At the first court meeting after the Chinese New Year, the emperor solemnly circulated Chen Yuanheng's article to various ministers, and greatly praised Chen Yuanheng. said that Chen Yuanheng was agile and loyal, and shared worries for the country. The emperor also immediately adopted Chen Yuanheng's opinion, and without asking the prime minister, he directly ordered the establishment of the patent department.

This patent department is regulated by five products, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and is located in the capital, but it is equipped with a detachment of Jinyiwei. The people of the world, regardless of whether they are high or low, can take the proprietary technology to the patent department to apply for a patent, once the appraisal is applied, the patent department will issue a patent certificate, you can use your own technology, you can also transfer and buy technology, if someone does not buy technology, directly steal other people's technology, this Jinyi Wei detachment will directly go to verify, once verified, it is confiscated family property, but also go to prison.

The establishment of this patent division immediately caused two shocks. One is for the courtiers and nobles. These people saw the emperor's favor for the Chen family again, and the number of officials who immediately fell to Chen Guifei greatly increased. Many of the prince's gang rebelled, and they almost crushed the silver teeth of the queen and queen in Fengyi Palace. Chen Guifei's Zhongcui Palace is even more lively. At this time, Qian Shuyuan was happy with the prince, the emperor and Chen Guifei were very happy, the emperor gave Qian Shuyuan a large number of rewards, and also promoted Qian Shuyuan to Qian Concubine. At this moment, even the Wan family, who was demoted to Zhaoyi, was angry, and now the position of Qian Concubine is much higher than her, if she encounters it, she has to salute Qian Concubine, how can Wan accept it? But she has now fallen out of favor, and only Ba hopes that the third prince can have a future.

On the other hand, the people of the world are shaken. Because of the huge profits from Chen Yuanheng's sale of technology in front of the front, many people with skills are eager to get rich overnight like Chen Yuanheng, and they have gone to the patent department to apply for patents. The Patents Division was busy all at once. The patent department costs money to appraise the patent, and it also costs money to issue the certificate, and once the patent is sold, it has to take out 20% of the proceeds to the patent department. This is tantamount to sitting on the ground and collecting money, and the Patent Division has made a huge contribution to the national treasury. smiled at the emperor's happy eyebrows and praised Chen Yuanheng as a smart person. These words reached the ears of the ministers, and Chen Guifei's power increased even more.

In the capital. Hu Mansion, Hu Zhili is teaching his daughter medical skills. At this time, granddaughter Hu Mingzhu came. Hu Zhili was extremely happy when he saw this granddaughter. Begin. Hu Zhili likes this granddaughter because he loves his daughter and grandson, plus Hu Mingzhu looks very much like his daughter when she was a child, and Hu Zhili feels that her granddaughter suffered so much when she was a child, all because she was affected by him, and now her mother is divorced and has become a fatherless person. is even more fond of Mingzhu.

Later, by chance, Hu Zhili was surprised to find that Mingzhu was particularly fast in arithmetic. After asking, I learned that Mingzhu followed Chen Wenhui. Chen Wenhui taught Mingzhu some mathematical formulas, so that Mingzhu arithmetic is of course good, especially geometry problems. Because Chen Wenhui and Mingzhu studied with the Bai family to manage the affairs of the grange. The problem of counting the amount of grain is often encountered. Generally, grain hoards are all cylindrical, and they are all pointed, so this calculation number is not easy to calculate. But it's too easy for Wen Hui, this is a cylinder plus a conerate with the same bottom. Let the subordinates measure the height, and measure the diameter at once. Mingzhu found that Wen Hui was much faster than her, so she asked Wen Hui, and Wen Hui gave her the formula. Now Mingzhu found it too easy to have these formulas. became interested in mathematics and always pestered Wen Hui to teach her.

After a long time, Wen Hui also taught Mingzhu a lot. Hu Zhili was very interested when he found that Mingzhu's arithmetic was so fast and the formula he used was so ingenious. You must know that Hu Zhili is an all-rounder, originally for the aspect of mathematics is the top scholar of the Great Chu Dynasty, this time he found that his granddaughter is actually more powerful than his mathematics, and immediately humbly learned, Mingzhu actually followed Wen Hui to learn a little, in fact, there are still a lot of advanced knowledge in ancient mathematics, Mingzhu took the opportunity to learn from his grandfather. In this way, the two of them learn from each other and have grown, of course, therefore, Hu Zhili loves this granddaughter even more.

