America 1869: A Doppelganger Every Day

The Chicago fire sparked widespread discussion about housing issues in newspapers across the United States for some time.

The reason why the Chicago fire spread so widely and caused such great damage was fundamentally due to the wooden structure.

If the houses are no longer made of wood, then even if one house catches fire, it will not affect the other houses.

This is also why many people have become interested in reinforced concrete houses.

Many people believe that if they buy a reinforced concrete house, they don't need to worry about a fire.

Moreover, with the advent of heating systems, providing heating for buildings has become a reality.

Building high-rise buildings, providing heating and water supply, allows people to live in them.

It can greatly increase the number of urban residents.

This is a good thing for any city.

Chicago has begun experimenting with reinforced concrete construction in response to the fire.

Li Changsheng thought of a problem after seeing how others were building houses.

"In a parallel future, buildings are constructed using rebar, but this world hasn't even developed rebar yet. Right now, the US is promoting reinforced concrete buildings, so rebar will definitely be used extensively in the future."

"If rebar were introduced now, making buildings more robust, it would definitely be very popular."

"This is another opportunity to make money."

Li Changsheng was very tempted, but after thinking about it, he gave up the idea of ​​applying for a patent.

It is clear that the emergence of rebar will make the steel industry controlled by the Global Patent Group even larger.

If everything becomes connected to oneself, then one is in danger.

This time, Li Changsheng didn't even use the American clone again; instead, he used the clone of a Parisian real estate businessman.

Calling him a real estate businessman is not an accurate assessment.

Li Changsheng has a few more clones in countries like England, France, Germany, and Russia, with three to five in each country.

At least two of them are associated with the Global Patent Group; one is in charge of the Global Patent Group's business, and the other is responsible for cooperating with the Global Patent Group.

In these countries, more than two people are involved in the cooperation, because one is cooperation on steel and the other is cooperation on telephones.

As for the remaining collaborative projects, they were all done in cooperation with other local companies.

Therefore, Li Changsheng only had one clone left in Paris, and had not made any contact with the Global Patent Group.

Originally, Li Changsheng did not want to have any contact with this person, but what could he do? He was going to study rebar next.

The combination of rebar and real estate can only be described in two words: a perfect match.

As soon as Li Changsheng told his clone his idea, the clone began to take action.

Not long after, they successfully produced the first generation of rebar.

Although the technique isn't great, it's still passable.

Meanwhile, experiments revealed that the bond strength between the material and the concrete was even stronger.

Therefore, he contacted the Global Patent Group immediately after the experiment was successful.

He sold the patent directly and signed a contract with the Global Patent Group, stipulating that steel companies that produce rebar must sell their products to him at a price not exceeding 10% of the cost.

Having earned a large sum of patent fees, he began to develop real estate in Paris.

At the same time, Global Patent Group also began to popularize rebar globally.

This caused a large number of companies that originally produced ordinary steel to suddenly lose their orders.

To avoid bankruptcy liquidation, they had no choice but to sell the company, and the only buyer was Global Patent Group.

Global Patent Group has further increased its share of the steel market, even reaching 50% in some countries.

Clearly, if this situation continues, Global Patent Group will be hostile to most countries.

After all, a conglomerate that does not belong to its own country but controls most of its steel production is a huge threat to any country.

If the Global Patent Group continues to develop in this way, no one dares to imagine the extent of its impact on various countries.

Every country has realized this, but while they are still discussing how to deal with it, Li Changsheng has already taken precautions.

This day, at the headquarters of the American Universal Patent Group.

Reporters from all the major newspapers in America came.

The head of the American Universal Patent Group stood at the front of the group's lobby and addressed all the reporters.

"I wholeheartedly agree with a sentence from an ancient Chinese book translated by Mr. Changsheng Li."

"The world, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of unity, tends to divide."

"Just like every country and every continent, it is always in a process of division and reunification."

"This applies to nations and powers, and it also applies to companies."

"Although our Global Patent Group has only been established for a short time, it has already grown to a certain extent."

"We cannot sacrifice a branch of one country to benefit others."

"What a company needs for development is balance, not sacrificing one side."

"When this happens, it's time to separate."

"Today, the American Universal Patent Group officially announced that it will retain the core functions of the Universal Patent Group and continue to collaborate with other Universal Patent Groups."

"But from now on, the American Universal Patents Group belongs exclusively to the United States."

"From now on, patents developed by Americans will no longer be given away to other patent groups free of charge at the expense of American Universal Patent Group."

"We will treat every inventor fairly and justly, and we will also collaborate with other global patent groups around the world to develop patents in depth."

"This is to protect the interests of every inventor and the Universal Patent Group."

"To sum it up in one sentence, our American Patent Group is still part of the Universal Patent Group, but the company's operations will be independent, and it will be in a cooperative relationship with the Universal Patent Group."

At first, when he said he wanted to split up, some people didn't understand, and the scene was in an uproar.

After all, Universal Patent Group is now a large, global conglomerate.

But as they listened to the end, they suddenly realized what was going on.

Those who knew the inside story, in particular, also realized what was going on.

It is said that many patents in the United States are made freely available to the world, while other patents are used by branch offices.

Moreover, for the latest telephone patents, they sacrificed a great deal of profit to benefit telephone companies in other countries.

This is an absolute huge loss for the American Universal Patent Group.

In this situation, no one would want to continue being the sucker.

However, if we were to make them completely independent, we would lose the advantage of global patents.

So they chose a better method.

The patent company operates independently, but is part of the Universal Patent Group.