Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Song Lian ran away because of Yang Xianqi again.

Not long after returning to the capital, the old guy fell ill from anger.

Prince Zhu Biao took the imperial physician to see him, and the imperial physician gave a diagnosis saying that Song Lian had qi stagnation in his chest that could not be dissipated.

Considering that Song Lian had just returned from Yangzhou, it became key to ask what happened.

It's just that Song Lian is unwilling to mention what happened to him in Yangzhou before.

After all, Song Lian was Zhu Biao's teacher. Zhu Biao had no choice but to finally decide to go to Yangzhou to find out what happened.

After Yang Xian heard Zhu Biao's intention, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Scholar Song is ill?"

"Yes." Zhu Biao nodded, and then told the imperial doctor's diagnosis. "I wonder if Yang Qing knows the reason why the teacher is angry."

Yang Xian had nothing to hide about this kind of thing. He immediately thought about how Song Lian came to Yangzhou that day, how he stood up for those Jiangnan consortiums and wanted to take away the technology of new textile machines from him with shameless words and white teeth, and how he was criticized by him. the whole process.

After listening to Yang Xian's narration, Zhu Biao's face became ugly.

"Teacher actually did such a thing?"

Zhu Biao would never doubt what Yang Xian said.

This was also the reason why he felt uncomfortable at this time, because he really didn't want to believe that Song Lian, who taught him the ways of Confucius and Mencius since he was a child, would do such a thing.

Yang Xian saw Zhu Biao's mood at this moment and said: "Song Xueshi's original intention may not be the same. He was just deceived by those Jiangnan consortiums."

Yang Xian's words were not entirely meant to comfort Zhu Biao.

From what Song Lian was able to say to him, he was immediately angry, and was unwilling to disclose the matter to Zhu Biao. It can be seen that Song Lian had a sense of shame. When he came to Yangzhou, he really thought that he was in Do things for the people of the world.

It's just that sometimes being stupid is more terrifying than being simply bad.

In Yang Xian's view, Song Lian is just a corrupt scholar.

In the future, another of his students perfectly inherited this trait from him.

Yang Xian and Zhu Biao followed the topic and talked about the new textile technology of Mingji Textile Factory.

In fact, Song Lian failed to find the key point in his retort that day.

Yang Xian's words are not irrefutable.

If a new technology is in the hands of only one company, it will easily create a monopoly.

Monopoly will generate huge profits and at the same time make people emboldened.

It's just that this new textile technology is now in the hands of Yang Xian. Yang Xian's main purpose is not to make profits, but more to benefit the people and gain merit points.

But if there is a new technology in the future, it will be in the hands of someone else, and that person happens to be a profit-seeking person.

Then the situation would be completely different.

Of course, as long as Yang Xian is alive for one day, this kind of thing will never happen.

Because he himself is the embodiment of science.

But this also made Yang Xian think of another thing. That’s a patent.

Only by establishing long-term and feasible systems can the current Ming Dynasty go further and further.

The imperial palace's internal officials also had their own weaving houses, which were used to supply cloth to the palace.

Before Zhu Biao mentioned the matter, Yang Xian took the initiative to start the conversation.

Yang Xian said: "Although Weichen can unconditionally hand over the new technology of cotton weaving to the court like the previous wool processing workshop, for the long-term consideration of the country, Weichen proposed that every time the Weaving Mansion built by the Internal Affairs Bureau For Tai Ming Kee’s new textile machine, he must pay a patent fee of 150 yuan to Ming Kee Trading Company.”

The cost of a new textile machine is about eighty taels of silver. The main costs are the cost of steel and the polishing of gears. Yang Xian asked for a 5% patent fee, which is equivalent to only four taels of silver for a new textile machine. This amount of money is dispensable for him and Mingji Trading Company, but Yang Xian wants to take this opportunity to establish this system.

"Yang Qing, what is patent fee?" Zhu Biao asked.

Yang Xian smiled and did not directly answer Zhu Biao's question. Instead, he asked another question: "Your Highness, China has thousands of years of history. Why did all kinds of new things appear in addition to the Spring and Autumn, Qin and Han dynasties? After its invention, it has been deteriorating for more than a thousand years. In these more than a thousand years, why has our use of tools progressed so slowly, or even regressed? You must know that the rail train that I presided over the construction of existed during the Qin Emperor's period. product."

Before time travel, Yang Xian had read "China's Thirty Great Inventions" when he was a student. This book recorded in detail the thirty major inventions and creations that appeared in Chinese history.

Among them, the Qin and Han dynasties were a watershed, and the period before the Qin and Han dynasties was the golden period of invention and creation. A large number of important inventions and creations, such as smelting, rice farming, mulberry silk weaving, papermaking, porcelain, etc., all appeared during this period.

Zhu Biao fell into deep thought, obviously thinking seriously about Yang Xian's words.

Except for Yang Xian, a national scholar, the Ming Dynasty did not have any major inventions worth noting in recent years. It's just that Yang Xian was like a dazzling sun, which just covered these shortcomings.

The more Zhu Biao thought about it, the more he became afraid, especially when he knew that there were so many countries on the other side of the ocean in this world.

Yang Xian glanced at Zhu Biao, and then said: "Is it because future generations are becoming worse and worse than the ancients?"

This is not a Jin Yong martial arts novel. The closer the dynasty is, the weaker the level of martial arts.

That can also be explained by something like the spiritual energy in the air getting thinner and thinner.

Could it be that there are fewer inventions and creations because people are getting stupider and dumber?

Yang Xian shook his head and asked himself: "No, I never think so. In my opinion, everyone who comes after is equivalent to standing on the shoulders of their predecessors, and their achievements will only be better than those of their predecessors." People are more brilliant, but what is the reason for this situation?"

Zhu Biao on the side frowned more and more. It was obvious that he was thinking about Yang Xian's question, but he couldn't find the answer.

Yes, what is the cause?

Then Zhu Biao thought of the "patent fees" mentioned by Yang Xian before.

"Can the patent mentioned by Yang Qing change this situation?" Zhu Biao asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Yang Xian nodded and said, "The so-called patent, as the name suggests, is exclusive rights and interests."

Finally, the topic came back.

Changing the world requires the joint efforts of everyone.

The patent law can maximize the enthusiasm of everyone in the world.

"In addition to protecting the personal and property safety of the people of Ming Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty must also protect their patent rights. A person's knowledge, technology and inventions are also property." Yang Xian said. (End of chapter)