Chapter 947 The lunatics of the Royal Institute of Technology
The navy only used this little money to support material research and development, and the students at the Royal Institute of Technology turned around and ignored them.
You don't have money to pretend to be a rich man. You can't even spend hundreds of thousands of taels of money on material research and development. You still talk about developing materials in one year and seeing a high-pressure steam engine in three years. You also talk about asking for patent rights.
What nonsense!
Yes, these students from the Royal Institute of Technology can really despise the navy, and dare to talk about such nonsense as a mere few hundred thousand taels of silver!
Why, because the Royal Institute of Technology has money, and at the same time they spend more!
The Royal Institute of Technology has never been a pure school, nor even a pure scientific research institution, but more like a combination of a school, a scientific research institution and a commercial institution.
First of all, they possess and are researching the most advanced science and technology of this era, which is similar to academic institutions such as universities.
However, many of their research inventions have also brought them substantial patent income.
As the only scientific research institution in the Tang Dynasty, thanks to the patent law implemented by the Tang Dynasty, they collect patent authorizations by developing various products, which is a shame!
For example, take the five-year-old rifle. This rifle is not a product developed by the three major arms companies. They are just a manufacturing factory at most. The one who actually developed this rifle is the Royal Institute of Technology.
Then the Royal Institute of Technology authorized the production of three major weapons companies. Each time one is produced, a patent fee of five silver coins is charged. Currently, at least 80,000 of this rifle have been produced. For this alone, they
That is, a patent fee of 40,000 taels was collected.
But what's even more fucked up is that these five dollars are just the patent licensing fee for the rifle itself, and the new rifle's steel bayonet, paper-cased custom bullets, and even the gunpowder itself need to pay patent fees.
And basically, 80% of all the ordnance products currently produced by the three major arms companies require patent fees to be paid to the Royal Institute of Technology.
The patent fees paid to the Royal Institute of Technology by the three major weapons companies alone are nearly half a million yuan each year!
Then there are Zhaoqing Machinery Company, several steel companies and several other enterprises that also pay the majority of patent fees!
Many enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises pay nearly one million taels of patent fees to the Royal Institute of Technology every year. Together with the patent licensing income from other private enterprises, the annual patent income of the Royal Institute of Technology now reaches more than one million taels.
, and the Navy’s annual rated military expenditure is only a few million.
But the Royal Institute of Technology makes a lot of money and spends a lot of money!
Each of the many research projects in it requires countless funds. For example, in order to research new steel alloy materials and production processes, they have specially established a small steel factory and hired dozens of workers to carry out various projects for many years.
A messy experiment.
There are dozens of similar institutes under the Royal Institute of Technology!
Moreover, many research projects are purely theoretical and cannot produce practical patents and cannot make money. The ones that can make money are invention-based projects.
So the Royal Institute of Technology is also under a lot of pressure. The officials in charge of logistics there are trying to collect money for the students all day long!
Needless to say, collecting money, starting a new project will cost thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver. Those students only need to make reports and ask for money, but they don't care how the money comes.
Wipe your butt, this is because scientific research is relatively dangerous, and the students at Datang Royal Institute of Technology are almost all geniuses, and sometimes genius and madman are synonymous!
For example, medical students can no longer satisfy their curiosity by dissecting normal dead people. Once they heard that a person died of a certain disease and wanted to have the body dissected to see what happened, the family members would definitely not agree.
Go ahead, the dead are respected.
The result was good, the family hadn't held a funeral yet, so these audacious medical students invited a few Liang Shang gentlemen from outside to steal the body directly from the mourning hall!
Normal people wouldn't be able to do this kind of thing, but these medical students did it, and even the fees for hiring Mr. Liang Shang were taken out of public accounts in the name of research expenses.
As a result, these gentlemen from Liang Shang were not very good at their craftsmanship and were caught by their families on the spot and reported to the patrol police.
Moreover, they had no sense of moral integrity and confessed to the police on the spot that a few students from the Royal Institute of Technology had invited them to steal the body.
After this was exposed, the medical students patted their butts and went back to the laboratory to continue working with the dead. Then, the officials from the administrative office of the Royal Institute of Technology were left messy in the wind, and they were also helpless.
There is a group of patrolmen.
Run into the laboratory to arrest people? The entrance to the laboratory is guarded by several Guards soldiers with live ammunition. They can't get in!
When arresting people on the road, didn't you see that people always bring Guards bodyguards with them when they come in and out? If you go to arrest someone, they will think you are trying to assassinate them. If the person is not caught by then, you may be shot yourself.
In the end, officials from the administrative office of the Royal Institute of Technology came forward to apologize. A director of the administrative office, a senior official of the third grade, personally went to the victim's home to shamelessly apologize, win their forgiveness, and strive for reconciliation.
Then he ran to the Inspectorate and asked the censors of the Inspectorate to show mercy.
