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Qin Lang got a piece of good news, two pieces of news that were neither bad nor bad, and one piece of bad news.

The good news comes from Washington. A telegram was sent from the Admiralty stating that the Marine Corps Command had a very keen interest in the new light artillery being studied by the Great Viper Weapons Company, and that they intended to send several artillery specialists to San Diego to visit it.

Two pieces of news that are neither good nor bad also came from Washington. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and the State Department each sent an official letter to Qin Lang, asking him to go, or send a representative to Washington, D.C., to explain in detail why American citizens were being organized to travel to a country in the midst of war.

Qin Lang knew very well that this was just a routine matter, and Washington knew what he was doing...... At least someone knows that what they need is a plausible excuse that can be used to perfunctory the Italian government, some of the lesser-liked members of Congress, journalists, and the American people, and that excuse needs to be provided by him.

Qin Lang knew what the next step of the U.S. government would be - next, after receiving the explanation he provided, Washington would declare that the U.S. citizens going to Abyssinia had nothing to do with the U.S. government, and would try its best to deny their mercenary status so that he could completely get rid of it.

This is the standard process of political games, and Qin Lang is already very good at playing such games, so he doesn't take this matter to heart.

Especially when he gets bad news.

The boiler of the cargo ship "Liberty" suffered a serious failure, and she is now staying in the Chilean port of Talcahuano for repairs. Unfortunately, even according to the most conservative estimates, the repair work will continue for at least two weeks, and even more unfortunately, because the breakdown occurred at 1 a.m., the ship's captain was unable to inform the Black Swan, and the Black Swan did not return to search for it, and the two ships have completely lost contact.

This means at least three troubles:

First, although this is unlikely to happen because of DuPont, the cargo carried on board the Liberty may still be very unpleasant to the Chileans, so he cannot completely rule out the possibility of confiscation or seizure by the Chilean government for the time being;

Second, the Black Swan was unaware of the Liberty's condition, and although the mercenary commander on the cargo ship claimed that she had not returned to search for it, it was likely that Duncan and O'Connor had failed to spot the anomaly in time, and they were probably now directing the liner to search the sea;

In the end, due to this unexpected incident, the arrival of the mercenaries in Abyssinia will be greatly delayed - although the war between Abyssinian and Italy will not officially break out until the end of the year, Qin Lang has always hoped that the troops will be able to catch up with the siege of the fortress of Makareal in December, and now ...... Time is very tight.

So it's a very bad situation.

And there is no way to solve it as soon as possible - of course, the problem of the "Freedom" is easy to solve, Qin Lang can hire a new ship to replace her, but the "Black Swan" does not have a radio, and no one can get in touch with them unless she arrives in South Africa and Duncan and O'Connor take the initiative to send a telegram to the company.

But......

"According to the scheduled schedule, the Black Swan will arrive in Cape Town in four days, but no one knows if she will arrive on time. Maybe she's still searching for the Liberty at sea, but it's better not. Qin Lang frowned slightly, but Rachel didn't notice.

"Then we'll just put her aside for the time being." Rachel said helplessly. To a large extent, the trouble was her mistake: she had suggested that she lease two small transports instead of one large ocean-going liner, and that she had found the Liberty and Black Swan.

Now she regretted her decision, but there was no help but to try her best to reduce the company's possible losses - and this had to rely on Qin Lang; Despite his extreme reluctance, Rachel also had to admit that it was easier for Qin Lang to find a suitable way, and he would hardly make mistakes.

She could only pin her hopes on him. "What are you going to do with the mercenaries and cargo aboard the Freedom, Qin?"

And just like every time before, Qin Lang did already have a method.

"DuPont is influential in Chile," of course, is a more subtle way of saying that Chile is DuPont's sphere of influence. It is not surprising that Chile is famous for its saltpeter, and before the invention of ammonia, the arms industry of various countries relied heavily on saltpeter, and DuPont, as the United States was almost the only supplier of gunpowder and explosives, of course it would do everything to control Chile in order to control the saltpeter mines there.

