Chapter 404: The Patent Office That Gradually Goes Away
The next day, a special celebration banquet was held for Wang Xuance and his party in the imperial city.
That can also be said to be huge.
Not only the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military.
Wang Xuance and others after the celebration banquet.
He was also given the honor of crossing the horse by Li Er.
Although many residents in Chang'an City have long learned from the newspaper about Wang Xuance and others' achievements against the sky.
But I really heard that this group of more than 20 people, who wiped out more than 20,000 Tibetan troops, and the heroes were going to parade through the streets.
On both sides of the road, it was also crowded with ordinary people who wanted to see the lineup of more than 20 'strong men'.
There are even many wealthy families, at this time, it is like a champion in later generations.
directly carried his daughter's dowry and ran to the street to stop them from recruiting a son-in-law.
And wait until Wang Xuance and others finish touring the street in a beautiful manner.
Li Er also sent out their rewards.
Not only did everyone receive knighthoods, but more importantly, many of them were rewarded with honors.
The Tang Dynasty was different from the Qin and Han dynasties that preceded it.
Emphasis on official character and light on title.
This can be seen from the Guogong running all over the street.
Not only military attaches like Cheng Biting Jin and Li Tao can rely on military exploits to get to the rank of duke.
Even civil officials like Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng are all dukes.
So at this time, compared to the titles that everyone has.
Everyone attaches more importance to their own official products.
And the rank of military attache is generally divided into twelve grades.
Each level is called a turn.
The highest of these is the Shangzhu Kingdom, which is equivalent to the second grade of the civil officials above the court.
The sentence in Mulan's words: 'The general dies in a hundred battles, and the strong man returns in ten years.' When I returned to see the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven sat in the Ming Hall. Twelve turns, rewards hundreds of strong. ’
This is the system of honors.
At present, the three most well-known Shangzhu countries in the Tang Dynasty are Li Tao, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin.
And this time, the brothers brought by Wang Xuance were not only promoted three times in their ranks.
Wang Xuance and Zheng Yang, who contributed the most, also improved two more turns and one turn respectively.
The rank of five and four turns was promoted at once.
It can be said that Datang has never happened since the world was set in the world!
And even so.
In fact, in Lu Heng's opinion, Wang Xuance and the others still suffered a small loss.
After all, according to Datang's battlefield reward regulations.
In the case of a small number of enemies, as long as it can effectively kill and wound 40 percent of the enemy's troops.
You can get the reward of being promoted to the rank of the fourth turn.
And Wang Xuance, they wiped out the enemy this time.
In this way, Wang Xuance, as the leader, was able to improve a little more.
I don't think I'm at a loss.
However, Lu Heng estimated that Li Er was also afraid that he would feel that he would give too much at one time.
In the future, it will not be rewarding these boys for making great contributions.
So it's understandable.
After all, if you really want to count it, the military attaché's rank will be a total of twelve turns.
Wang Xuance was promoted to the fifth turn this time.
It's a great reward.
And Lu Heng, who does not have a military attache official position on his body, and has no desire for official qualities.
This time, I relied on this plan.
raised the title of the Yiguo County Baron on his father's head several levels.
directly did it to the Yiguo County that was only one step away from being the Duke of the Kingdom.
Not only that, on the basis of the original 1,400 acres of Yongye field.
Li Er also waved his pen and gave an additional 1,100 mu, directly getting 2,500 mu.
It's kind of mixed with the same treatment as Guogong.
After awarding this victory with the most outrageous difference in numbers since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Due to the butterfly effect brought about by Wang Jue's farewell to his hometown above the court.
The pace of preparation for the establishment of the patent office also began to accelerate suddenly.
After Lu Heng personally completed the training for the first batch of patent office officials selected by Li Er.
Datang's first patent office, Yamen, was also officially opened on Zhuque Street in Chang'an City.
However, it is different from the patent office in later generations, which was only responsible for the approval of patent applications.
Datang's responsibilities of this patent office.
In Lu Heng's view, it is even more inclined to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.
Because first of all, because these officials appointed by Li Er do not have the ability to distinguish whether the patent is established or not.
So most of the content in the patent application process.
In fact, it was to be carried out in Lu Heng's academy.
For example, let's say someone brings a prescription and wants to apply for a patent.
Then the patent office will send someone to send it to the academy after receiving the prescription.
Then the expert group organized by the academy, including Sun Simiao, made the judgment.
Whether the efficacy of this prescription is up to standard, and whether there are any serious sequelae.
And more importantly, to know whether this prescription will be copied from that relatively obscure medical book.
Only wait until the results of these columns of reviews are out.
The academy will reply to the Patent Office that meets the application conditions at the time of the prescription.
Of course, at the same time, in order to better approve these submitted patents.
The college will also invite applicants to the college.
Communicate face-to-face with the expert group so as not to cause any misunderstandings in the communication process.
As for patents in other areas, it is even more necessary to conduct tests in the academy to confirm that the patent is indeed useful, and then let the patent office complete the administrative process of approval.
And because of that.
Therefore, the main work content of the patent office is not only to carry out the administrative process of patent application.
Rather, it is more about monitoring the use of patents.
It is necessary to ensure that the person who uses the patent pays the patent fee accurately and correctly.
Moreover, Li Er was still after discussing with Lu Heng.
He also plans to take this opportunity to carry out an all-round reform of Datang's commercial tax.
In the past, Datang's commercial tax was only tariffs.
To put it simply, the government sets up checkpoints on the way through which merchants must transport goods.
Then, when the merchant transports the goods from the checkpoint, a certain tax is drawn according to the quantity of the goods.
But the shortcomings and ills of this tax are also obvious.
Not to mention that in order to evade taxes, businessmen may use small roads near checkpoints to evade taxes.
Even businessmen who pass the customs normally can often use bribery and other means.
Buying off the tax collectors who are responsible for collecting taxes, so as to achieve the purpose of tax evasion.
So although Datang's business now seems to have gradually prospered.
But the imperial court could hardly collect any decent tariffs.
The greatest tax pressure is still concentrated on the peasants who face the loess with their backs to the sky.
And after Lu Heng's suggestion, Li Er was also willing to give it a try.
The collection of commercial taxes is placed above the beginning and end of the flow of goods.
Manufacturing tax and consumption tax should be collected from customs duties.
In this way, this newly established patent office has almost become the most convenient yamen for Li to collect taxes.
After all, they have to go to various shops and workshops to monitor the use of patents anyway.
Then it is natural to help collect some taxes by the way.
So even if Lu Heng strongly objected, he even suggested that Li Er set up another tax yamen.
Li Er also forcibly imposed the responsibility of collecting commercial taxes on the head of the patent office.