June in Jinling is a rare scorching heat in the world, especially at noon, when the sun hangs high and scorches the earth. Walking on the street without shade in this kind of weather, it is easy to faint suddenly.

However, even in this weather, there were caravans from all over Jinling, either in horse-drawn carriages or with convoys, and groups of thirty or fifty people came from all over the world.

Most areas of Jinling and Jiangnan are full of new factories, and the textile cloth production of small family workshops in the past has completely failed to keep up with the times. The sea area controlled by the Ming Dynasty is constantly expanding, and there are countless dumping places for goods, and ordinary small workshops are simply not enough to see.

The imperial court's support for merchants made the Ming Dynasty the soil for the rise of the first factory. In particular, Hou Xuanyan's policy of giving benefits to the people made many factories receive support from the imperial court in disguise.

What pushes people forward is never the inherent rigid thinking, but money and interests, since you can't be an official after reading the dead book, and you can't glorify the ancestors and the lintel, who will hold the four books and five classics.

Hou Xuanyan has also repeatedly discovered that today's Ming Dynasty has drawbacks, and everyone has fallen into an era of crazy pursuit of money. This is not what China should be, and there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to sit down and read some good books.

The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit...

At this time, a major event occurred in Jinling, and a large-scale fight broke out between the two factories.

The Wu family in Jinling has a factory in Jiangning, which is a factory specializing in textiles, and there is a guy in it who was an ancestral carpenter before entering the factory, and he and himself are still the carpenter's father in addition to weaving, inventing a new type of spinning wheel.

This spinning wheel is powered by water power, which greatly improves the efficiency of weaving and saves manpower. This incident even alarmed Wu Jikun, the head of the Wu family, who rewarded the carpenter's father and son, and signed a contract with them to buy out the technology of this spinning wheel, and Wu Jikun immediately decided to expand the factory.

Who knew that the carpenter's father and son were eating the pot and looking at the pot, and then turned their heads and sold the new spinning wheel to another factory in Jiangning County, which was not small, it was the local gentry Xu family in Jiangning, and the Wu family was still a small businessman when the Xu family was tired of high-ranking officials.

Wu Jikun was greatly annoyed when he heard this, and sent someone to find a carpenter to confront him, and the carpenter's family hid in the Xu family's house, and the people of the Wu family came to the door to ask the Xu family and refused to let him go. In the end, the anger between the two sides grew, and a weapon fight broke out in Jiangning, injuring more than 70 people.

This matter was even reported to Hou Xuanyan's case, and after understanding the cause and effect, Hou Xuanyan personally came forward to judge the case.

Today, inside and outside the lobby, crowded with all kinds of people from the vicinity of Jinling, they all craned their necks and tiptoed to know how this case should be judged.

The lobby of the Criminal Department is rarely open to the public, Hou Xuanyan looked at the crowd outside and nodded secretly. The people sitting next to him are also big men from the DPRK and China, including Zhang Huangyan, Ma Shiying and others.

The first time he heard about it, he knew it was an opportunity, a rare opportunity.

was shocked, and Hou Xuanyan also passed the addiction of solving the case, Wu Jikun and Xu Yuanlang and the carpenter's father and son were escorted up.

Wu Jikun won't talk about it, he is the richest man in Jinling, and he is an old acquaintance with the prince. Xu Yuanlang is the head of the Xu family in Jiangning, and the Northern Expedition has also made great efforts, and the Xu family has been a Jiangning Wang family for generations, plus the three parties feel that they are justified in this matter, so they also look at each other coldly when they go to the court, and no one is convinced.

Wu Jikun thinks he spent money to buy this technology and made a written note; Xu Yuanlang believes that the invention of this thing is not something that can be touched and seen, where is there such a thing as buying out other people's ideas; It is rare for the carpenter father and son to see so much money, and it is obviously impossible to make them high-spirited.

Hou Xuanyan looked at the four people in the hall, the clothes on both sides were luxurious, their bearing was extraordinary, they looked like they were rich and noble, and their faces were angry, obviously because they didn't want to go to court. The carpenter father and son in the middle are much weaker, their eyes are evasive, and they look a little obscene.

"You are fighting in Jiangning, not to mention the reason, as far as this matter is concerned, it is already a serious contempt for the law and discipline of our dynasty."

Wu Jikun and Xu Yuanlang's faces were anxious, and they just wanted to defend themselves, but Hou Xuanyan continued: "Wu Jikun is close to old age, and he has meritorious service to the country, so it is inconvenient to be tried in court. Wu Shouyu was tried for his father, moved a chair for him, and listened to the trial. ”

Xu Yuanlang's face became even more ugly, and the Wu family, on the contrary, breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the prince still misses the old.

