In this era, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is no longer too young. She knew when she was very young that she wanted to go to the Tang Dynasty and become a bridge between the Tang Dynasty and Spain.
He also knows very well what kind of responsibility he bears.
After two days of feeling depressed, she frequently chatted with the nuns and maids in the Palace Affairs Office.
What to talk about?
Naturally, I want to talk about the Tang Dynasty, especially the Tang court.
This is very important to her.
She is going to the Tang Dynasty, and will live in the Tang Dynasty court in the future. The more she knows now, the better.
Although she has received cultural education from the Tang Dynasty since she was ten years old, many tutors sent by the Tang Dynasty taught her the culture and etiquette of the Tang Dynasty, but they were basically limited to culture and etiquette.
As for many things about the Tang Dynasty, she actually still didn't know much, because the tutors who taught her were all temporary residents, and they themselves didn't know much.
Many hearsays gave her a certain understanding of the Tang Dynasty, but this understanding was very one-sided and shallow.
This one-sidedness and shallowness also made it difficult for her to have a true understanding of the Tang Dynasty.
She knew that the Tang Dynasty had ships that could sail on the sea without sails, and vehicles that could run across the land without horses. She had seen the giant steel ships and even trains of the Tang Dynasty from the picture albums.
Although there are no cameras these days, don't underestimate the skills of painters. Painters with high enough skills can even draw the ships of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, in Europe today, there is actually no lack of knowledge of the ships of the Tang Dynasty. The exquisite oil paintings of painters can even depict the steel warships of the Tang Dynasty anchored in the port exactly the same.
Elizabeth had seen many of these paintings, the most common of which were the steel steam battleships of the Tang Dynasty, so she still had a certain understanding of the Tang Dynasty people.
She even knew that these ships did not use sails and the vehicles did not use horses. That was because of something called a steam engine.
but!
She still couldn't understand why the Tang Dynasty's steam engines could push such a huge wheel!
She also occasionally saw Spain's own steam engine last year. It was an extremely crude machine, but very weak. Her father said that this kind of steam engine was only used to lift water at most.
How could such a steam engine propel such a huge steel wheel?
She doesn't understand!
In fact, most people don't understand why, and not many people in Europe can understand this problem.
And half of them are on the Tatar side.
The rest are in England and Spain.
Compared with European countries, the Tatars attach more importance to science and technology, and this emphasis is directly derived from their emphasis on military affairs.
The Tatars were overwhelmed by the Tang Dynasty on the Eastern Front, and they knew how powerful the Tang Dynasty's guns were. They were always looking for opportunities to shorten the gap between the two sides.
They had gone to great lengths to smuggle a ship-based steam engine from a Tang merchant. When the Tatar craftsmen saw the ship-based steam engine, they could hardly believe that this thing could be manufactured.
Unfortunately, when they tried to install the carrier-based steam engine on the battleship, the news came out and attracted a direct attack from the Tang Navy. In the end, the entire shipyard was bombed to pieces, and so was the carrier-based steam engine.
Was snatched back.
It can be seen from this that the Tatars pay more attention to new technologies than the Spaniards and work hard to find solutions for them.
If you can't do it yourself, you can learn it secretly. If you can't learn it, you can just smuggle it. If it doesn't work, just spend money and ask people from the Tang Dynasty to do it.
Not to mention, in recent years, many people from the Tang Dynasty have gone to the Tatars one after another. There are all kinds of people, and the so-called is nothing more than prosperity and wealth.
A few years ago, the patrol forces in Central Asia captured several Tang people who were preparing to go to the Tatars. After questioning, they found out that one of these people was actually a student at Jinling University of Technology. Because he was dissatisfied with the current situation.
Dissatisfied and eager for glory and wealth, he came into contact with Tatar spies at the right opportunity.
Finally, as soon as I got excited, I and several other technicians who had been bribed by the Tatars prepared to go to the Golden Kingdom of Tatar to pursue their new life.
After careful questioning, even the people of the Tang Dynasty had to lament the conditions given by the Tatars!
What did the Tatar promise to this polytechnic student?
A research institute, with hundreds of craftsmen or apprentices at his disposal.
He was awarded the title of Minister of the Ministry of Works and was granted the title of Viscount.
As for things like money and beautiful women, let alone trivial matters.
As long as you like it, you can choose from various skin colors, appearances, and even men and women. If your waist is strong enough, they can give you hundreds and hundreds of them.
The other few don't have these things, but are paid, but how much are their salaries?
The Tatars offered a monthly salary of hundreds or even thousands of yuan.
And these people are just ordinary technicians!
Moreover, they transfer the money directly to their families from the Royal Bank, so there is no need to worry about the Tatars going back on their word. In fact, the Tatars have always been very willing to buy talents and have a good reputation!
I only get a few hundred yuan a year for working hard in my hometown, but if I work secretly among the Tatars for a year, I can earn thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, and I can make a fortune after working for a few years.
The Tang Dynasty enjoyed happiness. To be honest, many people dared to do this.
In any era and in any region, there is always no shortage of such people, and the existence of these people also makes the development of the Tatars faster.
It’s just that even if the Tatars tried to learn the advanced science from the Tang Dynasty through various methods, the results were still very small. At most, they could only produce a few small things. They could not produce the ships or trains of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the ships and trains of the Tang Dynasty.
Because these products are not just a single product, behind any of the above-mentioned industrial products, they represent an entire industrial system.
Taking the most representative naval battleship as an example,
To build a steel warship in the Tang Dynasty, what was needed was far more than just a shipyard, and far more than an artillery factory, a steam engine factory, a steel factory, and hundreds of manufacturers behind it.
Now that the Tang Dynasty Navy is building a 10,000-ton battleship, there are more than 30 large-scale suppliers that directly provide subsystems to the military. However, behind these more than 30 suppliers, there are hundreds of suppliers.
Counting further down, there are tens of thousands.
Building such a battleship required Datang's entire industrial system, not just one or two shipyards!
Battleships are like this. Although the requirements for other industrial products are not so high, they are similar. For example, this breech-mounted rifled gun is not just rifled.
The breech-loading rifled guns of the Tang Dynasty are not a secret. Aboriginal people all over the world know that the rifled guns of the Tang Dynasty are awesome.
They even knew the general internal structure and even the principles of rifled guns. The Tatars even brought over prototype guns and directly mapped out the design drawings.
But can they make it?
impossible!
Because they can't even make a barrel or barrel!
If they could imitate the smoothbore guns of the Tang Dynasty in the past, then in the rifled era, the Tatars found that they were completely unable to imitate the rifled guns of the Tang Dynasty!
What they lack is not just one or two technicians, nor one or two pieces of mechanical equipment!