"These are the Hearthstone Tavern's recent income and expenses."
Madam Marina passed the records to Josiah. Josiah flipped through a few pages.
Since the opening of the Hearthstone Tavern, the income and expenses of the tavern had been recorded in detail. The total amount of expenses would be calculated every month.
In terms of financial management, Madam Marina had done an outstanding job. After all, this old lady had rescued a declining Chamber of Commerce by herself.
Josiah recorded the number of card bags sold in the past month into the Protocrystal Lizard's server.
Since the Hearthstone Tavern had expanded by three times, the number of machines that could support Hearthstone had also increased by quite a bit. The Protocrystal Lizard now had two new companions.
However, even if these lazy creatures gathered together, they would only close their eyes and hibernate.
Josh compared the amount of money he had earned from selling card bags to the number of card bags he had sold, and found that there were no mistakes.
"Mr. Josiah … I think we need to hire a few more servants."
Madam Marina took out an 'Employee Register'.
"That's not a problem, but I'm curious where you found these servants."
Josiah took the register from Madam Marina and flipped through the contents. It was terrifyingly detailed.
The servants hired by Madam Marina not only had basic information such as name and gender, but also their past experiences and home addresses.
If it wasn't for the fact that the 'lamp' Josiah was using was an Illumination Crystal, Josiah would have suspected that he had returned to Earth.
These directories could be used as resumes, the kind without photos.
"Noland is a city that respects contracts, Mr. Josiah. There are some merchant guilds here that provide places to hire workers," Madam Marina explained.
"Not … slaves?"
Josiah immediately thought of such a market as the most common slave market in the Middle Ages.
"I'm old and my memory is failing, but the slave trade disappeared decades ago. Other countries might have it, but Noland definitely forbids it," Madam Marina said.
"The most prosperous city in the world …?"
Josiah could no longer describe this city as medieval. The magical workshop on the other side of the River of Gear had been in operation for more than 50 years, and the magical machines it produced were already showing the embryonic form of modern technology.
For example … cars. Josiah had seen a 'car' driven by magic power driving on the street not long ago. Although it attracted a lot of spellcasters at that time, Josiah believed that this thing would eventually replace carriages in the near future.
Noland had ushered in the first industrial revolution, and under the catalysis of mana, it had even opened the door to the second industrial revolution.
Josiah, on the other hand, helped the citizens of Noland pry open the door to the information age.
"Next time, Madam Malina, when you go to the market to hire servants, please bring me along."
Josiah handed the list to Madam Malina.
The technology tree of humans in this world was climbing too fast, whether it was for civilian or military use … However, the social ecology of the Demon Realm, according to the memory of the Third Prince, was still at the 'medieval' level.
Although Josiah didn't want to participate in the struggle of the Demon Realm forces, the Demon Realm was still Josiah's hometown. It wouldn't be fun if the door was blasted open by humans with some '380 mm cannon'.
However, this wasn't something that Josiah needed to worry about. Josiah's sister, Cecily, had been working hard to change the pedantic and backward Demon Realm. She hoped that after she got the magic net, she could have a better understanding of the current human world.
What Josiah should consider now was to expand the manpower of his' Entertainment Guild '. Currently, Josiah could only think of two ways to expand.
The first was to look for suitable actors in the Knight Of The White Thorn, and the other was to go to the 'talent market' mentioned by Madam Malina.
"No problem, Mr. Josiah … Also, about the price of the Hearthstone card bag that you set."
Madam Malina didn't know whether she should mention this suggestion. Initially, Josiah set the price of the card bag at three gold coins, but it was reduced to one gold coin in the end.
"Is it too expensive?"
Josiah had already guessed the problem that Madam Malina mentioned.
Even though the price of the card bag was set at one gold coin, many customers still complained that the price was too expensive.
In particular, a poor Nephilic Inquisitor who also worked as a web writer, Cheryl, often posted on the spellcaster forum, "Recently, I'm so poor that I have to eat dirt to survive. Please kindly give me 328 gold coins to eat a full meal. I don't know any new card bag, and I don't know anything about goblins vs gnomes."
The price of the card bag also led to the price of the card bag. Currently, the most expensive card sold in the Hearthstone Tavern was the golden Balrog King, which cost up to four thousand gold coins. It was more than enough for spellcasters to buy a high-quality magic staff.
For the dwarves who made their fortune by selling raw crystals, one gold coin was indeed nothing to them. However, for the poorer commoners or spellcasters, one gold coin was enough for them to live for a week.
Although Josh had a mission in the system where he could obtain a card bag if he won three rounds per day, there were still many players who complained about the price of the card bags. After the new card bags were released, there were more and more such complaints on the spellcaster forum.
"Mr. Josiah, I don't think there's a need to lower the price," Madam Malina said.
Although lowering the price could satisfy the poor players, it was still the rich spellcasters and dwarves who bought the card bag in bulk … If the price was lowered, it would cause a psychological imbalance to the players who had spent a lot of money on the card bag.
"There's no need to lower the price, but there's a discount," Josiah said.
"Discount …"
Madam Malina looked at Josiah as he took out a piece of paper and a pen. Josiah wrote the words "50% off" on the paper.
"I think you also know that this is a very common business method. During certain festivals in Noland, we can sell card bags at 90%, 70%, or even 50%."
No matter which world, discounts were always a way to stimulate intelligent beings into buying, and it was the same in this world.
In Noland, the exchange rate between gold coins and silver coins was stable at one to ten, so after the discount, the card bag could be sold in the form of silver coins.
"These few days coincide with the release of the new card bag. Madam Malina, you can decide how much the discount is."
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