The Pearl Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. This area brings together New York landmark buildings such as the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, and the Rockefeller Center. It also brings together the "Dream Street" that brings together the world's most luxurious brand stores. The tall buildings with shiny glass curtains are lined up one after another, and the famous socialites and gentry gather, making it difficult to say.

In the business suite on the 19th floor of the Pearl Hotel, Lu Zheng met Republican Senator Dennis Brown.

Brown is a senior Republican who successfully ran for the New York State federal senator six years ago and became one of two senators representing New York State. He will end his term this year and is seeking re-election.

In fact, August is the summer break for members of Congress to take paid leave, but for Brown, every day now is a long battle, because more than two months later, November is the day when the Congress and the presidential elections were announced. Every day before that, the presidential candidates and candidates who run for election were in fierce competition, and he faced a strong challenge from Democratic candidate Barbara McCain.

Barbara McCain is 40 years old and was elected as a member of New York State Representative four years ago. She later successfully ran for re-election. Now, she is ambitious and shows her endless political ambitions and is ready to enter the upper house. If she succeeds in the election, she will not only be the first female senator in New York State history, but also become the youngest female senator in American history.

Brown also has to admit that his old opponent is a charming lady and a tough fighter.

Barbara McCain's reputation in politics originated from three years ago. She slammed China's rulers and severed the wording of the sanctions bill approved by Congress, believing that the bill is far from truly punishing Chinese rulers, and called for "taking more effective measures to prompt the collapse of the Chinese Communist government and doing all to protect our friends in the East." This move has been responded to by many lawmakers. Since then, Barbara McCain, known as the "human rights fighter", has become a true anti-China fighter. In the past two years, she has fiercely criticized many Western countries for the gradual lifting of sanctions against China for the sake of China's huge market.

At home, Barbara McCain is deeply favored by the civilian class in the constituency. Like most Democratic politicians, she sympathizes with the grassroots and petty bourgeoisie, caring about the interests of the lower class, advocating tax increases and expanding public welfare, which also laid a solid political foundation for her working class in the New York constituency.

In fact, Brown and Barbara McCain can be said to be old rivals. More than ten years ago, Barbara McCain was a fledgling journalist. Before he married Mr. McCain's surname Goff, he once reported Brown's scandal. The matter was in court. The lawsuit was intermittent for several years, and the two have since become enemies. For more than ten years, Barbara McCain has been causing trouble for Brown almost all the time, and now, it has become a stumbling block for Brown to seek re-election.

At first, Brown did not take her to heart, but she did not expect that recent polls showed that Barbara McCain's approval rating in New York State has been rising, and Brown's campaign began to face up to the opponent, launch a counterattack, and strive to regain the initiative.

The economic and trade group from the Communist China stayed at the Pearl Hotel, and a Communist official had already requested a meeting with him through the foreign affairs department, which made Brown very novel and decided to meet him, because the Communist official was still a little famous in the circle of intelligence experts who paid attention to Chinese affairs. Brown only knew when he was chatting with and exploring the details of the Communist official when he learned that the Communist official had a very story.

The first impression this young Communist official gave Brown was also a little surprised. His fluent English, standard figure, and keen speech all broke Brown's inherent impression of the local bureaucrats in the Communist world.

The first question Brown met with him was a harsh meaning. After Brown exchanged polite greetings with the Communist Party official, he just sat down. Brown smiled and said, "Mr. Lu Zheng, I have heard of your heroic deeds in 1989. A friend of mine told me that you are a dissident within the Communist Party of China. Do you think this description is appropriate?"

Brown thought that this sentence would make the young man unable to respond. Who knew that the young Chinese official opposite just smiled and said, "The political views of our Communists are consistent, that is, to make our country strong and the people rich. The small differences under this same goal are just different views on the ways and ways to achieve the goal."

Brown slowly sat upright and looked at the young man in front of him seriously.

