As a time traveler, Li Xiaofeng naturally knew how amazing the Great Depression was to the United States. In 1932, the stocks listed on the main board of the United States were only 11% before the outbreak of the economic crisis in 1929, and investors lost more than 74 billion (equivalent to three times the cost of World War I). More than 5,000 American banks went bankrupt, and 86,000 companies announced a suspension of business. GDP dropped from US$104 billion to US$41 billion. Two hundred and seventy-three thousand families were kicked out of rental houses, and the average weekly salary of those with jobs was only $16.21. According to calculations, a family could only meet the most basic survival needs if they had an income of $2,000 at that time (a year was a little over 53 weeks).

For example, the output value of the US record industry shrank sharply from 50 million US dollars in 1929 to only 250,000 US dollars. Because the Great Depression made most Americans unable to afford any entertainment. The famous queen of Yideng Sally Rand was later asked by reporters why he chose this profession: "How can I make money if I don't take off my pants?"

However, the social mentality in the United States was really interesting at that time, that is, poverty is generally considered shameful, but the social reality is that most Americans are poor. According to statistics from that year, 1% of the United States' population has 59% of the social wealth, which is really a tragic look of a rich man with a stinky road of wine and meat.

At that time, the general living state of ordinary American families was to pretend to still live well (because poverty is looked down upon, and the rich are considered original sin and depravity). Most American families concealed their real life from their neighbors. Young lawyers who might go to work on time every day are no longer lawyers, but come to sell cheap ties, magazines and other daily necessities in a remote neighborhood. They are also likely to change their clothes and go to beg for neighboring cities, or simply become one of the millions of unemployed troops.

The young husband's food rations for each meal are probably just 5 cents to buy a cup of coffee, and then ask for a free cup of hot water, then mix it in the hot water into the free tomato sauce placed on the counter, and the coffee is filled with tomato soup and a meal of water.

The wives of young lawyers will try their best to save money or make some meager income. For example, men never buy new blades, but repeatedly polish old blades to continue using them. In order to save electricity, the whole family only uses a 25-watt light bulb. The children collect waste beverage bottles for money, or help their mothers go to the bakery to buy the remaining special bread that was about to deteriorate a few days ago.

Of course, the pillars of the family will try their best to find a job. Millions of people are waiting in line at the door of the career agency like buying train tickets in the Spring Festival travel season in the future, in order to try to be in front of them to get valuable job opportunities. Some even walked 900 miles (1.6 kilometers) to find a job. In a recruitment agency on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, 5,000 people competed for 300 positions. Even Americans were forced to use crooked tricks. Some people set fire in the forests of Washington State so that they could be hired to help put out the fire!

Do you still remember the famous US-Soviet trading company? In that year, the company received more than 350 applications from Americans who wanted to settle in the Soviet Union every day. The most memorable thing was that when the US-Soviet trading company posted an advertisement to recruit 6,000 skilled workers, more than 100,000 people came to apply.

The economically developed New York State has attracted countless job seekers. Even if New York State itself has 1 million unemployed people, it is willing to do so. Migrant workers join the 7,000 "boys" in Manhattan (5 cents per shoe) or simply start smuggling coal (10% of the city's coal is smuggled by unemployed miners in Pennsylvania), but the vast majority of outsiders are just lined up in the 82 relief teams in New York City.

At that time, if there were 10 cents, you could spend the night in a cheap hotel with a smell of sweat and disinfectant. But if you were penniless, you could only walk into Central Park with the newspaper you picked up, or at the entrance of the subway, or stay warm next to the municipal incinerator. The temperature of the incinerator attracted thousands of men to spend the winter night here, but they had to sleep on the garbage dump.

It is not just the city people who are unlucky, but the farmers' lives are not as easy as they are. According to the statement at the time, the prices of agricultural products have never been so low. One bushel (about 36 liters) wheat costs less than 25 cents, one bushel corn 7 cents, one bushel oats 10 cents, one pound of cotton or wool 5 cents, one pound of sugar 3 cents, one pound of pork or beef 2.5 cents, 200 boxes of apples (must be perfect without flaws) 40 cents.

Poor American farmers worked hard for a year, and their harvest was often not enough. Because a carriage of oats could not buy a pair of $4 shoes, it might be okay to replace a carriage of wheat. Let's put it this way, when farmers count bank loans and taxes, acre of wheat would lose $1.5. The breeding industry is also extremely miserable. The rancher spent $1.1 to send a sheep into a slaughterhouse, and in the end, selling meat would probably not get a $1 income.