Rachel immediately understood Qin Lang's intentions. Since DuPont occupies the saltpeter mines in Chile, it certainly has transport ships there...... Or are heading there.

"We can borrow a cargo ship from DuPont." Qin Lang told him his method. "While it's easier to borrow a boat from Morgan or Rockefeller, it's a pity that their ships are too far away."

"Do you think DuPont will lend us his ship?"

"Why not?" He smiled, "We're a great partner for DuPont. ”

"Great, when are you going to send a telegram to DuPont?" Rachel gets excited, but only for a moment, and then her mood goes down again. She thought of a fact that she hated extremely much - although she was in fact in charge of the day-to-day management of the company and most of the business, because she was a woman, in the eyes of the leaders of the Eastern Consortium, her status and importance were far inferior to Qin Lang.

No one wanted to consult her on all matters of business, whether it was Morgan, Rockefeller, Mather, or anyone else.

Therefore, although Rachel was very keen to contact DuPont in person, she still had to hand over the job to Qin Lang.

"I'll get to work on that right away, Rachel." Qin Lang replied quickly and concisely. The situation was urgent, there was no time to waste, and he had to complete it in the shortest possible time. However, in addition to sending a telegram to DuPont, he was also going to write a secret letter to Morgan.

Because he has a new plan.

This trouble made Qin Lang finally decide on one thing. Although from the moment he returned to this era, he had complained about the overly backward conditions of transportation and communication at the end of the nineteenth century, it was only now that he decided to take action to drastically improve this unfortunate and miserable situation.

The first action he planned to take was to develop a radio.

But it wasn't him who did the job. Qin Lang's knowledge of physics has almost been returned to his teachers, and the principle of electromagnetism is of course no exception, and he can only give the honor of inventing the radio to others.

Qin Lang knew who should do the work - according to history, the Italian Guillermo • Marconi would invent radio communication this year, but because he did not receive funding from the Italian government, his communication experiments would be postponed until next year, and in England - but he was not Qin Lang's choice.

The person Qin Lang chose was Nikolai•Tesla, the inventor of Tesla's coil and alternating current system, a genius who had patents in mechanical and electrical engineering, radio engineering, fluid engineering, cryogenic engineering, geophysics, vacuum technology, aircraft technology, etc.

Because the unit of magnetic inductance strength is Tesla.

Theoretically, Mr. Tesla had the ability to invent the radio, but he definitely needed some hints and technical information, so Qin Lang decided to write to Morgan: on the one hand, Tesla was working at the Edison Electric Research Center, so he could be regarded as an employee of Morgan, and on the other hand, the information he needed could be obtained by Morgan.

Take, of course, from Marconi. Although Mr. Marconi was certainly reluctant to share his technical information, it was okay, because once the plan was implemented, he would have to go to God.

Qin Lang believed that Morgan would let his men do the same, as long as he could clearly understand the value of radio technology; Economic, political, military...... Once Morgan understands all this, then, whether Mr. Marconi is willing to hand over the technical information or not, he will have his men kill him.

And it could also be supported by some government officials, members of Congress and senior military officers. The unilateral information superiority brought about by monopolizing radio technology allows the U.S. military to gain the initiative on the battlefield and win victory after victory. So, there will be people in the government, Congress and the military who support Morgan.

In fact, if it were 1995 instead of 1895, the killer who went to Italy to assassinate Marconi and seize technical information would have turned out to be a CIA agent, not a subordinate of some consortium leader.

In the face of national interests, law and morality are fundamentally insignificant.

Qin Lang would clarify all this in his letter to Morgan, and then things would develop as he expected, and in the end, he would also get enough benefits.

This new plan will not only further strengthen his close ties with Morgan, but also with the U.S. government, Congress, and military, and his mercenary forces will also enjoy a unilateral information advantage. In the next war, the war between the United States and Spain, they could win more easily.

As for Mr. Marconi, although Qin Lang's plan was very unfair to him, how many things in this world were fair? For the sake of Qin Lang and others, Mr. Marconi must be a victim.

That's the reality.

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