Chapter Ninety-Four: Brown's Death, the Old Summer Palace and the Economic Crisis!
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When Li Mengyang saw who it was, it was okay, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hello! Mr. Thoreau! "It was Henry David Thoreau, what a coincidence.
"Haha, I didn't expect to meet you here, I didn't dare to recognize it at first, and your clothes are too strange." Thoreau met Li Mengyang, and it was when Engels came to the United States that it was a grand event in the literary and artistic circles.
"Ah, this dress, I'm just researching a new way to wear it." Of course, Li Mengyang's clothes are strange, because he was shot before, and his coat and shirt were naturally torn, but fortunately, he Li Mengyang had a way to cut off a large piece of his coat symmetrically, and the shirt was tucked into his pants hard, and the pants were lifted up, so that he would look like a big official in the future, but don't say it, although it looks strange, but you are not attending a banquet, and no one will say that you are wearing it like this.
But Thoreau noticed, and it didn't matter, the great writer Clint Lee always had amazing things.
"Ha, I'm afraid this will become the trend of the future......" Thoreau, the old man is quite fashionable.
"Trend?" But at this time, Fiona quit, because she couldn't imagine that what this thief was wearing would become a trend, and ...... The person in front of you is Thoreau, right? How could he possibly know a thief?
"Haha......" At this time, Li Mengyang finally realized the crisis, a heavy crisis, "that ......"
But before he could speak, Thoreau said, "This is your girlfriend, right?" It's beautiful! Hahaha, young is good. ”
"Girlfriend? Oh my God, I'm not his girlfriend! "Fiona feels 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 miss, I feel from the bottom of my heart that you two are very compatible. In addition, let me say more, if you don't catch him, hehe, hehe, then a lot of girls in New York will shoot. Thoreau, the old fellow, said with a smile.
"Him?" Fiona couldn't believe her ears, a thief, are all the girls in New York crazy?
But then, Fiona felt like she was going crazy!
"Clint Lee, what's the matter with you? Didn't this beautiful young lady know that you were the famous Clint Lee? Thoreau was still joking, because he felt that the man and woman in front of him were joking with him.
"Well, I'...... This ......" Li Mengyang could only force a smile at this time, he really didn't know what to do, because an important secret was known to outsiders!
Clint Eastwood is Clint Lee!
This is the information that Fiona just gotten, and it was told to her by a famous figure in the American literary world, which is definitely not deceiving, but it makes Fiona feel bad.
"......" Li Mengyang also feels bad, but what can I do?
However, something unexpected happened.
I saw a smile like a rose bloom on Fiona's face, and then pulled Li Mengyang's arm and said to Thoreau: "Mr. Thoreau! Yes, I'm his girlfriend, and we were kidding you. ”
"Hah! That's right! ”
Thoreau naturally didn't have any special feelings, he just felt that young people love to joke, but Li Mengyang's feelings.
Something seems wrong, right?
……
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was sent to the gallows, flags were lowered at half-mast in his honor by the northern states, almost all the tall buildings were decorated with black things, church bells rang in mourning, and it was as if the president of the United States or the founding father had died.
At this point, there is no room for reconciliation between the North and the South of the United States on the issue of slavery, and now they are waiting for everyone to fight after the split.
Time soon entered 1860, and 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 YA War, the burning of the Old Summer Palace will always be an indelible scar in the hearts of our Chinese, and 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 on this historical event.
Europe was in the midst of an economic crisis, and in 1858 Britain was in crisis, when 18,000 of Manchester's 45,000 textile workers were unemployed, and all other economic figures were in recession.
And now, the economic crisis has expanded, not only in Europe, for example, Germany is also miserable, the development of communism in France is not bad, and the United States is also very affected.
In the first two years, there were already a large number of unemployed people, and now it has reached a frightening point, and the streets of New York have almost become camps for the unemployed, full of unemployed people with dull eyes and no tomorrow.
In this way, it can be a good explanation why the second YA film war was fought so long and dragged on, and why the Old Summer Palace was sacked like a madman, even the British expressed disdain for the behavior of that guy Ergin.
