The first day of publication of the first issue of the Mathematics Journal.
The Lost Land of this era is not like Crazy Earth, where there will be a crowd of people queuing up all night long. Therefore, Kabamba College still maintains the same calm as before.
It means that the old man did not put the place where he sells periodicals inside the college. Instead, it is placed near the gate, the reception area for outsiders. This is usually where the younger students in the Initiation class meet their parents. Selling mathematics journals here can also prevent too many irrelevant people from entering the college.
Each journal is priced at XL kilo (40 gold). This price is considered to be at the lowest level among the magic knowledge sold by the Magician Association. For a formal magician, it's not a lot of money, but it's not a small amount of money that can be easily spent without even thinking about it.
For such pricing, Dean Kabanbai didn't feel much at first. For a magician of his level to buy any piece of magical knowledge that he likes from the association, the price would be hundreds or even thousands. Forty kil, no different than a drizzle. It wasn't until someone said: One issue is published every month that the old magician's eyes twitched.
A magician who purchases advanced knowledge from the association will not be able to figure out the reason without studying it for several years. So although the cost is high, the usage period is very long.
Paying 40 kilo per month to buy a journal, it costs 480 kilo per year, which is close to the price of an intermediate-to-high-level magic knowledge; 960 kilo for two years, which is already more than the price of a high-level student Magic's average price. I didn’t know, but I was shocked. As this young man said, this is cutting meat with a slow knife.
However, according to the agreement, all income will be divided equally into two parts. One of the funds belonging to the printing workshop includes the salaries to be paid to the apprentices, the purchase costs of paper and ink, and necessary future expenses, all are paid from this fund. There is also the most important item, which is the 'tax' paid to the Holy City, which is also spent from this part.
As for the manufacturing cost of the printing press, although it was paid by someone, Lin generously used it as capital to invest in the printing workshop. In contrast, the college took care of the land for the workshop and other troublesome matters.
The other income will be divided into two equal parts, that is, the income belonging to the college and Lin's personal income. This part is net income, because the holy city of Estali only charges transaction tax, and there is no personal income tax like Earth.
In other words, after a large group of people have been busy for the past few days, the college can receive an income of 10,000 kilo, which is almost equivalent to the college's regular monthly expenses. This includes faculty salaries and the cost of ingredients for everyone’s meals at the college.
In the past, the operation of the college was not stretched, but it was not very generous either. The cost of additional materials required for some special courses often has to be subsidized by the capital of the founders, so that the college can run smoothly.
This is the reason why many magicians who run academies are obsessed with money. It is also the reason why the great magician Kabambai charges high tuition fees for mathematics courses and life courses. It's all about money.
But now a journal seems to have relieved Kabamba College’s financial pressure. This is something that the great magician Kabanbai has never considered from the beginning. It can be said to be an unexpected surprise.
However, someone poured a bucket of cold water on it at the right time and said, "Dean, you don't think that all these thousand copies will be sold."
"Well, what do you mean?" The old magician, who was smiling brightly and calculating accounts with mathematics, blew his beard, stared angrily, and asked in a tone that he thought was very calm.
"First of all, ten books have to be sent to the big library. This is something we can't afford to miss."
Sending books to the big library, although ten books is a bit much, the old magician would never refuse such a thing. Even if someone didn't make an agreement at the beginning, he might use his own money to send one or two copies to the library.
Seeing that the old man really calmed down, Lin continued: "I hope to take out ten more books. Three books will be donated to the college and will be arranged by the college; three books will be donated to the mathematics building, which will be borrowed but not taken out; two books will be donated to The workshop keeps records so that people in the workshop can use them as reference materials when needed; I have two copies for myself, both for keeping records."
A total of twenty copies were given away for free, which was not too much compared to the total number. Moreover, the academy can also get a lot for free, and the great magician Kabambai also has no reason to refuse. A nod indicates approval.
Lin continued: "And the most important point is that not all of the remaining 980 copies will be sold. Maybe only a dozen people will support it, and then the rest will become warehouse furnishings."
Even though he said so, someone didn't want this to happen, but the journal was different from the way the Magicians Association sold magic knowledge. The latter is when it is confirmed that someone wants to purchase certain knowledge, the association will issue a commission to the scribe. A thousand copies of the journal were printed at once, but except for the twenty copies whose destinations have been confirmed, the whereabouts of the other guests are not yet known.
Shouldn't it be like the little match girl, putting the math journals in the basket and selling them along the street? Someone thought so.
What is more worrying than him and the great magician Kabamba is the ten apprentices who have just joined this profession. Looking at the expression on his face that looked as if his life was about to collapse, Lin shook off his uneasy emotions and said to them with a confident expression: "Don't worry, if the sales are really not good, we will reduce the sales volume from the next issue. The print run is enough. And the salary promised to you will not be lowered any further. In any case, as long as I am here, I will support this journal. At the worst, I will use my lecturer's salary to subsidize it."
Yes, at worst, the lecturer’s salary will be used to subsidize it. Anyway, the dean’s tuition fees for math classes are very high, and the remuneration he brings to himself is also considerable. After one class, he earns hundreds of kilo. With this level of income, it’s no wonder other colleges are jealous. So using part of it to subsidize journals is really not a big problem.
If that doesn't work, if we really want the printing shop to be responsible for its own profits and losses, I will print a bunch of pornographic books like crazy. There are things like Jin Ping Mei, ***, the domineering president who rapes me, etc. Don’t underestimate the otaku from the 21st century on earth! If I become lewd, I'm sure to turn the whole world into porn.
Because he understood the possible risks, the great magician Kabamba regained his sense and returned to normal conditions. At his age, gains and losses are not that important, but he just wants to follow his heart.
At the moment, Lin has another thing that he has to do personally. That was to send books to the Great Library in accordance with the promise made to St. Milediades of France. In fact, it was just sent to the magic tower of the Dharma Saint. Naturally, there will be a manager who will handle the follow-up matters. However, out of respect, it would be more appropriate for me to make the trip myself the first time I send the book.
Accompanying him was the great magician Kabambai. This person is the dean of Kabamba College, his guide and introducer. Otherwise, just based on my face, I might have been blocked before entering the magic tower. The old man next to him has the highest face value in Estali.
Since he was going to send books to the big library, it goes without saying that the great magician Kabambai would of course take out the treasures at the bottom of the box and show them off. After all, this can be regarded as doing one's own good.
The box that contains ten mathematics journals is a magic wooden box specially used to place and deliver important documents. It is made of a type of wood with a sweet smell. High-grade magic materials, with bright golden natural texture, flashing with magical power from time to time. It has the effects of preventing insects, adjusting temperature and humidity, etc. It means that the thing is so hard that no insects can get in.
Then he pulled out the most luxurious carriage in the academy, as well as two pure black horses with Warcraft blood. The horse's mane danced like flames, and the huge horse's paws scratched the ground, directly scratching grooves. Just sniff your nose and you can feel the heat wave hitting your face.
These two horses can't be bought even if you have money. Moreover, if Kabanbai or Bijan were not to travel in person, the two horses would not be able to control them, even if the two ladies came forward. Because these two horses have been born and died together with the two magicians since their fathers and ancestors, their friendship with each other is not just that of owners and pets, but more like comrades who can be entrusted to each other's backs.
Of course, the great magician Kabamba was also dressed in orthodox attire, tied with two golden tassels, and was ready to set off for the six towers of the holy city of Estali. In comparison, Lin's clothes couldn't even be described as 'shabby', and could simply be described as 'shabby'.
This is because the Master's 'dress' is different from the so-called dress of ordinary nobles. It's not just embroidering gold thread, sewing lace, making various patterns, using good materials or fluffy, shiny fur, it's called dressing up; it's about the amount and effectiveness of the additional magic, as well as the magic contained in it. Evaluate by the strength of your power. The attire of a true magician is not for demonstrations, but for fights to the death.
The more powerful the equipment is, the stronger its sense of oppression will be. It's like a turbojet engine with more horsepower. Just standing behind it, not only will the deafening noise almost drive people crazy, but the whole person will feel as if he is about to be blown away.
Another extreme of magic equipment is that it swallows everything around it like a bottomless pit. It's like standing in front of a turbine engine, as if if you are not careful, you will be sucked in and crushed.
As long as a person with a normal mind has no other reason, he must instinctively stay away from these sources of threats as much as possible.
In comparison, the threat in someone is...zero. Of course you can pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger. But seeing that he is a cute big fat pig, and even those with teeth would want to come up and bite a piece of meat. This act of pretending to be a pig is quite sad.
So looking at all the belongings of the great magician Kaban Bai, someone secretly decided that he must equip himself with luxurious equipment no matter what. When people see it, they want to take a detour and cannot think of any challenges. Only in this way can they live their own small life peacefully.
The reason why this old man was so 'dressed up' was because he was going to enter someone else's magic tower this time!
No matter how kind-hearted the tower owner is, or whether the tower owner is a reputable force leader, as long as he enters a range where others have the power of life and death, it is impossible for the life-saving magician to ignore it. If you fall out, even if you can't cause trouble for the other party, you still have to make sure you can escape.
After everything was ready, the two of them got on the carriage together and headed to the strongest war fortress in Midland, one of the management offices of the Great Library, Tower VI of the Six-in-One Magic Tower of Estali in the Holy City.
