For three million dollars, John bought a two-percent stake in Tesla. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If calculated strictly according to the valuation, Tesla's 20% stake may not be worth so much money, but don't forget that the related technology of wireless broadcasting has been perfected, and it may be put into commercial use in two or three years, which is a huge amount of wealth, so three million dollars is still underestimated. And after all, the two have been working together for so many years, and John doesn't want to have a bad relationship with Tesla in the future because of this little thing, otherwise, he won't count the 10% of the shares mortgaged.

In addition to a half-percent stake in the technical backbone, John completed the control of Motorola.

What Tesla is going to do with three million dollars, John doesn't care anymore, because he has already begun to work on changing the name of Motorola. As one of the core industries of the future Huntelaar family, the name change to Huntelaar Communications Company was an inevitable result, but after thinking twice, John still retained the name of Tesla Labs. As one of the company's founders and the founder of the technology, Tesla deserves this honor, because John firmly believes that Tesla Labs will definitely surpass Bell Labs in the future......

After taking care of the chores, John began to devote himself to preparing for the opening ceremony of Huntelaar University.

In the mind of the traverser, perhaps spending $3 million to acquire a stake in Tesla was far less important than the opening ceremony, and he spent a week perfecting the details with Lowell, Dewey, and others. Although the enrollment of the entire university, including the Huntelaar School of Medicine, is only 700, which means that there are less than 1,000 students, in order to make his school quickly famous in the United States, John does not have the slightest intention of opening a low-key school.

Do it big, that's a must!

In order to do this, John dragged the old man and sent out hundreds of invitations!

Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell, and later the Ivy League all received invitations from Huntelaar University, plus a young Hopkins University, and the best universities in the Northeast were wiped out. It's not that John didn't want to invite other universities, such as the University of California, Stanford, etc., but considering the transportation conditions of this era, he finally chose several famous universities nearby.

The mayor of New York, the chief of police and other politicians will inevitably attend, and the bigger Theodore? Roosevelt, of course, would not have missed this opportunity to have a relationship with the Kim master. In recent years, the Huntelaar family has spared no effort to support him, not only in terms of money, but also in terms of political ideas, for which John even did not hesitate to confront monopoly giants such as Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, and Roosevelt could not fail to reciprocate.

What's more, John sent invitations to supergiants such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and Vanderbilt.

These people are and will continue to be supporters of higher education in the United States, although Rockefeller and Carnegie and others have their own donated universities, but since they are in New York City, what is the point of a relationship in advance? The development of the university requires an innumerable amount of money, whether it is for his own school or for the future development of China, John needs these magnificent giants. Especially Rockefeller, he didn't want Rockefeller to give up his strong support for Peking Union Medical College in the future because of his appearance......

Finally, by the end of August, everything was ready.

On the 31st before the ceremony, John held a grand welcome dinner to welcome the representatives of the universities and colleges who had come from afar. Perhaps because of John's own great achievements in physics and medicine, several major universities are very face-saving, including Mr. Eliot, the president of Harvard University, and Mr. Gilman, who is about to retire from Hopkins University. Of course, the deans of the medical schools and the professors of the physics schools of the nine universities are almost all present, and no one in these two fields will not give John a personal face......

On this occasion, John invited his grandfather anyway.

In any case, the name of Huntelaar University is given after the family name, which will be a permanent honor. Therefore, the elder Huntelaar was also very happy to give an enthusiastic speech at the welcome dinner to welcome the arrival of representatives of various universities. Although the five-minute speech was not long, after all, he was old, and the slightly excited old Huntelaar at the end was a little out of breath, which made John a little worried.

"Don't worry, it's okay."

Waving his hand, old Huntelaar smiled and comforted his grandson: "I know my body, but I'm just a little tired...... I'll go back later, and you can entertain these distinguished guests. ”

After observing carefully and finding that there was indeed nothing wrong with his grandfather, John nodded steadily and said, "Okay...... In addition, my grandfather has received a clear reply from Rockefeller and others, including Carnegie, who will not come to this ceremony. ”

"Well, that's to be expected."

Narrowing his eyes slightly, old Huntelaar nodded absently.

For the opening ceremony of a university, it would be strange if busy people like Vanderbilt and Morgan could find time to attend. As for Carnegie, who had just sold the company, it is estimated that it will not be possible to recover from his gloom and sadness for a while, and it is normal not to come. Anyway, when I first sent out the invitation, I was trying my luck, and these people didn't come, which just made people feel a little more regretful.

After a few words of explanation from John, old Huntelaar departed.

Seeing off his grandfather, John immediately blended into the warm atmosphere of the dinner. Tomorrow is the day of the opening ceremony, so all the guests rushed to New York today, except for the presidents of the ten universities, the deans of the other medical schools, and the professors of physics. But think about it, in this era, except for a very few fields such as X-ray, there is no intersection between the two at all, and there are far less intersecting fields than in later generations.

Only John? Huntelaar is an absolute exception.

Although he has not made much progress in the field of medicine recently, John has not been idle, and has been constantly refining his books based on the "research results" of the Huntelaar Medical School and papers from all over the world, which are revised almost every two years. In this era of ultra-rapid development of medicine, it is possible to keep up with the pace of the times so closely, and the series of textbooks of Huntelaar Medical School can be regarded as unique.

However, in the face of the eager expressions of the medical scientists and physicists, John could only return the apologetic look, and first walked to the small circle of ten university presidents: "Gentlemen, what are you talking about?" ”

"Haha, we're talking about sports competitions between a few colleges."

As Xiao Zhang of Huntelaar University, Lowell naturally wanted to give the boss a face, and said with a smile: "Harvard, Yale, and Columbia universities often hold some competitions, and now John's basketball is also one of them, and it is also the most popular sport!" ”

Four prestigious schools, probably the first collegiate athletic leagues.

Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia formed the Intercollegiate Football Association more than two decades ago to organize American football, or American football, between four universities. Then, with the advent of basketball, the game of basketball soon became one of the competitions of the four universities.

"Oh? That's a great honor! ”

Blinking, John laughed happily.

Although it has only been around for a few years, because it is a sport invented by the time-traveler, the rules of basketball have been perfected directly from the day it was born. Including all kinds of foul rules and even the three-point line, so its good competitiveness quickly attracted a large number of regular army - college sports-loving students. As a result, despite its late appearance, basketball with the most well-established rules gained the full support of various universities, and quickly became one of the three major balls on an equal footing with baseball and football - ice hockey had just been introduced from Canada in this year, and it was far less popular than it was later due to the limitations of the venue and other conditions.

Thinking of this, John suddenly had an idea, and said with a smile: "Gentlemen, why don't we expand the sports associations of the four universities and set up a special organization to organize ten schools to compete in sports?" Baseball, basketball, and football can be held every year between ten universities, so I think it will be fun, right? (To be continued.) )