For two or three days after the call with Harold, John's brain was in a state of extreme excitement. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoHe often sits in his study all day, leaving large paragraphs of weird text symbols in his notebook. John is proficient in English, French (married to a wife who grew up in France, and is not proficient in French), and a little German, and in his previous life, he also mastered Chinese and Japanese (older single dogs know a little bit, you know). Don't think about it, it's all the influence of RB cartoons. ）。 The combination of these scripts, combined with a variety of vocabulary and strange abbreviations that only later generations, resulted in the 1937 version of the "Martian script" that only John himself could understand.

The notebooks are all memories of John's past life, which John calls the "T (timetravel) file". This secret file records all the "historical events" that John can recall, but unfortunately he is not a historian after all, and many things are only known approximately, and even the specific date of occurrence is not known. Most of the historical events that John was able to remember with exact dates were related to China. No way, who let him be a Chinese in his previous life, and the main thing taught in the school is Chinese history. However, this information can only add to the annoyance of John at present, even if he knows that the "77 Incident" will occur in China on July 7 this year.

In addition to these, the "T-Files" are more about the various kinds of knowledge that John had acquired from his previous life. Although John was not a scientific and technological talent in his previous life, it would definitely be useless for him to invent the atomic bomb and electronic computer now. But after all, he has been a middle-level member of a multinational company, has received a higher education, and the Internet has also exposed him to enough information in later generations. A lot of common sense in later generations is still at the forefront of science and technology, such as obesity. People in the 21st century know that obesity is unhealthy, but in the early 19th century, obesity was widely considered a good thing. Because according to the census data of various countries at that time, the general life expectancy of obese people was much higher than the average. John could figure out with his toes what was going on, and who could eat himself fat in this day and age was not a rich man who had no worries about food and clothing. These people live in superior conditions, can afford to hire a doctor when they are sick, and naturally live longer than the toiling masses.

In addition to the "T-Files", John also recorded the names and biographies of a series of characters in a small cowhide hard-cover notebook. Although it is not yet the 21st century, talent is just as important. John wanted to make a career, and it was impossible to do it alone. This booklet, called the "R (recollection) list," lists all the people John could think of who needed to be befriended and recruited. John was barely middle-class in his previous life, and he had few connections in the United States. But this life is different, the Vanderbilt family is one of the oldest, richest and most influential families on the East Coast of the United States. Over the years, the Vanderbilt family, the Astor family, the Mellon family, the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, and the Dupont family have extended their tentacles to all corners of American society through mutual marriage and various cooperation.

For example, the current President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, although he is a Democratic president, Vanderbilt and his family are Republicans. But if John wants to get in touch with the president, there's more than one clue. In fact, Mr. President's father, James Roosevelt, was a minority shareholder in the Vanderbilt family railroad company, which still maintains a dedicated luxury wagon that can be called upon if needed. In addition, there is more than one classmate and alumnus of Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was a student at Harvard University and Columbia University, not to mention the fact that the family has been friends with President Roosevelt Sr. (Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, Franklin D. Roosevelt's uncle) for decades.

In John's "R list", the number one is Thomas Watson Jr. John had a hint of hesitation when he wrote the name. Thomas Watson Jr., although he was a full 10 years younger than John, was "notorious" in their circle at an early age, known as "Tommy the Terrible". When he was 12 years old, he bought a bottle of weasel stinky glands. When the whole school assembled, he ran to the main ventilation duct with a stinky gland bottle in his hand, making the entire floor stinky. He created the most brilliant and successful moment of his school life, and as a result, he was forced to take a break from a famous aristocratic private high school. Then it took this guy six years and three schools to finish high school. He was able to go to college in the end because his rich and powerful parents put pressure on the president of Bron.

Now, Watson Jr. has just graduated from college and is studying at the sales school of the family business. John and Watson Jr. are members of the same hunting club and go deer hunting together in Montana every fall. Just last year, they joined the same flying club. At the time of training, Watson Jr. was John's flight observer. For this New York guy who is keen to constantly add excitement to his ordinary life, if it weren't for the memories of later generations, John would never have believed that he could reach such heights. Yes, Thomas Watson Jr. was the second-generation owner of IBM, a computer hardware company that later dominated the world, and it was he who pushed IBM to the pinnacle of the computer career.

Of course, it wasn't until at least the late 40s that IBM entered the computer space. In fact, IBM is now mainly dealing in punch card data processing equipment. Because of the exclusive agency contract for all accounting projects under Roosevelt's New Deal, IBM's card counting machine products had occupied 85.7% of the U.S. market in 1935. Not only were these old-fashioned computing devices used by businessmen to keep accounts, but later scientists involved in the Manhattan Project on the atomic bomb also made extensive use of IBM punched card machines for scientific calculations. In any case, to build a logistics kingdom, it is indispensable to count and calculate huge transportation data. Therefore, John felt that it was necessary to bring Watson Jr. into the gang, whether it was for the present or for the future.

The second person on the "R list" is Robert McNamara. He is even two years younger than Watson Jr. and is still an MBA student at Harvard Business School. John came up with this man as he was preparing for his meeting with Edsel Ford next Sunday. Compared to the Vanderbilt family, the Ford family is still a small generation. Henry Ford, the founder of the family, is still in power, and in fact Edsel Ford, the apparent president of Ford, has never survived his father (four years before Henry Ford). When Henry Ford's eldest grandson took over the company after World War II, Ford was already in disarray and losing money. At that time, Henry Ford Jr. hired several managers from among the retired officers of the postwar Air Force, who came to be known as the "WhizKids." The best of these was McNamara, who became Ford's No. 2 man before he was even 45 years old. Later, he was invited by President Kennedy to serve as U.S. Secretary of Defense for seven years. The longest-tenured, most influential, and most controversial defense secretary in U.S. history served as World Bank president for another 13 years after leaving the Pentagon in the Vietnam War.

In fact, John coveted the "Blue Blood Ten Heroes" of Harvard Business School, including McNamara, who created a global precedent for scientific management of modern enterprises. Maybe Harold should be brought in as soon as possible to have a good chat with Dean Dunant of the college.

In addition to business partners, the "R List" also has a lot of people from all walks of life that need to be befriended. For example, John was going to hire the company's counsel, William Joseph Donovan. Although the former assistant secretary of justice did not have outstanding performance in opening a law firm, he could not stand the fact that he was the founder of the US Strategic Intelligence Service (OSS), the predecessor of the CIA, and the father of the future CIA. Another example is Jimmy Hoffa, although he is still a small player in Detroit, but this small leader of the labor organization, who has been entangled with the mafia since then, will be the president of the truckers' union in the United States.

After a few days of wracking his brains and pondering, John finally sorted out the spiritual "legacy" brought by his previous life. In order to prevent forgetting, they recorded these secrets in two separate notebooks in secret words. "Maybe I should invent a self-destruct cipher package for diplomatic secrets first." John muttered to himself as he locked his notebook in the safe, turned and left the study.