As Carroll mentioned, new power plants are being built. Since the combination of alternators and transformers has been widely promoted in the United States, many countries in Europe have also begun the process of electrification, among which Germany and the United Kingdom have come to the front, not to mention the United Kingdom, the Germans themselves have a good accumulation of technology in electricity, so they have also quickly built power plants and started the process of electrification.

With such a heavy question, it is difficult for Scrooge's patent to completely restrict the British and Germans. Because the stakes are just too great. So, they all took some steps to circumvent the patent grant. For example, the British used DC generators extensively, although Scrooge still has a lot of patents related to DC generators and DC motors, but Scrooge's direction focuses on alternating current, so the patents on the DC side are much easier to bypass. In this way, there are few restrictions in terms of patents.

Of course, after the advent of transformers, the weakness of DC power compared to AC power in terms of efficiency was completely exposed, but at this time, many cities in the UK have established a number of DC power plants, so it is not so easy to replace. A number of AC power plants using Scrooge's patents and DC power plants that bypass patents are in fierce competition, but the ultimate victory of AC is predictable.

The French followed the same path as the British, and before Scrooge began to invest in France, there was already a power plant in Paris, of course, a small direct current power plant. But in the subsequent revolution of the Paris Commune, the factory was greatly damaged, so that the homes of the wealthy Parisians who had just started to use electric lights were now dark again.

After a series of loan agreements were reached with the Thiers government, whose hands were stained with the blood of the workers, the construction of Scrooge's power plant began in Paris. Soon after the construction began, some problems began to arise gradually. The first is the trouble caused by class antagonism. However, the most unexpected thing was that the first to come to the door was not the ruled who opposed Scrooge, but the rich people in France.

American workers are paid higher wages than in France, (all because the land in the United States is so abundant and cheap that there are many outlets for workers.) When Scrooge's company first arrived in France, he gave this advice to some of the managers when they left the United States for France, taking into account the French habit of rebellion and revolution (according to Heine, "a tenth of the suffering suffered by the Germans was enough for the French to launch ten uprisings") and his own technological superiority, so when some managers left the United States for France, Scrooge gave them this advice:

"Although the insurrection (Paris Commune movement) led to class contradictions in France has been suppressed, the main workers' organisations have been destroyed. From a political point of view, it is unlikely that the French workers will launch a large-scale strike or other destructive action in a short period of time. But we still have to be mindful that we should not be victims of the sharp class antagonism in France, and we should not be a model for concepts like 'black-hearted capitalists'. This is not only because the French have a tradition of rebellion, but also because of the following reasons:

First of all, the rule of Thiers' government is not stable, and the three most powerful forces in French politics today do not really want to support him, but he just chooses without unanimity. So as soon as there is a stir, this government can easily collapse. Secondly - and perhaps more importantly - the economic situation in France will not improve significantly in the short term, and as the French capital continues to flee France, the unemployment rate of the workers will become higher and higher, and the life of the workers will become more and more difficult. This difficult journey will be far more powerful than what you have seen even in the most difficult times of America. Therefore, although the anger of the people has been suppressed, it may not erupt again. Although they were unable to carry out a full-scale revolution due to the destruction of the organization, small-scale strikes, demonstrations and so on were very likely.

We are a foreign business, and countries in difficult situations are almost inherently xenophobic, and the more difficult they are, the more so they are. Don't look at the fact that the Thiers government is very welcome to invest in us, but his position is not secure, and if there is a slightly stricter labor dispute in our factory, some of our opponents may take this opportunity to stir up xenophobia in society and make trouble against us.

But on the other hand, we can't completely move what we have in the United States, which would be considered a violation of the rules. It will attract opposition from other companies, including those that do not compete with us. Therefore, after you get there, you must carefully investigate and come up with a suitable plan according to local conditions. ”

Because of this advice, when the company first arrived in France and began to build a power plant, Tim, who was in charge of the work, set the wages for the workers slightly higher than the general situation in the local area, and Tim felt that this would not only prevent the workers from causing any trouble because of dissatisfaction, but also should not make the local local snakes feel that they had broken the rules.

Soon, however, trouble came. First of all, a certain newspaper in Paris suddenly published an article called "MacDonald's Infantry Weapons Company and the Franco-Prussian War". A guy under the pseudonym D'Artagnan (a character in the novel The Three Musketeers) exposed the story of the MacDonald consortium in this article, telling the French that the Germans were able to defeat France in the war because they used a lot of weapons from the MacDonald's Infantry Weapons Company, and that France would probably not have been defeated without this one of the largest weapons companies in the world, and without the support of Prussia by these warmongers. No, it should be that France will definitely win.

In this article, "d'Artagnan" reviews the history of the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company, and indeed the entire MacDonald Consortium, exposing their dark history of making war profits in the Austrian-Italian War, the American Civil War, and the Prussia-Austria, Cuban War, and even the Prussia-France WarMr. Scrooge MacDonald, inventor of the most efficient weapon of murder, is said to be a philanthropist and a pacifist. Although hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives because of his horrific inventions, and many more should be injured or even disabled for life, he insisted that his inventions 'defended freedom and peace'. At the end of this article, this "d'Artagnan" finally shows his fox tail, and he tells the French that this company, which single-handedly led the defeat of France, has now opened a factory in France, and wants to make French money, and the factory called the "Paris AC Power Plant" is currently being built by the MacDonald consortium with the money earned from the massacre of the French.

This is a very vicious article, which succeeded in provoking the hatred of the proud French against foreign vampires, and for several days there were idle and bored Parisian citizens demonstrating near the construction site of the Paris AC power plant, although these guys did not make any big trouble because of the police watching, (Tim sent a lot of money to the senior officials of the Paris police department), but they often deliberately blocked the road and disrupted traffic, which also greatly affected the speed of the construction of the project.

There is no doubt that there must be someone behind this "d'Artagnan". However, this matter is not under Tim's jurisdiction, it is not within his purview. He only needs to report this matter to the public, and the higher authorities will naturally send someone to deal with it. And his duty is to ensure that the production is carried out as smoothly as possible.

The simplest and rude way to deal with these people is, of course, to directly find a group of police officers and beat them up with sticks. But Tim knows, maybe some guy is waiting to do it himself? As long as you do this, someone in the newspaper will naturally write a new article, and if you scold it, there will be more fierce conflicts and troubles. So, it's better to have other ways.

However, Tim himself did not have much experience in dealing with this kind of thing, and the construction of this factory was so important to MacDonald's future layout, so Tim, who did not dare to act rashly, sent a telegram to his superiors to ask for "technical guidance".

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"Who do you say is making trouble?" Scrooge looked at the report in his hand and said to Dorothea.

"There may be a lot of people, and the big capital in France is the number one suspicious object. Well, those guys are familiar with your resume...... It's also possible for guys in the United States. Dorothea said.

"The big French capital is busy withdrawing from France and turning to Germany and the United States, and they are in the dark at this time, as if it doesn't make special sense. I really doubt it was that guy who did it. Scrooge said calmly, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"Who are you talking about?" Dorothea asked.

"Guess what?" Scrooge sold off the pass.

Dorothea thought for a moment and said, "You don't suspect it's Mr. Morgan, do you?" Why would he do it? ”

"It's not hard to understand if he does, but it doesn't have to be him." Scrooge said, "There will be a next step for them, and I can roughly judge who it is when the next one goes."