Subtitle of this chapter: You know, how can you be so successful when pretending to be a key person?

"Clang!"

Just when our Master Yuan was about to pretend to be a very critical moment, the balcony door was opened by the waiter and two people walked out of the door. This time, it was not a man and a woman, but an old and a young, two men in evening gowns.

The old man with white hair was covered with deep wrinkles on his face, and he was also a little haggard, looking older than Mr. Baker, who was eighty years old. However, he had a big forehead, two thick eyebrows and a pair of hawk eyes, and looked like a deep and wise man.

The young man was only in his early twenties and looked quite handsome, especially the upper part of his face was very similar to the old man.

"Ah, George. You're really here."

"Oh, it's you. Thomas. I didn't expect to see you here."

What's going on???!!!

Yuan Yanshu's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and brain are about to be furious. Why is it that time when he is pretending to be a critical moment, and he always makes such a mess?

Could it be that I have not triggered a key event yet, so I can't pretend to be a key npc in front of George Baker?

But no matter how angry he was, he could only maintain his gentlemanly demeanor, and as the two Mr. Baker stood up to greet these two "uninvited guests".

Only the little Baker, who stood up, greeted the old man respectfully: "Hello, Mr. Edison."

"Louis, long time no see..."

Wait, what's this old guy's name?

Thomas...Edison?!

What else can I say? Master Yuan immediately greeted with a smile on his face and said, "Hello, Mr. Thomas Edison."

The old man with the crowned "the greatest figure in the world", "the national treasure of America", and "the benefactor of all mankind" nodded and said, "Hello, you are..."

Mr. Baker, little, said, "Mr. Edison, let me introduce it. This is my friend neo-yuan."

"I have long admired my reputation." Yuan Yan, the elegant and graceful Yuan Yan, took the initiative to extend her hand, "I am very honored to see you here."

The great inventor shook his hand and said with a puzzled look: "neo-yuan? This name seems a bit familiar."

The young man next to him reminded: "Father, he is the Chinese man who was wronged by nypd and boi!"

Edison then suddenly realized, "Oh, you are that Chinese. Look at my memory, I'll be lucky."

He pointed to the young man beside him and said, "By the way, this is my youngest son Theodore Edison."

Mr. Edison politely said to everyone, "Hello, Mr. Baker. Hello, Mr. Louis Baker."

"Mr. Yuan, I'm so lucky! I like your "Di Gong Case" so much, and my mother and sisters also like your "Love Chocolate" very much."

Our Master Yuan didn't expect to meet his fans here, so he had to say modestly with a reserved smile: "Where are there, you have won the prizes..."

The five men greeted each other and asked the waiter to move two chairs before they sat down together.

The protagonist on this table is naturally not our Master Yuan, but the two old guys George Baker and Thomas Edison.

Mr. Baker asked half-jokingly: "Thomas, it really makes me curious. You are not here to "waste" your time when you are not staying in the lab?"

"Cough cough cough..." Mr. Edison coughed a few times and smiled bitterly, "I feel uncomfortable after the winter begins. Mina must give me some rest. I'll let Theodore pull me here for two days."

The Mina he mentioned was the second wife, Mina Miller Edison, who was twenty years younger than him. And the youngest son born to the second Mrs. Edison in 1898 was the Theodore Roosevelt in front of Yuan Yanshu.

A hundred years later, young Chinese people have a very reversal of the impression of Thomas Alva Edison.

The Edison they knew when they were young was the curious child who learned to hatch eggs from hens; the genius boy who used the principle of light to simulate the effect of surgical lamps to save his mother's life; the hard-working inventor who said the famous saying "Genius is 1% talent plus 99% sweat."

But when they grow up, they will be surprised to find that the curious child, the genius boy and the hard-working inventor are actually the same... a stingy, vicious and deceitful capitalist!

Especially when compared with his old rival Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison appears even more "small". I won't say much about the grudges and hatreds of these two people.

However, Tesla is not only far superior to the latter in terms of scientific achievements, but also more appreciated in terms of personal morality. He gave up the patent for alternating current and allowed it to be used for free in the world. You should know that this patent alone can theoretically make him the real richest man in the world.

Of course, it is hard to say whether he can become the world's richest man without giving up the alternating current patent.

Moreover, Nikola Tesla perfectly conforms to people's existing imagination of "mad scientists". For example, he claimed to have received alien signals. For example, many people said that he was a Tungus explosion, and for example, some people said that he was just an alien... and more importantly, he has never had much money in his life and was poor when he died.

But then again, these days... well, no matter what age you want to become a successful big capitalist, you have to be stingy, vicious, and despicable.

Don’t get me wrong. This does not mean that big capitalists are all bad people. On the contrary, there are really good people among big capitalists, and they are great people who have a great sense of responsibility to society, have great sympathy for the people, and even care about the fate of all mankind.

Mr. George F. Baker, who is here, is known as "he is the person with the most determined attitude in the United States, but also the kindest person in his heart."

There is also a more "contradictory" capitalist in the same time, that is, "the king of steel" Andrew Carnegie. This great philanthropist once said that people who are obsessed with money are people with low character. If I have always pursued a career that can make money, I will definitely fall into depravity one day.

He said this and did it really. Before his death in 1919, he donated almost all his personal property, with a total amount of up to 330 million US dollars, which was just the amount of principal and interest.

But this did not prevent Mr. Carnegie from using improper means to attack competitors and even harming his partners. In 1900, he lowered the price in order to oppress his old friend "coke king" Frick and even sent someone to destroy the latter's factory. Frick threatened to expose all the dirty things they had made before, and he had to give up.

George Baker, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie... and so on can become big capitalists because they conform to the objective laws of the capitalist stage in human civilization.

After becoming big capitalists, they themselves became part of the objective laws of the operation of capitalist society, that is, the personalization of capital.

In fact, this is the same as the debate between a major country in the East a hundred years later on that "the landlords are good or bad". In a society with sharp class contradictions, if you are just talking about the moral qualities of this person, you are playing hooligans.

A noble capitalist will no longer exploit the proletariat? Similarly, a patriotic landlord will no longer oppress the poor peasants and tenants?
Chapter completed!