1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 296: Strength Overwhelms! Bruce Group Product Launch! Sensational in America!

The scandal between Madame Curie and Lang Zhiwan soon caused a sensation throughout Europe.

From the powerful and wealthy to the common people, everyone enjoys reading all the details and gossip in the newspapers.

Female scientist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, discovered the element radium.

Any one of these three achievements is amazing enough even if taken alone.

But no matter how good it is, it will only inspire respect.

Even most ordinary people don't understand.

However, once it is linked to extramarital affairs and cheating, emotions will explode instantly.

Contrast is always the only way to make news popular.

The greater the contrast, the more sensational it is.

Now Madame Curie is caught in the vortex. With the help of Ridgeway, she chooses to temporarily live in the UK and wait for public opinion to subside.

Just as Li Qiwei was thinking about how to better help Madame Curie.

At this time, Tesla sent a message from the United States.

Bruce Group has made a huge breakthrough in battery research and development.

Li Qiwei was overjoyed when he received the news.

A year ago, when he visited the United States, he had a conflict with Edison.

Thus, a contest between the strongest physicist and the strongest inventor began.

Ridgwell publicly announced in front of everyone that he wanted to surpass Edison in the research and development of alkaline batteries.

Develop better and more suitable alkaline batteries.

Even in the future, as long as it is an Edison product, Li Qiwei's company will make competing products and engage in fair market competition.

He wanted to fight back by surpassing Edison in the invention that he was best at.

At that time, this news first caused an uproar in the United States.

Countless Americans were excited and waiting for this big show.

Both parties are top celebrities in the world today and are extremely smart.

However, there are still relatively few people who are optimistic about Li Qiwei.

Ordinary Americans believe that, after all, everyone has their own expertise.

Edison has been immersed in the business of invention for decades and has accumulated a wealth of data and experience.

Ridgwell was just a 30-year-old physicist, how could he possibly compare to the experienced Edison.

People with a certain amount of scientific knowledge see more deeply.

They believe that there is a huge gap between academic physics and applied physics.

It can even be said that there is not much correlation.

Especially things like batteries.

Batteries have been around for a hundred or two hundred years.

This shows that the technology must not be very difficult.

What’s more important is experience.

"Bruce has no place to put all his life's learning to good use."

That’s how most people react.

So, ever since the news came out, almost everyone has been optimistic about Edison.

Even Europe is the same.

Although people here know more about Li Qiwei, they are not optimistic about his inventive ability.

Of course, there are still many people who are Li Qiwei's die-hard fans.

Among them is Gerard, the owner of the Dutch Philips company.

When he convened a meeting of the company's core employees, he said disdainfully: "A bunch of stupid Americans."

"What kind of being do they think they are fighting?"

"We just have to wait and see the joke."

The employees in the room immediately applauded vigorously, praising the boss for his insightful analysis.

At this moment, somewhere around New York, USA.

This is where the Bruce Group's battery factory is located.

Group General Manager Sheng Jingran and Chief Technology Officer Tesla were inspecting the factory production and talking, followed by several entourage members.

"Mr. Tesla, let me confirm this with you again."

"The experimental data of the battery has been fully verified, and the comparative data with Edison Company has been confirmed again, right?"

Tesla looked excited and said firmly, "Don't worry, Manager Sheng."

"I did all the tests three times in the most stringent environment to ensure there would be no problems."

“We will definitely be able to hand over the final results to the group before the press conference on October 10.”

"If anything goes wrong, I will take sole responsibility."

Hearing Tesla's assurance, Sheng Jingran smiled.

During this almost one year, he and Tesla did not have many conversations.

However, the other party's meticulous, rigorous and detailed style still left a deep impression on him.

This is a pure technical guy.

If he says it is okay, then it is definitely okay. If he says it is not okay, then it is definitely not okay.

If this press conference wasn’t so important, Sheng Jingran wouldn’t have come in person to confirm it.

After all, this is a task assigned by the chairman. It is the absolute top priority and cannot be overemphasized.

That’s right, such a cutting-edge press conference was of course suggested by Li Qiwei to Sheng Jingran.

In order to expand the impact of this incident and offset the negative news about Madame Curie.

Li Qiwei directly organized the most popular press conference in later generations.

It is impossible for him to make a special trip to the United States just for this matter. That would be too much of a compliment to Edison.

So, this opportunity to show up luckily fell on Sheng Jingran.

He dared to guarantee that such a novel way of publicity would surely cause a sensation around the world.

