Originally, the elder Ford had no interest in meeting a young man from far away China (it was useless for Roosevelt to introduce him, the elder Ford had always hated associating with the government, and Ford was forced to cooperate with the U.S. government and accept military orders in the face of an existential crisis). But the other party brought a design drawing of a car that had been patented, and the old Ford was interested in taking a look, and as a result, he couldn't take his eyes off it. As Shijie's top automotive expert, Ford Sr. could see at a glance how good the off-road ability of this model called "Jeep" was, and its sleek styling would be very popular with customers, and Ford Sr. immediately asked Hu Weidong to his office for an interview.

The elder Ford was good at management but not good at negotiation, but his son, Ezel Brown, who is now the de facto leader of Ford. Ford was a very shrewd businessman, and it was not easy to get a bargain from him, but Hu Weidong didn't want to make Ford's money in the first place, but simply wanted to borrow its tiger skin to facilitate the Red Party's purchases in the United States. What particularly pleased Hu Weidong was that, unlike his father, who was only interested in cars, Ezel. Ford is interested in any commodity that can make a big profit, which gives Hu Weidong, who has a lot of other super-era Jishu achievements in his hands, more bargaining chips

However, because the economic crisis in 37 years has not yet broken out, Hu Weidong's current advantage of holding a lot of cash cannot be reflected for the time being, and due to the change of history, Hu Weidong is not sure whether the Xi'an incident will happen, which will have an impact on Hu Weidong's actions in Europe and the United States, so he deliberately slowed down the progress of the negotiations, on the one hand, waiting for domestic news, on the other hand, to complete other things that must be done.

Hu Weidong ventured abroad this time, in addition to the introduction of machinery and equipment, the most important work is to introduce talents, and the cost of hiring technicians and even ordinary engineers will be much lower when the economic crisis breaks out. But for those cutting-edge talents in Hu Weidong, the sooner you start, the better.

In the list drawn up by Hu Weidong in advance, the "father of rockets" Robert. Goddard is undoubtedly the most important one. But the process of postponement went much smoother than he expected. It turned out that Goddard had long been on the verge of bankruptcy due to the fact that rocket experiments had been put into no output, although the legendary pilot Charles Brown. With Lindbergh's help, he was able to get some funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. But it was far from enough to carry out the large rocket project that Goddard wanted to study, so after Hu Weidong promised to scoop up $500,000 a year in research funds and proved that he was not an amateur, Goddard immediately agreed to go to China, on the condition that Hu Weidong ensure that he had access to all the necessary experimental equipment, since Goddard's rockets were almost all by hand except for the most basic parts. Therefore, the materials needed were much less than Hu Weidong thought, and even if the domestic civil war continued, it would not be difficult to transport them to the Central Plains base area, so Hu Weidong agreed very simply. It is worth mentioning that Goddard has been forced to be self-reliant for a long time, and has made remarkable achievements in many fields such as aerodynamics, chemistry and materials science, among which his own liquid oxygen production method is currently the most advanced in Shijie, which will be of great help to China's industrialization

Soon. Hu Weidong used a similar method to get the current epoxy resin inventor (Note 1) Li Green and other later Shijie-level scientific and technological experts. At this time, it was easier for Chinese students and researchers such as Qian Lao, who was still very young, to get it done, although Hu Weidong was slightly disappointed that Carmen and other successful bulls did not accept the invitation.

During this period, Hu Weidong spent more than $1.2 million in cash (including only liquidated damages, debts in lieu of debts and prepaid salaries). Since most of the equipment required for these projects cannot be produced in China, Hu Weidong had to spend a lot of money in advance to buy enough for a year's research in the United States and send it back to China for backup, and purchased a lot of machinery and equipment for the production of these experimental equipment for long-term consideration. The sum of several items actually cost tens of millions of dollars in total, which made Mao Zemin and others, who originally felt that they were a little wealthy, smacked their tongues. This scientific research is too expensive, right? But what they don't know is that these scientists have been saving enough. There is also a brother who can spend more money than him...,

Although these scientists and engineers are all famous in later generations, they are a little bleak compared to Einstein, who has now moved to the United States, but because Einstein is a pure theoretical scientist, it is of little significance to the current poor and backward China, so Hu Weidong did not waste time to visit him, and selected a scientific and technological geek who also lives in the United States at present, whether it is talent or contribution, this person may not be under Einstein, He is the greatest applied scientist and inventor in the history of shijie (most of the so-called "invention king" Edison's inventions are actually made by his scientists and engineers, and his own more important inventions are the phonograph and electric light, although he can be regarded as a first-class inventor, but there is still a certain gap with Tesla, who invented alternating current, not to mention that even if the surreal "inventions" made up by the deification of Tesla in later generations, Tesla's contribution is far more than alternating current. Nikolai. tesla

In fact, at the beginning, Hu Weidong did not include Tesla in his own poaching jihua, mainly because the uncertainty of Tesla is too great, you must know that Tesla has not had any scientific and technological achievements made public for a long time, and how much ability he still has now, Hu Weidong has no bottom at all, especially the propaganda of Tesla in later generations is too deified, but it makes it difficult for him to know how many credible achievements Tesla has in addition to alternating current. Hu Weidong now has limited capital and limited time, so he must first choose those talents whose value is easier to estimate

Note 1: To be precise, it should be one of the inventors, who invented the new epoxy resin almost simultaneously and independently, and the other one is currently in Switzerland. At this time, epoxy resin has been invented by them and improved several times, but because it has not yet found a market and has not been able to bring any benefits to Li Green, Hu Weidong can successfully dig people, as for the use of epoxy resin in this book, you can know it patiently, it should be said that it is still very important, and the science and technology bulls of this era are generally good at more than one field, and Li Green is naturally no exception (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )