Valley Emperor

Now the judicial department of the Tang Dynasty is very fond of all kinds of legal provisions that can impose fines, especially the local judicial organs, and they are very fond of the legal provisions of this kind of fines, and the enforcement is quite strict.

Now that there is a new patent law that can be fined, it is quite supportive, and everyone is slapping their chests and saying that they will strictly enforce the law. Anyone who dares to infringe a patent will be punished and bankrupt!

Relatively speaking, the people's attitude towards the patent law is that they do not pay much attention to it. Although it has been reported by the Datang Chaobao and interpreted the patent law, there are not many people involved in this matter.

But not many people pay attention, which does not mean that no one pays attention, especially those emerging factory owners who open factories. They pay more attention to technology than ordinary people, and they also pay more attention to the patent law that protects technology.

Therefore, as soon as the Patent Law was promulgated, the newly established Patent Office received hundreds of patent applications. Interestingly, these patent applications were all institutional applications and no individual applications.

Most of the patent applications are from the Royal Institute of Technology, which has just been spun off from the infant military camp, and they are all patent applications related to various advanced technologies.

At the same time, some of the applications also came from major factories under the Ministry of Industry and some factories that belonged to the royal family.

However, although the number of private applications is small, there are!

The most notable one is the application from Chen's Grain Company, a subsidiary of the Chen family in Zhaoqing. They applied for three patents related to rice and wheat processing in one go, and one of the patents is the transmission equipment in the hydraulic equipment.

During the production process, they found that the output of the original hydraulic equipment produced by the machinery branch was not stable enough, which had an impact on the flour processing, so they paid a lot of money to invite craftsmen to improve it, and finally they came up with a brand new set of Transmission equipment, this set of equipment can make the hydraulic equipment run more smoothly and effectively improve the processing accuracy.

Originally, they applied for a patent, and they just wanted to try to apply for one or two. Anyway, it would not affect them if they did not pass. It would be better if they passed, but they were unintentional. This application has just been submitted. The person from the side immediately came over and said that he wanted to obtain the authorization of this transmission equipment.

Moreover, a one-price authorization fee of thousands of taels of silver or 10% of the subsequent sale price of this transmission equipment was offered as a share.

The Chen family simply could not refuse this price!

And the reason for not being able to refuse is not just because of the high price. The mere Qianliang Yinzi already owns three rice mills and one flour mill, and the milled rice and refined flour produced have already occupied nearly half of the refined grain market in Guangdong. For Chen's Grain Company, this is nothing.

But this machinery branch is an upstream enterprise that they can't offend, on the contrary, they have to try their best to win over. Most of the machinery and equipment in their factory are purchased from the machinery branch. If they offend the machinery branch, then the business Do you still want to do it.

However, even if they were ready to agree in their hearts, the Chen family still tried their best to win their due interests. First of all, the Chen family asked the machinery branch not to sell this kind of transmission equipment to other grain companies within a year.

At the same time, if the follow-up machinery branch improves the equipment for rolling rice and flour, their Chen family has the right of first refusal. After the product is launched, the Chen family has a one-month exclusivity period, and it can be sold to other grain factories after one month.

Of course, for the above two restrictions, grain processing plants directly under the Ministry of Industry are not included, because grain processing plants directly under the Ministry of Industry are not open to the outside world, only supplying the government and the military, and they are internal purchases, which are not related to the Chen family. competitive relationship.

Of course, in return, it is not enough to rely only on the patent authorization of a set of transmission equipment. They simply directly transferred the patent to the machinery branch, and at the same time assumed part of the research and development expenses of the new grain processing equipment.

What the Chen family has paid for is just an opportunity to preempt the layout!

Just like they did before!

The current Chen family still remembers that they were the first to discover rice milling equipment before, and then they spent a lot of money to introduce these equipment and enter the grain processing business. As the first family to enter the grain processing industry, the current Chen family’s The food business is booming.

Although the total amount of grain they are involved in is not a big deal in the entire grain market, what they buy is high-value-added milled rice and refined flour that are exclusively for the upper class.

Ordinary rice and flour are processed in such a way that the price increases exponentially, which means that the profit is also several times higher!

Speaking of high profits, ordinary grain merchants are incomparable with them!

The Chen family, who made a lot of money, did not sit idle, but continued to invest in large-scale expansion of factories, and began to get involved in the processing of other grains, and even dealt with the royal family industry and the military, for example, they were in the royal family industry. Cooperate with the military dry food factory to try to develop and produce military dry food that can be stored for a long time, while the taste is not too bad, and can ensure sufficient nutrition!

Of course, in this cooperation model, the Chen family is only the one who paid the money, and the R&D has to rely on the Royal Military Dry Grain Factory, but the Chen family doesn't care about the money, they only care about whether they can learn something, and then they care about whether they can cooperate with the royal family. Industry and the military have a relationship.

