After a steaming hot pot with sweaty people, Li Shimin and the bigwigs of the three provinces had already completed the discussion on the promulgation and implementation of the Datang Patent Act. Then it took a whole afternoon, including Li Shimin himself, to carefully pick out the loopholes in the middle of this code, which was also Xia Hongsheng's intention when compiling it, and there are not many such loopholes.

When night fell, everyone was over, and Li Shimin made a decision, the next court meeting, will announce the announcement of the Tang Dynasty patent bill, after the New Year, the first day of the third year of Zhenguan officially began to be implemented.

Before leaving the palace, Li Shimin gave Xia Hongsheng a vacation, saying that he had compiled this complete law in the past month, which was very hard, so he didn't have to get up early tomorrow morning to go to court, and he could rest at home in the next few days. Xia Hongsheng was naturally anxious, and immediately thanked Li Shimin.

Back home, it was already after sunset.

To be honest, the passage of the patent bill brought Xia Hongsheng more joy than the previous discovery of a drug to treat malaria.

In this day and age, there is no one who understands the importance of advanced technology better than he does.

In later generations, the suffering that China has experienced is a profound lesson. The 2,000-strong Eight-Nation Coalition can defeat 190,000 Qing troops, and a few warships can deter a large country with a population of 40,000.

If the country had not been closed to the outside world, if the Industrial Revolution had taken place in China instead of Europe, I don't know what it would have been. Because of the lack of technology, China has suffered too many losses and sufferings.

It is precisely after tasting this severe pain that I deeply realize this. Later Chinese held their breath. Make the atomic bomb on your own. Rely on yourself to make a hydrogen bomb, rely on yourself to build a Shenzhou spacecraft, rely on yourself to explore the moon, and rely on yourself to make a "heavenly palace...... If a country or a nation does not have science and advanced technology, it can only collapse in one blow. Slaughtered.

In the face of absolutely leading technology, manpower, force, and hard work ...... These are puffy clouds. Of the thousands of Arab warships, only two escaped by the Byzantines with only a few dilapidated civilian ships, and only two of them were burned by the Greek fires made of oil; The 190,000-strong Tianjin garrison, and the 2,000-strong Eight-Nation Coalition pursued and killed all the way, resulting in the fall of Beijing and the burning of the Old Summer Palace...... Countless examples of real things in history are all clear proof.

So Xia Hongsheng is happy that Datang will become the first country in the world to encourage and protect technological inventions in the form of legislation, patents and the benefits they bring. It can be a powerful driver of technological development for the people, while patents and the benefits they bring. It can also effectively protect and pass on technology, or simple scientific images and concepts that have not yet taken shape and are only rudimentary, so that they can be further developed.

Datang will become a paradise for technology R&D personnel. This has not only brought about a blowout of technology in Datang, but also a strong attraction to technicians from other countries. Just as the United States during World War II attracted countless scientists from the European battlefield, the sages of other countries must have been attracted by this hotbed of science and technology and joined the Tang Dynasty.

However, this is only the first step. Technology needs to be supported by theory, but ancient China happened to not have a complete set of formal and logical ideas, and it was difficult to produce rigorous theoretical weapons.

The reason why the Joseph Needham problem arises is that modern science did not arise in ancient China, and all the technologies in ancient China can only be reduced to empirical technology, not science and technology, because there is a lack of theoretical support for science.

Albert Einstein once said that the development of Western science was based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logic system by the Greek philosophers and the discovery that cause and effect can be found through systematic experiments. In ancient China, all the reasons for the emergence of technology were because it was more effective and practical on the basis of experience. This can certainly make technology closer to daily life, making it easier to put into practice and make people's lives easier. But it only stops there, because there is no theoretical support, so it is difficult to go deeper, and it is difficult to discover the hidden laws. What is lacking is precisely the basis of this "system of formal logic and the discovery of causality through scientific experiments".

Therefore, after the implementation of the Patent Law, Xia Hongsheng will further collect Western philosophical, ideological and natural science works, and introduce them to Datang so that more people can understand them. This is not to look down on Datang's original philosophical ideological system, but to be inclusive and develop together. The Eastern way of thinking usually does not pay attention to the rational research and systematic forging of thinking tools or means, but focuses on the direct use of tools. Western thinking is different, they certainly pay attention to the study of technology, the study of the use of thinking methods and other means, and pay more attention to the systematic forging of tools. Xia Hongsheng's move is to take its essence and discard its dross, to introduce ideas, and to cause controversy. Only when a hundred schools of thought contend, will there be a spark of thinking and development due to collision.

This is not an easy thing to do, since the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, the other schools of thought have gradually died out, perhaps hidden in the depths of the brains of a few people, but they dare not show it. Xia Hongsheng also hopes to re-call them and re-create a situation where a hundred schools of thought contend. It's just this time that Xia Hongsheng formulated a common premise for it, that is, to make Datang better and stronger!

If Datang really develops like this, what a brilliant picture it should be!

As soon as he thought of this, as soon as he thought of the prospect of Datang, Xia Hongsheng's heart was excited.

Because he was really happy, Xia Hongsheng felt that since he crossed over to Datang, there had never been a time when he could be so excited and excited.

Excitement poured out nowhere to go, and others couldn't understand it, Xia Hongsheng took the wine, poured himself a drink, and looked up to the sky and smiled.

The patent bill is the heaviest impact on the historical trajectory of all the things Xia Hongsheng has done so far since he came to Datang. This impact will completely change the original appearance of history, and will make the slogan of Datang Wansheng not just a slogan, but a fact. Datang will eventually become a dazzling sun, hanging in the east of the world, emitting a glow that the whole world cannot look at directly, and becoming a real "sun never sets"!

"Childe?" A voice as cold as the moonlight in the sky sounded behind Xia Hongsheng's ears: "Why are you drinking alone here?" ”

"I am happy and ecstatic in my heart, and others have no way to understand it, so I can only give it to the bright moon." Xia Hongsheng's eyes were hazy, and he didn't know whether he was happy or lonely in his tone: "Yuexian...... Moon Immortal ...... Are you the fairy in the bright moon in the sky? Come! Drink with me! (To be continued.) )