According to Li Mu and Gloria's plan, Li Mu and Gloria will hold a wedding on October 1.

There is nothing special about this day, and it can't be compared with the National Day.

In other words, the national holiday of the United States is not called National Day, but Independence Day, and the date is July 4 every year, which commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

Because everything about the wedding is simple, there is not much preparation to do, and before that, Li Mu still follows his own pace and only deals with some things that he is more interested in, such as laborers from Japan.

On September 25, the first group of Japanese laborers, numbering about 3,000 men between the ages of 20 and 35, arrived in San Francisco after a month-and-a-half-month journey, and they will be sent to Panama to prepare for the excavation of the Panama Canal.

One of the main purposes of Li Mu's support for the Ryukyus to launch the war against Japan was to provide for Japan's abundant labor force, which had a population of nearly 30 million in the 70s of the 19th century, second only to the Qing and India in terms of human resources alone.

Although Li Mu has been continuing to emigrate from the Qing Empire to the United States, the Chinese who spent a lot of money and finally got it could not be thrown to Panama for consumption, so the Japanese became the best substitute.

It is really "attrition", although the Panama Canal has not yet been officially launched, but according to the available information, it can be predicted that the excavation of the Panama Canal will be very difficult, where the terrain is complex and diseases are rife, and it can be said that the difficulty is no less than the construction of the Pacific Railway.

When the Pacific Railway was built, it was claimed that there was a Chinese corpse buried under each sleeper, and now Li Mu certainly will not watch this tragedy befall the Chinese again, if he can, he will use the Japanese corpses to cover the riverbed of the Panama Canal, even if it will be infamous for this, Li Mu will not hesitate.

Strictly speaking, the capitalists of this era are all guilty of "original sin", and if they really want to find faults, none of them are innocent, so Li Mu doesn't care what future scholars will say about this period of history.

Of course, considering the current influence of the Horse Group, it is more likely that the future situation is that no one mentions this history at all, and all the unbearable will be deliberately forgotten, just like in the 21st century, all kinds of books and magazines are open to praise Carnegie and Rockphil, and no one mentions the unscrupulous means of their early fortune.

Free speech?

Hehe!

Through the war with Japan, the Ryukyu government obtained about 200,000 Japanese prisoners of war, most of whom were young men between the ages of 20 and 35, who were treated by the Ryukyu government as part of the "war reparations", and the Shoma Group obtained the ownership of these "goods" from the Ryukyu government for one dollar per person, and then sent them to Panama to work as workers, and so on, the Shoma Group could get a profit of 15 dollars per month from each worker.

"Very good business, but the unnecessary consumption is too great, a month ago, I remember Bai Qi's telegram said that this batch of prisoners of war is a total of 4,000 people, why is it only 3,000 now?" Li Mu expressed great dissatisfaction with the work of the Pacific Company, which was extremely irresponsible for the company's property, and it seemed that someone did not enter the state as quickly as possible, or did not fully take responsibility.

"Reem, there were indeed 4,000 people on board, but that's normal consumption along the way, and it's actually good to have 3,000 people arrive in San Francisco, and based on our previous experience, only about 50% of the cargo arrives safely." Lawrence Lucas has already gone to the Far East, Yan Shun answered Li Mu's question with a bitter face, Yan Shun knew very well in his heart that Li Mu would definitely not be satisfied with this answer.

After 1840, a large number of Chinese were sent to the United States from the Far East via the Pacific Ocean as "piglets", and only about half of them were able to reach the United States safely due to the harsh conditions.

It's 1876 now, compared with 30 years ago, the conditions have been much better, the appearance of the steam engine has replaced the sails, and Li Mu has prepared a number of supply points along the way, so that the immigrants on the ship can rest and adjust, and at the same time replenish enough supplies, according to the previous experience of the Pacific Company, the probability of new immigrants encountering accidents on the way has dropped to less than 5%, compared with the previous decades, this is indeed a great progress.

Although in Li Mu's heart, the status of the Japanese is definitely not comparable to that of the Chinese, but the Japanese labor is still the property of the Junma Group, and Li Mu definitely does not want his property to shrink, especially in such a senseless matter.

"We have paid a full $6.5 million to launch the war against Japan, and now we only get these 200,000 prisoners of war on the surface, so send a telegram to Lawrence, if the next batch of laborers still has such a big loss, then he will wait to go to Africa to develop the telecommunications market." Li Mu wants to give Lawrence Lucas enough warning, this kind of thing must not happen again.

"According to the latest agreement between the Ryukyu government and the Tokugawa shogunate, the number of laborers may be increased from 200,000 to 400,000, and of course we may have to pay a little more for this additional part, which is about twice the original price." Yan Shun informed Li Mu of the latest news.

Just last month, the new Japanese emperor Akihito ascended the throne, it is said that he is a little guy who is less than a year old, and Tokugawa Tatsuken has officially become the new "shogun of Seiyi", and Japan has finally returned to the shogunate era again.

It is easy to understand that the number of workers continues to increase, after all, after Tokugawa took power, there will definitely be a new round of purge in the country, and it is not known how many people will suffer in this process, 200,000 people are only a conservative estimate, and this number is expected to increase in the future.

For Li Mu, this is definitely a surprise, it seems that Lawrence Lucas is not useless, this shrewd banker can give full play to his ingenuity in the Far East, once there is no moral restraint, no public opinion supervision, you can imagine what kind of banker who has no bottom line can go.

"General Tokugawa called to ask, is there any interest in women on our side, if you can, General Tokugawa can provide an equal number of female traitors, uh, General Tokugawa can guarantee that these women are all in good health and have no record of engaging in bad occupations, it is specifically noted here that they will be the best maids..."

