Able was indeed extremely powerful, although he did not say a word, but just stood on the sidelines, and the effect was immediate, and in the sixth vote, the number of votes in favor of New York to take over the Centennial Exhibition of Independence finally exceeded half, reaching 42 votes.

At the moment when the results came out, Arthur and Li Mu were certainly overjoyed, but Paul's face was extremely pale.

"Thank you, thank you for your support, New York will definitely bring you an unparalleled independent centennial exhibition." Arthur thanked the lawmakers one by one, whether or not they voted in favor of New York.

The congressmen were still gracious, whether they supported New York or not, they congratulated Arthur, and Arthur also took the opportunity to invite the congressmen to the evening celebration party.

Although most of the congressmen agreed to attend, it is estimated that those who did not vote for New York should have no face, but we cannot underestimate the thickness of the faces of the congressmen, who are winners take all, and these congressmen are also wall-to-wall, they can support Philadelphia, but that does not mean that they hate New York.

It's just a different position.

In the evening, on the lawn on the shores of the Tidal Lake, Arthur held a celebratory evening.

In order to enrich the dishes, Arthur invited the chefs of all the famous restaurants in Washington, cold fighting, barbecue, Eastern and Western dishes, as long as you can think of it, you can find it at the party.

Of course, the attention of the guests was not on the dishes, Arthur became the star of the dinner, this time the operation of the Centennial Exhibition of Independence, New York even brought Arthur out of the limelight, members of Congress met a new Arthur, it is certain that the mayor of New York is definitely not the end of Arthur's career, as a rising star in the political arena, Arthur's first battle was beautiful.

Li Mu deliberately kept a low profile, and did not want to steal the limelight from Arthur, but this could not hide Li Mu's brilliance, it was precisely because of Li Mu's genius that the balance of victory tilted towards New York, and everyone wanted to chat with Li Mu and get to know this mysterious tycoon from the East.

Li Mu did not refuse, and talked with everyone very happily, and the parliamentarians were also very knowledgeable, and they chatted with Li Mu casually and then walked away, which would not delay Li Mu for too long.

Look at the people who stand with Li Mu, Abel Corbyn, this is President Grant's close minister, John Rockefeller, J. Rockefeller, J. Brown, J. Brown, John Rockefeller, J. Brown, J. T P. Morgan, John Vanderbilt, these are all famous tycoons in the United States, Runkel, Burnside, this is a hot political star-

If you don't have any confidence, you're really embarrassed to stand with Li Mu.

"You're so popular, and if you were born in the United States, I think you could run for president right now." Rockefeller was a little envious of Li Mu's popularity.

"Don't be stupid, it's because I can't run for president of the United States that they like me." Li Mu knows his own affairs, and the reason for his popularity is not because of Li Mu's money, nor because of Li Mu's skin color, but because Li Mu is not a threat to these parliamentarians.

"Reem, come over and have a drink, I just have something I want to talk to you about." Able can't keep up with Li Mu now, but he's still trying.

"About capacity adjustments? Don't think about it, I'm not going to change my mind, the number of emigrant ships must be increased to more than twenty, my factories need workers, a large number of workers, the pastures also need farmers, the more the better, I don't want to recruit those lazy Irish, they are like old donkeys, they do less, take more, can you believe it? Hiring an Irishman is enough for me to hire two Chinese, and one Chinese can do more than two Irishmen. Li Mu first blocked Abel's mouth.

Corbyn Riem now has more than 20 passenger liners, half of which run from New York to Europe and half from San Francisco to the Far East.

Most of the ships running the route from San Francisco to the Far East are propeller iron-hulled ships, which have a high safety factor, large carrying capacity, and fast speed, and can sail from the Far East to San Francisco in 20 days.

The ships from the Far East to San Francisco are all migrant ships, when they sail from San Francisco to the Far East, the ships will transport goods, and when they return to San Francisco from the Far East, all the Chinese immigrants are carried on board, and these ships can transport nearly 8,000 immigrants from the Qing Empire every month, although this number is quite a lot, but considering the industry under Li Mu's name, this number is far from enough.

Not to mention the manpower needed by the Junma Group, Li Mu has put the development of land in Indiana and Illinois on the agenda, Li Mu has more than 10 million acres of land in these two states, and these lands need at least 500,000 Chinese to cultivate, and how many people does Li Mu currently have in these two states?

It adds up to less than three thousand.

What's more, Li Mu also had to emigrate to the island of youth in Cuba and the Bahamas, both of which need to be filled with a large number of Chinese, and only if all the residents on the island are Chinese, can they ensure that these lands will always belong to the Chinese.

