Scrooge stayed three days in New York while the Clipper Express was ready to sail. Compared with the legendary clipper ship "Grand Republic" with more than 3,000 tons, Express is a smaller ship with a displacement of only about 1,000 tons. It is a slender and beautiful luxury high-speed passenger ship. The boat even ran at a high speed of around 19 knots. (Of course, this speed does not last long) At that time, taking it was the fastest way to travel to Europe.

The two days of waiting in New York will of course be very busy. Although Scrooge, Morgan, and Joshua have reached an agreement before, the distribution of benefits has been completed, and the big problems have been resolved, in these two days, There are still many people, including former partner Warren Delano, who also came to the door, hoping to get a share of Sulfa. It's just that at this time, the interests of sulfa in the North American continent have been divided up, and as for the interests in Europe, it is not within the reach of these people. Therefore, most of these guys are disappointed. Only Warren Delano obtained from Scrooge the right to sell the drug in China, not a monopoly, of course. However, Scrooge was still very skeptical about how much sulfa he could sell in China at that time, because as far as he knew, at that time, Chinese people still believed in traditional Chinese medicine that looked like witchcraft in the West. Although people in this era regard patients as Autobots or Decepticons and believe that oil can cure all diseases, Western medicine is nowhere to be found. "How far is traditional Chinese medicine? Even in the 1930s, after Western medicine had made a series of great breakthroughs, according to the descriptions in some literary works, many Chinese would rather die than see Western medicine. (refer to "Family Spring and Autumn")

In addition to these businessmen trying to get a piece of the pie, some experts from various universities in New York also visited one after another. Scrooge welcomes their visit very much because, in Scrooge's plan, his companies will become the spokespersons of high technology for quite a long time. Strictly speaking, there is only one way to achieve high profits: to reduce the proportion of wages in the income distribution. There are many ways to deform. The easiest way is to directly reduce the number of wages or reduce the number of wages in a disguised form. The former is like the former boss of McDonnell Infantry Weapons Company Stru, who directly cut wages down, and the latter is to cover up by extending working hours. wage cuts. For example, you used to work 10 hours a day, and the boss gave you 72 cents. Now the boss extends the working hours to 16 hours and "increases" the wages to 80 cents a day. At first glance, the total amount of wages seems to be There are more, but the salary per unit of time has dropped significantly.

Another method, which Scrooge intends to adopt, is to rely on "high technology" to allow his own company to obtain several times the income of other companies with the same investment and time as ordinary companies. In this way, although in Scrooge’s enterprises, workers’ wages per unit of time are higher than those of other enterprises, the proportion of total wages in income distribution is lower than those of sweatshops. This is the path that Scrooge must take. This path can not only reap more profits but also gain a good reputation for kindness, which is very useful in many cases.

And to take this path, Scrooge has inherent advantages. Although before time-traveling, in the era when doctors walked all over the streets and turtles looked like dogs, a local stupid doctor was nothing, in this era, not to mention stupid doctor, even a random bachelor of science and engineering is nothing. I can stick a broom behind my butt, pretending to be a wolf with a big tail. More importantly, Scrooge is well aware of the general direction of technological development, which means that others also need countless inputs, countless experiments, countless failures, and things that can only be completed by spending a lot of money. Governance here will be much simpler and smoother.

However, no matter how capable Scrooge is, he is still alone. To build a high-tech monopoly empire is unimaginable without enough technical talent. Therefore, Scrooge attached great importance to dealing with the academic world and those academic masters. In a meeting with President Charles of Harvard University and the presidents of several other American universities, Scrooge proposed a plan that was unanimously supported by them. He said he was willing to spend a sum of money to establish a fund to encourage scientific research. Well, this plan is called the Mississippi plan. It is used to reward scholars in the world who have achieved great achievements in various basic disciplines. Those universities in the United States will jointly form a jury to determine who is eligible to win the award.

This proposal is extremely beneficial to those universities in the United States. Being able to act as a judge for such an award is of great benefit to the reputation of each university, so it was unanimously approved by the participants.

"Anyway, I have planned to prevent Nobel from becoming the king of dynamite at the right time, so it would be good to simply change the 'Nobel award into the 'McDonald's Award'. At least the 'Sulfa Award' sounds better than the 'Dynamite Award' All right." Scrooge thought.

The busy three days finally passed, and the clipper ship "Express" was about to set sail. Scrooge boarded this small ship with some entourage, stood on the deck, and greeted all the people who were seeing off on the shore. New friends from college waved. It wasn't until the ship left the pier that the pier became smaller and smaller before turning around and leaving.

