Shipbuilding is a big project.

Especially for the current Datang, because this is the first ironclad ship, both shipbuilders and shipbuilding tools have to be innovated in the past.

The water system of Shaanxi has two water systems leading to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

It is bounded by the Qinling Mountains, and the north of the Qinling Mountains flows into the Yellow River, and the south of the Qinling Mountains flows into the Yangtze River.

If you want to go straight to Dongyue, it is naturally the fastest to take the Yangtze River system.

But Li Shimin did not choose the Yangtze River system this time.

First, the Yangtze River water system is some distance from Chang'an, and the second is that if you take the Yangtze River water system, it is too obvious.

Therefore, the shipyard was chosen on the edge of the Weishui River, which flows through Chang'an.

The entire shipyard was directly enclosed, and no one knew what this huge building on the banks of the Weishui River was used for, except for the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the craftsmen inside.

The entire process will be carried out in secret until the first boat is launched.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry do not need to worry, they are now making a lot of money by relying on Datang and the Patent Act, and no one will betray Datang to do that kind of thing that smashes their own jobs.

As for the craftsmen, they will be selected more strictly.

"Tang Shangshu, the craftsmen under our Ministry of Industry are not enough."

"How many people are missing?"

"His Royal Highness King Wei has sent a batch, and the rest is all sent to the shipyard, at least one or two hundred people are missing, in order to catch up with our expected progress."

Tang Ping nodded, the Ministry of Industry has recruited a lot of craftsmen in recent years, and it can be said that they all have a skill, but they can't stand the rapid development of Datang.

Nowadays, mechanization is not yet popular, and many times it still relies on manual operations by craftsmen, so it is even more stretched.

"Let's go, go to the Artisan Association!" Tang Ping thought for a while and said, the place where the most craftsmen in Datang is not in the Ministry of Industry, but in the Craftsman Association.

It's just that the craftsmen of the craftsman association are generally a little worse than those of the Ministry of Industry in terms of craftsmanship, but it is not absolute, and there is nothing wrong with the saying that the master is in the people.

Many craftsmen like to be free, and there are many Chang'an people in various chambers of commerce of the craftsman association who place orders, and they earn no less than in the Ministry of Industry.

In addition, the craftsmen of the craftsman association have inventions, as long as they are reported for certification, the same is subject to patent dividends, so the number of craftsmen in the craftsman association is also very large.

Tang Ping took people to the Craftsman Association, which is now very formal, a hall, with various partitions such as order receiving area, payment area, and after-sales area.

Of course, Tang Ping didn't need to go to the counter when he came, and went directly to the registration office of the Artisan Association on the second floor, which is different from the first floor in that it specializes in dealing with craftsman issues.

Walking on the stairs on the second floor, I heard an urgent voice say, "Big brother, please, you can give me a star!" You see I've been in the Craftsman Association for so long, and I'm still a three-star craftsman, it's a shame! Also, why have I been rejected for several patents? ”

The Artisan Association has a relatively strict grading system, and each star represents the craftsmanship and service attitude of the craftsman. Of course, it will also be directly linked to their income, and the money for a one-star craftsman and a five-star general is completely different.

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Four- and five-star craftsmen can apply to join the Ministry of Works if they wish.

To be honest, the Samsung craftsmen in Chang'an are at least skilled. And one person also applied for several patents, which made Tang Ping even more curious.

Listening to his words, Tang Ping thought that he had been treated unfairly, so he sped up two steps and walked over.

When I came to the door of the registration office, I saw a man who looked like a wild man, with a long and messy beard and hair, being pushed out.

"Lao Geng, if I didn't say you, can't you do something honestly? Can you call those things inventions? ”

"Hey, let me tell you, you can insult me as a person, but you can't insult my invention? No one had ever done anything before this point, so why couldn't it be my invention? ”

"What's going on?" Tang Ping frowned and asked, "Why did you reject all his invention patents?" ”

"Ping Guogong! Yes...... Lord Shangshu! The staff member was originally an expatriate official of the Ministry of Works, and when he saw Tang Ping hurriedly saluting, he heard some blame in Tang Ping's words, and said aggrievedly: "Lord Shangshu, those inventions of this Master Geng ......"

Glancing at the craftsman surnamed Geng, he said directly: "Why don't you let him introduce you yourself!" ”

Master Geng's eyes lit up when he looked at Tang Ping: "Ping Guogong, hello, hello, I am yours...... Yes, you're talking about fans, right? I'm a fan of yours! A lot of my stuff comes from you, and they don't pass my patents. ”

Tang Ping looked at the excited Master Geng, a little funny, shook his head and said, "Tell me about your invention, if they deliberately embarrass you, I will definitely make the decision for you." ”

"Okay!" Master Geng said, flipped over the big backpack behind his back, grabbed a bunch of messy drawings from it, flipped through it and found one and said, "Ping Guogong, look at this!" ”

"What is this?" Tang Ping picked up the drawings and looked at them for a while, and asked with some uncertainty: "Muyu?" ”

"Hey, why don't you say I'm a fan of yours!" Master Geng said with some excitement: "That's right, this is a wooden fish, but it is not an ordinary wooden fish. ”

There were indeed a lot of messy parts on the drawing, but because it was so messy, Tang Ping really couldn't see what it was.

"It's a wooden fish that can be automatically tapped!" Master Geng excitedly pointed to his drawings: "Look here, this is connected to a windmill here, as long as there is wind, there is power, of course, if there is no wind, it doesn't matter, you can blow it with your mouth." ”

"Then I added a device like this here, which can keep the mallet that hits the wooden fish at a relatively average speed."

As he spoke, he was digging in his big bag, and finally he pulled out a bag of scattered parts, and then he saw that his hands were very flexible to assemble those parts.

A black-red jujube wooden fish with a small mallet hanging from it, and then a piece of device and a windmill attached to it.

"Ping Guogong, look at it." As he spoke, he puffed out his cheeks and blew hard at the windmill, which rotated and drove the pulley to rotate, and then slowly, the wooden fish was really struck.

Looking at this familiar style, Tang Ping was a little stunned: "You thing...... Is it any use? ”

"Naturally, there is, there is a monk in Xiangguo Temple, who is the original veteran, and his arms are broken, but with this, he can knock on the wooden fish!"

Master Geng said with a smug face.

Well, there is a picture, Tang Ping can already imagine a monk blowing himself to the point of running out of oxygen.

looked at the staff member of the craftsman association on the side, the staff spread their hands helplessly, Tang Ping also knew why the craftsman association did not pass his patent.

"And that's not the only invention I've invented!" Master Geng said and began to pack it by himself again.

"I also made a stall for a pianist who wants to go to the food street to set up a barbecue stall that can grill and barbecue while playing the piano, just in the food city in the south of the city, Ping Guogong has the opportunity to try, although he doesn't play the piano very well, but the roast mutton he makes is really a must!"

That's right, it's that taste, Tang Ping asked uncertainly, "What is Master Geng's name?" Do you have any nicknames, such as handmade Geng or something? ”

"Nickname?" Master Geng shook his head: "No, but this handmade Geng seems to be good, hahaha, many people have their own nicknames, then I will be called Handmade Geng in the future, Xie Pingguo will give the name!" ”

"Oh, and I have a handsome name in my single name, called Geng Shuai!"

As he spoke, he shook his hair rather coquettishly.

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