The young official in front of him smiled again and said, "Hisser Brown, I think we will not have too many common topics. Whether it is our views on the whole world, the structure of human society, and our understanding of the situation, so I'll talk about my purpose. I want to talk to you about the Li Changgen incident. You should know Li Changgen, right?"

Brown keenly noticed that the young official called himself "Your Excellency", which was the honor of the Senator. Obviously, he knew very well about Western etiquette.

"Lee from China", how could Brown not know? Barbara McCain is urging to appeal for this troubled person who seeks political asylum from China. "Lee from China" is Barbara McCain's slogan. In Barbara McCain's description, Lee is a loyal and kind person. The factory director was persecuted for resisting the tyranny of the Communist Party. He had to leave his beloved wife and children and flee to the United States. Later, his wife was executed by gunfire and the children were tortured. Barbara McCain hopes that the Immigration Bureau can approve the asylum application of "Lee from China" and make this free breathing place a refuge for the suffering people.

The tragic story of "Lee from China" undoubtedly pushed Barbara McCain's image among voters to a peak.

Now, an official from China suddenly wants to tell him the "Lee's story". What will he say? Brown nodded with interesting thoughts, and suddenly looked forward to the next conversation.

"Li Changgen is a criminal and a liar, Mr. Brown, you may be interested in these information." The young official took out a stack of information and continued: "Li Changgen fled in a hurry because of corruption. He is not a dissident. You will understand these information after reading it. Of course, what kind of person he is actually does not matter to you, but at least now, my goal is the same. But I can't figure out why the criminals who use the money from corruption to please the three lovers will be called by you.

People with noble character, I think, no matter how different we understand the world, the definition of integrity and kindness should not be very different, right? In my information, there are stories about friends around Li Changgen, including relatives, his wife who was not slapped, and his lover's briefings interviewed by reporters. Moreover, many of the accomplices involved in the Li Changgen case have been arrested. I wonder if it is really sympathetic for them, Li Changgen, who opened an account at the Bank of America early and transferred their wealth of greed for the factory together?"

"Yes, we cannot convict Li Changgen now, and I cannot provide you with confessions during the investigation of the case. However, this information contains Li Changgen's salary list from work to present, the statement of his contracted factory's huge losses every year, and the record of his allocating funds to the US account. In fact, the account he opened in the United States, in the accounts of his contracted factory, is the account of a joint venture company. These evidences are enough to prove Li Changgen's crime."

Brown looked through the information brought to her by young Chinese officials, and shook her head the more she read it. Obviously, these information was not trustworthy. If Li Changgen was really a criminal who embezzled wealth, his opponent, why did he fabricate a story to win the sympathy of voters? She should know what kind of trouble this fictional story would bring to her after it was exposed. The story of Li in China was just her improvisational performance. A small episode in the election actually did not help her election. If it was just to help Li Li in China, there was no need to fabricate such a story. No matter what identity or motivation was, she would be rejected by the immigration officials.

So from the beginning, I never doubted the authenticity of the story of "Li from China".

Her campaign team cannot fail to investigate the matter clearly and make such a low-level mistake with great fanfare

"Whether you believe it or not, it's the truth. In fact, you can find out about this through friends in China. OK, Mr. Brown, I will have dinner with Mrs. McCain tonight, and I'm very happy to meet you."

Brown was stunned by the words of the young Chinese official again, and then he smiled meaningfully: "Barbara has dinner with you?"

The young Chinese official smiled slightly and stood up to say goodbye very gentlemanly.

Looking at his back, Brown frowned gradually. Obviously, this Chinese official knew very well about the competition between him and Barbara, and may even know more than he imagined. He didn't care about the results of the competition between him and Barbara. All he wanted was to stop Li from China's asylum application.

Will Barbara have dinner with him? Why would Barbara, who hates the Communist country, meet with an official from the Communist country and have dinner with him? This is so interesting.

Brown's eyes turned to the stack of information brought by Chinese officials. Could it be that these contents are true?

In a Western restaurant with elegant environment, Lu Zheng met the famous Mrs. McCain. Of course, it is more appropriate to describe her as "notorious" in her circle.

