After New Year's Day, the publicity campaign for the New York leg of the National Automobile Rally began to reach a climax.
It's 1875, and according to the plan, the New York leg of the race will officially start on the first weekend, and the rally organizing committee spares no effort to promote it, with huge billboards all over the streets of Manhattan, as for Central Park and Battery Park, every street lamp is also hung with a billboard, and the billboard has only a short sentence: A game that truly belongs to men, waiting for you to watch on the first weekend of January.
The bonus or something will not appear on the billboard, that is something that the team will pay attention to, and ordinary people will not have the opportunity to share the profit even if they are envious.
Worried that there would not be enough teams to participate in the race, the Junma Group organized five teams in one go, "Phantom Team" and "BMW Team" were the right ones, and the "Mustang Team" and "Volkswagen Team" also joined in.
In addition to the five teams of the Stallion Group, there were five other teams participating, and all four of them, with the exception of Vanderbilt, who used their own cars to participate in the race, all of them chose the Phantom car.
These four teams also have sponsors, they are the "Standard Oil Racing Team" and the "Morgan Consortium Racing Team" that greeted Li Mu early, and the "Kuhnlob Racing Team" and "Mellon Racing Team" that joined later.
The Kuhnlob Consortium is a convoy organized by the Kuhnlob Consortium, which was founded in 1867 by Jews Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Lob, the Kuhnlob Consortium is centered on the Kuhnlob Company, composed of several large enterprises, their main business is to invest in railways, and the business of the Vanderbilt family overlaps to a certain extent, and the Kuhnlob Consortium also invests in banking, steel, petroleum and other sectors, and operates foreign bonds and other securities business.
The Mellon family is a rising star on Wall Street, and in 1869, Thomas Mellon & Sons Bank was established, which was even the first time that Thomas Mellon, the head of the Mellon family, officially did business.
Thomas Mellon is a business-minded man, and when asked why he chose banking, Thomas Mellon admits that banking is easy and that "it doesn't require much knowledge, just a week or two." ” Look at what genius is, that is, other people will not understand the laws of economic operation all their lives, put Thomas Mellon here, that is, a matter of one or two weeks.
Facts have proved that banks are indeed a good business, Thomas Mellon & Sons Bank was established shortly after the outbreak of the economic crisis, in the era of economic turmoil, bank interest rates remained at the level of more than 10 percent all year round, and lending became almost the easiest and fastest way to make money.
So although the economic crisis has closed a number of banks, it has also given rise to another group of new forces, not only the Bank of America, but also the Mellon family.
Thomas Mellon is also a member of the beach club, and after knowing that Li Mu was going to organize a car rally, Thomas Mellon immediately decided to get involved.
Although Thomas Mellon is not sure whether this rally can be successful, Thomas Mellon knows very well that how much a person can achieve has a lot to do with his friends, so even if the car rally is a blind toss, as long as he can get along with Li Mu, Rockefeller, and J Morgan through this rally, he will not lose money.
The first weekend of January is designated as the carnival weekend, although there is still a week before the carnival weekend, but the pre-sale of rally tickets has begun, in order to make it easy for New Yorkers to buy tickets, the horse group has set up 20 ticket points in New York, and even people in other cities can buy tickets by mail order, each ticket is sold for ten cents, this price includes a lunch with "Budweiser beer" and "Springfield fried chicken", although the price is a little expensive, but it is still very cost-effective.
Since there is beer, then how can you miss fried chicken, beer and fried chicken are a perfect match, so Li Mu began to toss "Springfield Fried Chicken" after tossing out "Budweiser beer".
In fact, "fried chicken" is very easy to make, there is almost no entry threshold, the reason why KFC and McDonald's are desperately promoting how much high technology their fried chicken has in the future is just raising the threshold, and the fried chicken processed by traditional Chinese technology is not much worse than when KFC and McDonald's first appeared, and even surpasses it.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, Junma Automobile Company is gradually replacing Americans' legs with cars, and Gloria and they have begun to pay attention to Americans' clothes, Li Mu began to toss fried chicken after tossing beer, and also wants to rule the American table, as long as these few things are done well, no matter who wants to deal with Junma Group in the future, they must first weigh their own weight.
