Gold is Justice

After a moment of silence... or rather, after confronting her own conscience for a while, she finally decided to stand on the side of her useless conscience and said——

"That way, it's okay to just do it in the border provinces, but if we want to go to other provinces and cities to make money in provinces like Tianhong Province or Diliao Province, then the amount of funds we hold is definitely not enough .Not to mention... I don't want to use this method every time, it's a bit too hurtful."

Rich was a little curious and asked, "It's unreasonable? If we go to make money, what will be unreasonable?"

Ariel exhaled, and immediately, she tried to briefly talk about the concept of dumping.The representative of the chamber of commerce understood immediately, and immediately showed an expression of appreciation.The Viscounts Norris and Rich, who were next to them, understood it not too late. After a few dials, they immediately opened their mouths and looked at each other as if they had discovered a new world!I'm afraid they didn't realize until now that there is such an easy way to make money in this world.

"But these methods are not suitable for other provinces. Because we don't have that much money, we don't have that many goods. Tianhong Province and Diliao Province are much richer in materials than us, and there are many towns and villages. It is easy to circulate, and it is only a dream to rely on this method to harvest their wealth."

After Ariel finished speaking, she took a sip of the water on the table, leaned on the chair with the glass in her arms, and stopped talking.

Although she is only telling the truth, but speaking on the side of conscience, it really feels good~~~

Afterwards, Viscount Rich fell into a brief silence, and suddenly said: "The supplies are not enough... Then President Ariel, if we say that our supplies are sufficient, then it will be fine? In this case, your textile Can't the factory make a lot of clothes? If you tell us the production method of the textile factory, we will also use the funds in hand to open the textile factory, and the production department will have more and more materials! This way, it will be fine. ?"

When talking about profitable business, Viscount Rich seemed to react a little faster than Viscount Norris over there.

The Viscount Norris also had a clear look on his face now, nodded and said: "That's right! President Ariel, please tell us quickly, how did that textile factory make it? That machine! That looks like Very powerful machine! We can work together!"

Facing these two nobles whose minds are full of money, Ariel will not compromise so easily.She raised her hand, slapped the table hard, and hummed: "Here you are? You two must have thought too well, right? The elemental machine is a technology that we Song of the Mermaid have developed with great difficulty, and it has been obtained by the royal family. Guarantee! You two, now you want me to give you the method of making the elemental machine so easily? Let you make money, so what do I earn?"

The corner of Norris's mouth couldn't help twitching, and he wanted to make trouble immediately, but when he saw that Brad beside Ariel was staring at him, the scolding sound that reached his throat had to be retracted for a while.

Viscount Rich on the side thought for a while, clapped his hands, and said with a look of awakening: "Viscount Norris, this is your fault."

Norris pointed to his nose: "Am I still wrong?"

Viscount Rich nodded vigorously, and said: "Of course it's wrong. You think the two of us directly asked President Ariel for the method of making the element machine. This matter is very simple, and then the two of us expanded our production capacity, and the output directly exceeded President Ariel. Maybe you will feel very good."

"But don't you think about it the other way around? The elemental machine has not been promoted before, because those people in the Magic Association and the Holy See do not want this kind of thing to be promoted. However, if we also develop the elemental machine together , has produced a large amount of clothes and cloth, so the effect of the elemental machine will not be promoted?"

"In this way, can you guarantee that other people will not come to our side to make trouble? If there are richer nobles with higher titles who want to come to ask for our elemental mechanism manufacturing method, they will make money by themselves, what do you think? Should we give it or not?"

After being said by Viscount Rich, Viscount Norris' anger that was still in his heart suddenly cooled down by half.He thought for a while, and this is true, then he said: "Element machine... is it a very complicated craft?"

Ariel exhaled, feeling that if she really wanted to lie about such things, it would be easy to be exposed, and she simply said truthfully: "The production of the elemental machine is not difficult, but the design is difficult. As long as there are no defects in the design, then according to Design drawings can easily make a suitable elemental machine."

Viscount Rich nodded, and said, "In this case... Then President Ariel, what conditions do you think you have to use to give us the design of the elemental machine?"

