Morton said proudly: "Keeping a hand is a bad habit of folk craftsmen, my Mo family has passed on ink skills from generation to generation, so that the Mo family has today's achievements, naturally there will be no such thing as leaving a hand. ”

"However, the refining of the Qinglong True Medicine is not only extremely precise, but also requires the cooperation of several substances created by the secret techniques of the exclusive Mo family, and these exclusive ink techniques also need the assistance of several other ink techniques, if it is made public, I am afraid that the entire Mo family ink skills will be spied on again, and the secret skills will be leaked again." Merton's words shifted.

"What's so hard about that? How much the Mo family lost this time, will the imperial court bear it, as long as the people of the world can use the magic medicine, I am very relieved! Li Shimin waved his arrogant hand and said, compared to the value created by the Qinglong True Medicine, he didn't care about the loss of Mojia Village.

Dai Xuan on the side couldn't help but twitch in his heart, Li Shimin said lightly, and in the end, the Ministry of Civil Affairs had to pay.

"Your Majesty is kind-hearted, if Weichen pushes again, he doesn't know how to lift." Merton thought for a moment and nodded.

When the hundred officials heard this, they immediately showed a smug smile on their faces, they joined forces, the Mo family really regressed, and when they thought of the value of the Qinglong True Medicine Formula, everyone couldn't help but feel excited in their hearts, this is a gold mine!

Li Shimin couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction and said, "How much the Mo family has lost this time, you just need to report it truthfully, even if I buy your secret technique." ”

Merton shook his head and said, "Your Majesty doesn't have to spend a penny, but the minister has a way to get the best of both worlds." ”

"Tell me about it!" When Li Shimin heard that he didn't need to spend money, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

Merton turned his head to look at Hou Junji and said: "General Hou said just now that folk craftsmen have a bad habit called 'leaving a hand', this bad habit seems to keep the master's job, but its harm is endless, the skills of Mojia craftsmen pay attention to inheritance, and some crafts must be further developed on top of other crafts. ”

Zhang Liang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, couldn't help but nod heavily, this is indeed the biggest drawback of craftsmen, even the master craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry are the same.

Merton continued: "The craftsmanship of the Mo family is also passed down from generation to generation, and Mo's achievements today are only standing on the shoulders of the predecessors of the Mo family in the past dynasties, so that they can go further. ”

Everyone couldn't help but sigh for a while, I am afraid that only the selfless spirit of the Mo family can have the revival of the Mo family today.

"However, the behavior of these craftsmen to keep a hand is hateful, but there are also pitiful, their hard work to study a lifetime of skills is what they rely on to survive, if they teach their apprentices, they will lose their jobs, and even be swept out of the house and end miserably, just as the Mo family has invested huge manpower, material and financial resources to develop ink skills, although it is beneficial to the world, but they are required to give it publicly, and the money invested has been wasted." As Morton spoke, the hundred officials couldn't help but show a trace of unnatural expression, they took care of the interests of the world, but only ignored the interests of the Mo family.

"The people of the world seem to be profitable in a short time, but they don't know that if the Mo family continues to invest and does not get the return on exchange, I am afraid that there will be no enthusiasm to develop new ink skills, and even one day, the Mojia Village will be unable to make ends meet and gradually decline, so that in the end, there will be no new ink skills born, and in the long run, the loss to the world is far greater than the immediate gain." Merton said mercilessly.

"I'm really a little blinded!" Wei Zheng couldn't help but sigh, and said mercilessly, whether they were the craftsmen who kept their hands or they wanted to publicly dedicate their ink skills to the Mo family, they were all only concerned about the immediate interests.

"And what Mohou said was the best of both worlds?" Fang Xuanling was thoughtful, but he couldn't grasp that glimmer of light.

"If you want to have the best of both worlds, you must not only have immediate interests but also take into account long-term interests, I don't know if you ever know that whoever develops a new product in the Mo family can enjoy half of this product." Merton said loudly.

"Silver Mirror!" Fang Xuanling had a flash of inspiration and blurted out his debut.

Morton nodded and said: "Yes, the silver mirror of the apprentice Wu Meiniang is half a component of the silver mirror, if each silver mirror is sold for 100 yuan, the apprentice enjoys the income of 5 yuan, which is called the patent fee in the Mo family!" ”

"Royalties?" Everyone was immediately puzzled.

Merton explained: "This product is exclusively created, and no one has ever appeared before, and I have the exclusive right to this thing, if others want to use it, they will naturally have to pay me, this is called the patent fee, from the apprentice to develop the silver mirror in just a year, has received a patent fee of 800 yuan!." ”

"Eight hundred!" Everyone couldn't help but exclaim, the annual income of 800 yuan is much better than their income, and this is still earned by a teenage girl.

At this time, everyone understood what Morton wanted to do, and he probably also wanted to collect the patent fee for the Qinglong True Medicine.

"This matter is easy to do, I am approved, as long as you disclose the secret recipe of the Qinglong True Medicine, I will allow you to collect the patent fee of the Qinglong True Medicine, and how about it according to the same half?" Li Shimin waved his hand and said heartily, in this way, the court does not have to pay, the people can use good medicine, and the Mo family also has corresponding benefits, which is simply killing three birds with one stone.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! However, Weichen's words were not finished. Morton smiled bitterly, "The patent fee can be shared, and the same can also be directly bought out with a direct payment, when the minister and the Xiangfu clan Li Yun competed with the ink technique in the palm of the ruler, he directly paid a thousand yuan to buy Li Yun's patent for the folding ruler, but unfortunately the patent fee of the Mo family is a thousand yuan, and countless craftsmen in the entire Chang'an City imitated the folding ruler, but no one paid to the Mo family, I am afraid that it is impossible to recover the cost of folding the ruler in this life." ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh: "I didn't expect that your dignified Mo family would also lose money!" ”

Baiguan couldn't help laughing, it was not easy to see the Mo family eating deflated.

