Chapter 112 Denial (4K)
The speed and efficiency of Xuegong Patent Office far exceeded Li Ang's expectations.
According to Su Feng, a Ph.D., the largest businesses in Chang'an City include Elemis, which makes spices, Fushengtang, which deals in medicinal materials, and Jinxiutang, which is considered a holy place by Chai Cuiqiao and many ladies in Chang'an. There are chambers of commerce that deal in fur—
In the past, the cleaning products in Yu State were bath beans and soap, which belonged to beauty products like face oil and hand balm.
However, high-end bath beans are made of extravagant materials and are expensive to make. The pig pancreas used in the pancreas is not easy to obtain, and only middle-income families and noble scholars can afford it.
The raw materials of soap and soap are relatively easy to obtain, the production process is simple, and it is easy to promote at a glance.
Coupled with the background of the school as an endorsement, it is not difficult to understand that major firms flock here.
There was still some time before lunch, so Li Ang simply followed Dr. Su Feng to the Patent Office, where he met representatives of major firms in the patent office's box.
"This is the money treasurer of Lanxiangji, this is the master Wang of Fushengtang, this is the boss An of Jinxiutang, and this is the gold treasurer of Liuguang Bank"
Su Feng introduced a group of representatives of chambers of commerce to Li Ang. These people were all powerful people from the eastern and western cities of Chang'an.
Li Ang greeted them in a friendly manner, and quietly asked Su Feng while sitting down: "Dr. Su, why are there no Hu merchants?"
As the largest operator of the Silk Road, the energy of the Hu merchant group in the eastern and western cities is not inferior to that of the local chamber of commerce, and even slightly exceeds it in terms of wealth.
The chambers of commerce from the eastern and western cities all came, but there was not a single barbarian in the box, which is quite...strange.
"Uh, this."
Su Feng pretended to cough, and said with some embarrassment: "Generally, when a new patent comes out, our patent office will not notify the Hu merchants, and they will not come to inquire.
Patents that local chambers of commerce can buy, they may not have the right to buy—this is to be decapitated. "
"Decapitation?"
Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and immediately reacted, "The roots of Hu merchants are in the far west.
Do not let Hu merchants get involved in new patents,
Is it because they are afraid that Hu merchants will smuggle the production technology of their unique products abroad? "
"Exactly."
Su Feng nodded, and said helplessly: "Although the academy wants to communicate extensively at the level of knowledge,
But the court didn't think so.
Hu merchants transported spices, rhino horns, ivory, coral, pearls, amber and other rare treasures to Chang'an every year, and earned a huge amount of wealth.
Let them steal the production technology and sell the products in the far west to sell back to Yu State, which is not conducive to the business of Yu State - the same is true for firms in Xijing, Nanzhou and other countries, and they have no right to participate in patent licensing. "
"Understood."
Li Ang nodded and said, "Knowledge has no borders, but taxation has borders."
"Mr. Li Xiaolang's words are very appropriate, he is worthy of being the number one scholar in the academy."
A fat man with a wide body and a sachet on his waist, said with a smile: "But you don't have to worry, without Hu merchants as competitors, our Chang'an chambers of commerce will jointly lower the price.
The most important thing in doing business is honesty.
What's more, the palace sent people to discuss with us the production and promotion of midwifery forceps before.
With forceps, I don't know how many mothers and babies can be saved.
All of us here want to acknowledge your affection. "
"Uh, shopkeeper Jin is too serious."
Li Ang's eyelids twitched slightly. The fat man who spoke was named Jin Wusuan, and he was the big shopkeeper of Liuguang Bank—that is, the bank has branch offices in more than 600 state capitals of Yu State, and even opened branch offices in the bank. The Liuguang Bank in a hundred thousand barren mountains.
If one wants to run for the richest man in the Yu Kingdom, Jin Wusuan is definitely the most promising candidate.
In fact, according to some anecdotal rumors, Jin Wu can be regarded as the agent of the clan of the Li surname, and even the emperor and his wife in private business interests, collecting money for the royal family.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the Liuguang Bank, whose monthly turnover is calculated at tens of millions, has not been swallowed alive by various dignitaries.
‘The richest man in Yu country. '
Li Ang smacked his lips in his heart, and countless money rains from the sky appeared in his mind.
Jin Wusuan is undoubtedly the highest status among the representatives of this group of firms.
Seeing him speak, others responded one after another, praising how great the midwifery forceps are, and how much soap, soap, and absorbent cotton can help ordinary people's lives.
