1855 United States Tycoon

As Carol mentioned, new power plants are under construction. Since the combination of alternator and transformer was widely promoted in the United States, in many European countries, the process of electrification has also begun. Among them, Germany and the United Kingdom have come to the fore. Needless to say, the United Kingdom, the Germans themselves are in power. The accumulation of technology is not bad, so they all quickly built power plants and started the process of electrification.

Regarding such a major issue, Scrooge's patent cannot completely restrict the British and Germans. Because the benefits here are too great. Therefore, they have adopted some methods to bypass patent authorization. For example, the British have widely used DC generators. Although Scrooge still has a lot of patents related to DC generators and DC motors, Scrooge's focus is on AC power after all, so DC power is Bian’s patent is much easier to bypass. As a result, there are few restrictions on patents.

Of course, after the emergence of transformers, the weakness of DC power compared to AC power was completely exposed, but at this time, many cities in the UK have already established a number of DC power plants, so there is no need to replace them. It's easy. Nowadays, some AC power plants that use Scrooge's patents and DC power plants that bypass the patent are in fierce competition. However, the final victory of AC power is still foreseeable.

The French also followed the same path as the British. Before Scrooge started investing in France, there was already a power plant in Paris. Of course, this was a small-scale DC power plant. However, in the subsequent revolution of the Paris Commune, this factory suffered considerable damage, so the homes of the wealthy people in Paris who had just used electric lights were now dark again.

After reaching a series of loan agreements with the Thiers government, whose hands were stained with the blood of workers, Scrooge's power plant began to be built in Paris. Not long after the project started, some problems gradually began to appear. The first is the trouble caused by class antagonism. However, the most unexpected thing was that the first person who came to the door was not the ruled against Scrooge and the others, but the wealthy French gang.The wages of workers in United States are higher than those in France. When Scrooge’s company first came to France, he considered the French people’s habit of rebellion and revolution, as well as their own advantages in technology, so he managed some management When the personnel left United States for France, Scrooge gave them this advice:

"Although the riots (Paris Commune Movement) caused by class contradictions in France have been suppressed, the main workers’ organizations have also been destroyed. From a political point of view, within a short period of time, French workers have launched large-scale strikes or other The possibility of destructive action is not high. But we still have to pay attention to this point, that is, we should not be the victims of sharp class antagonisms in France, and we cannot be a model for concepts such as'black-hearted capitalists'. This is not only It is because the French have a tradition of rebellion, but also because of the following reasons:

First of all, the rule of the Thiers government is not stable. The three most powerful forces in today's French politics actually don't really want to support him. He just chose without reaching a unified opinion. So whenever there is a turmoil, this government can easily collapse. Secondly-this is perhaps more important-the economic situation in France will not improve significantly in a short time. As French capital continues to flee from France, the unemployment rate of workers will become higher and higher, and the life of workers It will become more and more difficult. This difficulty will be much worse than what you have seen even in the hardest time in United States. So although the anger among the people has been suppressed, it may not be uncommon for it to erupt again. Although they are unable to carry out a full-scale revolution due to the destruction of the organization, small-scale strikes and demonstrations are very possible.

We are foreign companies, and countries in difficulties are almost innately xenophobic. The more difficult the situation, the more so. Not to mention that the Thiers government welcomes us to invest, but his position is not secure. Moreover, once a slightly more serious labor dispute occurs in our factory, some of our opponents may take advantage of this opportunity. Encourage xenophobia in society to make trouble against us.

But on the other hand, we can't completely move the set we had in United States, which would be considered a violation of the rules. It will attract opposition from other companies, including companies that are not in competition with us. So after you get there, you must carefully investigate and come up with a suitable plan according to local conditions. "

Because of this kind of admonition, when the company first arrived in France and began to build a power plant, Tim, who was in charge of this job, set the workers' wages slightly higher than the average local situation. Tim felt, By doing so, it will not only prevent the workers from making troubles because of their dissatisfaction, but also prevent the local snakes from feeling that they have broken the rules.

However, soon, trouble came. First, a newspaper in Paris suddenly published an article titled "McDonald's Infantry Arms Company and the Franco-Prussian War". A guy with the pseudonym D'Artagnan (a character in the novel "The Three Musketeers") revealed the old bottom of the Macdonald Consortium in this article. He told the French that the reason why the Germans were able to defeat France in the war, It is because they have used a large number of weapons produced by the McDonald Infantry Weapons Company. If it were not for this weapon company that can be counted in the world, and without the support of these war mongers to Prussia, France would probably not be defeated. No, it should be that France can definitely win.

In this article, "D'Artagnan" reviewed the history of the McDonald’s Infantry Arms Company and the entire McDonald’s consortium, exposing them in the Austrian and Italian wars, the United States Civil War, and Prussia and Austria. The Cuban war, and even the war between Prussia and France, has a dark history of making great war fortunes, and it is not without irony that: "However, the founder of this company, rear-mounted rifles, grenades, and just can blow up a foot The mine, the rapid-fire cannon that can quickly harvest life, the inventor of this series of unprecedentedly efficient killing weapons, Mr. Scrooge McDonald is said to be a philanthropist and a pacifist. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives because of his terrible inventions, and more people should be injured or even disabled for life for his inventions, but he still insists that his inventions'defend freedom and peace'." At the end of this article, this "D'Artagnan" finally showed a fox tail. He told the French that this company that single-handedly led to the defeat of France, now actually went to France to open a factory in order to make French money. Yes, the new factory called "Paris Exchange Power Plant" is being built by the MacDonald Consortium with money earned from the massacre of the French.

This is a very vicious article. It successfully provoked the hatred of the proud French towards foreign vampires. For several days, there were some idle and bored Paris citizens demonstrating there near the construction site of the Paris Exchange Power Plant. Protest. Although these guys did not cause any major disturbances because of the police watching, they often deliberately blocked roads and disrupted traffic, which greatly affected the construction speed of the project.

There is no doubt that someone behind this "D'Artagnan" must be instigating. But this matter does not belong to Tim, it is not within his scope of authority. He only needs to report this matter, and it will naturally send someone to deal with it. And his duty is to ensure the smooth progress of production as much as possible.

Of course, the simplest and rude way to deal with these people is to directly find a group of police officers and give them a vicious meal with a stick. But Tim knows, maybe some guys are waiting for him to do it? As long as you do this, someone will naturally write a new article in the newspaper and scold them, and there will be more intense conflicts and troubles. Therefore, it is better to have other methods.

However, Tim himself does not have much experience in handling such things, and the construction of this factory is so important to MacDonald’s future layout, so Tim, who did not dare to act rashly, passed the telegram and asked his superiors for "technology". guide".

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"Who did you think caused the trouble?" Scrooge looked at the report in his hand and said to Dorothea.

"There are many possible people. The French gang of big capital is the first suspicious object. Well, those guys are familiar with your resume... Guys in United States are also possible." Dorothea said.

"The big French capital is busy withdrawing from France and turning to Germany and the United States. At this time, it seems that they are not very meaningful. I really doubt whether that guy did it." Scrooge was calm. Said, it seems to be talking about something that has nothing to do with me.

"Who are you talking about?" Dorothea asked.

"Guess?" Scrooge sold it off.

Dorothea thought for a while, and said, "Don't you doubt it is Mr. Morgan? Why does he do this?"

“If he does this, it’s not difficult to understand, but it’s not necessarily him.” Scrooge said, “they will have the next step later. I can see how the next one is going, and I can roughly judge it. Who's up

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