Although most of the techniques mastered by the Ligong faction were not a secret in Bai Liyan's view, the practice of the past four years has proved that the economic and time costs required to train and transform the Ligong faction are far lower than those of ordinary craftsmen in the vassal states.

Only one mathematics, the basic foundation of the Ligong school is far from being compared with ordinary craftsmen, the Ligong school only needs three to four years, can quickly cultivate a group of mathematical talents, while the literacy rate of ordinary craftsmen in the vassal states is low, the awareness of technical regularity is weak, and even need to start teaching from the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, it is difficult to become a climate in seven or eight years.

Collecting the workers for their own use, taking interests and technology as the dual tracks, and restraining them is undoubtedly a shortcut to the rapid establishment of a basic science industry in the short term.

To this end, Baili Yanshou put forward the "Engineering Monopoly Law" in the article, introducing the concept of "patent".

It not only protects the interests of both sides, but also encourages innovation and invention, legalizes the income of the workers, and at the same time restricts patent ownership and political power to strictly control the spread of patented technology.

After discussing with Zong Botai and Zhao Anling for a day, some additions and deletions were made to the terms.

The next day, Baili Yan went to visit Cheng Jiyuan. Cheng Jiyuan recently privately convened the relocation of the high-ranking masters of the Zuo Sect, and listened to the opinions of An Kong, Liu Dan, Lu Gao, Zhu Ming, Shangguan Zhao, Xiong Tuo, Zhou Tong, Qi Mo and Qi Zhen.

Benefiting from the development of Yongxing City's smelting and engineering technology, Yongxing City has surpassed the Ligong School in many fields, and Bailiyan has benefited Zuomen a lot from imparting mathematics and more advanced concepts regardless of returns, and the benefits of cooperation are obvious.

"The younger generation came to disturb me, and I also looked forward to Haihan, the master of the left door."

Bailiyan gave a deep salute, and Cheng Jiyuan motioned to the child to serve tea, and invited Bailiyan and Zong Botai to take a seat. After sitting down, Cheng Jiyuan got straight to the point and said:

"Over the years, Meng Yongxing Hou has treated each other with sincerity, and there is no need to say anything about everything, please let Hou Ye say it."

That being the case, he was blunt. This is the condition drawn up by the Hou under the responsibility of this king, and if you have any objections, you can raise them one by one. ”

Cheng Jiyuan took the bottom order, and at the same time handed Bai Liyan a copy of the conditions proposed by the Ligong faction:

"This is the condition proposed by this sect, which has been inherited by our Ligong faction for generations, and King Xian must agree to it, and it is not negotiable."

The words "non-negotiable" surprised Bai Liyan, and Bai Liyan took a look at the conditions of the process of Jiyuan, and the content was unexpected, in addition to the political and commercial content, most of the content was a more modern concept of commercial and technical agreements.

Politically, the Gangongists demanded complete independence, no garrisons, no defenses, and no restrictions on the movement of personnel of the Gangongs, but restricted the entry of outsiders to ensure the independence and inviolability of the Gangongs.

Economically, the Xianguo had no right to interfere in the business dealings of the workers, and it was not allowed to obstruct the trade of the workers without reason, and there were no taxes or fees. Seeking complete monopoly in technology, the Xian country has no right to intervene.

All in all, you don't care what I do, pure liberal willfulness.

After reading through the whole content, Bai Liyan handed over the bottom list to Zong Botai, and said to Cheng Jiyuan calmly:

"Master Zuomen, the Ligong faction is a famous family in the world, and my Xianguo will not interfere in the affairs of your faction, let alone send troops to take advantage of it. However, most of the construction techniques of Yongxing City are owned by my Xianguo, and your faction also owns them, which is probably inappropriate. ”

"Huh...... The terms set by Yongxing Hou are not simple, the old man sees that this "Engineering Franchise Law" is very good, and the skills obtained by the two families are each held half, and it is also desirable to sit and share the shares. But if I send my own research to produce results, the right belongs to my faction, and the research results of Yongxing City belong to Xianguo, I think Hou Ye should have no objections. ”

"Master Zuomen, please rest assured, the "Engineering Monopoly Law" is to protect the interests of the initiators, and the results of the joint research of the two will be divided equally between the two."

