[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

Black people have their own small groups and gatherings, Marge knows, but she doesn't know the specific content of black people's private discussion.This is the case in this era. If a white family employs a male servant or a female servant, as the master, it is not allowed to eavesdrop on the conversation of the servant, but as a servant, they can clearly understand every word of the master.

This is true both in the UK and the US.

Therefore, Marge can subtly influence black people through the people around her, but she cannot control the specific course of action.

She can only control the general direction of events.

Marge never thought that as a business owner, there would be any problem in distributing dividends to her shareholders and investors. In her opinion, this is a field where business is about business, fairness and integrity are emphasized, and it has nothing to do with skin color.

Margot never expected that someone would protest, and they even made a fuss in front of her.

Of course, this Mrs. Hotchner is a northern woman who once married into a southern family. If it were not because her husband is a southerner, she would not be so easy to sit with Marge and enjoy afternoon tea.

The Mrs. Hotchner brought her newly married niece and niece, while the Mrs. Bliss just returned from her wedding trip in Europe, bringing the latest European fashion.

It was a mermaid skirt, or a mermaid skirt. It was different from the mermaid skirt that Margot was familiar with in another world. This kind of mermaid skirt still had a lot of stuff on the buttocks, which made the buttocks bulging and looked very It was big, but also set off a very thin waist, which was no different from the big swing skirts set off by whalebone rings that Margot and the others had been wearing since before the war.But it is different from the swing skirt, this skirt starts to take up the thread from the thigh, and only a little bit is left at the knee, and then it starts to relax below.There is also a wide lotus leaf, which runs obliquely upward from the lower left, passes through the right side, and then is tucked into the waist behind.

Wearing a kind of skirt, I can't take a big step.

Mrs. Bliss said happily: "Because this kind of skirt is very elegant, it is very popular in Europe now."

Also present were Scarlett, Suellen, Karin, and Melanie.Of course, for money's sake, Scarlett would still be nice to the Yankee ladies, but not Suellen.

Suellen is spoiled by Rhett.Of course, the huge industry behind her also gave her such confidence.

I only heard Suellen exaggerate: "Oh, my God, Mrs. Bliss, you must have been deceived by those nasty Europeans. There were skirts of this style a few years ago. At that time, I said But they copied what we dressed up in the hospital."

Mrs. Bliss flushed instantly.

Mrs. Hotchner's psychological quality was better, and she immediately complimented Suellen: "Mrs. Butler, you must have worked very hard in the hospital."

Suellen replied: "It's really tiring. But Margot is even more tired. After all, she has to perform dozens of hours of surgery a day. Later, Melanie and I both went to the operating table, and Molly and the others shared the burden for us." By the way, you must have heard of it, it was Mrs. Rossi. Her suturing operation was second to none in the hospital at that time! Later we recruited a few more wives. I have to say that in this respect, the psychological quality of black people is better than that of White people are much better, at least few white ladies can bear the bloody smell and bloody wounds."

"Your mental quality must be the top among the wives in Atlanta."

Suellen waved her hands again and again: "No, no, if you are like me, with a strict sister like Marge and a friend like Melanie who is determined not to give in, you will get used to it very quickly. But even so , I also vomited for a whole week! During that time, I suffered from insomnia every day! But every day when I got up, I still had a lot of things to do! After that, I never suffered from insomnia again!"

Melanie laughed too.

That's right, that's how she came here too.

"Probably the only person I know who hasn't vomited is Margot."

Margot smiled and said, "That's not the case. In fact, when I was in Barton Manor, I cleaned the wounds of the black people who came from afar, and I vomited at the beginning. When I came to Atlanta, I I'm used to it."

Mrs. Bliss' eyes widened in surprise: "What are you talking about? Cleaning the black man's wound?"

Margot said: "Yes. After those black people crossed the blockade, many of them were wounded, and some even showed symptoms of typhoid fever. If they are not dealt with in time, the typhoid fever will spread in the manor."

It's not just typhoid fever, some blacks still have gunshot wounds!Things like bad feet are commonplace.

It was from these black people that Margot learned about the harmful power of hot weapons in this era, and also practiced surgical skills.It's just these things, she won't tell outsiders easily, especially this northern woman.

Mrs. Hotchner said: "You are very kind to those black people."

"Where did you say, isn't this what we should do?"

Mrs. Hotchner said: "I'm not talking about this, but, I heard that your property is going to distribute dividends?"

Marge smiled and said, "Yes. It's been five years since the war ended, and there hasn't been any dividends in these five years. For those who have always supported me, I should also express my gratitude."

"But there are a lot of black people here."

"What does it matter? For companies, whether they are black or white, as long as they hold stocks, they should enjoy such power when they deserve dividends."

Scarlett put it more bluntly: "When it comes to dividends, there are only people who hold stocks and people who don't have stocks. People who hold stocks can get dividends, and people who don't have stocks don't get dividends. It's as simple as that Mrs. Hotchner, you don't have our stock, do you?"

"How could it be!" Mrs. Hochner immediately said, "We are from the south, and of course the southerners must support the southerners. Not only our Hochner family, but also my natal family, I also mobilized them to buy a lot of stocks. But, "Speaking of this, Mrs. Hochner's face showed obvious entanglement: "We just heard that many black people also bought stocks,..."

Scarlett was still staring, Suellen rolled her eyes, and Melanie said kindly: "Yeah, they work very hard and live very frugally. They trust Margot, so they bought a lot of Margot's shares, may I ask?" Is there anything wrong?"

Not just the blacks, but the Hamiltons and the Wilkeses too.In order to support the Southern War, Southern white families did not buy less bonds. Even with Scarlett, an egoist who values ​​money, every time he sees the whole box of Southern bonds that have become waste paper at home. At that time, what rose in her heart was not regret, but a strong sense of pride, and the courage to never shrink back!

No one does not love their hometown.

Now, as in those days, many people in the South are buying Marg's stock, like the Wilkes family.After the big house in Twelve Oaks was burned down, the Wilkes family soon had a lot of money by participating in Marg's Southern Plantation Family Mutual Aid Program, and these funds, in addition to rebuilding Wilkes Except for the preparations for the new house of the Smith family, the rest were bought by John Wilkes, and like the blacks, they were all Margot's shares.

This is also the belief of John Wilkes.

As the daughter-in-law of the Wilkes family, although Melanie knows nothing about the investment of the Wilkes family, she also knows that after the dividends of the property in Marge's hands this time, the Wilkes family will also Possess large sums of cash.

The amount of money the Wilkes family had invested in Margot's estate was no small sum.

"But, but, I heard that many people are regretting it." Mrs. Bliss whispered.

Suellen was inexplicable: "What do you regret? Did you sell your stocks?"

Mrs. Bliss replied: "Not only. It is said that people on Peachtree Street invested their money in other fields and did not use it to buy stocks. Now, when they hear that Mrs. Clark is going to pay dividends, they all regret it."

Marge smiled and said: "In my opinion, healthy financial management is not about owning all idle funds to buy stocks. In fact, 20.00% of the funds are already a lot of stocks. Other funds, half of the funds are owned by Pillar funds, half of which are used in fixed assets. Such a structure is more reasonable and more risk-resistant.”

"But those black people put all their money in stocks," Mrs. Hotchner said.

Mrs. Bliss said: "In this respect, blacks have a huge advantage. They don't need to worry about houses at all!"