New Ming Empire mixed in America

San Francisco one week later.

"Is this what you call foolproof?" Ernesto walked around the office a little irritably.

On the sofa near the door, a graceful girl was drinking coffee elegantly.

"So what if you fail once? As long as you work harder, you will definitely be able to push that law into effect."

The girl put down the coffee cup and continued to talk leisurely.

On the table in front of him was a newspaper with a photo of thousands of Qing people being detained in a centralized manner.

Originally this matter would not be known by the newspapers, but because those Qing people launched a riot due to lack of food.

Four staff members were killed and injured, and twelve police officers were injured, so the matter could no longer be suppressed.

While Ernesto was sulking, his secretary knocked on the door and walked in.

"Mr. Congressman, someone from the post office just sent you a package from the dock."

Ernesto stopped pacing when he heard this and asked: "Is it written on the package who sent it?"

"Please wait a moment, Mr. Congressman, the sender... has been found. The sender column says: Passengers on the Asuka."

The attendant searched for a while on the form in his hand before giving out a code name.

Hearing this name, Ernesto had a complicated expression on his face. He knew that this was the fixed 'share' delivered every week.

The so-called share is the rebate he received for helping Li Mingqi contact various supplies. It is usually 5% of the total price.

But ever since Ernesto got involved with the girl's family, he no longer paid much attention to Li Mingqi's request.

He believed that the relationship between the two was just business, and that he had climbed to his current position with the help of Li Mingqi's products, all by his own skill.

As for the valuable items Li Mingqi invested in him in the early stage...

When it comes to investing, there will always be gains and losses. Who made Li Mingqi's bad luck come across him, an ungrateful (crossed out)...

I met him, a hero who knows how to assess the situation.

Even when someone in the underworld spread rumors about causing trouble for Li Mingqi, he chose to stand by and watch, and even helped cover up the news.

Because the person who made the harsh words was the brother of the girl in front of him - Willis Stanford.

Ernesto's reasons are very good. He is now a member of the upper class and cannot let others think that he is an alternative politician who relied on Eastern capital to rise to power.

He must learn to take sides and make his position clear. Helping the Stanford family cover up the news is his pledge of allegiance.

Willis, who was born in the Stanford family, is now one of the largest merchants in the Port of San Francisco.

However, because Barton hired almost all the large clipper ships in San Francisco some time ago, the cotton invested by Willis was backlogged at the port.

He missed the best trading time and lost a lot of money.

Not only that, because it was rumored that a big Eastern businessman was about to build a new terminal in Los Angeles, his holdings of San Francisco Port stocks shrank significantly, and he lost a lot of money this time.

There was also a weapons factory that he had his eye on, but it was also acquired by that damn oriental bug in his mouth.

After losing several large investments in succession, Willis approached Ernesto.

The two signed a secret agreement, which was a secret agreement regarding the future division of the property under Li Mingqi's name.

This includes the allocation of a series of fixed assets such as the unbuilt Los Angeles dock, weapons factories, lumber processing plants, and steel plants.

Since then, Ernesto has lived a life of taking the luxuries sent by Li Mingqi to seek welfare for himself.

As for the things Li Mingqi asked him to do, he left them all to the girl in front of him and told her to delay them as much as possible.

But he would never have imagined that this woman would directly encourage those bankrupt San Francisco people to go to Los Angeles to look for opportunities.

I never expected that she would instigate gangsters to go to Los Angeles to cause trouble for Li Mingqi.

Ernesto just wanted to draw a clear line with Li Mingqi for the time being, rather than completely offending that mysterious Li Mingqi from the East.

He still needs Li Mingqi's funds to achieve his goals, so how could he fall out immediately?

But God's calculations are not as good as those of humans.

Some time ago, in order to punish the Qing people's strike movement in the gold mines, the Stanford family used some tricks to detain all Qing people at the San Francisco dock who were going to Los Angeles to find jobs.

Ernesto, out of the desire to draw a clear line between himself and Li Mingqi, an Eastern capitalist, tried his best to cover up the matter.

But the newspaper still got the news yesterday, and all of a sudden the negative reports about him in the newspapers appeared like snowflakes in the hands of all San Francisco residents.

His goal of drawing a clear line with the Eastern capitalist Li Mingqi was achieved, but at the same time, he was arbitrarily attacked by his political opponents through this incident.

"Bring the parcel in, and let me see what my friend has sent me."

When Ernesto said the word friend, his tone was very teasing.

Soon, the attendant carried the package into his office.

Ernesto was overjoyed by the half-man-high wooden box. The last time such a package was delivered was when mechanical watches made their debut.

I wonder what surprise the generous Li brought him this time?

In the mood of opening the sky-high price blind box, he began to twist the cylindrical advanced combination lock that locked the wooden box.

After adjusting the three numbers on the lock to 233, the lid of the wooden box popped up on its own and almost hit Ernesto's chin.

But it was far more than that. As the lid was pulled up, there was also a ribbon connected to a simple fire starter and a tubular item in the box that looked like it was not a good thing at first sight.

"Oh, Shet!" Ernest said these last words in a hurry, and then his body was torn apart by the violent explosion.

Also accompanying him on the road was the elegant girl.

It was later said that at the explosion site, search and rescue personnel only found the woman's thumb from inside the deformed silver coffee cup.

The remaining parts were completely burned by the fire that followed.

‘An accident caused the death of a parliamentarian, on the dangers of petroleum gas lighting equipment!’ - Coal Mine and Workers Times

‘It is God’s will that a British congressman dies in San Francisco!’ – San Francisco Democrat

‘This is murder and clear evidence of revenge by some politicians!’ – Republic Weekly

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Putting down the newspaper, Li Mingqi was so angry that he almost turned over the table.

These bastards take money and do nothing!

Although he had obviously received his own money, no newspaper published the "Secrets Ernesto and Miss Stanford Have to Tell" that he fabricated on the front page.

It makes no sense that it can only be found on inconspicuous tofu cubes.

Just when Li Mingqi was sitting in the tent reading the newspaper Liu Erhe brought back from San Francisco.

A reward for the Stanford family was circulated in the California underworld.

The total reward for the entire Stanford family is as high as one hundred mechanical watches, one hundred sets of aluminum cutlery, and a huge blue diamond stored in a San Francisco bank.

Some people may not care that mechanical watches have become the most popular among the upper class.

Or maybe you don’t care about tableware that’s so luxurious that it’s made of aluminum.

But he absolutely couldn't bear to part with that huge dark blue transparent diamond - the Heart of the Ocean!

Because the photo of the heart of the ocean has been published in the newspaper.

(Titanic Heart of the Ocean Necklace, Noble and Luxurious Diamond-encrusted Oversized Sapphire Love Necklace Retro Palace) - Name of a certain treasure