In fact, Philip also knew that this was not a good job, and no one in the party was willing to accept it at all, so he forced Mark Twain, who was not present and had always given people the image of a "cowardly good old man", and even wanted to take advantage of this to invite credit in front of Mark Twain.

In fact, Philip's judgment of Mark Twain (the "Mark Twain" in this article, not the real Mark Twain himself) is very correct, although he has good character and never has any bad deeds, but he is a coward in will, and in the face of the slander and slander of his political hooligan-like rivals, he is helpless, retreating, and unable to fight back, until he finally quits the race.

But what Philip never expected was that the "Mark Twain" in front of him was no longer him, but was replaced by Downing, so his tough attitude surprised Philip, and even he wondered if he had heard it wrong: "What?!" You say you don't want to go? How is this possible? I've got your name on the table! Even if you want to change it now, it's too late. ”

"Then I will directly publish a statement in the newspaper and voluntarily withdraw from the gubernatorial race!" Tang Ning replied without showing weakness.

Hearing Downing say this, Philip immediately panicked, although the Independence Party never thought that its candidate would succeed in the election, but failure does not mean that you can withdraw directly, otherwise you will not even be able to keep the seat of this candidate next time, and the influence of the Independence Party will decline sharply because of this, you must know that there are a lot of small political parties aiming at this position now.

So Philip hurriedly persuaded: "Mark, Mark, what are you doing here?" If you quit, then our independence party will lose its face, and you can't do this! ”

In fact, Tang Ning didn't really want to quit, after all, this involved his main task, so just now this was just retreating, seeing Philip's attitude softened, he took the opportunity to say: "It's not impossible to let me run for election, but since I go, I have to do my best, so the party must support me!" ”

"Okay, what support do you want?" Philip asked helplessly.

Downing held up two fingers and replied, "It's very simple, first, I need manpower, and second, I need campaign money." ”

"How many people and how much money do you want?" Philip asked.

"At least no less than my two rivals, Woodford and Hoffman!" The Tangning lion replied with a wide open mouth.

Philip immediately objected: "How is this possible? What do you think of our Independence Party? How can we have the support of a consortium behind us? ”

"That's half fine, right?" Tang Ning pretended to be generous and took a step back.

"Half of it is absolutely impossible, let's put it this way, if our Independence Party really has half the strength of the Democratic Party, then maybe I will personally fight for the position of governor of New York!" Philip said angrily.

Tang Ning believed that Philip should be telling the truth, so he simply stopped playing falsely and asked directly: "Then what kind of support do you say you can provide me?" ”

Philip pondered for a moment, then said, "I can help you contact a newspaper that leans towards us, and make sure that it will publish the news according to your wishes, and the fee will be kept to a minimum." As for the manpower, there is really no manpower, because our independent party has not seriously participated in the election. At the same time, campaign funds are really impossible, because the rest of the party will never approve of tens of thousands of dollars being spent on such a thing that has no chance of success! ”

"Well, I'll go and invest myself, but whatever promises I make to investors on behalf of the Independence Party, the party must recognize them and fully cooperate with me in all non-financial aspects!" Downing spoke his bottom line.

This time, Philip agreed very happily: "As long as you don't use the party's assets as collateral, everything else is fine." In fact, you don't need to have any scruples in this regard, because if you can't be elected, then whatever you say can be done anyway and you don't have to honor it; And if you do get elected, I think it's worth the price. Then he silently complained: "Although I don't think it's even a 1 in 10,000 possibility." ”

In fact, Downing can also understand that if he were a senior member of the party, he would not allow a large amount of money to be used to do this kind of thing, because it is clear that the Independence Party is not the opponent of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, so Downing's bargaining is to get as much help as possible for himself, and even he is ready to not help anything. Because he still brought money with him this time, which can be exchanged for 100,000 US dollars at any time. (The dollar of 1865 and the dollar of today are not the same thing.) ）

Before leaving, Philip suddenly asked curiously: "By the way, Mark, what is your campaign slogan this time?" ”

"Heal the wounds of war!" Tang Ning looked out the window and replied lightly.

Hearing Downing's answer, Philip couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then gave a thumbs up and praised: "Good idea!" ”

Although the Civil War was fought for only four years, it had extremely important historical significance, such as maintaining national unity, clearing the way for the accelerated development of capitalism, and laying a solid foundation for the United States to become a world power.

But it is undeniable that the losses caused by this war are also extremely huge, and the economic losses have been too large to calculate, but in terms of casualties, at least 750,000 soldiers have been killed, more than 400,000 soldiers have been disabled, and the civilians killed cannot be counted at all.

Therefore, how to heal the mental and life pains brought about by the war after the end of the war is an unavoidable social problem, and once it is not handled well, it is extremely easy to lead to social unrest, which is also a good slogan that "Mark Twain", a candidate who has no consortium background and does not need to be flamboyant by stakeholders.

And "Mark Twain" has always had a good reputation, and he is a well-known writer, which is suitable for doing this kind of humanistic care direction, so Philip will praise Downing for this is a good idea, but if he knows Downing's specific implementation measures, it is estimated that he will not only not be able to boast about it, but may also scold Downing for being a madman, because his measure is too crazy!

PS: I don't know why when I write "Mark", I always can't help but think of Zhang Jiayi in the physical education teacher, saying that the second uncle's acting career is really cool, no matter what TV series he acts, he is chased by beautiful women......