From Li Mu's point of view, this matter is definitely not a ghost, but from Benjamin Harrison's point of view, it is not necessarily.

Although the War Department and the Far East Company are currently in a cooperative relationship, there is still a certain degree of competition, the Far East Company hopes to obtain enough profits in Luzon, so it would rather exclude the War Department from Luzon, if it is not for the Far East Company to deal with the Spanish colonial fleet, maybe the Far East Company does not even need the Pacific Fleet, if you look at it this way, then Li Mu may indeed deliberately create some trouble for the War Department, even if it will damage the reputation of the Horse Weapons Company.

Of course, this is Benjamin Harrison's understanding, standing in Li Mu's position is by no means the case, the interests of the Far East Company are very important, but not big enough to make the Horse Weapons Company pay for it, after all, there are many shareholders of the Far East Company, Li Mu only has a part of the shares, and the shareholders of the Horse Weapons Company are very few, Li Mu occupies the vast majority of the shares, this back and forth, the gap is not enough to calculate.

"But now the conclusion is that the problem lies with the Horse Weapons Company, and this is the conclusion reached by your company's investigation team." Benjamin Harrison is a little confused, why does the Horse Weapons Company expose its shortcomings, if it is a problem with other companies, then they are eager to put all the responsibility on others, and they have to rely on three points if they ignore it, and they do not shirk the responsibility for the Horse Weapons Company, according to Benjamin Harrison's understanding of Li Mu, this is not in line with Li Mu's character.

"See clearly, it is the bullet that has a problem, but it is not the problem of the Horse Weapons Company, but the Ministry of War is not keeping it well, and the bullets issued to the troops are not provided by our Horse Weapons Company, so the responsibility lies with the Ministry of War, and it has nothing to do with the Horse Weapons Company." Li Mu argued that this was not what was written in the report, and Benjamin Harrison definitely did not look at it carefully.

That's right, this is in line with Benjamin Harrison's understanding of Li Mu, the same as other capitalists, this kind of thing, it is certainly not the responsibility of the enterprise, but the bloated organization of the War Department, poor management, superfluous people, unclear rights and responsibilities, etc., etc., as long as necessary, there are countless reasons, and those lawyers raised by major enterprises do not eat for nothing, even if the lawsuit goes to the Supreme Court, they cannot admit their mistakes.

"The responsibility of the War Department?" Benjamin Harrison's tone was full of uncertainty, and then Li Mu heard the sound of turning pages on the phone.

Well, this guy really didn't look closely.

"The bullets issued by the Ministry of War were not sent to Washington with the guns, at least not this time, although they are all bullets produced by the Springfield factory, but there are batches of bullets, Kenny can be sure that the bullets issued were at least five years ago, and at that time the Horse Arms Company had not even had time to merge with the Springfield, so if there is a problem, it can only be the reason of the War Department, they mismanaged some of the bullets, which led to the failure of some of the bullets, and now they are putting the blame on the Horse Arms Company, what's the matter? Are we good bullies? "Li Mu is unforgiving, it is not necessary to hold anyone responsible, at least he must take this opportunity to howl twice, crying children have milk to eat, and people can't think that the horse weapon company is a soft persimmon that can be pinched and flattened casually, and rubbed if it is round.

Thanks to the consistent prudence of the arms company, although the standard of bullets is the same, before the Junma Arms Company did not merge Springfield, Colt, Winchester, in order not to be plotted, each major company has a set of special marks expressed in letters, and insiders only need to look at the letters on the bullet box to know whether it is their own company's product.

The Horse Arms Company is more stringent in this regard, thanks to the advancement of technology, other companies only print the mark on the box, but the Horse Arms Company prints the mark on the bullet, which is actually not troublesome, as long as it is enough to do a little trick on the mold to press the primer.

