As a human being in two lives, removing those scenes in the previous life, this is the first time Li Mu has sincerely opened his arms.

For Westerners, hugging is a normal social etiquette and doesn't mean much else.

For the Chinese, it is different, the way the Chinese deal with feelings is extremely restrained, especially for people like Li Mu who have always been emotionally passive, it is almost impossible for him to take the initiative to hug a woman, even if the other party is a person like Chu Xue who has special feelings and gets along with each other day and night.

In fact, Li Mu is very clear about Chu Xue's feelings for Li Mu, this kind of feelings have gone beyond the scope of the servant to the master, and it also does not belong to the scope of friends, there is a saying in the 21st century that love is not full above friendship, and the relationship between Chu Xue and Li Mu is similar to this.

One thing is certain, no matter what the future holds, Li Mu will definitely not let Chu Xue walk away from him, not only because Chu Xue controls the financial power of the Junma Group, but also because Li Mu is used to the existence of Chu Xue, if one day, when Li Mu wakes up, there are no clothes prepared by Chu Xue on the chair next to the bed, Li Mu will not be used to it.

It's a pity that Li Mu can't guarantee that he can give Chu Xue a perfect love now, otherwise, this hug may have already happened.

Looking at the back of Chu Xue's departure, Li Mu secretly hated in his heart, if he could be a little more shameless just now, then maybe he wouldn't have to stay alone in the empty room at night.

This thought is fleeting, don't look at Chu Xue looks mature, in fact, it is the child of the poor who has been in charge early, in fact, Chu Xue is now at most sixteen or seven years old, and the bones of her small body have not yet grown, so it is too much of a beast to start now.

Wait... Li Mu comforted himself like this.

Anyway, if you can't help it, you can go to Gloria, compared to Eastern women, Western women are generally precocious, and Gloria is the best among them, don't look at the fact that she is only seventeen or eight years old, but her figure is already very large, and she looks much more energetic than the first snow...

However, if you want to provoke Gloria, you must be prepared to pick up a girl to become a husband, it is easy to coax Gloria to bed, but it is more difficult to escape Will's pursuit afterwards.

Will doesn't mind his beloved daughter being coaxed away by an Oriental boy, in fact, Will had this plan a long time ago, after all, Li Mu has no father or mother in the United States, and he doesn't even have a home, if Li Mu can marry Gloria, then Li Mu and Gloria will still live with Will, this kind of result is the best, Will doesn't want to look at his daughter who has worked hard to raise him, and be coaxed by an unknown kid to not know a certain corner.

Well, if Will finds out that Gloria and Li Mu have some kind of super friendship relationship, then I'm afraid Will will ride his Prometheus and personally escort Li Mu and Gloria to the church...

He fell asleep after thinking about it for half the night, and when he woke up in the morning, Li Mu was not surprised to find that his pants were a mess again, and Li Mu could only comfort himself that at least some of the functions of his body were normal.

In any case, Li Mu will not do the laundry, anyway, this is not the first time, Li Mu calmly threw the changed clothes into the laundry box as usual, and changed into the clothes prepared by the first snow and went out, without the slightest embarrassment.

"There is a new artillery delivery ceremony in New Haven this morning, and Mr. Henry still hopes that you can attend..."At the dinner table, Yan Shun was planning Li Mu's itinerary today.

"No, it's enough to have Henry in attendance." Li Mu didn't want to go to New Haven early in the morning, the snow was heavier today than yesterday, and he should find a few people to eat hot pot on Governors Island on this kind of day.

The 203-millimeter naval guns jointly developed by the New Haven Weapons Factory and the Admiralty have finally been successfully developed, and this morning, the first batch of 16 naval guns will be delivered to the Navy at the port of New Haven, and these naval guns will be used on the latest warships of the US Navy.

Like the 75mm rapid-fire gun, the 203mm naval gun also applies all the new technologies of the Horse Weapons Company, and in terms of performance, the 203mm naval gun produced by the New Haven Weapons Factory has surpassed similar products produced by Krupp and is currently one of the most advanced artillery guns in the world.

After the 203mm naval gun, the New Haven Arms Factory will also introduce other models such as 203mm army field guns, shore defense guns, and fortress guns.

At the same time, the program to develop a new artillery gun in cooperation with the Admiralty will also enter the second phase, the main goal of this stage is to develop a 305-mm gun, which, once successfully developed, will also be the largest caliber gun in the world.

