Seeing the young man nodding and knowing that the deal had been made, Wu Qian gestured to one of the spade troops, then walked over to the Bugatti to wake up the engine, and then sat in the driver's seat of the impala, and walked away with one foot on the accelerator, leaving him alone.

In the rearview mirror, Bauer hurriedly asked everyone to return to the helicopter, Cooks opened the door of the phantom, the young man looked at the check in his hand and still stood still, and the Cinderella, who once wanted to become a princess, hugged the man's neck with great joy.

Wu Qian left St. Louis Airport in two cars when he left, and now it is three cars.

The open-top impala happily "jumped" on Route 66, followed by a Phantom a few dozen meters behind, while Bugatti followed last, driven by David.

Galloping along historic Route 66, you can see corn fields that have been harvested, Indian reservations, and endless deserts, and the vast loess with cacti scattered here and there, full of western cowboy style.

The Route 66 journey seems to have made Wu Qian fall into a time tunnel and enter the era of western cowboys.

The old impala was indeed not fast, but it was still not a big problem to maintain a cruise of 80 kilometers per hour, and two hours later, Wu Qian saw a motel and a restaurant with a very western character appear on the side of the road.

The restaurant has a strong regional character, with very low-looking LED light strips woven into the silhouette of a cowboy hat, two waist-high doors, and wooden steps full of traces of time.

Wu Qian drove the car to the parking apron in front of the restaurant without thinking, and the wheels braked vigorously to bring up a cloud of dust.

If you are a traveler who comes here alone, you should be careful, as there are many hidden evils hidden under the remote scenery.

David and Cooks walked in front, pushing open the wooden door with a creaky sound.

Thin smoke wafted through the restaurant, with the smell of cigarettes and cigars, and diners focused their eyes on the door, where they saw a big man in black rushing in, and finally a young man in a crisp suit.

When Wu Qian appeared in the restaurant, all the eyes that looked at the door were taken back, but anyone with a little brain knew that this group of people was not easy to mess with, and there was bound to be a chilling guy hidden in the bulging waist and back.

"Waiter, the signature roast and bacon salad says twenty portions each, oh yes, plus a big jar (ten liters) of lemon malt juice. ”

Wu Qianwu walked to a large table and pulled out a stool to sit down, and said to the waiter who was a little afraid to come forward, the food he ordered was the main feature of this restaurant.

Normally, if a group of big men came to drink lemon malt juice, they would have been laughed at by the local diners, and the big men actually drank the little girl's drink, but this time they didn't say anything.

While Wu Qian was taking the people around her to experience life in the western United States, in a suite in an apartment building in Kansas City, Kama Harrison sat at her desk, rubbing her forehead with her hand to relieve fatigue, and a staff member of the campaign team was reporting to her on the fundraising.

"Ms. Harrison, in the last week, your account received more than $302,000 in donations from more than 30,000 voters. ”

Regarding this news, the staff member who made the report shrugged helplessly, and it could be seen from her expression and demeanor that the donation of more than 300,000 US dollars seemed to be very unoptimistic.

Looking at the entire democratic faction, the fundraising of 300,000 yuan a week is not at the bottom, but it is indeed at the bottom.

For example, the "popular king" Jordon easily raised $2 million in donations in a week, while Bloomberg, who ranked second, did not matter to him at all, because he was a billionaire and had a lot of money waiting for him to squander.

In fact, there are not many voters who donate to Kama Harrison, but the amount of each one is too small, just like last week, the average voter donation was only a pitiful ten dollars and sixty cents......

The root cause of this phenomenon is directly related to the people who benefit from Kama Harrison's ideas.

Some candidates focus on economic development and favor preferential policies towards conglomerates and large corporations, so that they can naturally get funding from the wealthy, while people like Kama Harrison focus on minorities, and donations naturally come mostly from minorities and people at the bottom of the social ladder with lower incomes.

