Although Li Mu is reluctant to accept it, but to the extent of Li Mu, he also has to accept the reality that there are fewer and fewer friends, many people say that friends are not distinguished from each other, in fact, most of the time it is wishful thinking, two people with huge social status, even if they were once friends, will slowly fade over time, and people who do not accept this are basically ulterior motives.

Li Mu has very few friends now, Rockefeller is one of the few people who can talk to Li Mu, and is more able to keep up with Li Mu's footsteps, Li Mu doesn't want to be estranged from Rockefeller because of some things, so there is still a necessary explanation.

"I can understand that we will all be forced to do so for some reason, but-" Rockefeller did not continue, obviously still had an opinion on Li Mu's approach, although Li Mu did not admit it, but Li Mu's attitude had already told Rockefeller the answer.

The murder of the president is really a bit out of line, even if he is bold and reckless like Rockefeller, he can't accept this kind of thing for a while, this is not a treasure hunt, nor is it a commercial competition for peers, Western society also has the tradition of "being a man and leaving a line, and it will be easy to meet in the future", Li Mu's play of flipping the table at every turn still makes Rockefeller unacceptable.

Of course, the "unacceptable" here is only temporary, James Garfield is not targeting Rockefeller, if James Garfield wants to attack Rockefeller's standard oil, then Rockefeller will also fight back, maybe he will do it, even more thoroughly than Li Mu.

"Nothing, though, if James had been willing to talk to me, maybe nothing would have happened, remember when I was on Governors Island? That is our last chance to reconcile. Li Mu gave James Garfield a chance, but James Garfield did not give Li Mu any explanation, so the break between Li Mu and James Garfield was also fate.

"Isaiah Hodge?" Rockefeller finally remembered the time when Li Mu was closed on Governors Island before the election, when Rockefeller knew that Li Mu had an opinion on James Garfield, and even Rockefeller went to Governors Island to find Li Mu, but unfortunately, Rockefeller did not expect that the differences between Li Mu and James Garfield were so big that they would be settled by life and death.

"Isaiah Hodge was the fuse, and if it weren't for Isaiah Hodge repeatedly stirring up trouble in front of James, probably our relationship wouldn't have deteriorated to this extent." Li Mu didn't say that Isaiah Hodge's death was an accident, and even if Li Mu said so, Rockefeller didn't necessarily believe it, so it was better to simply do it.

In fact, looking back, it would have been a mistake, if Isaiah Hodge hadn't died at the time, if James Garfield hadn't held a grudge, if-

In fact, there are not so many ifs, some things are like this, put it on James Garfield, James Garfield can't accept it, but the same thing is put on Arthur, Arthur will come directly to Li Mu to explain, to put it bluntly, the relationship is different.

It is true that as soon as it got dark, Arthur came to Li Mu's house with a report on the investigation of James Garfield's assassination by the Washington Police Department.

This investigation report is obviously very different from the one released by the Washington Police Department, of course, the report does not directly point to Li Mu, but only raises several unexplained doubts, such as why Charles Gitéo will know the whereabouts of James Garfield, and how Charles Gitéo maintained his life during this time in Washington, the Washington Police Department even noticed that after the assassination of James Garfield, several police officers of the Washington Police Department resigned at the same time and left the United States for Europe. If these things are taken apart, they seem to be unrelated, but if they are connected, then the directivity is obvious, at least this can fully show that the assassination of James Garfield is not as simple as it seems.

"Does such an investigative report do any good? Just find an editor at Time and you'll get several copies. Li Mu didn't care much, Arthur was able to show this report to Li Mu, which already showed Arthur's attitude.

"It's really useless, so the Washington Police Department has stopped the investigation, and no one wants to know the answer." Arthur smiled bitterly, very sad and desolate.

The investigation is enough to this extent, it is impossible to continue the investigation, and no one wants to know the final answer, on the surface, it seems that the assassination of James Garfield was the personal act of Charles Gitéo, maybe this is not the truth of the matter, but this is the truth that everyone is willing to accept, and this is enough, if there are other problems in the investigation of the Washington Police Department, then I am afraid that no one wants to see the result.

"What can I do for you? Would it be okay to make a bulletproof car for you? Li Mu didn't want to see Arthur's psychological shadow, although the presidential palace had once again strengthened the security of the president, but Arthur's worries were inevitable.

In fact, it is useless to strengthen security, the president of the United States will experience all kinds of assassinations in the future, some successful, some unsuccessful, it cannot be said that the bodyguards do their best, but they can't prevent it, only a thousand days to be a thief, there is no reason to prevent a thousand days against thieves.

"Haha, then you have to give me a few more." Arthur will not be sad and sad, and his sad emotions will disappear after a while.

"What was it like to be president on your first day? Is there anything special about being in charge of such a big country? Rockefeller is still a little curious about Arthur's work, when Hayes was president in the past, he was busy every day, and Arthur seemed to be quite relaxed, when Hayes was president on his first day, he didn't have time to drink coffee with Li Mu.

"It's a shame that I don't feel anything, it's more appropriate to ask James, he's the one who really controls the country." Arthur followed Li Mu's advice, was lazy when it was time to be lazy, and threw all the work to the new Secretary of State James Bryan, who estimated that James Bryan should be more touched now.

"Hahahaha, that's right, you don't have to do a lot of things yourself, you see me and John, in fact, managing companies like Junma Group and Standard Oil has a lot of work, and we are not all very easy." Li Mu's treacherous plan finally succeeded, those who work hard govern people, those who work hard govern people, work hard to become president, and then spend all their time governing the country, no matter how you look at it, it is not something that smart people do.

