Chapter 337: Patent Act

If you have money, you can live in an American house, find more Chinese cooks who are in love today, drive a German car, wear a Swiss watch, use a British butler, go to Korea for beauty, wear French fashion, and wear a South African diamond ring.
Or to put it simply, as a Russian official, all of this can be done?
Lorraine was with tears in his eyes, looking at the sky at forty-five degrees, with a face of Wei Fu fantasizing about the life of a successful salt merchant.
Catherine called him twice from the side. Seeing that he still looked like an idiot. Ran Xia raised her brows in dissatisfaction, then opened her unceremonious teeth slightly and bit Lorraine's shoulder.
Lorraine screamed in pain at the moment. He turned his head, looked at Catherine angrily, and said, "What are you doing? Dogs, bite at every turn"
Catherine raised her eyebrows and stared at Lorraine and said, "Quickly, don't sell it, or you will go to sleep tonight
Adele heard it and immediately knew there was a chance. With a turn of his watery eyes, he flew a wink towards Lorraine.
The enchanting, charming and charming appearance almost didn't hook Lorraine's soul.
Just as the two of them were eyeing, Adele felt the anger erupting from Catherine's eyes next to her in the next moment.
I heard the golden girl squeeze a voice between her teeth, and said coldly, "Dai'er. You don't allow it. You can't be used to it all day long."
Adele blushed immediately and spit out a cute little tongue at Lorraine. Immediately afterwards, her pretty face was stern, then she sat up straight, and put on a pure appearance.
She blinked her eyes, and then while flicking her slender jade hand, she said softly: "Nicole, what do you see me doing. I, when am I used to him?.
The degree of change of face, the inexhaustible tone. That innocent and lovely appearance is completely worthy of her actress
Even though Catherine had suffered many similar losses in her hands before, she almost thought it was true.
After she settled down, she immediately woke up. Then he snorted heavily, turned his head to look at Lorraine, and said, "Quickly"
Lorraine looked at her bright, clear and menacing beautiful eyes, and could not help feeling a dry mouth.
He coughed slightly, and then said: "The so-called boiled sea salt requires labor and fuel. This ancient method should have been thrown into the garbage dump of history.
My method is to wash the sea and sun salt.
Just level out a large beach as a salt pan, put it in the sea and surround it, and then expose it to the sun. After a few days, you can harvest. "
When everyone heard what he said was so relaxed, they were all a little unbelievable, but seeing Lorraine so confident, but it seemed to be a little shaken, could not help but look at each other.
Leo scratched the back of his head, and then said madly, "Boss, can this work? How can I find it unreliable, like those who can only chew on Chinese cabbage clappers all day long, and do nothing. But those who still want to make a fortune are the words of the inattentive guys who engage in MLM."
Lorraine immediately stagnated.
He touched his nose, saw the look on everyone's faces, and slapped his chest, vowing to say: "I said it is a technology-intensive industry. When did I lie to you?"
"Last time you played cards with me, you lied to me, and the last time you said you were a treat. But in the end it was the money I paid. And the last time." Leo blinked, right now. Pointing at his finger, he counted one by one.
Everyone suddenly turned black.
First, I admired that Lorraine could be so shameless, even the children lied, and secondly, I also admired Leo, this little hooligan who also has such a good memory. If this is used in class, it might be Einstein's second place now.
Catherine was also dumbfounded, and in the end she could only gnashed her teeth and cursed in a low voice: "You really are a who teaches a bastard.
Lorraine listened to Leo still speaking one by one, but now he was darkened and interrupted him. Said: "Stop, stop, just say you don't do it?.
Leo was taken aback. Although he was determined to continue speaking, he put away his little finger angrily when he saw Lorraine's unkind eyes.
He held his fat and pink cheeks, thought for a moment, and then said: "Do it, why don't you do it? Even if you can't get the salt out of the sun, it's good to get some subsidies from the government."
Seeing that Leo might be digging the corner of the country so skillfully now, just the blink of an eye, a lot of bad water popped up, and Catherine couldn't help but roll her eyes.
She looked at Leo angrily, trying to teach him a few words, but saw Leo's small face raised, his dark eyes shining, and the expression "I'm so good. Come and praise me." Suddenly, she didn't even have the strength to be angry.
Catherine sighed softly, then pretended not to see it, stood up swayingly, raised her hand to the beach in front, and said: "There is the beach in front, Leo is going to call your death squad. Let's practice now. "
Leo agreed with excitement and turned to leave, but after thinking about it, he turned back. Said: "It's not right. If it's as simple as my boss said, wouldn't it be easy to be learned by others? If they also open the salt farm and work against us, then we can only drink Northwest wind.
Everyone was shocked and looked at Leo fixedly. Everyone turned the thought in their hearts: Is this little hooligan really hard for a century?
Lorraine gave a light cough, and then said unfathomably, "Is this?" This Governor has a clever plan. If science is copied casually, the civilization of this world will not progress. It's time to enact the intellectual property bill. "
Leiou was taken aback for a moment, and said: "Do you know what the bill should be?" What is this for? "
Lorraine said: "Liu Zhi Property Rights Act
Intellectual property, this is a monopoly market. A weapon against dissidents, and even an excuse to block other countries’ imperial palaces.
The British Empire dared to claim that "the sun never sets." It has dominated the entire ocean for a hundred years, and it has been vigorously fanning the flames in Europe, but it can bully Napoleon and William, and the patent protection bill is indispensable.
It was with the patent right bill that Watt saw profit, so he delved into it. Improved steam engine. Mankind has just jumped into the steam age.
Not to mention that after that, all kinds of strange things became clear. train. Explosives, long guns, electric lights, telephones, cars, handjobs, atomic bombs
It is precisely because the rights of the Mingren are guaranteed and let them see that there is a profit, which makes them feel at ease. Study hard.
(Take online novels as an example. If there are pirates who have no everywhere, they can't make money. The number of codewords will probably be much less.)
Catherine glared at Lorraine, and said in an angry manner: "Knowing that you are great, this is a good thing for the country and the people. You earn money and you earn money. I don't care about the other things. You don’t want to mess with me. But you are not allowed to mess up with me. , Or I will repatriate."
Leo immediately "Ah." Shocked. Then he wilted like frost hitting an eggplant. He said dejectedly, "Oh, I see. Big deal to make less money. Threatening tax increases at every turn and nationalizing them. It makes people feel insecure
He couldn't help complaining in a low voice. But it was completely ignored by Catherine.
At this time, Lorraine couldn’t help protesting:
Nicole, you are interfering with business freedom and attacking the enthusiasm of patriotic businessmen like Leo, which will have a devastating impact on the empire’s economy.
Catherine akimbo, pointing to Lorraine's nose and said: "What's the matter? Shouldn't those black-hearted merchants who are driving up salt prices be attacked?"
She paused. Hately said: "When I return to Ruman City, I will pass a law, hoarding and driving up prices.
Lorraine smiled bitterly and said, "Nicole, think about it for yourself, is this possible?"
Everyone knows that the business people in this world are businessmen. But their behind-the-scenes bosses are all nobles, and there may be independent businessmen in the world. But at least not on this continent.
Regardless of the industry, as long as there is a little profit, the people in power will pounce like a wolf. Use the power in his hand to swallow it cleanly into his stomach.
What is the nobility? The nobility is a group of parasites that relies on the power at hand to arbitrarily take wealth from the common people.
It's a group who only knows about banquet hunting, chasing women's skirts or men's white faces, not seeking the best, as long as the most expensive fools.
There must be Parthian carpets in the house. Almohad’s silverware must have an elf maid, a dwarf gardener,
And all this requires a lot of money.
Where does the money come from? Only rely on the country's fief?
Not to mention the hard work, there are not many. Otherwise, the farmers will not endure all kinds of discrimination and go to work in the city.
After paying the tax every year, the remaining money is not enough to open two more windows (a luxury tax in disguise, except for the nobles who have nothing to do with opening four or five windows in their dozens of square houses.)
What happened to Lorraine back then is very obvious. Speaking of which he has a lot of fiefdoms for the earl, but his life was very embarrassing. The mule was called Ferrari. The girl Vera went, but he almost ate Lorraine. bankrupted.
If you don't engage in business, don't play official business collusion, don't hoard up from time to time, drive up prices, where does the money come from, and if you don't have money, how can everyone feel at ease to create a modern feudal society.
Catherine also knew her angry words. He sighed and said helplessly: "It's impossible. But they can't be allowed to be so rampant. The essence of their behavior is to form a group to coerce the government. Once you have this time, there will be another. This time you can deal with the past God seal. Throne, what should we do next time, if the wealthy people in other places follow suit, what will the royal family do?"
"Really!" Leo yelled with a small fist right now, "They don't put the boss in their eyes, they just don't put the old sister in your eyes, they don't put the old sister in your eyes, just Don’t put the old man in the eyes, don’t put the old man in the eyes, just don’t put the imperial family in the eyes, such a big crime. It’s not enough for us to clean them. Copy their homes. Seal their property.
Catherine glanced at him coldly and said: "Then put all those things in your pocket?.
Leo couldn't speak for a while, just smiled dryly.
Lorraine waved his hand and said, "If we have to rely on administrative means to settle them now, wouldn't it appear that we are as incompetent as those pigs."
No wonder Lorraine's family is so agitated now. Lorraine has suffered in the past two days. Don't look at Lorraine's life at the beach house. The truth is that the governor of Lorraine is currently in domestic and foreign difficulties.
Since the price of salt has soared, Lorraine has mentioned this issue every time in the daily meetings of the Governor's Palace. Nian’s officials were helpless about the soaring salt price. When Lorraine asked, he would only bow his eyes in the meeting room.
Some officials are really bad, like Angus, they are in the Governor's Mansion. Ding’s official. They are old bureaucrats, and they know much about the situation in the empire.
