1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 157 Dorothea develops a plan (1)

“Mr. MacDonald wants to see me? Which Mr. MacDonald are you talking about?” Field asked suspiciously.

“Of course it is Mr. Scrooge Mac. If you are free, at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon, Mr. MacDonald will be waiting for you at the Mayflower Hotel.” The man said to Field.

Field thought, if Scrooge McDonald’s people find him before this experiment, there is no doubt that Mr. McDonald is interested in his transoceanic cable project and intends to invest in him and join him. Make money together in this plan. But now that Scrooge’s cross-Atlantic communication experiment has been successful, then he doesn’t need to find himself anymore. So although it is estimated that there is no answer from these people who spread the word, Field still couldn’t help but ask: “Do you know what Mr. MacDonald is asking me for?”

“Ah, Mr. Field, such a thing is not something I can know.” Sure enough, the man smiled and replied.

Field was full of doubts when he returned home and kept counting on what else Mr. MacDonald needed. Finally he thought of something, maybe it was worth some money. But if Mr. MacDonald needs this kind of technology, can’t he just send someone to talk to himself? Anyway, under the current conditions, facing bankruptcy, it is impossible for him to resist his offer. For this little problem, is it guilty to spend time seeing yourself in person?

The kind of technology that Field thought of refers to a filtering technology. After the first cable was laid, it took two years for Field to find the cause of the cable failure. The electric signal propagating in the cable will lose and become weaker. If the normal technology is used, when a signal is transmitted through the cable thousands of kilometers away, it has already lost most of the energy along the way. So that it can’t be read by normal consciousness at all. To solve this problem, there are only two usual methods. One is to increase the transmission time of a single signal, and the second is to reduce the loss along the way.

The first direction has actually come to an end, because they have delayed the time of a single signal for a long time. If it is further extended, you will have to endure the dilemma of a “hello” that needs to be sent for an hour. The second direction Well, there are two ways: one is to increase the cross-sectional area of ​​the copper core in the cable, but this will cause the weight of the cable to increase so much that no ship can hold so many cables of this weight. Therefore, This is a dead end. The other direction is to increase the voltage of the cable. In fact, he did this back then. As a result, the voltage was high and the cable was broken. In order to solve this problem, Field sought out many experts, and finally developed a new technology that can read signals that are only one-five thousandths of the original signal strength. This kind of technology is Field’s killer, and it is also the thing he thinks can be exchanged for a little money. However, Mr. MacDonald, one of the largest richest people in United States, will personally talk to him for this little technology?

But no matter how doubtful he was, on the second day, Field arrived at the Mayflower Hotel early. Only at this time, it was still quite a while before the time he had agreed with Scrooge, so he could only wait there.

When it was finally time, Field walked into the hotel and told the waiter that he had come to visit Mr. MacDonald as agreed.

The waiter heard that he was the guest invited by Mr. MacDonald, and he immediately became polite to him. He told him that Mr. Macdonald told him that if he came, he would take him directly.

So soon, Field met this tycoon who was still very young, but was already well-known from United States.

“Mr. MacDonald, do you have anything to do with me?” Field asked rather anxiously.

“Ah, Mr. Field, please sit down.” Scrooge said, “I know you have laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic before. And you are planning to re-lay this cable recently.”

“Yes, but…” Field smiled bitterly. “After your successful trans-Atlantic wireless communication test, my plan came to an end without a problem. Because now I don’t need such a cable anymore. And, because of the plan in this plan. In debt, I’m going bankrupt too.” His voice was full of loneliness.

“Mr. Field, now I have another opportunity. I don’t know if you would like to participate.” Scrooge said, “In fact, I have been paying attention to your plan. If it were not for the sudden development of radio, I think, I will join your plan a long time ago. Although this plan will definitely not work now, I admire your perseverance in working hard for this plan. Your excellent organization and coordination ability is very appreciated.”

“Mr. MacDonald, what do you mean?” The sudden good news made Field unbelievable.

“Yes, I want to build a company that specializes in the exchange of information between the two sides of the Atlantic. This company is called Atlantic Communications. I have a lack of talents in this area. I think Mr. Field you are a good candidate. No I know if you are willing to become the operator of this new company.” Scrooge said seriously.