In the final analysis, the demand of the Gonggong faction is to develop independent technical capital without constraints, and its concept is extremely advanced, and it is also unacceptable to the current world.

The terms proposed by Bailiyan do not restrict its own pursuit of interests and technological development, but through technical cooperation, it restricts its technological diffusion in disguise.

At the same time, we should make use of the talent base system that Yongxing City and the Ligong School have cultivated, integrate the existing resources of Xianguo, and improve the current educational content, especially mathematics, as the basic education of all scientific categories, must be popularized and promoted.

It was not Bailiyan's original intention to win over the Ligong faction, and what he valued was not its high-quality technical team, but to use its ready-made intellectual reserves and growth space to cultivate more basic talents for Yongxing City.

The negotiations only lasted half a day, and Cheng Jiyuan did not make a statement, only saying that he needed to think in the long run, and Bailiyan also needed to report the results of the preliminary negotiations to King Xian.

In the following days, Cheng Jiyuan transferred the revised articles to Bailiyan through Zong Botai, adding 12 articles and deleting 7 articles, the deleted seven articles are all related to the distribution of benefits, but the new 12 articles are diametrically opposed to the deleted 12 articles.

Due to the long-term development of the headquarters of the Ligong faction, the production of early primitive industrial products, such as casting bronze tripods, forging large components, weapons, jade processing, mineral exploration, etc., is obviously not an ordinary business.

With the current social system and law, it is a controlled business, and private operation is a serious crime, and there is also no market consumption base, because this kind of thing is not something that private people can have, and it cannot be sold in stores.

Therefore, the Ganggong faction has never had a branch or a business store, and all countries and schools have come to buy goods in person, and there is no prospect of opening branches and commercial stores.

Bailiyan considered that the Ligong faction would master a large number of civilian production technologies in the future, and in order to make money, it was necessary to expand outward and open shops, so that taxes could be collected from them. The result backfired, Cheng Jiyuan didn't expect this, Bailiyan's agreement undoubtedly reminded Cheng Jiyuan, but he rejected it.

On December 13, Tao Yong and Gongliang Xiu envoys arrived in Chenling, Changshi Gaoxun and the foreign deacon promised to greet him, and the next day the court meeting, King Xian summoned the delegation and his party, and after the dispersal of Baili Yan and Nuo Yiyan, King Xian negotiated with Tao Yong and Gongliangxiu in Bailing Garden to negotiate the alliance and send troops, and the two sides did not do substantive negotiations.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tao Yong and Gongliang repaired the coffin of the Marquis of Lu and arranged to live in the east of the city. Zhao Xun returned to the front line in early December because of the front-line war, Tao Yong went to the Great Sima Embassy to meet Lu Gao, Gongliangxiu made an appointment to see Bailiyan, the funeral was about to be on the 16th, Bailiyan lived in the palace for days and disposed of the coffin with the Inner Envoy's Mansion out of the city, so he sent Gongliangxiu to find Nuo Yiyan and Gao Xun.

In fact, it is perfectly okay to take out an hour or two in your busy schedule, and Bailiyan does not want to hand over her hole cards too early.

King Xian wants to annex three counties, and the bottom line for Zhiguo to allow annexation is two counties, and the maximum tolerance is three counties, while the eldest grandson country can tolerate only one county, and he doesn't even want to give one.

Therefore, how to swallow the three counties, and make King Zhi feel that this business is profitable and not feel offended, the key is not in Gongliang Xiu, but in Tao Yong. The deliberate cold treatment of the relationship with Gongliang cultivation is beneficial to the Xianguo.

December 16, Lu Hou out of the funeral, from the coffin from the temple through the east gate of the palace, enough to use one hundred and twenty strong men, the coffin to the east of the city, along the way the hundred officials Dai Xiao, the prince and Xue Teng's eldest son Xue Chong, the second son Xue Cheng and the salt owl Fu Ling, all the way out of the city.

