In order to have a visual understanding of 3 million pounds, we can compare it with the warships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, which dominated the entire sea, the most advanced 91-gun sail battleships being built in Britain did not exceed 150,000 pounds, and 3 million pounds could build 20 ships, and the Royal Navy built only 30 warships in the entire 1840s, and 10 such warships were enough to become a mortal threat to the navy of a European power.

This shows how much controversy this additional budget of 3 million will cause in both houses of Congress.

The longer the parliamentary controversy grew, the more the outside world knew about it, and the four major newspapers – The Times, the Observer, The Guardian and The Sunday Times – followed up on this protracted controversy, making the British Telegraph Company, which was already in the limelight at the World's Fair, even more famous.

No matter how sluggish the cable telegraph company is, it will be cold at this time, and the British telegraph company that has just been established is worth 10 million pounds? The top-performing telegraph companies earned just £43,000 last year, although they will have to spend as much as £600,000 on their core patents.

In the debate in Congress, the voices of wireless telegraphy "cheaper", "more convenient", "faster", "farther", "more military value", and so on completely made the electronic telegraph company, the British electronic telegraph company, the European and American electronic printing telegraph company, the magnetic telegraph company, the United Kingdom telegraph company, the Reuters telegraph company, the submarine telegraph company, and other voters in the same competition blow up the camp, it is really like throwing a grenade into the barracks, and the GIs crying and shouting that they have no time to put on their pants and flee outside the camp.

Isn't it, you don't need to lay cables, of course it's cheap, it's connected to a typewriter, it's not a star and a half, the speed is the speed of light, who dares to compare the speed with the radio? Soon to cross the Atlantic, not far from it?

The first reaction of the electronic telegraph company was to quickly check their patents, whether there was any infringement, and the patents we bought for 600,000 yuan would not be so easy to bypass, right? As a result, they were greatly disappointed, they didn't understand electromagnetism at all, and Downing even improved Morse code, paper tape recognition, high-voltage batteries, typewriters, and one after another twesome patents shook them to the sky.

The British Telegraph Company's booth was bustling, but now it is flooded. Newspapers began to refer to it by the abbreviation BT, the British telegraph company, to highlight its fame.

Some telegraph companies approached BT to see if they could combine typewriter technology with their telegraph system, but they were ruthlessly rejected by Downing, who could not train competitors, and he would not even grant patents for any situation, because that was a low-profit practice, and those who had mastered the assembly line production method were not afraid that production would not be able to keep up.

The annual rent of £100 is equivalent to hiring a senior employee, a neat, clear and fast scribe, and the ability to copy an object exactly the same several times, word for word, and send it to a distant place. How to calculate this account is how to make a good deal, so the market fell in love with the telegraph typewriter at first sight.

The British telegraph company, which opened on May 1, rented out 100 units in the first month, most of which were telegraph machines with an annual rent of 100 pounds, and properly recorded 10,000 pounds of income in the accounts, which was okay, compared to the world's first electronic telegraph company that worked so hard to persuade the railway company to build a telegraph line, and they only reached an annual income of 40,000 pounds after five years of operation.

And in the second month, when the London media reported a lot of British telegraph companies, the sales of that month jumped to 300 units, BT really enough BT, and the second month reached the total sales performance of the telegraph industry boss last year.

The parliamentary debate entered the second month, and the major event of this month was that Britain and France were able to cross the English Channel to telegraph, and the direction of the parliament really began to change, from "whether to buy shares" to "3 million is not suitable".

That month, BT's new rental figures began to jump above the 500 mark, for a total of 900 units, and the share of typewriters began to rise, after all, this thing is more common than the telegraph. In just a few months, the business hours have approached the investor's 100,000 pounds, and the three investors are all smiling from ear to ear, laughing secretly in their hearts, hoping that Congress will quarrel for a few more months, this is a free big advertisement, Congress will help you advertise, and you can't find it with a lantern.

The Parliamentary debate is in its third month, and the news that London and New York can be telegraphed across the Atlantic is great news whether you like it or not, and that the whole ocean is no longer out of reach.

When the good news came, a number of members of Congress passed the big deal with joy as they personally examined the latest stock market news from the New York Stock Exchange.

