The time in the unit of 'years' and the close exchange of science and technology between the East and the West - this preparation is said to be Chen Han's unilateral introduction and absorption from the West, so that the gap between the industrial level of the East and the West is rapidly narrowing, and in terms of the promotion and application of new technologies, Chen Han's speed is even faster than that of Europe, the origin of these technologies.

The bright flowers blooming of European civilization were unceremoniously picked by Chen Ming and returned to his hometown.

This is not to say, however, that while Chen Han has been working hard to improve the steam engine and enhance its power efficiency on his own turf, the Europeans are wasting their time in vain, even now only thirteen years after the final finalization of Watt's improved steam engine, some valuable new technologies have already emerged.

Horn Bloor, William Bull, Richard Trevisick and Arthur Woolf are just a few of the awkward names that even Chen Ming, who is far away in China, can skillfully say.

The European Office and Gao Yanming, who has been sitting in Europe for many years, are no longer chasing these 'great inventors' all the time.

Because of the terrible environment in Britain, these people's inventions were often put on the shelf.

- The chain of interests between Watt and his business partners is too strong.

In 1768, after a series of improvements and a large amount of borrowing, Watt rushed to London in August of the same year to apply for a patent for a new and improved steam engine. During his six months in London, Watt worked hard to get his patents on the ground. Finally, the patent was granted in January of the following year (1769). But none of this patent translated into any substantial mass production activity until 1773.

Historically, this point in time has been postponed to 1776, but the trajectory of history has changed. The news from the East instead boosted the commercial interests of the Watt steam engine in England, where it originated. Then, it was only under the stimulus of the use of the Chinese steam engine that it really became famous within Europe. Then Watt also had a reliable business partner - Matthew Bolton. Also under his guarantee, the British Parliament extended Watt's patent rights until 1800. Matthew Bolton is Watt's main supporter and business partner.

When Watt's patent protection came into effect and was put into production, it was impossible for Watt to devote all of his energy to the improvement and subsequent research of the steam engine, and most of his actual energy was to resist and inhibit other inventors of competitors. In 1781, Watt was granted an additional patent, which gave him unfair expectations of crank movement.

Then Watt and his partners began to wield the stick of the law, using the legal system to drive away competitors and force them to stop production.

This is a great opportunity for Chen Han.

Because there is no such restriction on Chen Han's patent rights, as long as sufficient funds can be paid, the law can guarantee their realization of legitimate commercial production. In order to leave a good impression on European inventors, Chen Ming asked Gao Yanming to wave flowers made of gold and enthusiastically pursue everyone who has studied steam engines.

But Gao Yanming's 'pursuit' did not go well.

Over the years, he has visited these people again and again, like an infatuated young man who is relentlessly pursuing his beloved. Most of what can be obtained is cold closed-door soup, and the inventors of these steam engine technologies all have other industries besides, just like Horn Bloor, who is the most hot pursuit by Gao Yanming, he is not only an inventor, but also a factory owner.

The best reward that Gao Yanming's pursuit can get is to completely take down their technology and send it back to China. For example, in James Picard's patent, the old steam engine had a major flaw - it could not provide stable rotational motion. The most convenient solution involves the combined use of a crankshaft and a flywheel. But James Piccard had already applied for a patent, and Watt couldn't use it. Watt also made various attempts to effectively convert reciprocating motion into rotational motion, and he did so, but it was clearly the same way Picard's approach. The existence of patent limitations forced Watt to come up with an inefficient alternative, the "Sun and Planet" gear, which changed the forward motion of the steam engine piston to rotational motion. Watt had to go 12 years later, in 1794, when Picard's patent expired, to adopt a crank that was more economically and technically superior. Before the appearance of this better crank on the Watt steam engine, the Chinese steam engine was already in 'booming' motion driven by the crank.

Isn't it sad and ridiculous?

But in Watt's shoes, he must first secure his own financial interests.

As for the difference in the performance of the steam engine, they could not care about it.

And that's not just it, there's Horn Bloor.

