Li Zhi, who was busy in the Maritime Trade Department, was considering whether to recall Yan Liben. After considering it for a while, Li Zhi found Shangguan Yi.

"Uncle Shangguan, Yan Liben has been in the East China Sea for two or three years." Li Zhi stepped forward and asked.

Looking at Shangguan Yi, who was in the naval trading account book last year, nodded after hearing this, "It's been a while, and they have always contacted Gu Qing for news about the port over the years."

"I was thinking that the people at the port must be very familiar with the situation on the sea." Li Zhi said anxiously, "If these people are recalled to the Maritime Trade Department, they will have a great help to our future plans."

"I remember last year, Yan Liben asked someone to bring all his family to the port. It seems that Yan Liben will not come back in a short time."

"Don't he want to come back?"

"I don't know." Shangguan Yi said again, "Yan Liben is a person who cares about reputation more than himself. This time he created ports and ships. He will definitely be remembered by many people. At least Gu Qing will make many people remember his contributions. Although I have seen the interests of sea trade, I still don't know where the long-term interests of sea trade are. I built such a port to make a fortune. I think there is no need to build such a big deal. Where is the real wealth of sea trade?"

"Actually, I heard Gu Qing say an idea, which should be a concept in the current words of the academy." Li Zhi explained, "The real interests and development and resources of sea trade are like we are absorbing resources from Japan now, like a concept. For example, in Japan, even civilians in the Tang Dynasty can have a high status in Japan, which is a concept, but Gu Qing has never said what this concept is."

"And I saw a chart where Gu Qing had seen it secretly in Gu Qing's laboratory. After seeing it once, Gu Qing hid the chart and didn't know where to hide it." Li Zhi lowered his voice and said, "The sea chart was very clear. There are islands on the sea and land that is wider than the Tang Dynasty. It is in the other direction of the sea. After Dashi, it will be a new land, and that land is very vast."

"A wider land?" Shangguan Yi sighed, "Is Gu Qing's chart based on it?"

"I don't know if there is any basis or not." Li Zhi continued, "But I have seen it in ancient books and there are indeed such records. But I am very curious. Gu Qing can draw those places very carefully and even the shape of the island. If this was not Gu Qing's mysterious behavior, how did Gu Qing know these? Sometimes I have a feeling that Gu Qing had already measured the size of the world in his heart, but whenever I think of this, I feel in my heart. How could a person reach this point? If these are true, what kind of knowledge Gu Qing has hidden?"

"What kind of abilities does Gu Qing hide?" Shangguan Yi asked again.

"I can't explain it." Li Zhi continued, "Some things Gu Qing teaches and keeps half of them, but sometimes it's surprisingly correct to do it according to Gu Qing's method. Just like when my father repeatedly couldn't bear to chop him up, it was because this guy had goods in his stomach. Sometimes I asked him how it was? How did he know, he always said that he was just watching others walk by and he just walked along the footsteps of those people."

"is that so?"

"After that being said, I still want to recall Yan Liben and ask him to come to the Hai Trade Department to help me." Li Zhi said.

"I think even if His Highness King Jin ordered him to come back, he would not come back. Yan Liben was born in a family of craftsmen. It is more important for him to complete something that can be remembered by the world than to pay a generous salary for high officials. People like him will not come back before the port is completely completed, and he does not want to come back. His Highness King Jin should not make things difficult for him." Shangguan Yi put away the account book in his hand, "His Highness King Jin was right. People who are familiar with the port and the sea trade and even personally participated in the sea trade department to preside over some of the work. It is very suitable, and it can also make us more suitable for understanding the sea trade situation."

Shangguan Yi continued, "Your Highness King of Jin, why not write a plan, how can people enter the Maritime Trade Department, what kind of people enter the Maritime Trade Department, how can people go out to the Maritime Trade Department, and the monthly wages of those who build ports in the East China Sea have been settled by Gu Qing. We don't know how Gu Qing paid this money."

"Since the establishment of the Maritime Trade Department has some rules, we have to decide it ourselves, and the wages of those people at the Donghai Port will be paid from the Maritime Trade Department."

"Will it be inappropriate to do this?" Li Zhi hesitated, "This is the rule set by Gu Qing. If we intervene without authorization, what will Gu Qing think of me? And the payment of wages. Will the people in the port agree so? What should we do if there is more money?"

"Your Highness King Jin, the Sea Trade Department cannot be just a decoration." Shangguan Yi spoke and said, "In addition to what we need to take care of ourselves, we need more power. We need some things to fight for, and some things we cannot touch. Your Highness King Jin, we cannot just live by, and we cannot be more demanding. If you want to think about what the owner of the Sea Trade Department wants to do, I believe Gu Qing will agree."

"I remembered a sentence Gu Qing said earlier, which was also what Sun Simiao told him." Li Zhi sighed, "If you have experienced a lot of things, you will be able to learn from you."

Shangguan Yi Xiaoxiao said nothing. Li Zhi is still young, but he is deeply involved in the world. He has always been under the protection of the royal family. Under Gu Qing's wings, Li Zhi needs too much experience and too much experience. As he said, if he has experienced a lot of things, you will be able to do it if you don't learn from them.

In the East China Sea, the entire port has initially grown in scale. More than 60 sea ships are parked along the coast. The words "Dang" are written on the side of the hull of each ship. The cannon muzzles on both sides of the hull declare the strongest power on the sea. The entire port is very quiet and there are only the sound of waves hitting the port.

Wu Laoqi, who had first left the sea, has become a small leader by the East China Sea. The commander has a group of younger brothers, and the people who stayed there for the first time have also become a small leader.

Wu Laoqi directed a group of civilians who were carrying things and said, "Don't be lazy, your wages are indispensable. As the saying goes, people are responsible for planning, things are achieved, wealth and illness, life and death are the same... Remember that as long as you work hard, you can eat and wear without worrying about food and clothing."

The student who stayed here to design the port said to Wu Laoqi, "Brother Wu, wealth is in heaven, life and death are destined."
Chapter completed!