The hearing soon ended in a noisy atmosphere. Li Changheng chatted with many people who supported him or wanted to take photos and talk with him for more than ten minutes.

This was followed by the congressman who brought him in. After leaving the large conference room and walking into the internal passage, he was taken to Horton’s by the volunteer Horton Mitchell of the New Jersey Senate and Francis Wood of South Carolina. office.

As soon as everyone sat down, Holden said with a smile, "Henry, don't care about the old fellow Lamond. Over the past year and a half, due to the skyrocketing oil, a large amount of idle capital investment has appeared in both Texas and Alaska. Oil well.

Now that you lead negotiations with deserts and other countries, it will inevitably make California's investment in Alaska's oil wells lose money.

However, this new player outside the oil industry not only has a small capital scale and strength, but also has fierce internal competition, which will have little effect on you.

Besides, negotiating with deserts and other countries is the general trend, and most Americans will be on your side. "

Li Changheng smiled indifferently, but he didn't think that Lamond, as a California senator, was just worried about the future of a small number of oil companies and asked himself for trouble.

There must be donkey parties in this, and they don't want to see the elephant as the ruling party solve the problem of oil shortage in the United States and obtain a lot of political capital.

Moreover, in addition to this, it may also be because in recent years that I have been too close to the East Coast and the southern United States, threatening the interests of the West Coast Consortium.

But this is not a good opportunity to trouble Lamond.

If you really did this, everyone could see that it was revenge.

At other times, it doesn't matter if you get revenge and get scolded. Anyway, the California consortium can't really threaten you.

It is even more impossible to use force against yourself.

But in the special period of contact with Saudi Arabia, try to avoid being found an excuse for attack by the opponent.

Solve the negotiation issues first, and get the custody right of Saudi Arabia's huge amount of oil sales in the United States in the future.

After getting Citigroup and Belford Investment Co., Ltd. to make money from subprime financial projects, there is a chance to trouble Lamond, and this time is only a few months at most.

At that time, unless Lamond is really a saint, or he is safe enough to leave no flaws.

Otherwise, while collecting Lamond's black material, while helping his campaign opponents to raise funds, and open a part of the media resources to the other party, I do not believe that Lamond can not be defeated.

"Henry, if you feel upset, I suggest you send someone to secretly contact and contact the eldest son of Lamond."

Francis Wood, who was sitting on the side, finished speaking. Seeing Li Changheng turned his head to look at him, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned and continued.

"I heard people say that Lamond's eldest son is in charge of his campaign preparation committee, and has been in charge of all matters related to funding and political contributions from supporters."

Li Changheng knew what Francis meant when he heard about the political donation.

And for the first time, I suspected that Horton and others wanted to use their own hands to deal with Lamond.

However, the corners of Francis's upturned mouth made Li Changheng feel that it was the first time this guy made an expression of curling up his mouth when facing him.

Moreover, for a mature politician, facial expressions are too exaggerated, which is equivalent to telling others what he is thinking at this time.

Li Changheng smiled as soon as he knew it.

Then I think there are two kinds of money in the U.S. electoral system, one is political donations and the other is political donations.

On the surface, both types of money are used for elections, but the former is legal, while the latter is hard to say.

It may not be illegal, but it cannot escape the suspicion of spending money to buy a policy.

Political donations are basically made by the majority of voters, as well as corporate organizations, in accordance with the maximum amount that does not exceed the expressly stipulated maximum amount, donated to the candidates for election activities.

Most of this part of the funds is mainly small. After all, the people who support someone, the money they are willing to donate is usually tens or hundreds of dollars.

And the maximum amount of donation is 2,000 US dollars, and donations to a certain party do not exceed 5,000.

No matter how many people you support or both parties support, the total annual donation must not exceed 37,500.

This kind of fair money in the legal sense is not too much, and perhaps a dozen public speeches with a population of tens of thousands will be spent.

The success rate of elections is basically proportional to the money spent.

More money does not necessarily mean success, but the disadvantage of less money is even more serious.

Therefore, taking advantage of the legal loopholes has become the norm. Of course, politicians are not stupid, but are definitely among the elite.

It is stipulated that donations need to be entered into a special bank account, which is nothing to say, because the money is usually not much, and there are too many restrictions, which can only be used on the surface.

However, U.S. laws do not prohibit supporters from actively helping you to get votes, actively spending money to help you advertise in the media, and do not prohibit supporters from spending money to help you find trouble for your opponents.

This is called political donation.

Of course, the help of others must be rewarded.

Another is that, for example, Lamond helped supporters get huge benefits in office~lightnovelpub.net~ Then wait for Lamond to retreat.

Ask him to give a speech, buy his autobiography, and hire him as a consultant for a certain organization or company to gain benefits. It is also called political donation.

This is a completely legal transaction of power and money.

When Zipten was almost kicked down, he was in debt more than 10 million U.S. dollars when he retired in order to fight a lawsuit. However, he gave hundreds of speeches a year, and each time he was paid tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In addition to publishing books, participating in forums, conferences and other activities, he has gone from debt to a wealthy man worth billions.

Therefore, in the eyes of Li Changheng, people in Washington are beggars in suits.

However, this group of people want to take money, but the rule of doing things first is a good thing for capitalists.

Of course, the methods just thought of are all methods that are not afraid of human investigation, and they are completely legal in law.

And when Li Changheng thought about it casually, he thought of several ways that Lamond and his son would not be aware of it, but they would go to jail if something really happened.

However, looking at the few congressmen in front of him, Li Changheng quickly gave up the vengeance that was too ferocious and would make other congressmen empathize with him.

Then I thought, if it was found out that some of Lamond's political donations came from gangs or flour merchants, it would be fine to get him off the horse.

No, even if this matter is found out, it cannot be revealed.

On the contrary, taking this as the starting point, putting Ramendra on his side is the safest and most profitable way.

Where there are eternal enemies in this world, as long as they find similarities in their interests, their enemies can also become friends and even allies.

Politics is nothing more than making enemies a few and making friends a lot.

And since the capitalists who are not high in California can command Lamond, that means this old guy is in a bad situation.