For human beings, the days always pass quickly, and time is always gone all at once...... Of course, sometimes this is a good thing—three days is just a fairly short period of time, and it feels like it is only after a while that Rachel can complain loudly to Qin Lang again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"You told me that Duncan and O'Connor's transport ship would arrive in San Diego in an hour, but actually, that damn ship didn't enter port until twenty-five hours later - you advanced the time by a whole day!" She called, "Qin, you'd better give me an explanation." ”

"It's not my fault, Rachel." Qin Lang pretended to be innocent, "It's just that the captain of that ship sent a telegram to Dupont saying that he would arrive at that time." ”

"Where did he send the telegram?"

"Tarkavanaugh."

The port of Talcahuano was in Chile, and Rachel knew very well that on a route of thousands of nautical miles, ships were always unable to avoid trouble, and thus their speed was affected - so the time of arrival declared by the captain in the telegram was not at all a basis for determining when the ship would enter the port.

"As a result, you told me a time that only had reference meaning as an accurate time." Rachel waved her fist in exasperation, "Qin, I'm angry. ”

Qin Lang looked at her. "Are you serious, Rachel?"

"No, I'm just kidding." She was deflated. There is nothing to be traced into this matter, and this has always been the case with the state of contact between land and ships...... To be precise, it has been greatly improved from before the invention of the telegraph, but the increase is still not enough to be contacted in time...... Wait a minute.

Rachel suddenly remembered the kind of device that Qin Lang had mentioned that could receive and receive telegrams without a fixed line, and now, she was curious to know how far the research on it had been carried out.

"The kind of thing you mentioned before, uh...... What's it called? Well, it doesn't matter. She waved her hand lightly and asked, "How's its research going?" ”

Qin Lang knew what she wanted to say, radio, in fact, he also asked Morgan when he was in New York. "Tesla is gradually perfecting it." He replied, "Models that can be put into practical use will probably be available before Christmas." ”

"It takes so long?"

"If you can tolerate the ridiculously high failure rate and the constant lack of signals, I can ask Morgan to send me a prototype." Qin Lang shrugged. Before Bell Labs developed transistors, radio reliability was a joke, and now there are no electron tubes.

Of course, he could have made some suggestions to make Tesla's work go more smoothly - such as asking him to make the tube ahead of time - but Qin Lang is not sure whether to do it yet. One problem was that he didn't want to cause some speculation about his abilities, and the other was that Tesla's relationship with Edison had become extremely bad due to their disagreement over alternating current and direct current, and he wasn't at all sure that Tesla would be willing to develop new electronic products based on Edison's research.

So for the time being, he can only let Tesla continue to study according to his own intentions, while trying not to think about it.

"Let's get back to our main job for today, Rachel." Qin Lang said, "Where are Duncan and O'Connor?" ”

"Conference room."

Qin Lang nodded, and then, the two of them walked towards the conference room at the same time.

In the conference room, Duncan and O'Connor were sitting quietly and without saying a word, looking at the countless documents placed in front of them with sad faces, while waiting for Qin Lang to arrive. In fact, they were going to take a few days off at home instead of going to work right away, but an enraged Rachel discouraged them from doing so.

Now they realize that they shouldn't have been away for that long...... No, one should go to Abyssinia and the other to Canton Bay, so that Rachel won't be as angry as he is now......

Yes, Yi Shui should be kept by her side all the time.

"I'm starting to miss that stupid boy." Duncan muttered inwardly, "Only he can spend a long time with Rachel, no one else...... Of course, Qin is always the exception. ”

Thinking of Qin Lang, Duncan immediately thought of the meeting that would take place today. At least according to Rachel, it was an extremely important meeting related to the future of the company. This seems to indicate that Qin Lang has some new plans. While he was always surprising, Duncan felt that if he continued to grow as he was, he would be a meaningless shareholder.

And it's the only meaningless shareholder on the entire board. Of all of them, Qin Lang and Rachel were undoubtedly the most valuable; O'Connor also had it, he managed the mercenaries of Umbrella directly, and he really wanted to be a good commander - he even started reading Clausewitz's "On War" and Antoine. Henry. Jomini's series of writings is simply crazy and jaw-dropping.