For technology research and development, Li Mu has always been stingy with investment in scientific research, even if it is some projects that have not yet seen returns, Li Mu is willing to conduct theoretical research first.

Maybe one day, an unintentional move today may bear fruit.

If it weren't for Henry standing in front of the stage and running around instead of Li Mu, just these groundbreaking ceremonies, delivery ceremonies, signing ceremonies and other scenes would have been able to entangle Li Mu for a moment.

"Mr. Hayes hopes to be with you next month in San Francisco, California, where you will be the first stop on Mr. Hayes' national tour." Knowing Li Mu's attitude, Yan Shun stopped talking about those little things that were not too important.

"Rest assured, Mr. Hayes will arrange everything in advance, and then he will only have to show up and we will get all 12 electoral votes in California." Li Mucai didn't go, from New York to San Francisco, it was equivalent to from the east coast to the west coast, and it would take at least half a month to go back and forth, and Li Mu didn't have so much time to waste on the railroad tracks.

From the moment the party wins, Hayes automatically becomes a presidential candidate, and it's time to go around the country and pull ballots.

Li Mu didn't go to join in the fun, the national tour speech sounds like all kinds of "high", in fact, it is a more bluffing name, even if Hayes can have a few listeners if he talks about the sky, Li Mu might as well think about it and say a few good words for Hayes in the newspaper, so that the influence may be greater.

Yan Shun was not surprised by Li Mu's choice: "There are two people in Springfield who claim to be Ryukyuan, and they want to get some weapons to resist the Japanese invasion, but they don't have the money, and Springfield doesn't dare to make their own claims. ”

Ryukyu...

It took Li Mu a while before he remembered this place called Okinawa in the 21st century.

In 1372, the Ryukyu Kingdom became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and in 1429, the unified Ryukyu Kingdom still maintained a suzerain-vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and after the fall of the Ming Empire, the Ryukyu Kingdom continued to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty. In 1663, the king of the Ryukyus was canonized by the Beijing Dynasty, and since then the Ryukyu Kingdom began to use the era name of the Qing Empire, and successive Ryukyu kings have asked the king of the Qing Empire for canonization, and it has never been interrupted.

In 1609, Japan's Satsuman invaded the Ryukyus and forced the Ryukyu Kingdom to attack Japan, and the Ryukyu Kingdom entered a state of "two genera".

In 1872, the same year that Li Mu went to the United States, Japan took advantage of the opportunity of Emperor Meiji's personal administration to cut the name of the Ryuqiu country and set up the "Ryukyu Domain".

In July last year, Japan forced the Ryukyu Domain to stop paying tribute to the Qing Empire and switch to the Japanese era name.

If nothing happens, three years later, Japan will formally annex the Ryukyus, abolish the feudal prefectures, and bring the Ryukyu king back to the Japanese mainland, and Ryukyu will eventually be renamed Okinawa.

The Ryukyuan people were not willing to submit to the brutal behavior of the Japanese, and the Ryukyu king Shang Taicong sent people to the Qing Empire, hoping that the Qing Empire would support the restoration of the Ryukyus, or at least restore the status of "two subordinates".

It's a pity that the Qing Empire at that time was already difficult to protect itself, and was always unwilling to lend a hand, and the Ryukyu envoy had no way to ask for help, and committed suicide in despair in desperation, and no one ever redressed the Ryukyus again.

Li Mu originally thought that the Ryukyuan people did not take the initiative to resist the Japanese invasion except for begging the Qing Empire for help.

Now it seems obvious that this is not the case, and since they can run to Springfield to ask for help, it shows that the Ryukyuan people are still quite proactive.

This is also fortunate that Li Mu is Chinese, and he has some connections with the Ryukyuan people, at least he is a strip of water, so this matter will be reported to Li Mu, if there is no such relationship, it is estimated that these efforts of the Ryukyuan people will be in vain.

The obvious question is, who would want to spend a sum of money to support a rebellion thousands of miles away for no reason, even Americans in the 21st century are not so fraternal, and if there is no benefit, the flower of freedom will never bloom.

"Bring those two Ryukyuan people here." Li Mu wanted to know more, and then decided whether to lend a hand or not.

