1855 United States Tycoon

Seeing Dorothea very earnestly confessing that Edison's gang would be crushed to death due to profit considerations, Scrooge laughed again.

"What are you laughing at? What's so funny?" Dorothea glared at Scrooge, very upset and asked with a guilty conscience. Seeing Scrooge's smile, she wondered if she had another stupid idea.

"Dorothea, sit down. Let's talk slowly." Scrooge said.

Upon hearing this, Dorothea was basically certain that there was something wrong with her own idea. She followed Scrooge and sat down on the couch, resting her head on Scrooge's shoulder comfortably, and said, "Okay, let's talk quickly."

"Remember what the first principle of business warfare is?" Scrooge asked, flicking Dorothea's long hair lightly with his hands.

"Who is our friend, who is our enemy!" Dorothea replied without hesitation.

Dorothea’s answer is of course derived from Scrooge’s previous teaching to her, and Scrooge’s teaching to her is naturally copied from a famous revolutionary quote by a later revolutionary teacher. Scrooge has always felt that this sentence can not only guide complicated class revolutions, but also guide the same complicated internal struggles between the bourgeoisie.

"Ah, I see, you mean our enemies are not Edison, but Morgan?" Dorothea reacted immediately.

"That's right." Scrooge said approvingly. "Think about it again. If we dealt with Edison and them severely, for example, we created a laboratory accident and asked Edison to see God or something, and by the way, he would give his name. Staying on the list of the most stupid way of death in the history of scientific research, what blow does this have to our enemies? If you were Morgan, would you think this was a setback?"

After a while of silence, Dorothea replied: "If I were Morgan, I would be very happy to see such a result. Because I just made a verbal promise to lose the core department of the McDonald family. He was the most outstanding project manager. Moreover, Edison had just put forward a series of requirements to us, and in a blink of an eye, he died because of an "accident". Other people in the big laboratory may also have many bad ideas. This is obviously It will severely dampen the morale of our scientific research team. No matter how you look at it, Morgan has been in this round of competition, with almost zero cost, severely hitting us. And if we agree to Edison’s threat, on the one hand, our Economic interests will be damaged. On the other hand, we must also worry that other people will follow suit. In this way, a union that is out of our control and whose interests deviate from ours will be at the core of us. Appeared. Morgan is... really amazing. How can we deal with his trick?"

"Let Edison move to Morgan's side." Scrooge let go of Dorothea's hand, stretched his waist, and leaned back against the back of the thick sofa, saying irresponsibly. , "It's going to rain, my mother is going to marry someone, let him go!"

"How can this work? Are you dizzy?" Dorothea was dissatisfied again.

"Don't rush to conclusions. Think about it," Scrooge said. "I remind you, if Morgan knew I had nothing, would he still do it? Why?"

This question is not particularly difficult, so Dorothea just thought for a while and answered: "If I were Morgan, if I knew you were still alive, I would definitely not do it, because even if I took Edison away, etc. What's the use of people? The development of science and technology has gradually gone beyond the stage where a genius can make a lot of money immediately by tapping an idea that comes out of his head. More is to rely on a large amount of investment to advance. If Edison is dug out, but it cannot provide him with a research environment comparable to a large laboratory, then what use is it for Edison to come over? Is it to raise them for nothing? Besides, even if it is for nothing, would they be willing to raise them? Those scientists, those engineers are not necessarily willing to be a big fat pig that eats and waits to die."

This statement is definitely correct. Scrooge knew that in another time and space, when a powerful and unbreakable alliance collapsed and disintegrated, the world’s top scientists and engineers under its banner became wildly robbed of the world’s top scientists and engineers. Sweet pastry. Whether it is a helpful bald eagle, a harmless little white rabbit of humans and animals, or a low-key perfume chicken that never disturbs the John Bull, or Hans Meow, or a big white elephant, or even a Persian camel, they have joined This gluttonous feast. Those responsible for researching mushroom cultivation technology and technology bears are even more sought after by all parties. Among them, the Persian Camel pays the highest annual salary, which is said to be more than 400,000 pounds a year, which is even several times the annual salary given by the bald eagle, which is famous for its wealth. However, in the end, most of these mushroom planting experts were divided up by them, and the Persian camels grabbed very few. Why is this so? Because Persian camels do not even have the most basic laboratory conditions. Anyone with a little bit of ambition in scientific research can't tolerate such conditions.

