Chapter 363: They are all just nobody (second update, please subscribe)
After meeting with Truman, in the next few days, Li Yi'an met with many American officials and held a meeting at the embassy Banquets were held to entertain guests from all walks of life. These guests included both powerful figures and some ordinary members of parliament.
Just after Li Yian finished a brief chat with several powerful people in Washington, a young man walked up to him and said.
"Hello, Your Majesty, I am John F. Kennedy. It is my honor to receive your invitation."
Kennedy!
Looking at the young man in front of him who would have a lot of imagination in more than ten years, Li Yian just exchanged a few words with him.
Now Mr. Kennedy is just a congressman. In Washington, he is just a nobody worth mentioning. However, even a simple greeting makes the other party feel flattered. After all, as we all know, this The king from Southeast Asia also has the status of "a close friend of the president" and is also a close friend of the two presidents before and after him.
Everyone who wanted to get to know him in Washington lined up in a long queue. Being invited to a banquet by him was something worth showing off in itself.
"Mr. Kennedy, if you have time, you are welcome to visit Nanyang."
Now it is just a familiarity, the real friendship between the two people will depend on the future, and then they will be introduced by others. Next, Li Yi'an turned to chat with Senator Johnson. Well, he was the one who took the oath on the plane after Kennedy's brainstorming. As for the person who sat in the corner at Watergate later, as a member of the House of Representatives, Nixon also had to stand in line.
As for Ford and Carter, they have not yet entered the political arena, and Reagan... is still working as his second-rate actor in Hollywood.
To put it simply, the main purpose of this banquet is... My friends are the presidents.
The future, and the kind that still needs a spiritual mentor.
If it weren't for the "grievance" with Eisenhower, and that guy was now the principal, Li Yian wouldn't mind developing a friendship with him, but... he's not bad now.
President of Columbia University, that is a sight to behold.
Friendship is always a good help when it is timely.
So, you should invest as early as possible, but not too early, and you have to grasp the timing carefully.
After the banquet, in the hotel room, Li Yian flipped through the American political intelligence provided by the embassy page by page.
Not only foreign policy analysis and election intelligence analysis of the Democratic and Republican parties, but also specific intelligence on political figures.
Compared with the former, Li Yi'an values the latter more - the intelligence of Washington politicians.
In addition to extracting separate information on Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, he also found a document on Republican Senator McCarthy.
Many people are familiar with this name. Even though McCarthy has never been president, who knows the famous "McCarthyism"?
According to the information, McCarthy is a typical American politician - born in a small farm family in Appleton, Wisconsin, and studied law in college. After graduation, he began practicing law.
Before the war, he secured a position as judge of the Circuit Court for the Seventh District of Wisconsin, making him famous as "the youngest judge in the history of the district." During World War II, he joined the United States Marine Corps. After retiring, he was elected to the Senate with a narrow majority due to his outstanding eloquence.
What is the analysis given by the embassy behind the McCarthy document?
"A mediocre ordinary politician, although he has excellent eloquence, is a very ordinary figure from any angle, and his media exposure is very low. He quickly disappeared from the Washington political scene."
A little-known little person!
"What a little-known person! He's unknown!"
Li Yian is holding documents about McCarthy in both hands, a little-known person!
It should be true that the little people are unknown, but it should also be true that they are unknown, but that is only for now.
He has met a lot of little-known people these days.
The intelligence stated that apart from his low media exposure, McCarthy was considered qualified in other aspects, such as his eloquence.
"This is very important. Eloquence is the basic quality of the course, and everything else is secondary."
Because he is not well-known, McCarthy, who has excellent eloquence, will naturally not By wasting this talent, he will definitely do everything possible to increase his media exposure. How to increase media exposure?
That’s creating a topic!
For the sake of the topic, and also to attract attention, he will definitely put on a political show at any cost, and he will do whatever it takes. To a certain extent, what he will do in the future is to increase his own power by any means exposure and create topics.
It’s just that now McCarthy is still a very ordinary senator with no future. For such an unknown person, he can get to know him in advance.
Write down his name on the notepad. Simply put, anyone who writes his name on it will be Li Yi'an's friend.
In the following days, Harry, as Li Yi'an's lobbyist, will be responsible for turning the people on the list into his friends.
Of course, Li Nian still has some old friends in Washington, such as Major General Leto John. When Li Nian was a contractor for the Department of Defense, he established a deep friendship with him when he was just a colonel.
Although John is only a major general, he has great power - he is the director of WAA, which is the English abbreviation of "War Assets Administration Agency". It was responsible for managing astronomical postwar surplus supplies. These things are worth over $34 billion.
He does not have a high military rank, but he has a lot of power. He holds the "Sword of Shang Fang" personally given by President Truman, and has full authority to deal with remaining supplies.
In the past few years, Borneo spent only more than 10 million US dollars to purchase materials worth more than one billion US dollars, including some materials that are relatively popular in the market. Of course, John's help was indispensable - many supplies did not appear on the public list at all, and were directly dealt with at a low price to Nanyang.
For an old friend like this who can bring real money, he naturally wants to meet him in person. He should not look down on him because of his low military rank.
It was natural to be very happy to meet old friends. Recalling Li Yian's confusion when he first arrived at the Pentagon, John was not only filled with emotion but also grateful.
"Thank you, my friend. If it weren't for you, I might always be just a brigadier general. Because of you, I got to know the president when he was a senator, and now..."
< br>John smiled.
"I have another star, and I am also in charge of WAA."
The former is a military rank, what about the latter?
It's power!
With the power of US$34 billion, who wouldn’t be grateful?
“Opportunities are for those who are prepared. Leto, when I was in Borneo, I also knew that the exhibition you held in front of the Parliament Building was very successful. Harry chose you to take charge of it. WAA, you have definitely chosen the right person.”
When Li Yi arranged the exhibition in front of the Capitol, Major General John was inevitably a little proud. Who in the world has ever set up a stall in front of the Capitol? Not only did he put it on, but it was also very successful - in a few days of exhibitions, he sold more than 2 billion US dollars in supplies.
Being proud, John couldn't help but talk proudly about his experience of setting up a stall in front of the Capitol, and of course, more importantly, his campaign to promote surplus military supplies around the world. Now he has 50,000 people under his command, and all of them are sales experts.
"When it comes to military surplus materials, the best things to sell are jeeps, typewriters, military blankets and the like, but these things only account for 1/7 of the total, and there are a lot of leftover things that cannot be named. It is very difficult to sell paramilitary supplies with names. Now many of them are backlogged in warehouses and have no use at all. "
John shrugged helplessly and complained.
“Just like those 1.5-horsepower two-stroke gasoline generators, it was originally used to power radio stations, but now it has no use at all. Who can use it? There is only a small 1.5-horsepower generator.”
Small generator?
John’s complaint made Li Yian’s eyes light up and he asked.
"Well, I can help. How many small generators like that are there?"
"Help? No, no, my friend, I just complained. Now we are dealing with it bit by bit. If you can't dispose of those things that are difficult to dispose of, just throw them in the warehouse."
"Seriously, how many small generators are there?"
Li Yian smiled. said.
“I want them all!”
(End of this chapter)