Seeing Dorothea speaking extremely seriously about the interests and wanting to crush Edison's gang of 25 boys, Scrooge smiled again.

"What are you laughing at? What's so funny?" Dorothea stared at Scozhi, very unhappy and guiltyly asked. Seeing Scozhi's smile, she wondered if she had a fool's idea again.

"Dorosia, sit down. Let's talk slowly." Scrooge said.

Hearing this, Dorothea was basically sure that something went wrong with her thoughts. She sat down on the couch with Scozhi, comfortably rested her head on Scozhi's shoulder, and said, "Okay, hurry up and talk."

"Do you remember what the first principle of engaging in a business war?" Scozhi asked, gently fiddling Dorothea's long hair with his hands.

"Who is our friend and who is our enemy!" Dorothea replied without hesitation.

Dorothea's answer is of course from Scrooge's previous teachings to her, and Scrooge's teachings to her are naturally copying the famous sayings about revolution from a revolutionary mentor of a later generation. Scrooge always felt that this sentence can not only guide complex class revolutions, but also guide internal struggles between the same complex bourgeoisie.

"Ah, I understand, are you saying that our enemy is not Edison, but Morgan and the others?" Dorothea immediately reacted.

"By the way," Scrooge said approvingly, "think about it, if we deal with Edison and the others severely, for example, we create a laboratory accident, let Edison meet God or something, and by the way, he left his name on the "The stupidest death method in scientific research history", what blow will this have to do to our enemies? If you were Morgan, would you think this was a setback?"

After a while of silence, Dorothea replied, "If I were Morgan, I would be very happy to see such a result. Because I just made a verbal commitment, the core department of the MacDonald family lost the best project manager. Moreover, Edison just made a series of requests to us, and then in a blink of an eye, he died of an "accident". Others in the big laboratory may also have many bad ideas. This will obviously seriously damage our scientific research team.

The morale of the team. No matter how you look at it, Morgan has hit us seriously at almost zero cost in this round of competition. If we agree to Edison's threat, on the one hand, our economic interests will be damaged. On the other hand, we have to worry that others will follow suit. In this way, a union that is not under our control and has different interests from us will appear in our core part. Morgan is really... really amazing. How should we deal with his trick?"

"Let Edison change jobs to Morgan." Scozhi let go of Dorothea's hand, stretched, and then leaned back against the back of the thick sofa, saying irresponsible, "It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, let him go!"

"How can this work? Are you dizzy?" Dorothea was dissatisfied again.

"Don't rush to draw conclusions. Think about it carefully," said Scrooge. "I'll remind you, if Morgan knew I had nothing, would he do this? Why?"

This question is not particularly difficult, so Dorothea only thought for a while and then answered: "If I were Morgan, if I knew you were still alive, I would definitely not do this, because even if I pulled Edison and others away, what's the use of it? The current technological development has gradually exceeded the stage where a genius can make a lot of money by patting his head. It's more important to rely on a lot of investment to advance. If Edison is dug out but cannot provide him with a research environment comparable to that of a large laboratory, what's the use of Edison? Will it be for nothing to raise them? Besides, even if they are for nothing, will they be willing? Those scientists and engineers are not necessarily willing to be a fat pig who is eating and waiting to die."

This statement is definitely correct. Scrooge knew that in another time and space, when a powerful, claiming to be unbreakable alliance collapsed and disintegrated, its world-leading scientists and engineers became popular among countries around the world. Whether it was a bald eagle who was helpful to others, a harmless little white rabbit, a big gangster who never disrupted John cattle, a low-key perfume chicken, a Hans meow, a big white elephant, or even a Persian camel, they all joined this feast. Those responsible for studying mushrooms were involved in the study of mushrooms.

