The reason why the Spaniards refused to help was purely because the New York City government did not give enough temptations.

Money can make ghosts. During the Civil War, the US government also cursed the British for making trouble without any trouble, but on the other hand, it was still desperate to do business with the British to earn military expenses.

The relationship between countries has never had any position to speak of, only interests are eternal ally.

In fact, it is not that trouble to deal with Tweed. If it were not for the sake of the face of the US government and the New York City government, just sending a gunman would help justice.

Once linked to politics, the originally simple things will become complicated, so Tweed is now the thorn that lies in the heart of the New York City Government. As long as people are still alive, the New York City Government will have no credibility.

This is a problem that Arthur and Grant need to worry about, and it has nothing to do with Li Mu. Li Mu is not even a member of the New York City Council now, so there is no need to consider the issue from the standpoint of the New York City government.

It was not until 10 o'clock in the evening that the bustling crowd gradually dispersed. Don't expect how high the quality of Americans are these days. The originally clean and tidy Junma Auto Square is full of garbage. Next is the working hours of the cleaning staff. Before sunrise tomorrow, they will restore Junma Auto Square to its original state and welcome another wave of more turbulent citizens.

Sunday is the official match day, starting at 6 a.m., staff and security personnel are on duty one after another. They must ensure that the rally is going on normally and will not be disturbed by any off-court factors.

There is indeed an off-court factor. The competition has not yet begun. A group of protesters who came from somewhere occupied a corner of Junma Automobile Plaza. Their slogans are rich in content, such as: "Oppose the scale of machinery, we need to live in space", and for example: "Oppose the expansion of capital, we need to take back our land."

The former seems to be related to the agricultural association, and they are worried that large-scale application of machinery will harm the interests of farmers.

The latter is a slogan typing by farmers in Brooklyn County. The Junma Automobile Factory covers a huge area and has conflicted with the interests of farmers.

The former problem is easy to solve. Once agricultural machinery appears, this contradiction will be solved easily.

There is no room for ease of the latter problem. Li Mu will not demolish the already built factories. These farmers will either become workers in Junma Automobile Factory or have to go far away.

In fact, when Li Mu saw these protesters, he was ready to let someone disperse them.

However, this order could not be implemented, and Bresta's expression was very embarrassing: "They were just protesting and had no other actions. We couldn't just disperse it by force. Civil rights...the constitution gave them."

If it were the usual, it would be dispersed. Now the situation is different. The president is there, and there are many senators who always have to restrain themselves in front of them.

These people were basically invited by Junma Group, and Li Mu was also considered to be trapped in his own cocoon.

"Let someone stare at them, and they can't affect the normal game." Li Mu endured it again and again, and could not affect the overall situation because of this small matter.

"Don't worry, as long as they dare to enter the stadium, I will arrest them immediately." Bresta didn't dare to be careless. There were only a dozen people who put the slogans, and there were thirty or forty policemen and plainclothes around. This was the New York Police Department version of the drawing of the yard as a prison.

As a result, these people were very sensible. When the game was about to begin, the people threw away the slogans in their hands, held Budweiser beer and Springfield fried chicken, held regular tickets, and followed the crowd to watch the game.

This is not delayed.

The stadium was very lively, with tens of thousands of people gathering together. Even if they didn't deliberately speak loudly, the movements that were caused were astonishing as the sea.

Li Mu did not miss the opportunity to make money at all. According to the performance of each team, the Metropolitan Gambling Company opened the market. The Vanderbilt team, which originally performed the worst, won the championship odds of one or three, and the Mason of the Junma team ranked only in the middle due to poor performance, and the championship odds were only 1:15.

Metropolitan Gambling Company and Metropolitan Auction House belong to the Barron family. Although the Barron family is marked, Will and Gloria don’t even know what the business projects of these two companies are. The company is managed by a professional manager and is directly responsible for the headquarters of Junma Group.

Betting through Metropolitan Gambling Company can only be worth ten dollars at most, and the winning or losing is only one hundred dollars.

Li Mu and William Vanderbilt were also betting, but Li Mu and others bet a lot, and Li Mu paid $100,000 to bet that the team of Junma Group would take the top three.

William Vanderbilt said he was very dissatisfied and also paid $100,000 to bet that Vanderbilt could enter the top three.

Rockefeller also made a leverage. The cunning Rockefeller would not give anyone any chance, so Rockefeller bets that Rockefeller's performance will not be worse than that of Vanderbilt, nor will it lose to the Mustangs and BMWs, with a bet of one million dollars.

No one dared to take this bet. Rockefeller team uses Phantom Automobile, and the engine and gearbox are both second-generation technology. The three teams that Rockefeller bet use the first-generation technology. If Rockefeller team cannot win this way, Rockefeller will probably be depressed and want to kill.

J.P. Morgan did not participate in any bets, and chatted and laughed with Arthur Grant and others, seized every opportunity to make friends with others. This is the action that successful people should do. Compared with J.P. Morgan, Li Mu, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and others were the real fun of it, and regarded the game as an interesting game.

At ten o'clock, with Grant's gunshot, the game officially began.

After the gunshot, the roars of the engines of ten racing cars gathered together, and in an instant, it suppressed the cheers of 100,000 spectators on the scene. For the first time, the epoch-making industrial product of automobiles fully demonstrated its wild charm to the world. When the ten racing cars began to run wildly on the track, everyone on the scene knew that the era of automobiles had finally arrived.

According to the competition rules, the participating cars should run 2.5 kilometers along the 2.5-kilometer long track for 20 laps, with a total length of 50 kilometers.

As for the performance of the car at this time, the race time should be controlled within two hours.

