Soon, with Li Tai's order, news about the recruitment of master craftsmen in Luoyang began to spread along the Grand Canal.
At the same time, the masters of the entire Chang'an area were somewhat excited to hear the news.
After all, it has been several years since the last time Zheng Baiqu was renovated.
Those masters or outstanding workers who took Zheng Baiqu as the assessment criteria also obtained their own honors and benefits with the end of the Zheng Baiqu assessment.
Among them, those who have obtained the ratings of masters or outstanding workers mainly have three directions of movement.
First, they became masters. These people were either taken over by Shaofu Supervisor or were directly confiscated. Li Tai's Mo Ke also took the opportunity to make a lot of money, mainly arranged in the coal mine system to improve mining efficiency.
Go.
This group of people is the best among the craftsmen, and they went to the court in both directions, so the court organized them and they gained a strong job.
The second batch is a group of masters or outstanding workers who do not want to join the court or cannot stand the rules of the court.
Their main job is to take care of Zheng Baiqu. For example, where the place is abandoned, where it is damaged, and where it needs repair. After careful division, they are asked to be responsible for the contract for generations. If it is particularly serious, they will be reported to the county government for repair.
As long as the area they are responsible for is not completely abandoned or destroyed, even after their death, their son or apprentice can inherit the work, as long as they report it in the prefectures and counties.
During this process, the court would also allocate a certain amount of money and food every year, and if they didn't receive it, they could go to the Ministry of Industry to make trouble.
In short, this project can still be operated, so you can eat half of the official meal and work yourself when you have nothing to do.
The third one is an outstanding worker who participated in Zheng Baiqu’s work.
What should I say? These people are eliminated people who have been screened at the national level. Perhaps they are too young and have not made any major contributions...
In short, these people have worked for Zheng Baiqu for several years, and they have worked hard without any credit. They can't just give them a medal.
At this time, the agricultural society arranged by Li Tai was on the stage.
The agricultural society needs maintenance during the promotion of agricultural tools, or needs to be built locally. After working in Zhengbaiqu for several years, it has won the medal of outstanding workers, so it will take the initiative to find these people.
These people were asked to provide logistics support for the agricultural society, and some were even absorbed into the agricultural society and became part of the agricultural society.
In short, those who have finished the work from Zheng Baiqu and have been assessed have the ability to complete the work, and those who have the idea have gone to contract. Even those who have only learned a lot of money and have received special care from the agricultural society.
In such a situation, how could other craftsmen not let drool?
King Yue, our skills are not bad, we want to be specially taken care of by the imperial court!
Then, King Yue was named King Yan and went to Youzhou, and had no connection with the Chang'an craftsmen.
These craftsmen, even if the King of Wei does not engage in these activities, the court will do it more or less.
Then they waited eagerly, year after year, and this time they really didn't pick on each other, let alone disbelief.
But the reality is, who in the court cares about the ideas of these craftsmen?
Well, it's not right. At least Li Shimin still cares. After all, whether it's the Lishan Courtyard that I'm longing for, or the renovated Luoyang Palace, these craftsmen are needed.
But what makes craftsmen have a headache is that there is no assessment and no badges. They cannot get jobs from the agricultural society through these experiences, so that their lives will be more promising!
Seeing the craftsmen who were once more on par with their own equality and even a generation lower than themselves bragging and spanking while drinking turbid wine.
He boasted about how hard he worked in Zheng Baiqu, and then passed the assessment and gave him the badge to his outstanding workers.
This made craftsmen of all sizes feel more or less sour.
The most important thing is that with the same skills, the other party uses this medal and experience to collect more money than himself and live comfortably. How can he endure it?
So this time, when the King of Wei held a craftsmanship assessment again, most of the craftsmen near Gyeonggi Province were enthusiastically rushing towards the Li Tai project.
Even if you are not strong enough to become a master, you will not settle in Henan because of your family. However, you will still earn the reward of an outstanding worker and then join the agricultural society near your home.
After all, it is another matter of how your craft is. For ordinary people, it is not important to have a difference of one or two minutes.
