Dominate the Country

The time calculated in ‘years’ and the close exchanges of science and technology between the East and the West – this is to say that Chen Han unilaterally introduced and absorbed from the West, which made the gap between the industrial levels of the East and the West rapidly narrow, and in terms of the promotion and application of new technologies, Chen Han’s speed is even faster than the origin of these technologies in Europe.

The bright flowers of European civilization were picked by Chen Ming unceremoniously and returned to his hometown.

But this does not mean that when Chen Han has been working hard to improve the steam engine and enhance its power efficiency in his own territory, the Europeans are wasting time in vain. Even now, only thirteen years have passed since the finalization of Watt’s improved steam engine, some very valuable new technologies have already shown signs.

The difficult names of Horn Blore, William Bull, Richard Trevithick and Arthur Woolf can be said skillfully by Chen Ming, who is far away in China.

The European Office and Gao Yanming, who has been stationed in Europe for these years, are always pursuing these ‘great inventors’.

Because of the bad environment in Britain, these people's inventions were always shelved.

——The interest chain between Watt and his business partners was too strong.

In 1768, after a series of improvements and a large amount of borrowing, Watt rushed to London in August of the same year to apply for a patent for the new and improved steam engine. In the six months in London, Watt worked hard for his patent. Finally, he obtained the patent in January of the following year (1769). But before 1773, this patent was not transformed into any substantial large-scale production activities.

Historically, this time point was postponed to 1776, but the trajectory of history changed. The news from the East actually promoted the commercial interests of Watt's steam engine in the UK, where it originated. Then, it was stimulated by the application of steam engines in China that it really became famous in Europe. Later, Watt also had a reliable business partner-Matthew Bolton. Under his guarantee, the British Parliament extended Watt's patent rights until 1800. Matthew Bolton was Watt's most important supporter and business partner.

When Watt's patent protection came into effect and went into production, it was impossible for Watt to devote all his energy to the improvement and subsequent research of the steam engine. Most of his actual energy was to resist and suppress other inventors of the competition. In the past year of 1781, Watt also obtained additional patent rights, which gave him unfair expectations in crank motion.

Then Watt and his partners began to wield the stick of law, using the legal system to drive away competitors and force them to stop production.

This was a great opportunity for Chen Han.

Because Chen Han's patent law rights did not have such restrictions, as long as they could pay enough funds, the law could guarantee their realization in legitimate commercial production. In order to leave a good impression on European inventors, Chen Ming asked Gao Yanming to wave flowers made of gold and enthusiastically pursue everyone who had research on steam engines.

But Gao Yanming's "pursuit" was not smooth.

Over the years, he visited these people again and again, like an infatuated young man who persevered in pursuing his beloved. Most of the answers were cold, as all the inventors of steam engine technology had other industries besides this, such as Horn Blore, who was pursued most by Gao Yanming. In addition to being an inventor, he was also a factory owner.

The best reward Gao Yanming could get for his pursuit was to completely take over their technology and send it back to China. For example, James Pickard's patent, the old steam engine had a big flaw - it could not provide stable rotational motion. The most convenient solution involved the combined use of a crankshaft and a flywheel. But James Pickard had already applied for a patent, so Watt could not use it. Watt also made various attempts, hoping to effectively convert reciprocating motion into rotational motion, which he was able to do, but obviously in the same way as Pickard. The existing patent restrictions forced Watt to come up with an inefficient alternative device, the "sun and planet" gear, to convert the reciprocating motion of the steam engine piston into rotational motion. And the unfortunate Watt had to wait until 12 years later in 1794, when Pickard's patent expired, before he adopted the crank, which was more economically and technically superior. Before the appearance of this superior crank on Watt's steam engine, Chinese steam engines were already "booming" under the drive of the crank.

Is it sad and ridiculous?

But from Watt's point of view, he must first ensure his own economic interests.

As for the gap in the performance of the steam engine, they can't care.

This is not the only case, there is also Horn Blore.

