On May 14, 1901, John? Huntelaar and his entourage arrived in London, England. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Joseph, who has stepped down as president of the Royal Society? Sir Liszt personally greeted him at the port, accompanied by dozens of London's leading physicians and surgeons. In addition, there is Joseph, a professor of physics at the Cavendish Laboratory? Thomson was joined by more than a dozen fellow physicists, as well as another Thomson, Thomson, John's main collaborator in the UK.

The welcome dinner in the evening was particularly lively.

Needless to say, T&H has grown in fame with several drugs, dominating almost all markets in the empire, with annual profits of more than two million pounds alone! The cost was that Mr. Thomson had lost a number of shares in the company. Of course, John? Mr. Huntelaar still has 30 percent of the shares, and no one dares to attack him, because they want to be able to get a steady stream of new drug patents from Huntelaar's laboratory.

As for the doctors in London, they have always been staunch supporters of John.

This is not only related to Liszt's close relationship with John, but also because of John's current academic status in the medical community! To put it mildly, as Liszt gets older, although his prestige is still at the peak, it is no longer on the same level as John.

In addition, there are now two clubs that are invincible in English football.

Scalpel and T&H Football Club, the former owned 5% of T&H at John's insistence, which is a huge fortune. You know, from the dividends of T&H company, the scalpel club can take at least 50,000 pounds a year!

For a football club in the early 20th century, the benefits were too much!

So early on, the scalpel club was truly professional, with its own training ground, player dormitories and team doctors, etc. And just four years ago, the Scalpel Club bought millions of square metres of land in central London to build an 80,000-person stadium and the surrounding ancillary facilities, as suggested by Mr. Huntelaar.

There is no doubt that the Scalpel Club is now the only football giant in England!

John, who owns almost all the shares of the Scalpel Club, did not think about taking dividends from it, but let them plan their future. It's just that for the football clubs of this era, this money is indeed too much, and there is no place to spend it at all, so John's advice is: buy land! If you have the opportunity, you can buy the land around the stadium, and if you don't have the opportunity for the time being, you can put it first......

Another club, invested by T&H, is also doing well.

An injection of at least £1,000 a year from T&H is enough for a football club. But don't forget, because of the glory of the scalpel club, the internal medicine doctors in London are so angry that they have launched several donations to their club. So T&H Football Club has never been short of money, although it can't be compared with a scalpel, but it has also won two league championships and an FA Cup over the years, and the results are quite good......

As for Joseph? Physicists such as Thomson are purely soy sauce.

Because he recommended Rutherford to be a professor of physics at Huntelaar University, John wrote a letter to Thomson to express his gratitude, and the two gradually became acquainted with each other. However, no matter how humble and positive Thomson was, John refused to discuss physics with him, insisting that he was now focusing all his energy on education and medicine, and had stayed away from the physics community. This result undoubtedly made the physicist very regretful. Fortunately, the other party is not a stalker, and slowly the two became good friends by chatting about other things......

After three days in London, John and his wife separated.

Anna was eager to get back to Berlin, so after separating all the maids and half of the bodyguards, John had to stay in London. Under Mr. Thomson's matchmaking, John made initial contacts with several major shipyards in the United Kingdom, hoping to purchase some technical patents to make up for the shortcomings of his own shipyards. Of course, the British would not come up with the most advanced things, but for John, as long as he did not have them, he could buy them......

A week later, John set off for Paris, France.

The main purpose of this trip to Europe was for Anna to visit her parents, and secondly, for John to meet old friends and inspect his property. So Paris became a place to visit, because in addition to the British company T&H, John also cooperated with the French in the United States and France Pharmaceutical Company!

Similarly, he also owns 30% of the shares.

As the second oldest in the imperialist world, France and Britain are of course far apart, but this country has a large population and an equally large colony, so the United States and France United Pharmaceutical Company makes an annual profit of more than 30 million francs, which brings huge benefits to the Huntelaar family.

After spending a week in Paris, in addition to catching up with his partners and connecting with each other, John also met the famous Miss 75 - the M1897 75mm gun, a gun that shocked the world and at the same time caused the French to suffer a big loss in World War I! This artillery had just been unveiled outside Beijing, and it immediately shocked the world, especially the German Army, the old enemy of the French!

And in the subsequent rapid-fire artillery revolution, the Germans became the only losers.

It's just that the French attached too much importance to this kind of artillery and formed the theory that rapid-fire guns are omnipotent, but in the end they tasted the bitter fruit. The French refused to give permission to the Germans, and their own artillery was not fast, so they simply developed heavy artillery. Then he used the organizational efficiency to deal with the technical difficulties, and finally beat the French all over the ground in World War I......

Far from it.

In any case, Miss 75 is a very good gun, of course, the most important thing is the hydraulic stationary and retreat mechanism, which is the core of the rapid-fire gun. Although it is difficult to convince the French to authorize, especially when Miss 75 has just appeared, for the sake of his own growing weapons company, John can only make a familiar face first, hoping that the French will license this advanced patented technology in a few years.

Of course, John's main target was still in Germany!

So after leaving Paris, Johann arrived in Karlsruhe and then in Essen. The former is home to General Motors, and the latter is home to the famous Krupp company.

Although only 20% of the shares remain, John is still a major GM company.

In fact, in the past few days, General Motors' business has been extremely prosperous, because of technological progress, the output of the third generation of Aurora has exceeded 10,000 units, and it can still be sold all, and other European companies that have been suppressed have collapsed, almost occupying more than ninety percent of the European market. So in the eyes of others, John's transfer of shares was undoubtedly a big loss, and Benz was proud of it. However, in John's view, GM under Benz is now too focused on production and has greatly reduced its investment in technology research and development, and has gone down the wrong path.

Therefore, when old friends meet, John behaves neither salty nor light.

Although the performance of Huntelaar Motors' new products is not as good as that of the Aurora III, John, who still has the right to use all the patents, has increased his investment. Ford allocated a million dollars to give him the patience to develop new technologies and start the most important revolution in the history of the automotive industry!

The outcome of future competition has long been predestined.

Compared with General Motors, Krupp's reputation is even better, which brought a lot of shock to John! Under the temptation of patented technology for mortars and grenades and 10 million marks in cash, and at the same time with the help of many of John's old friends on the side of the German government, the Krupp company finally could not resist the temptation and transferred a large number of artillery technology to the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company in North America, and at the same time promised to accept a total of three batches of 60 trainee engineers. Although these technologies were also relatively advanced, they were not enough to threaten the position of Krupp, so the lengthy negotiations finally came to fruition.

John's trip to Europe was finally a semi-complete one.

The British shipbuilding technology and the German gun-building technology will bring a huge boost to John's industry. Although none of these countries are the most advanced, John believes that with these foundations and enough investment, shipyards and weapons manufacturing companies can really rise. At least in that part of the North American continent, they are already upstream.

As for reaching the top of the world......

Truth be told, John wasn't in a hurry.

In the future, he has time, and there are better opportunities, for example, in the First World War more than a dozen years later, the defeat of the Germans will be the best time to pack the most advanced technology!

So after finalizing the cooperation agreement with Krupp, Johann left Essen and took the train to Berlin, the capital of the Germans, which made him excited and lost...... (To be continued.) )