Guedes knew very well that the reason why His Majesty the glorious and great Emperor was able to personally allow himself to become a citizen of the Tang Empire was naturally not because he was handsome, let alone because of the gold and silver in his pocket, but because he said that he could help His Majesty the Emperor recruit a large number of various technical craftsmen.

So in the past few days, when he bought a house in Zhaoqing and settled down, and at the same time walked around the streets of Zhaoqing to open his eyes, he was also thinking about how to efficiently complete this task of His Majesty.

If it is just an ordinary craftsman, as long as he is promised a high salary, and at the same time renders the wealth of the Tang Dynasty, these craftsmen will naturally rush to get on the boat with him, and then come to the Tang Dynasty.

But the crux of the matter is that the Tang Dynasty does not want ordinary craftsmen, but really high-tech craftsmen, and those half-people don't want it.

After all, the Tang Dynasty is not just any craftsman needs, what it needs is really skilled, and it is skilled craftsmen, as for those ordinary craftsmen, the Tang Dynasty has a lot of itself through the training of the past few years, although there is also a demand for ordinary craftsmen, but it is not very urgent.

At present, what the Tang Dynasty needs most is craftsmen who can manufacture large-caliber artillery, and at the same time, it also needs craftsmen who have mastered the production of iron cannons, especially the production process of large-caliber long-barreled iron cannons.

Whether it is a cannon maker, a watchmaker or other high-tech talents related to machinery, even in Europe, it is a valuable talent!

And people with superb skills, to be honest, don't worry about not having a good job there, and it is not so easy to get them to work in the Far East thousands of miles away.

However, Guedes is already determined to be determined, as long as he finds this kind of person, whether he wants to or not, he will forcibly bring Datang!

As a pirate captain, if he can't rob a few craftsmen, then he's a pirate captain for nothing.

Having made up his mind, Guedes was reluctant to see the prosperity of Zhaoqing, but he returned to the trading area of Canton, where he had to recruit enough sailors so that when it came time for Malacca and the other colonies, he would be able to take his alternative: grab the people directly!

And the preferred option is naturally to use a high salary or other promises to coax people directly!

In short, it is one who can deceive one, and one who can rob one is one!

He made a package ticket with those officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he settled down, and if he was given half a year, he would definitely find craftsmen who could make large-caliber naval guns for the Tang Dynasty.

After spending three days in the Guangzhou Trade Zone, recruiting enough people, and bringing a large amount of goods, it was to set sail for Malacca again, recruiting craftsmen and doing business without delay.

As for the plan to become a great second-tier dealer, it was temporarily shelved by him, and now his priority is not to make money, but to recruit craftsmen first.

When Guedes set sail, Li Xuan also received a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to it!

Asking Guedes to recruit highly skilled artisans in Southeast Asia and even Europe was just one of many options he had made to develop his industry, and it was only one of many options.

In order to develop industry, in order to create large-caliber naval guns and improve the level of precision machining, Li Xuan's main plan is to focus on self-cultivation and research and development, and the use of external forces is only secondary.

Because even if some craftsmen are brought from Europe, the Tang Dynasty can produce large-caliber naval guns, but at most it is only a small batch of manual production, if it is just like this, the Tang Dynasty itself has worked hard to develop it for a few years, and it can also be made, after all, now fourteen catties of artillery can be produced by hand in small batches, and the principle of hand-made artillery is actually almost the same.

Since it is possible to manually make a 14-kilogram artillery gun with a caliber of 20 times, it is also possible to make a cannon with a simple thickened barrel and even a 20-kilogram artillery with a caliber of 18 kilograms or even 24 kilograms.

What really makes the subordinate arsenals of the Tang Dynasty feel tricky is how to mass-produce these cannons on a large scale, and how to mass-produce these cannons on a large scale with iron casting, which involves the difficulty of mechanical precision machining, and the other involves more difficult material problems.

In order to overcome these difficulties, there is no way to do this, but to constantly improve the existing machinery, improve the level of processing, and then test the recipes of various raw materials over and over again, and these are all time-consuming, and at the same time, it takes real scientific talents, not just craftsmen who rely on experience and pass them on from generation to generation.

And at present, in the Tang Dynasty, the only people who barely have such ability are the students in the young military camp!

In order to further improve the scientific and technological research and development capabilities in the young military camp, Li Xuan has continuously reformed the young military camp!

