1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 61 Sea Journey

Scrooge stayed in New York for three days, waiting for the Clipper Express to get ready for sailing. Compared with the legendary flying shear ship such as the “Grand Republic” with more than 3,000 tons, the Express is a smaller ship with a displacement of only about 1,000 tons. It is a slender and beautiful luxury high-speed passenger ship. The ship even ran at a high speed of about 19 knots. At the time, it was the fastest way to travel to Europe.

The two days of waiting in New York will of course be very busy. Although Scrooge, Morgan, and Joshua have reached an agreement before that, the distribution of benefits has been basically completed, and the bulk has been resolved, but in these two days, There are still many people, including former partner Volendrano, who also came to the door, hoping to get a share of the sulfa. Only at this time, the interests of sulfa on the North American continent have been basically divided up. As for the interests in Europe, it is not something these people can eat. Therefore, most of these guys are defeated. Only Volendrano obtained the right to sell this drug in China from Scrooge. Of course, it was not a monopoly. However, Scrooge still doubted how much sulfonamide he could sell in China at that time, because as far as he knew, at that time, Chinese people still believed more in traditional Chinese medicine that looked like witchcraft in the West. Although the patients in this era regard the patients as Autobots or Decepticons, Western doctors who believe that oil cures all diseases can’t actually grab them, and the distance from witchcraft is no more than “The reed needs three years of frost, and the cricket needs the original match. How far is the traditional Chinese medicine? Even in the 1930s, after Western medicine had achieved a series of great breakthroughs, according to the descriptions in some literary works, many Chinese people would rather die than see Western medicine. (Reference “Family Spring and Autumn”)

In addition to these businessmen trying to get a share of the pie, some experts from various universities in New York also visited. For their visit, Scrooge is very welcome, because in Scrooge’s plan, his company will become the spokesperson of high-tech for a long time. Strictly speaking, there is only one way to achieve high profits, and that is to reduce the proportion of wages in income distribution. There are many ways to deform. The simplest is to directly reduce the amount of wages or reduce the amount of wages in a disguised way. The former is like the former boss of MacDonald’s Infantry Weapons Company, which directly cuts wages, while the latter is achieved by extending working hours. Covertly cut wages. For example, you used to work 10 hours a day and your boss gave you 72 cents. Now your boss has extended your working hours to 16 hours and “increased” your salary to 80 cents a day. At first glance, the total salary seems to be It’s much, but the wage per unit time has dropped significantly.

The other method, which Scrooge intends to adopt, is to rely on “high technology” to allow own enterprises to obtain incomes several times that of other enterprises when the investment and time are comparable to those of ordinary enterprises. In this way, although in Scrooge’s enterprises, workers receive higher wages per unit time than other enterprises, but the proportion of total wages in the income distribution is lower than those in sweatshops. This is the path Scrooge wants to take. This path can not only reap more profits, but also deceive a good reputation for benevolence. Such a reputation is very useful in many cases.

To go this way, Scrooge has Xiantian’s advantage. Although before the crossing, the doctors were walking around the street and the turtle was like a dog, a native silly blog was nothing, but after passing through this era, let alone a silly blog, it is just a bachelor of science and engineering. I can put a broom behind my ass to pretend to be a wolf with a big tail. More importantly, Scrooge knows the general direction of technology development well, which means that others also need countless investment, countless experiments, countless failures, and spend a lot of money to complete things. It will be much simpler and smoother to rule here.

However, no matter how capable Scrooge is, he is also a person. To build a high-tech monopoly empire, it is absolutely unthinkable that there are not enough technology talents. Therefore, Scrooge attaches great importance to dealing with academics and those academic overlords. In a meeting with President Charles of Harvard University and several other university presidents from United States, Scrooge proposed a plan that was unanimously supported by them. He expressed his willingness to devote a sum of money to establish a fund to encourage scientific research. Well, this plan is called the Mississippi Project. Used to reward scholars in the world who have made great achievements in various basic disciplines. And those universities in United States will jointly form a jury to determine who is eligible for the award.This proposal is obviously extremely beneficial to those universities in United States. Being able to serve as a judge for such awards is very good for the reputation of each university, so it was unanimously approved by the participants.

“Anyway, I have planned to make Nobel not the king of explosives at the right time, so it would be good to simply turn the’Nobel’ prize into a’Macdonald Prize’. At least the’sulfa prize’ sounds better than the’explosives prize’. Okay.” Scrooge thought.

The three busy days finally passed, and the Flying Shear Ship “Express” was about to set sail. Scrooge took some entourages and boarded this small ship, standing on the deck, toward all the people on the shore to see off. The new university friends waved. Until the ship left the dock, the dock became smaller and smaller before turning to leave.

