The efficiency of management at the end of the 19th century certainly cannot be compared with that of the 21st century, not to mention that the United States has no management at all in its treatment of the Indians.
It can be seen that George Menipene wanted Li Mu to take over the management of the Indians.
It's a pity that Li Mu has no interest in this job, the Indians are a big pit, whoever gets involved is unlucky, even if George Menipene says it well, as long as Li Mu takes over, Li Mu will definitely be scolded in the future, and maybe he will be scolded, maybe he will be saddled with the black cauldron of persecution of the Indians, this pot is too big, Li Mu can't move.
Li Mu only wants the land of the Indians, and has no interest in the Indians, no matter how the federal government treats the Indians, it has nothing to do with Li Mu.
Therefore, Li Mu directly rejected George Menibeni, and there was nothing to be ashamed of.
"That's a shame."
George Menipene was indeed a pity, and his disappointment was palpable.
George Menibeni didn't know Li Mu's definition of mercenaries, in foreign countries, mercenaries can be unscrupulous, but in the United States, Li Mu must be more restrained, this is the tacit understanding between Li Mu and their group of capitalists and Washington.
"Don't be sorry George, even if we can't cooperate, it won't affect our friendship, tomorrow night, Laura and Gloria's foundation have a charity dinner, and we'll talk about it later."
Li Mu sent an invitation to George Menipeni, and many things were inconvenient to talk about in public at the beach club.
"Okay, we'll talk about it then."
George Menibeni was immediately excited, and it seemed more important to be able to obtain Li Mu's friendship than business cooperation.
The charity dinner was held at the Castle Clinton Hotel, where the ballroom has become a fixture for dinners held by the state and city governments in New York, and everyone else who needs a banquet hall must make a reservation in advance, but Laura and Gloria don't need it.
Although the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" was established in Luzon, the Luzon people were obviously not covered by the foundation, and there were many people in the United States in need of charitable relief in this era, and New York was Laura and Gloria's home field.
After returning to New York, Laura and Gloria began to look for an opportunity to try to make the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" a hit, and the two women worked hard for a week, and finally decided not to let the fertilizer water flow into the fields of outsiders, so the first charity project of the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" was to provide free lunches to all students at the Stallion Affiliated School.
For Laura and Gloria's decision, Li Mu said very welcome, although the Horse Affiliated School has sufficient funds, the students in the school have long been able to enjoy nutritious, full of free lunch, although compared with the Horse Affiliated School, the children in the public school obviously need this lunch more, Li Mu still expressed a warm welcome to the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation", to be honest, Li Mu does not care about the free lunch money, nor does he care where Laura and Gloria spend the money, What Li Mu cares more about is that when there are benefits, the first thing Laura and Gloria think of is their own people, and this is enough.
After returning to New York, the scale of the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" is also expanding rapidly, as the founders of the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation", Laura and Gloria have naturally become the directors of the Foundation, plus Chu Xue, a "supernumerary", within a week of returning to New York, the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" already has six directors, in addition to Laura and Gloria, Will's wife Claudia, Arthur's wife Alan, and Andrew Carnegie's wife, Louis, became a trustee of the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation."
Of course, the expansion of management was accompanied by a rapid increase in foundation donations, and within a week, the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" had raised more than $15 million in donations, which was enough for the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" to start functioning normally.
As a foundation, if you want to operate normally, you need to have a certain hematopoietic function, which is the so-called "money makes money", at this time Chu Xue finally played a role, referring to Li Mu's suggestion, "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" handed over half of the capital to the San Diego Investment Company to operate, and then used most of the remaining capital for local investment in New York, and the money that was really taken out for charity did not exceed 5% of the foundation's capital.
Of course, this ratio is only a stopgap measure, when the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" begins to make profits, all the profits will be used for the foundation's own operations and charitable projects every year, and the coverage of the foundation will gradually expand, and the lunch of the students of the Horse Affiliated School is just the beginning.
Even if it's just a beginning, there is enough topicality, the United States in this year, there are not as many foundations as the future United States, "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" is the first real charitable foundation in the United States, not to mention that the directors of the foundation have enough background, "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" has just released the news that it is going to hold a charity dinner, and the invitation to the dinner is immediately hot, there is no doubt that this small invitation has become a vane of New York's high society, whether it can be invitedIt has become the best reference for measuring an individual's social status.
That is, after the invitation was sent, Li Mu knew how many rich people there were in New York.
According to Laura and Gloria's idea, only those whose personal assets are more than one million dollars are eligible to accept the invitation of "Laura and Gloria's Foundation", although this standard is suspected of discrimination, but it is in line with the concept of the foundation, after all, the foundation is to donate, people who are not worth enough, if they want to give love or refer to it from other directions, the charity dinner is forgotten.
According to Li Mu's assumption, there are probably no more than 300 people who are qualified to attend the dinner.
But unfortunately, New York is the financial center of the United States, it can be said that all the rich people in the United States are in New York, Laura and Gloria's idea is good, but the standard is mentioned again and again, in the end, only those who have made certain achievements in a certain industry are eligible to accept the invitation, ordinary rich people are excluded, even so, "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" still sent out nearly 400 invitations.
You must know that such a dinner party can bring a female companion, if it is a dinner party held by other people, then not everyone who receives the invitation will be present, but the "Laura and Gloria's Foundation" will not, send out 400 invitations, then be prepared to have nearly 800 people to attend, this result is simply driving the management of the Castle Clinton Hotel crazy, because the Castle Clinton Hotel simply does not have such a large venue for such a large dinner of this scale.
