The engagement ceremony of Li Mu and Gloria is considered to be the last event in New York in 1876.
Since the end of the Civil War, Ulysses Grant put on a military uniform for the first time and acted as a witness for Li Mu and Gloria, Hayes as the next president of the United States, served as the host of Li Mu and Gloria's engagement ceremony, Rockefeller's youngest daughter and J Morgan's youngest son served as flower girls, 25 of the 76 senators in the United States personally attended Li Mu and Gloria's engagement ceremony, and others also sent their own special representatives.
It is worth mentioning that because of the woman's military background, all the guests with military experience wore military dresses, making the entire engagement ceremony simply a gathering of officers.
Unlike Will's engagement ceremony, Li Mu and Gloria's engagement ceremony has a strong political and military color, Gloria left Governor's Island to Trinity Church on the road to the Trinity Church is only a short distance of less than 300 meters, 38 heavily armored spear-wielding lancers clear the way for Gloria, followed by a traditional military band, a total of 120 drummers beat snare drums, around Gloria's carriage.
It was also at the engagement ceremony that Li Mu saw the Barron family emblem for the first time, the main body of the emblem was a tower shield, on which two arquebuses with bayonets crossed each other, surrounded by a garland composed of bauhinia flowers.
The guests on Li Mu's side were not all suits and leather shoes, and all the Chinese who attended the engagement ceremony were all wearing robes, even including Li Mu.
This robe is different from the robes that are now popular in the Qing Kingdom, it is not a simple robe, but a suit made in strict accordance with Chinese traditions, and in order to wear this dress, three tailors invited from the Qing Kingdom worked for half an hour.
Of course, this set of clothes was not so troublesome to wear originally, but it was only because of Li Mu's unproficiency that the process was prolonged.
The engagement ceremony was presided over by Bishop Nick Joe of New England, who was not appointed by the Vatican, after all, most Americans believe in Protestantism and have nothing to do with the Vatican.
The whole engagement ceremony didn't feel too different to Li Mu, it felt similar to the last engagement ceremony between Will and Claudia, but the location was different.
After the church section was over, guests were routinely moved to the Castle Clinton Hotel for a banquet at the Castle Clinton Hotel.
According to the scheduled procedure, Li Mu and Gloria had to attend the dinner, and when Gloria walked out of Trinity Church with Li Mu in tow, Li Mu unexpectedly found that there seemed to be some noise across the street, and a few people wanted to put up a banner, but as soon as the banner was taken out, those people were knocked down by the police officers in the crowd and the security personnel of Springfield Company.
Considering the presidential election some time ago, Li Mu's engagement ceremony, security work is naturally the top priority, Bresta position mobilized more than 500 police officers to participate in the security work, Situ Lei is even more, in order to ensure that the engagement ceremony, no accidents occur, the spring security company mobilized more than 900 security personnel, which can also be understood, why those people's banners can not be played, in the surrounding crowd, on average, one out of every three people is a police officer or security personnel, If there is an accident of this magnitude, then both Stuart and Bresta can take the blame and resign.
"What happened just now" Sitting in the carriage, Li Mu found a gap and asked Yan Shun.
"God knows, there will always be some people who are not willing to be lonely, but fortunately we are well prepared."
Yan Shun's mood is not very high.
This is understandable, after all, it was Gloria who was engaged to Li Mu instead of Chu Xue, and Yan Shun was sure that he was unhappy.
However, Yan Shun did not interfere with Li Mu's family, including Yan's father and Yan's mother, they all thought that Gloria was the most suitable person for Li Mu, not to mention the two Yan brothers, they had long regarded Li Mu as a family, regardless of whether Li Mu would give Chu Xue a name or not.
Li Mu and Gloria took a carriage to the Clinton Castle Hotel, and after listening to Yan Shun's answer, Gloria was more sensitive: "It seems that we can't get everyone's blessing, it's a pity." ” Gloria said regret in her mouth, but there was no trace of regret on her face, and it seemed that Gloria was also mentally prepared.
That's right, no matter how popular a person is, there is no guarantee that everyone will like you 100%, so it is normal for someone to take the initiative to jump out, which means that they have no other way, and can only use this way of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to Li Mu to find something awkward.
But this level of awkwardness does not make Li Mu take it to heart, not because Li Mu has a big heart, but because Li Mu and them are not at the same level at all, and the understanding of "awkwardness" is unequal at all.
In order to complete the tasks assigned by Li Mu, the Clinton Castle Hotel pushed down all the reservations and freed up all the reception capacity to serve Li Mu's engagement ceremony.
Although the protagonist of the banquet is Li Mu, Li Mu did not have time to come out to entertain the guests, and in the rainforest box in the corner of the banquet hall, Li Mu kept receiving a wave of guests, and he couldn't be idle for a moment.
It is through this personnel change that many people learned about the relationship between San Diego Investment Company and Junma Group, which made many people have a new assessment of the strength of Junma Group.
Although nominally San Diego Investment and San Diego Investment are cross-holding, personnel changes are too sensitive after all, and it can be seen at a glance that the relationship between San Diego Group and San Diego Investment is not as clear as it seems.
Considering the influence in Cuba and the Caribbean Sea, the San Diego Investment Company has a volume that is no less than the Horse Group, which is more terrifying, a Horse Group is enough to make people palpitate, if you add a San Diego Investment Company, then the wealth controlled by Li Mu has steadily surpassed the Vanderbilt family and become the first family in the actual sense of the United States.
