"Stepping on ......"

As Joshua's carriage departed, John stood at the gate for a moment, enjoying the warm sunshine of the afternoon, before turning back into the house.

It's Saturday, there are no lessons to learn, and Joshua has just left, so he can't seem to find anything to do for a while. So John, after being stunned on the sand in the living room for a while, felt a little bored, and simply went upstairs to his study and put up the sketchboard.

"Draw something?"

Holding the charcoal, John looked at the snow-white drawing board in a daze.

From the day Miss Philip came to live at home, John chose painting as his main direction of artistic attainment, after all, according to the old Huntelaar's requirements, he needed to know most of the art forms, and at the same time to master at least one, if only a very rudimentary mastery.

After careful consideration, John chose painting with a little utilitarianism, and did intend to at least learn sketching as a kind of skill reserve for himself, but he would never have thought that after more than a month, under the slow guidance of Miss Philip, he really liked the feeling of drawing with charcoal, so much so that sometimes he even thought that if he had the opportunity to contact it in his previous life, he might become an art specialty......

"It's better to keep it simple, draw a teacup."

After looking around the room for a long time, most of John's items were too difficult for him, so he had to choose a simple gadget. After all, he is a beginner, and he has only been in contact with it for more than a month, and it is already very good to be able to draw a cup.

But after making the first strokes on the paper, John's head suddenly became a little careless.

"If you really want to set up a factory, what kind of business will you do?"

Charcoal scribbled on the paper, but John's mind was contemplating the conversation he had with Joshua in the morning.

Running a factory and doing business was not the product of John's whim. In fact, he once thought that it would be enough to have a clump thigh for a lifetime, and he would be looking for those famous guys in history, such as the current Bell Phone and Colgate, and the future General Electric, Ford Motor, etc., to invest in shares or buy stocks, and he will be comfortable for the rest of his life. But after thinking about it, I still plan to do something by myself, and I need funds to invest in the future, right?

If it were a good idea, John would have received at least $30,000 from Edison, plus Joshua's promise of $10,000, which would be a lot of money, at least enough to build a modest factory in New York today. But which aspect to invest in has become a headache for John at this time.

It stands to reason that there are countless things in his memory, even if most of them are impossible to achieve due to technical reasons, but some things that only need creativity and do not require much professional knowledge are still relatively easy. For example, he once considered bathroom equipment such as toilets, and then some simple furniture and facilities, and even clothing, toys, etc., but after thinking about it carefully, John was a little intimidated.

In this day and age, is it really acceptable to those things?

For example, clothes, John can naturally design things that were popular in later generations, but the women in the world today are all long skirts, the men's old-fashioned dresses, and even the suits have just been formed, and the design of the former will only make the gentlemen and ladies of this era regard it as heresy and make a mess.

Moreover, most people in New York City have just solved the problem of food and clothing, do they really have enough financial strength to buy?

John didn't want the factory he built to only produce something that the rich could afford, so that although he could make money, it wouldn't have much development after all, and if he wanted to become bigger, it would be most practical to target ordinary people.

"The easiest thing is to build a pharmaceutical factory!"

Soon, John couldn't help but think about his old job. It's just that in the blink of an eye, he overturned this idea himself. Leaving aside how to explain the appearance of these drugs for the time being, it is too difficult to make these drugs. Although he has a particularly clear memory of his past life because of the benefits of time travel, and remembers the molecular formulas of many chemical drugs, how to form the product is a difficult problem. The current chemical industry is not enough to support the manufacture of most pharmaceuticals in the future.

But......

After a long silence, John's eyes suddenly lit up, and he remembered the name of a drug.

"If it were it, there would be no problem!"

John pondered secretly: "Not only can it obtain huge benefits, but it is not difficult to make it, the only thing that needs to be considered is how to give it 'light'...... Well, this can't be rushed, definitely not rushed! ”

Subconsciously, John shook his head vigorously.

The interests involved in this thing are too great, and it is easy to attract many bloodthirsty sharks in this era. And as far as the current environment is concerned, the time of the patent period is limited, and if you want to maximize the benefits, now is not the time to take it out! ”

"Think again, think again."

Shaking his head with a bit of a headache, John urged himself to return to the train of thought just now: "I still have to think of something practical, I can make it now!" ”

On the one hand, he really doesn't understand, without any technology and foundation, and on the other hand, he also knows very well that with big names like Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie, it's okay to make a small fuss, and if you make it bigger, you will inevitably encounter the fate of annexation. This era is the most active and unscrupulous era for giants!

What's more, the tens of thousands of dollars he threw into these fields basically couldn't even be heard.

As for the factories in New York City, John also learned a little about Joshua, the most of which was the clothing industry, which numbered in the thousands, and the rest, such as sugar production, construction, machine manufacturing, etc., were not very suitable for him.

"You can only start from the places of food, clothing, housing and transportation!"

Soon, John made up his mind.

As I said earlier, John would not have considered this aspect of clothing, he did not understand the changes in fashion clothes more than a hundred years ago, and even the textile industry, which was the easiest to make money in this era, because he was completely a layman, and it was difficult to compete with others. Needless to say, food and housing are one of the most painful memories of Americans in this era, and frying land has long been done to the extreme by the Astor family.

"It's kind of funny to ask me to make a car now!"

When he thought of this last one, John himself couldn't help but laugh. If it is more than 20 years later, and in the case of abundant capital, he can consider buying a car company, such as Buick or something, and invest heavily to attract scientific and technological personnel to improve the performance of the car. But forget it now, the car hasn't been figured out yet, and he doesn't even understand the basic principles of that thing, how can he do it?

"At our level, it's almost the same as getting a bicycle!"

Smiling self-deprecatingly, John threw the charcoal in his hand on the table. The result of his absent-mindedness was that his attempt to draw a cup was completely abandoned, and a strange thing lay there on the drawing paper, which didn't look like a ...... anyway

"Huh?!

Suddenly, John's body froze as if it had been struck by a bolt of lightning.

What did you just say?

Bicycle?

John's eyes burst with a hint of joy, and he suddenly slapped his thigh hard!

"This can be done!"

……

Seeing some of the comments in the book review area, I couldn't help but explain.

My books have always been slow to burn, and they always seem to have a depressing beginning, and I'm aware of that. But to be honest, I also want to get to the point and write directly about the plot of the protagonist killing all sides in the medical world. But as an absolutely reasonable party, I really can't do that.

Maybe everyone will think that the protagonist is not happy to be entangled and entangled, but I personally think it's okay. If you understand the status of doctors in that era and the medical environment at that time (which will be presented to you later), I think normal people should not return to their old jobs, after all, there are too many benefits for travelers. So it's going to take a process, at least for me, a reasonable party.

Moreover, are these things written earlier useless?

Dear, the previous content, such as the plot of inviting a tutor and running a factory, if I don't have it, it will be difficult for me to do it later. Like running a factory, it is very important for the protagonist to show in the future, after all, I can't let the protagonist be like other contemporaries of the big bulls, and it is possible to have enough power until he is thirty or forty years old, so everyone will be even more reluctant to watch it.

That's why I'll say that at the end of the first volume, please be patient.

I originally wanted to reply in the book review area, but considering that many book friends may have such questions, I will reply here. I will also seriously consider speeding up the progress of the previous episodes, reducing the length of the text, and trying to enter the real medical stage as soon as possible.

In any case, I still want to thank you for your support, after all, I can give comments to explain that I have read this book carefully, and it is very rare when there are so few chapters, thank you!

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