Regarding the marriage of Yan Hu and Yan Shun, Li Mu did not interfere with it, but has been actively pulling the strings, as if a few years ago, Yan Hu once got closer to a girl from a certain family in New York, but then there was no follow-up, Yan Hu was in the army all these years, Yan Shun has been by Li Mu's side, and the personal problems of the two brothers have become the top priority of the old Yan couple.

Li Mu has no requirements for the race of his partner, it doesn't matter if he is Chinese or foreigner, even if he is Mexican, he can accept it, as long as he really likes it, skin color or anything is not a problem, but in the eyes of Lao Yan and his wife, this issue is very important, Lao Yan has always hoped that Yan Hu and Yan Shun can find a suitable Chinese girl to marry, although Yan's mother does not say it, in fact, she must think so.

Before Li Mu came to the United States, there were about 150,000 Chinese in the United States, and a considerable number of these Chinese had already started a family, such as Zhang Leye, who found a white girl to start a family.

Similar to Zhang Leye's situation is really lucky, more Chinese do not have a suitable marriage partner at all, so from the very beginning, the Pacific Company regarded women as the focus of immigration, and did everything possible to encourage Chinese women to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty, thanks to the patriarchal tradition of the Qing Dynasty, there are indeed many girls who have crossed the ocean to the United States, but this part of the people to solve the increasingly huge market demand, it is really a drop in the bucket.

"Yes, as much as you want, even if it's a little more expensive." Li Mu has no prejudice against Japanese women, and he immediately made a decision.

Compared with Japanese men, Li Mu's impression of Japanese women is really IKEA IKEA, this concept is actually related to social habits, once Japanese girls get married, most of the time they will become full-time housewives, at this time the husband and children are all their world, so in comparison, Chinese girls in the 21st century look less virtuous.

In fact, this is not the case at all, as far as Li Mu knows, if Chinese women do not need to go out to work to subsidize their families, then Chinese women are also excellent housewives, even better than Japanese women.

In this era, the Chinese in the United States are not qualified to pick and choose, in the last year or so, it has become more and more difficult to encourage girls to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty, and the cost of immigration is rising, and there are more than 300,000 male Chinese in the United States tossing and turning every night and sleepless, at this time it is a good idea to find a replacement, better than nothing.

"In addition, tell Ford Benjamin that priority will be given to selecting the right people from these laborers to supplement the Panamanian company, and all the next actions will be based on them." It is not enough to catch Japanese men as workers and rob Japanese women as wives, Li Mu also has to send Japanese men to the battlefield and squeeze out the last trace of surplus value on the Japanese.

Li Mu has always believed that the most suitable type of military for the Japanese is the death squad, the Japanese character is easy to drill the horns because of extreme repression, as long as the Japanese continue to brainwash, then the Japanese will not hesitate in the face of death, the Japanese have always had a self-destructive characteristic, even if it is a well-educated Japanese, the bones are still full of madness and death.

"Okay, no problem, in fact, Mr. Ford has already sent a telegram asking for assistance, the three Colombian divisions in Bogotá have left their positions and are approaching Panama, and Mr. Ford has only 5,000 men in his hands who have not yet received full training, and Mr. Ford will be very grateful for this news." As Li Mu's personal secretary, Yan Shun maintains a good personal relationship with the executives of Junma Group, and Ford Benjamin, as one of the earliest descendants to follow Li Mu, is naturally extremely familiar with Yan Shun, and Yan Shun will also help Ford Benjamin when he has the opportunity.

This kind of relationship is actually relatively taboo in the enterprise, but it is obvious that there can be no such concerns in Li Mu, although Li Mu has never treated Yan Shun's family as a servant, but Lao Yan's family's attitude towards Li Mu is indeed like treating his own master, betrayal is absolutely impossible, especially after Chu Xue became pregnant, it can be said that Lao Yan's family is one of the few people Li Mu trusts in the world.

Even because of the bonus of race, Li Mu did not have such trust in Will's family.

"Don't worry about the Colombians, they are just a bunch of local chickens and dogs, if Ford can't even beat the Colombians, then he should go back to Chuntian as soon as possible to retire." Li Mu is not worried about this problem at all, several previous wars have fully shown that the thin red line tactics are the same as lining up to shoot in front of the machine gun position, and the battle should not be won too easily.

In the Cuban War of Independence, Li Mu demonstrated the role of machine-gun positions in crowd tactics for the first time through George Dewey, and this was again verified in the later Battle of Montana against the Indians.

In these two wars, no military observer missions were sent by various countries, so all countries in the world did not have a full understanding of the role of machine guns, until the Ryukyu War against Japan that just ended a few months ago, machine guns finally showed their fangs in front of military observers of various countries.

It always takes a process to experiment with a new tactic, and it is clear that the Colombians have not had time to try it yet, so the Colombians will eventually attack Panama using crowd tactics, and if they can't win against such an enemy, Ford Benjamin, then it's time for Ford Benjamin to retire.

In fact, with the establishment of the Republic of Panama, the position of the Panamanian company has become more and more important, just a few days ago, Li Mu, I saw a list of army officers who were ready to retire from the Ministry of War, and Yan Hu's name was impressively listed.

This group of officers, according to the agreement between Li Mu and Sherman, was to be added to the Panamanian company, which of course meant that the Ministry of War had begun to infiltrate the Panamanian company, but Li Mu could not refuse this degree of infiltration.

The Panama Company is now a standard military organization, and the U.S. government will never tolerate such a military organization being uncontrolled, so Li Mu does not want to maintain the purity of the Panama Company, but he can't maintain it at all, if Li Mu refuses this level of infiltration, it means that Li Mu is ready to break with the U.S. government.

Obviously, this is not what Li Mu wants.