He significantly improved the power of the Watt steam engine, using multiple cylinders on the steam engine and introducing a new concept of the "composite engine". This is a breakthrough shooting of great significance, which can be used as the direction of further research and development of the steam engine. However, because Horn had used Watt's "split condenser" in his early work, Watt took him to court and effectively 'ended' the development of the new steam engine in England. It was Watt's monopoly on the superior invention of the "split condenser", which blocked the development of other equally superior inventions, the "composite engine", and thus slowed down the development of Britain itself.

China, on the other hand, can absorb and use it without any scruples, and all they give is a sum of money.

Even if it is a relatively large amount of wealth relative to the individual.

However, Chen Ming's original idea of gathering a large number of inventors who have a passion for steam engines and working together to promote the improvement and application of steam engines in an environment where there is no shortage of funds, manpower and material resources is really wishful thinking.

With the application of a series of new technologies to China's 'steam engine' and its own breakthrough development, Watt's patent protection case has been widely disclosed and analyzed in China's legal press, and the official view of the Chinese side has regarded it as a classic case of obsolete and anti-innovation, showing the disadvantages of monopolistic intellectual property rights, in short, monopoly intellectual property rights are inefficient.

However, many people do not recognize this, because they do not realize that the 'steam engine' is a huge boost to the whole world.

It's a revolution in productivity, but many people still call it a juggling.

The ships and trains that Chen Ming pinned his hopes on are still nowhere to be found, and the kinetic energy of the steam engine has improved considerably compared to ten years ago, but it is still far from the point where trains and ships appeared.

In the original time and space, although the world's first train was made by the Watt steam engine, it was more than thirty years after the birth of the improved steam engine.

After Watt turned his patents into tangible benefits, although a lot of energy was put into how to defend his rights, and how to deal with and suppress his competitors, he still made a lot of improvements to the steam engine.

Therefore, in the past two years, the academicians, engineers, and researchers of the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences have been under pressure like Mount Tai recently. The emperor asked once a month, how can ordinary people withstand this kind of heavy pressure.

But the people who are under this pressure are always the top people in the country's 'science and technology', and for many 'student dogs', it is still too far away from them. Instead, they care about a lot of things that are completely unrelated to them.

"Sakai-kun looks, Kamikuni has signed an agreement with the shogunate, recognizing that Ishikari Bay belongs to Japanese land, and that Ishikari Bay will be completely returned to the shogunate in fifty years. It also promised to help the shogunate build an official road and build two medium-sized ports in Ezo over the next five years. ”

In the campus where Zhong Shan was footed, two young men with short hair and short clothes sat on a stone bench on the lawn, one of them holding a newspaper in his hand. This is a second-level newspaper under the "Zhongyuan Daily" with a small circulation, and its front page headline is the "Nagasaki Agreement" that China and Japan have just reached.

After so many years of entering Ezo, China finally chose to return part of the Ezo land to Japan, which has won the goodwill of all walks of life in Japan.

Clearly, the plan was a success. The two people in front of him are both Japanese, but one of them is surnamed Aoki, and now he has obtained the yellow book and has become a student dog at the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, while the other Sakai Tadashi is the backbone of the group of Japanese students in China who are more disgusted with China.

The latter always believed that everything that Japan is doing today is China's aggression against Japan, just like the colonization of Nanyang by Westerners before.

Japan has been reduced to a semi-colony of China, and Japan has reached a critical point of survival, and it must be strong and resolutely resist China.

- They came to China to study in order to learn China's advanced technology, to strengthen Japan, and to save the country, not to join China and obtain the yellow and red books.

Sakai Tadashi himself believed that China would not return the land of Ezo to Japan, and it would not be long before the powerful Chinese navy and army would invade Japan and completely colonize Japan.

And Saburo Aoki, whose elders have become Chinese nationals, has a completely opposite attitude. Although he got the yellow book, Aoki Saburo did not say goodbye to Japan completely from then on, and no longer cared about Japan, he was also very concerned about the future fate of Japan, so he believed that Japan must be attached to the wings of powerful China in order to get through the most critical moment at present.