Of course, easy water is also valuable. Duncan could sense that Qin Lang was cultivating Yi Shui as his shadow and dealing with some things for him that were inconvenient for him to come forward directly, especially Far Eastern affairs; As the company gradually expands, there will be more and more things that he can't solve in person, and Yi Shui will become more and more important.

Duncan felt that his future position was in jeopardy, and that it was his own mistake: first, the union farce that displeased everyone, then the South American sales pitch that came to nothing, and the business in Abyssinia was the foundation laid by Qin Lang, who had done little but an arms deal with the Mahdi, and had almost gotten into trouble.

Too bad. He thought. If this continues, it will be a matter of time before you lose your position on the board.

But now there seems to be an opportunity to change this situation - Qin Lang's new plan. Duncan secretly planned that as long as Qin Lang and Rachel could be persuaded to put him in charge of implementing the plan and succeed smoothly, then he could become an important and indispensable partner again......

But how to convince them? Obviously, achieving this will require more skill and patience than selling weapons to the Mahdi, as well as a plan of operation that at least seems to be very feasible. This meant that he needed to use his full talents without reservation, something Duncan had never tried.

He started to have headaches.

At this time, Qin Lang and Rachel walked into the conference room.

"Hey, let me take a closer look at our two honorable dukes." As soon as he entered, he began to laugh and saluted exaggeratedly, "I am very honored to meet you here, Your Highness. ”

"Oh, Count Qin Lang, I'm getting goosebumps." O'Connor stood up and shot back, giving Qin Lang a warm hug, followed by Duncan. Then they laughed together and sat back in their seats.

"Now, it's funny that there are three nobles in our company." Qin Lang continued, "Of course, based on the current situation, we should also have our own private residences. ”

In fact, he had such an idea for a long time. It is no longer suitable for them to continue to live together, whether it is to protect their privacy or to show their social status, they should have a luxurious home that matches their status. The time has come to separate families.

"I agree with Qin's suggestion," Rachel said first, then Duncan and O'Connor nodded approvingly, and then she continued, "But that's not what we need to talk about right now. ”

"Indeed." "What needs to be discussed at today's meeting are new projects for us to work with Morgan, Rockefeller, the Chicago Consortium and the Cleveland Consortium – or rather, two new projects," Qin said. Partnered with Morgan and Rockefeller to build chemical enterprises, and established a cotton export company with the Chicago Consortium and the Cleveland Consortium. ”

"Chemical companies and cotton?" Duncan repeated, seemingly puzzled.

"We need some industries with huge daily sales as a source of cash for the company, and mercenaries will consume a lot of money in the next year, but I don't want to continue to borrow money from consortia." Qin Lang explained, "So I found two new projects. ”

"But it doesn't seem necessary." "We brought back a lot of gold from Abyssinia, and we also had a monopoly on arms sales in China," O'Connor said.

"That doesn't make much sense, Sean." "Gold will be used as a reserve, and you can't use it for the time being, and the amount of cash to sell weapons to China is still too small," Rachel said. ”

"So can chemicals and cotton accumulate money quickly?" Duncan wondered.

"Of course, Duncan." Qin Lang laughed, "As far as the project we are ready to invest in, soda ash manufacturing, no company in the United States will compete with us. ”

Of course, this is not entirely true, there are also soda ash production companies in the United States, but all of them use the soda refining process - the current soda ash manufacturing process is still the inefficient Solvay alkali production process, but this method is monopolized by the Solvay Soda Brewing Association composed of Britain, Germany and France, although American companies have the ability to use it but are not willing to pay huge patent fees, so they prefer to use trona refining - anyway, the United States is rich in natural resources.

It's easy to compete with such companies, as is it with European companies that use Solvay's alkali production process. Qin Lang finally did not lose his profession, he still remembered the more advanced methods of alkali production.

For example, the joint alkali production method of Mr. Hou Debang, a great chemist in China.

At the same time, he remembered something else, something he was going to use. Qin Lang not only plans to build a factory to produce soda ash, but also fertilizer and pesticide companies are in his plans. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )