0144 Brewing in the shadows
As the saying goes, where there is demand, there is a market.
With a market, it is natural that there will be smart businessmen who will have ideas to meet the market demand and make a profit.
So, after experiencing the pencil, there are smart businessmen who see a huge business opportunity.
Pencils are suitable for writing on relatively strong and flexible paper, but the cheap straw paper on the market is not tough enough to be suitable for pencil writing at all.
Those high-quality papers are too expensive for ordinary families to afford.
Pencils are inexpensive and significantly more suitable for the poor.
When you buy a pencil, you have to buy the right paper for writing, right?
But there is no suitable paper on the market.
This means a huge market vacancy!
As a result, many paper mills across the country began to research new paper suitable for pencil writing.
They were so positive, not only because they were optimistic about this emerging market, but also because of the Patent Division.
In the past, if someone made something new, no matter how much it was kept secret, imitations would quickly appear on the market.
Because there are so many smart people!
Everyone is used to it, but they don't think it's anything.
However, with the promulgation of the patent law, many people's eyes are red!
In particular, those who create new things but are "imitated" by others feel that this patent law is well-developed.
It won't be long before something that has been painstakingly come up with will be copied by others, and who can be willing to change it?
However, there was no relevant law before, and everyone was used to this matter, and there was no reason to explain it at all.
Today, with the Patent Law and the Patent Division, the situation is different.
If you come up with something new, you can go to the patent office to apply for a patent, and after the application, no one else can use it, and you have to pay for it!
If you don't give money to use it secretly, you will be fined ten times more if you are discovered!
They can even sell patents to the Patent Division, or present them to His Majesty the Emperor!
If His Majesty is satisfied, he will also issue a reward!
Can this not be exciting?
That's the Emperor!
If anyone gets a decree of commendation, they can glorify the lintel and bless their descendants!
With the emperor's commendation, who will dare to bully them casually in the future?
So after seeing the new market, many paper mills are full of energy, hoping to make some good paper.
When the time comes, go to the patent department to apply for a patent, whether it is waiting to receive money or dedicate it to the emperor, it is a good choice.
Businessmen do not have a high status, but they have money in their hands, so they will inevitably be targeted.
So many times, they have to spend money to find a backer for themselves and eliminate disasters.
Otherwise, if you are not careful, you may be convicted by someone who catches the pigtails, and finally the family is ruined.
However, it is obviously better to rely on others than on oneself, so many businessmen will try their best to cultivate the children of the clan, hoping that they will be able to take the imperial examination and be named on the gold list.
When the time comes, there are people in the DPRK and China, and they will be able to straighten their waists when they do business, and they will no longer have to be mermaids.
However, the imperial examination is held once every three years, and how many people can be named on the gold list?
Even if you really pass the exam, you still have to wait for the imperial court to choose officials.
If you are lucky, be a small county commander, and then continue to work hard, and climb up one level at a time.
If you're unlucky, you don't know how many years you'll have to wait before you have the opportunity to become an official.
Businessmen are still like this, let alone ordinary people?
Everyone knows that it's too hard to climb up.
Otherwise, there would not be the sentence "everything is inferior, only reading is high".
But as soon as this patent division came out, it was like setting up a ladder to the sky among the people, allowing many people to see the opportunity to climb to the sky in one step!
The patent that has been applied for, in addition to waiting to receive money, can also be dedicated to the emperor!
If this patent can satisfy the emperor, are they afraid that they will not have a chance to get ahead?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Those scholars don't look down on Emperor Yong'an, the rebellious emperor, and the common people don't care about this.
They only know that whoever makes them live well is a good emperor.
Therefore, after the promulgation of the patent law, although there are many people who are dissatisfied, there are many people who want to profit from it!
Not only did paper merchants see business opportunities and began to study new paper, but many smart people also began to get busy and started "creating inventions".
Those who hold the "ancestral secret recipe" are afraid that the secret recipe will be leaked, and many are still waiting and waiting and do not dare to apply for a patent.
But those who didn't have anything in their hands didn't have any scruples, but one by one they were gearing up, dreaming of "inventing" something good and dedicating it to Emperor Yong'an through the Patent Division.
Invention doesn't come to fruition overnight, so it's still brewing in the dark.
Emperor Yong'an in the capital naturally didn't know that because the Patent Law and the Patent Department had aroused a nationwide "creation" boom.
However, the people who are gearing up will not know that Emperor Yong'an established the Patent Department just to set up a special intelligence department.
Even Su Jinli, who proposed the Patent Law and the Patent Division to Chu Yan, would not have thought at this time how much change the emergence of the Patent Law and the Patent Division would bring to the world!
She proposed to Chu Yan the Patent Law and the Patent Division, of course, to encourage private invention and creation.
But what the effect is, what kind of things people in this era can invent, Su Jinli can't predict.
Fortunately, although the inventions and creations of the people are still in the making, they will not bear fruit for a while.
But many people around the country have applied for patents, so that Yongan Dilong Yan Dayue!
When the Patent Law and the Patent Division were first proposed, there were quite a few people in the DPRK and China who opposed it.
Although he suppressed all opposition strongly, he was a little worried.
I am afraid that the opposition of the people is too high, which makes him, the emperor, lose his face, and is scolded as a faint king.
Now that there are so many people applying for patents, it finally makes him raise his eyebrows once.
Emperor Yong'an secretly made up his mind that if someone offered him a patent, he would definitely be rewarded for his good life.
Let everyone in the world know that he is a wise man with clear rewards and punishments!
Emperor Yongan was happy, and praised Chu Yan in public for proposing the Patent Law and the Patent Division.
Although he didn't give any reward on the spot, he praised Chu Yan in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces, which was enough to give Chu Yan a long face and let the courtiers figure it out in their hearts.
The prince was also there, and he looked at Chu Yan, who was holding his head high and becoming more and more high-spirited, and he couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid in his heart.
Although Emperor Yong'an praised Chu Yan by the way after praising him, it still made the prince feel uneasy.
When the news reached the East Palace, the crown princess had another fetal gas.
But she didn't dare to make a noise at all, but she had to try her best to hide it.
Otherwise, if the tire gas is transmitted to the ears of Empress Zhang and Emperor Yong'an at this time, what will they think?
It's already uncomfortable to move the fetal gas, but you have to hide the news, don't mention the princess is depressed.
She held back all day, hiding her stomach full of thoughts, but she didn't dare to tell anyone.
Even if she is surrounded by confidants, if she has anything, she doesn't dare to say it casually.
It wasn't until she went to bed at night that the crown princess pulled the prince to blow the "pillow wind".