After accumulating a certain amount of data, the latest results will be displayed. Asking others to pause their own research and spend time understanding the so-called 'latest' results undermines their confidence. Repeat this several times, and many people who print magic scrolls will choose not to continue their own research, waiting for the results of Kabamba Academy, and then use them in their own money-making business.
Judging from the amount of profits earned, Kabamba Academy's printing magic scroll business may not be the largest; but it can become the leader and dominant player in this industry. The price paid is the trouble that trying to monopolize will bring.
After hearing this explanation, whether it was the great magician Kabamba at that time, Uzov Gantia later, or the craftsmen of these technical guilds now, they all had a common feeling: it's sinister.
As much as someone would like to explain, this is basic operation on Earth.
But after confirming the attitude of the big guys, everyone present was gearing up and preparing for a big fight. As long as it allows you to live a better life, who doesn't love it?
The development of the next few days is probably as someone predicted.
As for the long-standing "you can't have it both ways" choice proposition, 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 Kabambai. Everyone who heard it could understand why the old man made that choice.
Maybe on Earth, the big bosses would say that no matter how knowledgeable they are, they are still doing their job for them. 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, which is the value in the eyes of others.
In Lost Land, money really isn't that important. Although it can do many things, it cannot kill gods, dragons, or many otherworldly beings. In the Lost Land, there is no skill like Qiankun Throw. Money is meaningless in the eyes of those beings. This is the biggest difference between Lost Earth and Earth.
Therefore, the great magician of Kabamba did not choose the path that might make the most money. Instead, he chose to contribute to the civilized world, leave a good name, and expand his influence. As for someone's insidious idea, it can only be understood but not stated explicitly.
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? Is this something that can only be understood, not stated?
No one asked about the exit. Anyway, if you have money, everyone makes it. If you don’t, you’re a bastard. The great magician Kabanbai is tall enough, so he chooses to benefit the world; others are not that tall, 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 cash-strapped will choose to buy a basic Manroland printing press. Then find a way to modify it yourself and study the method of printing magic scrolls. Magicians who are not short of funds will directly buy the improved version of the Manroland printing press, which is the final model used by the printing workshop of Kabamba College to print magic scrolls, and does not include subsequent research and improvements.
Because the improved models are much more expensive, there are many greedy magicians who want to upgrade for free or even get them for free. At this time, the great magician 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 Magicians Association for an unprecedented price, Xbar Kir (10,000 gold), for purchase.
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 Judgment (3,600 gold). The price of Xbar Kiel is brutal!
But the great magician Kabanbai 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, Xbar Kir's amount of money can't even build a magic tower, but what he gets 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 plan 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 come forward to put pressure on their old friend to change his mind.
But since the other party is willing to make it public, although there is a price, it is not an impossible condition to achieve. So 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.
That's not what trading is all about. One person makes a bid, and the other person will buy it if it thinks it is a good deal, and if it is not a good deal, he will not 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... thinking of Kabamba's old face that disgusted everyone, 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 a mission, the leader of the First Legion's First Magic Brigade, Dharma Saint Babak Abnahan 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 knew about the method of printing magic scrolls, they were all important figures. Centered on these people, its power almost encompasses 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 private, it should send troops to massacre the city.
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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. Coupled with the fact that it is full of magicians, it seems that it would be easier to massacre such a city than the capital of one's own empire. At least there aren't that many magic towers.
Therefore, no matter how unwilling the group of radical young officers were, they could only give up the idea of dominating this technology. The Gwana Empire settled for the next best thing and purchased ten sets of equipment for printing magic scrolls. The printing method that was regarded as sky-high price also bought a set, intending to make magic scrolls like crazy to use as reserves for the war.
The act of distributing printing presses and printing methods in this way soon encountered the first difficulty that someone 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 meet the needs of a huge magician city like Estali in making magic scrolls. But after the reform of the printing press, it was completely insufficient.
If there is no connection between the Holy City itself and the surrounding areas, if you want to make a magic scroll, the materials will have to be dispatched from further areas. The finished magic scrolls must be transported to other places before they can be sold, because there is no such demand in the Holy City for purchasing large quantities of the same magic scrolls. Then the issue of transportation was brought to the table again.
These two major difficulties immediately put the newly emerging printing industry in a dilemma.
According to the law of supply and demand, prices should increase endlessly until supply exceeds demand. But magic scrolls are not a necessity for people's livelihood like food. Not to mention the inflation of the earth, which is basically due to panic psychology and the speculative behavior of some people to add fuel to the flames, which has caused serious financial disasters.
For such a long time in the past, adventurers dared to venture into 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 thing.
What kind of magic comes at what kind of price. If it's too high, adventurers won't pay the bill. For example, C Kil (100 gold) buys a scroll of water purification that can only be used once. Adventurers would rather make more trips back and forth, or carry a large bucket of water on their own journey. It would not take ten years to travel. Fee to C Kiel. this is the truth.
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 my focus is on research, I don't care so much whether I can sell more magic scrolls.
But people are always forced out. Some 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 may break away, lose speed, and eventually stay in place forever. But few people would choose to smash the locomotive and let all the carriages move forward at the same tepid speed.
Such is the atmosphere in the holy city of Estali right now. An unimaginable energy burst out from the printing press.
Even those magicians who had lost their income from hand-made magic scrolls due to the popularity of printing machines turned around and devoted themselves to the printing press business. Because they are good at handcrafting, these people have an advantage over other magicians in the process of research and improvement 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 nothing to do, and there was no way to make magic scrolls. This group of people should have resented the person who started all this.
But they realized that printing workshops everywhere needed exactly the skills they had been practicing for a long time. Naturally, they gathered in printing workshops all over the country and used their talents in another way.
Different from the textile light industry, it drove the first wave of industrial revolution on the earth. With another industry, Midi showed the same clues in the holy city of Estali.
