Have you ever seen magic scrolls being sold in cars, one by one?
This is the most discussed topic in the holy city of Estali recently.
Since the advent of the Manroland printing press, all the concerned magicians have been thinking about whether they can print magic scrolls. And subsequent facts have also proved that ordinary books can be printed, but magic scrolls seem to have
There is a natural threshold that cannot be easily crossed. A series of failed rumors and futile research can only become a joke among the people who eat melons.
But when the results came out, everyone couldn't sit still.
Although many people are jealous of the achievements and gains of mathematics, it is a science and is too professional. So far, those who have gone to the magician to compete in the ring have only ended up with four words - bringing humiliation to themselves. Just watch
The part that the other party has already disclosed, no matter how you think about it, still won’t reach the level that the other party can master. There is still a long way to go~
Among other things, the star map knowledge that Tripwood magician handed over to the association is claimed to be the source of all his strength. Despite the exaggerated price tag of M Gil (1000 gold), many veteran magicians still bought it.
Come back and try to research. Then...completely failed...
Although there seems to be a shadow of mathematics in it, the mathematical knowledge currently disclosed is still not enough to analyze the magical knowledge of the star map.
Compared with mathematics, printing magic scrolls is not that elusive to many magicians. After all, magic scrolls are something that everyone plays until they are almost rotten. As a magician, who dares to say that he can't do it?
Make a scroll. If you dare to say such things, you might as well dig a hole and bury yourself.
The idea of using machines to replace humans. In fact, the magician community has had a similar concept a long time ago. It just needs to replace the 'machine' here with a 'demon'. Some magicians who don't really trust others, in daily life
Some trivial matters cannot be taken care of entirely by themselves, so they will create golems to serve themselves.
However, simple golems are too stupid, and smart golems are too valuable and too difficult to make. The most important thing is that for some reason, the magicians in the Lost Land are obsessed with the "human form".
The humanoid is said to be 'omnipotent', but in fact it is incompetent. What machines are about is to serve only one thing and do it perfectly. When many machines are put together, they can do very complex things and
It's fast and good. The humanoid can't do this.
Magicians who are limited to the thinking of 'humanoid' golems will certainly not be able to develop an industrial revolution like the Earth.
Moreover, most magicians are quite disapproving of the ugly appearance of the printing press. Most people despise it and pay little attention to it. In addition, there has been no progress in the research on printing magic scrolls. So for the Manroland printing press designed by someone
, not many people take it to heart.
Until today.
The magic scroll printing business has attracted everyone's attention and once became a joke. The magicians and apprentices in the research team are all holding back their energy, hoping that one day they will be proud. Now that the results have been produced, they are still hiding it. Of course, everywhere
Publicity, for fear that others would not know about their achievements. A lot of relevant information was also leaked.
In fact, this kind of behavior also observes the innate discrimination of magicians from a certain perspective. Don't look at the protection of magic knowledge by the Magicians Association. There is already a management and protection mechanism similar to the intellectual property rights of the earth. But for 'non-magic'
knowledge, they are not that concerned.
Perhaps the specific information about which characters cannot be printed and which lines can be shared by various magic scrolls has not been disclosed. However, the research methods, problems and errors discovered during the process were all disclosed by a group of loudmouths.
And among these people, of course, there are several leading figures such as the great magician Kabambai and Bijan. In other words, they are the culprits of everything...
No matter, it's not my own research anyway. And to be honest, without their selfless behavior, no one else would be interested in the printing press.
As we all know, running a school is a money pit. In other places, if someone is not selfless on the surface but is actually forced to have the Charlie Richard Fund confiscated, there will be no one who has the consciousness to run a college.
Even if there is financial support, in fact there are still many branches that do not run academies. They only use the funds for the most basic purpose, that is, to help children in some poor areas have the opportunity to learn magic.
And as far as someone knows, there is still no college that can be regarded as an aristocratic school. That is, it only accepts wealthy students, and they must be well-fed, well-clothed, and well-educated. As long as the school is running, it will more or less accept students who have no financial ability.
, but students with magical talents are at the expense of free service for a few years after graduation.
Although such people will become a force in the college in the future; they can even be asked to do some trivial tasks while studying. But in the early stage, the resources they need will not appear out of thin air.
The college pays for it.
In fact, people who are willing to run schools, no matter what their main purpose is, have in their hearts the idea of doing their part for the inheritance and spread of magic. Therefore, they will not ignore those who have no financial means, but are talented and want to
Motivated children. It is precisely because of the difficulties in running schools that the deans of these colleges are like diving into a money pit, looking for funds and ways to increase income.