The small number of donations received does not mean that Cama Harrison has fewer supporters, but her supporters' ability is limited, even if there are some rich people among her supporters, but due to regulations, they can only donate $2,300 to her.

In order to put an end to the phenomenon of consortia or wealthy individuals controlling the presidential election, the United States has very strict fund-raising regulations, and there are strict limits on the amount of donations that individuals can give to candidates.

Individual voters may choose to contribute to candidates, factions or political action committees in a total amount of up to $25,000 a year, including $2,300 to presidential candidates, $20,000 to factions and $5,000 to political action committees.

Such a move may seem very strict, but it is actually ...... As the saying goes, there are policies and countermeasures, how can there be an impermeable wall.

The most common trick used by candidates is to "package" donations, and candidates use their influence to hold various forms of activities, such as banquets, musicals, and concerts, and then participants who want to "take advantage of the heat" will naturally say that the event is held smoothly, and both parties are happy.

In 2003, Xiaobu raised funds for re-election and held a dinner dance at the Sheraton in Washington, D.C., in order to attend the dinner with the then president of the United States, each of the supporters who came to him would be very "consciously" handed over a check of 2,300 US dollars to express their feelings.

According to statistics, just that dance party, Xiaobu raised more than three million dollars in donations!

Of course, it is only after they have a considerable fame that some people will "come here", and a candidate like Kama Harrison has no fame, or fame is limited to a certain region, and it will not achieve that effect at all.

Besides, even if Kama Harrison wanted to hold a decent big event to attract the upper class, she probably wouldn't have the money on her campaign account.

The raising of funds is controlled by relevant laws and regulations, and there are also regulations on spending money.

There are many restrictions on the use of campaign funds allocated by factions to their own candidates, such as for their own expenses, every expense will be supervised, and if you use the money given by the faction to stay in a more luxurious hotel, you will be warned.

But if the money is raised from the voters, it will be much more relaxed, and no one will care about it as long as it is not extravagantly profligate.

Kama Harrison was not as depressed as the staff on the news of the 300,000 donation, she looked up and smiled: "This result has exceeded my expectations, very good, I have more than 30,000 more supporters, this is great news." ”

"I believe that through today's event and tomorrow's speech, the people of Kansas and Missouri will learn more about my determination!"

Positive people are always brave enough to get themselves out of adversity, and the campaign staff admires Harrison's optimism.

However, it is not enough to have a positive and optimistic spirit on the road to the election campaign!

Cama Harrison walked to the window and looked out into the street, Kansas City, where Bloomberg's advertisements were hung everywhere, and a picture of Bloomberg speaking appeared on the streets.

Obviously, Missouri and Kansas have been "overwhelmed" by the propaganda of billionaire Bloomberg, and under the strong economic power, all kinds of advertising media are promoting his deeds and opinions, creating influence all the time.

One of the staff members seemed to know what Harrison was thinking, and said, "Ms. Harrison, I have contacted the advertisers, and they said that if they want to remove Bloomberg's advertising ads, they will need to pay Bloomberg between 300,000 and 800,000 yuan in liquidated damages, and if you are willing to pay this fee, they will be more than happy to serve you." ”

Advertisers and media often play a neutral role in the election process, they will not have a clear factional position, making money is their main task, the contract is there, but the breach of contract is also very common, the rules are very simple, whoever pays more, will help.

Naked money suppression.

With a hint of sadness between his eyebrows, Kama Harrison shook his head with a smile: "Kabuto, I'm not a billionaire, I can't do that. ”

She only has more than 5 million campaign funds in her account, and just settling Kansas City, I'm afraid it will require Cama Harrison to give everything she has, and that's still under the premise of laws and regulations, in fact, she can't do that at all.

Harrison looked at the photo of Bloomberg not far away, took a deep breath, as if cheering himself up, then turned around and clapped his hands, and said, "Everyone rest for thirty minutes, there is important work in the afternoon." ”

Kama Harrison is not only concerned with minority issues, but she is also a very explicit feminist, and in the afternoon she and her campaign team will be hosting an event with the local women's association to focus on women's work, social and family environments.