As for workers who were extremely lucky to find a job, their lives were not optimistic at all. According to the survey, most female workers earned less than 25 cents at the time, and one quarter of them were less than 10 cents. As for ordinary male workers, they earned about $5 a week. In a sweatshop in Brooklyn, New York, the weekly wages of 15-year-old child workers were only $2.78 a week. Please note that these children need to work 50 hours a week, and this is the salary of boys. As for girls, there are even less, only $2.39 a week.

Such a miserable scene made some high-ranking big shots unable to bear it. One Senate condemned: "Unsense employers have cut their wages to China's level!"

But how did the big capitalists answer, Edgerton, president of the National Manufacturers Association, said: "What? I have never thought about making me pay wages based on the needs of workers, and I am based on efficiency. Personally, I have fulfilled my social welfare responsibilities when I go to church."

A national famine broke out. According to data collected by Li Xiaofeng through the US-Soviet trading company, the rate of malnutrition in the United States exceeded 90%, and most poor children developed problems such as sleepiness, lethargy, laziness and intellectual delay.

At that time, a teacher suggested that a little girl go home and eat something before going to class. How did the child answer? She said: "I can't eat, it's my sister who should eat it today." This is still a child, and adults are even more miserable. The poor parents were hungry and didn't eat anything for more than ten days, until their legs trembled, in order to save some food for their children. There was even a saying in society at that time: "Workers have no right to have children!"

What did Hoover say about this: "In fact, no one is hungry, these homeless men eat better than before. In New York, a homeless man ate ten meals a day!"

Well, the president was slapped in the face soon. Fortune magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times reported cases of death from famine and starvation, with a considerable number of them being recorded as testimony by the U.S. Congress. For example, the New York City Welfare Commission reported that 29 people starved to death and 110 people died of "malnutrition". Most of them were children.

At the same time, what are the states of the wealthy people in the United States? Financial giants are praising the Great Depression: "The Great Depression has made people more polite in business and more reasonable at home. Especially those women who are not considering their ignorant wives in the past are indifferent to their husbands and do not do housework, but now they are gentle and cautious."

What else is said: "The transitional prosperity will ruin people's moral character!"

The famous financial tycoon Morgan rebuked: "If you destroy the leisure class, then you destroy civilization. The leisure class refers to a family that hires a servant. There are now about 25 million or 30 million such families across the country!"

Obviously, this famous financial tycoon was still living in his dreams because the census at that time showed that there were less than two million servants in the United States. Where did his 20 to 30 million leisure class who had seen ghosts hire servants from?

If a person like Morgan is just a joke, it would be fine. What's even more terrifying is that these guys are all scammers, bastards and miscellaneous people. Why do you say that? Because the money-making routines that these financial tycoons were best at playing back then were basically financial scams. For example, the famous Samuel Insal, when he was the most brilliant, he served as directors of 85 companies, chairman of the board of directors of 65 companies, and general managers of 11 companies, and once had assets of more than US$3 billion.

In 1932, this guy could not play the trick anymore. In June of that year, he was in debt of 60 million US dollars and had to flee to Europe in a hurry. In order to hide the truth, he arranged a press conference in Paris, but he slipped away from the back door, then quickly fled to Rome and then fled to Athens (Greece did not sign an extradition agreement with the United States at that time). In November, after the United States and Greece reached an extradition agreement, he fled to Türkiye in disguise.

Of course, in the end, the justice was revealed when the man was caught back to the United States. If he believed it, it would be wrong! In the end, the crime was declared unconfirmed. Humor writer Will Rogers mocked: "When the police investigate you, you hand over the evidence of the crime to your companions, and then you can get out safely. These slick and sophisticated businessmen did a lot of such things. Their practices are within the scope of the law, but they are so close to the illegal act."

As Will said, in the United States at that time, this was too common. Banker Albert Wiggin shorted his own bank (Chat Bank) stocks and then lied to the department to defraud profits. Charles Mitchell of National City Bank (later Citibank) forced his staff to continue to buy NPC shares with installments, and based on the price before the economic crisis ($200 per share, but only $40 per share in 1932). At the same time, he sold the bonds to his family at a loss and then bought them back. He used this to evade federal income tax (Morgan did the same, and this guy did not pay a penny of income tax from 1929 to 1931).

What's even more ridiculous is that Colonel Robert McCormick, the issuer of the Chicago Tribune, was a singer of the flag-shaking and shouting for these financial tycoons. Tianfu Tiantian emphasized in his newspaper how important it is to pay taxes. Only taxpayers can enjoy national welfare and repeatedly urged his readers to pay taxes. However, he himself used various means to evade taxes and only paid a mere $1,500 in taxes every year.

Of course, these people are all little casinos. Do you still remember Andrew Mellon, the Minister of the Coolidge era? This famous God of Wealth who turned stones into gold in the Coolidge era was not a good bird.

