When the Times reported the deeds of the "bigest contemporary" philanthropist, the British public's attention shifted from the invention of radio and telegraph to Downing himself. Every Londoner, no matter how high or low, could not say bad things about this great philanthropist, because he said "no conditions", donated 1.5 million pounds to do it and then had no conditions. Even if the sewage treatment committee does not do well in the future, it is not his business. Therefore, he combines all the glory and lets others do the work. Who told the rich to be rich?

Products made by such public morals must be loved! This is the idea of ​​all London citizens, so the performance of British Telegraph soared to more than 1,000 units this month, with a total of 1,900 units, and a rental income of 190,000 pounds! Huge income!

The Times itself is also very interested in trans-aircraft telegraph, which means it can send information to the world at the first time and become the world's largest newspaper. They especially want to gain influence in the US market, because it is a much larger English-speaking market than England. However, they may have underestimated the innovation and competitiveness of American newspapers. From the performance of Americans at the International Industrial Fair, its innovation and cultural talent is really not simple. The British Empire newspapers, who are used to aristocratic culture, may not be able to succeed in the free Great America.

The Times has a noble problem - it is expensive, and its status is unparalleled, so it is expensive. However, newspapers are mass consumer goods after all, and it is always less and less expensive. It has two "terrible" competitors, one is the "Daily News" and the other is the "Morning Post", both selling newspapers at very low prices.

The Daily News was founded by the great writer Charles Dickens in 1846, only five years ago. However, the Daily News during his edited work was not commercially successful. After 17th issue, Dickens handed it over to his friend John Foster, a top student and biographer at Cambridge University. He has more experience in publishing journals than Dickens.

Foster was one of the first people to realize the importance of typewriters in the publishing industry. He came to the office of the British Telegraph Company in Financial City, well, it is also the building of East India Company. Although BT's business development speed is amazing, there are only more than 100 people at the headquarters, and it is temporarily in a corner of East India Company. Foster was not only to buy typewriters, but also hoped to find a better solution to the publishing industry. He intuitively believed that typewriters should be used for typing, although he didn't know how to do it. Unfortunately, when he first visited the BT office, the president was not there. Because telegraphs were so convenient, BT employees would shoot intelligence to the president every day, and Downing was at his home in the east suburbs of London.

Whenever there is an important business opportunity, the secretary of the BT president's office will send the telegram to the assistant office downstairs of the Tangning villa. When the assistant saw that the information was indeed important, he would submit it to Tangning quickly. This time, there was only one line of words on the telegram: The editor-in-chief of the Daily News visited BT and asked to discuss the application of typewriters in the publishing industry in detail.

In the past, Tang Ning only read the Times, which is because he is also a rich man and he doesn't like cheap newspapers. However, recently, because he and BT frequently visited the newspapers, the vain person always bought several newspapers to see how they wrote him. Among them, the Times' big rival, the Daily News, is also included. Well, it seems to be a relatively important newspaper. The editor-in-chief of the Daily News has to receive it in person.

The next day, Foster was invited to Tangning's lair.

As usual, Mr. Foster praised Downing's great good deeds with flattery, and then said: "I think BT's typewriter can also be used in typesetting, but I'm not sure, I don't know if your company has this idea?"

Just after thinking about it for a moment, Tang Ning said happily: "I didn't expect it yet. Fortunately, you came to remind me that you were too right. It is a good application for typewriters in the typewriting industry! You are very visionary!"

He has been busy experimenting with steelmaking recently, but he has no energy to care about it, but it doesn't matter if he goes to see it. It's a happy thing to have such a visionary partner. He decided to go and take a look with the physicist Beckwell (the one who invented the fax machine) who came to join.

Foster is a biographer and is very interested in celebrities. Downing is now "the biggest philanthropist in history". When he was alive, he donated half of his net worth of 10 ships... Worry, a big name with 1.5 million pounds is naturally among Foster. Unfortunately, Downing himself is very low-key. He is a fake British citizen, and he will lose more words. So he had refused interviews with many newspapers, including the Times, and just sent a relatively vague resume to the Times, saying that this is the "final self-introduction". In the future, friends from the media industry should not come to me for more personal information. So the great charity became even more mysterious. Naturally, he was unwilling to say anything to Foster.

Now he is rich, Downing lives a noble life. By the way, the aristocrat among the nobles, Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, only 40,000 pounds per year, and Downing has no pressure to live a noble life. The Indian "Feast" at Rothschild's house still lingers in his heart like a nightmare. In order to hire a good chef, he advertised in the Times, preferably Chinese food, but it really doesn't work as a chef with rice as a staple food. Sure enough, the Chinese food chef could not be found at all. After some screening, he finally found a chef from Lombardy, a rice-producing region in northern Italy, and invited friends (mainly Rollinson and Samuel) to have a big meal. Well, the banquet for Mr. Foster today is also good.

The staple food is Venetian pea strawberry rice, Nebbioro red wine, hare meat with polenta, and the sauce is so envious. Put it on green vegetables, Milan schnitzel with lemon juice, and Gorgen Jule blue cheese. Well, that's enough.

Not only do we eat delicious food, but the porcelain used is the top luxury - Kashiyoumon porcelain. Since Kangxi's maritime ban policy, the status of Chinese porcelain has been replaced by Aritayaki in Japan, and it has not been restored. Kashiyoumon's warm red painting is one of the best. Tangning bought the flower and bird painting style bought by a porcelain trader who just exhibited at the World Industrial Expo. It is very funny, but also has an elegant style.

While enjoying the luxurious dinner of the great tyrants, Foster talked to the great tyrants and found that he had great insights into science but lacked cultural things. He didn't even know much about the works of my great writer and famous novelist Charles Dickens in London. Oliver Twist, sorry, I don't know who it is...

After discovering that Foster despises himself a little, Tangning said: "When I was in India, I hoped to compile a set of simple English textbooks. The whole set had only about a thousand words in total, which were the most commonly used and had the strongest expression skills. Then, people all over the world could learn English quickly, even adults could learn it, so that the language gap in the whole world could be bridged. To me, such literacy education is more meaningful. What does Mr. Foster think about this?"

Before Foster could express his opinion, Tangning immediately snapped his fingers and said, "Okay! After I invented the automatic typewriter, I collected news for several months, and used statistics for the most common words. Well, is this idea reliable?"

Foster: "The idea is good, but... there must be someone who can manage it."

Tang Ning: "That's it, that's it, how can machines replace people? You are a cultural person. Who do you think is suitable for this job? I can fund him."

Foster: "Maybe my alma mater, Cambridge University, can do this job..."

Tang Ning shook his head as if he was shaking: "You can find a professor, but you can just find an institution. What I need is very simple, very creative, and it is best to have an engineer background."

Foster wondered: "Why should I have an engineer background?"

Tang Ning: "Because I prefer this aspect, this is the most important thing to change human development. To change the world, we must start with engineering technology."

Foster said without commenting, "Okay, I'll take care of you."

Tang Ning actually attaches great importance to this matter. He hopes that after returning to his hometown to develop, the people of Asia, including China, India, and Japan can use such English textbooks. When he saw that Foster didn't take this matter seriously, he prepared to push it and said, "Maybe the masters are among the people. I am going to advertise on your daily news. After I think about the content, I let the assistant go to your place."
Chapter completed!