Mrs. Qiao looked around, but she didn't choose a satisfactory "target", so she had to put away her thoughts, and after a while with Ma Yun and them, she began to worry about Qiao Xuanlai. Of course, she knew what Qiao Xuan was here for, but she knew that with Qiao Xuan's temper, she couldn't persuade her no matter what. Therefore, Mrs. Qiao wanted to take advantage of her relationship with Minchan, and now she has climbed up to Ma Yun, and it is estimated that the lives of the whole family should be saved.

Suddenly, a maid came outside the door to report that Liu Xin wanted to stay with Qiao Xuan's family in Xiangyang for a few days, and the ladies asked the third lady and the sixth lady to accompany him, and he personally took Qiao Xuan to visit the third hospital in Xiangyang and the training center in the western suburbs. Ma Yun and Bian Yu were not arranged to accompany Qiaofu's mother and daughter to play together, because they were both pregnant, so they had to put this "burden" on Cai Yan, and let Zhu Rong accompany them for safety reasons. Although the security of Xiangyang has always been good, it is inevitable that there will be a few small people. And Cai Yan and Mrs. Qiao's mother and daughter are all beautiful, especially the pair of little sisters, who are loved by everyone.

Mrs. Qiao's heart finally let go, which showed that Liu Xin was not angry because of Qiao Xuan's rudeness. For the next three days, Qiao Xuan's family stayed in Xiangyang City.

During the day, Cai Yan and Zhu Rong accompanied Mrs. Qiao's mother and daughter to go shopping, and also enjoyed an amazing illusion performance, and at night, Ma Yun hosted a banquet in the state pastor mansion to entertain the three of them, all the dishes were cooked by Zhu Qian herself, which was much more delicious than the lunch they had in the best hotel in Xiangyang City. There is a good saying, if you want to capture a man's heart, first grab a man's stomach, in fact, it is the same for women, especially those Qiao sisters who have never tasted the food of the State Pastoral Mansion, they all want to stay in the State Pastoral Mansion.

Qiao Xuan has also gained a lot in the past few days. Because of Liu Xin's inner house, he couldn't enter it casually, and the food in the state pastor's mansion had never been allowed to be passed on, so Qiao Xuan lost the opportunity to taste the deliciousness. But his mind was not on eating, and the college and medical school opened his eyes. In the research institute, Qiao Xuan took a fancy to the new silk loom and immediately proposed it, hoping to buy one or two back.

After half a year of probation, Ma Jun has now succeeded Xiang Lang as the director of the research institute. For this young man with a slight stutter, Kong Wen was also convinced and was willing to give him a hand. The silk loom is Ma Jun's first invention, and he also has the intention to promote it throughout the country, but Liu Xin has not agreed. Because although Ma Jun's weaving machine is exquisite, it is still very easy for others to imitate it. This brings us to the question of how to protect "intellectual property".

Of course, people in this era do not have the concept of intellectual property rights, let alone how to protect their inventions and creations. But Liu Xin does not think so, he wants to protect intellectual property rights, to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm for invention and creation, and the silk loom is the first product he is ready to use to promote intellectual property protection.

Hearing Qiao Xuan's request, Liu Xin groaned and asked, "Outside Qiao, do you see the benefits of the weaving machine this time?" ”

Qiao Xuan said with a smile: "My Qiao family is a big family in Lujiang, and there are thousands of acres of fertile land, in addition to grain, there are also some mulberry fields, so Qiao also knows a little bit about weaving silk." Although Qiao has not seen this silk weaving machine, the structure is exquisite, and it must be much more convenient to operate, as for other benefits, Qiao has not seen it for a while. ”

Liu Xin nodded, and asked again, "Are you enough to buy one or two planes back?" ”

Qiao Xuan said embarrassedly: "Actually, I want to buy two of them back, disassemble one of them, and find a few craftsmen to copy it, no." ”

Liu Xin laughed and said: "Qiao Xuan, Qiao Xuan, they all say that you are a real person, and you will make such wishful thinking if you don't want to." This new type of silk loom was invented by Ma Yuan, and the benefits are far more than you can see, so let Ma Yuan explain it to you in a moment. However, if you do this, Ma Yuan will not get any benefit from it, and who do you think would want to spend energy on improving the silk weaving machine? ”

Qiao Xuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "What do you mean that these weaving machines can only be purchased from Master Ma?" ”

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "Of course, it's okay to buy from Ma Yuanzheng." However, Liu also has an idea, so that Ma Yuan is providing you with the drawings, and you can produce according to the drawings, but for each new silk loom produced, you need to pay Ma Yuan Zheng a sum of money. Qiao Xuan, do you think this is feasible? ”

Qiao Xuan was silent for a moment and said, "As long as this money is not too much, everyone must be willing." ”

Liu Xin thought for a while and said, "How much should I pay, Liu can't say." In this way, no one has ever done this kind of thing before, so Liu will be in charge, and one or two pieces of silver will be tentatively determined. As long as someone produces a new type of silk weaving machine, they must pay Ma Yuan Zheng a tael of silver. Of course, the horse court is receiving this money, and it must also pay 20% of the tax. Qiao Yuanwai, Ma Yuanzheng, do you think this is feasible? ”

Ma Jun is not good at words, he listened to them just now, and he couldn't interject, and then he saw Liu Xin turn to him, so he arched his hand and said: "Lord Qi, lord, subordinates, just do a little, meager effort, don't dare to be greedy for money." ”

Qiao Xuan also thought about it in his heart, and said: "Lord Liu, the price of one or two silver is not small, the key is to see whether this new silk loom is worth it." ”

Liu Xin smiled and said, "Ma Yuanzheng, you first explain the benefits of this new type of silk loom to Qiao Yuanwai. ”

Speaking of his proud work, Ma Jun stopped stuttering at once, explained endlessly, and asked a craftsman to demonstrate the operation.

Qiao Xuan listened to Ma Jun's introduction, watched the demonstration of the craftsmen, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "This new type of silk loom is really a good thing, one or two silver is worth it!" ”

Liu Xin said to Ma Jun at this time: "Ma Yuanzheng, the reason why Liu did this is not to take care of you, but to consider that after this method is implemented, many people will spontaneously improve various tools. If you think about it, everyone's enthusiasm is high, and there will be more inventions and creations, will there be hundreds or thousands of new tools born at that time? Is it possible to make people's lives better? ”

Without waiting for Ma Jun to answer, Qiao Xuan had already high-fived and said, "This idea of an adult is too wonderful!" It is no wonder that Xiangyang can already be called the first city of the Central Plains after ten years under the rule of adults. It's just that the price of everything is increased by one or two silver, isn't it too much? ”

Liu Xin said with a smile: "Not every invention has to add one or two pieces of silver, and different prices can be set according to the value and complexity of these inventions." Moreover, this price is set too outrageously, and others are not stupid, who will buy it? At that time, the invention will not become money, and the owner of the invention will naturally have to reduce the price. ”

Qiao Xuan said excitedly again: "Yes, yes, my lord has thought it through too much!" I didn't say it, I bought the design drawings of this new type of silk loom, and for each one produced, I paid Ma Yuan Zheng one or two silver! ”

This is probably the earliest patent fee in history. In fact, according to the value of this new type of silk loom, one tael of silver is too cheap. However, Liu Xin's main purpose is to use private capital to promote new silk looms, and only to set a lower price. As for Ma Jun, his original intention of inventing and creating was not to make money, and he did not consider these issues at all.

And Liu Xin has not promoted the new silk loom, the most important problem is that he did not choose the right "partner", now that Qiao Xuan has this interest, Liu Xin of course handed over the task to him, because Qiao Xuan's character allows Liu Xin to be completely at ease with him. However, it is obviously not enough to rely solely on personal virtue to promote new practical inventions, and Liu Xin intends to protect them through the law.

In this way, there is another problem, because in the centralized feudal era, laws could not be made by anyone, and they had to be promulgated and enforced by the emperor. This also made Liu Xin realize that the matter of becoming the emperor has become more and more urgent.

Qiao Xuan got the "production license" of the new silk weaving machine, and the mood to return to Lujiang became more urgent. But Liu Xin did not let him go back, and kept him for another day and took him to the military training center in the western suburbs of Xiangyang.

The western suburbs of Xiangyang are a real military restricted area, where there is not only a training center, but also a research and development center of the research institute, without a special token issued by Liu Xin himself, ordinary people will be executed on the spot if they come here. In fact, many people are very interested in the mysterious western suburbs of Xiangyang, including Huang Chengyan, Sima Hui, Pang Degong and other so-called masters of the world. But here is a post with three steps, a post at five steps, and a patrol team that runs through endlessly, even a master like Liu Xin who is excellent in light skills will not want to get in.

Liu Xin did not take Qiao Xuan to the R&D center, but only took him to visit the training base. Qiao Xuan is also a person who has been a Taishou, and the Taishou in the past was in charge of the army on the horse, and the people on the horse, and he was in a high position. With Qiao Xuan's knowledge, when he saw the scene of the training base, he was naturally condensed.

Today's training base is more than three times larger than in the past, not only improving the past cities, camps, plains and other scenes, but now adding mountains, jungles, swamps, deserts, lakes, except for the sea, almost all the environments that the Han army can encounter can be simulated here.

At present, 60,000 recruits of the Western Regions Legion and the officers and men of the Third Army Corps who have just been withdrawn from Jiaozhou are being trained at the training base, as well as some local soldiers sent from various places for rotational training, a full 200,000 people. The shouts of the soldiers during training resounded in the sky, and before they arrived at the training base, they heard Qiao Xuan's heart surging.

Knowing that Liu Xin had come in person, Wen Ping, the commander of the Seventh Army Corps and the commander-in-chief of the training base, hurriedly greeted him, and said: "The last general will see the lord, I don't know what kind of training the lord wants to see today?" ”

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "This is your territory, you are in charge." ”