African Nationhood

Chapter 81 Money Spreading Journey ()

No. 30, Champs Elysées, Paris, France, Mr. Dantès’ revenge base, has now become the love nest of Shi Jintang and his lover Alice Underwood.

This place was once the property of the British Colonial Office. Later, Shi Jintang bought it through Whitehall connections and provided it for Sister Alice to live.

In the original time and space, after being sold by the British Colonial Office, it was transformed into the National Library of France, and in the 21st century it was turned into a luxury hotel.

Now it seems that the fate here will not change.

This property is a 3-story building with more than ten rooms, but most of them are simple and old.

After Sister Alice moved in, she hired several servants to clean the house.

But because the population is too small, it still cannot change the old and decadent atmosphere here.

Shi Jintang boarded the ship from Walvis Bay Port and arrived here after more than ten days of sailing.

After arriving, I felt a sense of emptiness as if I were checking into an internet celebrity attraction.

Fortunately, there is still his woman here. He and Alice haven't seen each other for almost a year and a half.

After the two met, they were very entangled for a few days.
  Today, Alice is radiant and energetic, and her fascination with Shi Jintang remains as strong as ever.

Compared with Jin Xiyue, Alice is particularly open-minded in bed. She always has a kind of religious devotion to Shijintang.

No matter what kind of new method, we are happy to accompany Shi Jintang to try it.

Such a fierce and exciting experience is difficult for Asian women like Jin Xiyue to give.

Alice has changed a lot in the past two years. She has faded away from the shadow of a barmaid.

Through continuous study during this period, she has reached the intermediate level of accounting and mathematics.

She is able to independently prepare the company's financial statements, and can also understand the economic status of the company's operations through the financial statements.

At the same time, she also raised her younger sister very well.

Liv Underwood's grades in girls' school were excellent, and her talent in music was also discovered.

At home, the two sisters learn from each other and achieve each other's success.

Today, Liv is even more beautiful. Although she is only 12 years old, her charm is natural.

In Shi Jintang's view, this girl has the potential to be a "French Rose".

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Coming to Paris to indulge is just one thing, Shi Jintang also has serious things to do.

The internal combustion engine was a big deal, and he thought about it and finally remembered an important person - Diesel.

Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, was currently working as an engineer at an ice-making factory in Paris.

Because the other party is still a college graduate, Shi Jintang cannot directly run over and tell the other party: In the future, you will successfully invent the internal combustion engine that will change an era.

But because of insufficient business thinking, he eventually fell into despair and died.

Therefore, he ordered Alice to place recruitment advertisements in major newspapers in Paris in the name of establishing an "Internal Combustion Engine Research Institute."

The recruitment advertisement has been posted for several days, and Diesel has not yet received an application, but this matter cannot be rushed.

Shi Jintang plans to stay in Europe for a while. When he returns to Southwest Africa, if Diesel has not come to sign up, he will talk to the other party.

For now, his focus is still on his bike.

Since he "designed" the new bicycle in Cape Town, it was left to Alice to apply for patents in European countries.

Bicycles are developed over a long period of time, so if Shi Jintang's "new bicycle" wants to be sold normally, it must negotiate with the previous patent holder.

Only after the profit sharing is negotiated can commercial sales be carried out.

Otherwise, a lawsuit will result in restrictions on commercial sales.

So Shi Jintang instructed Alice to recruit a team of lawyers to negotiate with the previous patent holder, promising a profit distribution agreement of less than 3%.

Of course, Shi Jintang only started bicycle patent negotiations at this time, mainly to avoid France's Michaud and his son.

The father and son, a pair of circus repairmen, innovated in 1861 by using rotatable pedals and a pillion seat on bicycle wheels. The French patent protection period is 20 years, which just expired at the end of May 1881.

Therefore, Shi Jintang has one less person to negotiate for patents.

The remaining three patent holders in the UK are:

Madison designed the wire spoke in 1867.
  Renault installed solid rubber tires on bicycles in 1869.

and Lawson, who designed the sprocket and chain in 1874.

Strictly speaking, there are two other bicycle patentees, the brothers Muller and Binder of the Principality of Württemberg.

In 1870, these two people creatively designed a rear-wheel drive and guide for the bicycle, and added ball bearings, flywheels, brakes, and supports to the bicycle.

However, Germany was unified late. The German government promulgated the patent law four years ago in 4.

Therefore, the two Germans were unable to apply for a bicycle patent, and Shi Jintang saved a lot of money.

During this trip to Europe, Shi Jintang will still go to Germany to meet these two mechanical geniuses and discuss cooperation with them.

At the same time, I also want to take this opportunity to meet another genius.

Because these two people are bicycle enthusiasts, they have a good friend named Karl Benz.

This was the inventor of the first gasoline-powered internal combustion locomotive and one of the two founders of Mercedes-Benz Daimler.

He and Gottlieb Daimler invented two gasoline internal combustion engine cars, Benz No. 1886 and Daimler No. 1 respectively in 1.

The difference is that one of the two invented a three-wheeled car, and the other invented a four-wheeled car.

Benz No. 1 was the first to go on the road for actual testing, thus earning the inventor Carl Benz the reputation as the "Father of the Automobile".

Later, in order to better occupy the market, the two companies established the Mercedes-Benz-Daimler Joint Company.

When Shi Jintang came to Europe this time, in addition to bicycles, he also wanted to seize the opportunity of cars and make a fortune.

With the addition of Diesel with a diesel engine, he can control the development of the entire world's automobile industry in an era without war.

Of course that's all for later.

Henry Partners has developed rapidly since its establishment and has now established 30 branches in various European countries.

In 1879, the annual turnover reached 200 million francs, which doubled last year.

The turnover in the first half of this year has also exceeded the operating income of last year.

Especially in Britain, France and Germany, the number of smokers in the three countries continues to rise significantly.

Sales of lighters are booming through military channels.

The lighter industry will be a gold mine that continues to explode.

Henry Lebel has already begun to develop lighters inlaid with gold, diamonds, various gemstones, and gold and silver materials.

At the same time, the metal engraving process is also being experimented, and will be applied directly to lighters made of gold and silver.

Luxury lighters will also be an important profit point.

Regarding dividends, Henri Lebel attached great importance to goodwill and directly distributed 100 million francs in dividends to Shi Jintang in two years.

In addition to being used to help purchase items in Southwest Africa, most of the money was invested in the stock market according to Shi Jintang's instructions.

Thanks to the lifting of the economic crisis in Europe in the past two years, the railway, steel and building materials industries have begun a great recovery.

The stocks in these industries invested by Shi Jintang have all made substantial profits, and their total assets have doubled.

Shi Jintang's trip to Europe this time was a money-spending trip. In addition to spending money, he also wanted to recruit a group of talents.

He plans to establish a number of subsidiaries in various European countries to accumulate information for Nanhua Company.

After Nanhua Company becomes independent, all the results of these subsidiaries and associated companies will be transferred back to southern Africa, and the take-off of Nanhua Company will be just around the corner.

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