Although there were a few twists and turns, Zhang Changrong and the others finally settled down in Indiana.

Small groups like Changrong's, numbering in the hundreds in Indiana and Illinois, spread widely along the railroad like nails, stubbornly and tenaciously smashed down, becoming the first generation of Chinese-American farmers in the United States.

Before the large-scale promotion of agricultural machinery, similar to Zhang Changrong's family, they expected the two to cultivate 6,000 acres of land, which could exhaust Zhang Changrong and his wife to death.

Therefore, for most farmers, in about three or five years, their farms will be based on animal husbandry, of course, it is not that they will say nothing, the racial talent of the Chinese is here, at least there will be no shortage of vegetable fields.

Of course, it doesn't mean that all bad guys will pretend to be dishes, such as Li Mu.

If Yan's mother was there, she would not waste the large lawn in Li Mu's front yard on the shore of Luoying Lake in Washington, Li Mu would not have the heart to serve those flowers and plants, and he didn't even have a simple garden, but just hired a gardener, as long as he kept the lawn in the yard neat.

Since there is a lawn, of course, it should not be wasted, and a breezy night with a beautiful lakeside is the perfect place to hold a dinner party.

It's not easy to participate in Li Mu's banquet, you can't get an invitation if you don't have enough level, don't come to join in the fun, if you want to enter Li Mu's door, at least you need a senator.

There are still a lot of qualifications, Li Guofang, Runkel, and Samuel, who has just been elected to the Senate of New York, these people are all Li Mu's descendants, and they are naturally frequent visitors to Li Mu's family.

In addition, there are Benjamin Harrison and Burnside, these two people have a close relationship with Li Mu, they are friends of life and death, and they definitely don't need to make an appointment if they want to find Li Mu.

Recently, people who often appear in Li Mu's house also include Sherman.

Although there is no special friendship between Li Mu and Sherman, but the two are interdependent, no one can do without anyone, Li Mu needs to maintain a good relationship with the Ministry of War, hoping to get a steady stream of orders from Sherman, Sherman has no choice, except for the Horse Weapons Company, in the United States, no one can provide enough weapons to the U.S. War Department, so it didn't take much effort, Li Mu and Sherman reached a consensus, and then the relationship became closer and closer.

A dinner attended by only a few people cannot be described as a "banquet", at most it is a dinner.

However, after the meal, Li Muhui will set up a table and a few rattan chairs in the courtyard, with all kinds of fruits and wine on the table, and there will be a chef making barbecue and some small snacks on the spot, and no one can refuse the temptation of these things.

"The Far East has the largest population in the world, in other words, the largest market in the world, so if we want to really come out of this difficult situation, then we must develop the Far East market." Li Mu does not have enough influence now, the Senate is only composed of more than 70 senators, and Li Mu's direct control of the votes has exceeded one-tenth, which is a huge force that no one dares to underestimate, and can even determine the election of the president to a certain extent.

Now that his strength has reached this level, Li Mu is no longer clumsy, so Li Mu is now trying to influence the policy of the United States through the state, so as to achieve his own goals.

"Although the Far East has the largest population, the people there do not have purchasing power, whether it is the Qing Empire or Japan, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and it is not easy to squeeze money out of them." When it comes to the economy, Samuel, who was born in the media industry, can talk to Li Mu, and others, such as Runkel, who was born as a scholar, Benjamin and Bernside, who were born in the military, have nothing to do with Li Mu.

In fact, it is Chen Guofang who is more qualified to discuss the economy with Li Mu, but Chen Guofang has always looked at Li Mu as the leader, Li Mu is whatever he says, and Chen Guofang never raised objections, so Samuel became the most active one.

Samuel is right, the population of the Far East is indeed large, but the purchasing power is not strong, such as the Qing Empire and Japan, then the economic structure of these countries is completely self-sufficient small peasant economic system, although the means of production are a little backward, the organizational form is not enough scale, but it can barely meet the demand, unless it is to completely break this balance, otherwise the opening of the Far East market is an empty word.

In fact, it is exactly like this, taking the textile industry of the Qing Empire as an example, the common people of the Qing Empire generally spin and weave cloth by themselves, and they don't need to ask for clothes to make clothes.

If you want the people of the Qing Empire to buy ready-to-wear directly, you can only find a way to make them spinning wirelessly, or make the price of ready-to-wear extremely low, just like the "cabbage" of the 21st century, so that it is possible to succeed.

In fact, there was a Qing generation, although the Western countries tried to open the door of the Qing Empire with strong ships and artillery, and then opened the market of the Qing Empire, but this goal has never been completely achieved.

Considering the level of urbanization at that time, I am afraid that the market was not even a tenth of the degree of development.

"We want to develop the Far East market, and what we want to make is not the money of the poor, and the poor have no money for you to earn, it is precisely the money of the rich, and this should be our goal." Li Mu knew the living conditions of ordinary people in the Qing Empire, and he didn't hit the ordinary people with his ideas at all.

What Li Mu wants to earn is the money of the rulers of the Qing Empire, and it is not too easy to go to the Qing Empire to make money these days, just get a few warships over, find a port city and fire a few cannons, and you can force the Qing Empire to sign an unequal treaty.

Doing so will definitely increase the burden on the ordinary people of the Qing Empire, because no matter how much money the Qing Empire has to lose, in the end, this money will be passed on to the ordinary people.

But losing money is inevitable, even if Li Mu doesn't start, there will be other countries, such as Japan, such as Russia, in history they have squeezed enough oil and water from the Qing Empire, Li Mu is now earning the money first, anyway, in the end, no matter what method is used, Li Mu will find a way to return all the money squeezed to the people of the Qing Empire.

