The main value of Tesla lies in its patents. The most important of these patents is alternating current. To build the power grid of the United States, relevant standards are indispensable. Sheffield knows the importance of patents all too well.

The thing is, even if investment in new technologies cannot keep up for a while, old patents can buy time for patent companies and slow down the development of competitors. They may be able to use this time to overtake them.

This is the origin of patent trolls. The patent troll in the communications field in later generations is naturally Qualcomm of the United States. In the mobile phone industry, Apple and Huawei do not sell their chips, while Qualcomm provides processors for other manufacturers.

In fact, Qualcomm's processors were very bad at the beginning, so bad that they could not be compared with Apple's A series. Among the corporate competitors in the same period, Huawei was not a competitor. Qualcomm's opponent was Texas Instruments. At that time, Texas Instruments was in the field of microelectronic chips.

The attainments in the field are still very deep. It happened that the mobile phone market was a big piece of cake, and Texas Instruments decided to get a foot in it.

Texas Instruments' chips are not as good as Apple's, but far surpass Qualcomm's, ranking second among all mobile phone chips. At the same time, Qualcomm was still at the level of high power consumption, poor performance, and weak overclocking potential. Compared with Qualcomm, Texas Instruments was almost completely inferior.

The victory of Fangzi is the most powerful existence in the entire Android camp.

Qualcomm in front of Texas Instruments has always been a low-energy Qualcomm. It was once forced into a desperate situation because of its all-round backwardness.

However, baseband manufacturing in the communications industry is not only about design and manufacturing levels, but also requires a large amount of patented technology support. Even if Texas Instruments can produce these chips, it must spend high fees to purchase patents, which is obviously very uneconomical. Communications

Qualcomm, which has deep knowledge in the field, relies on its large number of patented technologies in the communication field. Once it produces a chip that is not too bad, it will be able to reoccupy the market.

In the end, Texas Instruments had to pay patent fees to Qualcomm because of its patent disadvantages. It felt that it was not cost-effective to continue investing. Although it clearly had an advantage in technology, it withdrew from the mobile phone processor market. Although judging from the challenges Qualcomm encountered later,

Patents cannot work all the time, but they can still buy time.

This is the scary thing about patented technology, and the new patent law has been passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, plus the patents that Tesla currently has in hand, Sheffield feels that it is not impossible to enter the electrical field.

But Tesla absolutely cannot stay in New York. Sheffield has no power here at all, and it cannot rely on little Rockefeller to pay attention to Tesla all the time.

"Together with your institute and the entire research team, I can give you shares. The specific value will have to be evaluated by a lawyer, but I will never lose a penny to you." Sheffield put his hands in his pockets.

, looked at Tesla carefully and said, "Judging from your trajectory in the past few years, your management talents are far inferior to Mr. Edison's. What's more, Edison's management is not done by himself, but by Morgan. In this way,

You are no longer an opponent. Now with my help, you can concentrate on your research. As an equal partner, I believe the future will be much easier."

In principle, Tesla has agreed to Sheffield's funding, and as Sheffield said, although there is no problem in terms of talent when conducting research in New York, it is easy to be harassed by Edison who is just a stone's throw away. The public opinion here is also very unfavorable to him.

Friendly, it is better to find a quiet place. The only problem is the attraction of New York. Of course, this is not a problem for me, but what about the following researchers?

"That's no problem. I'm a man with a lot of money, and the South is not a wilderness. I can go to the universities in each state to find the talents you need in person." Knowing Tesla's hesitation,

Sheffield said that everything is taken care of by me. As long as you set off, all aspects of the configuration will definitely not be a problem.

"As for the departure time, the sooner the better. I will stay at the Rockefeller Manor in the next few days. When you pack up, we will go to Houston together!" Sheffield came well prepared and had already paid attention in the dark.

For a long time, Tesla showed up at the time when the other party was most lonely and put forward a whole set of plans.

Tesla was just an electrical engineer. Even if he was an excellent electrical engineer, it was unimaginable that he would propose conditions that seemed excessive. In Sheffield's eyes, they were nothing.

Just like Tesla thinks that the bankers who finance it have millions of dollars in property, but in Sheffield's eyes, Tesla's sponsors can be taken care of by Morgan at the touch of a finger. This is brought about by pure class advantage.

vision.

Generally speaking, rich people are divided into two types, one is those who have many industries but not much capital flow, and the other are those who have strong liquidity but do speculation. However, at the level of Morgan and Rockefeller, they did both many years ago.

And that's it. As for what kind of family his family belongs to, Sheffield doesn't know at all, and Lafayette doesn't say anything either.

Arms manufacturing is at war with DuPont, and if Morgan doesn't let go in the electrical field, the relationship will probably become bad. Right now, cooperation is greater than competition with Rockefeller's Standard Oil. There should be no opposition in other fields.

Sheffield, who returned to the carriage and headed to the Rockefeller Estate, thought hard. There should be no smuggling, and no agriculture and animal husbandry. There were competitors in Central America for the United Fruit Company, and the financing behind it was still Morgan.

For a deeper network of connections, Sheffield will have to wait for Lafayette to clear up his doubts.

"Are you going to enter the electrical field?" Little Rockefeller looked solemnly, looking at Sheffield who was smoothing his black back. Why was this man not nervous at all? "Don't you know that Morgan is running the business behind Edison?"

"I know, so I'm going to cross-license patents with Westinghouse Electric!" Sheffield, who was crouching, glanced around before getting up, clapped his hands and said, "Now only Westinghouse Electric has this strength."

"What I mean is that Morgan is not easy to mess with, although our family rarely interacts with him." Rockefeller Jr. shook his head and said, "But it is a good choice to stand with Westinghouse Electric. I just think that entering the electrical field will be a good choice.

May cause friction."

"How can the thirteen southern states with a population of more than 20 million not have their own electrical companies?" Sheffield glanced at Rockefeller, "There are some areas where I don't have to get in and offend people, but the citizens of the south have this need.

, and my family is somewhat famous in the south, so I can’t be like an ostrich and stick my head into my crotch and pretend I didn’t see it.”

"It's not that I have to be a competitor and break the balance of various industries. It's the citizens of the South who want me to do this, and I have no choice but to do so." Sheffield said slowly, "Maybe you don't quite understand what I'm saying.
Chapter completed!