We've been talking about this all game so we should make the attempt, even though we're getting a late start. In order to maximize our chance at getting this I strongly suggest we send a couple of workers to NotA to chop some forests.
I suggest we research COL while building the Oracle (as we've discussed for some time) and try to time the completion of the Oracle with the discovery of COL. Looking at the save this should be possible if we emphasize gold/science in Equus Aurum (as I believe the governor has ordered). Assuming we build the Oracle, we can select Civil Service as our free tech. I think we'll also have the choice of selecting Philosophy (Taoism) if we so choose. We may want to stop the turnchat one turn before building the Oracle so we can discuss which free tech we should choose.