Of course, Li Mu hopes that Chen Guofang can be re-elected as governor of Vladivostok Prefecture, and it is best to be re-elected until Chen Guofang fades out of politics.
This is of course the most ideal situation, but it doesn't matter if Thomas Chamberlain comes to power, although Thomas Chamberlain is a Democrat, but in Vladivostok, whether it is a Democratic Party or a Republican, it depends on the face of a big capitalist like Li Mu to live, even if Thomas Chamberlain comes to power, it will not prevent Li Mu from immigrating from the Qing Dynasty, or because of the good relationship between Thomas Chamberlain and the Qing government, it will be easier for Li Mu to emigrate from the Qing State, and the Qing government will not pay as much attention to the population as Li Mu.
Thomas Chamberlain is of British descent, in his fifties, although his body is old, his mind is fully mature, and he is not lacking in life experience, this age is at the peak of his age for politicians.
Seeing Li Mu, Thomas Chamberlain was extremely enthusiastic, and did not have much traditional British reserve, it seems that Jeff Li was right, this Thomas Chamberlain is really close to Grover Cleveland.
What made Li Mu a little disappointed was that although the vast majority of Vladivostok people are now Chinese, but the majority of those who are eligible to attend the dinner are still white, and there is no way to change this in a short period of time, the Chinese lack of outstanding talents like Li Mu and Chen Guofang, even if Chen Guofang prefers to install Chinese in the Vladivostok Prefecture, there are not so many qualified Chinese for Chen Guofang's use, at least within ten years, this situation will not be fundamentally changed.
"Mr.
Ream, thank you very much for the importance you attach to Vladivostok, before coming to Vladivostok, I thought it was a barren place, but I was wrong, Vladivostok is a city with no less potential than San Francisco, this city has its own unique charm, I can now understand why Mr.
Riem you have to pay a lot of money to buy this place, I am sure, it will not be many years, the Russians will regret it."
Thomas Chamberlain was full of flattery to Li Mu, probably because Thomas Chamberlain had more dealings with the Qing government, and he was very familiar with the habits of the Chinese, and even Thomas Chamberlain was fluent in Chinese, which surprised Li Mu.
"It seems that Mr.
Chamberlain, you have indeed been in Qingguo for a long time, and your Chinese is very good."
Li Mu wanted more news about Thomas Chamberlain.
"I came to the Far East 20 years ago, and I worked in the U.S.
Embassy in Qing for 11 years, and I had some business projects in Qing in addition to diplomacy, but unfortunately, the Qing people didn't like us whites, but Vladivostok didn't have this problem, here, whites and Chinese people can coexist peacefully, even if sometimes we don't understand the language, we can try to understand each other."
Thomas Chamberlain is not only a pure politician, the US government has never forbidden politicians to do business, so the proportion of millionaires among American politicians is very high, and Thomas Chamberlain is also one of the best, otherwise he would not have come to Vladivostok to compete with Chen Guofang.
Of course, when facing Li Mu, Thomas Chamberlain also made appropriate rhetoric when he spoke, in Li Mu's understanding, the relationship between the Chinese and the white people in Vladivostok was not good, and the Chinese in this era, when facing the white people, were not completely submissive, without the slightest resistance, the white people were rampant among the Chinese, basically after the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Boxer Rebellion completely suppressed the resistance of the Chinese.
Li Mu also felt excited when he first learned this, Li Mu used to see the history of the end of the Qing Dynasty, the history books are not detailed, many times even very different from reality, the foreigners in the book are arrogant, and the Chinese are all wronged, in fact, this is not the case at all, the Chinese in this period are not as weak as described in the history books, the Chinese in Cuba will take the initiative to resist the Spanish colonists, if it is a compromise, this kind of thing cannot happen.
The same is true for those new immigrants who immigrated to the United States, after going through the initial run-in period, most of them were able to devote themselves to the new life with the most positive attitude, unlike those Irish and Italians who were willing to fall into the United States, many Irish and Italians immigrated to the United States for many years and were still poor, and most of the Chinese were able to start a family, which was already the case before Li Mu came to the United States.