Ariel thought for a moment, then made up her mind, and said——

"I do have a method. I can give you the design method of the loom element machine. However, we need to sign a contract."

As soon as he heard about signing a contract with this female president, Viscount Norris felt that his head was a little big.But in order to be able to continue talking, he still asked: "Sign... what contract?"

Ariel thought for a while and said: "I think, although it is not difficult to make a textile machine according to the design drawings, the difficulty lies in the drawing of the design drawings. In this case, can the design drawings themselves be sold for money? Just It's like the map of the Sleeping Mine that I drew before."

Viscount Rich: "You mean... you want us to buy it with money?"

Ariel: "Actually, there is a little difference. I hope you can admit that even if I gave you the blueprints, you still have to believe that the original designer of the blueprints was Song of the Mermaid, and not designed by you yourself."

A strange expression appeared on Viscount Rich's face: "There's nothing wrong with it, but what's the point?" Ariel continued: "The point is, I hope I can have an exclusive copy of this design. The rights of Song of the Mermaid. Let’s call it a “patent” for abbreviation. We, Song of the Mermaid, have absolute control over this design. If you want to use it, I can “lease” this patent to you During the period of leasing this patent, you need to give me a fixed patent royalty every period of time.”

For Ariel's idea, Rich, who seemed to agree very much just now, now has a look of displeasure, and said, "Why is it so troublesome? It doesn't need to be so troublesome, right?"

However, Viscount Norris, who seemed a little anxious just now, pinched his chin and thought about it, and then said: "You mean...you want to protect your patent? And what you mean by protecting the patent is ...If someone uses the same design and structure as the elemental machine to make other elemental machines without your consent, or without the consent of us who have rented your patent, can we rush to ask them for money? "

Ariel reached out her hand, nodded to Norris over there, and said with a smile: "You are so smart. Of course, this is just a small idea I just came up with, and there may be many, many key details that I haven't grasped well. For example, what kind of design is considered to use the design of our element machine? If others don't want to steal the patent, what method should we use? Just drawing up this contract is probably a big project. .”

Norris exhaled and said, "It's okay, I can let my civil servants draft it. It's just...Miss Ariel, it's okay for you to say that this patent belongs to you, but I think this time is not right. Should there be a deadline?"

"the term?"

At that moment, Ariel instinctively became alert.

After a little silence, the guild leader immediately showed a smile on his face, and said slowly, "Deadline... what does this mean?"

Viscount Norris nodded, and said, "It means that although we admit that you Mermaid Song have the exclusive rights to this design, I don't think this right should be permanent, right?"

He turned his head, looked at the Viscount Rich next to him and said, "The Song of the Mermaid should only have the exclusive right to it for a certain period of time. However, after a period of time, it may be a year or two, or it may be ten years. Years and eight years. After this period of time, maybe this blueprint should no longer belong to the rights of Song of the Mermaid itself, but should belong to the right that everyone can use casually, right?"

The first thousand and 170 nine chapters are the restrictions on making money?

For this request, Ariel felt a little baffled!

But more, she was wary of the greed of Viscount Norris!

She chuckled and said, "Your Excellency, your request... is a little too much, right? You think, the blueprint was designed by our guild. Since it was designed by our guild, why don't you set it up for us?" Time? You can’t say that if you build a house, after a while the house will become accessible to anyone, can you?”

Obviously, it was impossible for Ariel to agree to this request.You know, if you can permanently hold this patent right, it means that you can live on the patent right forever!Even in the future, there is no need to develop anything by yourself, and you can make a huge profit by simply lending the patent right. This is a huge profit!

Now, the lord of Xiehu City wants to give up the right to make money while lying down?what!It's a joke!

As for Ariel's rejection now, Norris obviously expected it long ago.He was not annoyed, but continued to say——

"President Ariel, of course I know what you are thinking now, and I understand why you think so. But for the sake of long-term planning, I still advise you to accept such conditions."

Ariel responded to this request with a smile on her face: "Why? I don't want to give it, does anyone else want to grab it?"

