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Chapter 59 Mohist patent fees
According to the information obtained by Jin Yiwei, the suzerain of Hehuan Sect has always stayed in the sect and rarely left the gate.

However, if Penke can still take this information seriously, then he is really a stick.

No matter how carefully Jin Yiwei watched, it was impossible for him to run into the Hehuan Sect and squat at the door of the Sect Master's room to listen to the wall.

This kind of mountain gate, which has been in operation for hundreds of years, must have a tunnel leading to the outside.

Unless, like the previous treatment of the Diancang faction, the army directly seals off the mountain and thoroughly investigates inch by inch, it can be ensured that no one can escape.

But this is based on the fact that the suzerain will live and die with the sect disciples.

Obviously, the Suzerain of the Hehuan Sect didn't think so.

It is estimated that she had already left the mountain gate in disguise, waiting somewhere near Suzhou Mansion to see what Penke's next move would be, and then decide whether to run or stay.

This is a bit tricky.

"You have been in Suzhou Mansion for the past two years, and your suzerain should have been wary of you since you gave up the task of approaching and controlling me last time."

"That's why I sent you to Suzhou Mansion after I took over Jinyiwei and started to clean up the sects in Jianghu according to His Majesty's request."

"The good name is to let you raise your name, but it actually drives you away from the core of the Acacia Sect."

"Two years is enough time for her to do a lot of things. Whether it's preparing for the golden cicada's escape or a desperate counterattack, it's enough time for her to make arrangements."

Penke kept pacing in the west wing, analyzing frantically in his mind, what should he do next.

Once the suzerain of the Hehuan Sect successfully escapes the golden cicada's shell, after mastering the unique skill of "The Jue of Falling in Love".

Even if the cultivation requirements of this exercise are very demanding, it is difficult to find suitable disciples.

But no matter how difficult it was, it couldn't hold back the ever-exploding population base of Ming Dynasty.

In ten or twenty years, she might be able to cultivate three or five disciples who have achieved great success in "The Jue of Falling in Love". Once these disciples can control a few important officials of the court.

Then this is a bomb buried deep in the court.

The Hehuan Sect also has the capital to revive!
It can't be possible for all court officials to be in danger and dare not marry wives and have children in the future, right?

This situation must be put an end to!

Pen Ke gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "Check!"

"Ah Hu, put the disciples of the Silent Sect in the other Thousand Households of Jinyiwei first, and then transfer them back secretly.

"For every two disciples of the Buyan sect, arrange for a commander of the Jinyiwei school lieutenant to spread throughout the fourteen prefectures and four prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, secretly looking for the suzerain of the Hehuan sect!"

"Do it secretly, don't startle the snake!"

"Send someone to invite Daoist Dong Yunzi here, and ask him to find out about Mu Wanqing's whereabouts and see if there are any clues."

"By the way, what's the name of the suzerain of the Hehuan Sect?"

Ah Hu bowed and replied, "I call myself Wang Man to the public, but I don't know if that's my real name."

Peng Ke nodded, then hurriedly left the west wing and walked to the office area of ​​Qianhusuo.

In addition to sending people to find the traces of the Suzerain of Hehuan, he also had to do some big things to distract the attention of Wang, and let her not run away in a hurry, but to stabilize her first.

After entering the telegraph room, Peng Ke gave an order to the telegraph operator: "Send a telegram to the Beijing camp, let the three steam airships leave in three days, and fly to Taihu Lake to stand by!"

"Two thousand households from the garrison guards of Suzhou Prefecture, and the Taihu Navy Fleet are assembled, and the soldiers will dispatch to Taihu Knight Island in three days!"

The telegraph operator immediately sat in front of the half-person-high telegraph machine, spread out a cipher book, and started sending a telegram with the electric key.

The sound of "Di-di-di-di, di di di... di di" kept ringing.

Using the method of turning the circuit on and off, a series of binary signals of different lengths were transmitted to Ying Tianfu's telegraph room through cables.

Although this telegram sending method is still very old, it can only send binary information of 1 and 0.

