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Chapter 154 Mutual stabbing swords

Many people later criticized the problem of domestic copycats, but what they didn't know is: in the period of the rise of every big country, copycats are the only way to go. The chapters are updated the fastest

It is true that they will value their own patent protection system. But they do not have any pressure on patents belonging to other countries. Even governments at one time encouraged this approach.

Charles Morris, an American economics writer, author of "The Dawn of Innovation: The First Industrial Revolution in the United States" wrote that "if the 19th century America invented a magic telescope that peeked into British factories, they would definitely use it."

What he is talking about is the "counterfeit history" of the United States. The newly established United States was particularly keen on "counterfeit" British textile technology, and in order to strictly prevent it, the United Kingdom set various restrictions.

Early British-US relations were full of undercurrents. Britain not only interfered in the independence of the United States politically, but also imposed economic constraints. The two countries were full of struggles of restrictions and anti-restrictions. In order to prevent the leakage of industrial technology, the British government even took a large number of restrictive measures on people's immigration to the United States.

For example, limiting the number of immigrants carried by ships, explicitly prohibiting craftsmen from immigrating to the Americas, especially textile owners and skilled workers, and later further expanding to prohibiting steel and coal workers from offshore.

In order to prevent the technology from going out, the "Traveler Act" passed by the British Parliament in 1803 further effectively prevented the emigration of craftsmen and industrial workers in economic difficulties from moving to the United States.

At the same time, the British rarely agree that foreigners visit local cotton processing equipment and severely punish theft of steam textile machine design patterns.

The United States was also very direct at that time. Tanch Cox, who was the president of the Philadelphia Manufacturing Association and served as assistant finance minister in the 1790s, set up a bonus system that encouraged the sale of technical secrets and sent spies to the UK to steal machine drawings.

The American Chamber of Commerce and manufacturing owners also tried every means to attract British workers, either sending people to the UK to lobby or publishing job advertisements in British newspapers. They even secretly contacted these skilled workers and technicians, promising all kinds of generous treatment and poaching them to the United States by any means.

Soon, the generous treatment in the United States attracted a key figure. This person was Slater, who was later called "the father of the American textile industry" by the Americans and the British criticized him as a "traitor".

Born in Derbyshire, the British textile town of Derby County, Slater was an apprentice at the partner of Richard Ackerwright, the inventor of the textile machine revolutionizing the British textile industry, and mastered the most advanced textile technology at the time. He learned from the newspaper that the United States was rewarding and funding the development of new textile machines, despite signing a contract of "loyalty to protect trade secrets."

But he still sneaked up on the ships heading to Philadelphia, and then received funding to build factories. More than ten years after that, similar factories were established in Massachusetts and other places. By 1809, 50 cotton mills had started construction in New England and other places at the same time. Slater and others built the earliest mechanical textile empire in the United States.

Andrew Jackson, who was once the president of the United States, later called Slater the "father of the American Industrial Revolution", but the British called him "traitor Slater".

Liang Sanping, who knows these European and American history well, knows that it is pure nonsense to expect British and American companies to play with you. Even if these people sign a contract, it will only be a matter of momentum as long as the benefits are sufficient.

Of course, in modern times, many issues have been considered. They have changed from open to behind the scenes. Or they have developed some so-called "rules" to restrict latecomers.

For example, international patent restrictions, and the most shameless "Convention on the Stolen or Illegal Export of Cultural Relics". The former has a huge technical threshold for later countries, while the latter is to legalize the robbed things.

The most shameless thing is of course the latter. The Convention deliberately limits the retrospective period. Simply put, if this period exceeds this period, the things I robbed will become legal. You have no right to pursue them.

This issue once occurred at the auction of rabbit heads and rat heads in the Old Summer Palace. Although China opposed it without hesitation from the official to the public, the French still held the auction with an indifferent attitude.

The French court even rejected the Chinese lawyers' request to revoke the auction. This caused a huge shock at the time and even caused tensions between the two countries.

In the end, a Chinese collector, Mr. Cai, responded to this shameless behavior by "phoning but not buying". Some people think that this practice has reduced the credibility of the overall Chinese. But more people take it for granted.

Do you want to tell him what credibility when the robbers shamelessly robbed and auctioned your things?! Their credibility has long been thrown to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

"Sanping, now you can say what you are doing when you came to me this time?!" The next morning, Liang Sanping rushed to Qiongzhoukou directly. After waiting for a whole day, he waited for Jiang Li and his plane at around 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

And four famous lawyers from Xiangjiang arrived with Jiang Li. In addition to the assistants of the three lawyers, the group of eight people were quickly taken by Liang Sanping and sent to the guesthouse in the Qingzhoukou.