In order to increase the transportation capacity, Li Mu ordered ten of the latest immigration ships from the San Diego shipyard to increase the intensity of immigration from the Qing Empire, trying to increase the strength of the Chinese in the United States as quickly as possible.

The northern part of the Qing Empire suffered a once-in-a-century drought and locust plague this year, while the southern part of the empire was ravaged by floods, with at least 11 provinces suffering from natural and man-made disasters.

In the Qing Empire, the hardest "currency" is not silver, but grain, and only ten catties of wheat can be exchanged for a ten-year-old girl, which makes Li Mu really feel sad and inexplicable.

In the year of the catastrophe, it is not a fact that the child is easy to eat, and the children raised by themselves must be reluctant to eat, so they exchange with the neighbors, such a tragedy is not the annihilation of human nature, but the forced helplessness.

From the moral standpoint of the 21st century, of course, we must condemn this kind of behavior, but when Li Mu was in this era, all Li Mu could do was to exchange food for those children who were about to become rations as much as possible, even if these children could not work for Li Mu now, Li Mu could not watch this kind of tragedy happen.

Li Mu does hate the Qing Empire, but Li Mu does not hate the people of the Qing Empire, they are Li Mu's clansmen, Li Mu's brothers and sisters, Li Mu's fathers and fellow villagers, Li Mu can't stay out of the matter.

In order to let the San Diego shipyard complete the order as soon as possible, Li Mu asked the San Diego shipyard to postpone all other production tasks, ensuring that all the ships built on the slipway were migrant ships, which might jeopardize the reputation of the San Diego shipyard, but Li Mu can't care about so much now, rushing to transport the population is the right thing, and everything else has to be pushed back.

"Ream, I didn't mean that, of course I know that the Chinese are the best workers, I just wanted to talk to you, can you help me recruit some Chinese workers too, you know, we won in Montana, I got two mines in Montana, so I need workers-" Abel didn't want ships, but people.

"Gold mines? Damn, you're a lucky guy. Rockefeller exclaimed.

There are gold mines in Montana, this is a well-known secret, it is precisely because of the gold mines in Montana that the US government will declare war on the Indians again, and now the US government is making good progress in Montana, the war has entered the final part, and it is almost to the stage of sharing the spoils after the war.

"Let the Chinese help you mine? Damn, you should know, all I got from the Qing Empire were women and children, and I didn't have miners for you. "It's not that Li Mu doesn't help, but he really can't help.

The singles of the Junma Group have been eager to see through, the entire Junma Group has nearly 60,000 workers, more than 50,000 are singles, which makes Li Mu laugh, so Li Mu focuses on women and children, 8,000 people per month, more than 3,000 are women, and the remaining 5,000 people, more than 90% of children under the age of 12.

"Ream, I know you're not, but you know what? Your actions remind me of those damned slave owners, you don't want to treat your people as slaves, do you? ”J· P. Morgan's angle of attention is very special, and Li Mu is almost angry when he says it.

"Slave owners? How did you get this weird idea in your head? Don't you know the treatment of workers in the ZAMA Group? As for the children of the Stallion Group, ask John, he knows best. Li Mu is angry, slander is not such a slander method.

"The children of the Horse Group are indeed very happy, I bet that 90% of the American children are not as happy as the children of the Horse Group, the children of the Horse Group can receive a complete education, and there are additional nutritional subsidies, live in a clean and tidy house, their curriculum is very perfect, and quite scientific, the setting is very reasonable, the key is that they have excellent grades, especially in mathematics, which is simply a big cut beyond the average American child, it will not take many years, you will find that there will be a lot of little gentlemen in the society, It's all thanks to Reem. On this point, Rockefeller is happy to prove it for Li Mu.

"I heard that you have your suggestions for the follow-up use of the venue this time?" John Vanderbilt interjected.

"Yes, partly, if those venues are going to be demolished after the Centennial Exhibition, why don't we use them?" Regarding the subsequent use of the World Expo venue facilities, Li Mu's thinking is undoubtedly the most advanced in this era.

According to the provisions of the Centennial Exhibition of Independence, the pavilions of various countries and states are built by the countries and states themselves, so after the end of the World Expo, the use of these pavilions will become a big problem, according to Arthur's idea, an auction can be organized to sell these pavilions to enterprises or individuals, but in Li Mu's view, instead of selling these pavilions to enterprises and individuals, it is better to transform them into libraries, museums, exhibition halls and other cultural facilities to make sense.

New York isn't bad for money anyway.