A certain unlucky ghost in the Ministry of War is probably used to doing the office, I don't know how much the production of bullets is not going now, although the bullet box has been changed, but the bullets can't be replaced, Kenneth, as the deputy general manager of the Horse Weapons Company, of course knows the little ninety-nine inside, so it doesn't take any effort to draw conclusions.

"Come on, who dares to bully you now, okay, okay, who do you want to trouble now? William? Or Edmund Dalton? "Benjamin Harrison doesn't want to get involved in this kind of, but since Li Mu has found him, he can't pretend not to know, this is the value of allies.

Edmund Dalton is the commander of the Second Infantry Division of the Army, the Far East Company is in a state of strength in Luzon, and the most affected is Edmund Dalton, you must know that the reason why the Second Division was established is to attack Luzon, and now the Second Division has not yet completed its establishment, but the Spaniards have been in decline, Edmund Dalton is very worried that he will not get the opportunity to go to the Far East at all, in that case, it is still unknown whether the Second Division is still necessary.

Although Congress decided to go to war with Spain, the basic strategy has not changed, the United States still wants to vigorously develop its navy, the value of the army is still in dispute, and the 1st Cavalry Division in New York has still been proposed to be withdrawn, not to mention the 2nd and 3rd Divisions, which are still ineffective.

"I don't want to find anyone's trouble, William doesn't know about this at all, Edmund Dalton is also right, he's a soldier, there aren't so many twists and turns, but shouldn't Congress be generous, I heard that there are still several states where the National Guard hasn't changed their outfits, should they give the Horse Arms Company an order?" Li Mu went around the bend to ask for benefits, and this benefit can only be asked for from Washington, not against a certain person, otherwise the Junma Group will immediately arouse the disgust of all American soldiers.

Although Li Mu is an arms dealer, he has a close relationship with the military, and he is still not a military insider, not to mention that this matter has nothing to do with William and Edmund Dalton, even if it is related, if Li Mu targets the spearhead of revenge at William Sherman or Edmund Dalton, then Li Mu and the Horse Group will also attract a counterattack from the military.

Of course, Li Mu is not aimed at anyone, but also because this matter has nothing to do with William and Edmund Dalton, if William wants to deal with the Steed Horse Group, he will definitely disdain to use this method, as for Edmund Dalton, he has not yet been able to infiltrate the Ministry of War, so this is an accident, an accident caused by a small person wanting to shirk responsibility.

"I'm afraid you're looking for the wrong person, you should know, Congress doesn't have a say in this regard, not to mention other states, even Washington, D.C., Congress can't directly intervene, so if you want an order, then please go find someone yourself, haven't you always insisted that your Junma Group has the best public relations department in the country?" Benjamin Harrison's words were a little sour.

To be honest, Benjamin Harrison himself is also envious of the public relations department of the Horse Group, if Benjamin Harrison's team has the excellent "communication" ability of the public relations department of the Horse Group, then Benjamin Harrison dares to jump out of the presidential race even without the support of Li Mu.

Before Li Mu supported Hayes in the presidential race, in order to gain support, the candidates actually wanted to go all over the country state by state, and there was no focus, whether it was the traditional chassis of the Democratic Party or the Republican vote base, the candidates had to visit one by one, and they also did not attach great importance to the power of newspapers, although there were no national newspapers at that time, but even those newspapers that sold well in major cities did not pay attention to it.

It is recognized that the public relations department of Junma Group is very good, and it is recognized that Junma Group is not without scandals over the years, after all, many technologies are not mature enough, and it is normal for products to have problems, but over the years, Junma Group has not been affected by any product quality problems, which is not a simple sentence of "capital power" can be summarized, Rockefeller is also a big business, but Rockefeller's nickname is "robber tycoon", which is fundamentally different from Li Mu's "warmongers", After all, all the wars in the United States are foreign, in other words, Li Mukeng has to be foreigners, while Rockefeller has to be his own people.

As for the war against the Indians, I'm sorry, don't look at the United States in the 21st century is particularly tolerant of the Indians, the Americans in these years don't think the Indians are their own people, and Washington is still paying for the Indians' skulls.