Not to mention the Castle Clinton Hotel, there was no hotel in the United States at this time with such a large venue.
In the end, Gloria had a way, since there was no large enough indoor venue, then the venue of the dinner was placed on the open lawn, so that not to mention 800 people, even if the number of people was doubled, it would be no problem.
Well, although this problem has been solved, the management of the Castle Clinton Hotel still has a headache, hoping that it will not rain on the day of the dinner, otherwise the board will still hit the specific executor.
Charity dinner, God is still very face-saving, the weather in New York has been very good recently, the sky is clear, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce.
Li Mu came to the Clinton Castle Hotel with Chu Xue and the children at five o'clock in the afternoon, to further contact with George Menipeni, and by the way, to discuss something that would not be known to others, as for Gloria, she was at the Clinton Castle Hotel all day today, this is the first time that the "Laura and Gloria Foundation" has appeared in public, and Gloria will never allow any accidents at the dinner.
When Li Mu came to the Clinton Castle Hotel, George Menibeni was already waiting at the Clinton Castle Hotel, Li Mu still sent Chu Xue and the children to find Gloria first, and then came to the executive suite on the top floor of the hotel with George Menibeni, which is a long-term private room of the Junma Group, with sufficient security and concealment.
"Mason, pour me two glasses of wine on the rocks, George, please, do you want to admire my collection, I promise it will open your eyes, there are a lot of good things from the Indians here."
Li Mu is unashamed to show off, and he doesn't care whether George Menipeni, as the American Commissioner for Indian Affairs, is more knowledgeable than Li Mu in terms of Indian cultural relics.
"Of course, that's my pleasure."
George Menipene was very cooperative, and although George Menibene was also a high-ranking official in Washington, he had not yet rejected Li Mu's qualifications.
Li Mu's collection of richness is well known, the Horse Museum is famous, known as the largest museum in the United States, which gives Washington a good wake-up call, Europeans mention the United States The biggest criticism is that the United States is a country without history, there is not enough heritage, Li Mu established the Horse Museum, put the cultural relics of other countries in the museum exhibition, although this seems nondescript, but at least in the cultural heritage has played a great role, inspired by the Horse Museum, Washington is preparing for the National Museum of the United States, New York City is also preparing for the Metropolitan Museum, and in a few years, museums will be everywhere in the United States, and this is the effect of the "demonstration effect".
Li Mu also went to the mayor of New York City Edward Jeffrey the day before yesterday, and wanted to further expand the scale of the Horse Museum through Edward Jeffrey, although the Horse Museum is already the largest museum in the United States, but Li Mu is still not satisfied, this time from the Far East brought back so many treasures, enough for Li Mu to prepare a exhibition hall related to Buddhism, but unfortunately, the Horse Museum has no extra space, so the expansion is imminent.
The value of cultural relics lies in the display, Li Mu does not want to put the cultural relics in the warehouse for self-appreciation, so as long as there is a chance, Li Mu is still willing to take out the collection of cultural relics to breathe, the executive suite of the Clinton Castle Hotel is also a good way, although the collection here is not a treasure, but the cultural relics themselves have a sense of age is enough, after all, it is just a hotel, if the 1700 carats of diamonds are put here is a tyrannical thing.
As the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, George Menibene is an Indian expert, and he is very familiar with the cultural relics of the Indians, as long as the cultural relics placed by Li Mu in the Clinton Castle Hotel are of some origin, George Menibene said that the head is the Tao, I don't know if it is deliberately to please Li Mu, George Menibene is most interested in the oriental landscape paintings, and then after appreciating a turquoise picture of the Bada Shanren, George Menibene expressed his willingness to donate several cultural relics from the Qing Empire in his private collection to the Horse Museum, This immediately won Li Mu's favor.
"Ranch, Reem, if you want an Indian ranch, then you should go to the War Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has no right in this regard."
When Li Mu and George Menibeni sat down on the balcony, and Li Mu finally began to mention the land of the Indians, George Menibeni was slightly disappointed, which did not match George Menibeni's expectations.
At that time, the United States had not formally established the Ministry of Land and Resources, and all issues concerning the Indians were handled by the War Department, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which was only one of the subordinate units of the War Department.
"No, no, no, don't shirk George, I know you have the right, we get more than 100 million acres of land from the Indians every year, I am not greedy, only a part, and besides, I will pay, not for free."
Li Mucai will not give George Menibene a chance to resign, George Menibene is the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and there is no need for George Menibene to do much, as long as Li Mu is given the opportunity to participate, it will not be a problem on the part of the War Department.
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By the way, in March of this year, Sherman resigned as Minister of War and came to the Horse Group as a special adviser, the new Secretary of War is Robert Lincoln, this guy is very promising, just look at his surname, his father is the famous president.
Don't say that American politics is clear, the United States practices real meritocracy, and ordinary people are not qualified to participate at all, political families like the Lincoln family abound, such as Robert Lincoln, he did not participate in the Civil War at all, but in the later part of the war, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to Ulysses Grant, then commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, asking Ulysses Grant to arrange a position for Robert Lincoln, so Robert Lincoln served as a deputy regimental commander with the rank of captain, stationed in Petersburg and the camp in Abomatoxand was later able to witness Robert Lee's surrender.
That's how Robert Lincoln was connected to the Civil War, do you know what the newspapers commented The newspaper said: "Robert Lincoln excelled in the army":