In April, something new happened in the city of Beijing.

The street lamps in the capital were renovated, and the kerosene lamps that had been used for less than two years were taken off from the top of the lamp pole one by one. The whole city of Beijing is dark at night in April.

At the same time, a novel word appeared in the streets and alleys - electric light! What is an electric light?

Chinese, who have a deep taboo and reverence for lightning since ancient times, have never thought of associating lighting appliances in daily life with the word electricity. Even if the newspapers have introduced the introduction of electric lights, many people are confused and do not understand!

Liu Xian is not in a hurry, after the physical object is taken out, the people will naturally know. Just like Shanghai, China's first electric light was lit on the 16-ponte wharf last year, equipped with a 10-horsepower internal combustion engine generator, equivalent to the power of a walk-behind tractor. In addition, the lights on the Shanghai wharf are equipped with knife switches on each telephone pole, which need to be manually turned on and off by workers every day. At this point, Beijing's circuit laying and process design are much stronger than Shanghai's.

It took a month and a half to prepare and renovate the entire city, and new or renovated light poles were erected on the streets of the city. Although I haven't seen what electric lights look like, these light poles are loved by the people. The lampshades set up on the lamp poles in Beijing are completely made of glass, and the shape is very exquisite.

The time has come to June 1, and this day is the day when the entire Beijing gate is closed. Liu Xian looked at the chandelier hanging on the roof of the study with a satisfied smile, and after the success of the tungsten incandescent lamp, the electric chandelier was naturally born. This will be a major interest for the glass industry in the coming years.

Liu Xian has asked people to register patents for tungsten incandescent lamps in Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Italy and other European and American countries, as well as the alternator. It was all white people who were thoroughly bought and took the lethal handle. With only about 10,000 pounds of money, I completed a qiē by the way. And if these yellow people come forward to apply for patents, Liu Xian can guarantee that now tungsten incandescent lamps in Europe and the United States are already selling well.

At a very young age in his previous life, he knew a story that was used to illustrate the ideas of 'failure is success', 'persistence is victory', 'where there is a will, there is a way', and so on: Edison invented the electric light.

But when I grew up, I realized how many dirty things Edison had done because of the electric light and his direct current. Fortunately, I remember the encyclopedia of the great god very clearly. Before the great god fell into the arms of Edison, when the great god tried to find a job in Maribor without success, and then returned to Prague to continue his studies, the people in the European Office magically appeared in front of the great god, and with a contract with an annual salary of 1,000 pounds, the great god was easily fished away. Of course, in order not to be too conspicuous, there are also more than a dozen young and middle-aged scholars in Prague who are also pulled away.

For more than two years, the great god has used his magic to stand at the top of the Shijingshan Academy of Natural Sciences. He became the first big bull in the Shijingshan Academy of Natural Sciences with an annual salary of more than 6 million Chinese dollars, or 13,000 pounds. As for the allowances and bonuses, the great god received them more generously than he could have imagined.

The great god who is now twenty-six years old. His eyes are no longer just on money, and he has naturalized his Chinese nationality, and his eyes have been on Chinese titles. Xu Shou, Hua Yufang, Li Shanlan and others in Shijingshan Academy of Natural Sciences. Not only did he enjoy the treatment of a second-class official, but he was also awarded the titles of baron, viscount and so on. The number has reached six. Even though these titles are only liukeeping, they cannot be passed on to future generations. This also made the god with a very ordinary and ordinary background envious.

The great god came to China for more than two years, and the tungsten incandescent lamp did not need his participation, so Liu Xian directly asked the great god to unite like-minded people to study alternating current. also revealed the great god coil that he knew a little bit about.

The young god who did not have a formal university degree had the lowest status among the more than 50 European scholars and scientists who came to China, and was looked down upon by the vast majority of his own people.

Didn't you say it earlier, the great god's family background is very ordinary. In 1875 he studied physics, mathematics and mechanics at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, but he only took one year at the university until the Military Border Service was abolished the following year, and he lost his bursary and was forced to drop out because he could not pay his tuition. Therefore, the great god does not have a graduation certificate. In 1877, Okami went to Prague to study for two years, auditing courses at the university and studying in the library. In 1879, after unsuccessfully trying to find a job in Maribor, he returned to Prague to continue his studies and then came to China.

And as for alternating current, it is not uncommon among these European scholars to study it. Liu Xian is very generous to the Academy of Natural Sciences, and there are only unsuccessful research projects here, and there are no topics that have been forced to stop because of financial constraints. Hua Yufang, who presided over the work of the Academy of Sciences, waved his hand, and those who came did not refuse. Anyone who applies for funding to do research can do it. As a result, among the four research groups on alternating current, Okami took the lead and led a research team composed of four Chinese students, and there was no doubt that they stood at the forefront of the competition. Then the four research groups merged, and the great god presided over the research work, and the process of the AC motor was tumbling forward. In the summer of last year, there was a stenter machine, and in the spring of this year, the entire Academy of Sciences had four direct current power plants for power supply, and it became an alternating current power plant. The status of the great god also jumped sharply to the first column of the Academy of Sciences!

