Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 206 The Madness of Technology

In fact, in China, although the Chen family does not have the name of a queen, they have the reality of a queen.

With Mrs. Chen as the first director of the Technology Patent Office, for such a department with very vague powers and responsibilities, it is actually equivalent to a certain extent that the powers of this yamen are already infinite, but the responsibilities are almost infinitely small. .

Even he himself admired his wonderful move.

As for issues such as Binji Sichen and harem meddling in politics, Liu Dapao really doesn't take it seriously, because no matter what others think, anyway, Liu Dapao himself really has no intention of being an emperor, and he really doesn't intend to let him My son takes over his class.

So at least if he thinks about it, whether the harem is involved in politics or not, whether or not the chicken is in the morning, will not really affect the stability of the country and society. As for whether other people will think the same way, then he can do nothing.

He did this purely to highlight the emphasis on science and technology, and at the same time to separate the business of the patent office from Yu Chenglong, limit his power, and formally introduce political officials, affairs officers, and science and technology officials into the future. The foundations of the grand bureaucracy were laid.

As for the bike, it's really just an introduction.

Of course, this matter is not without selfishness. After all, he is marrying more and more wives now. After marrying Wang Pingfan's daughter Wang Shi, he accidentally married a Dutch woman as his wife a few days ago. Yeye couldn't stop being a groom at all, and his body was already a little bit unbearable.

On the contrary, after Lao Le went ashore and settled in Chenghai completely, he invested in the construction of a very large Catholic church. He went to church when he had nothing to do, and even worked part-time as a priest occasionally. The more he lived, the younger he was. Liu Da Pao actually had a feeling that he might not be able to survive him.

So recently he has been anxious to find something for his wives to do, so that they don't have to think about fucking themselves all day long.

At the same time, arranging a relatively important position for Mrs. Chen is also to ensure the authority of his wife-in-law, so as to save the head of the family from restlessness, and what Mrs. Chen has done is indeed very good.

Originally, he thought that without a nine-year basic education, the world's scientific development would never be too fast, but he never expected that the patent office that was originally created for bicycles did not wait for bicycles. However, a thousand blueprints were sent to Liu Dapao in just one month!

Liu Dapao’s technology patent office is somewhat similar to the beautiful country in the 19th century. It does not require real objects, but only requires craftsmen to take the drawings to file. After research by the experts of the patent office, it is determined that there is a certain possibility, even if the patent is passed.

The purpose of doing this is purely to limit the hegemony of capital and power, and to fully stimulate the potential of the grassroots of society. Otherwise, science is not something that ordinary craftsmen can frustrate after all.At the same time, the protection of patents is relatively strict, and Chen's personal position has caused no one in the upper-level shareholders to lose face. Occasionally, small and medium-sized branches do not give face, and Chen will personally go down to tear their face.

Just in time for this imperial examination, Liu Dapao's wonderful way of selecting an official by building a bicycle to determine who wins or loses, and the establishment of the Patent Office complement each other, causing Chenghai and even the whole society to set off a wave of scientific enthusiasm.

This science craze is not just a science craze for craftsmen, because this thing has become related to official career, and even a fool can see that the prime minister likes it.The prime minister is very scientific, so if nothing else, the steam engine model will naturally become more expensive in Luoyang. Regardless of whether the civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty understand it or not, every household must have at least a few steam engine models of various shapes. Gongkaiwu is naturally hand-held.

Those who are a little bit ambitious, do not understand, and are willing to spend a certain amount of time to learn and understand. Although some stubborn old scholars accused Liu Dapao of being a trick, but similar voices, Liu Dapao is not a bird, but he is not a bird. He concealed it and advocated this unhealthy trend in public many times, and Liu Dapao would even praise anyone who learned well in public.

Of course, compared with the madness of shareholders in the market, the madness of bureaucrats in the officialdom is really nothing compared to the madness of shareholders. To be honest, businessmen at this stage are often in Liu Dapao's eyes simply representatives of stupid people with a lot of money.

