Tesla was soon welcomed into Hu Xiaoyan's villa, and soon saw his study and bedroom. The bedroom was very simple, but he was a little surprised by the books in the study, which were full of recent magazines and books from Europe. Tesla had been in the scientific desert of China for a long time, so he quickly forgot about the fact that he was under house arrest and plunged into the ocean of knowledge.

To his surprise, though, all the magazines were marked or altered. Some are marked as valuable, some are marked as worthless, and some are even marked with wrong views and are advised to give up. It's true that Tesla was a great inventor, but at the same time he was also a great scientist, although his ideas were sometimes so novel that few people understood. He didn't bother to explain.

But he was still overwhelmed by the erudition of the master of the study. These magazines are two months old in Europe, but they are undoubtedly state-of-the-art in China. There are still people studying the desert in science!! This made Tesla very emotional.

The day after Tesla arrived in Shanghai, he met his boss: the head of the Yamen of the Anhui Mining Department, who was also known as the Anhui Provincial Assembly, His Excellency Hu Xiaoyan.

"Mr. Tesla, welcome to Shanghai." When Hu Xiaoyan entered Shanghai, he saw Tesla, the greatest inventor and scientist of the century.

"Hu, I want to protest! You can't restrict my personal freedom. Tesla's eyes lit up, he knew that Hu Xiaoyan grew up in the United Kingdom and was a Qing man with a European-style mindset.

"Sorry, I'm the boss. So the protests were ineffective. Hu Xiaoyan sat down unceremoniously opposite Tesla. This study room is huge, and if there are more books, tables and chairs, it can be used as a mini library.

