Alexander Graham Bell was once credited with being the inventor of the telephone and went down in history, his patent application date was March 7, 1876, but just two hours after he filed the patent, E. Gray also came to apply for a patent for the telephone, and the patent battle over the telephone lasted until 1892, because the United Telegraph Company, the largest western telegraph company in the United States, acquired the patent rights of Gray and Edison (carbon particle transmitters). This was used to confront Bell's predecessor AT&T. The long-term patent battle led to an agreement in which the Western Union Telegraph Company fully recognized Bell's patent rights and never again got involved in the telephone business, in exchange for a share of 20 percent of Bell's revenue over 17 years.

But now the inventor of the telephone recognized by the United States is neither Bell nor Gray, but the Italian Antonio Meucci.

Of course, for Wang Yicun's era, these are no longer problems, because the inventor of the telephone package solution is he, Wang Yi!

By July 1877, Wang Yi's first multinational company was formally established, named the World Telephone and Telegraph Company, and its main business included: radio communications, as well as telephones. In addition to the headquarters in Yingkou, it now has two branches around the world, one is the American Telephone and Telegraph Company established by Jack Spell, and the other is the European Telephone and Telegraph Company jointly established by the British Charlie Farma and the German Augustus Elton.

Of course, such a large-scale company cannot be established by Wang Yi alone, not to mention that he doesn't have that much money, and even if he does, he won't all invest in this project. Soon after the company was founded, he began to bring in a number of strategic investors, including well-known conglomerates and royal families, and a small part of the equity was distributed to minority shareholders.

"Is this the phone?" Shen Yazhi looked curiously at the strange things on her desk, and so did Tong Qianjia on the other side.

Wang Yi smiled and said, "Give it a try." ”

"Huh?" Shen Yazhi screamed softly, inexplicably embarrassed. Tong Qianjia covered her mouth and chuckled beside her, which made Wang Yi a little stunned, as if she saw Nie Xiaoqian back then.

"Oh, these two girls are getting more and more powerful, brother, you should rise quickly!" Wang Yi thought crankily for no reason.

At present, the scale of the telephone network laid by Wang Yi is limited, and the general range is in Yingkou, Dashiqiao, Haicheng, Anshan, Panjin, this triangular area. Not to mention anything else, just the cost of copper wires in telephone lines is already a figure that makes most people tremble. If you count the automatic telephone exchange, the establishment of telephone and telegraph halls, the labor cost is ...... Wang Yi didn't even dare to imagine when he would be able to recover the cost.

It's just that the benefits are also immediate, basically the villages can be connected to the telephone, one village has three telephones, and the connection of the whole area is getting closer and closer.

Of course, it is not only Wang Yi who has benefited from this process, and many supporting equipment Wang Yi did not produce by himself, but handed over to the original grain and oil price alliance. Everyone earns money, Wang Yi has always been like this.

For this reason, Wang Yi also specially met with the backstage representatives of these people, and finally agreed to Wang Yi's plan after negotiation. They paid for their own money, and Wang Yi provided technology and training, and the factories were all located in a so-called technology development zone between Yingkou and Haicheng. At the same time, they also agreed to Wang Yi with three additional conditions: the first is the technical secret alliance, the ownership of the technology belongs to Wang Yi, they only have the right to use, and the big business has the right to send technical supervision. Second, product quality, exclusive supplier rating system, simply put, unqualified products don't, always unqualified, then you close the door and leave. Third, it stipulates the minimum wage, maximum working hours per week, overtime pay, and holidays for employees. Originally, this was the most controversial, but after Wang Yi talked about the so-called concept of consumption, the price alliance decided to give it a try.

If you sell something that your own employees can't afford, then who will?

The establishment of the World Telephone and Telegraph Company barely reconnected this small area southwest of Mukden with the world. Sometimes the concept is like feelings, once it changes, it is a change, and it is really difficult to recover!

However, phone calls don't always work, and most of the time they have nothing to do with technology, just because the phone line has been cut away!

There is copper wire in the telephone line, and Daqing is a place where copper is money. So in the eyes of many people, telephone lines are strings of copper coins set on high poles.

Wang Yi, who had a full understanding of the inferior nature of the Qing people, did not hesitate to increase the number of the insurance team from the original 2,500 to 6,000 in order to ensure the safety of the line.

But even so, cases of telephone line theft are still not uncommon, Wang Yi later made a ruthless decision, as long as the line thief is caught, as long as the crime is established, as long as the age is over 12 years old, men will go to Anshan to mine, build roads, and build railways. The woman compensated with work. As for the children, they are forcibly enrolled in the primary school affiliated to Dashang, waiting for the next year to start, and pre-school education will be carried out first.

Speaking of the Dashang Affiliated Primary School, the scale today even exceeds the population of Octagonal Terrace. In the second enrollment in 1877, the number of students increased to 3,100 at once, and thanks to the previous research, the school would not have been able to accommodate such a large number of new students.

The reason for this is, on the one hand, because the fame of the big merchants is growing, and the people have heard too many wealth myths in it. On the other hand, the drought in Shanxi, Henan, Zhili, Shandong and other places has further intensified, and the number of poor people who have migrated to the northeast has begun to rise sharply.

Just as Wang Yi and the two girls were fiddling with the phone, the phone rang.

Wang Yi gave Shen Yazhi a look, looking at her excited and scared little look, Wang Yi suddenly felt open-minded.

"Hey, hello, this is the office of the chairman of Dashang Group, I am the secretary Shen Yazhi, where are you? What can I do for you? ”

The two girls have practiced these words over and over again I don't know how many times, but fortunately, the first time I looked good, a bit of the posture of a female secretary in later generations, but I was too young, the fox's strength had not yet come out, and the momentum of the iceberg could not be placed, and it sounded like it, and the rest was only cute.

"Okay, I'll transfer to the chairman right away." Shen Yatou gave Wang Yi a look, and said lightly: "It's Dashang Iron and Steel Plant, something happened, you dare to take it closely." ”

Wang Yi's brows furrowed, his voice turned professional, and he said, "Hello, I'm Wang Yi." ”

On the other side of the phone was Ma Xiaocheng, deputy general manager of Dashang Iron and Steel Plant, who said eagerly at this time: "Chairman, there are a group of people from Fangcai Steel Mill who claim to be the tax official of Fengtianfu. After injuring the factory guards, he forcibly broke in, and then couldn't help but say that he would beat people when he saw them. Mr. Cole has gone out to negotiate with them, what instructions do you have in this regard? ”

"Tax collector?" Wang Yi remembered a man named Feng Youyi, who had now become a dead man. He pondered for a moment and said, "Try to stabilize them as much as possible, and find a few more foreign engineers to come forward, I don't believe that they dare to bully foreign friends." ”

When Ma Xiaocheng heard it, it was also a way.

"You guys have someone on the phone over there, and contact me again if you have anything. You can rest assured, on this one-third of an acre of land in Anshan, if they die, let them do it, and no one will wait for them to collect their bodies tomorrow! ”

"Okay, Chairman!"

"Pay attention to the safety of employees, and send the injured to the hospital as soon as possible, and the insurance team will pass in a while. Okay, that's all, I'll take care of it! ”

Shen Yazhi and Tong Qianjia were listening, the admiration in their eyes! This is called the real strategizing, winning thousands of miles away.

Wang Yi put down the phone and dialed another number instead.

"Hey I, hello, I'm Wang Yi, the captain of the insurance team! Let your battalion commander Gu Xuefeng listen to the phone. ”

The communication soldiers over there didn't react at first, but later realized that it was their big boss who called in person, and hurriedly said, "Captain, please wait a moment." ”

After a while, I heard someone shouting, "Damn, if you dare to lie to me, I will shoot you." ”

"Who are you shooting!?" Wang Yi scolded directly on the phone.

Gu Xuefeng is one of the remaining forty members of Wang Yiwu's class, and half of the insurance team currently in Anshan is under his control, with 500 people. When he heard that it was really his boss, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Ah, it's really the captain, your old man!" ”

"Okay, get down to business, don't be kidding."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xuefeng's face turned straight and said, "Yes!" Captain, please! ”

"Gather your team members and rush to the Dashang Iron and Steel Plant immediately, there is a tax collector making trouble over there!"

"What if they resist?"

"Don't kill them, send them away...... Yes, send them out. Remember, send ...... in the direction of Dagushan Wanjiayao Also, if there are bandits coming, don't resist, the thieves are powerful, just put a machine gun, and you can evacuate with your teammates. ”

Gu Xuefeng was not stupid, how could he not hear the meaning of Wang Yi's words, and then he didn't talk nonsense, and gathered the team.

Yu Cheng, Cong Fu and Yang Tieshan never thought that Dashang Iron and Steel Factory would be a foreigner's business, and the old man on the opposite side had a bad temper and almost beat them. Later, more than a dozen foreigners came out, all speaking bird language, and the three of them couldn't understand a word. According to the practice of the Qing Dynasty in the past 20 years, foreigners cannot be provoked. In case of a war caused by this, the three of them will all be in vain in their desire to serve the country.

The three of them gathered to the side and bowed their heads to discuss.

"I said Yucheng, you don't do things authentically!"

When Yu Cheng heard Cong Fu's complaints, he was also angry in his heart, but there was no way, and he greeted Andre's family all over in his heart.

"Alright, don't say it's useless." Yang Tieshan Road.

Yucheng and Cong Fu are both people who have no ideas, and now they have to look forward to Yang Tieshan.

"What do you mean, Old Yang?"

Without waiting for Yang Tieshan to speak, a group of spearmen wearing steel helmets and grass-green cloth clothes and pants rushed in, and then couldn't help but say something, and surrounded the group.

The young man who took the lead smiled at this time: "Let's say it, let you leave!" Let's go! Don't look for it, don't feel comfortable! As soon as his words fell, the muzzles of all the team members were bullying Yang Tieshan and the three of them, these three people actually bullied people on weekdays, where had they seen such a posture, if they hadn't ridden on a horse, they would probably have urinated.