Everything went very smoothly, many people were recruited by the people, and the things on the Zhuangzi were also prepared. The reconstruction of the two cities quickly began. According to Xia Hongsheng's plan, all the houses in the east and west markets need to be demolished and rebuilt, and if this is the case, the cost will be too high. However, the fire also burned down the east and west markets, and there were basically few intact rooms left. It is precisely because of this that Xia Hongsheng dared to completely replan the east and west markets.

The East Market and the West Market are now in a state of paralysis, and the people who sell things have temporarily changed to two neighborhoods, and the things are placed there, but there is no need to worry about the impact on the use of the construction, and it can also start construction on both sides at the same time, without having to go one by one.

Xia Hongsheng transferred the craftsmen on his own Zhuangzi from the military academy, whether it is to build the houses drawn by Xia Hongsheng or to use the equipment that is convenient for building houses, they are now familiar with the road, and everyone is responsible for commanding a people's husband, and Xia Hongsheng does not have to worry about building it at all. However, Xia Hongsheng still came to the construction site in person. Those recruited people are all new hands in the end, and Xia Hongsheng is worried that something will happen. This is his first contracted project, and he certainly doesn't want any surprises.

At first, the progress was slow, because the people had to get acquainted with this method of building a house that they had never seen before, and they had to learn how to use the equipment that was convenient and labor-saving. So it is natural that the progress will be slow in the first few days, and then when these people are acquainted, the speed will be faster.

"Childe!" Xia Hongsheng was sitting under the shed watching the people back and forth, when he suddenly heard a cry from behind him, and turned his head to look. It was the butler who walked into the shed. Meet him.

"How. Something happened in Zhuangzi? Xia Hongsheng asked. The housekeeper now has to take care of Zhuangzi, so he generally won't let him come to Chang'an, after all, the kiln and greenhouse on Zhuangzi are busy now, and he has to greet and do a good job of logistics.

"Someone from the palace is here, and he wants to order honeycomb coal this winter." The housekeeper said to Xia Hongsheng: "The number is too large, I have to report it to my son." ”

"More than last year, right?" Xia Hongsheng asked.

Steward Tian nodded: "It's a lot more than last year, and one hundred and ten coal stoves have been added." I inquired a few words in private. It is the account of the inner treasury that walks. ”

Xia Hongsheng realized that there was a lot of honeycomb coal burned in the palace in winter, and it could be said that he was the largest customer of the coal yard. It is the inner treasury, that is to say, the money for burning coal in the palace is from the inner mansion of Li Shimin and Empress Changsun, and it is their own money that is spent, not the money of the state.

So Xia Hongsheng said: "The inner mansion is not generous, and Your Majesty and the queen treat me well, so they are all half price!" ”

"Huh?!" Steward Tian was stunned: "Half price?!" Childe, this ......"

"It's fine. You can get back at half the price, and you can make a little money. Xia Hongsheng smiled. said: "And I'm sure he doesn't dare to take it at half price, His Majesty and the queen will definitely not allow it, and they must insist on the original price." When the time comes, you will go with the favor, press it to a 7% discount and buy it to the royal family, and no matter how high it is, you will not sell it. The quantity is there, we won't have anything to lose, and we can still get a royal favor. ”

Steward Tian nodded suddenly: "Understood!" Childe, there's one more thing......"

"What's the matter?" Xia Hongsheng looked at Steward Tian and saw that he showed some hesitation on his face, so he asked.

Steward Tian looked at Xia Hongsheng cautiously and said, "I have a relative who came to me some time ago, and after arriving at me, he saw our honeycomb coal, saying that when he passed through the clouds, he also saw this thing in the clouds. The small one was strange at the time, it is said that this can make honeycomb coal now, on our Zhuangzi, can it still be obtained by others? Thinking that the clouds were not far away, he sent someone from his home to the clouds. I came back yesterday, and said that there were really people in the clouds who learned to make honeycomb coal from us, and brought back a few pieces, which were exactly the same as our honeycomb coal. I burned a piece of it, and found that although the honeycomb coal looked the same as ours, it could not be burned through, and it shattered as it burned. Childe, tell me, he not only stole the honeycomb coal on our Zhuangzi, but also couldn't do it really, and selling it for nothing ruined the reputation of our honeycomb coal! Take a look, do you want to take advantage of the fact that the honeycomb coal in the cloud has not spread too widely, ruin our reputation, report him to the official, and hand him over to the official family for disposal? ”

"Official?" Xia Hongsheng looked at Steward Tian: "Will the official family pay attention to this kind of thing?" ”

Steward Tian's words still surprised Xia Hongsheng, although he knew that it was inevitable to be a copycat, even if there was intellectual property rights and patent protection in the future generations, my Great China copycat technology was also the first in the world, not to mention the ancient times without patent protection. It's just that I didn't expect that the first to be coated was honeycomb coal!

