Chapter 48 The First Copyright Protection Case of the Ming Dynasty

Yan Heng stepped forward, and before he could salute, Xiong Xiu, the county magistrate, picked up the tea: "You can do business and make all the money of the world's scholars." ”

It can be seen that this magistrate already knows about the sale of county test counseling materials in his Wenqu study.

But what Yan Heng didn't expect was that this Xiong Zhixian buckled his hat as soon as he came up, saying that he had earned all the money of scholars in the world.

Although, Yan Heng has always wanted to make the money of the world's scholars, but he doesn't have the ability to do it now.

People must always speak in line with objective facts, let alone officials who know the affairs of a county.

Yan Heng was busy being modest, but he felt that he didn't have to belittle the potential of his Wenqu study too much, otherwise, this Xiong Zhixian would not be interested in cooperating with his Wenqu study.

But just when Yan Heng was thinking about how to better express that his Wenqu study was not so powerful as to threaten the county lord's right to control the people, but if he could cooperate with the county government, he could also allow the county lord to better govern the county and better benefit the party, Xiong Xiu seemed to see Yan Heng's thoughts, and opened his mouth first:

"You don't have to say it, the official knows that your family is difficult, and it is understandable to do some business to supplement your family;

What do you mean, the official Zhang of the household also told the official, the official is not the kind of pedantic person who does not know how to change, but the official will not cooperate with you;

The government is a place for the welfare of the common people, not for trading, but the fact that you compiled the county examination papers into books and sold them also inspired the officials;

Since ancient times, learning has often been mastered by the rich, resulting in the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer.

Although my dynasty has gone through a hundred years, but the way of the sage still only exists in the rich family, even if there are talented people in the world regardless of their origins, the future is the same after the middle school, but because the rich and noble people raise more people, the model text and experience of the examination are inherited from the parents to the children, and the rich businessmen can directly sell the literature and plagiarize, so that the middle is not the home of the scholar or the rich businessman;

It is even more difficult for Tian Shelang to ascend to the Tianzi Hall, and now the official has posted all the good documents on the shadow wall of the ceremonial room for the Confucian children of the world to copy for free, or it can help the poor students. ”

Yan Heng and Ouyang Jin couldn't help but look surprised.

But Yan Heng also admires the courage of this Xiong Zhixian, because from a certain point of view, he is self-defeating! And it also makes the famous people in Fenyi County very unhappy.

Before Wenqu Shuzhai sold county test counseling materials, the world's scholars were unaware of the huge profits involved.

At that time, they were happy to have their articles spread among relatives and friends, and even be compiled into books, but now that they have found out that they can make a lot of money, they naturally refuse to let their articles be turned into valuable books for free.

But now, in order to let poor students who can't afford tutoring materials can also see the latest model texts, the county government has directly published them for free.

This means that bookstores can get these latest exam answers at zero cost and compile them into a book, and they have nothing to do with them.

According to Yan Heng's original meaning, the reason why Wenqu Shuzhai gave the government a dividend of 30% was actually to provide dividends to the government and the original creators of these exam answers behind the government, so as to avoid these original creators, the so-called Xiucai and Jinshi, from blushing and then coercing the government to violently take away the interests in it.

However, now Xiong Xiu, who is their representative, refused the remuneration and said that it would be announced free of charge.

In this regard, Yan Heng can only accept it gladly.

Although Wenqu Study can no longer monopolize the upstream test answer sheet resources, it will no longer have any costs to pay, but when the time comes, as long as you hire a few science field stars to compile a few good tutoring materials, you can also make money.

Yan Heng had no choice but to flatter Xiong Zhixian and mention to Xiong Zhixian about copyright protection.

After all, since Xiong Zhixian is a good official who is the master of the people, he can't only be the master of the poor students, but also for them, the businessmen who make a living by buying and selling, and the books he has worked so hard to compile cannot be pirated in such a grand manner, after all, knowledge is also wealth, and piracy is also theft.

