America 1869: A Doppelganger Every Day

It wasn't until Antonio Meucci left that Li Changsheng and the Prophet came to their senses.

Li Changsheng: This is truly an unexpected surprise!

The Prophet: "Yes, who would have thought that you were ready to get rid of the light bulb, but then the telephone came out instead?"

Li Changsheng: "The father of the telephone, Antonio Meucci, is truly unexpected, yet also quite reasonable. In my parallel world past life, I remember that his patent didn't even last until he was exonerated before I transmigrated. But what good was that?"

The prophet said, "Now everything is different. With the Global Patent Group, he can change his life, and the development of the telephone may also be completely different."

Li Changsheng: 1. "His development is not important. What is important is that I can bring out my light bulb later. It will be better to wait until we have developed and grown stronger. At this time, it is the best choice for Global Patent Group to bring out the phone."

The prophet said, "You're right. If we bring out a phone now, the Global Patent Group can control it. But when phones are widely available, and we bring out an electric light, no one will be able to compete with the Global Patent Group."

Li Changsheng laughed and said, "Moreover, when that time comes, there will be many large corporations established by our subsidiaries all over the world. At that time, we will have these large corporations and the Global Patent Group jointly develop electric lights and the electrical revolution."

The prophet also laughed and said, "At that time, we will be the true leaders and pioneers of the Second Industrial Revolution, and the world will be changed because of us."

Li Changsheng nodded.

"I wonder what Antonio Meucci will choose."

"Won't we find out soon enough?"

New York, USA, headquarters of Universal Patent Group in the Americas.

Yes, in order not to give all the money he earned to the United States, Li Changsheng's Global Patent Group headquarters is not in the United States, but in the Far East.

The Far East General has already been persuaded by his clone, so those who set up companies on a small island in the Far East will not be subject to any taxes.

Taxes are only levied after one leaves the island.

Therefore, Li Changsheng's company was built on the small island, while the one in America was just a branch.

When Antonio Meucci arrived at the branch office, the branch manager approached him directly.

Subsequently, Antonio Meucci followed Li Changsheng's advice and transferred all patents outside the United States to the Universal Patent Group.

As a result, he received the naming rights to American Telephone Corporation, 25% of the group's shares, and a patent fee of $5 to facilitate his continued research.

Antonio Meucci was quite satisfied with the result.

Although he knew that other countries' phone numbers and patents could also make money, the United States was the most developed country right now.

Therefore, the United States earns the most, while few other countries can make money. The rest would have to wait ten or twenty years to make money, by which time the patents would have expired.

So even if he wanted to make money overseas, he wouldn't make much. He might as well try to acquire more shares in the United States.

And once his name was signed, the contract officially took effect.

Starting today, Antonio Telephone Company is officially established.

At the same time, Li Changsheng's clones in other countries also cooperated with Global Patent Group under various pretexts to obtain telephone patents in those countries.

One telephone company after another appeared.

But even at this point, no one noticed the existence of the phone.

Originally, Li Changsheng planned to use the fact that the Huamei Weekly was the first to launch a phone service to make the Huamei Weekly popular again.

But at that moment, another piece of news came that surprised him.

李长生从69年6月1日穿越，到现在已经到了71年的11月。

It has been about two and a half years since I transmigrated to this point.

Therefore, he now has more than 800 clones!

The Global Patent Group has nearly 300 clones.

Because of the emergence of the Global Patent Group, some countries now have more than two subsidiaries.

The United States has more than 150 clones.

The Far East region also has more than 150 clones.

There are also about 100 clones, who are currently carrying out a god-making project.

They created gods among primitive tribes and land peoples around the world.

On the one hand, he can indeed help these people, and on the other hand, he can also gain more benefits.

The benefits may not be obvious now, but in the future, these divine messengers will be able to lead a nation.

This is also a considerable fortune for Li Changsheng.

Of the remaining 100-plus clones, more than 20 were in different countries and did not join the Global Patent Group because they had their own things to do.

The remaining 70 or so were all in the Qing Empire.

More than ten of them are at the Alexandria Foreign Language Institute.

There are more than twenty others, in the Qing Dynasty Immigration Bureau.

The remaining 30, under Li Changsheng's arrangement, some bought official positions and became generals, while others used foreign resources to open factories in the concessions.

For example, those who sell fountain pens or bicycles.

Some even joined anti-Qing organizations.

Among the remaining people, there are four who are the most special.

Of these four people, two became Buddhist monks and two became Taoist priests.

No matter what, Li Changsheng was a person who traveled from a parallel world.

Although my understanding of Buddhism and Taoism is not very profound, I can still ramble on.

Of course, Li Changsheng's decision to split himself into two and join the Buddhist and Taoist sects was not just for show, nor was it to improve his status. His main purpose was to see if the Buddhist and Taoist sects truly had any cultivation techniques passed down through generations.

If it really exists, he will let his clone learn it, and then wouldn't Li Changsheng's main body be invincible?

Unfortunately, the messages from the clones only included some techniques for strengthening the body; it's unknown whether there are any more advanced ones.

After obtaining the cultivation method, one of the Taoist priests and two monks devoted themselves to its practice.

The only remaining Taoist clone was given such a terrible cultivation technique that Li Changsheng didn't allow him to practice it, and instead made him do something else.

As a result, the Taoist's clone went free.

At this time, the Qing Empire did not value Taoists, or rather, Taoism did not develop well in the Qing Empire.

Therefore, many Taoist priests are in a state of not knowing where their next meal will come from.

The Taoist's clone gave himself a name: Dao Xuan.

He is never short of money because he can easily obtain money from other fans.

So he gathered dozens of starving Taoist priests from the capital and went to the ruins of Chaotian Palace, which had long since been burned down, and bought a courtyard. Then he hung a sign for Chaotian Palace at the entrance of the courtyard.

He also publicly claimed to be the successor of the Chaotian Palace in this generation.

Inside the room, there were statues of the Three Pure Ones.

The clone originally intended to use the Taoist identity to sell medicine, but unexpectedly, before the medicine was even produced, he was summoned by Empress Dowager Cixi.

He was summoned along with dozens of abbots of Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries of all sizes in the capital.