This can actually be explained financially, they are really fucking short of money!
In such a situation, Li Mengyang just watched?
"Workers! Brothers of the proletariat! Today! I've brought you a gentleman who you want to hear! ”
"Who?"
"Who is it?"
"Huh? Is it Mr. Clint Lee? ”
In an auditorium surrounded by a sea of people, Li Mengyang walked to the podium in the middle under the eyes of countless expectations.
"Workers! Brothers! I'm Clint Lee, and I'm bringing you today something you've never heard of before, something that some people don't want you to know! ”
This starts with the opening, and this pertinence is given.
"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, conscientious workers, lose their jobs. ”
Li Mengyang's voice was sonorous and powerful, and the entire auditorium was shaken off the wall, well, this was originally a relatively dilapidated auditorium, the proletariat, where can a meeting be held in a high-end place?
"Let's be like today, the main culprit is the capitalists!" Li Mengyang immediately threw out his opinion, "It's these people!" Their stinginess and selfishness are the leading causes of today's situation! Why? It's because of one word! Market! ”
market, this concept is still not used much.
"When we workers produce products in the factory, we naturally have to sell them, and there needs to be a market for them. And what we're seeing now is that the United States, the United Kingdom, the European countries, they're all loading their goods on ships, they're going to the East, they're dumping there, why is that? Because there is money in the East, there are people in the East! My motherland now has a population of 450 million! What about India? What a big market is this? However, they want such a distant market, but ignore their own near market, that is us! ”
Li Mengyang's speech made the eyes of all the workers and unemployed workers widen, because they had never heard these things, and no one wanted to tell them.
"We are human beings, and we also have to consume, that is, to spend money to buy things, but what is the reality? I want to ask everybody, can any of you make ten dollars a month now? ”
The problem is out, but everyone in this auditorium is you look at me, and I look at you.
"Nope!"
"That's right! Dollars, I haven't seen them in a long time now! ”
"The wages we were paid by the factory were not enough to buy a barrel of flour!"
What the workers say is the truth, the current wages are so small, do you like to do it or not.
"That's it! That's why! Our wages are too small, and the return of our labor is too small, so how can we have any money to buy things? We can't buy things, so who can we sell what is produced in the factory? How does the market emerge? Without the market, how can the goods in the factories become profits, and how can the capitalists pay us wages? They only see the markets of the Far East, but they don't care whether we live or die at all, these guys are synonymous with greed, miserliness, shamelessness! Now, who doesn't want us to know the truth? ”
"Capitalists!"
"That's right! It's those bastards! ”
"They're so stingy!"
The enthusiasm of the American working class was stirred up, and they were so excited that it dawned on them that what had happened to them was because of this.
These theories mentioned by Li Mengyang were actually made by later European and American economists in the analysis of the Great Depression in 1929, but to put it bluntly, in fact, it is even more so now, the so-called economic crisis, when it comes to the direct cause, that is, uneven distribution, workers and peasants have too little income.
In the words of later generations, the labor they paid at this time was the absolute price of cabbage!
Therefore, Li Mengyang's speech, which to the ears of the American proletariat, is tantamount to the gospel of God, and they have finally found the problem.
So, let's start now? Martial arts?
"Workers! What we have to do now is unity! Only by uniting more people can we have the strength to deal with those stingy, shameless guys! "That's right, unite first, and strengthen your strength first.
However, Li Mengyang is not a complete mouthpiece, he is of some help to the participants of such a rally, for example, you can sell newspapers, and then you can get a piece of food......
These methods are actually other people's ideas, and the inspiration is simple, and that's what churches do.
Well, Li Mengyang is becoming more and more like Ye Ge. Li Mengyang would give similar speeches often, because the time was almost up, but before that, he had to go to Chicago, Illinois, because there was a Republican convention to be held.
Ay? Did Li Mengyang become a Republican?
Not really, mainly because he's now the boyfriend of a certain beautiful woman......
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