As a simple orphanage training institution, the original purpose of the young military camp was to cultivate civilian and military generals who were loyal to the royal family, but now, there has been a change, to be honest, when Li Xuan ran the young military camp, he did not expect to turn the young military camp into a research and development institution.

At first, his idea was to carry out scientific research and development in the Royal Academy of Sciences, but it was very disappointing that the traditional craftsmen in the Royal Academy of Sciences could not undertake the research and development of advanced technology.

In mid-May, Li Xuan once again carried out major surgery on the young military camps, the government-run juvenile colleges, and the colleges of higher learning.

This is to imitate the changes made by the general camp of the young military camp, and it is to train the students in the young military camp in advance according to their talents.

At the same time, the general camp of the young military camp was split, and the general camp of the Zhaoqing young military camp only retained the liberal arts class and the military class, with the training of high-quality civilian officials and high-quality military attachés as the core, and the seventh grade to the twelfth grade, and the sixth-grade students of the young military camp in various places continued to study in the Zhaoqing general camp of the young military camp.

After graduating from the twelfth grade, liberal arts can be directly awarded or participate in the examination, and those with average grades in the military class can directly enter the army to serve, and after service, they can also apply for the imperial academy by themselves according to the situation, and those with excellent academic performance can continue to study in the imperial academy.

The science class in the general camp of the Zhaoqing Infant Barracks is a separate Royal Institute of Technology, the curriculum is from the seventh grade to the twelfth grade, divided into middle grades, senior grades, and the sixth-grade science students of the young barracks in various places can directly enter the school to study, and at the same time, high-quality sixth-grade graduates are recruited from the local juvenile colleges.

It is a professional college that aims to train high-quality science and engineering talents, which is very different from the Faculty of Science in the Kokuzijianri, which only trains civil servants with modern scientific knowledge.

At the same time, government-run colleges and universities in various localities are also studying arts and sciences in separate classes, abolishing the 10th to 12th grades, which used to be nominally but in fact not having a single student, and only retaining the 7th to 9th grades.

Science graduates after Year 9 can apply to the Royal Institute of Technology!

And liberal arts students can also apply for Guozijian or Martial Arts Academy!

This kind of splitting is more conducive to concentrating faculty and making the Royal Institute of Technology a pure science and engineering, and it is also a preparatory college focusing on research and development!

Yes, even the Royal Institute of Technology is not a real university in Li Xuan's mind, in fact, it is just a middle school with a high school.

And the juvenile colleges and colleges are on the way to returning them to ordinary schools!

In a few years, Li Xuan will open a government-run preparatory school, open a high school curriculum, and simultaneously open a university according to the situation, especially after the teachers are fully guaranteed.

As for the Royal Institute of Technology, it can also directly open university classes in the future, and become a school that includes junior high school, high school, and university!

In fact, Li Xuan also wants to do it in one step and directly run schools such as elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university, but this is an unrealistic problem, and this unreality is not because of funds, politics and other factors, but teachers!

If you don't have a teacher, you're going to run a fart school!

Now in the entire Datang, there are no more than 200 students above the sixth grade, and there are only a few dozen students above the seventh grade, and it is impossible for them to become teachers to fill such a huge gap, so Li Xuan can only come step by step, first primary school, then junior high school, and then high school and university.

The Royal Institute of Technology, on the other hand, is an exception!

Because Li Xuan needs them to develop all kinds of technologies, even if it is just a group of junior high school level technicians, it is much better than those craftsmen!

For the advancement of modern education, Li Xuan spared no effort!

At the same time, he also spares no effort for the support and development of science and technology!

Inspired by the fact that the students in the young military camp developed a large number of technologies, which were licensed to various factories and collected royalties, at the same time, the Tang Dynasty also set off a wave of industry and commerce, and at the same time, the steam engine also appeared, and the wave of the industrial revolution is coming!

The Tang Dynasty needs to be prepared for this!

For this reason, the patent law formulated by Li Xuan instructed the Ministry of Law was also officially promulgated in early June!

The Patent Law stipulates that the inventor can apply for a patent for all kinds of technologies and products that have not yet appeared, and as long as the patent examination is passed, the inventor will have the exclusive patent right for 20 years, and anyone who uses the patented technology must be authorized by the patentee.

If anyone dares to carry out imitation production without authorization, he will be fined until he is bankrupt!