Downing's alma mater, MIT, only began to recruit students in 1865, and it is only 1850, but he is proud of his status as the first polytechnic school, and everyone else claims that he graduated from MIT.

He explained his wireless telegraphy to an Englishman who was also staying at the Auckland Hotel, because the Englishman knew the Governor, (who was staying at the Auckland Hotel), and after two days, sure enough, the Governor was interested in summoning him.

The Viceroy, the Marquis of Dalhousie, was still more enthusiastic, and what a glory it would have been if this great invention of communication had been born in India at the time of his reign. He is an ambitious man, just look at the "loss of power without heirs" he planned. Tang Ning looks like a talent, although he is a bit like an Oriental, but he still has a good impression, and Tang Ning Shaoxia has made a lot of friends with this advantage.

After greeting the Governor, Downing said: "God wants to shine the light of civilization on the whole earth, and we in the British Empire are God's agents, and everything that is happening in this ancient land of India proves all this, and the Governor is the spokesman of the British Empire in the East, and it is an honor to meet Your Excellency!" ”

The Governor was even more pleased, laughed, and said, "Well said! Did you bring that 'gizmo' you were talking about? If India could send a telegram to England across the ocean, it would be the best gift we could give to Her Majesty! I can't wait to see it! ”

In addition to the Governor, there were also two distinguished guests of the Governor, who were introduced as shareholders and high-ranking officials of the East India Company, which was a coincidence.

The best university in India at the moment is the Calcutta Medical College, because the war wounded have to be cared for, so the East India Company built a medical school very early, and the professors here have a certain level of academic and chemical level, Downing got some chemical and experimental raw materials from the medical school, plus a transmitter and a receiver with a universal Swiss Army knife and molecular separator.

The three high-level officials of the East India Company were all engaged in the trading of opium and tea, so naturally they had little scientific and technological knowledge, and they were supposed to watch magic.

The magic worked! The small receiver received a randomly assigned radio signal in a room more than ten meters away, but of course, limited by the weak battery, it was not possible to go a few meters away.

The two shareholders looked at each other, could this be what the Governor said was an interesting and important invention?

Downing explained: "The future research direction is to increase the voltage of the battery, so that the radio waves can travel farther, and to come up with a set of encryption methods, because when radio waves are transmitted, anyone can receive the signal in that direction, so that it cannot be used to transmit content that needs to be kept secret." ”

Seeing his rudimentary equipment, it was hard for the two shareholders to believe that it was a big invention. The Governor was more confident, and asked: "How much time will it take to develop a practical wireless telegraphy?" ”

Tang Ning: "One or two years is enough, I already have a picture of research in my mind, as long as the funds are sufficient, it will definitely be achieved within two years." Now a 100-mile telegraph line costs tens of thousands of pounds at every turn, and if it is to pass through the Channel, reliability cannot be guaranteed, and the line also requires huge manpower and money to maintain. After the invention of wireless telegraphy, I estimated that a transceiver would cost a few tens of pounds, but we could sell it for thousands of pounds! A hundredfold profit, gentlemen, this is a good opportunity to make a fortune. ”

Say "a hundredfold profit" to opium dealers, and one can imagine what color their eyeballs will become.

The two shareholders were moved, they were not too worried that Downing was a liar, the East India Company was a paramilitary organization, equivalent to the Qing Dynasty's military aircraft minister-like existence, and dared to cheat the shareholders of the East India Company on Indian territory, it was really impatient.

The Governor decided, and on behalf of the capitalists asked: "Do you want to find investors?" Here are two generous gentlemen. ”

Tang Ning smiled, "Yes, that's why I came to Lord Governor. I want to set up a laboratory, before my invention is not profitable, the funding is borne by the investor, as for the cost, I don't know how much, go to London to see the market situation and then decide, and then, the patent investor of the laboratory invention can have the right of first refusal. If the parties fail to reach a licensing agreement for the patent, the lab will have to pay the investor double the cost of the previous shared input. ”

How can this be? We pay for the development, and when the time comes, you will still ask for a sky-high price, and the initiative is all in your hands, and the investors who benefit from this great invention will get too little, and both investors say that they will buy the patent when they sign the contract, and they are equivalent to hiring an inventor to work for them.

The opium dealer is really ruthless enough, how can a great inventor be hired? It's an industry-changing invention.

If it was in the era when patent law was very perfect, the great inventors could turn around and leave, but the British Patent Office was only established in 1852, and the previous patents were administered in an inexplicable way through patent attorneys and judges, without the support of a large institution like the East India Company, I am afraid it would not have been so smooth, and Downing still needed opium dealers.

So...... In this way, Downing proposed that the investor should provide 2,000 pounds for the establishment of the laboratory, and within two years, Downing and the investor will each hold 50% of the equity of the laboratory, or propose a price with Downing to be wholly owned by the investor, or if the negotiation is not possible, Downing will invest 20,000 pounds to repurchase 50% of the equity, so that the investor will have at least 10 times the profit, which is interesting enough, right?

The Governor suddenly asked, "Why do you still want to go to London to build a laboratory?" Isn't it possible in India? Didn't you invent this thing here? ”

Downing Textile a lie: "I graduated from an American university, and then went to China to do a fur business for a period of time, I started to do this research from university, but then I encountered a problem, first to do business, slowly think of a way, the British patent protection is the most perfect, of course I want to go back to London, however, I will claim that the preliminary completion of this invention was done in India, how?" Lord Governor, that's interesting enough, isn't it? ”

Heck, still doing fur business in China, the Governor said, "Doing business in China? Interesting, I think you look a bit like Chinese......."

Downing had no choice but to say that his ancestors were from southern Europe, and later immigrated to England and then to the United States to study.

The Marquis of Dalhousie was very famous and rich, and he must have asked the laboratory to be named after the East India Company, so that even in London, the people of the British Empire would remember that it was an invention of the East India Company, and the Governor was even willing to vouch for him in order to achieve this goal, and the 20,000 pounds just now could be reduced to 10,000 pounds.

A name was worth 10,000 pounds, and it was also worth it, and it was finally named "East India Company Communications Laboratory".

Infected by the Governor-General, an East India Company shareholder said he would personally send Downing? Mr. Windsor went to the East India Company building in London to report, where he obtained the company's naming authority and found another partner. The three partners will each contribute £700, for a total of £2,100, to open an account with Rothschild Bank when they arrive in London.

The first pot of gold earned £100, which was the annual salary of a branch manager at the Bank of England. This second pot of gold has exceeded Newton's annual salary of £1,650 when he was overseer of the Royal Mint, which is the highest salary in London.

Downing couldn't help but feel sad, making money too quickly in the Victorian era, compared with his own income from illegal activities more than a year ago, it was really much happier, so it seems that being "exiled" is not necessarily all bad.