The ports of Haixing, Jiaozhou, Yangzhou, and Mingzhou, which are under construction, are clear evidence of Li Ze's efforts to develop overseas trade. Many people, including those who are extremely convinced of Li Ze, actually don't understand why Li Ze has such a great enthusiasm for overseas trade, and it has basically reached the point of being a little obsessed.

In their opinion, the existing port is enough, and even if they still want to have it, after defeating Xiang Xun in the future, the ports of Guangzhou and Quanzhou will also belong to the imperial court, and there is no need to spend huge sums of money to build new ports.

The money spent on each port could be used for many more things in the eyes of these people.

But Li Ze ignored the opinions of these people and firmly pursued the construction strategy of these ports.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty was undoubtedly an extremely prominent and brilliant empire in the world, and its economic and cultural development was far ahead of other civilizations, at least one of the most advanced.

Silk, tea, porcelain, lacquer and even ironware, as long as they can be shipped out, it is a typical profiteering. In Li Ze's view, at this moment, whether it is the Arab Empire, or the Persian Empire, or Byzantium, ancient India, or even the Frankish Empire, those kings and nobles are typical big dogs, and they make a lot of money from them, so why not?

Datang is a typical self-sufficient society, basically do not need to buy bulk commodities from the outside, those big dogs do not have anything good to trade with themselves, so they can only come up with real money, and for Greater China, real money is the most lacking.

Ports are essentially permanent facilities that, once built, can generate a steady stream of wealth for themselves.

And more important than making money, Li Ze hopes to guide all Tang people to set their sights on the world.

It is very difficult for the Tang people of the previous generation and this generation to change their deep-rooted thinking, so from a very early age, Li Ze set his sights on the next generation. Therefore, he took Wuwei Academy as the center and began to carry compulsory general education for all, even if it cost a lot of money for it.

Only when you are literate and able to read can you master more knowledge, broaden your horizons, be more willing to accept new things, and be more courageous to open up and take risks.

Each port is a window to the outside world, a future naval base, and the hometown of an ocean-going fleet.

Li Ze does not have too many requirements for territory, and it is not necessarily a good thing that the territory is too large. Think about the Mengyuan Empire in later generations, the huge territory across Europe and Asia has no ancients before and no one after it, but its rise is fast, its defeat is also fast, and it will fall apart in the blink of an eye.

Li Ze felt that it was almost time to restore the territory of the current Tang Dynasty to the era of the big rooster where he once lived, of course, the current Mo Nan and Mo North had fallen into his hands, and the Western Regions was almost completely back, and the only thing left was a remnant Tibet, and after he completely took down the south, he would make up for the missing golden ou.

The territory you have must be within the scope of your effective control, otherwise, it will be too large and inappropriate, and more contradictions will arise.

Compared with the territory, Li Ze is more concerned about the status of Datang in the world and the influence of Datang culture on the world in the future. Popularizing the culture of the Tang Dynasty to every corner of the world is much more meaningful than occupying more territory.

And to do this, the first thing to do is a wealthy Datang, a Datang with a high-quality population.

Of course, to do this, it is necessary to have an army that is extremely strong.

There are not a few wars brought about by the conflict between two cultures, and if you want your own culture to become a universal principle, you certainly need to go through bloody wars in the early stage.

The victors deserve to talk about this thing.

And this requires a strong navy.

The composition of the Navy is not only about having the most advanced ships, but also about the best sailors. More ports, more fleets, more sailors.

Imagine that the navy with the banner of the Tang Dynasty can be freely anchored in any port in the world, imagine that any Datang person who sets foot on a foreign land will be respected by the locals beyond ordinary times, and imagine the privileges that the Datang people can get outside, Li Ze is very excited.

At that time, or you can announce to everyone what is called a Tang dream.

Want to make your dreams come true?

Come to Datang!

Want to change your fate?

Come to Datang!

There are opportunities everywhere, as long as you are willing to work hard, as long as you have talent, you can earn countless wealth here and obtain supreme glory.

