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Chapter 4270 [Global Travel]

In 1918, World War I ended.

Both the Central Powers and the Allied Powers suffered heavy losses.

On the Central Powers side, both the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were broken up.

German Emperor Wilhelm II abdicated and the Weimar Republic was established; the Austro-Hungarian Empire split into many countries including Austria, Hungary, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Macedonia, and Slovenia.

The Ottoman Empire also collapsed, splitting into more than 40 countries, including Greece, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and so on.

  On the Allied side, the February Revolution of 1917 overthrew the rule of the Tsar; 1.4 million young Frenchmen died in the war, and millions were injured and disabled, which was called "the wiping out of a generation";

Britain also suffered heavy losses, with more than 800,000 people killed and one million disabled, and its control over overseas colonies was weakened; Italy had 420,000 deaths and more than 900,000 injured.

Although the war was over, a pandemic influenza broke out quietly, sweeping the world and eventually causing the deaths of 50 million people, more than those killed in World War I.

In the United States alone, in October 1918, 200,000 people died in just one month. At that time, the total population of the United States was only 90 million, and the loss of 2% of the population (equivalent to 2.8 million deaths in China in one month) was quite terrifying.

However, the flu did not hurt Xiang Nan and Rose. They both practiced martial arts for many years and had strong body resistance, so they were not infected.

But Rose's mother, Ruth, unfortunately died suddenly due to influenza.

Trudy even sent a telegram to Rose, hoping that she could rush to Philadelphia to see her mother for the last time.

She became Rose's maid at the age of fifteen and served her for nearly ten years, becoming like a sister to her.

And if Rose hadn't run away from her marriage, Trudy wouldn't have married Carl.

Although Carl was a frivolous, arrogant, and a little mean, it was nothing to Trudy.

Just like Jia Lian in A Dream of Red Mansions, he is also an uneducated, wandering young man. But in You Erjie's eyes, such a person is still a rare good man.

So Trudy was not sad about marrying Carl. On the contrary, she was very happy. It was like a pie in the sky falling from the sky and she got a huge bargain out of thin air. Therefore, she was very grateful to Rose.

However, although her telegram arrived, Rose and Xiang Nan were filming in another place at that time. When they returned to Hollywood, Rose had passed away, so the mother and daughter were unable to see each other for the last time.

Xiang Nan and Rose only attended Ruth's funeral, and did not meet Carl and Trudy. After all, their relationship was too complicated, and it would be awkward to meet again, so it was better not to meet.

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In 1920, Xiang Nan sold DreamWorks Pictures to Universal Pictures, and then he and Rose retired from the film and television industry.

The main reason for this is that Rose has had enough of being a star and doesn't want to be a movie star anymore.

Being a movie star, being surrounded by countless fans, being the focus of countless flash lights, being surrounded by flowers and crowds of people wherever you go, is indeed fun.

But after a while, I couldn't stand it anymore. Because being a big star means you have almost no privacy, and everything, big or small, will be reported in the newspapers, including rumors and slander.

Moreover, being a big star is lonely at the top. She has to consider her acting skills, box office, and popularity. If her performance is a little bit worse, not only will the critics not buy it, but the fans will also not buy it, so it puts a lot of pressure on her.

Therefore, she didn't want to be a star anymore, and wanted to go out and travel, relax. In this case, Xiang Nan naturally didn't open a film company. After all, he opened a film company to help Rose realize her dream.

After selling the company, Xiang Nan and Rose left Hollywood.

The first stop is Canada to experience the local customs and culture there.

Canada is larger than the United States, but has a much smaller population than the United States. Therefore, it has a large number of forests, mountains, lakes, and tundra that have never been visited by humans, and has the most primitive and natural scenery.

After arriving in Canada, Xiang Nan and Rose officially got married in a small church in the suburbs of Vancouver.

Neither of them had any relatives, so there was no need for a big ceremony. It was just the two of them, witnessing the church priest, and they took the oath.

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Starting from Vancouver, Xiang Nan and Rose headed eastward, crossing vast mountains and rivers, wading through surging rivers, and passing through deep and dense forests, all the way to Baffin Island in eastern Canada.

Then it passes through the Davis Strait and arrives in Greenland, and from Greenland via Iceland to Norway, Sweden, Finland, and then to Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and crosses the English Channel to reach the United Kingdom.

After paying respects to Rose's father at the cemetery, they headed to France, then to Spain and Portugal, and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to Morocco.

From Morocco to Mauritania, Senegal, South Africa, etc., and then from South Africa to Tanzania, Somalia, Egypt, passing through the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.

Then from Egypt, cross the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, then enter India via Iran, from India to China, then from China to Japan, then from Japan to the Philippines and Indonesia, and finally arrive in Australia.

Then from Australia to New Zealand, to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean Islands, to Mexico, and finally back to the United States...

It took them nine years to complete this long journey, and they used a variety of means of transportation. In addition to common means of transportation such as cars, carriages, horses, and ships, they also used less common means of transportation such as cows, donkeys, ostriches, alpacas, and elephants.

Xiang Nan even prepared a flying broom, a flying carpet and a flying stick, with which he could fly directly over many difficult-to-climb mountains, difficult-to-pass through dense forests and difficult-to-cross rivers.

Therefore, although this round-the-world journey is long and arduous, it is actually not tiring at all, but rather very fun.

They watched the Northern Lights in the Arctic, the Pyramids in Egypt, the Great Migration of Animals in East Africa, boxing with kangaroos in Australia, racing on alpacas in Chile, and watching people worshipping in India...

Everything I have experienced is something that ordinary people have never experienced before. I can say that I enjoy it every day.

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After returning to the United States in 1929, I happened to encounter an unprecedented economic depression.

Stock prices collapsed, the economy tightened, factories closed, workers lost their jobs, and the scene was depressing.

According to statistics, during the Great Depression, the number of factories that closed down in the United States reached more than 85,000, and the number of unemployed people in the United States reached more than 8 million, accounting for one-tenth of the total population.

Students graduating from top universities can't find a job; some people deliberately set fire to the mountains in order to become firefighters; some people even walk thousands of miles to find a job...

Even if you keep your job, your salary will be greatly reduced, making it difficult to support yourself.