Chapter 905

Unlike Qin Shi Huang and Han Wu Di, who were so relaxed!

Their era certainly had difficulties they had to face.

But those difficulties, compared to Qin Mu now, were like a small witch meeting a big witch.

"Wuji, this trip to Great Qin, we negotiated several collaborations. You come and advise, see if there are any projects that can be emulated?"

Li Er gave the contracts for the three collaborations—porcelain firing, building the Liaodong port, and transporting ten million prisoners—to Zhangsun Wuji.

Zhangsun Wuji looked through them carefully, page by page.

Afterward, he picked up a Ru porcelain tea bowl brought back from Great Qin.

While appreciating it, he praised it repeatedly.

"Your Majesty, this kind of porcelain truly opens a precedent for the ages; it is too beautiful, too perfect!"

Li Er naturally knew this kind of porcelain was perfect.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to collaborate on porcelain firing. He even brought back many porcelain pieces from thousands of miles away.

"This kind of porcelain is much better than Tang Sancai. It's just that I don't know if our Great Tang craftsmen can imitate it?"

Zhangsun Wuji looked up at Li Er.

Guessing the holy heart, he probably wanted to use this collaboration with Great Qin to get the porcelain firing technology back.

"Your Majesty, completely imitating this kind of porcelain is probably very difficult. I don't even know where to start?

In my opinion, we still need spies to extract this secret from the mouths of Great Qin craftsmen."

Craftsmen were not as difficult to deal with as court officials.

Li Er was somewhat tempted.

"However, this kind of technical secret has always been something craftsmen would rather die than reveal. Wanting to extract the secret is probably not easy!"

Zhangsun Wuji was most skilled at such sordid means; after a little thought, he already had a plan.

"Your Majesty, no matter how much craftsmen keep secrets, they will eventually pass them on to apprentices. As long as we have patience, choose clever and steady children, and take the opportunity to apprentice, we don't have to worry about not learning it."

Li Er nodded slowly, seemingly approving of this method.

But seeing his expression, it was still not relaxed; clearly, he did not fully approve of this means.

Zhangsun Wuji understood Li Er; one look and he knew what he was thinking.

"Your Majesty, we can also find ways to go to Great Qin to buy books about craftsman technology."

This sentence awakened Li Er.

That's right!

Great Qin had spent great effort to make many craftsmen reveal the technical secrets of their lives. And they compiled these technologies into books and published them publicly.

In Great Qin, anyone who wanted to learn technology could learn techniques they couldn't learn before through these books.

"This is a good method, worth a try!"

Li Er was somewhat excited.

Why hadn't he thought of such a good method before?

However, as he thought, he felt something was wrong.

"Wuji, why do you think Great Qin spent so much effort to ask for these technical secrets and then chose to make them all public?"

This was the most puzzling part.

Zhangsun Wuji looked at Li Er's excited appearance and felt that the Emperor had changed a bit after returning from Great Qin this time.

He had also started to value technology.

"Your Majesty, Great Qin does not do meaningless things. I think that making technology public can quickly cultivate a large number of craftsmen.

But at the same time, it will be very easy for us to understand Great Qin's technology."

Easy?

Li Er dared not be sure.

If the Great Tang could easily obtain Great Qin's unique technology, that would be great.

Zhangsun Wuji took out the contract for building the port in Liaodong again.

"Your Majesty, this contract also has a lot of room for maneuver!"

As far as I know, the ports built by Great Qin are different from the Great Tang's. They are more conducive to large ships loading and unloading goods, and goods entering and leaving the port are faster, with larger throughput.

The Great Tang can also completely imitate the design and planning of Great Qin's ports."

This was also what Li Er didn't understand.

If Great Qin didn't let the Great Tang build this port.

Trying to learn Great Qin's port would not be so easy.

In the world today, only Great Qin's ports are the busiest, with large amounts of goods entering and leaving every day.

The Great Tang's ports, as soon as there are a few more goods, will become congested.

"Wuji, I still haven't figured out why Great Qin would give the Great Tang this opportunity to learn?" Zhangsun Wuji's breathing stalled.

That's right, since Great Qin has such advanced methods, why not keep them secret?

Finally, he discovered a sad fact.

"Your Majesty, the Great Tang has no business to do externally. The Japanese islands are blockaded by Great Qin, and Siam is occupied by Great Qin.

Even if we learn the management of Great Qin's ports, the ports built in the end will only be for Great Qin's convenience." Li Er thought about it, and it was true.

Unless the Great Tang develops ocean routes now, otherwise, the ports will only welcome Great Qin's ships. In the end, Great Qin's goal is still for themselves.

Li Er angrily raised his palm, wanting to slap the table. But this slap could not be brought down.

Who can he blame for this?

Now it seems that everything Great Qin does is so advanced.

So advanced that at the time, one couldn't realize the role it would play in the future.

The Great Tang in the past disdained to follow Great Qin, resulting in missing the opportunity.

Now, almost surrounded and controlled by Great Qin, it is too late to regret.

"Wuji, I discussed a plan to develop Yingzhou and Zhuya with Xuanling. You look at the third contract again."

The third contract was the one for transporting ten million Tianzhu prisoners.

After the transport is completed, the Great Tang can get a million prisoners according to the agreement.

As soon as Zhangsun Wuji looked, he roughly understood the plan the Emperor mentioned for developing Yingzhou and Zhuya.

Those were two large islands, almost isolated from the world.

Putting a million prisoners on two large islands for development is indeed very suitable.

"Your Majesty, on the two islands of Yingzhou and Zhuya, there should still be no less than a million indigenous people. If we can make these indigenous people serve us, we can have another helping hand!"

"Oh?"

Li Er hadn't thought of this.

Hearing Zhangsun Wuji say this, he immediately became interested.

"Wuji, how do you think these indigenous people should be utilized?"

When Zhangsun Wuji was looking at the contract, what he was thinking about in his mind was how to get benefits from it?

Hearing this, he smiled slightly.

"Divide the areas and hand them over to the noble families!"