I saw Mingzhu enter the door, saluted her mother and grandfather, and asked, "Mother, grandfather, when can we go home?" It's been the New Year, and now that spring is approaching, I want to go back early and take care of the spring plowing of the family farm. ”

Hu Zhili smiled and said: "Mingzhu, you are really your mother's good assistant, I see these things, your mother is still the same as when she was a child at home, she doesn't want to worry about it at all, she entrusts it to you." It's hard for you to be well organized at a young age. ”

Mingzhu laughed: "Of course, I'm the granddaughter of the smartest talent in the world, of course I'm capable." ”

Hu Zhili laughed: "You little guy, you will be a sycophant." I used to think I was the smartest person in the world, proficient in astronomy, geography, and medicine, but now I think I used to underestimate the world. ”

Mingzhu said strangely: "What? Is there anyone smarter than a grandfather? ”

Hu Zhili stroked his beard and said, "Yes, Chen Yuanheng is smarter than me." You see, this Chen Yuanheng has made a Chen and a patent department, and now he really did not increase the burden on the people, but increased the income of the national treasury. No, not only did it not increase the burden on the people, but it also benefited many people. Many low-level people got silver because of the sale of technology, and many became rich overnight. ”

Mingzhu and Hu also know about this matter, although they are in the deep boudoir, but this matter has too much impact, it is said every day in the capital, there are many legendary stories coming out, such as a blacksmith, poor, but he has an ancestral secret recipe for pure iron, after applying for a patent in the patent department, he was suddenly bought by a big blacksmith shop, and gave the blacksmith a large sum of silver, and the poor blacksmith became rich overnight. There are many such stories, there are blacksmiths, carpenters, and low-level people from all walks of life. These stories, Mingzhu and Hu's ears are tired of listening.

Hu Shi smiled and said, "The Chen family is very smart. Actually, I also want to go back to Deqing, spring is coming, the poor are most likely to get sick, and I still think about my pharmacy. ”

Hu Zhili nodded, her daughter has serious things to do when she goes back, and she should be allowed to go back. set a date for the Hu family and daughter to go back.

Hu's mother, Cui, was very reluctant, but she could only say goodbye to her daughter and granddaughter.

Before leaving, Hu Zhili told the Hu family a piece of news, which was about Xu Zhijie, and told his daughter that Xu Zhijie is now in prison, and the case has been reported to the Criminal Department.

Hu Shi listened to the faint on his face, but his heart was a little sour, after all, after so many years, the husband and wife still have feelings.

Cui's best understood his daughter's thoughts, sighed, who knows, let Mingzhu know, this is her biological father, Mingzhu suddenly cried darkly. The Hu family is very busy. At Mingzhu's request, Hu Zhili promised to help Xu Zhijie to see if he could not be beheaded and if he could be sentenced lightly.

At this time, the Hu family couldn't go back to Deqing immediately, but took out the money to help Xu Zhijie take care of it. Fortunately, Hu Zhili is now a second-class member and is deeply trusted by the emperor, and the officials of the Criminal Department are very face-saving and sentenced Xu Zhijie to life imprisonment and exempted him from the death penalty.

Mingzhu felt better at this time, thinking that although his father would spend the rest of his life in prison in the future, it would be better than dying. At this time, Hu received a letter from Bai. In the letter, Bai told him about the fact that Sun sold his property and went to Qingyang City to join his daughter, and also mentioned that the reason why Hu was infertile back then was because of Xu's mother's hands and feet.

After reading the letter, Hu burst into tears, found his mother, and showed the letter to her. Cui Shi read the letter, was furious, and said, "Yuefen, you have had such ups and downs in your life, it is all your mother-in-law's ghost. Originally, you have been married for the past few years, and you have no children, and I have no face, so I am very good to Xu Zhijie, and later, Xu Zhijie has an outer room outside, I know it, but I didn't say anything, thinking that you have no children, she can have a child, and you will always be a mother in the future, which is better than having no children, and the fireworks are broken. At that time, I wanted to send someone to tell you, so that you can be generous, take the child home, go to the mother and keep the child, and take both mother and child, and record the child in your own name and raise it yourself. Later, there was an accident at home, and I couldn't take care of you anymore, who knew that you suffered so much later? When we return to the capital, will I still be sorry for you? If you have a child earlier, you will not be affected by us, and then our family business is restored, you can also enjoy the blessings, where will you need to be reconciled? I just thought, it's because your life is not good, and you didn't give birth to a child sooner. How do you know that there is such an inside story? The mother-in-law of the family is not looking forward to having a grandson, how can there be a poisoner to harm her grandson? ”

Hu Shi cried even more when she heard it, her mother said that she was wronged, she always thought that her life was not good, and when she was in love with her husband, she had no children, and then the relationship broke down, but she had children, and at that time, it was her mother-in-law who saw that her mother's family had fallen and stopped drugging, so she gave birth to Mingzhu, I am afraid that even Xu Zhijie did not know about this matter.

When Mingzhu heard this, she felt that the grandmother was too hateful, harming her mother for a lifetime, and indirectly harming her son.

Or the third sister-in-law of the Hu family was calmer and persuaded a few words, so forget it. In the evening, Cui's indignantly told Hu Zhili about this matter, Hu Zhili said: "This is really an ignorant and stupid woman, it seems that the girls in our family will choose a husband in the future, not only to pick the character of the husband, but also to inquire carefully about the family style?" How is the conduct of the mother-in-law. Cui nodded yes.

At this time, Xu Zhijie's affairs had been dealt with, Xu Zhijie was still imprisoned in the prison of Qingyang City, Mingzhu urged him to leave, and the Hu family said goodbye to his parents and took his daughter back to Deqing by boat.

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Now it's more than 200 collections, which is pitiful, but I'm very pleased. When the collection is three hundred, it must be added.