Li Mu once thought about collecting this car and putting it in the "Automobile Museum" to be established in Boston. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But then I thought that as the world's first car, it would have been better to give it to Ulysses Grant, which seemed to be more valuable.

As for the exhibition, after the technology is complete, Li Mu can give Ulysses Grant a more advanced one, and exchange this one back, presumably Grant will not refuse.

On December 1, Li Mu and Rockefeller, Arthur, and William Vanderbilt went to Washington, D.C., and Henry DuPont and Carnegie went separately to Washington to join Li Mu.

With the wider and wider communication, Li Mu's energy is also getting bigger and bigger, a group of tycoons travel, the box is no longer enough to meet their needs, has risen to the level of special trains.

Li Mu, Rockefeller, and William Vanderbilt's bodyguards added up to hundreds of people, although Arthur was not so afraid of death, there were more than a dozen secretaries and assistants accompanying him, plus the carriage to be used by the group and the car to be given to Grant, it really took almost a special train to fit it.

Others need special trains and maybe have to coordinate, with William Vanderbilt there, that's not a problem at all, the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Washington is controlled by the Vanderbilt family, the boss has to take the train, and everyone else has to retreat.

As long as someone is willing to invest in the construction of the railway, Washington will not only give tax breaks, but also financial subsidies and land compensation, so there is more than one railway line in developed areas, such as from Washington to New York, not only the Pennsylvania Railroad controlled by the Vanderbilt family, but also the Baltimore-Ohio Railroad controlled by Gould.

On the special train, when Li Mu learned about this fact, Li Mu couldn't help but laugh: "It seems that investing in railways is really profitable, I'm thinking about whether I should join it-"

"Forget it, continue your arms trade, be a happy arms dealer, don't come to build the railroad, you are not welcome." William Vanderbilt, on behalf of all the railroad people, refused to allow Li Mu to join in the fun.

The railway industry is already chaotic enough, if Li Mu is such a spoiler again, it may be chaotic.

"I won't rob your business, I'll build the Pacific Railway again, not to mention anything else, just the government-subsidized land is enough for me to recover the cost-" Li Muxiu the railway is not for making money, but for land, this idea is also strange.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter, please-" William Vanderbilt immediately laughed, the Pacific Railway is not a Kuobin Reservoir, it took tens of thousands of people from the three major companies to repair it for more than ten years, and the total cost added up to hundreds of millions, the Americans themselves have no money, and they have to fool the money from the British to barely repair it, Li Mu does not have this strength now.

Li Mu is just talking, even if you think about the railway, Li Mu has no shortage of profitable businesses, compared with arms, communications, automobiles, etc., the railway is really not profitable.

In other words, the speed at which the railway makes money is too slow, and Li Mu can't look at it.

When I arrived in Washington, this time it was Abel who came to pick up the station in person.

In front of William and Arthur, Able did not shy away from giving Li Mu a big hug as soon as he met with Li Mu.

Corbyn-Riem Shipping Company has a good business, and now it has added the asphalt project, and Abel counted the money until he was soft, so he was very happy to see Li Mu.

The Americans who do not engage in finance are still very down-to-earth, and as soon as the asphalt road in Guantanamo was repaired, Grant sent people to Guantanamo for assessment, and the people sent were Abel cronies, and if nothing else, Washington would soon promote asphalt roads in the United States.

Li Mu told William on the train that it was a gimmick to get involved in the railway, and what Li Mu really wanted to get involved in was the road.

The U.S. railroad network is now quite well developed, and it would be unwise to get involved in it.

Roads are different, there are very few asphalt roads in the United States, except for New York, where there are none.

The reason why there are asphalt roads in New York is because Henderson wants to make money, and the cost of the asphalt road in less than five kilometers is more than two million dollars given by the New York municipal government.

Although he knew that the New York city government had falsified the project budget, this would not be a reason for Li Mu to attack Tweed, and Li Mu was also ready to rely on the road to make money, so Li Mu would not dig his own grave.

Looking at Abel and Li Mu who hugged intimately, Rockefeller and William had complicated expressions, and their relationship with Abel was not bad, but not as good as the relationship between Li Mu and Abelle.

Arthur doesn't need to be jealous, Arthur has his own channels, he himself is Grant's cronies, and he doesn't need to go through Able's door.

"Come on, my friends, I'll take you to rest first, Mr. President put down all business in the evening, and waited for you to have dinner-" Able showed the tactfulness he deserved, shaking hands with Arthur and Rockefeller one by one, not deliberately snubbing anyone, but the difference was still a little obvious.

