Now the judicial department of the Tang Dynasty is very fond of all kinds of legal provisions that can be fined, especially the local judicial institutions, which are very fond of the legal provisions of this kind of fine, and the implementation is quite strict.

For now that there is a patent law that can be fined, it is quite supportive, and they all patted their chests and said that they would strictly enforce the law, and if anyone dared to infringe on patents, he would be fined to bankruptcy!

Relatively speaking, the attitude of the people towards the patent law is not very important, although it has also been reported by the Tang Dynasty newspaper and interpreted the patent law, but there are not many people who have a relationship with this matter.

But just because there aren't many people paying attention doesn't mean that no one is paying attention, especially those emerging factory owners who open factories, who pay more attention to technology than ordinary people, and also pay more attention to patent law that protects technology.

Therefore, as soon as the Patent Law was promulgated, the newly established patent office received hundreds of patent applications, and the interesting thing is that these patent applications were all institutional applications, and there were no individual applications.

The vast majority of these patent applications are from the Royal Institute of Technology, which has just been spun off from the young barracks, and are related to various advanced technologies.

At the same time, some of the applications came from major factories under the Ministry of Industry and some factories belonging to the royal family.

However, although the number of private applications is small, there are still some applications!

One of the most notable is the application from the Chen's Grain Company, a subsidiary of the Chen family in Zhaoqing, which applied for three patents related to rice and wheat processing in one go, and one of the patents is the transmission equipment in the hydraulic equipment.

In the production process, they found that the output of the original hydraulic equipment produced by the machinery branch was not stable enough, which had an impact on the processing of flour, so they spent a lot of money to invite craftsmen to concentrate on improvement, and finally came up with a new set of transmission equipment, which can make the hydraulic equipment run more smoothly and effectively improve the processing accuracy.

Originally, they applied for a patent, but they just wanted to try to apply for one or two, anyway, it has no impact on them if they don't pass, and it is better to pass, but it is unintentional, this application has just been submitted, and the people from Zhaoqing Machinery Branch Factory immediately came over, and said that they wanted to obtain the authorization of this set of transmission equipment.

Moreover, a fixed license fee of thousands of taels of silver was issued, or 10% of the price of the subsequent transmission equipment as a share.

At this price, the Chen family couldn't refuse at all!

And the reason why it is impossible to refuse is not only because the price is very high, but also because it is nothing for Chen's Grain Company, which already has three rice mills and a flour mill, and the milled rice and refined flour produced already occupy nearly half of the refined grain market in Guangdong.

But this machinery branch is they can not offend, on the contrary, but also try to win over the upstream enterprises, most of the machinery and equipment in their factory, are purchased from the machinery branch, if offended the machinery branch, then this business should not be done.

However, even if it was already ready to agree in his heart, the Chen family still tried their best to fight for the interests they should have, first of all, the Chen family asked the machinery branch to not sell this kind of transmission equipment to other grain companies within a year.

At the same time, if the follow-up machinery branch improves the equipment for rolling rice and flour, the Chen family has the right of first refusal, and after the product is launched, the Chen family has an exclusive period of one month, and can only sell it to other grain factories after one month.

Of course, the grain processing factories directly under the Ministry of Industry are not counted in the above two restrictions, because the grain processing factories directly under the Ministry of Industry are not open to the public, only supply the official and the military, and belong to internal procurement, and have no competition with the Chen family.

Of course, in return, it is not enough to rely on the patent authorization of a set of transmission equipment, they simply transferred the patent directly to the machinery branch, and at the same time undertook part of the research and development expenses of the new grain processing equipment.

What the Chen family has paid is just an opportunity to take the lead!

Just like they did before!

The current Chen family still remembers that they were the first to discover rice milling equipment, and then spent a lot of money to introduce these equipment and enter the grain processing business, and as the first family to enter the grain processing industry, the current Chen family's grain business is booming.

Although the total amount of grain they are involved in is not much in the overall grain market, they buy high value-added polished rice and refined flour for the upper class.

After such a finishing process, the price of ordinary rice and flour has risen exponentially, which means that the profit is also several times!

Speaking of high profits, ordinary grain merchants cannot be compared with them!

The Chen family, who made a lot of money, did not sit idly by, but continued to invest in large-scale expansion of factories, and began to get involved in the processing of other grains, and even dealt with the royal industry and the military, for example, they cooperated with the military dry food factory in the royal industry, trying to develop and produce military dry food that can be stored for a long time, and at the same time the taste is not too bad, and can ensure sufficient nutrition!