Li Qiwei himself could not predict what kind of impact the company could achieve when combined with the transcendence of its own products.

As the first product of Bruce Group, zinc-manganese battery has great commemorative significance.

Because it will be a groundbreaking battery product.

Based on the test data sent by Edison, Li Qiwei knew that his battery surpassed Edison's nickel-iron battery in all five most important performance indicators.

And it is a huge order of magnitude surpassing.

In short, Li Qiwei has already secured victory in this match against Edison.

"I really want to see Edison's surprised look."

On the morning of October 1911, 10, in the auditorium of the most luxurious hotel in New York, USA.

A press conference that will surprise everyone in America is about to begin.

Although the Bruce Group was established less than a year ago, it has already become a well-known company in the United States.

There's nothing we can do about it, since Edison and his company are so famous in the United States.

The conference was attended by a wide variety of American celebrities, technology enthusiasts, and others.

The venue, which can accommodate 500 people, seemed very crowded at this moment.

There were just too many people watching the fun.

On the one hand, it is because press conferences are extremely attractive in this era.

Even many entrepreneurs and sociology professors came in person to study this novel promotional method in detail.

On the other hand, there are too many gimmicks in today's meeting.

One is the number one in physics today, and the other is the number one in invention today.

The collision between these two people can be described as Mars hitting the Earth.

It’s hard to get out of the circle.

Moreover, Li Qiwei also made two preparations to ensure that there would be no dull moments or accidents.

In the backstage, Sheng Jingran was communicating closely with Boss Situ.

This is Li Qiwei’s second plan.

After all, it was Sheng Jingran who was giving the speech on stage, so the security issues caused by his identity needed to be considered.

If he met a few American youngsters, the weak Sheng Jingran would only be beaten.

Therefore, Boss Situ and his elite followers from the Hongmen have put the entire hotel under surveillance.

Ensure the smooth progress of the press conference.

Even if no one came to participate, with a command from Boss Situ, tens of thousands of Hongmen brothers would be able to blow up the hotel.

Today, the Hongmen attaches more importance to the Bruce Group than to Li Qiwei himself.

There's no way around it, that's the most enviable job opportunity.

Although the Bruce Group did encounter boycott from the United States when it was first established.

However, under the dual influence of force and money, some officials still choose to turn a blind eye.

After all, the United States is anti-Chinese, not anti-money.

The people who implement the policies below don't care about what bills you have.

Therefore, after promising to employ a certain number of Americans, Bruce Group was qualified to operate normally. Boss Situ heard from Sheng Jingran that the company's battery products would definitely sell well, and by then, they would definitely be in short supply.

Therefore, they will definitely recruit a large number of workers.

It is obvious that they must have recruited people from the Hongmen.

Although these young men do not have any scientific knowledge, they are more than qualified to be assembly line workers.

If all else fails, you can also work as a security guard, transport worker, etc.

Although there are not too many positions now.

However, as long as the scale of the enterprise is expanded in the future, and the upstream and downstream are driven, the work of tens of thousands of people will be as easy as playing.

Nowadays, except for a very small number of people who can make money safely, who is willing to take the risk of fighting and killing?

If you want to work for the Bruce Group, you must first join the Hongmen.

If Chinese people stick together to keep warm, their power will grow stronger and stronger.

With more money, we can stun more American officials and expand our business.

This is a very good virtuous cycle.

Boss Situ can already see a bright future.

Soon, the press conference was finally about to begin.

It was the first time for Sheng Jingran to experience such a big scene, and even if he tried to control himself, he couldn't avoid being nervous.

The audience was packed with people, all of whom came here because of its reputation.

I want to see what’s so great about Bruce Group’s products.

The novel press conference also made them focus their attention on the Chinese people in front of them.

Sheng Jingran took a deep breath and said according to the lines he had memorized by heart:

“Thank you all for coming to Bruce Group’s first product launch.”

“I’m Steve Sheng, the group’s general manager.”

"Today I will introduce the company's battery products."

Sheng Jingran spoke in a rather dry tone, so the audience's reaction was rather cold.

Only the Hongmen brothers clapped their hands to liven up the atmosphere.

Edison in the crowd snorted coldly, showing great disdain.

He sneaked into the press conference just to see if Li Qiwei was bluffing or being mysterious.

"Heh, Bruce Lee actually sent such a stupid subordinate here."

Sheng Jingran was not discouraged by the dull performance because he had a trump card given by the chairman.

“First of all, I want to point out that the design inspiration of the group’s first product, the zinc-manganese battery, came from Professor Bruce, the group’s chairman.”

"The specific research and development work is led by the group's chief technology officer, Mr. Tesla."

Wow!
The crowd erupted in exclamations.

Tesla, who was sitting in the front row, stood up and gestured, receiving applause from the crowd.

No one expected that this battery was actually made by Bruce.

Everyone thought that he hired Tesla specifically to compete with Edison on his behalf.

Unexpectedly, the other party actually took action personally.

For a moment, everyone felt that things were not that simple.

Tesla's fame is no less than Edison's, so this story must be true.

The battery product was actually invented by Bruce himself.

Edison in the audience frowned and looked a little unhappy.

"Humph, even if you designed it yourself, I don't believe it can be better than my nickel-iron battery."

Edison did not yet realize the seriousness of the matter.

Seeing the reactions of the audience, Sheng Jingran began to gain confidence and spoke more calmly.

"After more than 10 months of research and development, the product has achieved a huge breakthrough."

"Compared with similar products, our company's battery performance has been significantly improved."

"Please look at the picture."

Snapped!
A huge photo was projected on the wall of the podium.

This is the comparison chart made by Li Qiwei himself.

In his previous life, as a doctoral student, he almost vomited when drawing such a picture.

The so-called product comparison chart has only one purpose.

To illustrate: my stuff is awesome and everyone else’s stuff is crap.

At this moment, on the huge chart, Bruce Group's zinc-manganese battery and Edison Company's nickel-iron battery were compared together.

There are 5 comparison dimensions.

Since there was no animation technology at that time, Li Qiwei specially asked someone to draw several cartoon pictures of the image.

Specifically to highlight the huge difference.

Li Qiwei learned all his ideas from the later leader of the Lei Gang.

The famous “thinner than a coin” comparison method is simply the bible and legend in the marketing world, and it is worth learning for everyone.

At this moment, Li Qiwei's chart has three points of meaning.

It is conceivable how great an impact this advanced concept has brought to everyone present.

boom!
There was an immediate stir in the venue.

Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief.

Even a liberal arts person who has no knowledge of technology can easily see the advantages and disadvantages of the two batteries.

Because there is no comparison at all.

Edison's battery is a complete failure!

At this moment, Edison's expression was as wonderful as it could be.

He even forgot what to say.

There was a look of horror in his eyes.

Just mumbling to himself.

"impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

"I don't believe that Bruce Lee could have developed this kind of battery."

However, the ironclad facts were before him, and no matter how Edison denied them, it was useless.

After today, he is destined to be a loser and a joke.

Edison could no longer listen to the following content.

“Based in America.”

"Layout the world."

“Let’s make batteries easier to use.”

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Bruce Group's first press conference was a complete success.

Although Sheng Jingran's personal charm cannot be compared with Li Qiwei, the overall rhythm of the press conference was also rather rigid.

However, the uniqueness and originality of its form and the weight of its content make up for all its inherent shortcomings.

This press conference caused a huge sensation in the United States.

All major newspapers spared no effort to report this incident.

No one expected that the outcome of this shocking bet would be Bruce crushing Edison.

"Professor Bruce is indeed worthy of being the number one genius in physics. If he devotes himself to starting a business, he will probably become the richest man in the world."

Countless companies have begun to follow the Bruce Group's example, quietly preparing for the launch of their own new products in an attempt to become an overnight success.

Edison's battery business suffered a huge blow and quickly declined.

At the same time, orders were pouring in towards Bruce Group like snowflakes.

Inside the office.

The three top executives of the group, General Manager Sheng Jingran, Chief Technology Officer Tesla, and Security Minister Situ, all smiled from ear to ear.

Sheng Jingran said excitedly: "The finance department just made the latest forecast."

"This product will bring the group at least $5 million in profits!"

hiss!
Boss Situ took a deep breath.

"Damn it, I'm still involved in the underworld."

Boss Situ owns the original shares of the company.

Even if it's just a little bit, when the base number is large enough, the multiplied number will be very scary.

Tesla just smiled happily, thinking about the opportunity to develop more products.

Sheng Jingran did not dare to waste time and immediately sent the latest information to the other side of the ocean by telegram.

After receiving the information of the press conference and the company's financial data, Li Qiwei smiled slightly, hiding his achievements and fame.

“This is just the beginning.”

(End of this chapter)