They are tied to the same boat with the governor. The forests are having trouble, and they can't run. These people can only talk in a hurry now.
They knew where the problem was, but they used this method to coerce the governor. This group of officials also knew that there was no room to turn around. As the governor, Lorraine would never bow to this group of slave owners. If that were the case, even if the eldest princess supported him, he The governor has come to an end.
Most of the other officials surrounded the audience. They had connections with the local wealthy families. If Lorraine became weak, they continued to play stupid. If Lorraine became stronger, they would be the first to jump out and bring down the wealthy people.
The rest is profiting from the slave trade, or is completely in collusion with the local nobles, Lorraine cut off their money, these people are now waiting to see Lorraine's jokes.
Lorraine once also signaled his officials to communicate with these salt merchants, but the reply received was that the salt merchants kept grieving.
In their words, the price increase is unacceptable. The cost has increased more than ten times, and of course the price has to rise.
In the past, slaves were used in the saltworks, and it didn't cost a lot of money, but since Lorraine ordered the slaves to be released, these people have become workers. Unlike before, now they have to pay. Although it is only the minimum wage in this province, it is also the boss's sum of money, isn't it?
And if it is a hidden slave who dares to violate the positive and negative. The guys under Lorraine, who are called evil dogs, are not vegetarians, and they are bankrupt if they don't copy you.
And the salt merchants also said that the slaves used to work 20 hours a day, but now they only work 18. It’s a little too late, and if I let overtime work, I will rebel. They actually asked for one day off every week. It's really lawless.
Costs continue to rise, and output plummets. Those of us who produce salt can't eat salt now.
The messengers of Lorraine brought back this answer to Lorraine. They themselves were very angry, and some simply suggested the governor. Let's get rid of those who don't have long eyes
Lorraine smiled and stopped the officials below, and told them not to be foolish.
While Catherine and Adele were drying salt on the beach, Lorraine used the resources of the Eagle Chamber of Commerce to urgently import several ships of salt from neighboring provinces.
But for a large-scale purchase of something like table salt to supply half of the province, there are not so many sources, and the freight is expensive, plus the loss on the road in Shanghai, the price has doubled.
Lorraine’s government affairs are busy. Although there are two tigresses in the family, no one dares to take the governor. Lorraine can get off work, or he must go home quickly, but the governor has to deal with too many things, and Lorraine still Like Archduke Julian, he said, "I am actually very democratic." At the same time, he practiced centralism in the conference room.
Naturally, Lorraine's working hours will not be less. The time to go home every day is also uncertain and has no time to manage salt sales.
Catherine and Adele were immersed in the experiment of drying salt. Vera now looks at the sea is golden, and her enthusiasm is higher than Catherine.
The action to suppress the salt price was directed by Leo himself.
The salt purchased by Feiying Company was immediately cut and sold to Feiying Company's stores upon arrival in Hong Kong.
What Leo didn't expect was that as soon as the salt arrived in the shop, the first few people who bought salt carried a large bag of gold coins to buy all the salt.
Leo added another 50% of the price. He boldly sold all the salt in the shop, but Leo was sulking at the table at night.
Seeing Leo cleaning up the food on the plate without being picky at all, Catherine asked suspiciously, "Leo, nothing happened, right?
Leo raised his head and said bitterly: "It's so irritating, those guys buy salt from me. The price of reselling is tripled, tripled! I only added 50%.
Catherine said anxiously: "You sold all the salt you bought?"
Leo said dejectedly: "No. Only in the shop, the group of people came in and they wanted to make a lot of money, so I added some money to sell it. Of course I have to pay attention to such a big customer. The following people went to follow them, but they did not expect that they were also selling salt, and the profit would be doubled if they changed hands.
I knew what this looked like~EbookFREE.me~ what kind of business I am doing. It's better to invest directly. "
Catherine was so angry that Leo gave Leo a few punches. It is forced to start tomorrow, and each customer can only purchase one piece in a limited amount.
But the road was one foot high and the devil was one foot high. Early the next morning, civilians who heard that there was cheap salt sold here blocked the gate, all morning. The goods shipped overnight were sold out, but Leo was surprised to find that the person who bought the salt turned around and gave the salt in his hand to the people around him. After receiving the money, he came back to line up.
When there was no salt to sell in the afternoon, the people gathered outside the shop were still unwilling to disperse. The commotional crowd was a little bit provoked, and excitedly smashed the door of the shop, rushed in and tried to snatch. Leo’s guards, regardless of whether they were excusable or not, picked up the guys and beat them all down. Up.
But this kind of behavior threw a fire at the frying pan, and the civilians became more angry, and people began to throw stones at Nian's government agencies.
And the civilians began to quarrel, "Why do you want to release those slaves? It’s hard for everyone
The slaves who were freed were reluctant. The two sides had fought a few battles, and the city of Nian'an had begun to feel a little dull and deaf. (To be continued)