Chapter 118: Cycles
Updated: 2014-05-0310:01:23118
All the Russians did something to deal with Alaska, nothing more than hoping that the East India Company would make some concessions in Central Asia, so that the Russians' dream of an ice-free port to the Mediterranean could be realized, but the Grand Duke of Luxembourg didn't care about the Russians' bargaining chips at all, but was aggressive, "approaching St. Petersburg", which made the Russians a little angry, and they also thought of a trick to unite the Americans to put pressure on Luxembourg, saying that Alaska is closer to the mainland of the United States, and the United States is a better buyer of Alaska, and " Key officials from the US government also endorsed the deal", and the £1.5 million could be refunded.
One of the reasons why the Americans are at odds with Russia is that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, a god-level industrialist, seems to ignore such a large market in the United States, and a large number of industrial products are only produced in Europe and then exported to the United States at the price of luxury goods, which has greatly hurt Americans' self-esteem and, of course, economically. Now the American people have a consensus - they must use tariffs to protect their own industries, so the tariffs are relatively high, plus the ocean, so cars and other products are expensive, not only that, the products of the British steel company are also quite expensive, US government officials have repeatedly invited Downing's companies to set up factories in the United States, but Downing has focused his energy outside Europe on Asia, which makes Americans even more unhappy.
Downing did not go to the United States, and because he "foresaw" that there would be a civil war in the United States, who did he reason with? Of course, the Americans cannot understand this, and the understanding of the American media is that this "British aristocrat" who studied in the United States really regards himself as an aristocrat, and has such a sense of belonging to Europe, but has no interest in the free land of the United States.
Hmph, is the United States and Russia joining forces with the Grand Duke and my old man to be afraid of you? Downing began to intensify his plans to occupy Hawaii and form a combined Pacific Fleet consisting of India, Malaya, and Japan. Originally, he wanted to occupy Hawaii by the East India Company, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to supply without Japan's share, so he still united with Japan, anyway, the hard power such as building ships was completely under the responsibility of the Singapore shipyard, and this combined fleet would be firmly controlled in his hands.
Since the Great Edo Earthquake, after more than a year of research and development, the prefabricated earthquake-resistant wooden house program has finally been completed, and the destitute Edo residents who lost a qiē in the earthquake are sold, naturally, a large number of aided residents want to join the Hawaii colonization program, Hawaii also has nothing but wood, just to get this new design of the beautiful cabin program to Hawaii, and with a more beautiful design, in the future, such a small cottage may also be used as a selling point for tourism.
Japan is rich in forests, Sweden is no less than that, and even more interestingly, the Swedes know this, the Nobel family is the inventor of plywood! Yes, it is the Nobel Prize who invented the spirit-**, but the person who invented the plywood was his father, which is really a family history. It's not for nothing that Sweden's furniture is excellent, and his home is the originator of man-made panels.
At this time, the Nobel family has begun to manufacture **, and made a lot of money, their customer is Russia! The mines used by the Russians in the Crimean War were from Imalin? Nobel, his son Alfred? Nobel, who is the famous historical figure, has just returned to Stockholm from St. Petersburg with his father, because after the defeat of Russia they lost their biggest customer, and this unstable ** could not be transferred to civilian use, and the company in Malini closed its doors, and the father and son returned to Sweden to prepare for more advanced research**.
When I came to Downing, Sweden, I thought of Sweden's timber resources, and I also remembered the famous IKEA, a company that took the advantages of man-made panels to the extreme and created a furniture empire. So Downing contacted Imaline, the patent holder of plywood, and invited him to participate in the grand event to improve the man-made panels again. Tang Ning has long wanted to engage in the man-made panel industry, but he is too busy, and it is only fitting to find this talent to help.
Imaine came with his sons to see the world, and the Pope of Science was not something that everyone could see, and when they came to the place where the "Pope" lived, the Prince Regent of Sweden was also there, because it was the royal palace where Downing lived. Downing originally just wanted to cooperate with the inventor of plywood, but when he saw the surname "Nobel", he curiously invited them to dinner, and after seeing the two children of Immane, he guessed which was "that Nobel".
