Because of Tang Ping's reputation in Chang'an City and his unparalleled status among the craftsmen group, the suitable shipbuilding craftsmen selected from the Craftsman Registration Office almost without exception accepted Tang Ping's employment.
This also includes the brown candy, Master Geng, who claims to be a handicraftsman.
After bringing everyone to the shipyard, which had almost nothing except tools and materials, Tang Ping took a deep breath and said:
"Everyone, everyone should know that the navy of East Vietnam is powerful. Now they occupy the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, and they also have the vast Nanyang as their retreat. If we want to avenge the soldiers of Baozi City, we must first destroy the navy warships of East Vietnam. , this is the meaning of what we are standing here now!”
He looked at the craftsmen who originally belonged to the Ministry of Industry or the Craftsmen Association with piercing eyes: "In the past, we craftsmen had no status. Sometimes we worked so hard that we couldn't even make a living for our families. Later, we established The Craftsmen Association has improved everyone’s treatment.”
"But in the eyes of some people, we are still nothing. We are just workers they hire, and they can call us here and there as they please."
This is not Tang Ping's nonsense, but the Craftsmen Association. This year, the Association has come forward to help craftsmen safeguard their rights and ask for wages countless times.
Craftsmen with three stars and above are better off. Although those craftsmen with one or two stars earn more, in many cases their social status does not improve much.
Many craftsmen here came from that time, and they all nodded empathetically.
"So this time, I will lead you to let the Tang Dynasty... no, let the people of the whole world see how terrifying the power of craftsmen can be when it is brought to its extreme!"
The eyes of the craftsmen below slowly changed, shocking the world. Is this really what craftsmen like them can do?
"What? You don't believe it?" Tang Ping clearly saw their doubts and said with a smile: "Look at the monument outside Mingde Gate. It is more than half completed. Has it already attracted many Tang people? Are you and foreign business travelers shocked?"
"But that's not enough!"
Tang Ping glanced at everyone: "When you are here today, you will build an unprecedented iron-clad battleship. The battleship will carry the cannon developed by your colleagues at Wei Wang Li Tai, and our truth is within the range of the cannon!"
This truth was within the range of the cannon and completely ignited the fire in everyone's hearts.
truth!
Or in the Tang Dynasty, they all have a common title - craftsman.
But in the future, many of them will have other titles, such as inventors and scientists!
Many of them are actually exploring the truth of this world!
Tang Ping's words completely ignited their passion.
Seeing that his mobilization was effective, Tang Ping took the lead and pushed a cart of iron ingots: "Let's build a ship!"
"shipbuilding!"
"Build an ironclad!"
"Get rid of those East Vietnamese dogs!"
It is said that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge after ten years. Tang Ping felt that he was not a gentleman. He did not want to delay for too long. He was afraid that if time passed, Gou Sheng would come to his dream and ask him if he would avenge himself.
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He couldn't say the words: I've already paid for it, my son.
So he was in a hurry. He wanted to move eastward after the freezing period of the Yellow River ended in the spring of next year. At that time, they would take the lead in attacking the navy in East Vietnam and cut off their retreat.
Although East Vietnam now takes advantage of the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, there is no way to attack East Vietnam from the land route, which is to take a detour to the Western Barbarians.
The Western Barbarians are sensible. Whether it is force coercion or some benefits, they will definitely make way for the Tang Dynasty to attack East Vietnam.
But the biggest problem is that East Vietnam has opened up shipping routes to Nanyang. If the situation goes wrong, Zhen Xiong may lead his people to Nanyang through the navy.
In that case, no matter whether it is Wang Qingluan's family feud or Tang Ping's national hatred, it will take until the year of the monkey to resolve it.
So Tang Ping chose to endure, endure not attacking East Vietnam from the land route, endure the formation of his fleet, enter the Bohai Sea from the Yellow River, and then go south along the coastline.
Destroy or block the east Vietnamese Zhen Xiong's southward road in one fell swoop. At that time, whether it is using the air force to destroy the East Vietnam's Yangtze River defense line, or attacking East Vietnam via the Western Barbarians, it will be possible to catch the turtle in the jar.
The first armored ship in the Tang Dynasty and even in the world began to be slowly nurtured here.
Li Tai also made a major breakthrough.
From the homemade shotgun Tang Ping gave him, he kept trying to improve the loading method, and finally made a flintlock gun.
In fact, Li Tai probably understands the principles of modern firearms, but unfortunately the basic industry cannot keep up. Even if he can create modern firearms that are close to them, bullets cannot solve the problem.
Because the gunpowder loaded with modern bullets is completely different from the gunpowder still used in the Tang Dynasty. Modern gunpowder can basically be said to be a chemical product. With the current level of chemical industry in the Tang Dynasty, there is no way to make it.
So after research, Li Tai led people to make the flintlock guns and Frangi cannons that were most suitable for the Tang Dynasty.
The entire gun body is controlled at just over two meters, the front barrel is only one meter, and the total weight is no more than 300 kilograms.
To be honest, it may be difficult to develop such a gun from scratch, but it would be too easy to directly learn from modern information and then imitate it.
But now the latest problem comes again, Datang actually has no iron!
Datang originally had a lot of iron ore, and with the improvement of mining technology after Tang Ping came, the output of iron also increased further, and a batch could be imported from Beiyan.
But now the usage is too large, and the iron mines in Beiyan are controlled by Hou Junji. The reason given is that because of the war, whether it was the damage to the mines or the escape of the miners, the output was greatly reduced.
The amount of iron ore that Beiyan has handed over to the government in the past few months is not as much as what Datang originally bought from Beiyan.
Coupled with the fact that East Vietnam began to raise the price of iron ore collected all over the world, Datang's iron ore reserves were about to bottom out.
Even the shipyard in charge of Tang Ping and the gun factory in charge of Li Tai began to face the situation of suspending production.
"Cousin? What should we do?" Seeing that his musketry team and artillery team were about to take shape, but the raw materials were gone, even a top student like Li Tai couldn't make a fool of himself.
"If there's no iron, we'll smelt it ourselves. If there's no mine, let's dig it. Wait for me to find the mineral distribution map!"
Tang Ping's solution is simple and straightforward. From the mineral locations found in modern times, find the ones that are easy to dig and dig them yourself!
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