Chapter 825: Appropriate Cooling

Something that shocked everyone happened just like that.

The Patent Right for the Coal Ball Stove was finally auctioned off to Tang Feng of the Jingchu Chamber of Commerce for the price of 58 million taels of silver!

Once this price was announced, the entire venue was in an uproar.

Nearly sixty million taels!

What kind of concept is this?

If converted according to the exchange rate between ancient silver and modern currency, this would be equivalent to 30 billion!

Is it worth it?

Many people might think this is crazy.

But Liu Zheng did not think it was a loss.

Tang Feng would not think it was a loss either.

At this historical moment when the Little Ice Age is set to continue for nearly another two hundred years, the appearance of the Coal Ball Stove will absolutely become the mainstream heating equipment for the Longyan Dynasty moving forward.

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If this market were monopolized, it would certainly be quite terrifying.

In the Liaodong that followed, people all went crazy.

Liu Zheng established a department in Liaodong specifically responsible for the application and protection of Patent Rights.

The Patent Department.

Furthermore.

Pricing power.

What Tang Feng had his eyes on was pricing power!

First, he worried that the imperial court would think he was monopolizing certain industries; this matter is too sensitive. Once a monopoly appears, it is still very taboo in a feudal dynasty.

Second, Longyan is an absolute feudal dynasty, an official-oriented society where everyone emphasizes getting rich together and making money in harmony. In Longyan, there is no soil for protecting Patent Rights.

Therefore, he could only bring it to Liaodong to experiment.

The Patent Department is subordinate to the Commercial Department, so as long as it involves patent matters, they are all commercial activities and economic activities. Yet behind it, there are violent organs protecting their rights and interests. This is actually something Liu Zheng has always wanted to do in Longyan.

But he did not dare.

There are two reasons.

Sure enough.

Liu Zheng's Patent Department ignited Liaodong, which was in the midst of this icy, snowy world, all at once.

Whether it was these merchants or the local men.

That is correct.

In Liu Zheng's heart, Liaodong had already become a testing ground for freedom, handling special matters with special procedures, loose policies, or in other words, policy progressiveness.

This was the power Xie Tianyao gave him, and he cherished it very much.

But he always felt that the power of the common people was truly infinite.

Especially in this era.

What he wanted to mobilize was the subjective initiative of these people in Liaodong.

One by one, they went crazy, bringing out their own "inventions" and creative ideas.

Admittedly.

Liu Zheng has his own scientific research institutions.

"Crazy, how much silver? How much silver?"

In Jinghua.

Get heated up.

Get playing.

Get crazy.

Three years!

All of a sudden, people were stunned.

The people who were previously impeaching Liu Zheng were all dumbfounded one by one.

When people heard this news, they could not sit still one by one.

A tiny Coal Ball Stove, and the Patent Right sold for 60 million?

Before this, that was the Longyan Dynasty's fiscal revenue for three years!

News had already been sent back from Liaodong: this time, the 50 million taels of silver the imperial court lost due to the tea trade would be compensated in full by Liu Zheng! This also meant that the matter of the tea trade officially fell onto Liu Zheng's head.

Crazy.

People in Jinghua found it hard to understand.

At the morning court session the next day, they were even seized upon by Xie Tianyao and given a sound scolding.

Vice Minister Liu is incompetent?

Could it be that you are competent?

Can you really recover it?

Evil cult!

No!

One by one, they began to curse this wealthy man from Jingchu. They even began to suspect whether these wealthy men had all been brainwashed by Liu Zheng.

Sixty million

Throwing so much money into it.

In just a few short days, Tang Feng also received many letters of "concern" from others.

Some were concernedly asking if he had been coerced by Vice Minister Liu, and if there was some unspeakable reason. Others were sarcastic, asking if Head Tang was just burning his money.

Of course, this was the mild stuff.

They must have been coerced, or brainwashed by a cult!

These people still did not let go of any opportunity to impeach and suspect Liu Zheng.

Was it worth it?

Tang Feng felt it was worth it.

But right now, he was still wearing a worried look.

Some people in their letters were just straight-up cursing.

Are you pig-brained?

Sixty million, just to buy a patent? This invisible and intangible thing, is it worth it?

The Eleventh Prince and other chambers of commerce had argued until they were red in the face over the Patent Right for the Coal Ball Stove. Tang Feng was finally pushed to the edge, waved his hand, and shouted: "Fifty-eight million!"

After the hammer fell, he felt a bit of regret.

Fifty-eight million.

Why?

Because he had no money left.

During the auction that day, he had truly gotten a bit carried away.

The production of the Coal Ball Stove could absolutely not be supported by a small sum, including the transport of coal, the transport of coal dust, the refining of steel, and so on and so forth.

In an instant.

This Head Tang, who had been throwing money around just a few days ago, became a laughingstock.

This had been his entire fortune; when those Silver Notes were handed over, he was left penniless.

Which is to say, he now only had this patent in his hands.

Nearly sixty million thrown away, and not even a sound to show for it.

This bunch of people actually wanted to use an extremely low price to take away half of his equity!

Are you joking?

"Sir, this Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has already offered the most."

"Hahahaha, Head Tang, are you sure you won't cooperate with our Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce? The bitter winter is almost over, you know."

At this moment, Tang Feng had just sent away another wealthy merchant who wanted to cooperate.

How ruthless!

The steward and a group of his subordinates looked at each other, their faces showing their dilemma.

That is how the saying goes

But they really had no money left!

The steward beside him smiled bitterly.

Tang Feng was exasperated: "No, absolutely not! This Coal Ball Stove must be held firmly in our hands! No one is allowed to touch it!"

"But..."

Then.

Following that, he also felt resentment toward that Vice Minister Liu.

Swindler!

More importantly, others were right; the New Year was almost here. Once spring arrived, would there still be a market for this Coal Ball Stove? Any market activity relies on cash being king; if they couldn't seize this wave of the bitter winter to at least earn back their capital, it was feared that the entire Jingchu Chamber of Commerce would find it hard to hold on.

He had been impulsive.

Although others didn't say it, in their hearts, they still held opinions against Tang Feng.

Liu Zheng had been very busy these days.

At the Patent Department, people had been coming and going these days, and the threshold was almost being trampled flat.

All sorts of bizarre inventions and creations were being brought in.

They even began to suspect that this Liaodong Economic Special Zone was just a big scam he had cooked up!

Just to harvest them, these wealthy merchants, like leeks!

Liu Zheng had indeed not expected the scene to be this crazy before.

He felt something was a bit off.

It seemed as if he had turned the patent into a commodity used for speculation.

And at the Patent Department, there was a group of wealthy merchants who, these days, ignored beautiful women, ignored fine wine, and didn't even play at animal fighting; they just squatted here every day, waiting to acquire patents.

They were crazy.

They were indeed all crazy.

He needed to regulate the patent market.

To cool it down appropriately.

By the way.

Many chaotic phenomena were appearing frequently.

This was not his original intention.

So he came over to take charge himself.

And to make preparations for the upcoming measures.

Consequently.

Once the Liaodong Economic Special Zone Patent Law was issued.

Everyone was in an uproar.