After all, this matter is not an ordinary civil case. It is useless for the family to forgive. At most, it will only reduce the punishment. However, the Supervisory Office will still intervene and initiate a public prosecution. At least those gentlemen in Liangshang will have to go to jail for a while.
But let’s discuss this crime and the severity of the punishment. We at the Royal Institute of Technology are not unreasonable. An out-of-court settlement is quite good. Your Inspectorate wants to uphold the law, and we understand it, so you can see if it is within the law.
Under certain standards, they should be given a lighter punishment, such as a fine, and then let them sweep the streets.
Of course, if your Inspectorate is unwilling, our Royal Institute of Technology will also accompany you. There is no need to hire a lawyer to litigate, and we will directly pull out the legal team of the institute.
In order to collect patent fees, the Royal Institute of Technology maintains more than 50 lawyers all year round. In the past few years, it has successfully bankrupted more than 20 companies that stole their patents.
If we really make up our minds, they, the Royal Institute of Technology, and the Inspectorate will start a lawsuit and it will drag on for a year and a half without any problem, and it is not certain who will win in the end.
Furthermore, even if the Royal Institute of Technology loses the lawsuit, this kind of thing is at best an ordinary case. According to the current laws of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of thing is not very serious. At most, it is a fine and short-term detention.
That's all.
Because after the chief of the third-level department of the administrative department and a deputy imperial envoy of the Inspectorate met in person and exchanged opinions, well, in fact, after some bargaining, the two sides came to an agreement: there is no need to do this.
Let's go directly to the judge of Chengtian Mansion and settle it out of court!
Then, with threats and inducements, the matter was finally ended with a fine and a month of sweeping the streets.
As far as the Inspectorate is concerned, they succeeded in getting those crazy students from the Royal Institute of Technology to sweep the streets. They also fined a large amount of money, a full 20,000 taels of silver. This is a
Victory greatly increases the prestige of their Inspectorate!
Otherwise, for such a trivial matter, how could the Deputy Imperial Envoy of the Inspectorate personally prosecute and negotiate for such a trivial matter?
For the Royal Institute of Technology, it is a victory if the students do not go to jail or be detained by the public security!
To sweep the streets, just ask them to sweep the inside of the academy!
Fines, that's not even a problem. Anyway, the Royal Institute of Technology has money, so they paid the fines on the spot for those lunatics who caused trouble.
But they finally settled the matter. As soon as they finished their work, they heard that an accident occurred during an experiment in the gunpowder group. There was a big explosion in the experimental factory, causing heavy casualties. Of course, those students in the gunpowder group were innocent.
, people’s lives are precious, and they will not go to such dangerous experiments in person, and their bodyguards will not let them do these dangerous experiments in person. They basically instruct their assistants to do it.
However, the dozen or so assistants hired from outside to participate in the experiment suffered heavy casualties.
Then they had to run back and forth to express condolences to the deceased's family and discuss compensation and so on.
When all kinds of messy things never end at the end of the year, the current administrative director of the Royal Institute of Technology and the former director of the academic affairs office of the Imperial College are already senior officials of the third grade before the age of forty. In the past, who would have thought
It must be said that he is young, promising and full of energy.
But this man was transferred from Imperial College to the Royal Institute of Technology for half a year, and his hair began to turn gray. His face looked as haggard as that of a middle-aged man whose divorce and career had failed miserably.
The Royal Institute of Technology was too special and strange in the Tang Dynasty. It was not easy to be the director of the administrative department in a place like this!
However, there are advantages to working in this place, that is, it is easy to show your face in front of the Holy Father, and when you show your face, there are often good things.
For example, now, Li Xuan received a note from the Royal Institute of Technology. This note was naturally submitted by the director of the administrative department. In addition to daily greetings, he also routinely reported on the progress of some important projects.
If it was a report on daily affairs from other departments every two days, Li Xuan would at most glance at the title, and then directly read the comments from the imperial study room, the minister on duty, and then the Hanlin Academy.
, in most cases he will directly indicate 'I understand' and 'Read'.
But he usually reads the excerpts from the Royal Institute of Technology in detail!
The beginning part was the same greetings, Li Xuan just skipped it, and then the middle part was about the progress of several major projects, such as steam engines, artillery, etc. They all said that the progress was going well, but it was nonsense that they had not been developed yet. Read on.
, which means that several projects have been successfully developed.
Li Xuan didn't pay attention to the others, but there was one little thing that caught his attention, that is, the chemistry team successfully synthesized sulfuric acid using large-capacity glassware in the experiment, and said that this method was easy to operate.
Suitable for mass production of sulfuric acid!
Maybe even the person who wrote this excerpt doesn't know how important sulfuric acid is, let alone how important it is to produce sulfuric acid on an industrial scale, but Li Xuan does.
This sulfuric acid is one of the three acids and two alkali, one of the foundations of the chemical industry!