Chapter 1015: The Fire at Morgan's House

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During a conversation with Westinghouse, Cofiron casually revealed that he was "going to great lengths to lower prices" in order to "knock down" other electrical companies. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He openly advises that the main thing is to install your own system before your opponents, whether it's a tram or something else. If you want to make any changes after that, it will be too expensive and it will be too late. "No matter how much money we want, users willingly because they can't change the system," he exclaimed. Little did he know, however, that Tesla had already made up its mind to prove that one superior system could defeat another, entrenched, but inferior.

Cofyne talks about the benefits of "bribery" in good faith. He asked Westinghouse to increase the price of the streetlights from six to eight dollars, as his company had done, because that would allow him to bribe city officials and other politicians for two dollars, and he would not be able to make a penny of his own profits. But upon learning that Westinghouse was unwilling to join him, GE and the Morgan family chose their most vulnerable area to attack: the financial markets.

Soon, the newspapers reported on Westinghouse's debacle: "In State, Broadway, and Wall Street, out of the cellars and rat holes of all the stock markets, crawled out of the snakes of rumour, crudely sloppy rumors that were sinuous and slippery." George. Westinghouse's various companies collapsed...... George. Westinghouse ...... Unless it merges with General Electric, it will be life-threatening, and Westinghouse's stock has plummeted. ”

Westinghouse and Tesla are good friends, and he knows that Cofinn's target is Tesla, so he warns Tesla during the casual conversation.

Tesla immediately and Richard. Sèvres counseled, Richard. Sèvres understood that Morgan was behind Edison and Coffian, and Morgan wanted Tesla's patents.

According to the investment bank, Tesla's royalties are innumerable, and the company that uses Tesla's alternating current system has paid him $1 million in taxes in advance, and Tesla's tax on organic growth may be close to $12 million. No one can say for sure, let alone Tesla itself. In the future, due to the continuous expansion of application fields, the use tax will be levied on patents for power stations, electric motors, and alternating current systems for each new use. Tesla is going to be a millionaire, one of the richest people in the world.

And Morgan wants to enter the electrical field, and he will never allow such a situation to occur.

In the face of the aggressive offensive of Cofium and Edison, Richard . Sèvres knew that with Tesla's current economic power, it was difficult to compete with Morgan, so he submitted a report to Lin Yiqing, explaining the current situation, and hoped to get Lin Yiqing's instructions, and Lin Yiqing gave him an answer: "You must not give up any patent." ”

Lin Yiqing asked Richard. Sèvres helped Tesla take care of Tesla's finances, stabilize the stock price, and prevent Coffian's plot against Thomson-Houston from succeeding, and said that he would continue to provide financial support to Tesla Electric. Lin Yiqing also sent a letter to Richard. Sèvres said he had said that he would win the "battle of the currents" for Tesla, and that as long as it was what he had promised, he would do it, so that the two of them would "wait for good news."

Richard. Neither Sèvres nor Tesla could have imagined what kind of way this "good news" would come.

Morgan's private residence, New York, Murray Hill Neighborhood.

After dinner, Pierponte. Morgan stood up from the table and walked into his secret room, where he kept all the documents he had kept on track about trade secrets and things that were very important to him. He unlocked the door of the secret room, took out a document from the shelf marked "Essentials", and sat down at his desk to write. He added a few more paragraphs to the document and carefully numbered the new paragraphs, just as he carefully numbered the old ones.

"May God and Jesus help us all," he muttered, "bless us with success." ”

He wrote for about half an hour, then put the file on the shelf and locked the chamber again. With this done, he went to the secret room where his precious art was kept, with a candle in his hand.

He pulled a key out of his pocket and unlocked the door.

He cautiously stepped into the room and into the suitcase where he was kept, as well as the suitcase that belonged to Amelia. Sturges' big box room.

He took out a bunch of keys and tried to unlock them one after another. The lock on the large, tattered and old chest was a normal lock, and with the fifth key, it was easily opened.

Pierponte. As Morgan lifted the lid of the large box, he muttered, "No one needs to pick a lock like this." ”

He slowly pulled out the contents of the large box, each one individually, and carefully placed it on a chair beside him. He held the relics with a respectful affection, as if he were carrying the remains of his dead lover. He placed the neatly folded mourning clothes on the chair one by one. He found old sepiolite cigarette holders, new and fashionable gloves that had once been bought from Parisian manufacturers, but now stained and crumpled; The old program list, the actors whose names are typeset in the largest font on the list, are all dead and gone; Perfume bottles with a lingering fragrance, which are now out of fashion; a small packet of neatly organized letters, each carefully labeled with the name of the letter; old newspapers that are in disarray; A small pile of worn-out and damaged books, each in Pierponte. Morgan accidentally tossed into a lot of posts in his hand, like stacks of playing cards. But in this pile of worthless messes, each one had its own different meaning back then.

Pierponte. Morgan searches for what he's looking for—his dead love, Amelia. The packet of letters that Sturges used to write to him. He had looked through the letters he had kept more than once. He had sorted through the faded letters with reverent hands, carefully tied them with a faded ribbon that Amelia had used, and put them back between the mourning clothes in the large box.

Pierponte. Morgan found the packet, but did not open it, and put the things back into the empty box one by one, just as he had taken them out; He sighed with emotion. He stopped when he picked up a small stack of torn books in his hand, and hesitated for a moment.

"I'm going to leave these books outside," he muttered to himself, "maybe one of them will be of some use to me." ”

Amelia's collection is not at all a special collection of literary rare books. Among them is a Greek version of the Old Testament and an Eton-style version of the Latin Grammar; a pamphlet of poetry about love in French; An incomplete copy of Tom. Jones, with the remaining half-skin cover attached to the book by a thread; a typeset of Byron's Don Giovanni in eye-hurting lead type, which must have been specially made for the benefit of ophthalmologists and spectacle merchants; There is also a large thick book with a scarlet cover and a faded gild.

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