Samuel Tilden returned to New York in January of 1876.

As is customary last year, the second season of the Tour of America was held on the first weekend of January, also in New York.

Compared to last year, this year's competition also has a total of six stops, but the order has been adjusted, the first stop is New York, the second stop is Boston, the third stop is Philadelphia, the fourth stop is Washington, D.C., the fifth stop is San Francisco, and finally it is still back in New York for the finals.

There were still eight teams competing in the race as last year, but the team names were different, with Volkswagen becoming Times and Rockefeller changing to Standard Oil.

The biggest difference from last year is the composition of the audience, after last year's successful holding and three months of warm-up, the Tour de America Rally, in this era of extremely scarce forms of entertainment, has become an undisputed benchmark of the times, not only American audiences, but also as far away as Europe, there are also spectators who do not hesitate to cross the ocean to the United States to watch the game.

When Samuel Tilden met Li Mu, Li Mu was attending the inaugural ceremony of the Autohome Fan Association at Clinton Castle.

The concept of the fan association was not advocated by Li Mu, but came from an ordinary salesman at the Junma Automobile Factory, this salesman is called Johnson Mourning, and he was also appointed as the president of the Autohome Fan Association.

The establishment of a fan association has many benefits, not only conducive to the promotion of the car, but also conducive to uniting all the horse owners, so that they have a sufficient sense of identity with the products of the horse company, in the long run, will cultivate a group of loyal fans for the horse car, not only they will buy the horse car when they have enough financial ability, their descendants will also buy it, which is not how much money can buy.

Li Mu has never done things or not to do things, and if he wants to do it, he will not leave a trace of life for others, so after Johnson Mourning proposed the concept of the car fan association, Li Mu further improved the concept, not only added the emblem, monogram, and corresponding membership system for the car fan association, but also prepared a membership publication for the car fan association, called "Autohome".

When Samuel Tilden met Li Mu, Li Mu was flipping through the inaugural issue of Autohome.

"Samuel, you missed yesterday's good play, you must know that yesterday's qualifying was very exciting, the first place does not belong to the Phantom team, nor to the Standard Oil team, but belongs to the Morgan team that no one is optimistic about, if you were there yesterday, you might be able to make a lot of money." Li Mu never mentioned the dirty things with the Texans, and his eyebrows fluttered when he talked about yesterday's qualifying match.

The National Auto Rally has entered its second season, and it stands to reason that Li Mudu should let more teams taste the taste of victory, so this is the victory of the Morgan team.

However, yesterday's race was just a qualifying race, which did not help much for today's race, Li Mu still has confidence in the team of Junma Group, and believes that they can get a good start.

Since the quality of the audience is rising, it is only natural that the organizing committee should launch more products and more services, so as to attract more attention, and maybe turn losses into wins this year.

So this time the United States Auto Rally officially launched the mascot, the mascot is a bald eagle wearing a red, white and blue top hat, before Christmas, the National Auto Rally Organizing Committee ordered 500,000 bald eagle dolls of different sizes from the horse clothing factory, and there are also matching scarves, gloves, velvet hats and other daily necessities with red, white and blue as the main colors.

If nothing else, the organizing committee will be able to make a small surplus by selling these souvenirs alone.

The bigger profit is of course in betting, with the Barron family's Mets bookmaker already offering the Tour de America Rally, with last year's champion Phantom Racing priced at 1.5 to win the race and Vanderbilt at the highest 12 to win.

In addition to the final championship, there are also handicaps for each qualifying and sub-station races, and the audience can bet at will according to their preferences, without worrying that the Mets bookmaker can't afford to lose, and New York Mayor Arthur personally came forward to endorse the Mets bookmaker.

"Ha, I've heard, yesterday's race was really exciting, but I'm looking forward to today's race, knowing that I put a thousand dollars on the Phantom team, and you don't want me to lose money." Samuel Tilden is also really popular, and it is pitiful to say that his salary as the governor of New York is more than 1,000 dollars a year.

Of course, as governor, Samuel Tilden enjoys the mansion, yacht, personal bodyguard, personal nurse, and even Samuel Tilden's cook who goes to the street to buy groceries, so this money is indeed a drizzle.

"Thank you for your trust, friendly reminder, if you haven't registered with the Autohome Fan Association, then you can remember to hurry up, members can have the qualification to order the most sought-after models in advance..."Li Mu smiled proudly, in order to increase the attractiveness of the Fan Association, Li Mu also took great pains.

Relatively speaking, the Junma Group is still very fair, such as the Autohome Fan Association, it stands to reason that Li Mu's membership number should be 00001, but Li Mu has always been very generous in this regard, so Li Mu gave the honor of the first member to Johnson Mourning.

If Samuel Tilden goes to register now, then I am afraid it will already be the first two, and it has only been a few days since the registration was opened, so you can imagine how popular the fan association is now.

"I asked Tim to sign up for me, and he had to help me pick an auspicious number." Samuel Tilden was also proud.

Tim is Samuel Tilden's personal assistant, and don't get me wrong, Tim is a man.

"If I were you, I wouldn't do it, but I would tell every Autohome fan." Li Mu was speechless about Samuel Tilden's sensitivity, and he still wanted to run for president with this quality, which was enough to run for squad president in the 21st century.

"O'Shea—" Samuel Tilden realized it and immediately got up and went downstairs.

Standing by the window on the third floor, watching Samuel Tilden enthusiastically greeting every member of the Autohome, eager to tell the world, Li Mu nodded slightly, it is really teachable.

