247 Strategic Reserve (1st Update)
At the point where Li Mu is now, Li Mu can no longer worry about Washington's opinion and unscrupulously defend the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The reason is very simple, when Li Mu was still weak, Li Mu had to be cautious to protect himself, even if he was ambitious, he could not show it in front of others, so as not to cause a catastrophe.
Now it's different, when Li Mu sold Guantanamo to the U.S. government, when Li Mu's business spread all over the United States and Cuba, when Li Mu can cultivate political help to enter the Senate, it is almost impossible to move Li Mu, if Runkel and Henry successfully enter the Senate, it is impossible to pass any policy against Li Mu at the official level, and at the private level, think about the fate of Amis, Li Mu's enemies should care more about themselves.
What the US government should be worried about now is not whether Li Mu will defend his own people, but whether Li Mu will tilt towards Cuba between the United States and Cuba because of the shift of the focus of his career to Cuba, and if the latter possibility really breaks out, it will undoubtedly be a loss for the US government.
Why did you rush to send money to Li Mu when J.P. Morgan was in a hurry, now it's a time of economic crisis, Scott's loan J.P. Morgan refused some time ago, Scott is the former general manager of the Union Pacific Railroad, according to Amz's resume analysis, Scott is also eligible to enter the Senate, J.P. Morgan can even refuse such a person, so to say that J.P. Morgan helped Li Mu sell Treasury bonds without Washington's instructions, J.P. Morgan was the first to disbelieve it.
Li Mu's steel plant was not in J.P.Morgan's plan, this was a matter of the San Diego Investment Company, and there was no room for J.P.Morgan to intervene, but this could increase Li Mu's weight and strive for better conditions for Li Mu in negotiations with J.P.Morgan, so after consulting with Carnegie, Li Mu decided to start the construction of the steel plant as soon as possible.
The United States of Cuba gave Li Mu the greatest support in this regard, and although the United States of Cuba was short of manpower to rebuild Santiago, Nelson still squeezed out 3,000 workers for Li Mu to use for the construction of the first phase of the steel plant.
Li Mu is going to put the steel plant in Kemanella in Guantanamo, which is frequently adjacent to Guantanamo Bay, the terrain is flat and the area is vast, the key is that the weather here is relatively hot, and nothing can be planted on the ground except cacti, which is just used to build a steel mill and will not waste land.
Steel mills are heavy industries that not only cover a huge area, but also produce pollution, so they are not suitable to be built near San Diego; Moreover, the steel plant that Li Mu wants to build now seems to be huge, but Li Mu's goal is to supply the Caribbean coastal countries, so in a few years, this steel plant will be out of capacity, so Li Mu wants to leave enough space for the steel plant to expand in the future.
Nearly 100 square kilometers west of Guantanamo are the desolate and hot Gobi Desert, with plenty of room for future expansion.
Moreover, Guantanamo is now the territory of the United States, and Li Mu's Guantanamo Infantry Regiment is also stationed in Guantanamo, so there is no need to worry about safety, whether it is by land or sea, as long as the Spaniards dare to harass them, Li Mu is sure that they will not return.
In order to obtain the exclusive authorization of stainless steel and "titanium-platinum-tungsten-nickel alloy steel" in the United States, Carnegie had to dispatch a group of technicians to Guantanamo as soon as possible to guide the construction of the steel plant, and at the same time to help the "San Diego United Steel Plant" find a competent general manager.
Yes, Li Mu's steel plant is called "San Diego United Steel Plant", this is a project invested by San Diego Investment Company, the name is natural, Li Mu doesn't want to come up with a Rim Harrison Steel Plant, or Rim Dewey Steel Plant, such a name is everywhere in the United States, Li Mu wants to make others feel refreshing when they hear the name of the steel plant, even if it is a strange sounding name, Li Mu also wants to leave a deep impression.
At the end of June, an agreement was finally reached between the San Diego Investment Company and the Morgan family, in which the Morgan family injected $15 million into the San Diego Investment Company, taking 49 percent of the company's shares.
In order to ensure that the controlling stake was in his own hands, Li Mu withdrew the shares to George Dewey, Benjamin, Mahan, and Sylvester, and only retained their right to receive dividends, and he held 51 percent of the shares of the San Diego Investment Company.
In this way, Li Mu's stake in the San Diego Investment Company actually dropped to 31 percent, which seems to be a sharp reduction in assets, but in fact it is not, after all, the original capital of the San Diego Investment Company was only 5 million US dollars, and the 15 million US dollars invested by the Morgan family did not completely belong to the Morgan family, a large part of which was raised from Wall Street, and the Morgan family's own money only accounted for about 3 million US dollars, accounting for about 10 percent of the shares of the San Diego Investment Company.
