Twenty thousand pounds, equivalent to eighty thousand dollars or two hundred and twenty-one thousand silver dollars.

If you count some fractions, it is almost equivalent to 2230,000.

2230,000 may seem like a lot, but in fact, you can buy a gunboat of several hundred tons, or pay about three months' military salaries for the soldiers of a town in the New Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In this way, you also need to pay a promotion fee when you are fighting, otherwise people will not give you a war at all, because the salary of the new army in this period does not include food expenses, and the soldiers need to pay for their own meals, so when you fight, you will also take some money out to reward others...

In other words, 20,000 pounds seems like a lot, but if it is used to return to China to rebel, I am afraid that it will not even be able to smash it, which is also the reason why Yan Shaowei needs money so much—————— what kind of revolution do you play without money.

(At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the town level in the new army was about the same as the division, with about 12,512 people, and according to the calculation of 7 silver dollars per person per month, 2.23 million silver dollars would probably only last for more than two months...) ）

However, more than 20,000 pounds for the revolution is not enough, but if you just get a tungsten filament, it is more than enough...

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"So much..."

Listening to Yan Shao's words, even Elaline and Caterina were startled.

More than 20,000 pounds is a drop in the bucket for rebellion, revolution, or something, but it is by no means a small amount for individuals. After all, the soldiers of the New Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty during this period only had a salary of 7 yuan a month, which was already a rare high salary in China.

Even Tesla, which has always been at odds with Edison, had a weekly salary of only $18 that year.

"yes, twenty thousand pounds..."

Yan Shao smiled proudly, after all, this is a huge amount of money in this era.

Seeing him smile so proudly, Elaline and Caterina suddenly felt a little unhappy. Just as the two of them looked at each other, about to teach him a lesson, a servant knocked on the door outside.

"Mr. Yan..."

"Please come in..."

I didn't know that he had just escaped from the ravaging hell, Yan Shao raised his voice outside the door.

With permission, a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her thirties walked over from outside, holding a large pile of newspapers.

"Sir, these are the newspapers you wanted..."

As he spoke, he looked around the room, as if wondering where to put his things.

Seeing that the newspapers were almost half a meter high, the servant looked very tired, Yan Shao hurriedly stepped forward and took the newspapers.

"I'll leave this to me, I'll bother you..."

"Nothing..."

A little grateful smiled at Yan Shao, wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, and the servant retreated from the room...

Putting the newspaper on the table, Yan Shao took a copy from the top.

"What are these?"

Taking one herself, Caterina was a little strange.

"It's the report after the sinking of the Calant, and I'm curious about how the outside world reported after the sinking of the ship..."

After speaking, Yan Shao opened the newspaper in his hand...

The front page of the newspaper was a report about the sinking of the Carant.

The content of these newspapers is basically the same, that is, they report on the causes, processes, results, and the history of the ships and the experiences of the survivors...

The real highlights are those gossip newspapers, such as the fact that a well-known novelist is also on the boat, and another example is that a well-known person eloped with someone, and a certain eloped female father threatened to break his body into thousands of pieces, etc...

"Hey, why does this person sound so familiar..."

When he saw Bertrand threatening to break his body into pieces, Yan Shao's forehead had some cold sweat.

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Because it was too discordant to break the corpse or something, Yan Shao decisively skipped this paragraph and didn't watch it...

The next reports are more formal, such as the number of victims and so on, in addition to the number of survivors and photos...

"Hey, this kid..."

Looking at the child who appeared in the photo, Yan Shao was slightly stunned.

Because the child who appeared in the photo was the same little girl named Naya who had asked him to sign the book.

At this moment, in the newspaper photo, Naya is still wearing the clothes she once wore on the ship, holding the book signed by Yan Shao in both hands, standing in front of everyone with a very frightened look, but among the remaining five survivors, she did not see her parents...

According to reports, only six survivors were found, but there was no news of Naya's parents among these survivors, and Yan Shao could naturally imagine the rest...

"Anyway, it's good to survive..."

Later, I read in the newspaper that Naya was adopted by her grandparents, which also made Yan Shao a little relieved.

To be honest, there are few people on that boat who can worry about Yan Shao, and this little girl is one of them, after all, the two have some fate, and when they saw her on the ship, it also reminded Yan Shao of his sister who was still in elementary school.

Just as a few people were sitting in their rooms, reading newspapers from months ago, there was another knock on the door outside. This time it was the same maid from last time, but this time she brought not a stack of newspapers, but a telegram...

"It's a telegram from Marseille..."

After reading the contents of the telegram, Yan Shao said to Katerina and Elainor who were gathered around.

The telegram had been sent by Taris, who had apparently learned that Yan Shao and the others had survived.

On the telegram, Tharis reproached them, complaining that they had not sent a telegram to return their safety after arriving in New York...

The whole telegram was full of worries, and there was not the slightest mention of anything about the work.

Ileno and Yan Shao were somewhat speechless about this, and Caterina on the side was not a little surprised. Because when they were on the island, the three of them had actually explained everything about each other, even the elopement...

"Find a time to send a telegram back to Uncle Tharris..."

Sighing, Yan Shao said to Elaline.

"Hmm..."

Wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Elaline lowered her head and whispered.

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Seeing Elanon's sentimental look, Yan Shao and Caterina stayed by her side to comfort her.

After just two days, Li Mao finally found the science and engineering talents that Yan Shao asked him to help find.

There are not many people, only seven people, six men and one woman, only one of them is Chinese, the rest are white, but I don't know where Ludao is...

These people actually came because they were curious about Yan Shao, originally they thought that after arriving here, they would immediately devote themselves to work, but who knew that the first job Yan Shao gave them was to make a shopping list...

The so-called invention, after all, is not made with the skin of the mouth

The so-called 'if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools', and you don't even have the equipment you need, so what kind of invention to talk about...

The first task given to them by Yan Shao was to prescribe a list of equipment needed to invent 'tungsten filament'...

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