Tear Knight's Military Production Network Takes Shape as the Holy City Convoy Arrives

The Governor's Mansion and the Sacred War Reconstruction Institute issued a joint order that afternoon, and the first expansion meeting was convened soon after.

Twelve ordinary workshops, four repair workshops, and several connected storage areas were brought into the first phase of expansion for the Tear Knight Standardized Combat Readiness System.

Vane personally selected the workshops.

The list included established workshops with steady output, as well as repair workshops that had long handled salvaged parts, armor patches, and old crossbow repairs.

The former could keep the first phase running at a steady pace. The latter would test the procedures for repairs, recovery, and spare-part reuse.

Vane, Lorenz, several Workshop Directorate managers, the heads of the Storage District, and the Reconstruction Institute's Secretariat all attended the first meeting.

Shien proposed a different arrangement on the spot.

He pressed a charcoal pencil against the plans and said, "If every workshop makes complete repeating crossbows, the experience gained during the pilot will become a new source of pressure.

"Each workshop will compete for materials, technicians, and inspectors. Their production processes will overlap, and overall efficiency will suffer."

He drew several lines across the plans. "The combat readiness system needs the work divided up, with each workshop responsible for one stage."

Vane studied the plans, his gaze fixed on those lines.

Shien continued, "Tear Knight City supplies the front line. Its workshops need to be linked into a military production system that can keep running."

He then divided the equipment that needed modification into several categories.

Portable Steam Repeating Crossbows, Short Steam Repeating Crossbows, Heavy Steam Repeating Crossbows—

Large city-defense crossbows, shells, gun carriages, gun barrels, and auxiliary components—

And older weapons such as pikes, spears, shields, and ordinary armor plates were all assigned to different production lines.

The final two workshops were designated