There is a saying that goes, "If you don't return home without wealth, it is like walking in brocade clothes at night."

The same goes for Li Mu. Since Li Mu has a backer behind him, everyone should know that Li Mu is not easy to mess with, otherwise it would be similar to the meaning of "going around in a brocade clothes".

Westerners do things more directly than Easterners. Orientals do things more implicitly. No matter how big the backer behind them is, they will not talk about them. They always pay attention to not being able to show off and not being exposed. They always leave their backers at critical moments to show off and slap in the face.

This kind of plot is popular in novels, but it is a standard behavior of two-pressure in real life.

If you really fight life and death, you will be fine if you don’t take action. You will kill people when you take action and will not give people the chance to settle their accounts after the autumn. At that time, you will be useless if you have any resources.

Li Mu has experienced the cruel society of the 21st century and has a full understanding of "competition", so Li Mu will definitely not make similar mistakes.

In other words, Li Mu spent a full million dollars to get along with the Ebul line, and this million dollars must be worth the money.

When Gloria took Li Mu's arm into the banquet hall, the banquet had already reached its climax.

"Now, let us welcome Mr. Eble Corbyn from Washington with the warmest cheers, and General Ambrose Everett Burnside from Liberty, Indiana—" Will, as the host, announced in a high voice, and immediately echoed applause in the banquet hall, and the band next to him played music in time, with the atmosphere extremely warm.

Eble slowly appeared with his "Silafi Fairy", beside Burnside and his female companion. At this time, Li Mu also appeared on the railing on the second floor with Gloria.

"Hi-Rim, come here, come here-" Ebul did not give Li Mu a chance to watch the fun, or Ebul gave Li Mu enough face and greeted Li Mu again.

Everyone's eyes were gathered at Li Mu, and Li Mu could feel the burning heat in these eyes.

All present were local figures in Springfield, many people didn't know Li Mu. Of course, there were many acquaintances, Ryan Matthew, chairman of the Springfield Rifle Association, Marvin Houston, president of the Hotel Association, Lawrence, the city bank manager with envy, Anthony, a polite and reserved tax officer, and Larry Reed, the director of the Springfield Arsenal, who looked sad and lamented, and so on.

As we came down from the second floor, people shook hands with Li Mu on the side of the road. Most of them just took the opportunity to greet each other and became familiar with each other. Only when passing by Larry Reed, Larry and Li Mu shook hands with him softly said: "We need to have a good talk-"

It really needs to be a good talk. It has been nearly a month since Li Mu mentioned smokeless gunpowder to Larry. Even if the Springfield Arsenal reacts slowly, it should have realized what "smokeless gunpowder" means to the military industry. If Springfield is still slow to react, it deserves that they will close sooner or later.

Ebul and Li Mu didn't say much, but when Ebul gave his thanks, Li Mu stood beside Ebul and went left and right with Burnside, which fully demonstrated the relationship between Ebul and Li Mu.

The meaning of the platform is very obvious.

It was a coincidence that Burnside came to Springfield. Burnside just arrived in Springfield this afternoon. It was obvious that he had something to do with Li Mu, because Burnside had already made an appointment with Li Mu for the whole time in the next two days.

I don’t know when it starts, but I also need to make an appointment if I want to meet Li Mu.

Li Mu was thinking about Larry, and he didn't hear clearly what Ebul was saying. After a burst of applause, the banquet returned to normal. Li Mu and Larry came to the sofa area next to the banquet hall.

"Springfield Arsenal wants to buy your patent-" Larry Reed spoke up and wanted to play with big things.

"Buy it? That's a lot of money!" Li Mu didn't rush to refuse. Whether he wanted to sell it depends on the sincerity of the Springfield Arsenal and whether the objective conditions were beneficial to Li Mu.

If you push others by yourself, if you change Li Mu to Larry's position, Li Mu's first reaction after knowing that the smokeless gunpowder should be "buy it".

In fact, there is another concern about the reason why Li Mu did not open a factory to produce smokeless powder.

The United States at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was indeed the "Gilded Age", but at the same time, the United States at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was also the "Wild Age".

During this period, the US economy developed rapidly, especially after the Civil War, the US economy flourished. From a "poor and weak" country that had been established for less than a hundred years, it gradually became the backbone of the capitalist world. It was during this period that the United States had a "trust", one of the highest forms of monopoly.

Trust is composed of mergers of many enterprises or products that produce similar commodities and are closely related to the merger of enterprises. It aims to monopolize the sales market, compete for the origin and investment scope of raw materials, and strengthen competitive power to obtain high monopoly profits.

At this time, the United States had just begun to take off. It was not too high and its flight posture was not very graceful. By 1873, there were only two trusts in the United States, one was the Oil Group led by Rockefeller, and the other was the "American Gunpowder Industry Association" established last year, led by DuPont, Hazard, and California Gunpowder on the West Coast.

Li Mu is not involved in oil at present, and what may pose a threat to Li Mu is the "American Gunpowder Industry Association" established last year.

To say that these two trusts are not good things, Rockefeller can mobilize troops using heavy machine guns to suppress workers' riots; DuPont can send people to blow up competitors' factories in order to attack competitors.

It is said that Li Mu has no bottom line, and these two trusts have no bottom line, so Li Mu does not open a factory just to avoid direct competition with his peers from the Gunpowder Industry Association.

As the largest weapon company in the United States, Chuntian also has its own gunpowder factory. However, Chuntian Arsenal's gunpowder factory is not large in size and cannot be compared with the "big three". So Li Mu decided that Chuntian Arsenal would not miss this opportunity to catch up.

"One million dollars, Springfield Arsenal invested one million dollars to buy your smokeless powder patent." Larry was confident that this was a sum of money that Li Mu could not refuse.

"Haha, one million - Larry, if the sincerity of Chuntian Arsenal is limited to this, then we can say goodbye." Li Mu immediately changed his face.
Chapter completed!