Chapter 430 Financial Problems (II)

Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi rushed to the reception of the 'attendant' room in front of the presidential palace one after another. Taking out the official documents, the confidential officer on duty hurriedly shook the phone of the 'attendant' room of the presidential palace, and a moment later, an American Ford sedan drove from the presidential palace to the 'gate', and the driver of the car, Xiong Xiling, did not know, but he knew the officer who escorted the car, who was the current captain of the presidential guard, Qin Sihu.

"Both, the president has been waiting for you for a long time, hurry up and get in the car, and I'll take you to see the president."

Qin Sihu got out of the car, yelled at Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi twice, and then lifted the briefcase of the two and put it in the car.

Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi got into the car one after the other, and Xiong Xiling asked: "There are many carriages in front of the public mansion, but today the president is convening a meeting of various ministries?" ”

Qin Sihu got into the car, shook his head and said, "It's not a meeting, it's about arranging the work of various departments." Two, sit tight, let's drive fast. ”

Before he could finish speaking, the driver had already started the car and drove towards the core area of the presidential palace. Along the way, there are three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and this vigilance measure is even stronger than when Yuan Shikai was in power.

Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi didn't dare to ask questions, they sat in the car and pondered their thoughts, but soon, another car came head-on, passing by the car they were riding, and the person driving was none other than Colonel Tian Jinfutian, the former head of Zhao Bei's guard, and there was only one passenger in the car, it was the young man in a 'straight' dress that Xiong Xiling saw on the way here, and he felt that the person was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Xiong Xiling didn't ask, but Liang Shiyi asked Qin Sihu, who was sitting in the front row.

"Captain Qin, if I'm not mistaken, the person sitting in Colonel Tian's car is Wang Zhaoming, right? We saw them coming on the way, and now we saw them coming out, but they came and went in a hurry. ”

Qin Sihu turned his head to look at the car that was going away, and then just nodded and didn't speak.

Hearing Liang Shiyi's question, Xiong Xiling remembered, that's right, the young man who looked a little familiar was Wang Zhaoming, a senior cadre of the Alliance, and it is said that he is the proud 'disciple' of Mr. Sun, the leader of the Alliance, and he is also the pen of the Alliance. Unswerving".

Xiong Xiling had met Wang Zhaoming when he went to Shanghai last time to handle the issuance of public bonds, but at that time, this person was only an attaché of Song Jiaoren, and when he was introduced, his soul was in a group of League cadres, and he did not attract Xiong Xiling's attention at all, so he just felt that this person was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had met.

There are not many people who can enter and leave the presidential palace, and Wang Zhaoming was able to follow Tian Jinfu in and out of the presidential palace, which really made Xiong Xiling very strange, so he asked Liang Shiyi in a whisper.

Liang Shiyi had close contacts with Tang Shaoyi, the chief of foreign "exchanges", because he negotiated the redemption of the Jinghan Railway some time ago, and Tang Shaoyi was also an official member of the alliance, and Liang Shiyi was able to meet Wang Zhaoming through this relationship.

After the establishment of the United Front, Wang Zhaoming was quite active, not only actively handling party affairs, but also being very diligent with Zhao Bei, but for some reason, Zhao Bei has always been relatively indifferent to this person, therefore. After Song Jiaoren was assassinated, Wang Zhaoming had no backer, and he was very depressed some time ago, as for how he became a colonel of Tian Jinfu Tian, Liang Shiyi is not clear.

After all, Wang Zhaoming is just a small person, in this era, small people like this can be seen everywhere, and a big man like Xiong Xiling naturally doesn't have much interest, but after asking a few words, he no longer cares, and at this time, the car also arrived at Jurentang and stopped by the steps.

Qin Sihu lifted Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi's briefcases, led the two into Jurentang, and entered a small conference room, Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi found that there were still a few people sitting in the conference room, except for Zhao Bei, the president of the Republic of China, the other two were strange faces.

"You've come just in time! Come, come, sit, sit. Four tigers, tea. ”

Zhao Bei stood up and pointed to the two sofas beside him, Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi hurriedly saluted, and then sat down generously, looking at the two guests sitting opposite, they were indeed strangers.

"This is Mr. Xiong Xiling, Minister of Finance of the Republic of China. That is Mr. Liang Shiyi, the general office of the Republic of China's 'Communications' Bank, the word Yifu. These two are distinguished guests from Sichuan, this is Mr. Fan Rui, the word Xudong, the word line, and the other is Mr. Qin Hongwen, the word Xiuju, they are both industrialists and few chemical experts in China now. ”

Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi suddenly realized that now the president is vigorously advocating the establishment of industry, which coincides with those who hold the ideal of "industry to save the country", no wonder they will see two chemical experts in the presidential palace.

"Fan Xudong? Fan Jingsheng, Vice Minister of Education, is your brother? Either you have the same name as Fan Jingsheng's younger brother. Xiong Xiling asked one of them.

"Fan Jingsheng is my brother, if it weren't for his supervision, I wouldn't have gone to Japan to study." Fan Xudong smiled and nodded.

"How did you get to Sichuan? I asked Fan Jingsheng where you were in high school, but he smiled and said nothing, it turned out that you went to Sichuan. ”

"To tell you the truth, when I went to Sichuan, I was invited by the commander-in-chief, and Sichuan had just been recovered at that time."

