Eternal Beast Taming Family

"Couldn't we really make some more adjustments, cut a few less important production lines, and focus all our efforts on producing the Dream Realm Login Device? Or perhaps hire more people?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Qinglu shook his head repeatedly.

"Take a look at these production lines and see which ones can be temporarily shut down. The government has given us a strict order: each production line must produce the quota they've set. I can't afford to be careless."

As for hiring, there are hardly any idle people left in the entire Wandao City. Basically, everyone of working age has their own job.

Unless they recruit directly from other cities, but Wan Dao City residents and temporary residence permits are a big problem, the government office will not easily open this door.

All things considered, I still think that setting up a factory in another city is the simplest option. By outsourcing some simple production lines, we can free up more manpower.

"How about at the next government affairs meeting, your business school and our equipment design school jointly propose this?"

Despite being established for decades, the Chu family's Wandao City still faces a severe shortage of manpower.

However, after listening to Fu Qinglu's words, Granny Liu realized that he wanted to get her involved in giving suggestions to the head of the family. After all, many hands make light work, and it would be easier to get attention if two departments initiated the suggestion than if only one department did.

"But shouldn't you also involve the academy in this matter? After all, your weaponry academy has put in a lot of effort to support their research, right?"

Their new product research was successful, and their numerous achievements over the years should also be considered a contribution.

Many staff members from the Business School and the Equipment School were dispatched, and as a result, some basic mechanical products that were originally in short supply inevitably experienced shortages.

On the other hand, the Chu family also implemented new reforms, releasing some of the more widely used methods developed by the research institute into the Dream World.

All families and individuals can purchase the copyright and sell it according to the patent by simply paying the corresponding patent fee.

Before this, many aristocratic families in various places had already begun to imitate some of the products produced by the Chu family. Apart from some minor flaws in quality, they were almost identical to those produced by the Chu family's merchant guild.

However, since this new reform plan came out, it has become forbidden for other aristocratic families to imitate without paying patent fees.

Official departments across the dynasty intervened to thoroughly investigate and eliminate these unauthorized patented products, imposing fines in the process.

For a time, the topic of patent licensing was frequently brought up again in the two dynasties, and it seemed that the issue of intellectual property rights was being presented to the world for the first time.

Without patent protection, knowledge was passed down through family traditions or through a relatively new master-apprentice system.

What intellectual property protection? Once I learn it, I can use it. No one and no force can restrain this kind of misappropriation of knowledge, or the situation where teaching a disciple leads to the master's downfall.

Now that the Chu family has clearly implemented regulations in this regard, many small forces that have always been coveted and possess their own specific secret formulas or special techniques have begun to have designs on it.

On that day, the patent application office in the Dream Realm was bustling with people, most of whom were inquiring about how to apply for patents for knowledge other than the evolution of source beasts.

When these feedbacks appeared, Chu Shengyu handled them promptly, quickly changing the patent application from simply describing the evolution method of source beasts to expanding the scope of coverage.

However, in the following days, there were many inquiries about patent applications, but few people actually filed them.

In reality, this still reflects their distrust of the Chu family's patent protection. After all, if something unique to their family is applied for by the Chu family, who knows if they will use it privately? They call it protection, but what if it's plagiarism?

It was this conflicted mindset that resulted in the number of patents not appearing in the patent count column, apart from those announced by the Chu family, with no new patents belonging to other forces or individuals.

Until a boy appeared.

He practically rushed into the patent application office; his clothes looked rather simple, not like those of a wealthy family.

The fact that such a young boy could possess a Dream World Login Device is enough to show how much his family values ​​and dotes on him.

The dream spirits of the dream world received him and did not treat him differently because of his age. As usual, they asked him the purpose of his visit.

"Do you need a patent policy search, for patent grants or patent applications?"

The boy already had a goal in mind, and as soon as Meng Ling finished speaking, he impatiently asked, "Patent application."

Upon hearing his words, Mengling's eyes lit up instantly. "Yes, may I ask what kind of patent application it is?"

The boy's excited voice had drawn the attention of everyone near the window in the hall, who were clearly curious to see which family was the first to "take the plunge".

Feeling the gazes around him, the boy became somewhat flustered, clutching a folded sheet tightly in his hand. He seemed to want to hand it to Meng Ling in front of him, yet he was also afraid of being deceived or having the contents of the sheet seen by those around him.

The spirit in charge of receiving him understood immediately. With a gentle wave of her soft hands, she separated herself from the young man in front of her from the space in the hall.

They arrived in a deep, dark purple space, like a starry sky. While the boy was still in surprise...

"There's no one spying around anymore. Can I see the patent you want to apply for now?"

The boy awoke from the shock of the surrounding scenery, then looked at the dream spirit in front of him. Finally, as if he had thought of something, he realized that even if the recipe were to be revealed to the world, it shouldn't just benefit the Xu family.

He took a deep breath and handed the form he had been clutching for a long time to Mengling in front of him.

Mengling slowly opened the paper in front of her, and a complete pill appeared before her eyes: "Zengguang Lingdan".