Chapter 14: New Works
Kaichi took out a piece of the Digger's carapace and polished it with a magic grinding wheel borrowed from the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, smoothing the edges and inside of the carapace.
He had been idle for two days, and after a little rest, he was starting to be idle again, but now he wanted to make something practical to spice up the tastes.
Lest he lose his original interest in magic by simply learning and simply learning theories, it is easy for him to be bored, but learning new spells and crafting a new magical item can give him some satisfaction and maintain his interest in magic.
As he polished his armor, he began to design his brother's envisioned magical armor.
Originally, he wanted to use Valoka's hydraulic hammer to make steel armor, and then enchant it, although he couldn't attach too powerful spells to the armor, but it was magic armor, and it couldn't be bought without tens of thousands of gold coins, which was enough for his younger brother.
However, now that he has the armor of the Digger and has also become a white-robed mage, he has more ideas to realize, and the armor must also be well designed, so as not to waste good materials.
He is still in the process of designing, and can only carry out preliminary treatment of the nail piece first, so that it can be used later, and it is also preliminarily processed for preservation.
After two years of development, the Valoka Chamber of Commerce is one of the top chambers of commerce, although it is not the largest chamber of commerce in God.
The fruit company released Love Crazy in 07, but it took 12 years to become the first in market capitalization, and 14 years to become the most valuable brand, it was still an era when products could be sold quickly to the world, and there were alas and computer bases.
The current development of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce has completely exceeded everyone's expectations. The rapid development is due to the fact that Jiayi has provided a lot of machine tools in the past two years, which has increased the production capacity of the entire chamber of commerce.
Because of the machine tool, the cost of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce has been reduced a lot, and now almost everyone who buys clocks and watches knows that the clocks of the Valorca Chamber of Commerce are of the best quality, and the price is right, and the maintenance is also convenient, which has formed a brand effect.
However, the chamber of commerce's bicycle business has shrunk a lot, and now although there are bicycles, they basically only involve high-end business, which is completely luxury, although the profit is very high, but the sales volume is limited.
The main business of the Chamber of Commerce is clocks and sonar, bicycles, pens and white paper, and now there is also a printing and publishing business, and a newspaper office with two newspapers.
One newspaper is a relatively high-end domestic and international event, as well as some more reliable news, even the advertisements have been screened, while the other is a gossip tabloid, the news in it has not been strictly verified, and even the emperor's lace news dares to publish, and the advertisements on it are all what kind of golden gun advertisements, whether it has any effect Jia Yi has not tried.
However, if you talk about it, it is better to sell newspapers of the gossip tabloid type, and the entire imperial capital is also more newspapers of this type, to be precise, there is no distinction between the types of newspapers now, there is no targeting, as long as the director of the newspaper feels that someone will be interested in the news, the newspaper will publish it.
In this context, although the sales of Valoka's newspaper are not as high as the gossip tabloids, it has a group of loyal readers and high purchasing power.
In addition to these, the Chamber of Commerce also has some catering and spice businesses, as well as jewelry businesses, but these are all independent in a sub-chamber of commerce, all under the management of Selena.
Now the best hotel in the imperial capital is Selena's Song of Iron and Fire, and now this store has opened two branches in the imperial capital, except for the slums in Xicheng District, there is a branch in every direction. In many cases, the banquets of the nobles of the imperial capital are booked in the Song of Iron and Fire, and not everyone can book them.
While designing his ideal armor, Jia Yi flipped through the books published by the Chamber of Commerce Press.
There is a small reading room at the headquarters of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, and all the books published by the Chamber of Commerce are displayed in the reading room and are also borrowed, but they are not open to the public.
With blank paper and printing, books have become very popular, and there are many more entertaining novels that have become popular, unlike in the past, such novels were luxuries, and there were very few publishing houses willing to print, and now printing books has become profitable, and even special writers have begun to appear, specializing in writing books for a living.
However, at this time, the writer's manuscript fee is not high, and the sales volume is actually limited, and if there is no other professional life, it will generally be relatively tight.
