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In April, in a corner of Zhongshan on the bank of the Yangtze River, in a very inconspicuous yamen, in the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, a relatively mature steam engine was running purring. A worker is adding coal to the boiler, and a belt conveyor driven by a steam engine transports the coal from the starting point to the end point 20 kilometers away by conveyor belt.

What is the scene of a steam engine spewing puffs of white smoke?

The relatively loud noise and the black ash ravines on the faces of the coal workers all indicate a bad working environment.

But Chen Ming was so satisfied with all this in front of him, because this was the roar of the industrial age. His open mind came to mind of the textile machine driven by the steam engine, the steamship driven by the steam engine, and the train driven by the steam engine......

This is the general trend of future social development and an irreversible trend.

He even remembered a joke from a friend in his previous life, because of the steam locomotive: I'm going to teach you how to imitate the sound of a steam locomotive with your mouth, keep it low, use as much air as you can, and quickly say: "What you see, what you can't see, what you see, what you can't see..."

Recalling the past, Chen Ming no longer had a trace of sadness in his heart, and with a smile floating on the corner of his mouth, Chen Ming said to the research team:

"The role of the steam engine is not entirely to draw water, and the belt conveyor is not its destiny. Your task for the future is to combine the kinetic energy of the steam engine with the textile machinery, and then with more power machinery. ”

The current time is the fourth lunar month of 1775 in the Western calendar, Chen Ming does not know what is the difference between the steam engine that appeared in front of him and the steam engine invented by Watt next year, the performance of the two sides is higher or lower, but he is already very satisfied.

The three truths of the steam engine that he knew in his head were the separation condenser; cylinder precision machining; Crankshaft drive. Now China is all settled. The introduction of the boring machine allowed the research group to overcome the problem of cylinder density processing last year, and the crankshaft transmission also made great progress at the beginning of this year. Standing on the shoulders of the small hundred years of hard work of the Europeans, the research team finally handed over an answer sheet that Chen Ming was very satisfied with when the time came to April this year.

"Don't underestimate that iron bull. Think about how much change this iron cow can bring to productivity after the scene of the effective combination of the iron cow and the textile machine and various power machinery? "In the twenty years following the invention of the steam engine, the output of the textile industry increased fivefold. Although Chen Ming did not know the specific details, there was no doubt about the role played by the steam engine.

Imagine that the current production capacity of China's cotton textile industry will be expanded by five times, what kind of unbelievable figure will it be? Will China's own production capacity be able to supply the needs of the whole world? Moreover, the Chinese government will vigorously promote the development of the wool textile industry in the future.

"The significance of this invention is greater than the gap between the human-powered waterwheel and the animal-powered waterwheel." It can be compared to the epoch-making changes of human ploughing and oxen ploughing.

On the way back to the palace, Chen Ming pulled Chen Cong into the imperial car. "Uncle Wang, it's time for the Patent Act to be introduced. The steam engine was declared as the No. 1 invention patent. Then we asked the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce to communicate and negotiate with the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, buy out the patent rights and interests of the steam engine at a high price, and build a factory to officially produce and manufacture the steam engine as soon as possible. ”

"The buyout of patented inventions at a high price is also to publicize the Patents Act." In the previous life, Chinese had weak patent awareness, and the hidden dangers of intellectual property rights could be said to be extremely serious. And the bunnies' protection of copyrights and patents is also quite outrageous, whether it is a movie, a song or a novel, piracy should not be too rampant. As for some things in daily life, it's even more hilarious.

For example, Master Kang Shuaifu, Pulse Artery Robbery, Diaopai and Zhou Zhu, Yunbi and Sprite, Mengniu and Haoniu, really make people drunk and kneel.

And why is China's piracy industry so thriving in the 21st century? The reasons are, of course, varied. At that time, China was a third world country, relying on copycat development is a national policy-level method, externally, the law in this area is too perfect, it is self-cutting, and internally it is not perfect because of historical legacy, because the domestic climate does not attach importance to the value of individual people since the opening of the country. Chen Ming doesn't need to think about it, because the international environment and status of China in this time and space are completely different from those in the previous time and space.

Now China is the well-known ruler of the East, the kingdom of heaven and heaven. The "Patent Act" must be regulated, and then form a good traditional concept of a country and a nation, because China's national strength and influence are now sufficient to effectively protect the rights and interests of the Chinese people on the territory of foreigners.

This sentence may not be easy to understand, but to put it in the most straightforward words, that is, after the establishment of the patent law and the signing of a series of universal intellectual property conventions and agreements, China is fully capable of protecting the patent rights and interests of its citizens from infringement in the world.

Moreover, for China's traditional understanding, the Patent Act is also very in line with Chinese's understanding of 'craftsmanship'. If the protection period of the property rights can be extended to 100 years, many people will be happier.

