Chapter 121 Working hard for the future (Third update, please follow up)
Ask, what is needed to build a modern industrial country?
A large number of educated people entered the factory as workers.
A large number of technical personnel provide technical support on the front line.
A large number of technical experts organize production and research...
In fact, the most important thing in building a modern industrial country is funds!
Leaving aside other countries, we still take the "First Five-Year Plan" as an example. The total investment during the entire "First Five-Year Plan" period reached 76.64 billion yuan, equivalent to more than 700 million taels of gold.
One tael of gold is 37.42849791 grams.
700 million taels of gold, equivalent to 26.199948537 billion grams of gold.
If converted into U.S. dollars... 29.7 billion U.S. dollars!
What's most important?
Money is the most important thing!
Without money, nothing is possible.
Workers have a working soul, and working is a way to be a good person.
As a result, due to the pressure of life and settling things in France, Li Yian had to return to the United States and continue to carry out human trafficking.
Although Sandoku's gold is good, it is not in large quantity.
But the United States is different. The demand for tight commodities such as sugar in the U.S. market is millions of tons, and the Lend-Lease Act also allows Americans to be fully employed. Full employment means...people have money. .
There is money in hand, but there are not enough goods in the market, and demand stimulates the market.
Faced with such demand, who would sit back and watch?
Although Americans pay their bills in U.S. dollars instead of gold, what was the U.S. dollar after World War II?
Dollars!
The U.S. dollar is the hard currency equivalent to gold.
On the day of returning to New York, no, it was the next day. After all, a farewell is better than a wedding, and Heidi and I still have to linger for a day. After a night of indulgence, Li Yian sat down the next day. Pan Am's DC3 went to Cuba because the North Borneo Company did not open a route to Cuba. Otherwise, they would definitely have taken their own SM.75.
Although the war has affected the lives of many people, in fact it has almost no impact on the rich. Their children are often in the safest rear. As for themselves, they still live the same life as in the past. It should be said that life is richer than in the past. After all, the war brought the United States out of the quagmire of the Great Depression.
Just like now, rich people in New York go to Havana every weekend to enjoy life. There are not only tropical scenery, countless luxury hotels, resorts and casinos, but also their favorite dance parties, Havana cigars and passionate Latin girls.
For them, weekends like this have long been a part of their lives, but today they had some surprises.
An Asian man was sitting on the window seat.
They should be Chinese!
Most of the passengers guessed this. Although they were a little surprised that Chinese people would appear on this plane, they just took a look out of curiosity. However, for Grace, after being curious, Yu, she felt that all this was too wonderful - yesterday, she had just participated in a fund-raising event for China, and she had donated 100 US dollars herself. The turmoil in the spring made the whole United States see the difficulties of China's war of resistance. In the past few months, there have been fund-raising activities for China held everywhere, just like the fund-raising activities held for Russia and the United Kingdom before.
I didn’t expect to meet a Chinese person on the plane today, sitting next to me. From the moment she sat down, she looked at the man with her peripheral vision from time to time.
I seem to have seen it somewhere.
How long has it been since the plane took off?
Li Yian didn’t know it, but he could always feel the eyes of the woman next to him while he was reading a magazine. In fact, he had already noticed her when she sat down. After all, she has a beautiful appearance and a good figure. The slim blonde beauty always attracts the attention of men.
But it felt uncomfortable to be stared at. Even the woman staring at him had an amazing appearance and figure. So, closing the magazine, Li Yian turned to look at the blonde and blue-eyed woman next to him. Niu said.
"Miss, your eyes are very unladylike."
ah!
Grace then realized how rude she was. The fifteen-year-old girl immediately blushed with embarrassment and apologized quickly. "Sorry, sir, I was rude, please forgive me."
While apologizing, Grace explained.
"I just thought you looked familiar, so I was thinking about whether we had met before yesterday at the fund-raising meeting held in Central Park to support China's Anti-Japanese War?"
It's normal for the face to look familiar. We were on the front page of the newspaper a few months ago. However, the printing quality of newspapers in this era is worrying, and the photo is a bit blurry.
“Fundraising meeting?”
Li Yian asked doubtfully.
"Yes, there were many Chinese people at the banquet. I thought I had seen you there before, that's why I was so rude."
The blond beauty's explanation surprised Li Yi'an Besides, I was more curious about the fundraising banquet.
"Can you tell me about the fundraiser?"
"It seems that you really didn't participate."
Grace then explained.
"You know, because of Governor Dewey, Americans know how we ignored China, which was at war with the Japanese. For two years, we gave a large amount of supplies to Britain and Russia, but we gave them to Russia. Only 1,000 rifles were given to China. God, this is simply embarrassing to mention, so now such fund-raising activities are often held in the United States..."
The girl's explanation made Li Yian stunned - fund-raising! Americans take the initiative to raise funds for China!
This is simply unbelievable. Could it be that this is the change that I have brought about?
Thinking of this, Li Yian couldn't help but feel a little proud.
"A total of 155,000 US dollars was raised yesterday! All the money will be used to purchase supplies and then transport them to China to resist the Japanese invasion..."
Grace specifically emphasized .
“I think every American is very happy to do his part to kill the Japanese.”
After saying that, her watery blue eyes stared at Li Yi'an. In fact, her subtext could not be clearer - I also donated.
However, Li Yian did not notice this at all, but was thinking about how to obtain as much funds as possible in the next year. After all, the future construction of Borneo will The funds needed are in the hundreds of millions.
Money is such a headache!
……
Okay!
This person is so rude, he actually got distracted again!
Grace couldn't help but feel a little upset. After all, she came from a wealthy family. With her extraordinary family background and beautiful appearance, she had long been accustomed to being the center of attention. When would she be the center of attention? After receiving such a cold reception, she curled up her little mouth angrily, and her beautiful face was full of gloom.
This guy is so arrogant!
However, Li Yian didn't notice that the girl next to him was sulking at all. He was just thinking about various things, but after much thought, he still couldn't think of a reason...
In the end, I just didn’t want to think about it anymore...
(End of this chapter)