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David Hill said, holding his glass, "Actually, I can't support such a huge aquarium with my financial resources, you know, it's not just the electricity, a few hundred tons of water is not a small number - it has to be the same as the real seawater." The glass and the floor must have a very high pressure coefficient, and if you look at the corals and anemones underwater, don't look at them small, but the requirements for water quality are extremely strict, and if the water quality deteriorates slightly, they will no longer be beautiful. ”

"It's not easy to get by, and there are several species that are listed on the protected list and are endangered all over the world. Hmmm......"

"These species can only live in certain areas of the sea, where the composition of the sea is a little special, so they can be fed to grow. In order to accurately replicate the proportions of this seawater, scientists have put a lot of thought into it...... Although we have spectrometers to use, we ...... But," David said, putting down his glass, smiling, "the technical difference between knowing and a perfect one-to-one replica is greater than the distance between the Grand Canyon...... You can't do without first-class scientists. Frankly, I suspect Moscow won't be able to do it......"

"Alright, Ed, you must be weird right now. Although I, David Hill, am a small entrepreneur, I can't afford it with my personal financial resources alone......"

"Well, it's not yours to stump?" Edward asked.

"Let's just say I can use this place whenever I want, but the ownership is no longer in my name, and I can hold a banquet here as long as I have a distinguished guest worthy of hospitality. However, there are very few one-on-one dinners like this. Of course, there can't be too many VIPs......"

"It's a great honor," Edward complimented, and listened quietly.

"It's actually an industry of the New York University Institute of Marine Biotechnology, and I helped them dig up a lot of money from Congress, and they got their research to be bought by the military at a high price, well, not a one-time thing, it's actually about marine life and hydrological data analysis off the coast of Vietnam and Southeast Asia as a whole."

So, out of gratitude, they built such a huge oceanarium. The Institute of Oceanography is responsible for the management and maintenance, and all expenses are applied for. ”

"New York University, this is a public school."

"yes, what's the problem?" David Hill laughs, "This is indeed a research-ready aquarium, and it does belong to the New York University Institute of Oceanography, and if someone wants to audit it, it can be turned into a laboratory in a day." ”

"So...... David Hill said, "I don't have to spend money......

"Uh......" Edward's brain was a bit down, and he estimated that the construction cost of this huge glass fish tank would be at least several million, and the annual operating expenses were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars...... For such a large field, 1,000 a day for water, coal, and electricity is not too much, which is not counting the salary of professionals.

Okay......

David Hill played the other way around, and he didn't even have to spend money.

It is conceivable that the business he brokered did not make any less money for all interested parties.

The feedback from the other party is also full of imagination.

Edward suddenly felt a little funny, he had worked so hard for so long, mastered a million-dollar fortune, and gained a lot of fame in academia and society - at least no one under the age of 30 in the judicial world could be as popular as himself.

He is willing to feel the threshold of the upper class of society, the class jump, and he has at least partially achieved it......

But now ......

Only then did he realize that he was really sitting in a well and watching the sky.

David Hill's actions today are a real glimpse of what luxury is.

"Oh, that's wrong, I still contributed some money, I donate to my alma mater every year, at least one month's salary every year." David Hill explained with a grin as he sipped red wine.

"Okay" Edward nodded, they were indeed high-flyers.

In fact, David Hill said that he couldn't afford to raise this giant fish tank, which is also nonsense.

Edward remembered that in the last Bergman incident, it was this bigwig who used Bergman's pension to train New York City on the employability of immigrants, of course, these training fees are all municipal expenses, New York is notoriously rich, and Master David must have made a lot of money from it, otherwise why give Bergman's nursing home license approval the green light......

Moreover, after Bergman hung up, Elena was particularly enthusiastic about Edward during that time, and it was clear that she also benefited a lot from it.

Wage earners are all making a lot of money, so needless to say, the pockets of the House of Representatives are even more bulging.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little silent, David Hill smiled, coughed, and clapped his hands again.

In an instant, the lights in the giant aquarium changed, and it was only blue to simulate the marine environment.

At this moment, the spotlights of various colors are lit up, brilliant and dazzling, and the melodious piano sound is also remembered around me.

Edward followed the sound and looked at a corner 60 feet from the dining table, hidden in the darkness.

At this moment, under the chasing light, it is a band of no small scale.

But the main guys have everything, and there are twenty of them.

Okay, in general, there are only 10 people in a high-end restaurant with a small band playing live......

Even a violin quartet and a steel ball are enough to show style and taste.

"Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Continuous Adagio," Edward said immediately.