Soon after, the first industrial revolution marked by the invention and application of the practical steam engine is coming, which is the first time that human beings have realized the change of production mode from handicraft workshop to mechanized large-scale production, marking the era of human society from the era of agricultural economy to the era of industrial economy, and also marking the advent of an era of great invention and innovation. With the promulgation of the relevant patent law, the inventor can use the exclusive right granted by the law to obtain huge returns for a considerable period of time, and his competitors must also take a new path from a new direction to avoid the original competitors in the case of not being authorized, which will play a huge role in promoting the development of China's future science and technology industry. The huge benefits for inventors can also encourage more Chinese people to invest in scientific and technological research.

Just like the British industry in the original time and space, since the application of the steam engine, it has made various great innovative achievements in the fields of textiles, smelting, mining, mechanical processing, and transportation. And these inventions and creations have become real productive forces development, and have become the most solid material foundation, so that the Kingdom of Great Britain will finally become a generation of 'empires on which the sun never sets'!

Chen Ming's grand wish is also inseparable from the development of industry and the application of various new technologies.

It's just that Chen Cong didn't understand his feelings at all, and in Chen Cong's feelings, the so-called patent bill is to use the form of law to formally regulate the interests of the 'teacher'. There is an old saying in China, the apprentice of the church starves the master.

Therefore, the Chinese attach great importance to - respecting teachers and respecting the way. Disobedience to a teacher, just like disobedience to one's parents, is a great rebellion.

And many people would rather die themselves than tell you the secrets of their 'craft' in detail. Therefore, since ancient times, many superb or ordinary skills in China have been brought into the coffin in this way.

Chen Cong only saw the 'eyes' in this matter, and there was still a big, big gap between him and Chen Ming, the 'gaze' of the traverser.

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Ten Degrees Strait, Andaman Islands. It is strategically located as the western gateway to the Malacca waterway. But now, a seaport with a red flag flying here has begun to take shape.

This seaport city is home to a detachment of China's Nanyang Fleet, and was named Jinghai at the end of last year, meaning Pingjing Haijiang, and is also the forward base of China's Fourth Overseas Exploration Bureau.

Since the Andaman Islands, known to the Chinese as the Jinghai Islands, were occupied by the Chinese South Sea sailors, the British, who had long discovered the Andaman Islands but never looked at them, became very uncomfortable, and they suddenly found their interests, Bengal, under the guns of the Chinese fleet. The Chinese naval forces that occupy there can easily launch an attack on Burma and Bangladesh.

"Very bad, very, very bad!" When the Fu Han army first stepped into the Jinghai Islands, when the red red flag of China fluttered on the islands, the face of the governor of the British East India Company in Bengal was as grim as a piece of cold marble. The face of the commander of the Bangladesh detachment in front of him became even more gloomy: "If the Kingdom of Great Britain really wants to go to war with China one day, and we don't seize the 'Jinghai Islands' first, no matter how many fleets we have, we will not be able to enter the Malacca waterway at all." ”

"Then why didn't you take it before?" The marble-like Governor of Bengal turned into an erupting volcano.

The British East India Company regretted it very much, they discovered those islands many years ago, but they just didn't step on it, even if in the past they planted a flag on it and drove a stake, they also had a reason to let the Chinese withdraw, and now what is it? 、

Even more regretful are the Dutch and Spaniards, after the Chinese entered the South Seas, although there was no big move, but first Singapore, Pontianak, then Penang and Belitung Island, step by step chess play, one piece after another is like a needle, making them uncomfortable. Now that he has taken the Jinghai Islands, this time he has completely blocked the gate of Malacca. Even if the strength of the Chinese fleet in the Malacca waterway is still very weak, look at the Chinese arrangement.

From China to Zengmu Island, there are Angnan's Hongji City and Ha Xian Town on the flanks, and continue to the south is Greatmu Island, then West Borneo to the east, Singapore to the west, and Belitung Island to the south, although the Dutch control Sumatra and Java Island, but Great-Mother, Singapore, Pontianak and Belitung are like a four-sided diamond shape, with the pointed tip on the belly of the Dutch, how uncomfortable and uncomfortable it is.

The Dutch in Manila, they have to face not only Taiwan in the north, the Sulu Islands in the west, and Qiongzhou Island in the northwest, the real distance of the latter is not much farther than Taiwan.

The quiet Chinese have already pressed one nail after another in the South Seas, and once the bilateral contradictions lead to war, it is difficult to imagine how the Spaniards and the Dutch will fight the Chinese with steel needles all over their bodies. As for the Jinghai Islands, which suddenly became of great strategic importance, both the Spaniards and the Dutch, who came to the East much earlier than the British, found there, but they did not have the slightest idea for that chain of islands.

Now the situation is still peaceful, everything has not developed to the worst level, whether it is the British, whose interests are loomingly threatened, or the Spaniards and Dutch, whose interests are already seriously threatened, the volume of bilateral trade with China is rapidly rising.