But if you don’t have this badge, you won’t be qualified to do this job. This is absolutely impossible.
So the craftsmen who did not participate in the assessment last time, especially those in Gyeonggi-do, were really enthusiastic.
In addition to them, even the craftsmen who won excellent workers last time were more or less trying to go to Luoyang for the assessment of the master craftsmen.
The same thing, who doesn’t want to have a meal at the office, and who doesn’t want to prepare it!
Last time, I couldn't become a master craftsman for one reason or another, but this time I worked hard, and if I had good luck, I would pass the master craftsman successfully.
That's true that you will never have to worry about food and clothing in this life, and you may be able to get a family inheritance career.
After all, what we pay attention to in this era is not to free development, but to inherit and orderly inheritance and the son inherits the father's business.
As long as the Tang Dynasty does not fall, it can continue to inherit the profession that is at the same time as the country. It is a treatment that only high-ranking officials with titles can receive.
How could I miss such a good thing if I had encountered such a good thing?
As for Li Tai's large-scale projects, he usually likes to keep monuments to commemorate great masters. For most people, he doesn't have much thought.
After all, those who can keep monuments are people who have made special contributions to the entire project. Basically, every such person is a master craftsman. Even if he is not a master craftsman, he will be a master craftsman after he is not a master craftsman.
As long as the entire project is still there, they can continue to pass on the monument.
Although the fact that leaving a name in history has always been the pursuit of Confucian scholars, for craftsmen, they have also become very interested in making some famous names with their own skills and being able to leave a name in history.
Don’t say it, when you brag when you are old, you tell your descendants that a certain project was done by Aye. I believe that it is also very proud. At most, there are not many masters who want to keep a monument.
No matter what, as Li Tai began to spread the news of the master craftsman's assessment, the craftsmen in the Kanto region were still watching the assessment with a skeptical attitude.
But craftsmen in Kansai area, especially Gyeonggi Province, began to find ways to find county magistrates to open road guides, preparing to go to Luoyang to register for craftsmen assessment.
After all, it is not just a waste of time to work for the King of Wei for two or three years. His purpose is to have a guarantee for the rest of his life in the past two or three years, and even for his future descendants to be at the starting line!
However, the large number of local craftsmen are also a headache for local county magistrates.
After all, craftsmen had no high status in ancient times, and even some powerful people had to let craftsmen work for nothing.
But if they leave the local area in large quantities, it will have more or less impact on the entire local society.
The easiest thing is who to repair the farm tools if they are broken, and who to build the house if they want to build it. The most important thing is what project the court wants to build, but what should I do if I can’t find someone.
So if one or two craftsmen leave and you can approve the road guide yourself, but if all the craftsmen run away, it will definitely affect the local operation efficiency.
And this incident happened under Chang'an's nose, so it was natural that the censor would report it.
The censors did not target anyone. After all, the news of the news has affected the people, but they cannot be despised!
Li Shimin listened to the censor's advice and looked at Yan Lide. After all, craftsmen have always been under the jurisdiction of Yan Lide.
Yan Lide made a statement, "The court can gather these craftsmen, and then follow the road construction team to be sent to Henan Road to participate in the road construction together.
As for the local craftsmen, just let them leave their disciples or children to temporarily take over their work.
After all, the assessment proposed in Luoyang this time is as important to the craftsmen as the imperial examination for the students.
Moreover, the generals of the court and the Shaofu Supervisor can also select outstanding masters to enter the court through this assessment!"
Li Shimin nodded when he heard Yan Lide's words. Since this matter was beneficial to the court itself, Li Shimin would not stop it.
But Li Shimin frowned and said, "Who should anyone take over this task in the court? It would be better to build the road project of Henan Road with the King of Wei!"
When everyone heard this, they were more or less hesitant to tell the truth.
Because they know very well that this matter is different from ordinary projects.
Today you brought people to build the roads of Henan Road, so do you need to build Huainan Road in other places, Jiangnan Road, and Longyou Road... As long as you build one place, you need to build roads everywhere.