Seeing Scrooge nod slightly, Dorothea knew that she was right this time. So she added: "What's more, scientific research is now a rather risky investment. If a large amount of scientific research funding is smashed, perhaps the final gain is just proof of one point-this is nowhere. In your words. That is, I clicked the wrong technology tree, and then a lot of money was lost.

Oh, it's not even the scariest. The most frightening thing is that after experiencing endless failures and spending countless amounts of money, I finally went on the right path, and then just when it was about to succeed, it was heard that the opponent had already succeeded in the first step and succeeded. The news that a patent was registered locally. That is simply... I can't imagine what kind of language should be used to describe this situation. As long as there is one or two failures like this, the entire team, from investors to researchers, should begin to doubt life.

And this terrible situation is not impossible, as long as you are okay, such a situation will almost easily occur. Because in this world, there is no better person than you in terms of new technology development. You have never missed the project and the direction you pointed out! Even the possible difficulties and basic solutions in the development process are the same. This makes it impossible for anyone to compete with your technology research Realm. Scrooge, you are so bad! Do you want Morgan to spend a lot of money to build a laboratory, then invest a lot of money in related research, and then give them a guy when they are close to success? But in this way, you have to pretend to be in a deep coma for a while. However, we will lose such useful researchers as Edison forever. His departure will not bring us too much loss, will it? "

"Of course there is a loss. But it is not intolerable." Scrooge said, "After all, for a period of time in the future, we must consolidate the results while waiting for the children to grow. There is no need to expand quickly. And I am here, I'm afraid what?"

When saying this, Scrooge thought: "Edison’s greatest strength, the strongest place is actually in the electrical aspect, but in the electrical aspect, which technologies have a promising future, which technologies have no future, which electrical appliances have a market, and which ones No, is there anyone who knows better than me, a traverser? The simplest point is that technology and electrical products that have not been popular in later generations are wrong and have no future. So in this respect, I really don’t need it. Edison who can come up with some new electrical appliances in a whimsical way-this job is enough for me-what I really need is a bunch of good engineers."...

As Edison expected, the Macdonald Consortium did not approve his request. This is normal, because everyone knows that the Macdonald Consortium is in a difficult situation. After losing Scrooge, there are too many problems in their future development. How can they agree to such a request at this time? In fact, many projects in large laboratories are not to say that they have received more funding, and even the existing funding is facing reductions, and those researchers at the lower level are facing the risk of unemployment. At this time, how could Edison's plan be realized?

Edison also knew that the consortium could not fully accept his request, but he originally thought that the consortium would negotiate with him, and then everyone stepped back, so they might be able to get a new agreement. After all, Scrooge is no longer there. In terms of electrical engineering, no one is stronger and more valuable than himself. He is already the boss in this regard, not only in the United States, but also in the world. And the old nature should have the worth of the boss. Obviously, the previous remuneration is no longer appropriate for him. The Macdonald consortium should also understand this, and then negotiate with him to give a new price.

The Macdonald Consortium did express their willingness to further negotiate with Edison, but their attitude was exceptionally determined. They were only willing to raise Edison's salary by a small margin, but were resolutely unwilling to give Edison any "technology shares."

"Mr. Edison, you should understand that if we agree to give you'technology shares' today, other experts will make similar demands tomorrow. This is intolerable to the consortium. As for the alternatives you proposed The plan, that is, to substantially increase the salary of you and your team, which is also impossible to achieve, because it will severely destroy our salary structure..." In short-do you want money, horrible? I can't give it to you either.

Such an attitude naturally made Edison particularly angry. He even felt that he was despised and insulted. So he started to contact Morgan.

...

"Everyone, I can tell you a good news. The most famous and important researcher in the MacDonald Consortium, Thomas Edison, has indicated to me that he is willing to bring his team to our side." Morgan said this to his allies at the meeting of the league.

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