On the one hand, it is supported by the state. As the prime minister, Liu Dapao personally took the platform. On the other hand, the power of science has indeed begun to show in this country with the budding capitalism. The company, and then devoured the proportion of the head office's stock, so that they really believed in the myth of science making wealth, so that almost as long as it is drawn with blueprints and recognized by the patent office, it will definitely be snapped up.

The degree of madness made Liu Dapao even think of the Internet boom in the late 90s that he experienced in his previous life. It was really easy to draw anything and sell it for money.

Originally mediocre craftsmen may have struggled to marry a wife, but now as long as they draw an approved blueprint, they can immediately become the guests of shareholders and court officials, and change their fate against the sky. How can this prevent these craftsmen? passionate?

In the barbaric era when science started, nine-year compulsory education was really not necessary. In fact, among all the scientists in the 20th century all over the world in history, there were not many scientists who could really get a primary school diploma. First, many scientists with countless great inventions are simply illiterate, and even the blueprints need help from others to draw.

Before that, Liu Dapao started a company first, and then the Academy of Sciences. The social status of craftsmen has been greatly improved compared with the feudal society. Although the research direction is military and heavy industry, one method can be used for all methods. Generally speaking, in fact, a lot of immature ideas have appeared in the minds of every craftsman involved in this process.

Because of immaturity, or because it has nothing to do with the main business, these ideas are usually not mentioned, but now, as long as they are spent on paper, they can be sold for money!

All in all, due to Liu Dapao's subtle influence over the past two years, in fact, the craftsmen themselves have accumulated to a certain extent. The two incidents of the Patent Office and the Palace Examination are more like a wind, which directly made the craftsmen explode.

Of course, there are also many people who pretend to be fake, or even more.

Whether he is reliable or not, whether it can be realized, just draw.

Anyway, if you close your eyes and doodle on some things, even if you don’t understand what you are drawing, as long as others don’t understand, you can use it to fool people, and there will almost certainly be fools.

Anyway, from Liu Dapao's point of view, there are only more than 300 truly reliable drawings out of a thousand drawings.

Of the more than 300 sheets, there are only more than 100 that can be realized without too much effort.

Among the more than 100 pieces that have real commercial value, there may be more than 20 pieces.

And by the second month, the number of drawings approved by the Patent Office exceeded [-]!
Of course, Liu Dapao thinks that there are only [-] pieces that are practical and commercial.

And what's more regrettable is that almost all of them are mechanical drawings, and I can't find half of his most important things related to chemistry.

To be honest, Liu Dapao can absorb and improve most of the drawings just by looking at them. The level of these craftsmen is still a bit far behind him. At least it is not very useful to him, and there is nothing that really makes him Be amazed by the whimsy.

But after all, I still didn't start writing.

A person who is covered in iron can't hit a few nails. It is only serious to take this opportunity to create a scientific atmosphere in Ming Dynasty. After all, his own energy is limited. Most of his energy in the past two years has been used to deal with government affairs. The remaining half of my energy is also donated to my wives, so I really have very little time for inventing and creating.

This scientific talent can be regarded as being delayed by politics.

So after thinking about it, Liu Dapao just selected one hundred of these drawings that he thought were the most valuable, and gave them a few words of instructions, and then ordered them to be bound into a book, and the key designs were hidden and published, and gave the inventors of these drawings. Part of the option of the craftsman of the drawing is ignored.

And among these blueprints, most of them are related to the improvement of steam engines, because the study of steam engines in Chenghai is relatively early. The above principle is not complicated, so it can be easily applied to other industries.

Historically, the steam engine was first used in the textile field.

However, this time and space may be due to the fact that there are pedal sewing machines in advance, so the enthusiasm for research and development in the textile industry may not be high. Although there are already a few steam machines, they are relatively not too mature and are only suitable for mass production. Some very thick coarse cloth and roving, the significance is not great, at least not epoch-making.

It is a little unexpected, but the steam engine in the oil extraction industry is really booming. With some manual steam valves, one of the drawings even completed a preliminary semi-automatic oil extraction production line.

It's a big B.

In the original traditional oil extraction method, ten adult men worked hard for a whole day, and they could only squeeze out about [-] catties of high-quality soybean oil. Now, with the improved steam engine and the whole process steam production line, [-] workers, in the With sufficient raw materials, three thousand catties of vegetable oil can be extracted a day.

