Wulian City, the reception room on the fifth floor of the middle tower. The fourteen magicians who are affiliated to the Xijia District Branch of the Magicians Association and have the right to vote on decision-making gathered here. Except for the president who sat at the main seat, the others sat on both sides of the long table.
Among the fourteen people, the elder who serves as the district chapter president will also serve as the chairman of the chamber of commerce. At the same time, the owners of the four towers in the east, west, south and north will also have seats. In addition, there are five people recommended by the founding family.
The Chamber of Commerce was not built from scratch. Instead, there are five families - some of them are aristocrats, some are magic families, and some are business families - because the children of the families belong to the upper echelons of the district association, they unite to form a chamber of commerce, which is subordinate to the district association.
It is difficult for a chamber of commerce established with these five families as its backbone to bypass the opinions of the five families in making decisions. Therefore, they use the children of the family who become magicians as members of the decision-making seat to represent the opinions of the family.
If in the contemporary era, there is no one with enough status in the family to become a magician, they also maintain a recommendation quota, so that magicians who are good friends with their family can represent them in the decision-making circle of the chamber of commerce.
Hydra Kunich is a representative of the Kunich family, sitting on one side of the long table.
The remaining four people, in the initial stage of establishment, were led by the four most advanced armed forces of the contemporary Xijia District Chapter. Since it is impossible for such people to serve as the gold medal thugs of the chamber of commerce without sharing some profits, they will also occupy seats in the decision-making circle and share the profits.
Since then, these four places have been reserved, either by predecessors recommending successors, or by everyone's public recommendation of powerful magicians. Of course, when the Chamber of Commerce encounters troubles in its operation and has to be solved by force, these four people have to be the vanguard. As the inspector, the great magician Greenwen has such a position. This is one of the reasons why he was able to promote the forum system to the entire district chapter in a short period of time.
Now they put down the things at hand and came to the fifth floor of the middle tower, of course, for the mall system proposed by Lin. However, the president did not pass on the documentation that came with the system magic stone to everyone. The main reason is that the viewing speed is too slow and the content is too much. So Chengguo Yiton was handed over to his chief student who was standing aside.
Under the attention of everyone, he operated the forum terminal connected to the energy pool on the fifth floor of the middle tower. Place the book in the magic circle next to the keyboard. As the pages are turned, the text on the book will be simultaneously recorded to the new article page on the forum.
That's right, although the computer development in the Lost World is still very primitive in Lin's eyes, the excellence of the input method far surpasses that of Earth. In addition to the most basic keyboard input, there are also voice input, handwriting input and scan input, with a reliability of nearly 100%. You will make mistakes, either by pronouncing the words wrongly or by writing the words wrongly on the paper.
The biggest reason why it is so outstanding is that a certain senior magician who loves sound and light effects created the idea of using sound to turn into magic words in mid-air, and the incantation or magic circle copied on ordinary paper can also turn into magic words in the air. The magic word method.
The original intention was to use this method to complete the complex spellcasting process without relying on the energy pool of the magic tower. But in reality, when casting spells outside, if you are in a fighting state, you must cast another spell before completing one spell. If the opponent is a master of the same level as yourself, the time wasted is enough for the opponent to kill you to a pulp. ; If the opponent is weaker than yourself, there is no need to use such complicated methods, there will be simpler ways to kill the opponent.
Therefore, these two magic spells, which have been passed down and are called 'Mir Phonetic Word Art' and 'Mir Magic Word Art', have long been ranked among the top ten useless magic spells in the association, and this is true for all regional branches.
Until Lin designed an alien version of the computer system and incorporated these two magics into the basic input methods. Many old magicians who are older and are not used to keyboard input have become uncharacteristically respectful of the two sets of Mir's magic that have been despised for hundreds of years.
However, this aspect is a plug-in function. If you want to use it, you have to purchase the relevant knowledge from the association and then install it into the browser system according to the instructions. The consequences of infringement are very serious, especially now that the magician Mir is dead enough that his bones can beat drums, the rights to the magic belong to the association. Violating the interests of the association is no different than seeking death.
The ease of input is also a major reason why the forum is so popular. In addition to the convenience of information exchange in various places, the digitization of large amounts of text data through scanning speeds up the spread of knowledge and reduces costs.
Now, everyone is waiting for the process of digitizing the instruction document. The reason why I didn't do it before but had to do it in front of everyone is to prove that every word was scanned from the document without any modifications.
Cheng Guo, Eton's chief student, also posted the data in the private discussion area of the chamber of commerce's decision-making circle after scanning a chapter. The rest of the people were staring at their own forum screens and looking at this explanation document from the Tower of the Great Sage.
Quick reading and quick understanding have become the instinct of almost every person who is qualified as a great magician. With the published chapter content, everyone also has a preliminary concept of this mall system. Because in the description document, Lin also gave a brief explanation of the reasons and ideas behind each design. Of course, whether others understand or not is not his concern.
Originally, the reception room was quiet, except for one or two great magicians with poor habits who would knock on the table to make some noise when they were thinking. Gradually, someone began to discuss with the people around them, and then more and more people participated in the discussion, and the reception room turned into three or four small groups discussing the mall system.
