It's been a month since the school started.

The school is not yet built.

At present, the only things that can be used are the simple auditorium and canteen, the simple student dormitory, the simple classrooms, and the simple library...... In short, everything is very basic, and many buildings are not there yet.

It can't be helped.

Orondo did employ 4 mage construction teams, but this was just an ordinary construction team, and they could only build the most basic buildings with magical attributes.

The reason why it can be built so quickly in a month is because Orondo mobilized the lords to provide wood, stone, and bricks, and dozens of powerful earth elementals as builders had this kind of efficiency.

Otherwise, even if it is a mage construction team, it will take three or four months to complete this simple everything.

If it were to be built by ordinary humans, it would probably take more than a year just for the current scale.

Orondo still dislikes the slowness.

But he didn't have a good idea.

Rome wasn't built in one day.

It took more than 2,000 years for Dalaran to get to its current size. It took almost 6,000 years for Silvermoon City to have its current glory.

Because of the full effort to build the school, his mage tower has only a foundation until now, and a wall that has been "grown" by the earth elementals absorbing free energy.

It's too expensive to do a business.

Education costs even more.

The income from the territory is not even a drop in the bucket for a magic school. Fortunately, Dalaran didn't have any sanctions, and with the continuous income of the Magic Monthly and the Magic Shop, he could barely meet the consumption of the school's scale.

Expanding income is the first priority, and only with money can the school grow and the business expand.

For a month.

The establishment of the Sephorosa School of Magic and Mage, most of the Dalaran mages finally knew about it.

One after another, some mages came with curiosity, and Orondo and the deans kept them in various ways, and there was no shortage of teachers in the school at present.

Lack of resources, all kinds of magic material resources, construction resources.

Magical material resources are okay.

The herb garden built by the school itself can already meet the needs of the apprentices to practice alchemy, and if it is not enough, they can go to the wild to find it.

Magical metal is hard to obtain even for Dalaran's official mages, and it is the same for mages when they were students.

There are no other elementary magic material schools, but the students are just getting into arcane arts, so they don't need them yet.

Although these resources are scarce, it does not matter if they are not available in the short term. The lack of construction resources is more nerve-wracking.

The Viscounty of Sephorosa was a little larger than the normal Viscounty, as it had merged with the Barony of Oron next to it, which was more than enough to support a human Viscount and his family.

But with a slightly larger viscounty, it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket to support a magic school that's still under construction.

That's a drop in the bucket.

A human kingdom may not be able to afford the construction of a magic school!

Orondo needs to open up and reduce spending.

Throttling. There is no way to throttle at present, because there is nothing to throttle.

Open source. Open source approach, Orondo thought of several.

One was to set up a caravan, which had already begun work a month earlier, trading in the hills of Hillsbrad. There is no profit at the moment, and Orondo has only let the caravan practice to gain experience first.

One is to increase the income of the Magic Monthly and the Magic Shop. But neither of these is easy because the market is limited.

The only people who can read the magic monthly are mages, and there are less than 20,000 mages in Dalaran, and there are only 20,000 copies that all mages buy every month. Unless it is issued to Silvermoon City.

Because of the many affairs of the school, the school is too busy to do anything, and it is not easy to insist on publishing a monthly magazine. Distributing the monthly magazine to Silvermoon City can only be a plan for the time being, because there is not enough manpower and energy.

The merchandise and monthly magazines in the magic shop make a difference. The contents are sold at a dead high price, and the profits are extremely high. Only the nobles and mages who can afford to spend are left, and they must also be big nobles and high-level mages.

Orondo didn't want to expand because he would be tired and wouldn't have time to deal with school and his own practice.

Currently, 70% of the output of the magic shop is handled by Nani. Orundo produces 10 per cent, and the remaining 20 per cent is provided by Kel'thugad.

Lowering the selling price and increasing the production will increase the workload of myself and the others of Kel'thugad. You can consider it in the future, but forget it in the early days of the school.

However, Nani's intelligence and arcane ability to reconcile will grow, and maybe Nani will be able to become a magic factory herself in the future.

In addition to this, Orondo also thought of two other open source approaches.

One is to go out and venture out in search of opportunities to make a fortune.

The world is big, and there are so many lost ruins. There have been so many empires and kingdoms that have been powerful, and they have all left many legacies.

For example, various Kadore ruins, troll empire ruins, Titan architectural ruins......

Scavenge any of them, and they can last for a while.

