In the end, the entire monument recruited a total of 1,200 volunteers, and those who were not selected could only complain and leave.

Such a large metal statue, in addition to using Dongyue armor to show Datang's determination to take revenge, is also a big challenge for Datang's forging technology.

The next day, the officials of the Ministry of Labor began to transport coal and furnaces with these volunteers.

To build on the spot, Tang Ping did not ask anyone to clean the captured armor with blood stains.

Some of the blood on it belonged to the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and some were from the East Vietnamese soldiers.

Most of the armor had become tattered, piled up in heaps.

The knife marks on the armor were naturally left by the Tang army, but those war knives that rolled up were caused by slashing on the Tang army's body one by one.

All the people who passed by would stop and salute.

There were also merchants of different races passing by, and they only felt a chill when they looked at those soldiers.

All the volunteers were divided into four shifts, each working for five hours, constantly smelting the armor outside the Mingde Gate.

After smelting, the armor is turned into metal ingots piece by piece, and then the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works will take the blacksmiths among the volunteers to start forging the entire exterior of the monument, and finally assemble them piece by piece.

Mingdemen has become a big construction site, but no one will be dissatisfied.

Tang Ping finally joined the Ministry of Engineering.

"The deputy secretary is good!" For Tang Ping, the officials of the Ministry of Industry are the most admired.

Now who doesn't know that the Ministry of Industry is the best department in the whole Datang, but not everyone can enter such a department.

Those who can come in have a skill.

And their treatment is also earned by themselves.

Many of the technologies brought by Tang Ping from modern times are somewhat disconnected, and they must be localized if they are to be used in Datang.

These officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry are racking their brains for this.

After all, by improving a technology, you can get certain benefits from the process of using the technology.

Now there is a master craftsman in the Ministry of Industry, and his income has far exceeded that of Fang Du and other first-class officials.

For such craftsmen, not only will they not be suppressed, but Tang Ping even specially asked Li Shimin to send someone to protect him.

In Tang Ping's mind, this Ministry of Engineering is at the same level as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is there anything wrong with the high salaries of researchers in the Chinese Academy of Sciences? There's nothing wrong with it!

It is precisely because of Tang Ping's strong support that the entire Ministry of Industry can be said to accept him unconditionally, if he is not willing to squeeze Duan Lun's position, or let him sit in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in his early twenties, the people below are definitely convinced.

"You're welcome!" Tang Ping's voice was not loud, because today he did not go to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, but came to the Datang General Office.

That is, after he donated the computer, it was like a big Internet café.

Now each yamen has divided its own area here and has begun to automate its office.

It has to be said that the efficiency has increased greatly, and the only drawback may be that the place in each department is smaller.

Tang Ping is only about 20 square meters here, separated from the outside by a screen, which can be regarded as the office space of their Ministry of Industry.

"First of all, tell me about the latest situation in the Ministry of Industry!"

"Yes!" A Ministry of Works official directly controls his computer and projects projections onto a white screen.

"Vice-Shangshu, you see, this is the output of our Ministry of Industry last year, a total of 631 steam engines of various sizes and 341 steam locomotives......"

All morning, Tang Ping spent the whole morning reading these reports, no way, now he wants to do something in the Ministry of Industry, at least he has to understand the basic situation of the Ministry of Industry.

It turned out that Tang Ping had any technology, and he directly threw it to the officials of the Ministry of Industry and asked them to study it themselves, so he really didn't know the specific development of the Ministry of Industry now.

"Okay, I probably understand the situation, now I want to talk about the first thing, that is, the monument outside the Mingde Gate, the craftsmen there expect all the components to be completed at the end of the month, and then we will rivet and joint, how is the Ministry of Industry mastering the riveting technology?"

"Rest assured, the riveting technique you have taught, the blacksmith under the Ministry of Industry has basically mastered it, and there is no problem. And we also used a steam engine to make an impact machine, and some large rivets can be directly molded by machine instead of by hand. ”

"Oh?" Tang Ping raised his eyebrows, this riveting technique is not complicated, that is, punching holes and then inserting red-hot rivets, using a top mold to hold the rivets up, and then beating them into shape.

This is the best metal joining technology before the welding technology is formed, and I have only been sent to the Ministry of Engineering for a short time, but I did not expect that not only most of the blacksmiths have mastered it, but also learned to use the power of machinery.

You must know that the Titanic back then actually used riveting technology instead of welding technology.

"So, the drawings I got yesterday can be done?" Tang Ping was overjoyed, using the riveting technology, the monument is actually just incidental, what is really used is the connection of those large metal parts, such as the drawings he brought this time - ironclad ship!

"Yes, Vice Shangshu, the drawings you brought, after we studied them with the shipbuilders, we made a small change, please see!"

Tang Ping looked at the structural drawings drawn by the officials and employees of the Ministry of Industry on the projection, and had to sigh at the learning ability of these people.

I threw a few CAD books from beginner to proficient and the like to the Ministry of Engineering, and I didn't care, after all, he didn't know this thing himself.

I just didn't expect that in this short period of time, they could all be used to draw.

It was a modern warship, but instead of using paddlewheels on the sides of the hull, the propeller device was used in one step.

At the rear of the ship is the power room, powered by four large steam engines, which drive the ship forward.

The entire hull will also be made entirely of steel, with gun emplacements on the bow, stern and side sides.

The warships used in East Vietnam now are improved on Tang Ping's drawings, and the length of a sea warship is close to 100 meters, and the displacement is about 10,000 tons.

And the warships that Tang Ping is now asking Datang to build, if they have a displacement, will only survive a few thousand tons.

Among them, the inland rivers are only used with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons.

But Tang Ping was confident that as long as the Ministry of Industry could build a few such warships according to the standards, he would be able to sweep the entire East Vietnamese naval army.

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