Approaching December, Li Mu and Gloria's engagement ceremony was finally put on the agenda.
Originally, Li Mu didn't want to make a big fuss, he just wanted to find a quiet chapel and witness this sacred moment with Gloria.
As soon as this idea was raised, it was immediately rejected by Gloria.
There is no woman who does not want to have a fantastic fairytale engagement ceremony, and for all women, no matter how bumpy and unsatisfactory their future life is, when they are about to have their first engagement ceremony in their lives, they all think that their first engagement ceremony will also be the only engagement ceremony in their lives.
At such a major moment in life, no one wants to be hasty, so Li Mu's idea can only be thought about, it is really not operable, Gloria can rely on Li Mu's opinion on all other things, but in this matter, Gloria's attitude is extremely persistent.
The engagement is a matter of two people, and it is impossible for Li Mu to be arbitrary, so Li Mu will definitely cooperate with Gloria's arrangements during this time, let the dress try on the dress, let the photo take the photo, without the slightest resistance.
Although the relationship between the Junma Group and the British government is not good enough, Will stepped forward and invited the tailor of the British royal family, and the tailor customized four sets of dresses for Gloria and Li Mu each, which is indeed beautiful enough, but the price is also very beautiful, with a total price of 250,000 US dollars for eight sets of dresses.
And this price does not include the cost of jewelry, Gloria attended the engagement ceremony with jewelry from Chaumet, France, a family of jewels that has provided European royalty with a variety of fine jewelry since at least 100 years ago, including the sword worn by Napoleon when he ascended the throne, which was designed by Chaumet.
To match Gloria's long blond hair, Chaumet designed a set of jewels with rubies as the main element, which she named "Volcano".
It is a complete set of ornaments including tiaras, brooches, necklaces, pins, pendants, bracelets, belts, and the largest ruby on the crown weighs 60 carats, and is also the finest pigeon's blood red, which complements Gloria's blonde hair.
The price tag was $1.25 million, and Chaumet had come up with the blueprints a decade ago, but no one, including the British royal family, was willing to pay for it, even though they all agreed that it was worth the money.
For a set of jewelry, $1.25 million is indeed too expensive, and if it was Will, it is estimated that he would not be willing to buy it for Claudia, but Li Mu was willing, so Gloria gladly accepted it.
With Li Mu's current net worth, let alone 1.25 million, even if it is 12.5 million, Li Mu can get it.
Li Mu has never been stingy in treating his family, Li Mu has always believed that the hard-earned money is for spending, so as long as he can make his family happy, no matter how much money he spends, it is worth it.
This set of jewelry is indeed very beautiful, and after Gloria tried it on, even Chu Xue, who has always been indifferent to materials, did not show envy in her eyes.
Of course, Li Mu is more generous to Chu Xue, when he was still penniless, Li Mu will be able to do his best for Chu Xue, and now that so much time has passed, Li Mu can meet all the requirements of Chu Xue.
It is really all the requirements, including marriage, if Chu Xue proposes, then Li Mu can convert to Mormonism, so that Li Mu can enjoy the blessings of all people.
Of course, although having a lover is not uncommon in real society, it is not accepted by mainstream society, but Li Mu also has a Chinese background, and polygamy is still popular in the Qing Empire, so even if Li Mu marries Chu Xue and Gloria at the same time, it will not cause too much turmoil in society.
For this kind of thing, in general, other people will choose to deliberately forget, no one will show great fanfare, and the U.S. government will not allow this kind of thing to happen.
It's magical, in fact, there are even more amazing things, even in the republic, after the founding of the country, it is not without polygamy, but it is also the official default and is not known to most people.
Speaking of jewelry, after Gloria got her set of "Volcano", in order not to favor one over the other, Li Mu ordered another set of jewelry from Chaumet Paris, which requires oriental elements and is in line with the gentle and quiet temperament of Chuxue.
