Chapter 1197 High-profile appearance

"Well, it's not just that he's stealing money from Standard Bank, Jon shouldn't be idle here!, it's done, this time there is a goal, put that Hills first, and investigate Jon with all his might, starting from the time he knows me, I want to know everything, how long will it take?" Hong Tao really hoped that the guy next to him who was eating inside and outside was Jon, because he was afraid that there would be others, and if there were, it was probably the one between Yulia and Ah Shan. Liszt Bank has always been the listed bank of Crystal Orchid Capital Holdings, and its business contacts are very close, and Hong Tao has not paid enough attention to it over the years, especially after the death of Josephine Sr., Hong Tao has hardly seen Jon, and has long forgotten about this person.

It turned out that his reasoning was also wrong at this time, and the people who could leak part of his shares were not only Ah Shan and Tan Jing, but also this Jon. Although he didn't know these things directly, he could guess it as long as he carefully searched through the accounts he handled. But why did he kidnap Hong Shan? Hong Tao wondered about this question, although 100 million US dollars was a huge amount of money for Jon at that time, it was not enough to make him take risks. As long as this problem is clarified, Hong Tao feels that the cause and effect of the whole thing will be clear, and whether there is a matter of Ah Shan here is almost clear.

"I'm not sure about it, it's nowhere near as convenient as Europe, and when I came back, there was already a business investigation team going to New York, and they were going to hire some people from the United States to help, but the effect is hard to say. "Latz doesn't have a big picture, the United States is really not his sphere of influence, the main reason is that there are not enough access to information, and professional analysts alone are useless. There's no rice to cook.

"I waited until December at most, after the Christmas holidays. I'm going back to the United States, and I'm afraid it's a bit big this time. Help me prepare for the procedures to take refuge in Russia, once I am defeated, and the other party has to be wiped out, I will really have to go into exile for a few years. Hong Tao has no good way to do this, and it is still very troublesome in the United States to investigate the privacy of a rich man. Commercial investigation companies can't help with this kind of help, and it's a very taboo thing, once exposed, it's worse than bombarding the Statue of Liberty in the first place. There will be no one to speak for themselves. So I can't get involved in this matter myself, and I can only rely on Ratz to do it.

"Don't worry about the bold charge, there is a photo of the Moskva entering New York Harbor with the flag of the former Soviet Navy, which is your pass to enter Russia, and no one will embarrass you when you get there. Sergei was quite relieved, he felt that Hong Tao liked to say something very serious before, but he didn't see him do anything once, and this time it should be the same.

In early November 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, defeated former Vice President Al Gore in the election. He became the 43rd President of the United States. Hong Tao didn't have much impression of the new president of the United States, only that he was a Texas cowboy, and his father had been president, and he was born in a pure politician and capitalist family. There is also the unfortunate 911 incident, not long after he took office, Brother Deng gave him a dismissal. The twin towers of the World Trade Center have collapsed.

It is said that Bush Jr. was a very nasty child when he was in school, and he was not only fond of all kinds of pranks like Hong Tao. The academic performance is still very poor. However, he is stronger than Hong Tao because he has a powerful wasp family and a father who has been the president of the United States. In addition, although he is not good at studying. It is said that he knows a quarter of the students at Yale University, and he can also call them by name, which is also a skill, and these people have become good helpers for him to enter the political arena in the future.

But his presidency is a bit tortuous, or unorthodox, how to put it? At the time of the election, the votes were so close to Gore that at the last minute, whoever got the votes for Florida won.

The election of the president of the United States is a bit troublesome, and it will take more than half a year to choose. First, the Republicans and Democrats met on their own, and each elected its own presidential and vice presidential candidates, which is called a primary. Since August, the presidential and vice presidential candidates of both parties have been working together to solicit votes in national speeches, and it has been tossed until the end of the year, when all American citizens will vote for the election, which is considered an official election.

However, instead of using direct voting by the people who have the right to vote, and whoever gets the most votes wins, the presidential election of the United States adopts a system called electors. It probably means that the electors in the state are elected first, and the electors of the state are elected by popular voting, and the number of electors in each state is different according to the number and size of the state, plus the District of Columbia, a total of 538 electors are elected. These electors are nominated by both parties in the state, which means that voters who want to support the Democratic candidate must vote for the elector nominated by the Democrat, and vice versa. Moreover, a state's electors can only support one presidential and vice presidential candidate, which is called a winner-take-all. For example, Florida has 25 electoral seats, and if the people of Florida support the Republican Party more, then all the 25 electoral votes will go to the Republican Party, and it cannot be said that the Republican Party will get 20, and the Democratic Party will have 5 left.