Hou Xuanyan then said with a pleasant face: "Xu Yuanlang is also a person who funded the Northern Expedition, although he has no merit and fame, he does not have to bow down to the ground to listen to the trial. ”

The Xu family's hanging heart fell, only the carpenter's father and son were even more afraid, what does this mean, both sides are related households, do you want to take our father and son under the knife?

Hou Xuanyan stood up with a smile and said to the carpenter's father and son: "As for your father and son, although you have the virtue of greedy for money, it is difficult to hide the great merit of skillful skills. The innovation of the spinning wheel is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and in the future, the poor will have clothes to wear, which is a merit for the benefit of the people. Hou Xuanyan's face was ruddy, and the more he spoke, the more excited he became, and said to the officials on the left and right: "Such a talent, it should be rewarded, and it will be rewarded." ”

There was an uproar in the hall, everyone brought melon seed benches, and the whole family of the old and the young went out to watch the show. As a result, I watched a play of the regent and the mud?

And Master He was still talking eloquently at the moment, turning the lobby of the Criminal Department into a teahouse, and his words were just encouraging everyone to learn from the carpenter's father and son.

Xu Yuanlang listened to the cloud and mountain fog cover, was it the fault of the Wu family or the Xu family after a long time?

Hou Xuanyan finally stopped praising the carpenter's father and son, and instead said: "As for the Jiangning fight, both Wu and Xu have it, and they each pay each other a thousand taels of silver to compensate the injured guy's family. As for this water-powered spinning wheel, since it was sold by the carpenter to the Wu family and then to the Xu family, this is the fault of the imperial court. ”

"Lord Wang, how is this the fault of the imperial court?" Zhang Huangyan, who was listening, couldn't listen anymore and couldn't help but interrupt him and asked.

"In the final analysis, this matter is due to the imperfection of the law of the imperial court, and there is a basis for judging this case in the Daming Law?"

Zhang Huangyan was speechless, this master didn't take the majesty of the court seriously at all, and on behalf of the court, admitting his mistake in court was not a self-surrendering identity?

Hou Xuanyan disagreed, right is right, wrong is wrong, admitting his mistakes will not only not lose his majesty, but will enhance the credibility of the imperial court.

Seeing that Zhang Huangyan was no longer talking, Hou Xuanyan turned his head and continued: "This king has decided that from now on, the Wenyuan Pavilion, the Celebrant Supervisor, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Industry will transfer manpower to improve the law and formulate a set of norms. Any invention or innovation that creates something that has not existed can be patented and anyone who makes a profit from it will either buy out the patent or pay a fee. The Imperial Court will protect the 'patent' for fifteen years, after which it will be available to everyone.

Today's case, since it is because the legal system of the imperial court is not perfect, then the imperial court paid for the 'patent' of the little carpenter's hydraulic spinning wheel and gave it to the Wu and Xu families. In the future, if the factories of the Ming merchants used this car, or similar cars, they would have to pay two taels of silver to the two families. ”

The word patent appeared in Daming for the first time, and at this time, except for Hou Xuanyan, the minds of others had not yet fully understood.

But the impact of this case is so great that it is bound to spread throughout the country through these melon-eating masses.

Hou Xuanyan is the most concerned figure in the entire Ming Dynasty, and all the anecdotes and anecdotes about him have a broad audience market.

The word 'patent' is bound to be known to everyone sooner or later as it spreads.

Wu Jikun and Xu Yuanlang reconciled under the mediation of Hou Xuanyan. The two sides walked out of the yamen together, their faces seemed to be very calm, but there were huge waves in their hearts. Businessmen are the most sensitive to money, and the 'patent' thing is clearly the silver spent in vain.

After the completion of the workshop of the hydro-spinning wheel, the efficiency has increased dozens of times compared with the past, how can this thing not be promoted. At that time, businessmen across the country who want to use it will have to pay for themselves, although I don't know how much, but the accumulation is still very amazing.

Of course, the most exciting thing is that those craftsmen, who used to work honestly, but now they have the opportunity to leap into the dragon gate. Once you come up with a 'patent' like a little carpenter, it doesn't mean that you have a lot of money.

As Hou Xuanyan expected, this case quickly spread, and the streets and alleys were talking about it.

What followed was a wave of invention fever, and inventors of all styles sprung up like mushrooms.

Patent yamen in various places began to be built on a government basis, and the land of the Ming Dynasty was vast, and it was impossible to apply for them all in one place.

At the beginning, everyone was miserable, there were too many people, and all kinds of inventions came out. Some of them are simply useless, and even make a lot of jokes.

Finally, the household department came up with a trick, and to apply for a patent, you need to pay a certain fee first. If it is judged to be a first-class patent, all fees can be refunded. In the case of a Class C patent, the fee paid will not be refunded.

