Dominate the Country

[Thanks to ‘Qingmiao Yuanhuang Tianzun’ for the 500-coin reward. ]

In April, in a corner of Zhongshan Mountain on the bank of the Yangtze River, in a very inconspicuous government office, in the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, a relatively mature steam engine was humming. A worker was adding coal to the boiler, and the belt conveyor driven by the steam engine quickly transported the coal from the starting point to the end point twenty feet away through the conveyor belt.

What kind of scene is it to see a steam engine running with puffs of white smoke?

The relatively loud noise and the black and gray gullies on the faces of the coal-adding workers all show a bad working environment.

But Chen Ming was so satisfied with everything in front of him, because this was the roar of the industrial age. His open mind thus thought of textile machines driven by steam engines, ships driven by steam engines, and trains driven by steam engines...

This is the general trend of future social development and an irreversible trend.

He even thought of a joke his friend told him in his previous life, because of the steam locomotive: I will teach you how to use your mouth to imitate the sound of a steam locomotive running, lower your voice, use as much breath as possible, and read quickly: "Visible, invisible, visible, invisible..." You will find that it is the same as the sound of a steam locomotive.

Recalling the past, Chen Ming no longer had a trace of sadness in his heart, and with a smile on his lips, Chen Ming said to the research team:

"The role of the steam engine is not entirely to pump water, and the belt conveyor is not its destiny. Your future task is to effectively combine the kinetic energy of the steam engine with textile machinery, and then effectively combine it with more power machinery."

It is now the fourth month of the lunar calendar in 1775. Chen Ming does not know what the difference is between the steam engine in front of him and the steam engine invented by Watt next year, and which side has higher performance, but he is already very satisfied.

The three major truths of the steam engine he knows in his mind - separation condenser; cylinder precision processing; crankshaft drive. Now China has solved all of them. The introduction of the boring machine allowed the research team to overcome the difficulty of cylinder density processing last year, and the crankshaft transmission also made great progress at the beginning of this year. Standing on the shoulders of the Europeans' efforts for a hundred years, the research team finally handed in a satisfactory answer sheet in April this year.

"Don't underestimate the iron bull. Think about the scene after this iron bull is effectively combined with the textile machine and various power machinery. How much change can it bring to productivity?" In the twenty years after the British invented the steam engine, the output of the textile industry expanded fivefold. Although Chen Ming does not know the specific details, the role played by the steam engine is unquestionable.

Imagine that the current production capacity of China's cotton textile industry has expanded five times. What kind of unbelievable number would that be? Can China's production capacity alone supply the needs of the whole world? In the future, the Chinese government will vigorously promote the development of the wool textile industry.

"The significance of this invention is greater than the gap between human-powered water wheels and animal-powered water wheels." It can be completely compared to the epoch-making change between human plowing and ox plowing.

On the way back to the palace, Chen Ming pulled Chen Cong into the imperial carriage. "Uncle Wang, it's time to launch the Patent Act. The steam engine will be applied as the first invention patent. Then I will let the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce come forward to communicate and negotiate with the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, buy out the patent rights of the steam engine at a high price, and build a factory to officially produce and manufacture steam engines as quickly as possible."

"Buying out the patent invention at a high price is also to promote the Patent Act." In the past, Chinese people had a weak awareness of patents, and the hidden dangers of intellectual property rights were extremely serious. The rabbits' protection of copyrights and patents was also quite outrageous. Whether it was movies, songs or novels, piracy was too rampant. As for some things in daily life, it was even more hilarious.

For example, Master Kong Kangshoufu, Pulse Artery Jie, Diaopai and Zhouzhu, Yunbi and Sprite, Mengniu and Haoniu, really made people drunk and kneel.

Why is the piracy industry in China so prosperous in the 21st century? Of course, there are many reasons. Was China a third world country at that time? Relying on copycats for development was a national policy. For external affairs, if the law in this regard was too perfect, it would be self-defeating. For internal affairs, it was not perfect because of historical legacy, because the domestic climate did not value the value of individual people since the opening up of the country. Chen Ming did not need to think about it, because the international environment and status of China in this time and space were completely different from those in the previous time and space.

China is now a well-known oriental ruler, the heaven and the country. The "Patent Act" must be regulated and standardized, and then form a good traditional concept of a country and a nation, because China's national strength and influence now have sufficient ability to effectively protect the rights and interests of Chinese people in this regard on foreign territory.

This sentence may not be easy to understand. To put it in the most straightforward words, when the patent law is established, when a series of world intellectual property conventions and agreements are signed in the future, China is fully capable of protecting the patent rights of Chinese people from infringement all over the world.

Moreover, for China's traditional cognition, the "Patent Act" is also in line with the Chinese people's understanding of "craftsmanship". If the property rights protection period could be extended to a hundred years, many people would be happier.

