Chapter 751: If you can deceive, you can deceive, or you can grab it (asking for a monthly ticket)
Gerdes knew very well that the reason why the glorious and great Emperor was able to personally allow him to become a citizen of the Tang Empire and become a subject of the Tang Empire was naturally not because of his handsome appearance, let alone the gold in his pocket.
Silver, but because he said he could help His Majesty the Emperor recruit a large number of skilled craftsmen of all types.
So in the past few days, while he was buying a house and settling down in Zhaoqing, and strolling around the streets of Zhaoqing to open his eyes, he was also thinking about how to efficiently complete this task for His Majesty.
Recruiting craftsmen is actually difficult and complex. If they are just ordinary craftsmen, as long as they are promised a high salary and at the same time exaggerate the wealth of the Tang Dynasty, these craftsmen will naturally follow him happily.
Get on the boat and then come to the Tang Dynasty.
But the key to the problem is that the Tang Dynasty does not want ordinary craftsmen, but truly high-skilled craftsmen, not those who are half-assed.
After all, the Tang Dynasty does not need just any craftsmen. It needs craftsmen who are truly skilled and highly skilled. As for those ordinary craftsmen, the Tang Dynasty has all of them through training in the past few years.
Quite a few. Although there is some demand for ordinary craftsmen, it is not so urgent.
Currently, what the Tang Dynasty needs most is craftsmen who can manufacture large-caliber cannons. At the same time, they also need craftsmen who have mastered the production of iron cannons, especially the production technology of large-caliber long-barre iron cannons. In addition, the Tang Dynasty also needs craftsmen with clocks and watches.
Manufacturing is represented by precision machining craftsmen.
Whether they are cannon makers, watchmakers, or other high-tech talents related to machinery, they are extremely valuable talents even in Europe!
To be honest, people with highly skilled people do not have to worry about finding good jobs there. It is not that easy to get them to travel thousands of miles to work in the Far East.
However, Gerdes has already made up his mind. As long as he finds this kind of person, he will bring him to Datang by force, regardless of whether he is willing or not!
As a pirate captain, if he can't rob several craftsmen, then his role as a pirate captain will be in vain.
After making such a determination, although Gerdes was extremely reluctant to part with the prosperity of Zhaoqing, he still returned to the trading area of Guangzhou. He wanted to recruit enough sailors there so that he could take his measures when Malacca and other colonies came.
Alternative plan: rob people directly!
The first choice option is naturally to use high salary or other promises to coax people directly into their hands!
In short, if you can deceive one, you are one, if you can rob someone, you are one!
When he settled down, he made a guarantee with the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If he was given half a year, he would definitely find craftsmen who could build large-caliber naval guns for the Tang Dynasty.
After staying in the Guangzhou Trade Zone for three days, recruiting enough people and bringing a large amount of goods, we set sail again to Malacca, where we could recruit craftsmen and do business without delay.
As for his plan to become a great second-level dealer, he has temporarily put it on hold. His top priority now is not to make money, but to recruit craftsmen first.
When Gerdes set sail to sea, Li Xuan also received a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but Li Xuan did not pay much attention to it!
Letting Gerdes go to Southeast Asia and even Europe to recruit high-skilled craftsmen is just one of his many plans to develop industry, and it is only one of many alternative plans.
In order to develop industry, build large-caliber naval guns and improve the level of precision machining, Li Xuan's main plan is to focus on his own training and research and development, and the help of external forces is only secondary.
Because even if some craftsmen were brought from Europe, the Tang Dynasty could produce large-caliber naval guns, but at most it would only be small batches of manual production. If that was the case, the Tang Dynasty would have to work hard to develop it for several years.
, can also be produced. After all, artillery weighing fourteen pounds can now be produced by hand in small batches, and the principles of hand-made artillery are actually the same.
Since a fourteen-pound cannon with twenty times the caliber can be made by hand, it is also possible to simply thicken the barrel and make a twenty-fold caliber cannon with eighteen or even twenty-four kilograms.
What really troubled the arsenals affiliated to the Tang Dynasty was how to mass-produce these artillery pieces on a large scale, and how to mass-produce these artillery pieces from cast iron on a large scale. Both of these two points involved the difficulty of precision machining of machinery.
, and the other one involves more difficult material issues.
In order to overcome these difficulties, there is no trick. We can only continuously improve the existing machinery, improve the processing level, and then test the formulas of various raw materials over and over again, which takes a lot of time and at the same time
What is needed are real scientific talents, not just craftsmen who rely on experience and are passed down from generation to generation.
At present, the only people in the Tang Dynasty who barely have such ability are the students in the Young Army Camp!
