The corruption in the United States has a long history. Tweed in New York is just the tip of the iceberg. In all major cities in the United States with a population of more than 100,000, there are all corruptions of varying degrees. This situation is common even in the 21st century. However, the United States rarely announces such a thing, and such scandals cannot occur in democratic countries.

A 2016 report showed that in order to force balance accounts, the US Army made "appropriate" modifications to the $2.8 trillion account in just one quarter of 2015. This "appropriate" account adjustment reached $6.5 trillion in 2015. Many accounts were purely fabricated and had no basis to cover up the shameful parts of it.

Therefore, there is no reason to require that the California government and the San Francisco government in the 19th century must be pure. Watson Squire said that he had no money, but in fact, the taxes paid by the California branch of the Junma Group alone amounted to millions of dollars every year. No one knows how much of these dollars are used to improve the livelihood of California.

People who want to know are not qualified to know, and people who are qualified to know are rarely confused. This is reality.

A week later, Li Mu and his family rode the flagship "Albany" of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet to Vladivostok with George Dewey.

Of course, George Dewey also had a task. After the establishment of Vladivostok, the Pacific Fleet naturally chose Vladivostok as the most important base of the Pacific Fleet in the Far East. George Dewey thus obtained 1.5 million US dollars in construction funds. This part of the project was also undertaken by Li Mu's Junma Construction Company.

"1.5 million US dollars, to build a military port with a fort, a maintenance platform, an anchorage and a warehouse. Do you think this money is enough?" Li Mu did not speak out loud. George Dewey had high requirements, so he naturally needed more funds. 1.5 million US dollars is indeed not a small amount, but it is indeed not enough to build a military port with Vladivostok.

"It should be similar. Vladivostok has a port, and it only requires a certain degree of expansion and renovation. It is not from scratch. The Navy has its own accounting department. Even if it is not enough, it will not be much different." In fact, no matter how much money it costs, no matter how much it costs, George Dewey doesn't need to pay for it. George Dewey is worried about whether the Horse Construction Company can be completed before next summer to facilitate the timely entry of the Pacific Fleet. This is also the result of George Dewey.

Don’t think that soldiers don’t have political achievements. The navy’s internal conflict is also very fierce. In the past, the United States’ center of gravity was in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Fleet was at the affiliation. In the past two years, the status of the Pacific Fleet has been rising steadily. First, it was Hawaii, and now it is Vladivostok. In the past two years, most of the new warships in the Navy have been given to the Pacific Fleet, which makes the Pacific Fleet’s strength surpass that of the Atlantic Fleet. Many people are staring at George Dewey and waiting for George Dewey to make mistakes. Therefore, George Dewey also needs achievements, proving that the Pacific Fleet has indeed played its due role under his leadership.

"It's almost done. Your Navy accountants only calculated how much it costs to renovate and expand the port, but did not take into account the labor costs. There will definitely be no enough suitable workers in the Far East, so workers and technicians need to be transferred from the local area. These people work in Vladivostok, in addition to the salary of normal activities, they will also receive an ocean-going allowance, which will increase the labor cost to more than double the original one. Of course, there are also materials. The Far East does not have steel and cement needed to build a port. These need to be purchased from the United States and transported there. This part of the cost will also increase. Therefore, the construction of the Vladivostok port is far more funds than the construction of the Hawaiian military port." Li Mu would definitely not be polite to the quotation of the Admiralty. It is rare to have such an opportunity to butcher the knife.

In fact, the reasons Li Mu mentioned are objective facts. Even if the Navy Department investigates, the conclusions drawn are not much different from what Li Mu said. After all, the accountants in the Navy are not businessmen. They are essentially soldiers. Soldiers and merchants can lose their underwear by playing cost games.

If it were Li Mu, of course there were ways to further reduce the cost. For example, steel and cement, Vladivostok itself had abundant resources. After the establishment of Vladivostok, Andrew Carnegie had already begun to prepare for Vladivostok Steel Plant, which would produce steel locally in Vladivostok and supply local use for Vladivostok.

The same is true for cement. It is different from the construction cycle of a cement factory in the future for several years. The steel plants and cement plants are not large these days. As long as there are suitable personnel, a few months will be enough to build a factory from scratch. As for those employee allowances, well, Li Mu did not intend to transfer too many people from the United States to Vladivostok. Vladivostok has enough Chinese people. Just give them some training and they will be the most suitable workers in the world.

Li Mu will definitely not confess to George Dewey in this part. Although Li Mu and George Dewey are friends, that does not affect Li Mu's asking for a price all over the world. Anyway, George Dewey's job is not to help the War Department save money, but to protect the interests of the United States within the radiation range of the Pacific Fleet. This is what George Dewey wants to pay attention to. As for saving money, it is the matter of Congress.

"It's okay, you repair it first. If the money is not enough, you can apply again. Don't you have shares in Andrew's factory? As long as you can convince Andrew to set up a factory in Vladivostok to produce the materials needed to build the military port on site, then I think the Admiralty should be able to bear part of the construction cost. As long as you can ensure that after the factory is completed, you can provide appropriate materials for the construction of the military port." George Dewey is also a wonderful person, and this is the rhythm of giving Li Mu two factories for free.

"Is this okay?" Li Mu really didn't expect that he could do this. Asking for a high price was too much in Li Mu's opinion. Unexpectedly, there were even bigger pies waiting for Li Mu.

"Why not? We are also helping the War Department save money, aren't we?" George Dewey's brain circuit is really weird.

In other words, Li Mu, who has been used to hard life in his first half of his life, does not understand the way people within the system solve problems. In George Dewey's opinion, even if this method looks a bit stupid, as long as it is helpful to solve the previous problem, this is a good idea. As for how to solve the new problem caused by this method, it is another problem.

