1855 United States Tycoon

The threat of the union organization within MacDonald Steel France came to an end. After that, the factory successfully suppressed the average wage of workers to the average level in Europe, taking into account the ascending of labor intensity caused by the large-scale use of "Dali Pills". In fact, the wages contained in each product are even lower than the European average.

Relying on lower wages in fact, and steel products whose quality is slightly lower than that of British and German steel, but at cheaper prices, McDonald Steel France began to conquer cities in Europe. By the end of 1871, the products of McDonald Steel France had occupied nearly half of the French market. The bridges, railways, and ships being built in France use a lot of cheap steel from McDonald Steel France.

Of course, in some special Realm, better quality steel should be used. For example, when building ships on the North Sea to Iceland and then to Canada, it’s best not to use cheap steel from McDonald Steel France, because although McDonald’s technology leads the world in removing sulfur and phosphorus impurities, But reducing Impurities also requires a cost. If you insist on removing the Impurities in the iron ore with more Impurities to the level of steel made from high-quality iron ore, it is not impossible. But doing so will cost the steel you finally get. It is much higher than using high-quality iron ore directly. Therefore, the steel smelted from inferior iron ore from McDonald Steel can only say that the content of Impurities is better than that of other manufacturers using the same iron ore, but its inherent problem of high sulfur and phosphorus content is still existing.

This also causes the steel to become brittle under cold conditions. If something collides or something happens, Ken will easily break. The original historical "Titanic", one of the major reasons why it would sink when it hits, is because the steel used for it contains too much phosphorus and becomes very brittle in cold sea water.

Generally speaking, McDonald Steel France is still very ethical. When selling these steels to shipbuilding companies, they have informed them of this problem with this type of steel. But how much French shipbuilding companies have heard, whether they are only used to make ships that specialize in the warm southern waters, then God knows. In general, you have to trust the conscience and integrity of the capitalists.

...

Just after the New Year in 1872, a heavy snow covered the entire New England area. The snow continued to fall for a whole day, and the whole of New York was covered by a thick layer of snow. Early the next morning, the sky cleared, and the duck castle covered with white snow was covered with a thick layer of snow, making it more and more like a fairy tale world.

Children are always the happiest after it snows. Now there are three children in Duck Castle, the little lady Dana, and Dana’s No. 1 follower Donald and No. 2 follower Grey Stone. Now Little Greystone is able to run around, but he is not very good at talking, only yells a few simple words, and among these words, he has the best, the most standard, and also The one that can barely become a sentence is probably "Big sis, etc.".

But just like most of the time, young children always prefer to play with older children, but older children may not be, but they may not be willing to play with their obviously stupid little brothers. This is also true in Scrooge's family. It's just that Dena and Donald were both educated by their parents, or they were coerced and lured, and had to play with the little Brother, so they had to take this little follower. But they soon discovered that this little sergeant is actually very useful. For example, many times, if you can’t do something by yourself, if you do it, your mother will raise an eyebrow to criticize "I don’t look like a lady" or " It’s not like an educated gentleman." But nowadays, many things will be fine as long as they are encouraged a little bit and let Greystone take the lead. Aunt Dorothea might say, "These guys are too skinny." But Scrooge Uncle will answer almost immediately, "Ah, let them take time to play before they go to school. Otherwise, wait. Going to school..." So everyone can have fun.

After the snow this time, the three little guys ran to the open space in the garden to make snowmen, snowball fights or something as usual. Dana and Donald are rolling a big snowball—this is the snowman's body, while Little Greystone is pushing a small snowball like the Big Brother Big sis—this is the snowman's head.With the help of the servants, the three little guys quickly piled up the snowman. But at this time Dena looked a little dissatisfied with the snowman she had piled up.

"It's still a little too small." Dena said finally, looking at Own's work critically.

"I heard my mother said that when she was a child she used to pile up a big snowman as tall as two adults." Donald also said. In fact, many moms and dads will brag to the children, but the children tend to believe it.

