When Fang Yun saw that his own workshop had a problem, he immediately said, "Mr. Liu, I haven't supervised the production in person these days, which has led to defective products. No matter what, it is the fault of our Tianji Workshop. So, I apologize to you. I promise to repair all the old hand-cranked spinning wheels tomorrow, and I will give you a 20% discount on the price. In addition, you will also have the priority to purchase the improved spinning wheels."
"Improved spinning wheel?" asked Mr. Liu doubtfully.
Fang Yun smiled slightly and said, "Your batch of spinning wheels are the last batch of old-style spinning wheels in our Tianjifang. From now on, our Tianjifang will only produce spinning wheels with higher efficiency. The spinning speed will be increased by at least 20%."
"Twenty percent? Great! If you can really make an improved spinning wheel, I will not only buy it myself, but also recommend it to other friends. If you are promoted to a scholar and craftsman, don't forget me, Old Liu!" Mr. Liu said happily.
Fang Yun was stunned for a moment, not quite sure what a scholar craftsman was, so he gave a perfunctory answer and sent Mr. Liu away.
Afterwards, Fang Yun said to the guy beside him: "I just fell down and my mind is a little confused. Now you can explain this place and this city in detail, and then tell me about our workshop."
The clerk smiled and said, "Master, I dare not disobey. Our craftsmanship was saved from the monsters by Mr. Zhuge. In order to continue to resist the monsters, he taught us craftsmanship skills, and everyone must learn craftsmanship. Therefore, even if he does not come to the world for a long time, we can still resist the monsters. However, the monsters have been getting stronger recently, and it is difficult for us humans to support them."
"Master, you are lucky to have become a Tongsheng craftsman, so you can make 'mechanisms' and build a 'big workshop'. Like Mr. Liu, no matter how rich he is, he can only build an ordinary workshop and can only use mechanisms to produce other items, but cannot make mechanisms. Of course, if Mr. Liu's son works hard, he will be able to become a Tongsheng craftsman like you in a few years."
"In our industry, there is a list of craftsmen. Anyone who can contribute to the craftsman's skills will be awarded Craftsman Merit. The more Craftsman Merit one has, the higher his or her literary rank will be. Currently, the most powerful craftsmen in our industry are the Five Realms Great Confucian Craftsmen, also known as Literary Craftsmen. Legend has it that there are also Literary Craftsmen. It is said that once a Literary Craftsman appears, Grandpa Zhuge Bansheng will come again to reward the Literary Craftsman."
"Our Tianjifang has not been doing well recently and can only support it for one month at most. If you can't pull yourself together and continue to spend your money like before, then our Tianjifang will be finished."
Then the middle-aged guy started talking a lot.
Fang Yun quickly figured out everything the middle-aged guy said.
This working world is Zhuge Liang's literary world.
In order to point the way forward for mankind, Zhuge Liang was willing to sacrifice the literary world and give up passing it on to future generations, treating it as a testing ground for mankind.
Use industrial technology as a breakthrough point to find opportunities for the growth of the human race.
But unfortunately, the literary world is not a complete world after all. Even the literary world of Confucius cannot evolve into the real world. The human race here is inherently inferior to the human race on the Shengyuan Continent.
Even though the human race in the literary world has inherent deficiencies, the industrial world has made remarkable progress in some aspects, and in some not particularly important areas, it has even surpassed the current Shengyuan Continent. According to the previous trend, it is only a matter of time for the industrial world to surpass the old Shengyuan Continent in terms of industrial technology, but Shengyuan Continent has a Fang Yun.
Therefore, the industrial sector as a whole is still slightly behind Shengyuan Continent.
Unlike the Shengyuan Continent, all students in the engineering world major in engineering. There are some who minor in other fields, but they are very few.
There are also officials in the working world, but they have become simple managers. Those who truly hold power in the working world are the craftsmen, that is, the scholars among the workers.
Fang Yun was very pleased to find that in the industrial world, scholars and craftsmen were closely connected.
However, in the Shengyuan Continent, scholars still inherently look down on craftsmen. To this day, there are still scholars who are workers who believe that only scholars are qualified to manufacture, use and modify machinery, and that craftsmen and workers are just doing odd jobs and running errands.
The separation between scholars and craftsmen seriously hindered the development of craftsmen.
In the working world, as long as one achieves success in craftsmanship, whether one is a child or an old man, one can gain talent and improve one's literary status. A craftsman is a scholar, and a scholar is a craftsman.
Therefore, in the industry, even a skilled craftsman needs to do many things personally, just like ordinary craftsmen.
There are ten super-large cities in the industrial world, and each city has countless craftsmen. In order to get promoted, the craftsmen are constantly improving their merits.
Every craftsman of high literary rank possessed great wealth and at the same time great power, becoming a role model for all people in the working world.
The Divine Craftsman Hall is the true controller of the craftsmanship world, and its status is similar to that of the Holy Academy of Shengyuan Continent.
After listening to the clerk's introduction, Fang Yun immediately went to the study in Tianjifang and read historical books related to the industrial world and the "Industrial World Newspaper". He soon gained a better understanding of the industrial world.
While reading the book, Fang Yun discovered a serious problem.
His talents were still the same, there was no problem with them, but the talents he could utilize were only at the level of a student with advanced age, and his other talents were suppressed by an unknown force.
There are still some forces that have not been suppressed, but without sufficient talent, one cannot mobilize other forces at all. For example, Fang Yun is unable to summon his family, country and the world now because he does not have enough talent.
