Chapter 263 The President wants to vent his anger

Whether it was really made was a mystery since then. Because in addition to the person involved Li Asheng complaining, Guo Jinzhang, the other person involved, has been silent about it... It is said that a reporter also went to interview the old man who created Tangzhou with one hand, but he never succeeded. Because he was old and basically stopped being director, Guo Jinzhang began to travel around the world... The reporter never found him.

Of course, those are funerals.

After Li Asheng officially became the first governor of Tangzhou and reached a cooperation agreement with the two monopoly giants, Morgan and Rockefeller, in the name of Tangzhou Zhengfu, Guo Jinzhang officially "retreated to the second line" and served as director of the Tangzhou Development and Reform Commission as a lieutenant general, and began all-round guidance on Tangzhou's economy, infrastructure construction, and industrial development.

At the end of 1882, when Changan Bank, which was jointly cooperated with the Morgan family, was officially listed for business, Nikola Tesla, who had just bid farewell to his deceased mother, was also dug out from Edison's General Electric Company by Guo Jinzhang using various means. He received the help of this amazing young scientist with extremely generous research investment, and shared Tesla's alternator patent at a very low price... Soon afterwards, Northwest Electric Power Company was established. At the beginning of its establishment, it proposed the concept of high-voltage power transmission and obtained related patents. At the same time, high-voltage

The proposal of power transmission also had a huge impact on Edison's DC business. In order to avoid the emergence of alternating current affecting the profits of his company, Edison publicly accused Nikola, Tesla and Northwest Electric Power of alternating current were taking human lives. The great inventor even publicly conducted an experiment to allow kittens and puppies to pass under alternating current, and then the kittens and puppies died... With this result, Edison achieved a temporary victory. AC electricity was opposed by people from the United States and many countries around the world, while DC business was rising day by day.

However, Northwest Electric Power Company did not care about Edison's actions at all. With the efforts of Nikola Tesla and Tangzhou Zhengfu hired experts with heavy salaries, in mid-1883, a small power station with only tens of thousands of kilowatts input the alternating current it produced at a high voltage of 15 kV to the newly formed Tangzhou high-voltage grid... On the other end of the transmission line, Portland City on the border between Oregon and Tangzhou soon lit up the alternating current.

The whole process is extremely safe. Nikola Tesla himself even ran under the high-voltage electric rack for a few times, but it was still fine... Edison's lies were self-defeating, and the era when a power station was built every kilometer was gone forever. In the end, Edison himself had to look down and sent someone to Northwest Electric to purchase the right to use alternating current and high-voltage transmission technology, and the price he paid was quite high.

That doesn't count.

Under Guo Jinzhang's instructions, scientists led by Tesla also developed various motors while developing alternators and installed motors on various machinery... Many machinery industry production in the 19th century connected all machines to a steam engine, and then used steam engines to drive all machines to produce. Because the power of the steam engine is unstable, various problems will inevitably arise when using these machines, which also lead to problems such as low production accuracy. Because the output power of the motor is relatively stable, and a motor is still dealing with a machine tool or machine, this greatly improved this situation, greatly improving the accuracy of industrial production... This also made the production of motors another great source of wealth in Tangzhou, and thus launched a large-scale industrial reform. Some people even called the emergence of alternating current and electric motors "a key step in the arrival of the power era."

"Chang'an Bank, Canal Company, Northwest Electric Power, Entrepreneurship Loans, AC Electric, motor, high-voltage grid, electric machine tools... Now there is another electrolytic aluminum technology. Why are these guys always so lucky?"

After coming back to his senses, Chesser Arthur pinched his nose and pressed a button on the table... This action made him frown again. Because the "service bell" that greets the secretary and servants is also a product from Washington State.

"Mr. President, what are your instructions?" The secretary soon walked in and asked him.

"Is there any news about Mr. James Brian recently?" Chessert Arthur asked.

"Well, I heard that he has been very close to Mr. Benjamin Harrison recently..." the secretary thought for a while and replied.

"Ah, I remembered it." Chessert Arthur patted his head, "Go and call me and ask him to come to the White House."

"Yes, sir."

...

One hour later.