This kind of thing can be regarded as hello, hello, everyone, okay, Autohome needs publicity, Samuel Tilden needs to win over voters, anyway, both sides are free to advertise, and it is not about who takes advantage of whom.

The content of the inaugural issue of "Autohome" is still very detailed, a performance evaluation of BMW cars, a popular science article introducing the basic knowledge of maintenance, a "story that I have to tell with the car", plus two chicken soup articles to make up the number, and a Volkswagen advertorial, in terms of the richness of the content, has exploded all the magazines on the market.

No, you can't blow up Time Magazine, second only to...

If you have to pick a bone in the egg, then there should be some problems in the printing level and paper quality, but this is not the deliberate slackness of the editors of "Autohome", but it is limited by objective conditions, and it is not a crime of war.

"The next batch should be placed on a batch of advertisements, if possible, another poster should be attached, our current advertising method is still a little obscure, should let readers feel the benefits of the car more intuitively." Li Mu went back and continued to improve "Autohome".

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away, in fact, I think our current "Autohome" is perfect, but who made you the boss, you can say whatever you want." Johnson Mourning had a smile on his face.

For Johnson Mourning, the appointment as president of the fan association is definitely a surprise, knowing that as a car salesman, Johnson Mourning is not successful, he can't even complete the sales tasks arranged by the horse car factory, if it weren't for the idea of establishing the fan association, then maybe Johnson Mourning would have lost his job this year.

"Don't worry, just do your job well, I always think that God will open a window for you when he closes a door for you, so work hard, I hope you can create brilliance in your new position." Li Mu's employment is definitely eclectic, and he never considers his qualifications and background, and ability is Li Mu's only requirement.

"Ability-only theory" sounds a bit unscientific, but Li Mu believes that this is not a matter of principle, for an enterprise, profit should be the only criterion for the survival of the enterprise, so whether the morality is noble, whether the belief is pious is not the criterion for the enterprise, the Junma affiliated school may need a group of moral gentlemen, and the Junma Group needs professional managers.

"Thank you, I've always had a question about why you can become a billionaire at a young age now, and I didn't eat the next meal, and now I understand." Johnson Mourning seized the opportunity to pat himself on the back, and if he can maintain his standards, then Li Mu believes that he will be able to thrive in his new job.

"Go ahead and tell our members that tomorrow I'll have a separate area for them in the audience, and I hope that everyone will be able to enter in uniform by then, and this is a good opportunity to build prestige and tell Mr. Hayes that his competitors are ready." When it comes to building momentum, Li Mu immediately came up with a variety of tricks.

It's 1876 now, and both Republicans and Democrats have begun to promote their presidential candidates, building momentum for their presidential candidates, and accumulating as much prestige as possible.

In fact, the battle has already begun.

Li Mu originally invited Hayes to attend the New York station of the National Automobile Rally as a guest of honor, but now it seems that one award presenter is not enough, and Li Mu wants to create more opportunities for Hayes to show up.

By the time Samuel Tilden returned, Li Mu was ready to leave Castle Clinton.

Samuel Tilden seized the opportunity to have a brief communication with Li.

"I'll do the work over there in Texas, and I hope you can exercise restraint during this time, and I believe I will give you an answer that will satisfy you." Samuel Tilden is also helpless, although he is the governor, what Li Mu wants to do is not something he can stop at all.

American politics has always been a vassal of the economy, and the social status of politicians is really not as good as that of the bigwigs in the economic world, and soon there will be a general election in New York State, and Samuel Tilden will definitely step down because he wants to run for president, so the current Samuel Tilden really can't stand up in front of Li Mu.

"Then trouble Mr. Governor, to be honest, I don't want to have any unpleasant incidents with anyone, but things don't always go our way, and we have to face those untold troubles all the time." Li Mu behaved magnanimously and gave Samuel Tilden enough face.

"Who says it's not, people always face trouble in life, but we still have to be strong to live." Samuel Tilden had no less trouble than Li Mu's.

According to the news obtained by Samuel Tilden, the leadership of the Texas Cotton Farmers Association has undergone a personnel change a few days ago, the original president was shot in the street, the executive chairman resigned, and the new president was actually the former secretary general Claude Emerson.

If Samuel Tilden doesn't come out again, then maybe the Texas Cotton Farmers Association will disintegrate directly, and this result is unacceptable to both Texans and the Democratic Party.

So Samuel Tilden must give Li Mu an option that can satisfy Li Mu.

"I haven't looked for you yet, you poached my chief counsel." Li Mu complained half-truthfully, and at the same time gave Samuel Tilden a step.

Face is given to each other, don't look at Samuel Tilden is now soft on behalf of the Texans, but this beam is settled, if there is a chance in the future, neither the Democratic Party nor the Texans will be soft.

Although Liangzi is finished, but the steps that should be given still have to be given, Li Mu complained half-truthfully, and the subtext in his words is that the Democratic Party has dug the corner of the Junma Group, and the Junma Group has suffered in this regard, so none of us owe anyone.

Samuel Tildendo is clever, although he has not won yet, but he can run on behalf of the Democratic Party, and he has the qualifications to serve as president, such a person must know the way to advance and retreat, and know the art of compromise, so he immediately hit the snake with the stick: "Hahaha... Grover's business is his own decision, and it has nothing to do with anyone else, and I can't help you with that. ”

In fact, how important can a lawyer be, one more is not more, one less is not much, there are many lawyers who are willing to work for the Junma Group, but there are only a dozen members of the Democratic National Committee, which is indispensable.