The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 600 Seres, Slavs and Tatars
Is it more beneficial to pay patent fees or not pay patent fees?
Of course, there are many benefits to not paying patent fees!

Because China is far away from Europe, it is impossible to form a healthy scientific interaction like Britain, France and other countries.

Currently, it often takes years for new technologies to influence the East from the West.

So much time has passed, if you are still sticking to the so-called patent law and continuing to wait, or waiting for the other party to allow you to use the patent.

In this era of fierce competition among countries, falling behind means falling behind step by step.

So don’t worry that if you don’t comply with the patent, others will not comply with your patent either, because the two parties will most likely not respect each other, but will try their best to strengthen themselves first, and then deal with these details.

Moreover, the two sides are so far apart, transportation is so difficult, and communication basically relies on shouting, so it is impossible to judge whether others are using your patent.

Britain and France are separated by the English Channel and often have conflicts over this issue. The entire Asia is between the West and the East, making it even more difficult to sort out.

Don't even think about a cross-border lawsuit. The world is so developed now, with all kinds of communication methods available. Cross-border lawsuits are already a big problem, let alone at this time.

Therefore, even if you strictly abide by the patent, how to implement it is still a huge problem.

Moreover, since the inventions at that time were all in the ancestral stage, just like a tree that had just started to grow a trunk, many things could not be circumvented, let alone overtaking on a curve.

For example, Watt's steam engine registered all the most basic changes such as the improved piston, safety valve, throttle valve, pressure gauge, etc. If you really want to comply with the patent law 100%, then you cannot completely use any of these.

There is no way around this.

In this case, if patent laws are strictly observed, then thanks to the first-mover advantage, Europeans, especially the British, can suffocate China to death by simply controlling these main roads.

Therefore, it is time to test the abilities of Mo Zibu and Zhonghua.

First of all, we must not show any disrespect for patents, so as not to dampen domestic enthusiasm for invention.

For example, Wang Zhenyi had not dared to take out the high-pressure steam engine that she thought was most likely to meet Mo Zibu's requirements because there was no law to guarantee the realization of her interests. Mo Zibu also wanted to start promoting patent law in the country.

However, if Mo Zibu showed too much respect for patent law, it would not be a good idea either, because this would allow the British and French powers to discover it and start to specifically target China in this regard.

Therefore, a balance must be struck, which is also the important reason why Mo Zibu insisted that the British invite Watt over.

In addition to inviting Watt to give lectures, share knowledge and promote the domestic scientific atmosphere, he also had to personally take action and make a deal with Watt.

After obtaining Watt's consent in this condescending manner, China then used its national power to coerce the Kingdom of England, forcing them to endorse China's actions on the steam engine patent.

In July, the British delegation, as well as James Watt and his important partner Matthew Bolton, left Newport and continued north.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhenyi did not return to Guangzhou to avoid alerting the enemy, but continued to design high-pressure steam engines in Halong Bay, Guangnan.

Her theory was sound, but the safety and sealing issues faced by the high-pressure steam engine were more difficult than she had imagined.

First, the piston rings of the high-pressure steam engine need to be redesigned. Second, the static seal needs to use copper, which can only be used once and needs to be replaced after each disassembly and inspection.

This is copper!

In China, which was already short of copper, red copper was more expensive than silver at that time. If it was designed like this, the cost would be too high.

Except for specific military applications, high-pressure steam engines will not have any possibility of being promoted.

"Sister Wang, I have to go to Guangzhou because the English delegation needs me to receive them. And it is very likely that once I go, it will be difficult for me to return to Guangnan."

Asen was a little sad, not because he had much love for Wang Zhenyi, but because he was reluctant to part with not only Wang Zhenyi, but also Fatty Luo, Brother Bozhi, Cen Xuannan and a bunch of other partners who participated in the research of high-pressure steam engines.

For Asen, there were only three types of people around him in the first thirteen years of his life.

