What kind of genius is easy to recruit? The answer is that when you are down-and-out or unknown, it is easier to recruit a genius who has reached out to you.

Since Cheng Nuo came to the United States, he has been trying to socialize with some "big and small cows" in addition to studying, in order to make the other party "willingly" return to China with him one day in the future.

Nikola Tesla is one of Cheng Nuo's key goals, especially this year, which is a year of great shame for Tesla, and the Institute of Electrical Engineers awarded him a medal.

It stands to reason that this is a recognition of his strength and an honor, but the bad thing is that the name of the medal is the Edison Medal.

An opponent and former boss whom he despised for plagiarizing his patents and exploiting the value of his labor actually praised himself with his name, how to make Tesla swallow this breath.

But now there is no way, opposite the giant who controls half of the American electrical industry, he himself can only live in a small hotel, relying on outsourcing research on car speedometers and headlights to make a living, and only earn less than 20,000 US dollars a year, most of which has to be invested in the invention of turbines.

In this regard, in order to seize this time window, Cheng Nuo specially attached a small package to his American classmates when he sent a package, and asked him to send it to Tesla.

Back in early 1917, it started when Tesla received the package.

This morning, Tesla, as usual, put on his beloved coat and prepared to carry half a bag of breadcrumbs to Bryan Park to feed the pigeons.

As he was shaving in front of the mirror, he suddenly heard a sharp knock on the door, and his face was still foaming.

"Who, is there anything wrong with knocking on the door so early, if it's a newspaper delivery, please put it at the door, I'll pick it up myself, thank you."

Hearing someone respond, the knock on the door stopped abruptly, and then the voice of the waitress came.

"Mr. Nikola Tesla, I'm sorry to bother you so early, here's a package from Massachusetts that you need to sign for in person."

"Massachusetts? I don't remember any friends I had over there. Tesla stopped the razor in his hand, and he frowned in the mirror: "Wassom Watchmaking Company? National Aviation Council? Or the US War Department? Probably neither. ”

When he was young, Tesla also had ideals and came to the United States from as far away as Croatia to join the idol Edison, but the "King of Invention" lived up to this enthusiasm and took Tesla's 24 new technologies to register patents under his name, mass produce and make a lot of money.

At that time, Tesla's hopes were not disillusioned, but he just hoped to get a research grant of $50,000 that had been promised a long time ago, but unfortunately he only received verbal awards, and his salary did not rise at all.

Unconvinced, he ran away from Edison and wanted to compete with him and invest more time, energy and money in inventions, so for many years he had only one old friend, Mark Twain.

It's a pity that the great writer has been dead for some years, and Tesla has never made any new bosom friends, except for a little guy, who seems to be more and more withdrawn.

After a moment's hesitation, Tesla walked to the door, opened the door and signed his name on the receipt.

"Thank you, Miss Smith."

After receiving the package, he didn't look at the waitress who was leaning on the door frame and was showing off her style, and closed the door very politely.

The waitress was so angry that she had a hideous face, clenched her fists and wanted to hammer the door directly, and after a short hesitation, with a professional smile, she knocked lightly again.

"Mr. Nikola Tesla, you haven't tipped yet."

Now the door opened quickly, and a hand reached out from the crack in the door, carrying a few coins to her.

When the other waitresses, who were hiding around the corner to watch the play, heard the door close, they immediately ran over and leaned their necks to count the money.

"Oh my God, it doesn't add up to a dollar."

"Yes, he was so well dressed, I thought he was very rich, but he was so poor."

"I said a long time ago, he is very poor, although the clothes look expensive, but you didn't notice that he wore this one when he went out?"

"It's a loss, it's not enough money for the perfume I wear."

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Tesla didn't have time to look at the package after taking it, threw it on the table, and was busy shaving.

But scratching and scraping, his eyes always unconsciously moved to the package, and there seemed to be something in it that attracted him.

In a trance, a careless chin was cut by a razor, and blood oozed out.

Tesla shook his head, simply rinsed all the foam off his face, sat on the sofa with half of his beard, and began to unwrap the package.

“Tom Cheng？” Tesla touched his head and thought thoughtfully: "Could it be that young man from the East, shouldn't he have graduated and returned to China at this time?" ”

The impression of Cheng Nuo is still very deep, earlier Cheng Nuo in order to quickly get closer to him, intentionally or unintentionally came up with his future life, which gave Tesla a lot of inspiration, and the relationship between the two gradually got closer.

Later, Tesla looked for investment everywhere because of his company's financial affairs, and there was no fixed place to live, and the correspondence between the two became less and less until there was no more contact.

Now Cheng Nuo can ask his classmates to contact him, or because Tesla basically settled here in later generations, and he only knew this address by relying on his foresight.

When I opened the package, I was greeted by a book, a letter and a letter of appointment from the Academy of Sciences.

The epistle can be divided into three parts according to its main content.

The first part is a greeting to Tesla's health concerns and recent condition. He is 60 years old this year, although he still maintains his vitality, but the years are not forgiving, compared with when he was younger, it is still more or less worse, not to mention the financial constraints, and there is not much money to improve his life.

The second part is an introduction to the book. The name of the book is "2017 Thirty-Day Travel", which is about a guy named Hopkins who travels to 2017, feels the advancement of modern technology, and travels around the world. This book was actually written by Cheng Nuo himself, focusing on the electrification part behind, just to attract Tesla's attention. Of course, in order to retain the suspense, the deliberate description is very vague, although there are many types, but when it comes to the principle, it is all brushed aside, and the desire to talk is taken to the extreme.

The third part is to invite Tesla as the president of the Academy of Applied Engineering on behalf of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of China. Preferential treatment ensures that large amounts of research funds are invested, and electrification laboratories can be carried out to the highest standards. This is quite tempting for Tesla, at this time he ran into walls everywhere, not to mention the company's debts, and no one invested in trying to find someone to build a radio station, and he was a commander of a light pole.

Ambitious, full of inspiration, but nowhere to achieve it.

No matter how good the United States is, no one can invest in him, and besides, he Tesla was originally a Serb, and he came here only to realize his ideals, and now his ideals are hopeless, so he can naturally consider others.

At this time, Cheng Nuo's letter appeared in front of him like a life-saving straw, making the body of this tall and thin "old man", who had always been calm and calm, tremble slightly with excitement.

"Electricity has injected the most precious thing into my tired and weakened body—the vitality of life, the vitality of the spirit, but it has slowly dried up, will the mysterious East be my future power source?"