When Fan Xudong said this, he glanced at Zhao Bei and hesitated to continue. After all, the factory he runs in Sichuan is still a military secret.

Zhao Bei smiled faintly and said for Fan Xudong.

"None of the people here are outsiders, there are patriotic industrialists and professionals here, and high-ranking officials in politics there, all of whom are fighting for the rise of this country, so there is no need to hide Mr. Fan's work. In fact, Mr. Fan is in Sichuan to build a large-scale chemical plant for China, and now the construction of that chemical plant is nearing completion. Once production begins, even if China has its own chemical industry, three acids and two alkalis can be manufactured by itself, so that whether it is a military industry or a civilian industry, we Chinese will no longer have to rely on others. ”

Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi realized the importance of Fan Xudong to the president, this man is not only an industrialist, he is a ray of light for China's chemical industry.

"Mr. Fan came here this time, mainly for the machinery and equipment, now the most developed country in the chemical industry is Germany, I plan to personally be an industrial broker, arrange Mr. Fan and the German Business Association to conduct a negotiation, from Germany to introduce the latest chemical industry machinery and equipment, and strive to make China's chemical industry as soon as possible on the right track. Of course, this involves the transfer of patented technology for industrial production, so today I specially invited General Xiong and General Liang to come over, and everyone will work together to serve as a staff officer, and when Wu Wenjue arrives, we can formally discuss this matter. ”

Zhao Bei's next words surprised Xiong Xiling and Liang Shiyi, and they realized that Zhao Bei called them over not just for financial issues.

Wu Wenjue is Wu Tingfang, and now he is the chief minister of justice of the Republic of China, and the patent issue involves the law, so he naturally needs some advice.

Soon after, Wu Tingfang rushed to Jurentang and brought two professional legal assistants, one named Zhang Zongxiang and the other Lu Zongyu, both of whom had studied in Japan, and are now the right and left hands of Attorney General Wu Tingfang, known as the "Second Sect of the Ministry of Law".

Under the guidance of the "Second Sect of the Ministry of Law", including Zhao Bei, everyone present has a preliminary understanding of the international patent protection system in this era.

Since the appearance of "patents" in Europe. The industrial powers have introduced their own patent protection laws, but for a long time the patent protection laws of various countries only protect their own industrial patents, once they leave the country, they can no longer be protected, therefore, the infringement of industrial patents in various countries is very common, this situation has continued until 1883, through a foreign conference held in Paris, France, Belgium, France, Brazil, El Salvador, Italy and other eleven countries officially signed a "Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property", That is, the so-called "Paris Convention", since then, "international patent protection" has officially become an international standard, all countries that have signed the "Paris Convention" are obliged to give industrial patent protection to other member states in the same convention, and there are dozens of countries that have joined this international convention, mainly European industrial powers.

In other words, if the country had not signed the Paris Convention, it would have been obliged to abide by the international patent protection rules, and the Republic of China, which had just been established, would naturally not be able to sign the Convention.

But things are not so simple, the Paris Convention is directly linked to the international market and tariff barriers, and if a country does not sign this international convention, it will be difficult for its manufactured goods to gain a foothold in the market of the signatory country.

As a backward agricultural country, China in this era is indeed not qualified to talk about the prospect of its own industrial products entering the markets of other countries, but the problem is that Zhao Bei is now gathering so many people to discuss the matter of patents, just to protect China's industrial manufactured products.

The reason is very simple, after Fan Xudong's large-scale chemical plant was officially put into operation, the first industrial product it produced was a chemical 'medicine', which was called "sulfonamide", which was an anti-inflammatory 'drug', and in history, this was also the first synthetic chemical antibacterial 'drug', before the advent of penicillin, this chemical anti-inflammatory 'drug' was also the only special 'drug' for human beings to fight bacterial infection.

If Zhao Bei had not traveled to this space-time plane, then sulfonamides, a chemically synthesized 'drug', would not have been widely used until the thirties of the twentieth century, but now, Zhao Bei has decided to advance the "invention" of this chemically synthesized 'drug' by more than 20 years, and use this patented product to solve the financial problem needed for China's industrial development.

However, without international patent protection, it is impossible for this chemical 'drug' to have an "international monopoly", and the profits generated by it will be limited to China.

Because the production process and principle of this chemical 'drug' are so simple that any country with a chemical industry can produce them in large quantities, there are almost no technical obstacles to infringing such patents, and the only thing that needs to be overcome is the protection of patent law.

Knowing this, you will also understand the choice that Zhao Bei is about to make.

The Republic of China will formally join the Paris Convention, committing to the protection of industrial patents in other countries, while also enjoying the organization's patent protection for domestic industrial products.

The reason for this decision is very simple, because China in this era simply can't take out other industrial products to monopolize the international market, and more importantly, as a traverser, Zhao Bei took over the main business in the trading company before crossing into this era is the chemical industry raw materials, he has been exposed to sulfonamide derivatives, and knows the simple production process and raw materials of this chemical antibacterial 'drug'.

In other words, Zhao Bei will only make this kind of chemical antibacterial 'medicine', and he can only hope that this chemical antibacterial 'drug' will bring him a lot of money, and use these profits to subsidize the empty treasury.

In order to monopolize the production and sales of this chemical antibacterial 'drug' internationally, it is currently only possible to rely on international patent protection organizations.

In the final analysis, it is a fiscal issue that determines policy.