If the Pacific Company is willing to hand over Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok to the U.S. government for management, then the U.S. government will definitely have to develop Sakhalin and Vladivostok to a certain extent, which is different from Alaska, which spent real money to buy Alaska from the Russians, but Alaska could not generate benefits, so Secretary of State Seward, who came forward to negotiate at that time, became the sinner pointed out by Qianfu.

And if Hayes can get Sakhalin and Vladivostok without spending a penny, then the evaluation of Hayes will definitely be much higher than that of Seward, at least no one will scold Hayes as a "fool", in this way, Hayes can also smoothly promote Congressional investment in Sakhalin and Vladivostok, it is normal not to invest in Alaska, but if you do not invest in Sakhalin and Vladivostok, it will definitely make a "patriotic businessman" like Li Mu cold

That's right, handing over Sakhalin and Vladivostok to the U.S. government is also good for the Pacific Company and Li Mu, and at the very least, it is even good for all Chinese in the United States, and now the United States encourages immigration, regardless of whether it is Europeans, Africans, or Asians, as long as someone is willing to immigrate to the United States, the U.S. government will accept it with open arms, why doesn't the United States in the 21 st century welcome immigrants?

In the final analysis, it is a question of contribution, and if those illegal immigrants can bring hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars of investment to the United States, the U.S. government in the 21st century will not refuse.

In this era, if the Pacific Company handed over Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok to the US government for management, then even if the Pacific Company and Li Mu had the merit of expanding their territory, the Chinese would be able to enjoy all the rights that normal Americans should enjoy, which was very important for improving the social status of Chinese Americans in the United States, and it was more effective than the emergence of ten monopoly oligopolies like Li Mu in the United States, after all, this method would not arouse the disgust of ordinary Americans.

If Hayes hadn't taken the initiative to come to Li Mu, Li Mu would have found a way to attract Hais's attention, just like Hayes said, now is not the Age of Discovery, nor is it the eighteenth century, the stage of the country relying on enterprises to expand its territory has passed, and it is the best choice to hand over Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok to the US government for management.

"My requirements are actually not high, Mr. President, you also know that in the current Alaska, there are already a lot of Chinese immigrants, and the figure I got here is that the number of Chinese immigrants before the opening of the Olympic Games has exceeded 100,000, if Sakhalin and Vladivostok are handed over to the US government to manage, then it is foreseeable that there will be more Chinese immigrants to Sakhalin and Vladivostok, or Alaska, if I can, I hope to set up local governments in Sakhalin and Vladivostok to manage, All newcomers should have their rights, and I know it wasn't easy before, but now that even the radio has been invented, it shouldn't be hard to do that. Historically, the U.S. government did not upgrade Alaska to a state until 1959, when the main thing was to consider the threat of the Soviet Union, and now there is no Soviet Union, so Li Mu's request is still a bit excessive.

In fact, the United States also has this kind of thinking, and Idaho, Utah, Oklahoma, and other places in the hinterland of the United States have not yet determined the state, and it is too early to establish Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok as states.

Hayes estimated that he also thought so, don't look at what Hayes said just now, Li Mu really made a condition, Hayes thought about it for a while with a sad face, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he still bargained, "Reem, I can guarantee the due rights of new immigrants, but it is not time to establish a local government." ”

This is interesting, the reason why Chinese Americans in another time and space are not welcomed, one of the big factors is that Chinese Americans are not much interested in politics, so politicians do not need to curry favor with Chinese Americans, so the United States will pass the "Chinese Exclusion Act", this time and space Li Mu is most concerned about political rights, if not in Sakhalin and Vladivostok to establish state governments, then what political rights are there to talk about? It's simply impossible.

For example, the election of the president, in fact, the role played by the individual is not very large, it is the electoral vote that determines the ownership of the president, and the electoral vote is generated on the basis of the state, if Sakhalin and Vladivostok are not as separate states as the electoral vote for the presidential election, then the so-called "political rights" of Hayes still have meaning?

So Li Mu's attitude was very resolute: "No, Mr. President, if Sakhalin and Vladivostok do not establish local governments, then the new immigrants in Sakhalin and Vladivostok will not be able to realize their rights, Vladivostok is different from Alaska, when the Russians sold Alaska to the US government, Alaska has no settlement, and there are no fixed residents, so it doesn't matter in Alaska, but Vladivostok is different, Vladivostok is a city, and the Russian East Siberian Governor's Office is in Vladivostok, There are the best ice-free ports in the Far East, so it makes sense to manage Vladivostok as a state, as for the cost, Mr. President, Vladivostok and Sakhalin are not barren lands, there are rich forest resources, it is the best fur producing area, there is oil, there are mines, as long as you put these news out, at most years, Vladivostok can not only be completely self-sufficient, but can even feed back to Washington, this is a very cost-effective way to buy Seward to buy Alaska, and even if Vladivostok, The merger of Sakhalin and Alaska into a single state would also appease new immigrants in Alaska, and I can assure you that it would become a new base for our Republican Party, so that at least the Republicans in Congress would not object. ”

Li Mu's rhetoric is still very demagogic, especially the last point, which makes Hayes unable to find a reason to oppose it.

"There are no new immigrants in Vladivostok right now, and there are only 100,000 people in Alaska, so there are not many electoral votes." Hayes has actually agreed, electoral votes are not so easy to get, even one vote may eventually become the key to determining the outcome of the election, Hayes has suffered in this regard, as long as the congressmen who still have an impression of the last presidential election, most of them will agree with Li Mu's statement.

