Ji County, centered around Fang Yun's old residence and the Enlightenment River, began to flourish vigorously. Meanwhile, Ning'an County, thousands of miles away, saw its County-owned Workshops embark on unprecedented expansion.
On the day after the Wooden Drum Cotton Fluffer was successfully developed, Fang Yun went to Workshop Street as usual. However, unlike before, he deliberately took a luxurious Dragon Horse carriage.
Because starting today, Crafts Hall scholars would begin entering Ning'an County's workshops in large numbers to study the construction of mechanisms, observe their operation, record their condition, and learn and research the things Fang Yun had mentioned—things originating from Craftsmen School classics yet containing innovations, such as levers, friction, cams, worm gears, and more.
Those things had long existed and been used by the Craftsmen School, but Fang Yun had systematized them. That was what the Crafts Hall valued most.
Upon learning that the Crafts Hall was moving into Ning'an County, Lei Shushan and the others overturned their tables in fury, yet they could do nothing.
That was the importance of mechanical innovation. Once an era-defining technological breakthrough appeared, the Craftsmen School would follow up and research it across the board, striving to perfect and put it into practice quickly—first strengthening mechanisms for battle, then gradually spreading them into civilian use.
Unlike the Miscellaneous School, which loved schemes of power, the Craftsmen School had always been thunderous and swift, pursuing efficiency. Thus, no matter how many black hands wanted to stop the Crafts Hall from entering Ning'an County, their efforts were futile.
At critical moments, the Craftsmen School's execution was even stronger than the strictly disciplined School of War.
The carriage stopped before the spinning workshop. Fang Yun led Ao Huang down from the carriage and saw that on the open ground between it and the workshop stood