“Boss. It’s windy at sea, do you want to go into the cabin to rest?” a guard said to Scrooge.

“Oh, I’m not busy. Last time Carol wrote to me that the voyage at sea is extremely boring, and watching the endless sea can make people go crazy. But why don’t I think so?” Did not reply, just silently looked at the deep blue sea in the distance. At this time, a burst of laughter reached his ears.

“My God! Dorothea Miss, don’t go to the fence over there, it’s dangerous over there! Roy Young Master, you have to take care of your Little Sister, God…” a housekeeper was surprised Called into Scrooge’s ears. Scrooge turned his head and saw one (let me use this quantifier once, as a tribute to Loli on Jing Ke Shou), the blond little Loli, about eleven or twelve years old, giggling and running along the deck. He came over and smiled back while running. A chubby aunt is anxiously following behind. Behind her there was a young man who appeared to be seventeen or eighteen years old, shaking his head and following behind.

“Mrs. Stephen, the first time Dorothea sees the sea, let her be happy.” The young man followed unhurriedly, “Father let her come up also meant to make her happy. ”

“How can I do it!” said the housekeeper out of breath, her face flushed, I don’t know if it was because of exercise or because of annoyance. “A lady, pay attention to the image of own at all times, even in places where no one is there, Mr. Odder I asked her to come out and look at the sea, but I didn’t let her be like this…”

The housekeeper only tried to refute the fallacy of the young man, but did not notice that there was a rope on the deck below her feet. As a result, with an exclamation, the plump housekeeper fell straight and stiff on the teak deck. Got it, with a muffled sound. And that little Loli turned his head to look around as he ran, but as a result, there was a burst of garlic under his feet, and the stumbling head slammed into Scrooge.

Seeing a little Loli bumping towards him, Scrooge naturally wanted to open his arms and hug her. Well, being able to control Loli casually, but not being controlled by Loli, can be regarded as one of the benefits brought by the young age after crossing. However, just as the blond Loli, who was easy to fall with a voiceless body, slammed his head into Scrooge’s embrace, a hand stretched out from the side and held the little Loli with one hand.

Scrooge looked intently, and it was Pluto, the guard who was following her, holding the little Loli.

“Hey! You fellow, what are you going to do?” Scrooge almost called out. Fortunately, the hypocritical instinct accumulated over the years prevented him from showing any wrong expressions on his face.

“Ah, thank you Uncle!” After the little Loli stood firm, he immediately stroked the skirt, lifted the corner of the skirt, lowered his head slightly, and curtseyed to Bruto in a pompous manner.

At this time, the housekeeper who had fallen down had already gotten up from the deck and appeared next to Little Loli with a kind of agility and speed that was not commensurate with his body. That swiftness reminded Scrooge of Fat Luo or the earlier chubby Gascoigne.

“Dorothea Miss, look at you… I’ll tell Mr. Odder all this.” Then she turned around, facing Pluto, and said: “Mr. Thank you so much. It’s not you, Dorothea may have fallen into the sea accidentally.”

“No lady.” Bruto answered honestly, “The railings on the boat are very high, and the rope net is soft and strong. Even if Miss hits the railing, nothing will happen.”

“Thank you anyway.” The housekeeper said, “You also traveled to Europe?” She glanced at Scrooge again, and then said, “Is this your son? What a handsome boy… Dorothea, look, this little Big Brother is much more obedient than you…”

The latter half of the sentence not only made Scotch Lei the outside focus and the inside tender, but also made Pluto panic. No matter how courage he was, he would not dare to pretend to be the boss’s father in front of the boss. He hurriedly explained:

“You are mistaken, this gentleman is my employer, Mr. Scrooge McDonald, I just…”

“What? You are Mr. Scrooge McDonald? It is the Mr. Scrooge McDonald who wrote the “Research on the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Effects of Certain Chemicals on Their Treatment”? I heard that you are on this ship. Are you going to Europe to give lectures? My name is Roy, Royold, I am from Mississippi, and I am going to Europe to study. I like chemistry very much, and I can ask you some questions. A moment?” The young man who had just rushed over asked loudly, his eyes gleaming, and his hands and feet didn’t seem to know where to put them.

Fortunately, at this time, the appearance of another boat eased his embarrassment. It was a slender fast cruiser belonging to the British Royal Navy. It was coming from the front of the “Quick”, with a graceful turn, it turned to the same course as the “Quick”. At the same time, a semaphore came from the warship: “The Royal Navy Cruiser Dangerous salutes the conqueror of the disease, Mr. Scrooge McDonald!”