Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

There was still a lot of work to be done, and the New Year's party had completely changed. Everyone put down their drinks and food, took out their shorthand books and pens, and began to write down the very important articles.

Xiao Letian's plan was very simple, it was to artificially create a hierarchy, and let all the people have a clear and clear path to promotion. They knew how much military merits could be turned into citizens, and how much could be turned into viscounts, barons, and dukes.

You could even equate this military achievement with a student's score, sixty points, eighty points, or even a hundred points.

Not only could military merits be turned into a ladder to increase one's status, other groups of industry and commerce could also have the opportunity to do so.

Within the Citizens' Assembly, there were four small councils. Among them, the military council would mainly handle specific matters concerning the promotion of military merits, and those officials and soldiers who met the requirements for the title would submit their application report to the military council for review. After the report was confirmed and confirmed, the council would report it to the Prime Minister for final confirmation.

When the Prime Minister's seal had been confirmed, the list was handed to the King, who presented it to him for a glorious coronation on an auspicious day.

The second small council was called Consultation, which was used to examine how merchants could be promoted to nobility!

Don't think that merchants have no contributions to this society. Those who single-handedly opened up the Gold Merchant Road, those who worked hard to allocate food for disaster relief during the famine years, those who did not fear death and sent supplies to the army during the war period … All kinds of actions were created by this group of merchants!

Merits must be rewarded! The world sees the rich material enjoyment of merchants, but as long as the property of merchants is legitimate and moral, this wealth should not be discriminated against but should be respected.

After hearing this, Fan Lian, who did not speak at all during the banquet, began to cry. Beside him, the younger generation Hu Xueyan also had a look of sadness on his face, but the red-crowned merchant held the old shopkeeper's hand and sighed, "For the past thousand years, only the Prime Minister has spoken a fair word for us!"

In addition to the military council and Consultation, there was also the Science Society. This was an organization formed from the combination of the industry and commerce of the academic and agricultural industry and the western concept of a scientist.

Initially, Four Heavenly Kings had proposed to call it the Working Group, which was equivalent to the Chinese work department's Council. However, Xiao Letian had rejected this rustic noun and immediately changed his name to Science Society.

Xiao Letian had a kind of perverted love for the Science Society. First of all, the Science Society's funds were completely allocated by the Prime Minister, and they were reviewed independently without being controlled by the Citizens' Assembly.

In addition, the Science Society established a separate patent office, which was protected by scientists and a group of legal elites. This Patent Office had a lot of authority. If there were any cases in which the patent was damaged, which would worry the scientists, the Patent Office could skip over the Ryukyu's judicial system and directly report them to the King and the Prime Minister.

Decentralizing this authority, Xiao Letian received a lot of questions, those who had grown up in ancient times would not be able to understand what a patent was, if the craftsman thought of a good idea, wouldn't giving it to him as a reward? Why should he give a patent?

Even if he were to be granted a patent, there was no need for him to cause such a ruckus. Furthermore, he even had the authority to perform on his own? The judicial system can no longer control it? Wasn't this turning the sky upside down!?

Even the Four Heavenly Kings subordinates of Xiao Letian all shook their heads in confusion. Only after a night of painstaking discussion did Xiao Letian manage to get them to agree on the benefits of the patent law.

"Science and technology are the most productive forces! You all like the advanced Gun s, but you all have witnessed the efficiency of large-scale factories. Don't you all know how powerful the Zhiyuan ship is? "

"All of this requires the help of science and technology, and technology doesn't fall out of nowhere. Don't expect other countries to sell it to you or give it to you. They won't give you the best stuff!"

"It's up to us to create everything, and what is the motivation of scientists? In this patent law, let their invention bring them wealth and glory, and even a title of nobility! That way, the Chinese scientists will be motivated to catch up and make up for the hundreds of years that we lost! "

"Therefore, we must give the most authority to the Patent Office. We must protect the rights of the innovator!"

After all, Four Heavenly Kings and the others had finally accepted his suggestion. Xiao Letian knew that on one hand, it was because of the logic, but on the other hand, it was because of the pressure from his own authority.

In this era, patent law was a relatively new and inconspicuous law even in Europe and the United States, not to mention the backward Asia.

Four Heavenly Kings agreed to the structure of the Patent Office, but strongly opposed some of the provisions of the Patent Law, especially the fact that scientists could freely grant patents and use them. This caused CIA Elder Wang Huaiyuan to be extremely excited.

"Since the Prime Minister said that science is the number one productive force, then the protection of technology must be incorporated into the control of our CIA! A scientist's patent can be used to earn money, but it definitely cannot be freely licensed! "

"What's so good about that? What if he goes out of his way to give the technology to the enemy nation? What if he got mad at the government for not granting the national patent? Are we going to sue him every day if we have nothing better to do? "

"I only have one sentence, the patent office has priority for the Chinese, ISI has the right to terminate the dangerous authority, we will protect the honor and wealth of scientists, but the patent office cannot be controlled!"

Wang Huaiyuan could not do anything about it since the others had supported him so strongly. In the end, Xiao Letian could only nod his head and accept the offer.

Xiao Letian sighed in his heart and thought, "Since the country has priority, then in the future, there will definitely be cases of countries harming scientists. There will definitely be people who will use this right to bargain for the scientists!" However, there are many things that cannot be done overnight. The gap in the public's views is not something that can be filled in just one or two generations! "

Regardless of whether the patent laws were perfect or not, there was no such thing as perfect in this world.

Ryukyu's patent law was the first in Asia, and in terms of some of the rules, it was even better than European and American patent law for scientists. This was enough to move scientists around the world.

Not only did the Science Society possess the privilege of a patent bill, he also had the benefits of having the Prime Minister set aside funds directly. Xiao Letian had even created a foundation for the Science Society.

Shaw's Foundation for Basic Science! This was a department that no one could understand, but no one could refute this suggestion. This was because this Foundation belonged entirely to Xiao Letian, it was a private foundation that he had invested from his own pocket, and the authority to manage it lay within the Science Society.

At that moment, no one could understand what Xiao Letian was doing. Even Xiao Letian himself was too lazy to explain to them, it was just that the first investment of five million Dragon-striated Silver Coin shocked all the officials of Four Heavenly Kings and Four Heavenly Kings.