Of course, in this cooperation model, the Chen family is only the one who pays for it, and the research and development has to rely on the Royal Military Dry Food Factory, but the Chen family doesn't care about the money, they only care about whether they can learn something, and then they care about whether they can get in touch with the royal industry and the military.

If this military dry food can be made, then the Chen family will naturally become one of the military's suppliers, and it is also irreplaceable, one of the quite special suppliers, which is very different from the current ordinary military food suppliers.

The Chen family can be regarded as the most typical and successful representative of the rise of the Tang Dynasty and the support for industrial and commercial development, especially in the current wave of industrial development.

But the Chen family is definitely not the only home!

On the outskirts of the southern city of Guangzhou, on the banks of the Pearl River, there is a huge shipyard, which is near the riverbank, and there are many huge wooden ships under construction in several huge docks, one of which has been largely completed, and its hull is different from the Fu ship, Guangzhou ship and even the Galen ship in the Westerners, which are now popular in Southeast Asian waters.

Its most obvious feature is its slender body, just by looking at its appearance, you know that it can't go there slowly.

This ship naturally cannot be an ordinary civilian ship, but a third-class cruiser specially designed for the Navy by the Ship Administration Department of the Tang Navy, which combines various types of Eastern and Western ship types, and is the third ship of the third-class cruiser.

And the shipyard that undertook the construction of this third-class cruiser was naturally also the Guangzhou Shipyard under the Ministry of Industry.

Next door to the Guangzhou Shipyard, there is another smaller shipyard 'Shamian Shipyard', although its scale is small, but several docks in it are also busy with many craftsmen.

Shamian Shipyard is one of Xu Bingfu's industries.

And Xu Bingfu was the first person to take the initiative to supply ships to the Datang Navy, and this person not only owned three shipyards under his name, but also owned a large inland river fleet.

In the past two years, thanks to the support of industry and commerce in the Tang Dynasty, the Xijiang waterway has been opened, and at the same time, because of the rapid development of industry and commerce, the shipping on the Xijiang River, and even the inland waterway shipping industry of the entire Pearl River system have also flourished.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, the size of the inland river private fleet to and from the Pearl River basin has been fully doubled compared with the two years of Xuanping, and it is still unable to meet the current demand for cargo transportation.

In this way, it also directly stimulates the development of the shipbuilding industry!

This Shamian shipyard is also the largest of the three shipyards under Xu Bingfu's name, in the past two years, the scale has more than tripled, but it is still in short supply, and because next door is the Guangzhou shipyard directly under the Ministry of Industry, when he saw the super-large tonnage dock and large-scale professional shipbuilding machinery and equipment in the Guangzhou shipyard, Xu Bingfu couldn't help but think about it.

At this time, in the Shamian Shipyard, Xu Bingfu and the steward in the shipyard, as well as a few brothers and uncles, were drinking tea and talking!

The man who was talking was a wealthy man in his fifties with a long goatee, and he only listened to him say unhurriedly: "Now the momentum of our shipyard is just right, and there are still more than 20 sand ships waiting for us to do, it is to build a few more docks, hire more skilled workers, and seize the time to expand the scale, if you start building a 500-ton or even 1,000-ton dock, the pressure on funds is too great, and this big dock cannot be built in a year and a half, and even if it is built, Who will ask us to book such a big ship? ”

"Now the major shipping companies want a large number, two or three hundred tons of sand ships, Guangzhou, and I haven't heard anyone say that they want to order this kind of five hundred tons or even thousands of tons of big ships, and this kind of big ship, we have never built it before, whether this can be built or not, the risk is too great!"

"It is that this machinery and equipment can be properly bought, but this machinery and equipment is extremely expensive, I heard that the Guangzhou shipyard next door, just this year's mechanical equipment, it cost no less than 50,000 taels, our small body, even if it is a little money, but how can it be compared with the official family, this buy less, the effect is not big, but buy more, I'm afraid the money will not be able to turn around!"

Listening to this uncle's words, Xu Bingfu, who was sitting on the main seat, said with a determined look: "This dock must be built, and machinery and equipment must also be introduced!" ”

"Don't worry about the order, I have inquired, the Royal Industry Department is already planning to set up the Royal Sea Trade Company, they have already released the news, when the time comes, they will order at least 20 ships of more than 500 tons, and even order 1,000 tons of ships, now the government-run Guangzhou shipyard can't even finish building warships, as long as we can build the dock in time, get the equipment ready, it is easy to grab a part of the order!"

After that, he looked at everyone: "The future will be the era of thousand-ton ships, if you don't prepare in advance, it will be too late to catch up when the time comes, our Xu family, we must seize the future!" ”