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President Grant is a man of the same age as Xuan Zonglu, a general who dominates the battlefield and is short among tall Americans.He had curly brown hair, thin lips, delicate hands, long fingers, and a long beard.Probably because of his experience, he has a strong physique, muscular muscles, and neat manners, and anyone who looks at him will think that he is a professional soldier.Grant lowered his head, looked at Xuan Yuemeng, and thought it was very funny, he didn't expect that the famous Xuan Yuemeng would be like this, although Li Xiande had already introduced Xuan Yuemeng to him in detail.President Meng looked up at Grant, Meng Meng blinked his eyes, when he saw the Empress Dowager Cixi, he was a little nervous, but when he saw a foreign president, President Meng didn't feel it at all, it was like an ordinary business.President or something, in the eyes of Master Meng, just like an ordinary official, no matter how old you are, you are still a part-time worker, no matter how young I am, I am also the boss Grant is an American military strategist, army general, and the 18th president of the United States.U.S.
President Grant is also the first president in U.S. history to graduate from West Point.He served as commander-in-chief of the Union Army at the end of the American Civil War, and made many miraculous achievements.However, being able to fight in a habitual war does not mean being good at governance, and Grant's mediocre political achievements are in stark contrast to his outstanding military exploits.His compromise and concessions to southern slave owners and his indulgent attitude towards corrupt subordinates caused widespread discontent among the electorate.The current huge economic crisis has made Grant look anxious and tired.President Meng smiled slightly and stretched out his little chubby paws, "Dear Mr.
President, hello." ”U.S.
President Grant looked at his knee-high Xuan Yuemeng, and also felt funny, if it weren't for Xuan Yuemeng being surrounded by a group of assistants in straight suits, Grant would have thought it was an April Fool's joke."
Hello, you are the boss of Klinsmann & Co., I really can't imagine that this fast-rising company would be founded by a child, you are very powerful."
The president is the president after all, and although he thinks it's funny, he still treats Xuan Yuemeng as a normal visitor.Grant's ability to bring the president of the United States was a great accident, and even Grant himself was surprised.In July 1866, the U.S. military added the rank of general, and Johnson conferred the first rank of general on Grant.But Grant had great reservations about Johnson's indulgence with Southern insurgents.In August 1867, Johnson wanted to remove Stanton from his post because of a disagreement with War Secretary Stanton, but was boycotted by the Senate.He then used his presidential powers to order the suspension of Stanton and appoint Gran as interim minister.In early 1868, the Senate formally rejected the President's request to remove Stanton from his post as Secretary of the Army, and Grant resigned as Secretary pro tempore.Johnson publicly accused Grant of being disloyal to the president in this move.Grant angrily moved over to the side of the Republican radicals and participated in the impeachment campaign against President Johnson.Although the impeachment campaign failed, Johnson was discredited and could not run in that year's presidential election.Who should be elected president was a major issue in the 1868 U.S. election.Many people in the Republican Party took a fancy to Grant, who had made great achievements in the Civil War, and believed that a person with a reputation like Grant would definitely have great appeal if he came out to run.However, there were also those who disagreed, believing that Grant had no experience in governance and no clear political program, especially his ambiguity towards the reconstruction of the South, the most important issue at the time.However, the Republicans had no other suitable candidates at the time, so Gran was the party's nominee for president, and easily defeated Democratic opponent Horaho Seymour in the election.On March 4, 1869, at the age of 46, Grant became the eighteenth president of the United States.At the beginning of Grant's presidency, reformers pinned their hopes on the president who transcended politics.Grant also seems to want to reform the civil service.Grant, like all new White House owners, is furious with the courtiers.Grant once said, "The power to appoint office is the bane of the presidency, and there is no man in this country who is more eager to reform the civil service than the president." ”But Grant's performance on the issue was mixed, and he had Treasury Secretary George Sewell Potwell, Home Secretary Cox and Attorney General Hall run fair exams in their respective ministries to determine promotions and appointments to certain positions; In his annual address to Congress in 1870, Grant urged reform legislation, and the two chambers made a joint decision authorizing the president to establish a committee to make new rules for civil servants.Grant appointed George William, editor of Harper's Weekly, to head the committee.The Committee recommended competitive examinations as a requirement for access to civil service at all levels and urged the abolition of the approval of salaries by political parties.Grant