Alchemy Greater China

However, Tesla and Edison are like a pair of enemies in the previous life, and they are destined to be incompatible in this life.

For example, their attitudes toward scientific research are different.

Tesla believes that everything should pay attention to theory, and only when experimenting under the guidance of correct theory can it be smart and targeted.

Therefore, Tesla sneered at Edison's behavior of spending more than 1000 experiments to find the ideal material for the filament, thinking that this was a waste of time and the money of the company's shareholders!

For this reason, Tesla and Edison had many conflicts and quarrels. Edison looked down on this "hillies" from Croatia at all.

Once, Tesla and Edison talked about several reform plans related to electric motors. Edison said contemptuously: "Okay, you can change it, and I will reward you with 5 US dollars!"

Ever since, the silly Tesla changed it enthusiastically, and after using it for a few months, he really succeeded!When he went to ask Edison for a reward, Edison arrogantly cheated: "I am an American, don't you know that Americans are born with a sense of humor and love to make jokes?"

It is precisely because of this that the talented Tesla was repeatedly treated unfairly by Edison. He resigned angrily and invented the world's first alternating current generator.

Tesla wanted to spread the power of alternating current to the world.

Compared with direct current, alternating current has a wider power supply range (Tesla invented the transformer to solve the bottleneck of long-distance power transmission) and lower cost (alternating current generator is simple and flexible), and Edison also realized that if Tesla continues to promote alternating current , he owns the patented direct current, and will fall into an absolute disadvantage.

At this time.In order to benefit, Edison resorted to various non-commercial means to suppress the alternating current.

For example, the pamphlet "Beware" was issued to list the dangers of alternating current...Employing elementary school students to catch stray cats and dogs and electrocuting them brutally with alternating current...Drag the officials of New York State and let them change the prisoner's hanging to electrocution.As a result, during the execution, the current of the alternating current was too weak, which shocked the prisoner half to death, created a terrifying impression in front of the public, and then discredited the alternating current...

Compared with Edison, who was already the "invention king" at that time, Tesla was too weak. Not surprisingly, the small company he established to promote alternating current went bankrupt, and he also lost his source of income for a while.Desperate.

Long Hao came back from the future, and he has only heard about the stories of Tesla and Edison, so if he hadn't thought of the term "alternating current" when improving the motor, he might not be able to remember Tesla for a while. Pull this Frankenstein.

In the dual propulsion device that Huo Lan commissioned Inzaghi to manufacture, the electric current used by the electric motor is the most popular direct current. Long Hao didn't care about this at first, but.When he experimented with 'electromagnetic induction', he found that all the electricity produced by Jinyuan's control of metal elements cutting magnetic lines of force was alternating current.It cannot drive a motor that only accepts direct current.

For this reason, Long Hao had to modify the motor. It just so happened that Zheng Tingxiang knew the basic structure of an AC motor, so Long Hao asked him for advice.After several experiments, the motor was finally successfully modified to be driven by alternating current.

The sea trial was urgent before, and Long Hao didn't think of the corresponding relationship between AC and Tesla for a while, but now he remembered it when he got ashore.so.Long Hao immediately interviewed Zheng Tingxiang, hoping to learn from him about the situation of Tesla in decline.

If such a science geek can be recruited, Long Hao will be happier than Jinyuan's energy number has increased by 2000 quah!

"His name is Nikola Tesla." Sure enough, Zheng Tingxiang's answer matched Long Hao's heart.

"Can you find him? I want to invite him to Kunpeng Shipyard to work with John Holland." Long Hao smiled and expressed his wish.

"It's hard to say, Master Long, you don't know the current situation of Mr. Tesla..." Zheng Tingxiang hesitated, and said, "Well, I'm actually not very familiar with Tesla, so let my assistant come over , he seems to be able to contact Tesla individually."

"Okay, then please ask Yun Yao to invite him to come."

"Ahem, I'll invite you, Yun Yao, take this opportunity to have a good talk with the young master... By the way, who is your assistant?" Rong Shangqin deliberately created an opportunity for Zheng Tingxiang to "suggest words", and smiled Take this called people's errand.

"Uh, it's Lao You."

"Okay, I'll go back as soon as I go, young master, this subordinate will leave!"

Rong Shangqin left, and there were only Long Hao and three people left in the room. Zheng Tingxiang took a look at Long Hao who was looking forward to him, and summoned up his courage and said, "Master Long, actually, I have a chance to meet you this time." Some ideas!"

Long Hao put down his teacup, and laughed: "If you have any thoughts, just tell me, I've been too busy recently, if I hadn't exchanged a few words with Yun Yao when transforming Qianlong-1, Yun Yao would have thought I was Intentionally neglecting you?"

"No way, no way!" Zheng Tingxiang quickly waved his hands in denial.

"Yunyao is a great talent and a great engineer. I understand why you came to Kunpeng, and I am very grateful for your trust in me, Long Hao!" Long Hao waved his hand and said with a smile: "Starting today, Yunyao you It's a regular employee of Kunpeng Shipyard, what about the position, first as a technical director, how about an annual salary... $10?"

10 US dollars, this is quite a huge amount of money. It can be said that Long Hao's invitation to hire is very sincere.

"Thank you, Master Long, 10 dollars is too much, and I, Zheng Tingxiang, deserve it!" Zheng Tingxiang was really taken aback by this annual salary, and he quickly refused.

"$10 is not much, Yunyao, after you join the party and know more secrets about my Huaxia Town, I'm afraid you will dislike me for giving too little! Alright, don't refuse any more, otherwise, I will give you less!" Think you don’t want to work in Kunpeng!”

"Well!"

At Long Hao's insistence, Zheng Tingxiang agreed, but his complexion didn't look much better.

Also, in this era, most of the Chinese who study abroad take the revitalization of the nation and the prosperity of the motherland as their mission, and they really don't pay much attention to money.

It is the domestic bureaucrats who really value money.And ambitious people who hold military power.

"Yunyao, you said you had an idea just now, and now we are a family, so don't worry, just say it!" Long Hao was the best at reading facial expressions, he saw that Zheng Tingxiang had something on his mind.So he no longer dominated the conversation, but took the initiative to guide Zheng Tingxiang's thoughts.

It was not easy to get the help of a hard-working young child studying in the United States. If the suffocation is broken and the three views are deviated, Long Hao will be very distressed.

"Yes, Master Long, my idea is that Kunpeng Shipyard should still focus on building large ships. As for submarines..."

Zheng Tingxiang thought about it for a while.He expressed his thoughts in Chinese. He was not optimistic about submarines, but the virtue of being considerate in the Chinese people made him embarrassed to directly raise it in front of Huo Lan.

After hearing this, Long Hao's face darkened. He thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Yun Yao doesn't like submarines?"

Zheng Tingxiang has been observing Long Hao's expression, and now he sees Long Hao showing his face.The tension in his heart dissipated, and he gritted his teeth and nodded, "Yes. I think it would be putting the cart before the horse if Kunpeng Shipyard focuses its research on submarines."

"Well, you must have a good reason for thinking this way!" Long Hao glanced at Huo Lan who couldn't understand Chinese and was confused, and then said to Zheng Tingxiang: "I don't think Mr. Huo Lan is a stingy person. We are all scientific researchers. Yun Yao, why don't you argue with John on the spot, the truth always gets clearer!"

"...Okay, I'll discuss it with Mr. Holland!"

Seeing that Long Hao didn't deny his 'suggestion' outright.Zheng Tingxiang was actually quite satisfied in his heart, so he spoke English and took the initiative to chat with John Holland.

He knew that this was Long Hao's test for himself and Huo Lan. If anyone had a reasonable argument, he would adopt his suggestion.

"Mr. Holland, what do you think the value of the submarine is?"

"Mr. Holland, do you think submarines have an advantage in carrying capacity compared to ironclad ships?"

"Mr. Holland, do you think submarines have an advantage in speed compared to ironclad ships?"

"Mr. Holland..."

