Chapter 31
After Wang Shuming was taken to a hotel, the woman left.
Wang Shuming pulled open the curtains of his room window and slowly lit a cigarette for himself. He was thinking about the task that Zhao Wenbin had given him. On the surface, his mission to America was to buy food and meat.
However, he didn't have to worry about this. The US government would help him settle the food. According to the agreement, the US government would look for the major farmers and then he would choose which one to buy the food from. Moreover, the US government had already guaranteed that they would never raise the price.
The same was true for meat. He was thinking about another task that Zhao Wenbin had given him.
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Ever since the economic crisis broke out in 1929, the entire US economy had been in a very low state, and it continued to decline. Bank failures, company bankruptcy, production decline, and so on.
The effect of this was that workers were laid off and a large number of people lost their jobs, causing the entire society to begin to be in turmoil.
In this economic crisis, the number of unemployed people in the United States reached about 26 million. Although half of them were semi-unemployed, they only had a little income.
Under such circumstances, laid-off workers could be seen everywhere in the United States. The streets were filled with people looking for work.
In many cases, you would find that every time a company posted a recruitment notice, thousands of people would apply, even if the company only hired a few people.
However, such situations were rare because 140,000 companies in the entire US had closed down during this economic crisis!
140,000! This was a terrifying number, and as the economic crisis continued, this terrible situation was getting worse.
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"You poor bastard from Texas, get out of my house.”
"Bang ~"
A rough voice came from inside a house. Then, a suitcase was thrown out, and a young man of 27 or 28 years old staggered out.
"Damn it! When I have money, I will definitely buy your house!”
The young man cursed, picked up his suitcase, and wanted to leave. However, he had not eaten for nearly two days, so he felt that the suitcase was very heavy. He stumbled and bumped into a young man who was walking in front of him.
"Sir, I'm really sorry!"
The young man lowered his head and said apologetically.
Wang Shuming was going to visit the city where he had stayed for eight years, but he didn't expect to be bumped into.
"Hey! Sir, you should walk more steadily!”
Wang Shuming turned around and said to him, but after he finished speaking, he saw that he was about to fall.
"Sir, I don't want to get myself into any trouble.”
Wang Shuming said as he reached out to help him up.
However, when the two of them looked at each other, they were instantly stunned.
"Morris! Why is it you?"
Wang Shuming was shocked when he saw the bearded man because he was his university classmate.
"King Mies? Oh! Heavens! Didn't you return to your country three years ago?”
Morris asked in astonishment.
"I just came back. What's wrong with you?”
Wang Shuming asked in surprise.
"Don't mention it. I haven't eaten for nearly two days!”
Morris said with a dejected expression, his voice also appearing weak.
"Follow me!"
Wang Shuming pulled him to the nearest restaurant.
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"Give me another steak!"
"Enough! Morris, you've already eaten four steaks. I don't want my best friend to be on the news because she ate too much!”
Wang Shuming reached out to stop Morris and said seriously.
A bitter smile appeared on Morris 'face.
"King, do you know? This is the most filling meal I've had in the past six months! Do you know that God seems to have abandoned me? It had been five years since he graduated.
I lost my job in the early 1930s, and in three years, I changed no less than thirty jobs. However, none of them could last long.
Apart from paying rent, I don't have any money at all. Usually, she could only be thrifty when she ate. Today's meal was the best I've ever eaten. Maybe tomorrow I'll have to go to the trash can to look for the smelly trash.”
"Morris, you're a top student in our economics department. With your ability, you can't even find a job, right?”
Wang Shuming looked at Morris and asked curiously. The economic crisis that began in October 1929, although it began to erupt quickly, the scope was not that big. Wang Shuming left the United States in early 1930, so he was not very clear about the extent of the economic crisis.
"Top student? Haha! The number of layoffs was far more than the number of people hired by those companies. As long as a company posted a job advertisement, a group of people would apply.
Among these people, do you think I, a person who has only graduated and worked for two years, can be compared to those old foxes? In these three years, I've done almost all kinds of jobs. I've even done things like connecting sewers.
In the end, he still lost his job and didn't even give me a chance to live. It was as if God had no other choice but to let me die!”
Morris had a bleak smile on his face. In this economic crisis, people like him who had just graduated from university were the least competitive. He could not compete with those who had been in society for more than ten years, or even more than twenty years.
"Alright then! It seems that your competitiveness is indeed more difficult than I imagined!”
Wang Shuming shrugged and looked helpless.
"Right! King, why are you back? Didn't you say that you wanted to go back to your country to establish a new economic system?”
Morris asked curiously.
"Because my boss sent me to America again, so I met you in New York!”
Wang Shuming shrugged.
"Your boss? Sending you to our country? Does your boss want to start a company? I'm afraid your boss is going to be disappointed. Now, even the things produced by our country's factories can't be sold, and no one will buy your things!”
Morris said regretfully.
"No, no, no! You misunderstood me. My boss sent me here to recruit people. Recruit a large number of people!"
Wang Shuming rolled his eyes and looked at Morris meaningfully.
"Recruit? Oh! Oh my god, King, is this a problem? Now, as long as you put up a recruitment advertisement, I believe that the people who come will not even be able to fit a table. You could have anyone you wanted. Even the designers of those closed aircraft manufacturing companies came back to apply.”
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