So when Yang Jing came out of the basement with a box of information, notes and manuscripts, he immediately asked Butler Seldon to contact the DuPont family.
Butler Seldon, who had met Alfred before, was also very excited when he saw these manuscripts and materials. He had never thought that in the basement that had been unattended for decades, there were still so many precious manuscripts and materials.
These manuscripts are not valuable to outsiders, but they are of irreplaceable importance to the DuPont family. As the old steward of Alfred Manor, Seldon naturally hopes that these manuscripts can be returned to the DuPont family intact.
Yang Jing would not handle these things personally. With the old butler Shedon around, Yang Jing could completely let go of such things.
His main focus now has been attracted by the two notebooks found in the basement...
These two notebooks are definitely old items, and judging from the handwriting and the contents recorded inside, these two notebooks are obviously Alfred's handwritten notes.
The reason why Yang Jing kept these two notebooks separately and did not return them to the DuPont family along with Alfred's manuscripts was because Yang Jing noticed some differences in the contents recorded in these two notebooks.
It was just because some of the things recorded in these two notebooks were very fragmentary, so Yang Jing couldn't figure out what was recorded in these two notebooks for a while. But what was certain was that these two notebooks definitely did not record Alfred's manuscript materials on gunpowder technology. Instead, they were more like travel notes, because they recorded many place names and some book titles, and of course, more were some numbers that Yang Jing could not understand.
After seeing the contents of the two notebooks, Yang Jing instinctively felt that he should keep the two notebooks, so he kept them.
The reason for this intuition, apart from the incomprehensible things recorded in the notebook, was more due to Alfred's experience.
Alfred was the leader of the "Three Brothers of Revival" who led the DuPont family to regain its glory in the early 20th century. However, his second half of life was not very satisfactory.
In 1902, Eugene duPont, the fourth-generation helmsman of the DuPont family, died suddenly of illness, which caused the huge DuPont family to be leaderless. Moreover, because the family expanded too quickly when Eugene was alive, the DuPont family's control over the family's core business, the gunpowder company, was greatly reduced. If Eugene were alive, the DuPont family would naturally not worry about others taking over the family's business. However, Eugene's sudden death immediately threw the old directors of the DuPont family on the DuPont Group's board of directors into confusion.
Because most of these old directors were too old, no one was willing to step forward to take over the DuPont Group. Some directors even proposed selling the DuPont Group to DuPont Group's biggest competitor, Laughlin Rand Corporation.
But Alfred Irene du Pont, the only young man on the board of directors and the great-grandson of Irene du Pont, was not happy. It was not right for a son to sell his father's land like this, was it? Not to mention that he was selling the DuPont Group to its biggest competitor, which was simply a blasphemy to his ancestors.
So Alfred suggested that he and his two cousins take over the DuPont family together.
The three brothers did not disappoint their ancestors. Under their management, the DuPont family prospered again. It took only seven years for the DuPont family to become a giant again. This is the fundamental reason why Alfred and his two cousins were known as the "Three Brothers of the DuPont Family's Revival."
Although the three brothers put the DuPont family back on track, the fact that "they can share adversity but not wealth" is inevitable in this ancient family. Alfred's two cousins later began to use various means to seize the power that should have belonged to Alfred and drove Alfred out of the power center of the three.
A fratricide broke out within the duPont family, culminating in Alfred being pushed to the center of power.
This is also the fundamental reason why Alfred built such a manor on the remote Grand Island in 1918 and concentrated on conducting experiments here.
Alfred was quite like his great-grandfather Irene, and was very interested in technology. However, it was precisely because of his obsession with technology that he ignored the betrayal of the people closest to him. He was eventually driven here to live in retirement and do experiments, which was actually a kind of helpless sadness.
However, the things recorded in the two notebooks obviously have nothing to do with the gunpowder experiment, so what secrets are hidden in these two notebooks?
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