The technology of planting technology is even more sought after by all parties. Among them, Persian camels offer the highest annual salary, which is said to be more than 400,000 pounds per year, which is even several times the annual salary given by the bald eagle, which is famous for its wealth. However, in the end, most of these mushroom planting experts were divided up by the big gangsters, and Persian camels were pitifully robbed. Why is this happening? Because Persian camels do not even have the most basic laboratory conditions. No one with a little ambition in scientific research cannot tolerate such conditions.

Seeing Scrooge's slightly nod, Dorothea knew that she was right this time. So she added: "What's more, scientific research is now a very risky investment. If a large amount of scientific research funds are spent, perhaps the final gain is just a proverb that this road is not accessible. In your words, it means that you clicked the wrong technology tree, and then all the money is wasted.

Oh, this is not even the most terrifying. The most terrifying thing is that after experiencing endless failures and spending countless money, I finally got the right path. Then, when I was about to succeed, I heard that my opponent had already succeeded and successfully registered a patent. It was simply... I couldn't imagine what language to use to describe this situation. With such failures, as long as there were one or two times, the entire team, from investors to researchers, should start to doubt life.

And this kind of terrible situation is not impossible. As long as you are fine, such situations will almost easily occur. Because in this world, there is no one better than you in the development of new technology. You never miss the direction you propose. Even the possible difficulties and basic solutions in the development process are like this. This makes no one able to compete with you in the field of technical research. Scourge, you are so bad! You want Morgan and others to spend a lot of money to build a laboratory, then invest huge amounts of money in related research, and then give them a lot of hard when they are approaching success? But in this way, you have to pretend to be in a deep coma for a while. However, we will lose a useful researcher like Edison forever. His departure will not bring us too much damage, right?"

"Of course there are losses. But it's not unbearable," said Scrooge. "After all, in the future, we will consolidate the results and wait for the children to grow up. There is no need to expand quickly. And with me, what are you afraid of?"

While saying this, Scrooge thought: "Edison's biggest strength is actually the electrical aspect, but electrical matters, which technologies have a future, which technologies have no future, which electrical appliances have a market, which ones have no, and which ones have no, and who are more clear than me, a time traveler? The simplest point is that technologies and electrical products that have not been popular in later generations are all wrong and have no future. So in this regard, I really don't need Edison who can come up with some new electrical appliances - I'm enough for this job - what I really need is a bunch of engineers with good level."

...

As Edison expected, the McDonald consortium did not approve his request. This is normal, because everyone knows that the McDonald consortium is in a difficult situation. After losing Scrooge, there are too many problems in their future development. How could they agree to such a request at this time? In fact, many projects in the large laboratory, not to mention more grants, even existing grants will be reduced, and those researchers, at the bottom, are even at risk of unemployment. At this time, how could Edison's plan be realized?

Edison also knew that the consortium could not fully accept his request, but he originally thought that the consortium would negotiate with him, and then everyone would take a step back and get a new agreement. After all, Scotch was gone, and no one could be stronger or more valuable than himself in electrical engineering. He was already the boss in this regard, not only in the United States, but even in the world. And the boss should naturally have the boss’s value. Obviously, the previous reward was no longer suitable for him. The McDonald consortium should also understand this and give a new price in negotiations with him.

The McDonald Consortium did express its willingness to negotiate with Edison, but the attitude they showed was particularly firm. They were only willing to raise Edison's salary slightly, but they were unwilling to give Edison any "technical shares".

"Mr. Edison, you should understand that if we agree to give you 'technical shares' today, other experts in other aspects will also make similar requests tomorrow. This is unbearable for the consortium. As for the alternative plan you proposed, that is, to significantly increase the salary of you and your team, this is also impossible to achieve, because it will seriously damage our salary structure..." In short, one sentence - if you don't have money, you can't give it to you.

This attitude naturally made Edison particularly angry. He even felt that he was despised and insulted. So he began to contact Morgan.

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"Everyone, I can tell you a good news. Thomas Edison, the most famous and important researcher in the MacDonald consortium, has told me that he is willing to take his team to our side." Morgan told his allies in this way at the alliance meeting.

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Chapter completed!