Hobert knew very well that if you used normal propaganda, people would first think it was an advertisement, and they would not look at it with their hearts.

The second is to spend a lot of space explaining what a light bulb is, what is electricity, and so on, and not many people will be able to see the end.

Then it is better to use this kind of apology to publicize it, and it must be explained that the residents around the orderly square have complained to the relevant departments before they have to publish an apology.

It's just that the light bulb came on yesterday, how could anyone complain so soon, when did the bureaucracy of the Kingdom of Rune operate so quickly?

This was purely a play arranged by Hobart in advance, but because of the novelty of the method, the desired effect was easily achieved.

At this time, the newspaper is an important channel for gentlemen and ladies to obtain information, so whenever you have time, you usually read most of the contents of the newspaper at breakfast so that you can have a conversation with your colleagues.

So in today's Beckland, most of the middle class knows about the experiment in the square of order.

And they use their limited knowledge to explain new things like electricity and light bulbs.

This was a large-scale popularization of electricity-related knowledge, although the direction of popularization was not necessarily right, but they spontaneously learned the basic knowledge of electricity and light bulbs.

When passing by the Square of Order, everyone will also look at the light bulb that is still lit in the center of the square.

Its brightness is clearly visible even during the day.

For two or three days, the topic of light bulbs was relatively hot.

But after four or five days, the heat of the topic has basically passed.

At this time, another piece of information appeared in the major newspapers of Beckland, in which a professor of science criticized the "Earl's Light" factory, saying that their report was untrue.

Because according to normal logic, the life of a bulb will not exceed ten days! Not only that, but most bulbs only have a lifespan of a few minutes, a few hours!

Then he began to list his data on some experiments, telling everyone the real service life of the light bulb, so that everyone should not believe the previous false reports!

As soon as the report came out, everyone didn't think much of it at first.

But in the evening, the evening newspapers of Beckland followed up with a report that the "Earl's Light" bulb factory had approached the professor who had made the critical remarks this morning, and had made a bet of 3,000 pounds!

As long as the light bulb used for the experiment lasted more than ten days, the professor was to pay 3,000 pounds for the reputational damage of the "Earl's Light" factory, and publish an apology.

If the large bulb goes out within ten days, the "Earl Light" factory will donate 3,000 pounds to the other party.

First of all, it was a dispute and a bet, which easily whetted the appetite of gentlemen and ladies, as well as the curiosity of watching the excitement.

The second is that this bet is the amount that is most likely to make the middle class reverie, and with their income, of course, they understand what 3,000 pounds is.

Having this money will allow them to own a house of their own, or rent a bigger house, own their own carriage, in short, will take their lives up a notch!

It would be more surprising if the stakes were 10,000 pounds or tens of thousands of pounds, but they had no real idea of how much gold pounds they had.

That night, many people ran to the square to ask if the light bulb had been on for a few days, and the crowds of onlookers came to the square!

The next day, the topic of the "Earl's Light" light bulb became heated again, and everyone was discussing how many days the light bulb would be bright.

There are even curious gentlemen who will visit their friends in the scientific community to solve their doubts and complete a middle-class social visit by the way.

There are many women who also write letters to their classmates or friends who have relevant knowledge, and by the way, they are in touch with their feelings.

The answer they got was basically the same, as the professor who criticized the "Earl's Light" factory said, under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for a light bulb to last ten days.

However, combined with previous reports, many people in the scientific community have guessed that the "Earl Light" factory should have found a new material for making filament, and the specific results will not be determined until the end of this bet.

For a while, the relatively marginal scientific community suddenly became a favorite of Beckland.

At a ball or banquet in June, be sure to invite a friend from the scientific community to explain the knowledge involved in the bet.

This will give the owner a lot of face.

And those scientists or scholars who are usually unknown are very grateful for this dispute, which makes them hot.

Nobles such as Earl Hall also began to pay attention to this matter, and Count Hall even pointed to the newspaper and said to his good friend Count Wolf: "This is definitely a commercial promotion that can be written into a business school textbook!" ”

After seeing the relevant reports, Klein also muttered in his heart: "No wonder the relatives of the 'founder' will regard the draft left by Russell the Great as a treasure, and there are indeed a lot of 'advanced' concepts left in it." ”

……

East End, 19 Moby Dick Street, this is a very shabby-looking apartment.

Emlin had been patiently squatting here for a day, and through the clues provided by Miss Magician, he had indeed spotted two targets in this hunt, Galis Kevin and Argos.

In the evening, he finally waited for Argos to leave, and now Galis was alone in the room.

It was a good opportunity, and Emlyn waited ten minutes without Argos returning, and he was determined to get moving.

Emlyn took an extraordinary potion, sprayed the potion to mask the smell of his body, and then sprayed the potion that could make him invisible for a short time.

Taking out the "Lemanno's Magic Book", he first found the divination interference ability belonging to the "astrologer", so that the other party's spirituality could not be discovered in time.

Taking a few deep breaths, Emlyn, who rarely participated in extraordinary battles, once again recalled in his mind the battle plan that had been deduced countless times.

The action began, and he reached the door of Galis as fast as he could, and the "Lymanor's Magic Book" turned to the page with the ability to "open the door".

Emling pressed his palm against the wall and opened an illusory door with no substance, and he rushed in, quickly finding the location of Galis, by which time the "Lymanor's Magic Book" had reached the page with the ability to "chaos".

Before Galis could understand what was going on, he fell into a state of "chaos".

Emlyn quickly stepped forward, twisted Galis's cervical vertebrae with the hand that didn't hold the "magic book", and then pulled his head out with force.

Galis's headless body fell, blood gushing everywhere.

Emlin's calm expression was quickly replaced by a stunned emotion, and he looked down at his head in disbelief and saw the blankness of Galis, who didn't understand what was going on until the moment he died.

It's that simple? So easy? Emlyn was proud, but he didn't think he could take out a competition target so easily.

But the truth told him that it was that simple.

Emlyn glanced at the "magic book" again, and what he used just now was not the "chaos" of the demigod level, but the "chaos" in the middle that could record the ability of the "medium sequence".

After becoming a demigod, Hobert can also control "chaos" at the level of sequence 5, after all, he can record the demigod-level abilities in three pages, so this "magic book" also records many "lawyer" path abilities at the level of sequence 5.

The "chaos" of Sequence 5 can last for three or four seconds for an Sequence 6 or Sequence 7 Extraordinary, and Emlyn only took so much time from the beginning of the operation to the success of the hunt.

Feeling emotional, Emlyn found a small wooden box from the room to hold his head and some waste newspapers, and crouched beside him while waiting for the extraordinary properties to be revealed.

Just two or three minutes later, Emlyn suddenly looked up at the door.

Although the room smelled of blood, it still didn't affect him from smelling Argos.

He's back so soon?

For a moment, Emlyn was a little nervous and didn't know how to handle the situation.

Boom!

Outside, Argos knocked on the door, and then stopped making a sound.

Emlyn immediately understood, the other party smelled blood and had already sensed that something was wrong in the apartment!

What to do? Just rush out and deal with him?

No, it will be seen and arrested by the official extraordinary.

Emlyn instinctively pulled out the potion and hid herself again.

Suddenly inspired, he put Galis's head on the bed and hid himself in a corner, which gave the room a scene where the assassination had been completed and the murderer had fled.

As soon as he dodged, the window on the other side of the terrace was opened, and Argos jumped in from the outside.

In the room, Argos saw the corpse of his companion, and he frowned at first, but when he saw the stack of newspapers and the small wooden box, his pupils suddenly contracted!

Not good!

Emlyn then remembered that she had forgotten to put the wooden box up.

Almost without thinking, Argos gave birth to illusory wings on his back and immediately flew to the balcony.

Emlyn hurried to open the "Lemanor's Magic Book".

Syllable~

But because he turned too quickly, he fell to the ground.

By the time he picked it up again, Argos had already flown out of the window, landed on the street to the astonished gaze of many, and quickly fled!

Emlin really wanted to slap himself at this time, and he made such a low-level mistake!

But at this point, it was too late to chase after him, and Emlyn was about to put away Galis's head and retreat.

Suddenly, as if he thought of something, he turned to the page that recorded the "distortion" of the demigod level, and he said to himself: Try it!

Spiritually infused into the "magic book" again, the mysterious symbol recorded on this page suddenly writhed and disappeared into the void.

At the same time, Emlin actually sensed Argos, who had already run three or four hundred meters!

He immediately "twisted" the other party's intentions, turning the escape into a charge.

I saw Argos on the street suddenly turn around and run towards Emlyn at a speed that seemed to be about to run out of the afterimage!

Emlyn was already stunned: it really can! That's three or four hundred meters! Not three or four meters, not thirty or forty meters!

That's what a demigod is capable of! It is estimated that if it is used by the demigods themselves, they may be able to attack targets within 500 meters!

Emlyn realized that he was still too conservative just now, and when he should have been outside the apartment, he used the demigod-level "chaos", and then swaggered upstairs and entered the room to solve the target.

Emlyn finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Argos, who was full of horror, and once again gave the other party a "chaos" and easily killed the other party.

After taking a few deep breaths, the strong smell of blood made Emlyn quickly regain his composure: it's over, it's an instant kill again!

This made him realize once again that Miss Magician's background was not simple, and then the corners of Emlin's mouth rose: "No wonder the Ancestor asked me to join the Tarot Society, this is definitely a party to prepare for the end of the world!" ”

There were footsteps outside, and someone may have gone to call the police.

Emlyn quickly began to clean up the scene, cleaning up his own traces so that he would not be found by the official extraordinary.

When he left with the target's head and extraordinary characteristics, and got into the rental carriage, he thought back to the experience he had just experienced, and there was a feeling of disbelief.

……

On the night of June 9, the ten-day deadline had arrived, and Order Square was once again crowded.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the light bulb was on.

At 7 o'clock, it was still bright.

At 8 o'clock, it's still bright!

At 9 o'clock, the light bulb was still bright!

I don't know who started cheering and applauding first, they seem to be celebrating something, but I can't say exactly what they are celebrating, in short, I feel like I have witnessed something!

Hobert in the crowd applauded, and he smiled slightly, he knew what he was celebrating.

The next day, June 10, the so-called professor published an apology to the "Earl of Light" factory, saying that he had made a presumptuous conclusion without knowing the facts, which had a very bad impact on the company, which symbolized the vitality and future of Beckland, and so on.

At the end of the report, the professor also speculated that with the new process found by the "Earl Light", their bulbs should have a lifespan of between 1,000 and 1,300 hours.

The gentlemen and ladies who read this report immediately calculated that this bulb would last for 500 days based on 2 hours of use per day!

Even if this professor's calculations are inaccurate, 800 hours should be enough, right? That can also be used for 400 days!

Of course, it is not possible to use it on time and in the right amount every day, and occasionally it will definitely be used more.

Then there should be no problem with using it for 10 months, and if you think about it, this service life is still quite long.

So far, the topic of light bulbs has reached enough heat.

On June 11, a report on the official sale of the "Earl Light" bulb once again fermented the topic.

According to the report, the products of "Piaget Light" have been inspected by relevant departments and have passed the certification of all national standards.

Although those inspections and standards are not very clear to everyone, they look amazing.

The report also said that in response to everyone's requests and expectations, the "Earl Light" factory decided to sell bulb products in advance on the 15th of this month.

In the first three months of the sale, there will be a special store, and after three months, the bulb will seek cooperation from major department stores.

Household bulbs cost 6, 8 and 10 pence depending on their brightness.

As for access to electricity, customers around Queens, installing wires for free, only need to pay a regular electricity bill.

The cost of electricity, based on the use of 3 hours a day, is about 1 and 3/4 pence per day.

For users in other regions, the "Piaget Light" factory can provide battery service.

Light bulbs and wires at home are also installed free of charge, each set of batteries can keep an 8p bulb on for about 20 hours, and the battery is replaced by a special staff member at a cost of 1 sule 3 pence, which is 15 pence.

However, each user who uses the battery will pay a deposit of 10 pounds, and if the wire is laid in the user's block, the user will be given the wire for free, and the deposit will be refunded after the battery is recycled.

Such a discount will only last until September, after which there will be a fee for products such as wires and lampholders.

Everyone did the math and came to a conclusion that electric lights are only slightly more expensive than gas lamps!

And the money for the light bulb is basically negligible, after all, it only costs 1 pence a month, or even less than 1 pence.

The key is that if you replace the lighting tools with new ones, they are free to install!

It is important to know that it costs a lot of money to install gas lamps and gas collectors, as well as the corresponding plumbing, and many landlords in Beckland are still reluctant to install a set of gas lamps in their houses.

After all, the gas and oil lamps are only a little brighter, but the cost is multiplied!

Many people were moved after reading this report, and felt that it was very cost-effective to install it for free, but the key is that the cost of lighting did not increase much!