I only hope that the common people of the Qing Empire can wake up earlier, so that the Chinese can end their suffering one day earlier.

"If you want to make money from the rich, do you mean that we directly declare war on the Qing Empire?" Burnside finally found an opportunity to interject.

In fact, compared with Britain, France and other old imperialist countries, the United States had a relatively friendly attitude towards the Qing Empire, which is why the Qing Empire sent Li Mu and them to the United States in an attempt to learn from the advanced experience of the United States and hope to save the decaying empire.

As a new capitalist country, when the United States had the strength to expand abroad, the whole world had basically been carved up, leaving only the Qing Empire, an ancient empire, which was still a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

At that time, the United States did not have much military strength, the army did not have a standing force, and the navy was so tattered and tattered that there was no comparison with the powerful British Royal Navy, so the United States put forward the "open door" policy, hoping to use its economic strength to open up a new situation in the Far East.

Although the United States has not yet proposed an "open door" policy, Burnside knows this background, so Burnside will definitely not support Li Mu to provoke a war in the Far East.

"America is still a mess, so we can't set our sights on the Far East right now, at least we have to make sure that our backyard is safe so that we can move on to the next step." Benjamin also disagreed with Li Mu's proposal.

The trip to Cuba was the starting point of Benjamin's political career, and if it weren't for President Sylvester, maybe Benjamin wouldn't have been elected to the Senate so easily, so Benjamin's emphasis on the Americas is both habitual and old-fashioned.

"Of course, the United States should remain pure, and the Americas are the Americas of the Americans, so we support the independence movement of the American peoples." Li Mu said it rightly, this is really not the opposite.

After integrating the U.S. arms market, Horse Arms began to reach more and more customers, some from Europe, some from the Far East, some from Africa, and of course more from the Americas, to be more precise, from South America.

Li Mu treats all customers equally, not only keeping prices as low as possible, but also flexible means of payment, allowing customers to use resources or land to pay off debts.

As for the means of payment, the company has gained a lot of image points, so the reputation of the company is getting better and better, and even outside the United States, the reputation is much better than in the United States.

"You also have to be more restrained in this regard, the British government has already sent us a protest, have you sold weapons to the Boers?" Burnside's tone was less of a reproach and more of a reminder.

The word "boole" derives from the Dutch word for "peasant", and it was the Dutch who came to South Africa in the early days to take root and flourish there, giving rise to the current Republic of South Africa, the Transvaal Republic, the Republic of Natalia, and the Orange Free State.

The four republics, all of which were founded by the Boers, were not recognized by the British, and in fact the British would persuade them to accept the British government this year or next.

The Dutch arrived in South Africa earlier than the British, and although the British paid to buy the Cape of Good Hope region from the Dutch, they did not buy the entire continent, so the Dutch did not recognize British rule.

In the end, this "disapproval" will lead to the outbreak of the "Boer War".

Li Mu was indeed doing business with the Boers, who received the most advanced weapons from Li Mu, and Li Mu received gold and diamonds from the Boers.

Gold and diamonds were also one of the causes of the Boer War, and the power of gold should not be underestimated, as the federal government overturned the previous agreement and attacked the Indians in Montana because of the discovery of gold mines in Montana.

"Who cares about them, is there anyone willing to do business with me, I want to keep people out, this is not the way to do business?" Li Mu didn't care about the British at all, and even if Li Mu didn't sell weapons to the Boers, the British wouldn't give the order to the Horse Arms Company.

The US government does not care what the British will think, in fact, the Americans hope that the British will be unlucky, and they are happy to see Li Mu's approach, so so far Washington has not talked to Li Mu about anything.

However, for the British, this kind of thing is a taboo after all, if Li Mu has been so unscrupulous, then the British will sooner or later try their best to deal with Li Mu and his horse group, and then Li Mu's family will become the target of public criticism.

Burnside doesn't want to see Li Mu become the scapegoat of your U.S. government, or rather, Burnside doesn't want to lose Li Mu as an ally, so Burnside will remind Li Mu.

"Be careful, beware of the tree." Li Guofang finally couldn't help but remind, there are many similar words, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and the rafters that come out will rot first, etc.

"Haha, my tree is big enough, even if I don't look for the wind, the wind will come to me." You have the consciousness of taking the lead, if everyone behaves and history still develops according to the predetermined rhythm, then Li Mu will definitely have a very boring life in the next few decades.

Although the British have more and more reasons to deal with Li Mu, there are also more and more reasons for Li Mu to hate the British.

To put it more broadly, in order to break the existing world pattern, the first thing to break is the colonial system established by Britain and France.

I went on to say that the British, who pride themselves on being gentlemen, have always been disgusted with Li Mu, first Edison, and then Colter, and I don't know what is going on, Li Mu's enemies always like to run to England.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, so whether it is Edison or Colt, they have been banned by the British government, Edison has set up his own Edison laboratory in London, and is suing the British High Court for infringing Edison's laboratory patents, Mrs. Colt is in Portsmouth, re-established the Colt factory, and the list of weapons produced includes the "Springfield" rifle and the "Python" pistol.

Although he knew that his legitimate rights were being violated, Li Mu was helpless.

Although the ZAMA Group has applied for patents related to the "Springfield" rifle and the "Python" pistol in the UK, if the ZAMA Group goes to the UK to sue Colt, it is estimated that the British courts will not accept it.

Don't look at you Westerners talk about the law all day long, in fact, they are looking at whether this thing is beneficial to themselves, when it is good, the law is the sky, no one can infringe on it, and when it is not good, the law is a little girl, you can dress up casually.