There is no record of any war poems in the history of the working class. Fang Yun will fail if he uses war poems. It seems that the working class does not allow the use of war poems, nor does it allow the mobilization of any force other than the workers.
Although Zhuge Liang did not explicitly explain how to pass the test, the way to pass the test is very obvious.
Fang Yun thought for a long time and decided to accumulate merits as a craftsman step by step. Now there is a ready-made opportunity. If he improves the spinning wheel, he will definitely gain merits.
So Fang Yun first repaired all the spinning wheels, and then began to design improved spinning wheels.
The spinning wheels produced by Tianjifang are of higher quality than those of Shengyuan Continent five or six years ago, but lag behind those of the current Shengyuan Continent. The main reason is that when Fang Yun was the magistrate of Ning'an County, he proposed many new things, which enabled the craftsmen's technology to advance by leaps and bounds.
Therefore, Fang Yun did not spend too much time at all. He just made slight modifications to the spinning wheel that Ning'an City had started making a few years ago and successfully designed it.
To make a new spinning wheel, it is natural to modify the old mechanism, but modifying the old mechanism requires buying good materials, which requires money.
As a last resort, Fang Yunxian spent two days and used all his connections to borrow enough money to buy the best materials, complete the mechanism, and then start producing spinning wheels.
Fang Yun led the workers of Tianjifang to work continuously for a day and a night, constantly debugging and improving, and finally produced the first batch of new spinning wheels, a total of twenty.
After finishing twenty spinning wheels, it was already late at night, and Fang Yun and everyone went to bed.
However, the next day, when Fang Yun had just woken up and was preparing to make the second batch of improved spinning wheels, he received a piece of news that was like a bolt from the blue.
Just last night, Jing Lan, the owner of the Craftsmen's Workshop and a skilled craftsman, created a new spinning wheel that increased efficiency by 40%. He also made a number of technical improvements and submitted it to the Divine Craftsmen's Hall in advance, in preparation for the Divine Craftsmen's Conference in three days.
Fang Yun knew that the Jing family had a great scholar named Jing Lan, and he was a great scholar in the four realms, the highest-ranking scholar among the craftsmen in the ancient land of Haiya!
Fang Yun frowned.
A great scholar from the fourth realm of engineering coming to the industrial world could not cause any waves on his own, but Lei Tingyu knew all the technological innovations in Ning'an City at that time.
With the great scholar's ability to remember everything he saw, Lei Tingyu would remember a large amount of craftsmanship as long as he flipped through "Wen Bao" and "Sheng Dao".
If a great engineer acquires new technology, he can easily crush Fang Yun who has mastered the same technology.
Fang Yun, after all, can't even be considered as a minor in engineering skills.
"I originally wanted to pass the test step by step and practice my craftsmanship skills. Since you are so unkind and stole Ning An's skills in an attempt to block my path, don't blame me!"
Fang Yun gave up on making the second batch of new spinning wheels and started the second round of fundraising.
Three days later, the Divine Craftsman Conference will be held as scheduled.
A gathering of master craftsmen.
Every industrial city holds a three-day meeting of divine craftsmen on the first day of every month, and every great craftsman has the right to convene an ad hoc meeting of divine craftsmen.
Every year on Zhuge Liang’s birthday, the entire industry holds a master craftsman conference.
Shu City is the largest city in the industrial world. The Temple of the Divine Craftsman is located here. Many craftsmen from other cities come here to admire its reputation. Therefore, the monthly Shu City Divine Craftsman Meeting is particularly lively.
The Divine Craftsmen will compete for three days, with competitions on tool mechanisms, engineering skills, and combat mechanisms.
Every day, the meeting is divided into seven venues according to the rank of the craftsmen, and each venue has a large number of craftsmen with the same rank participating.
In normal times, no matter how incredible a mechanism a person creates or how powerful an engineering technology is, he can only be promoted to a literary position first, and then he will be promoted slowly.
However, at the Divine Craftsmen Conference, one's literary rank can be promoted continuously. In the history of the craftsmen industry, the highest number of people who were promoted three times in a row at a Divine Craftsmen Conference is a record that has not been broken to this day.
Many craftsmen often hide their abilities and shine at the Divine Craftsmen Conference, thereby being promoted continuously in rank, soaring in status, gaining the attention of the Divine Craftsmen Hall, and achieving greater success in the future.
The Institute of Technology is the center of every city, equivalent to the Academy of Literature of the human race. It occupies the largest area in each city and is also the venue for the Divine Craftsmen Association.
The sun had just risen, and people from all over Shu City flocked to the Institute of Technology, making the entire institute full of vitality and vigor.
The tool and mechanism competition on the first day was divided into seven venues according to the academic status from students to great scholars, as in the past. The higher the academic status, the fewer people there were in the venue.
Because craftsmen with higher literary status can enter the venue of craftsmen with lower literary status, but craftsmen with lower literary status cannot enter the venue of craftsmen with higher literary status.
Ordinary people in the city could only enter the Tongsheng meeting place.
Therefore, the venue for the Tongsheng Competition every year is exceptionally large, with a large number of participants, and the number of Tongsheng craftsmen participating in the competition far exceeds that of craftsmen of other literary ranks.
Fang Yun, along with two guys from Tianjifang, arrived at the Tongsheng venue early and squeezed his way to the contestant seat amidst the surging crowd.
There are already thousands of young craftsmen sitting in the seats for the contestants.
Fang Yun glanced at all the craftsmen and found great scholars from the Haiya Alliance one after another, and they also saw Fang Yun one after another.
An inexplicable smile appeared on the face of every great scholar in Haiya.