Chapter 158 Capitalist Considerations
There is no way around it. As long as men are the main cannon fodder in war, this kind of thing is inevitable. In the eyes of the state, if the stability of men is guaranteed, there will be almost no chaos. Even if women are dissatisfied, they cannot take up arms and rebel.
After coming out, Sheffield and Evelyn discussed the girl's employment conditions. In addition to the salary of thirty dollars a month, which was more than the average salary of an adult man, it also included accommodation and the use of a carriage when returning home.
"After working for me for a year, you can even consider buying a house in a better environment." Sheffield's eyes were very deep and the conditions he proposed were very generous.
"Do you still want to stay outside? Besides, I don't need a carriage when I go home." Evelyn hesitated, feeling that the conditions offered by her new boss seemed too generous.
"Your father has already handed you over to me, so I should take care of you." Sheffield ignored Evelyn's modesty and said slowly, "The most important thing about living in this country is safety. Who makes the gun ownership rate in the United States so high? You are a girl, and you are already unsafe because of your gender. I have more say in this."
Sheffield certainly has a say on this issue, because he often goes to private prisons to experience life. Take out a hundred prison files at random and use addition and subtraction that can be mastered by elementary school students. It is easy to see that crimes of that proportion are common, and the proportion of female victims in homicide cases is higher than that of male victims, because everyone likes to bully the weak due to risk factors.
For a man, there are actually very few cases of revenge after a feud, because men don't remember fights that hurt each other, and naturally they won't retaliate afterwards. There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts, and if you lose, you just admit it. However, when it comes to dignity, the number of murders will increase sharply. Generally, the things that can make men feel that their dignity is damaged are women and money. In these two cases, most of the victims are women.
"Are rich people so timid?" Evelyn felt that Sheffield was making a big deal out of nothing.
"You haven't forgotten what happened on the train, have you? If those robbers hadn't been unlucky enough to run into me, who knows what the final outcome would have been! Don't believe the criminals' nonsense about regret after being caught. They only regret being caught. They wouldn't regret not being caught." Sheffield chuckled. This little girl with a sense of justice should not have been working for long, otherwise she wouldn't be so naive.
But it doesn't matter, I can teach him slowly later, anyway, he still has plenty of time now. First of all, banning guns is definitely not a way to reduce crime, and the family still has to sell guns. There are fewer Dixies than Yankees, and if they don't have guns, won't they be bullied? Not adding money is good enough, but you still want to ban guns?
Fortunately, there are non-governmental organizations like the Farmers and Herdsmen Association everywhere. Otherwise, Sheffield would have no idea where to stay at night. "Bring me all the information about California, mainly the situation in Los Angeles and San Francisco, including agriculture and animal husbandry, population and factory distribution, as well as foreign immigrants, not just Asians, but also Latin immigrants who cross the border, whether Italian or Irish. I don't need to mention the Finns, as I guess there aren't many of them."
Sheffield pointed at Evelyn and said, "Give it to Evelyn to sort out, and then send it to me. By the way, how many colleges and universities are there in California, and how many students are there? Give me a rough idea. We may need to recruit some during this period."
The United States is currently shrouded in xenophobia, and the ethnic groups Sheffield mentioned are all very hateful groups. There is no need to say much about Asia, as the reasons are well known.
Italians, Irish and Finns are also a few ethnic groups that are particularly noticed by ordinary citizens. White people have never been a whole. These ethnic groups are considered not to be pure white people by the broad Germanic people led by Britain and Germany, and the French. In different time periods, they are considered to be the same as the yellow people in Asia.
This kind of contempt chain already existed in Europe, but it was only spread to the United States. Early Chinese workers generally did not have partners, and the few women who had partners were all Irish. This is the current situation.
Logically speaking, the Slavs should also be despised, but the Russian Empire is not one of those small countries. The contempt for the Slavs is at the stage of despising them in the heart but not speaking out. White people also know how to choose the right dish. The Russian Empire is weak, but it is not a small country like Italy or Ireland, so naturally they dare not be too presumptuous.
When the Russian Empire was embarrassed, it might have laughed at the Slavs more. If the Russian state was strong, Russia would be an integral part of the European order and the defender of the international order. At present, the Russo-Japanese War has not yet broken out, and Europeans are still somewhat afraid of the vast territory and massive army of the Russian Empire.
