Everyone knows that Junma Group has money, a near-monopoly industry nature, and a massive cash flow, and the US government has not officially recognized it yet, but as long as you know a little about Junma Group, you know that Li Mu is now a standard billionaire.

Considering Li Mu's identity background, this is also a standard "American miracle", and if the U.S. government is smart now, it should hype Li Mu and his Junma Group as a typical example of the "American dream".

What could be more inspiring?

Standing in Li Mu's position, if the US government has this plan, Li Mu will not refuse, this is the best opportunity to expand the influence of Li Mu and the Junma Group, if the US government really does this, it is equivalent to putting a talisman on Li Mu, from now on, Li Mu and he in the Junma Group will not encounter any difficulties, otherwise it is tantamount to breaking the "American dream" established by the US government.

In another time and space, John Rockefeller and his Standard Oil are the representatives of the American dream, although Standard Oil was finally forced to be spun off, but everyone knows that the so-called "spin-off" is just a bitter ploy, Standard Oil is still the huge Standard Oil, nothing has changed.

Li Mu has been planning to deal with the possible monopoly investigation since two years ago, and the results have been remarkable so far, although the automobile industry and the arms industry are actually monopolized or controlled by the Junma Group, but it does not seem to be the case, the automobile industry has the Vanderbilt family to stir up the situation, and the arms industry is the same as before, the Junma Arms Division is affiliated with the Junma Group, the New Haven Arms Factory is affiliated with the Bank of America, the Hartford Arms Factory is affiliated with the Barron family, and the Winchester Arms Factory is affiliated with the San Diego Investment Company.

Although this is also suspected of covering up people's ears, at least it does not seem so blatant, as long as the US government is not determined to kill the Junma Group, this arrangement is fine.

The industry in which the ZAMA Group is involved is also telecommunications and electricity, the telecommunications industry is highly competitive, with no less than a dozen large and small companies, but the competition of these companies is limited to the telegraph, and the telephone is still the exclusive patent of the ZAMA Group.

For example, if the Kuama Group wants to open up the Washington market, it will set up a completely independent subsidiary in Washington, although the subsidiary and the New York company have technical exchanges, but they are completely financially independent and have no affiliation with each other, so they can withstand anyone's investigation.

In the United States, there are five companies engaged in telephone and electricity operations, namely the New York Company, the Boston Company, the Washington Company, the Philadelphia Company, and the San Francisco Company.

With these preparations, Li Mu is very confident no matter who he is facing, if there is no administrative intervention, then Junma Group will maintain its advantages.

Therefore, what Li Mu has to do now is not to look for partners, rashly set foot in a new industry, and find a new enemy for himself, as long as he maintains the existing advantages and prevents the emergence of competitors in time.

This is also the fundamental reason why Li Mu asked for an "access system".

Li Mu's job is outside the venue, and when he arrives in the venue, what Li Mu can do is extremely limited, so now Hayes has to constantly greet people and give people a smile everywhere, so Li Mu can sit comfortably on the chair and enjoy the cigar, which is the benefit of hiding behind the scenes.

"You're so comfortable!" Rockefeller finally sat down on the chair behind Li Mu: "Isn't it time to fight for the last effort?" Are you on your way to victory? Or have you given up? ”

Li Mu can be sure that Rockefeller is in a bad mood right now.

From the end of the second round of voting to the present, Rockefeller has not received any good news, and people continue to defect from James Bryan's camp and turn to support Hayes, which makes Rockefeller feel restless, especially James Garfield's statement in the morning, which is equivalent to sounding the death knell of James Bryan, so now Li Mu can understand Rockefeller's mood very well.

It was the same as Li Mu's mood a month ago, when Li Mu had just learned that Ulysses Grant was not eligible for the nomination.

"It seems that your position shouldn't be here..."Li Mu didn't answer, trying to drive Rockefeller away from his side.

Standard Oil's nest is in Pennsylvania, so strictly speaking, Rockefeller should sit in Pennsylvania's seat.

