Patent law is already common in Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands and other countries, and has similar patent incidents.

For example, in 1474, the Republic of Venice promulgated the world's first patent law, called the Inventors' Regulations. From then on, important industrial inventions that needed after that, such as water lifters, rice mills, drainers, canal drilling machines, etc., were all granted ten years of licenses.

Therefore, when Joao IV heard this, he understood what a patent means. At the same time, he also understood that this was a military and national weapon and the most valuable invention, and it is not incomprehensible to have patent protection.

However, this is the first time he has heard of such patents between countries.

Generally speaking, if your country's patents are stolen by other countries, you can only stare at them. After all, your country's laws cannot be controlled by other countries.

So he asked Johnson tentatively: "We imitate or not, Ming Kingdom is so far away, how do they know?"

If you can not give money, who is willing to give money?

Upon hearing this, Johnson quickly said seriously: "Your Highness, you must not."

Seeing that Joao IV had a disapproval on his face, Johnson said to him seriously: "The Ming Empire is now the Sect Master of Portugal. We must not ignore the orders of the Ming Empire. If we evil the Ming Empire, we Portugal will not only not be protected by the Sect Master, but may also become an enemy of the Ming Empire because of this, and we will be destroyed!"

Seeing that the Fourth of Joao IV looked a little surprised, he added: "There is a country in the east called Korea. It was originally a vassal state of the Ming Empire, but after surrendering to the rebellion of the Ming Empire, the rebellion was destroyed by the Ming Empire together with the North Korea."

"..." When Ruo Ao Fourth Emperor heard this, his face suddenly turned ugly.

After a moment of silence, he said a little unhappy: "Why is the Ming Empire so domineering? What are you doing? You have signed a contract with the Ming Empire?"

"Your Highness, then listen to me." Johnson quickly explained, "There is another country in the east called Ryukyu Kingdom, which is also a vassal state of the Ming Empire. It has been bullied by the Japanese Kingdom. The Ryukyu King wrote a blood letter to ask for help from the Ming Empire. As a result, the Ming Empire immediately sent troops to defeat the Japanese Kingdom."

"Ah?" When Ruo Ao Fourth heard this, he was a little surprised.

He had heard of Japan. After all, the Portuguese were in the Far East and had traded with Japan. Later, Japan did not want to trade with outsiders, so it cut off the trading path. The matter was a bit big, so he naturally knew it.

He didn't expect the Ming Empire to do this, so he nodded immediately and said, "If this is the case, it's worth recognizing this sect leader!"

"That's not!" Johnson smiled when he heard this, and said to Joao IV: "Your Highness, the patent law of the Ming Kingdom was created by their Duke Xingguo, and he attached great importance to this patent law. Besides, this steam engine is a heavy weapon of the military and nationality, and is also protected by the Patent Law. If we imitate this steam engine privately, once the Ming Kingdom knows it, it will definitely anger the Duke Xingguo and the Emperor of Ming. Therefore, I suggest spending more money and spending more money. The Ming Empire is good to us, and the price is fair!"

Hearing this, Ruo Ao IV suddenly became interested and asked, "Is that Duke Xingguo very powerful? He has a high position and a powerful position, so he can't anger him?"

When he heard this, Johnson nodded immediately, with a serious expression and said seriously: "Your Highness, you don't know. This Duke Xingguo is the most powerful. You will know after listening to a few examples..."

As he said that, he roughly said a few of Zhang Mingwei's achievements, such as leading troops to fight in the north, inventing things as simple as drinking water, etc., which made Ruo Ao stunned for the fourth generation.

"Is he really so powerful?" Joao IV came to his senses and couldn't help but ask, "Has the Ming Empire changed so much?"

Johnson nodded vigorously and replied affirmatively: "Yes, so I agree with your Duke's need to stay in the Ming Dynasty to study. Not to mention learning all, even if you learn something, you can make us Portugal rise in Europe!"

When he heard this, Joao IV immediately became happy. He stopped talking about the steam engine and asked Johnson: "What are the special things about the guns and cannons in Ming Dynasty? Let me see them."

Hearing this, Johnson couldn't help but sigh again: "I didn't expect that Duke Xingguo was really too smart, including this musket and cannon. He just changed the power of this musket and cannon, and it suddenly became so powerful!"

As he said that, he took a rifled flintlock rifle and pointed it to Joao IV to see the rifle in the muzzle and the rifle in the cannon. Finally, he said in a very certain tone: "It's just this kind of transformation. Although it will be more difficult to load, the range has been greatly improved, and even the accuracy has been greatly improved. The Ming army relied on this firearm and this steamship to sweep all opponents."

Joao IV was excited and immediately ordered: "Okay, okay, then we must imitate these firearms, just give them money."

Speaking of this, he ordered: "Go and drive the boat outside. I want to see the power of this boat and firearm in person!"

In the port of Lisbon, the news cannot be kept confidential, so he has this statement.

After hearing this, Johnson certainly would not disagree. So the ship where Joao IV was located left the dock and slowly drove towards the outer sea.

Seeing this, the onlookers on the shore didn't know what was going on for a while. Why did the king leave by boat?

So they started to talk, and at the same time they were paying attention to the oriental goods moved from the port fleet, and they were also talking about it.

Everyone knows that Eastern goods, especially those of the Ming Empire, are all popular goods in Europe, meaning wealth.

This time I came back from the Far East, not only did I have strange ships, but I also had so many goods in the Ming Dynasty. I have been shipping goods one after another, and I feel like I am going to get rich.

The British on the dock were royalists, and they also cost a lot of money to fight Cromwell's parliamentary army. Therefore, they were very jealous.

After a few people in the leaders gathered together and discussed in a low voice, they became entangled with their group of people, forced the goods, and made a statement that Britain had helped Portugal before, but now what happened to get back some interest?

The reason why they dared to do this was actually determined that Portugal, a weak country, would need help from other countries if it wanted to gain true independence. Although they were expelled royalists, they believed that Portugal dared not offend them.

Of course, the Portuguese soldiers who were transporting were unwilling to ship Ming Dynasty goods to Lisbon after finally being transported, but they were stolen by the British, so they were unwilling to give them to them.

Therefore, the conflict between the two conveniences arose.

Although this is in Portugal, the British are arrogant and not for a day or two. Perhaps it is because they dare not offend the British that the British are becoming more and more rampant.

However, the British obviously knew the right way and did not cause any death. After adding up, they just wanted to grab the goods.

Except for a few Portuguese resistance, most of the others just watched and verbally condemned them. As for the consequences, they would not dare. Otherwise, when the king came back, they might have to apologize to these British people and punish them.

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Those who resisted the Portuguese were only responsible and dared not resist. Otherwise, all the Ming commodities were taken away by the British and they would be punished by the king.

The British deliberately snatched all the goods they had snatched onto their ships, but the Portuguese did not dare to get onto their ships, so they could only watch the Ming Dynasty goods being moved away in boxes and had no choice but to do anything.

Just as the British were loading a ship of Ming cargo, Joao IV came back.

It can be said that after a test outside the sea, he was very happy to see the flexibility of the steam engine after it was started, and he didn't have to care about the direction at all. He could turn whatever he wanted.

Then I tested the cannon, regardless of the most effective range or accuracy, as the legendary ones, and the same is true for the rifled flintlock rifle, which made Joao's fourth generation overjoyed and really didn't lie to him.

As long as you imitate these heavy weapons of the military, what are you afraid of the Spanish?

A heavy stone pressing on his heart fell to the ground, making Joao's fourth lifetime feel too happy. Such a good thing is definitely worth paying for.

However, he never expected that when he returned to the port happily, he was fed by the British, which immediately ruined his interest.

A weak country has no diplomacy, and this naked reality is once again presented to Joao IV.

Listening to his subordinate port officials complaining to him, Joao IV's face became very gloomy. This is a robbery!

But at this time, the man led by Britain called the Count of Lord Pompe, ran over to Joao IV with satisfaction and said, "The things in this ship are to be funded by Your Highness. After His Highness restored the country, my British Empire will definitely send troops to help you Portugal defeat Spain."

His careless attitude is completely a style of taking action first and then making the fourth generation look very ugly.

On the dock, there were already many Portuguese coming to watch the fun. After witnessing the arrogance of the British, they all looked at their king silently to see what kind of reaction they would be. Should they continue to endure humiliation and please these British men?

To be honest, they feel very frustrated by it.

Before, they resisted the Spanish rule and did not want to live in humiliation. For this reason, in the border conflict between the Spanish after independence, the Portuguese died in the entire village, regardless of women, children, and young and old.

Perhaps it was because of this that the Spanish moved the priority of Portugal to the back, and did not make a large attack, but instead used troops elsewhere.
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