In this way, this wave of national invention boom was stopped.

In the Ming Dynasty, the speed of this spread was fast enough, but Hou Xuanyan was still not satisfied.

In the era when there is no television or radio, the only way to do this is to make a newspaper. Fortunately, he has been working on illiteracy throughout the country for more than a year.

Just do it, Hou Xuanyan immediately sent someone to call Gu Yanwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Gu Yanwu's years in the Ministry of Rites have just begun to be in the limelight, but the more he goes to the back, the more he has nothing to do, only the Siyi Pavilion and Honglu Temple still have something to do, and the other yamen are basically decorations.

After coming to the palace, the soldiers took him to the study, and Gu Yanwu faintly heard the sound of a woman laughing in the study, so he stopped.

Qin He stepped forward and knocked on the door and said, "Lord Wang, Gu Shangshu is here." ”

"Come in, please." Hou Xuanyan straightened his clothes, looked at Gu Yanwu who pushed the door in, and said with a smile: "Serve tea to Lord Gu." ”

The maid next to her was blessed, turned around and went out to make tea, Gu Yanwu asked, "The prince summoned the officials, I don't know what the so-called thing is?" ”

Hou Xuanyan took out a piece of paper from the table, Gu Yanwu looked forward, and the texture of the paper used by the prince was also average. It seems that it is rumored that after the Northern Expedition of the prince, it was hard and simple, and when he returned to Beijing, he said that his clothes were shabby, which was not a lie.

Hou Xuanyan didn't know a simple piece of paper, and Gu Yanwu had already made up a clean and thrifty anti-corruption drama in his heart, and said excitedly: "Look at this." ”

Gu Yanwu took the paper and looked at it, the layout was very clear, some of the articles were about the imperial court decrees, and some were about the Mobei Victory, and the words were very concise and easy to understand.

"Is this the Di Bao?" Gu Yanwu saw it at a glance.

Hou Xuanyan clapped his hands and said: "Yes, the general administration department of this dynasty has not been rebuilt since the Jiashen national disaster. I plan to reopen the government department, and this time it will be issued to the common people, to ensure that the local government and the imperial court are in harmony. ”

The General Administration Department is the yamen in the Ming court, which is responsible for the publication and distribution of the newspaper.

Gu Yanwu's eyes lit up when he heard this, the Ministry of Rites had been idle for so long, and all the officials were worried about Zhong Zhong for fear of losing their jobs, but they didn't expect to fall into such a big job.

"The prince's move is clever, so that the decree is smooth, and the will of the court can also be quickly distributed to the four seas, which is a clever move." If it weren't for this voice, Hou Xuanyan would have suspected that Gu Yanwu in front of him was pretending to be Ma Shiying, this tone was completely Ma Shiying's tone, but it also showed that Gu Yanwu was very in favor of this matter.

"Hehe, since Gu Shangshu also thinks it's okay, let's go back and start preparing. This matter should be done sooner rather than later, and we can see the effect as soon as possible. ”

As soon as Gu Yanwu was excited, he immediately asked: "I just don't know if they will pay for it for the people, otherwise the paper alone will be a big expense." ”

Hou Xuanyan said with a smile: "It's not the past now, the foreign gold and silver have flowed in, and the people have a lot of silver, so write more content that the people are interested in, which can naturally make them develop the habit of buying Di Bao." ”

Money is easy to do, the approval of the Ministry of Rites has just been obtained, and the silver of the Ministry of Household has been in place.

Gu Yanwu excitedly took the idle officials of the Ministry of Rites and carefully prepared the first Jinling Mansion newspaper, Hou Xuanyan was very angry when he saw it, this thing may not be able to understand the previous talents, is this like facing the people?

The officials of the Ministry of Rites patronized the literary brilliance, poetry and songs, and prose, with beautiful wording and many allusions. If this thing were among scholars, it would resonate.

But since there was work to do, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were full of energy, and the revised version came out soon.

Hou Xuanyan took a look, this time it was not bad, in addition to explaining the meaning of the patent in detail, as well as various regulations, there are also some heroic stories of Mobei's victory. What's more interesting is that in order to attract the attention of the small people, Gu Yanwu found a few bigwigs in the current dynasty and wrote some interesting stories about his childhood and published them on them.

Hou Xuanyan looked at the vacancy in the middle and said, "This place can also be used, you can serialize some legends and the like, and you can also use the script." ”

Gu Yanwu nodded and asked, "Which ones are suitable?" ”

Hou Xuanyan said impatiently: "I have a lot of talents, and there are countless good ones, any masterpieces such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Golden Bottle Plum can be serialized." ”

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