Black-Hearted Merchant Who Benefits the Nation Nothing?

Lin Feng's video then touched on a third point. Because the topic was too sensitive, the video only mentioned it briefly.

It mainly discussed grassroots performance evaluations within the system, pointing out that office digitization was incomplete and that various files and meeting records still had to be handwritten.

And so, the first topic came to an end. Everyone who had watched it found themselves deep in thought.

Yeah, was there really any need for so much formalism?

It would be one thing if such formalism served some enormous purpose, but the problem was that it instead made work and study more complicated, lowering both work efficiency and learning efficiency.

But the video did not stop there. It then moved on to the second topic.

The core of this topic was what purpose the Handwriting Robot served, whose problems it solved, and what its various uses were.

The first was that it could replace the function of a printer, achieving the effect of a black-and-white printer. Its low price also allowed more people to afford their own "printer."

The second was for artistic creation. The Handwriting Robot had a distinctive handwritten feel, especially for sketches, something printers simply could not achieve.

There were also many other applications, such as education, office automation, personalized services, assistive tools, entertainment, and more.

The video explained every one of these uses, and these were precisely what printers could not accomplish, because printers could not imitate the traces of real human writing on paper.

Through this video, people came to understand that the Handwriting Robot's uses were not limited to copying homework, handwriting lesson plans, making meeting records, and preparing materials.

It actually had many more uses, and those uses were precisely what printers could not achieve.

From certain perspectives, the invention of the Handwriting Robot was useful. It was simply that some people had used it in the wrong way.

Then came the third topic: what Handwriting Robots could do in the future and what direction they should develop toward.

The answer, without question, was intelligent education—or rather, writing education robots!

Although online education had already appeared on the internet, with courses ranging from infants to high school students.

It was still somewhat distant from children. There was no human-machine interaction or engagement. If students wrote a character incorrectly, they would keep writing it wrong, so writing education robots naturally emerged at this time.

With one, students could not only complete writing tasks, but also learn and improve their writing skills through interactive teaching methods.

After watching the video, much of people's hostility toward the Handwriting Robot immediately dissipated. They felt that although its invention had caused some negative effects.

Those negative effects could not really be blamed on the Handwriting Robot, just as knives were invented for cutting vegetables and cooking, yet humans used them for killing.

But no matter what, the moment a knife was made, its creator would inevitably bear the label of a killer. Although many people who watched the video no longer held as much hostility toward Lin Feng.

The Handwriting Robot Lin Feng developed had indeed allowed many students to slack off by copying and duplicating homework, so Lin Feng truly could not shake off that blame.

Of course, even if he could not shake it off, it was nothing much. Now that most people's hostility had faded, although some still believed knife makers were evil, such people were ultimately few.

Lin Feng knew he could not win everyone's favor. There would always be people in this world displeased with him, like Su Da, and there would also be people jealous of him. So long as he did his own work well, that was enough.

Moreover, he had unexpectedly gained a large number of orders from this incident, earning nearly ten million in profit out of nowhere.

Overall, Lin Feng had made a guaranteed profit. He wondered what Professor He would think if he learned of this. After finding out the truth, he would probably be so angry that he vomited blood.

The only real concern was whether the higher-ups would adopt the views of Professor He and those experts and directly impose a blanket ban on the sale of Handwriting Robots.

If that happened, it would not matter even if Lin Feng defeated Professor He and the others ten thousand times. After all, if the higher-ups imposed a blanket ban, he would not even be able to sell them.

Time continued to pass. After Lin Feng posted his video on Bilibili and Youku, many netizens who heard about it clicked in to watch.

Under such circumstances, the video's views rose rapidly. In just two days, its total views across multiple sites exceeded three million.

As for the article posted on Lin Feng's personal Weibo account, it received more than 5.3 million views. This showed just how huge the recent Handwriting Robot incident had become and how much attention it had attracted.

As so many people watched the article and video Lin Feng had published, the hostility toward him online and offline quickly dissipated as well.

Faced with this situation, Professor He was furious. Left with no other choice, he spoke out again on Weibo.

He rebutted Lin Feng, claiming he was merely sophistry, calling his words harmful to the nation, and labeling him a "black-hearted merchant who benefits the nation nothing." At the same time, he called on the higher-ups to take students copying homework seriously.

He urged Great Xia to ban Handwriting Robots before they became widely popularized. Otherwise, once they gained momentum in the future, banning them would likely become even more difficult.

Professor He even privately called a senior official at the Ministry of Education, hoping the higher-ups at the Ministry would take Handwriting Robots seriously and ban their sale.

Naturally, the Ministry of Education's senior official could not ban sales just because of one phone call. Besides, they had no authority to ban an entire category of goods. The official merely said that someone would investigate the matter and told Professor He to wait patiently.

Outsiders, including Lin Feng, knew nothing about this. No one had expected Professor He to use such an underhanded move.

All that could be said was that this phone call carried considerable weight. The higher-ups merely had to speak, and those below had to run themselves ragged. Next, the Ministry of Education would certainly begin investigating the dangers of Handwriting Robots.

If the evaluation concluded that Handwriting Robots were extremely harmful to students' studies, the higher-ups might indeed impose a blanket ban.

All that could be said was that Professor He's move was far too underhanded. He had absolutely no sense of fair play.

That night, at the Lin family dinner table.

"'Words harmful to the nation,' 'a black-hearted merchant who benefits the nation nothing'—what right does Professor He have to pass judgment on our Xiaofeng and slap such a huge black hat on him?"

At this moment, Lin Feng's mother, He Xueqing, was extremely angry.

Having taken unpaid leave and staying at home, only handling the company's finances and checking the online store, He Xueqing had plenty of free time every day.

So she often browsed Bilibili and Youku on her phone, checking on Lin Feng's accounts.

Whenever she saw someone praising their family's products, she would give it a like. Naturally, she knew everything about what had happened over the past few days.

Under such circumstances, she naturally saw Professor He's one-sided remarks.

But Lin Feng's father, Lin Guohua, sighed and then said:

"Our Handwriting Robot really has taught many students to avoid doing their homework. That is indeed an indisputable fact."