Chapter 485 Going against the grain

Chapter 485 Going against the grain

Chapter 485 Going against the grain
If you really want to jump into the river, would you still have the mind to call someone?

Shao Quanzhong knew Old Zhang too well as a gambler. Gamblers were shameless and he called to beg him to keep his lucrative job in Qiaoyuan Purchasing.

Shao Quanzhong had just returned from a nostalgic trip to Shengjing, and his heart suddenly softened.

Alas, I have been rich and powerful in both of my lives, and Old Zhang - alas, he never gave me any help in the past, and was beaten to death early in a casino in a small village.

Saints also have selfish desires, and Shao Quanzhong is not a saint. He sighed and his tone suddenly became generous, "Isn't it just one million? It's nothing."

Turning back, he said, "Maria, transfer another 1 million taels to Old Zhang's account from my personal account."

Turning back to the phone, he said, "We can't let the American casino take our money away. You go and win it back!"

This was the treatment that all gamblers in the world dreamed of. Old Zhang was so happy that he cheered and left, even forgetting to hang up the phone.

Shao Quanzhong put down the phone. Maria shook her head while making the money transfer call. Shao had never done such an unreasonable thing.

I have inquired privately and found out that Shao's father and mother had never been to the outside of the Great Wall before. Shao Quanzhong must be Shao's father's biological son. It is really strange that he would be so nice to such an unrelated person from the outside of the Great Wall and would not care about principles.

“Maria—”

"Hey!"

Maria was stunned and was a beat slow to react.

"Please connect me to Haiqing's call."

Haiqing was also in Meiyi, in Philadelphia, escorting Shao Jiliang to the Philadelphia Exposition. He was in the Qing branch of the Daxia Pavilion.

Many heads of state would attend every World Expo, and Daxia would send Foreign Minister Rong Hong to lead the team.

As a vassal state of Daxia, our Qing Dynasty also participated in the exhibition.

Shao Jiliang liked this kind of excitement the most. He went to Philadelphia in person to play, gamble, smoke marijuana, and look for foreign women - ahem, that's wrong, he went to cheer for the Qing Dynasty's exhibits.

"Third brother, there is something I cannot do with public funds, so you can help me run a trip. I gave that old Zhang one million silver coins to make up for the loss, so you can take the skilled and brave eunuchs to help take care of it."

"Okay, second brother, just wait and see. With my help, it will be hard for Old Zhang to lose."

Haiqing is a gambling god with real skills. Usually, the second brother always forbids himself from gambling, and his hands have been itching for a long time. Now he is ordered to gamble, which is simply a blessing from heaven. The second brother is finally like a normal tyrant.

This - why would Wang Yongxian send Old Zhang to do such an important thing as purchasing equipment?
In fact, Daxia’s self-produced machine tools are already at the same level as German machine tools, so there is no need to buy German products.

Germany was reluctant to sell its really good machine tools because it was so short of money. It just wanted to clear out the excess military production capacity during the war and make some pocket money.

Daxia doesn't need this thing, but the vassal states and satellite states do. Wang Yongxian sent people there to see if there were any machine tools for sale at a discount price, and to get as much as possible at a discount.

They didn't expect this to be of any use to Daxia itself, so they sent an unimportant person and didn't bring much money.

The job that Old Zhang took was just a job of collecting scraps to make a profit, and it also allowed him to go to the United States for some fun on a business trip.

Shao Quanzhong takes extra care of Old Zhang's family. As an adopted son, no matter what the reason, he has to support his godfather, right? It's just a matter of convenience.

The gambler Old Zhang went to the Philadelphia Casino again with a check for one million taels of silver. Suddenly, he seemed to be blessed by gods and Buddhas. His luck was very good and he won many bets one after another. He made back the one million silver that he had lost before and left happily with the banknote.

I heard that if you win more than 100,000 taels, you can't leave the casino? Old Zhang said that he didn't see the legendary casino thugs and killers? The American casino is very reasonable and friendly.

The casino killer who fell in the alley, covered in blood, turned into a eunuch: ...

Since the end of the Western Expedition, Haiqing hasn't done this job for a long time...

After lavishly purchasing equipment at a bargain price of two million taels of silver and entrusting a transport merchant to transport the goods to northern Japan and Lucia, which had just joined the Economic Exchange Association, Old Zhang returned home in high spirits, not knowing where his good luck came from.

A gambling god is born, backed by the most powerful force on earth.

…………Hailing, Qiaoyuan, Shao Quanzhong, who had just gone against the grain and violated principles for once, and had his third brother lead people to almost rob the Philadelphia casino, received good news - Xiaoxiangya had developed wireless telegraphy.

Shao Quanzhong immediately rushed to Xiaoxiang Cliff. Also present were Daxia Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong and Daxia Planning and Investment Committee Chairman Wang Yongxian.

Zhang Siwen hasn't returned from the Austro-Hungarian Empire yet, otherwise he would definitely be there.

This was the first time that Shao Quanzhong's huge investment in electromagnetics had paid off, and it was shocking.

At Xiaoxiang Cliff, gongs and drums were beating and colorful flags were fluttering. Popov, who invented the wireless telegraph, was wearing red clothes and a red flower on his chest. Shao Quanzhong personally handed him a reward check for 500,000 taels of silver.

In the second month of Hertz's electromagnetic experiment, Popov had already made a simple radio transceiver.

But they were very rigorous in their scientific work, so they modified Hertz's prototype and thought that sending and receiving messages over a distance of two miles was not a very big deal, so they kept adjusting the structure and increasing the power.

With sufficient financial and human support, and clear design goals proposed by Shao Quanzhong, Popov worked overtime day and night, eating and sleeping in the laboratory. Half a year later, the shortwave transceiver is now capable of global communications.

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At the Philadelphia World Expo, a press conference was held at the Daxia Pavilion, but unexpectedly it was not held in the exhibition hall, but in the stadium.

A 120-meter-high temporary iron tower has just been built in the middle of the stadium. It is very simple and no one knows what it is used for.

This thing was built with diesel-powered hoisting equipment, which is also an exhibit of Daxia. The large equipment built the base, and then the small equipment was hoisted onto the base to continue construction. It took only a few days to assemble such a frame.

Is Daxia trying to demonstrate its industrial strength and "Daxia speed" and take the opportunity to sell their diesel equipment?

The "Shen Kuo" airship stopped directly next to the shelf and brought the equipment after twenty days of sailing. The person who came out for display was not the diesel crane representative from Fengyang Heavy Machinery Plant, but Shao Quanren, the president of Daxia Telecom who came with the airship.

"We have arrived at the scene in Philadelphia. Please give us your instructions, Marshal."

“I wish the Philadelphia World’s Fair a great success.”

In full view of journalists and dignitaries from various countries attending the World Expo, the wireless telegraph communication from Hailing to Philadelphia across the Pacific Ocean was successfully carried out at one go.

"I declare that all wired telegraphs are obsolete. We at Daxia Telecom have developed a wireless telegraph communication device and have simultaneously registered patents with all patent agencies around the world. We are now accepting orders from all over the world."

The explosive news spread all over the world immediately, and Daxia Telecom’s orders were overwhelmed and scheduled for a year later.

The bosses of various countries who invested in cable telegraph were gnashing their teeth and wished they could eat Shao Quanren alive.

But it was useless. Even if Shao Quanren was swallowed up, it couldn't stop Daxia from launching wireless telegraph.

If a small private company came up with this, it would be a good outcome if it was acquired and made a small fortune. If the new technology was frozen for who knows how many years, it would not be surprising if the inventor died inexplicably.

But Daxia Telecom, with Daxia as its backer, is not afraid of this. Huge profits must be backed by violence, it must.

Historically, Popov had no assistants, no sufficient funds, no good scientific research environment like Xiaoxiangya, and no one to guide the design goals. He independently invented radio in 1895. It was not until 1924 that wireless telegraphy began commercial operation...

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Hailing, at the Xiaoxiang Cliff radio transmission and reception site, Maxwell covered his abdomen in severe pain, looking weak but with a look of satisfaction on his face.

As a theorist, I have not only seen the electromagnetic theory derived purely by mathematics and logical thinking being verified by experiments during my lifetime, but I have also seen its applications benefit people all over the world. I am already satisfied.

"Old Mai, if you're not feeling well, go see Doctor Fei."

"Yes, I will."

Shao Quanzhong got angry when he saw Tesla behind Mac. This guy got the recommendation of Franz I, spent his own tuition, and became Mac's disciple complacently, but he still hasn't achieved anything.

Look at Old Mac's other two disciples, they have achieved results, but you are a useless waste.

(End of this chapter)