A huge ocean-going merchant ship was cleaving the waves towards the east, the flags of Sweden and the East India Company flying on the mast.

Captain Derek Gustav Adlerkreitz stood in the bow of the ship and looked ahead, not so far away, the Jinghai Islands were clearly visible.

Just when he left China last time, it was still a desert, just two years, the Chinese not only set up a naval base and port here, but also had a good foothold in the Malacca waterway, plus Singapore and Zengmu Island, although the Chinese communication line is very thin and narrow, but when necessary, it can definitely become a steel cable, dead to the neck of anyone who dares to infringe on its interests.

I heard that there are no large-scale pirate groups in Nanyang now, and the Chinese's anti-bandit operations in Nanyang have expanded from Annam to the entire Nanyang, and the results have been huge, and those restless Spanish and Dutch armed ships have all left here, and there are only some natives rowing small boats left. Those men were no threat to the Gothenburg.

"Slow down." Adler Kreitz's eyes flashed a few times, and he gave this order. When he docked in the middle of the port of Mumbai, he received a warning from the Swedish East India Company Taipan stationed in Mumbai that the Chinese had set up a warship detachment in the Jinghai Islands, which was not only a base for the Chinese, but also a front station for the Chinese customs.

Any ship going to China should be carefully inspected here, and then starting from Jinghai Port, every time it arrives at a Chinese port, it is necessary to take the previous customs declaration form and declare it at the new port customs and stamp it. In this way, when they arrive in China, merchant ships with stamps of all ports of call along the route will not only be given priority inspection, but will also receive a kind of credit evaluation points from China Customs. The higher the points, the more ships and companies will enjoy the priority and quality service of China Customs in future business dealings.

I don't know if I have reported to Stockholm now, but the Mumbai Taipan suggested that AdlerKreitz should do it according to this process, which is good for Gothenburg, for himself, and for the whole company.

Moreover, any foreign merchant ship passing by here - as long as it is hit - must be registered, and even if you do not enter Jinghai Port to dock, do not enter any Chinese port to dock, you must be hit by the patrol warship to survey the firepower configuration of the merchant ship. To the east here, it is already a warning territory for the Chinese.

"Reality is changing so fast, in just two years, the East has already changed a lot." Adler Kreitz sighed in his heart. This kind of right to arbitrarily inspect the cargo equipment and even goods of passing merchant ships on the sea is a kind of hegemony of red fruits.

In Europe, except in times of intense war, the British did not dare to offend everyone in this way. And in front of the Chinese, even the Spanish Manila mail ship has to endure silently, but this will definitely make the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British, and the French extremely uncomfortable.

The Gothenburg merchant ship returned to Sweden in the winter of the previous year, and arrived safely in the port of Gothenburg after a half-year voyage, and the bulk goods of tea, porcelain and silk fabrics brought back from the ship were quickly sold out, and some luxury ornaments and medicines with oriental colors, the latter were mostly pills, powders and ointments, such as Rendan, marching powder, hemostatic powder, etc., which also brought huge profits to the Swedish East India Company.

After half a year's rest, the crew of the Gothenburg sailed the merchant ship back to the east.

Only this time they carried very little cargo on board, but the population was large. More than 60 scholars, technicians, teachers, and doctors, as well as their families, all 2,300 people, who had been recruited by the Swedish East India Company, took the Gothenburg and headed for the East.

According to the agreement between the Swedish East India Company and the Chinese government, the value of more than sixty scholars, technicians, teachers, and doctors, as well as their families, was not in a hurry to come cheap, and there would be no unsalable goods. As soon as you arrive in China, everyone on board will be accepted by the Chinese government in an instant.

This kind of business really couldn't be more wonderful.

Ekdal and his wife Rebecca stepped out of the cabin, and in order to make life better for all the people and give these noble goods a more comfortable living environment, many of the Gothenburg's cargo holds have been easily renovated. Ekdal, Rebecca, and their four adorable children were not overshadowed by the doom of death, and they made it all the way to the place safely.

Of course, this is also absolutely related to the frequent stops along the way of the Gothenburg, which has been extended a lot of journey time is the biggest magic weapon to ensure the life and health of all passengers on board.

"Oh dear, look, there's land ahead...... Rebecca hates the sea, she's never hated it so much as she does now.

Compared with the familiar smell of the sea, she now prefers the freshness of the land and trees. Ingrid, such a lovely little angel, left this world sick during the voyage of the sea, and Mr. and Mrs. Spaller were going to die of grief.

Luck loomed over the Ekdal family, but it also befell their neighbors, the Spaller family, who lost their beloved little daughter.

Ekdal also doesn't like the sea, as a man who has never wanted to be a sailor, he doesn't like to float on the sea, he likes to keep his feet on the ground. (To be continued.) )