Considering that Chaumet might not be able to find enough raw materials, Li Mu deliberately opened the basement of the Governor's Island to Chaumet.
The basement of Governor's Island is a treasure trove, where Li Mu buys all kinds of art from the Qing Kingdom, stores the trophies that Will brought back from the battlefield of Montana, and also stores all kinds of rare treasures that Li Mu has looted over the years, including a large number of jadeites from Burma.
Regarding jadeite, Westerners do not recognize jadeite as a kind of gemstone, so jadeite is almost unknown in the West, even in the Qing Kingdom, if it is not for the favor of the Empress Dowager Cixi, jadeite is still just a beautiful stone.
In order to buy jadeite, Li Mu specially ordered someone to go to Myanmar, and over the years, every once in a while, the Pacific Shipping Company would send some excellent jadeite raw materials.
These raw materials are not the so-called rough stones, but jadeite that has been skinned, and the quality must be at least ice, and the colors are rich and colorful.
According to Li Mu's requirements, Chaumet Paris wanted to design a set of jadeite-based jewelry, so as to conform to the temperament of the first snow.
After learning about jadeite as a gemstone and meeting Hatsuyuki herself, Chaumet quickly came up with a design.
This is a set of jewelry called "Snowflake", compared with Gloria's set of "Volcano", "Snowflake" has an extra jade pendant, which is also in line with the Chinese background of Chu Xue, which is the special heart of Chaumet Paris.
Oriental people wear jadeite to pay attention to "red men and green women", that is to say, men Dai Fei, women Dai Cui, this set of "snowflakes" of the first snow, the raw material is based on a piece of imperial green jadeite provided by Li Mu, all the accessories are in the shape of snowflakes, for this set of jewelry, Li Mu took out a piece of imperial green rough weighing 12 kilograms.
Such raw materials are generally used to make ornaments, and if they are masterpieces, they may even become heirlooms.
In Li Mu's eyes, the first snow is the most precious treasure in the world, even if Li Mu is asked to contribute all the treasures, Li Mu will not hesitate.
Although the materials are from Li Mu, the design and production costs of Chaumet Paris are also not cheap, and the price of the whole set of jewelry is 200,000 US dollars, which is still a discount price for Li Mu, otherwise the price will be higher.
Lin Mu made jewelry for Chu Xue, and did not hide it from Gloria, Gloria didn't mind it, and even Gloria shared her wedding dress with Chu Xue, but Chu Xue didn't accept it.
It's enough for two women to share a man, and other things, let's not share them, Chu Xue is willing to keep a good memory for Gloria, so she refuses to try on Gloria's expensive wedding dress.
Gloria's wedding dress, which was not part of her four gowns, was also designed by Chaumet, and was made with 128 one-carat diamonds, not including the diamond-encrusted belt, which cost $150,000, a luxury even for European royalty.
All of this must erase the traces of the original brand, Gloria is also fighting this time, in order to promote men's clothing and urban beauty brand, Gloria requires that all clothing used in the engagement ceremony must be marked with the trademark of men's clothing and urban beauty, and it is also the first reality show with the theme of the engagement ceremony in history, Gloria hopes that everything is worth it.
It is indeed worth the money, although this engagement ceremony is costly, but the influence will also be huge, there will be countless celebrities at the wedding ceremony, witnessing the happiness of Li Mu and Gloria, and then the two brands of men's clothing and urban beauty will also be famous with the engagement ceremony.
At the same time, it is not only men's clothing and urban beauty that will benefit, the cars to be used in the engagement ceremony are all phantom cars from the Horse Group, all the sets will come from the Horse Construction Company, the kitchenware and tableware used in the engagement ceremony are from the Horse Commodity Company, as for the place where the engagement ceremony was held, although the ceremony was still held in Trinity Church, the wedding banquet was indeed held at the Clinton Castle Hotel, which is the real fertilizer water does not flow into the field of outsiders.