At the same time as Cama Harrison held a canvassing event, Houston, the largest city in Texas, the senior management of Devon Energy Group held a press conference that was not very large, but the impact was inexplicably large.

The press conference was held at the Middle Williams Building in Houston, and the atmosphere was not too lively, because the preparations were very hasty, and there were only more than a dozen media present.

Christo, CEO of Devon Energy, was sweating in his head with a press release that had been rushed out overnight, he couldn't imagine what kind of reaction the outside world would have after he announced the news, and he had an inexplicable fear in his heart.

Time will not wait for anyone, and finally it is time to come to the stage.

Christo did not have any clichés, and after briefly expressing Devon Energy's views on the shale oil industry, he threw out the news that Devon Energy Group was about to increase production significantly.

"With all in mind, Devon Energy has decided to aggressively develop shale oil extraction projects to increase oil production to 800,000 barrels per day. ”

Christo's voice settled, and there was a brief silence before the reporters "rioted".

The negative impact of the fall in international oil prices on shale oil is self-evident, it can be said that all oil and gas companies in the United States are thinking of ways to reduce production, and the government is under great pressure.

And the increase in production is so large that it is very scary.

In the face of reporters' questions, Christo answered selectively, to be honest, he didn't know much, so his words were not nutritious.

Originally, this press conference did not have much scope of influence, although Dai Wen is a good scale in the entire army of oil and gas companies in the United States, but it is far from reaching the scale of leading enterprises.

But such an astonishing decision attracted the attention of many people at once.

Senior officials of the top leading companies Chevron and ExxonMobil instantly noticed this little guy named Devon Energy!

"Even we can't get the best in this crude oil price war, what is Devon Energy going to do?"

Chevron's top brass watched the delayed live broadcast of the press conference with a lot of confusion in their minds.

"At this time, I actually dare to jump out and stir up the situation, with a daily output of 800,000 barrels, hum, is it naïve or ......"

ExxonMobil's executive face is extremely ugly, and in his opinion, Devon Energy has taken a very bad head, which will release a signal that is extremely unfavorable to the stability of international oil prices, which makes him very worried.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, in London, Woodward and Barbara joined the call, starting to trade WTI crude oil at the same time as the news was reported by the media.

The WTI market, which was originally unwavering, began to decline slightly after Devon Energy held a press conference and the news came out.

However, before the price fell by about two points, the power to turn the tide appeared!

According to the market turnover at that time, Woodward and Barbara instantly closed 250,000 short trading orders with pending orders, which not only resolved all the downward momentum, but also increased the price of WTI by 12 percentage points in a very short period of time!

In a few minutes, the price of WTI fell from 17.26 to 16.9, and then soared to 18.9!

This phenomenon has attracted much more attention than Devon Energy's press conference.

Wall Street in New York, Financial Street next to St. Paul's Church in London, Financial Street in Central, Hong Kong Island, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo in Germany......

Countless financial practitioners in financial centers have discovered this anomaly.

It stands to reason that the decline is the right direction at this time, because at the same time the price of Brent crude oil is indeed falling, and the decline is much greater than the price of WTI crude oil, but then it may be driven by the WTI market and also begins to rise, but the momentum is far less than that of WTI.

This makes the rise in WTI crude oil prices even more confusing, and no one knows the specific reason for this rise.

Even some high-ranking officials and executives of the United States authorities did not know what was going on, and they called each other to ask the reason.

Many people in the outside world speculate that Devon Energy may be speaking on behalf of a certain department of the United States, which is the relevant departments of the United States standing up to protect the disk, and began to stabilize the price of WTI and maintain the international market position of shale oil.

This speculation has been accepted by many people, because only this explanation can explain why the price of WTI crude oil has risen against the trend, because even if some organizations have the economic strength, they do not dare to act rashly at this sensitive moment.