On the first night in Los Angeles, Sheffield spent the first half of the night reading materials. Evelyn was a witness, and she admired this boy who was younger than her, a hardworking man. It depends on how you look at it. Sheffield likes to read, but it depends on what he reads. He is good at literature, but not at math, physics, and chemistry. He is a pure one-sided student, but even so, it is enough to deceive strangers who have just met.
However, this assistant who was a conductor just now was not very competent. He was woken up by Sheffield in the second half of the night. Looking at Evelyn with confused eyes, Sheffield said with a smile, "You can really sleep. Even if I want to do something to you, you may not know it. Are you too naive or too stupid?"
“Sorry, I fell asleep when I wasn’t paying attention.” Evelin said drowsily, looking at the men’s suit on her body, her heart warmed, “And the boss is a trustworthy person.”
"Don't think like that. No man is trustworthy in such situations, unless he is your father." Sheffield curled his lips. The last person who trusted him so much was Edith Rockefeller. She thought nothing would go wrong no matter how she flirted with him, but in the end she still had to move forward with a heavy burden.
In fact, before Evelin woke up, Sheffield had spent ten minutes observing the train assistant. Although she was not the most beautiful woman in the world, she was pleasing to the eye no matter how you looked at her, as if she had a very clean temperament. He remembered the term "first love face" used on the Internet in later generations, which was very similar to Evelin. She didn't need any heavy makeup to be a graceful girl.
"Luckily you met me, otherwise you would have been sold without knowing it." Sheffield's feeling of doing good deeds every day came out again. He saved a soul that was about to be tainted by the big dye vat of society. Just thinking about it made him feel great.
He certainly would not sell a girl. It was not a moral issue, but the environment had changed. In the past, plantations needed labor, and labor exchange was profitable. Now there is no such environment, and labor is no longer valuable. He is not engaged in the flesh trade, so naturally human labor has no value.
After sending Evelin to the cleaned room, Sheffield whispered, "Come with me tomorrow to visit Los Angeles. After all, the information can't tell everything. Some things still need to be seen with your own eyes."
The biggest problem facing the states along the Pacific Ocean in the west is population. Because the areas are too desolate, the people who move here are all adventurers to a certain extent. They are definitely unruly, otherwise they would not have traveled a long distance to settle here. The disadvantage is obvious at a glance, which is the population problem.
In fact, except for the northeastern states, the population of each state in the United States is insufficient. It can be said that this degree of sparse population is even greater than that of the Russian Empire. Currently, the Russian Empire has a population of more than 100 million, mainly concentrated in Europe. The United States has a population of 80 million, and the land it faces is actually more abundant than the land faced by the Slavs.
The current birth rate of the Bulgarian Republic is 5%, which is not a low number, but the population base is too small. With such a small base, it will take decades to rely on natural reproduction to produce a suitable population. Sheffield does not have decades to wait for the population to grow slowly.
If he had not lost the Civil War, he would have probably thought that the arranged marriages that existed in the Southern states were efficient, and in order to make up for the labor shortage, plantation owners designated black men and women to marry.
"There was a Chinatown when I was a child, but it was razed to the ground. Those Asians don't live here now. Boss, do you want to go there?" Evelyn followed Sheffield out and told him what she knew, saying that there is no Chinatown in Los Angeles now, but Asian communities still exist.
Evelyn said that the cause of the incident was a problem between immigrants. The people who attacked Chinatown were not citizens of the United States, but the Spanish-speaking people who had just immigrated. Sheffield thought about the geographical location of California, where did they come from? They must be immigrants from Mexico.
"Then let's go to the Asian community. John, take fifty people with you, carry guns and be careful." Sheffield whispered, "Come with me to experience the exotic customs."
Sheffield wanted to see whether the Chinese workers of this era were suitable as industrial workers and how much value they could be trained to bring. If they were valuable, it would be worth his effort to put order in place.
For a capitalist like him, ethnicity is not important, what matters is whether the value can be reflected. His consideration is very normal, class is greater than ethnicity, but ordinary people cannot feel it.
He remembered that more than a decade later, the South African police suppressed the white march, causing casualties. The reason for the white march was also simple, because blacks were paid less, white workers were replaced, and the miners who wanted to protect their rights did not expect to be greeted by the bullets of white factory owners.
(End of this chapter)
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