After 'opening his eyes' to see the world, Saburo Aoki was stunned and stunned by the actions of Westerners. It turned out that the birthplace of Lanxue was so terrible that they sent millions of blacks to distant America to cultivate land for themselves. Before that, he killed tens of millions of Native Americans and then usurped their homeland.

Although Japan is a dilapidated place where volcanic earthquakes often occur, it is worth a lot of money to break your home, and it is better to have a grass nest at home.

Saburo Aoki mentally assessed Japan's military strength, and when he compared the wars that were taking place in North America today, an obvious conclusion was born in his mind. Japan's strength alone cannot resist the Westerners at all, and if it wants to remain intact under the coercion of the Westerners, Japan must be dependent on China.

Mighty China can shelter not only Japan, but also the entire East. It is the protector of the countries of the East.

The credibility of the Chinese brand 'umbrella' is very high in Aoki's heart. The battle of Korea, which is not far away, is the best proof of that.

The dying Chinese Daimyo Dynasty chose to send troops to Korea when its vassal state was about to fall, and two wars ended in Japan's complete defeat after seven years. The foundation established by Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi was ruined.

China can believe that such a good example is in front of us.

So, the sharp confrontation between Aoki and Sakai has been going on for several years.

Although Aoki Saburo believed in China very much, he also knew that the current Chinese emperor was greedy for land, and that part of the Ezo land, mainly in Ishikari Bay, had fallen into Chinese hands for so many years.

It is already the wealthiest place in the whole of Ezo today, and it is a necessary transit point for the northern route from China to North America, and it is about to become the economic center of the whole of northern Japan. If Aoki were the emperor of China, he would not be willing to return such a place to Japan.

So after he saw the news published in this newspaper today, his whole person instantly burned. He really burned. The blood was boiling. At this moment, Saburo Aoki no longer feels sorry for himself to 'say goodbye' to Japan, this is a great king, a great country, and a place that is definitely worthy of his dedication.

Aoki felt that all his 'love' had been rewarded in the greatest way, in rewards that he had never dared to think about before.

His Majesty the Emperor of China actually returned Ishikari Bay to Japan.

The fifty-year period was not put in Aoki's eyes, as long as the land was Japanese, was fifty years far away?

Ishikari Bay has been in the hands of the Upper Kingdom for 50 years, and in 50 years, it may be one of the best cities in Japan, and it will be even more prosperous than Nagasaki and Osaka.

In Aoki's eyes, this is colonization, and this is 'helping' Japan.

He searched for Sakai as fast as he could.

He wants to laugh at Sakai well, which is called 'slap in the face with facts', a slap in the face with real facts.

Sakai's words at the gathering of Japanese students in China in Nanjing are still vivid, and now Aoki wants to ask him the most, Sakai-kun, is your face swollen?

As long as he thinks of the humiliation that Sakai Tadashi is about to suffer, and the eyes of everyone looking at 'him' at the next party, Aoki will have a heartfelt feeling in his heart, just like Zhu Bajie has eaten the fruit of life, and the pores on his body are comfortable.

Saburo Aoki walks like a fly, that's 'only the two armpits are used to the breeze'. I ran all the way to find Tadashi Sakai, who was studying on the grass of the campus.

"China's new-style firearms army already has one million, and the new-style firearms army of the Japanese Imperial Kingdom does not know when it will exceed 30,000 ......."

"If the local name is not hoeed, there will be no day of rejuvenation of the imperial country!"

"Now we are fighting for innovation, and our imperial kingdom is not invincible......"

These are the words that Sakai Tadashi said when he made a big statement, Aoki Saburo remembers it clearly, and now Sakai Tadashi snatched the newspaper and read the article with his eyes wide open in disbelief, but Aoki Saburo was re-reading what he had said in a mocking tone, but the meaning and style of the words were completely different.

"In the thousand-year-old empire, how can the mind of the heavenly and imperial kingdoms be imagined by the nephews of the first elder of the shogunate?" It's ridiculous. Saburo Aoki had a deep sneer on the corner of his mouth.

"Sakai-kun, after today, relax your mind, polish your eyes, and feel the greatness of the kingdom with the sincerity of your heart."