America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Edison's performance of blacking the AC eventually turned into a farce, and the enthusiastic onlookers paid attention to the device of the electric chair rather than the AC itself.

Of course, there were those who were concerned about this, but they quickly forgot about it.

During the financial crisis, there are many more things that people care about than this thing, such as whether you will be fired the next day, or whether the bank where you saved your money will fail when you wake up in the morning.

Chen Jianqiu also laughed at this.

While watching the farce, lawyer Dylan ran into the venue and brought him a message.

"We won the bid." Lawyer Dylan sat down on the chair next to Chen Jianqiu and said to him in a low voice.

Although his voice was low, the joy could not be concealed in his brows and eyes.

"Is it from the Chicago Expo?" Chen Jianqiu turned his head to the side, still staring at the stage.

"Yes, according to internal information, our winning bid price is only half of General Electric's." Lawyer Dylan continued, "Maybe we will suffer a bit in terms of profits."

Chen Jianqiu smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter, we only earn what we should earn."

"Besides, the main purpose of this expo is to promote products, not to make money." He said, "It doesn't matter whether you make money or not. The most important thing is that Edison and General Electric didn't win the bid."

Lawyer Dylan nodded: "It looks like that hypocrite is going to be in trouble this time."

The Chicago World Expo was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, hence the name "World's Columbus Exposition".

Twenty years ago, a fire destroyed a third of Chicago's urban area, and the city government and the federal government hoped that the Expo would symbolize the city's new life.

Before the start of the World Expo, Chen Jianqiu brought Tesla and other Roswell Electric companies to the venue ahead of schedule.

The location of the venue was chosen on the shore of Lake Michigan far away from the city center, covering an area that was the largest in the history of the World Expo at that time.

An artificial river brings water from Lake Michigan into the venue.

The conference affairs group bought a large number of small boats from Venice to facilitate tourists to shuttle between the various sub-venues.

They built it into a water city.

On both sides of the artificial river, there are a variety of exhibition halls, and their walls are all painted white, which looks like a "neoclassical style".

All of these buildings show the prosperity of America before the crisis to audiences from afar.

Although the official opening ceremony will not start until evening, most of the exhibition halls have already started to exhibit to the public, and there is a constant stream of people coming and going.

"Is everything installed and debugged?" Chen Jianqiu stood at the gate of the Electronic Palace with his hands folded, looking up at the huge building.

Behind him was a large group of people, many of whom were yellow-skinned Chinese.

These people have all studied at Stanford University, interned in Tesla's laboratory, and are now middle and senior managers of Roswell Electric.

"The bulbs have been checked, and there is no major problem. Mr. Tesla is still debugging the generator set himself, and the people in the laboratory are with him." A Chinese engineer named Kou Yongsheng stood beside Chen Jianqiu and replied.

The Roswell Electric Company invested more than [-] AC generator sets and more than [-] light bulbs this time.

These will provide electrical lighting for the entire exposition, and will be the first time in the history of the exposition that it will use all electrical lighting.

During the opening ceremony in the evening, when the current president, Mr. Cleveland, pressed the switch button, the bulbs will be lit at the same time.

Chen Jianqiu said "um", and he said something to Kou Yongsheng softly.

Kou Yongsheng was a little stunned.

"It doesn't seem necessary, does it?" he muttered.

"Listen to me, that's right." Chen Jianqiu smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Kou Yongsheng nodded, and hurriedly led a few people towards the electrical pipe.

Chen Jianqiu watched Kou Yongsheng leave, and a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind:

"Congratulations, Mr. Chen."

Although he said congratulations, there didn't seem to be any congratulations in his voice.

Chen Jianqiu turned his head and saw Edison and a group of people from General Motors standing behind him.

"Oh, Mr. Edison, thank you, thank you." Chen Jianqiu walked over with a smile and shook Edison's hand.

Edison wanted to avoid subconsciously, but he didn't know what kind of magic Chen Jianqiu used.

Before he could react, his hand was already held by the Chinese boss in front of him.

You can't shake it off, and you can't pull it off.

Edison's arm became stiff, and his face was smiling.

"Concession and concession, thank you for your high hand and giving us a small company like us a chance to win the bid."

Chen Jianqiu still had a playful smile, completely ignoring that the faces of the general executives around Edison had turned into liver-colored faces.

They were very unaccustomed to Chen Jianqiu's oriental speaking skills, and only felt that he was hypocritical.

"Eh? Where's that Mr. Brown who invented the electric chair? Is he not here? I'm very impressed by his invention, and I plan to discuss with him the improvement of that thing, such as using it in psychiatric treatment."

Chen Jianqiu glanced at the GM delegation, but found no sign of Brown.

He really wanted to get two and sell them to the Elizabeth Mental Hospital, but these words sounded particularly harsh to Edison.

The scene fell into an awkward silence for a while.

Seeing this, Chen Jianqiu changed the subject.

"Everyone is here to participate in the exhibition, right?" He pointed to the electrical hall behind him like a host, and said, "I will definitely visit your exhibition site and learn a lot, ah, hahaha."

Then he let go of his hand.

Edison finally pulled his hand away from Chen Jianqiu.

There was some cloudiness on his clean-shaven face.

After adjusting his expression, Edison nodded to Chen Jianqiu: "I am also looking forward to what your company will exhibit at the exhibition."

After finishing speaking, he hurried into the exhibition hall with the subordinates of General Electric.

"Why is this person so popular?" Chen Jianqiu rubbed his nose and raised his eyebrows.

He turned around and asked a subordinate of another electrical company beside him: "Has our booth been arranged?"

"Yes, it was finished yesterday, Mr. Chen, do you want to go and have a look?" the subordinate asked.

"No, you can make arrangements." Chen Jianqiu turned around.

He pointed to other pavilions: "Go! Let's go shopping!"

Chen Jianqiu and his entourage began to wander around the Expo.

The Expo Park is divided into three parts by artificial rivers:
The first part is the Honor Square, located in the southernmost part of the park, centered on Grand Basin, with main exhibition halls on both sides, including manufacturing products and handicraft halls;

The second part is located in the northwest of the Plaza of Honor, centered on the lagoon and jungle islands, the main exhibition halls are the state pavilions of the United States and the national pavilions of participating countries

The third part is Avenue Park, which extends 1.5 kilometers westward from the vicinity of the Women's Hall.

What interested Chen Jianqiu the most was the manufacturing products hall located in Glory Plaza.

Industrial products from all directions are displayed here, and it also represents the most eye-catching core products of the country at present.

"Sir, would you like to try our 'Wrigley' chewing gum, this kind of candy can make you feel the refreshing fragrance while chewing, and keep your mouth fragrant."

"Sir, let's take a look at our 'Blue Ribbon' bottled beer. We are one of the first manufacturers in China to start bottled beer. It tastes great!"

Chen Jianqiu wandered leisurely in the exhibition hall, chewing gum, holding a bag of popcorn in his hand, without the appearance of a tycoon.

Here, he discovered many century-old brands that are familiar to later generations.

But at that time, these brands were basically "more than 90 years away from a century-old store."

For example, Chen Jianqiu saw a beverage exhibitor with a "Coca-Cola" sign on the corner of the exhibition hall.

Just as he was about to walk over to taste the taste of the "Fat House Happy Water" of this era, a familiar person appeared opposite the booth.

Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a police uniform, stood there majestically.