In fact, in Xia Hongsheng's view, the lack of patent protection is a major reason why Chinese people like to hide the technology they master or some exclusive things and bring them into the coffin.

To put it bluntly, the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Everything is a good word. The most common example is prescriptions. Some Lang Zhong lives on that prescription all his life, and other diseases are not very curable, but they are extremely effective for one disease. When Xia Hongsheng was in the later life, there was a female colleague in the school who had spots on her face, and she couldn't treat it well. Later, I heard that an old man in the village could cure the spots on his face, and in desperation, he went with the mentality of trying it out. As a result, the dirty-looking old man took out a jar from the house, took out something black from it, wiped it on his face, wiped it for a month, and then it was all gone, all right! Later, I was excited to thank the people, and asked what the black thing was, but the old man was unhappy and quickly apologized.

Since ancient times, many medical skills, or other techniques, have been in the hands of individual people, passed down from generation to generation, and not known to outsiders, in order to protect the prescription, or the benefits that this technology brings to themselves. If outsiders know about it, outsiders can use this thing to gain benefits, which will harm their own interests. Therefore, they are not willing to take it out, hide it and sneak it, and take it to the grave and do not want it to be known by outsiders. Therefore, many things are lost in the Hereafter.

Imagine, if there is a very strict patent protection early, then even if the person who holds the patent takes out something to the public, others do not dare to misappropriate it, otherwise it is a big crime, and if you want to use it, you have to pay the patent fee, so that the interests of the person who holds the patent are guaranteed, and he wishes that more people use this thing, so that not only the interests of the patentee are guaranteed, but he is willing to share his secret recipe or technology, and it stimulates people to develop new technologies and form new patents. Thus contributing to the development of technology.

Should you take this opportunity to try to persuade Li Shimin to care about this matter?

Seeing that Xia Hongsheng didn't speak for a long time, Steward Tian said next to him: "Childe, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Xia Hongsheng woke up at this time, smiled, and said: "In this way, after you go back, go to the coal yard to find a skilled hand, take our coal tools to the clouds, see who makes honeycomb coal there, and then teach him the technology of really making honeycomb coal, and charge him a copper plate, which is the technology he bought from us." ”

"Huh?!" Steward Tian was a little stunned, and looked at Xia Hongsheng in a daze, very puzzled by Xia Hongsheng's instructions.

"Go ahead, that's it." Xia Hongsheng didn't explain, and said to Steward Tian: "I have my own plans, go and arrange it, the sooner the better." ”

"This ...... Be! Steward Tian was puzzled, but he couldn't disobey Xia Hongsheng's order, so he had to agree, then said goodbye and left, and hurriedly prepared to go back to Jingyang to arrange.

After Steward Tian left, Xia Hongsheng began to think about this matter. In the initial stages of technological development, copycats are not shameful, but beneficial. Technology can be promoted, so that more people can experience the convenience brought by new technologies at less cost, so as to eliminate the original backward technology and promote technological progress. However, if you only know about the copycat, but do not know that you can further sublimate and innovate after obtaining technology from it, make it more perfect, and develop better technology based on it, it will kill the cancer of technological progress. Unlimited wanton copycats can only make everyone accustomed to eating ready-made meals and eating what others have chewed. Now that there is already a sign of this, Xia Hongsheng hopes to let it be restrained from the beginning so that it will not wreak havoc in the future.

This one person can't do it, and he has to find a helper to go and tell Li Shimin together.

After thinking about it for a while, I thought of a person coming, and I had a plan in my heart.

If you have a plan, you will have a spectrum in your heart.

Xia Hongsheng got up and walked out of the shed, looking at the sky, it was noon. So he said to the person next to him, "It's noon, let's be here in the morning." Let the big guys take a break and get ready for lunch. ”

The people next to him immediately went out and raised their arms and shouted, and the people gathered together, each took out his bowl, and lined up to wait for the rice to be scooped.

They are all working people, Xia Hongsheng can't bear to let them not have enough to eat, so the food is sufficient. But it's not a good thing, it's just a lot of it. After all, in ancient times, when grain production was low, if you want to use good grain to give so many people, the price is still too high. But for these people, it's already good. These are the main things they usually eat, and most of the time they don't dare to eat at home, but they can eat enough when they go to the construction site, so they are already grateful. (To be continued.) )