Chapter 28: Emerge endlessly
Tang Ning was interested in transplanting rubber to Southeast Asia, so he asked everyone how to get rubber seeds, the more the better!
Downing originally wanted Faraday to provide the answer, after all, he had studied rubber, but the answer to the question was actually Prince Albert, it turned out that the Royal Botanic Gardens collected a variety of plants, including Brazilian rubber, the prince said that if you want to find seeds of any kind of plant, you can go to the Royal Botanic Garden first!
The Royal Botanic Gardens, also known as Kew Gardens. Its history dates back to 1759, when George II and Augusta, widow of Queen Caroline's son, the Prince of Wales, built a building on the estate where they lived, covering just 3 years. The 5-hectare botanical garden, which was originally Kew Gardens. By 1840, Kew Gardens was handed over to government management and gradually opened to the public.
Kew Gardens' collection is one of the largest in the world. Most of these plants are planted according to the family and genus, and the perennial herbs or bulbous flowers are appropriately configured according to the ecological conditions. Kew Gardens' greenhouses are even more famous. There are dozens of large greenhouses of different shapes.
It's a bit interesting, and Downing says he must visit this interesting Kew Gardens.
This feast, except for Xu Rongcai, who was a little depressed because the motherland was said to be a "semi-civilized country", it can be said that the guests and hosts were happy.
After the meal, Downing also showed everyone around the password combination safe he installed in the Japanese closet. The Combo Vault is made up of dozens of safes, each with its own password, which is used to keep a large number of confidential documents, and the passwords are controlled by multiple people. Fireproof, anti-theft, anti-illegal key copying, what an interesting invention.
Is it true that you can open the door by turning the gears on the cabinet? The guests were very curious.
Here's your chance! Hobbes, a locksmith invited by Downing, excitedly showed the magnates how to open the iron safe and how to set up the password. He also followed Downing's example, using the "60 billion" combination of passwords to intimidate the audience. This number is really powerful, and it scares many tech cows.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Wood and Rothschild Bank boss Lionel were perhaps the ones experiencing the most problems with document management, and they were both interested in the combination safe, claiming to buy one or suggesting that the head of the office order one.
The biggest advantage of the password method is that the person in charge of opening can change it immediately after leaving the company, without delaying for a minute, and without incurring new costs, which is good news for government departments, banking departments and other units with a large flow of personnel, which can greatly improve the insurance coefficient of the safe.
Mechanical cryptographic components do not require superfluous things such as power supplies, and even in the era of advanced technology, it has an irreplaceable role.
Steelmaking Divine Furnace, Chinese Balance Theory, Password God Box. is worthy of being the most popular young man in the UK today, and he surprises everyone one after another.
Anything else? Everyone seems to be unsatisfied.
Yes! Tang Ning patted the old master Bakewell on the shoulder and said, "Thanks to Mr. Bakewell's hard work, our fax machine is ready to come out, and it can send pictures remotely!" ”
There was a chorus of praise, "When can you see it?" ”
Downing: "Well...... I'll have to find a business application for it. For example, it is used for bank transfers, remittances, checks, etc. ”
Lionel was immediately alarmed, because Rothschild's biggest business was currency exchange, and the breakthrough financial technology of telegraph exchange would pose a threat to his business. Of course, it doesn't mean that he will be able to resist it, his own bank is unlikely to adopt this technology anytime soon, the original business has formed its own operating habits, and how can such an important core thing be in the hands of outsiders? You know, the Rothschilds are ultra-conservatives who want to marry close relatives even when they get married.
Downing is not afraid to let the bankers know about his plan, and even if you know that he is developing such a financial system, it is unlikely that the notoriously conservative banking business will launch such a project anytime soon. The security method based on the difficulty of large prime number factorization is a financial security method that is far ahead of the world. Such an advanced encryption method requires the support of automatic computing equipment, which is a big trouble, but fortunately, a simple business with signature as authentication such as traveler's checks can be established quickly, and the wire transfer system established by simple encryption and signature is also temporarily sufficient.
When Downing said that he would sell steel at the price of iron, Colt couldn't believe it, but today he saw this magic furnace with his own eyes, and under Downing's explanation, he also realized that the era of steel is coming, and iron guns will retire from the stage of history in the future. It's time for the Colt Arsenal! He will definitely try to get a little investment share and become a shareholder in the British steel mill, feeling that this is not only good for his gun factory, but also a good opportunity for him to make money directly.
Downing, of course, had his own Telegraph, but instead of spending much time on today's feast, Foster, the editor-in-chief of the Daily News, whom he had invited, spent a great deal of time reporting on the Stor's Garden. Bankers are investing in the soon-to-be-established steel mill, and a huge investment of £1 million seems to be raised in minutes. Foster prophesied that the age of iron would pass and that the age of steel would come.