Chapter 294: The Great Scientist Arrives
In order to prevent the specific executors from being captured by the Qing court because their identities were exposed, the top management of the Iron and Blood Salvation Society unanimously agreed to entrust all the medicines, food and other daily necessities purchased to the International Red Cross for distribution to the victims and patients.
The International Red Cross has been established for half a century, and they can be found all over the world.
Driven by the Iron and Blood Salvation Society, all walks of life have donated money and materials, and many aspiring young people have become volunteers to help disaster relief in the disaster area, and many doctors and traditional Chinese medicine doctors have also organized groups to go to the plague outbreak area to participate in the prevention and control work.
After the high-level meeting of the Iron and Blood Salvation Society, Xiao Zhenlei mobilized the officers and men of the whole army to raise donations at the 45th Bid All-Army Conference, and he personally donated 1 million taels again, and announced it, which greatly shocked the soldiers and officers.
Xiao Zhenlei pointed to a soldier at the front and asked, "Young man, what are your parents doing?" ”
The soldier felt a little embarrassed to be named, and unconsciously touched his head and said, "Sir, my father and mother are all farming!" ”
Xiao Zhenlei nodded: "Oh, that is, farmers, it's the people, right?" ”
"Yes, sir!"
Xiao Zhenlei looked at all of them again and asked, "Who else among you have parents who are ordinary people?" Hands up, please!"
With a bang, almost everyone raised their hands.
"Your parents and relatives are ordinary people, my parents are also ordinary people, and we are all sons of ordinary people. Now the people who are affected by the plague and those who are suffering from the plague virus are ordinary people, and they are all people like our parents. It's all the same as us, and I'm sure that among those affected people or plague patients are your parents. To save them is to save our own parents and relatives, so I want to donate money to buy food, clothing and medicine to send to them, so that they will no longer starve, no longer be cold, and no longer suffer from diseases! You must know that you have come here to serve as a soldier, not only to earn money to support your family, but also to have more important responsibilities. That is to defend the country, as long as I am still here, you don't have to worry about life and the life of your family, the monthly military salary will be paid to you in full, and all you have to do is to work hard to practice military skills, obey orders, and defeat an enemy who violates our homeland security! ”
"I donate first, this donation is voluntary, never forced, you can donate as much as you want. Even if you only donate a penny, it is a heart, what we want is this heart, if you don't have money, it doesn't matter! ”
The response from the soldiers and officers was very good, and they all enthusiastically donated money. This fund-raising campaign undoubtedly allowed the soldiers and officers of the 45 standards to receive an ideological education, and this ideological education was very successful, which made Xiao Zhenlei's control over the 45 standards stronger.
November 12th. Xiao Zhenlei came to Shanghai again, and he came to pick up the ship. The cargo ship on which the scientist Tesla was traveling will arrive at the 16 Mile Pu pier today.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the freighter docked at Sixteen Mile Pu. A man in his fifties with a thin face and a thick beard on his lips walked off the boat with a small suitcase, wearing a black tuxedo and a civilized staff.
Xiao Zhenlei immediately stepped forward and stretched out his hand and smiled: "Is it Mr. Tesla?" I'm Xiao Zhenlei! ”
Tesla looked at Xiao Zhenlei and exclaimed in surprise: "Oh, my God, my future boss turned out to be a young man in his twenties, isn't this a joke?" Damn, I fell for that guy in Fast, he deceived me, he said that you are the richest person in China, you can unconditionally support any of my research projects, and I will accept his invitation to come, but you ???????".
Xiao Zhenlei retracted embarrassedly, but immediately said after hearing Tesla's words: "Fast definitely didn't deceive you, I am now the richest person in China, as long as you initiate a research project, I can support you unconditionally, if you want funds and equipment, I can prepare it for you, as long as you can stay here and work with peace of mind!" ”
"You? Are you the richest person in China? Just you? At your age, you're still the richest person in China? "Tesla couldn't believe it.
Xiao Zhenlei said with a straight face: "Of course, Mr. Tesla, people can't look good, and you can't conclude that I don't have money just because I'm young!" ”
"I don't believe it!" Fast shook his head and added, "I won't believe you unless you put $10 million in front of me in two hours!" ”
Xiao Zhenlei was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Okay, Mr. Tesla, let's go, I'll take you there now!" ”
At this time, it was Fatesla's turn to be stunned, "No, you're ready, I brought it up temporarily, you can't know!" ”
Xiao Zhenlei smiled and shook his head: "Let's go, Mr. Tesla, go and have a look, you can rest assured, after reading it, we will go to the hotel arranged for you to rest!" ”
Tesla nodded when he heard this: "That's fine, that guy from Fast is too unreliable, I'm afraid of being deceived by him again, you still take me to see the money!" ”
There were already several cars waiting on the dock, when Xiao Zhenlei led Tesla out of the dock, Tesla saw that Xiao Zhenlei was preparing so many cars to pick up, and he was still very satisfied, but he was followed by more than a dozen guards who were carrying large boxes one by one, and these big boxes contained Tesla's research materials over the years.