Merton waved his hand and said: "A thousand guan is nothing to the Mo family, but if it is put on an ordinary person, he worked hard for a year, a few years, and even exhausted his family wealth to develop items that benefit the country and the people, but he did not receive a penny in return, do you think he will spend a few more years to develop new items?" ”

The hundred officials were silent for a moment, they were talking about righteousness, and everyone knew that if food and clothing were not solved, the so-called righteousness was just a joke.

"On the contrary, if the new items developed by this person are handed over to others for use, and there will be a steady stream of income every year, he will not only continue to develop, but even more people will follow suit, and under the trend of interests and reputation, develop more new items that benefit the country and the people. Merton said proudly.

Li Shimin couldn't help but bow his head, the reason why the Mo family is prosperous is not that there is a steady stream of new products, and every new product will make the Mo family more prosperous and bring a lot of wealth to the Tang Dynasty.

"Therefore, I implore Your Majesty to compile a patent law to protect the hard work of craftsmen in the world, and encourage craftsmen in the world to take the initiative to disclose their secret skills, so that craftsmen can get the corresponding remuneration, and other craftsmen can also confirm each other, and more secret skills will emerge. Merton bowed to the ground and pleaded solemnly.

Throughout the ages, there have been countless talented people who have emerged through the ages, but because of the bad habits of craftsmen, they were eventually lost, and if they can be carried forward under the protection of patent law, the future will definitely be a different scene.

"Patent Law!" Li Shimin's eyes shrank, he didn't expect that Merton would have such ambitions, and he would ask the imperial court to compile a law for this purpose, but the future scene depicted by Merton with the patent law did make him quite excited, and this move was indeed a lot of benefits for Datang.

The other ministers also carefully considered, they naturally knew that the patent law was quite beneficial to the Mo family and craftsmen, but it was not harmful to them, and it was also cost-effective to exchange it for the Qinglong real medicine.

Zhang Liang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, said with a flash in his eyes: "Mo Hou just said that he would let the world's craftsmen apply for patents for human use, I don't know if the secret skills of the Mo family have also applied for patents for the world's workshops." ”

"Of course it's the same! As long as the Mohists apply for a patent, they can be used by the people of the world. Merton nodded without hesitation.

"Steelmaking Secrets! Is it among them! A Ministry of Works official asked tentatively.

"In!" Merton nodded without hesitation.

Immediately, everyone in the Ministry of Industry exclaimed, no one thought that the secret steelmaking technology that the Mo family regarded as a treasure would be voluntarily disclosed because of the patent law.

"What about the glass secret technique?" A family said with a look of hope.

Merton shook his head and said: "The secret technique of glass is a luxury, not urgently needed by the world, the Mo family will keep it secret for the time being, and will not disclose it, of course, since the Mo family has not applied for a patent, and if it is cracked and applied for a patent by other people in the world in the future, the Mo family will also pay him the patent fee." ”

Baiguan was naturally extremely shrewd, and immediately understood the intention of Merton's move, which was to encourage craftsmen to apply for patents as soon as possible, in case someone left a hand, and ordinary people could keep it as strict as the Mo family, which is probably the reason why the Mo family has no fear to retain the secret technique of glass.

"Although Mohou's move is good, but it is too lion's mouth, the apprentice earns 800 guan a year for a silver mirror secret technique, if he receives it for a hundred years, it won't be 80,000 guan!" Dai Xuan frowned, he was the most sensitive to numbers, and he was keenly aware of them.

Merton shook his head and said: "Lord Dai, I don't know, the so-called patent is not only you can develop, you can also develop it in time, but you are only a period of time in advance, if you keep charging patent fees, it is also inappropriate, so the term of patent fees is twenty years, after twenty years, this patent will be made public, and the people of Datang can use it for free." ”

"Twenty years!" Dai Xuan nodded slightly, the interests of the craftsman are damaged if the time is short, and the patent fee is not conducive to the workshop for a long time, and twenty years is a suitable period.

"The Mo family is so calculating, it has such a grand layout!" Kong Yingda took a deep breath and said, with his eyes, he could naturally see how much benefit the patent law would be for the Mo family, and from now on, there will definitely be endless ink skills emerging, and the Mo family will definitely prosper.

However, Merton's move is a conspiracy, even if Kong Yingda understands the Mo family's plan, he can't stop it, after all, the Mo family has used the formula of the Qinglong real medicine in exchange, and it has even taken the Mo family's steelmaking secret technique, if he stops it, I'm afraid he will have to ask the doctor, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the royal family and the people of the world to agree.

In addition, Confucianism is one of the masters of the career, and the Mohists are involved in the craftsmen, and there is not much conflict between the two.

"Good! I will depend on you, I know that Han Fuzi is in Mojia Village, you ask Han Fuzi to compile the patent law and submit it to the three provinces for review, if it passes, I will compile it into the Zhenguan Law. Li Shimin said with a final word, he asked Han Fuzi to compile it as a last resort, and only Mojia Village in the entire Tang Dynasty attaches importance to patents, and I am afraid that only Han Fuzi, who knows Mojia Village best, can complete the compilation of the patent law.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Merton breathed a sigh of relief, with the patent law, the revival of the Mo family is just around the corner.