A father who is so strong that he always looks up to him.

A mother so strict that he almost wanted to escape from her.

The third type is those who approach him and curry favor with him for various purposes.

To be frank, Arsen has never had normal contact with many people of his age, and he is very inexperienced in having friends.

Although people like Wang Zhenyi and Cen Xuannan also tried to curry favor with him, these people were young and talented, and somewhat conceited.

At the same time, they had no concrete feeling about how great the benefits they could get by making friends with the future emperor would be, unlike the nobles, civil and military officials and their children who understood all this very well.

Therefore, they can approach Arsen in a relatively less flattering and less utilitarian manner.

This feeling made Arsen feel very relaxed and cherished. He felt that he had truly made friends.

I don’t know if it will deteriorate in the future, but at this moment, their little friendship is not yet at the point of deterioration.

On the contrary, at this time, Wang Zhenyi was a little reluctant to part with Asen.

Although Imperial Noble Consort Chen Yichen was too strict, her educational methods, whether rough or not, still worked.

Thirteen-year-old Asen is calm, emotionally empathetic, far-sighted, knowledgeable, and highly receptive to new things.

He is also relatively supportive of women being out in public and doing various jobs. Coupled with his powerful family background, he is already the top-notch Supreme Treasure in Wang Zhenyi's fantasy.

"Your Highness, don't worry. We will do our utmost to complete the improvement of the high-pressure steam engine as soon as possible. Then we will meet in Nanjing." Wang Zhenyi said reluctantly.

Asen nodded, and then said to Wang Zhenyi and Cen Xuannan very solemnly:
"When I went south, my father told me that the main people in the country were engaged in steam engine research, and Qian Duo was actually forced to do this.

The Qian family needed a great scholar of the new era, so they pushed him out.

But Qian Duo's strength is actually in alchemy, which is due to the fact that his family is obsessed with the Sun Tao school of Taoism. He is not good at mechanics and the study of things.

Wu Wenyao is different. He does not have the urgent need to stabilize the family inheritance as Qian Duo does, and he is very talented in mechanical design.

So for you, after Qian Duo and Wu Wenyao arrive in Guangnan, you should unite with Wu Wenyao and let him protect you when I am not in Guangnan.

As for the reward for the steam engine, I will discuss it with Wu Wenyao personally, so you don't have to worry."

"Thank you for your grace, Your Highness. We are grateful for your love and care." Wang Zhenyi and the others understood Asen's words and bowed with gratitude.

The implicit meaning behind Asen's words is that Qian Duo is a tool put forward by the Jiangnan gentry and wealthy merchant group to fight for power and profit. He has many supporters behind him, and many people are waiting to share the cake.

Therefore, if Qian Duo interferes with this high-pressure steam engine project, Wang Zhenyi and others will probably be wiped out.

Wu Wenyao was different. He had a high status. His father was Wu Rang, the first vassal of Nanyang, Marquis of Songcheng, and his uncle was Zhuang Chunde, Earl of Xin Gao. Zhuang Lishan, who had pursued Wang Zhenyi, was Wu Wenyao's cousin.

It can be said that Wu Wenyao was born in Rome, in the Roman palace.

His starting point is the ceiling that many people will never reach in their lifetime. Therefore, he does not have the heavy expectations and burdens behind Qian Duo, and can better control his own life.

At the same time, Wu Wenyao's expertise in mechanical design can make up for the shortcomings of Wang Zhenyi and Cen Xuannan.

The only problem was that although Wu Wenyao was of noble birth, he was not eligible for the title of Marquis of Songcheng because he had a half-brother, Wu Wenhui.

Wu Wenhui is not a simple person. Historically, the territory that Wu Rang occupied in the Malay Peninsula was made bigger and stronger by Wu Wenhui. At one point, it was so powerful that it destroyed Patani and could compete with the Sultanate of Johor.