At the end of this report, the "Piaget Light" factory stated that due to the limited production capacity of the initial factory, it would only be able to supply 10,000 light bulbs and matching batteries and wires until the 18th.

Many gentlemen are eager to buy a light bulb and give it a try.

Fortunately, there are still a few days to discuss with your family.

Hobert, of course, knows that the next few days will be a critical period for everyone to consider.

So from the 11th to the 15th, there was no interruption in the coverage of the "Earl's Light" bulb.

There are the most direct advertising-style reports, as well as some of Hobart's elaborate reports.

For example, the publicity on the 12th is an anecdote about a driver who went to Queens in the early morning to deliver goods thought he was up late and hurried to his destination, but the person who picked up the goods had not yet gotten up.

Because the whole of Queens was as bright as daylight under the light bulbs, the delivery driver arrived more than an hour early.

In fact, with the current use of light bulbs in Queens, it is far from reaching this level, and this report by Hobart is just sending a message: the aristocracy has long begun to use light bulbs on a large scale, and this is a trend, a trend!

In the report on the 13th, a patrol officer was on patrol when he heard someone shouting "catch the thief", and he and the surrounding frightened citizens quickly surrounded and caught the thief.

According to the thief's confession, he had already burglarized the house twice without being found.

But today it was discovered, because the owner of the house, as a test bulb factory, had just replaced the light bulb, and in the bright environment, the owner found out about the thief's whereabouts.

The thief confessed: I really shouldn't have gone to such a bright house to steal things.

Hobert doesn't care if the thief's confession is in the right direction, even if everyone knows that this is his design to promote, everyone actually accepts the message he wants to convey: after installing the light bulb, because the home is bright enough, the thief will have certain concerns.

The promotion of the 14th is in the story section of the newspaper.

There is a story about a young man who got a love story because of the light bulb experiment in Order Square.

At this time, everyone realized that the light bulb in the square had been on for half a month, and it still maintained its normal brightness.

After half a month of warm-up, it finally came to the day of the sale on the 15th, and more than a dozen sales stores were crowded, and tens of thousands of orders had been received in just one morning.

The first 1,000 users used the light bulbs that night.

The reason why there are so few is because the electricians trained by Hobart at the beginning are not very skilled.

For the day of the launch, in the past month or so, Hobart has trained 300 electricians, and before the launch, another 1,200 vagrants were temporarily recruited, each electrician was assigned 2 assistants, and the remaining 600 people were responsible for carrying and transporting batteries and wires.

For this purpose, Hobert rented a large number of carriages, all of which were marked with "Earl's Light" bulbs, and one of these carriages could be seen passing by on the streets almost every few moments in several middle-class areas of Beckland.

Although the second batch of electricians has already begun to be trained, Hobert is not in a hurry, just install it at this speed, which can create a sense of scarcity.

The point is that if you install too quickly, you may not have enough power.

The first large power plant, built on the outskirts, will not be completed until early July.

Until then, the only medium-sized power plants built on the estates and smaller ones near Queens had provided electricity to the whole of Beckland.

At present, several main roads in Queens are basically connected with electric wires, and some aristocrats have used electric lights.

There is also a group of nobles who are installing it, and the electricity consumption here will definitely increase day by day in the future.

So it was mainly the medium-sized power plant in that estate that provided electricity to the entire middle class.

If you can install as many lights as you sold, it is estimated that the power supply will become tight in a few days, which is a bigger problem!

As long as the large power plant in the suburbs is repaired, there is no need to worry about the electricity problem for the time being.

Unless electricity for machines and large-scale heating is widespread, a maximum of three large power plants will be enough to provide enough power for Beckland's lighting.

A few days after it went on sale, the bulb has not abated in popularity, and the order for installation has been scheduled until August.

Some aristocrats couldn't sit still and looked for ways to cooperate with Horoter.

However, Hobert refused all invitations to balls and salons on the grounds that he was busy.

Viscount Glerint's house became lively at first, and it should be said that the mansion had never been so lively since his father's death.

Earl Hall's mansion also became crowded, and Audrey was so annoyed that she simply hid in a suburban manor.

Just when some people began to think crookedly, ready to put pressure on Hobart to sabotage his business, a message came from the sea.

Only then did everyone know that when Beckland was fanatical because of the light bulb, there was a great change in Longtail Island!

(End of chapter)