Before the reception, Hu Xiaoyan met an unexpected person. Tesla's appearance in front of him in the dust really surprised him.

Hu Xiaoyan threw a look and asked Tesla's student, bodyguard, and monitor. As a result, his student Lu Yifu only shrugged his shoulders.

"Hu, damn it, please give me the money quickly!" Tesla's eyes were red and red, but his spirits were very high.

"......" Hu Xiaoyan was speechless.

"Well, I need a lot of money."

"I think what you need now is to go take a shower and eat something hot." Hu Xiaoyan made a gesture of please. Like Li Hongzhang, he occupied the top wards of the hospital. However, the facilities here are really better than the villas. At least the current villa is not a few floors, but here in the hospital, you can always watch the hustle and bustle of the street downstairs through the glass windows.

When Tesla took a shower, he saw Hu Xiaoyan sitting at the dining table waiting. And Lu Yifu has also explained the reason why Tesla came to Beijing.

Tesla is a substitute teacher at Chengxin University in Shanghai, and this time he specially opened a program in the university and gathered several students to bring it to Shenyang. With the help of prisoners of war, the laboratory there in Shenyang had already been built. Tesla took the students and started the research in a hurry.

Research projects are part of the computer - the calculator!

There was a complete assembly program, and Hu Xiaoyan translated the assembly language with the help of An An. Tesla's project team quickly mastered assembly language. Of course, this mastery is only a function relative to the calculator.

Is it difficult to function as a calculator? Actually, it's not difficult at all.

As you know, assembly language is a compilation of binary code conversion processes. For example, if 00 represents +, we can use 01 for -, 10 for *, and 11 for division. The process of setting up the naming is the compilation of assembly language.

Addition and subtraction are very simple, and the first thing to be clear about is that the computer is not doing the calculations with the numbers you enter, but the converted binary data. The results after that also show the decimal data after the binary conversion. Therefore, the calculator must first have a process of converting decimal to binary, and then the binary data is added and subtracted in the computer, and then the resulting binary is converted into the decimal data you see through the converter.

This whole process is addition and subtraction in the calculator.

It's simple to say. But in this day and age, it is not easy to do. First you have to have a chip, but in this day and age there are no chips and assembly language. But coincidentally, Edison, a great inventor in the United States, has discovered the electron tube and applied for a patent. After Hu Xiaoyan got the news from Tesla, he asked the old Hans to buy the patent for the electron tube.

Edison, of course, was not that easy to deal with, but the matter was resolved with the launch of the Rolls-Royce Phantom at the beginning of the year.

Standing behind Edison was Morgan. That's right, banking tycoon Morgan.

The elder Hans received an investment of almost five million dollars from Hu Xiaoyan and then another two million dollars from Morgan. The money was only about a million dollars invested in the acquisition and development of automobile companies, and the rest was used by Hans Sr. to buy technology and recruit scientists and university technicians.

After Rolls-Royce became famous overnight, both Morgan and Rockefeller were a little excited. After all, the appearance of this silver-plated car is completely black technology for Americans. In order to patent the tube, Hans Sr. sold 10% of the car shares of the Rolls-Royce brand to Morgan in exchange for Edison's patent for the tube.

Although Edison was reluctant, he was helpless. Because Morgan is his investor. It's pitiful to say. Edison simply couldn't resist any of Morgan's "reasonable demands."

After the technology of the electron tube was in hand, the elder Hans began to invest in research. I have to admire the scientific research strength of the Americans, although in this era the Americans have not been able to compare with Britain, France and Germany, but they have never had more universities and researchers than any country in Britain, France and Germany. The Americans can't do it when they go to research high-tech, but they can do it in less than two months to study the electron tube.

Soon after, the tube factory was built. A total of two batches of tubes and accessories were transported to Qingdao, Shandong Province, along with the ships of the Chinese returning from the United States, and then transported from Qingdao to Shenyang by land.

With tubes, there is technology. The rudimentary version of the electronic calculator was made by Tesla. But that's about it.

After the calculator was figured out, Tesla was immediately no longer satisfied, he wanted to work on the computer! Although there is only one word difference between a calculator and a computer, the technical content is far from the same.

