Jiang Yifan spread his hands, helpless, "This humble official just can’t pretend not to know. Ah Yan kneeling in broad daylight on the path where officials must pass to court; who wouldn’t know about it?"
Indeed, the place and timing Ye Zi chose to kneel made it impossible for anyone to miss.
Jinrong fixed his gaze on Jiang Yifan, finding him increasingly unpleasant to look at. What was he thinking bringing this guy into his circle of friends? Looking at him now, it appeared as though he was flaunting his wife.
"Why isn’t Ye Zi here, but you are?" Jinrong huffed and asked.
"The Duke has only just returned and is looking for Ye Zi to talk, even I was turned away. I heard Your Highness was coming, so I ca to inform you first."
"Oh?" Jinrong hesitated for a mont, sowhat concerned, "Duke An isn’t going to punish her, is he? Grounding her or making her kneel in the ancestral hall or sothing?" It shouldn’t be the case, right? Duke An must have grown accustod to his granddaughter’s troublemaking by now; if he were to punish her, he would have done so long ago. There’s no need to start now.
Jiang Yifan glanced sidelong at Jinrong. Sixth Master, your relationship with Ah Yan is rely cooperative, don’t you think your question oversteps a bit?
"It’s okay, Ah Yan knows how to handle Duke An, everything will be fine."
"That’s good to hear." Then, with a frown, Jinrong asked, "The Imperial Father asked Ye Zi to draft a proposal in the Imperial Study Room; does she have any ideas? She seed troubled when I saw her."
Jiang Yifan’s face revealed a slight smile, sowhat proudly looking at Jinrong. He then pulled out a stack of folded papers from his sleeve.
"Has she already written it?" Jinrong asked, surprised and taken aback.
Jiang Yifan said, "Your Highness, please have a look, these are the draft docunts Ah Yan wrote after she returned. She had written these when I ca, then Duke An called her to his study. Ah Yan probably had so rough ideas for the lawsuit, but she didn’t expect His Majesty would assign her a task. Her difficulty likely stemd from her dilemma about whether to ask His Majesty for a salary..."
Jinrong chuckled, "That’s very possible... Faced with the Imperial Father, she is sowhat reserved. But if it had been anyone else asking her to do such a novel task, she would always demand a high price before she could feel at ease."
Jinrong looked down, his gaze falling on the two sheets of paper in his hands.
Although the papers contained drafts, their main ideas were clear and refreshingly innovative. Ancient sages said, "Listening to a wise man’s words is better than ten years of study." But that’s just talk. To really have a discussion that could rival ten years of study, he had neither encountered nor heard of such a thing.
But, that was before.
The rough script on these two pages genuinely gave him the sensation of having gained the insight of ten years’ study.
If Ye Xinyan knew of Jinrong’s thoughts, she would have rolled her eyes at him. How could he, an old-fashioned man from Great Xia, comprehend the distilled experience of hundreds of years of industrial developnt and technological advancent that she had brought from another world?
As Jinrong read on, a sense of amazent intertwined with mixed feelings washed over him. Pri Minister Han was right; Ye Zi was indeed a talented person.
The record on these pages contained so of Ye Xinyan’s mories and her own additions, as well as a few clauses from an article on patents that she rembered from her previous life.
With her education from over a decade of standardized testing, how could she fail to write a discursive essay of 5000 words on patents if that were the exam question?
Indeed, she was not daunted by this essay assignnt.
Firstly, the application status of technical patents can indirectly reflect the technological level and innovative capabilities of a nation or industry. A lack of innovative capability suggests that the nation’s industrial competitiveness is low. In this era, that equated to the strength or weakness of national power.
The benefits of implenting a patent law:
It encourages invention and creation, promoting technological progress and innovation. The main asure is to motivate inventors and creators, providing them with a supportive legal environnt and fostering an atmosphere that incentivizes invention and innovation.
It can promote the dissemination of technical information and drive related technological research and innovation.
It can encourage the creation of inventions and facilitate the widespread adoption, promoting the transformation of technological achievents. The technological developnt of various industries benefits the overall developnt of national power.
Then there are so requirents regarding the implentation of patents:
The principle of first application.
If one wants to protect their own techniques, they must apply for a patent at the court; otherwise, if one day soone else steals those techniques or develops similar skills or tools, the person without patent protection will have made investnts in vain.
The principle of patent publication.
While protecting patent rights, it is simultaneously required that the contents of the invention with patent rights be disclosed to the world in a tily manner.
It provides favorable conditions for society to choose suitable inventions and helps to promote the implentation and utilization of these inventions.
There is also the aspect of ti limitation.
Once the period of patent protection has exceeded, regardless of whether the patent holder has transford it into productive forces, the invention will enter the public domain and beco a public asset of society, avoiding the waste of resources.
Jinrong read through the hastily written draft line by line, took a long breath of relief, and felt completely refreshed, as if a profound truth had been imparted to him. This might be the true path to enriching the country and strengthening the people. He had attained it in his lifeti.
He believed that in such a short ti, what Ye Xinyan had written were only superficial aspects. Given enough ti and... what was it... wages, she would certainly be able to write in greater detail and comprehensively. Just like the engineering docunts and business plans she had quickly produced in the past.
"You’re a lucky guy," Jinrong mused for a long ti before handing the stack of drafts back to Jiang Yifan. He then stood up and dusted off his clothes, "Since Ye Zi has a plan in mind, there’s nothing to worry about. I’ll be taking my leave now."
As he turned to leave, Jinrong gave Jiang Yifan an inscrutable look and said, "In the Imperial Study Room, Pri Minister Han said Ye Zi has the talent to ’govern the universe and asure the earth,’ but it’s a pity she is a woman."
Jiang Yifan kept his lips tightly sealed and simply nodded without saying anything.
He could understand Prince Yu’s inexplicable emotions. However, Ah Yan was unlike any other woman in the world; she wouldn’t beco his Principal Wife or even an empress to manage his harem or the other royal consorts for him.
So, in Jinrong’s mind, Ah Yan probably never thought about it at all.
......
No matter what astounding thing the granddaughter of Duke An had done this ti or how many people criticized or condemned her actions, two days later, a report modeled after Duke An’s earlier submissions was directly sent into the Cabinet.
The four elders of the Cabinet, shaking hands, passed the docunt around for a read, staying silent for a long while with differing expressions.
The main points presented were unprecedented viewpoints. Even though there were many phrases they had never seen before, the anings were clear.
These perspectives opened up a new mode of thinking for these old officials. Pursuing this mode of thought, it seed that the humble crafts of artisans, which they had always looked down upon, truly held the power to usurp the natural order and could genuinely enable the Great Xia Dynasty to beco strong and wealthy.
And this result was sothing they, as scholars, could not achieve.
The key thing is, the report even included an additional paragraph that seed superfluous, a paragraph that was quite grating to them, and Liu Chengzhi felt his teeth were actually becoming sore.
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