Zheng Tingxiang was well-prepared, and when he asked questions at the beginning, he was aggressive, making Huo Lan, who was not well-prepared, speechless.

However, after Huo Lan got used to it, with a few words of encouragement from Long Hao, he brazenly launched a counterattack against Zheng Tingxiang.

After all, he spent half of the previous 30 years trying to raise funds and solicit sponsorship, and he knew the pros and cons of submarines well. Gradually, Holland's rebuttals became sharper.

"Mr. Zheng, the unit price of a submarine is low, and it has a stealth capability that is incomparable to an ironclad ship."

"Mr. Zheng, a submarine is not a cargo ship, it transports surprise soldiers."

"Mr. Zheng, the speed of the submarine may not be as fast as the armored ship, but what does it mean? The submarine is under the sea, and even if the iron-clad ship catches up to it, it will not be able to find it!"

"Mr. Zheng..."

After the question and answer went back and forth, Huo Lan understood that the Chinese with a friendly expression in front of him was not friendly at all!

I have never met him before, and I have no grudges. Why does he try to belittle the submarine?

Could it be that a successful trial of a submarine has attracted so much jealousy and hatred?

Zheng Tingxiang's questioning made it clear that he was here to smash Huo Lan's job, like killing his parents. Huo Lan fought back vigorously while spattering, and at the same time hated this Chinese engineer with a "smiling knife".

The two debated for a while, but there was still no clear winner. Seeing that Zheng Tingxiang and Huo Lan were getting angry in the verbal battle, and gradually getting out of control, Rong Shangqin came back.

Rong Shangqin led the assistant, Lao You, into the room, and sprinkled fire extinguishing foam on this gunpowder-flavored 'debating match'.

"Hehe, John, you go out first!" Long Hao said to Huo Lan when he saw that Rong Shangqin led the people back.

"Lord Earl, I still have a lot of strong arguments to say, ahem..."

Seeing that Long Hao asked him to leave, Huo Lan thought he had been judged defeated. He didn't care about drinking tea to catch his breath, so he hurriedly said.

"Don't worry, my opinion will not change easily, John, you can go back and rest at ease!" Long Hao gave Huo Lan a reassurance, and just sent away the somewhat disturbed ancestor of the submarine.

"You are Lao You? Hello, I want to ask you about someone." Long Hao asked the somewhat embarrassed Lao You kindly.

"Long, Master Long, you, please ask me." After staying in the Kunpeng Shipyard for so long, Lao You already understood Long Hao's identity.At this moment, he still doesn't know why Long Hao came to him, and he can't help sweating his nose and feeling very nervous.

"Tesla, do you know him?"

"T...Tesla? Ah, it's Nikola Tesla! I know it, I know it!"

"Then can you contact him? I want to meet him. I am very interested in his invention of alternating current and things related to alternating current."

"Master Long wants to see him? It's a bit difficult, but it's not impossible at all. You don't know, Tesla..."

Lao You was a little taken aback, and when he was about to continue explaining the situation related to Tesla, Zheng Tingxiang interrupted with courage.

"Wait a minute. Lao You, don't say it!"

"Oh?"

Long Hao blinked, not surprised, as if expected, he looked at Zheng Tingxiang: "Yun Yao, why do you want to stop?"

Zheng Tingxiang took a few breaths, as if he had made up his mind, and asked, "Master Long. You are looking for Tesla, do you want to invite him to study AC motors?"

Long Hao didn't deny it.He nodded and said, "Yes, I think AC electric motors have great promise. It will be an irreplaceable trend to replace steam engines and internal combustion engines as the power source of large machinery in the future."

Zheng Tingxiang is a genuine mechanical engineer, and he has more say in the power source than Long Hao.But at this moment, he didn't try to refute. Instead, he kept his eyes on Long Hao and asked word by word: "Master Long, you have made great efforts to develop electric motors, have you decided to make great efforts to build submarines?"

Long Hao nodded.Said: "Yes, to tell Yunyao, I will not give up building submarines."