"Not bad, very tasteful" David Hill praised, his tone was light, obviously he felt that Edward's performance was quite qualified, this kind of track is not unpopular, but it is not often heard, Edward can tell it, indicating that this little guy at least has enough reserves for his social knowledge, which is what a positive young man should do.

While Edward was still stunned, he saw David Hill turn his head to look at the giant aquarium.

Five young women appeared inside at some point, swimming slowly to the music.

Although the appearance is different, the hair color is different, and even the body details are different from the fat of the swallow ring and the fat.

But it is the same young and the same beautiful, not an inch, shuttling among the fish.

Occasionally, multiple people form various geometric patterns......

At this moment, four of them, facing Edward and David Hill, formed a beautiful doji pattern on their toes opposite each other.

At this moment, Edward was completely defeated from his original cognition......

"It's ...... Mermaid," he muttered.

"Not bad...... David Hill smiled kindly, "I said I like the ocean and I like fish, but I didn't say what kind of fish it was...... This one is obviously much cuter and more beautiful than the rays. ”

Edward couldn't take his eyes off the sight of the young girls' hair fluttering in the water, as if they were dancing with aquatic plants of all colors.

"Which is your favorite?" David Hill asked, "Or think that's the prettiest."

"That pale blonde-haired" Edward lost his mind "with pale blue eyes, which looked like he was of Russian descent"

"Good eye...... She is Ukrainian, and her parents came to the United States for their dreams...... Well, she'll be with you tonight......"

"No, I, I didn't mean that......"

"Relax, she used to be Russian, but I'm not KGB. Rest assured, don't worry about hidden cameras. I am a decent person. David Hill laughed.

"This, this ......" He didn't know how to get back, and although he knew it wasn't decent, he stared at the giant aquarium.

This kind of opportunity will never be available to ordinary people in their lifetime.

After about ten minutes, the lights dimmed, and the mermaid quietly disappeared.

"They are very tired, freediving has to make all kinds of styling combinations, ten minutes is almost the limit, no matter how long it is, it will cause damage to their health, although they have commercial insurance, but it is better not to do this. So I'm a good employer, isn't it? ”

Edward didn't know what to say.

There was silence for a while before he spoke, "What do you need me to do?" ”

The other party personally entertained him to dinner with the dignity of a congressman, and also let him enjoy a "do it now".

If it was said that Master David suddenly saw that he loved someone very pleasing to the eye, he folded and handed it over.

Obviously, no one can be fooled by this.

Fortunately, Edward's mind was still clear, and he immediately went straight to the heart of the problem after sobering up from the shock.

"Eat slowly, we'll talk while we eat......," David Hill gestured.

"That's right. We thought it would be a good opportunity. He said

"Opportunity?" Edward wondered

"We greatly appreciate the actions of the Soviet Jewish Protection Program."

"You guys?" Edward asked

"Yes, Republicans to be exact...... Our president is in trouble right now, he's going to clean up the mess left by JFK and Johnson...... "David looks very helpless" You know, although people like to call the Republicans a bunch of warmongers. However, do your own calculations, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, we started the war? ”

"Uh......" Edward scratched his head, he didn't really realize it.

"President Roosevelt in World War II, President Wilson in World War I, President McKinley in the Spanish-American War, and President Polk in the Mexican-American War. They are all Democrats. Well, it's that the Civil War was all personally commanded by President Lincoln...... and "David Hill is spreading his hands" is simply incomprehensible. By the way, the Korean War was Truman, and your Uncle Solomon also played a very bad role in it. Not to mention the Vietnam War, JKF is still the cutest pure little angel in the hearts of the people of the whole country......"

"Well, they're happy. Send the troops out and make a mess, and now the Republicans are going to wipe their ass. We are, after all, conservatives, and we are driven by our own moral conscience, although in a way we would be happier to let the Democrats suffer the consequences. But we are, after all, citizens of the United States, and we have an obligation to bring this country back on the right path. ”

Edward had a bit of a brain pain, mainly because the stimulation was too deep.

Before that, he never imagined that the powerful could still play like this, the key is that it doesn't cost a penny.

Secondly, David Hill's words are half-truths and half-truths, which is quite annoying.

It is indeed a routine operation for a Democratic president to start a war, but the latter words are a bit suspicious of self-selling and boasting.

However, considering that the other party is a genuine politician and an elite politician, it is not a problem.

Seeing Edward's dazed look, David Hill was also a little amused, thinking that he might be talking a little too much.

So he decided to be more direct and slowly explain the reason.

"Ed, I want you to play a greater role in the legal protection program for Jews in the Soviet Union."

