Because of Tang Ping's prestige in Chang'an City and his incomparable status among the craftsmen group, the craftsmen who were suitable for shipbuilding selected from the craftsman registration office almost all accepted Tang Ping's employment without exception.

This also includes the kraft candy, who claims to be a handmade Geng master.

Taking everyone to the shipyard, which can almost be said to have nothing but tools and materials, Tang Ping took a deep breath and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you should know that the naval forces of the East Vietnamese are strong, and now they occupy the Yangtze River, and they also have the vast South China Sea as their retreat. If we want to avenge the soldiers of Fort City, we must first destroy the naval warships of the East Vietnamese, and this is the meaning of standing here now! ”

Looking at the craftsmen who originally belonged to the Ministry of Industry or the Craftsman Association, he looked at the craftsmen: "In the past, we craftsmen had no status, and sometimes we were tired and tired of finishing the work, but we couldn't even support our families, but later we established the Craftsman Association and improved everyone's treatment." ”

"But in the eyes of some people, we are still nothing, just workers hired by them, who can call us around and drink at will."

This is not Tang Ping's nonsense, but in the craftsman association, I don't know how many times the association has come forward to help craftsmen defend their rights and ask for wages in the past year.

Craftsmen with more than three stars are better, although those craftsmen with one star and two stars earn more, but in many cases, the social status is not improved much.

Many craftsmen here came from that time, and they all nodded sympathetically.

"So this time, I will lead you to make Datang ...... No, it's for the whole world to see how terrible it is to show the power of craftsmen to the extreme! ”

The eyes of the craftsmen below slowly changed, shocking the world, is this really what these craftsmen can do?

"What? Don't you believe me? Tang Ping obviously saw their doubts, and said with a smile: "Look at the monument outside the Mingde Gate now, more than half of it has been completed, has it already shocked many people of the Tang Dynasty and foreign merchants?" ”

"But that's not enough!"

Tang Ping glanced at everyone: "When you arrive here today, you will build an unprecedented ironclad battleship, and the battleship will carry the cannons developed by your peers from Li Tai, the king of Wei, and our truth is within the range of the cannons!" ”

This truth was within the range of the cannon, and it completely ignited the fire in everyone's hearts.

Truth!

Or in Datang, they all have a common title - craftsman.

But in the future, many of them will have other titles, such as inventors, such as scientists!

Many of them are actually searching for the truth of this world!

Tang Ping's words completely ignited their passion.

Seeing that his mobilization had worked, Tang Ping took the lead in pushing a cart of iron ingots: "Let's go, let's build a ship!" ”

"Ship a ship!"

"Build an ironclad ship!"

"those Dongyue dogs!"

It is said that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, Tang Ping feels that he is not a gentleman, he doesn't want to delay it for too long, he is afraid that it will take a long time, Gou Sheng came to his dream and asked him if he had avenged himself.

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He couldn't say that: It's been reported, son.

Therefore, he was very anxious, and he wanted to rush all the way east after the beginning of spring next year, after the end of the ice period of the Yellow River, and then they would take the lead in attacking the naval army of East Vietnam and cut off their rear roads.

At present, although Dongyue is taking advantage of the natural danger of the Yangtze River, it is not impossible to attack Dongyue by land, that is, it is to make a detour to the west.

The Western Barbarians are sensible, whether it is to coerce by force or to give some benefits, they will inevitably give way and allow the Tang Dynasty to attack East Vietnam.

But the biggest problem is that East Vietnam has opened up a shipping route to the South Seas, and if the situation is not right, Zhen Xiong is likely to take people to the South Seas through the navy.

In that case, whether it is Wang Qingluan's family feud or Tang Ping's national hatred, I don't know that it will not be resolved until the Year of the Monkey.

Therefore, Tang Ping chose to endure, endured not to attack East Vietnam by land, endured the formation of his own fleet, entered the Bohai Sea from the Yellow River, and then went south along the coastline.

In one fell swoop, destroy or block the road for Zhen Xiong of East Vietnam to go south, and when the time comes, whether it is to use the air force to destroy the defense line of the Yangtze River in East Vietnam, or to attack East Vietnam through the Western Barbarians, you can complete the capture of turtles in the urn.

The first ironclad ship of Datang and even this world began to be slowly conceived here.

And Li Tai's side also made a major breakthrough.

From the homemade shotgun given to him by Tang Ping, he continued to try to improve the reloading method, and finally made a flintlock pistol.

In fact, Li Tai probably understands the principle of modern firearms, but the basic industry can't keep up, even if he can make close modern firearms now, but bullets can't solve it.

Because the gunpowder of modern bullet loading and the gunpowder still used by Datang are not the same thing at all, modern gunpowder can basically be said to be a chemical product, and with the current chemical level of Datang, there is no way to make it at all.

Therefore, after Li Tai researched, he led people to make the most suitable flintlock pistol and Frangi cannon for the Tang Dynasty.

The entire gun body is controlled at more than two meters, and the front gun chamber is only one meter, and the total weight is no more than 300 catties.

To be honest, it may be difficult to develop such a gun from scratch, but it is too simple to learn from modern materials and then copy them.

But now the latest problem is here again, Datang actually has no iron!

Originally, there were a lot of iron ore in Datang, and after Tang Ping came, the mining technology was improved, and the output of iron was further increased, and a batch of iron could be imported from Beiyan.

But now the amount of use is too large, and the iron ore on the Beiyan side is controlled by Hou Junji, and the reason given is because of the war, whether it is the damage to the mine or the flight of the miners, the output has been greatly reduced.

Now the iron ore that Beiyan has handed over to the government in a few months is not as much as the original Datang bought from Beiyan.

In addition, Dongyue began to raise the price of iron ore all over the world, and all of a sudden, 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 stopping production.

"Cousin? What to do? "I see that my musket team and artillery team are about to take shape, but the raw materials are gone, and even a scholar like Li Tai is difficult to cook without rice.

"If there is no iron, we will refine it ourselves, and if there is no mine, we will dig it, and wait for me to find the mineral distribution map!"

Tang Ping's solution is simple and straightforward, from the location of the minerals found in modern times, find out the good ones to dig, and dig them yourself!

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