Nominally, the first family in the United States is, of course, the president's family, but in reality, this is just a concept promoted by the media, politics is a continuation of the economy, and the president needs the support of the tycoons to succeed in power, so it is clear who is important and who is not.
Even Ulysses Grant was shocked by the news.
"Yes, I own a part of the shares of the San Diego Investment Company, but as you know, the San Diego Investment Company is not wholly owned by the Horse Group, including the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, and even the Vanderbilt family, all have shares in the San Diego Investment Company, so the Horse Group is far from representing the San Diego Investment Company."
In front of Ulysses Grant, Li Mu flatly denied the relationship with the San Diego Investment Company.
"You're right, the equity of the San Diego Investment Company is really complicated, but neither the Morgan family nor the Rockefeller family has the right to decide the general manager of the San Diego Investment Company."
Ulysses Grant is not stupid, many things Li Mu denied it is useless.
In order to avoid suspicion, Li Mu deliberately ignored the Barron family, if the Barron family is counted, then Li Mu already has an absolute controlling stake in the San Diego Investment Company, which Li Mu wants to avoid.
Before the emergence of the Horse Group, these large enterprises in the United States were basically family businesses, such as the Morgan family, and the Rockefeller family, they had absolute control over the family business, and even some were sole proprietorships, and there was no equity at all.
The emergence of the Junma Group broke this situation, starting from Li Mu and Rockefeller cooperation with Mobil Oil, these big families in the United States are gradually closer, and the industry has begun to appear cross-holding, which is a good thing for Li Mu, which can make Li Mu and Junma Group play a greater role and have greater influence, and at the same time let these big families in the United States be linked into a closer whole, they are no longer alone, or a whole appears in the international market.
This disruption is revolutionary.
"I don't want to dwell on the equity of San Diego Investments, what I really want to say is, Reem, I hope you can better use your influence to expand the voice of the United States in the Caribbean, and I believe this will also bring new development opportunities to the ZAMA Group."
As the president of the United States, Ulysses Grant, although he was criticized during his political career, his vision was still unusual after all, and his focus was very high.
Since more than 100 years ago, the United States put forward "isolationism", and now this term has a new development, Americans are no longer satisfied with the development of the domestic economy, began to consider foreign expansion, for Li Mu and the horse group, it is indeed an opportunity, after all, Li Mu intervened in the Cuban War of Independence, which was the first attempt of the United States.
The most immediate benefit of the Cuban War of Independence to the United States was the Guantanamo Naval Base, which gave the United States an enclave around the Caribbean Sea and a home base for the United States to finally have its voice heard in the Caribbean.
Ulysses Grant's attitude is clear: America is America for Americans.
Doesn't it sound like this sentence is full of lofty?
In fact, it is also full of selfishness.
Every week now only the United States dominates, and if all the countries in the Americas are independent, then even if all the countries are tied together, it will not be enough to compete with the United States, which makes the ambitions of the United States as vigorous and unstoppable as the weeds in spring, and the Americans are eager to set foot in the Caribbean around the region.
"Of course I will, you know, through the Cuban War of Independence, I have a very good relationship with the Cuban ruling class, and that's a useful attempt for us, and if I can, I hope to extend this model to the rest of the Americas, and in ten years, even five years, we may be able to clean up the old colonial empires of Europe from the Caribbean, and that's when we can really make a big difference."
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Li Mu's tone was loud, even more radical than Ulysses Grant.
The United States really wants to control the Caribbean, and Li Mu also wants to expand the influence of the United States in the Caribbean, after all, many things, it is not convenient to get out in the name of Li Mu and the Junma Group in the name of a person or a company, if the US government is to carry it in front, Li Mu's work will be much better.
"Talking about the pattern of the Cuban War of Independence, we still need to think about it in the long run" Ulysses Grant thought and thought, endured and endured, after all, there was still a trace of reason, and he was not completely swayed by Li Mu.
There is a saying in the old colonial empires of Europe: Africa is the backyard of Europe.
If this is the case, then the Americas are the green grassland in front of the house of the old European colonial countries, whether it is the back garden or the green grassland, it is probably inseparable, so if the United States really expells European power from the Caribbean surrounding areas, then it is equivalent to the United States declaring war on the whole of Europe.
As an arms dealer, this kind of scene is of course what Li Mu is happy to see, but for Ulysses Grant, it is simply like a disaster, even if Ulysses is arrogant, he will never take this step.
At least not yet.
"Why not, look at the Caribbean periphery, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Dutch, what else can these countries have to say that they are only willing to sleep on the merits of their ancestors, and it is already a great blessing to be able to keep the legacy left to them by their ancestors, so they don't deserve these colonies now, and in my opinion, the word colonies is really too old, and it's the nineteenth century, and we need a new model, so that we can really benefit the United States."
Li Mu spared no effort, and whenever he had the opportunity, he would desperately advocate the importance of the Caribbean to the United States.
"I know, I know, let me think about it again" Ulysses Grant was defeated after all, and in the face of the beautiful scene depicted by Li Mu, it cannot be said that Ulysses Grant could not keep his sanity.
"Okay, I'll wait for your good news" Li Mu didn't expect to be able to convince Ulysses Grant through a brief exchange.
In fact, Li Mu's purpose is not in Cuba, nor in the Caribbean, Li Mu's real purpose is the Panama Canal, in this era, if Li Mu and the Junma Group are on the right path, then they may really be able to seize the right to dig the Panama Canal.
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