"Aren't you in Massachusetts either?" Rockefeller didn't like Li Mu's behavior of only allowing state officials to set fires and not allowing people to light lamps.

Compared with the election of senators and representatives, the qualifications of party representatives are much more arbitrary, and the seats in each state are of course fixed, but for people like Li Mu and Rockefeller, "seats" no longer mean anything, as long as they want, they can represent any state.

"I'm not here on behalf of the Junma Weapons Factory, I'm here on behalf of the Junma Automobile Factory." Li Mu was proud and showed the benefits of the company in his hand.

The headquarters of the Junma Weapons Factory is in Massachusetts, but the headquarters of the Junma Automobile Factory is in New York, so there is nothing wrong with what Li Mu said.

"Don't talk nonsense, I officially inform you that if you want Hayes to be president, then you must agree to my two requests..."

"Are you going to surrender?" Li Mu laughed, ready to receive Rockefeller, the last captive.

"You think you've got a win, don't you? Let me tell you this, I may not be able to make James Bryan president, but I definitely have a way to make Hayes not president. "Rockefeller began to play tricks, without the slightest sense of surrender.

Li Mu immediately had a big headache, Rockefeller was right, even if Hayes defeated James Bryan, as long as Rockefeller was determined to get in the way, Hayes would not be able to become president in the end.

Don't underestimate Rockefeller's influence, although he does not have so many propaganda outlets like Li Mu, but Rockefeller himself also represents a political force that cannot be ignored, if Rockefeller falls to the Democratic Party in the final decisive battle, then Li Mu even if he goes all out, he does not dare to say that he will win, after all, the current Republican Party is at a disadvantage in the face of the Democratic Party, and if the Republican Party wants to win this election, it needs all Republicans to unite to win, that's really the way to die.

"Let's talk about it after the vote, it's going to be time-sensitive, and we don't have time to bargain." Li Mu looked at his watch and wanted to wait until the voting was over.

The voting is expected to begin at six o'clock, and there is still half an hour to go, and the delegates have already begun to enter the venue, and there is indeed no time to bargain.

"Let's go, let's go out and talk..."Rockefeller was more anxious, and dragged Li Mu up and walked out of the venue.

"What? The voting will start in a while..."Li Mu doesn't want to leave, the quadrennial drama, Li Mu doesn't want to miss any excitement.

"Hehe, this is New York, don't worry, as long as we don't come back, they won't be able to vote." Rockefeller was quite confident in this regard.

Li Mu has a great influence in New York, and Rockefeller's influence in New York is not small, and even greater than Li Mu in some aspects, so Rockefeller is the real snake in New York, if Rockefeller is not happy, he has the ability to make all New Yorkers unhappy.

Sure enough, seeing Rockefeller dragging Li Mu out of the door, all the representatives who were entering the government affairs hall immediately consciously separated and made way for them.

Li Mu noticed that James Bryan's face on the rostrum was extremely ugly.

At this time, Li Mu must not have taken care of James Bryan's thoughts, and came to the door of the government hall with Rockefeller, and Rockefeller casually found a room and pushed the door in.

Is this the New York City government, there are naturally a lot of staff, and several staff members in the room are busy.

"I need a quiet room." Rockefeller's voice was not high, but the expression on his face was extremely serious.

Several staff members glanced at each other, no one dared to let Rockefeller look elsewhere, and no one even dared to look at Rockefeller and Li Mu more, several people quickly packed up the items on their desks, and slipped out along the wall with low eyebrows and eyes, without the slightest resistance.

When the last person went out, Rockefeller raised his hand to slam the door shut, slapped his face and smiled in satisfaction: "It's quiet now..."

Sure enough, it's very quiet, and the air is very fresh.

Li Mu casually found an ashtray, extinguished the cigar in his hand, leaned on the table, supported the table with both hands, and looked at Rockefeller helplessly: "Okay, tell me what your conditions are." ”

In the face of such a Rockefeller, Li Mu was also helpless.