At that time, sitting at home, you can attract the best talents on the planet to come to Datang in an endless stream, they can bring fresh blood to Datang, create more wealth, invent more new things, and always let Datang stand on the top of this world and look down on the whole world.

At that time, although Datang did not own those lands, it could dominate the world.

Only by doing this, Li Ze felt that he had come to this world in vain.

Of course, these thoughts in my heart, the only one who knows a little bit now, that is, Xia He, who grew up with him and was specially cultivated and nurtured by himself since he was a child, and the others don't know anything. Li Ze never told them about this, he was afraid that these people would think he was a madman.

To tell the truth, more than nine out of ten people in this world still think that they live in a world where the sky is round, that there is a fairy world above the high sky, and that there is a Nine Hells under the thick earth, and if you tell them that you live on a ball, and this ball is still floating in the empty universe, they will go crazy.

Now the only ones who have some enlightenment are those students in the Gewu Academy of Wuwei Academy.

But with these seeds, Li Ze feels that as time goes by, more and more people will accept this fact. Now Li Ze especially hopes that those crazy people in the eyes of others in the Gewu Academy can get more tricks and tricks for him.

Isn't there already a hydraulic press now? Isn't there a hydraulic cutting machine?

As long as you keep this momentum, sooner or later, everything will be there and everything will be there.

Even if you can't see it, later generations will eventually be able to see it.

At that time, he will truly become the emperor of the ages.

Of course, you also have to think of a way to make an empire that you can create, and truly become an empire that can be passed on for eternity. Of course, Li Ze has ideas in his heart, but he also knows that it is destined to not work if he implements it completely according to his own ideas, if he can't accept it to all the elites under his command, if he can't accept it to the people under his rule, his ideas will only be destined to be a dream.

This one is even more urgent.

Of course, this can be done subtly and slowly, and as long as you are alive, you can slowly move forward little by little. Maybe on the day he dies, he will be able to see a rough prototype.

As for now, of course, it is necessary to maintain absolute authority and maintain the power of every word, and only in this way can we forcibly push some things that the vast majority of people oppose or do not understand.

Now I'm doing it myself, and I'm basically pushing the boat down the river, just a little bit of force on it. After all, my own problem now needs to be solved first.

Only when Datang truly unifies the world, only when Datang becomes richer and richer, will he devote more energy to what he really wants to do.

It takes energy, financial resources, and talent.

After inspecting Jiaozhou Port, Li Ze continued to move forward, and Zhang Xun returned to Qingzhou. Inside the carriage, Li Ze was very excited to play with a new toy that Tian Bo brought him from Wuyi this time.

Stroking the soft and hard black thing in his hand, Li Ze's excitement was beyond words.

It's a piece of rubber, a piece of rubber that can really be turned into a rubber product.

"How did you get it?"

"It's still Mrs. Xia who knows your temperament, Childe, Mrs. Xia said, bring this, no matter how unhappy you are, you will be happy immediately." Tian Bo said with a smile: "This is made by a doctor from the Gewu Academy. He's been working on this stuff ever since you got raw rubber from Java. ”

"I know this, but the things he made out are okay in winter, but in summer, they stick together and can't be used at all!" Li Zedao.

"It was a complete accident!" Tian Bo said with a smile: "This guy has added Liuhuang to the raw rubber, and the quality has been greatly improved, but in the summer, it still doesn't work." You also know that those people in the Gewu Academy are some crazy people, and this person is also a little crazy, thinking about it day and night, once he was too tired, he fell asleep during the experiment, and the rubber in his hand fell into the furnace, and when he woke up, the outside of the experiment was completely charred. This guy is distressed, and you know that it's not easy to get this raw rubber from Java. He scraped off the charred parts, only to find that the part that was still intact on the inside had become very elastic, and it resembled the familiar glue you had said, which inspired him greatly. ”

"Temperature, isn't it?" Li Ze also suddenly realized.

"It's the temperature. The doctor then roasted the rubber at different temperatures, and finally came up with these samples. Tian Bodao.

"This is a good thing, it is wear-resistant, soft, and elastic, Tian Bo, if this thing can be mass-produced, we can have another unique business." Li Ze burst out laughing.