"Baby, baby, big, big." Little Greystone also yelled. He is not very good at speaking yet, but he can understand what other people are saying, and he has some wishes to express.

"The point is that there is not enough snow. The snowball is too small." Donald said.

"You can't push more of it." Dena said disapprovingly, and suddenly her big eyes narrowed, as if she had thought of another horrible idea.

"Why don't we go to the road outside to push the snowball. There is a lot of snow there, and it's a slope. It doesn't take much effort to push it up. I dare say that when we roll a big snowball all the way to the bottom, it must already have it? The house is so big." Dena said suddenly.

"Okay, let's push a snowball bigger than the house!" No. 1 follower responded first.

"Baby, baby, go." The second follower also expressed support.

"Anna Aunt, let's go snowball outside, okay?" To implement the plan smoothly, you must get the consent of Anna, who is in charge of them.

"Dana, Donald, just have fun here. Because there is no snow on the mountain road outside." Anna said.

"But Anna Aunt, how is this possible?" Donald asked with a flushed face.

"That's right, won't it snow on the mountain road?" Dena also said.

"Of course it will snow on the mountain road, but there are workers who can sweep the snow." Anna explained.

"Then let's see the workers sweeping the snow." Donald said as he reached out and shook Anna's skirt.

Anna thought for a while and said, "Well, let's call you Brutus Uncle, let’s go out and have a look."

...

Brutus took a few bodyguards, stood beside the three children and Anna, and appeared on the mountain road outside Duck Castle. On the mountain road, a group of thin-clothed workers are cleaning the snow on the mountain road with shovels and brooms. Where the snow has been shoveled away, the black asphalt road has been exposed. There are also workers carrying sacks of salt and sprinkling them on the road.

"What are they spreading?" Dena asked.

"It's salt, used to melt snow. Otherwise, there will be ice and snow on the mountain road, it will be very slippery, and there will be danger when the carriage goes in and out." Anna patiently explained to them.

"Aren't they cold when they wear so little? Why don't they wear down jackets?" Without the barrier of the Duck Castle wall, the mountain breeze came directly, and Donald felt a bit cold, so he asked.

"Of course it's cold. But they don't have down jackets." Anna's voice was a little erratic.

"Why don't they buy it?" Donald continued to ask questions when the child was curious at this time.

"Of course it's because there is no money to buy it." Dena interrupted suddenly.

"Where did the money come from?" Donald continued.

"Take it out of my mother's wallet." Dena said.

"Anne Aunt, you say it." Apparently, Donald was not satisfied with Dana's answer.

"Money is earned by work. They are working now." Annie replied.

"Then why do they still have no money to buy down jackets?" Donald was still confused.

...

This heavy snow has also spread to Ohio, but the snow here is obviously a lot smaller, only a little bit is sprinkled on the roof, and it is not even enough to whiten the ground. In some places, even the roof is not white. For example, the roof of the University of Cleveland Laboratory on Lake Erie is still red. Because of the machine running there, the heat emitted directly melted the little snowflake that was falling.

"Tell us about these engines." Scrooge asked a man who looked like an engineer. Rockefeller followed him.

"Okay, Mr. MacDonald. Please come with me," the man replied. Then the man took Scrooge and Rockefeller to a machine and introduced them:

"Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Rockefeller, this is the most stable of our machines. This is a four-stroke gasoline engine. It has six cylinders and a cylinder volume of four liters. According to our test, it runs on it. After getting up, it can produce a full twenty horsepower. And its small size can be mounted on a carriage. Then the carriage can run as fast as a train, or even faster than a train." The engineer is boasting about this epoch-making machine to Scrooge.

"This little thing can have 20 horsepower? How stable is it running?" Rockefeller asked. The twenty-horsepower gasoline engine is a joke for later generations. In the era before Scrooge crossed over, if an engine with a displacement of up to 4.0 had only 20 horsepower, it would definitely be laughed to death. But in this era, this is already a big terrible number.

"It runs on the engine platform for an average of forty hours, and there will be a little failure, but in general it is easy to solve. In general, it is much easier to serve than a horse." The engineer replied.

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