After accumulating a certain amount of information, throw out the latest results. Let others suspend their research and spend time understanding the so-called 'latest' results, which will undermine their confidence. Repeat this several times, and many people will choose to print magic scrolls.
I no longer continue my own research, but wait for the results of Kabamba Academy to apply them to my own money-making business.
Judging from the amount of profits earned, perhaps Kabamba Academy's printing magic scroll business will not be the largest; but it can become the leader and dominant player in this industry. And the price paid is the consequences of trying to monopolize it.
Trouble.
After hearing this explanation, whether it was the great magician Kabambai at that time, Uzov Gantia later, or the craftsmen of these technical guilds now, they all had a common feeling: it's sinister.
Although someone would like to explain that this is a basic operation on Earth.
But after confirming the attitude of the big bosses, everyone present was gearing up and preparing for a big fight. As long as it can help them live a better life, who wouldn't love it.
The development of the next few days is probably as someone predicted.
As for the long-standing choice proposition of "you can't have your cake and eat it too", although in the days before someone traveled through time, there was a new saying: Only children make choices, and I want them all.
But the reality is, is there really a way to get them all?
Lin You guessed the choice of the great magician Kabamba. Everyone who heard it could also understand why the old man made that choice.
Maybe on Earth, those big bosses would say that no matter how advanced their knowledge is, they are still helping them work. But on the road of knowledge, such people cannot reach the top. All they get is money; or to put it more bluntly - the stock price.
That is the value in the eyes of others.
In the Lost Land, money is really not that important. Although you can do many things, you can't kill the God of Death, you can't kill the dragon, you can't kill many otherworldly beings. In the Lost Land, you don't have the skill of throwing the universe. Money
It is meaningless in the eyes of those beings. This is the biggest difference between Mystery and Earth.
Therefore, the great magician of Kabamba did not choose the path that might make the most money, but chose to contribute to the civilized world, leave a good name, and expand his influence. As for the insidious idea someone said, I can only
I understand, but I can't express it clearly.
Of course, there are those who are smart and think of the knowledge that someone generously spreads out, including forums... maybe there is something fishy in it? This can only be understood, not stated clearly?
No one asked about the exit. Anyway, if you have money, everyone will make it. If you don’t, you are a bastard. The great magician Kabamba is high enough, so he chooses to benefit the world; others are not that high, so they choose to take care of themselves and their family first.
There's nothing wrong with that, it's just that everyone gets what they need.
Therefore, when this strategically important project was put in front of the emperor, young and aggressive officers from the military drawing room under the Imperial Military Department of the Gowana Empire strongly suggested that this technology be nationalized.
The Holy City is not a bad street, there are them everywhere, but it’s almost there.
Magicians who are confident in themselves, ambitious, or short of money will choose to buy a basic Manroland printing press. Then they will find ways to modify it themselves and study methods of printing magic scrolls. Magicians who are not short of funds will buy it directly.
An improved version of the Manroland printing press. This is the final model used by the printing workshop of Kabamba College to print magic scrolls. It does not include subsequent research and improvements.
Because improved models are much more expensive, there are many greedy magicians who want free upgrades or even free prostitution. At this time, the great magician of Kabamba will find a group of people to talk to those who dare to make such a request...
In short, everyone is willing to pay in the end.
In addition to the printing press, the first edition of the research results on the most important magic scroll printing method was also put on the knowledge platform of the Magician Association for purchase at an unprecedented price, Xbar Kir (10,000 gold).
You must know that even for strategic-level magic, a powerful magic commonly known as forbidden spells, the highest price is only the MMMDC Kir of Doomsday (3,600 gold). The price of Xbar Kir is brutal!
But the great magician Kabambai also made it very clear that this printing method is not for a single magic, but a systematic method of making magic scrolls. How can it be compared with a mere forbidden spell? What's more, the amount of money in Xbar Kir
You can't even build a magic tower, but what you get in exchange is a hen that can lay golden eggs every day. How can this be considered expensive!
For those veteran magicians who do not intend to get involved in the magic scroll printing business and are just concerned about the progress of this research, including the master of the Sixth Tower of the Holy City, if the great magician Kabambai chooses to conceal this method.
For the sake of the entire Lost Land and the world of magicians, maybe they will all come forward to put pressure on their old friend to change his mind.
But since the other party is willing to disclose it, although there is a price, it is not an impossible condition. Then those who hope to obtain this knowledge certainly have the right to consider whether it is worth paying such a price in exchange for this knowledge.
Isn't that what trading is all about? When one person makes a bid, the other person will buy it if it feels like it's a good deal. If it's not a good deal, he won't buy it. Of course, bargaining is not impossible, and even using force to coerce the other party to lower the price is often heard in the shopping malls of Midi. But...
