Chapter 126: Singing (2) The Second Update
As soon as this song came out, the small crowd around Yu Sheng in the bazaar immediately fell silent. A feeling of cool love is born from the bottom of my heart, and everyone who listens to the tune and lyrics clearly is thinking back to the clear love when they were young. The bazaar doesn't seem to be noisy!
And in the noisy crowd, the sudden silence is not normal, and it is easy to attract everyone's attention. When the group of people around Yu Sheng quieted down, more people heard the song that Yu Sheng was singing, and then they also quieted down. For such a moment, there was a moment of tranquility in the noisy market. Silent.
For the rest of his life, he sang "TakeMeToYourHeart" three times in a row before stopping. The singing stopped, and a moment later the crowd erupted in thunderous applause. The crowd consciously threw money into the straw hat of the guy who played the guitar. For Americans, it's not a shame to sing.
In later generations, there was a singer who once blew himself up, and when he was traveling in the UK, he was interested in singing on the street, and he could earn hundreds of pounds a day. It is about more than 1,000 yuan. In later generations, due to different concepts, even in first-tier cities, the appearance of a person singing with a guitar will make people feel a little abrupt. It is divided into the range of beggars who pull erhu and ask for money.
Although the onlookers were poor, most of the Hawaiian straw hats received no more than five cents. But the crowd gathered firewood and the flame was high. A few minutes later, the coins and banknotes in the Hawaiian straw hat of the guy who played the guitar overflowed and spilled all over the ground!
As a last resort, Yu Sheng asked the bar owner to help exchange all the coins for paper money. After the money earned was divided into four or six parts, the buddy who owed the money for the wine, in addition to paying off the wine debt, the rest was enough for him to drink for three days. And for the rest of his life, he had already taken the Hawaiian straw hat that Qing Xiaoyi bought for him, and dragged Qing Xiaoyi to breakfast.
When Qing Xiaoyi was exchanging beauty tips with several American girls, she had already heard that eating more fruits can not only whiten the skin, reduce various spots, but also maintain the figure. So, I decided to change my recipe and replace my breakfast with fruit. Of course, for the rest of his life, according to Qing Xiaoyi's figure, I recommend Qing Xiaoyi to eat more papaya. This fruit is said to have some miraculous properties.
The ocean transportation and food preservation in this era were far less good than those done by later generations. So it's basically hard to eat tropical fruits in the north. Even in places like Shanghai, fresh lychees are still a precious variety to entertain guests and show their status. Not to mention things like dragon fruit, jackfruit, mango.
Qing Xiaoyi didn't know how to pick, and she hadn't eaten it, so she bought a little bit of everything. And when Yu Sheng was about to pay, a fat man next to him said to the boss: "I'll help this gentleman pay!" ”
Yu Sheng looked carefully at this white fat man who was rushing to pay with him, and had some doubts. He didn't seem to know the fat white man. And this white fat man didn't care at all, and said to Yu Sheng: "Mr. Yu, I am a good friend of Mr. Albert. I've seen a photo of you and Mr. Albert for a long time. I saw you when I was singing just now! I've heard that in China, the best way to show friendship is to rush to pay the bill. So, please don't say no. ”
Yu Sheng suddenly realized and politely said: "Thank you, thank you!" "It's just a few fruits, and it's not worth a lot of money. I didn't shirk it for the rest of my life. It's just that this white fat man is so polite, it's not good to be too lazy. So we talked as we walked. Then, for the rest of his life, he learned that this white fat man was actually one of the directors of the Westinghouse Electrician Manufacturing Company, named George.
If the name Westinghouse is a bit tongue-twisting, then if it is Westinghouse Electric, it must be known to many later generations. The founder of this company was George Westinghouse, who, of course, had no blood relationship with George, the white fat man.
George Westinghouse is a research-oriented talent. He participated in the Civil War, and at the age of twenty-one, he obtained his first patent for invention. In 1868, he became famous for the invention of the air brake. By 1869, when the Westinghouse Air Brake Company was founded, his automatic air brakes were rapidly spread to railroad coverage in Europe and the United States.
However, what made Westinghouse famous was that he won a debate with Edison in the nineties about the choice of direct current and alternating current applications. Since then, alternating current has been used on a large scale. His company built the Niagara Falls Power Station!
But with so many inventions and two PhDs, Westinghouse has too much research to do. These inventions could have made him a billionaire, but after the business failed, Westinghouse lost control of the company he had created. Finally, in 1914, under the double blow of poverty and disease, he died in New York.
However, due to the protection of patents by the Americans. The operators who took over Westinghouse made a lot of money. And gradually expand the company, began to produce various electrical equipment. And establish a large number of research units for the research and development of new products.
By the time of World War II, it was already one of the suppliers of military radars in the United States. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, its radar detected the Japanese fleet an hour before the air strike! Although, due to a staff error, it was believed that the groups were the Americans' own planes, and did not change the outcome of this sneak attack. However, after this incident, Westinghouse's products became famous all over the world. The products are sold all over the world. At the same time, taking advantage of the east wind of World War II, the scale of the company was expanded several times!
By 1957, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States was built. Since then, he has become one of the commercial oligarchs involved in the energy sector!
However, as far as the rest of my life knows, the Westinghouse company before World War II was in a bottleneck period of development! Because since 1900, when the first turbine generator was built in the United States, Westinghouse has grown in the decades, but there is no product that is unique and can defeat its competitors in one fell swoop.
And this white fat man George also knew that the company now has a lot of investment in scientific research and few profitable projects, so he is looking for funds everywhere. After all, with the foundation of Westinghouse, as long as a fist product is developed, the company can be brought to a higher level. After looking around, I found Albert's head. And in the small talk with Albert, George learned that there is a new rich man in China, named Yu Sheng!