The catering industry relies on scale to win, if you want to make "Budweiser beer" and "Springfield fried chicken" bloom everywhere, then you have to open countless stores, these stores are in need of employees, and the lives of these employees are closely linked to the Junma Group, no matter who wants to deal with the Junma Group, you have to consider the backlash of countless Junma Group employees.
The average person certainly can't bear it.
Li Mu is not worried that the tickets will not sell, even if the citizens of New York do not pay, Li Mu is also ready to let the Junma Group charter these tickets, and then distribute them to the employees of the Junma Group as benefits, it is really the first rally, as a new thing, Li Mu does not expect to have the influence of the 21st century F1 car rally now.
After entering the New Year, Li Mu's main task became to deliver tickets It doesn't seem to be quite appropriate, and it should be more appropriate to describe it as an invitation.
Well, then the invitation.
New York City Mayor Arthur must be invited, New York Governor John Dix is also invited, the Horse Group has a Massachusetts background, so Massachusetts Governor John Hancock is also invited, and Springfield Mayor Bruce Mottley, as well as a group of senators and representatives who are close to Li Mu, these are on the guest list of the rally, of course, the most important President Grant, whether Grant will come or not, the invitation letter must be sent over.
Grant gave Li Mu a lot of face, or gave Arthur face, Li Mu knew his own family affairs, and pulled Arthur when he signed the invitation, after receiving the invitation, Grant said that he would try his best to find time to go, this "try his best" is not polite, unless there is a war in the United States, Grant will definitely come.
Recently, Grant and the Republican Party have had a hard time, and they have had a very hard time, and the whiskey group case has brought great pressure to the entire Republican Party, although Grant has no direct relationship with the whiskey group case, but after all, the people around him are involved, and Grant is not smart enough to deal with this matter, which is tantamount to giving the handle to his political enemies.
Politics has always been cruel, when leading the Northern Army to win the Southern Army and win the Civil War, Grant was the savior in everyone's mouth, and now Grant is in trouble, the same people who touted Grant at the beginning, and they are scrambling to start falling into the ground, especially as the Democratic Party that has been dormant in the opposition party, their daily task is to widen their eyes to find the mistakes of the ruling party, and now there is such a big gift to be sent over, if the Democratic Party does not grasp it well, it is really sorry for the sages of the Democratic Party, Therefore, although the dust has settled on the whiskey syndicate case, the Democratic Party still uses an excuse to attack Grant and the Democratic Party every day, and public opinion has also complained about Washington.
The New York City government's public accounts are the only bright spot in the Republican-ruled region during this time, and with this, Grant will not be defenseless in the face of media and Democratic attacks, so Grant will give face to Li Mu and Arthur no matter what.
In addition to inviting guests, Li Mu also has to care about his own team, a total of ten teams participated in the competition, Junma Group accounted for half, more than half of the cars used by other teams are produced by Junma Automobile Factory, if this can not win the championship, that is to laugh and be generous, so Li Mu gave a death order, this time the car rally, whether it is the team of Junma Group to win the championship, must leave the championship in Junma Group.
The prize for the first place is 50,000 US dollars, but in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the team members, Li Mu gave the team another 100,000 US dollars, which is a private reward of the Junma Group, and has nothing to do with the rally reward.
Li Mu is not doing this alone, as far as Li Mu knows, William Vanderbilt has offered a prize of $200,000 in order to win this competition.
It's just that the Vanderbilt family is limited in strength after all, the engine and gearbox of Vanderbilt cars are purchased from the first generation of Junma Automobile Company, and Junma Automobile Company has used the second-generation engine and gearbox on the current high-end product "Phantom" series, if this can be lost to the Vanderbilt team, it is better for the five team members of the Junma Group to hang themselves early, so as not to lose the people of the Junma Group for no reason.
Li Mu's most optimistic team is the "Phantom Team" and the "Horse Team", "Phantom Team" needless to say, to say that the understanding of cars is the deepest, in this era except Li Mu no one can surpass the "Phantom Team" group.
And the No. 1 driver of the "Horse Racing Team" is Mason, which gives Li Mu enough reason to support the "Horse Racing Team".
Mason is Li Mu's bodyguard leader, and when Li Mu goes out, Mason is Li Mu's driver, so Mason has good driving skills.
This is not surprising, Mason turned out to be a good cowboy and a natural sensitivity to speed
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