Chapter 657: After-effects
Accumulate a certain amount of information and throw out the latest results. Having others pause their own research and take the time to understand the so-called 'latest' results undermines their confidence. If this is repeated a few times, many people who print magic scrolls will choose not to continue their own research, waiting for the results of the Kabanbay Academy, and then use them in their own money-making business.
Judging by the amount of profit earned, perhaps Kabanbay Academy's printing magic scroll business would not be the largest; But it can become the leader and leader of this industry. And the price to pay is the trouble that comes with trying to monopolize.
After listening to such an explanation, whether it was the great magician Kabanbai at that time, the later Uzov Gantiya, or the craftsmen of these technical guilds now, they all had a common feeling: insidious.
Although someone would be tempted to explain that this is a basic operation on Earth.
But after determining the attitude of those bigwigs, everyone present was gearing up and ready to do a big job. As long as you can make yourself live a better life, who doesn't love.
The development of the following days is probably as someone speculated.
As for the long-standing proposition of 'you can't have both fish and bear's paws', although in the days before someone crossed over, there was a new saying: children make choices, and I want them all.
But the reality is, is there really a way to do it all?
The choice of the great magician Kabanbai, Lin You guessed. Anyone who heard it could understand why the old man made that choice.
Maybe on Earth, those big bosses will say that no matter how high their education is, they are also working for them. But on the road of learning, such people cannot reach the peak, they only get money; Or to put it more bluntly – the stock price, which is the value in the eyes of others.
Money really isn't that important in Midi. Although many things can also be done, you can't smash the god of death, you can't smash the dragon, and you can't smash many, many otherworldly existences. In Maze, there is no skill to throw everything. Money is meaningless in the eyes of those who exist, and this is the biggest difference between the Lost Land and the Earth.
Therefore, instead of choosing the path that could make the most money, the Grand Magician of Kabambi chose to contribute his efforts to the civilized world, leave a good name, and expand his influence. As for someone's insidious idea, you can only understand it, not say it explicitly.
Of course, there are a few disciplines that have the brains to think of someone who generously spreads out, including forums...... Maybe there's a cat in it too? This can only be understood, not expressed?
No one asked. Anyway, everyone earns money, and it's a bastard if you don't make it. The Great Magician Kabanbay is tall enough, so he chooses to benefit the world; Others don't have that high height, so they choose to take care of themselves and their family's belly first. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just that everyone takes what they need.
So when this was so strategically important that the young elite officers of the military drawing room under the military headquarters of the Gwana Empire strongly recommended that the proposal of nationalizing this technology be put in front of the emperor, the printing press, although it was not a bad street in the Holy City, was everywhere, but it was almost there.
A magician who has confidence in himself, ambition, or a shy pocket will choose to buy a basic Manroland press. Then find a way to modify it yourself and study the method of printing magic scrolls. Magicians who are not short of money will directly buy the improved version of the Manroland Printing Press, which is the stereotyped version model used by the printing workshop of the Kabanbay Academy to print magic scrolls, and does not include later research improvements.
Because the improved model is much more expensive, there is no shortage of greedy magicians who want to upgrade for free or even prostitute for free. At this time, the Grand Magician of Kabambi would find a group of people to talk to those who dared 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 of the most important method of printing magic scrolls was also made available for purchase at an unprecedented price, Xbar Kiel (10,000 gold).
You must know that even strategic-level magic, commonly known as forbidden spell magic, can only be priced at the MMMDC Kiel of Doom (3,600 gold). The price of Xbar Kiel can be described as murderous!
But the great magician Kabanbai also made it very clear that this printing method was not for a single magic, but a systematic method for making magic scrolls, which could not be compared to a mere forbidden spell. What's more, the amount of Xbar Kiel can't even build a layer of magic towers, but in exchange for a hen with golden eggs every day, where can this be considered expensive!
For those veteran magicians who do not plan to get involved in the magic scroll printing business, but only care about the progress of this research, including the Fasheng Tower Master of the Six Towers of the Holy City, if the Grand Magician Kabanbai chooses to conceal this method. For the sake of the whole of the Lost Land, for the sake of the wizard world, maybe they will all come forward to pressure 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 want to get this knowledge certainly have the right to consider whether it is worth it to pay such a price in exchange for this knowledge.
