Chen Xu left, but the bearing factory was filled with joy.

Countless people gathered around Qu Da'an and Maodan to congratulate him, but of course there were more envy, jealousy and hatred.

The old hen turns into a duck when his eyes blink.

The ordinary craftsman and apprentice who were still insignificant yesterday, but today they became the leader of the bearing factory in a blink of an eye.

The supervisor, whose monthly salary is 2,000 coins, and 50 stones of corn is 600 stones a year. The salary is equivalent to the sixth rank county magistrate. This treatment makes many officials of the seventh rank, eighth rank and nineth rank envious.

The manager is in charge and his monthly salary is 1,000 yuan, and he is 300 stones of corn a year, which is similar to the treatment of a ninth-rank official.

Chen Xu said it very clearly that as long as it is improved and innovative invention, it will receive great rewards, and there are two people in front of you as physical references, so it completely ignited the innovation enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the entire factory.

The news soon spread to the entire Academy of Sciences system. Countless craftsmen apprentices were excited, and they rubbed their fists and their palms and their eyes red, swearing to invent something that made the Marquis find useful.

Therefore, in the next whole month, people from the Academy of Sciences and the factory would go to Qinghe Villa to look for Chen Xu every now and then, for example, what had been improved or invented? Anyway, they wanted Chen Xu to see whether these things were useful or not. What if they were fucked by the Marquis?

Therefore, Chen Xu only ran to the factory and the comprehensive laboratory every few days.

Most of these things are useless, but Chen Xu did not attack the enthusiasm of craftsmen and apprentices. As long as he felt that it was useful or could be popularized and practical after further improvement, he would reward some money or verbally praise it to increase his enthusiasm for innovation.

After busy for a while, he couldn't stand it anymore. When was this time? March has passed and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. He is getting lazy to go out. This kind of money-consuming and thankless thing is not what he, a marquis of the Shuangju, should do, and he also neglected his two wives and a concubine at home.

So he found Zhao Qing and asked him to set up a major invention and innovation evaluation committee in the Academy of Sciences. The deputy dean Zhang Cang and the vice dean of the School of Technology Hu Kuan were led by a total of seven masters from various departments. He also set up an invention and innovation reward fund of 500,000 yuan, setting five levels of invention and innovation based on creation, innovation, and improvement. According to the practicality evaluation level, the lowest is 1,000 yuan and the highest is 1,000 yuan.

A first prize of 10,000 yuan is naturally a completely creative invention. For example, the bicycles mentioned by Chen Xu, such as the development of cement, and other new inventions with great practical value, can all be classified into this category, but this prize is bound to be very difficult to get.

The second prize of 7,000 yuan is a major innovation based on real-life equipment. It must have transcendent functions to improve, such as changing the musket into a rifled gun.

The third prize of 5,000 yuan is a major innovation and improvement, and the practicality, stability and safety have been qualitatively improved. For example, the innovation of two types of bearings is not a creation, but this innovation is enough to enhance the bearing to reach a wider practical stage.

The fourth prize of 3,000 yuan is a relatively valuable innovation and improvement, which can significantly improve and improve work efficiency, such as new iron smelting furnaces, new stamping equipment, etc.

The fifth prize of 1,000 yuan is a relatively practical value for innovation and improvement. It may be very small, but it can make the equipment have obvious efficiency improvements. For example, the hand saw that was improved at the beginning, this reward is mainly aimed at practical value rather than innovative value.

These five levels of inventions can be named after the surname of the inventor, and then registered with the Academy of Sciences. In the future, the name of the inventor will be known to the people of the world as they are promoted, and will become the supreme glory that will be passed down to future generations.

As for other smaller innovations and inventions, at most, they can only be registered simply in the Ministry of Works, and appropriate rewards will be given in accordance with the Ministry of Works’ laws for improving ordinary tools.

Looking at the invention and innovation evaluation and reward method proposed by Chen Xu, Zhang Cang and Hu Kuan and a group of masters from the review committee expressed their serious support, but Zhao Qing did not speak with a bitter face.

"Mr. Zhao, do you disagree with this plan?" Chen Xu looked at Zhao Qing and asked in confusion.

"It's not that Qing disagreed with the Marquis' plan, but... it's where did the reward funds be obtained?" Zhao Qing quickly shook his head and explained.

"Yes, Marquis, your rewards will definitely stimulate the enthusiasm of craftsmen and craftsmen to innovate, but you must have some money first. 500,000 is not a small amount. The Academy of Sciences cannot afford such a large amount of money at the moment!" Zhang Cang, as the vice president, also woke up and nodded repeatedly.

The Academy of Sciences is a special government office, known as the Royal Academy of Sciences, and is directly under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu. The Shaofu Order Zhao Wei will definitely not take care of it. Instead, Zhao Qing, the emperor's plenipotentiary representative, has been responsible, and the real boss is Chen Xu himself.

Now the Academy of Sciences has expanded to a terrifying level. From a small courtyard of more than 100 craftsmen, craftsmen have now expanded to seven or eight units including cement factories, iron smelting plants, water wheel mills, blacksmiths workshops, bearing factories, glass factories, and comprehensive laboratories. The number of craftsmen has exceeded 500,000 apprentice workers, and nearly 10,000 prison slaves are used, and the annual expenses are more than 10,000 stones of grain. This is just grain and salary. If daily consumption of copper, iron, ore, coal, etc. is added, the expenses will be at least one million yuan.

The expenses are large but the income is low, and basically they are mainly based on research, especially iron smuggling plants, blacksmith workshops and comprehensive laboratories. They are busy every day, but in fact they only consume but no output. Only glass factories and bearing factories can really make products and sell them for money.

But the glass factory still fails to make ends meet. The ore and coal used to make glass are shipped from other places, but the products produced are not yielded and have limited sales.

The bearing factory is similar. It takes several days to manufacture a pair of bearings that are qualified to reach the practical stage. The yield rate used to be very low, mainly because it is easy to break. After the improvement, both bearings have begun to be produced. A pair of bearings will be sold to the carriage factory to range from 100 to 200 yuan, but the output cannot keep up, and it is necessary to support more than 100 people in the bearing factory. At present, it can only maintain the usual expenses.

The expenses outweigh the income. The Academy of Sciences is now a money-spending basket, and the emperor has been paying money in it.

If the Academy of Sciences had not studied steel and new pawn equipment and cement, such as bridges and road construction, the emperor would have probably removed the Academy of Sciences.

Therefore, lack of money is the biggest problem at the moment.

If it was only 50,000 yuan, Zhao Qing would naturally be able to solve the problem by looking for the Shaofu Order Zhao Wei. After all, the emperor's small treasury was still sufficient. Every time he rewarded the ministers, he would give them tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands or two hundred thousand. But if he said 500,000 yuan, Zhao Wei's head would probably be shaken, especially the fact that he would reward the craftsmen without any reason.

When craftsmen engage in inventions and creations, the Ministry of Works has a law that will improve the level of craftsmanship and even promote them to craftsmen. Rewards of land and real estate are all possible, but rewards are impossible, especially for thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.

But for Chen Xu, all the money issues are not too big at the moment.

"Don't worry, it's just 500,000 yuan, I'll solve the money!" Chen Xu picked up the teacup to moisten his throat. His throat was almost smoking when he was talking about it in a long time.

"Mr. Marquis, this is 500,000, not 50,000 yuan?" Hu Kuan couldn't help but remind him.

"I know, I'll go to the Huaxia Money House to solve this problem!" Chen Xu put down his teacup and stood up and said.

When Chen Xu mentioned the Huaxia Money House, everyone's heart was relieved.

If the entire Qin Dynasty said that the most money was, it was definitely not the imperial palace or the Ministry of Revenue warehouse, but the China Money House. Now it has hundreds of millions of deposits. The Marquis is the major shareholder of the money house. He just leaked a little out of his fingers. Not to mention 500,000, five million is possible!

Since the Marquis has solved the money, the innovation reward evaluation committee can naturally begin to be formally formed.

The review committee member has no salary, but only has a name. He reviews it once a month based on innovative inventions submitted by craftsmen and craftsmen and even apprentices. If the review and recognition meets the level of invention and innovation rewards, Chen Xu will also participate in the review. If it passes, the reward will be issued and published in the Daqin Metropolis Daily, and his reputation will be spread throughout the Daqin world in an instant.

This is not only a material reward, but also a spiritual reward, but also represents a supreme glory, and its name has been passed down through history and eternal history.

And the value of fame in this era far exceeds that of money and status.

Many famous scholars from all schools of thought were not rich and noble, but they were widely respected by the people. Even the emperor had to put down his figure and bow respectfully and shouted sir.
Chapter completed!