"But I've already completed the contract! You can't refuse me to return home! I'm American! "Tesla makes a last-ditch effort." I'm sorry! Hu Xiaoyan was indifferent. Tesla is absolutely impossible to let go! The people Hu Xiaoyan recruited were all old-fashioned antiques. If it weren't for the fact that there is really no one in China to use in science at the moment, Hu Xiaoyan would never have accepted them. Even such an old antique Hu Xiaoyan spent a lot of money to invite him from the UK, not to mention a big inventor and a big scientist like Tesla? "Well, I'm sure Mr. Tesla is well rested. So let's get down to business. Hu Xiaoyan pointed to the seat. Please sit down. Outside, my servant came in a gray coat with two white teacups. He was about to knock on the door. As soon as Hu Xiaoyan finished speaking, he heard a knock on the door. Come in. "The servant in the gray coat brought two cups of tea, white cups! After putting down the teacup, the servant quietly walked out and brought the door to the door. Tesla glanced at Hu Xiaoyan a little strangely. "When you open the window, you will see a flock of sparrows singing in the willow tree directly in front of the window. And the two maids by the lake were frolicking. Hu Xiaoyan closed his eyes: "Mr. Tesla, why don't you go to the window to take a look?" Tesla walked to the window with some strange feeling, and he saw the two maids laughing and chasing after each other, and the flock of sparrows in the willow tree were startled by the movements of the two maids. How do you know! Tesla asked. When the servant came to bring tea before, although Hu Xiaoyan said exactly what he said, he thought that Hu Xiaoyan saw it when he came in, so it was not surprising. But outside the window, he could not have known in such detail. Could it be that Hu Xiaoyan saw it through the window when he came in just now? The two maids went into the kitchen, and when they came out for a while, each with a basket. The basket was empty. Hu Xiaoyan continued. After a while, two maids came out with empty baskets. They were heading towards the main entrance. Already in the side hall. They were good cooks, and two people came to the main entrance, and they brought the dishes for noon. After a while you will see two maids with baskets full of vegetables from the side hall to the kitchen. After speaking, Hu Xiaoyan opened his eyes, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Tesla didn't move, he was looking out the window, and he was a little interested. Hu Xiaoyan was right. Two maids walked out of the side hall with baskets full and appeared in front of Tesla's eyes, while an old woman walked out of the kitchen. She rummaged through the basket and walked into the kitchen with the two maids. The three of them went into the kitchen. Hu Xiaoyan put down the teacup. "How do you know?" Tesla approached Hu Xiaoyan suspiciously, and turned back and forth behind him twice. "You can't fit a detection machine on you. As far as I know, there is no machine that can see what outsiders are doing. "Tesla is sure of this, he is the greatest scientist and inventor of this century! Some people may say that the greatest inventor should be Edison! But no one knew that behind each of Edison's inventions, there were thousands of staff members doing those boring and boring repetitive experiments for Edison in obscurity. For example, the filament of an electric light bulb, how many people know that for the filament, how many people Edison hired to understand the properties of various materials, and how many people were hired to do these boring experiments? Genius is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration. Most of Edison's inventions came from 1 percent of his inspiration, and 99 percent of his sweat was helped by his hired hands. The great inventor never works alone, and success is definitely not his own work. But Tesla is different, and his success stems from him alone. He did all the work from start to finish. Why is there such a big gap between the same great inventors? Because both of their big financiers are the famous banker Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Morgan thinks that the great inventor only needs one is enough! And it's clear that Edison's business acumen is much more bullish than Tesla's. So who to support is an obvious thing. So much so that Tesla's thermal power generation concept and alternating current are obviously much more advanced than direct current, but they can't get a penny of Morgan's investment. By the time Tesla's recent experiment was halfway completed, Mr. Edison only mentioned it. Morgan withdrew all his investments. It's not that Morgan doesn't recognize Tesla's talent, or that Morgan doesn't see Tesla's potential! It's about making money and buying and selling it step by step. DC is already very profitable, so why bother to make AC to compete with DC? When people no longer recognize direct current (when direct current is not profitable), alternating current will naturally be put on the agenda. This is the instinct of the capitalists. Tesla is nothing more than a pitiful victim in the operation of capital. "That's what I want to figure out as well." Hu Xiaoyan pointed to his head. "Can you imagine? I've got an unknown gadget in my head, and if I want to, I can see anything that's going on in all of Shanghai right now. I have a map in my head, a map of activity! "......" Tesla doesn't believe it, he only believes in his own eyes. So he ran over, pulled Hu Xiaoyan up, touched it from head to toe, and even asked Hu Xiaoyan to take off his clothes and check it carefully. "I'm still not convinced. It's unbelievable. "Although Tesla has verified it, maybe what Hu Xiaoyan said was rehearsed in advance?" How can you believe what I'm saying? You think it's hide and seek? Or make a movie? Hu Xiaoyan drank tea with a teacup. The movie is out now, but it's just a silent movie, or the kind that can only be watched by one person at a time. "You did warn me. Please go out first if what you say is true. So I'm hiding something in the house. You'll know that too. You tell me outside the door what you are hiding and where you are hiding! Tesla said seriously that he has always made bold assumptions about science and seriously sought to verify it! This is also the key to his final achievement being able to surpass Edison! Edison was just a great inventor. And Tesla is a great inventor and a great scientist, which Edison is never able to match. "Good!" Hu Xiaoyan didn't say a word, walked out of the door with a teacup, and closed the door by the way. Tesla didn't hide it immediately, but moved the chair after walking back and forth twice. "Mr. Hu, now please tell me, what exactly am I hiding? Where is it? "Mr. Tesla, please don't tell me you're walking back and forth twice to hide the air!" Hu Xiaoyan's angry voice came in outside, which stunned Tesla. He walked over and opened the door, and saw Hu Xiaoyan leaning against the opposite wall, his right leg pressed against his left leg, holding a teacup in his right hand, and lighting a cigarette in his left hand at some point! As far as he knows, Hu Xiaoyan is a non-smoker! "I just went downstairs to find Lao Wei and asked for a cigarette!" Hu Xiaoyan noticed that Tesla was looking at the cigarette in his left hand. He did it on purpose. Lao Wei is an old janitor, he used to smoke dry tobacco, but now Hu Xiaoyan gives a good salary, and he starts to smoke foreign cigarettes. Tesla frowned, opened the door, and walked into the study. The study room is very large, as long as he pays attention to it, he will find out if Hu Xiaoyan is peeking. He now suspected that Hu Xiaoyan had just deliberately peeked inside the crack in the door. Now the door is open! Tesla entered the study, his eyes fixed on the door, but he gently took a pen from the drawer and put it in his pocket. Then he stepped back and took a random book from the bookshelf and put it in a drawer. Then the drawer was slammed shut. "Now you can speak." "Mr. Tesla, the book in your drawer is in Chinese, you can't read it. The name is "White Tiger Tongyi". And that pen in your pocket counts? Hu Xiaoyan's voice was not in a hurry. Tesla opened the drawer in shock and saw a Chinese book. He walked to the door and saw Hu Xiaoyan drinking tea. Hu Xiaoyan put the cigarette in his right hand (he didn't light it, he didn't smoke), and took "White Tiger Tongyi" with his left hand, compared to Tesla's shock, his mood was similar! Because the books in this study were sorted out by Wu Yi when the Ye family built a villa for him. The books in it were all bought from England after going abroad. That is, there is not a single Chinese book in this study room at all. Hu Xiaoyan left at least 100,000 pounds before leaving. The money was given to Liu Min to keep an eye on the latest scientific magazines and books in the UK, and to buy them and send them to Shanghai. But now there is a Chinese book in his study! Who did this to you? Hu Xiaoyan thought about it, and there was only one person - Liang Qichao! Because he is the only Confucian among so many people Hu Xiaoyan knows (except for Li Hongzhang)!