Chapter 392

After some inquiries, among the remaining teams, the one with the slowest progress was undoubtedly the mortise and tenon craftsmanship team. Although their team had the largest number of members—their single team alone had more people than all the other ten teams combined—they were different from the rest in one major aspect. The projects of the other teams were supported by already complete craft processes, whereas Liu Wenhui's project lacked a complete workflow. Their team was building a scaled-down model of the Forbidden City, and the Forbidden City represented the absolute pinnacle of ancient architectural craftsmanship! Many of the techniques involved had already been lost to history, requiring their team to tackle difficult technical hurdles while simultaneously manufacturing the pieces. Coupled with the fact that the Forbidden City was a massive architectural complex requiring tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of individual parts, their team could not even estimate when they would be able to finish.