Lorraine is not a communist, so Lorraine is easy to bribe, the great watcher lives for profit and changes the rules due to corruption. Praising the Age of Planes, even if there is only 1% profit, they are willing to destroy another plane.
If Lorraine also has blood, he must come from a Jewish family.
Huang Xuan didn't even need to elaborate on the pros and cons, Lorraine compromised, maybe he had already figured out the pros and cons.
However, from this point, Huang Xuan can also have a rough understanding of this intelligent brain 100,000 years in the future. This guy's imagination is basically the same as that of a smarter dog. Therefore, Mr. Lorraine likes the energy brought by profits, but he doesn't know how to get profits. Huang Xuan smiled complacently, feeling that he and the idiot guardian were a perfect match - of course, it was just his fantasy.
Ford's current Model A cars are selling very well, but during the transition period, that is, the half-year suspension of production in 197 caused them a lot of damage-during this period, Henry Ford and his son, Edsel It took Ford six months to develop the Model A. Although it was still very fast, the forced transformation caused Ford to lose its position as the world's number one automaker.
However, Ford still maintains their Rouge car manufacturing center, which is Ford's ideal self-sufficient car city where everything from raw materials to finished automobiles can be realized in the same place. Until a hundred years later, Rouge was still the largest car manufacturing center in the world owned by a single car factory, and it was here that the widely circulated assembly line technology began to originate.
Since the grain is no longer valuable, Huang Xuan has very little interest in selling a batch of grain cheaply. Detroit is a chaotic city, but also a city of iron-blooded people. Here, Huang Xuan seemed to be infected - he found three lone gangsters, robbed a suit of clothes, and collected 1 dollar.
That's enough to get to Rouge.
It is said that this was the place where Ford lived when he was a child. It has beautiful scenery, but in the 1900s, people who advocated productivity decorated the place with thick smoke. During normal production, Rouge has 100,000 people working at the same time, making it a self-sufficient town.
Workers are being recruited every day in front of Rouge. During the Great Depression, Ford was one of the few companies that raised wages, especially Henry Ford's $5 work system, which was said to have increased wages by 100%. However, according to Huang Xuan's understanding, this is by no means the so-called contribution to the Great Depression, but to better stabilize skilled workers.
Just look at the never-ending recruitment activities in front of the factory to understand how mobile it will be to maintain a total number of tens of thousands of workers in an era when contract guarantees are not yet clear.
Mr. Ford was recruiting hundreds of people every day, and in times of need up to a thousand, and the expense and reduced productivity justified higher wages.
This is indeed the case.
Most of the workers standing next to Huang Xuan have thick arms and dull eyes. Ford only needs skilled technical workers. This kind of talent training may have happened in the 1990s or the 00s, but it will never happen in China. depression.
In this era when countless factories went bankrupt, men with only enough strength could not get $5, but most people still wanted to try their luck.
A middle-aged man in a brown coat came out, stood outside the notice that always read recruitment, and shouted: "Come in if you can use a milling machine." After saying that, he raised his head and left.
A dozen white young people walked in happily, but after a while, most of them walked out dejectedly. Huang Xuan tried to ask people about Ford's technical department, but was disappointed to find that people thought the factory was the technical department.
But Huang Xuan is not in a hurry. On the one hand, he can stay for about 10 days this time. On the other hand, he has some doubts about what to bring home. He needs to observe it carefully - the Great Depression was caused by overproduction. However, it was not always overproduced. From Lorraine’s information, we can know that the cheapest agricultural products in this era were agricultural products, but the most difficult to obtain was also agricultural products. When the farmer discovered that the transportation cost of a sheep to the town was high, When the price of sheep increases, they will kill and throw them away without hesitation. The same is true for wheat and corn.
Some people ask strangely, why not store these things and wait until the price rises before selling them - it depends on whether the saved price exceeds the farmer's expected depression time. No one knows when the Great Depression will end, that is Few people are willing to spend another sum of money to preserve these products. In fact, over a long period of time, most products were worthless.
What's relevant to Huang Xuan is that even if you have a lot of money, you can't buy the goods you want. This is the essence of the crisis, and everything is out of touch with the rules.
Soon someone shouted again that those who met the requirements would get the opportunity to be interviewed, while Huang Xuan waited outside with most of the people.
"Boy, what do you know?" The speaker was a Hispanic-American, a talkative old man with a big beard.
"Maybe..." Huang Xuan turned over his palms and said, "Let's drive." His kart was driving pretty well.