Jia Yi was flipping through the books in the reading room, and Selena came over and said with a little complaint: "Jia Yi, you have broken through to become a white-robed mage now, why don't you care about the Chamber of Commerce at all." ”
Jia Yi was a little surprised by Selena's words, what is called a breakthrough to become a white-robed mage, he doesn't care about the Chamber of Commerce, as if he didn't care about the Chamber of Commerce before he became a white-robed mage.
"Haven't I been like this all? I have always cared about the specific affairs of the Chamber of Commerce. ”
Selena pursed her lips and said with a little smile, "Jiayi, have you written a book recently?"
"What book? Sketch Basics?"
"It's books like "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", you serialized these two novels in your college newspaper, do you think I don't know? "The Lord of the Rings" hasn't been serialized yet, why hasn't it been released in the future?"
Kaichi was not surprised that Selena knew that "The Lord of the Rings" was written by herself, Valoka had also studied at the college newspaper in order to publish a newspaper, and Kaichi was the author of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", although not many people knew about it, but it was easy to inquire, especially for Selena.
When the college newspaper was first launched, Jiayi in order to increase the number of newspapers attracted (chao) serialized (xi) in the newspaper, and after the end, he started the serialization of "The Lord of the Rings", but later went to Arlon, the transportation was inconvenient, and the second part of "The Lord of the Rings" had just been serialized, and Jiayi did not update it, and then it has been interrupted until now.
This kind of behavior has a lot of resentment in the reader group, and readers look forward to it every year and then be disappointed every year, but at this time, the writing of the novel has not been affected by the online novel, there is no daily change, and it is normal to write a book for more than 10 years, so although the readers of "The Lord of the Rings" have been disappointed, they have not wanted to send the blade.
There was a lack of interaction with readers, a well-developed postal system, and no one was able to send blades over.
In fact, after Jiayi, Yanel also found other people to serialize the novel in the newspaper, but the effect was far worse than Jiayi, although there were some readers, but both the number and loyalty were far worse than Jiayi's.
And there are always people who put Jiayi's book and the new author together for evaluation, and the new author is of course far behind.
Who called Jiayi to raise the standard of readers, although the novels of the Academy Newspaper are the most famous, but the authors who dare to submit are the least. However, in the past few years, everyone has seen that there is no book on the market that can compare with Jiayi's old work, and the requirements for new books are much more lenient.
However, Kaichi's behavior of not renewing all the time, and not even the slightest rumor about the update, is still very unpleasant, and it is said that someone has already tried to curse the author of this book through "The Lord of the Rings" as a medium.
"Ahem, this, you know, writing a book is very energy-consuming, even if you copy it... Ahem, copying is also very tiring, so how can it be so simple, you know that I have been busy breaking through to become a white-robed mage since I went to Elf Island, how can I have time to continue writing the plot later. ”
Just nervous, Jia Yi almost copied the book to say, "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" although he has read the original, but it is the Chinese version, and then it has to be translated into the lingua franca of the mage of the other world, although the plot is still there, but the literary is missing, and the translation work is actually not simple, fortunately, he has a good memory, strong spirit, plus the two books add up to less than 1.5 million words, compared to a web text, in fact, it is not particularly long.
Fortunately, there are actually very few simple novels in this world, and the only ones are far worse than the two mature novels plagiarized by Jiayi, and Jiayi's two fragmented works stand out from the crowd here.
Selena wasn't satisfied with Kaichi's answer, but she also knew that for magical pursuits, Kaichi wrote novels just for fun, and couldn't ask for too much.
She said in a pleading tone: "Now that you have become a white-robed mage, is it already time to start writing the following plot, do you know how much everyone is looking forward to it now, we have collected all the newspapers that serialized your novels, and now we can only quench our thirst by reading your novels repeatedly, we all want to know if Sam and Frodo escaped from the giant rock spider lair, and what will happen next." ”
Only then did Jiayi realize that Selena was still a loyal reader of his novels.
However, after such a long time, it is indeed time to finish "The Lord of the Rings", and there is still a third part left, and if it takes a little more time, it should be possible to complete the translation in a month or two.
Although "The Lord of the Rings" is called a trilogy, it is actually divided into six parts, which is a complete work, but it was published not long after the end of World War II, and there was a shortage of paper, so it was divided into three parts for publication.