The coffin is loaded in two eight-wheeled carts, with 20 horses to the tomb of the Marquis of Lu, three o'clock on the 19th, the symbolic filling of the first shovel soil is covered on the coffin, and the final backfilling work is taken over by the Xianwang Inner Mansion and the Luhou family, and the general process is to fill the tomb with ritual utensils, utensils, gold and silver, livestock and other burial goods.

After finishing the funeral of Luhou, there was no respite, and the matter of the alliance was put on the agenda again.

Not only Tao Yong and Gongliang Xiu are active, but also the Jin Kingdom and Changsun Guo are also active in all directions, and they have mutual contacts and temptations with Tao Yong and Gongliang Xiu.

Before the first month, King Xian's attitude was still resolute, and the Jin Kingdom had not seen the news of the secret talks of the Xian State for a long time, and Xihuan was anxious:

"How's it going, have you found any news?"

At this time, Ji Jinsheng replied:

"Judging from the news from the Zhiguo Pavilion Station, it is more about business, and there is no news of the alliance and land division."

"It's been so long, how can there be no division of land, don't talk about land division, King Zhi sent Tao Yong and Gongliang Xiu to Xianguo to do something. Is there any news inside Zhiguo? ”

"No, but Baili Yan avoids Gongliang Xiu, and his subordinates suspect that Xianguo's appetite is probably not small."

"How can General Ji see it?"

"With King Xian's reliance on Baili Yan, Chang Shi Gaoxun, the foreign envoy Nuo Yiyan, and the Great Sima make Lu Gao are irrelevant, Baili Yan's decision is the final decision of King Xian, with the friendship between Gongliang Xiu and Baili Yan, Bai Li Yan will avoid it, and it must have a greater purpose."

"The greater purpose is to swallow Sun Guo all!"

"It's impossible, but it's still possible to swallow five or six counties. If this is the case, if Xianguo and Zhiguo are in cahoots again, then Xianguo will soon become a thorny problem for our Jin Kingdom under the command of Bailiyan in the future. Maybe in less than ten years, they will turn against our Jin Kingdom and meet each other in battle. ”

"Hehe... Hehaha......" Xihuan laughed loudly and sneered: "I'm afraid that Bailiyan doesn't have this gas number!" ”

"Your Royal Highness the princess, you still have to guard against it, if the king forces Bailiyan in a hurry, there are more than 400,000 soldiers in Xianguo, plus Guangxin, the new attached people's army, and the foreign army, and it is not difficult to gather 600,000 people to fight back in a short period of time."

"What is there to worry about, pull out the old things of King Xian from the deep palace, and I'm afraid that Bailiyan will rebel!"

"Your Royal Highness Princess, the king has never considered His Highness's situation in Xianguo, once he does this, His Highness's relationship with King Xian will completely deteriorate in the future, Your Highness has considered the situation in the future."

"What is this palace afraid of, King Xian can still kill this palace, the two sons of this palace are everything in Xianguo, he Jiang Hai has to recognize it, and he has to recognize it if he doesn't recognize it!"

"Then you have to consider the relationship with the crown prince." Ji Jinsheng persuaded: "Even if the crown prince dotes on His Royal Highness, once the soldiers meet, the relationship between the princess and the prince may be gone, Your Highness has ever thought about it." ”

"This palace gave birth to two sons for his Jiang family, what else does he want, if he is not useless, let Bailiyan control the government, do you still need this palace to take a lot of trouble for him, his conscience has been eaten by dogs! Even if it comes to that point, for the sake of my Jin Kingdom, this palace will not hesitate! ”

Ji Jinsheng was silent, he knew very well that as a woman, his father's eyes would always be the pearl in his palm, but in the eyes of his brother, a woman was just a tool that could be sacrificed.

King Jin decided to take a risk to win Yongxing City, whether it succeeded or failed, it meant that Xihuan's situation in the future would be even more difficult.