But this information is enough to be translated into digital codes, and numbers such as "12345678" can be translated.

As long as a code book is made, and each number represents a Chinese character, the translator over there can translate the received digital telegram into Chinese character information!
The cipherbook used by Daming now compiles a total of 1 Chinese characters from 9999-9999, which is enough for any information transmission work.

It's just that it's a bit troublesome to press the keys. If you want to send a telegram with hundreds of words, you may need to type for more than ten minutes.

Therefore, Daming's telegrams are still sent in short sentences as much as possible, and the fewest words can be used to express clearly.

This is also the reason why in the telegram era, telegrams were charged according to the number of words.

The more words, the more troublesome it is, and the longer it takes for the telegraph, and of course the more expensive it is!
Speaking of which, the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court is already considering opening up the civilian market for telegraphs.

And the initial pricing may be so high that a sentence of "safe, don't read" needs a tael of silver.

If you want to send a [-]-character family letter, it may cost dozens of taels of silver. It can really be said that the family letter is worth ten thousand gold.

It is estimated that when the civilian telegraph was first opened, only wealthy businessmen could afford it, and it was not a matter of immediate concern, and they were reluctant to use telegrams to transmit information.

But for this matter, Penke is supportive.

On the one hand, it is because the cable laying of this telegraph is very expensive, and it may cost one tael of silver for a ten-meter road.

The imperial court spent 3000 to [-] million taels of silver to lay the cable line from Yingtianfu to the main cities of the thirteen provinces.

This cost must be recovered.

On the other hand, if it is open to civilian use, Penke can collect patent fees!

That's right, I, Daming, also have patent fees!

In other words, the Mohists have said patent fees since ancient times.

The word "patent" was originally a term inherent in China.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chinese nobles were very particular about patents, but they were paying attention to noble patents at that time.

That is, what is on my territory is mine, and even the king cannot take it for himself.

Similarly, only I can sell the things I create, and no one else can.

Just like the Fan family in the Jin state is good at making pottery, and the Wei family's bows and crossbows are strong, they are all patented by themselves. If others copy and imitate, they will be attacked by them.

Inherited from the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period, the Mohists naturally also pursued patent rights.

If other people want to copy something invented by the Mohist without saying a word, then the ranger of the Mohist will come to the door to "collect patent fees".

Back then, the Mohists were known as the most vigorous civil violence group!

How did this nickname come about?

That's the reputation that was brought about by a sum of violent collections!
During the heyday of the Mohism, even the overlord of the Seven Kingdoms was not willing to provoke this group of violent groups with tens of thousands of rangers, most of them were mainly cooperative and obedient.

Evolved to the present, Mohism, as a prominent school in the world, naturally also maintains patent rights everywhere.

Peng Ke "invented" the telegraph. If it is to be spread across the country, used by the common people, and generate benefits, the Mo Academy will naturally pay dividends to Peng Ke.

Otherwise, they will violate their own doctrines.

It's not just Penke, if the things invented by Moyuan's own people are involved in civilian use and generate benefits, they will pay dividends to the inventors.

It's just that most of the Mohist people use these dividends to help the people in emergency and do charity.

This is also the consistent purpose of the Mohists, to use money to benefit the common people.

The reason why Peng Ke lost his patent rights in his previous life was that after the Confucianism became dominant, all the propositions and policies of Mohism, the sworn enemy, were destroyed.

And is defined as being "bad, useless, wrong."

Inventions and creations are also regarded as "unique skills and obscene skills", and are sneered at and even cast aside.

But when inventing and creating new things, it is defined as making people lose their minds, having no value, and even demagogic.

When everything is inferior, only reading is superior.

And it is only when reading stereotyped essays is high.

Naturally, China's road to scientific exploration was cut off from then on.

If there were no strong ships and guns from Xiyi.

Maybe China, ruled by stereotyped essays, will continue for 1000 years, and it will remain unchanged in 2000 years.

The left and right are just a few more ruling dynasties.

It's a pity.

(End of this chapter)