Belgium is a European center that Downing has high hopes for. It has a harbor, industry, industry, France, Germany, and Netherlands, and constitutional monarchy. However, the head of the government disappointed Downing. In order to make his trip to Europe more pleasant, Downing no longer thinks about these great things that cannot be accomplished, but instead wanders the streets of Brussels, trying to find surprises to go with the flow.

Hugo is a populist person. Although Downing was willing to fund his newspaper, Hugo was still unwilling to travel with him to Europe, for fear that others would say he would be with the rich. Dumas is more realistic. This luxury guy was unwilling to give up this opportunity to be a friend of the rich, and he volunteered to be a French teacher for Downing. Downing did not let the free French teacher suffer. Downing did not suffer any loss, and he paid all the expenses wherever he went, and visited all the famous lands in Brussels.

Or was disappointed with the Belgian government, and because Hugo had not had much time left in Belgium, Downing did not stay in Brussels too much. When Hugo left Brussels and headed for the port of Antwerp, Downing set out for Switzerland.

In this turbulent times, Switzerland was a paradise on earth. Napoleon not only conquered Belgium, but also Switzerland, so the legal currency of Switzerland was also franc. In 1815, at the Vienna Conference held by the European powers to arrange the international order after Napoleon's defeat, Switzerland won the status of a permanent neutral country, and its territory has never changed since then. The last war in Switzerland took place in 1847, called the War of Separation and Alliance. The war lasted less than a month, with no more than 100 deaths, and most of them were accidentally injured by friendly forces. From then on, Switzerland entered a paradise without war. The new constitution, which was formulated in 1848 in accordance with the US Constitution, also laid the modern political structure of the country.

Starting from the Constitution of Freedom Representatives in 1831, Switzerland began its industrialization process, and the University of Zurich was established in 1833. Of course, compared with Britain, even France, Belgium, and Prussia, Switzerland at this time was more like a rural area. Even in the capital Zurich, there was a large amount of land undeveloped.

The lake and mountains in Switzerland are so charming that Downing bought a low-key villa by Lake Zurich and prepared to regard it as his second home in Europe.

"Stop your body and let your soul catch up." These days, Tangning rarely thinks about technology and industry, the future and the past, Britain and the Qing Dynasty. The most time he spends is learning French and feeding swans in Lake Zurich.

Time flies in leisure, and it is the midsummer of July. His soul finally catches up. The industrialist embarks on a new journey to build a continental steel company and raise funds from entrepreneurs across the European continent. Ten thousand pounds account for 1% of the shares, and no more than 5% of each country's share.

If there is one person in the world who can defeat the British Steel Company, it is Downing himself. Since even his Chinese descent is suspected, he cannot put all his eggs in one basket. Continental Steel Company is a big move for him to unite the European continent against the superpower Britain.

This time, everyone thought he would still use the steel conversion furnace used in the British Steel Company, but he actually used another steelmaking method - the open furnace method. This method can reduce contact with nitrogen and make the steel harder. It is not as difficult to control as the converter, which is filled with a large amount of air at once. It has several hours of modulation time, so it helps to make more suitable steel according to customer needs, and get rid of the limitations of converting blast furnaces, and the production volume is also larger at a time.

The reason why Downing does not use this technology in British steel companies is that in the stage of sharp increase in steel output, customers have not yet high requirements for steel quality, and the conversion furnace is faster and the quality is due to its quality. In the future, when using pure oxygen compressed air process, the conversion furnace will be much higher.

Tangning now has a very mature industrial technology team. As long as he issues orders, a large number of employees will organize continental steel plants for him. raising funds from industrialists in various European countries will expand his business faster. He has no problem with funds at all. You should know that the British Steel Company, an old hen who lays golden eggs with an annual income of 3 million pounds, owns 60% of the shares.

He even had time to go to the Zurich Opera House to watch Dumas' programs, and listened in French that he had just learned a little bit of fur, just to think it was just practicing listening.

In Dumas' s eyes, Downing is a weirdo who doesn't enjoy it. It's probably a bit like Nathan, the founder of the Rothschild Financial Empire England. "There is nothing to make me happier except work." The romantic Dumas couldn't understand it at all. This super millionaire, many times richer than the 8 million francs of the Count of Monte Cristo in Dumas's works, was actually very conservative, and conservative to the point of being out of tune. The most beautiful actress in the Zurich Opera House could not touch his heart, let alone Downing had more than a dozen beautiful female secretary, but basically only dealing with three male assistants. Under his appearance of being unswervingly smiling, he was a lonely heart as high as the snow top of the Alps.

Of course Dumas didn't know that Downing's incompatible and even looked down on any beauty was related to his future guest, and to his frequent dreams and his girlfriend Wanqing he often remembered.

Only equality can bring beautiful love. He and Wanqing are equal, both MIT students. He is unequal with any woman in this world, and the gap in ideas is too big. The devout beliefs of contemporary people are the most difficult for Tang Ning to accept. When he visits the church, he basically just looks outside and looks at the appearance, and rarely goes deep and awe into the church.

He doubted whether he would live his old age alone like Newton. Of course, maybe loneliness would not be possible. Don’t forget his great ambition to adopt 100,000 orphans all over the world. A father with 100,000 children will never be truly lonely, right?

All the orphans he adopted were extremely smart children. For this reason, he invented an IQ test machine that roughly tests children's mathematical ability, language ability and hands-on ability. Mathematical ability is related to children's recognition patterns. The smart test machine is a typewriter, but it is connected to a special paper tape. When a new line button is tapped on the typewriter, two sets of graphic patterns with small dots will be drawn, and the subjects are asked to confirm which group of graphic patterns carry more small dots. The appearance of small dots has various rules to follow. Children with strong pattern recognition ability will soon naturally discover the rules and make quick judgments. This simple rough test can measure the child's mathematical pattern recognition ability.

Language ability is mainly judged by the ability to learn new words. The principle is to create a set of simple and easy-to-recognize graphics, and the words appear under the graphics at the same time, which tests children's memory speed of words. Investigate it again after a few hours or the next day to judge children's permanent memory ability.

The ability to build Lego building blocks is a fun way to test children's hands-on ability. The International Academy cooperates with orphanages in big cities around the world. Every time a little genius is found, it pays a considerable "transfer fee" to the other party and then sends it to London for education. Now, there is also an international school in Zurich, which takes in orphans from the European continent. Because Downing is rich and powerful, many orphanages with difficult operations also receive his direct funding.

In order to test the wire transfer system, Downing created the Bank of Zurich, applying this technology on a small scale, and managing various industries in Zurich with this bank as the center. In addition to the Continental Steel Company and the International Academy, it also has to serve the Swiss Stock Exchange. Yes, Switzerland has not yet formed a unified securities trading market, and Zurich's financial status is completely incomparable to London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Similarly, this business was carried out in Switzerland, which has not yet become one of the world's financial centers, to train the team, because the British Telegraph Company will provide an automatic quotation system for the Swiss Stock Exchange and create a "market maker system" in the world.

The so-called market maker system is a kind of financial innovation that improves the liquidity of the stock market. In the original securities trading system, the trading between stocks was basically transferred from one stock holder to another stock holder, which was equivalent to an individual to an individual. It can be imagined that when you want to buy, there are not necessarily people selling it, and when you want to sell, there are not necessarily people buying it, which has caused the sluggish circulation of the stock market, and the quotation of stocks is not professional and arbitrary. The Swiss Stock Exchange introduced professional securities underwriters system to be implemented, and underwriters and agents issued stocks. They are strong and provide professional quotations at any time and allow transactions to be completed in a timely manner.
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