Chapter 633: Responses by States
It's just that although most of these gadgets sold by the Wizards Association are accessories and decorations that magicians have, the prices are very expensive, because most of these items are unique handmade goods. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
For example, the clothing is mainly sewn or made by the residents of Xinghua Island using otherworldly leather. After they have made the primary finished product, they are apprenticed by an alchemist, and after a simple process, it is finally refined into a magical merchandise that can be sold.
Of course, although these items are expensive, it will not have much impact on their sales. Because although these objects are small, they are basically necessary for a magician. For example, magic robes are required for all magicians, and magic staffs, which are also indispensable for magicians to use magicians.
In addition, because it is mostly handmade, the quality is very passable, and it is extremely exquisite. All these reasons add up, of course, to offset the small disadvantage that the prices of these items are very high.
When it comes to the invention of these small items, it is a small suggestion made by a resident of Xinghua Island who likes to read novels, after reading some fantasy novels by Blue Mercury. Although this was just a whimsical idea at the beginning, Yi Xingchen almost immediately agreed to approve this suggestion, and he was even more positive about these small commodities.
This is because the development of Xinghua Island is also something that Yi Xingchen is worried about, if the sales of these small commodities can be successfully opened, it will naturally allow Xinghua Island to rise another industry, an industry that can drive the development of Xinghua Island even more, Yi Xingchen is naturally happy to see it. More importantly, if this is the spontaneous rise of the residents of Xinghua Island, and it is also carried forward by the residents of the island, it will be more proof of the endless vitality of the residents of Xinghua Island.
It's just that although Yi Xingchen is very happy to see the birth of these small commodities, he thinks that Xinghua Island is now good enough for the operation of this industry, and he does not need to mix in it anymore to act as a salesman to promote these small commodities.
Just as the senior leaders of a country's government will not intervene too much in any industry in their own commercial market, each industry and each commercial market has its own established supply and demand relationship, so as long as the supply is determined according to the market demand, there is no need for the Xinghua Island government to intervene more.
Therefore, Yi Xingchen did not continue to stay with Arthur and them.
The first Magicians' Congress of the Wizards' Guild came to a successful conclusion.
The official website of the Wizards Association announced a message to the public that the outstanding magicians of this year's Magicians Association will officially establish the Magicians Association and have the good news of the first batch of excellent magicians. In addition, in order to show grandeur and let more people know the good news from different channels, even the bulletin board of Xinghua Mall also forwarded the latest news on the official website of the Magicians Association.
For a time, this news once again detonated an extremely enthusiastic debate on the Xinghua Forum! Many members participated in it and rushed to learn the details of the news. Especially about the news of the magician, many mall members are invariably and secretly gearing up, waiting for new products to be put on the shelves of the magic props mall at any time. It is foreseeable that as soon as the magic items are on the shelves, they will immediately attract members to rush to buy them!
Perhaps this topic is the latest and most enthusiastic, and in a short period of time, this topic occupies most of the forum, and the attention to magic items on the forum has even surpassed the follow-up and attention to hoverbikes in an instant.
After Yi Xingchen left the Magician Association, he went straight back to the villa, because he still needed to arrange a dinner to entertain people. Later, Arthur and Helen would come to the house.
This time, it was the first time that Yi Xingchen and Liu Yiyi had a formal family banquet for guests after they got married, and for the two of them, this was naturally not a sloppy thing.
Moreover, because this is a family dinner, Liu Yiyi also attaches great importance to it, and she personally purchases ingredients and hands them over to a third-level chef to be responsible.
Yi Xingchen sat in the living room, reading the newspaper while resting and drinking a cup of tea.
The newspaper of Xinghua Island is a digest newspaper, which is a good newspaper by two or three people from Xinghua Island from major news websites, and then combined with some local news on Xinghua Island. This newspaper is very popular with residents and tourists of Xinghua Island. It is also Yi Xingchen's pastime after reading the information of the Xinghua Think Tank and the Xinghua Intelligence Bureau.
