Huaxing Trading Company is quite well-known in Tokyo, not because their business there is particularly large.
In fact, Huaxing Trading Company's reputation was entirely built on the promotion by the Song Dynasty's official gazette.
The steam locomotive made headlines at the Chinese Academy of Sciences earlier this year, but was quickly forgotten because it was never put on the market.
When Huaxing Trading Company reappeared in the public eye, it was because it was reported by the Tokyo Express for stealing Zhangji Cloth Shop's patent.
In that year of the Great Song Dynasty, patents were still very scarce, and each innovative invention had not yet brought considerable income to the inventors. Therefore, many people were unfamiliar with patents and took them lightly.
However, some businessmen have already sensed that something is amiss.
The truly wealthy merchants in Tokyo all followed the imperial court's policies.
The imperial court has repeatedly emphasized the use of steam engines. Regardless of how skeptical the public may be, steam engines will be used in many areas in the coming years.
Meanwhile, the still inconspicuous Huaxing Trading Company had already caught the eye of some wealthy businessmen in Tokyo, who believed it had enormous potential.
The reason we haven't made contact with Huaxing Trading Company is because everyone is still waiting to see what the imperial court thinks.
Whether the officials in the imperial court intended to suppress Huaxing Trading Company or support it, no one knew.
Even if they knew, the news they received was unfavorable.
It is said that a certain minister was very dissatisfied with Huaxing Trading Company, so no one dared to immediately get involved with it.
Just over two months later, Huaxing Trading Company was embroiled in another crisis.
People couldn't help but wonder who was behind all this trouble for Huaxing Trading Company.
Two days later, Ye Chong, the owner of Huaxing Trading Company, was summoned to the Kaifeng government office to face off against Zhang Qingyuan, the owner of Zhangji Cloth Shop, in court.
Subsequently, the content presented by the Tokyo Express was unfavorable to Huaxing Trading Company in many ways.
Both eyewitness accounts and physical evidence indicate that Huaxing Trading Company stole the spinning wheel blueprints from Zhangji Cloth Shop.
The Zhu family was a newly emerging commercial family in the capital city of Tokyo. In the past few years, in response to the imperial court's call, they started by transporting and reselling grain, and were the first merchants willing to lower grain prices.
Therefore, with the support of the imperial court in recent years, the business has grown bigger and bigger.
When Jingdong Road and Hebei Road were hit by disaster last year, the Zhu family initiated public welfare disaster relief efforts.
According to some industry insiders, the imperial court will invest even more heavily in grain production in the coming years.
Therefore, the Zhu family's business will only grow bigger and bigger.
Of course, ordinary people don't know these things.
In the eyes of ordinary people, being able to eat their fill and stay warm is already a good thing.
As usual, Zhu Qing, the head of the Zhu family, would get up in the morning, eat some local specialties, drink a cup of Longjing tea that had been transported from Hangzhou, and then read through every single word of today's Song Dynasty Gazette and Tokyo Express.
Only after reading it will he begin to deal with his business matters.
Sure enough, someone has made a move against Huaxing Trading Company!
Zhu Qing frowned. In fact, he was one of the few merchants who had already ordered a steam locomotive from the imperial court.
More than two months ago, he guessed that Huaxing Business Society was doomed.
A tree that stands out in the forest will surely be felled by the wind.
How could Huaxing Trading Company steal the Royal Academy of Sciences' business and then get the Council of State to pay it a large patent fee every year?
He secretly rejoiced that he hadn't listened to certain people and betrothed his daughter to Ye Chong.
Otherwise, the Zhu family would have been implicated at this point!
Zhu Qing, with his seasoned mind, reasoned that it seemed the imperial court was going to reclaim the right to use the steam engine.
Therefore, all the creative endeavors undertaken by ordinary people are utterly useless, ultimately benefiting the imperial court.
Thinking of this, Zhu Qing abandoned his plan from a few days ago to invest some money to recruit some experts in the field of natural science.
This kind of thing should be left to the imperial court.
In fact, Zhu Qing wasn't the only one with this idea.
The Wang family, who made their fortune building houses, shared the same idea.
There's also the Pan family, who made their fortune by building roads.
The Liu family made their living by contracting cement manufacturing.
On March 20th, the Kaifeng government officially announced that Huaxing Trading Company was guilty of stealing the spinning wheel modification technology from Zhang's Cloth Shop, and the Kaifeng government seized all of Li's Cloth Shop's stores.
People who originally planned to buy clothes then realized the seriousness of the problem.
However, in the Song Dynasty at that time, there was no concept of brands or sentimentality.
After Li's Cloth Shop was shut down, people immediately went to Zhang's Cloth Shop to shop.
Because the case involved patent rights, the Kaifeng Prefectural Government also formally submitted the judgment document to the Ministry of Commerce regarding the Huaxing Spinning Wheel case.
Since the technology of Huaxing spinning wheels was stolen from Zhangji Cloth Shop, the Ministry of Commerce should decide whether to revoke the patent registration of Huaxing spinning wheels, based on the crimes committed by Huaxing Trading Company.
This was originally a matter between ordinary people and would not have alarmed the imperial court.
It stopped abruptly at the Ministry of Commerce.
If Huaxing Trading Company is dissatisfied, it can appeal to the Dali Temple for a final review. However, Kaifeng Prefecture has already made the case airtight, and the subsequent development of this matter is already quite obvious.
No one sympathized with Huaxing Trading Company because it had broken the rules.
Or rather, he threatened the interests of the imperial court.
Just as Zhu Qing said: Huaxing Trading Company brought this upon itself!
This incident did not cause much of a stir in Tokyo, and many ordinary people did not pay much attention to it.
But on this bright and sunny afternoon, the news reached the ears of Liu Yanzong, the Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate.
Liu Yanzong had originally planned to go to the brothel to chat with the young girls about life that afternoon, but he decided not to go.
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