"The bigger role? How to start? ”

"It's very simple, keep looking for the handle of the Soviet Union, then exaggerate, make a big deal out of it, use your innate legal literacy to wrestle with the Russians on the national stage, and then humiliate them and make them lose ......"

“？？？” Edward asked, "I, can I make such a big difference?" ”

Then he thought, "You should go to Professor Taylor or Professor Fletcher for this." With their prestige, they don't even need to do anything, they can attract attention when they stand in front of the stage."

"They can't," David Hill immediately vetoed.

I don't know when the piano piece stopped.

At this moment, the environment is silent, only the sound of water and bubbles in the aquarium, and the waiters around them do not know when they have disappeared.

So much so that I don't know if it's Edward's delusion, David Hill's voice even has a hint of echo.

"Taylor and Fletcher are so old, their brains are rigid. They insist that it should be a matter of facts. It's not that no one actually approached them, and guess what Taylor's opinion on the matter is? ”

David Hill sat upright, learning Taylor's voice and tone: "Justice is not a machine, it is controlled by people, so there will definitely be mistakes, let us both work together to fix these mistakes, and I also welcome Moscow to send your legal experts to Washington." I think we can work together again. ”

"It's very unusual," said David Hill, contemptuously, "that the United States has a problem, of course, but it is not the turn of the Russians to intervene. After all, our black compatriots have no relatives in the Soviet Union, but the Jews all over the world are one family, aren't they? Actually, you know, I'm also Jewish. ”

Edward remained silent and continued to listen to him.

"I've heard that you're doing a good job in Moscow, visiting the 'non-leaveables' and dissidents, who are a problem in Moscow's eyes, but are invaluable to us!"

"We need to create enough trouble for Moscow." David Hill sighed, "President Nixon has put too much effort into getting the country back to normal, but it's still very far from where we want to go." Order: We need to restore order. ”

"Internally, we are facing a continuous loss of cash due to the influx of goods from our allies due to soaring oil prices and rising domestic manufacturing costs. Although no longer pegged to gold, the US dollar remains the strongest currency in the world. At the same time, we have to deal with the mess of the Democratic Party, who have released the thugs from prison and disrupted our daily lives, and when we go to arrest them, there is a group of people who claim that the former is part of the civil rights movement! ”

"The worst thing is the economy, and now there is stagflation. Prices are rising, but economic development is stagnating. ”

"The cause of economic stagflation is the result of the expansion of government power."

David Hill began to explain that "since President Roosevelt accepted Keynesian theory, on the one hand, he has engaged in a policy of "fiscal expansion" and large-scale infrastructure construction; On the other hand, in order to "correct market failures", the government has always been allowed to intervene excessively in economic affairs. As a result, the law of the market economy has been seriously undermined. Now the two oil shocks, combined with the initial distribution imbalance, have finally triggered economic stagflation. ”

"You know, our current external image is based on an extremely developed and extremely healthy economy. There are economic problems right now, and the president must find a way to improve them, or our voice in the world will decline. “

He sighed and continued, "This lesson has never been taken seriously by the Democrats, and they have even denied the problem, mainly to defend their President Roosevelt, of course. The Democratic administration also believes in its own 'visible hand.'"

"So it's a mess. Our president is in an extremely hostile situation, both internally and externally. Therefore, we need to break the situation, and if we want to reform, we must first reduce the pressure on ourselves. David Hill concluded

"And externally...... The Republicans have more to clean up for the Democrats, starting with the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam while maintaining our image as guardians of world peace. ”

"And every problem we face is what the Russians want to see the most. You can find that there is an anti-American chorus going on in the world right now, and they don't care how tyrannical North Vietnam is, just because the United States sent troops, so all the mistakes are caused by the United States. This puts us at a very disadvantage. Do you understand? ”

"I think I can understand," Edward nodded, "So, you guys, are you going to take the initiative?" Make some trouble for the Russians, so that they too can taste the greatness, and by the way, stop paying attention to the United States? And also give our propaganda and diplomatic forces a few more ways to attack the Russians? ”

"To tell you the truth, I really envy Solomon, because he knew you earlier, and you are friends now......" David Hill changed the subject.

"Probably so," Edward's turn smiled wryly.

When asked by a Republican congressman about the friendship with the Democratic hopeful, I felt a little proud, but how to say it, it seemed weird, and I felt like a scumbag...... I seem to have become a white scientist......

If, one day, Solomon cried out, "It is me, it is me first, and it is clear that I came first...... XX is good, XX is good, or XXX is good. ”

It seems to be quite emotional to think about it like this.