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Chapter 969 Something Is Missing

Although there is the full support of the emperor, there are a large number of civil servants in the court, and most of them are scholars. Therefore, there has always been resistance to the writing and implementation of patent laws.

With the participation and proposal of Jin Rong and the people behind him, the content of the patent law not only has the clauses to guarantee the research and development achievements of craftsmen, but also has the classification approval and identity protection for the craftsmen who have made achievements.

In Jin Rong's proposal, that is, Ye Xinyan's proposal, the craftsmen are graded according to their products and contributions.Craftsmen of different levels enjoy different levels of salary from the imperial court.There is also the generous treatment of not kneeling when seeing an official, which is equivalent to that of a scholar.

This is Ye Xinyan referring to her previous life, when the industry was just emerging, to encourage workers to improve their skills.

In ancient times when there was no literacy and no compulsory education, this kind of evaluation system and generous treatment greatly promoted the improvement of craftsmen's skills and allowed more people to enter the artisan industry.

However, in this way, the craftsman is equivalent to gaining fame.Although this is only aimed at a small number of skilled craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions to the court and the people, it also seriously challenges the status and dignity of scholars.

Therefore, when writing the law, they encountered considerable resistance.

Even the four ministers in the cabinet have different opinions.

Han Yanhui naturally agreed, Wei Xin and the two disapproved in their hearts, but because of the emperor's majesty, they only maintained an ambiguous attitude, but when it came to matters related to this, they were procrastinating, prevaricating, and even creating resistance.

Among them, Liu Chengzhi, who came from a wealthy family, had the most intense opposition.

The emperor turned his attention to the four elders, and the people in the capital had doubts about the Ji family represented by Qingliu, which directly extended to question whether the scholars' conduct was noble or not.

Therefore, this is really a good opportunity to suppress many pedantic civil servants.

After hearing Jin Rong's words, Liu Chengzhi's expression turned ugly.At this time, looking at the emperor's expression again, he was afraid that this matter would be finalized, so he got up quickly, took a step, and clapped his hands and said: "The law is left by the ancestors of the past generations, and should not be changed. Your Majesty wants to try it for the prosperity of the world. The ministers and others are willing to assist His Majesty to complete it. But revising the law is a major matter, how can we rush it? There is also the matter of paying the craftsmen, I think that this is against the way of a sage, and it is better to be cautious."

Jin Rong sat without moving, but said: "Liu Xiang should have heard the rumors in the capital these days, right? People are discussing, since scholars have no specific benefits to many people and to the common people in the world, why do people still hold on to them? How about supporting these people?"

Liu Chengzhi's face turned red, and he secretly scolded Ji Xiaoyuan for being a follower, not having the vision to choose a good candidate, and in the end, he couldn't even finish the job well, and in the end, all these people were humiliated and disadvantaged by following him.

He thought so in his heart, but his face was still ashamed and angry, and he asked angrily: "Your Highness has also read the books of sages, how can you be so disrespectful?"

Jin Rong said lightly: "This king doesn't have this ability. It's because many scholars are sorry for the teachings of sages. They don't think about the people of the world, but only seek their own benefits. They are just asking for shame."

"Okay! Since you've all read the books of sages and sages, what's the point of arguing here?" The emperor stopped the two of them, turned to Han Yanhui, and said, "Yuanzhou rushes to plant and harvest buckwheat, and there are also imperial fortifications." The utensils used in the world have already verified the importance of the development of handicrafts and handicrafts. The patent law must be implemented, and the provisions of the law will be taken out at the end of the year and will be implemented next year."

Wei Xin opened his mouth, this, isn't it too arbitrary?

Before he could figure out how to speak, the emperor's voice became even colder: "Huang Jingtao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, is getting old, is he not in good spirits? Such a small matter has been dragged on for a year without any results. If it really fails, then change someone else do it."

All the people present, except Han Yanhui and Jin Rong, were terrified in their hearts.

This matter is entrusted to the Ministry of Rites. If Master Huang of the Ministry of Rites is old, doesn't that mean that he should retire and return to his hometown?

In this way, the most popular candidate to take over as Minister of the Ministry of Rites is Sun Tingyue, Minister of the Ministry of Rites.Sun Shilang's youngest daughter was sent to Prince Yu's mansion, and she is the side concubine of His Royal Highness King Yu.

Liu Chengzhi's heart tightened, knowing that he might not be able to persist in this matter.If His Royal Highness King Fu wanted to come out of the court again, he would have to wait for two or three years. He could not allow King Yu to become too powerful in these two or three years.

Today, King Yu is in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and the granddaughter of the first assistant of the dynasty is the Zhengfei of King Yu.King Yu's best friend, Jiang Yifan, is now in the Ministry of Industry. Although he only serves as a doctor, his subordinates are in charge of much more affairs than ordinary doctors.Most of them are errands directly assigned by the emperor. Even Liu Chengzhi, the second assistant of the cabinet who supervises the official department, has no right to interfere.

If Sun Shilang takes over the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites again, King Yu will have another great help.

As for Wei Xin and the other two ministers, after listening to the emperor's words and looking at Jin Rong's eyes, there were also substantial changes.Although they want to maintain the status of scholars, their current status and official position are more important.

Today, the Holy One wants to develop the handicraft industry. If the Holy One intends to allow King Yu to inherit the Datong, then they have to think about it, should they continue to oppose the proposition of the emperor and King Yu, and cut off the honor and wealth of the two generations of themselves and their families?

Everyone present, each thinking about their own interests and positions, actually asked the emperor to arrange the matter of the patent law.

In the next two days, when some officials learned that the Ministry of Rites was stepping up the compilation of laws, they were not afraid of death and proposed in the court that they should handle the laws of the ancestors carefully.

Officials in favor of change naturally didn't want to let it go. Officials from the two parties were fighting with each other, talking and dancing, and it was very lively.

At first the emperor wanted to reason, but seeing that it didn't make sense, he finally got angry and slapped the table and cursed: "The way of sages is to let the people live in dire straits, while the scholars are in high positions, but turn a blind eye to it?"

"The sage has a saying: the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the lightest. Are you more noble than the people, the country, and me after reading a few crooked sage books? The people in the sage's mouth Gui, in your eyes, you become a pariah, and you cannot be enlightened. Is this how you read sage books?"

"Everyone will go face the wall and think about it!"

The emperor's angry reprimand made all the ministers who opposed the change shudder, and the effect was remarkable.

But the emperor felt as if something was missing... What was it?

Oh, I remembered...

The emperor looked at Han Yanhui and Liu Chengzhi, and said: "These officials who distort the teachings of the sages, you go back and rank me, and punish them according to the degree of their distorted sages. The intensity of the punishment... half a year to two months, rank Afterwards, hand it over to the Ministry of Officials, and copy a copy to report to me.”

After speaking, the emperor walked away.

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Not many days after the imperial court received the good news of the buckwheat harvest in Yuanzhou, Yin Xiaocheng, who was sent to the Yuanzhou area to frighten the civil uprising, returned to his command, and came back with the supervisory censor who was sent to various places.

Unlike the good harvest news in drought-stricken areas, the news brought back by the censor shocked the emperor, and even many courtiers were also surprised when they heard the news.

(End of this chapter)