"What's the matter with me?" James Brian walked into the Oval Office and looked at Chessert Arthur's bleak figure that had been like this for two years. The former secretary of state couldn't help but shake his head, "Your situation doesn't look so good... Is it so uncomfortable to be president?"

"If you stick to your post like me, then you can definitely understand my current mood." Chessert Arthur sighed, "The better the Chinese perform, the faster they develop, the more difficult it is for those people to look at me... And what is most annoying is that those guys actually begin to forget the humiliation imposed on us by those yellow people and the entire United States of America."

"The United States is a society that values ​​interests. Not to mention Chinese people, even devils, as long as they give enough benefits, those people will be brothers." Brian shook his head, "If you are displeased because of these, then you are really not suitable to serve as president again."

"I don't think I will have a chance to be president again in the future." Chessert Arthur smiled bitterly, "Americans can forget the enemies that once brought them humiliation, but they will never forget their own people who caused them to be humiliated."

"Great nations have a common characteristic, namely ungrateful to their heroes... This is what Guo Jinzhang said." Brian said, then shrugging: "Well, as always, this guy still does not admit that this is his original, but a famous quote from an Englishman named Churchill."

"I'm not a hero... Tell me about you, I heard you are very close to Benjamin Harrison? Do you think he may have a presidency from 1889 to 1893?" Chessert Arthur asked again.

"At least, it's more hope than others. You know, he is from a prominent family." Brian knew why Chessert Arthur mentioned the term of office from 1889 to 1993 in 1884, because the Republicans had lost to the Democrats in the presidency from 1885 to 1889. Of course, the main reason was that they were the ones in charge of the government were defeated by the Chinese... Although the American people also knew that the South represented by the Democrats performed worse in the battle with the Chinese, they suffered heavy casualties after all. Because of this casualty, hundreds of thousands of northern families voted for the southerners... So, they had to turn their attention to the elections that were the next term.

"Of course. My father is a member of Congress, my grandfather is the 9th president of the United States, and my great-grandfather is one of the founding elders of the United States. He served as a representative of the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence... Oh, God, unless the Adams family, no one can compare with this family." Chesert Arthur sighed.

"I value his speaking ability more... He is an amazing orator and can definitely easily gain public recognition." Brian also said.

"Talk about the Chinese." Chessert Arthur shook his head, "Do you just watch those guys continue to develop like this?"

"According to the agreement signed with them, Tangzhou will keep the Red Corps until the Chinese have fixed seats in both houses of parliament... and as long as they have always owned the army, we will never be able to fight with them. In the past two years, Guo Jinzhang has recruited a large number of retired officers as instructors in the UK, and the Red Corps has completely transformed from a rabble into a disciplined army. And most importantly, the British have also played a rather disgraceful role in it... They are likely to have secretly formed an alliance." Brian said in a deep voice, as if reminding Chessette Arthur.

"Do you know why I came to you?" Chessert Arthur ignored these things and just stared at him and asked.

"Of course I know. But the Chinese are far more troublesome than we think. Since they started working with Morgan and Rockefeller, they have started to reach out to Congress through these two guys. Now they have a considerable influence in Congress..." Brian said.

"It's no secret." Chessert Arthur stared at him, "but I don't want to pay attention to these things. I just want to know if you have a way to deal with the Chinese... I don't want them to live too well. Because, they are too comfortable, I will feel very uncomfortable, especially when my term is about to end."

"Chesert, this is not the mentality that a politician should have." Brian said in a deep voice.

"Do you think I still have a chance to continue to be a politician?" Chessert Arthur sneered.

"Those guys can do everything... and, in the past two years, have we gotten along well? The technologies that Chinese people paid for developing have improved the industrial level of the entire United States... I think the guy named Guo is right. We should look forward instead of always staring at the shadow behind it," Brian still advised.

"I said that my term is about to end... What better opportunity than now? At worst, I'll end my term early, which is exactly what I dream of. So, Brian, you come and think of a way, I'll do it... Don't worry, I won't do anything too outrageous. In fact, I just want to breathe in the last time of this frustrated presidency." Chessert Arthur said.

"Just... let out a breath?"
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