A big tyrant was born! It is estimated that the navy composed of 173 warships of the British and French coalition in the Second Opium War, which will occur a few years later, is the same level as the navy composed of 173 warships of the British and French forces, because their 173 warships are actually only 17,700 people (11,000 British and 6,700 French), and each of these 20 top battleships can carry 860 sailors, a total of 17,200 people. The 173 warships were used to log in Tianjin, but it was not that the British and French forces did not want to install too many people.

Because Tang Ning has been thinking about shipbuilding, he often thinks about how much this 3 million can build in his mind......

If you build dozens of battleships and overturn the imperial navy that crisscrosses the seas, wouldn't it be famous for eternity? Haha, just thinking about it, he is not sure that he will train more than 10,000 high-quality navy. Besides, why bother? Which army did you lead to overthrow the British army? If you really want to find a country to rule in this world, it is really difficult to find a more suitable country than the United Kingdom.

Just when he was in turmoil, the speaker of the House of Representatives asked him to come to the stage to make a speech. Because of today's vote, Lionel, who is a member of the parliament, invited him to observe the hearing, and he knew the result for the first time.

I just thought that England was the most suitable ruler of this era, so, still...... On a whim, he said: "Thank you gentlemen for your trust in me and the British Telegraph Company, well, now the British Telegraph Company's name 'British' is worthy of its name!" I not only thank you in words, but also in action!

Alas, London is a great city, but it is also a dirty city, and in terms of hygiene, it is not as good as our Calcutta in India! But he is the center of England and the center of the world, and I am ready to try to improve the situation, and take out 1,500,000 pounds of the 3,000,000 that gentlemen have just received from the purchase of my shares in BT to rebuild the sewers of London, with no strings attached, I trust you, you take my 1,500,000 pounds, and the sooner the sewers of London are cleaned up, the happier I will be. ”

The parliamentarians of the Palace of Westminster were stunned, wow, the big tyrant is really generous, take it, it's not bad for a normal person to pretend to be tens of thousands of pounds, this bull man actually took out half of the property! Downing is certainly not the richest in London, but this move shows the domineering spirit of "first generosity", and even the Rothschilds cannot donate such a large sum of money to London to build sewers without blinking.

The hall of the House of Representatives resounded with long-lasting applause, many people gave a thumbs up, and the congressmen who were still jealous of the big tyrants just now suddenly surged in their hearts with a feeling of admiration - what a good man.

The misers, who were worth millions, were ashamed, and after thinking about it carefully, it was impossible for them to be willing to donate half of their family property to public welfare no matter what.

One of the Legislators asked on their behalf: "Mr. Windsor, your generosity is amazing, may I ask what makes you so generous and so great?" ”

Everyone laughed, and there was a rare smile in the hall of the House of Representatives, and the members who had been against the deal just now felt embarrassed, as if they had just offended the good guys.

Downing: "Uh...... Well, I think, 1.5 million pounds is enough for me for a while, and besides, I'm a visionary, I estimate that if the sewers in London are cured, the stench in the air will no longer pervade, and I can live at least 20 more years, you see, I bought a 20-year life for 1.5 million, do you think it's worth it? ”

Everyone laughed again.

Tang Ning: "Gentlemen of the Sewerage Committee, you have to act quickly, don't live up to my 20-year life, or I'll settle accounts with you!" ”

In the midst of bursts of laughter, the MPs who had originally wanted to propose that the government appoint the president of the British Telegraph Company all shy their flags, and their ideas were fierce and! At least not yet......

Lionel? A major reason why Rothschild is very supportive of this transaction is that when Downing's stake drops to the same 25%, his voice will gain more influence in BT by virtue of his prestige, and he may be able to replace the president with someone he likes. Although he used conspiracy theories to see Downing's actions, the price was too great, right? £1,500,000...... Alas, even he has a painful number.

Lionel may never be able to understand Downing's current mood - he is willing to do every pot of gold he makes in the future to help Londoners improve their quality of life, because improving the quality of London is improving his own quality of life.

Perhaps the only people who were lost in this event were the cable telegraph companies. There is no way, the progress of technology always has to eliminate a group of laggards.