In order to further improve the scientific and technological research and development capabilities of Youjun Camp, Li Xuan continued to reform the Youjun Camp!
As a simple orphanage training institution, the original purpose of the Young Army Camp was to cultivate civil servants and military officers who were loyal to the royal family. But now, there have been changes. To be honest, when Li Xuan opened the Young Army Camp, there was no such thing.
I thought that by accident, I would turn the military camp into a research and development institution.
At first, his idea was to conduct technological research and development at the Royal Academy of Sciences, but what was very disappointing was that the traditional craftsmen at the Royal Academy of Sciences were simply unable to undertake the research and development of advanced technologies.
In mid-May, Li Xuan once again carried out major operations on the military camps as well as the government-run juvenile colleges and colleges. First, starting from the third grade, the military camps in various places were divided into literature classes, science classes, and military classes.
This is based on the changes made by the Young Army Camp General Camp, and the purpose is to provide special training to the students in the Young Army Camp in advance based on their talents.
At the same time, the Youth Military Camp General Camp was split. The Zhaoqing Youth Military Camp General Camp only retains liberal arts classes and military classes, with the core of cultivating high-quality civilian officials and high-quality military attachés. There are grades 7 to 12, and sixth-grade students from various Youth Military Camps
Liberal arts classes and military classes continue to study at the Zhaoqing General Camp of the Young Military Camp.
After graduating from the twelfth grade, liberal arts subjects can be directly awarded officers or take part in the examination. Those with average grades in the military class can directly join the army and serve. After serving, they can also apply for the Imperial Academy on their own depending on the situation. Those with excellent academic performance can continue to attend the Imperial Academy for further studies.
The science classes in the main camp of Zhaoqing Youjun Camp are separately established as the Royal Institute of Technology. The courses are from seventh grade to twelfth grade, divided into middle grades and senior grades. Sixth grade science students from various Youjun Camps can directly enter the school to study.
At the same time, we also recruit high-quality sixth-grade graduates from various youth colleges.
This is a professional college that aims to cultivate high-quality science and engineering talents. It is very different from the science college in the Imperial College which only cultivates civil servants with modern scientific knowledge.
At the same time, government-run colleges and universities in various places are also conducting liberal arts and science studies in separate classes, canceling the tenth to twelfth grades that were nominally included in the past but actually not having any students, and only retaining the seventh to ninth grades.
Science graduates after ninth grade can apply for the Royal Institute of Technology!
As for liberal arts students, you can also apply for the Imperial College or the Martial Arts School!
This kind of split is more conducive to concentrating faculty and turning the Royal Institute of Technology into a pure science and engineering school, and it is also a preparatory school focusing on research and development!
Yes, even the Royal Institute of Technology is not a real university in Li Xuan's mind. In fact, it is just a middle school with a high school department.
The Youth Academy and the College of Higher Education allow them to return to the path of ordinary schools!
In a few years, Li Xuan will open a government-run preparatory school and high school courses according to the situation, especially after the teaching staff is fully guaranteed, and will also open universities at the same time.
As for the Royal Institute of Technology, it can also directly open college classes in the future and become a school including junior high school, high school, and university!
In fact, Li Xuan also wanted to get it right in one step and directly run elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, universities and other schools in one go. However, this is an unrealistic problem, and this unreality is not due to factors such as funding and politics.
But the teachers!
Without teachers, you’re running a shitty school!
Now in the entire Datang, there are no more than 200 students in sixth grade and above, and only a few dozen in seventh grade and above. It is impossible for them to become teachers to fill such a huge gap, so Li Xuan can only take one step
Step by step, first primary school, then junior high school, then high school and college.
The Royal Institute of Technology is an exception!
Because Li Xuan needs them to develop various technologies, even if they are just a group of technicians at the level of junior high school students, they are much better than those craftsmen!
Li Xuan spared no effort in promoting modern education!
At the same time, he spared no effort in supporting and developing science and technology!
Inspired by the students in the Young Military Camp who developed a large number of technologies and licensed them to various factories and collected patent fees from them, at the same time, there was also a wave of large-scale industry and commerce in the Tang Dynasty, and the steam engine also appeared.
, the wave of industrial revolution is coming!
The Tang Dynasty needs to prepare for this!
To this end, Li Xuan instructed the Ministry of Law to formulate the Patent Law, which was also officially promulgated in early June!
The Patent Law stipulates that inventors can apply for patents for various technologies and products that have not appeared before. As long as they pass the patent review, the inventor will have exclusive patent rights for twenty years. Anyone who uses this patented technology can
Must obtain authorization from the patentee.
If anyone dares to carry out imitation production without authorization, he will be fined to the point of bankruptcy!