To tell the truth, even if you want to help the Ryukyuan people, it is impossible to completely follow the ideas of the Ryukyuan people, if Li Mu only has things, and then doesn't care about anything, then it is estimated that most of them will be in vain, and it will not work for any purpose.

Two days later, two Ryukyuans, one old and one young, were taken to Governor's Island.

If it weren't for Yan Shun's introduction, Li Mu would definitely not think that the two people in front of him were Ryukyuan, whether it was in terms of appearance, or in terms of clothing, or even in terms of their language, they were no different from other Chinese.

"Ryukyu refugees Pan Tingzhen and Pan Wenli have met Mr. Li Mu." The two bowed to Li Mu, courtesy for several weeks, with respectful expressions, and couldn't find the slightest fault.

"Sit." Li Mu was concise and to the point, and kept looking at the two of them from head to toe.

The black cotton warm hat, the sauce-colored vest, the blue cotton robe, the thick-soled cotton boots, and the long braid behind the head, everything is so familiar, and everything is so unfamiliar, Li Mu feels like a world away, as if the two people in front of him have walked out of a museum.

"The two gentlemen have come from afar, and they have worked hard all the way." Li Mu picked up the teacup in his hand and gestured to the two, this was not the meaning of serving tea to the guests.

"Don't dare to say that it is hard, the country has not been restored, the thief is not removed, although he dies, he will not rest in peace, I hope that Mr. will have mercy and help, if there is a day when the clouds and fog disperse, I will not forget Mr. today's grace." Pan Tingzhen got up and bowed to Li Mu again.

"Two, you are standing in front of me with such empty mouths and white teeth, and you are going to ask for guns and cannons when you open your mouth, and you don't have a penny, if you are me, what will you do?" Li Mu really couldn't stand Wen Crepe's dragging, so he switched to the vernacular mode in an instant, and he still spoke freely like this.

Seeing that Pan Tingzhen deliberately interjected, Li Mu raised his hand to stop: "Don't tell me that if you don't die, there will be a reward, I am a businessman first and foremost, and I have more than 100,000 mouths to feed under my hands. No matter what I do, I first have to consider whether there are enough benefits, even if you two want to write blank checks, I also have to consider whether these checks can be cashed, and whether the benefits after cashing are worth the current payment. ”

Li Mu does not forget that he is an American now, and it is not impossible to support you Ryukyuan people to engage in democracy and pursue freedom, you must first come up with enough benefits, and if there is no benefit, everything is a hooligan.

"You... This..."Pan Tingzhen probably couldn't have imagined that Li Mu was so dry and crisp, without the slightest tactfulness of a gentleman's shameful words, just opening his bloody mouth like this.

"This matter, the Japanese are really not authentic, but to put it mildly, your Ryukyu Kingdom exists or does not exist, what does it have to do with me, since you come to me to seek weapon support, then you must have understood the truth of the law of the jungle, backward will be beaten, this sentence is the truth at all times, so let's not talk about those big truths that there are not, in a word, you can help you, but help you, what benefits can I get?" Of course, Li Mu doesn't mind making trouble for the Japanese, but the benefits of the fish still have to be fished, there is never a free lunch in this world, if you don't understand this truth, even if Li Mu scatters all his family wealth to fund the restoration of the Ryukyuan people, in the end the Ryukyuan people still can't stand on their own.

Seeing that the flickering didn't work, Pan Tingzhen cleaned up her mood, and after half a salary, she asked with a bitter face: "I don't know what you want, Mr. Li Mu?" ”

According to the information that Pan Tingzhen got before, Li Mu is simply a contemporary Meng Wei, and Shi Yu is alive, in the United States, as long as there are Chinese people who encounter problems, no matter how big the trouble, even if they poke a hole in the sky, as long as they ask Li Mu for help, then the problem will definitely be solved.

Now it seems that it is obviously inconsistent with the rumors, maybe Li Mu is indeed very benevolent, but this talent is conditional, or Li Mu's benevolence is only for the Chinese, when facing aliens, Li Mu behaves no different from those mercenary whites, and is also the standard master who does not see rabbits and does not scatter eagles.

"I'm afraid you can't afford what I want, so let's talk about what you have now." Li Mucai didn't offer a price, now the Ryukyuan people have a request for Li Mu, which means that the Ryukyuan people have put themselves on the chopping board, Li Mu has to study it carefully, where is it more appropriate to go under the knife.