Hearing Ariel's words, Brad next to him immediately raised his shoulders, showing an absolute sense of oppression.

To be honest, when Ariel proposed this patent right, she thought that there might be some people who would not be willing to pay.Therefore, in order to ensure that her patent will not be abused, and to ensure that all people who use the element machine will pay the money into her pocket, she has long thought about what to do if someone refuses to pay back the money.

Apart from other things, she now has hundreds of vampires under her command.When encountering those guys who want to steal their own elemental machine design and make pirated copies, sending a vampire every night can solve this problem.

Well, if you think about it this way, it still feels very cool to have a strong combat power in your hands~~~!

"President Ariel, it's not that I want to grab it hard. It's for the better development of things like elemental machines."

Viscount Norris folded his arms and said slowly——

"Do you think that once the efficacy of your elemental machine proves to have a strong transcendence, no one in this world will create a better elemental machine based on it?"

Asked by Norris, the smile on Ariel's face suddenly froze.

Norris continued: "Can you guarantee that your guild is always the smartest? Will you always have the best talents gathered in your guild to create more amazing changes for the development of elemental machines? If you really have such self-confidence, then treat me as nothing to say."

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Of course Ariel couldn't have such confidence!

You know, the original source of the elemental machine is the Origin Guild.

To be more precise, it was made by the president of the Origin Guild.Although Tesla is also a member of the Origin Guild and can draw design drawings, he is not the one who actually created the Elemental Machine.He was at best a reformer.

In this world, it is not very difficult to evolve from 1 to 2, or even to 10, to 100, to 1000.At most it is a matter of time.

What is really difficult is to highlight the most precious 0 from the 1 that has nothing.

Therefore, once the design concept of the elemental machine is made public, it is really difficult to guarantee whether someone from the outside world will create a more efficient elemental machine through these production methods, thereby replacing the elemental machine of Song of the Mermaid.

Thinking that your most important money-making machine will be replaced one day in the future?This made the smile on Ariel's face completely disappear, and her brows could not help but wrinkle.

"What you mean...I see."

Ariel had already given up the defensive posture she had just had.She crossed her fingers, put them on the table, and after thinking patiently for a moment, said——

"You want me to set a deadline so that other people who can make more powerful elemental machines can't control this power forever, don't you? For example...you are planning for yourself, want to Take that patent out of my hands for a while, won't you?"

Norris was not sloppy either. The tall and thin city lord smiled slightly, nodded, and continued: "Actually, President Ariel, don't think I'm targeting you. I think it's a good idea to set a deadline for patents." It’s a good way for you, me, and everyone. Within the time limit, as long as someone uses the design of your elemental machine, you will be paid. But because there is a time limit, this can be forced You keep improving the blueprints within deadlines, creating more and more patents."

Ariel chuckled, and said with a sneer: "Yes, at the same time, it can also make the patents made by others not arbitrary, and spread out after a while. Viscount Norris, in order to be able to take away the patent right from me , you really can come up with this so-called 'mutual progress' rhetoric."

The city lord just smiled slightly, noncommittal.

Although on the bright side, Ariel felt that she might be a little fooled.But on second thought, putting a time limit on patent rights might not be all bad.

If you want to set a patent right, then if someone uses the elemental machine design of Mermaid Song in the future, you will have to give Mermaid Song money.But think about it carefully, how can Song of the Mermaid prove that the other party's design was copied from Song of the Mermaid?

In this case, it is necessary to publish the elemental machine design of Song of the Mermaid, and then compare it with the opponent's elemental machine design.Only in this way can it be confirmed that the other party is plagiarized and can be held accountable.

So in this way, it is necessary to announce the elemental machine design of Song of the Mermaid like everyone from the beginning, and tell everyone that such a set of designs is unique to Song of the Mermaid, and no one else can make this type of machine. Element machine.

Next, change your thinking. If someone is smarter, then maybe they can design a better elemental machine by seeing the design of the song of the mermaid!

In the same way, those elemental machines with better designs, in order to avoid being abused by others, also need to apply for patents, and their design drawings must also be published.