"Okay, I admit you are right, so our biggest problem now is how to spend all the $1.5 million in the shortest time." Li Mu tried to keep up with George Dewey's thinking. Anyway, George Dewey said just now that if $1.5 million is not enough, you can add it-

"You can also understand it this way. The important thing is to let the people above see the effect and make them feel worthwhile." George Dewey didn't care about how Li Mu spent money and how to speed up was the issue that George Dewey was concerned about.

"Okay, I seem to understand." Don't forget that Li Mu is a Chinese. If you want to be good at everything, no one in this world will be better at it than Chinese.

The key to the problem is to satisfy the "people above". Li Mu is really experienced in this regard. Junma Weapons Company does not know how many military representatives it will receive every year. They should be satisfied with the products provided by Junma Weapons Company, make them interested in the newly launched products of Junma Weapons Company, and make them more looking forward to cooperation with Junma Weapons Company. Junma Weapons Company spends hundreds of thousands of dollars in this area every year.

"Bribery" is also traditional in the US military. In 2013, Malaysian tycoon Leonard Francis, who provided logistics services to the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, was arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Since then, more than 400 active or retired U.S. Navy officers and soldiers have been involved. After investigation, only 10 of these 400 people were confirmed to be innocent, and the others have problems of varying degrees.

In this case, the senior U.S. Navy officials involved include Lieutenant General Michael Miller, Rear Admiral Terry Kraft, Rear Admiral David Philip, Rear Admiral and Special Assistant to the Commander of the Navy's Supply Force. In addition, Lieutenant General Blanche, Director of Navy Intelligence, was exposed to be related to this case.

In fact, Leonard Francis' methods are very simple, including luxurious parties, free hotel accommodation, pornographic services, concert tickets, smartphones, Cuban cigars, Kobe beef, etc. As long as the US military members who deal with Leonard Francis have received benefits from Leonard Francis, the price is to provide Leonard Francis with various information so that Leonard Francis can get the contract order of the Seventh Francis at a low price. Then Leonard Francis cleverly adds the fee and finally cheats out huge military expenses from the Seventh Francis.

Through these internal and external collusions, Leonard Francis admitted that the case value was only $35 million, but the U.S. Naval Crime Investigation Bureau believes that Leonard Francis made a profit of more than $35 million in the past decade, and the case value may reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

In Li Mu's opinion, Leonard Francis is still too stupid. It is not necessary to cheat the military expenditure of the US Navy. Leonard Francis bribed more than 400 officers and soldiers in one breath. Anyone who had an accident might lead Leonard Francis to the water. Li Mu only bribed those who made the decision, and not many people were qualified to be worthy of Li Mu's bribery. For example, building a military port, as long as the relationship between George Dewey was opened and the "people above" were satisfied. As for the ordinary officers and soldiers of the Pacific Fleet, I'm sorry, they are not qualified to bribe Li Mu. At most, Li Mu would build the dormitory of the officers and soldiers more comfortable.

In the evening in the banquet hall on the Albany, George Dewey wanted to have a drink with Li Mu as usual.

Don't wonder why there are banquet halls on warships. Captains can raise dogs on warships these days. It's not too easy to set up a banquet hall. The days of soldiers on ships are the most boring, so the most popular one in the US Navy is-

Well, I can only say that it is normal not to let women be navy these days.

"You Republicans are confused this time, wait and see. When James Garfield comes to power, our good days will come to an end." George Dewey himself has no political inclination, so he did not hesitate to complain.

In essence, George Dewey does not belong to the Ulysses Grant faction, so James Garfield did not dislike George Dewey, but James Garfield intended to implement the civil service system, which was contrary to George Dewey's idea. George Dewey never thought that schools could cultivate good soldiers. There were many people in the US military who had this idea. Therefore, although Alfred Mahan wrote "Theory of the Sea Power" and was considered the number one person in the US Navy, he could only stay in school to teach.

"You are a guy who has no voting rights, don't deny the will of the entire American people." Li Mu didn't want to say too much to George Dewey. Just last night, before the "Albany" left Hawaii, the "Albany" finally received a telegram from the Pacific Navy headquarters. James Garfield confirmed that he defeated Samuel Tilden yesterday morning and officially became the 20th president of the United States, with a term of four years.

So even though the telegram was received yesterday was at night, Li Mu decisively asked the "Albany" to set off immediately, because Li Mu was not sure when Situ Lei and Chu Wushuang would take action. At that time, the farther Li Mu was from Washington, the safer Li Mu would be. If Li Mu was drifting at sea with George Dewey when James Garfield was assassinated, no matter who anyone suspected Li Mu, then he would have to face George Dewey's anger.

A very simple logic is that if James Garfield was assassinated when Li Mu and George Dewey were together, then suspicion that Li Mu was the mastermind behind the scenes would be like suspecting that George Dewey was also Li Mu's accomplice. This would definitely make George Dewey angry, and no one would be indifferent to this level of insult.

"I'm not against it. Even if I don't have the right to vote, I have the right to express my opinions." George Dewey didn't need to disguise in front of Li Mu. The two of them also had a friendship with each other.

Just as George Dewey and Li Mu were drinking, Charles Giteo followed James Giteo into the Christian Church on Vermont Avenue and sat in the fourth row of chairs five meters behind James Giteo. Although Charles Giteo and James Giteo were separated by several people, as long as Charles Giteo pulled out his gun, he could easily hit James Giteo.

And just less than five meters behind Charles Giteo, Washington, DC policeman Zach Richardson was also prepared. As long as Charles Giteo shoots, Zach Richardson will kill Charles Giteo as fast as possible. This is a chain of condoms.
Chapter completed!