Beiyang 1917

When Wang Geng left the General Electric Company on Fifth Avenue in New York, he had in his pocket a $[-] cash check signed by Thomas Edison himself, and of course, an invention patent right signed by Wang Geng and Edison. transfer agreement.

The note paper that Wang Geng scribbled in the ward, and this agreement in duplicate, will become the top secret in the safe of General Electric in the future. Edison and General will gain from the invention of this torpedo mechanism in the future, of course. Much more than Wang Geng.

But this guy's mind is not to accompany Edison to invent. In fact, after Edison saw Wang Geng's design sketch, his first reaction was not to buy the invention patent of the torpedo mechanism, but to buy Wang Geng. !The price was even more unprecedented, directly giving General Electric 5% of the shares, plus [-] US dollars in cash, and the weekly salary was as high as [-] US dollars!

The only condition is that Wang Geng must stay in the General Electric Laboratory!

Nima, just kidding, when I came here in 1917, I don’t have the time to spend all day in the laboratory with you. An inventor like Edison is actually lackluster and uninteresting in his life and work, and the old man has the characteristics of a capitalist. There are actually quite a few bad things.

For example, the old man took advantage of the $15 reward that Nix Tesla received for improving the DC generator, and he even refused the request to increase the weekly salary from $23 to $[-], forcing Tesla away, etc.

A 5% stake in General Electric is nothing. My ambition is in one country. A mere 5% stake in an American commercial company is nothing to Wang Geng.

Of course, in the agreement signed by Wang Geng and Edison, the confidentiality and exclusivity clauses became the focus of Edison’s emphasis. If Charles hadn’t found it on the evening edition of the New York Times that day, there would be Wang Geng’s heroic rescue deeds and an exclusive interview at the press conference. If it weren't for the guy in the photo holding up the New York honorary citizen's certificate and medal with a smile on his face, he was holding hands tightly with the mayor.

Edison may not be able to sign this check. Of course, in addition to this $[-] check, Wang Geng attached a sketch of the design of the periscope on the submarine, which was drawn while explaining in front of old Edison. Only now did Old Edison firmly believe that the Chinese youth in front of him had many things in his mind that no one else could think of!

Although being extorted [-] US dollars by a Chinese made Little Charles dumbfounded and unwilling, but old Edison thought in his heart that this was an opportunity to catch big fish with a long line. If he encountered difficulties again in the future, But with the friendship with Wang Geng for advice left here, and this invention that can only solve the problem of misfiring torpedoes, how can the potential value be exchanged for [-] US dollars?

When Wang Geng left, he didn't forget to ask Charles for some change to call a taxi. This fellow thought to himself that your father and son took such a big advantage of me, so what's the fare of [-] cents?

After Charles figured it out, he was generous. He pretended to be smart and patted a 20-dollar bill into Wang Geng’s hand. He thought that his father had spent [-] dollars like this. If I was stingy, I lost it. own face.

Wang Geng smiled and waved goodbye to this guy. Edison looked at this guy from the upstairs window with enthusiasm and regret. If GM can keep this guy, who knows how many undiscovered treasures he has in his head, etc. Let me go digging, hey... What a loss... I should have given him 10% of the shares just now!

Of course, Wang Geng did not completely reject Edison's olive branch. Before he went downstairs, he bit the ear of the old man and said something about radio. Edison's eyes lit up when he heard it. Electric has the idea of ​​further development in radio, and he is personally willing to use technology and inventions to become a shareholder and become part of the future General Radio Corporation.

But at the end, this guy said again, everything has to wait until he has made a clear picture of the domestic affairs. Whether it is making money or making scientific and technological progress, it is not as important as saving world peace and building a country.

In fact, Edison was really the inventor of the radio, but Marconi applied for a patent in advance. For Wang Geng, the sooner the short-wave radio station comes out, the better. How much stronger is the wired phone that is blown up all day?

Thinking that now is an era when there are no radio stations, Wang Geng feels that the blockage of media and information is going to make people crazy. Well, the world’s first radio station was not born in Pittsburgh in the United States until 1920 in the previous life. Wang Geng After leaving, I pondered the feasibility of setting up a radio station after returning to China.

New York's Fifth Avenue is located in the center of Manhattan, almost on the center line of Manhattan Island. It was late at night, and the lights on the street were dim, and few people could be seen. After Wang Geng went out, he didn't meet a taxi, so he walked Walking back on Fifth Avenue, not far ahead is the dark Central Park of New York.

It was a cold and dewy night in February, and there was a stall selling grilled sausages and hot dogs under the dim lights not far from the entrance of the park. step.

There are a few people around the side of the stall, most of them are street vagrants. Obviously, 30 cents for a hot dog and 20 cents for a sausage are a bit unimaginably extravagant for them. The guy here is just using the fire on the stall to warm himself up.

As soon as Wang Geng, a guy in a windbreaker and top hat, walked over, he attracted everyone's attention. After seeing that he was a handsome Chinese guy with yellow skin and black hair, everyone's eyes were even more surprised. Obviously, New York in 1917 was not Chinese paradise.

New York's Central Park is mostly a shelter for street homeless and homeless people at night, and the security situation has not been very good. People who have no food and clothing at night spend the night on a park bench wrapped in thick newspapers For the people at the bottom, it is really bold that a gentleman-like Chinese youth came here alone at such a late hour!

Wang Geng didn't pay attention to these vagabonds with unkind faces. There are 38 million compatriots in China alone waiting for him to save them. irrelevant.

Speaking of which, the Brooklyn Bridge was so high that Wang Geng had to jump again in order to save someone. He still had to weigh it up. The Huns were still alive, so why did he jump lightly?A little girl who fell into the water matters?Or is China as a whole important?Anyway, he felt that it was understandable to jump from such a height in order to seek death, but it was quite irrational to jump to save someone.

"Boss, here are two hot dogs and three grilled sausages! Put more onions and salad dressing!" Wang Geng said carelessly, pointing at the grill.

The stall was set up by an old man who looked like a person of color, but he didn’t know whether he was of Mexican or South American descent. He didn’t even gasp after listening to Wang Geng’s words, but flipped the bread and sausage deftly with his hands and feet, and the melted fat dripped onto the ground. There was a burst of fragrant oily smoke from the charcoal fire.

The few homeless men who were roasting by the fire couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva. Wang Geng looked around. There were four or five homeless men in the cold wind. They were tall and low and couldn't see their faces clearly. They were not young and they were skinny. Dirty.

The cold wind blew up an old newspaper that was spinning on the ground. A homeless man with sharp eyes saw that the young man on the front page who was holding hands with the mayor was very similar to the man in the windbreaker in front of him. He hurriedly picked it up. We got together and whispered for a while.

A more courageous guy pointed at Wang Geng's photo in the newspaper, and smiled and rubbed against Wang Geng, muttering that he didn't know what he was talking about, obviously he didn't speak English!

Wang Geng glanced at the other party, and guessed that the other party meant to praise himself for being so great that he could be published in the newspaper, and the implication was that he should treat the guests, and give a few change to treat the homeless people at the gate of the park to eat root meat-intestines or something.

Wang Geng was not such a cruel person, but he really didn't have any change around him, but after all, he couldn't bear to see those people shivering in the cold wind, so he looked at the number of intestines and bread in the basket beside the hot dog stand .

This guy had a heart of compassion all his life, so he said to the boss, "I didn't bring any change, boss, how much do you have for hot dogs and sausages, just roast them all, give them one each, and I will pack the rest Let's go, I'll treat you tonight!"