Chapter 1228

Being able to see the empire's national strength flourishing day by day before abdicating, Your Majesty shed tears and was completely at ease.

In the expanded three-story conference room, although some bricks and stones had already been carted off by the society's members, and the floor had been carefully swept, one could still see traces of the temporary expansion on site.

Lin Cheng paid no attention to these details. As he entered, a large group of people behind him also entered one after another, beginning to pick out suitable standing positions.

Seating on site was limited; the young people shouldn't even think about it — the seats were certainly reserved for the veteran master craftsmen within the society.

Being a junior who could stand inside the conference room was already considered not bad; moreover, the juniors who could stand inside the conference room still had connections. Forgers without connections could only stand outside the conference room and look in through the window.

Even so, a large number of forgers were willing to stand at the window and look inside. The Mingwen Sect's instruction would certainly include an on-site demonstration of enchanting techniques. Even if they could only learn a smattering, for some ordinary forgers it was something that would benefit them immensely.

Under everyone's anticipation, Lin Cheng also walked to the very front of the conference room, turned around, and faced the crowd.

"Cough, cough!"

Behind him was a magic blackboard, in front of him a magic loudspeaker. Sound-testing himself, he was inexplicably a little nervous. Having grown this big, he had always been the one listening to lectures; now he hadn't expected there would be a chance to teach others.

The audience below was quiet from beginning to end. Even if there were some small scattered sounds, those conversing were all very restrained in the sounds they made.

"Before formally beginning the lecture, let me state the course arrangement. Because the explanation and carving of inscriptions both greatly test a forger's experience, I will try to speak as slowly as possible. This morning I will cover five inscriptions, and in the afternoon another five inscriptions — thirty inscriptions in total. I will spread the explanation of all the inscriptions over three days. Considering the complexity of the inscriptions, I will lecture for a total of ten days! Going through the whole thing three times from beginning to end. No objections, President Huoerde?" Lin Cheng turned his gaze toward President Huoerde directly ahead. According to the agreement, ten days later his shop should also be finished with its renovation, and he had to go back and open the shop.

After that, it would depend on his mood whether he came to the Zaoshigong Society to lecture.

"Fine, fine." President Huoerde nodded his head, then took out a magic recorder. The best notes were none other than recording Lin Cheng's entire explanation process completely, so he could go home and watch it repeatedly.

"Huoerde, you actually…." A branch president from another city beside him was stunned on the spot seeing Huoerde take out a magic recorder. How had he not thought of this trick?

He hurriedly called on the members below to quickly go buy a magic recorder and bring it back.

However, some junior forgers had long been prepared, directly selling magic recorders on site at high prices. Seeing that Master Lin Cheng's lecture was about to begin, running to the magic merchants' guild to buy one at this time was clearly too late, so they could only reluctantly accept the high-priced magic recorders.

Lin Cheng saw that white-haired young man selling magic recorders and couldn't help but smile. This fellow had more business sense than the others, holding out until just before the opening to sell the magic recorders — at this very moment it was also the best time to sell them. Where there is demand, there is certainly a market!

It seemed that earlier, President Huoerde's magic recorder had also been bought from him.

If there was a chance, he should recruit this fellow.

"Class begins now!"

"As everyone knows, inscriptions are the key for us forgers to enchant items and bestow upon them special power. Then may I ask — besides this, what other uses do inscriptions have?"

Borrowing modern teaching methods for instruction — if from the start he analyzed inscriptions like chanting sutras to Buddha, the whole process would be unbearable even for Lin Cheng himself.

Coming up with this one question to actively ask the crowd, the group below was slightly taken aback at the question posed by Lin Cheng. Some wondered why he was asking this, while others began thinking about the answer.

Even if they didn't know what Master Lin Cheng's intention was —

There must certainly be his reasoning for doing so.

Actually, this question somewhat touched on ancient exploration and imperial history. Unless one was an heir of a family that possessed a forging inheritance, ordinary forgers almost didn't know the answer to this question.

Worse still, some only knew inscriptions could be used for enchanting — nothing more.

Their knowledge reserves were pitifully meager.

"Everyone don't be nervous. Those who know can answer me directly. I just hope that you all won't forget the origins and history of inscriptions."

"The principle that the predecessors plant trees so the descendants may enjoy the shade — everyone should understand it. If every generation of forgers is researching inscriptions, then many a little makes a mickle, and our understanding of inscriptions will slowly increase. Not like now, where every forger is waiting for other makers to share their understanding of inscriptions."

"To put it bluntly, why should my Tut family share the inscription system we've researched for a thousand years with you all? If I had never made it public, how would you have gathered together?"

These words left the crowd below speechless on the spot, and also a little red-faced.

Lin Cheng was right — among these old predecessors who had devoted their entire lives to the forging cause, not a single one had devoted themselves to the research of inscriptions.

The research of inscriptions does not belong to that small group of people who specialize in studying inscriptions; it should belong to the entire forging profession. Every person should constantly experiment with and research the functions of inscriptions.