In the next life, I will be filled in and out of the generals and ministers, and I will naturally be happy to do it.
But now, if you do this job well, you have to fill in it for the rest of your life. If you can't do it well, you might be filled in it on the spot.
In addition to this problem, it is also worth mentioning that this project itself must be subject to the King of Wei.
To some extent, this person could see more or less that when the project was completely completed, King Wei was afraid that he would be dispatched back to Chang'an and was specifically responsible for road construction.
There is no way, the roads need to be carried out from the bottom supporting facilities and the top-level funds to win over them.
If the King of Wei does not take over, it will stump a lot of people just where the money comes from. However, if Henan Road is built, no one can be missing from the ten roads in the world.
The grass seed plan was also prosperous at the beginning, but after doing things, the aristocratic families who invested money still don’t know who to ask for the capital to pay!
On the contrary, Xihai County produces horses every year, selling them in Chang'an for a long time, and even increasing year by year every year. The soldiers who invested money at the beginning were all smiling.
So, even if you do this job, the credit may not be yours in the end, and you are just working hard.
The imperial court had so many leisurely jobs, especially if you were following Li Shimin to advise, you would be rewarded. Why did you have to work so hard to run to Henan Road and work hard? Isn’t it easy to move your mouth here?
At this moment, facing Li Shimin's question, most of the people present remained silent. After all, they really didn't want to go there.
However, at this time, Yan Lide came out and said, "I recommend that you be the young supervisor Yan Liben lead the Henan Road Construction Working Group to cooperate with King Wei to supervise the smooth construction of Henan Road Construction Project."
To be honest, Yan Lide knew that it was impossible to send a respected minister to share the contributions of King Wei, such as Du Ruhui who did it in the past.
But the road is different from a canal. There is only one canal, and it’s just sorted out, and the whole thing is over.
But even if the road repair is completed in Henan, then it will only start, so don’t think about picking peaches.
If you pick peaches and the King of Wei quit, see if the rest of the world will point at your backbone and scold.
So I would like to give the greatest contribution of this matter to the King of Wei, so that the King of Wei will build roads one after another in the future. Even if it is built slowly, at least there will be hope for other places.
So, some people with relatively low official positions were stuffed in, just as they were making contributions, so Yan Lide decisively stuffed his younger brother Yan Liben in.
At least in Yan Lide's opinion, what's your ability to paint the royal family? Can you still draw a prime minister?
You have to show your working side, and you may have a chance to become a master of the left and right servants.
And if Yan Liben takes a step back, even if Yan Liben is just a painter and has no government affairs, Yan Lide believes that Li Tai will not take care of Yan Liben for Yan Wan's sake?
Not to mention the credit, at least if anything happens, it will not be blamed on Yan Li himself.
It can be said that there is really no other place in the court that can make merits more secure than this.
"Is it a copy?" Li Shimin couldn't help but touch his beard when he heard Yan Lide's recommendation, but his eyes looked at Du Ruhui.
After all, the officials still have to make the final decision, Du Ruhui, the Minister of Personnel.
When Du Ruhui heard Li Shimin's words, he came out and said, "Yan Shaojian is indeed a choice.
However, the number of people involved in this project is probably the best in the Tang Dynasty project. If Shangshu Yan does not supervise the construction himself, it is best to send a military personnel to command at least 5,000 soldiers to supervise the construction.
Even if there is any major problem, it can avoid the problem from expanding!"
When Li Shimin heard Du Ruhui's words, he thought for a while and said, "Who was the one who assisted Qingque in supervising the construction of Zheng Baiqu last time?"
"It's Su Lie, who is currently the Sima of Youzhou!" Du Ruhui thought for a while and reported Su Lie's name.
"Youzhou... is a bit far away!" Li Shimin immediately eliminated the answer and said, "Let Daozong take people there!"
"No!" Everyone immediately understood when they heard Li Shimin's words. Li Shimin thought of his old love and found an opportunity to activate Li Daozong.