Food was the people's Heaven. The growth of any nation's population had to rest on sufficient grain.
A faint smile appeared on Fang Yun's face. Ji Zhibai's coming to Ning'an County as magistrate meant he had essentially abandoned the field of agriculture, while Liu Shan had forced him to Ning'an County precisely to cut off his foundation in agriculture and, with it, any future achievements he might attain in that field.
Yet Fang Yun had risen to the challenge.
After leaving the farmland, Fang Yun made another trip to the workshop. Ordinary mechanisms and combat mechanisms differed at their roots; they were two entirely different paths.
Combat mechanisms often used Moonstones as their energy source and Literary Qi for control, requiring none of the techniques used in certain ordinary mechanisms. For instance, the most popular mechanism beasts were actually based on Demon Barbarian bodies, with offensive mechanisms added onto them.
This meant that the most elite mechanism masters generally focused on how to unleash the power within Demon Barbarian bodies, and did not study the Craftsmen School's own mechanical techniques very deeply. Moreover, although mechanism masters knew a vast number of mechanical tricks, turning those techniques into systematic theoretical knowledge and spreading them widely required a long process.
Ten million craftsmen might not equal a single Newton.
Once he had confirmed that there were no problems with the workshop, Fang Yun returned to the yamen to hear cases.
On the morning of March fifteenth, Yang Yuhuan personally helped Fang Yun change into his Metropolitan Graduate robes.
After breakfast, Fang Yun took a carriage to the County Academy.
Along the way, Fang Yun was exceptionally quiet, but his heart surged and ebbed without rest.
Today was the first time he would preside over an Imperial Examination!
Ao Huang was somewhat nervous