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"Have a good rest these two days, and let's board the ship on April 1st." When Li Mu entered the door, he arranged a time to give George Dewey and Mahan a holiday.

Back in his room, Li Mu found that Chu Xue was napping in front of the fireplace in the room, and the decanting soup prepared for Li Mu was simmering next to the fire, which made Li Mu feel warm.

Hearing that Li Mu was coming back, Chu Xue jumped up quickly, took the hat and shirt from Li Mu's hand, and sniffed the neckline behind Li Mu while Li Mu was not paying attention, and then he was satisfied.

"You learned this from Mrs. Henry?" Li Mu shook his head.

Chu Xue blushed and looked up, only to find that there was a mirror in front of Li Mu, and her small movements were clearly seen by Li Mu.

"No, no, I just smell it to see if I should wash it-" Chu Xue's little face turned red, and she couldn't even lie.

Li Mu's clothes are all handled by Chu Xue, no matter whether the clothes are dirty or not, it is necessary to change and wash them every day, and Chu Xue can come up with this excuse It can be regarded as a hurry.

"Don't explain, explanation is equivalent to covering up, why are you so panicked without a ghost in your heart?" Li Mu did not save face for Chu Xue, and this kind of unhealthy trend must not be promoted.

Chu Xue snorted and didn't speak, tiptoed to bring the sobering soup to Li Mu.

Li Mu picked up the bowl and drank it all, wiped his mouth and went to the bathroom to wash, in fact, Li Mu didn't drink much, he wasn't drunk at all, but he couldn't bear to see the first snow sad, so Li Mu drank the sobering soup in one gulp.

It's the hardest thing to be graced by a beauty.

When Li Mu wrapped a bath towel and walked out of the bathroom, the first snow had not left.

"Go to bed early, we're going to go to Time Magazine headquarters tomorrow, you can check if there are any discrepancies in their accounts then, we can't let Samuel hack our money." Li Mu said as he walked in the direction of the bedroom, where Yan Shun had already moved over to cover and prepare to sleep in the living room at night.

This time I went to Cuba, Chu Xue was Li Mu's personal butler, and the money Li Mu brought was kept by Chu Xue, with as much as 200,000 US dollars in cash alone, more bank checks, and bearer checks reaching millions of US dollars, which were all reserved for Cuba to buy off the political dignitaries of the Republic of Cuba.

In fact, Li Mu lives in a suite, with a total of three bedrooms, Li Mu, Yan Shun, and Chu Xue can be one person, but Yan Shun is used to sleeping at Li Mu's door at night, so he often sleeps on the sofa.

This habit is not very good, if it is a few years later, let Yan Shun sleep at the door at night, maybe something will happen.

At present, there is no problem, Li Mu and Chu Xue are still young, even if Li Mu wants to do bad things, he is powerless.

After a night of silence, early the next morning, Li Mu took Chu Xue into a carriage and went to the headquarters of Time Magazine under the protection of more than two dozen gunmen.

Since the attack on Long Street, Li Mu is now similar to a frightened bird, there are more than ten or twenty people around him at every turn, and they are all dressed in the same attire as Li Mu, and even the horses they ride are similar, which can avoid danger to the greatest extent, even in Springfield.

Samuel rented a house in a hotel on Lower Broadway Avenue in Manhattan, next to New York's famous King's College, the forerunner of the future Columbia University.

Samuel rented the entire sixth floor of the hotel, which was also the top floor of the hotel, which was only a temporary location, and in the future, Li Mu would find a suitable place on Manhattan Island, and then build one or several skyscrapers of his own, and use this as the center of Li Mu's financial empire.

Goodbye Li Mu, Samuel is still a little unnatural.

In this situation, even if Samuel is stupid, he can feel that he has fallen into the trap carefully set by Li Mu, but Samuel already knows how powerful Li Mu is, and even if he looks back on it now, he has no intention of going against Li Mu again.

"After arriving in New York, we first rented this place, a total of twenty-one rooms, with a monthly rent of five hundred dollars, and we are still in the stage of recruiting relevant staff, and it is estimated that it will be published normally by May-" Li Mu sat on the main seat of the conference room and listened to Samuel's report.

"Time Magazine" has a total of one editor-in-chief and two deputy editors-in-chief, the editor-in-chief is naturally Samuel, the two deputy editors-in-chief one is Sammy Larkin, and the other is named Adam Jeremy, Adam is an editor-in-chief recruited by Li Mu from the "Boston Evening News", and is also the editor-in-chief of the former "Time" magazine.