Therefore, even among the second generation of meritorious officials of the Great Yu Dynasty, who were generally talented, Wu Wenhui was one of the most capable. At only 23 years old, he was already able to command thousands of troops in battle and independently presided over the reform of southern Goryeo.

With such a powerful brother, Wu Wenyao was basically sentenced to be unable to inherit the title.

Therefore, the offer of a eunuch earl and a vassal earl, that is, a Chinese vassal earl in Southeast Asia, offered by Mo Zibu was quite attractive to Wu Wenyao.

This problem will be solved by Asen, which will undoubtedly solve the big problem for Wang Zhenyi and others.

After a large amount of capital and nobles were really preparing to enter this field due to the pressure from the emperor, choosing someone like Wu Wenyao to escort them was the best choice after Asen left.

. . . .

"Sir, this must be the capital of Seris. What a terrifying industrial city!"

James Watt took a small boat and sailed towards Guangzhou City against the unhealthy-looking Pearl River.

Along the way, he saw scenes that were just as horrifying and uncomfortable as those in London.

Huge chimneys spewed thick black smoke into the sky, and black sewage flowed into the Pearl River from every corner, so that the color of the water on the banks of the Pearl River was different from that in the center of the river.

When we got off the boat, we saw that everyone was in a hurry. There were coachmen and porters everywhere, and people of all kinds were flowing continuously. The sounds of hawking and quarreling along the street were just like the Little Ireland area in London, so noisy that it gave us a headache.

In Watt's opinion, this is what the capital of a powerful country should be like.

"Of course it is. It took us a full month to sail from New Port to here. If this isn't the capital of Seris, it would be an exaggeration.

There couldn't possibly be such a large empire in this world, even if he were Seris." Matthew Bolton echoed this.

Young William Pitt was almost annoyed to death by these two country bumpkins, but thinking that he still needed Watt's patent to achieve some goals for the Kingdom of England, he could only hold back his annoyance and patiently replied:
"Guangzhou can be considered one of the capitals of Seris, but the emperor generally does not stay here. Guangzhou is ruled by two grand dukes, who are usually the emperor's elder brothers."

"Then where is the real capital of Seris?" Matthew Bolton felt as if his outlook on life had been shattered. Is there really a country so big that it needs several capitals?
"If it's winter, it takes one and a half months to walk to Nanjing in Seres. If it's summer, His Majesty the Emperor will go to Beijing to escape the heat, so it will take us at least three months to get there.

We will most likely be asked to go to Beijing, and even if we take a boat, it will take another month and a half to get there."

"Oh Jesus Christ!" Matthew Bolton was so surprised that he almost fainted after hearing this.

Watt had a sharper sense of smell than the businessman, and he looked at little William Pitt with some difficulty.

"My Lord, can the Kingdom of England truly compete with such a heavenly kingdom? They are not as large as a hundred Kingdoms of England, are they? Can we really hold India against such an enemy?"

Little William Pitt was a little overwhelmed at this moment. If he had a choice, who would be willing to compete with such a monster empire?

He shook his head helplessly and sighed, "We can't just kneel down and become slaves of Emperor Seris now."

. . . .

Just when William Pitt the Younger and others arrived in Guangzhou and were preparing to rest again before going to Beijing, the Russian Empire's special envoy, Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova, had also arrived at Amuhabaishan in the upper reaches of the Yenisei River.

It is only more than 100 kilometers away from Tannu Uriankhai in the northern desert, and only about 100 kilometers away from Irkutsk on the North Sea (Lake Baikal). It is one of the most important strongholds of the Russian Empire in the Eastern Xianbei Desert.

This was an extremely arduous journey. According to past practice, if the Russian Empire needed to send people to the East, it would rather choose to go by sea than by land.

Because it was extremely dangerous to travel from the Ural Mountains to the Xianbei Desert at that time, and you could even get lost if you were not careful, and it would be the kind of loss that would make you never be able to return to human society.