This blueprint and patent were finally purchased by the Longhu Chamber of Commerce at a high price of 70 taels because Liu Dapao named and praised it and wrote instructions, and invested 200 million taels of silver for investment and production. Started to go public to collect money, the little craftsman who invented this equipment suddenly became a big boss and a big shareholder with this invention, converted into [-] lots of Westpac stock, and can already participate in the five-year shareholder At the conference, the candidate for the general manager of the participating company has been selected.

Affected by this, not only is this oil-extracting company that has no shadow for the time being, not only its own stocks are rising very well, but even the futures prices of soybeans, peanuts, and rapeseeds have also driven up all boats, which in turn has driven the navy The colonial enthusiasm on the other side is grabbing land everywhere. I heard that several corps have already planned to enter the windless belt to develop Australia.

Because the land in the Ming court is still relatively vigilant about the planting of cash crops, most of them are for grain, and everyone is crazily grabbing land for oil planting.

Shortly thereafter, in less than ten days, the Patent Office received another blueprint for the production of a steam honey separator.

That is to say, after the sugarcane is boiled, the brown sugar and white sugar are separated by centrifugal force in a way similar to washing machine drying, but it is the so-called indigenous sugar making technology first brought by Liu Dapao. It’s not that white sugar doesn’t exist anymore, it’s just that it’s too expensive, labor-intensive, and labor-intensive to make, so it’s always been reserved for nobles. As a result, as soon as this thing is put on, the snow-white white sugar comes out in sacks one by one.

Then, sugarcane futures, which were already in short supply, also exploded.

In the following half a month, there were so many useless inventions such as steam mechanism soy sauce, steam engine brewing vinegar, steam engine raising chickens, and all kinds of useless inventions, except for a few simple gadgets such as steam engine crushing rice and sieving. In addition to usefulness, other things have no commercial value in Liu Dapao's view.

It just so happens that these food-related things are highly sought after in the society. On the contrary, the development of the textile industry seems to be very slow. Although the demand for silk is very high, there are not many places where it can be grown. Although the demand for cotton is still strong, but The planting area has not been too large, especially in the recent period when cashmere textiles from Mongolia have gradually entered the market, and the futures price of cotton has not risen but has fallen.

All in all, anyway, the whole society has already started to be agitated, even if there is no chicken feather, and the social agitation is transmitted to the navy, which in turn triggers the collective agitation of the navy.

The demand for sugarcane and oil crops is soaring. These two things are characterized by eating land but not people, which leads to a surge in colonial enthusiasm and slave trade. The development speed of Qiongzhou and Wanwan is changing every day. If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked. In these two states alone, there are now a total of 80 slaves, black, white, yellow, brown, and brown, but they are still far from meeting the needs of enterprises.

Except for the Mughal Empire, the entire Southeast Asian region is still at war. Other small countries such as tribal alliances are now basically his semi-colonies. By supporting compradors and other methods, they can purchase a large amount of cash crops every few months. Still can't satisfy the appetite of the enterprise.

So now that the army is gearing up and forcing Ma Bao to challenge him, Liu Dapao thought he couldn't wait for the Northern Expedition?As a result, Ma Bao said that the soldiers were sharpening their swords, and they would be impatient if they didn't fight in southern Guangdong and Guangxi.

Liu Dapao said that Zu Zeqing and Sun Yanling had already started to do it, Ma Bao said no matter, can't wait for them to fight slowly, you let me go down and wipe them out, if you hurry up, you can catch up with a crop of spring plowing, how many Planting a crop of sugar cane is better than anything else.

The navy is even more crazy. They have not fought well with the Mughals yet, and they are trying to completely unify the African continent. No, you want to unify Africa, can France agree?I have already had a deadly enmity with the Chinese people. Is it sick to provoke France at this time?

Then, as soon as Lao Le heard that he was going to attack France, he yelled that we should go directly to attack the French mainland.

So much so that Liu Dapao himself didn't know whether the Daming in his hands should be said to be thriving, or if it was a little out of control.

(End of this chapter)