Samuel does have a status in the American press industry, and Adam has no jealousy of Samuel's arrival, but still carries out his work steadfastly, which leaves a good impression on Li Mu, and when the time is right, Li Mu will find an opportunity to promote Adam, and it is enough for Time Magazine to have Samuel.

"Is there any open space on the Manhattan Peninsula?" Just outside the window where Li Mu is sitting, is the famous Wall Street.

Li Mu's mind was not on these trivial matters, and when he came to the headquarters of Time Magazine, Li Mu suddenly realized that not only did Time Magazine need a new office, but also Junma Investment Company needed it, and Junma Weapons Company also needed it, compared with New York, Springfield was still too small, and Li Mu's future focus would definitely be in New York, so Li Mu needed to find a suitable location, and then build a kingdom belonging to Li Mu.

"Yes, there is a lot of idle land on the Manhattan Peninsula, but the city government has no intention of selling, the land here is very tight, maybe you can consider Brooklyn across the East River, although it is only across the river, but the price is much cheaper, it is possible to buy a square kilometer of land in Brooklyn, but you can only buy one hectare on the Manhattan Peninsula." Samuel gives his opinion.

"Brooklyn? No, for the sake of our image, we definitely can't be centered around Brooklyn. Li Mu refused without thinking.

Although Brooklyn and New York are only separated by a river, New York and Brooklyn are two cities at all, and it will not be until 1898 that Brooklyn will become a district of New York, and at that time Brooklyn was a gathering area for blacks and other ethnic minorities, and it was the area with the highest crime rate in the United States.

"But this side of the Manhattan Peninsula—" Samuel was skeptical.

In fact, the location of the hotel where Li Mu and them are located is very good, next to the hotel is the famous Trinity Church in New York, and a little past is the "King's College", just across the street is Wall Street, if it is not the Trinity Church between the hotel and Wall Street, it is the most suitable place to build a skyscraper.

"You don't have to worry about this, I'll handle these things, your task now is to form a team, build the team as soon as possible, and then start working, the next few years will be busy, I need Time magazine to build momentum for the Republic of Cuba, you have to be ready." Li Mu decided to go to Arthur later, with Arthur, the customs and tax officer, it is estimated that Tweed will sell Li Mu's face.

Even if Tweed doesn't sell face, it doesn't matter, even if Li Mu uses money to smash it, he wants to smash out a vacant land on the Manhattan Peninsula, and then build his own business empire.

In New York, Arthur is indeed hand-eyed, after listening to Li Mu's request, Arthur kept in his hands, and didn't pay much attention to it: "No problem, how big is it, where is it?" ”

Now that it was dinner time, Li Mu came out of the headquarters of Time Magazine and sent Chu Xue back to the hotel first, and then came to have dinner with Arthur.

"Lower Manhattan, the closer to Wall Street is better, and as for the area, it's best to have forty or fifty acres, and if not, twenty or thirty acres is acceptable." Li Mu said quickly, completely ignoring Arthur's increasingly ugly face.

After Li Mu finished speaking, the silver dinner knife in Arthur's hand finally fell into the plate with a "bang", Arthur was stunned for a moment, simply threw the fork into the plate, and then picked up the wine glass and said stupidly: "If it is in Uptown and Midtown, it is no problem to squeeze out three or five acres of land, but in Downtown, I'm sorry, you should know that there is really no extra land now." ”

Manhattan is a long, narrow island divided from north to south into Uptown, Midtown and Downtown, Wall Street is in the lower part of Manhattan, and Upper Town and Midtown are not yet fully developed, and Samuel refers to the vacant land that also refers to Uptown and Midtown.

"There is a lot of land in the lower city, such as Trinity Church, don't you think it is a great waste to keep a church in such a place where every inch of land is valuable?" Li Mu hit the idea on Trinity Church.

"God, yesterday you said you were a faithful Catholic, but today you are going to tear down the oldest church in New York—" Arthur refused and complained at the same time.

"Then King's College, I'm going to pay for them to build a new school in Uptown, and then I'm going to build an Empire State Building on King's College's current site, which will be a New York landmark." Li Mu is not discouraged, and if he can't make a plan, he will have another plan.

"Please, can you not put your mind on those public facilities, Ream, and I can guarantee that if you tear down those historic public facilities, you will be spurned by New Yorkers, and it will not be good for your company." Arthur spoke bitterly and hoped that Li Mu would change his mind.

King's College was founded in 1754, similar in history to Trinity Church, and is the earliest landmark building in New York.

"What then? This doesn't work, that doesn't work, are you asking me to build the company building into the sea? Li Mu is not satisfied, even if it is land reclamation, Li Mu has to make a place in Xiacheng.

Reclamation?

Good idea, wow, Li Mu immediately cheered up.