The caravan of the Chamber of Commerce came twice, bringing with them not only supplies purchased directly with subsidies, but also goodwill from the association. And this goodwill came from the recent increase in the number of registrations on the forum. Just looking at the additional discussion sections, almost all the departments of the Sijia branch were covered, including the teaching institute of the branch, where Lin and his apprentices were originally staying.
The teaching institute was like a dormitory school for apprentices; for official mages, it was like a dormitory for a labor dispatch company. The facilities inside were complete, but there was a fee to use; the information was complete, but there was a fee to read; there were sufficient resources, but there was a fee to use. Although there were many ways to make money, the cost was also high.
It could be said that in one of the four major divisions of the southwest border of the continent, the Sijia division was where most mages gathered. The use of the forum began to be popularized and gradually expanded. Just looking at the discussion sections with the name of a certain magic tower that popped up from time to time, one could see that the influence of the forum was indeed increasing.
In the association, the magic named "Tripwood Forum Browser Spell" was priced at the original price Lin had mentioned. However, the magic stones used to copy the system had to be provided by the mages who wanted to buy it; and the part of the paper explanation document was directly turned into an electronic file and placed in the "Sijia branch announcement" discussion section opened by the Society of Sorcerers. It was a discussion section that allowed visitors to view at will, just like the "miscellaneous" discussion section. It could be said that in this way, the cost of materials was reduced to the minimum.
However, the association should take a commission, and they would take a lot. Because of this, on a peaceful afternoon of coding, the image of the energy pool suddenly changed to an old face that occupied the whole screen. Lin's heart almost stopped.
Looking at the shocked and stunned expression, the old man in the mirror was also a little embarrassed. In order to not continue to be so embarrassed, he had to break the ice first and said, "Sir Guebrach Lin Tripwood."
"Yes, President Eton." Lin hurriedly got up and saluted. The person in the mirror in front of him was the president of the Sijia branch of the Society of Sorcerers, the great mage Orange Eaton. From the Eton family of magic, he was a very powerful and experienced great mage with a lot of background. Although he was not an arrogant and annoying personality, he was by no means an amiable old man.
And this spell that could make use of the energy pool mirror to appear and talk was called 'Charles's Summoning.' It was a super annoying and troublesome magic world video calling system that did not have a ringtone or the right to choose whether or not to answer the call. Lin cursed in his heart. He secretly made up his mind to create something like instant messaging. It could be visual, voice, and text. He would let everyone have a taste of what it was like to not be able to read back.
In theory, the tower master's status was equal to that of the association's president. However, when facing this young and infamous president, not many people had the guts to be rude in front of him. That was why Lin made himself appear respectful. In fact, he respected the other party quite a bit. Although they didn't have any deep relationship in the past. However, under the leadership of President Eaton, there were many policies that favored the relatively weaker groups of mages and apprentices. Lin was one of the people who benefited from it.
Now that such a big shot was actually standing face to face with him, how could he not panic?
"Don't worry, Mr. Tripwood, I'm here to bring good news." Comforting the new mage who was much younger than himself, Orange Fruit Eaton, despite his advanced age, had a somewhat benevolent look on his face.
Lin cupped his hands in greeting, and Orange Eaton continued, "The browser magic you submitted is very good. Whether it's in terms of convenience, distance, or the amount of information it contains, it can be said to be a pioneering work. "
"Thank you for your praise, president." Lin thanked him, but he didn't feel smug because of it. Because when big shots talked to you about these things, there was usually a 'but.'
So he listened as Orange Eaton continued smoothly, "But now we've run into a small problem, and that is, the association will charge some fees for managing this magic knowledge. The price you set is directly the smallest basic unit, and the association will be doing the work for free. "
"President, I've mentioned to Master Wizard Grimwin, and it's also explained in the enclosed letter that the association can add the necessary management fees to the price I set as the final price. But from the price you maintain for one kilo, I know that you also understand that the real value of the forum is the number of users, and not the amount of money from the sale of this magic knowledge. So the price of one kilo, in addition to letting mages think that 'even if it's useless, it's just a waste of one kilo, so it's harmless', is to make it affordable for ordinary apprentices to use and achieve the effect of promotion. "
Seeing that the old man nodded in agreement, Lin Cai continued, "So in terms of management fees, I'm willing to share half of the profits as the association's cost. What do you think of this? "
For the old man who had just appeared and went straight to the point, after Lin explained a little about the two parties' thoughts, he readily gave up half of the profits. Orange Eaton nodded in satisfaction. At his position, although he didn't hate bargaining in the business world to the extreme, he didn't have any good feelings about it either.
Negotiation was to directly show the bottom line, and close the deal if it was close to the expected goal; if it was too exaggerated, just shoot directly. There was no back and forth. Moreover, in terms of the spread of magic knowledge, the original creator couldn't not benefit, because that would dampen the enthusiasm of other mages, and thus have a negative impact. For the long-term and for the mages as a whole, the gains didn't make up for the losses.