Generally speaking, everyone agrees with using the mall system. However, the distribution of orders has become the focus of debate.
The main targets served by the affiliated chamber of commerce are the magicians scattered throughout the Xijia District. In the form of opening a store, collecting goods in various stores and then selling them is very expensive in terms of cost and turnover rate, and there is no profit at all. Besides, if you open a store outside the district branch headquarters, you will inevitably have to pay taxes to the local lord, resulting in additional expenses.
Secondly, the tower owners will not deliberately go to towns where there are stores just to buy something. If you're lucky, you can get the goods back home; if you're not lucky, you still have to wait for door-to-door delivery. Therefore, the main business model of the chamber of commerce is for chamber of commerce managers to travel around the country frequently, make door-to-door inquiries and decide on orders, and then return to the chamber of commerce headquarters to dispatch the goods.
Therefore, it is not surprising that a transaction takes up to half a year. Fortunately, the pace of life in the Lost World is slow, and when it comes to buying and selling some unconventional special goods, no one is so anxious that if you place an order today, you have to receive the goods tomorrow.
In the original face-to-face transaction type, the order was in the hands of the person who made the contact, and the pricing power was the same, and commissions and profits were generated. But when the transaction is replaced by a virtual platform interface, problems will arise.
Although Lin's order system has a column for designated business personnel to let the system know to whom the order is to be forwarded, so that someone can report the price to the customer who placed the order based on the order content.
If a certain manager's pricing is particularly affordable, once it spreads on the forum, it will inevitably create several star businesses. There is only so much transaction volume in the entire Xijia District, and the pie is only so big. If a few people grab the majority, the rest of the people can only pick up some scattered small profits. This is a damned thing if it doesn't make people hate it.
But what if there is no salesperson field? Considering that most magicians don’t care at all who they buy from, even if there is a salesperson field, they may fill it in randomly. Therefore, if there is no business personnel option, orders will be concentrated at the chamber of commerce headquarters. But someone still has to make an offer, so it must be allocated again. But how to allocate this part, Lin is powerless.
It's just that there is no business option, which is disadvantageous to some chamber of commerce managers who have loyal customers and travel frequently to various places. Because of the allocation method, your original customers may be assigned to other people for various reasons.
So both methods have their own pros and cons. For the representatives of the family faction, they have a large number of people and have a keener sense of business behavior. Naturally, they hope to operate in the first form, so that it will be easier for them to seize more benefits. But for the representatives of the martial arts faction and the tower owner, they may be able to dig out relatively large profit margins if they are allocated by the chamber of commerce.
This discussion cannot be resolved in a short while. Some magicians even call their right-hand assistants and let those who know more about business management give them advice.
On the contrary, the president, Chengguo Eaton, listened to everyone's arguments calmly and did not intervene. Most of the benefits of the Chamber of Commerce will be subsidized to the regional branches, that is, through his hands as the president. How much he wants to withhold depends on his conscience. Therefore, the position of president does not involve in actual operations, and mostly serves as the responsibilities of internal arbitration of the chamber of commerce.
While thinking about the pros and cons of the two options, Chengguo Eaton immediately noticed the two young apprentices from the Tower of the Great Sage, standing quietly aside, not daring to move.
He summoned two girls and asked, "Your main purpose this time is to conduct the apprenticeship assessment."
"Yes, Mr. President."
"Is there any notification?"
There is no fixed time for apprenticeship assessment. Instead, people who hope to participate in the assessment take the initiative to apply. The association will then look at the magicians with inspector qualifications who are free to conduct the assessment. Generally speaking, there is one event every month. The association will also gather apprentices who have applied recently and make arrangements according to the time of the inspector magician.
As early as last month, the Chamber of Commerce's carriage team had been commissioned to apply for the apprenticeship assessment of Halumi and Kaya. After the girl explained, she said, "All that's left is to report to the West Tower and confirm the date."
The division of powers and responsibilities in Wulian Cities. The east tower manages general affairs and the Chamber of Commerce, the west tower manages apprentices, the south tower collects and manages magic knowledge, and the north tower handles magician business, including dispatch work. The middle tower is responsible for matters concerning the inspectors, inspectors, and the great magician, as well as matters that cannot be handled by the other four towers.
Knowing the girls' arrangements, Chengguo Eaton nodded and asked, "Then you will leave after the assessment?"
"The teacher has told us to purchase some things from the Chamber of Commerce. But we have to see how much remuneration we can get from the association before we can decide on the items we need. When the things are almost complete, we will return with the transport team. "
"That's fine." Chengguo Yidun looked at the people who were still arguing and said, "It seems that the discussion here will not come to a result so quickly. Maybe there are some things that need to be exchanged with your teacher. And the reward I will also instruct people to settle the accounts and deliver them to you as soon as possible. Then I will say hello to the Chamber of Commerce and tell them what you want to buy. But since I have nothing to do with you for the time being, Just go down and rest first. I remember that the apprenticeship assessment will also be held within the next few days. Just prepare well and don't worry about other things."
The two girls obediently bowed at the same time and said, "Yes, thank you, President."
