Zhang Weixian was overjoyed and was about to thank him when Zhu Youxiao said again: "But if I don't punish you, then who will listen to my decree?"
The ecstasy that just arose was like being poured a basin of ice water on it, disappearing without a trace.
Zhang Weixian understood that the emperor still wanted to punish himself in order to make an example to the world.
He was angry in his heart, but he had to say: "Your Majesty, it was my fault in the first place.
Please punish me severely to serve as a warning to others."
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "According to the law, the maximum penalty for violating the patent law is exile.
The Duke has always been loyal to the country, so I'm going to be generous.
I heard that the British Duke has three thousand hectares of land in Baoding Prefecture, right?"
Zhang Weixian did not dare to deny: "I have three thousand hectares of land in Baoding Mansion, and I am willing to dedicate it to Your Majesty."
When he said these words, his heart was bleeding.
Zhu Youxiao shook his head: "I don't want the Qing family's land, but the court wants to take back the three thousand hectares of land in Baoding Mansion at the market price and then sell it to local farmers.
This is a good thing that benefits the people." , I believe Zhang Qing’s family will not refuse.”
Zhang Weixian said quickly: "This matter is beneficial to the country and the people, and I am naturally willing."
Zhu Youxiao said: "I know that the British public cares about the imperial court, but don't worry, I will compensate you in the future."
Zhang Weixian said: "Your Majesty, everything I have is given by Your Majesty, and I do not need compensation from Your Majesty."
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "That's it.
First, we must aggrieve the British public.
The fines and land resumption will be published in the newspapers.
We can talk about other things later."
Zhang Weixian kowtowed again and thanked him before exiting.
After leaving the weapons bureau gate and getting on the carriage, he slapped the seat bitterly, feeling that he couldn't take a breath no matter what.
He ordered his entourage: "Let someone go see the inspector of Northern Zhili.
At the perfect time, I will go out to the capital to meet with him in person."
A few days later, the entire process of the first patent case was published in the weekly newspaper.
How the British government purchased patented machines and then copied them, and how the court returned part of the fine to the patent holder, are all written clearly, like a storybook.
Let readers read with gusto.
Under this report, the British government was grateful for the court's sincerity in reducing rent, and was interested in helping.
It donated 3,000 hectares of land in Baoding Prefecture to the court for free so that it could be distributed to the landless poor for farming.
The imperial court could not bear to ask the British government to make such a big sacrifice, so it purchased the land from the British government at market prices and sold it to the landless poor people in Baoding Prefecture.
A discerning person can easily see that just because the British government copied three machines, it not only paid a fine of 30,000 yuan, but was also forced to hand over 3,000 hectares of land in Baoding Prefecture.
Because of other people's imitation, the patent holder of the printing press received fifteen thousand yuan from the patent office.
Now everyone in the world understands that the patent law mentioned by the court is indeed coming true.
The only person in the world who can be more powerful than the British government is the royal family.
Many people who had been waiting and watching immediately flocked to Beijing, hoping to patent their independent secret skills as soon as possible and then turn them into real money.
The patent office was overcrowded for a while, especially when some people went to apply for a patent, only to find that what they thought was a unique secret technology had already been applied for by someone else.
After this news was published in the newspaper, some people who still insisted that it was theirs anyway and could not escape after all were panicked.
The Patent Office was short of manpower, so it had to apply to the emperor for redeployment of manpower.
Zhu Youxiao sent all the students from the Chinese Language School to the Patent Office and asked them to register the patent.
The patent registration stipulates that clear and understandable vernacular must be used, which made the students of the Chinese Language School not adaptable for a while, but gradually they felt that vernacular was more rigorous and detailed in expression than classical Chinese.
The patent registration incident that occurred in the fifth year of Tianqi is considered to be the fundamental reason why Ming Dynasty experienced a technological explosion.
The Chinese people have always had a bad habit, which is to save something.
As the saying goes, "teaching the disciples" and "starving the master to death" is a concrete manifestation of this habit.
But now that there is a patent law, those who have technologies and artifacts that no one else has, are eager to let everyone in the world learn the technology they have mastered and make their own artifacts, because in this way they can get more patent fees.
Moreover, this also caused people to flock to the strange skills and obscene skills that they had previously scorned.
Ye Xianggao also saw the opportunity.
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Taking advantage of this good situation, he began to publish an article in the newspaper asking for the redefinition of the word strange skills and obscene skills.
He believed that the original meaning of strange skills and obscene skills was Techniques and products that are too ingenious to be useful, but are actually an object , when a skill is made or created, it will always have its use, even for appreciation.
Therefore, he believes that in the future, the meaning of the word "qiaoqiaoqiaoqiao" should be changed, and it can be used to express surprising skills and extreme skills.
It is exquisite, but it cannot be added with the meaning of useless or addictive.
This view quickly gained the approval of many people.
Of course, some people thought that it should be changed to "Fantasy Skills" without this obscene word, which would be better.
These two views are not unified.
Some use strange skills and tricks, and some use strange skills and tricks, but the meanings of the two words have become almost the same.
This patent registration made Zhu Youxiao discover that the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty was not as backward as he thought.
Technologies such as explosive mining have already appeared in this era, and things related to steam engines such as flywheels and gears have been manufactured for a long time.
And some people actually started to build iron-hulled ships.
Although they were heavy and difficult to maneuver, this idea was already very good.
Zhu Youxiao found that in addition to ancestral skills, those he invented usually came from a family with enough money.
But it’s easy to figure out how to invent and create even if you don’t have enough to eat.
Only when you have enough food and clothing, will you have time and energy to think, and will new knowledge be generated.
This further strengthened Zhu Youxiao's motivation to reduce rents and implement land for the tiller.
As long as people in the Ming Dynasty can no longer be busy all day long for food and clothing, more inventions and creations will naturally be produced.
To achieve this, there is still a long way to go.
There are many difficulties to overcome in terms of politics, economy, science and technology, and there are still many forces that need to be persuaded and appeased, so that society cannot As for the big turmoil.
Although most patents are not actually the direction of scientific and technological progress in Zhu Youxiao's view, the point of this matter is to affirm everyone's inventions and creations.
Zhu Youxiao knew that it would be difficult for Ming Dynasty's technology to be promoted based on his own written knowledge.
If there is a very obvious progress, it can only serve as a guide.
But if many people in Ming Dynasty participated and continuously improved the theory, that would be the most important driving force for the development of science and technology
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