And now that the first problem was solved, Orange Eaton asked the second problem, "As for the two sets of magic, the domain name system and the web page system, I tried to build them on the president's exclusive energy pool. Although it seemed to be successful, it couldn't be activated. And sir, there's no relevant explanation in the instruction document, where could this problem be? "
Lin Xiang didn't need to think to know the answer just by listening. Because it was a hole that was dug in the instruction document that was submitted earlier. Faced with his boss's inquiry, Lin began to explain the tree structure that the domain name system should have. The servers on each level only pointed to the servers on the level above, and managed the legally authorized domain names that they belonged to.
To put it bluntly, the Attoli Source Pool of the Tower of the Great Sage, as the first DNS server in the maze world, naturally had the status of dot. The other energy pools could only become second-level servers and register with dot to have a legal domain name.
If someone else also wanted to build a top-level server of dot, they would only create two independent networks that were difficult to connect to each other. If they wanted to connect, they would have to go back to the beginning and memorize the complicated and lengthy marks on the energy pools of every Magic Tower.
"Then can the domain name system with dot authority be transferred to the Association's headquarters?"
Faced with this good question, of course, Lin straightforwardly said yes, and even the data that already existed on the forum could be completely transplanted over! The premise was that all the users of the forum had to suspend their use during the transplant operation, and it was uncertain how long this period of time would be.
In view of the fact that he didn't know the limits of the people in the maze world's tolerance for "server maintenance," Lin also straightforwardly expressed this layer of doubt.
Orange Eaton also admitted that such a situation was disadvantageous when the forum was still in the promotion stage. If the user lost their confidence, it would take a lot more effort to restore it.
In this regard, Lin took the opportunity to propose the concept of dot com. Simply put, it was to let the Association's headquarters have the first-level DNS server, and other people who wanted to have a domain name could directly apply to the Association. The Tower of the Great Sage's dot was just the starting point for the website query.
Orange Eaton also expressed his approval of this approach. In the end, the Association just wanted to have the space to manage all the Mages. Just like the magical knowledge that the original creator had already passed away, the Association didn't just disseminate it for free. On the contrary, the set price became a way to control the breadth of the circulation of the magic.
For knowledge that they didn't want too many people to know, or for powerful offensive spells, the price would be set higher to reduce the desire of those who were cash-strapped to buy them. For spells that they wanted every Mage to be able to use, the price would be set lower and vigorously promoted, wishing that everyone could have a spellbook. In the end, they hoped to stuff those spells that were listed as "must-learn" into the third circle teaching materials of the apprentices.
Of course, those fees would become one of the Association's important sources of income.
And as long as the Association had room to operate, Orange Eaton didn't have to insist on a certain result. Besides, Lin's previous willingness to give in was also a good reason to take a step back here.
They all had a good answer to their questions. Orange Eaton said a few polite words and cut off the connection. Things returned to normal, and more than ten days later, such a frightening scene occurred again …
This time, it was aimed at the chamber of commerce that belonged to the Society of Sorcerers.
The profit-seeking nature of businessmen made them quite sensitive to new technologies. Not to mention that the forum could get information from all over the place as soon as possible, as long as there were spies in the local area, it was faster than sending an urgent message eight hundred miles away, sending a pigeon, or finding a messenger who ran a marathon.
And in addition to business information, if Mages, tower masters, and other chambers of commerce could trade and order on the forum, as long as it was accompanied by a reasonable shipping route, the volume of trade would undoubtedly rise to another level.
Unfortunately, on the forum, in the instructions before new articles were opened, Lin clearly wrote three prohibitions. The people who came into contact with the Internet for the first time in the Earth World actually obediently complied, at least no accidents were heard. This made Lin couldn't help but sigh at the simple atmosphere of the Internet.
The first prohibition was that writing all magic spells in the general article area was prohibited; the second prohibition was that drawing magic arrays in the general article area was prohibited.
These two prohibitions were for the same reason. It must be known that the forum was established based on the eight basic powers of magic, which meant that this seemingly technological product was actually something of the mystical side. If one wrote spells or drew magic arrays in an article, it wasn't impossible that other people would be washed with fireballs when they opened the discussion thread.
Especially the foundation of installing the browser system, if it wasn't an energy pool, it was a magic stone, which was the source of magic energy.
Although the text coding method didn't directly make the text represent the meaning. In other words, the text content displayed in the incantation on the forum, the coding behind the incantation might not necessarily produce the effect that the incantation should induce. But it was better to be safe than sorry. If it was just right, some unlucky person would be hit in the face by magic.
For this possibility, Lin passively used the article classification to deal with it. In addition to general articles, there was also an additional category of magic articles, reminding users who clicked on the discussion thread that the content of the article contained spells and magic arrays, which might produce effects, please take precautions.
The third prohibition was aimed at trading behavior. Bartering, exchanging money for goods, exchanging items for money, exchanging knowledge, and so on were all prohibited. Regarding this prohibition, not only President Orange Eaton, but many users were puzzled. But today, the president represented everyone and asked in front of the creator.
Lin only replied with one sentence:
"I don't have the ability to guarantee the fulfillment of the contract."
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