“Mr. Macdonald, thank you for your trust in me.” Field stood up excitedly, “I am very willing. Thank you, Mr. Macdonald. You are really…”

“That’s great, Mr. Field.” Scrooge said, “My secretary has prepared some materials for you. In the next few days, you can go to the next door to see it, but you can’t record it and you can’t take it away. A week later, I hope you can come up with a company development plan. Then we will discuss it together. Can you, Mr. Field.”

“Sure enough, Mr. MacDonald.” Field said.

Scrooge pulled the bell, and soon Elizabeth appeared in front of him.

“Elizabeth, you take Mr. Field over there to see the information.” Scrooge said.

“Okay, Mr. MacDonald.” Elizabeth agreed. Then she turned to Field and said, “Mr. Field, please come with me.”

A week later, Field handed over his plan to Scrooge.

“Dorothea, come here, let’s take a look at this plan.” Scrooge said.

“Yeah.” Dorothea put down the algebra book in her hand and walked over.

When he first arrived in New York, Scrooge had also played with Dorothea for a while. But soon, Scrooge returned to the state where he was busy with various tasks all day long. Get up at 6 o’clock every day, eat breakfast, and move for half an hour (now basically playing tennis with Dorothea, but she is often let by Dorothea), then start to deal with affairs, and then stay busy until dinner, and then from two At around 12:00, I worked hard until I finished dinner at 5, and then took Dorothea for a walk for half an hour, and then dealt with the affairs. At 9pm, I went out to say goodnight to Dorothea, and then continued to work, around midnight. Go to bed left and right.

Dorothea saw Scrooge’s fortune, so she asked if she could help him. Of course, Scrooge would not refuse the reliable labor that was brought to the door. Moreover, Dorothea, as his future wife, must be involved in the management of the enterprise.

Of course, it is impossible for Dorothea to be alone, or even to deal with the problem alone, before she has completed the full training of Dorothea. Just as Catherine had a long internship with Carol before she had real management skills, Dorothea would take some time to grow up. In order to allow Dorothea to grow up as quickly as possible, Scrooge formulated a step-by-step plan to realize it in stages. The nasty Scrooge even gave the own plan a name: Dorothea Nurtured plan.

According to this plan, the first step is to lay a solid foundation and increase knowledge.

The so-called solid foundation refers to making up for some of the shortcomings in Loli’s knowledge. Little Loli’s education is actually very good, not worse than Catherine, much better than Anna and Elizabeth. However, when Mr. Ode was training Dorothea, he was only trying to train a lady, but he never planned to train her in the direction of a female boss. So in terms of knowledge, Dorothea is lacking. The most obvious deficiency is first of all mathematics. Dorothea’s level of mathematics is limited to four arithmetic operations. As for the more complicated things, such as the calculation of interest rates, Dorothea already finds it very difficult. As for the more complicated things, like what Function, differential and integral, Dorothea could only open her eyes wide, and stared at Scrooge with innocent eyes.

But mathematics is the foundation of all modern management, so although Dorothea often looks at Scrooge with innocent eyes very sincerely, she still has to learn. Scrooge even specially invited an old gentleman named Royce to teach Dorothea mathematics.

In addition to mathematics, another important knowledge base is economics. According to Scrooge’s idea, he originally wanted to throw out a bunch of Marx’s political economy for Dorothea to chew like he did when he cultivated Carol. However, considering that Dorothea is so kind, she has a tendency to be a Virgin, let her read these, in case Marx’s book is taught, the teacher will become “a noble person, a pure person, A ethical person, a person who has broken away from low-level tastes, a person who is beneficial to the people”, what can be done? This is absolutely intolerable! But on the other hand, Scrooge felt that in this era, only Marx’s economics was telling the truth, and many other economics, to put it mildly, were deliberate or unintentional liars. Let Dorothea learn those things, and Scrooge worried that she might get confused as she learns. Therefore, the study of economics had to be postponed.

“When I am free, I will find someone to cut down Marx’s stuff, get rid of those superfluous humanitarianism and revolution, and get a’clean version’ of political economy, and then use it to adjust more. Rosia.” In the end, Scrooge had to make such a decision.

As for the increase in knowledge, of course it depends on how Scrooge dealt with some problems. So during this time, Scrooge was busier, because he had one more job-as a teacher for Dorothea.