"Boss, it's windy at sea, do you want to take a rest in the cabin?" A guard said to Scrooge.

"Oh, I'm not busy. Last time Carol wrote to me and said that the sea voyage is extremely boring, and looking at the endless sea can make people crazy. But why don't I think so?" Scrooge headed He didn't return, just silently looking at the deep blue sea in the distance. At this time, a burst of laughter reached his ears.

"My God! Miss Dorothea, don't go to the fence, it's dangerous! Master Roy, you have to take care of your sister for me, God..." A female housekeeper exclaimed. into Scrooge's ear. Scrooge turned his head around and saw a (let me use this quantifier once, as a tribute to Jing Keshou, a loli) a little blond loli about eleven or twelve years old giggling along the He ran over the deck, turning his head and laughing as he ran. A chubby aunt followed anxiously. Behind her was a young man who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, shaking his head and following behind.

"Mrs. Stephen, it's the first time Dorothea saw the sea, so let her be happy." The young man followed unhurriedly, "Father also wanted her to be happy and happy when she came up. "

"How can I do that!" the housekeeper said pantingly, her face flushed, I don't know whether it was because of exercise or anger, "A lady, you should pay attention to your image at all times, even in places where no one is around, Odd Mr. asked her to come out to look at the sea, but he didn't let her like this..."

The housekeeper was only focused on refuting the young man's fallacies, but she didn't notice that there was a length of cable on the deck below her feet. As a result, with a scream, the fat housekeeper fell straight on the teak wood It landed on the deck with a muffled thud. And that little loli also turned her head to look around while running, but her feet scrambled, and she staggered towards Scrooge.

Seeing a little loli bumping towards him, Scrooge naturally wanted to open his arms to hug her. Well, being able to control loli at will without being viewed as a loli control is one of the benefits of being young after time travel. However, just as the blond loli with a voiceless body fell into Scrooge's arms, a hand stretched out from the side and grabbed the little loli.

Scrooge took a closer look and found that the one supporting the little loli was the guard Brutal who was following her.

"Hey! You bastard, why are you jumping out to make trouble now!" Scrooge almost cried out. Fortunately, the hypocrisy accumulated over the years kept him from showing any wrong expressions on his face.

"Ah, thank you, uncle!" After the little loli stood upright, she immediately stopped and stroked the skirt, then lifted the corner of the skirt, lowered her head slightly, and gracefully curtseyed to Brutal.

At this time, the female housekeeper who had fallen had already climbed up from the deck with a kind of agility and speed that was not commensurate with his figure and appeared beside little Lolita. That swiftness and agility reminded Scrooge of Fei Luo or the earlier chubby Gascoigne.

"Miss Dorothea, look at you... I'll tell Mr. Ord the whole story." Then she turned to Brutal and said, "Thank you very much, sir. It wasn't you, Dorothea might have accidentally fallen into the sea."

"No lady." Brutal replied honestly, "The railing on the boat is very high, and the rope net is soft and strong. Even if this lady hits the railing, nothing will happen."

"Anyway, thank you." said the housekeeper. "You also traveled to Europe?" She glanced at Scrooge again, and then said, "Is this your son? What a handsome young man... Dorothea, look, this little brother is much more obedient than you..."

The latter part of the sentence not only shocked Scrooge but also made Brutal panic. No matter how courageous he was, he would not dare to pretend to be the boss's father in front of the boss. He hurriedly explained in a panic:

"You are mistaken. This gentleman is my employer, Mr. Scrooge MacDonald. I just-"

"What? Are you Mr. Scrooge MacDonald? That Mr. Scrooge MacDonald who wrote "A Study of the Causes of Certain Infectious Diseases and the Effects of Certain Chemical Substances on Their Therapy"?" I have heard that you are on this ship. Are you going to give lectures in Europe? My name is Roy. Roy Ord is from Mississippi. I am going to study in Europe. I like chemistry very much. May I ask you for advice?" The young man who just rushed over asked loudly, his eyes were shining brightly, and he didn't seem to know where to put his hands and feet.

Fortunately, at this time, the appearance of another boat eased his embarrassment. It was a slender fast cruiser belonging to the British Royal Navy. It was coming from the front of the "Quick", and with an elegant turn, it turned to the same route as the "Quick". At the same time, a semaphore was raised on the warship: "HMS Danger pays tribute to the conqueror of disease, Mr. Scrooge Macdonald!"