If this military dry food can be produced, then the Chen family will naturally become one of the military's suppliers, and it is still irreplaceable. It is one of the very special suppliers, which is very similar to the current ordinary military food suppliers. big difference.

The Chen family can be regarded as the most typical in the rise of the Tang Dynasty and supported the development of industry and commerce, especially in this wave of industrial development, and can be regarded as a relatively successful representative.

But the Chen family is definitely not the only family!

On the southern outskirts of Guangzhou, on the banks of the Pearl River, stands a huge shipyard. This shipyard is near the river bank. Several huge wooden ships are under construction in several huge docks, and the hull of one of them has been largely completed. , its hull is different from the Fuchuan, Guangchuan and even the Galen ship in the seas of Southeast Asia that are now popular in Southeast Asia.

Its most obvious feature is that it is slender and slender. Just by looking at its appearance, it is known that the speed is not too slow.

This ship is naturally not an ordinary civilian ship, but a third-class cruiser specially designed for the navy by the Datang Navy Ship Administration Department, which combines various types of Eastern and Western ships, and is the third ship of the third-class cruiser. .

And the shipyard that built this third-class cruiser is naturally the Guangzhou Shipyard that belongs to the Ministry of Industry.

Next door to the Guangzhou Shipyard, there is another smaller shipyard, the Shamian Shipyard. Although its scale is small, there are also many craftsmen working in several docks.

Shamian Shipyard is one of Xu Bingfu's industries.

And Xu Bingfu was the first person who took the initiative to supply ships to the Datang Navy. This person not only owned three shipyards, but also owned a large-scale river fleet.

In the past two years, thanks to the support of the Tang Dynasty for industry and commerce, the waterway of the Xijiang River has been opened up. At the same time, due to the rapid development of industry and commerce, the shipping industry on the Xijiang River, and even the inland shipping industry of the entire Pearl River system has also flourished.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, the scale of the private fleet of inland rivers traveling to and from the Pearl River Basin has doubled from that of Xuanping two years ago, and it is still unable to meet the current demand for cargo transportation. The big merchants of the shipping company, or the small merchants with only one or two ships, are all eager to buy as many ships as possible to make more profits.

In this way, it will directly stimulate the development of the shipbuilding industry!

This Shamian shipyard is also the largest of the three shipyards under Xu Bingfu's name. In the past two years, the scale has more than tripled, but the supply is still in short supply, and because the next door is Guangzhou, which is directly under the Ministry of Industry. In the shipyard, when he saw the super-large tonnage docks and large-scale professional shipbuilding machinery and equipment in the Guangzhou Shipyard, Xu Bingfu couldn't help but be moved.

At this time, in the Shamian Shipyard, Xu Bingfu, the steward in the shipyard, and several brothers and uncles were drinking tea and talking!

The one who was speaking was a wealthy man with a long goatee beard who was in his fifties, only to hear him say in a relaxed manner: "The momentum of our shipyard is just right now, and there are still twenty. A few sand ships are waiting for us to build. It is to build a few more docks and hire more skilled workers. When we seize the time to expand the scale, if we build a 500-ton or even 1,000-ton dock, the pressure on funds will be too great. And this big dock can't be built in a year and a half, and even if it is built, who will ask us to order such a big ship?"

"Nowadays, the major shipping companies are looking for a large number of sand ships and wide ships with a tonnage of two or three hundred tons~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I have never heard anyone say that they want to order such large ships of five hundred tons or even thousands of tons. We have never built a big boat before, so whether it can be built or not is another question, the risk is too great!"

"On the contrary, it is possible to buy some of this machinery and equipment, but this machinery and equipment is extremely expensive. I heard that the Guangzhou Shipyard next door cost no less than 50,000 taels of machinery and equipment to add this year. Our small body, Even if it is a little bit of money, how can it be compared with the official family, which buys less and has little effect, but buys too much, I am afraid that this money will not be able to turn around!"

After listening to this uncle's words, Xu Bingfu, who was sitting in the main seat, said with a very firm expression: "This dock must be built, and the machinery and equipment must also be imported!"

"Don't worry about the order, I have inquired about it. The Royal Industry Section is already planning to set up a Royal Sea Trade Company. They have already released rumors that they will order at least twenty ships of more than 500 tons. We will order thousands of tons of large ships, and now the government-run Guangzhou Shipyard can’t even build warships. As long as we can build the dock in time and prepare the equipment, it will be easy to get some orders!”

After saying that, he looked at everyone: "The future will be the era of thousand-ton ships. If you don't prepare in advance, it will be too late to catch up. Our Xu family must seize the future!"