Xiong Zhixian was a little stunned, as a Ming official, it was the first time he encountered such a thing as copyright protection, and it was commonplace for the books compiled by his annotations to be copied and even sold by people all over the world, but how to become a heinous thief in Yan Heng's mouth.

But if you think about it, Yan Heng seems to be right, it seems to be indeed an unrighteous act to be stolen from someone who has worked hard to compile a book of his own, and it is also used for profit.

However, what Xiong Xiu is even more difficult now is that there is no law on intellectual property protection in the Ming Dynasty, but fortunately, the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty have the privilege to manipulate the law, so Xiong Xiu said:

"Stealing someone else's book is the same as theft!"

In this way, the first case of litigation settlement of intellectual property protection in the Ming Dynasty appeared in Fenyi County, Jiangxi Province, which had been in Chenghua for 20 years.

However, as far as Yan Heng knows, "Da Ming Law: Thieves" stipulates that those who steal more than 120 times will be directly hanged, even if the circumstances are minor, the word "theft" will be tattooed on the right arm!

But Yan Heng can't do anything about it, the punishment is decided by the magistrate, and he is just legally defending his rights.

Now that he has met Yan Heng, Xiong Xiu of the county naturally wants to ask him how he is preparing for the county test.

In the eyes of Zhixian Xiong Xiu, after all, the Great Sima Princes and the Great Grandmaster Yang are very concerned about this kid, and even took the old Shangge to quickly accept this Yan Heng as a student, so Zhixian Xiong Xiu has now consciously substituted himself into the role of Yan Heng's teacher, and asked, "How are you studying lately?" ”

"Returning to the county, I didn't dare to give up for a day!"

Yan Heng deliberately said a very vague answer, which means, guess?

Zhixian Xiong Xiu nodded, and asked again: "Can you know Shiwen?" ”

"A little bit of understanding, it's okay to be indiscriminate", Yan Heng was telling the truth, he really only knew some rules and wrote some articles.

But Ouyang Jin on the side deliberately deceived the county for fear of dissatisfying the county, and Ouyang Jin knew that the county bears embroidery the most hated by others to deceive him, so Ouyang Jin hurriedly explained: "The county respects don't listen to the little nephew's words, where does he know what the current language, and it is good to be able to memorize a three-character scripture." ”

Zhixian Xiong Xiu was a little stunned, he clearly remembered that Wang Shu and Yang Yiqing, the two great talents, had a high opinion of Yan Heng, and Yang Yiqing had always been an arrogant person, and he also admitted that Yan Heng's maturity had surpassed that of himself when he was so young, how could he be a person who couldn't even memorize the three-character scripture.

Therefore, Xiong Xiu was skeptical of Yan Heng and Ouyang Jin's words, so he thought about continuing to test Yan Heng and asked, "I will read a sentence, and you will solve the question." ”

"The son is Yan Yuan said, use it to do it, give it up and hide it, but I have a husband with you!"

Yan Heng thought to himself that the people he had always known said that he didn't learn and didn't know anything, but in fact, where did he not learn and didn't know how to do it, but the previous Yan Heng didn't learn and didn't know anything, and now he must let them all know themselves again.

So, Yan Heng decided to think about whether there were any descendants who had solved this topic in his mind, if someone had solved it, he would use it directly, if not, he could only make it up on the spot, as a person who learned process writing because of interest, this level is still there, although maybe the solution is not very good.

Yan Heng knew that the sentence that Xiong Xiu said in Zhixian County came from the "Analects", and it didn't take long for him to think of the big question in the examination paper of the 12th year of the Manchu Kangxi Dynasty.

Yan Heng didn't want to be low-key, although he mainly hoped that Xiao Yan Song would make a name for his Yan family, but he couldn't back down when it was time for him to fight.

Therefore, Yan Heng directly found the answer to a question in the 12th year of the Manchu Kangxi Dynasty.