In order to negotiate with the Dutch, the entire staff of the European Consulate General was brought together to discuss how to get the most out of the Dutch.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now you can speak in a hurry, all in the interests of Australia, and share your views." Yu Bowen said to the crowd sitting around the round conference table.

"Consul, are we really going to give away the steam engine to the Dutch? How can this be easily sold, and is it true that the parliamentarians in the country want to sell such an important equipment to the Dutch? This is the speech of an older consulate clerk, as an old scholar who immigrated from the Ming Dynasty, the concept of how can the great weapon of the country be easily shown in his heart is very serious.

"Lao Xu, I know what you are worried about, but you also know the current situation, the Dutch took the deadline for delaying the delivery of the ship, and came to negotiate with us, which had to make concessions, the domestic meaning is to maximize the benefits, the current domestic patent law has been implemented, I believe you have all heard of it, we want the Dutch government to introduce a patent protection law to protect and charge for our production technology."

Patent law, Xu Chengzhou knows one thing, as the clerk of the consulate, he usually also has a common walk, which is to carefully read all kinds of newspapers and information sent from China, and then he organizes these to be disseminated to the staff in Europe.

From his personal point of view, this decree is very good, and whoever invents something in the future will need to pay them for it, which will promote the spirit of active invention and creation, and will also benefit the upgrading of various equipment.

He discovered this from the time he migrated to Australia. The reason why Australians can have enough strange machines is because of the spirit of innovation, and without this spirit, Australia's technological development and Daming would not be far behind. "Know a little. I am afraid it will be difficult for the Dutch to introduce a patent law," Xu Chengzhou was a little worried, after all, even Daming did not have such a law, and as far as he knew, it seemed that only England had promulgated a similar law in European countries.

According to his memory, Yu Bowen knew that the earliest patent law should have been promulgated by the Republic of Venice, in 1474. The Republic of Venice enacted the world's first patent law and issued the world's first patent by law. Scientist Galileo received a 20-year patent for a water-pumping irrigation machine in the Republic of Venice.

So it wasn't hard to convince the Netherlands that the early patent law was the equivalent of a monopoly law. For example, this year the United Kingdom directly enacted a monopoly law, so there is nothing wrong with the Netherlands enacting such a law.

Consul, then what should we do, if the Dutch do not agree.

"Disagree. Then we can also look for their opponents, the Spaniards. They will definitely be willing to cooperate with us, although the whole country of Spain is in a financial crisis, but that does not mean that they do not have the strength, I am sure they must be watching this. ”

"The Dutch won't have a problem doing this, we're partners, I'm afraid they'll protest." "Protest," Yu Bowen smiled, "Isn't this supposed for us to protest?" Since they want to get the benefits, they have to cut more meat. We must make them understand that they will not be able to take advantage of us. "Consul. I think we could have made it possible for the Dutch to pay half the tax on the goods that have already been charged ashore, and if that were to happen, our domestic businesses would save a lot of money. This is only secondary, but we can also ask the Netherlands to provide highly skilled shipbuilders to the country, so that the local shipyards will inject most of the fresh blood into the local shipyards. “

"Well, Lao Xu's proposal is good, I think this article can be added," Yu Bowen nodded in agreement, and instructed Fei Zhangsong to write it down.

"Do you have any suggestions, if your proposal is accepted this time, it will be helpful for you to be promoted, I hope everyone can put forward their own suggestions." Yu Bowen used benefits to induce everyone to give advice, and at the same time gave encouragement to others.

Induced by the interests, the others also eagerly asked the consul if we could ask the Dutch to help us form a fleet of our own.

"Consul, I think we can get the Dutch to cut the price of their exports by half, or we can unite to drive Spain out of Luzon in Southeast Asia."

For these people to have some unrealistic ideas, Yu Bowen can only smile and not comment, but from the expressions on his face, the staff who expressed their opinions can also see that his estimate is very bad.

"Okay, I'll take note of all your suggestions, let's go back to work, and you can stay with the tip."

"Consul, Lao Xu's can be used in these opinions, and what others put forward is either of little practical significance or unrealistic."

"Yes, but at least there is an old Xu who understands, the Dutch are currently strong, if we want them to feel threatened and have scruples, we must ensure that Spain's strength will not be cut down too much, and even need to help Spain maintain its current position, at least Spain is not a threat to us at present."

"The consul is right, the Dutch are on the rise, we can't control them well, and we can't stop them, we can only use the old empire of Spain to contain them, so we can profit from it."

As a diplomat, Yu Bowen knows more about the principle of distant friendship and close attack, compared to the Dutch, Spain is the object of distant friendship, only Spain has always been pure, the Dutch will focus at least part of their energy on dealing with them, and their attention to Australia will be put down a lot.

"But the most important thing right now is to negotiate a cooperation between the two parties, which can be said to be an exchange of interests, and if the Dutch are to introduce a patent law, they must be able to see the economic benefits of using patents."

"Send our letter of agreement to the Dutch, I want to know what they think," Yu commanded.

"Yes, Mr. Consul, but before that we meet Mr. Sidney, he has visited him a few times, and I think you can have a good chat with him."

"Sidney," Yu Bowen said meaningfully, "you go and give him a copy of the plan, and Bing tells him what he thinks after reading it, as the owner of the largest shipyard, he must be interested in patent law, and if we want to convince the Dutch parliament, we must first convince this guy, he is the key person who plays a role." ”

As the promoter of the delay policy and the owner of the ship, Sidney has no interest in how he can be so active, so Yu Bowen found him as the breakthrough point. (To be continued......)