"The exchange program between Xinghua Island Comprehensive College and Huaguo University is progressing smoothly and the intention has been reached. It is expected that in a month's time, our institute will send 20 exchange students to China, who will study in the three major universities in China. ”
Seeing this, Yi Xingchen paused slightly. He didn't think about the exchange students. Fortunately, the Xinghua Island government has not stopped, and Xinghua Island Comprehensive College is also very supportive and cooperative.
Now, Huaguo and Xinghua Island have reached an agreement, and when the exchange students are selected, Yi Xingchen can't help but interfere. These exchange students need to live in other countries for a long time, and they must keep their mouths shut, guarding the secrets of the Xinghua Empire, and more importantly, the secrets of the space passage. Therefore, Yi Xingchen wanted to review these exchange students before they left Xinghua Island.
Yi Xingchen immediately called Yan En and asked him about the exchange students.
In fact, Yi Xingchen really thought too much, and the exchange students were not selected from the residents of Xinghua Island, but from the Xinghua Empire in another world. When it comes to the space channel, it must be implemented with Yi Xingchen's consent.
There is a plan for exchange students, as well as a list of exchange students, which are already on the desk in the study room of the Xinghua Imperial Palace. As long as Yi Xingchen returned to the palace, he would be able to see the report.
After the activities of the Magicians Association are over, the observers from various countries leave the association, and they go back to the embassy or hotel room as soon as possible, write a report, and report the situation to their superiors.
The Association of Wizards is highly valued by high-level government officials and national intelligence agencies. Of course, different countries and different individuals have different attitudes towards the Wizards' Association.
Some countries are afraid of the Magician Association, fearing that the Magicians' Association will affect the security of their country, or that the Magician will affect some of their own plans.
Some people are jealous of magicians, but some people are also envious of magicians.
Because the long life span of magicians announced by Xinghua Mall is a factor that cannot be ignored by everyone. It is impossible for anyone with power and money to ignore the word lifespan, and everyone wants to live longer and enjoy longer.
Although Yi Xingchen did not give the United States a seat as an observer, and strictly checked electronic equipment to prevent eavesdropping, the United States is a big country in the world, how can they not have a few younger countries.
In fact, as soon as the Association's activities ended, the Intelligence Service of the United States of America received a detailed report from a national observer in Europe. From the entry into the association, the election of the association, the list of the twelve magicians, as well as the dueling process, who and where the next event will be held, etc., are all written in detail in the report.
To that end, the Intelligence Agency of the United States of America held another meeting.
"Gentlemen, this meeting of the Wizards' Guild has given us some hope. Although the Wizards Guild did not invite the United States, twelve magicians became senior members of the Guild. We were pleased to find out that two of them were citizens of the United States of America, and they were wealthy people. In short, they are all elites of the American nation. Quinton, director of the U.S. Intelligence Agency, said.
Quinton looked at the senior intelligence officers attending the meeting, smiled helplessly, and continued: "This may be a signal that the Wizards' Guild is friendly to the citizens of the United States, but they are hostile to the government of the United States, or dissatisfied. Of course, we don't need to think about the emotions of the Wizards' Guild, and our goal here is how to use the Wizards' Guild...... If the Mage's Guild can't be used by us, our Intelligence Bureau will take action against them. At the moment, I'm leaning towards friendly contact and infiltration of the Mage's Guild...... The two elites of the United States of America are the people we are fighting for. We need to fully support them and form an American Magical Association, which on the one hand will be friendly to the Heunghwa Island Wizards Association, and on the other hand, we can manage the supernatural people in the United States......"
Quinton sees magicians as supernatural people, and proposes that magicians be included in the control system, and intelligence agents should keep an eye on them at all times to prevent them from doing some bad things. Of course, it is more important to control these people and work for the government in power.
Quinton's idea was good, and he established the United States' own Wizards' Association, which was approved by most of his subordinates.
Still, there are some who disagree. Deputy Director Donald, for example, put forward a different opinion.
