There is a saying that "wealth does not return to the hometown, just like a brocade at night".
It's the same with Li Mu, since Li Mu has a backer behind him, then everyone must know that Li Mu is not easy to mess with, otherwise it will be similar to the meaning of "brocade night walking".
Westerners do things more directly than Orientals, Orientals do things more implicitly, no matter how big the backer behind them is, they will not hang on their lips, they pay attention to not showing the mountains at every turn, and always leave the backers at critical moments to pretend to be forced to slap their faces.
This kind of bridge is popular in novels, but it is a standard two-force behavior in real life.
The real life-and-death struggle, if you don't make a move, you will put people to death as soon as you make a move, and you don't give people the opportunity to settle accounts after the autumn, and how many resources you have will be in vain at that time.
Li Mu has experienced the cruel society of the 21st century and has a full understanding of "competition", so Li Mu will definitely not make similar mistakes.
In other words, Li Mu spent a million dollars in order to catch the line of Ebel, and this million dollars must be worth the money.
When Gloria took Li Mu's arm and entered the banquet hall, the banquet had already entered a climax.
"Let us now welcome with the warmest cheers Mr.
Abel Corbin from Washington, and General Ambrose Everett Burnside from Liberty, Indiana," Will, as host, announced in a high-pitched voice, and the ballroom immediately burst into neat and measured applause, and the orchestra next to him played at the right time, and the atmosphere was extremely enthusiastic.
Able slowly appeared with his "Syrafi Fairy", surrounded by Burnside and his female companion, and Li Mu also appeared at the railing on the second floor with Gloria.
"Hi Reem, come here, come here" Abel didn't give Li Mu a chance to see the excitement, or Abel gave Li Mu enough face, and greeted Li Mu again and again.
Everyone's eyes converged on Li Mu, and Li Mu could feel the burning heat in these gazes.
All the people present were the local leaders of Springfield, many of whom Li Mu did not know, and of course there were many acquaintances, such as Ryan Matthew, chairman of the Springfield Rifle Association, Marvin Houston, president of the Hotel Association with a surprised face, Lawrence, the manager of the City Bank with a face full of envy, Anthony, a tax collector with a false and serious face, Amis and George, who looked polite and reserved, and Larry Reed, the director of the Springfield Arsenal with a faint sad face, and so on On the way down from the second floor, there were people shaking hands with Li Mu on the side of the road, most of them were superficial, taking the opportunity to greet the familiar face, only when passing Larry Reed, Larry and Li Mu shook hands and said softly: "We need to have a good talk" It really needs to be talked about, it has been nearly a month since Li Mu mentioned smokeless gunpowder to Larry, and even if the Springfield Arsenal is slow to react, it should have realized what "smokeless gunpowder" means to the military industry, and if Springfield is still slow to react, then they deserve to close their doors sooner or later.
Abel and Li Mu didn't say much, but when Abel gave his thanks, Li Mu stood beside Abel and Bernside on the left and right, which fully showed the relationship between Abel and Li Mu.
The meaning of the platform is obvious.
It was a coincidence that Burnside came to Springfield, and Burnside had just arrived in Springfield this afternoon, obviously looking for Li Mu, because Burnside had already made an appointment for all the next two days of Li Muming.
I don't know when it started, and I also need to make an appointment to see Li Mu Li Mu's mind was on Larry, and he didn't hear what Abel was saying clearly, and after a round of applause, the banquet returned to normal, and Li Mu and Larry came to the sofa area next to the banquet hall together.
"Springfield Arsenal wants to buy your patent," Larry Reid said, wanting to play big.
"It's a lot of money to buy it" Li Mu didn't rush to refuse, whether he wanted to sell it or not depends on the sincerity of the Chuntian Arsenal and whether the objective conditions are beneficial to Li Mu.
If Li Mu is changed to Larry's position, Li Mu's first reaction after knowing smokeless gunpowder should also be "buy it".
In fact, the reason why Li Mu did not open a factory to produce smokeless gunpowder was because of another layer of scruples.
The United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was indeed the "Gilded Age", but at the same time, the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was also a "barbaric age".
During this period, the American economy developed rapidly, especially after the Civil War, the American economy flourished, from a "poor" country established less than a hundred years ago, and gradually became the backbone of the capitalist world, that is, during this period, the United States gave birth to one of the highest forms of monopoly "trust".
A trust is formed by the merger of many enterprises that produce similar goods or enterprises that have a close relationship with their products, aiming to monopolize the sales market, compete for the origin of raw materials and the scope of investment, and strengthen the competitive force to obtain high monopoly profits.
By 1873, there were only two trusts in the United States, one was the oil conglomerate headed by Rockefeller, and the other was the "American Gunpowder Association" headed by DuPont, Hazard, and California Gunpowder on the West Coast, which was established last year.
Li Mu is not involved in oil at present, and what may pose a threat to Li Mu is the "American Gunpowder Association" established last year.
To say that these two trusts are not a good thing, Rockefeller can mobilize the army with heavy machine guns in order to suppress the workers' riots; In order to crack down on competitors, DuPont can send people to blow up competitors' factories.
It is said that Li Mu has no bottom line, and these two trusts have no bottom line, so Li Mu does not open a factory, just to avoid direct competition with his peers in the Gunpowder Association.
As the largest weapons company in the United States, Springfield also has its own gunpowder factory, but the scale of the gunpowder factory of Springfield Arsenal is not large, and it cannot be compared with the "Big Three", so Li Mu is sure that Springfield Arsenal will not let go of this opportunity to catch up.
"A million dollars, the Springfield Arsenal will contribute a million dollars to buy your smokeless gunpowder patent."
Larry is confident that this is a sum of money that Li Mu cannot refuse.
"Hehe, a million lari, if the sincerity of the Springfield Arsenal is limited to this, then we can say goodbye."
Li Mu's face changed immediately.
Just kidding, Li Mu is not a little hairy man who has just arrived in Springfield, if it was before he contacted Amis, Li Mu might have agreed to this price, but now, one million dollars is really not in Li Mu's eyes, after all, Li Mu's current benefits for finding someone to do an errand are already at the level of one million dollars: