At this time, Li Siguang also talked about his experience of learning shipbuilding and metallurgy first and then studying geology with his heart for the country, and Tesla sighed when he heard this, "Don't worry, I am not so unconscionable, and I will cruelly waste the money saved by the poor people tightening their belts on their own personal interests."

Tesla's attitude made Hu Weidong and Li Siguang very happy, but his subsequent words were like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of the two, it turned out that Tesla not only owed a lot of debts, but also been monitored by the FBI, speaking of which, thanks to it, Tesla, who has been "unemployed" for more than ten years and owes a huge amount of debt, can stay in a New York hotel and not be kicked out, but in this way, it will be difficult for Hu Weidong to take people away, although Roosevelt seems to be polite, but he will never do anything that harms the interests of the United States, Although Tesla has not made any sensational achievements in the past twenty or thirty years, how many people in the world dare to deny his value?

Hu Weidong almost wanted to forcibly take Tesla away by illegal means, but he was afraid of affecting his compatriots in the United States, and Tesla was now in the eastern part of the United States, and it was too difficult to take him safely across the United States and board the ship on the West Coast to leave, Hu Weidong thought about it and gave up.

After a while, Tesla suddenly laughed, "Actually, there is the easiest way, you give me money first, I will use it to pay off the debt, so that I will be free and can visit China openly, the US government has no legal reason to prevent a citizen from going abroad, they must pay attention to the impact, not to mention that I am not an ordinary American"

"It's really simple and doable. How much do you really owe? ”。 Hu Weidong's heart was relieved when he heard this, and he didn't ask, "Why don't you let us pay it directly?" "Such a stupid question, if you expose yourself, not only will it be much more difficult to get Tesla back, but it may even endanger the safety of those tasks in Jihua and even himself and his entourage, and Hu Weidong can still carry these stakes.

"The cost of experimentation and living for the past 28 years, plus the ever-increasing interest, should be more than three million dollars, right?" Tesla said with a wry smile, if the original patent right for alternating current was still in his hands. This money can only be regarded as a drizzle, but now he has been robbed of his freedom by the trap of money. In fact, it was precisely because the benefits of the alternating current patent were too great that Tesla had to give up at the beginning. Because even if he doesn't give up, he won't be able to get his hands on it at all (Note 1), and it is better to let it benefit the public than to be stolen by those vampires in the end

At this time, Hu Weidong couldn't help frowning, more than three million dollars is not a small amount, he can't take it out now, but this money is the Chinese, not his own, in case Tesla takes the money and turns his face and doesn't recognize people, or there is an accident on the way. Or is it just that Tesla is already quite old, so how should he explain when he goes back?

"Maybe it's more free to be a warlord, you can spend what you want, and you can waste it." , Hu Weidong couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he thought of this, how could a warlord be so easy to be? As long as he is a warlord, the tendency of his subordinates to be self-reliant is difficult to eliminate, he Hu Weidong has always been a jishu in his bones, he really has no confidence and no energy to deal with this kind of dirty things all day long, or it is easy to do things with the big tree of the organization behind his back!

After thinking for a while, Hu Weidong had to tell the truth. "It's not that we can't afford to pay this money, but this amount is at least equivalent to the annual income of hundreds of thousands of families in China, and you have to prove that you are worth the risk, not that we disrespect you, but that it is not easy for the Chinese to squeeze this money out of their teeth."

Tesla didn't get angry when he heard this. You must know that even Morgan, a wealthy man of the first rank in Shijie, only invested more than one million dollars in it (although the inflation factor cannot be ignored. But at that time, almost all of the money was used for experiments, and now the more than 3 million is extra, and it is obvious that Hu Weidong's expenses this time are much larger. And why ask poor Chinese to spend more money for it? …,

Seeing Tesla nodding in agreement, Hu Weidong finally relieved himself, and calmly asked Tesla to help him design a complete set of development routes to establish a complete power industry system as quickly as possible, and listed those conditions that must be met no matter what. Among the major backbone industrial sectors, the power industry is probably the one that Hu Weidong knows the most, and the Central Plains base is also short of talents in this area, so it is just used to try how many catties Tesla still has

Tesla did not give a hasty answer, but first asked Hu Weidong set the conditions (in fact, it is the status quo of the base), as soon as he heard his brows, Hu Weidong gave the conditions are too poor, want to quickly build a complete power industry system on such a weak basis, the difficulty can be imagined, but this makes Tesla, who likes to challenge by nature, excited, took out the manuscript paper and slide rule to calculate, and more than an hour passed. Seems to have completely forgotten that there were still two guests in the room

Hu Weidong had to interrupt Tesla's work and asked, "When will there be results?" ”

"Come back in five days, close the door when you go," Tesla waved impatiently, and went back to work.

In the next three or five days, Hu Weidong has not been idle, and after digging up cutting-edge talents, he will dig up those inconspicuous but very important alternative talents, among which Jishu workers who have experience in printing money are especially valued by him. As one of the party's leading economic experts, Mao Zemin naturally knew that Hu Weidong was preparing for the issuance of banknotes in the base area. In fact, the base areas have long been printing their own banknotes, but the workmanship is shoddy, easy to be forged, and if it is issued in large quantities, there will definitely be problems, so it is really inconvenient to let the Kuomintang's fiat currency continue to circulate, and to use a large number of primitive barter methods for transactions. Now that we have these money-printing personnel and necessary equipment, the Central Plains base areas will soon be able to print qualified banknotes, which will not only prosper the market, but also return funds, which will undoubtedly be of great help to the economy of the base areas, especially the urban economy. In addition to being happy, even Mao Zemin, who has also achieved outstanding results in many fields, was amazed by Hu Weidong's all-round

Note 1: In fact, Tesla couldn't get money at that time, on the one hand, because the potential benefits of alternating current were too great, which led to the covetousness of major consortia, and more importantly, because it was enough to make a pure scientist richer than the richest capitalist on Shijie, which would completely destroy the basic structure of capitalist society and shake the status of all capitalists, especially big capitalists. So they can tolerate Edison getting rich because of patents, but they can't tolerate Tesla becoming the richest man because of the alternating current patent, because Edison became a capitalist after getting rich, and Tesla will always be a scientist (all the people who have become rich by patents in history have become their own bosses, and it is impossible to only have patents, no matter how valuable the patent rights are), which is in line with the wise saying "character determines fate" (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )