Zhao Xu agreed very easily, which shows that although he understood the reason, he still didn't know the stakes involved.
The ancients never paid much attention to technology and never forced it. The ancient way of making money was to recuperate and recuperate. It always focused on distribution, but on production.
He certainly could not have imagined what changes this technological innovation would bring.
This is not to say that Zhao Xu is stupid and does not understand this. In fact, no one except Zhang Fei understands this, including Wang Anshi and others.
Although Wang Anshi's New Deal was somewhat sidelined, the focus was still on financial management, and the tax currency was very much to Wang Anshi's liking.
But in fact, this is the top priority, because the ultimate goal of developing industry and commerce is to promote technological progress, thereby promoting productivity progress, and social wealth will increase.
The Public Security Bureau can play a complementary role in this.
Now that the platform has been set up, it is time to gather strength for this purpose and wait until one day there will be a blowout.
Having said that, if it wasn't very important, Zhang Fei wouldn't be so anxious. He hasn't had a day's rest since then.
Of course, Zhao Xu will not draft this bill, and he will entrust it to Zhang Fei.
For Zhang Fei, this bill was very easy and was drafted quickly.
After Zhao Xu read it, he didn't have any questions, so he handed it directly to the Legislative Council.
The name is even more simple and crude, it’s called the “Incentive Act.”
Since the promulgation of the provisional law, the imperial edict has actually ceased to exist, because the provisional law has included the edict and integrated it into regulations. In other words, if the emperor wants to legislate in the future, it must pass the Legislative Council.
Of course, this is not stated explicitly, and the provisional law does not explicitly repeal the decree. Currently, everyone is still relying on tacit understanding to maintain it.
Fu Bi over there suddenly received such a bill, and he was stunned immediately. The bill handed over by the emperor himself must be of great importance. It turned out that it was to motivate those businessmen and craftsmen. This was not like what the emperor did, killing people.
Chicken with beef knife.
But upon closer inspection, it looked very much like Zhang Fei's words. I asked Sima Guang again and knew that this must be related to Zhang Fei, so I immediately called Zhang Fei.
When he saw Zhang Fei, Fu Bi of course asked him as usual, what have you been inspecting in the past six months.
Zhang Fei explained again rather helplessly.
This is really difficult!
Fu Bi could understand, "Yes! The interim law has just been promulgated not long ago. If we go on inspection in a year or two, it may be more effective."
Zhang Fei said hurriedly: "But I shouldn't be the best candidate."
He is willing to do a good job, but when he comes back, he finds that he still lacks experience.
Fu Bi just smiled and asked: "Yesterday, the government suddenly sent an incentive bill. Does this have something to do with you?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "I suggested that the government legislate this."
Fu Bi asked: "With such a small bill, do we still have to trouble the officials?"
Zhang Fei said: "This is a matter of reward. Apart from officials, no one is more suitable."
Fu Bi nodded quickly and said, "It makes sense! It makes sense!"
Zhang Fei added: "And this is not a small bill."
Fu Bi immediately said: "I would like to hear the details."
Zhang Fei said: "I had another conversation with Academician Sima before, which was about the dispute between 'the people do not add taxes and the state uses the land' and 'there are only this amount of goods and wealth produced by the heaven and the earth'. Academician Sima combined the current situation
, believes that when it comes to agriculture, he is still firm in his ideas and that’s all.
But in terms of industry and commerce, he believes that his ideas may be wrong."
Having said this, he asked Fu Bi: "I wonder what Mr. Fu thinks?"
Fu Bi thought for a while and said, "What Junshi said is very reasonable!"
Zhang Fei shook his head.
Fu Bi asked: "Don't you think so?"
“I don’t think this is the case in agriculture.”
Zhang Fei said: "The rice production in our dynasty is far greater than that in the Tang Dynasty. What is the explanation for this?"
Fu Bi stroked his beard and said nothing.
Zhang Fei said: "Actually, agriculture and industry and commerce are the same thing. Both can increase more wealth, provided that relevant technologies are developed.
When I was at Qingzhou College, I read some of Ouyang Xianggong's writings about some peony cultivation techniques, and under the research of the college, some of these techniques have been used in other crops and have achieved good results."
Fu Bi said: "So this bill is used to encourage craftsmen to develop technology?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Yes."
Fu Bi asked: "But why is the deadline only five years?"
Zhang Fei said: "This is mainly to encourage them to continue to make progress. Five years is enough for them to make a lot of money, but if they want to make more money, they must continue to innovate and not sit back and rest."
Fu Bi nodded slightly and asked again: "In your bill, what was created by the craftsmen belongs to the employer."
Zhang Fei said: "To be precise, when craftsmen perform the tasks assigned by the employer and use the raw materials provided by the employer to innovate, this belongs to the employer."
Fu Bi said: "But will this be unfair to the craftsmen? You must know that it is the craftsmen who really understand the technology, not the businessmen."
Zhang Fei said: "Although craftsmen are mostly masters of technology, the money is provided by businessmen. It is difficult to do it without money. In addition, under normal circumstances, craftsmen are just completing the tasks ordered by their employers. According to my observation
, most craftsmen will not take the initiative to innovate. They will think of solutions only if the businessmen ask them to do so, or the businessmen will lead the whole process.
Of course, if a craftsman was originally engaged in blacksmithing, but he used his personal money and time to invent a new kind of paper, then this belongs to him personally and has nothing to do with his employer.
However, I think craftsmen will not gain anything from this bill, because it will make businessmen pay high prices to hire skilled craftsmen, which will be beneficial to all craftsmen.”
Fu Bi nodded and asked: "What is the authorization in this?"
Zhang Fei said: "This is to allow some people to quickly obtain wealth. Although he has technology, he may not have the capital, so he can choose to license it to other businessmen and share the profits.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are also officials. The creations of most officials are generally not part of their duties, but also belong to extra interests, but they are disdainful of doing business on their own. They can also use them.
This regulation stipulates that you can license your invention to a businessman and obtain the benefits you deserve from it.
But the officials of the Public Works Department are not among them, which is consistent with the relationship between businessmen and craftsmen. Joining a hospital to invent a new drug belongs to the hospital, not to an individual."
Fu Bi nodded slightly and asked: "This bill also mentions that if someone uses the same technology to obtain benefits, those authorized by the incentive law can get 50% of the profits.
If this person relies on his own experience to create the same technology, is it also consistent?"
"conform to."
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "As long as it is determined to be the same technology, then the first person to invent this technology can directly share 50% of the profits from the second person to invent this technology."
Fu Bi asked: "What is the reason for this?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "The principle is motivation. If there is no guarantee, the officials will not be able to take action!"
There is a difference between this incentive bill and the patent law. The patent law requires handing over the technology, but the incentive law does not. The technology is still kept secret, but as long as others use your technology, you will get 50% of the profit, no matter what you want
I learned it through secret learning.
Of course, this share is calculated based on the net profit earned. It will not cause a devastating blow to those who use the same technology, and they will still make money.
However, after five years, this technology will not be protected, but you can continue to keep it secret.
However, both licensing and cooperation require one's own technology to be passed on. Zhang Fei considers the current industrial technology and can only rely on legal protection. It will be very difficult for him to keep the technology from being passed on to others, unless there are some secret recipes that can be kept.
of.
Fu Bi just smiled and said thoughtfully: "I didn't expect that a small incentive would be so complicated if it were to be turned into law."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "This is stipulated by the ancestral law. No matter how big or small the bill is, all bills should be considered thoroughly. Moreover, if you use your brain more when making legislation, you can use less brain when hearing the case in the future. For example, if the rich
The provisional law revised by the public administration has really benefited judicial officials, so that they do not have to worry about complex cases all day long."
Fu Bi chuckled and said, "Don't compliment Lao Chan here. Lao Chan is just presiding over the revision. It's not Lao Chan who really uses his brain."
But you are right, you still have to think it over carefully, I will take a closer look and discuss it with other people before making a decision."
...
Shortly after Zhang Fei left, Wen Yanbo came to the Legislative Council. Of course he knew about this and was also very curious about it because it was a bit unexpected and a bit incredible.
Fu Bi also informed Wen Yanbo of the matter truthfully.
"Just... just to inspire others?"
Wen Yanbo looked slightly surprised.
Fu Bi nodded.
"That's unlikely."
Wen Yanbo was very doubtful and said: "Zhang San tried so hard to ask the officials to issue this edict, but it only stimulates the second industry and commerce. Does the rich man believe such nonsense?"
Even Zhao Xu himself felt embarrassed that his reward would become cheap, so could Wen Yanbo and the others believe it?
There must be something fishy here.
Because in their opinion, this kind of thing is too insignificant and not worth mentioning. It is really just a piece of paper. Wang Anshi accepted the paper as a tribute. Wen Yanbo didn't say anything, so he didn't care much, but Zhang
Fei has made such a big splash, it's hard not to arouse people's suspicions.
There must be some unknown secret behind this!
Fu Bi said: "I have also asked him this question, but he believes that technology is the key to the growth of national wealth. In his view, this is not a trivial matter, so he asked the officials to draft this bill.
"
Wen Yanbo asked with a smile: "How much wealth can this increase?"
Fu Bi said: "This is unknown, but he took rice planting technology as an example, and he does have his reasons."
Wen Yanbo was really hard to understand and said: "What are Mr. Fu's plans?"
Fu Bi said: "This is just a small matter, and the official personally issued the decree. If it is delayed for too long, it may cause the official's displeasure, resulting in a small gain at the expense of a big gain. Therefore, I will try my best to get this bill passed quickly."
"
They knew very well that the emperor had made great concessions, but don't be shameless. They themselves thought this kind of bill was not worth mentioning. If they continued to make irresponsible remarks, it would really be a shame.
...
Household Department.
"It's just a piece of paper, but they want to stop it. I think they clearly want to give us some clues and let us know who has the final say above the court."
Deng Wan said to Wang Anshi angrily.
Xue Xiang said on the side: "I thought this was an opportunity."
Deng Wan asked: "What opportunity?"
Xue Xiangdao: "In fact, what Zhang San said coincides with Xianggong's philosophy. In this case, why don't we incorporate this statement into Xianggong's philosophy and continue to innovate the reform.
For example, who will enforce the incentive law is definitely not the procuratorate or the imperial court. They have no authority to deal with this matter. This should be the responsibility of the Ministry of Household Affairs. We can ask the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Ministry of Works to set up an official agency to specifically enforce the incentive law.
In this way, this matter is integrated with the concept of Xianggong."
After hearing this, Deng Wan became even more angry and said: "Third Secretary, what are you talking about? They are bullying people, but you have to choose to compromise. If our household department can't even decide on a piece of paper,
, What else can we decide, and what is the significance of this official office?”
Xue Xiangdao: "This is a decree issued by the officials themselves. Above the court, it is the officials who have the final say. This is not a shame."
Deng Wan said: "But it was only because we didn't fight for it that Zhang San got an advantage. Nowadays, many people in the DPRK..."
"okay."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wang Anshi interrupted Deng Wan and said: "Since the officials have already issued the decree, let's stop talking about it. Let's pay attention to it next time.
It’s not a big deal anyway.”
Deng Wan felt unhappy and remained silent.
He initiated this matter, and it was previously approved by Wang Anshi and Xue Xiang. However, when Zhang Fei came back, everything changed. He felt very embarrassed!
After leaving the household department, Wang Anshi said to Xue Xiang: "What you just said is right. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, if you take this statement, you can get the support of craftsmen and businessmen to some extent. This is not a bad thing."
Xue Xiangdao: "But this Minister Deng is short-sighted and cannot understand the current situation at all."
Now he looks at Deng Wan, and he feels even more unhappy. He fights with you every day, but the problem is that he doesn't want to fight with you now!
Wang Anshi said: "Ji Fu will come back in a while, so don't argue with him."
Although he wrote to Lu Huiqing six months ago, Lu Huiqing was serving as the Hebei Transportation Department. He had to deal with all the matters at hand before he could return to work, at least until the end of the year or the beginning of next year.
...
soon.
This incentive bill was passed by the Legislative Council.
It's not that everyone agrees with it, but many judicial officials don't care about it, thinking that it is just a trivial matter. Moreover, it is an official order, and Fu Bi does not need to remind it. Everyone thinks that it is not necessary to make trouble.
They only discussed this bill for half a day.
Unlike the previous tax currency bill and liquor tax bill, the quarrel was endless.
...
However, once this bill was enacted, the turmoil caused by the industry and commerce made these legislative officials feel a little stunned.
Those industrial and commercial people were overjoyed and rushed to tell each other. Even large and small shops all gave huge discounts, and each guild also said that they would give discounts on this day every year to express their gratitude for the great kindness.
This immediately triggered a consumer storm, and the matter instantly attracted everyone's attention.
Fu Bi, Sima Guang and others were all stupid.
As for that?
As for!
For industrialists and merchants, they thought that the previous prosperity was only brought by the Public Security Bureau and was not specially prepared for them. They were still very uneasy. However, after the bill came out, they thought that the emperor was paying attention to them and caring about them. The court
Policies are also favoring them, and their industrial and commercial status has been improved.
This completely reassures those businessmen who are expanding their production scale.
This kind of incentive may be the first time in history for industry and commerce.
Can they not be excited?
Li Jian, the inventor of Hsinchu paper, and Xie Liangjing, the founder of Resurrection paper, became the first lucky ones to be favored by the Encouragement Method.
Li Jian was so happy, this was really a blessing in disguise!
There was an endless stream of printing shops that came to me asking for cooperation, and I really made money right away.
For Xie Liangjing, it was even more overwhelming. He had not cared about it before, because he only made cheap paper, and the court could not regard his paper as fair.
But this incident also made many wealthy businessmen pay attention to this resurrection paper.
Many businessmen hope to cooperate with him, or ask for his authorization.
Xie Liangjing's strength is far less than that of Li Jian, but he is not stupid. He knows that if this kind of cheap paper cannot be monopolized, the profit will be very low. After all, waste paper is also limited. Only by taking over everything can the profit be made.
Therefore, he chose to cooperate with Huang Can, the largest paper shop businessman in Beijing. This was also the second cooperation with purely technical shares, and the first one was born from the cooperation between Zhang Fei and Fan Li.
...
Bianjing Law Firm.
I saw the richest people in the capital gathered here. This bill is really crucial to them, so they need to find out more about it.
"Sanlang, according to this bill, as long as it is confirmed to be the first time it appears on the market, you can get the reward of the incentive law. But maybe I just didn't take out the technology and it was misappropriated by others. According to the incentive law, who is responsible for this?"
?”
Huang Can asked curiously.
Zhang Fei said: "Whoever uses it in the market gets it, because this incentive law rewards those whose technological innovation brings convenience and wealth to the country. You have technology, but you hide it and don't use it. As far as the country and officials are concerned, then
It’s the same as nothing, so why should I reward you?”
Fan Yong asked again: "Can this new wine get the incentive method?"
"That's two points."
Zhang Fei said: "You can't get pure new wine, because good-tasting wine is only good for you personally, but not good for the country or the official family."
At this point, he changed the subject, "But if you apply based on wine-making technology, you may get it. If this technology is a breakthrough, it can be used in other aspects.
This is very clearly written in the bill. The incentive law is for technological innovation, not the newness or oldness of goods.
Take the resurrection paper as an example. If you sell the resurrection paper, it will not violate the incentive law, but if you use the technology of the resurrection paper to produce the resurrection paper, it will violate the incentive law."
Huang Can said: "This is unfair. As we all know, most of the materials for papermaking are produced in the south. The merchants there have an inherent advantage."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "The imperial court did not say that you are not allowed to open a shop in Jiangnan, and Jiangnan will definitely not be able to produce resurrecting paper. This is not a reason."
Chen Maoqian asked: “I don’t know who should I apply to if I want to get the protection of the incentive law? Is it the imperial court or the procuratorate?”
Zhang Fei said: "This matter is not under the jurisdiction of our public prosecutors and law enforcement. It depends on whether it is the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"ah?"
All the businessmen looked at Zhang Fei anxiously.
Businessmen trust no one but the government.
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Don't worry, although the people in charge of this matter will definitely not be from the Public Security Bureau, but if you violate the incentive law, it falls within the powers of the Public Security Bureau.
For this kind of thing, you can entrust Erbi or Chashiren to apply and keep the evidence. If you encounter problems, you can go to the procuratorate or the imperial court to appeal.
The legal system will protect your legitimate rights and interests."
This is the role of the Public Security Bureau. Without the Public Security Bureau, this incentive law may become empty. Those officials or powerful people can directly turn your technology into theirs, but you have no way to do it.
The Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate have made many policies feasible.
...
After weighing it, Wang Anshi decided to hand over the incentive law to the Ministry of Works for implementation, because he believed that the power of the Ministry of Household Affairs was already strong enough and it was too busy. On the contrary, the Ministry of Works was currently relatively relaxed, and with the addition of the Ministry of Works,
The department is also closely related to technology.
In order to announce the news, he wrote an article. First of all, he expressed his support for the incentive law. The Ministry of Industry will also set up a special office to implement the incentive law.
At the same time, I also hinted in the article that this is all based on my ideas. I emphasize again, if you want to be rich in the world, you must be rich in the world.
Not only that, he also introduced a new point of view, managing money with justice and making money in a profitable way.
Managing and distributing wealth requires morality, but adding new wealth requires interests. Whether it is moral or not, new wealth cannot be generated.
This topic caught Sima Guang a little off guard.
In the past, Wang Anshi was focused on profit, while Sima Guang was focused on righteousness. The contradiction was very sharp, but when Wang Anshi broke it down in this way, it was difficult for Sima Guang to refute it.
The morality that Sima Guang emphasized is that a gentleman loves money, gets it in a proper way, and cannot exploit the people to obtain wealth. The overall wealth does not change and is only based on management and distribution.
New wealth is created and did not exist before. This does not have much to do with whether one's mind is upright or not.
Even if your intentions are not right, but the wealth you gain is newly created, it will not harm others.
It can be seen that Wang Anshi is still very smart. With a piece of paper, he successfully broke through the bottleneck and made further progress.
His previous New Deal ideas have been greatly weakened, and party struggle has also been weakened as a result.
But now, his New Deal thinking is being further strengthened, because it has a great relationship with the new official system. According to the reformed official system, political performance is directly linked to taxation, and taxation is directly linked to the growth of people's wealth, and technological innovation is directly linked to the growth of wealth.
They are closely related, and this becomes a systematic concept.
However, Wang Anshi's personal exit immediately aroused public opinion.
More and more people are paying attention to this matter.
This made the literati very unhappy.
Why not inspire us to write better articles?
We also need incentives!
Where are the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce that we talked about?
The court is putting the cart before the horse!
There are also some powerful people who are very unhappy. Our salt and wine privileges were taken back not long ago, but industry and commerce have been granted privileges. What do you, the emperor, want to do?
But you can't do that.
This destroys class!
They began to make trouble with the emperor.
When it comes to the feudal class, this trivial matter becomes a major matter.
Zhao Xu was depressed and hurriedly called Zhang Fei over.
"It's okay this time, we got into trouble." Zhao Xu complained when he saw Zhang Fei.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have already thought of a countermeasure." Zhang Fei said quickly.
Zhao Xu asked: "What is the countermeasure?"
Zhang Fei said: "It's very simple, just give them rewards."
Zhao Xu asked: "How to give it?"
"article."
Zhang Fei said: "If the articles they publish are beneficial to national construction, the officials will directly give them bounties.
And this article is not limited to governing the country, including astronomy and geography, military finance, academics, etc. As long as their theories are recognized by the court and successful, His Majesty will personally reward them, such as the military training method of the palace commander. I think
You can get this reward, or else your majesty will add an additional plaque to show your respect for the literati. As for the reward, it can be paid by the charity foundation."
"That's all it can do."
Zhao Xu nodded and said: "But let's not mention Song Shouyue's military training method. It is the literati who are making trouble now. If this is given to military generals, they will make it worse. In this way, give it to Wang Jiefu and Sima Junshi first and reward them.
Contribute to reform."
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "That's okay."
Zhao Xu sighed and said: "I have said before that my rewards cannot be given casually."
Zhang Fei said: "In order to express their gratitude to Your Majesty, those merchants directly stipulated that on the eighth day of October every year, they should give discounts to show their gratitude to Your Majesty. Throughout the ages, saints have only done this!
Although it was a little troublesome, it also allowed His Majesty to win the hearts of the people. When this holy order is passed, the literati will also be grateful to Your Majesty. Your Majesty is the biggest beneficiary.
Isn't this more clever than simply winning people's hearts with generous rewards?
Take Bachelor Sima as an example, he won't care too much how much reward your Majesty gives him, because he is not interested in external things, but your Majesty wants to reward him for his articles. This is an affirmation, and Bachelor Sima will definitely be very happy.
happy."
Zhao Xu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and the more he thought about it, the happier he became, but he said, "Let me just tell you, this won't work either."
Zhang Fei said: "I'm worried that your majesty will break your dragon body due to worry."
"That's pretty much it."
Zhao Xu added: "By the way, the weapons inspector has recently improved their firearms. You and I can go and take a look at them someday."