"John, don't worry too much."

On the way back to the hotel, Howard? Kelly patiently comforted John, who had just gone through some arguments: "These Englishmen are purely vexatious and stubbornly involve social problems in scientific theories...... Leave them alone. ”

"Hehe, don't worry."

John smiled and nodded.

It would certainly be false to say that you don't care about what happened at the party today, but it doesn't go to the point where you have to take it to heart. To put it bluntly, John had expected this before he came to England, otherwise he would not have sent the paper to The Lancet beforehand.

Since it happened, John didn't think about running away.

In fact, after today's controversy, John is even more determined to take the relevant theory and research further. And just after the argument with Calibert was over, several physicians who were studying blood groups stepped forward to express their support for John—all of them were conducting relevant research, and some were even at the stage where they could publish their papers.

So these little things, John naturally didn't take them to heart.

After a night's rest, John took Kelly to Professor Simpson's hospital the next day. After two days of discussion, John threw Professor Simpson with a series of improvements, including improving the hygiene of the delivery room and wards, standardizing the operation of physicians and midwives, standardizing clothing and carrying out regular disinfection, etc. For Professor Simpson, who has only learned some of the new disinfection techniques, but has not fully embraced them, infection is one of the most important enemies, and John's advice, although it is impossible to avoid it completely, can definitely reduce a large part of it.

As for the problem of heavy bleeding, John has no solution for the time being.

But after discussing it with Professor Simpson. John also decided to start solving the problem of blood transfusions as soon as possible. Even in the next 100 years, surgeons will not be able to completely avoid the problem of massive bleeding, let alone the technically poor doctors of this era, so as long as the problem of blood transfusion is solved, more lives can be saved......

After leaving Kelly in London, John and Henry set off three days later.

Paris, France. This was John's second visit, only this time without the sensation of Aurora's first long journey, and the two arrived quietly at the Paris train station.

Unfortunately, John still failed this time.

Although the Institut Pasteur had been established and the venerable old man had finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish, he had left Paris for health reasons last week to recuperate. The newly established institute is currently only focusing on rabies, and will start to deal with other infectious diseases later, and as for microbial research and so on, that is a long time later. Other words. If John wants to recruit talent here, it's really not very reliable.

So after three days in Paris, John had no choice but to get on the train to Karlsruhe.

Before they had left London, they read the news of Frederick III's death in the newspapers, so John had no scruples at this time and rushed directly to Germany by car.

One day in late June, John was in Karlsruhe again......

……

The day after arriving in Karlsruhe, John arrived at the General Motors plant early in the morning with Karl Benz. Then I saw the scene of hustle and bustle.

"With the current production capacity, we can definitely produce more than 800 cars a year!"

In front of a big boss I haven't seen in more than a year. Carl Benz looked proud and excited: "And more importantly, the Aurora we produced is not worried about selling at all, almost one is sold when it is produced, and the current order has been scheduled to the end of the year!" ”

"Hmm...... Not bad! ”

Looking at the hot scene in the factory, John nodded subconsciously.

Seeing that John was also very excited, Karl Benz hesitated slightly. Suddenly, he said, "Mr. Huntelaar, do you think we can expand production again?" The current production capacity can't keep up with the demand at all, and watching the orders go back and forth day by day, and even some of them can't be met at all, which is really disappointing......"

"Scaling up production?"

After listening to the words of Karl Benz. John's heart thumped.

"Yes, sir."

Nodding vigorously, Karl Benz said eagerly: "As long as we expand the scale of production, we can obtain more profits, and I believe that you will soon be able to recoup all your investment." ”

For John, investing in General Motors was undoubtedly one of the best deals since Rebirth.

General Motors not only got to Carl Benz, but even caught up with Maybach and Daimler. Today's General Motors has undoubtedly become the brightest star in the whole of Karlsruhe, selling nearly 400 cars in the first half of this year alone, bringing more than 1 million marks of sales to General Motors, which means that this plant will create more than 400,000 marks of profit for shareholders throughout the year!

Yes, pure profit!

Because the technology of the Aurora has been relatively perfect, it is not at all like in real history, Benz's cars have been given a cold reception, and eight years later, there are only more than 100 cars a year that sell well. The current aurora is almost popular among the aristocrats and wealthy people in Europe, coupled with the lack of production capacity, Karl Benz decisively suppressed the opposition of Daimler and Maybach, and raised the price to 5,000 marks in one breath - it is the price he originally wanted to set for Aurora!

And things turned out as Karl Benz had predicted, and every Aurora was still taken away as soon as it was produced - the nobles and the rich of all Europe added up to a very large number, and five thousand marks was only a number for them.

The production cost of two thousand marks means that each car has a profit of more than two thousand marks!

It takes money to keep the factory running, it takes money to pay the workers, and taxes and so on, which is a huge expense when you calculate it, but after half a year, there are still more than 200,000 marks of net profit in the account, which is far more than the level of last year, and the shareholders of the company have been richly rewarded.

Of course, this is only for the three of Karlbenz.

The three of them are mainly technical shares, and Karl Benz only has an old factory and the original broken machine, but John really invested a huge amount of money for their research and development, and later invested a lot of money to expand the factory and recruit workers, and the investment before and after exceeded 600,000 marks, and until now he has not seen a return of a mark......

However, John was not moved by Bentz's words, but asked with a frown: "Mr. Bentz, is this your and Mr. Daimler's common opinion, or your personal opinion?" ”

"Well, that's my personal opinion."

Blinking, Benz said with a twinkle in his eyes.

After hearing this answer, John immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: "It's okay, I guess Mr. Daimler and Mr. Maybach should be almost here at this time, just so that the four of us shareholders can sit down and discuss it." ”

When we arrived in Karlsruhe yesterday, it was too late, so we just met to say hello, and the real meeting should be this morning. John had just wondered why Benz had invited him to the factory so early, but now that he thought about it, he was probably trying to convince himself in advance.

But......

Looking at Carl Benz with an expectant face, John shook his head secretly in his heart.

Before waiting for the Daimler and the two to arrive, Karl Benz had been instilling in John how easy it was to sell cars, how easy it was to expand production, etc., and John had always responded lightly, and there was no sign on his face at all.

After the four General Motors shareholders sat down in the conference room, John said straight to the point: "Gentlemen, what do you two think about Mr. Karl Benz's proposal to expand the production scale of Aurora?" (To be continued......)