Chapter 119: The Lawsuit (Fifth Update)
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and even the dogs are hiding in the shade, sticking out their tongues weakly, only knowing that they are barking tirelessly.
Taipingfang Blue House, backyard.
After choosing a concubine, the palace sent two stewards and four little palace maids to teach the etiquette in the Lanyan Palace.
The Ming Dynasty only went through three emperors, including a four-year Jianwen period. Zhu Yuanzhang was a clay leg at the beginning, although he was heroic and extraordinary, and restarted the Han people's national ancestry, but because of his low background at the beginning, he didn't pay much attention to it at all.
Today's Daming Palace is mainly based on a set of management plans determined by Zhu Yuanzhang according to the regulations of the previous dynasty, emphasizing strictness and ignoring freedom.
Lan Yan grew up in Xichuan since he was a child, and his father was taken care of by Princess Shu, although he was engaged in business, no one dared to bully. Her father was away from home for business, and her mother was weak and sickly and difficult to discipline, so she grew up completely on what she learned in books.
However, because of this, she is slightly lacking in human sophistication, and has always taken the things in the book as a matter of course.
A person who is free and casual is now restrained by several palace maids everywhere and complains of misery.
She can bear all this, the only thing she can't stand is that she has completely lost her freedom.
Father Lan is fond of business, and he has also saved a lot of money in Xichuan. Because of Lan Yan's selection of concubines, most of the family business was sold by the princess of Shu, and the family assets were exchanged for gold and silver, and the three sisters and brothers were given to them, and a pawn book was also sent to the palace as a housekeeper.
However, the other industries of the Lan family are easy to sell, but the industry of silkworm brocade is difficult to realize.
Shu brocade is famous all over the world and has always been a royal tribute. However, Xichuan is mountainous, and silkworm cultivation is more scattered than that in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
The Lan family signed contracts with thousands of farmers to supply silkworm cocoons, and it was not easy for others to take over this industry.
In addition, it is difficult to negotiate the price, although the handover has been negotiated with Xichuan Yifu, but the two sides will not be handed over until after the spring silkworm transaction this year.
Lan Yan has been keeping accounts on behalf of his father since he was a child, and he knows a lot about the family's industry, although he has not actually operated it, but he thinks that he has learned a lot from books and has been taught by his father, so he has some honey confidence.
Now that Wang Xiu Wang Dianbo is in Xichuan to help him handle the handover, and he also transported the Shu brocade produced this year to Jingshi by ship. But he never thought that as soon as the ship arrived in Beijing, it was boycotted by the silk line on Beijing's side.
The relationship between the silk and satin industry in Beijing is complicated, and behind the silk and satin shops, there are high-ranking officials and nobles, and there are business alliances of the Suzhou and Hangzhou generations.
Now the two ships of Shujin are still delayed at the Stone Town Wharf, and they can't go ashore or go.
Princess Shu has returned to Xichuan, and the right Changshi Zhangcha, who stayed to help her deal with the marriage, is a typical nerd. Let him talk about the past and the present, and it is okay to preside over etiquette, but he can't be counted on in business at all.
So the weather has been hot these days, but Lan Yan's heart is even more dry, and there are a few acne on the corners of his mouth, which makes the palace maid fall again.
The teaching is a day off for ten years, and when she finally has free time, she wants to go to the dock of Stone Town in person to deal with these two ships of Shu brocade.
This decision also made her little girl Wutong worried, she had not been exposed to the outside world with Miss before, and she also felt that her young lady was the smartest person. But now that I follow the young lady every day and are taught the rules of the palace by the palace maids, I know that the world is so complicated and so difficult to understand.
Miss, is she really good? Are the people outside as fierce as the palace maid's aunt?
Moreover, she was even more afraid that the palace maid's aunt would punish them harshly if she found out about them slipping out.
But Lan Yan insisted on going her own way, and she was respected in this house, so no one dared to persuade her.
However, she also knew that this time was different from the past, and everything had to be safe, so she deliberately asked Wutong to find four strong nursing homes to keep up.
The construction of the Jiajiang Industrial Zone was unexpectedly smooth.
Although since ancient times, the research and invention of Chinese civilization have been made by people and events, and there is a lack of relevant logical applications.
But when it becomes an executive order, delivered from top to bottom, all of them can burst into fearful potential for a single goal.
Since the end of March, the tested waterwheels have entered the water, and more than 100 waterwheels of various kinds have been erected on both sides of the river.
Among them, most of them are waterwheels for grinding noodles and rice, and most of them have been bought by Yingtianfu's rice shop, specializing in processing business.
These returns also made the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry burst out with higher enthusiasm, using the power of the waterwheel, they actively studied a variety of different connection structures, more stable connection structures, and expanded the application of the waterwheel to more and more.
Most of the waterwheels have three different structures, which are divided into rotating shafts, vertical wheels, and horizontal wheels, and the three different waterwheels can drive different linkage devices.
Nowadays, because of the invention of bearings, the waterwheel of the rotating shaft can be made bigger, stronger, and more powerful. Therefore, most of today's process research is carried out around the rotating shaft waterwheel.
Ma Zhicai developed the world's first grinding machine by improving the rotating structure and connection structure of the machine tool, installing a large iron disc on the machine tool, and then installing a water tank with sand in it.
