Subtitle of this chapter: You know, pretending to be the key to forcing it to go so smoothly

"Bang dang!"

Just when our Master Yuan was about to pretend to be a very critical key force for the second time, the balcony door was opened by the waiter, and two people came out of the door. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThis time it's not a man and a woman, but an old man and a young man, also dressed in evening dresses.

The white-haired old man's face was deeply wrinkled, and he was a little haggard, looking a little older than the eighty-year-old Mr. Baker. However, he has a large forehead, two thick eyebrows, and a pair of eagle eyes, and he looks like a deep and wise man.

The young man was only in his early twenties, and his appearance was quite handsome, especially the upper part of his face was very similar to that of the old man.

"Ah, George. Sure enough, you're here. ”

"Oh, it's you. Thomas. I didn't expect to see you here. ”

What's going on???!!!

Yuan Yanqian's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and brain are about to be blown up, why did he always come out with such a moth when he was pretending to be critical?

Is it because I haven't triggered a critical event yet, so I can't pretend to be a key NPC like George Baker?

However, no matter how angry he was, he could only maintain his gentlemanly demeanor, as the two Gentlemen Baker stood up to greet the two "uninvited guests".

Little Baker, who stood up, greeted the old man respectfully, "Hello, Mr. Edison. ”

"Luis, long time no see......"

Wait, what's this old guy's name?

Thomas...... Edison?!

What else is there to say about this, Master Yuan immediately greeted with a smile on his face: "Hello, Mr. Thomas Edison. ”

The old man with the laurels of "the greatest man in the world", "the national treasure of the United States", and "the benefactor of all mankind" nodded and said, "Hello, you are ......"

Mr. Baker Jr. said, "Mr. Edison, let me introduce you, this is my friend Neo-Yuan. ”

"I have admired the daimyo for a long time." The personable Yuan Yanqian took the initiative to stretch out her hand and said, "It's a great honor to meet you here." ”

The Great Inventor shook his hand and said with a puzzled look, "Neo-Yuan? This name seems familiar. ”

The young man beside him reminded: "Father, he is the Chinese who was wronged by the NYPD and BOI!" ”

Edison suddenly realized, "Oh, you are the Chinese." Look at my memory, I'm glad I will. ”

He pointed to the young man next to him and said, "By the way, this is my youngest son, Theodore Edison. ”

Little Edison also politely greeted everyone: "Hello, Mr. Baker. Hello, Mr. Louis Baker. ”

"Mr. Yuan, it's a great pleasure! I love your "Di Gong Case" so much, and my mother and sisters are also very fond of your "Chocolate of Love". ”

Our Master Yuan didn't expect to meet his fans here, so he had to humbly say with a reserved smile: "Where and where, there are ...... awards."

The five men exchanged their names and asked the waiter to move two chairs before they sat down together.

Now the protagonists at this table are naturally not our Master Yuan, but the two old guys, George Baker and Thomas Edison.

Old Mr. Baker asked, half-jokingly, "Thomas, what makes me curious." Why don't you stay in the lab and come here to 'waste' your time? ”

"Ahem, ahem......" Mr. Edison coughed a few times and smiled bitterly, "I'm not feeling well after winter, Mina must let me rest." Isn't that why Theodore dragged me here for two days? ”

The Mina he was talking about was his second wife, Mina Miller Edison, who was twenty years younger than him. The youngest son born to the second Mrs. Edison in 1898 was none other than Theodore Roosevelt

A hundred years later, young Chinese people have a very inverted impression of Thomas Alva Edison.

The Edison they knew as children was the curious child who learned to hatch eggs from hens; is also the genius boy who used the reflection principle of light to simulate the effect of a surgical lamp, so as to save his mother's life; Or the hard-working inventor who famously said, "Genius is 1% talent plus 99% perspiration."

But when they grow up, they will be surprised to find that the curious child, the genius boy, and the hard-working inventor are still the same ...... An evil capitalist who is miserly, vicious, and uses his means!

Especially compared to his old rival Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison is even more "small". The grievances and hatred between these two people will not be talked about.

However, Tesla is not only far superior in scientific achievements, but also more admirable in terms of personal morality. He gave up the patent for alternating current so that the world could use it for free, knowing that this patent alone could theoretically make him the richest man in the world.

Of course, it is difficult to say whether he can live to become the richest man in the world if he does not give up the AC patent.

And Nikola Tesla fits perfectly into people's existing imagination of "mad scientists". For example, he claimed to have received alien signals, for example, many people say that the Tunguska explosion was caused by him, for example, some people say that he is an alien at all...... And more importantly, his old man never had much money in his life, and he was poor when he died.

But then again, these days...... Well, no matter what year you want to become a successful big capitalist, you have to be stingy, vicious, and subordinate.

Don't get me wrong, this is not to say that big capitalists are all bad people. On the contrary, there are really good people among the big capitalists, and they are very responsible for the society, extremely sympathetic to the people, and even care about the fate of all mankind.

Mr. George F. Baker was hailed as "the most resolute man in America, but also the most kind-hearted man." ”。

There was also a more "contradictory" big capitalist of the same era, that is, the "steel king" Andrew Carnegie. This great philanthropist once said that a person who is obsessed with money is a person of humble character. If I keep pursuing a career that can make money, I will definitely fall one day.

He said so, and he really did, and before his death in 1919, he donated almost all of his personal possessions, totaling $330 million, and that was only the principal amount without interest.

But this did not prevent Mr. Carnegie from using unfair means to attack competitors and even his own partners. In 1900, in order to oppress his old friend "Coke King" Flick, he lowered the price, and even sent people to destroy the latter's factory. It was only after Frick threatened to expose all the dirty things they had done before, and he had to give up.

George Baker, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie...... The reason why these people can become big capitalists is because they conform to the objective laws of the capitalist stage in human civilization.

After becoming big capitalists, they themselves become part of the objective laws of the operation of capitalist society, that is, the personified embodiment of capital.

In fact, this is the same as the debate on "whether the landlord is good or bad" in a certain big country in the East a hundred years later, in a society with sharp class contradictions, it is to detach from a person's class attributes, and to simply talk about the moral character of this person is to play hooligan.

A noble capitalist does not exploit the proletariat? In the same way, a patriotic landlord does not oppress poor peasant tenants?

For a Seris person like Master Yuan, who is interested in promoting the quintessence of the country, what does it matter if Thomas Edison's character is not good, his poor health is the key!