The chamber of commerce's chariot and horse team came twice again, bringing not only the supplies directly exchanged for the subsidy, but also the goodwill from the association. And this goodwill comes from the recent increase in the number of registrations of the forum. Just looking at the increased discussion area, almost all the departments of the Xijia branch were wiped out, and the teaching institute to which the branch belonged, that is, the place where Master Lin and his apprentices used to stay.

To the apprentices, the institute is like a residential school; For a full-fledged magician, it's like a dormitory for a manpower dispatch company. The facilities are complete, but you have to pay for them; The information is complete, but there is a fee for reading; Resources are sufficient, but you have to pay if you want to use them. Although there are many ways to make money, the expenses are also large.

It can be said that in one of the four major sub-districts in the southwestern border of the continent, the place where the largest number of magicians gather in the Siga sub-district, the use of the forum began to become popular, and gradually expanded outward. Just look at the discussion sections in the name of a certain magic tower that pop up from time to time at that time, and you can see that the influence of the forum has indeed increased.

In the association, the magic titled 'Tripwood Forum Browser Technique' is priced at what Lin had said about I. Kiel. However, the magic stones used in the replication system must be provided by the mage who wants to buy them; The part of the paper explanatory document is directly turned into an electronic file and placed in the discussion forum of the 'Announcement of the Siga District Council' opened by the Magicians Association. It's a discussion section that's the same as the 'miscellaneous' discussion board, allowing visitors to view it at will. In this way, the cost of materials is minimized.

However, they will not take less of the commission that the association should take. For this reason, on a calm code-playing afternoon, the image of the energy pool was suddenly replaced with an old face that occupied the whole screen, and Lin's heart almost stopped in fright.

Looking at the shocked and stunned expression, the old man in the mirror was also a little embarrassed. And in order not to continue to be so embarrassed, he had to break the deadlock first and said, "Your Excellency Gabrash Lin Tripwood." ”

"Well, President Eaton." Lin hurriedly got up and saluted. The person in the mirror in front of him is none other than the Magicians Association, the president of the Siga Branch, the Grand Magician Orange Fruit Eaton. Coming from an Eton magic family, he is a senior magician with a very strong and strong background. It's not a nasty personality that's so arrogant that it's boundless.,But it's also by no means an amiable old man.。

And this magic that can use the mirror of the energy pool to appear and talk is called 'Charles's Calling Technique'. It's a super nasty and super troublesome wizarding world video call system that doesn't have a ringing phone and doesn't have the power to choose whether to answer or not. Lin was full of slander about this, and secretly made up his mind to make a thing like instant messaging, which can be video, audio or text, so that everyone can taste the taste of being unable to read it back.

Theoretically, the status of the tower owner is on a par with that of the president of the association. However, in the face of this young and famous adult, few people have the courage to stand in front of him. That's why Lin made himself show a respectful appearance, in fact, he also respected the other party. Although there have not been any in-depth relationships in the past. However, under the leadership of President Eton, the Siga branch has many policies that are quite catered for the relatively disadvantaged group of magicians and apprentices, and Lin is also one of the people who benefit.

Now that such a big man is actually face to face with himself, how can Lin not panic.

"Rest assured, Lord Tripwood, I have good news." Comforting the new magicians who are much younger than him, Orange Fruit Eaton is also a little kind in his old age.

Lin arched his hand, and Orange Fruit Eaton continued: "The browser magic you handed in is very good. Whether it is in terms of convenience, distance, or the amount of information contained in it, it can be said to be a pioneering feat. ”

"Thank you, President, for your appreciation." Lin thanked him, but he didn't feel flustered. Because when the big guys come to you to say these things, they usually follow a 'but'.

So I listened to Orange Fruit Eaton continue very smoothly: "But now we have encountered some small problems, that is, the association will charge some fees for the management of this magical knowledge. The price you set is directly the smallest basic unit, and the association will do day work. ”

"President, I have told Grand Wizard Greenwyn, and I have also explained in the attached letter, that the Association can add the necessary management fees to the price I have set, as the final price. But judging by the price at which you maintain Ikiel, you know that the real value of the forum lies in the number of users, not in the amount of money you get from selling the magical knowledge. Therefore, the price of I Kiel, in addition to giving the magician the idea of 'even if it is useless, it is just a waste of I Kiel, so harmless', is to make ordinary apprentices afford to use it, and achieve the effect of promotion. ”

Seeing that the old man nodded in approval of such an idea, Lin Cai continued: "So in terms of management expenses, I am willing to share half of the income as the cost of the association's expenses." What do you think? ”

For the old man who had just appeared and went straight to the point, Lin explained the ideas of the two parties a little, and then happily conceded half of the benefits, and Orange Fruit Eaton nodded with satisfaction. In his position, although he is not extremely disgusted with bargaining in the mall, he does not have any good feelings.

Negotiation is to directly show the bottom limit, and the transaction is almost the same as the psychological expected goal; It's too exaggerated to shoot directly, and there is nothing back and forth. In addition, the original creator cannot afford to benefit from the spread of magical knowledge, because it will discourage other magicians and thus have a negative impact. For the long run and the magician as a whole, the gains outweigh the losses.

