Christmas in the 19th century and Christmas in the 21st century are two completely different festivals. In fact, Christmas has nothing to do with Chinese people. However, because Chinese people always like to join in the fun, Christmas in the 21st century was also popular among Chinese people. Li Mu also joined in several lively times in his previous life. Although he did not understand the essence of Christmas in Westerners, he still knew the form of Christmas, such as Peace fruit, Christmas greeting cards, Santa Claus, Christmas parties, etc., which are all part of Christmas.

There were not as many tricks for Christmas in the 19th century in the United States. People in this era did not have the awareness of "holiday economy". Merchants had not learned to guide people to consume holidays. People would go to churches to make diversions on Christmas and have a Christmas dinner at night. Apart from that, there were not many other projects, so that people were slowly accustomed to all of this.

I am not used to walking, and in order to make Christmas more decent, Li Mu also took great pains. The subsidiary of Junma Group has long been promoting Christmas promotions, especially the two chain stores, Urban Beauty and Men's Wear. The discount is absolutely unprecedented. Many citizens are looking forward to trying their luck before Christmas. On weekdays, most New Yorkers will not spend on urban Beauty and Men's Wear.

The store has also made a lot of preparations. Starting this year, Urban Beauty and Men's Clothing launched "Christmas Showcase" at the same time. Many Santa Claus have also been employed at the door of the store to attract customers. This has greatly aroused people's interest. The Christmas-related products have been sold for hot sale a month ago. Christmas hats have become the best-selling product. It has sold more than 200,000 tops. In addition, there are also a large number of red socks and Santa Claus suits. Many citizens are willing to live in this place even if they are frugal.

The festival brings more joy to the children of the family, and the rich people prefer the most is the decorated golden Christmas trees. These Christmas trees are not cheap. The most expensive Christmas trees cost more than 100,000 US dollars. The bells on them are all made of gold. Li Mu originally thought no one would buy such a Christmas tree. In addition to Rockefeller, Li Mu also bought one on the Governor's Island. Originally, in Li Mu's plan, the most expensive Christmas tree could only be sold for two.

What Li Mu did not expect was that Americans were more enthusiastic about Christmas than they imagined, and the rich Americans were much more than Li Mu imagined. The most expensive Christmas tree was sold on the 22nd. During the entire Christmas period, the total sales of urban beauty and men's clothing were estimated to be more than 10 million US dollars.

Ten million dollars!

If you don't count New York Customs, the New York City government's annual tax revenue is less than 10 million US dollars.

There is no such thing as the Spring Festival in the United States. In the sense of habit, Christmas represents the end of the year, and year-end bonuses are naturally indispensable.

Junma Group is as generous as ever this year. Every employee has a great year-end bonus. Even the newly-employed apprentice starts at least 100 US dollars. As for senior executives like Henry, Li Mu generously gave each person a new Phantom sedan produced by Junma Auto Factory. The market price of this sedan is 65,000 US dollars. If you want to be sent abroad, then the tariffs will have to be taken care of. It is estimated that around Christmas, Junma Group will issue more than 15 million US dollars, which happens to be the entire wealth of the tenth richest man on the wealth list released by Time magazine last year.

Of course, the wealth list of Time magazine does not seem comprehensive now. After all, people like Simon Steele have not even appeared on the rich list. With more than a thousand Manhattan housing units in Simon Steele, the total assets of more than 1,500 units of Manhattan housing must be more than 150 million US dollars.

Back at Gloria and Chuxue had already prepared dinner. This year's Christmas dinner was special. Will was in the army and could not stay on Gloria Island to celebrate Christmas with the children. The old Yan and his wife returned to Springfield. They had no idea about Christmas and didn't want to join in the fun. So they simply went back to Springfield to hide. In this way, Li Mu's family was left in Gloria Island.

Oh, there is also Sandy. This little girl has no place to go, so she can only stay on the Governor's Island for free.

