Tang Dynasty good brother

Chapter 256 Are you sure?
Although the negotiation was not a happy one, it was still not satisfactory. It seemed that Qin Hao was enough to explain the conditions to himself.

After a grand dinner, early the next morning, Qin Hao put forward the condition of visiting the Wang Family Dockyard. According to the negotiated conditions, all the water boat docks and technologies of the Wang Family will be merged into the Green Gang from now on. will refuse.

Qin Hao naturally knows nothing about sea-building ships. The technical requirements of this thing are too high, and he is not a liberal arts student who can play around. It looks like an old antique ship, but as the saying goes, the difference is far away. It is okay to think about it as a research direction, but it is nonsense to directly create it.

Fortunately, Datang's navigation needs are mainly offshore navigation, and Datang's navigation technology should be sufficient. Seeing that Yangzhou's shipyard is about to start construction, it is always a good thing to see some advanced technology from the Wang family. no.

Ever since, Qin Hao wandered around the Wang family's dock with his hands behind his back, looking around, but couldn't see anything, so he asked aloud: "Patriarch Wang, do you have any unique skills? Hidden and tucked away."

The head of the Wang family smiled reservedly: "The leader is joking, there is no unique technology, but the southerners are more familiar with water, but if you want to talk about special shipbuilding skills, our family has a boatman from the Western Regions who can build boats. It’s a special kind of sail, I don’t know if the leader is interested in seeing it.”

People from the Western Regions?When did people in the Western Regions start building ships?
Qin Hao is a little confused, but he knows that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and he has always attached great importance to this kind of technical talents, so although he has doubts in his heart, he still asks him to bring people.

After a while, I saw a bearded man with a high curved nose bridge and deep-set eye sockets, who seemed to be staggering from alcohol, and was led over. He must have drunk a little too much, walked unsteadily, and gasped. The younger brother of the Wang family kicked him and knelt down: "Drink, drink, drink, you know how to drink, why are you so good at picking your time, why don't you pay your respects to your lord."

It's just that Qin Hao gasped when he saw this person's appearance, and before the confused man could speak, he tentatively said: "May Allah bless you, my dear brother."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the Wang family was in a daze. They couldn't figure out how this foreign shipbuilder He De could become a brother?
However, the boatman seemed to have seen a ghost, and sat down on the ground, kicking his legs wildly, and retreated several meters on the ground. His two drunken eyes suddenly became clear, but full of fear.

"you you....."

I don't know how long this boatman has been in Jinling. Although he speaks with a strange accent, his daily communication is no longer a problem.

Qin Hao thought that he guessed right, this guy is not from the Western Regions, these people from the Wang family don't know anything at all, this is clearly an Arab, oh, they are called big cannibals now.

"Are you sent by the caliph to arrest me? I...I didn't drink."

Qin Hao was so amused by this tease, he helped him up with a smile and said, "Please rest assured, my brother, this is the territory of the great Tang Empire, and you, as long as you build a ship for me, you will be my Tang Dynasty!" The people of the empire, no foreign race can bully the people of my Tang Dynasty in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the caliphate, even if Muhammad is resurrected, they can’t arrest you. In the Tang Dynasty, as long as your wine is earned by your ability Yes, you can drink as much as you want, come, I have the best western region grapes, and top-notch sake rice wine shojijijiu, go to my place, how about I treat you to drink."

People in later generations know that alcohol is prohibited in the Muslim religion. If you travel to the Arab region, there is no alcohol for sale in most areas. Even if you bring your own alcohol, if you are drunk by the locals, you may not beat you. His head was broken and bloody, but in fact, few people knew how many people died because of the prohibition of alcohol.

The big cannibals 1000 years ago not only couldn't help drinking, but they were addicted to alcohol. They could drink more than the old Maozi later. They could sell their sons and daughters for drinking, and they could kill or be killed. All made wine.

Later, after Muhammad unified Dashi, he felt that this was not possible. The whole country is full of drunkards, which delays my preaching, so all the jars containing wine in Dashi Empire were smashed, and the fragrant wine poured into the river, and made drinking a crime as much as gambling.

However, the eating habits of a nation can be changed smoothly with just a few words from the ruler, so some Dashi people took up swords and guns for the right to drink and began to resist vigorously. Of course, these mobs faced the so-called demigod Muhammad, of course, failed, so those who still wanted to drink fled their homeland one after another. Most of them fled to the backward barbarians, but also a small number of people chose to sail to sea. Flee to any land that allows them to drink.

The big cannibal in front of him should be one of them. Qin Hao couldn't help laughing at the way he picked up a large bucket of wine and drank it cleanly. He looked like a child.

"Dear brother, since you can come all the way to the Central Plains from the distant eclipse, do you know how to draw stars?"

Astrology, this is Qin Hao’s main purpose for inviting this buddy to drink. In history, whether this technology was learned from China by the Arabs or learned from the Arabs by the Chinese, the two historians are arguing endlessly, because we invented the compass, but it’s impossible It is denied that, at least during the Tang Dynasty, we were indeed inferior to others in terms of navigation technology.

In Qin Hao's view, it doesn't matter who invented this thing, who is the teacher and who is the student, the important thing is that even if we invented this thing, it has basically been lost after 400 years of war in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but it is The Great Food Kingdom is indeed more than a step ahead of us in terms of navigation technology. The Maritime Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty has always been run by the Great Cannibals.

According to Qin Hao's plan, ocean trade must rise in Datang, so the conflict with Dashi may not have to wait until more than 100 years later, maybe decades, maybe ten years, or even a few years. Tang and Dashi must have a battle at sea!
Qin Hao is not an angry youth, he will not stubbornly think that ancient China is invincible, and other nations are scum, he deeply knows what a terrible opponent Dashi is, the world is always so interesting, and a powerful empire is always almost They rose at the same time, ours produced Li Shimin, and others produced Mohammed. The two empires have their own advantages and disadvantages. It is hard to say who is really better. We can’t go where we are stronger than others. We underestimate ourselves, but we have to admit that others are better than us. Should we learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians? If we can learn the shipbuilding and navigation skills of the Arabs, then the last shortcoming of the Tang Dynasty compared with the big food will be made up. .

Unexpectedly, this buddy shook his head in a daze, and said, "I know how to draw stars, but you people from Tang Dynasty can't learn it."

"Oh? That's strange. Don't you think Tang people are more stupid than you cannibals?"

As soon as these words came out, all the accompanying Wangs were filled with righteous indignation, and many of them rolled up their arms and sleeves and wanted to beat him up.

The man quickly shook his head and said: "No, that's not the case, dear senior officials of the Tang Dynasty, I don't mean to look down on the people of the Tang Dynasty, you have to believe me, it's just a complete star-stretching technique, you must have a wealth of mathematical knowledge, with all due respect , Datang’s achievements in other aspects should be higher than ours, but your mathematics is really bad, and based on your current mathematics foundation, you will not be able to learn my star-stretching technique.”

Qin Hao showed a very inscrutable smile and said: "You said that my mathematics in Datang is not as good as yours, are you... sure?"

(End of this chapter)