Not only the magicians who run schools are short of money, but those who don't run schools are not necessarily well off. So when they saw the success of the printing press in printing magic scrolls, everyone felt like they were seeing a chicken that lays golden eggs. Everyone was impressed.
Interested.
News came from Uzov Gantia that recently many masters have privately contacted the craftsmen who made printing machine parts. However, those craftsmen only mastered a small part of the parts production methods, and not everyone
Cooperation makes it impossible to build a second Manroland printing press. Not to mention the 'owner' here, including someone who controls the printing press control program.
Of course, Lin was happy to see this development. But for the next thing, out of moral reasons, Lin informed the president of Kabamba Academy and did some psychological construction for the old man. After all, this man came to the Holy City by himself.
Later nobles helped a lot inside and out. Although the things they wanted to do would not harm his interests, they were somehow related to this old man.
After getting the attitude of his boss, Uzov summoned the craftsmen who had helped make the printing press early the next morning.
Looking at the craftsmen who were summoned and seemed a little uneasy, Uzov couldn't understand their concerns.
The best group of craftsmen in the lost world are not dwarves, elves, and certainly not humans, but magicians.
The group of craftsmen from various races in front of us are only apprentices in the way of magic, and there are only a few people with such status. Such a group of people can be said to be at the lowest level in the holy city of Estali.
The difference from coolies is that they have an extra skill.
Before there was no technical guild to integrate them, they were like domestic slaves raised by magicians. They picked up some jobs that the magicians were too lazy to do and worked hard to survive in the holy city.
If they were really domestic slaves, then forget it, they would still have food to eat no matter what. But they are not. Once those dirty and smelly jobs are gone, they have no skills, and they can only starve to death on the roadside.
In the middle of this year, around April or May, new bathroom equipment, mainly toilets, came out. In order to meet the market demand for bathroom renovation in the Holy City, and to make a fortune in this newly emerging business, everyone originally worked independently.
The small workshops were united under the technical guild established by the group of people who originally started this business.
Because there is too much work and because the processes are too complex, the most profitable way for everyone is to divide labor and cooperate. Because everyone is only responsible for one part, they can quickly become proficient in this limited work content.
And because you are proficient, your efficiency will increase, and the work results that can be completed every day will also increase. The increase in the amount of work completed also means more money earned in the technical guild.
With more money, even if you feel a little tired every day, your life will become better and you don’t have to worry about where to find your next meal. So everyone gradually gets used to this kind of life.
But in such an environment, it is inevitable that there will be some uncoordinated actions. Some people want to skip the technical guild and directly entrust the work to the craftsmen.
In order to maintain its credibility, all accounts of the Technology Guild are open and transparent. Of course, materials account for the majority of the valuation of each commission, followed by the salary of the person who accepts the commission, but there will also be a technical licensing fee and a management fee.
The former is the cost of using the toilet patent, and the latter is the maintenance cost of operating the technical guild.
Uzov Gantia explained to everyone that the so-called patent and technology licensing fees are to protect the interests of those who provide technology, just like the Magician Association for magical knowledge. As long as the person who created that magical knowledge is still alive, the Association will
The profit from selling this knowledge is only the handling fee, and most of the sales proceeds go to the person who created that magical knowledge.
Only in this way will people with real skills be encouraged to disclose and contribute their skills and creations, so that more people can enjoy the benefits of this technology. Although at this stage there is only the boss behind the president
, disclosed the related manufacturing technology of bathroom equipment, as well as printing machine parts, paper making and ink technology.
But some clients didn't want to pay these two seemingly extra fees. So after the valuation, they privately approached the craftsmen belonging to the technical guild. Some people really couldn't stand the temptation, and some were forced to accept it due to threats.
These commissions were obtained privately.
Clients with more conscience choose not to pay technical licensing fees and guild management fees. Instead, they convert a small part of these fees into wages and provide them to craftsmen who are willing to take on private work. This is equivalent to increasing the income of these craftsmen in disguise, and it is only
Some people are willing to do this kind of breach of trust. But there are also clients who simply use violence or fraud to make the craftsmen surrender.
If you are an ordinary businessman, maybe someone will persuade you that peace is more valuable. But in the name of a technical guild, in fact, the most important thing for a human agency is to master the human resources and the market. It is no different from gangsters grabbing territory, so it is a scam.
Zof Gantia led the people to counterattack without hesitation.