The Xuegong Patent Office’s progress is so fast and efficient that it has greatly exceeded Li Ang’s expectations.
According to Dr. Su Feng, a doctor of science, the largest shops in Chang'an City include Elemischi, which makes spices, Fushengtang, which deals in medicinal materials, and Jinxiutang, which is considered a holy place by Chai Cuiqiao and many Chang'an ladies.
There is a chamber of commerce in the fur business——
In the past, the cleaning products of Yu State were bath beans and soap, which were also beauty products like facial oil and hand balm.
However, high-end bath beans are made of luxurious materials and are expensive to make. The pig pancreas used in the pancreas is not easy to obtain, and only middle-income families and aristocratic literati 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 endorsement of the school background, it is not difficult to understand why major businesses flock to the company.
There was still some time before lunch, so Li Ang simply followed Dr. Su Feng to the patent office and met representatives of major firms in the box of the patent office.
"This is the shopkeeper Qian from Elimica, this is Mr. Wang from Fushengtang, this is Mr. An from Jinxiutang, and this is the shopkeeper Jin from Liuguang Bank."
Su Feng introduced Li Ang to a group of chambers of commerce representatives, all of whom were powerful people in the east and west cities of Chang'an. Some chambers of commerce had branch offices in major capitals of the Yu State, and even did business outside the Yu State.
Li Ang greeted them friendly and while he was sitting down, he quietly asked Su Feng: "Dr. Su, why is there no Hu Shang?"
As the largest operator of the Silk Road, the power of the Hu business group in the east and west 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 east and west cities came, but there was not a single foreigner in the box, which was 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 Mr. Hu, and they will be wise enough not to come and ask.
They may not necessarily have the right to buy patents that local chambers of commerce can buy - this will cost them their heads."
"Beheading?"
Li Ang raised his eyebrows and immediately reacted, "Hu Shang's foundation is in the far west.
Prevent Hu businessmen from getting involved in new patents,
Are you afraid that Mr. Hu will smuggle the production technology of his unique products abroad?"
"That's right."
Su Feng nodded and said helplessly: "Although the academy wants to have extensive exchanges at the intellectual level and exchange knowledge,
But the court didn’t think so.
Hu merchants transported spices, rhinoceros horns, ivory, coral, pearls, amber and other rare treasures to Chang'an every year, and earned huge amounts of wealth, which was too big to lose.
If they then steal the production technology and produce goods in the far west and sell them back to Yu State, it will be detrimental to Yu State's business - the same goes for the business names of Xi Jing, Southern Zhou and other countries, and they have no right to participate in patent authorization."
"Got it."
Li Ang nodded and said, "Knowledge has no national boundaries, but taxation has national boundaries."
"Li Xiaolangjun's words are very appropriate. He deserves to be the top scholar in the academy."
A fat man wearing a jade finger ring and a sachet on his waist said with a smile: "But you don't have to worry, without Hu Shang as a bidding rival, our various chambers of commerce in Chang'an will jointly lower the price.
The most important thing in doing business is integrity.
What's more, the palace has sent people to discuss the production and promotion of midwifery forceps with us before.
With midwifery forceps, I don’t know how many mothers and babies can be saved.
All of us here appreciate your gratitude."
"Well, shopkeeper Jin is serious."
Li Ang's eyelids twitched slightly. The fat man who spoke was named Jin Wusuan. He was the big shopkeeper of Liuguang Bank - the same bank that had semicolons in more than 600 states in Yu State, and even opened semicolons.
Enter the Liuguang Bank in Shiwanwan Mountain.
If you want to run for the richest man in Yu State, Jin Wusuan is definitely the most promising candidate.
In fact, according to some rumors, Jin Wusuan was the agent of the Li clan and even the emperor and his wife's private business interests, collecting money for the royal family.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Liuguang Bank, whose monthly turnover is calculated as tens of millions of dollars, has not been eaten alive by various powerful people.
‘The richest man in Yu State.’
Li Ang smacked his lips in his heart, and countless money rains falling from the sky appeared in his mind.
Jin Wusuan is undoubtedly the one with the highest status among this group of business representatives.
Seeing him speak, other people responded one after another, praising how great the midwifery forceps were and how much soap and cotton wool could help ordinary people's lives.
"If the imperial palace hadn't specifically told you not to promote Li Xiaolangjun too much, I'm afraid a shrine would have been erected in Chang'an City."
Jin Wusuan shook his head regretfully, took out a stack of bound papers and handed it to Li Ang, "By the way, Mr. Li Xiaolang, these are the letters of intent for patent licensing from several of our businesses. Check to see if there are any problems."<
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Li Ang took the paper and glanced at it, and his heart was shocked as if a stereo had been installed.
Thump thump thump.
Hundreds, millions, hundreds, thousands, millions...
Three million coins?
Li Ang confirmed the number on the paper again, yes,
Various shops in Chang'an are willing to pay three million yuan to buy out the patent license in one go.
‘The mansion of the former ruling minister’s family is probably only 10,000 yuan, right?
When the late emperor's eldest princess got married, all the expenses including the dowry, wedding, the princess's house, and the lifelong salary of the servants totaled 200,000 yuan.
In this way, the imperial censors criticized me for being extravagant and wasteful and damaging to the state.’
Li Ang stared at the numbers on the paper and couldn't help but let out a long breath.
Three million coins is enough to build 300,000 wells, enough to buy 30,000 good horses, and enough for an ordinary family with a living expenses of 200 coins to live for 15 million days, which is equivalent to 41,095 years.
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Equivalent to three hundred Dukes of Yan!!
Even if it were exchanged for gold and silver, it would be enough to kill someone.
Li Ang had a trance and imagined that he and Chai Cuiqiao had turned into giant dragons, lying in a cave filled with gold and silver, with blazing eyes and blazing mouth, guarding their wealth.
Calm down, be sure to calm down.
Li Ang struggled to look away from the paper. He had no doubt whether Jin Wusuan and the others could pay for the money. After all, it was Liuguang Bank.
But...
"I don't plan to sell the patent outright."
Li Ang took a deep breath, calmed down, and said: "I still hope to use long-term licensing and only earn patent fees."
"Oh?"
Jin Wusuan raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Li Xiaolangjun might as well take a look at the estimation formula below. Before our firms came, they had already invited arithmetic talents from the firms - including disciples who graduated from the Academy.
Specifically calculated the future income of soap, toilet soap, and absorbent cotton.
Three million strings is already considered a more appropriate number.
Even if the products are sold to various state capitals in Yu State, and even abroad.
In the short to medium term, the income from patent fees is far from reaching the level of 3 million yuan."
"I know, I've seen it, and there's nothing wrong with the estimation process."
Li Ang nodded. The income of a commodity must be deducted from raw material costs, transportation costs, site rental costs, labor costs, natural losses, accumulation risks, tax expenses and other factors.
Generally, the patent fee of the Academy is 2% of the total product revenue.
The number of middle-income families in Yu multiplied by the number of soap purchases per year, then multiplied by the price of soap, deducting the cost, then multiplied by two percent...
The money you can ultimately get from the limited patent license is not as much as three million dollars.
And this is only the revenue of large merchants, small pirated merchants and family handicraft workshops should also be considered.
For the purpose of profit, 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 thirty years to get three million yuan.
Xuegong has too much experience to prove that product inventions will continue to iterate, and a patent may not really be able to be sold for thirty years.
More importantly,
The Academy stipulated that the term of invention patent rights is twenty-five years.
Within twenty-five years, the Academy will spare no effort to protect the rights and interests of the inventor until the time limit expires.
Jin Wusuan frowned and said, "Then why..."
"If the patent rights are completely sold, then the conditions for protecting workers that I wrote on the patent description will be invalidated, right?"
Li Ang spread his hands and said: "Although you are all representatives of major companies and are committed to your respective territories, wealth and silk are touching 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 competitive advantages.
Labor is naturally the easiest part to be optimized."
Li Ang's patent description strictly requires workshops to issue gloves and masks made of absorbent cotton or other materials to workers.
It is strictly required that workshops are not allowed to employ child labor, and are not allowed to work in harsh conditions for a long time, etc.
