Corruption in the United States has a long history, and Tweed in New York is only the tip of the iceberg, and all large cities in the United States with a population of more than 100,000 people are counted as one and all have varying degrees of corruption, and this situation is widespread even in the 21 st century, but the United States rarely publicizes such things, and democracies cannot have such scandals.
A 2016 report showed that in order to force a balance of accounts, the U.S.
Army made "appropriate" changes to $28 trillion in accounts in just one quarter of 2015, and this "appropriate" adjustment of accounts amounted to $65 trillion in 2015 as a whole, many of which were purely fabricated and unfounded, just to cover up the unsightly parts of it.
Therefore, there is no reason to demand that the nineteenth-century California government and the San Francisco government must be pure, Watson Squire said that there is no money, but in fact, the annual tax paid by the California branch of the Kufner Group alone reaches millions of dollars, and no one knows how much of these dollars are used to improve the people's livelihood in California.
Those who want to know are not qualified to know, and those who are qualified to know are rarely confused, this is the reality.
A week later, Li Mu and his family took the USS Albany, the flagship of the U.S.
Navy's Pacific Fleet, and went to Vladivostok with George Dewey.
After the establishment of Vladivostok, the Pacific Fleet naturally chose Vladivostok as the most important base of the Pacific Fleet in the Far East, and George Dewey thus won $1.5 million in construction funds, which were also undertaken by Li Mu's Junma Construction Company. "1.5 million US dollars, to build a military port with batteries, maintenance platforms, anchorages and warehouses, do you think this money is enough" Li Mu did not open his mouth, George Dewey's requirements are high, and the funds needed are naturally more, 1.5 million US dollars is indeed not a small amount, but it is indeed not enough to build a military port in Vladivostok.
"It should be about the same, Vladivostok already has a port, it only needs a certain degree of expansion and renovation, it is not from scratch, the Navy has its own accounting department, even if it is not enough, it will not be too bad."
George Dewey was worried about whether the Horse Construction Company could be completed before next summer, so that the Pacific Fleet could be stationed in time, which was also George Dewey's achievement.
Don't think that soldiers don't want political achievements, the internal tilt of the Navy is also very intense, the center of gravity of the United States was in the Atlantic, the Pacific Fleet was in a subordinate position, the status of the Pacific Fleet in the past two years has been rising, first Hawaii, and now Vladivostok, more than half of the new warships in the Navy in the past two years have been given to the Pacific Fleet, which has made the Pacific Fleet more powerful than the Atlantic Fleet, many people are staring at George Dewey, waiting for George Dewey to make a mistake, so George Dewey also needs achievements, It proves that the Pacific Fleet has indeed played its due role under his leadership.
"That's a lot, your navy's accountants only calculated how much it would cost to renovate and expand the port, but they didn't take into account the cost of manpower, and there would certainly not be enough suitable workers in the Far East, so it was necessary to transfer workers and technicians from the mainland, these people who work in Vladivostok will receive an ocean-going allowance in addition to the salary of their normal activities, which will more than double the labor cost, and of course the materials are also important, there is no steel and cement needed to build a port in the Far East, These need to be purchased from the mainland of the United States and shipped over, and this part of the cost will also increase, so the construction of the port of Vladivostok will require far more money than the construction of the Hawaiian military port.
"Li Mu will definitely not be polite to the Admiralty's offer, if he can point more, it is rare to have such an opportunity to kill the butcher's knife.
In fact, the reasons Li Mu said are all objective facts, even if the Admiralty investigates, the conclusions drawn are not much different from what Li Mu said, after all, those accountants in the Navy are not businessmen, they are essentially soldiers, and soldiers and businessmen play a cost game and can lose their underwear.
Replaced by Li Mu to do, of course, there are ways to further reduce costs, such as steel and cement, Vladivostok itself has rich resources, after the establishment of Vladivostok, Andrew Carnegie has begun to prepare for the Vladivostok Iron and Steel Plant, to produce steel locally in Vladivostok and supply Vladivostok for local use.
The same is true for cement, unlike the construction cycle of a steel plant cement plant in the future, the scale of steel plants and cement plants in these years is not large, as long as there are suitable people, a few months is enough to build a factory from scratch, as for those employee allowances, well, Li Mu originally did not plan to transfer too many people from the United States to Vladivostok, Vladivostok has a large enough number of Chinese, just give them a certain amount of training, they will be the most suitable workers in the world.
Although Li Mu and George Dewey are friends, it does not affect Li Mu's sky-high asking price, anyway, George Dewey's job is not to help the War Department save money, but to protect the interests of the United States within the radiation range of the Pacific Fleet, which is what George Dewey should pay attention to, as for saving money, it is a matter for Congress.
"It's okay, you repair it first, if the money is not enough, you can apply again, don't you have a stake in Andrew's factory As long as you can persuade Andrew to set up a factory in Vladivostok and produce the materials needed for the construction of the military port on the spot, then I think the Admiralty should be able to bear part of the construction costs, as long as you can ensure that after the factory is completed, you can provide suitable materials for the construction of the military port."
George Dewey is also a wonderful person, this is the rhythm of giving Li Mu two factories for nothing.
"It's okay like this" Li Mu really didn't expect it to be like this, asking for a high price, in Li Mu's opinion, it was enough to be excessive, but he didn't expect that there was a bigger pie waiting for Li Mu in front.
"Why not, we're also saving money for the War Department, aren't we" George Dewey's brain circuit is really weird.
In George Dewey's view, even if this way seems a bit stupid, as long as it helps to solve the previous problem, then this is a good way, as for how to solve the new problems caused by this way, that is another problem.