One is to pull investment, or sponsorship. More than 70% of the funding of Ivy League schools is sponsored

The establishment of the Sephorosa School of Magic and Mages was not a good thing for Dalaran. For many human kingdoms and great nobles, it is an opportunity.

For a month.

On more than one occasion, the king's envoys, the personal advisers of the great nobles, quietly came to the vicinity, wanting to contact Orondo.

Orondo deliberately didn't go to see them, he had to consider Dalaran's opinion, and he wanted to sell at the price - not to sell, but why not take it if the cooperation could be beneficial?

Today's guest, he still received, because this heir to the great nobility can barely be regarded as his friend.

The guest's name is Alex Barov, the first nobleman of the human kingdoms, and the heir to a ducal family with fiefs and titles throughout the north.

Orondo's last ball at Ambassador Lordaeron, a human aristocratic friend introduced by Elan.

Orondo accompanies him on a walk at school and Sephorosa.

"I see a lot of glass piled up outside the herb garden, and these things are not cheap. Only dwarves and elves can do it, so what are you going to do with it? ”

As he passed by the herb garden, he saw a lot of glass stacked next to him, and Alex Barov asked with interest.

Burning glass is hard for the average person. Even if you know the recipe. But for the mage, it is only necessary to summon a fire element with wisdom, and then let the earth element cooperate next to it, and with the recipe, it is not difficult to produce glass in small batches.

It's just that the quality is often not very good.

However, when used as a greenhouse, this quality is enough.

"That's the material that's going to be used in greenhouses. Many herbs require greenhouses. Greenhouse is also sometimes used in the growing industry. Orondo didn't say that he made the glass himself, it took him two days to figure it out and two days to produce it.

"Is it a vineyard over there? Are you still going to make wine? ”

"Yes."

To the east of the school, the land is fertile and uncultivated, with only three small vineyards. The vacant land next to it was now reclaimed by Orondo's lords.

Orondo invested in three vineyards, six in total, each covering 10 acres of vineyards. After a few days, the vines will be planted, the harvest will begin the next year, and the third year's output will be used to make wine.

Red wine and wine are very popular in the human world and in Quel'Salas, and they sell well and the prices are good.

After a round trip, Alex Barov commented: "Your territory is well developed. There is a lot of arable land, although there is also a lot of land that has not yet been cultivated. ”

Orondo smiled.

The land under his control is far from being used, and since he returned with Solanlian, he has been recruiting yeoman farmers and freedmen, but it has not worked well.

The freedmen were willing to come, but they were often merchants and craftsmen, and rarely farmed. Due to the establishment of the school of magic and the seat of the archmage, more than 1,000 freedmen came to the town for more than a month.

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There are very few yeoman farmers.

Home-farming was inherently rare, and most of the human peasants were bound to their own land by the aristocracy, toiling for generations and exploiting for generations. The number of farmers with free status was small, and it was difficult for Orondo to recruit.

The original human peasants in Severosa's territory were only enough to cultivate the land that had been cultivated in the first place. I want to reclaim more land, but there are not enough manpower.

The yield per acre of land is very low, and the productivity is too low. This greatly restricts the development of mankind.

Orondo's plan for this is the mechanization of agriculture. He spent a lot of money on some materials, and worked with Magnus Mana Storm to create fifteen improvised golems for farming.

He also asked Dobby to command the people to carry out large-scale farm construction, and in the future, he was ready to take the path of large farms and arcane mechanization, and only a relatively small number of mages would be needed to farm on a large scale in the future.

The liberated human peasants can do other things. For example, joining the army, working as a construction worker, or going to be a businessman, a craftsman, or something.

Opening a large farm is not enough to have arcane machines and the mages who control them, but also requires professional knowledge in farming.

The best agricultural guide is, of course, a druid.

Orondo has a "druid" who is also very powerful, and that is Miss Emerys, the green dragon.

But Emerys couldn't leave the stronghold lab, and Egwene's seal imprisoned her. And Orondo felt that the green dragon princess was most likely unwilling to help him.

Orondo was going to wait for the next time Egwene came back and asked her to get Amoris here. He wants to use the owls domesticated by Emerys to make money by building a small courier line.

Orondo remembered that there was a mage on the High Elves' side who specialized in plants. In the original story, the mage harnesses life energy with arcane powers, and is better at controlling plants than most druids.

If this skill is used in farming, it is estimated that it is not much worse than the druid.

It's a pity that it's not so easy to get the other party to come to Sephorosa to lead the farming, and it's no different from the difficulty of recruiting a druid.