"First of all, I demand a reduction in the tax rate on petroleum products." Rockefeller prescribes the first condition.

"Hah! You just asked for tax exemption..."Li Mu immediately sneered.

Under the strong operation of Rockefeller, the current tax rate on petroleum products in the United States is extremely low, not to mention tax exemption, it is almost the same.

There is a background to this tax rate, as far as the world is concerned, Standard Oil is also a dominant company, and the arms production industry also has Krupp and Enfield, and Standard Oil has no rivals at all.

Therefore, in order to support the domestic industry, the US government has set a very low tax rate for the oil industry.

"If it's free, that's even better." Rockefeller didn't seem to hear the mockery in Li Mu's words, and there was no embarrassment on his face.

At this time, Li Mu was completely defeated, and his skin was thick to this extent, and he was indeed invulnerable.

"The second condition is to limit the number of refineries, we already have enough refineries, so from now on, no new refineries will be allowed to open for ten years." Rockefeller continued, and the conditions offered were even more ruthless than Li Mu's access system.

"There's something I'd like to ask, did James Bryan agree to these conditions?" Li Mu was curious, if James Bryan could agree to such conditions, then why couldn't he agree to Li Mu's access system.

"Of course!" Rockefeller's face was reasonable, as if he did not agree to his conditions.

"Cut..."Li Mu didn't believe it at all, and it was impossible for him to go to James Bryan to verify it in person.

"Those are the two conditions, if Mr. Governor can agree, then I can help Mr. Governor win the election." Rockefeller was not afraid that Hayes would not agree.

"Even if you don't help, Mr. Governor can win!" Li Mu really can't get used to Rockefeller's this, I know you can't get used to me, but you just look helpless.

"Not necessarily, if Mr. Governor doesn't agree to these two demands, then I'll go to someone else, and someone will agree." Rockefeller was triumphant, pulled a chair and sat down, and lifted his feet to the table.

Li Muqiang resisted the urge to kick the chair down, looked at the time displayed on the watch and reminded Rockefeller again: "Okay, I will convey your request to Mr. Hayes, but I don't guarantee that Mr. Hayes will definitely agree, now let's finish the last round of voting, and then discuss this issue." ”

Li Mu's watch is the latest product produced by the "Gang of Men", with a Swiss movement, a white gold case, set with 12 genuine diamonds, and a bracelet of hand-woven leather rope provided by the Urban Beauty store, such a watch costs $15,000 in the "Gang of Men" store.

Plus it's a bit expensive, right? But in fact, this is a monopoly product, although Patek Philippe produced the first watch in 1868, but Patek Philippe did not realize the value of the watch, and did not apply for a relevant patent, which was cheap Li Mu, as a new utility invention patent, the horse group enjoyed a 14-year monopoly of the watch.

"Don't worry, I told you just now, as long as I don't agree, no one can vote..."Rockefeller smiled sadly, and before he could finish speaking, the electric light in the room suddenly dimmed.

At this time, there was an exclamation from the government affairs hall next door outside the door, and Li Mu realized that Rockefeller had indeed been prepared.

"What the hell are you doing? These lights are provided by Junma Electric Company, what are you going to do? Li Mu was furious, which was tantamount to discrediting Junma Electric Company in front of all Republicans.

"Hahahaha..."Rockefeller laughed wildly, not caring about the words starting with Li Mu's "F": "I already told you, as long as I don't agree, no one can vote, so you hurry up and go to Mr. Governor, if Mr. Governor decides a little earlier, then maybe you can catch up tonight..."

"Why don't you restore the power to me now, or you'll wait for my claim." Li Mucai didn't care whether Hayes would agree or not, no matter what, Li Mu would not gamble with the reputation of the electric company.

"Isn't it just money... None of the problems that can be solved with money are problems. "Rockefeller has a big bag, and he is really rich.