"What? Do you want to set up a company again? ”

In the box of the opera house in the New York Metropolitan area, little Astor exclaimed.

"Keep your voice quiet." Chen Jianqiu, who was sitting next to him, glanced at him, "It's not good to disturb others watching opera." ”

At this moment, the stage is performing the song "The Ring of the Nibelungen" by the German composer Wagner.

Although the speech in the box did not affect the next door, Chen Jianqiu still reminded him kindly: "Don't be so low in quality." ”

"Do you have that much money?" Little Astor tilted his head and looked at Chen Jianqiu.

"No, that's why I'm looking for you to join the gang." Chen Jianqiu looked at little Astor with a grin.

"I don't have any money." Little Astor replied categorically.

"Didn't you join me in the trust fund not long ago?" Chen Jianqiu's thief heart is not dead.

"That's because taking a stake in Pacific Railroad is a lucrative business." Little Aster's gaze returned to the stage, "Your alternating current is a pit." ”

"To put it bluntly, my father is still in charge of the family now, and he also nods to the investment trust fund." He said.

"I can't see it, your parents keep saying that you should stay away from me, but when it is beneficial, you don't treat yourself as an outsider."

Chen Jianqiu took a peeled kernel from the plate next to him and stuffed it into his mouth.

"My dad is my dad, my mom is my mom." Little Astor rolled his eyes.

"My father's idea was that I could spend as much as I wanted, but before I could fully take over the family business, all investments would have to be approved by him."

Chen Jianqiu nodded.

He thought so.

With the net worth of the Astor family, little Astor can't finish tossing no matter how he eats and drinks, and he can't gamble, but if he wants to make some investments, it's not necessarily.

"I've been looking at the AC project for a long time.

"Fifty years ago, an Englishman came up with it, and it's called Faraday, yes, it's not widely used until now."

"Also, most importantly, do you know who is behind Edison?"

"Who?" Chen Jianqiu was a little unimpressed.

"Morgan!" Little Astor leaned his head over and whispered, "He invested in Edison's company six years ago, and he used his resources to promote him and his invention. ”

"The banker I met at your house last time?" Chen Jianqiu searched for this person's face in his memory.

"Yes, you've offended Rockefeller, do you want to mess with Morgan again?" Little Astor said with some concern.

"And DuPont." Chen Jianqiu added, "Although they are not completely finished, they are almost done. ”

He pondered.

Among these monopoly giants in the United States in the 19th century, it seems that only Carnegie, the "steel king", has not yet met.

A Chinese who intervened in the world of these Jews, Scots, and European aristocrats was not the enemy of the world.

"They don't like me anyway." Chen Jianqiu looked at the ceiling of the theater and sighed, "Lonely." ”

Little Astor coughed violently.

"Anyway, I advise you to stand firm first, eat all the railway companies in the west, and don't engage in those that you don't have." He persuaded bitterly, "I heard that the Morgan family has long planned to intervene in the railway market, you should be careful." ”

"Thanks for the reminder." Chen Jianqiu put his hands behind the back of his head and continued to look at the ceiling.

"By the way, the Mr. Westinghouse I met at dinner yesterday is as addicted to alternating current as you, if you are interested, you can talk to him."

After Little Astor finished speaking, he found that Chen Jianqiu did not reply.

When he turned his head sideways, he found that Chen Jianqiu had closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning, as soon as Chen Jianqiu stepped into the door of the Gunpowder Association, he began to get busy.

He first asked Holiday to take out a large sum of cash from Citibank for him.

The money, which was a reserve for his activities in New York, came in handy right now.

He then asked a lawyer to draft a contract.

By the time all this was done, it was already afternoon.

With the contract in his hand, Chen Jianqiu rode to Tesla's laboratory in the suburbs of New York.

However, on the way out of New York City, he was confronted by a rather elaborate carriage.

Chen Jianqiu casually glanced into the carriage.