ordered these rules to be introduced from 1872.But Congress refused to allocate enough funds to prevent the committee from effectively implementing the new rules.Only a few government departments adopted certain provisions, and the civil service was not overhauled during Grant's tenure.The biggest problem facing Grant was how to deal with the political status of the rebel states in the South.After the end of the Civil War, the Southern states were held by radical Republicans.They supported the granting of citizenship and suffrage to freemen.In the late 1860s, radical Republicans began to lose ground in the South, and many of them were defeated by the Democrats.But the Democrats simply don't want to give freedmen any rights.The first Radical Republicans to lose ground in the South were in Virginia, where the change was carried out peacefully.This is not the case in other states, such as Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina, where Democrats have won elections with threats and violence.Soon after the end of the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan emerged in the southern states.In 1871, Republican members of Congress demanded a law outlawing the Ku Klux Klan.A Republican-led commission of inquiry was formed to investigate the Ku Klux Klan's conduct in the Southern states.They heard a great deal about the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux Klan, which helped to draft a bill to control the Ku Klux Klan.After much debate, Congress passed the bill.The Act gives the President the power to exercise military control in the Southern states.Democrats blame the bill for being designed to secure Republican power in the South.Under the bill, Grant acted quickly, announcing military rule over much of South Carolina, where thousands were arrested and they would be tried in federal court, with juries made mostly of freedmen and radical Republicans.Grant also made a series of mistakes in organizing the cabinet and arranging relatives and friends.He chose Hamilton Fish, who had retired from politics for 20 years, as secretary of state, but he was confused and helpless; The three finance ministers he selected were either illegal, embezzlers, or bribe-takers, but the only good secretary of war, John Rawlings, died young.In the arrangement of US President Grant and his relatives and friends, a typical cronyism was adopted.Originally, Grant was once an unlikable loser in the family, but after being elected president, he was honored as supreme.Some of his relatives and friends, who had laughed at him, took the opportunity to make a fortune.Mrs.
Grant's family, Julia Dent, took control of the Employment Administration and took bribes with impunity.Several other members of the Dent family were also entrusted with important tasks in public institutions with the help of Grant.Grant's two sons held important positions in the army and in the bank, respectively.Political critics complained that the Grant family was "one man in power, chicken and dog ascend to heaven."
During Grant's tenure, there were numerous scandals in other areas.President Meng did enough information before this meeting, knowing that President Grant of the United States is a president with no political level and economic level, he looks down on him in his heart, but, to be able to get to this position, it is President Meng who needs to stammer, although I don't know how much money Li Xiande spent for him to meet with the president this time, but it must have cost money, this, President Meng is very clear, so, he also plans to spend money, "Mr.
President, this is my gift, a calligraphy book of the Qing Dynasty." ”President Meng said with a smile.Although, this is just President Meng's usual practice of calligraphy, and a copper plate can buy several calligraphy books in the Qing Dynasty, but when Grant sat down and opened it, he was stunned, because there was a check for 200,000 US dollars in the middle.Grant opened the book, saw the check at a glance, closed it all at once, his eyes widened a lot, and returned to the original state, Grant didn't expect Xuan Yuemeng to be so direct.U.S.
President Grant frowned slightly, and looked at Xuan Yuemeng: "Mr.
Manager, your calligraphy is too valuable, I can't accept such a gift." ”President Meng closed the calligraphy book from this guy, instead of taking out the check and returning it to him, he knew that there was no problem with the information he knew, this was a greedy thing, President Grant of the United States had already moved President Meng just smiled slightly, a very ordinary, very casual, gossip homely look: "Mr.
President, this can play a role in your appreciation of oriental culture, I hope you can accept my heart, this is a secret hobby between the two of us, in the future, I will give you more similar calligraphy works." ”200,000 US dollars, even for the president's family, is definitely a huge amount of money US President Grant's mood in the face of this huge amount of money is the same as Li Xiande's mood in the face of President Meng's 10,000 US dollars, no one in the world can refuse a huge amount of money, especially officials in capitalist countries, presidents, are just officials.Grant looked at the people around him, the people brought by Xuan Yuemeng, all lowered their heads, no one looked at him, and his own attendant was also by the door, no one should have noticed this huge check t1706231537: