Finally, I came to the center of this world, London. A five-month long sailing spanned the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. I bid farewell to the hard and deadly sea life. I have a completely different feeling towards the foggy city of London. Downing, who was originally used to the future urban life of completely clean energy, thought he should hate this dirty industrial capital very much. Unexpectedly, a hard journey at sea turned such a city into a down-to-earth paradise, and finally could have a safe sleep. As for the things that emit a faint smell outside of London, the Thames River, which is unscrupulously defiled by industrial and domestic sewage, are all things outside of it. Let's take a good rest first!

The place where Tangning rested was also extraordinary, it was the East India Club. This is a gentleman's club. The hotel industry was not yet prosperous at this time. Even some hotels were relatively small, and the upper class generally chose the gentleman's club. This is a club for gentlemen to gather with friends, play popular games, dining, and accommodation. The East India Club, as the name suggests, is an affiliated organization of the East India Company. Its rule book says membership: The East India Company's waiters - clergy, civilian, soldiers, sailors and medical staff who have served all leaders, including those retired Army, Navy officers, members of the Bar, and all legal professionals who have or are supporting the company to provide legal services to the company...

Downing will be the head of the East India Company's Communications Laboratory and a senior company member who is the "Governor" of the highest position in the East India Company, so he is naturally qualified to move in here.

The address of the East India Club is St. James Square. This square is located in the London Library. It is the most fashionable residential area in the UK. It is located in Westminster City, one of the two most important towns in London. It is the political center, the Queen's office space, Buckingham Palace, the parliamentary location, Westminster Palace, and the head of government. The other most important town is more powerful and older. It is called City of London (City_Of_L

Ondon) is the financial center of the UK, also known as the City of London. The Queen has a symbolic etiquette to enter this core area of ​​capitalism, which requires the approval of the financial city may be the only position in the world where a big financier is part-time. Not only does it have no salary, but it also has to pay a year of municipal management fees. It also attracts all financiers. The financial city mayor is both glorious and has a social advantage. The headquarters of the East India Company is located in the Financial City.

A large number of nobles and important institutions are stationed here. There are 33 door signs around the square. Among them, the first 21 arranged counterclockwise are the core addresses that are closest to the square. The East India Club exclusively occupies two golden addresses No. 16 and No. 17, and you can look out from the window to the center of the square.

At this time, Tangning was by the window, enjoying the scenery of the square in the early morning and imagining a new life. He was completely unaware that under Rollinson's advocacy last night, he had become a popular figure in the East India Club. The most powerful voice in the East India Company was the Rothschild family, which originated from the German Jewish financiers. They focused on the earliest and most influential Bahrain family in England to develop in the United States, and were the dominant people in today's financial city. The Bahrain family lacked a backbone.

It is the main reason for the failure of the London financial war. In this era, banks are basically named as family surnames. Any financier who joins the company will basically change the name of a bank. For example, Rothschild's full name is "N.M. Rothschild's sons", while the Bahrain family was split into "Froncies Bahrain Company" and "Baring Brothers Company". The weird Barclays Bank is now called "Barclays, Bevin, Barclays Critton".

Rollinson himself is a banker and will serve as the president of the state bank in Australia's wealthiest Victoria. He is a core figure in the East India Company and financiers.

The epoch-making invention of wireless telegraph naturally attracted everyone's attention. Oral rehydration salt for cholera and chlorine disinfection attracted the attention of financiers with hospitals, shipbuilders were interested in reverse osmosis desalination technology, and the Smith family from Birmingham noticed the new steelmaking process mentioned by Rollinson.

Smith family, you can hear this surname. Smith originally means skilled workers, and Blacksmith means blacksmith. Nottingham Bank controlled by this financial family was founded by industrial bankers who started with iron smelting. Their old nest, Birmingham, is a well-known iron industry city in the UK.

Samuel Smith was the first to find Downing walking into the billiards room. He immediately greeted him, smiling extremely friendly and greeted him: "Mr. Windsor! Good morning!"

Downing naturally responded to Samuel's friendship warmly. After all, it was a good start to have friends just after arriving in London.

When he looked at the pool table, he was stunned and didn't even have a ball bag. How to play this? Victorian sports were indeed extraordinary.

Samuel enthusiastically taught Downing to play this billiard ball rule called "Callon". The main thing is that the cue ball hits two sub-balls one after another.

With the guidance of experienced players, Downing quickly adapted to this method of playing the Caylon and began to go back and forth with Samuel.

London has gradually become the world financial center. The Smith family from Birmingham has already come to London to expand their business. They have many bank brands. With the addition of Pei En and many Smith members, the full name of the Smith family's bank in London is "Smith, Pei En & Smiths".