"If it wasn't for the imperial palace's special order, don't over-promote you, Mr. Li Xiaolang, I'm afraid there will already be a shrine built in Chang'an."
Jin Wusuan shook his head regretfully, took out a bundle of bound papers, and handed it to Li Ang, "By the way, Mr. Li Xiaolang, this is the letter of intent for patent authorization from several of our firms. Check to see if there is any problem."
Li Ang took the paper, glanced at it, and his heart trembled as if a stereo was installed.
thump thump thump.
One ten million million one hundred thousand million.
Three million guan?
Li Ang reconfirmed the numbers on the paper, yes,
Various companies in Chang'an are willing to pay a price of three million coins to buy out the patent authorization in one go.
‘The mansion of the former ruling minister’s family is probably only ten thousand, right?
When the eldest princess of the first emperor got married, all expenses including the dowry, wedding ceremony, princess house, and the life-long salary of the servants were added together, which was only 200,000 guan.
Just like this, the censors slammed it wildly, saying that it was extravagant and wasteful, which was detrimental to the state. '
Li Ang stared at the numbers on the paper in a daze, and couldn't help letting out a long breath.
Three million guan, enough to build 300,000 wells, enough to buy 30,000 good horses, enough to live for an ordinary family with 200 cash for 15 million days, equivalent to 41,095 years.
Equivalent to three hundred Yan Guogongs!
Even if it was replaced with gold and silver, it would be enough to smash people to death.
Li Ang dreamed in a trance that he and Chai Cuiqiao turned into giant dragons, lying in a cave full of gold and silver, with scorching eyes and mouths of flames, guarding their wealth.
Calm down, be sure to be calm.
Li Ang looked away from the paper with difficulty, he had no doubts at all whether Jin Wusan and the others could get the money, after all, it was the Liuguang Bank.
but.
"I'm not going to sell the patent outright."
Li Ang took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "I still hope to adopt a long-term authorization and only earn patent fees."
"oh?"
Jin Wusuan raised his brows in astonishment, "Mr. Li Xiaolang might as well take a look at the calculation formula below. Before our companies came, we had already hired mathematics talents in the companies—including some students who graduated from the academy.
Specially calculated the future income of soap, toilet soap, absorbent cotton.
Three million guan is already considered a relatively appropriate number.
Even if the products are sold to the state capitals of Yu State, and even abroad.
In the short to medium term, the income from patent fees is far from reaching the level of three million crowns. "
"I know, I've seen it, the estimation process is fine."
Li Ang nodded. The income of a commodity must be deducted from the cost of raw materials, transportation costs, site rental costs, labor costs, natural loss, accumulation risk, tax expenses and other factors.
The number of middle-income households in Yu State is multiplied by the number of soaps and soaps purchased each year, then multiplied by the price of soaps and soaps, and the cost is deducted, and then multiplied by 2%.
The final money that can be obtained from limited patent authorization is not as much as three million crowns.
And this is only the revenue of large companies, and small pirated companies and family workshops should also be considered.
For profit-seeking purposes, they will always find ways to imitate similar products, and this part of the income cannot be calculated as patent fees—without authorization, there will naturally be no patent fees.
After some calculations, if Li Ang chooses to receive patent fees every year, it will take more than 30 years to get 3 million crowns.
The Academy has too much experience to prove that product inventions will continue to iterate, and a patent may not really be able to sell for thirty years.
more importantly,
The Academy stipulates that the term of the invention patent right is twenty-five years.
In twenty-five years, the Academy will spare no effort to protect the rights and interests of inventors until the time limit expires.
Jin Wusuan frowned and said, "Then why?"
"If the patent rights are completely sold, then the conditions I wrote on the patent description to protect workers will be invalidated?"
Li Ang spread his hands and said: "Although you are all representatives of major companies, you have a lot of promises in your respective territories. But money touches people's hearts.
As long as the scale of production continues to expand, there will always be managers who want to save costs and lower prices to gain a competitive advantage.
Labor is naturally the most easily optimized part. "
In the patent specification, Li Ang strictly required that the workshop should distribute gloves and masks made of absorbent cotton cloth or other materials to the workers,
Strictly require the workshop not to employ child labor, not to work in a harsh environment for a long time, etc.
Li Ang has no doubts at all, if the patent is completely sold,
Those big companies will directly tear up these "Arabian Nights" restrictions.
"Mr. Li Xiaolang."
