At the beginning, Li Mu and Benjamin Harrison, Alfred Mahan, and George Dewey set up the San Diego Investment Company in Cuba together, and Benjamin Harrison did not hold many shares, and they belonged to the kind that could not be transferred and only received dividends.
After Li Mu and J Morgan cooperated, the shares in the hands of Benjamin Harrison and the other three were further diluted, and for now, Benjamin Harrison probably controls about 2% of the shares of San Diego Investment Company.
Don't underestimate the two percent, the dividends generated every year are in millions of dollars, and it is really impossible to say whether it is a loss or a advantage to replace the shares of Time Magazine.
However, the value of Time magazine is not reflected in earnings, and the profit for the whole of last year added up to just over a million dollars, which is about the same as the value of 2 percent of the shares of San Diego Investments.
The value of Time Magazine is reflected in the role of propaganda, if the value of this part is measured, it will not be exchanged even if it takes ten 1 million to Li Mu.
It is precisely because of the propaganda role of Time magazine that Benjamin Harrison is willing to take out the shares of the San Diego investment company in exchange, and for a politician, the value of the public opinion front cannot be measured in money.
"It's good that you are willing to take out your shares, and how much you want to take out and how much you want to exchange" Li Mu's attitude towards this matter is indispensable, of course, if Benjamin Harrison insists, then Li Mu will not embarrass Benjamin Harrison.
This can also be regarded as seeking benevolence and receiving benevolence, and each taking what he needs.
"All of them, I'm going to take out all the shares I own in San Diego Investment in exchange for ten percent of Time Magazine's shares, and I only have one request, to be able to fully cooperate with me when I need it."
Benjamin Harrison is also rich and doesn't care about the annual dividends of the San Diego Investment Company.
As an evergreen tree in American politics, the Harrison family has a lot of heritage, especially in Ohio, the Harrison family has a strong economic power, no less than the Barron family in Massachusetts.
So this money, Benjamin Harrison really can't look at it.
In other words, as a politician who has been groomed as a future political elite since childhood, in Benjamin Harrison's view, Time magazine is far more valuable than San Diego Investment Company, so Benjamin Harrison did not hesitate.
"Yes, that's it."
Li Mu immediately made a decision, for Li Mu, whoever comes to power is the same, as long as the interests of Li Mu and the Junma Group can be maintained, all Li Mu needs is a partner, rather than a stranger who has not been dealt with before, it is better to praise a friend like Benjamin Harrison.
Even if it is a friend who will waver in the face of fundamental interests.
Through last year's party primary, Li Mu was taught a good lesson by a big boss in the Republican Party, Li Mu never expected that Ulysses Grant, who had always been favored by himself, did not even get the right to nominate him, which made Li Mu understand a truth, no matter how fanciful others say, it is better to hold it firmly in the palm of your hand.
Fortunately, Hayes won the party primary, otherwise, Li Mu is estimated to have been excluded from the inner circle of the Republican Party, which is not a good phenomenon.
There are accidents, but fortunately, the accidents are within the controllable range, so the first thing Li Mu needs to do now is to help Hayes win the presidential throne, and then he has to have a good relationship with party bigwigs like Arthur and Benjamin Harrison, so that Li Mu can be comfortable in the future.
When Li Mu was trading with Benjamin Harrison, Bai Qi and Pan Tingzhen were trying to communicate in the Ryukyus, 10,000 kilometers away from New York.
The dispute arose from a Ryukyu fisherman who had been caught by the guards in charge of the defense of the island, and Bai Qi and Pan Tingzhen had an argument over what to do with the fisherman.
Compared with before, Xiaohuandao is now more important, after the training base was moved to Putian, Xiaohuandao became the location of the logistics base, and the chicken coop that was originally favored by Li Mu was abandoned.
The chicken coop is still the territory of the Qing State, if Li Mu really wants to get his hands on the chicken coop, it is not that it is impossible, but that will cause a strong reaction from the Qing Empire, which Li Mu does not want to see.
It's better to put the base in Ryukyu, at least the current Ryukyu is still nominally managed by the king of the Ryukyus, and there is no clear direct relationship with the Qing Empire, and the Qing Empire in history is only lip service to the Japanese occupation of the Ryukyus, and there is no actual action, so as long as Pan Tingzhen is put in power, then Li Mu's people can do whatever they want in the Ryukyus.