In this way, Song of the Mermaid... Can't I, as well as Tesla, also see those design drawings and get inspiration for making better elemental machines?

If you think about it this way, the publication and time limit of the patent right does a little damage to yourself, but in the long run, it seems to be a good thing.

At least, you can have a guarantee when your own elemental machine will be less competitive one day in the future.

Thinking about it this way, Ariel felt for a while that imposing a time limit on patents didn't seem so unacceptable.

At that moment, she finally nodded, exhaled, and said: "In this case, in principle, I agree to set a time limit for the patent right. But I think this time limit should be set at least 20 years."

The Viscount Rich was stunned: "20 years? So long? Do I have to keep paying you for 20 years?"

Viscount Norris over there also frowned, shook his head, and said, "President Ariel, 20 years is too long. I think five years is enough. Five years, you can also use it Patents make a lot of money."

Now Ariel shook her head resolutely, and said: "You think 20 years is too long, but five years is too short, right? According to you, the design of the elemental machine has been designed this year, and my textile factory The first factory has just been built, and it is far from a massive expansion. Five years? This is such a short period of time, it means that after designing a new elemental machine, you have to start working hard before you can make money. Thinking about the next elemental machine, so will anyone want to work hard to research the new elemental machine?"

Having said these words, the two Viscounts Norris and Rich looked at each other, and it seemed that it was not easy to refute for a while.

At this time, the representative of the Chamber of Commerce next to him said, "In this case, how about a compromise? Ten years. If it is ten years, then Song of the Mermaid can use this patent to make money, and it can also guarantee that there will be some money in the middle." A period of time is too much. Besides, if the replacement speed of the elemental machine is fast enough, it will not be possible for you to continue to use this original elemental machine."

Ten years later, the two viscounts on both sides looked at each other again, and then looked at Ariel.

After thinking for a while, Ariel nodded and said: "Okay, ten years is ten years. The nature of the patent right is ten years from the design and production of a real elemental machine. During these ten years, the elemental The design drawings of the machine belong to the designer and cannot be violated by others.”

This result seems to be a compromise.

Viscount Rich next to him let out a breath, but then he frowned again, and said, "The problem of the patent has been solved...but...if Song of the Mermaid really publishes the design drawings, people in other provinces really What should I do if someone counterfeit it? It doesn’t matter if it is in the border province, we can intervene. But if such pirated guys appear in Tianhong Province or Diliao Province, we can’t send people to catch them Bar?"

"I can find a way to solve this matter."

Viscount Rich breathed out and said slowly——

"Actually, it's not been a day or two since I wanted to set up patent rights. You should know that Tianhe City is used for breeding, right? The Tianhe pig we raise can be regarded as an exquisite delicacy."

"However, after I have been in charge of Tianhe City for the past year, I discovered that it is precisely because the pigs in Tianhe City are so famous that counterfeit products are not uncommon. Many provinces sell counterfeit Tianhe City's pork. Some cities or small towns go too far. , directly began to imitate Tianhe City’s breeding model for Tianhe pigs, and even directly sent people into Tianhe City’s pork farms to go undercover, and after learning a full set of techniques, they copied a farm completely.”

The viscount also looked very ugly. He touched the table in front of him with his hand, as if he wanted to push down all the protrusions on the table, and continued——

"This situation made me very embarrassed, so when I went to Hanhai City this time, I also chatted with some city owners who also produced local products. Among them, there happened to be a few city owners who were located in Tianhong Province and Diliao Province. Some of their cities are rich in porcelain, some are good at ironware, and some are good at making saddles and other things. As long as your brand is well-known, there will definitely be counterfeit problems.”

"Therefore, taking this opportunity, I also want to directly promote the matter of patents. I will contact those city owners who have also suffered from the theft of such local products and sign an agreement with each other. As long as it is If there are counterfeit products between each other’s towns, the local towns will cooperate with the pirated cities for no reason to crack down on those counterfeit vendors.”

"In this way, the phenomenon of piracy in several other cities should have a very good suppressing effect."