"You can't directly interfere with the local government, but you can make policies, don't say you don't have any options, you are the speaker of the House of Representatives." Li Mucai did not believe that the Congress had no way to deal with the local state government, so everyone would not have sharpened their heads and wanted to be president, and they would be more comfortable with self-determination and self-determination at the local level.

"Okay, okay, I'd like to figure it out, but don't get your hopes up too much, there's a lot of pressure on our side." Benjamin Harrison didn't make a promise to Li Mu, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't dare.

During the economic crisis, then-President Ulysses Grant increased import taxes in order to protect his own industry to increase the impact of European goods on American companies, which was a bit shameless and violated the fundamental principles of free trade, but it was very effective, at least a large number of domestic companies in the United States benefited from this, and successfully survived the economic crisis and achieved greater development.

Not to mention that the U.S. government was shameless, all countries in the world did this at that time, and it was not right, so the Qing Empire did not react, but the Qing Kingdom was too far away from the center of the world, and it was normal not to react.

Now that the economic crisis is over, it is said that all countries should cancel the tariffs that were increased during the economic crisis and resume normal trade, but this is certainly not what the capitalists want, and the capitalists want other countries to remove tariffs, and their own governments should impose tariffs of 1,000 percent on imported goods, which is in the interests of the capitalists.

Of course, Li Mu also hopes so, not only Li Mu, but Rockefeller, Henry DuPont, and Andrew Carnegie all think so during this time, so as long as there is an opportunity, Li Mu and other capitalists will lobby Congress, even if they can't maintain such a high level of unequal tariffs, at least they must postpone the restoration of tariffs as much as possible.

For Li Mu himself, Li Mu has other demands, for example, Li Mu very much hopes that Congress can pass a special decree to restrict the import of arms, so that even if Li Mu does not force it, the United States can only update weapons through the Junma Arms Company.

This demand is not a fantasy, everyone knows the importance of the arms industry to a country, even the Qing government such a corrupt ruling group, also hope that the weapons used by the Qing army troops as much as possible to produce themselves, but the Qing country does not have enough production capacity, so it has to buy weapons from various countries, even so, the Qing country from all countries in the world to buy weapons are mostly concentrated in warships, artillery and other heavy weapons, as for light weapons, the Qing country would rather be slower to renew, rather than pin all its hopes on foreigners.

The technical capability of the United States must be above that of the Qing Dynasty, at least the United States has enough production capacity, this time the United States expanded the navy and army at the same time, the United States did not order even a single screw from Europe, all the orders were digested in the United States, and the Horse Weapons Company also made a lot of money, Li Mu of course hopes to make money so comfortably in the future.

Speaking of which, Li Mu finally began to miss the father and son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who were already a foot tall in the grave grass, if those two guys were still alive, then Li Mu would not have been so difficult to push Washington to pass this decree.

Of course, the idea of missing is fleeting, Li Mu didn't take this matter to heart, the Vanderbilt family had withdrawn from the shipbuilding industry and put all the salutes into the railway industry, even if the United States expanded its navy, this big fat meat would not be the turn of the Vanderbilt family, so Li Mu still begged others rather than himself.

No, on this issue, Li Mu can win over Henry DuPont, you must know that all the gunpowder needed by the Horse Arms Company to produce bullets and shells is purchased from DuPont, if Congress can pass such a decree, it will also be very beneficial to DuPont, so the burden cannot be carried by himself, two people carry it together, it must be more labor-saving than one person.

DuPont's nest is in Delaware, but like most large companies in the United States, DuPont is headquartered in New York, you must know that DuPont is the second trust in the United States after Standard Oil, this company is not obvious, but in the field of gunpowder, DuPont's background is similar to that of Horse Weapons in the field of arms.

Pretty much fine, a tiger might work with a lion, but definitely not a hyena.