Li Mu during the Arthur period was basically desireless, Li Mu and Arthur had a dirty friendship together, no matter what happened, Arthur would consider the problem from Li Mu's point of view, even if Li Mu's request endangered the interests of the United States to a certain extent, Arthur would firmly stand on Li Mu's side, ignoring party discipline and state law.
To tell the truth, if he could, Arthur would rather quit the party and resign now, being president is ideal for other politicians, but it is torment for Arthur, Arthur does not want to take the responsibility of leading the United States forward, and it is Arthur's ideal to travel around the world with the annual dividends given by the Rose Company, as for the United States I'm sorry, Arthur is not that great, otherwise he would not have attacked Tweed with Li Mu in the first place, Li Mu and Arthur divided it, but Tweed has worked hard to save money in New York for ten years, and that money should be returned to the New York government, not privately divided between Li Mu and Arthur.
In June, Arthur signed the first presidential decree on special protections for special industries, such as arms, oil, and steel, and Li Mu and Rockefeller, Henry DuPont, and Andrew Carnegie became the big winners, and they all had the opportunity to establish a trust group in their own fields.
In fact, Arthur's presidential decree is to strengthen it again on this basis, and if someone wants to enter these fields in the future, the cost will be higher, and the difficulty will be greater, and if Congress wants to do something against trust enterprises, it will also face more pressure, because it is no longer a war against a single trust company, but against all trust groups in the entire United States, and this force is enough to destroy everything.
After signing the presidential order, Arthur went directly to New York for a vacation, and handed over the blame of Congress to James Bryan to deal with.
"James is really unlucky to have a president like you."
Li Muqing couldn't help but sigh, if it was a combination of two James, maybe it would be a perfect match, but when it came to Arthur, it would definitely be a mismatch, and any ideal secretary of state, a president like Arthur would have been moldy for eight lifetimes.
"But it's your luck to have a president like me."
Arthur's words made Li Mu embarrassed, Li Mu was cheap and obedient as a standard, Arthur now wants to go back to Washington to sign a presidential decree and repeal the previous presidential decree.
It is indeed lucky, when Hayes came to power, he reciprocated Li and helped Li Mu, but the strength of the help was far less than that of Arthur, if Hayes just waved the flag and shouted, Arthur had already reached the point of going into battle shirtless.
It must be said that Arthur will face a lot of pressure to sign such a presidential decree, although such a presidential decree will not take effect until it is approved by Congress, but no one cares about this, and in the future, as long as someone mentions this presidential decree, the pot will be thrown at Arthur.
As for Congress, rest assured, Arthur will definitely be scolded, but Congress will definitely pass, at least half of the members of Congress have taken the benefits of Li Mu and Rockefeller, Henry Dupont, and Andrew Carnegie, and now when it comes to these people to reciprocate, no one will take the initiative to stand up and be evil, anyway, it is Arthur's proposal, everyone is trading with public power, and no one will lose anything, maybe Li Mu and their gang will give more political contributions in the future because of this presidential decree being passed.
"Yes, it's really my luck, since you're so good, then I'll do you a favor, say, where do you want to play, leave it to me to operate."
Li Mu is rare to be generous, this is really not bragging, Li Mu can really do it.
The president wants to take a vacation very simply, as long as he doesn't worry about emergencies, it's no problem to take six days off a week, what Li Mu said is definitely not so simple, Li Mu refers to anywhere in the world, as long as Arthur wants to go, Li Mu can help Arthur do it, a simple invitation is enough, not a vacation, it's always okay to visit abroad, or play in the open.
"I don't want to go anywhere, James is about to die of anger, and yesterday he wanted me to resign, so I came to New York."
Arthur is fleeing, he is the president and has no choice, but James Bryan, the secretary of state, has a choice, probably James Bryan has seen Arthur's intentions, so he doesn't play anymore, who carries this pot who loves it, anyway, I don't carry it.
To say that James Bryan is also sad, the president was James Garfield, and the two James were good friends, and they had been friends for decades, but James Garfield was assassinated before he took the oath, James Bryan became a loner, and Arthur was obviously a ticket player, which made James Bryan really ambitious, so he simply asked Arthur to resign.
If Arthur became president through normal means, then even if James Garfield resigned, Arthur would have someone else elected as secretary of state, but unfortunately the fact is that Arthur was forced to be president, and he never considered the problem after becoming president, so for a while, Arthur could not find a suitable person to replace James Brian, so he had to go to New York for a vacation.
"If it were me, I would be angry, it is estimated that the future president will scold you, with this presidential decree of yours, they can only live in the shadow of the trust enterprise, whoever dares to overturn this presidential decree is against all the trust groups, it is estimated that he will die a miserable death."
Li Mu had no intention of helping, Arthur didn't have a suitable candidate in his hands, and Li Mu didn't have any in his hands.
If after more than ten or twenty years, when the second generation of Chinese Americans grow up, after more than ten or twenty years of experience in society, and have a certain amount of social experience, then Li Mu may have a suitable candidate in his hands, but not yet, the best of the second generation of Chinese have just stepped into the society, and they still need to accumulate experience if they want to achieve something, and they can't help much in ten years.
"You have to help me figure it out, I don't want people to mention me in the future, and they will associate me with you damn capitalists, and then they will probably call me a lackey of the capitalists, I have done you a favor, and you have to do me a favor, I don't want to be as great as Abraham, but I can't be blamed like Hayes, I have to do something commendable."
Arthur still has ideals, and the ideals are not low, the last few presidents of the Republican Party have left the presidential palace in a scolding, looking at Arthur's meaning, he still wants to leave his name in history, and he doesn't look at what the first presidential decree issued is, dreaming One thing is certain, no one in this world wants to be scolded, Ulysses Grant was what Ulysses Grant was referring to, but not everyone is scolding Ulysses Grant, at least Li Mu and Arthur will not, both of them are vested interests when Ulysses Grant was in power, others can not be grateful, Li Mu and Arthur can't be like that.