A trace of disappointment flashed in Zheng Tingxiang's eyes, and he said, "If you don't give up the submarine, I'd rather leave. At the same time, I won't let Lao You tell you Tesla's whereabouts!"

Just now when Long Hao gently asked Huo Lan to leave, Zheng Tingxiang sensed that something was wrong: he had been arguing with John Huo Lan for a long time, but it seemed that he still hadn't changed Master Long's stubborn 'wrong idea'.

Therefore, Zheng Tingxiang was in a state of enthusiasm, so he desperately interrupted the old lobbyist to tell Tesla's whereabouts, hoping to use this to 'blackmail' Long Hao.

Long Hao smiled wryly, and said, "Yunyao, why bother focusing on ironclad ships and submarines? I don't deny the importance of ironclad ships, but in my opinion, submarines are indeed the development direction of the navy in the future. With John Holland, the submarine master, we should invest in the construction of submarines now, so as to gain a technological lead over the European powers and the United States!"

Zheng Tingxiang has already fallen into the "magic barrier". At this moment, the stubbornness of the scholars came up, and the nine cows couldn't pull back: "No, Master Long, I think the submarine is a bottomless pit that wastes people's money! The future of submarines, It's not the development direction of the navy at all! If you insist on not regretting it and insist on reusing John Holland to vigorously develop submarines... I, Zheng Tingxiang, have no choice but to abandon your good intentions and leave Kunpeng Shipyard!"

"Yunyao, you, what nonsense are you talking about?! Hurry up and apologize to Master Long!"

Rong Shangqin didn't expect that Zheng Tingxiang, the 'unlucky boy', would go to a dead end when he left for a while?

If the young master wants to build a submarine, let him build it!

You don't know how rich our young master is!

Why do we have to distinguish either one or the other?

It's easy for you to let go, so where should I put the face of the introducer?

"I won't apologize, and I didn't talk nonsense. My head is very clear!" Zheng Tingxiang may have also risked it. He and Long Hao looked at each other without giving way: "Master Long, you may not have missed your previous decision, but It was true in the past, but it doesn’t mean it will always be true in the future! I, Zheng Tingxiang, have this opinion. Shipyards should devote all their energy to developing large, fast, and strong ships. Conspiring with each other, hehe, anyway, I haven't officially become your employee yet, and I haven't taken your money, so I have the right to leave at any time, right?"

Zheng Tingxiang, along with Breeze, Abin and others, sorted out the set of "top shipbuilding materials" for more than a month. With this experience of more than a month, he is very confident that as long as the current research speed is maintained, the [-]-ton test ship will be completed. After the construction is completed, the group of boatmen who have received systematic training from the Kunpeng Shipyard are fully capable of building a large warship comparable to the United States!

At that time, with the backing of huge cannon ships, the Chinese could at least... be able to stand up in the United States!

Don't be bullied by foreigners!

Zheng Tingxiang was full of confidence in this and planned to roll up his sleeves at Long Hao's Kunpeng Shipyard and work hard, but now Long Hao suddenly shifted the research focus of the shipyard to submarines, which made it difficult for Zheng Tingxiang to accept for a while.

In any case, Zheng Tingxiang is also a great engineer who has achieved fame in the United States, and he is in charge of not one or two big projects, and there is always a bit of "speak for one thing" in his body. The field he is best at is actually quite unwilling in his heart.

Long Hao was very aware of this reluctance, so he smiled softly: "Yun Yao, I respect your persistence, but I also have my own considerations in choosing a submarine! You can't deny me just because of your persistence." judgment?"

Zheng Tingxiang raised his head and said, "I won't force Young Master Long, I just leave."

Long Hao said: "Don't worry, Yunyao, you are a great talent, I can't bear to let you go! Otherwise, since we can't convince each other, why don't we make a bet? If you win, I will give up and let Kunpeng win." The shipyard is studying the plan of the submarine, focusing on the development and construction of the 1-ton giant ship, but if you lose, you have to let go of your grudges and cooperate with Huo Lan to build a batch of Qianlong-[-] type submarines for me within two years! How about it, Yun Yao, do you dare to bet?" (To be continued...)