Working towards the future

Question: What does it take to build a modern industrial country?

A large number of educated people enter factories as workers.

A large number of technicians provide technical support on the front line.

A large number of technical experts organize production and research...

In fact, the most important thing to build a modern industrial country is money!

Let's not talk about other countries. Let's take the "First Five-Year Plan" as an example. The total investment during the entire "First Five-Year Plan" 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 is equivalent to 261.99948537 billion grams of gold.

If converted into US dollars... 29.7 billion US dollars!

What is the most important?

Money is the most important!

Without money, nothing can be discussed.

Workers work for the sake of being superior.

So, under the pressure of life, after settling things in France, George had to return to the United States and continue to carry goods by himself.

Sandezi's gold is good, but the quantity is small.

But it's different in the United States. The demand for scarce commodities such as sugar in the US market is in millions of tons, and the Lend-Lease Act also allows Americans to be fully employed. Full employment means... people have money in their hands.

With money in hand, but not enough commodities in the market, demand stimulates the market.

Who will sit idly by in the face of such demand?

Although Americans use US dollars to pay bills instead of gold, what is the US dollar after the end of World War II?

US dollars!

The US 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 short separation is better than a new marriage, and Heidi and George still have to spend a day together. After a night of love, George took Pan Am's DC3 to Cuba the next day. This is because North Borneo Company did not open a route to Cuba. Otherwise, he would definitely take his own SM.75 to go there.

Although the war affected the lives of many people, it actually had little impact on the rich. Their children were often in the safest rear. As for themselves, they still lived the same life as before, or should we say a richer life than before, after all, the war brought the United States out of the quagmire of the Great Depression.

Just like now, every weekend, the rich people in New York will go to Havana to enjoy life. There are not only tropical scenery, countless luxury hotels, resorts and casinos, but also their favorite dances, Havana cigars and passionate Latin girls.

For them, such weekends have long become a part of their lives, but today they had some surprises.

An Asian was sitting in the window seat.

It should be Chinese!

Most of the passengers speculated like this. Although they were a little surprised that there would be a Chinese on this plane, they just took a curious look. However, for Grace, besides being curious, she felt that all this was too wonderful. Yesterday, she had just participated in a fundraising event for China, and she donated $100 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 fundraising events for China in various places, just like the fundraising events for Russia and Britain before.

I didn't expect to meet a Chinese on the plane today, and it was the next seat. From the moment she sat down, she looked at this man from time to time.

It seemed like she had seen him somewhere.

How long has the plane taken off?

George didn't know, but he could always feel the gaze of the woman next to him while reading a magazine. In fact, he had noticed her when she sat down. After all, a beautiful and slim blonde beauty can always attract men's attention.

But it was uncomfortable to be stared at, even if the woman staring at him had a stunning appearance and figure, so George closed the magazine and turned his head to look at the blonde and blue-eyed foreign girl next to him and said.

"Miss, your eyes are not ladylike."

Ah!

Grace realized how rude she was. She was only fifteen years old and immediately blushed with shame and apologized quickly.

"I'm sorry, sir, I'm rude, please forgive me."

While apologizing, Grace explained again.

"I just thought you looked familiar, so I was recalling whether we had met before, at the fundraising meeting held in Central Park yesterday to support China's war of resistance?"

It's normal to look familiar. I was on the front page of the newspaper a few months ago. However, the printing quality of newspapers in this era is worrying, so the photos are a bit blurry.

"Fundraising meeting?"

George asked in confusion.

"Yes, there were quite a few Chinese at the banquet. I thought I had seen you there before, so I was so rude."

The blonde beauty's explanation surprised George, but he was more curious about the fundraising banquet.

"Can you tell me about the fundraising event?"

"It seems you really didn't attend it."

Grace then explained.

"You know, because of Governor Dewey, Americans know how we ignored China, which was fighting the Japanese. For two whole years, we gave a lot of supplies to Britain and Russia, but only gave China 1,000 rifles. God, this is simply too embarrassing to mention, so now the United States often holds such fundraising activities..."

The girl's explanation made George stunned-fundraising! Americans took the initiative to raise funds for China!

This is simply unbelievable. Is this the change I brought about?

Thinking of this, George couldn't help but feel proud.

"A total of $155,000 was raised yesterday! All this money will be used to buy supplies and then shipped to China to resist the invasion of the Japanese devils..."

Grace emphasized again. "I think every American is very happy to do their part to kill the Japanese devils." After that, her watery blue eyes stared at George. In fact, her subtext was clear - I also donated.

However, George didn't pay attention to these at all, but was thinking about how to get as much money as possible in the next year. After all, the funds needed for the construction of Borneo in the future are in the billions.

Money, it's really a headache! ...

Well! This person is too rude, and he is distracted again!

Grace couldn't help but feel a little depressed. After all, she was born in a wealthy family. With her extraordinary family background and beautiful appearance, she had long been accustomed to being the center of attention. When had she ever been treated so coldly? She was angry and pouted her lips. Her pretty face was full of gloom.

This guy is too arrogant!

However, George didn't notice that the girl sitting next to him was sulking. He was just thinking about various things. However, he couldn't figure out the reason after thinking about it...

In the end, he simply stopped thinking about it...