Another scolded is Hayes, in fact, Hayes's starting point is also good, Hayes pushed the bureaucratic system and tried to end the political party fat distribution system, although this harmed the interests of many people, but Hayes's purpose is not to target anyone, but for the Republican Party and the United States, that is, Hayes did not succeed, if Hayes succeeded, then he is the greatest American president after Abraham Lincoln, not to mention one consecutive term, three consecutive terms are no problem.
For Arthur's request, Li Mu was originally helpless, but thinking of Hayes, Li Mu suddenly had an idea: "If you want others to remember you, it's simple, I can't make you a saint, but it's okay to have mixed reputations, think about what Hayes didn't do, if you can do it, then you are a hero, not only save the United States, which is mired in the party fat distribution system, but also save the Republican Party, whose support is declining, and you will become a hero of the Republican Party." ” Although Li Mu's energy is amazing, but the reality is so helpless, if the Republican Party does not fight a little more, then Li Mu will get tired of the Republican Party sooner or later, and when Li Mu turns to support the Democratic Party, then it will be the end of the Republican Party.
As long as Hayes can establish an effective civilian system and end the political party fat distribution system in the United States to a certain extent, then this will definitely save Arthur's image to a large extent, and even a salvation for the Republican Party, and voters will see the Republican Party's efforts to reform, so they will have full confidence in the Republican Party.
The reason why it is said to a certain extent is that Li Mu did not have any hope at all for the complete end of the political party fertilizer distribution system, and the United States has not completely ended the political party fertilizer distribution system until the 21 st century, and there is no need to think about it in these years, unless the United States can end the two-party system, the political party fertilizer distribution system will always exist in the United States.
"You mean the civil service system" Arthur was not stupid at all, and immediately guessed Li Mu's true intentions.
"That's right, it's the civil bureaucracy, think about it, if you can do it, then you will immediately become a hero, and if you can't do it, don't you want to resign, and even if you don't want to leave, the bigwigs in the party will oust you from power."
Li Mu gave another benefit, although it didn't seem like a benefit, but this is what Arthur wanted.
"That's great, that's the kind of civil service I want, I'll call James right away, I guess he'll be interested."
Arthur is very happy, if James Bryan really has ideals, then the implementation of the civil service system should be what James Bryan is willing to do, the reason is the same as what Li Mu gave to Arthur, if it fails, then there is no need for James Bryan to resign, and the bigwigs in the Republican Party will also oust James Bryan from power.
Well, in fact, Arthur and James Bryan are the current bigwigs in the Republican Party, and when I think about it, I suddenly understand that the current Republican Party is indeed inferior to the generation.
Seeing Arthur excitedly go to call, Li Mu was not very optimistic in his heart, ending the political party fertilizer distribution system is not as easy as Li Mu said, the original history, the United States established the civilian system through the "Pendleton Act", which ended the political party fertilizer distribution system to a certain extent.
The full name of the "Pendleton Act" is the "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act," and it is named after George Pendleton, a Democratic senator from Ohio, and the main content of this bill is to stipulate that the recruitment of civil servants shall be based on the method of public examination competition, and that regular evaluations shall be conducted, and rewards and punishments shall be promoted and promoted according to their ability and political performance; after the implementation of the "Pendleton Act", civil servants have begun to serve in a permanent state, and no longer advance and retreat together with the ruling party, thus breaking the bad habit of dividing the political party into fat and reducing government corruption to a certain extent.
It has improved the quality of civil servants, increased work efficiency, and promoted the professionalization of civil servants and the professionalization of administrative management.
After saying so many benefits, Li Mu suddenly remembered that it seemed that the "Pendleton Act" was passed during Arthur's administration This is amazing, it seems that even without Li Mu's participation, Arthur can do something impressive.
No, if there was no Li Mu's participation, then Arthur's reputation would be better, at least Arthur was not scolded as a "capitalist's lackey" in another time and space, so it seems that Li Mu is simply Arthur's fate.
"James agreed, he would draft it first, and then I would propose it to Congress, whether Congress passed it or not, it would not hurt me anyway."
Arthur is triumphant, with the "civilian system", even if Arthur does nothing from now on, then Arthur will occupy a place in the ranking of future US presidents.
"Congress should pass you, and as long as the Republicans don't want to lose the presidential election in four years' time, then they will know what to do."
Li Mu suddenly realized in his heart that as long as Arthur proposed the "civil bureaucratic system", then the Congress would definitely pass it, and now is not the time when Hayes was in power, since everyone knows that the "civilian bureaucracy" is the general trend, then resistance is useless, and it is the right thing to make changes as soon as possible.
This is like the introduction of a property tax in the United States in recent years, and an important reason why many people insist that the property tax will not be implemented is that most of the houses are in the hands of the rich, so the rich will not collect their own taxes.
People with such firm beliefs have forgotten the fact that it has been many years since the concept of property tax was proposed in the United States, and after so many years, those rich people have long sold out their houses, so now the taxes are collected by those who take over the market.
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Oh, and there are people who haven't sold out, like the "Manhattan landlord," what's his name?
Forget it, it doesn't matter.
"In fact, everyone knows very well in their hearts that sooner or later, our Republican Party will lose the election, but it doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't lose at my hands."
Arthur can think about it, he is not like Hayes, embattled and insisted on re-election, and when the four-year term is over, Arthur will definitely not run again, even if someone asks Arthur to form a group to run, Arthur will not agree.
Of course, Arthur has to hold on for the past four years, and at present, it seems that it is a bit difficult
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