Now that the first question has been solved, Orange Eaton asked the second question: "For the two sets of magic of the domain name system and the web system, I will try to build them on the energy pool exclusive to the president. It looks like it was successful, but it can't be activated. There is no explanation in the explanatory paper, so where might this question arise? ”

Just listening, Lin didn't want to know the answer. Because that's exactly the hole that was dug in the explanatory documents that were handed in before. Faced with the inquiry of his boss, Lin began to explain the tree structure of the domain name system. Each layer of servers only points to the servers of the previous layer and manages the domain names to which they belong and are legally authorized.

To put it bluntly, the Atoli Source Pool of the Tower of the Great Sage, as the first DNS server in the world of the Maze Land, it is natural that it has . (dot). Other energy pools can only become secondary servers and send to . (dot) to have a legitimate domain name.

If there are other people who want to build as well. (dot) will only create two independent networks that are difficult to connect to each other. If you want to communicate with each other, you have to go back to the primitive and memorize the complex and lengthy string of marks in the energy pool of each magic tower.

"That's going to put . Will the domain name system (DOT) be transferred to the Association District Headquarters? ”

In the face of this good question, Lin of course said boldly, yes, even the data that already exists on the forum can be completely transplanted! The premise is that all current forum users will have to pause for the duration of the port, and this time is uncertain how long.

In view of the fact that people who don't know the world of Lost Land, what is the limit of patience in 'server maintenance', Lin is also very straightforward to express his doubts about this layer.

Eaton also admits that it is not good for the forum to be in the promotion stage. If the user loses confidence, it will take more effort to recover.

In this regard, Lin took advantage of the situation to put forward the concept of '.com'. To put it simply, it is to let the association headquarters have a first-level DNS server, and others who want to own a domain name can apply directly to the association. And the Tower of the Great Sage. (dot), which is only used as a starting point for URL queries.

Orange Eaton agrees with this approach. At the end of the day, the Guild just wants to have the space to manage all the magicians. Just like the knowledge of magic that has passed away from the original creators, the Society does not disseminate it for free. Instead, the price set becomes a way to control the breadth of the magic's circulation.

For knowledge that you don't want too many people to know, or powerful attack magic, set the price a little higher to reduce the desire of some people who are shy to buy. For magic that wants to be used by every magician, it is to set a low price and promote it vigorously, and everyone wants to stuff a spell notebook. In the end, it is hoped that those magic that are listed as 'must learn' will be stuffed into the apprentice's three-ring textbook.

Of course, those expenses became one of the important sources of income for the association.

And as long as the association has room to operate, Orange Fruit Eaton does not have to insist on a certain result. Besides, Lin's refreshing concession before is not a good reason to take a step back here.

For their own problems, they all have a good result. Orange Fruit Eaton said a few polite words, and then cut the connection. Things went back to normal, and more than ten days later, such a scary scene came again......

This time it's for the Chamber of Commerce to which the Wizards' Guild belongs.

The profit-seeking nature of businessmen makes them quite sensitive to some newly born technologies. Not to mention that the forum can get information from all over the world in the first place—as long as there is an eye on the local area—which is faster than an eight-hundred-mile rush, a flying pigeon to pass the book, or a herald to run a marathon.

In addition to business intelligence, if magicians, tower owners, and other chambers of commerce in various places can trade and place orders on the forum, as long as they are matched with reasonable transportation routes, the trade volume will undoubtedly rise to a new level.

It's a pity that on the forum, in the explanation before the new article, Lin clearly wrote three prohibitions. The people who came into contact with the Internet for the first time in the world of Emidi actually obeyed it very well, at least they didn't hear anything about it. Lin couldn't help but sigh at this simple Internet atmosphere.

The first prohibition is that it is forbidden to write full magic spells in the general article area; The second is to prohibit drawing magic circles in the general article area.

Both of these prohibitions are for the same reason, you must know that the forum was originally established based on the eight powers of magic, which means that this seemingly technological product is actually a mysterious thing. If you write a spell or draw a magic circle in the article, it is not impossible for others to open the discussion thread and be washed by fireballs.

In particular, the basis for installing the browser system is either an energy pool or a magic stone, which itself is a source of magical energy.

Although the way the text is encoded, it does not directly make the text represent its meaning. In other words, the text content displayed in the incantation on the forum is encoded behind it and does not necessarily have the effect that the incantation should induce. But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what if, if it's just right, there is an unlucky ghost who is confused by magic.

For this possibility, Lin passively uses article classification to deal with it. In addition to the general articles, there is also a category of magic articles, reminding users who click on the discussion thread that the content of the article contains spells and magic arrays, which may have effects, please take your own protective measures.

The third prohibition is for trading practices. All acts of bartering, exchanging money, exchanging money, and exchanging knowledge are all prohibited. Not only President Orange Fruit Eaton, but also many users are puzzled by this ban. It's just that today, on behalf of everyone, the president asked in front of the creators.

Lin only replied with one sentence:

"I don't have the ability to guarantee the fulfillment of the contract."