The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2640 Mechanism Bell

The Jinshi who presided over the competition said: "The craftsmanship is shared, but the mechanism cannot be entrusted to others. Now, everyone swears to Zhuge Bansheng to guarantee that the mechanism they are participating in the competition is completely built by themselves, and no one helps in the process of making it!"

The host said it harshly, but Fang Yun could hear the trick.

As long as the participating craftsmen get enough guidance before making the mechanism, even if someone teaches him how to make a new mechanism, as long as there is no external help in the manufacturing process, they are qualified.

This rule has little impact on ordinary people, but it is a huge convenience for wealthy families. Even if they don’t have a high-ranking craftsman to guide them, they can spend a huge amount of money to invite one.

However, if one’s strength is not enough, even if he knows every detail of the mechanism, the mechanism he makes will not be too strong.

Fang Yun, like everyone else, swore to Zhuge Liang in a low voice that his competition mechanism was completely built by himself.

After everyone swore, the host continued to explain the rules.

"With thousands of people competing at the same time, it will be a bit chaotic, so everyone should keep the mechanism bell by their side. When you use the mechanism, the three great Confucian craftsmen will release power according to 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 mechanism bell and the longer it lasts, the more successful your mechanism is. If you meet the qualifications for promotion to a literary position, your mechanism bell will resonate with the big bell of the Institute of Technology in Shu City. If your mechanism level is very high and exceeds the existing level of the industry, then it will trigger the main bell at the door of the Godly Craftsman Hall. At that time, congratulations, you will be eligible for a continuous promotion to a literary position."

"Every time the main bell of the Godly Craftsman Hall rings, you can be promoted to a literary position once. So far, the main bell of the Godly 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 Godly Craftsman Conference and the first literary master craftsman in Shu City, Zhao Qianzhang."

When the host mentioned Zhao Qianzhang's name, he smiled proudly, because he was Zhao Qianzhang's great-nephew.

When the scholars in the industry heard Zhao Qianzhang's name, they all showed admiration.

Even Fang Yun and other outsiders had a slight change in their expressions when they heard this name.

Fang Yun had read a lot of books about the industry these days, and Zhao Qianzhang was definitely the most talented craftsman in the industry in the past hundred years. Even if he was placed in Shengyuan Continent, he would be a top-notch Confucian scholar in the industry, and it would only be a matter of time before he became a literary master.

The Jinshi host smiled and said, "I would like to congratulate all the participants in this Divine Craftsman Meeting. Once you have an outstanding performance, you are very likely to be noticed by Mr. Qianzhang and accepted as a disciple. Okay, now please take out your mechanisms and debug them."

One after another, the students took out their mechanisms and debugged them.

Fang Yun scanned the whole place and found that there were all kinds of mechanisms, including spinning and weaving, plowing, picking and planting, helping to raise water for irrigation, purely entertainment mechanisms, and extremely delicate small mechanisms, which opened Fang Yun's eyes.

In front of the great scholar Jing Lan of the Fourth Realm, a spinning wheel appeared.

Making hemp into clothes is a very complicated process, and there are two key steps, namely spinning and weaving.

Yarn is considered to be a thin cloth and a finished product in daily life, but the original yarn is just a thread-like object. Spinning is to spin the original fibers such as hemp and cotton into a thread-like object.

Only after spinning is successful can the yarn be made into cloth.

A long time ago, the human race knew how to use spindles to spin yarn, and then hand-cranked spinning wheels appeared, but now the human race often uses pedal spinning wheels.

Fang Yun's Tianjifang can produce pedal spinning wheels.

The pedal spinning wheel in front of Jing Lan.

Fang Yun once personally participated in all the technical transformations of the textile industry in Ning'an, and he could see at a glance that the technology of the pedal spinning wheel far exceeded the ancient sea cliff land and even the industry, and such a high-level pedal spinning wheel should not appear here.

In fact, the level of this pedal spinning wheel is even higher than the original Ning'an spinning wheel, because the original Ning'an spinning wheel was the result of Fang Yun and some low-level workers, while this pedal spinning wheel was made after the four-level workers mastered all the technologies!

This pedal spinning wheel uses a lot of new technologies from the Shengyuan Continent, and even some technologies Fang Yun only knows, but cannot use, because Fang Yun's level of craftsmanship is too low, far from being comparable to the workers.

Even the best mass-produced pedal spinning wheel in the Shengyuan Continent is not as good as the spinning wheel next to Jing Lan. After all, this is a meticulous work of the four-level workers.

Then, a scene that surprised many child craftsmen appeared. Those child craftsmen transformed by Haiya Confucianists all had similar pedal spinning wheels in front of them. However, except for the pedal spinning wheels of the Confucianists who majored in and minored in the workers, the spinning wheels of the other Confucianists were more or less flawed or even defective.

Once these Haiya scholars took out the pedal spinning wheel, they 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 Haiya scholars attracted all the audience in the venue, and many people talked about it, because almost all the people here knew the craftsmanship.

"Did these people discuss it? Would it be considered cheating?"

"Of course not. In the past, many classmates often participated in the competition together, and they would make the same mechanism. If this is considered cheating, how can we hold the God Craftsman Conference in the future?"

"In the Godly Craftsmen's Meeting, there are many aspects to compete. Even if they make the same mechanism, there are differences in quality."

"However, their pedal spinning wheel design is very special. If the level is very high, they can all be promoted to a literary position. However, only one person can be promoted to a literary position continuously."

"It's hard to say, just wait and see."

Amid the discussion of the audience, the Jinshi host said with thunder: "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 are like thunder and resound through the sky!"

As soon as the host finished speaking, the Tongsheng craftsmen on the platform began to use their own mechanisms with all their strength, wanting to show the power of their own mechanisms.

However, even ordinary craftsmen in the audience will find that the level of most of the Tongsheng craftsmen is very ordinary and it is impossible to get promoted.

Generally speaking, because there are too many Tongsheng craftsmen, the three examiners will slowly check and wait at least a quarter of an hour before they can ring the mechanism bells one after another.

However, just a dozen breaths after the start of the competition, the mechanism bell next to a Haiya scholar suddenly made a loud noise.

"Ding... Ding... Ding..."

The sound of his mechanical bell was loud and loud, scaring all the audience present, including the host.

"Don't be nervous for now, I will ask the examiner."