That's not what trading is all about. One person bids, and the other person buys it if he thinks it's a good deal, and doesn't buy it if it's not a good deal. Of course, bargaining is not impossible, and even using force to coerce the other party to lower the price is also heard from time to time in the shopping malls of the lost land. But...... Thinking of Kabambai's disgusting old face, the magicians in the Holy City had to admit that the cost of trying to bring him to his knees was far higher than that of Xbar Kiel.
So, resign yourself to your fate.
When the Gwana Empire, the leader of the First Wizard Brigade of the First Legion, the Saint Babak Abunahan set foot on the land of the Holy City again, and 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:
As for the method of printing magic scrolls, although not many people know about it, they are all important people. With these people at the center, its power encompasses almost the entire Holy City. In particular, the knowledge of printing technology has been entered into the Wizards' Association and the Great Library, so if the Empire wants to keep this secret privately, send troops to slaughter the city.
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As a large city on the same level as the capital of the Empire, the holy city of Estali has private magic towers built throughout the city, in addition to the six towers that defend the Great Library. Coupled with the fact that there are many magicians, it seems that it is easier to slaughter such a city, as if it is easier to slaughter the capital of your own empire. At least there aren't that many magic towers.
So even if the group of radical young officers were unwilling, they could only give up the idea of dominating this technology. The Gwana Empire retreated and purchased ten sets of equipment for printing magic scrolls in one go. The printing method, which was considered sky-high, also bought a set, intending to make magic scrolls frantically to use as a reserve for war.
This act of spreading the printing press and printing methods soon led to the first problem that someone had conceived – the problem of insufficient raw materials.
In this era of low productivity, it is meaningless to speed up only one of the links in the entire industrial chain, because the speed of upstream and downstream supporting industries has not been improved.
The raw materials for crafting magic scrolls produced around the Holy City, as well as the inventory that had accumulated over a long period of time, were all swept away. These reserves and production, in the past, were enough to meet the needs of a large mage city like Estali in the production of magic scrolls. But after the reform of the printing press, it was completely insufficient.
If the Holy City itself and the surrounding area do not have it, and if you want to make magic scrolls, you can only dispatch materials from farther away. And the finished magic scrolls always have to be shipped to other places before they can be sold, because there is no such demand for buying large quantities of the same magic scrolls in the Holy City. Then the problem of transportation is brought to the table again.
Two major difficulties have suddenly made the emerging printing industry full of headaches.
According to the law of supply and demand, the price of things should rise indefinitely until supply can outstrip demand. But magic scrolls are not necessities like food. Not to mention the inflation of the earth, which is basically caused by panic psychology and the speculative behavior of some people, which has caused serious financial disasters.
For so long, adventurers dared to go to the end of 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 magic scrolls?
So there's simply no room for a significant price increase in this thing.
What kind of magic is what kind of price. It's high, so the adventurers don't pay for it. For example, if C Kiel (100 gold) buys a water purification scroll that can only be used once, adventurers would rather run back and forth a few more times, or carry a large bucket of water on their backs for their own journey, and it will not cost C Kiel the cost to run him for ten years. That's the reality.
If any economic behavior is detached from the consumer side and only considers the cost, failure is inevitable.
And in the scuffle over the limited raw materials, printing magic scrolls and sales, only the Grand Magician of Kabanbay sat firmly.
Because of this situation, the young magician who taught mathematics had prompted it. But as long as your focus is on research, you don't care so much if you can sell more magic scrolls.
But people are always forced out. Wizards with quick brains have begun to work on improving the production of raw materials for making magic scrolls, as well as the problem of transportation.
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 the 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 detached, lost speed, and ended up staying where it was forever. But few people choose to smash the locomotive and let all the carriages move at the previous warm speed.
Such is the atmosphere in the holy city of Estali now. An unimaginable vitality erupted around the printing press.
Even those magicians who lost their income from hand-made magic scrolls because of the popularity of the printing press turned around and threw themselves into the business of the printing press. Because they are good at crafting, in the process of research and improvement, this type of person has an advantage over other magicians, because they know more.
As for the magic apprentices who were already suffering from the low success rate and high cost of production, they resolutely gave up. The scribes didn't have to do it, and they didn't even have a way to make magic scrolls, and the group should have resented the person who started it all.
But they found that the printing workshops everywhere needed the skills they had been honing for a long time. Naturally, they gathered in printing workshops around the country to show their talents in another way.
Different from the textile and light industry, it led to the first wave of the earth's industrial revolution. The same is true in the holy city of Estari.