Knowing what he had to deal with, he immediately promised to attend. After all, the great magician Kabambai had personally invited him, so it would be too disrespectful to refuse.
Secondly, there is a sense of security in participating, of course because one is not alone. The people he has been working hard to maintain have given Lin some help in the Holy City of Estali. Just like the big guys who helped me solve many problems several times.
The good ties with these seniors actually go beyond the fact that they come to take math courses in order to maintain their right to acquire knowledge after paying tuition. Of course, it is not the expectation of a deeper knowledge of mathematics in the future that makes them willing to help.
If it were just for this reason, they could just pretend to be deaf and dumb when others put pressure on them, and just get a share of the pie when the harvest finally comes. Because this is the least labor-intensive, requires the least cost, and will yield the most abundant rewards.
But when someone who is powerless deserves their favor, they will naturally help. Because judging from someone's character, the debt of gratitude owed will eventually be repaid.
It is true that by bravely advancing forward and clearing all obstacles in the way, there will be help attached to you. But strictly speaking, if life unfolds in different ways, there are two different types of people who are willing to help you.
At this time, instead of discussing which kind of assistance is more useful, it is better to ask yourself which kind of life you want. Then someone's choice is also obvious.
Lin also informed others at dinner about the invitation to the magician's banquet five days later. He asked: "Does anyone want to go with you?"
For a grand banquet like this, the official magicians have their own place for the formal magicians, and the apprentices have their own place. Even the followers who are not magicians will have a gathering place, and there is even no problem for the three to move among each other. Unlike some small private banquets, except for specific people, everyone else is very casual.
As long as Lin has an invitation letter, he can bring as many people as he wants to the banquet, and the organizers will do their best to entertain them. However, the magicians still have a tacit agreement, that is, the number of people other than magicians is limited to no more than ten. The more people who are of the same magician level, the better. That's why Lin asked to see who wanted to eat and drink.
However, it seems that everyone is exhausted and lacks interest. It’s not their fault, after all, everyone has been very busy during this time.
The microscope business of Ginbeard Dwarf is undoubtedly a high-tech exclusive business, and not everyone can get involved. And anyone who tries to reach out and use dirty tricks to force the dwarves will be properly dealt with by those anxious customers.
But this does not mean that the dwarves can take advantage of it. The same pressure may turn in another direction at any time and surge towards the dwarves. Because those big shots who were waiting to receive the microscope were the same ones that Lin and others could not afford to offend or did not want to offend.
So in the near future, as long as there are enough materials, the four dwarves will dive into work except for eating, drinking and defecating. Even the previous incident where Freya and everyone were not on the same page was treated as if it never happened. That desperate energy could give someone nightmares. It's like going back to before time travel, meeting your habitual boss, and entering a sweatshop...
Compared with the scene of four silver-bearded dwarves working in full swing, it is not far behind. What can even be said to be more exaggerated is the bathroom system business spearheaded by Uzov.
It started with someone paying out of their own pocket to install toilets at the Flaming Lips Inn and Kabamba Academy. This business is changing so fast that others can hardly imagine it. And Uzov and the cooperating craftsmen faced challenges faster than imagined. Ultimately, the reason is that the things are easy to use and the market is huge, but the output is insufficient and the technical threshold seems to be low.
He has made good friends with the craftsmen who cooperated with Uzov, and some craftsmen from small workshops came to him privately, hoping to learn how to make them and share some market demand.
The big workshop owners who had people behind them also came one after another, and they cooperated in all aspects as soon as they opened their mouths. The various conditions were clearly listed, but it was almost the same as annexation, except that the original team was not kicked away. Moreover, such behavior seemed to be such a magnanimous behavior in their mouths, and there were no shortage of threats both inside and outside the words.
Although anyone with a discerning eye can tell who is behind this new business at a glance, no one cares about these local snakes. Because whether it was a magician who taught mathematics or a lich who might have been the Demon King, they didn't have enough weight in their eyes.
Even the great magician Kaban Bai and others who take good care of Lin in the magic circle can hardly exert any influence on a follower's business. Especially since this thing has nothing to do with 'magic', they are not going to meddle in other people's affairs to such an extent.
Faced with such a difficult situation at the beginning, Uzov naturally found someone for help.
A few years earlier, someone might have chosen to hand over the thing; or they might have found some big bosses to step in and rely on their power to show off their power. Of course, a lot of profits have to be paid out, just to save myself some trouble and not be too lazy to spend too much thought on these things. But today I am not going to charge into the battle by myself, there is Uzov to do it for me. And what he wanted to hear wasn't advice to admit defeat.
The way to break the situation is also very simple, which is to unite the stragglers and fight against the big forces.
