At this time, Li Siguang also talked about his experience of first studying shipbuilding, then metallurgy, and finally studying geology when he was dedicated to serving the country. Tesla sighed after hearing this, "Don't worry, I am not so heartless and will cruelly kill people."
The money saved by the poor tightening their belts is wasted on their own personal interests..."
Tesla's attitude made Hu Weidong and Li Siguang very happy, but his subsequent words were like a bucket of cold water poured on their heads. It turned out that Tesla not only owed a lot of debt, but was also being monitored by the FBI. Speaking of which,
Thanks to him, Tesla, who has been "unemployed" for more than ten years and owes huge debts, can always live in a New York hotel without being kicked out. But in this way, it will be difficult for Hu Weidong to take people away.
Well, although Roosevelt seems very polite, he will never do anything that harms the interests of the United States. Although Tesla has not made any sensational achievements in the past two or three decades, how many people in the world dare to deny his value?
Hu Weidong almost wanted to take Tesla away by force through illegal means, but he was afraid of injuring his compatriots in the United States. Moreover, Tesla was now in the eastern United States. He wanted to take him safely across the United States and board a ship on the west coast to leave.
It was too difficult, so Hu Weidong gave up after thinking about it.
After a while, Tesla suddenly laughed, "Actually, there is the simplest way. You give me the money first, and I will use it to pay off the debt. Then I will be free and can visit China openly. The U.S. government
There is no legal reason to prevent a citizen from going abroad. They must pay attention to the impact, not to mention that I am not an ordinary American..."
"It is indeed simple and feasible. May I ask how much you owe?" Hu Weidong felt relieved when he heard this. He did not ask such a stupid question as "Why don't we just pay it directly?" If he was exposed,
If so, not only will it be much more difficult to invite Tesla back, it may even endanger the planned tasks and even the safety of himself and his entourage. Hu Weidong is still aware of these stakes.
"The twenty-eight years of experiments and living expenses, plus the ever-increasing interest, should be more than three million U.S. dollars?" Tesla said with a wry smile, if the original alternating current patent was still in his hands. This amount would
Money was just a drop in the bucket, but now he was robbed of his freedom by the trap of money. In fact, it was precisely because the benefits of the alternating current patent were so great that Tesla had to give up. Because even if he didn't give up, he would still get nothing.
Instead of being stolen by those vampires in the end (Note 1), it is better to let it benefit the public...
Hu Weidong couldn't help but frown at this time. More than three million US dollars is not a small amount. It's not that he can't get it out now, but this money belongs to the Chinese people, not his own. If Tesla takes the money, it will
He turned against the person, or there was an accident on the way. Or maybe Tesla was just too old, so how should he explain himself when he went back?
"Perhaps being a warlord gives you more freedom. You can spend what you want, and waste will be wasted." Hu Weidong couldn't help laughing when he thought of this. How can it be so easy to be a warlord? As long as you are a warlord, it is difficult to eliminate the tendency of your subordinates to become self-reliant.
Hu Weidong has always been a technical person at heart. He really doesn’t have the confidence or energy to deal with such dirty things all day long. It’s easier to rely on the big tree of the organization to get things done!
After thinking for a while, Hu Weidong had to tell the truth. "It's not that we can't afford the money, but this amount is at least equivalent to the annual income of hundreds of thousands of families in China. You must prove that you are worth the risk for us. This is not because we cannot afford it."
I respect you, but it is not easy for the Chinese people to squeeze this money out of their teeth..."
Tesla was not angry when he heard this. You must know that even Morgan, one of the world's richest men, only invested more than one million US dollars in it (although the inflation factor cannot be ignored. But at that time, almost all of that money was
It has been used in experiments, but now the more than three million is extra. Obviously Hu Weidong’s expenditure this time is much greater.), why should the poor Chinese people be asked to spend more money for it?…
Seeing Tesla nodding in agreement, Hu Weidong was finally relieved, and he calmly asked Tesla to help him design a complete development route to establish a complete power industry system as quickly as possible, and listed the things that must be needed no matter what.
The conditions are met. Among the major basic industrial sectors, the electric power industry is probably the one that Hu Weidong understands least, and the Central Plains base area is currently short of talents in this field. It is just a good time to use it to test how much Tesla still has.
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Tesla did not give an answer hastily, but first asked clearly about the conditions set by Hu Weidong (actually the current situation of the base area). When he heard this, he frowned. The conditions given by Hu Weidong were really bad.
, it is difficult to quickly build a complete electric power industry system on such a weak foundation, but this actually made Tesla, who likes challenges by nature, excited and took out the manuscript paper and calculations.
Calculated by ruler calculation, more than an hour passed in a moment, and it seemed that I completely forgot that there were two guests in the room...
Hu Weidong had to interrupt Tesla's work and asked, "When will the results be available?"
"Come back in five days, and close the door when you leave..." Tesla waved his hands impatiently, and then continued to work hard.
Hu Weidong has not been idle in the next three to five days. After poaching the top talents, he will poach those inconspicuous but very important alternative talents. Among them, technical workers with experience in printing money are particularly valued by him. As one of the top economic experts in the party
, Mao Zemin naturally knew that Hu Weidong was preparing for the issuance of banknotes in the base areas. In fact, the base areas had already begun printing their own banknotes, but the workmanship was poor and easy to be counterfeited. If they were issued in large quantities, there would definitely be problems, so the Kuomintang's legal tender was not allowed.
It is really inconvenient to continue to circulate and use the most primitive barter method for transactions. Now with these banknote printing talents and necessary equipment, the Central Plains base will soon be able to print qualified banknotes, which will not only prosper the market
, and it can withdraw funds, which will undoubtedly be of great help to the economy of the base area, especially the urban economy. While being happy, even Mao Zemin, who also had outstanding achievements in many fields, was amazed by Hu Weidong's omnipotence.
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Note 1: In fact, Tesla could not get money at that time because, on the one hand, the potential benefits of alternating current were too great, leading to the covetousness of major consortiums, and more importantly, because it was enough to make a pure scientist better than the richest capitalist in the world.
Being richer will completely destroy the basic structure of capitalist society and shake the status of all capitalists, especially big capitalists. Therefore, they can tolerate Edison becoming rich because of his patent, but they cannot tolerate Tesla becoming the world's richest man because of his alternating current patent.
Because Edison became a capitalist after he got rich, and Tesla will always be a scientist (all the people in history who became rich by relying on patent rights became their own bosses. It is simply impossible to have patent rights alone, even if the patent rights are worth
No matter how big it is...), it corresponds to the wise saying "Character determines destiny"... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.) to vote for recommendation and monthly vote