In order to have a stable logistics base in the future, Bai Qi attaches great importance to the safety of the small roundabout, and according to Bai Qi's meaning, all illegal trespassers must be treated as spies, even fishermen who trespass by mistake.
The reason why the Japanese dared to annex the Ryukyus was not because of their actual national strength, but because there were a considerable number of "Japanese traitors" in the Ryukyus, and these people were actually the confidence of the Japanese.
In fact, if it was a Ryukyuan person who was caught, Pan Tingzhen would not look for Bai Qi's nonsense, since the first machine was transported to the small roundabout, Bai Qi They have executed more than ten Ryukyu fishermen under the pretext of "illegal invasion", Pan Tingzhen has never found Bai Qi because of this problem, this time the reason for making an exception is because the fisherman who broke in is a Putian person, and it is also Pan Tingzhen's own family, which makes Pan Tingzhen have to come out.
"Mr.
Tingzhen, I can understand your feelings, but please also understand, with his position, Bai can only apologize" Even if he knew that the fisherman who illegally trespassed was Pan Tingzhen's own family, Bai Qi did not let go.
In fact, Bai Qi is still relatively polite, in terms of position alone, Bai Qi and Pan Tingzhen are not subordinate to each other, and Bai Qi does not need to be responsible to Pan Tingzhen for doing things, so Bai Qi can sit down patiently and talk to Pan Tingzhen, which is already quite face-saving.
In fact, Bai Qi is also delaying time, just when Bai Qi is talking nonsense with Pan Tingzhen, the interrogation of the fisherman is underway, I believe that it will not be long before the results will come out, and it will not be too late to decide how to deal with it when the time comes.
"General Bai, this kind of thing happened, it really made the old man ashamed, the old man shouldn't have gotten up, how could he have 80 old mothers on Pan Zhuzi, and there were young sons under him, and now the orphans and widows are crying and crying in my house, and the old man is really helpless, so he came to General Bai with a cheeky face, and hoped that the general would be extrajudicial and gracious" Pan Tingzhen seemed to be harassed and had no choice, so he could only come to beg Bai Qi.
"Pan Zhuzi, I don't know something, and I would like to ask Mr.
Tingzhen to solve my doubts."
How clever Bai Qi is, he will immediately hit the snake with the stick.
"Don't dare, General Bai has something to say, and the old man will know everything."
Pan Tingzhen didn't dare to hold it up, and her words were very polite.
Although before Springfield left, Li Mu's original words were to let Bai Qi cooperate with Pan Tingzhen, but Pan Tingzhen knew very well in his heart that Li Mu must trust Bai Qi more, so this "cooperation" is also very meaningful.
"When the patrol team caught Pan Zhuzi, there were no fishermen on the sea nearby, Mr.
Tingzhen, how did you know that Pan Zhuzi was caught on the small roundabout" Bai Qi is indeed sophisticated, and immediately found a breakthrough from Pan Tingzhen's words.
Bai Qi and the others have been in Ryukyu for three or four months, and the fishermen who often fish in this area know that the vicinity of the small roundabout is a forbidden area, so Bai Qi is very curious about Pan Zhuzi's motives, and at the same time is also curious that Pan Tingzhen can know that Pan Zhuzi was captured by Bai Qi so quickly.
"Hey, this is a complete misunderstanding, Pan Zhuzi and his brother came out to fish together, but the harvest was not very good, Pan Zhuzi wanted to come to the small roundabout to try his luck, his brother persuaded Pan Zhuzi not to come here, but Pan Zhuzi insisted on going his own way, and his brother couldn't persuade him, so he went back to Putian to report the news, and the old man only learned."
Pan Tingzhen said very calmly, not as a fake.
On key matters, Pan Tingzhen also does not dare to lie, if the Japanese really know the truth about Xiaohuandao, then maybe the Japanese will come to break the net, and Pan Tingzhen can't afford this responsibility.
Originally, Li Mu just wanted to build a bullet factory here, but after the engineer inspected, he built a weapons factory on the small roundabout, although the scale of the factory is much smaller than the horse weapons factory, but after all, this is also a weapons factory, not a simple handicraft workshop, which is enough to make the Japanese vigilant.
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"In this way, this is really a misunderstanding" Bai Qi said that it was a misunderstanding, but he did not mean to release him at all.