Xiao Zhenlei is not very clear about Tesla's situation, he only knew that there was such a great scientist in his previous life, but this person has been excluded and suppressed by the American scientific community in the United States.
It's normal for a scientist of Tesla's level to be ostracized from the scientific community, especially in the U.S., and Tesla isn't very good at managing relationships, and he doesn't care much about money, when he was working for Edison. His salary is only a few dozen dollars a week, because he is not good at managing money. So much so that he lived a miserable life in his later years.
There may be another reason why he came to China this time. That's his lifelong friend Mark? Twain died in April of this year, and Mark? Twain's death was a huge blow to Tesla, and perhaps staying away from the United States was also a way to forget about his grief. All of the above reasons combined to bring him to China.
A quarter of an hour later, the convoy stopped at the gate of Zhenhua Bank, Xiao Zhenlei asked the others to wait outside, and walked into the headquarters of Zhenhua Bank with Tesla.
"Boss, why are you here at this time?" Chen Huizu got the news and immediately walked out of the office to greet him.
Xiao Zhenlei pointed to Tesla and said, "This is Mr. Tesla, the world's top scientist we invited from the United States, and he just came here and thinks I'm too young." It is impossible to have so much wealth, so I want to take him to prove to you how much wealth I have, I want you to open the door of the treasury and let Mr. Tesla see how much money I have, of course, this is the bank, it can't mean that the money in the treasury is mine, you go and call up my private account information. Let Mr. Tesla take a look! ”
Xiao Zhenlei's words were said in English, in order not to let Tesla think that he and Chen Huizu were acting, but to do as he pleased, Tesla felt a lot more relieved after listening to Xiao Zhenlei's words.
"Mr. Tesla. Hello, I am Chen Huizu, and I am the general manager of the boss's bank. In charge of running the largest bank in China and his private property, please wait a moment here. I'm going to get the vault key right away and call the security manager! ”
After Chen Huizu left. Xiao Zhenlei said to Tesla: "Mr. Tesla, please believe that you have come here on the right track, although this is an ancient country, but from another aspect, this may be a place to start over, here, you can work according to your ideas, I dare to guarantee that no one will impose restrictions on you!" ”
Tesla nodded and said, "I hope so, I don't want to go home again."
Soon, Chen Huizu and the security manager each came over with a bunch of keys, and the security manager bent down to salute Xiao Zhenlei and Tesla, "Boss, I heard Mr. Chen say that you want to open the silver vault?" ”
"Yes!"
The security manager promised, "Okay, boss! ”
Under the leadership of the security manager and Chen Huizu, Xiao Zhenlei and Tesla came to the entrance of the bank vault below, and it was daytime, and it was also heavily guarded, and the security guards standing guard were all fully armed, standing tall one by one, which made Tesla very curious about the strict security system of the bank.
After the silver vault was opened, Tesla saw rows of shelves with neat gold bars and silver ingots, as well as bundles of foreign exchange banknotes, in addition to a large number of copper dollars, silver dollars, and so on.
Chen Huizu took out another account book and opened it to Tesla's side and said: "Mr. Tesla, you see, this is the details of our boss's private property, our boss now has more than 30 large and small companies, six fixed real estate, and he has 94% of the equity of Zhenhua Bank!" ”
Tesla nodded, turned his head and asked, "Xiao, I heard from Fast that you are still the supreme commander of an army, right?" ”
"Yes, Tesla is definitely not lying about this!" Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile.
Tesla shook his head outward: "Let's go, send me to my place of work!" ”
"Now?"
"Of course! I'm not a paycheck who doesn't work."
Xiao Zhenlei hurriedly said: "Mr. Tesla, there are still dozens of kilometers where you work, and it is not very convenient to go to and from Shanghai Beach, I think it is better for us to visit the most prosperous city in the Far East today, and we will go to your place of work tomorrow, you can rest assured, your real room has been built, just wait for the instruments and equipment to be installed before you can start working, or I will send you to the hotel first?" We'll go back tomorrow, and I'll treat you to Chinese food tonight, ok? ”
Tesla thought for a moment and shrugged, "Okay! (To be continued......) R1292