefore, Li Mengyang's speech, to the American proletariat, was nothing more than the gospel of God, and they finally found the problem.
Then, let's start a scheming now? Fighting?
"Coworkers! We must do it now to unite! Only by uniting more people can we have the strength to deal with those stingy and shameless guys!" That's right, unite first and strengthen our strength first.
However, Li Mengyang is not completely verbal. He has given some help to the participants in such a gathering, such as you can sell newspapers and then get a portion of food...
All these methods are actually the ideas of others and the inspiration is simple. This is how the church does it.
Well, Li Mengyang is becoming more and more like Yege. For similar speeches, Li Mengyang will often hold them because the time is approaching. However, before that, he has to go to Chicago, Illinois, because there is a Republican congress to be held there.
Alas? Did Li Mengyang become a Republican?
It's really not, mainly because he has now become the boyfriend of a beautiful woman...
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Chapter completed!