"Merry Christmas!" Gloria took Li Mu's coat that she had just taken off and kissed Li Mu's cheek perfunctorily, focusing on her son: "Are the gifts for the children ready? This is their first Christmas and the first Christmas gift they received. You'd better not be perfunctory, otherwise the children will definitely complain about you in the future."

Children!

Very good, it seems that Gloria has not forgotten her little cotton jacket.

"Don't worry, the gift will appear in the red socks next to their pillows tomorrow morning." Li Mu forgot that no one will forget Little Cotton Jacket and Little Will. The gift was prepared early, Gloria and Chuxue also had a share, and even prepared Sandy's.

"It's better. I heard that the Spaniards gave in and Luzon established a new government. It's great that the war finally ended-" Gloria was still a little bit of an occupational disease and habitually discussed current affairs with Li Mu. This is a habit developed when she was a reporter.

"Don't work today. Happy birthday to my brother-in-law. Where is my gift?" Sandy was looking forward to something he could get. Poor. During Christmas, Will, a big man, didn't have so many tricks. In the past few years Li Mu came to the United States, he gave Sandy more gifts than Will gave in more than ten years before.

It’s great to have more Sandy at home, at least there’s a lot of joy. Li Mu knows Sandy very well, and the gifts he prepared are very suitable for Sandy’s appetite: “Give it, Merry Christmas, fill in the numbers at will—”

Li Mu prepared a blank check for Sandy, but unfortunately it was a limited amount, and the maximum amount of each one could not exceed 500 US dollars.

But there are a lot, that's one.

"Thank you brother-in-law--" Sandy's expression was a little entangled. She should have been a very happy thing, but she didn't feel much joy. This gift is of course good, but - this is too perfunctory!

Looking at the entangled Sandy, Gloria laughed happily, but instead looked at Li Mu, she threatened her eyes. If Li Mu gave Gloria a check later and asked Gloria to fill it in casually, Gloria would definitely give Li Mu two books - and there was no limit.

Speaking of which, as the first heir to the Barron family, Gloria is not Li Mu's side, she is also a rich man. For things like checks, Sandy, who has no industry in her name, is still a little interested.

"Can you start? The children will go to bed later-" Chuxue is always so considerate, not fighting or scrambling, but there will be no less of what you should have. This is the Eastern philosophy of life.

Before going to bed, Li Mu sneaked into Little Will's room and stuffed an envelope into the red socks beside Little Will's pillow. Gloria was curious and wanted to open it and take a look, but Li Mu firmly refused: "It's just a letter, with some of my blessings on it. I hope the children will always remember that we love them. Even if one day we are not in the world, they have something to miss us."

Oh, this gift is considered to be thoughtful, not expensive, but it is important to be full of affection. Gloria immediately turned red and pulled Li Mu back to the room to Hu Tian and Hu Di.

In fact, Li Mu is very busy tonight and will give gifts to Xiao Cotton Jacket later.

Well, be more busy, after all, Li Mu wants to have a few more children.

The result of Hu Tian and Hu Di was that when Li Mu woke up in the morning, he felt a little pain in his back, but he didn't take this pain to heart. It was worth it. Li Mu was full of energy all day.

"It was a bit different from what we expected. The first president of the new Luzon government was Fernande Gonzalez, the younger one, not Lin Xianghai, whom we had a crush on before. But that doesn't matter. Lin Xianghai served as vice president and also served as the president. In terms of power, it is a little bigger than the president. Fernande Gonzalez's first presidential decree was to determine the national identity of all Chinese Luzon, give the Chinese Luzon due national treatment, and lift all forms of restrictions on Chinese Luzon, and at the same time, the new

The government also needs to investigate the previous violent incidents against Chinese. If the murderer is a native of Luzon, it will be handed over to the Supreme Court of Luzon. If the murderer is a Spanish, then the Luzon government will negotiate with the Spanish government. In any case, the Luzon government will not let a criminal go." Situ Lei is now Li Mu's personal adviser, and Yan Shun is gradually transferring all matters related to the Far East to Situ Lei. In the future, Situ Lei will be the person in charge of the Far East, and Yan Shun is only responsible for the United States.