Although the function of this grinding machine can still be single, it can only cut and polish jade, but it can also process gold and silver jewelry.
The invention of this grinding machine was soon leased at a high price by Longfeng Yinlou, and with this grinding machine, it can save a lot of labor costs and processing speed.
Not to be outdone, other silver buildings paid a lot of money to order grinding machines from the Ministry of Industry, and as a result, ten more workshops specializing in processing jade and gold and silver were added to the riverside.
But what made Zhu Zhanji happiest was the invention of a craftsman named Chang Kuan in the Ministry of Industry. He developed a set of connecting devices, which can be brought to five looms at the same time with a waterwheel to rotate, and this invention is the invention that really detonated the entire Ming Dynasty.
In this era, all industries are the most rudimentary, and the largest is the clothing industry.
From ancient times to the present, clothing, food, housing and transportation are the items closely related to people that everyone attaches the most importance to, and clothing is even ranked in front of food.
In the Chinese doctrine, the difference between humans and beasts is that the most important thing is to know honesty and shame and understand etiquette. And dressing is the biggest difference between humans and animals.
However, the limitation of productivity has always made weaving an individual behavior, and it has never been large-scale and intensive. But Chang Kuan's invention will completely change all that.
And this invention also became the first patent applied for by Daming. It's just that the applicant is not Chang Kuan, but the Yu Hengqing Department of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, which is also a patent application under an administrative order, and the applicant and the approver are both one institution.
For this reason, Yu Hengqing specially arranged a member of the Wupin Wailang to be in charge of this matter, which can be regarded as having a special agency.
According to the preliminary provisions, the Ministry of Industry Yu Hengqing has the patent right for 10 years, and no other person or institution is allowed to prevent this thing. Any improvements made on this basis are also owned by Yu Heng Qing Officials.
And after this first patent of the Ming Dynasty was applied for by the Ministry of Industry, it immediately caused a shock in the entire Jiangnan, and the first one to jump out was not others, but the eunuchs of the internal officials and eunuchs.
Because the weaving industry in the Ming Dynasty was subordinate to the Weaving Bureau, and the Weaving Bureau was supervised by the internal officials. Originally, one person could only manage one loom, but now one person can manage five looms, and the efficiency has increased by five times, which means that they can now expand their production capacity by five times.
But as soon as the patent came out, they couldn't prevent it, which was tantamount to cutting off their financial route!
The internal officials and supervisors were not afraid of the Ministry of Industry, so they directly brought the lawsuit to Dali Temple.
Dali Temple has never taken over this case, and reported this matter to Zhu Di. Zhu Di said that he could not skip the level and handed over the case to the Ministry of Industry Yu Hengqing Department for adjudication.
Because the Ministry of Industry is the manager of the patent, it must first be adjudicated by the Ministry of Industry, and if the Ministry of Industry's ruling is unfair, the internal officials and supervisors can sue the Ministry of Industry as a defendant in Dali Temple.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation across the country, and the sensation was not the new gadget of patents, but the lawsuit between the two imperial court departments!
For more than half a month, the lawsuits between the Ministry of Industry and the internal officials and supervisors have come and gone. First of all, the internal official supervisor denied the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry on the grounds that the weaving industry was under the supervision and jurisdiction of the internal official.
However, the Ministry of Industry determined that this technology belonged to the Ministry of Industry on the grounds that the improvement of the loom was an official of the Ministry of Industry, and the internal officials and supervisors wanted to use this technology, either by purchasing the water conservancy looms produced by the Ministry of Industry, or by directly purchasing patents and producing looms by themselves.
The adjudicator and the interested party belong to the same family, and this lawsuit cannot be fought.
The internal officials and supervisors also knew that Zhu Zhanji had made the patent, so the chief eunuch Hou Xian personally met with Zhu Zhanji to inquire about the regulations.
In the autumn of the first year of Yongle, Hou Xian was appointed by Zhu Di to lead the people of the Lintan Tibetan Tusi as the chief eunuch and the young eunuch of the Lintan Tibetan people, and went deep into Tibet.
In December of the fourth year of Yongle, he smoothly invited a group of religious leaders such as Harima to Nanjing, and accepted the official position and title of the new dynasty.
This also means that the entire Qinghai-Tibet has officially become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
His first envoy was a complete success, which made Zhu Di very happy and promoted him from a young eunuch to a eunuch.
Later, he followed Zheng He for the second and third voyages to the Western Ocean, and after gaining experience, he led the fleet to the Western Ocean many times, but the fleet he led was small in scale, and each time there was a special mission, so it was not known to later generations.
And now, he is preparing to lead a fleet to the countries of Punggara, that is, the countries around the East Indies in later generations, preparing to develop trade between the Ming Dynasty and the countries there.
Because Zhu Zhanji is now in charge of the navy, the two have had many contacts to discuss the size and tasks of the fleet, and Zhu Zhanji has of course arranged a lot of personal work for him.
Seeing him come to the door, Zhu Zhanji only said: "If you want the world's craftsmen to work hard and have the courage to improve, the patent cannot be abolished." ”
Hou Xian immediately understood what Zhu Zhanji meant, and after he went back, he asked the people below to negotiate with the Ministry of Industry about the patent authorization.
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