Chapter 83 Fist Industry 2
Chapter 83 – Fist Industry 2
Could it be that Earl Greiman is taking out the technology of making paper and porcelain to share?
This thought popped up in the heads of many people here.
But …… is it possible?
Think about it differently, if one holds the technology that is unique in the whole world, and produces something that can bring one huge profits, and as a party of fiefdom nobles, one holds enough strength in one’s hands to scare off those who are secretly playing with small-minded people.
Would one be foolish enough to take it out and share it with others?
“Earl Gleiman should just want us to sell those things further afield for him, right? Although the production is small now, it will definitely increase in the future.”
“Perhaps the Earl means to give local merchants cheaper factory prices as a way to support commercial activities in his own territory.”
“Well …… that’s not bad, you should be able to make quite a bit of money from the difference in buying and selling prices.”
Bennett and other merchants who had not yet been exposed to the trading of paper and porcelain thought so.
Then they heard the following sentence:
“Some of you guessed right, I will come up with certain techniques and technologies to authorize you to use them at the right time, and expand the output within the territory with the help of everyone’s strength.”
The following people were in an uproar when the lord said this.
The crowd couldn’t care less about being formal, and as they mingled and talked in twos and threes, the meeting hall began to get noisy.
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Paul took advantage of the time when the crowd underneath was talking, and took a drink of water to moisten his throat.
Technological diffusion and support for industry and commerce is something he has thought about for a long time, although the invention and sale of paper, porcelain, and harvesters have multiplied the financial income of the lord’s house, but the corresponding expenses have also multiplied.
The daily consumption of the army, the manufacture and maintenance of weapons, the salaries of all levels of officers and various workers, as well as the construction of water conservancy in the vast rural areas, all require a huge amount of money, the remaining money is not enough to support the Lord’s head of all the subsequent plans to carry out.
He had thought of raising the prices of the things he sold, but those things were not necessities, so if they were too expensive, people would just stop buying them, and they would live as they should in the future.
For example, porcelain, can not afford to buy pottery, we can still drink and eat, thousands of years are not so over it.
There is also paper this kind of thin things, there is no need to cover in the hand, others can also be imitated by more thinking.
After some consideration, he aimed at the power of the people, decided to support a number of strong “private enterprises” in Alda and Bairdine, and then the Lord’s House can collect more taxes.
However, some industries still need to be restricted, such as machinery manufacturing like harvesters, as well as the future prospect of steelmaking and ironmaking, and such “heavy industry”, in order to prevent the leakage of technology, so that the strength of the potential opponents more powerful to pick the peach, in the current stage is still to be placed firmly under the direct control of the Lord’s House.
For example, the harvester, not to mention the liberalization of the manufacture, even the purchase is also restricted, now only allows Alda and Bairdin two places of customers to buy, unless these two places market saturation or complete the agricultural upgrading, will be allowed to foreign customers to buy.
Of course if there are capable people in the field who got a few units and copied them through certain means, then there is nothing much one can do about it, anyway, if one can stop a little bit is a little bit, right?
Some things, must wait until they have established an absolute advantage before liberalizing.
But like paper making, porcelain burning, and the planned salt, food processing, textile, these “light industry” do not need to be too cautious, can now be opened to the private sector to engage in their own, in order to increase tax revenue in the territory.
Proliferation of the scope or to control, only in the Alda and Bairdin two places, otherwise it would not be cheaper to other lords.
After deliberation in the Council of Government, the Lords’ House will control the said industry through technical authorization. The authorized private factories or workshops will have skilled craftsmen sent by the Lord’s House to guide production and train apprentices, but they will also have to be supervised by secretive personnel sent by the Lord’s House in order to prevent the production process and technology from being stolen.
With the increasing number of workers mastering new technologies and techniques, it has become more and more difficult and inhumane to centralize them for closed management as in the past.
Therefore, the Council of State is studying new management methods, and the following ideas exist:
Strictly forbidding skilled workers to emigrate, with heavy fines or jail time for violators;
Improve the treatment of workers and set a minimum salary for workers, which must be observed by both the government and private sectors to keep the talent in the local area;
The Secret Service classifies sensitive technologies as classified matters and forbids their outflow, and the workers or operators who master these technologies are classified as classified personnel, so as to strengthen the control over them.
Paul hopes that the above measures will delay the emergence of such characters as “Samuel Slater”.
Civilian operators in addition to comply with the obligation of confidentiality, but also to the Lord’s House every year to pay a technology royalties, such a good thing can not be given for nothing.
Of course, if they develop new technologies and techniques on their own, they don’t need to pay this fee.
Paul can’t wait for his territory to emerge a wave of invention and creation of fever, for this reason he also in the previous world’s patent system as a template, urging the Council of State to formulate a protection of the interests of the inventor of the “Patent Act”, I believe that soon will be able to improve and issued.
Although the patent system in the past life has all sorts of shortcomings, by a lot of criticism, for example, to a certain extent, weaken the role of market regulation, limit the competition, in a sense, hinder the progress of technology, hinder the widespread use of inventions, and even lead to the emergence of a number of patent speculation hooligans.
However, the patent system in general has more advantages than disadvantages, the use of legal and economic means to encourage people to make inventions, in order to promote scientific and technological progress and economic development, which was also an important factor in promoting the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom.
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After the crowd had talked for a while, Paul gave a general overview of the content of the technology authorization, including the obligations to be complied with by the authorized party, as well as the confidentiality provisions of the sensitive technology.
There was no objection in the minds of the people.
On the one hand, being able to obtain the exclusive technology of the lord’s house was already a good thing that fell from the sky, if there was no corresponding payment, they rather suspected that it was a trap.
On the other hand, no one is willing to have too many competitors, the lord asked to prevent the technology outflow, everyone is naturally happy to see.
“Do you all have any comments to make?”
Just now it had been himself who had been speaking, now Paul wanted to hear the opinions of the crowd.
After a moment of silence, someone finally had the audacity to raise their hand.
Paul extended his hand to this person and made the gesture of invitation.
“Lord Gladman ……”
It was Bennett who raised his hand, a little nervous in his mind, after all, it was the first time he had ever spoken one-on-one with the lord of the land.
But he still summoned up the courage to continue, “If we invest in the industry you want to open up, we will need to place sites, buy equipment, and hire workers, all of which are not a small amount of expenses, so could ……”
He paused and finished the latter words in a small voice, “Can …… we reduce or waive a portion of the tax at the initial stage?”
At these words, the lobby was silent.
(End of chapter)