Based on the Han Tribe's past experience developing various machines, as well as the theories proposed by the Chieftain, for any process, if you wanted to transform it from manual labor into mechanical operation, the best approach was to make it rotate. Only once it rotated could the power source be replaced with something else, such as animal power, waterpower, wind power, or even the current steam power. All of these could be made to turn.
Following this line of thought, Bai Qi envisioned a new type of printing tool: make a smooth-surfaced hand-cranked roller, affix wax paper carved with a stencil plate to the roller, place an ink cartridge on the other side, and install a Paper Feeding and Lifting Device. Then, by turning the roller's crank, paper could be printed rapidly.
However, although he was highly proficient in Printing Technology, he knew absolutely nothing about mechanical design. He had ideas in his mind but did not know whether they were suitable or could actually be built, nor did he understand manufacturing techniques. In the end, he could only seek help from others.
But this was truly not something ordinary people could handle. Those who knew how to build machines did not understand printing, while those who understood printing knew nothing about machinery. To manufacture this thing, they would need not only blacksmiths but also carpenters, and might even have to draw on the resources of a research institute. After all, all the best craftsmen in the Han Tribe were under the research institutes' management, making it impossible to bypass them and build it independently.
After turning the matter over in his mind, Bai Qi finally decided to report the idea to Luo Chong. In the field of mechanical research, Luo Chong was the Han Tribe's universally acknowledged foremost