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

Then he followed the congressman who brought him in, and after leaving the large meeting room and walking into the inner passage, he was taken to Horton's house by New Jersey Senate volunteer Holden Mitchell and South Carolina's Francis Wood. office.

As soon as everyone sat down, Holden said with a smile, "Henry, don't pay attention to that old fellow Lamond. In the past year and a half, because of the soaring oil price, a lot of new idle capital investment has appeared in Texas and Alaska. oil well.

Now that you lead the negotiations with countries such as deserts, you will inevitably make California's investment in Alaska's oil wells lose money.

However, this kind of new player outside the oil industry not only has small capital scale and strength, but also has fierce internal competition, which will not affect you much.

Besides, negotiating with desert countries and other countries is the general trend, and most Americans will stand by your side. "

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

There must be donkeys here, and they don't want to see the elephants as the ruling party gain a lot of political capital by solving the problem of oil shortage in the United States.

Moreover, in addition to this, it may also be because in recent years, I have been too close to the forces on the east coast and the southern part of the United States, threatening the interests of the west coast consortium.

But this time is not a good opportunity to trouble Lamond.

If you really do this, anyone can see that this is revenge.

At other times, it's fine to get revenge and be scolded by others. Anyway, the California consortium can't really threaten him.

It is even more impossible to use force against oneself.

However, in the special period of contact with Shate, try to avoid being found by the opponent as an excuse to attack.

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

After getting Citigroup and Belford Investment Company to make money from subprime mortgage financial projects, there are many opportunities to find trouble with Lamond, and this time is only a few months at most.

At that time, unless Lamond is really a saint, or he does things so safely that he will not leave any flaws.

Otherwise, while collecting black information about Lamond, while helping his campaign opponent to raise funds, and open some media resources to the opponent, I don't believe that Lamond can't be defeated.

"Henry, if you are upset, I suggest you send someone to secretly contact Lamond's eldest son."

After Francis Wood, who was sitting on the side, finished speaking, seeing Li Changheng looking sideways at him, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up and continued.

"I've heard that Lamond's eldest son, who is the head of his campaign committee, has been in charge of all things funding and political contributions from supporters."

As soon as Li Changheng heard about political donations, he knew what Francis meant.

Moreover, he immediately suspected that Horton and the others wanted to use their own hands to deal with Lamond.

However, the upturned corner of Francis' mouth made Li Changheng feel that it was the first time that this guy had turned his mouth upside down when facing him.

And for a mature politician, the facial expression is too exaggerated, which is tantamount to telling others what is in his heart at this moment.

Li Changheng understood in an instant and smiled.

Then I thought that there are two kinds of money in the US electoral system, one is political donations, and the other is political donations.

On the surface, both kinds 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 policies.

Political donations are basically the money donated by the majority of voters, as well as corporate groups, to candidates for election campaigns in accordance with the maximum amount stipulated in the law.

Most of this part of the funds are mainly small amounts. After all, no matter how ordinary people support someone, the money they are willing to donate is usually only tens or hundreds of dollars.

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

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

This kind of aboveboard money in the legal sense is not much, and it may be spent on holding a dozen or so public speeches with tens of thousands of people.

The electoral success rate is basically proportional to the money spent.

More money does not necessarily mean success, but less money has a more serious disadvantage.

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

It is stipulated that donations need to be deposited into a special bank account. This is nothing to say, because the money is usually not much, and there are too many restrictions, so it can only be used for the public.

However, U.S. law does not prohibit supporters from taking the initiative to solicit votes for you, actively spending money to advertise in the media for you, let alone spending money to help you trouble your opponents.

This is called a political donation.

Of course, when others help, there must be rewards.

Another is that, for example, when Lamond helped supporters get huge benefits while in office, then after Lamond stepped down.

Inviting him to give a speech, buying his autobiography, and hiring him as a consultant to a certain organization or company to gain benefits are also called political contributions.

This is a completely legal power-for-money transaction.

When Zipperton was almost kicked off the stage, he was in debt of more than 10 million U.S. dollars when he retired in order to file a lawsuit. However, he gave hundreds of speeches a year, and his remuneration was tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars each time.

In addition to publishing books, participating in forums, conferences and other activities, he went from being in debt all the way to a rich man worth billions.

So in Li Changheng's eyes, people in Washington are beggars in suits.

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

Of course, the methods I thought of just now are methods that are not afraid of people's investigation, and are completely legal in law.

And if Li Changheng thinks about it~lightnovelpub.net~, he can think of several ways to make Lamond and his son unaware, and if something happens, they can go to jail directly.

However, looking at the several congressmen in front of him, Li Changheng quickly gave up this too vicious revenge method that would make other congressmen feel the same way.

Then I thought, if it is found that some of Lamond's political donations come from gangsters or flour merchants, it should be no problem to pull him down directly.

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

On the contrary, it is the safest and most beneficial way to use this as an entry point to draw Ramond into one's side.

There is no permanent enemy in this world. As long as we find the same interests, enemies can become friends, or even allies.

Politics is nothing more than making fewer enemies and making more friends.

And since those low-strength capitalists in California can command Lamond, it means that the situation of this old guy is not very good.

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