He significantly improved the power of Watt's steam engine. He used multiple cylinders on the steam engine and introduced the new concept of "compound engine". This is a breakthrough shot of great significance and can be used as a direction for further research and development of steam engines. However, because Horn used Watt's "separate condenser" in his early work, Watt took him to court and effectively "ended" the development of the new steam engine in the UK. This was a monopoly built by Watt on the superior invention "separate condenser", which blocked the development of other equally superior inventions "compound engine", thereby delaying the development of Britain itself.

However, China can absorb and utilize it without any scruples. All they have to pay is money.

Even if it is a relatively large amount of wealth relative to an individual.

However, Chen Ming's original idea of ​​gathering a large number of inventors who were passionate about steam engines to work together to promote the improvement and application of steam engines in an environment where there was no shortage of funds, manpower and material resources was really a wishful thinking.

With the application of a series of new technologies in China's "steam engine" and its own breakthrough development, Watt's patent rights protection case was widely disclosed and analyzed in Chinese legal newspapers. The official view of China regarded it as This is a classic case of obsolescence preventing innovation and illustrates the shortcomings of monopoly intellectual property rights. In short, monopoly intellectual property rights are inefficient.

However, many people do not recognize this because they are not aware of the huge role that the 'steam engine' has had in promoting the entire world.

This is a revolution in productivity, but many still call it a sideshow.

The ships and trains that Chen Ming pinned his hopes on are still missing. The kinetic energy of steam engines has improved significantly compared with ten years ago, but it is still far from the point where trains and ships will appear.

In the original time and space, although the world's first train was made by a Watt steam engine, it was already more than thirty years after the improved steam engine was born.

After Watt turned his patent into real benefits, although he focused a lot of energy on how to protect his rights and how to deal with and suppress his competitors, he still made a lot of changes to the steam engine. Although there are few improvements, Chen Ming does not think that China's current steam engines are comparable to the Watt steam engines that were more than 20 years old in the original time and space.

Therefore, in the past two years, academicians, engineers, and researchers at the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences have been under heavy pressure. The emperor asked once a month, how can ordinary people bear this kind of pressure?

But the people who bear this pressure are always the top people in the country's "technology". For many "student dogs", that is still too far away from them. What they care about is a lot of completely unrelated things.

"Sakai-kun, look, the Kingdom has signed an agreement with the shogunate, recognizing that Ishikari Bay belongs to Japanese land, and will completely return Ishikari Bay to the shogunate in fifty years. He also promised to help the shogunate in the Ezo land in the next five years. Paving an official road and building two medium-sized ports.”

On the campus at the foot of Zhongshan, two young men with short hair and short clothes were sitting on a stone bench on the lawn. One of them was holding a newspaper in his hand. This is a secondary newspaper with a modest circulation under the Central Plains Daily. Its front page headline is the "Nagasaki Agreement" that China and Japan have just reached.

After entering the Ezo Territory for so many years, China finally chose to return part of the Ezo Territory land it controlled to Japan in order to brush off the favor of all walks of life in Japan.

Apparently, the plan was successful. The two people in front of me are both Japanese, but one of them, whose surname is Aoki, has now obtained a yellow book and has become a student dog at Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, while the other, Tadashi Sakai, is a Japanese student in China. He is the core of a group of people who are more anti-China.

The latter always believes that everything in Japan today is China's aggression against Japan, just like Westerners' previous colonization of Southeast Asia.

Japan has become a semi-colony of China. Japan has reached a critical moment of survival. It must be strong and resolutely resist China.

——They come to study in China to learn China's advanced technology, strengthen Japan, and save the nation, not to join China and get the yellow and red books.

Sakai Tadanishi himself even believed that China would not return the land of Ezo to Japan, and it would not be long before the powerful Chinese navy and army would invade Japan and completely colonize Japan.

Saburo Aoki, whose elder has become a Chinese national, has a completely opposite attitude. Although he got the yellow book, Saburo Aoki did not say goodbye to Japan completely and no longer cared about Japan. He was also very concerned about Japan's future destiny, so he believed that Japan must rely on the powerful wings of China to survive. Live the most critical moment right now.