In Bai Qi's view, Pan Tingzhen's words are not credible, although Bai Qi also believes that Pan Tingzhen will not deliberately deceive himself, but Pan Tingzhen may be deceived by others, so Bai Qi finally believes in the confession.
Only when he gets the final confession will Bai Qi decide what to do with Pan Zhuzi.
"That's true," Pan Tingzhen firmly believes that this is a misunderstanding.
In Pan Tingzhen's view, all Putian people are trustworthy, which is related to the unity that Putian has always had, in order to maintain the purity of blood, the Chinese of Putian do not even intermarry with the Ryukyu locals, how could they deliberately come to spy on the intelligence of Xiaohuandao, this is a complete misunderstanding.
"Since Mr.
Tingzhen can confirm it, it is not impossible to hand over Pan Zhuzi to Mr.
Tingzhen, but Mr.
Tingzhen must give me a guarantee first, if the situation here in Xiaohuandao leaks, then all the consequences will be borne by you, Mr.
Tingzhen."
Bai Qi can release people at any time, but it's just a matter of one sentence, but someone must be responsible for the possible consequences caused by this.
"This" Pan Tingzhen probably didn't expect Bai Qi's ball to be played so well, and he could take people away with a word, but now he hesitated.
At this moment, a security guard in khaki overalls walked in quickly, whispered a few words in Bai Qi's ear, and then handed Bai Qi a few pieces of paper.
Bai Qi's face suddenly became serious, and he no longer paid attention to Pan Tingzhen, and looked at the interrogation record in his hand.
Bai Qi's worries are indeed true, Pan Zhuzi, who was captured by the patrol, was indeed bribed by someone and deliberately came to the small roundabout.
According to Pan Zhuzi's confession, when they went to Shuri to sell seafood, they were bought by a Shuri man named Akiyama, who did not let Pan Zhuzi spy on the information of Xiaohuandao, but only asked Pan Zhuzi to drive the boat around Xiaohuandao, and then he would give Pan Zhuzi a reward of 100 oceans.
It's not spying on intelligence, it's just going around the small roundabout, so it shouldn't be a big problem Pan Zhuzi can also be regarded as a money obsession, so he was used as a gun.
After reading the interrogation record, Bai Qi suddenly felt that his head began to hurt.
If Pan Zhuzi was doing things for the Japanese and deliberately came to spy on the intelligence of Xiaohuandao, then he would kill him, no one would talk nonsense, and Pan Tingzhen could even do things like punishing the nine clans.
The problem now is that Pan Zhuzi was indeed bought, but he didn't do anything to harm Putian, at least there was no subjective intention, so it was more difficult to do, whether to kill or release Since how to deal with it is tricky, Bai Qi simply handed over the interrogation record to Pan Tingzhen and let Pan Tingzhen decide, no matter what, Pan Zhuzi is also Pan Tingzhen's person.
After all, literati and warriors are different, after Pan Tingzhen read the interrogation records, the first sentence was: "General Bai, you didn't torture to extract confessions, right?"
this How funny it must be to ask such a question Bai Qi was almost so angry that he replied: "Absolutely not, this Pan Zhuzi is not stubborn enough to need torture to extract a confession." ” "In that case" Pan Tingzhen rolled her eyes helplessly, and handed back the interrogation record in her hand to Bai Qi: "Then let Pan Zhuzi live on the small roundabout, anyway, you also need workers here, just let him work here, as long as he doesn't get killed, if he does a good job, you can directly give me the salary, and I will transfer the salary to his family, if it doesn't work, you can watch it."
Pan Tingzhen is also very happy, the reason why he came to Bai Qi with a shy face was first based on the premise that Pan Zhuzi was not bought, and now it turns out that Pan Zhuzi was bought, and Pan Tingzhen is no longer polite, if Pan Zhuzi's family dares to shout again, Pan Tingzhen does not mind using family law.
The family law of this year is still very majestic, and the 21st century TV series said that the family law was pleased, and the rattan came out at every turn, in fact, it was already beautified, in fact, the family law of this year is definitely the existence of the color change that people talk about, if the patriarch wants to use the family law, even if the members of the clan are beaten to death, it is not uncommon.
Therefore, it is necessary to break the four olds, otherwise there will not be so many fake smiles on the Internet in the 21st century, and this kind of thing will be immersed in the pig cage in the 19th century.
Truth be told, there are times when dipping in a pig cage is more effective, at least much more impressive than the moral condemnation
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