"The new pesticides developed by the two hospitals in South China have been targeted!" Liang Sanping did not pretentiously and directly spread out to Jiang Li and said, "The Japanese devils. They targeted them!"

Several lawyers found by Jiang Li looked at Liang Sanping strangely. They were still not used to calling Japanese devils. Of course, the people of Xiangjiang have always called blond and blue-eyed foreigners "ghosts".

"Oh~! What kind of potion is it that makes them so concerned about it?!" Jiang Li asked Liang Sanping curiously, and the latter smiled and told him: "Low toxicity, fast degradation, this will be the mainstream requirement of the future pesticide market."

"So far, because of chance, only we have this medicine. The effect of this medicine on vegetables was seen by the Japanese. So they became more thoughtful..."

As soon as Liang Sanping finished speaking, Jiang Li had a mental concept. It was very simple. The Japanese are now squatting in Baoting. They need to test the vegetable project. So it is not difficult to see the problem from that.

Jiang Li also knew about the conflict between Liang Sanping and the Japanese before. At that time, the Japanese side wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of local contracts to oppress Liang Sanping to make concessions to them or purchase their pesticides.

Of course, they would definitely slap Liang Sanping hard in terms of price. Unfortunately, Liang Sanping didn't take this opportunity at all. Jiang Li was worried about Liang Sanping at that time, but he didn't expect that the two hospitals of South China developed this kind of medicine in a blink of an eye.

"In 1978, the total global pesticide consumption was US$8.7 billion, and by 1979, this figure increased to US$9.8 billion. It increased by 12.6%! It is also worth it for the Japanese to be moved."

Liang Sanping smiled and said to Jiang Li: "It's me, I'm also tempted. Even if I can't eat the entire market after winning this project, as long as I can eat 30% and maintain it for ten years, the profit will be very considerable!"

Jiang Li has seen the world, but Liang Sanping couldn't help but feel dizzy when talking about the value of this market. The billions of dollars in the market every year are enough to make countless people rob it.

"Sanping... let alone them, even I am moved..." Jiang Li said with a wry smile. But Jiang Li said no matter how hard he said, he would not have any thoughts.

He knew that some money would kill people if he was involved. Like him, the lawyers present also thought so. At the same time, their eyes looked at Liang Sanping differently.

When they first came, they were a little confused about how Jiang Li brought him and others to this place? Indeed, Qiongdao didn't think that this was a place where patent applications might occur.

But just like that, the monster Liang Sanping appeared here. If these lawyers had not clearly known Jiang Li's identity and Jiang Li also introduced them to Liang Sanping's identity, they even thought Liang Sanping was just bragging.

"Come on! This is our patent information. Please ask all the lawyers to take a look." As he said that, Liang Sanping smiled and took out documents from his bag and handed them over to the lawyers present.

"I believe it's been a hard time for you to come today, so let's have a rest in Qiongzhoukou today. We will take you to visit Qiongdao tomorrow." But Liang Sanping said with a smile: "It's rare to come to Qiongdao, it's a pity not to walk around."

Several lawyers were very professional and kept refusing to say that they would finish the work they had to travel first, but they could not resist Liang Sanping's enthusiasm. They had to promise to go to Wenchang, not far from Qiongzhoukou, to play for one day tomorrow.

But tonight, they have to review the application report overnight. In order to increase the approval rate, Jiang Li couldn't help but laugh when he heard Liang Sanping's words. These lawyers are also people with status and status in Xiangjiang.

If they have fun in Qiongdao, then they will be an excellent publicity for Qiongdao after they go back. At the same time, this can also promote Li Jiacheng's consideration of Qiongdao tourism development.

After all, the inspection team is just an inspection, and the statement that someone said after going and playing around is completely different. At least it can be used as a good reference.

At this time, Dadao walked into the office building of the provincial party committee in northern Guangdong Province with confidence. What he was going to meet today was an important figure in northern Guangdong Province. Of course, he could not see the boss of northern Guangdong Province.

What he could see was the person of the Zhaoshang Group, which is now extremely active in northern Guangdong. This enterprise, founded by Li Hongzhang himself in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, was the most active in northern Guangdong at this time. (To be continued...)
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