Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

What kind of things are eligible to be recognized by the Zhenguan Award? For an award, this is the crucial question for everything it's worth.

At least in Li Xin's view, the existence of the Zhenguan Award is undoubtedly to reward those things that can best promote the progress of the Tang Dynasty and bring a better life to the people of the Tang Dynasty. Obviously, the human-powered water wheel fits such a requirement very well.

Li Xin roughly read the document again, and deliberately turned to the end to find out the name of its inventor: Lu Daren, a native of Jiangnan. The name is simple. It can also be seen from his design that this person should be a relatively stable and reliable guy. What is rare is that he is not lacking in imagination. Maybe he can be assigned some tasks in the future?

For example, the topic of spinning wool into thread?

Li Xin didn't intend to do it alone on this big topic related to the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks. That would be exhausting. Having two helpers is exactly what it should be. This is also an important reason why he reads these documents so seriously-maybe he can discover one or two good seedlings?

While thinking this way, he put the paperwork aside. After picking out all the documents worthy of attention, he will go to the warehouse of the Ministry of Industry to find the model to see the effect. Let's see if these applicants for the Zhenguan Award are only talking on paper, or they have really solved practical problems.

You can’t talk so much about it on the design drawings, how good it is, but when you look at the model, you can’t move or have no effect at all, right? It would be a joke if the Zhenguan Award was awarded to such a lip service guy.

A large box of paperwork does not look fast. Li Xin spent three days watching at the mansion without leaving home, and then he was able to go through all the content.

The final result was just as he expected. There were more than 2,000 documents in total, but only about 20 documents were worth looking at, which was almost one in a hundred.

After that, Li Xin personally went to the warehouse of the Ministry of Industry, and asked a master bookkeeper to take him to look at the models corresponding to these twenty documents in the warehouse.

What he focused on was the model of the human water wheel. He thought he could only see a rough preliminary model, but the actual completion of this thing was completely beyond his expectations.

If he guessed correctly, perhaps the human-powered water wheel invented by Lu Daren had already been used in the local area. Only in this way could he explain the super high degree of completion of the design drawings and models.

An idea, before it becomes a reality, there will always be some stumbling blocks. If it doesn't, it proves that it has most likely been polished by reality.

Li Xin couldn't help feeling a little rejoicing: If it wasn't for the Zhenguan Award, how long would it take for such a waterwheel to be known by the public and put into use?

Except for the human-powered waterwheel, several other inventions have some minor shortcomings. But there was still one thing that left a deep impression on Li Xin.

This thing is called "Wooden Wing" in the instructions. When Li Xin looked at the design drawings, he was a little stunned: Isn't this just a hang glider?

Well, it's actually a bit of an understatement to say it's a hang glider. Because the guy who invented this pair of wooden wings doesn't know what fluid mechanics is. He only knows that he can jump off the roof with this weird wooden wing on his back without almost getting hurt. In the manual, this person said very firmly: This thing can help human beings fly into the blue sky in the future.