The Jinshi who presided over the competition said: "The skills are shared, but the mechanism cannot be entrusted to others. Now, everyone swears to Zhuge Bansheng that the mechanism you are participating in the competition is completely built by yourself, and no one else helps you during the construction process!"
The host spoke sternly, but Fang Yun could hear the trick behind it.
As long as the participating craftsmen receive sufficient guidance before they start to build the mechanism, even if someone teaches them how to build a new mechanism step by step, and as long as there is no external assistance during the manufacturing process, they will be considered qualified.
This rule has little impact on ordinary people, but it is of great convenience to wealthy families. Even if they do not have high-ranking craftsmen to guide them, they can still spend a huge amount of money to hire one.
However, if one's strength is insufficient, even if one knows every detail of the mechanism, the mechanism one creates will not be very strong.
Like everyone else, Fang Yun swore to Zhuge Liang in a low voice that his competition mechanism was built entirely by himself.
After everyone swore, the host continued to explain the rules.
"With thousands of people competing together, it will be a bit chaotic, so everyone must keep the mechanism bell beside them. When you use the mechanism, the three great craftsmen will release power based on the level of your mechanism, and the mechanism bell will absorb that power and make a sound."
"In short, the louder the sound of the mechanical bell and the longer it lasts, the more successful your mechanism is. If you meet the qualifications for promotion to a literary position, your mechanical bell will resonate with the big bell of the Institute of Engineering in Shu City. If the level of your mechanism is very high, exceeding the existing level of the industry, then it will trigger the main bell at the entrance of the Godly Artisan Hall. At that time, congratulations, you will be qualified for a promotion to a literary position."
"Every time the Master Bell of the Divine Craftsman Hall rings, one can be promoted to a higher position. So far, the Master Bell of the Divine Craftsman Hall has rung twice at most. The person who created this miracle is now at the Great Confucian Conference Hall of our Institute of Technology. He is the chief examiner of this Divine Craftsman Conference and also the number one Wen Zong craftsman in Shu City, Zhao Qianzhang."
When the host mentioned Zhao Qianzhang's name, he smiled with pride, because he was Zhao Qianzhang's great-nephew.
When the scholars in the working world heard Zhao Qianzhang's name, they all showed admiration for him.
Even Fang Yun and other outsiders showed a slight change in expression when they heard this name.
Fang Yun has read a lot of books on the industry these days, and Zhao Qianzhang is definitely the most talented craftsman in the industry in the past hundred years. Even if such a person is placed in the Shengyuan Continent, he will be a top engineering scholar, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes a literary master.
The Jinshi host smiled and said, "I would like to congratulate all the participants in this Divine Craftsman Conference. Once you have outstanding performance, you will most likely be noticed by Mr. Qian Zhang and accepted as his disciples. Okay, now please take out the mechanisms and debug them."
One after another, students took out the mechanisms and started debugging them.
Fang Yun looked around the place and found all kinds of mechanisms, including those for spinning and weaving, plowing the fields, picking and planting, helping with water pumping and irrigation, purely entertainment mechanisms, and extremely exquisite small mechanisms, which really opened Fang Yun's eyes.
A spinning wheel appeared in front of Jing Lan, a great scholar from the fourth realm.
Turning linen into clothing is a very complicated process, which involves two key steps: spinning and weaving.
In daily life, yarn is considered to be a thin cloth, a finished product, but the original yarn is just a thread-like object. Spinning is the process of spinning raw fibers such as linen and cotton into thread-like objects.
Only after spinning is successful can the yarn be made into cloth.
A long time ago, humans knew how to use spindles to spin yarn, and later hand-cranked spinning wheels appeared, but now humans commonly use foot-operated spinning wheels.
Fang Yun’s Tianjifang can produce pedal spinning wheels.
In front of Jing Lan was a pedal spinning wheel.
Fang Yun had personally participated in all technological transformations of the textile industry in Ning'an. He could see at a glance that the technology of that pedal spinning wheel far surpassed that of Haiya Ancient Land and even the industrial sector. Such a high-level pedal spinning wheel should not appear here.
In fact, the level of this pedal spinning wheel is even better than the original Ning'an spinning wheel, because the original Ning'an spinning wheel was the result of Fang Yun and some low-level craftsmen, while this pedal spinning wheel was the result of great craftsmen from all over the world mastering all the technologies!
This pedal spinning wheel used a lot of new technologies from the Shengyuan Continent. Fang Yun even knew some of these technologies but was unable to use them because his engineering level was too low and he was far from being comparable to the great engineering scholars.
Even the most excellent mass-produced pedal spinning wheel in Shengyuan Continent is not as good as the spinning wheel next to Jing Lan. After all, it is a meticulous work made by a great scholar from the four realms of craftsmanship at any cost.
Afterwards, a scene that surprised many student craftsmen appeared. Those student craftsmen who were transformed by the great scholar Haiya all had similar pedal spinning wheels in front of them. However, except for the great scholars who majored in and minored in engineering, whose pedal spinning wheels were very sophisticated, the spinning wheels of the other great scholars had more or less some flaws or even defects.
Once these great scholars from Haiya took out their foot-operated spinning wheels, most of them would turn their heads to look at Fang Yun with a strange smile on their faces.
Fang Yun stood there, motionless, without taking out any mechanism.
The actions of the great scholars of Haiya attracted all the audience in the venue, and many people talked about it, because almost all the people here understood engineering technology.
"Did these people discuss this together? Would it be considered cheating?"
"Of course not. In the past, many students often participated in the competition together, and they would mostly make the same mechanism. If this is considered cheating, how can we hold the Godcrafter Conference in the future?"
"In the Divine Craftsmen Association, there are many aspects of competition. Even if they make the same mechanism, there are still differences in quality."
"However, the design of their pedal spinning wheels is very special. If their skills are very high, they can all be promoted to a higher position. However, only one person can be promoted to a higher position continuously."
"It's hard to say, just wait and see."
Amid the discussion among the audience, the Jinshi host said with thunderous words: "The debugging time is over. Please use the mechanism immediately and let the examiner judge the level of your mechanism. Finally, I wish you all the bells will be as loud as thunder and resound through the sky!"
As soon as the host finished speaking, the child craftsmen on the platform began to use their own mechanisms vigorously, wanting to show the power of their mechanisms.
However, even ordinary craftsmen in the audience will find that the level of most of the child craftsmen is very average and it is impossible for them to be promoted.
Generally speaking, since there are too many students and craftsmen, the three examiners will check them slowly and wait at least a quarter of an hour before ringing the mechanism bell one after another.
However, just a dozen breaths after the game started, the mechanical bell beside a great scholar from Haiya suddenly made a loud noise.
“Ding… Ding… Ding…”
The sound of his mechanical bell was so loud and clear that it scared all the audience present, including the host.
"Don't be nervous for now, I'll ask the examiner."