Now Okami is working on a two-way electric current that he has long had in mind.

As Liu Xian, who secretly promoted this qiē, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Although the invention patent of alternating current cannot be enjoyed by the great god, the inventor of the patent application is the first to fill in his name, and the glory that belongs to him will not be erased. And Liu Xian will not be like Edison, stingy to the point of not pulling out a dime. As long as the AC power plant is rolled out, the great god will get a huge bonus that will allow him to eat and drink for three lifetimes, as well as honorary awards.

From the very beginning, Liu Xian was unimpressed with the DC power plant. It's so uneconomical and inconvenient.

In 1879, Edison invented the incandescent lamp, which quickly spread in popularity in real life and transformed Edison himself from an inventor to a successful entrepreneur. But at the same time, he also faced a number of problems: if the lights in a residential area were more than a kilometer away from the power station, they would not get enough current to emit strong light, because direct current could not transmit energy over long distances. In order for the lighting system to function properly, one power station had to be built every 1 kilometer, or the generators had to be increased or several generators connected together to generate more current.

If Liu Xian, who came from later generations, could be satisfied with this kind of 'electricity', his brain would be flooded!

As the sun sets, more and more people gather in Tiananmen Square at dusk. Just like later generations, Liu Xian will also turn Tiananmen Square, the main gate of the Forbidden City, into a square. It's just that there is no Taizu Memorial Hall in Tiananmen Square now, and there is no Great Hall of the People. There are the same flag-raising ceremonies, the same monuments to the martyrs, and a memorial hall that displays all the war experiences of the Qin army from small to large, from weak to strong. Among them are the Russian military flags, French military flags and Japanese military flags captured by the Qin army on the battlefield, the Russian armistice agreement, the French treaty, and the surrender of the Japanese......

Liu Xian also established a martyr's shrine in Xishan, Beijing, which displays more than 100,000 martyrs' tablets. It has been less than a year since the completion of the Martyrs' Shrine, Liu Xian has already brought Liu Sheng here three times, and Fan Debang has brought the cabinet officials to pay a collective respect. The military, I don't know how many times the collective and the individual have come. There are also the bereaved families of soldiers, who have come here from thousands of miles and thousands of miles.

It is a great honor for the people to be able to be commemorated by the national ancestral hall, and there is an endless stream of emperors and important ministers. When the family came to worship, they were also sad and happy.

Skipping this topic, evening is coming, it is getting dark, and soon it will be time to turn on the lights. Half past seven, the newspaper said it was half past seven.

Bronde walked slowly on the way to Tiananmen Square. He is a reporter for the "Zilinxi Daily" in Beijing, an errand that is very easy to deal with, and an errand that is extremely difficult to explain to the above.

It is easy to say that he only needs to walk around the street a few times every once in a while, or attend two banquets on the Embassy Street to gather some news, and it is enough to cope with the task assigned by the newspaper.

The difficulty for him is that once the newspaper wants to make an in-depth report on a policy or issue, Brande has to rely on the connection, and he has to sharpen his head to drill into the camp.

Today, there is a very relaxed and attractive 'focus' news waiting for him. Brande only needs to take a few photos in Tiananmen Square, interview a few people at random, and then express a little emotion, and a news that can make Chinese and even foreigners in Shanghai feel proud and proud is born.

Lamp? What's there to see?

The electric lights at the Shanghai docks have long been unattractive. It is also the place in Beijing that will boil for the ranking of electric lights.

A fragment of a newspaper blew in the wind, gently breaking free from the fetters of the earth, swirling in the sky, and finally falling to the feet of a Brand.

Brande stooped down to pick up the paper, looked at the trash can a few steps away, and was about to walk over and throw it away. God knows who tore up the newspaper and escaped the eyes of the cleaners and the chengguan.

Bronde has a great sense of psychological superiority over Beijing's 'backwardness', but he also has to lament the cleanliness of Beijing. The Chinese government has elevated the undead role of the health system and chengguan, which is really too deterrent.

The crisp bell of the carriage sounded behind him, and Brande turned his head to see that it was a private carriage. Through the window, he could still see a pair of young people sitting in the carriage, Europeans and Americans, lovers, right?

The man's face was not seen, only the back of his head. The young lady had very beautiful long golden hair, as beautiful as a golden waterfall. Beautiful countenance, and a white neck like a swan...... (To be continued......)