"Now there are only 100,000, and it will continue to increase in the future, especially in Vladivostok, as long as we open up immigration, we can mobilize millions of Chinese immigrants to Vladivostok in a short period of time, so it should be enough, right?" Li Mu is not worried about the lack of headcount, when bewitching Haiss, Li Mu can also blur the area of Alaska and Vladivostok, if according to Li Mu's idea, Sakhalin, Vladivostok, and Alaska will be merged into one state, then the total area of this state will reach nearly 3 million square kilometers, what is this concept? Even according to the land area of the United States in the 21st century, this is nearly 30% of the territory of the United States, such a large area, coupled with the almost endless number of Chinese immigrants, then it is really difficult to say where this land will belong in the future.

Speaking of which, Hayes couldn't find a reason to refuse, and Li Mu still gave Hayes another reassurance, and would persuade Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan and others to lobby Congress together, which gave Hayes great confidence, and with Li Mu and Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan coming forward together, even without Hays's support, there was more than 50 percent certainty in Vladivostok State.

Then let's start, Li Mu wants to persuade Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan is not too simple, Li Mu just gave Rockefeller a small reminder that there seems to be oil in Vladivostok, and Rockefeller immediately went to Washington overnight like a chicken blood, and it is very simple to persuade J.P. Morgan that J.P. Morgan is engaged in investment, and if Vladivostok is established, then there are not too many opportunities to make money.

No one could resist the lure of the dollar, and despite the notoriously inefficient federal state, Hayes proposed to Congress in early August the creation of a Vladivostok state in Vladivostok, with land near Vladivostok, Sakhalin, and Alaska, already across the sea.

Senators voted on it immediately, and even many Democratic lawmakers agreed that it was necessary to create a state of Vladivostok to administer the vast territory of the Far East and the Arctic Circle, with the most resolute of them being the newly elected Senator Grover Cleveland of New Jersey.

Unlike another time and space, Grover Cleveland's political career was completely changed by Li Mu, if he did not have the experience of serving as the chief lawyer of the Horse Group, Grover Cleveland would probably still be in Buffalo and co-founded a law firm, and it will probably not be until next year that Grover Cleveland will enter the political arena and become the mayor of Buffalo, after that, Grover Cleveland began a smooth political career.

With the help of Li Mu in this time and space, Grover Cleveland began to show his political talent early, and his political career was changed from Buffalo City to the Democratic National Committee, which almost allowed Grover Cleveland to enter the power center of the Democratic Party.

In recent years, in the competition with the Republican Party, the Democratic Party is really vulnerable, Samuel Tilden has been proven unable to compete for the presidency, ending the Republican monopoly on the presidency after the Civil War, the Democratic Party has to start trying to introduce some new faces, Grover Cleveland has become the biggest beneficiary.

Grover Cleveland has a reason to approve of the establishment of Vladivostok, although Li Mu promised Hayes that once Vladivostok is established, Vladivostok will become the new vote base of the Republican Party, but Grover Cleveland does not think so, compared with all other Democrats, Grover Cleveland has the most experience in dealing with the Chinese, Grover Cleveland and Li Mu have a good relationship, he did not even hide this from other Democrats, and those who advocate the collapse of "Time", Unlike the Democrats, who made the Republican Party lose the advantage of public opinion, Grover Cleveland put forward a new idea, since it seems difficult to defeat Time Magazine, then why not abandon this unrealistic idea and instead consider pulling Li Mu into the Democratic camp? This seems to be easier than defeating Time Magazine, Grover Cleveland does not think that Li Mu's loyalty to the Republican Party is so strong, but the question of who gives Li Mu more benefits, this is actually very simple to achieve, because even if the Republicans entrap Li Mu, the benefits given are not paid by the Republicans, but all paid by the US government.

As a rising star in the Democratic Party, Grover Cleveland still has a good influence, so when Hayes proposed the creation of Vladivostok, Grover Cleveland voted in favor without hesitation.

Then, as if for the same reason, the House of Representatives also approved Hais's proposal, and the establishment of Vladivostok was officially put on the agenda.

Well, this time the presidential election will not be in time, but if everything goes well, then the next time the United States starts to elect a president, Vladivostok will already have its own voting rights, and as for how many electoral votes Vladivostok will have at that time, it depends on the population of Vladivostok at that time.

And population, this is the least worrying issue for Li Mu.

On the night that the House of Representatives passed the Hayes proposal, Li Mu held a celebratory dinner at his home on the shores of Lake Rosapore in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the founding of Vladivostok and to celebrate Li Mu as a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Congressional Medal of Honor is an honorary title proposed by Hayes the other day, which is awarded by the Senate to recognize special people who have made significant contributions to the United States.

In this way, it seems that the Congressional Medal of Honor was set up specifically to reward Li Mu for handing over Vladivostok and Sakhalin to the U.S. government for management, in fact, it is exactly like this, according to the agreement between Li Mu and Hayes, the Pacific Company handed over Vladivostok and Sakhalin to the U.S. government for management, and the U.S. government did not spend even a dollar for it, which is in stark contrast to the time when Seward spent millions of dollars to buy Alaska, you must know that Alaska is usually considered barren land. Vladivostok, on the other hand, has undergone initial development by the Russians, and in terms of value, the two are not of the same magnitude.

Since Li Mu does not seek profit, then he can only seek fame, as the president of the Horse Group, Li Mu has a social status that almost no one can match, if it is just to give Li Mu an ordinary honor, then it does not seem to be enough to recognize Li Mu's contributions, the Congressional Medal of Honor is set up in this context, and Congress is considering that after the Congressional Medal of Honor is awarded to Li Mu, this kind of medal will no longer be awarded, so that Li Mu will be the only recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in American history, Li Mu will thus become a part of American history.

In this way, this medal is a standard honor, Li Mu still gave enough face to the Congress, personally came to the Congress to accept the medal, and invited friends to celebrate.

Not only Republicans were invited, but also those Democrats who favored the establishment of Vladivostok were also on Li Mu's invitation list.