After "opening his eyes" to see the world, Saburo Aoki was frightened and stunned by what Westerners were doing. It turns out that the birthplace of Lan Xue was so terrible. They sent millions of black people to distant America to open up wasteland and cultivate land for themselves. Before that, they killed tens of millions of Native Americans and then invaded their homes.

Although Japan is a broken place where volcanoes and earthquakes often occur, a broken home is worth a fortune, and it is better to live in a straw house.

Saburo Aoki evaluated Japan's military strength in his heart. When comparing the wars taking place in North America today, an obvious conclusion was born in his mind. Japan's strength alone cannot resist the Westerners. If it wants to remain intact under the coercion of the Westerners, Japan must rely on China.

A strong China can not only protect Japan, it can also protect the entire East. It is the protector of all the Eastern countries in the sky.

The credibility of the Chinese brand 'protective umbrella' is very high in Aoki's mind. The Battle of Korea, which is not far away, is the best proof.

The dying Daimyo Dynasty of China still chose to send troops to Korea when its vassal country was about to perish. Two wars lasted seven years, and finally ended in Japan's complete defeat. The foundation established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi was destroyed in one day.

With such a great example in front of us, China can be trusted.

So, the sharp confrontation between Aoki and Sakai has lasted for several years.

Although Aoki Saburo believed in China, he also knew that the current Chinese emperor was greedy for land. Parts of Ezo, mainly Ishikari Bay, had fallen into the hands of China for so many years. Although Aoki dared to loudly refute Sakai's conclusion that "China must invade Japan", he really didn't dare to say that China could return Ishikari Bay to Japan.

It is already the richest place in the entire Ezo today. It is a must-pass place for the northern route from China to North America, and it is about to become the economic center of the entire northern Japan. If Aoki were the Chinese emperor, he would not be willing to return such a place to Japan.

So when he saw the news published in this newspaper today, he was instantly ignited. He was really ignited. The blood in his body was boiling. At this moment, Aoki Saburo no longer felt sorry for his "farewell" to Japan. This is a great king, a great country, and it is definitely a place worth his dedication.

Aoki felt that all his "love" had been rewarded, a reward that he had never dared to think about before.

The Chinese Emperor actually returned Ishikari Bay to Japan.

Aoki did not care about the fifty-year deadline. As long as the land belonged to Japan, was fifty years too far away?

Ishikari Bay was managed by the upper country for fifty years. After fifty years, it might be one of the best cities in Japan, more prosperous than Nagasaki and Osaka.

In Aoki's eyes, this was not colonization, but "helping" Japan.

He searched for Sakai as quickly as possible.

He wanted to laugh at Sakai. This was called "facts slapping his face", a real fact slapping his face.

Sakai's words at the gathering of Japanese students in China in Nanjing were still fresh in his mind. Now Aoki wanted to ask him the most, Sakai-kun, is your face swollen?

Whenever he thought of the humiliation that Sakai Tadanishi was about to suffer, and the way everyone would look at him at the next gathering, Aoki would feel a genuine sense of refreshment in his heart, just like Zhu Bajie ate the fruit of life, and all the pores on his body were comfortable.

Aoki Saburo walked very fast, and that was "only feeling the breeze blowing from his armpits". He ran all the way to Sakai Tadanishi who was reading on the grass of the campus.

"China's new-style firearms army already has one million, and I don't know when the new-style firearms army of my Japanese Empire will exceed 30,000..."

"If the local daimyo is not eradicated, the empire will never be revived!"

"Now we rise up and reform, and my empire may not be able to defeat China..."

These are what Sakai Tadanishi said when he was speaking nonsense, and Aoki Saburo remembered them clearly. Now Sakai Tadanishi snatched the newspaper and read the article with his eyes wide open in disbelief, while Aoki Saburo read out his words again in a mocking tone, but the meaning and style of the words were completely different.

"How can the nephew of a shogunate elder imagine the breadth of the thousand-year-old empire, the heaven and the country?" How ridiculous. Aoki Saburo had a deep sneer on his face.

"Sakai-kun, from today on, open your mind, open your eyes, and feel the greatness of the country with your sincerity."