Hu Xiaoyan could only smile bitterly when he heard this. The so-called calculator only has two algorithms, addition and subtraction, and now I haven't even done multiplication and division! Tesla just wants to build computers, isn't that ambitious?

Sure enough, Tesla stuffed the bread and made his own request.

Thermal power station! Computer R&D Center!

The thermal power station is okay, it has been under construction for a long time. Computer centers are really hard to do. This is not something that you can easily do with assembly language, you must know that the giant IBM of later generations began to develop computers because of the end of its business after World War II, so it began to study new profit points. But that's IBM! Not only does he have thousands of talents and millions of dollars to support him that Hu Xiaoyan can't have, but it took several years to get it done. The first generation of computers didn't bring much business to IBM at all! It was not until the advent of semiconductor materials such as transistors that computers became miniaturized and popularized.

Hu Xiaoyan didn't believe that Tesla would be able to do it at all. But it can't dampen Tesla's enthusiasm. He can't tell Tesla: You old man should go to the electromagnetic invention you are familiar with.

Tesla is definitely the grandmaster of electromagnetism in the world for 500 years, and countless electromagnetic technologies have his legends, such as ball lightning, radio, radar...... After Tesla's death, all of his research results were sealed by the FBI. The level is the superlative! Because the United States gathered many scientists to study Tesla's achievements at that time, and it turned out that these results were too high-end, they couldn't even understand it, let alone study it. It was fucking black technology at the time!

Even the theories of Einstein and Hawking, at least a few people in the world can understand them. This shows the depth of Tesla's research in electromagnetism. This is also the reason why Hu Xiaoyan deliberately deceived Tesla from the United States and never let go. If Einstein is deceived, I believe that Einstein will definitely not reach the status of the posterity, because Einstein is still learning, and his theory has not yet been formed. But Tesla's theory has now taken shape. What he lacked was not experimental assistants and materials. It's money. Tesla is short of money to do research.

"Mr. Tesla." Hu Xiaoyan pondered: "Your project can be established, and I will invest manpower and funds as appropriate." But I want to ask you, how long does it take to produce results? ”

This made Tesla put down his knife and fork in embarrassment.

Achievement? Tesla wants to curse. If you want to produce results, I will come to you?

"Ah, I see." Hu Xiaoyan thought for a moment.

"This project must be difficult to do in the short term. You also know that I don't have a lot of money. It's not as good as this. From today onwards, I will buy all your inventions, as long as they produce results and can be applied to any practical invention for civilian and military purposes. The funds will be at your disposal without the consent of any other person. If it is civilian, I can call the shots and give you ten percent of the profits from the future sale of this invention. Of course, this 10% profit will be settled to you at the end of each year, and this profit will also be handed over to you for full use. What do you think? ”

Hu Xiaoyan looked at Tesla: "As long as you have results, you will get countless funds to provide you with this computer project." But only if you have something new. ”

"Hu, you're right. But I'll say that you're not happy at all, just as slick as Morgan's liar. Tesla angrily picked up his knife and fork and slammed the bread on his plate.

"Mr. Tesla, you have been in China for more than a year, but so far, you have only helped me complete the development of the radio. And the invention of radio has already been completed in the United States. In other words, you only get a salary from me, but you don't bring me any invention, let alone any profit! ”

"You're not doing the right thing." Hu Xiaoyan ordered the bread on Tesla's plate.

"Okay, okay. You win. But you have to make sure. All the proceeds of my inventions are at my disposal! Tesla reluctantly agreed.

"Of course. I'm not a capitalist like Morgan. This time I will put a million taels of silver into you. But only this time, will the future funding have to be exchanged for your research results? Hu Xiaoyan folded his hands in satisfaction.

"Okay, okay. I need an experimental assistant right now. Those students of yours are so stupid that they can't even grasp a hundredth of my theory! Tesla grumbled with a bitter face.

"Rest assured, I have hired more than a hundred researchers from the United States. These people are now in universities in Shanghai. You can take the money to recruit, and I will make it easy for you, as long as they promise to be your assistant. Their salaries are all doubled, and the cost is paid by you. Hu Xiaoyan smiled.

"You're going to save even that money?" Tesla rolled his eyes and gave a hateful middle finger: "I think you're a vampire who's even stingier than Morgan."