Soon, the first industrial revolution marked by the invention and application of practical steam engines will come. This is the first time that human beings have realized the change of production methods from handicraft workshops to mechanized mass production. It marks the transition of human society from the agricultural economy to the industrial economy, and also marks the advent of an era of great inventions and innovations. With the promulgation of relevant patent laws, inventors can use the exclusive operating rights granted by the law to obtain huge returns for a considerable period of time, and his competitors must also take a new path from a new direction to avoid their original competitors if they cannot obtain authorization, which has a huge driving force for the development of the science and technology industry. The huge benefits of inventors can also encourage more Chinese people to invest in scientific and technological research.

Just like the British industry in the original time and space, since the steam engine was applied, it has successively achieved various great innovative achievements in the fields of textiles, smelting, mining, mechanical processing, transportation, etc. And these inventions and creations have become real productivity development and the most solid material foundation, allowing the Kingdom of Great Britain to finally achieve a generation of "the sun never sets empire"!

Chen Ming's grand wish is also inseparable from the development of industry and the application of various new technologies.

But Chen Cong didn't understand his feelings at all. In Chen Cong's mind, the so-called patent law is to formally regulate the interests of the "teacher" in the form of law. There is an old saying in China, teach the apprentice and starve the master to death.

So the Chinese attach great importance to respecting teachers. Disobeying teachers is like disobeying parents, which is a great rebellion.

And many people would rather die than tell you the secrets of their "crafts" in detail. So how many superb or ordinary skills in China since ancient times have been taken into the coffin like this.

Chen Cong only saw the "present" in this matter, and there is still a big gap with the "vision" of Chen Ming, the time traveler.

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Ten Degree Strait, Andaman Islands. The key geographical location is regarded as the western gateway of the Malacca Waterway. But now a seaport with a red flag flying here has begun to take shape.

This port city is the base of a squadron of the Chinese Nanyang Fleet. It was named Jinghai at the end of last year, which means to pacify the sea. It is also the frontier base of China's Fourth Overseas Exploration Bureau.

Since the Andaman Islands, which the Chinese call the Jinghai Islands, were occupied by the Chinese Nanyang Navy, the British, who had discovered the Andaman Islands long ago but never looked at them, became very uncomfortable. They suddenly found that their interests, Bengal, were under the guns of the Chinese fleet. The Chinese naval forces occupying there can easily launch attacks on Myanmar and Bengal.

"Very bad, very, very bad!" When the Fu Han Army first stepped into the Jinghai Islands, when the Chinese red flag fluttered on the island, the face of the Governor of the British East India Company in Bengal was as stern as a piece of cold marble. The commander of the Bengal Squadron in front of him looked even gloomier: "If the Kingdom of Great Britain really wants to go to war with China one day, we will not be able to enter the Malacca Channel even if we have more fleets without first taking over the 'Jinghai Islands'."

"Then why didn't you take over there before?" The marble-like Governor of Bengal turned into an erupting volcano.

The British East India Company regretted it very much. They discovered those islands many years ago, but they just didn't step on them. Even if they had planted a flag or driven a stake on them in the past, they would have had a reason to ask the Chinese to withdraw. What is this now?

The Dutch and Spanish regretted it even more. After the Chinese entered the South Seas, although they did not make any big moves, they first took Singapore and Pontianak, and then Penang and Belitung Island. They played chess step by step, and each chess piece was like a needle, which made them very uncomfortable. Now they have taken over the Jinghai Islands, which has completely blocked the door to Malacca. Even though the Chinese fleet is still very weak in the Malacca Channel, look at China's deployment.

From China to Zengmu Island, there are Annan's Hongji City and Ha Tien Town on the flanks, and Zengmu Island is further south, and then West Borneo is in the east, Singapore is in the west, and Belitung Island is in the south. Although the Dutch control Sumatra and Java Island, Zengmu, Singapore, Pontianak and Belitung are like a four-sided rhombus, with a sharp point on the Dutch abdomen. How uncomfortable it is.

The Dutch in Manila have to face not only Taiwan in the north, the Sulu Islands in the west, but also Qiongzhou Island in the northwest. The actual distance of the latter is not much farther from Qiongzhou to Manila than Taiwan.

The Chinese, who remain calm, have already pressed one nail after another in the South Seas. Once the bilateral conflict goes to war, it is hard to imagine how the Spaniards and the Dutch will fight the Chinese with needles all over their bodies. As for the Jinghai Islands, which suddenly seemed to be of great strategic significance, both the Spanish and the Dutch came to the East much earlier than the British, and when they found them, they did not pay any attention to the chain of islands.

Now the situation is still peaceful, and everything has not developed to the worst point. Whether it is the British whose interests are vaguely threatened, or the Spanish and Dutch whose interests are already seriously threatened, the bilateral trade volume with China is rising rapidly.