"I have a different opinion. I don't think it's good for my country to rely on two elites and establish an association of magicians. First of all, the resources of the magicians are not in our hands, and we cannot provide the magicians with any effective cultivation resources. The second is that we don't know what other hole cards the Magicians Association has, and blindly going against them is not beneficial. At the very least, it should do more harm than good. Third, we really want to get the technology displayed by Xinghua Mall, and it is best not to fight with Xinghua Mall on the bright side. Today, we are able to establish diplomatic relations with Xinghua Island because we have never been hostile to Xinghua Mall on the surface. Of course, our relationship is fragile and could break at any time. However, I think that this fragile relationship can allow our country's wealthy to use money to buy all kinds of unbelievable goods from Xinghua Mall. Donald expressed his opinion, apparently not giving Quinton face.
Quinton was a little annoyed and said, "Establish our country's magician association, and it will be possible for our country to have our own magicians." Whatever resources these magicians want, our intelligence bureau can send agents to help them grab them. ”
"Why sacrifice an agent's life when you can buy magic items for money?" Donald said.
"I never wanted to sacrifice an agent's life to do something!" Quinton grew angrier.
"Director, I'm not accusing you. Rather, I want to tell you the fact that we have sent a large number of agents, but few of them have returned, and more than ninety percent of the agents have disappeared. I think there's a good chance they're dead. Donald said.
Quinton was silent, and in this regard, he did not dare to speak nonsense. The people here are all high-ranking officials of the Intelligence Bureau, and if they can occupy a high position, they are not stupid, and they will not be able to believe any lies. What's more, the data that Donald gave was, in some of the top echelons of the Intelligence Agency, tangible data.
"The Wizards' Guild's proposal is put on hold for now. I think that only when the number of magicians in our country reaches a certain number, and we have mastered the cultivation system of magicians and how to make magic items, can we independently establish a magician association. Otherwise, the Magicians Association in the United States is a very ordinary magician mutual aid association. This mutual aid association may also cause dissatisfaction among the magicians association on Xinghua Island. Donald said.
When Quinton saw the expressions of everyone in the conference room, he knew what Donald said, and it went deep into their hearts. He didn't expect that his proposal, which had not been long in office, would be refuted by competitors.
Quinton isn't one to give up easily, though. As a bureau chief, he had to establish his prestige. Now, Quinton didn't need to tell everyone that he agreed to Xinghua's plan to do something long-term. He needed a project that would work in the short term and prove that he was capable of sitting in the position of director.
Quinton thought about it and decided to come up with the not-so-perfect plan. Quinton winked at his cronies.
As a senior intelligence officer of Quinton's cronies, he took out a document, stood up and said, "I have a plan of action here, and I hope the director will approve it." ”
"Oh, what's your plan?" Quinton said. He doesn't give Donald a chance to interject and interrupt.
"Our agents on Xinghua Island have discovered that Xinghua Island has a program of exchange students with Huaguo. After investigation, the plan of this exchange student is very mysterious...... According to our investigation results, the exchange students sent by Xinghua Island are very likely to be the characters of Xinghua Mall or the children of the big people behind Xinghua Mall. Because our investigation found that these exchange students came out of thin air. Although these exchange students hold the nationality of Hinghua Island, our investigation tells us that their identity is not simple, and no one knows their situation......"
"Therefore, we have very good reason to be suspicious of them. I have a plan of action, and that is to kidnap these twenty exchange students!" said the senior intelligence officer.
"Can you be sure of their identities? If not, do you guarantee that kidnapping them is really useful?" Donald asked.
"I think it's useful, at least, it's certainly more useful than we kidnap African workers. Because I'm sure these exchange students are not taking some kind of medicine to lose their memory. As long as the memory of the exchange student is complete, it will definitely be very beneficial for our intelligence bureau to understand Xinghua Mall and analyze all aspects of Xinghua Mall. In the conference room, a senior intelligence officer close to Quinton's cronies replied. (To be continued.) )