Chasing Time

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”
Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”
The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”
Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”
“Oh!!!!”
The audience erupted into thunderous applause.
“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.
The applause grew even more fervent...
(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)

The Shadow of Great Britain

Even if you make a profit of five pounds per phonograph, given its current popularity in London social circles, you could sell at least three to five hundred units in the future. That's an income of a thousand or two thousand pounds. If you're willing to put in some more effort, hire a dozen apprentices to work with you, increase production efficiency and reduce costs, then perhaps even moderately wealthy families might be willing to buy one.


"Haven't you realized that you could live off this invention for the rest of your life?"


If Arthur had brought up anything else, Wheatstone might not have been as willing to agree, but regarding the phonograph, he had indeed received a lot of help from Arthur. And just as Arthur had said, in recent days the orders for phonographs he had accumulated already exceeded one hundred units.


Although Wheatstone feared social interaction, he had also been considering expanding his production capacity lately.


Chapter 163: Media Empire and the Bare Pole Commander (5K)_2