"Grandpa, how are you talking to the banker?"

At the table full of sumptuous dinners, John asked casually after taking a sip of the soup.

"Not bad!"

Speaking of the negotiations in the past few days, the old Huntelaar nodded with great satisfaction and said with a smile: "Morgan, what they need is alternating current technology and patents, and the funds and business management we need are exactly complementary, so the negotiations are going very smoothly." It's just that everyone knows how huge the industry of electricity will be, so I am afraid it will take longer to discuss how the benefits will be distributed. ”

"Hehe, you can imagine."

After listening to old Huntelaar's words, there was no trace of surprise on John's face.

The second industrial revolution is the electrical revolution, and you can imagine how important the power industry occupies in it, and it is not only the traveler who can see this. And in this era when the price of one kilowatt-hour of electricity is even a few days' income of ordinary people, and the huge economic interests are there, I'm afraid it's impossible for anyone to take a step back, right?

After thinking about it for a while, John asked, "At least in terms of how to cooperate, there should be a goal, right?" ”

"Of course!"

It was rare that John was interested in such a thing, and the elder Huntelaar was a little surprised, and then immediately said with great interest: "For the time being, everyone is inclined to set up an electric company as much as possible to start supplying electricity to New York City." Morgan: They're going to provide enough money and management, and they're even going to be responsible for recruiting enough workers, and we're just going to need to provide technical support...... Well, Mr. Tesla was also involved in a negotiation that, according to him, would give him two more years and more money to develop a more efficient generator. In that case, the electricity bill will be greatly reduced in no time! ”

Speaking of the prospects for the future, the old Huntelaar was visibly excited.

"Well, that's great."

Nodding and smiling, John was convinced of old Huntelaar's words.

John was naturally more aware of the prospects for the power industry than the elder Huntelaar, and he also knew what it was for the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although electricity is far from being as influential as traditional industries such as steel, oil, and railways, as the key to the second industrial revolution, the future is infinitely bright.

Now with Newton Power, which is only higher than Westinghouse's strength, John is confident that he will pull a big piece of the cake!

And......

In an era when the power of capital has already begun to be manifested and is gradually beginning to dominate the American economy, if Newton Power finally reaches a cooperation with a financier like Morgan, it will be left to Westinghouse, which is famous in history. I'm afraid there is only the fate of being annexed in the future!

The combination of capital and technology will be the mainstream in the future!

After chatting with old Huntelaar for a while, John soon lost interest in the power company. He is naturally scrambling to be the first to circle money, but once it comes to the specific content, this kid will soon lack interest.

Old Huntelaar obviously discovered this, and his heart was suddenly slightly unhappy. However, he was also very aware of his grandson's problem, so he was a little helpless for a while, but the corners of his eyes suddenly moved when he was angry. He asked with a smile, "John, I heard that your hospital didn't have a single patient coming to your door today. Is it true? ”

"Uh......"

After hearing Old Huntelaar's question, John's face suddenly darkened!

However, after the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, John insisted and explained: "Well, it must be the wrong day, today is the first day of the New Year, maybe everyone is sick and reluctant to come to the hospital......"

"Hahaha......"

Don't wait for John to finish. Old Huntelaar was already laughing.

Seeing that old Huntelaar was laughing heartily at the dinner table, sweeping away the strictness and dullness of the past, John couldn't help but be happy in the end, and said with a wry smile: "Okay, okay, I admit that I think about some things too simply. The pre-opening publicity work was not done well......"

After laughing, old Huntelaar shook his head and said seriously: "In my opinion, it's not just that the propaganda is not doing well...... John, do you know who the hospitals in the city mainly serve? ”

"Of course."

To his grandfather's question, John nodded without hesitation.

Raising his eyebrows, old Huntelaar then asked, "Since you know this very well, why didn't you listen to our advice in the first place, and build the hospital so luxuriously?" You know, gentlemen with slightly better economic conditions generally disdain to go to the hospital, and for those who are poor, they may not dare to enter just by looking at the door...... So I never understood why you had to insist on this......"

"Because for me, these are very necessary."

Smiling slightly, John said in a calm but unusually firm tone.

Aside from John's cautious hope that Heinz General Hospital would become a monument in decades or even hundreds of years, I am afraid that any physician in future generations will know very well how important a spacious, bright, clean and tidy hospital environment is to patients!

And more importantly, such a hospital can attract those who have money from their homes to the hospital!

Looking at a lot of things in the 19th century with a 21st century person, it seems so incomprehensible. For example, people are reluctant to go to the hospital to see a doctor, but invite doctors to their homes, especially those families in Europe and the United States with superior family economic conditions, most of them have their own personal doctors, and things like giving birth to children must be born at home.

Places like hospitals often have a special meaning that people turn away from.

The reason for this unimaginable situation for future generations is, in the final analysis, caused by the characteristics of the times. In fact, the earliest hospitals in Europe were gifts from the aristocracy to the "untouchables", and until the end of the 19th century, most hospitals were still supported by donations from philanthropists, so the conditions of the hospitals were certainly not very good.

And the dominant role is still the level of medical technology that makes people speechless.

For example, when it comes to giving birth, many people in later generations know that if you give birth at home, the maternal and infant mortality rates are not low, and the safest way is to go to the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital. But in the 19th century, going to the hospital to give birth was the real act of looking for death! As Mr. Semelwes, who died in depression, said, it is the hands of obstetricians and gynecologists who bring death to mothers...... Of course, as Liszt's method of disinfection gradually became more and more known, especially when John? After Mr. Huntelaar's new disinfection technology began to emerge, doctors paid more attention to disinfection and hygiene, but the mindset formed over the past hundred years is not so easy to change.

What's even more deplorable is the extremely rough inspection methods of this era.

For internal medicine physicians, stethoscopes, thermometers, and a small medicine box are all they need, and most of the medicines are prepared by themselves, and for surgeons, it seems natural to pack all the surgical instruments into a slightly larger box. No CT, no MRI, no ultrasound, not even X-rays and the most basic biochemical tests...... Oh, by the way, because of John, the world's first laboratory has appeared in Charlotte Hospital, even though there is only one microscope in it......

In such a situation, why is it necessary to go to that dirty hospital?

So John insisted on building such a hospital in order to make it have the most basic conditions to attract wealthy people to the hospital!

From the beginning to the end, John never thought of building a charity hospital in the United States.

For that seemingly impossible goal in the future, John needs to change too many things, and with sulfonamides, he can treat many diseases that were previously considered terminally ill with a high probability, with local anesthetics and standardized disinfection technology, he can make surgery years or even decades ahead of time into a glorious era, and in the near future, an epoch-making revolution in medical diagnostics is coming!

This qiē and qiē all provided infinite possibilities for John's plan...... (To be continued......)