"Okay, I'll admit you're right, then our biggest problem right now is how to spend all that $1.5 million in the shortest possible time."
Li Mu tried his best to keep up with George Dewey's thinking, anyway, George Dewey just said that if $1.5 million is not enough, he can add it "You can also understand it this way, it's important that the people above see the effect and make them feel like it's worth the money."
George Dewey didn't care about how Li Mu spent money, and how to speed up was what George Dewey cared about.
"Well, I seem to understand."
Don't forget that Li Mu is Chinese, if you want to talk about the left and right, there should be no one in this world who is better at it than the Chinese.
The crux of the matter is to make the "people above" satisfied, Li Mu is really very experienced in this regard, and the Junma Arms Company does not know how many military representatives it has to receive every year, so that they are satisfied with the products provided by the Junma Arms Company, to make them interested in the new products launched by the Junma Weapons Company, and to make them look forward to the cooperation with the Junma Weapons Company, which spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in this regard.
In 2013, Malaysian tycoon Leonard Francis, who provides logistics services for the U.S.
Navy's Seventh Fleet, was arrested by the FBI, and since then more than 400 active or retired officers and soldiers of the U.S.
Navy have been implicated.
In this case, the senior US Navy officials involved in the case include Vice Admiral Michael Miller, Rear Admiral Terry Cave, Rear Admiral David Phipp, Rear Admiral and Special Assistant to the Commander of the Navy Supply Force Robert Gilbert, in addition, Vice Admiral Blanche, director of naval intelligence, was exposed to be related to this case.
In fact, Leonard Francis's methods are very simple, luxury parties, free hotel accommodation, erotic services, concert tickets, smartphones, Cuban cigars, Kobe beef, etc., etc., as long as the members of the U.S. military units who deal with Leonard Francis have received benefits from Leonard Francis, the price is to provide Leonard Francis with all kinds of news, so that Leonard Francis can get the contract order of the Seventh Fleet at a low price, and then Leonard Francis will cleverly set up additional expenses, In the end, huge military expenses were defrauded from the Seventh Fleet.
Through these internal and external collusions, Leonard Francis admitted that the value of the case was only $35 million, but the US Naval Criminal Investigation Agency believes that Leonard Francis's profits in the past ten years are far more than $35 million, and the value of the case may reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
In Li Mu's opinion, Leonard Francis is still too stupid, if he really wants to defraud the U.S.
Navy Department of military spending, there is no need to be so troublesome, Leonard Francis bribed more than 400 officers and soldiers in one go, any of them have an accident, it is possible to pull Leonard Francis into the water, Li Mu only bribes those who make decisions, and not many people are worthy of Li Mu's bribes, such as the construction of a military port, as long as the relationship between George Dewey is opened, and then the "people above" are satisfied, As for those ordinary officers and soldiers of the Pacific Fleet, I'm sorry, they don't have the qualifications to bribe Li Mu yet, at most Li Mu will build the officers and soldiers' dormitories more comfortable.
In the banquet hall on the "Albany" in the evening, George Dewey wanted to have a drink with Li Mu as usual.
Don't wonder why there is a banquet hall on a warship, the captain of this year can also raise a dog on a warship, it's not too simple to get a banquet hall, the days of soldiers on the ship are the most boring, so the most popular in the US Navy is Well, it can only be said that it is normal not to let women be in the navy these days.
"You Republicans are dazed this time, wait and see, when James Garfield comes to power, our good days will come to an end."
George Dewey himself had no political leanings, so he did not hesitate to spit out.
In essence, George Dewey did not belong to the Ulysses Grant faction, so James Garfield did not dislike George Dewey, but James Garfield intended to implement a civilian system, which contradicted George Dewey's idea, George Dewey never thought that schools could produce good soldiers, and there were not a few people in the US military who had this kind of thinking, so although Alfred Mahan wrote the theory of sea power and was considered the first person in the US Navy, he could only stay in school and teach.
"You guy who doesn't have the right to vote, don't come to deny the will of the entire American people."
Li Mu didn't want to say too much to George Dewey, just last night, before the "Albany" left Hawaii, the "Albany" finally received a telegram from the Pacific Naval Headquarters, James Garfield confirmed that he would defeat Samuel Tilden yesterday morning and officially become the twentieth president of the United States for a four-year term.
So even if the time when he received the telegram yesterday was at night, Li Mu decisively asked the "Albany" to leave immediately, because Li Mu was not sure when Situ Lei and Chu Wushuang would do it, and at that time, the farther Li Mu was from Washington, the safer Li Mu would be, and it would be better if Li Mu was floating at sea with George Dewey when James Garfield was assassinated, no matter who suspected Li Mu at that time, then he would have to face George Dewey's anger.
A very simple logic, if James Garfield was assassinated when Li Mu and George Dewey were together, then suspecting that Li Mu was the mastermind behind the scenes is tantamount to suspecting that George Dewey was also Li Mu's accomplice, which will definitely make George Dewey furious, and no one will be indifferent to this level of insult.
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"I'm not against it, even if I don't have the right to vote, I have the right to express my opinion."
George Dewey didn't need to disguise himself in front of Li Mu, and the two of them also had a friendship of carrying guns together.
While George Dewey and Li Mu were drinking, Charles Gitéo followed James Garfield into the Christ Church on Vermont Avenue and sat on the fourth row of chairs five meters behind James Garfield.
And less than five meters behind Charles Gitéo, Washington DC police officer Zach Richardson is also ready, as long as Charles Gitéo shoots, Zach Richardson will kill Charles Gitéo as quickly as possible, this is a serial set
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