In fact, Rockefeller was also a hands-on person, that is, after getting to know Li Mu, Rockefeller gradually got rid of the heavy management work, how to choose this kind of thing is actually in a thought, people with a strong desire to control power, probably will not fake their work to others, Li Mu and Rockefeller don't worry, whether it is in the military field or the oil field, there are no competitors in the United States Junma Group and Standard Oil, if this is the case, Li Mu and the general managers appointed by Rockefeller still cannot guarantee the healthy operation of Junma Group and Standard Oil, so Li Mu and Rockefeller can only be blamed for being blind.

Can't underestimate other elites in this era, Henry is a good example, if it weren't for Li Mu, maybe Henry is still running his half-dead law firm in Springfield, maybe he won't be able to show his management ability in this life, and naturally he won't be known to the public.

Now Henry has become famous all over the world, the power in the Horse Group is second only to Li Mu, Li Mu is through Henry to manage the Horse Group, Henry will also not bow down to everything, so many executives of the Horse Group are not raised in vain, the power is decomposed layer by layer, everyone performs their duties, this is the composition of modern society.

"If you want to be lazy, you can be lazy, no one blames you, but you don't want to be so reasonable." Rockefeller was very disdainful of touting each other's duos, although Rockefeller often did.

"Speaking of business, Chester, John and I both want to build more roads to make transportation easier, although the states are trying, but not enough, if we can, we would love to see Washington do something, believe me, if you want to see a big increase in the economy, then focus on developing transportation, do this well, I can guarantee that you will not leave the presidential palace as miserable as Hayes." Li Mu is an open-minded entrainment of private goods, and if he wants to get rich, he must first build roads, which is a proven truth, and it is also applicable in the United States in the 19th century.

To say that the traffic situation in the United States is already very good, the heavy use of asphalt, and the increasing number of high-quality highways, which greatly strengthens the connection between places and effectively promotes the flow of goods, which is beneficial to all levels of federal government.

Of course, the benefits to Li Mu and Rockefeller are greater, there are more roads, the demand for cars is naturally more, the future of the United States is a country on the wheels of cars, the number of cars in the world is the first, now the number of cars in the United States, not even one ten-thousandth of the future, so the development potential is very large, now the only car company in the United States is Junma Automobile, the only oil company is Mobil Oil, Li Mu and Rockefeller can not build the road themselves, so they can only hand over this work to Arthur to complete,

In fact, it is not impossible, Li Mu and Rockefeller have discussed this issue, if it is to use the method of building roads first, and then using the method of collecting tolls to recover costs, Li Mu and Rockefeller are not unacceptable, after all, the total mileage of the world's first highway in the future republic, most of them come from this.

But there is a problem here, in the future republic, the growth of cars is almost explosive, there are enough cars to charge, the time to recover the cost is shorter, more profitable, the situation in the United States is not very good, the total number of cars in the country adds up to less than 20,000, if you want to recover the cost of road construction, it is better to be prepared for ten years, or even decades.

"Cars don't sell? Probably not? Arthur's first reaction was that the cars produced by Junma Automobile Company could not be sold, so Li Mu encouraged Arthur to build roads.

This is unlikely, before participating in the presidential election, Arthur was the governor of New York State, and knew how much tax the horse motor company had to pay every year, judging from the tax statements, the business status of the horse automobile company is no problem, the profitability is outstanding, there are only a few companies in New York whose profitability is better than the horse car company, and most of them are subsidiaries of the horse group, so Arthur is not worried about this problem.

"On the contrary, the cars produced by the horse automobile company are in short supply, and now the production plan has been scheduled to the end of the year, it is precisely because the cars are easy to sell, so I propose to build more roads, we can all find the prospects of the automobile industry, which will become the source of power for national economic growth, if we work harder, the prospects brought by the automobile industry will soon be realized, why not?" Li Mucai is not worried that the car will not be sold, although in addition to the horse automobile company, there are also people studying cars, but Li Mu believes that in a short period of time, no one should be able to pose a threat to the horse automobile company, after all, the horse automobile company has the horse laboratory as the backing, and the personal scientific research behavior can not compete with scientific research institutions at all.

In fact, on this point, Li Mu and Rockefeller are different, although Rockefeller also has shares in the Horse Automobile Company, but Rockefeller is still very dissatisfied with Li Mu's monopoly on the automobile industry, if the Horse Automobile Company now opens up technology, then in a short period of time, there will be countless more automobile companies in the United States, which will greatly stimulate the development of Mobil Oil, and will also stimulate Li Mu to increase production and continue to expand.

Li Mu also knew Rockefeller's dissatisfaction, but it was impossible for Li Mu to open up the patented technology of automobiles, Li Mu did not forget how much effort he had put into acquiring the Vanderbilt Automobile Factory, and Rockefeller hoped that the development of the automobile industry could be done by relying on the Horse Motor Company, and there was no need to cultivate competitors.

Li Mu is indeed doing this, Junma Automobile Company currently has two factories in New York and San Francisco, both factories are full production, but still can not meet the needs of the automobile market, in order to increase production, Li Mu invested in a new engine plant last year, and two new car factories, probably to June this year to be put into production, when the production of cars will be further improved, although still can not meet the needs of the automobile market, but compared with the current production capacity has been greatly exceeded.

"Yes, you go to James tomorrow, and James will be responsible for the specific problems." Arthur has learned to be lazy, and this pot is the most suitable for James to carry on his back.

Building roads is such a thing, although it is beneficial to the country and the people, but there will definitely be people who are unwilling, after all, not all states are as rich as New York, and those states that don't have money will definitely scold their mothers, and this scolding can only be wronged by James Bryan.