For the heads of the other merchant guilds in the Federation, attending the Commercial Association's banquet proved to be a complete overhaul of their thinking. Under Xu Yi's eloquent explanations, everyone gained an almost entirely new understanding of magical machinery.
Previously, they had regarded all the magical machinery produced by the Xinfei Merchant Guild as individual, unique inventions born from flashes of inspiration on Xu Yi's part.
Only after listening to Xu Yi's detailed explanation did they realize that these machines actually shared common principles, and that they were grounded in an immensely vast, complex, and precise theoretical framework.
Whether household Magic Machinery such as Magic Fans, Magic Air Conditioners, and Magic Rice Cookers, or Magic Machine Tools, Farmland Magic Machinery, and the mining Magic Machinery now used by the Falkor Merchant Guild, all these magical machines were based on this body of magical mechanical theory.
Only by thoroughly studying this theory could anyone fully understand the true principles and manufacturing processes behind magical machinery.
Without that understanding, anyone who wanted to produce magical machinery could do no more than imitate and copy it. Trying to make modifications themselves, as President Mita had done, was asking for disaster.
It was also thanks to Xu Yi's explanation that everyone learned just how much theoretical knowledge lay behind a Magic Fan. Though it was only a little device a few dozen centimeters tall and weighing less than five kilograms, it was far more complicated than it looked.
The fan blades alone involved what Xu Yi called aerodynamics, spatial geometry, and basic physics.
At first glance, the blades of a Xinfei Magic Fan seemed to be nothing more than three oddly shaped iron sheets attached at random. In reality, however, their shape, their number, their size... all these details had been determined through