He saw an acquaintance.

Those two leaf-like beards are all too familiar.

It was Westinghouse, the grumpy middle-aged man.

He didn't notice Chen Jianqiu passing by him in the carriage.

Mr. House was looking to the other side, preoccupied and anxious.

It seems that he also failed to take down the Serb.

Thinking of this, Chen Jianqiu slapped the black radish's butt violently.

The black radish raised its horse's hooves and sped towards Tesla's lab.

However, Tesla is not in the lab.

"Ma'am, have you seen Mr. Tesla?" Chen Jianqiu caught an aunt with a basin next to him.

"What do you say? Louder? Who? "Auntie is a little behind the ear.

"That Serb, beautiful young lady." Chen Jianqiu amplified his voice.

"Oh, you said he, he went out, and he told me to go back to the company, probably to find Mr. Edison." The aunt's ears are no longer back, and her face is full of smiles.

Yes, we have to go back again.

It seems that Mr. Westinghouse may not even have met Tesla.

Chen Jianqiu turned his horse's head and turned back to the Edison Electric Company in New York City.

At this time, Tesla was standing at the door of Edison's office, waiting for the great inventor to return.

Edison was attending a conference-like event to showcase the company's new research.

Every day, he would put on a custom-made gown from New York's finest tailors, comb his hair back neatly, and clean his beard.

Compared to Edison, Tesla is almost like a worker.

It was a long time before he waited for the return of the great inventor.

Edison walked into the office from his side, followed by his secretary.

"Talk to the New York Times and ask them to describe the effect of my presentation today a little more realistically, because the language they used last time was too exaggerated."

He walked over to the mirror in his office and instructed the secretary behind him as he looked in the mirror.

After Edison finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen a person outside the door just now.

He took two steps back and looked out the door.

Tesla is standing there.

"What's the matter?" Edison still had a professional smile on his face, "Mr. Tesla? ”

"May I come in?" Tesla asked cautiously.

"Come in, come in." Edison waved at him.

Tesla walked in slowly.

Edison took off his coat and handed it to his secretary, leaning his butt against the desk, his hands crossed over his chest.

"What do you want to say to me? Isn't it alternating current again? He looked at Tesla.

Tesla shook his head.

He plucked up his courage and spoke:

"Mr. Edison, can I increase my weekly salary? I worked from morning to midnight every day, and fifteen dollars was too little. ”

The smile on Edison's face vanished.

"How much do you want to go up?"

"I think, like the people at the Invention Factory, is twenty-five dollars okay?"

After listening to Chen Jianqiu's words yesterday, Tesla thought a lot.

But he was still grateful to Edison.

Because he was the first boss of Tesla after coming to the United States.

If Edison was willing to give him the same salary as the people in the invention factory, and to recognize that he had the same value as them, then he was still willing to continue to work.

However, Edison's cold words completely cut off his last trace of nostalgia.

"No, Mr. Tesla, I can't give you a salary increase, everyone is working hard, but the value you create is too limited for the company."

"Then I resign."

Tesla sighed and turned to walk out the door.

Edison was first stunned by the sudden resignation of the Serbs.

But he quickly regained his composure.

If you resign, you will resign.

One more of him is not more, and one less of him is not less.

This guy is honest enough to find a job on his own.

Then, Edison saw Chen Jianqiu raising his hands to welcome Tesla from the window on the second floor.

Chen Jianqiu handed over the agreement to Tesla, while showing him a portion of the cash in the box.

This is a signing fee that shows sincerity and strength!

Edison suddenly felt his blood surge.

In other words, the Serb had just walked out of the door of his company when he got a new job.

Moreover, instead of being an employee, you are a boss like him?!

Edison snorted coldly and closed the curtains.

Sure enough, it's a hillbilly from the west.

People who are marginalized in his own company, he is still a treasure, so let's toss around.

He wanted to see what these two people could set off.