But there is no way to easily recruit these people. They will maintain the scale of their small workshops, not just because they want to maintain their autonomy without being squeezed by others. The economy of scale in Midi has not yet developed, and the large workshops are still in the stage of squeezing manpower to obtain large profits. Ling Ling Bookstore
It's like a landowner versus a tenant farmer versus a homesteader who owns a small plot of land. Unless the situation is really precarious, who would want to be a sharecropper?
Even if you analyze the stakes with these people, by the time they figure it out, it may be too late to do anything. The craftsmen who were willing to cooperate with Uzov thought about it for a long time before forming the alliance today.
However, the pressure of reality has arrived, and there is not much time to slowly convince those small workshop owners. Therefore, Lin proposed to use the method of enterprises to master core technologies and horizontal communication, and outsource most projects to small manufacturers to form an industrial chain with complete upstream and downstream supporting facilities.
Although this statement seems very profound, if you want others to understand it, you have to take a class in economics. In fact, Midi has already had relevant measures that have been in place for a long time. Uzov figured it out with just a few words. That is similar to the Adventurer's Guild, regarding mission release, adventurer level evaluation and other systems.
Anyone who wants to take a share of the sanitary equipment market in the holy city of Estali must join the 'Bathroom Equipment Technology Guild' headed by Uzov and others. Participating craftsmen will be given different grades and licenses based on past evaluations, quality of construction, and projects they are good at. These levels affect the work they can receive from the guild.
Those who want to make more money from this business will, of course, take more jobs; those who want to do their own thing, of course, will take fewer jobs from the guild. That is to say, their profits depend on their own willingness and efforts, rather than simply working for someone and being squeezed just to earn a meager salary. In this way, autonomy is maintained.
What the technical guild paid was nothing more than the market it initially opened up, and then it separated out some processes that had no skills to speak of and could be done by anyone who saw them. The only difference was in the processes that were done well or poorly. The only thing he had in hand was the formula for the porcelain glaze.
In this way, this kind of work has attracted the vast majority of independent craftsmen in the Holy City. Not only did he have the manpower, he also formed a force that others could not despise.
In fact, this whole thing can be promoted smoothly, thanks to the big workshop owners who were originally arrogant.
Uzov told the ordinary craftsmen why they should join the technical guild? Even if I have learned a full set of production techniques, can I withstand the pressure of those big workshop owners and the people behind them? Even if you withstand the pressure, how much can you do by yourself? How fast? It is better to join forces than to work alone.
And the alliance here is not about throwing yourself under the influence of any party, but relying on your own skills to compete with other peers. There are not too many things to worry about, and for the time being, it seems that there will still be more jobs than people, so there is no need to worry about not being able to get jobs.
The organizations and systems of the Adventurer's Guild and the Mercenary Guild have been established in Lost Land for many years. Even if you have never been an adventurer and accepted a commission, you still have the experience of entrusting work to an adventurer; even if you have neither, at least you have a rough understanding of what these organizations are doing. Living in Lost Land, it is difficult not to be related to these people.
Because it is a system that everyone is familiar with, it does not require too much teaching and explanation. People who are willing to participate can quickly get started, and it can be scaled up in a very short time. By the time the big workshops controlled by big shots realized something was wrong, the technical guilds had become strong enough to confront them, and even suppress them in turn.
At this point, the only choices left for the big workshop owners are to stay away from this business, or to join the technical guild and become a member of it.
On the other hand, some people want to turn against customers and join the technical guild, and then in turn eat up the entire guild, control pricing and distribution rights, and benefit only their own people.
But all members of the guild are both managers and employees. Anyone with bad intentions simply cannot convince the public. No matter how sweet-talking or forming cliques these people may be, they will always be wary of other small workshop owners and craftsmen, making it difficult to control the power of the guild.
Even if there is a fight and trouble... it can be said that everyone wants it. Anyway, if you have grudges, take revenge, but if you don’t have grudges, practice fists. Among the residents of Lost Land, no one is afraid of being beaten.
Of course, the main reason is that pricing is publicly discussed by all members of the guild; allocation is in the form of a task release, stating the needs, time limit and remuneration, and is left to the guild members to choose. Maybe this is not the best and most efficient system, but at least it is a form that everyone can accept. Anyone who wants to undermine this system will be ostracized by everyone.
But this is also related to Uzov Gantia's skill in handling things. He has well connected the weak small workshop owners and craftsmen, making it difficult for the relatively larger forces to divide and unite the small forces.
In order to give everyone a place to gather together, everyone jointly bought a house to serve as the guild's base. Uzov Gantia naturally became the first president.
In order to allow the technical guild to operate smoothly, Uzov hired some clerks who knew writing and calculation.
And when a group of stinky men get together, they will inevitably want wine and meat. Therefore, this guild hall also operates a business of eating and drinking, just like a tavern.
Then when Uzov realized what he was doing, he was speechless. When life goes full circle and returns to the starting point, it always makes people feel powerless.