In Vladivostok, this situation is even more obvious, perhaps because most people in Vladivostok are Chinese, and the Chinese have almost no adaptation problems in Vladivostok, and around Vladivostok, there have been many Chinese residential areas that are not in the planning of the Vladivostok state government, and it will not be long before they can have a piece of land of their own, and they can live tenaciously.
And different from the Chinese, those who come to Vladivostok, they do not have a self-respecting attitude at all, or with an adventurous attitude to face everything in Vladivostok, most of the Chinese come to Vladivostok after the main reclamation of wasteland, Vladivostok Oblast government has promised that as long as the reclamation of wasteland within a hundred acres, it will become personal private property, which makes almost all Chinese go crazy to reclaim wasteland, even if it snows heavily, it can't stop their enthusiasm.
At the same time, the white people who came to Vladivostok were mainly looking for treasure, and many of them wanted to get rich overnight, so what was more attractive to the white people were gold mines, oil fields, or at least metal mines, as long as they found these things, even if they themselves did not have the ability to develop them, as long as they sold them to large enterprises, it was a lot of money.
Under these two mentalities, the relationship between the Chinese and the white people is naturally impossible to be harmonious, the Chinese people do not look down on the white people's lofty ambitions, the white people look down on the Chinese people to be conservative, some extreme white people still retain the cowboy mentality, and the adventure is also a part-time thief and robber, in the face of the Chinese who like to live in groups, the contradictions are naturally more and more.
"The problem of language can be solved slowly, there may be a language barrier between our generation, and it will certainly not be between the next generation, and after a while, the school affiliated to Horse will be established in Vladivostok, and the problem must be solved slowly."
In fact, Li Mu and Thomas Chamberlain are not of the same generation, Thomas Chamberlain is old enough to be Li Mu's father, but this does not prevent the equality between Thomas Chamberlain and Li Mu.
If there is inequality, it is also Li Mu's status above Thomas Chamberlain.
"I'm sure that's the case, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future, two hundred years ago even the United States didn't exist, the government of Vladivostok Oblast has just been formed, and it's changing with each passing day."
Thomas Chamberlain is also sighing, of course, unlike Li Mu, Thomas Chamberlain does not have as much participation as Li Mu.
Yes, strictly speaking, what Li Mu is doing now is creating history, compared with the original history, Li Mu's time and space, history has been unrecognizable, maybe the First World War will be advanced, and as long as Yan Shun succeeds, the pattern of the Far East will undergo earth-shaking changes, and even for Li Mu, everything is new now, which also leads to the gradual reduction of Li Mu's "prophet" advantage.
But this is not a problem, now Li Mu's dependence on memory is gradually decreasing, there are endless new inventions in the Junma Laboratory, and there is the strong economic strength and political influence of the Junma Group, no one dares to ignore the existence of Li Mu.
Li Mu didn't talk to Thomas Chamberlain for too long, after Lawrence Lucas arrived, Li Mu and Lawrence Lucas left the banquet hall directly, and there were too many things to communicate between them.
"How is Tommy's performance" Li Mu is most concerned about whether Tommy Edmund can be qualified for the position of Lawrence Lucas after Lawrence Lucas leaves.
"It's not bad, Tommy has a lot of experience, he has a lot of energy, he is never afraid of a challenge, and after a while, he will be able to take charge on his own."
Lawrence Lucas praised Tommy Edmund, although deep down Lawrence Lucas did not want to leave the Pacific Company now, it was clear that Lawrence Lucas could not refuse Li Mu's appointment.
As the senior management of the Junma Group, Lawrence Lucas knows that there will be a series of big moves in the Far East next, Lawrence Lucas believes that the Junma Group will succeed, then at that time, the status of the Pacific Company in the Junma Group will rise sharply, at this time to transfer Lawrence Lucas, it is impossible to say that there are no complaints, but Lawrence Lucas also knows that Li Mu will definitely not treat him badly, this is enough, as a member of the Junma Group, Lawrence Lucas does not have many choices.