Lanxiangji’s money shopkeeper smacked his lips, and was about to say something when he was interrupted by Jin Wusuan’s eyes.
"Mr. Li Xiaolang, you are indeed a benevolent doctor."
Jin Wusuan pointed to the table with his five fingers, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "In this way, we will re-estimate the cost and benefits of the entire production process after implementing your conditions.
Explain in advance that if you insist on distributing protective equipment to workers and limiting the working hours,
Costs will definitely increase and total benefits will definitely decrease”
"good."
Li Ang agreed very readily, which surprised Shopkeeper Qian and others even more, "Mr. Li Xiaolang, have you thought it through clearly? The income you can get will also be reduced by doing so."
"I figured it out, this is the condition. If you can't agree, then I have to find a company that is willing to agree and authorize them."
Li Ang spoke very seriously, and the representatives of several companies looked at each other, their eyes full of helplessness. I have never seen anyone push money out.
"Okay, if Mr. Li Xiaolang insists."
Jin Wusuan sighed, agreeing to Li Ang's condition on behalf of others.
It was agreed verbally, and the contract will be formally signed another day.
At this time, the bell of noon rang in the school palace, and the contract was temporarily finished. Su Feng got up and sent the representatives of the major chambers of commerce out of the house.
"Dr. Su"
Li Ang hesitated to speak, he set many conditions for those big companies, these conditions must be strictly implemented, otherwise he will withdraw the patent authorization.
But this is equivalent to increasing the workload of Xuegong Patent Office,
It may be necessary for the Academy to waste manpower and material resources to argue with big firms.
"You did the right thing."
Su Feng said with a smile: "If it were me, at your age and your family background, you may not be able to resist the temptation of three million pennies.
Willing to give up the massive wealth obtained for the unmasked laborers,
The head of the mountain and His Majesty will be very pleased with this. "
"Maybe."
Li Ang spread his hands helplessly, the world is bustling, all for profit; the world is hustle and bustle, all for profit. Cultivators are not immortals who eat wind and drink dew, they also have to eat, wear, live and travel.
Even consumes more resources than ordinary people—the talisman ink materials used by monks require miners to dig in mines.
The herbs used by monks require mountain people to hang ropes to pick them from cliffs.
The metal used by monks requires blacksmiths to forge day and night.
Raise a monk, so that the resources of the monk's practice can be called astronomical figures,
Otherwise, there would not be only one school in the world, and the school would not only enroll six or seven hundred disciples every year.
He rejected three million guan, which is equivalent to losing a large amount of agency fees to the academy and adding a lot of trouble.
"hehe,"
Seeing the lost expression on Li Ang's face, Su Feng smiled and said, "Persevere to protect the weak, and feel sad for the weak when they are hurt. You really look like your teacher."
"Um?"
Li Ang said in a daze, "You, Dr. Su."
"Pu Liuxuan and I used to be classmates and friends. We just passed a letter some time ago."
Su Feng smiled slightly and said, "It's wise for you to hide his identity and not mention him to outsiders.
Liuxuan. There are some enemies in Chang'an City who don't have a good relationship. "
"Which enemies?"
Li Ang couldn't help asking: "Why did Mr. Liuxuan leave Chang'an back then?"
He wanted to ask about this matter for a long time, but no matter whether it was Pu Liuxuan or Cheng Juxiu, they all tacitly kept silent.
"Didn't he tell you?"
Su Feng was a little surprised, "Uh, then you should wait for him to come to Chang'an and ask him in person.
Well, in short, it’s just some old stories, just hate the house and the crow. It has passed.
The head of the mountain said that when the matter is over, it is the end. Otherwise, Liu Xuan would not be allowed to come back.
By the way, don't eat too much for lunch later, there is another good thing waiting for you new students this afternoon. "
Su Feng avoided talking about it again, so Li Ang had to go back to the cafeteria for dinner.
In the afternoon, the good thing Su Feng said really came.
Responsible for managing the life and academic teaching of freshmen (equivalent to the grade director), gathering freshmen and announcing a matter.
Credit system
In short, after more than a month of adaptation period, the academy has opened up the credit system for freshmen——freshmen can get personal credits for their outstanding performance in class or achievements outside the classroom.
Credits cannot be transferred, and can be used to receive materials, practice classics, and the right to borrow books related to heterogeneous materials, etc.
It even includes the use and borrowing of different types in Dongjun Building.
Inventions and creations, as well as registration of patents in patent offices, happen to be one of the ways to obtain credits.
(end of this chapter)