In order to ensure the reciprocity of funds, Li Mu spun off all the plantations and mines from the San Diego Investment Company, and the San Diego United Steel Plant did not have a share of the Morgan family, but if the San Diego United Steel Plant was expanded in the future, the Morgan family had the right to make additional investments.
This is the role of Carnegie, if it were not for Li Mu and Carnegie to reach an agreement, the Morgan family would not compromise easily.
The Morgan family got the right to use the San Diego port, and the ownership is of course Li Mu's, but the Morgan family is responsible for part of the expansion costs of the San Diego port, which will greatly reduce Li Mu's financial pressure.
Although Li Mu was in Cuba, he never ignored Springfield's Horse Arms Company, and after selling Guantanamo to the U.S. government, Li Muxin established the Horse Machinery Company, a company specializing in the production of industrial machines, which is the legendary "industrial machine tool".
After the advent of smokeless gunpowder, the existing weapons have declined, and the production of new weapons requires new production lines, and the machines for the production of these new weapons are only Li Mu's factory in the world, and it is time to establish a new machinery company.
To tell the truth, the economic crisis is a crisis for others, but it is an opportunity for Li Mu, after the outbreak of the economic crisis, many companies closed their doors, the market was flooded with all kinds of outstanding talents, other factories are shrinking production to cope with the economic crisis, Li Mu's factory is expanding vigorously, into 1873, the workers of the Horse Arms Company have exceeded 5,000, and the Kuobin Lake Reservoir project has absorbed tens of thousands of workers to participate, these numbers are still rising. The train from California to Springfield worked day and night, bringing hundreds of Chinese to the Horse Arms Company every day, and Massachusetts was the most densely populated Chinese in the United States in terms of Chinese density alone, surpassing San Francisco in California.
In the context of the economic crisis, even the national laboratories led by the federal government in the United States have to lay off employees, not to mention other enterprises or privately-led laboratories, and there are more graduates who have just left school, they can't find jobs at all, and some even have to apply in factories to start as front-line workers.
In order to solve this problem, Li Mu bought 10 square kilometers of land in the Back Bay District, across the river from Boston and MIT, to build a new campus and new laboratories at MIT.
That's right, Li Mu is under the banner of building a new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in order to buy ten square kilometers of land in Boston, where every inch of land is expensive, as for whether such a large place can be used up, this is not a problem for Li Mu to consider, building a house can be used to build parks and green spaces, creating a good working environment for researchers, is conducive to improving the enthusiasm of researchers, and is also conducive to improving the quality of the institute, and at the same time occupies such a large place, when the laboratory is relocated again in the future, This land is another big profit.
In the name of "supporting the cause of education in the United States", Li Mu only spent $100,000 to get the 10 square kilometers of land, and of course, the "public relations expenses" unsurprisingly exceeded $300,000.
Li Mu also had a windfall, after buying the land, the Boston City City awarded Li Mu the title of "honorary citizen", which could not bring economic benefits to Li Mu, but could bring Li Mu great prestige.
This is exactly what Li Mu needs most.
The new factory and the new laboratory accounted for most of Li Mu's funds, but fortunately, with the support of J.P. Morgan's national debt, Li Mu would not be overstretched, otherwise it is estimated that Li Mu, like those unlucky people who went bankrupt in the economic crisis, would have to stand on the roof of the Queen's Hotel and sing the song "The first snow and the first snow".
After the defeat of Willé Nicolau at Bayamo, he regrouped and learned from the pain, and after three months of preparation, he finally mustered up the courage to attack again and launched another attack on Santiago in early July.
This time Willis Nikolau was more prepared, not only the troops that had suffered heavy losses in the last Battle of El Christo have recovered, but Willis Nikolau also issued a general mobilization for war, increasing the colonial servant army to six divisions, with a total strength of nearly 90,000 troops, and at the same time, Willis Nikolau mobilized nearly 100 artillery pieces in an effort to complete the battle and capture Santiago in one go.
Compared with the fierce Spaniards, George Dewey still did not have an advantage, after three months of training and replenishment, George Dewey's army was nearly 50,000 men, which had squeezed out all the war potential of the United States of Cuba, no matter if the war situation developed, George Dewey did not have any reinforcements.
No, at Guantanamo, there was also a Guantanamo infantry regiment of about 4,000 men, which was George Dewey's only strategic reserve.