Although I had seen the photo of this female congresswoman, Lu Zheng was surprised by her elegant demeanor. Her long golden hair was very uniquely wrapped around the back of her head, a black dress and deep blue eyes staring at people, and she felt very oppressive. Usually, white people look old quickly, but this law was completely broken by Mrs. McCain, and the charm of mature women was particularly strong in her.

Lu Zheng suddenly had an idea that if it were in the Internet era, Mrs. McCain would definitely be ranked among the top ones among the most beautiful female politicians in the world, rather than feeling chills when she mentioned her name now.

"Let's just tell me a long story short. My voters voted for me one by one. I met you, but I just didn't want to destroy the good cooperative relationship between me and my supporters. I never mind removing unqualified supporters. Now, I'll give you two minutes." After saying that, Mrs. McCain looked at the watch on her fair wrist. Obviously, she didn't mean to have dinner with Lu Zheng, and just asked for a cup of coffee.

Mrs. McCain's emergence in politics in recent years is inseparable from her strong campaign and the support of the Political Action Committee established by the New York Hotel Union.

But last night, a heavyweight head of the New York Hotel Union and the sponsor of the Political Action Committee of the Trade Union, Mr. Portman, proposed that she meet with the mayor from China. Moreover, after she refused, the campaign is in full swing. In order not to destroy the cooperation atmosphere of the campaign team, Mrs. McCain agreed to his request, but had made up her mind to draw a clear line with Mr. Portman when the campaign ended.

While saving coffee, Mrs. McCain looked at the young Chinese official, whose fluency in English was impressive.

When Lu Zheng heard Mrs. McCain's tough opening remark, he smiled slightly. From a certain perspective, he admired her quite well. Portman can be said to be the most important member of Mrs. McCain's campaign team. He spared no effort to raise funds for her political contributions. He was the main behind-the-scenes driver of Mrs. McCain's success in running for the House of Representatives four years ago and two years ago. However, just arranging her to meet her. Depending on the situation, Mrs. McCain has decided to part ways with Portman, but she is just tolerating it for the time being.

In fact, the US political donation system restricts companies and trade unions from donating to campaigns, and sets a limit of 1,000 to 2,000 US dollars for individuals to donate each candidate each time. In addition, various supervision and guarantees have eliminated illegal donations from large companies to the greatest extent. The US election, from the president to members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, is very expensive. For example, the election between Mrs. McCain and Mr. Brown is in a state like New York State, but it is of equal strength and may eventually cost five or six million US dollars. However, it is almost impossible to say that large companies can manipulate the election results with money.

So, no matter how important Portman is to Mrs. McCain's team, in fact, the votes are still in the hands of voters. The election of each constituency in both parties has never been said to win if anyone spends more money. Mrs. McCain seems to have enough confidence that losing Portman will not affect her anything.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "I'm here to talk to you about the Li Changgen incident. Li from China is actually just a criminal and a liar. I hope you can take a look at these materials." As he said that, Lu Zheng took out a stack of materials and pushed them in front of Mrs. McCain.

"Impossible" Mrs. McCain's answer was decisive.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "I have provided Mr. Brown with the same information. Well, it's not too late yet. I'll say goodbye." After that, Lu Zheng drank the coffee in the cup in one breath, got up and gave a gentleman's greeting, and left the restaurant.

Seeing Lu Zheng's back gradually leaving, Mrs. McCain's deep blue eyes slowly turned to the stack of information next to the cup.

The tragic story of Li from China was told to him by a senior member of his campaign team, and it guaranteed the authenticity of the story. Listening to Li's experience, he felt so sad that he wanted to cry. In a TV speech last weekend, when he criticized China, he remembered this story and temporarily added the speech. How could this story be fictional?

Moreover, why did Chris make up such a story to deceive himself? Lee from China had nothing to do with this campaign, so there was no need for Chris to make up stories for the votes.

Yes, this is impossible.
Chapter completed!