Prince Karl, an artist who loved watercolors, had not yet anticipated the super-broad prospects of the new material plywood. The members of the royal family always live a life of ignorance of firewood and rice, where do they know the attributes of this material that greatly improves people's livelihood? What Downing wanted to do was not only to glue the rolled bark criss-crossed together with mane, but also to glue together the wood residue that had been discarded in the past, which was lightweight, easy to mold, and had a high-quality surface that looked no worse than solid wood furniture, and the quality was not too far behind, and the price was much cheaper. IKEA relies on these materials to produce huge quantities of furniture.
Downing also had to introduce his plan to the prince and Nobel father and son, to design simple furniture assembled by the client himself, easy to transport, easy to install, easy to assemble for mass production, and therefore cheaper, at the same price point, such furniture is the best. Since IKEA doesn't exist yet, the new furniture company will be called this name, although I don't know what these four letters mean, is it Swedish? It's hard to ask people.
Downing tied the knot with timber, designed mortise and tenon wooden houses for the Edo victims, and prepared to design furniture for the Swedes. Furniture with tenon and tenon structure is not suitable for furniture, because it is complex after all, I am afraid that it will bring confusion to users who install furniture, or it is more intuitive nail structure to understand at a glance. The wooden house is produced in an assembly line factory, and no matter how complex it is, it can be learned by workers at different stations, so there is no such problem.
I heard that the Grand Duke never loses money in business? Prince Karl asked for a share, which was of course very popular with the Grand Duke, which not only helped the new IKEA to spread the business as quickly as possible, but also helped the Grand Duke and the King of Sweden to form a solid strategic partnership. Just like his current relationship with the Duke of Bavaria, with the 5% stake in the automobile factory that earns n pounds a year, no matter how much he tosses it, it becomes a thorn in the side of a large number of Christians, and the Duchess of Bavaria's family has to support him as a son-in-law and will not give up the friendly relationship between the two sides.
After coming to Sweden, Downing had already discovered that the Nordic newspapers were particularly tolerant of atheists, and praised one. It seems that the geopolitical situation far from the Holy See is really working.
Since the excellent industrial ** had been invented by Downing, the Nobel family lost a chance to make a fortune, and in order to "compensate" them, Downing gave them a chance to provide chemical support for IKEA man-made panels, and let the two children of the Nobel family stay with him as assistants, one named Alfred and the other named Emile.
Although Downing robbed Alfred of the opportunity to go down in history, he saved the boy named Amile, and if history had not changed, the boy would have died in an accident during the research and development of **. Maybe then the Nobel family will be happier.
Downing's industry ** is not perfect, Nobel still has the opportunity to get involved in this industry, and more instructive, the old Nobel has made two teenagers recognize the Pope of Science as a chemistry teacher, and the teacher will naturally not disappoint them, and the Grand Duke who is happy at the moment told the idea of the periodic table that he is "studying recently", so that his chemistry teacher will not be in vain. (http://.)。
As early as 1789, Lavoisier, a Frenchman who was one of the three fathers of chemistry, published a list of 33 chemical elements, and because there were not many elements, chemists did not have a very intuitive view of the "period" of the elements. As new elements continue to be discovered, chemists continue to summarize, and there is already a faint sense that there is a law in it, and it is time for Downing to publish the periodic law of the elements. There are 98 elements that naturally exist in the complete periodic table, and now only more than 40 elements have been discovered, and the discovery of each element has made a "Nobel Prize"! Therefore, the periodic table is definitely a discovery of the great master of chemistry.
Tang Ning has no interest in being a great master, and he does not fully reveal the secret of the periodic table, but only says that this is an interesting arrangement that he has been considering recently, inspiring the three members of the Nobel family to think about whether there is a periodic law here. Since he robbed the industry, he planned to let someone they were interested in become the joint discoverer of the periodic law, and the strength of the fame was no weaker than the invention of the industry.
Sure enough, the clever Alfred was immediately attracted to the concept of the periodic law, even if the future king was immersed in thought.