As the ruling party, the Republican Party's situation in the United States is like a microcosm of the perilous environment facing the US government in the international arena.

The Republican Party is not having a good time at home in the United States, and the US government is not having a good time internationally.

Although the war in Montana has ended, the rumors that the U.S. government has been portrayed as demons and marauders, and the Indians are innocently slaughtered natives, which has greatly affected the international image of the U.S. government.

At the same time, the U.S. government's tariff policy continues to ferment, in order to protect its own industry, the U.S. government will increase the tax rate on imported goods to 110%, which makes the U.S. government even more criticized, during the economic crisis, everyone is having a hard time, the U.S. government's move is tantamount to closing the U.S. market to European countries.

At the same time, the US government has maintained criticism of the US immigration policy, the primary productive force in these years is people, not science and technology, the US government has done everything possible to introduce population from all over the world, which has aroused the vigilance of European countries, although relative to the land area of the United States, the current tens of millions of people, far from filling the territory of the United States, but relative to Britain, France, Germany and other traditional European powers, the population of the United States is already too much, has been enough to pose a threat to European countries, change the international power situation.

You must know that before this, the United States, as a new continent, should be regarded as a place of exile in the eyes of European countries, and Americans are God's forgotten people, and now seeing the United States gradually become stronger, it will definitely make those old European powers feel worried, and various reasons are intertwined, so the life of the US government is very difficult.

Grant is also unlucky, in his second term, to bear such serious internal and external pressures, facing the complex international situation, which is much more troublesome than leading troops on the battlefield.

Li Mu does not feel troublesome, although the Junma Group is also facing many problems, but in Li Mu's view, these are all small troubles and will not affect the fundamental interests of the Junma Group.

For example, although the Japanese government did its best to use its own workers, the Japanese government still had to rely on the American Gunpowder Association for the selection of technicians.

Needless to say, the relationship between the American Gunpowder Association and the Junma Group was that Li Mu only needed to give the general a phone call, which was enough to disintegrate all the efforts of the Japanese government.

This is not a joke, the history of the DuPont family is also full of darkness and blood, in the face of competitors, Henry DuPont can ask someone to take a dirt plane, and Li Mu can certainly do the same.

On Saturday, qualifying officially began.

The drivers of the 10 teams will take to the field in turn, running three laps of the 2.5-kilometre course, taking one of the fastest speeds as the final result, and then deciding the order of the race day according to the speed.

With a bandage on his head, Mason still took the lead as the lead driver of the horse team, and when he came out, Mason received enthusiastic cheers from the audience.

Tickets for qualifying are not sold separately, but are bundled with the main race, and you can watch qualifying with your ticket as long as you purchase an official match ticket.

This is the first National Automobile Rally, the sale of tickets is not good, Junma Group prepared 50,000 tickets, and in the end only one-third was sold, but the remaining tickets were not wasted All were sent to the employees of Junma Group as a benefit by Li Mu, so there are really a lot of Junma Group employees who watched the qualifying race.

In fact, four teams of drivers had already completed the test before Mason's appearance, including Racing Phantom and BMW, with Racing Phantom's Foster Lee maintaining his best time so far, with a maximum lap time of 5 minutes and 25 seconds.

It sounds a bit slow, and the speed per hour is not up to 30 kilometers per hour, but the result depends on who you compare it to, and considering the performance of the car at this time, this is already a very good result.

Although Li Mu said very toughly, Mason was still affected by the injury after all, and did not play his best, 6 minutes and 10 seconds, and the results were not good or bad.

This result is not bad, the worst performance is the Vanderbilt team driver, this unlucky guy only completed two laps, halfway through the third lap, this guy's car broke down on the track, more than a dozen team staff surrounded the busy work for a long time, did not let the car start again, and finally a group of people pushed the car to complete the test.

So the Vanderbilt team is currently the worst team with a lap time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds.

This result is basically not close to the championship, if there are no surprises.

William Vanderbilt was unwilling to accept that the first public appearance of the family team ended in failure, so as soon as the results came out, William Vanderbilt went to Li Mu to question the rules of qualifying.

"Our goal is to make the game more exciting, everyone can play well, the game is hard to score, so that there will be suspense, it will attract people's attention, if the results are very polarized, the good is very good, the bad is very bad, then what is the suspense? So the value of qualifying is to add more weight to the poor performers, not to make the good ones look better. William Vanderbilt was very resentful, and he had no nose or face after finding Li Mu.

In Li Mu's original plan, those with good results will start first in the race, and those with poor results will start in turn, so as to reflect the value of qualifying and make each team pay full attention to qualifying.

If, according to William Vanderbilt, qualifying would have become a joke, and people would have tried everything they could to slow down, and qualifying would have lost its value.

The idea was good, but it was a pity that William Vanderbilt did not accept it.

"It can't be like this, your horse group has five teams to participate, we Vanderbilt only have one team, and we still use the technology of your horse group, if the rules are all according to yours, then the championship must belong to your horse group, what is the point of our participation in the race? Is it to prove that your ZAMA Group's cars are better? Even in front of Grant, William Vanderbilt refused to budge and relied on three points if he ignored it.

"William, don't think about it, your Vanderbilt car will never win the championship, and the greatest championship can only belong to the Rockefeller family." Rockefeller is a person who doesn't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement, which means supporting William Vanderbilt and Li Mu to make trouble to the end.

"Ream, you have such an advantage, even if you give up the starting position to the Vanderbilt team, it's no problem." Grant has to take care of the big picture, and the Vanderbilt family is the most powerful family in the United States right now, so Grant has to play balance.

"Of course, no problem, no matter who gives up the starting position, the championship can only belong to the Horse Group." Now that Grant has spoken, Li Mu is not stubborn, the rules are set by people, and they were originally used to destroy.

Having said that, this is only the first National Rally, and the current rules of the race do not mean that they cannot be changed in the future.

William Vanderbilt was so happy that he laughed as if he had won the championship.

Li Mu is also happy, no matter how William Vanderbilt tosses, the Vanderbilt team can't escape the fate of accompanying the prince to study.

Grant is also happy, coming to New York, Grant has really gotten rid of the party and government disputes in Washington, without the impeachment of the Democratic Party, without the elbow of the Republican Party, and without the scandal in the presidential palace, Grant finally feels that it is not very comfortable to be president.

Li Mu did not continue to watch the qualifying match with Grant, Grant made a rare trip to New York, and Arthur was eager to show Grant a new New York to prove that New York had achieved better results under his rule than under Tweed.

If you want to show New York, you must not be able to bypass the Horse Group, Li Mu, as the boss of the Horse Group, has to accompany Grant and Arthur to visit the Horse Group.

After several years as president, Grant is still very progressive, and when it comes to visiting and showing, Grant is a real expert.

In the cafeteria of the Junma Automobile Factory, Grant personally took the plate to line up, without the slightest special feeling as a president.

After dinner, Grant talked and laughed happily with the old workers in mud houses and overalls, and when it came to being happy, Grant would also slap the table and whistle like those vulgar workers, and he was very skilled in whistling.

At the construction site of Junma Electric Company, Grant simply wore only a hard hat, and climbed down the sewer with the workers, at a depth of hundreds of meters, even Li Mu felt depressed and depressed, but Grant was unaware of it, and still talked and laughed with the workers.

On the soon-to-be-completed Steed Tower in Central Park, Grant and Arthur swing a hammer and smash a gold nail into the concrete, symbolizing the completion of the Estead Building.

The nail will be pulled out and displayed in the Horse Museum, in the sense that these two people are actually doing a disservice.

During the whole visit, everyone was in high spirits, "Time Magazine" sent four teams of reporters to follow the whole process, two photography teams, two text groups, they have a clear division of labor, two take care of Grant, two take care of Arthur, impartial, as for Li Mu, forget it, his boss has always been relatively low-key, never willing to go to the newspaper, take pictures to find a good angle, if you take a picture of half a face, or a back or something, it is really disrespectful.

Dinner was held on Governor's Island, and in order to serve Grant well, Li Mu specially took Lao Yan and his wife over, and borrowed a few waiters from the San Jose restaurant, which met the request of the housekeeper Raul.

The construction of Governor's Island has also come to an end, and Li Mu has brought back enough sandalwood from Honolulu, and the materials are so extravagant that even Lao Yan, a former carpenter in the palace, can't help but smack his tongue again and again.

In order to build his own home, Li Mu did not care about the cost at all, which gave the craftsmen plenty of use, pavilions, pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, and even took advantage of the geographical advantages of Governor's Island to set up an artificial lake in the center of the island.

Of course, it's winter, and you can't see any colorful tropical fish in the artificial lake, but you still have to wonder what it would be like to be alive in the summer.

The pavilion in the middle of the artificial lake is called Sanssouci Pavilion, the whole pavilion uses all sandalwood, it is winter now, the pavilion is wrapped in a layer of colored float glass, and there is a ground dragon installed under the floor, so you can't feel the cold wind outside the pavilion at all.

"If you hadn't told me, I would never have imagined that this was a military fortress before." Standing in the Sanssouci Pavilion, overlooking the shadowy Manhattan, with the unique scent of sandalwood lingering on the tip of his nose, and then looking at the green vegetation on the artificial lake that is still verdant despite the snow on the top of Kaikai, Grant can't help but feel relaxed.

Now Governor's Island has lost the slightest military color, and with the demolition of the last war fortress, Governor's Island has become a complete paradise, not only Grant, whoever comes to Governor's Island will always be praised in a big way.

"It's a matter of people, when the Tweed scandal broke out in New York, everyone thought that the credibility of the New York government was about to fail, but now look at it, Mayor Arthur is doing a good job, and the credibility of the New York City government is better than before, so as long as you put in the effort, bad things can become good things." Li Mu swore that there was really no other meaning when he said this, it was purely a feeling, and by the way, he patted Arthur's ass.

But to Grant's ears, it didn't taste right.

Although Tweed had already served as mayor of New York before Grant became president, the Tweed Group must have been during Grant's tenure, so no matter what, Grant has a responsibility that he can't escape.

There were all human spirits present, and before Grant could think deeply, Arthur jumped out and pulled the topic away.

"Speaking of Tweed, we now have definite information, Tweed is in Spain, but when we asked the Spanish government to arrest Tweed, the Spanish government refused, if Tweed cannot be arrested as soon as possible, then the New York government will never be able to gain enough credibility, and justice will never be supported." Arthur was so angry that he gritted his teeth at the mention of the Spaniards.

In this world, Americans hate the British the most, and the Spaniards hate the Americans the most.

Li Mu called for wind and rain in Cuba, so that Spain completely lost the colony of Cuba, and also unveiled the last fig leaf on the face of the Spanish government, Spain is currently in a civil war, which can be described as internal and external difficulties, and this matter is not unrelated.

Under this premise, it is not easy to say that the Spanish government wants to cooperate with the New York government in arresting Tweed, and they are not equal.

However, looking at Spain's current attitude, even Washington's words are not good. [.]