As Secretary of the Treasury, he repeatedly urged American citizens who were unwilling to fulfill their tax obligations to abide by the law, otherwise he would use tough measures to pick them up. But he was a completely different set of standards for himself. He asked the Director of the US Taxation Administration to write a memorandum for him, detailing 12 methods of tax evasion. He himself used these methods to evade taxes one by one.

Later, this trick was exposed, and the behavior of the God of Wealth caused an uproar in the public, but how did Mellon's admirers answered, they strongly condemned public opinion and believed that they should not point fingers at Mellon's tax evasion. Because "this will provide ammunition to the radicals who are causing trouble."

President Hoover is surrounded by more than one criminal, Mellon. The president's European adviser, the famous "Swedish match king", Kruger is even more exaggerated than Mellon. After the guy committed suicide on March 12, 1932, people discovered that this guy was a habitual burglary. He committed crimes such as fraud, fraud and forgery of Italian government bonds. He also stole $300 million from investors who trusted him.

There are many similar people, such as banker Joseph Harriman, Bank of America executive vice president Saul Singer, and Federal Gas and Electrical President Howard Hopsen.

Let's look back at Hoover's "rescue" policy. In 1932, Congress authorized the revival of financial companies' $300 million unemployment relief funds. Only 10 of this money was distributed to states to save endangered businesses. The remaining 90% were taken away by banks controlled by those fraudsters.

The reason why I had to talk so much was not only to let the comrades understand the actual situation in the United States at that time. What's more important is that this crisis was exploited by a person with ulterior motives, and this person was Li Xiaofeng.

Li Xiaofeng did two things in this crisis. The first was to short US stocks through white gloves (of course, after the crisis broke out and spread to the whole world, a certain immortal also did it as usual). As of 1932, his financial agency in the United States had made more than 2 billion US dollars. If he included his profits in Europe, he and his friends had made less than 5 billion during the entire economic crisis.

With money, the next thing will be easier. The second thing a fairy did was to use these precious selfs to do some facts. For example, to develop and strengthen the Northern Industrial Group, to lend credit to the Soviet government to support its industrialization, and to purchase a large number of cheap agricultural and animal husbandry products.

In those years, Northern Trading Company acquired more than US$500 million in agricultural products. Because the quantity was too large, it had to build a large-scale storage base in northern Finland, and these agricultural and animal husbandry products will be of great use in the future.

I won't go into details about these. It needs to be said in detail that in this income, a certain immortal specially compiled a special budget of about 300 million US dollars. These funds are used to develop a special organization, or religion in the United States. This religion is called the Christian Savior Society. In name, this religion promotes the concept of universal salvation, but in fact, this religion is selling dog meat under the guise of universal love, which is essentially exporting extreme ideas.

The target of its output was those who suffered the most in the Great Depression, such as the poor relief workers and their families, such as the poor people struggling on the brink of death. The Christian Savior was more generous than the US government at that time. When Congress was still quarreling for more than 100,000 dollars in relief, when Hoover was still saying that there was no famine, and when capitalists became increasingly ugly, the Christian Savior generously helped tens of thousands of victims. Especially for children, the Christian Savior was even more generous. Adopting orphans was nothing, and it also provided at least one meal a day for a considerable number of children.

Anyway, since 1932, the Christian Savior Association was a lot of money, and the 300 million US dollars of funds were consumed by 1941. So from 1941, a fairy had to take out a considerable portion of the income from the northern industry to subsidize the organization to maintain its operation.

Of course, there are gains when you make efforts. In 1930, the Christian Salvation Association was still an unknown small church, with no more than 30,000 believers. However, by 1941, its devout believers reached one million, and as for ordinary believers, there were even more. In those states with particularly developed industries in the United States, this church already had considerable influence.

As mentioned earlier, this church promotes extreme ideas. What kind of extreme ideas do it? That is to punish evil on behalf of the Lord. In other words, it is to punish those sinners on behalf of God. So in the doctrine of the Christian Savior, what are the wicked people? Those who are rich and unkind will naturally not be eliminated. Moreover, the church is very tolerant of the concept of blood feud, believing that revenge is a natural thing, and doing so is completely unaccusable.

Anyway, over the past ten years, the orphans or wanderers adopted by the church have been completely brainwashed to promote the theme of the church and take revenge. Do you still remember the Eugene Jinen and Joseph Angelino, who were stabbed through the calf in front of them by bayonets? They are already furious and want to come back to take revenge! (To be continued.)

ps: My aunt has passed away and I want to go to pay my condolences. The updates in the past two days may not be very punctual, please forgive me.

Bow to thank the Red Guards, the First Guards Tank Brigade and Comrade Juventus!
Chapter completed!