The new Luzon government adopted a political system similar to that of the United States. The president is elected by all citizens, but the behavior is responsible to Congress. If Congress believes that the president is unqualified, then impeachment can be initiated against the president. Once Congress passes a case of distrust of the president, the president will immediately step down and form an interim committee to manage the country until the next president is born.

It seems that the rights of Congress are indeed greater than those of the president. If the president does not have some prestige, his life will be even more depressed than that of the US president. The first president was Fernande Gonzalez, the lieutenant. Anyway, the establishment of a new government requires a transitional stage and it is impossible to get on track all at once. The new Luzon government has a task to improve the social status of Chinese in Luzon. In this process, it will definitely offend some people. Fernande Gonzalez, the lieutenant, is the scapegoat who was pushed to the front. When Fernande Gonzalez, eliminates the hidden dangers in the country, his term of office is probably coming to the end. Lin Xianghai can come out to pick peaches.

"It didn't matter before, mainly because in the future, the candidates for judges are very important and must be controlled in our hands. There is also the Luzon Labor Export Company to build the framework as soon as possible. Panama now needs a lot of workers, and Japan alone can no longer meet Panama's needs." Li Mu did not forget to settle the accounts after the autumn, but more importantly, population replacement. Only Chinese occupy the majority of Luzon's status, the social status of Chinese will not be shaken.

Population replacement is a very serious problem. Why did Chinese people in Luzon be bullied in the past? No strong force is just an appearance. The key is that the population is insufficient. If more than half of the population in Luzon are Chinese, even if the Spanish want to attack Chinese, they should measure it more. As for those local natives, they have no courage to raise a butcher knife to the Chinese. Regardless of the number of people, the Chinese are much stronger than those indigenous people in terms of combat effectiveness.

As for the Panama Canal, with the full development of the canal excavation work, the number of workers needed is increasing. In the past, most workers were introduced from Japan, and some strong Japanese workers even had the opportunity to join the Panama Company and become an enviable mercenary.

In the past two years, Bai Qi has begun to turn his attention to Russia and try to provoke a war between Japan and Russia. This will not be easy to send a large number of young Japanese people to Panama. The Luzon natives are just a good addition.

In fact, when it comes to working, the natives of Luzon are much worse than the Japanese. The natives of Luzon are famous for their laziness. As long as they are not hungry, the natives of Luzon do not have the habit of working. This also leads to the natives of Luzon being lazy and hate work. As a result, they are red when they see the wealth accumulated by the Chinese with hard work. Saving money bit by bit will make money quickly. The natives are supported by Spanish, so it is not too pleasant to rob the Chinese.

In Panama, these problems do not exist. The supervisors who dig the Panama Canal are all mercenaries of the Panama Company. Most of these mercenaries were injured and retired on the battlefield, and then retreated to the second line to continue to shine and heat. These people were killed without blinking. Some extremes even enjoyed abuse of others. The Panama Canal has been digging less than five kilometers, but nearly 10,000 Japanese workers who worked hard on the construction site have died. If human resources are not effectively supplemented, the completion of the Panama Canal will be in no time.

It is not far away. According to Panama's estimates, if it continues at the current speed, the Panama Canal can complete all the projects within ten years at most. Compared with the original history, this speed has been greatly improved. After all, Panama has avoided design defects from the beginning, making the Panama Canal always on the right path, which will greatly reduce the construction time of the Panama Canal.

Li Mu wanted to bring the indigenous people of Luzon to Panama to build the canal, which was also related to the local population structure of Panama. Before the Panama company dug the canal, Panama had a total population of less than 230,000. This number further decreased when it started war with Colombia. As a result, the total population of Panama is only about 200,000. At the same time, the Panama company hired more than 50,000 Japanese workers, which is a very dangerous proportion. Li Mu needed the indigenous people of Luzon to dilute the proportion of Japanese, so that it would facilitate further operations later.
Chapter completed!