Entering December, the presidential election has finally entered the countdown, according to the regulations of the Election Commission, the first weekend of December, the presidential election will be held simultaneously in 38 states across the country, because of the traffic conditions at this time, the election results will not come out until about half a month later, that is to say, this Christmas this year, some people are destined to not get "gifts".
Li Mu didn't want to be the unlucky ghost who couldn't get the "gift", so in December, Li Mu's focus was completely shifted to the upcoming general election, and the welcome ceremony was handed over to Claudia, and Li Mu was only responsible for cooperating at that time.
If you want to say that Gloria and Li Mu are engaged, the most positive person is Claudia.
Claudia and Will's wedding will be held in June next year, and if she can, Claudia very much hopes to marry Gloria before June, so that when Claudia enters the door, there will only be one Sandy left in the family, and Claudia's stepmother will have a better life.
Cough, maybe people don't think so, since Gloria personally went to Washington to invite Claudia to New York for Christmas, Gloria and Claudia's relationship has grown by leaps and bounds, the relationship between the two is now not a mother and daughter is better than a mother and daughter, many things, Gloria is inconvenient to tell Will, and it is not convenient to tell Li Mu, so Claudia has become Gloria's best confidant.
Of course, Li Mu didn't bother to care about these things, Li Mu now has all his attention on the presidential election, and he has been busy for more than a year for this matter, Lin Mu will definitely not allow it to fall short at the last moment.
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"From now on, all our work must be centered on the presidential election, everything else is secondary to the current situation, we can divide the country into three regions, first the New England region, then the north, then the south, we must first ensure the advantage of the New England region, although we won the New York gubernatorial election some time ago, but I hope everyone will not be careless, the Democratic Party is actively fighting back, we must not make mistakes at this time" Li Mu stressed again at the pre-election mobilization meeting.
Attending the meeting were members of the Hayes Election Office, Arthur, and the Hayes Election Office, as well as several Republican National Committee bigwigs who had traveled from Washington to New York.
To Li Mu's surprise, Benjamin Harrison was also a member of the Republican National Committee.
It seems that the Harrison family is indeed full of confidence, and now send Benjamin Harrison to the position of the Republican National Committee, then Benjamin Harrison's future is indeed promising.
Hayes has been able to go all the way to the present, Li Mu's support has been indispensable, and the propaganda during this period has also made the bigwigs of the Republican National Committee truly realize the power of public opinion for the first time, and Li Mu's position in the Republican Party has also risen.
Just over a year ago, when the Republican Party decided to launch the presidential candidate, no one had come to solicit Li Mu's opinion, and it would definitely not be like this in the future, if the Republican Party still wants to continue to use the propaganda tools in Li Mu's hands in the future, then the Republican National Committee must attach importance to Li Mu's opinion, otherwise, if Li Mu really does not give face, then it will not be appropriate for anyone to come forward at that time.
"The current situation is okay, in the last poll a month ago, we Republicans have a clear advantage, according to the results of the survey, this time, we will still continue to defeat the Democrats, so as long as we are all united, we will never be invincible."
Hayes also rose up to boost morale.
Don't look at the Democratic Party in the past few years, now the Republican Party has exerted its strength, the Democratic Party will collapse immediately, the results of the last survey show that the Republican Party will still win this time, and there is no doubt about the victory, although Samuel Tilden has been preparing for this for more than ten years, but in the face of Li Mu's full support, Samuel Tilden's preparations still fell behind.
In the face of a group of politicians from the 19th century who have never paid attention to public opinion, Li Mu is simply like a fish in water, even Li Mu himself is a bottle of water and half a bottle of swaying, which is enough for Li Mu to kill all sides in this era.
"Tomorrow I'm going to Philadelphia, you're going to Boston, and Hayes you're going to stay in New York, and we're going to make sure the victory is foolproof."
James Garfield now shares Hayes and wants to fight for a final victory for the Republican Party.
James Garfield, who now serves as chairman of the Republican National Committee after losing the party's race, is already starting to build momentum for the next election
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