In the past, after a few Western geniuses invented technologies that could not be applied in the West, except for a few ambitious inventors who were unwilling to fail, they would come to China to take risks, or some large companies would have the ability to take the technology to China for testing, or take risks to produce products to try their luck in China.

These were blind cases, and De Celin began to act in an organized manner.

He first began to hire technical personnel, copying the latest inventions in Europe and the United States that have registered patents in the West, but cannot be put into practical use, and have not yet registered patents in China, and at the same time set up a professional team of experts to evaluate these latest technologies, deduce possible business models, and then formulate paper plans.

De Joy Lin does not risk these inventions into business, he just takes the proposal, goes to the big Chinese companies, recommends them to the big companies, and if they adopt them, he will buy these patents from the original inventor that cannot be used in the West, and then sell the set of solutions to the Chinese company, from which he receives a lot of commissions without taking the risk of commercialization failure.

By introducing the brilliant inventions of Western scientific and technological geniuses to China in an organized and planned way, and giving professional advice, De Xuanlin is tantamount to selling the intellectual wealth of European geniuses cheaply. In 1868, the British Mushet had just invented tungsten-containing alloy tool steel, and the new technology was transmitted to China the following month. And soon new technologies evolved in China, and the Chinese arsenal produced armor-piercing warheads based on this high-hardness tool steel. The British, on the other hand, left the technology in obscurity themselves, and it was not until thirty years later that the Americans brought high-speed tool steel to the market.

After the introduction of this business model, a large number of new technologies such as tungsten alloy, which were buried in the West, were revitalized, and De Zhulin also grabbed excess wealth. But this business model, without too high barriers, was quickly imitated by other companies. German companies such as Siemens in the field of electric power, Bayer and BASF in the field of chemistry, and Krupp in the field of machinery took the lead in following up, followed by Schneider in France, Bnement in the United Kingdom, and Pop Edison in the United States.

After these professional companies systematically imported Western intellectual resources into the Chinese market, China began to become a gathering place for the world's intellectual resources, not only the country's R&D capabilities were activated, but the world's geniuses contributed their wisdom to the Chinese market, and China began to develop in a way that was different from any other country.

Soon, these professional business technology companies, under the fierce competition, began to emerge new business models. They are no longer satisfied with packaging and selling new European and American technologies to Chinese companies, but have begun to conduct targeted research and development. Edison successively sold his printing press technology to a printing machine factory in China and the synchronous transmitter technology to China's National Railway Company, and obtained more than 200,000 US dollars in patent fees, and then he set up a technical team, established a professional laboratory, and began to focus on the Chinese market can be developed.

Edison was a great inventor, his education was not high, and his professional knowledge was self-taught. But the most fundamental driving force for his invention and creation is actually the dream of making a fortune. He had the idea of never creating an invention that people didn't need. As for whether this "people" are Americans or Chinese, Edison does not care, and it is clear that there are far more people in China than people in the United States.

So after discovering that the Chinese could buy his invention at a higher price, Edison decided to develop the invention they needed specifically for the Chinese, knowing that his printing press patent was sold to a Wall Street company for $40,000, while the Chinese paid 100,000, and his synchronous telegraph was sold to the American railroad giant Jay Gould for only $30,000, while the China National Railway Company paid $150,000.

But Edison was neither Chinese nor Chinese, and he was not willing to venture to China in order to make a fortune, so he chose to cooperate with the Chinese. He set up a branch in China, contacted all the power companies in China, and claimed that he could solve the power technology problems for these companies, and that Edison was willing to provide them with solutions to any problems they encountered in production and R&D, and invested in research and development for them, and Edison did not need to pay any fees until they provided satisfactory results.

Anyway, there is no need to take risks, China's large and small power companies are very happy to cooperate with Edison, especially some small Chinese companies, they do not have the strong financial resources and strong research and development capabilities of the wind and thunder lamp company, they either produce some general-purpose electrical appliances, there are many homogeneous products on the market, the profits are very thin, and they are also facing the pressure of competition failure, they also want to make their products more advantageous, distinctive, and cooler.

Entrepreneurs who are enterprising, or who have ideas but lack the expertise to turn their ideas into results, are happy to work with labs like Edison. Present their ideas to Edison, propose the technology they want, and even negotiate the price, and then Edison will carry out special research and development according to the technology that these "people" need, some fail, and some succeed. In short, intellectual resources are turned into commodities that can be realized in this way.

