Qing Kingdom, Gu Kingdom, Li Palace and many families continued to oppose Fang Yun and Jing Kingdom's reforms. Everyone thought that Fang Yun was already overwhelmed. In fact, Fang Yun not only did not care about them, but instead began to command Gong Palace and Jing Kingdom's Ministry of Industry to open up new markets.
Therefore, the real focus of these Tiangong Temples is to develop products suitable for aquatic creatures, while also studying the needs of all races in the myriad worlds.
The number of aquatic creatures in the four seas far exceeds that of humans in Shengyuan Continent, so the aquatic creatures are an extremely vast market.
The situation in the ocean is very complicated, and many human products cannot be used in the sea at all. But precisely because of this, there are more business opportunities because there are no competitors.
The types of items that aquatic creatures buy from humans are very limited, basically only two categories: land food and paintings and calligraphy, and the transaction volume is very limited. After all, there is too much food in the water, and aquatic creatures eat land food just to try it out.
The dragon clan has left behind many traditions and does not need humans in many aspects. For example, the dragon clan's ancient winemaking skills are still higher than those of humans, but they lack some special raw materials, so the wine they brew is far inferior to that in ancient times.
As for weapons, the aquatic race is just as good as the human race, and they use underwater volcanoes to forge them directly.
A small peninsula quietly appeared on the southeast side of Yuhai City. It was formed by the joint efforts of the dragon clan and workers in reclaiming land. Workshops on it started construction one after another, and the Jingguo Yunhai City Marine Technology Research and Development Center was established in the center of the peninsula, which actually studies and manufactures aquarium supplies.
The East China Sea Dragon Palace is responsible for providing information on various aquatic creatures, including their population numbers, habits, commonly used items, the environment they live in, etc. Experts from various fields of the human race began to analyze and develop various exclusive supplies for the aquatic creatures.
However, this was the first time that humans had done such a thing, and they had no clue what to do for a moment, so they could only start by imitating what the aquatic creatures needed.
Soon, the different habits and aesthetics of the races formed a gap. The water race was not satisfied with many items designed by the human race, but in order to support Fang Yun, they still decided to purchase some of them, but the purchase quantity was very small.
The Gong family was anxious. Gongdian and Fang Yun's goal was to build the entire Yuhai City into a super-large workshop city for the water people. With this amount of purchases, more than a dozen workshops that had set up new institutions could complete it in one month, which was less than one-tenth of the expected amount.
There was no other way, so the workers’ family had to seek help from all parties.
After Fang Yun learned about this, he shook his head, took out some white paper, recalled the weapons and tools of the water tribe in ancient times, selected some items that the human race could make, and drew design drawings.
The chain giant anchor that the ancient whale tribe loved the most, the dragon scale helmet that the fish monsters loved to protect their heads, the metal flippers that the turtle tribe liked to add, the corrugated armor on the surface of the shells of the shell tribe, the side rams of the crab tribe...
Most of these items only appeared in ancient times, but with the decline of the dragon clan, a large number of craftsmen, drawings, heritage and technology were lost. Not to mention making them, many aquatic creatures have already forgotten about these items.
In fact, it is very difficult for humans to create it out of thin air, but Fang Yun obtained everything in the entire Dragon Soul Battlefield, and there are too many items preserved, which can allow humans to conduct reverse engineering, crack the production method, and improve and create mechanisms suitable for aquatic creatures in the human way.
Due to technical and material reasons, the aquarium supplies made by humans may not meet the standards of ancient times, but it is entirely possible to create low-end versions. As long as they can continue to produce, as long as they can continue to accumulate technology, absorb more population, create more value, and avoid humans falling into crisis, it will be the greatest success.
When the engineers and scholars obtained Fang Yun's samples and drawings, they felt like they had found a treasure and immediately began research.
When the research was only halfway done, the engineers sent someone who was good at negotiation to find the Shuizu people with the blueprints and boasted about the ideas to the sky.
When the Shui people saw these familiar ancient tools, they didn't care whether they were real or not. They immediately paid a hefty deposit and promised to deliver the raw materials needed to make these tools right away.
Especially the wealthy whale tribe, who almost cried when they saw the ancient style chain anchor. They repeatedly advised the human race not to rush for success, but to take their time and make the best chain anchor. The whale tribe would rather pay a high price and wait for ten years than accept cheap defective products.
Thus, while workshops across the ten nations were still doing everything they could to compete for market share among the human race, the craftsmen of Jing Nation had already begun manufacturing at sea, taking on the largest machinery order with the aquatic race in the history of the human race.
With the injection of the Shuizu deposit and raw materials, the Gong family decided to build a new city directly outside the south of the city. Fang Yun instructed that it be named Huating Development Zone.
Yuhai City was originally one of the most important cities in Jing Kingdom. Now that it was going to expand its development zone, it immediately attracted the attention of the entire human race.
As a result, merchants from all over the country flocked to Yuhai City to seek business opportunities and to gather intelligence.
For unknown reasons, rumors began to spread in Yuhai City, saying that items made for the water tribe all had evil powers, and whoever was responsible for making them would have their soul absorbed, and eventually their soul would be scattered, with no chance of reincarnation.
Then, rumors spread that all the money in the workshop was earned by Jing State officials headed by Fang Yun. The workers worked hard every day, but their income was very meager and they could not even support their families.
A feeling of dissatisfaction was growing in the Jingguo workshop.
The weather in Yuhai City in midsummer is always at two extremes. It is extremely refreshing when there is sea breeze, but when there is no sea breeze, it is hot and humid even in the early morning when the sun just rises.
It was on this seemingly ordinary, sultry morning that one worker after another left their families and headed not for the workshops but for the government office of Yuhai Prefecture.
At 7:30 in the morning, more than 500 workers had gathered outside the Yuhai Prefecture government office, shouting slogans in unison.
"Workers sweat, officials make money!"
"Only with more money and more salary can we work!"
"The abbot is greedy and the workers suffer!"
Everyone kept repeating the simple and easy-to-understand slogan, which soon attracted more people.
The news of the workers blocking the government office spread quickly in Yuhai City, and many people rushed to join in the fun. Then, some people who usually did nothing suddenly became messengers of justice and began to join the workers, shouting the same slogans.
Soon, more than ten thousand people gathered outside the government office.
At first, the officials of Yuhai City were still discussing countermeasures, but before they could finish their discussion, tens of thousands of people gathered outside. This was completely beyond their expectations, and they had to report to the court.
At the same time, some people began to post articles on the forum, seemingly discussing the matter neutrally, but using various writing methods to mislead others, making others think that it was a problem with the officials of Jing State, and that Fang Yun was exploiting the workers for development. They even used common rumor-mongering methods such as "I heard it's exhausting" to confuse the public.
As a result, a large number of people appeared on the discussion board and in Yuhai City to denounce Fang Yun, the Jingguo court and the Jingguo Fangzhu.