Even if Li Mu came to Washington alone, he already had the qualifications to have dinner with Grant, not to mention that now that so many bigwigs are here, even if Grant is the president of the United States, Grant does not dare to make a big deal.

In a democratic country, votes are the most important thing, Li Mu and his gang are all big capitalists, and there are a large number of workers in their factories, which means that they have a large number of votes, and all politicians must pretend to be grandsons in front of big capitalists, otherwise they will look good.

"Green did a great job, I read the cost bill that I reported, and if you're right, then we're going to get rich soon." Able was so excited that he got into the carriage and began to discuss business with Li Mu.

Li Mu took the asphalt lake on the island of Trinidad and obtained the asphalt at almost zero cost, but sold it to Green Giles for $30,000 a ship, which was much cheaper than the asphalt that Henderson bought when he built the highway in New York, which not only dug a deep pit for Tweed and Henderson, but also did not delay Li Mu to make money.

In fact, Li Mu can report a little more, but Li Mu will not make such a mistake, one day the asphalt lake on the island of Trinidad will be exposed, if Li Mu offers a high price to the US government, it will definitely affect Washington's opinion of Li Mu at that time, and Li Mu will not lose a big deal because of a small one.

"Don't worry, the asphalt on Trinidad is inexhaustible, and we can sell it for a hundred years." Li Mu is proud, this is the biggest benefit of the traverser.

Li Mu is right, until the 21st century, the asphalt on Trinidad Island is still being sold, and the quality is still stable, and the output is still stable, so it is no problem to sell it for a hundred years.

"Hehe, it won't take a hundred years, only ten years will be enough—" Abel was overjoyed.

Well, if it is sold like this, it will not take ten years, Li Mu and Abel will become a rich man, which is more money than Rockefeller digging up oil, and Rockefeller digging out oil will have to be refined, Li Mu doesn't have to do anything, just load the asphalt on the ship, and then send it to ports around the world, this business is hard to get.

"Hehe, you're content—" Li Mu was very satisfied with Abelle's attitude.

Although Abel is not very capable, he still has self-knowledge and knows his source of power, if Ulysses Grant leaves the presidency, Abel will have no source of power, and then the relationship between Li Mu and Abel will be reversed, and Li Mu is not expected to be so accustomed to Abel.

"Is it content—" Abel actually said a sentence in Chinese, although it was still a foreign tone, but it could indeed be understood: "My ideal is to travel the world, and when I have enough capital, I will start my journey around the world and be a happy explorer." ”

That's a good idea!

"You don't have enough capital right now? It doesn't take much money to travel around the world, right?" Li Mu's words can make the vast majority of people in the world angry, but this is indeed a fact for Li Mu, Li Mu also wants to travel around the world, but what Li Mu lacks is time rather than money.

"Hehe, who has an enmity with money, when you can make money, you naturally have to make more, and no one can say what will happen in the future." Abel is still cunning and cunning.

Talking and laughing all the way, the carriage came to the Queen's Road Hotel in the Special Administrative Region, which was the hotel where Li Mu and his family stayed.

In fact, Li Mu and Rockefeller are both qualified to stay in the presidential suite, but now no one is pretending to be forced, anyway, the force is quite high, and no one can pretend to be very good, so there is no bloody thing because of the only two presidential suites, Li Mu and they directly chartered the hotel, and there are only a few Li Mu and them on the top floor, and the other bodyguards, assistants and other things all live downstairs.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Li Mu came to the conference room and met with Henry Dupont and Carnegie.

"Reem, you've been a bit out of business lately, I heard what kind of car you're going to do? Listen to me, don't mess with those useless things, you should focus on smokeless gunpowder, and developing smokeless gunpowder with better performance is your old job. Henry Dupont joked when he saw Li Mu.

In fact, anyone can see the potential of automobiles, but Henry DuPont did not have the intention of entering the automotive industry, which is why he said so.

Speaking of Li Mu is really a freak, before Li Mu came to the United States, the American bigwigs have a tacit understanding, they do their own things, no one will easily operate across industries, such as Henry DuPont, he concentrated on making his own gunpowder, Rockefeller concentrated on digging his own oil, although the Vanderbilt family switched from shipping to railroads, but after getting involved in the railway industry, they have almost completely withdrawn from the shipping industry.

Only Li Mu is the most special, look at this guy's business, arms, scientific research, education, steel, and even the government are Li Mu's business objects.