But Dashkova persevered, overcoming the risks of sleeping in the open air and encountering various indigenous tribes along the way, and successfully reached her destination.

The reason why she insisted on doing so was not only because it took less time to travel by land, but also because she had a mission. She had to assess the true strength of the Russian Empire in the East for Her Majesty the Empress.

At this time, the Russian Empire was still in its adolescence. They had just overthrown the Crimean Khanate, which had been enslaving them and selling them as slaves to the Ottoman Empire.

A jaw-dropping fact is that before Africans were trafficked as black slaves, Russians had been sold as white slaves by the Tatar Crimean Khanate to the Ottoman Empire and even the entire Mediterranean coast for three hundred years.

During these three hundred years, it is estimated that nearly five million Russians were abducted. The number is less than that of black slaves, but it is still very shocking, and the suffering they suffered is no less than that of black slaves.

Dashkova looked into the distance and saw the Governor-General of Western Siberia, Klitschko Nikolayevich, reporting to the Empress's best friend.

“Since Emperor Seris overthrew the rule of the Tatars, he quickly subdued the Tatars who had originally submitted to the Qing Empire.

Now, those Tatars have begun to cross the border, attracting the Oirats who were originally subject to us to the south. It is said that Emperor Seris is forming a guard light cavalry composed of Tatars. "

"This is really not good news." Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova sighed.

"The situation is developing in the worst direction. As a nation also enslaved by the Tatars, the Seres did not choose to overthrow the Tatars and turn them into slaves like us Slavs did. Instead, they forgave them."

"Uh, no, this description is not accurate." Dashkova shook her head and overturned her previous judgment.

"Emperor Seris didn't forgive the Tatars; he wanted to be the next Genghis Khan."

Governor Klitschko nodded in agreement, “In fact, the Tatar rule over Seris was very short-lived, the first time lasting less than a hundred years.

The second time was the Qing Dynasty. They were not actually Tatars, but a rebel group formed by the Seres barbarians from further east and rebel forces.

Even if we consider the Qing Empire as Tatar in general, the suffering caused to the Seres by these two rule was far less severe than that suffered by the Slavs.

Throughout history, the Seres, various Tatars on the grasslands, and even the Huns of earlier times, have been competing fiercely for dominance in the Eastern world.

The brutal war left scars, but it also promoted their mutual learning and integration.

They did not suffer the same hardship as us Slavs who could not even keep our virginity, but instead they were more like rivals who sympathized with each other.

Your Excellency, I am very pleased that you recognize the special relationship between the Seres and Tatars.

I hope you can make all the Slavs in Europe realize that the Seres and Tatars are not mortal enemies, but more like relatives with a feud.

If there is a strong leader who can make both sides agree, they may be able to unite.

Just like the Celestial Khan of the Seres, Xuechan Khan of the Mongol Empire, and Yingming Khan of the Qing Empire.”

It has to be said that as a Russian adventurer who served as the Governor-General of Western Siberia for eight years and constantly organized Cossacks and Slavic bandits to invade the Outer Khingan Mountains.

Governor Klitschko's understanding of some points was not very accurate, but he generally understood the relationship between the Han people and the grassland ethnic groups.

"Damn it!" Dashkova took a breath and cursed in annoyance.

Because he heard that the current Emperor Seris had the ability to bridge the gap between the grassland and Seris.

At least it is moving towards this place at a rapid speed.

"If we can't handle our relationship with Seris well, the Slavs who have just been liberated from the Tatars will be in trouble!"

As she spoke, Dashkova waved her hand to Governor Klitschko and said, “Don’t prepare the guards, just notify the Tatar tribes that have surrendered to Seris.

I am the special envoy of the Russian Empire and Empress Catherine, and I formally request that the Seris Empire be responsible for my safety and escort me to Beijing."

After saying this, Dashkova muttered, "Don't let yourself be killed by the Tatars even after you've reached Seris."

(End of this chapter)