A huge ocean-going merchant ship was sailing eastwards, with the Swedish flag and the flag of the East India Company flying on the mast.

Captain Derek Gustav Adlerkreitz stood at the bow and looked ahead. The Jinghai Islands were clearly visible not far away.

When he left China last time, it was still a wasteland. In just two years, the Chinese not only established a naval base and port here, but also had a good foothold in the Malacca Waterway. With Singapore and Zengmu Island, this Chinese transportation line is very thin and narrow, but when necessary, it can definitely become a steel cable, strangling the neck of anyone who dares to infringe on its interests.

It is said that there are no large-scale pirate groups in Nanyang now. The Chinese's anti-bandit operations in Nanyang have expanded from Annan to the entire Nanyang, with great results. All the restless Spanish and Dutch armed ships have left here, and only some natives rowing small boats are left. Those people are no threat to the Gothenburg.

"Slow down." Adler Kreitz's eyes flashed a few times and he issued this order. When he was docked in the middle of the Mumbai port, he received a warning from the Swedish East India Company's chief in Mumbai that the Chinese had set up a warship detachment in the Jinghai Islands. This was not only a base for the Chinese, but also a front station for the Chinese customs.

Any ship going to China should be carefully inspected here, and then starting from Jinghai Port, every time it arrives at a Chinese port, it should take the previous customs declaration form to the new port customs for declaration and stamp. In this way, after arriving in China, merchant ships with stamps of all the ports along the way will not only be given priority inspection, but also get a credit evaluation score from the Chinese Customs. Ships and companies with higher scores will enjoy priority and high-quality services from the Chinese Customs in future trade.

I don't know if this method of brushing points has been reported to Stockholm now, but the Mumbai chief suggested that Adler Kreitz should follow this process, which is good for the Gothenburg, for himself, and for the entire company.

Moreover, any foreign merchant ship passing through here - as long as it is hit - must be registered and recorded. Even if you do not dock at Jinghai Port or any Chinese port, the patrol warship that hits you will inspect the firepower configuration on the merchant ship. Going east from here is already the Chinese's warning territory.

"Reality changes so fast. In just two years, the East has changed a lot." Adler Kreitz sighed in his heart. This right to arbitrarily inspect the cargo and weapons of passing merchant ships on the sea is a kind of naked hegemony.

In Europe, except for the tense war period, the British did not dare to offend everyone like this. In front of the Chinese, even the Spanish Manila mail ship had to endure silently, but this would definitely make the Spanish, Dutch, British, and French very uncomfortable.

The Gothenburg merchant ship returned to Sweden in the winter of the previous year. After a six-month voyage, it arrived safely at the port of Gothenburg. The bulk goods such as tea, porcelain and silk fabrics brought back by the ship were quickly sold out, and some luxury goods and medicines with a strong oriental flavor, the latter mostly pills, powders and ointments, such as Rendan, Xingjunsan, hemostatic powder, etc., also brought rich profits to the Swedish East India Company.

After a six-month rest, the crew of the Gothenburg once again drove the merchant ship across the ocean to the East.

But this time they brought very little goods on the ship, but a lot of people. More than 60 scholars, technicians, teachers and doctors, and their families, a total of 200 to 300 people, who were collected by the Swedish East India Company, boarded the Gothenburg and headed for the East.

According to the agreement between the Swedish East India Company and the Chinese government, the value of more than 60 scholars, technicians, teachers and doctors and their families is not as cheap as the goods of more than 100,000 Spanish silver dollars, and there will be no unsalable goods. As long as they arrive in China, everyone on the ship will be accepted by the Chinese government in an instant.

Such business is really wonderful.

Ekdal and his wife Rebecca walked out of the cabin. In order to make everyone live better and provide these noble goods with a more comfortable living environment, many warehouses of the Gothenburg were simply transformed. Ekdal, Rebecca, and their four lovely children were not shrouded in the doom of death. They arrived here safely along the way.

Of course, this is also absolutely related to the frequent stops along the way of the Gothenburg. The extended journey time is the greatest magic weapon to ensure the life and health of all passengers on the ship.

"Oh, dear, look, there is land ahead..." Rebecca hates the sea. She has never hated the sea as much as she does now.

Compared with the familiar smell of the sea, she now prefers the freshness of the land and trees. Ingrid, such a lovely little angel, left this world sickly during the voyage on the sea. Mr. and Mrs. Spaller are going to die of grief.

Good luck surrounded the Ekdal family, but misfortune also befell their neighbors, the Spaller family, who lost their beloved little daughter.

Ekdal also didn't like the sea. As a person who never thought of becoming a sailor, he didn't like floating on the sea. He liked to keep his feet on the ground.