Li Mu obviously ignored the team's potential and the temptation of the championship. The team of Junma Group knew that it would modify the car to adapt to the fierce racing situation, and the same was true for other teams.

Even the Vanderbilt team, which only aims to finish the race normally, has modified their cars, all unnecessary decorations have been abandoned, four seats have been compressed into one, and the body is as low as possible to reduce air resistance. So many technologies have been combined to greatly increase the speed.

In just over an hour, Mason of Junma Group had already run 15 laps. After urgent research by Li Mu and a group of bigwigs, they decided to extend the race to 40 laps.

Double the schedule, which will add more than double the pressure to the team and drivers. For example, Vanderbilt has replaced the race cars twice. If they run more than ten laps, it is estimated that Vanderbilt will face the embarrassing situation of no cars to replace.

But there is something even more embarrassing. When Mason finished lap 20, the Mustang team's cars had just completed lap 13.

There is no way to do this. Mustang is positioned as a pickup truck. Speed ​​is not the leader of the pickup truck. The fields are the home field of Mustang cars. If you throw one or two tons of goods on the bumpy rural roads, even the Phantom will be defeated in front of the Mustang.

Li Mu did not intend to take away all the honors. The so-called three-tier team before the race was just a joke. What Li Mu really hoped for was the Junma Team and the Phantom Team. As long as these two teams can get good results, it would be fine to give the other teams a third place.

If Junma Group takes away all the honors, it is not a good thing for the competition itself. People from other teams must always see some hope so that they can have the motivation to compete.

The result of the competition was not as expected by Li Mu. Mason established his leading position on the tenth lap, and then his advantage continued to expand, and finally successfully won the New York Auto Rally Championship.

This championship is of great significance. It is not only the first stop of the American car rally and the first car competition in human society. Li Mu finally left his own mark on the human development history in his own way.

At the post-match celebration, Li Mu accepted everyone's congratulations with a smile. Although he lost his private bet, leaving the championship trophy in Junma Group is something worth celebrating.

Rockefeller team won third place. Rockefeller expressed great satisfaction with this result. After all, the Rockefeller family does not focus on producing cars as their main business, and the purpose of participating in the competition is mainly to advertise Mobil Oil and Standard Oil. As long as they can stand on the podium, Rockefeller will be very satisfied.

William Vanderbilt was not disappointed. Although he failed to get the ranking, Vanderbilt also won points. The most important thing is that Vanderbilt's car finally completed the race smoothly and did not let the staff and the driver push the car across the finish line. This was a huge victory for Vanderbilt.

After the New York Auto Rally ends, all teams will transfer to Boston. A month later, the second stop of the U.S. Auto Rally will be held in Boston.

Of course, Li Mu will also visit the scene in person then, so Grant will have no time.

But it doesn't matter. In April, the All-American Auto Rally will go to Washington, and Grant will fire his gun for the competition.

"I have to say that I underestimated the value of cars. Now it seems that the automobile industry has a bright future. Perhaps in a few decades, the automobile industry will become the most valuable industry in the world." Grant evaluated the value of cars very pertinently. After the rally, even the most conservative people must admit the bright future that cars have.

"It's true, so we should all have eyes that are good at discovering new things so that we won't miss something." The speaker was Solomon Lob, the boss of the Kuhn Lob consortium and the boss of the Kuhn Lob racing team: "Reim, thank you for your calmness some time ago, otherwise I don't think we will have the opportunity to raise our glasses to celebrate now."

Solomon Lob refers to the attack on Mason. During that time, rumors spread everywhere, and the Kuhn Lob consortium was also one of the suspects.

"Mr. Solomon, you responded to my invitation as soon as I issued the initiative, so we are friends, not enemies, and I know very well." Li Mu would not make enemies casually, especially the Jews.

The Jewish group is very magical. Although the Jews look like they are a mess and don’t even have their own country, Li Mu is very clear about the characteristics of the Jews. The Jews are very smart, so they don’t farm honestly. Most of the time, the Jews are doing business.

The problem lies in this. In Europe, Jews are like gypsies, with no fixed masters and no loyal object. Therefore, whenever a war breaks out or an economic crisis breaks out, the Jews will always take advantage of the situation to make a fortune in the country, which often makes the Jews the targets of the rulers' displacement of hatred.

But this nation has a very serious revenge mentality. Thinking about the fact that after World War II, Jews chased the remnants of the Nazis for decades, Li Mu felt chill.

In fact, Jews are a group that Li Mu always wanted to fight for. Although some legend has it that the United States in the 21st century was dominated by Jews, it is now the 19th century, and the situation faced by Jews in the United States is not much better than that of Chinese.

In fact, the saying about Jews dominating the United States is not correct. The United States is not dominated by Jews, but by capital. However, the Jews happen to have the majority of social capital, so it seems that Jews have enough influence on the United States. If these capitals are in the hands of Chinese, then the United States can also be dominated by Chinese.

It seems that the Jews have no intention of being enemies with the Chinese. Li Mu just announced that he would hold the All-American Auto Rally, and the Kuhnlob consortium announced that he would organize a team to join. This is clearly a release of goodwill, so Li Mu's words are very earnest.

"Yes, we are friends." Solomon Lob was very satisfied with Li Mu's attitude, and his attitude was also very positive: "I heard that Li Mu, you converted the Governor's Island into a large garden. I really hope that if I have the opportunity, I can see with my own eyes what that garden looks like, because I also have several islands, and I have always wanted to use them, but I can't do it."

"Of course it's OK at any time, I welcome it." Li Mu certainly would not refuse such a request, it was obvious that he had something to ask for.
Chapter completed!