Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 54 Fatal Attraction
What kind of talent is easy to recruit?The answer is that talent is easier to recruit when a helping hand is offered when down or out.

Since Cheng Nuo came to the United States, he has been trying to get along with some "big bulls" while studying, hoping that one day in the future, the other party will "willingly" go back to China with him.

Nikola Tesla is one of Cheng Nuo's important goals, especially this year, which can be called a year of great shame for Tesla - the American Institute of Electrical Engineers awarded him a medal.

Logically speaking, this is a recognition of his strength and an honor, but the bad thing is that the name of the medal is the Edison Medal.

An opponent and former boss who he looked down upon, plagiarized his patents, and squeezed the value of his labor, even used his name to praise himself, how could Tesla swallow this breath.

But there is no other way now. Opposite to the giant who controls half of the American electrical industry, he himself can only live in a small hotel, relying on outsourced research on car speedometers and headlights to make ends meet. Earned less than $[-], most of which went into the invention of the turbine.

In this regard, in order to seize this time window, Cheng Nuo specially added a small package to his American classmates and asked him to send it to Tesla.

Back in time to early 1917, when Tesla received the package.

This morning, Tesla put on his beloved overcoat as usual, and was going to take half a bag of bread crumbs to feed the pigeons in Bryant Park.

As he was shaving in front of the mirror, he suddenly heard a rapid knock on the door, his face was still covered with foam.

"Who, is there anything wrong with knocking on the door so early? If it's a newspaper delivery, please leave it at the door. I'll pick it up myself, thank you."

Hearing someone respond, the knock on the door stopped abruptly, and then came the voice of the waitress.

"Mr. Nikola Tesla, I'm sorry to disturb you so early, here is a package from Massachusetts, and you need to sign for it yourself."

"Massachusetts? I don't remember that I have friends over there." Tesla stopped the razor in his hand, and he frowned in the mirror: "Worsom Watchmaking Company? National Aviation Commission? Or the American War department? Probably not.”

When he was young, Tesla also had ideals in mind. He came to the United States from faraway Croatia and joined his idol Edison. Register patents in your own name, mass-produce them and make a lot of money.

At that time, Tesla's hope was not shattered, but he just hoped to get a research fund of 5 US dollars that had been promised long ago, but unfortunately, all he got was verbal awards, and his salary did not increase at all.

Unconvinced, he ran away from Edison and wanted to compete with him, investing more time, energy and money in inventions and creations, so he had only one old friend for many years, Mark Twain.

It is a pity that this great writer has passed away for some years, and Tesla has never made any new close friends, except for a certain little guy, who seems to be even more withdrawn.

After hesitating for a while, Tesla went to the door, opened the door and signed his name on the receipt.

"Thank you, Miss Smith."

After receiving the package, she closed the door politely without looking at the coquettish waitress leaning against the door frame.

The waitress was so angry that her face was grim, she clenched her fists and wanted to knock on the door directly. After a short hesitation, with a professional smile, she knocked lightly again.

"Mr. Nikola Tesla, you haven't tipped yet."

This time the door opened quite quickly, and a hand was stretched out from the crack of the door, holding a few coins for her.

The other waitresses who were watching the play at the corner ran over immediately when they heard the door close, counting the money with their necks stretched out.

"Oh, my God, it's not even a dollar all together."

"Yes, he is so well dressed, I thought he was very rich, but he is so poor."

"As I said earlier, he is very poor. Although the clothes look expensive, did you not notice that he wears this one when he goes out?"

"It's a loss, it's a loss, this money is not enough for the perfume I spray."

After taking the package, Tesla didn't have time to look at it, so he threw it on the table and was busy shaving.

But scratching and scratching, his eyes always moved to the package unconsciously, as if there was something inside that was attracting him.

In a daze, a razor cut the skin of an inattentive chin, and blood oozes out.

Tesla shook his head, simply rinsed off all the foam on his face, sat on the sofa with a half beard, and began to unpack the package.

"Tom Cheng?" Tesla rubbed his head, thoughtfully: "Could it be that young man from the East, shouldn't he have graduated and returned to China by this time?"

The impression of Cheng Nuo is still very deep. In order to quickly get closer to him, Cheng Nuo intentionally or unintentionally presented his future life in the early days, which gave Tesla a lot of inspiration, and the relationship between the two gradually became closer.

Later, because of his company's financial affairs, Tesla looked for investment everywhere and had no fixed place to live. The correspondence between the two became less and less until there was no more contact.

Now that Cheng Nuo can ask his classmates to contact him, it is because later generations of Tesla basically settled here, relying on foresight to know this address.

When I opened the package, I saw a book, a letter and a letter of appointment from the Academy of Sciences.

The letter can be divided into three parts according to the main content.

The first part is a greeting about Tesla's health concerns and recent developments.He is 60 years old this year. Although he still maintains his vitality, the years are not forgiving, and he is somewhat worse than when he was young. Not to mention the financial constraints, there is not much money to improve his life.

The second part is an introduction to the book.The name of the book is "201730 Sky Travel Notes", and it tells anecdotes about a guy named Hopkins traveling to 2017, experiencing the advancement of modern technology, and traveling around the world.This book was actually written by Cheng Nuo himself, focusing on the electrification part later, in order to attract Tesla's attention.Of course, in order to preserve the suspense, the description is deliberately vague. Although there are many types, when talking about the principles, they are all mentioned in one stroke, and the words are left to the extreme.

The third part is to invite Tesla as the dean of the Academy of Applied Engineering Sciences on behalf of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of China.The remuneration is favorable, the investment of a large amount of scientific research funds is guaranteed, and the electrification laboratory can also follow the highest standards.For Tesla, the temptation is quite strong. At this time, he hit a wall everywhere, not to mention the company's debts, and no one invested in building a radio station.

With lofty aspirations, my mind is full of inspiration, but there is nowhere to realize it.

No matter how good the United States is, no one can invest in him. Besides, Tesla was originally a Serbian, and he came here just to realize his ideals. Now that his ideals are hopeless, he can naturally consider other things.

At this time, Cheng Nuo's letter appeared in front of him like a life-saving straw, which made this tall and thin "old man" who had always been calm and calm tremble slightly with excitement.

"Electricity has infused my tired and weak body with the most precious things—the vitality of life and the vitality of the spirit, but it has been slowly exhausted. Will the mysterious East be my future power source?"

　Thanks to book friend Maimai for the 280 starting point coins that cannot be bought and book friend 20171024163817221 for the 200 starting point coins reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)