...Recalling Kabamba's disgusting old face, the magicians in the Holy City had to admit that the price of making him surrender was far higher than that of Xbar Kil.
So, accept your fate.
When the Gwana Empire shouldered the mission, the Captain of the First Legion's First Magic Brigade, Dharma Saint Babak Abunahan once again set foot on the land of the Holy City. After going around in a circle, he went back without saying anything.
And wrote a report to the group of young officers in the military drawing room:
Although not many people know about the method of printing magic scrolls, they are all important figures. Centered on these people, their influence almost covers the entire Holy City. In particular, the knowledge of printing technology has been entered into the Magician Association and the Great Library.
, so if the empire wants to keep this secret privately, it should send troops to massacre the city.
…
As a large city of the same level as the capital of the empire, in addition to the six towers guarding the Great Library, the holy city of Estali also has private magic towers built everywhere in the city. In addition, there are many magicians who want to kill
In such a city, it seems easier to massacre the capital of one's own empire. At least there aren't that many magic towers.
Therefore, even if the group of radical young officers were unwilling, they could only give up the idea of occupying this technology. The Gwana Empire settled for the next best thing and purchased ten sets of equipment for printing magic scrolls in one go. That one was regarded as sky-high.
I also bought a set of printing methods and planned to make magic scrolls like crazy to use as reserves for the war.
Such dissemination of printing presses and printing methods quickly led to the first difficulty anyone had imagined - the problem of insufficient raw materials.
In this era of low productivity, it makes little sense to speed up only one link in the entire industrial chain, because the speed of the upstream and downstream supporting industries has not increased accordingly.
The raw materials for making magic scrolls produced around the Holy City, as well as the inventory accumulated over a long period of time, were all wiped out. In the past, these reserves and production were enough to support a huge magician city like Estali.
There is a demand for magic scrolls. But after the reform of the printing press, there is not enough.
If the Holy City itself and the surrounding areas do not have it, and if you want to make magic scrolls, the materials will have to be dispatched from further areas. And the finished magic scrolls must be transported to other places before they can be sold, because there is no such thing in the Holy City.
There is a need to purchase large quantities of magic scrolls with the same magic. Then the problem of transportation has been brought to the table.
These two major difficulties immediately put the newly emerging printing industry in a dilemma.
According to the law of supply and demand, the price of things should increase endlessly until the supply exceeds the demand. But magic scrolls are not necessities like food. Not to mention the inflation of the earth, which is basically caused by panic.
Psychology, and there are some people's speculative behavior that adds fuel to the flames, have caused serious financial disasters.
For such a long time in the past, adventurers dared to travel to the ends of the world with one or two life-saving scrolls, or even without them. Could it be that the adventurers of this era dare not go out without a magic scroll by their side.
So there is no room for a significant price increase on this item.
What kind of magic is what kind of price. If it is too high, adventurers will not pay the bill. For example, if C Gil (100 gold) buys a scroll of water purification that can only be used once, adventurers would rather travel back and forth.
A few trips, or carrying a large bucket of water on your own, it would cost less than C Kiel to travel for ten years. This is the reality.
Any economic behavior that is divorced from the consumer side and only considers costs is bound to fail.
In the melee for limited raw materials, printing of magic scrolls and sales, only the great magician of Kabambai is sitting firmly.
Because of this situation, the young magician who taught mathematics had reminded him. But as long as his focus is on research, he doesn't care so much whether he can sell more magic scrolls.
But people are always forced out. Magicians with quick minds have begun to improve the production and transportation of raw materials for making magic scrolls.
It's like a string of human-pulled carriages, one of which transforms into a locomotive and rushes forward.
Maybe the locomotive will be slowed down by other carriages when it starts, but as long as it is pulled by the locomotive, the overall speed will always increase; or a certain carriage will break away, lose speed, and eventually stay in place forever. But few people choose
Smash the locomotive and let all the cars move forward at the same tepid speed.
This is the atmosphere in the holy city of Estali now. An unimaginable vitality bursts out with the printing press as the center.
Even those magicians who lost their income from hand-made magic scrolls due to the popularity of printing machines turned around and devoted themselves to the business of printing machines. Because they are good at hand-making, in the process of research and improvement, such people
They have an advantage over other magicians because they know more.
As for those magic apprentices who were already suffering from the low production success rate and high cost, they gave up decisively. The scribes had no choice but to make magic scrolls. There was no way out for this group of people.
You should be resentful of the person who started all this.
But they realized that printing workshops everywhere needed the skills they had practiced for a long time. Naturally, they gathered in printing workshops everywhere and used their talents in another way.
Different from the textile light industry, which led to the first wave of industrial revolution on earth, Midi showed the same clues in the holy city of Estali with another industry.