Edison's laboratories grew larger and more inventive, and most of them were orders from entrepreneurs with a keen sense of smell, who did not necessarily have the expertise or technical creativity, but who were close to the market and had the sharpest sense of the market. The requirements they put forward can often be recognized by the market and are easily commercialized. Even though there were plenty of failures, Dickson had nothing to lose, and he got a patent cash for the technical inventions he had to ask for, and his lab became almost a kind of intellectual factory.

In fact, in this way, Edison turned wisdom into a kind of wealth that can be realized, and the way to realize it is to use wisdom to create new inventions and new technologies. A lot of business from small and medium-sized Chinese enterprises allowed Edison's laboratory to invent dozens or even hundreds of electrical inventions every year, and his fame grew, and he hired more and more scientists.

Many new technologies and inventions began to appear earlier than in history. In 1869, Edison invented the electric printing press, the following year he invented the synchronous telegraph, in 1870 he established the Edison laboratory, in the same year Edison's employee Bell completed the improvement of the telephone, and the next year he invented the gramophone.

Because the United States has a large number of power talents, and Americans are more inventive than people in any country, many people are struggling to make a living, but in fact, they can't do the job of invention and creation, Edison organized these people and used their talents to invent a lot of technology. Since its establishment, dozens or even hundreds of inventions have been made almost every year, and the name of Edison's laboratory has spread all over the world.

But at the same time, this model was immediately imitated by others, and Edison could no longer find a competitor in the United States, because the most talented power technology talents in the United States were all proud to join Edison's laboratory; In Europe, power laboratories such as Siemens Laboratories in Germany and Schneider Laboratories in France were immediately born. Inspired by this, the German chemical industry also set up chemical laboratories and began to provide technology research and development for Chinese fertilizer plants and companies.

There were no such specialized laboratories in China before, because major companies had their own R&D departments, and the best talent was monopolized by these large companies. Relying on individual talents to make a living from invention and creation in China is full of difficulties. Moreover, China's technical talents, who are generally conservative, are more willing to accept stable, high-paying jobs between the high salaries of large companies and the risk of starting their own business.

In addition, the creative thinking of Chinese technical talents is not enough, but their ability to solve practical problems is amazing, in other words, this is the divergent thinking of raising problems is not enough, but the directional thinking of problem-solving ability is super strong. Probably related to the education model, which also leads to the lack of original inventions in China, but once a certain originality appears, based on this originality, Chinese technicians can quickly improve and put it into practice.

However, after the emergence of this model in the laboratory, the invention ability of Chinese technical talents has been stimulated. They don't have the habit of asking questions, but entrepreneurs do, and entrepreneurs either encounter problems in market competition, or are keenly aware of a certain need, and then they will make requests to these laboratories, and in the laboratories solve specific problems, various inventions are born.

In the spring of 1873, a student at an obscure electric power college unexpectedly made an alternating current drum. He was working in an electric power lab set up by his teacher, and it was clear that the teacher's actions were not particularly legal, and he was suspected of using the school's funds for his own benefit. They invented the alternating current system in the process of solving the problem of the power grid company's desire to reduce transmission consumption.

Alternating current and alternating current generators have actually been invented a long time ago. In 1824 Sebastian Ferranti invented the early alternator. Chinese students have found that alternating current can greatly reduce losses during transmission by increasing the voltage.

Although for electric motors, alternating current is still not practical. However, for electric lights, there is not much difference between AC and DC. So the AC grid technology was invented. Through rigorous testing, they quickly established a series of alternating current standards, such as frequency and voltage.

Historically, it was Tesla who invented this system, but it was suppressed by Edison for a long time, resulting in the long-term failure to apply alternating current, which made Tesla fight to the death and announced that it would give up its patent rights and allow anyone to use alternating current technology for free. It finally broke the monopoly of Edison's DC system.

But there is no such repression in China, because China is not the United States, and China has hundreds of power companies. Limited by the transmission capacity of the DC power grid, China's power companies are confined to large cities, and there are many large cities in China, and one or two power companies in a large city are enough to keep hundreds of power companies alive.

With so many competitors, new technologies will soon be put into use as long as they do have advantages, and no one can beat the technology. And those large companies, not only will not suppress, but will be the most active in adopting, developing and promoting new technologies in order to maintain their inherent advantages.