After the electors are elected, the 538 electors will vote again in December to determine who the president will be. But this is a formality, and there has never been a time in the history of the United States where an elector has voted to override the popular vote, and if no one has enough 270 votes, the House of Representatives votes to designate a pair of candidates as president and vice president. By the way, there's also a place where the U.S. elections are also very interesting, where they choose the president and the vice president together, and when they choose the president, the vice president is the president's running mate.

This time, Bush Jr.'s problem lies with Florida, and what is even more interesting is that the governor of Florida is his younger brother, Jeb Bush. One of these two brothers is the governor of Florida, the other is the governor of Texas, and there is a father who has been president, and this family is almost half of the United States. At that time, the votes of George W. Bush and Gore were very close, and the results of the statistics of Florida were not yet out, and whoever got the Florida votes would win.

At this exciting moment, the American media suddenly made a big mistake. First, CNN came out and said that Gore had won in Florida! Then Fox TV, American Broadcasting Television, National Broadcasting Television, Columbia Television, and the Associated Press all echoed the same words, saying in unison that Gore won the electoral vote in Florida, which means that Gore was elected president of the United States.

Here, Gore's team is jubilant, and George W. Bush's team is wilting and drooping. So some Republicans came forward to accuse Jeb of not doing his best to help his brother get votes, and he didn't even look at the state where he was governor. It is said that Jeb really does not want his brother to run for president, because at home, he is the son who is most liked by Bush Sr., and Bush Sr. does intend to make him his successor. This is not that George H.W. Bush prefers his younger son, but that George Bush is too trendy, and he always uses the wrong words in his speeches, and even says the whole sentence is not good, which means that the mud cannot support the wall. But now that he has been pushed out by the Republican Party as a presidential candidate, Bush Sr. can't say that he doesn't support it, both of them are sons, and the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat.

But only more than an hour later, there was another earth-shattering reversal, and it was CNN who took the lead in standing up and saying that he was excited just now, and he was wrong, and it was George W. Bush who finally won the electoral vote in Florida!

You say that the US media is so unreliable that they even dare to play an oolong game in the presidential election, and they are not afraid of cutting it after the president takes office! In any case, in the end, Bush Jr. won, and Gore's side did not bother much, and took the initiative to declare the election defeat and admit defeat with dignity. But since then, some people have been talking about the votes in Florida, suspecting that there is something shady behind it, but there has been no evidence that there is.

At the end of January, the day after President George W. Bush won the election and took the oath of office, a big colorful ship drove into the Hudson River estuary, and the Mouse Superman returned after two years! This time it did not hang a messy military flag or make a fake naval gun to scare people, but it still attracted the attention of the media because it had three real guns on its side. Three 18th-century front-loading cannons, also equipped with British gun carriages, actually ignited again when they entered the port, and three puffs of white smoke came out with a bang, but the salute had no shells.

The police can't take care of this thing, because the personnel and vehicles of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are parked on the dock, and these three 18th-century Spanish cannons are donated to the museum by Hong Tao, and this is the first one that can fire cannons with antiques. It wasn't just as simple as firing a cannon, including Hong Tao, the crew changed into the costumes and hats of the Spanish Navy and Army in the 18th century, and Hong Tao led the team to stage a cannon parade in New York City.

Dozens of young female sailors, dressed in ancient military uniforms, with most of their legs exposed in the cold wind, pulled three copper cannons weighing nearly 2 tons, disembarked from the docks on the Hudson River, walked through four blocks and Central Park, and arrived at the entrance of the museum on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street. The parade was almost time for the parade, and many New Yorkers and tourists followed the procession to join in the fun, which was even more lively than the New Year's parade. Some media jumped out and joked that this was Spain's second landing in the Americas, and it was pulling a cannon cart, which was even more vicious than the bombardment of the Statue of Liberty back then!

Athorn is back! Is he just there to transport these three cannons to the museum? Apparently not. So what is he going to do when he comes back? According to the usual style of this big mouse, as long as he makes a high-profile appearance, something big must happen. (To be continued......)

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