Samuel's ancestors were the chairman of East India Company, and now Samuel is still a prominent and major shareholder of the company. The last investment quota in the East India Company Communications Laboratory, except the Governor and Rollinson, has been snatched away by the overlord from Rothschild Bank. Samuel felt that he should do his best to seize the investor qualifications of this steelmaking method.

During the game, Samuel said "indiscriminately" about his family's ironmaking business, but Downing didn't talk much because he had decided to build the largest and best steel mill in the UK in the future, because this business will be the most profitable since the first industrial revolution, the Iron Age.

Samuel was about to tell the steelmaking method and the disk that Rollinson revealed last night. Lionel, the boss of the Rothschild Bank, the old man from the City of London, and the richest man in the UK, rushed to the East India Company Club early because he was too interested in wireless telegraphs. This technology means that it is possible to pass telegraphs across the ocean, at least it is possible to cross the English Channel. The average width of the English Channel is 150 miles, and the narrowest part is also called the Dover Channel, which is only 21 miles wide. Last August, the British and French Telegraph Company tried to set up a submarine telegraph cable to pass through the English Channel, but the technology was immature and failed. Now there are high-tech that can easily cross the strait. As a multinational financier, the Rothschild family in England, no one understands the importance of a timely intelligence system better than him.

The entire Rothschild financial dynasty's ascendance was a famous case in the financial world, "Waterloo Speculation Case". At that time, the Duke of Wellington in the UK faced against the French god of war Napoleon. The British leader of England and the French leader planned a conspiracy to deceive investors from Britain and France for two days because of the news that the war was won and lost. It was originally a big victory in England, but they shorted British government bonds, causing them to fall from a face value of 100 pounds to 5 pounds. The secret agent took the opportunity to acquire British government bonds on a large scale. In France, they used the opposite strategy, first

Go long and then short. The two leaders made a total profit of more than 230 million pounds in this unprecedented speculation. You should know that the British government's fiscal revenue at this time was only one million, and the world's largest project, the canal, only cost several million pounds. After this battle, Rothschild Bank even had the ability to provide support for the British central bank Bank of England during the liquidity crisis. In the gold standard era pioneered by Newton (that Newton), it was common for central banks to experience liquidity crises, because the pound was linked to gold and should not issue paper money indiscriminately.

After the war observers obtained the results, in order to ensure that such important news could be conveyed smoothly, six groups of express delivery teams were sent. Two were detained by French Lugang as spies. One ran too fast and the axle broke in the middle and arrived at the destination three days later. Another was shot dead by stray bullets on the road. In the end, only two messengers arrived at the destination one after another.

What kind of "information age" will the era of wireless telegraph be?

Note: The above story may be a rumor released by the Nazis to discredit Rothschild, who was a Jewish, and it was made into a movie. At that time, Nathan Rothschild was the agent who acquired gold and silver for the British government to prepare for war. It was unlikely that he would do such a thing, but the Luo family was more reliable than the official news 48 hours ago.

After Lionel confirmed that the mixed-race monster who was playing billiards was the one who invented the radio telegraph, he inserted it vigorously, regardless of Samuel's "first come first served" and asked to observe his short-distance experimental product.

Maxwell's "The Dynamics of Electromagnetic Fields" was published 14 years later, laying the foundation for the theory of radio. In this era when he was ignorant of the properties of radio, Tangning's invention was enough to pretend to be a ghost, and it was a true black technology.

In sharp contrast to Lionel's urgency, facing the most wealthy power in the UK, Tang Ning actually played that game with Rollinson and won the gallon game that he had just learned, and then he slowly returned to his room like a gentleman to get his test piece. The billiards room was already crowded, and the club managers were going to maintain order and invite people with lower identities out.

Tangning's small experiments were very lazy and had not optimized any components, and the result could only be passed to more than ten meters. Everyone was disappointed with this result, and Tangning did not try hard to convince everyone that this distance would increase many times in the future. Anyway, the contract had been signed with Rollinson and the others, so it would be meaningless to be noisy now. Lionel remained silent and invited him to take a visit to his house.

After sending away Lionel, the plague god, Samuel was able to continue to "strike indirectly" the steelmaking method.

Seeing Samuel pursuing this project so "piously", Tang Ning couldn't bear to turn it off completely. After thinking about it, he said, "Do you have any familiar pottery factories or workers? I want to use ceramics to fully realize the entire process of the process. It's useless to just talk about it, and I haven't fully understood some details, so I need to do experiments."

Samuel enthusiastically stated that although he was not very familiar with this industry, he was willing to find the best potter to help Downing complete this experiment. Since he was so capable, Downing was willing to try to accept this partner.

Continue playing billiards.
Chapter completed!