Li Ang has no doubt that if the patent is completely sold,
Those big companies will directly tear up these "fantasy" restrictions.
"Li Xiaolangjun..."
Shopkeeper Qian of Elephant Notes smacked his lips and was about to say something when he was interrupted by Jin Wusuan’s eyes.
"Li Xiaolang is indeed a benevolent doctor."
Jin Wusuan tapped the table with his five fingers, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "In this way, we will re-estimate the costs 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 working hours,
Costs will definitely increase and total revenue will definitely decrease..."
"Okay."
Li Ang agreed readily, which made shopkeeper Qian and others even more surprised, "Li Xiaolangjun, have you thought clearly? The income you can get will also be reduced by doing this."
"I have thought clearly, this is the condition. If you cannot agree, then I will have to find a company that is willing to agree and authorize them."
Li Ang spoke very firmly, and the representatives of several business firms looked at each other with helplessness in their eyes. I had never seen anyone push money away.
"Okay, if you insist, Mr. Li Xiaolang."
Jin Wusuan sighed and agreed to Li Ang's conditions on behalf of the others.
It was agreed verbally that the contract would be formally signed another day.
At this time, the noon bell rang in the school palace, and the contract negotiations were 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.
The school may be forced to waste manpower and material resources on arguing with big business houses.
"You did the right thing."
Su Feng said with a smile: "If it were me, at your age and family background, you may not be able to resist the temptation of three million yuan.
Willing to give up the massive wealth for the sake of workers who have never seen face to face,
The mountain chief and His Majesty will be very pleased with this."
"Maybe."
Li Ang spread his hands helplessly. The bustling world is all for profit; the bustling world is all for profit. Monks are not immortals who eat wind and drink dew. They also need food, clothing, housing and transportation.
It even consumes more resources than ordinary people - the talisman ink used by monks requires miners to dig in mines.
The herbs used by the monks require mountain people to hang ropes from the cliffs to pick them.
The metals used by monks require blacksmiths to forge them day and night.
To raise a monk, the resources required for the monk to practice are astronomical,
Otherwise, there would not be only one academy in the world, and the academy would not only recruit six to seven hundred disciples every year.
He refused three million yuan, which was equivalent to losing a large amount of agency fees to the academy and adding a lot of trouble.
"Haha,"
Su Feng saw the lost expression on Li Ang's face and smiled: "You persist in protecting the weak and feel sad when the weak are hurt. You are indeed very much like your teacher."
"Huh?"
Li Ang was stunned and said: "Dr. Su, you..."
"Pu Liuxuan and I were classmates and friends. We just exchanged letters some time ago."
Su Feng smiled slightly and said: "It is wise for you to hide his identity and not mention him to outsiders.
Liu Xuan...he has so many enemies in Chang'an City who don't have a very harmonious relationship with them."
"Which enemies?"
Li Ang couldn't help but ask: "Why did Mr. Liu Xuan leave Chang'an that year?"
He had wanted to ask about this matter for a long time, but both Pu Liuxuan and Cheng Juxiu had a tacit agreement to keep silent.
"Didn't he tell you?"
Su Feng was a little surprised, "Well, you'd better wait until he comes to Chang'an to ask him in person.
Alas, in short, they are just old memories, nothing more than regrets. It has passed.
The mountain leader said that when the matter is over, it is over. Otherwise, Liu Xuan would not be allowed to come back.
By the way, don’t be too full for lunch later, there is a good thing waiting for you this afternoon.”
Su Feng avoided talking again, so Li Ang had to go back to the cafeteria to eat.
In the afternoon, the good thing Su Feng mentioned came true.
Responsible for managing the life and academic teaching of freshmen (equivalent to the grade director), gathering freshmen together and announcing something.
Credit system
In short, after more than a month of adaptation period, the Academy opened the credit system to freshmen - freshmen who perform well in class or achieve results outside of class can receive personal credits.
Credits cannot be transferred, but can be used to receive supplies, spiritual books, borrowing rights for books related to heterogeneous materials, etc.
It even includes using and borrowing from the aliens in Dongjun Tower.
For inventions and creations, registering a patent with a patent office is also one of the ways to obtain credits.
This chapter has been completed!