"Very good, I originally planned to transfer you back to the group headquarters, but the group needs a person with strong enough execution to develop the European market, you also know, because of Solomon Lob, the group's development of the European market is not smooth, let you go this time, I hope you can go well, don't let me down."
Li Mu is still very confident in Lawrence Lucas, although Lawrence Lucas has made mistakes in his previous work, but it is not the unforgivable kind, Lawrence Lucas's work in the Pacific Company proves that Li Mu can give Lawrence Lucas more trust, and now it is a good thing not to transfer Lawrence Lucas back to the group headquarters, Lawrence Lucas should be understandable.
Of course, it is understandable that as a banker, Lawrence Lucas has no problems with his intelligence, and the whole of the Junma Group knows that Henry will retire sooner or later, and Li Mu is a character who is in charge, although Li Mu's age is very appropriate, but everyone knows that Li Mu will definitely not personally serve as the president of the group, so giving up the position of general manager of the Pacific Company is not necessarily a bad thing for Lawrence Lucas, over the years, although the Junma Group has also made job adjustments, But the appointment of Lawrence Lucas is the most frequent, which in itself is the greatest trust.
"I'll do my best, I'd like to go to Europe later if I can, Tommy is good, but the time to contact the Pacific company is too short, Tommy needs more time if I want to give Leo more support."
Lawrence Lucas is still not at ease, Tommy Edmund used to work at the headquarters of the Horse Group, although Tommy's personal ability is good, but whether he can successfully take over the Pacific Company remains to be verified by time, and the support for Yan Shun is urgent, at this time replacing the general manager is not the best choice.
"Of course, you won't go to Europe until a while, Leo's work is more important during this time, let's talk about it, how is the current situation" Before Yan Shun came to the Far East, Lawrence Lucas did a lot of preliminary work, although Lawrence Lucas would report to Li Mu every once in a while, but there were some things that could not be written clearly in the report.
"It's not going well, we can only do some auxiliary work, no one will take the initiative to promise us, I want to influence Liangguang and Liangjiang as much as possible, but it's not easy, the Qing officials don't like us Americans very much, they are willing to sell those useless children and women to us, but they don't want to discuss anything other than business with us, or rather, they don't trust us, we need to do something to make them recognize the facts."
Lawrence Lucas was very helpless, the Qing State in this era did not experience the First Sino-Japanese War, did not experience the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and most Qing officials still had hope for the Qing government, so Lawrence Lucas's work did not make much progress.
In fact, what Li Mu hopes most is to reach a certain degree of agreement with the officials in Jiangnan, and it is best to reach an agreement between the provinces of Jiangnan and the participating countries as they did when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and will not intervene in the war.
This is the best situation, it is indeed very difficult to achieve, another time and space in the "southeast mutual insurance", appeared in the Jiangnan officials on the premise of complete disappointment with the Qing government, so that the Qing government lost face, marking the Qing government completely lost control of the local ability, which is equivalent to sounding the death knell of the Qing Empire, think about it carefully, those officials who signed the "southeast mutual insurance" agreement with the participating countries are actually defections to the Qing Empire, but standing in the position of those officials, "Southeast mutual insurance" is responsible for the local government, At the very least, this agreement protects the local area from the impact of war and protects local interests.
If it is indeed impossible to reach an agreement and cannot get the officials in Jiangnan to sign an agreement, then Li Mu also hopes that the officials in Jiangnan will not do their best for the Qing government and go all out to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as they did during the Taiping Movement.
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This is not difficult to do, unless Li Mu is arrogant enough to fight for land with the Qing government inch by inch from south to north, Li Mu believes that most local officials in the southeast will not die for the Qing government at all, after all, Yan Shun's rebellion is different from the original Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, after the original Taiping Heavenly Kingdom conquered Jinling, it established power in Jinling, and there is no strong will to launch a northern expedition, Yan Shun obviously will not make such a mistake, as long as Yan Shun does not take the initiative to attack those local governors, Li Mu does not believe it, Those local governors would travel thousands of miles to King Jingqin
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