Chapter 482 Patent Act

After the ceremony of crowning the king, Richard re-adjusted the government departments. ơɱWhen Richard was a vassal of the Kingdom of Roger, he had almost no autonomy in diplomacy. Now that he wore the crown, he immediately set up a diplomatic department.

Richard, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, appointed Jonathan, a landless nobleman of the East Coast United Kingdom, who had secretly defected to the Harland Territory for seven or eight years.

Jonathan himself is eloquent, proficient in aristocratic etiquette, and has an extraordinary ability to deal with people. He is very suitable to act as an envoy, coordinate conflicts, and participate in negotiations.

After a long period of observation, Jonathan has gained Richard's trust. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Harland, he took advantage of the institutional adjustment to take a high position and became a heavyweight civil servant in Harland Territory.

On the Dawn Plane, from the Holy Glorious Empire to the Eastern Countries, the bureaucratic system is relatively simple. After all, the social development is in a semi-feudal and semi-slave society, and the management system naturally does not need to be too troublesome.

There is no diplomatic department in the major kingdoms. Even the Holy Glorious Empire has only one permanent diplomatic envoy, who is directly responsible to Edward VII.

Other countries mainly rely on the king's attendants to handle diplomatic affairs.

There is no diplomatic department in the government system, and diplomatic activities are mainly handled by envoys sent by the monarch, which is very arbitrary and very irregular.

In view of this situation, after a long period of thinking, Richard decided to establish a diplomatic department. Compared with traditional kingdom envoys, the management authority of the diplomatic department of Harland is relatively complicated.

Jonathan served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, taking full charge, and took over part of the task of receiving foreign guests on behalf of Richard, and had greater decision-making power in the direction of diplomacy.

Stevens Hogan was transferred from the intelligence system and promoted to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for managing part of the foreign intelligence authority and commanding the military attachés of the intelligence system.

Thompson was transferred from the business system to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for business affairs, mainly dealing with troubles such as commodity competition.

Jonsto was also transferred from the legal department to serve as the third Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for studying the surrounding situation, strategic security, analyzing major issues such as politics, economy, religion, and culture, and providing strategies for diplomatic decision-making.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a department that Richard attaches great importance to. The Minister is a natural member of the cabinet. Most of the external affairs of the Kingdom of Harland, whether big or small, are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under Richard's personal attention, it immediately sent missions to the Kingdom of Grant and the Grand Duchy of Stannic.

The missions are stationed in the capitals of the two countries and have more than 100 members including ambassadors, counselors, and military attachés. Richard also ordered the intelligence department to hand over part of the intelligence force to the diplomatic attachés.

In recent years, before the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Harland established several departments such as taxation, civil affairs, and finance to gradually standardize the government's management.

The establishment of a new department requires a large number of officials to be transferred and recruited. For a traditional kingdom, it may be difficult to recruit and transfer a thousand bureaucrats in a short period of time, but for Harland, it is relatively simple.

After all, Harland has been running education for nearly 30 years, and nearly 100,000 graduates are trained every year.

Harland primary school students can read and write official documents, are proficient in four arithmetic operations, have certain geography and history knowledge, and have received simple military training. After five years of education, in addition to extraordinary knowledge, their cultural quality is almost comparable to that of small nobles. As long as they are trained for a period of time, they can serve as basic bureaucrats.

In the current Kingdom of Harland, academic qualifications have depreciated severely. If you want to pass the civil service exam, you need to overcome many difficulties, especially civil servants in departments directly under the cabinet, who must be carefully selected. Middle school students are very rare, and elementary school graduates cannot even meet the recruitment threshold.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Richard also allocated special funds to require the diplomatic department to establish a diplomatic academy to slowly train diplomatic personnel.

Because the internal preparations had been made, after Richard was crowned king, there was no chaos in the Kingdom of Harland. The cabinet was renamed the State Council, and Roger still served as the Prime Minister of the State Council, the highest official in the government system.

Under the State Council, there are eight major departments: finance, foreign affairs, civil affairs, railways, taxation, transportation, health, and education. The ministers of these eight departments are all members of the government.

There are nine provinces under the cabinet, namely the Central Bank Province, Black River Province, Vera Province, Grota Province, Eagle Province, East Coast Province, Anis Province, Prilan Province, and Rex Province.

Rex Province is the Dukedom of Rex. This province is the core of the former East Coast United Kingdom. It has 280,000 square kilometers of land. Even if Richard relocated some serfs, the total population is still nearly 12 million.

Although Rex Province was established not long ago, it is the core territory of Harland. Although Richard named this land after his second son, Rex, he was unwilling to give this land to his second son.

At first, Richard wanted to give the East Coast Province to Rex, but as the situation developed, the strength of the Harland family increased greatly. Now Richard is more inclined to give the territory of the Red Moon Plane to his second son, and he doesn't know if he is willing to agree.

The province of Prilan was also a province that was established not long ago. Its territory was very vast, nearly 200,000 square kilometers. Although Richard spent a lot of effort to immigrate, and with the hereditary nobles in northern Prilan, the population barely exceeded one million. Although this province had a train, a large area of ​​land had not been developed, and it could only be barely self-sufficient, and its economic development mainly relied on agriculture.

The province of Annes was also established relatively recently. This province was the former Dukedom of Jonathan. Because Richard drove away the legendary dragon, the province of Annes expanded a large territory to the north, covering a total area of ​​160,000 square kilometers. Although the Jonathan family migrated a large number of people before the exchange of territories, Richard also immigrated to this province in large numbers, and the population has returned to its peak, about 1.2 million.

The East Coast Province has been established for many years. It has successively established three coastal port cities: Xinghui, Xiaguang, and Haikou. Relying on the three coastal port cities, it has developed inland and established dozens of strongholds. As the Harland Territory defeated the orcs and pushed the border to the north, the area of ​​​​the province increased by 30,000 square kilometers, with an area of ​​270,000 square kilometers, but the population was only about 700,000.

Generally speaking, the land is vast and sparsely populated. Because the land reclamation period is relatively short, this province cannot even be self-sufficient in food and needs support from the provinces of Heihe and Annes.

In the past ten years, the Eagle Province has received a lot of financial support and has experienced very rapid development. The province covers an area of ​​120,000 square kilometers and is divided into three counties and more than a dozen counties. Due to favorable factors such as the opening of the railway around the Eagle Mountain Range and the successful development of Snow Crystal Lake, the population of Eagle Province has exceeded two million.

Eagle Province has a strong foundation and can directly support the development of Puliland Province.

After defeating the orcs, the area of ​​Grotta Province increased by nearly 60,000 square kilometers. Including the fiefdom returned by Sutton, the total area of ​​​​the province already reached 180,000 square kilometers. Although Richard did not invest much in Grotta Province, the total population of this province also increased to 1.4 million.

The Black River Province is a densely populated area in the Harland Territory. Although it is relatively small, with only 80,000 square kilometers of land, it has been developed by the Grant royal family for many years, and Richard moved many factories. The population is very dense, and it is divided into three There are more than twenty counties, and the total population has exceeded four million.

The central province is the core of the Harland Territory, with more than 60 counties in seven counties: Harland, Losa Basin, Salt Lake, Nanlu County, Forest County, and Martins County. Although it is the smallest area, only 80,000 square kilometers, it is the most densely populated area in Harland, with a population of 4.6 million.

The province of Vera was formed by the merger of the two former duchies of Edward and Fox. It covers an area of ​​180,000 square kilometers and is divided into four counties and more than a dozen counties. This province has been developed for many years by the Edward and Fox families, and its total population has increased to 2.3 million.

The nine major provinces of the Harland Kingdom add up to a total area of ​​1.54 million square kilometers and a total population of approximately 29.2 million.

After nearly thirty years of development, the country established by Richard has a territory equal to that of the Lion Kingdom, but has a population of 14 million less than the Lion Kingdom.

Because it is a new country, the power of the hereditary nobles in the Kingdom of Harland is not strong, and the total population they control is less than 1.2 million. The population directly controlled by the central government exceeds 28 million.

After the founding of the country, Richard already had the authority to canonize great nobles.

The first is Sutton. Although Sutton does not like secular territory, Richard still immediately conferred Sutton as a duke and regarded Elf Mystic Lock as his fief.

Then there is Viscount Luomen, whose meritorious service is enough for promotion. After more than a hundred years of struggle, he finally achieved a class jump and was promoted to the great aristocracy.

Because the Luomen family's fiefdoms were very scattered, Richard specially ordered to adjust them and plan the territories together as much as possible to facilitate their management.

The third great nobleman is his uncle Thoros. Thoros has made military exploits in the red moon plane this year, which is perfect for merging his family's territory into an earldom.

Although the eldest cousin Kent and the second cousin Morgan were separated for many years and were not very happy about merging their territories together, under Soros's strong request, they had no choice but to give in to their father and hand over the territories they had managed for many years and merge them into one count. collar.

After all, the big nobles speak far better than the small nobles.

The remaining Jennings, Wilde and others did not have enough merit to be promoted to the great aristocracy.

After distributing meritorious services and canonizing meritorious officials, the Kingdom of Harland gradually got on the right track, and Richard also began to adjust the laws and regulations in the territory. ,

In the past, in order to keep technology confidential, Leader Harland formulated many harsh laws. Even if there is no evidence, the security and intelligence departments have the right to kill people as long as they are close to secret-related departments.

Although this law delayed the time of technical leaks, it caused the death of many innocent people. As the situation developed, Richard revoked this decree from the source.

Although this kind of exclusive law has good effects, in the long run, it will cause endless disasters. This law does not respect human rights, and does not even have human rights. Naturally, it cannot bring the people back to their hearts.

If Richard wants to build an industrial society, he must create a social environment that is conducive to industrial development. To build this social environment, laws and ideas need to be adjusted. Not only does the top management need to make good plans, but the subjective initiative of the lower levels must also be brought into play.

After abolishing the bad laws, Richard decided to introduce patent laws.

In the past, technological research in the Harland Territory was mainly promoted by official departments. The territory's economic model was similar to the planned economy, with scientific research institutes and state-owned enterprises being the centers of technological research.

Technology research and development also relies on financial allocations. After successful research and development, it is basically handed over to the enterprise free of charge. These state-owned enterprises are also monopolies, and technology is basically difficult to circulate. In fact, patent laws are not needed.

On the contrary, the Magic Research Department, although there is no patent law, has similar rules.

Harland Territory magicians often write papers after making research results. If you want to read the papers, you must pay contribution points. The contribution points are divided equally between the Harland Territory Mage Association and the magicians.

The contribution points of the Harland Territory Mage Association are very useful. They can not only be exchanged for magic crystals, but also used to read papers.

Contribution points are required to exchange magic potions, super magic metals, and magic plants. Even participating in magician seminars requires contribution points. Within the framework of the Harland Mage Association, contribution points are more precious than magic crystals.

With the development of the economy, the contribution of the private sector has become more and more important. Big capitalists such as Odaye and Immorton already have large-scale research departments under their hands. With the gradual advent of the market economy, the introduction of the Patent Act has become imperative.

The introduction of the Patent Act is conducive to creating an environment for industrial development. This bill can enable smart people to make a lot of profits through patents and achieve personal class leaps.

Only by enacting laws such as patent protection law and private property protection law, giving capitalists a platform to rise and maintaining a roughly fair social environment, can the desire of capitalists and technical workers to upgrade their classes be stimulated, and a large number of inventions and innovations can be made.

Richard has been operating the territory for 30 years, and the most important task is to create and protect this environment that is conducive to industrial development, so he will constantly inspect the territory, punish corrupt officials, and make the administration as clear as possible.

For 30 years, Richard has established education, vigorously promoted new laws, promoted class mobility, pardoned freemen on a large scale, enacted laws that are conducive to industrial development, and severely dealt with unqualified bureaucrats, thus creating a territory suitable for industrial development and successfully cultivating the special class of capitalists.

Although capitalists such as Odaye and Immorton do not have a high status in Harland Territory and have not yet entered the core layer, Richard will still support them in secret.

It's a pity that there are extraordinary powers in the Dawn Plane, and the gods are the root of everything. Even if the industry develops to the level of Richard's previous life, it cannot compete with the gods.

Ultimately, only industrial development and supernatural power can win in the cruel competition. And magic researchers are the core of the intersection of the two roads.