Every American can drive. The old man turned his head. He is a skilled worker. From his conversation, we can tell that he has done many jobs: slipway, lathe, construction industry, but his age is older than the bosses. Needed, so in 190, he gloriously joined the unemployed army.
Huang raised his head and looked outside. This place was still some distance from the suburbs of Detroit. The black guy who drove him here charged him 10 cents more for it. Except for the conspicuous gate in front of him, there was no place where he could enter the Ford factory. not much.
Huang Xuan felt that he could wait a little longer. He observed the Americans around him who were neatly dressed but whose quality of life was obviously not high. If Americans in the first century were allowed to choose, 191 would have been an even more painful era than 194. On this safe continent, people's fear of poverty was much higher than that of the Nazis.
"Hi, kid." The Latin American uncle raised his big palm, patted Huang Xuan who was reading the information alone, and said: "They need two drivers, which are rare. Don't waste it."
Huang Xuan reluctantly withdrew his eyes from the energy screen. The man recruiting the workers was still the man in the brown coat. Huang Xuan pulled the densely woven metal at the corner of his clothes and walked in.
There were almost three hundred people competing for these two positions. A few strong and big men were eager to try, and the others followed suit not to lag behind.
"We need two people to drive these two cars from Green Village to here every day, and we have to load and unload the goods ourselves..." The supervisor said to himself, while others listened attentively. As soon as he finished speaking, someone shouted : "I've been driving a car for 0 years, so it's no problem even if it's a gift."
"Then why don't you go and deliver it?" Someone immediately retorted, while Huang Xuan looked to the side and looked around.
This is on the outskirts of Rouge. The entrance and exit of employees is one kilometer away. In front of Huang Xuan is a row of tall bungalows. Different from the dilapidation in the east district, the newly built Rouge factory is brand new and modern. Although there is no bright glass structure, it is purely mechanical. The huge equipment still reflects the power.
Just when the job seekers were arguing, several white men in old-fashioned suits came over. The man in the coat immediately walked up and said with a loud smile: "Mr. Thomas, what do you need?"
"A few draftsmen, and skilled workers who can understand the drawings." Thomas looked around at everyone, and obviously noticed Huang Xuan. Among a group of savages over 0 years old, he was holding a thin-skinned and tender meat. The yellow-skinned guy is naturally eye-catching.
Brown Jacket agreed and asked the hundreds of people in front of him to stay here while he went out to shout. In the Ford era, 50,000 people needed to be recruited every year to maintain the demand for 50,000 workers. In other words, 70% of workers at Ford factories left their jobs every year. The situation in other factories is also very similar. This is the main reason why Ford implemented the $5 system. Even so, the turnover of workers is still frequent, and the cost of recruiting skilled workers is much cheaper than training new apprentices.
"Filipinos?" Thomas had nothing to do, so he walked near Huang Xuan and asked.
"Absolutely." Huang Xuan had no interest in discussing nationality with anyone.
When he didn't get the expected answer, Thomas whistled and said to his colleague in a black suit: "There are more and more stowaways now. It's really disgusting."
The other person shrugged, while Huang Xuan raised his eyebrows and ignored this possible racist. Such animals are everywhere and there is no time to play with them.
But it was another guy with a beard who smiled obscenely and said, "I bet he needs a job, he looks like he does."
"Looks like he didn't find the right place." Thomas also smiled widely.
At this time, five more people came over from a distance. The leading guy laughed from a distance and said, "Maybe he needs it."
"Oh, Julien, do you need it?"
Many people laughed. Huang Xuan knew what they were talking about, so he took out the remaining 5 cents from his pocket, flicked it up with his thumb, threw it on the ground, booed Thomas, and said: "Honky , it seems you need this."
Honky is a contemptuous term for white people, just like white people say nigger. When black people despise white people, they usually use this word. As soon as Huang Xuan said this, everyone present burst into laughter.
It's not because this sentence is really interesting, they just like to watch the fun. Detroit is a city that advocates toughness. The game among workers is usually rugby. Unprotected collisions make them feel refreshed. When Huang Xuan said this to eight white people, it would obviously cause a fight.
However, except for the guys from Ford, everyone, black and white, stood on a neutral position, waiting to see the show. Although the guy from Ford was wearing a suit, his arms could still wrap around Huang Xuan's waist. It seemed like he had little chance.
Huang Xuan also knew that he couldn't defeat the eight white people in front of him, but he still looked at Thomas and others with contempt, slowly walked out of the crowd, and said: "For 1 cent, I can defeat them with just two punches." You." (To be continued)