Wulian City, the reception room on the fifth floor of the Central Tower. The Sijia District Branch of the Society of Sorcerers, the fourteen mages with voting rights, gathered here. Apart from the president sitting at the head of the table, the others sat on both sides of the long table.
Among the fourteen people, the president of the branch would also be the president of the chamber of commerce. At the same time, the four tower masters of the East, West, North, and South Towers would also have seats. In addition, five people were recommended by the founding families.
The chamber of commerce was not established from scratch. Instead, there were five families – among them, there were aristocratic families, magic families, and business families. Because the children of the families belonged to the upper echelons of the branch, they joined forces to establish a chamber of commerce under the branch.
With these five families as the backbone of the chamber of commerce, it was difficult to bypass the opinions of the five families in decision-making. Therefore, they used the children of the families who became mages as members of the decision-making table to represent the opinions of the families.
In the contemporary era, if the family did not have enough status to become a mage, they would still have a recommendation quota to allow the mages who were on good terms with their family to represent them in the decision-making circle of the chamber of commerce.
Hydra Quinnipiac, the representative of the Quinnipiac family, sat on one side of the long table.
The remaining four people, in the initial stage of the establishment, were the four most high-end martial artists of the Sijia District Branch. Since it was impossible for such people to serve as the golden fighters of the chamber of commerce, it was impossible not to share some of the profits. They also had a seat in the decision-making circle and shared the profits.
After that, these four places were reserved, either by the predecessor to recommend the successor, or by a mage who was strong enough to be recommended by the public. Of course, when the chamber of commerce encountered trouble and had to be solved by force, these four people had to be the vanguard. As the inspector, Master Wizard Grimwin had such a seat. This was one of the reasons why he was able to promote the forum system to the entire district branch in a short time.
Now, they put aside the matters at hand and came to the fifth floor of the Central Tower, of course, for the mall system proposed by Lin. However, the president did not pass on the explanation document that came with the system magic stone to everyone. The main reason was that the viewing speed was too slow, and the content was too much. Therefore, Orange Eaton was handed over to his chief student.
Under everyone's gaze, he operated the forum terminal that was connected to the energy pool on the fifth floor of the Central Tower. He placed the book in the magic circle next to the keyboard, and as the pages turned, the words on the book were also synchronized with the new article page on the forum.
That's right, although the computer development in the Lost Earth was still very primitive in Lin's eyes, the level of excellence of the input method was far beyond that of Earth. Other than the most basic keyboard input, there was also voice input, handwriting input, and scanning input. The reliability was close to 100%. If he made a mistake, he would either mispronounce the words or write the wrong words on the paper.
The biggest reason why it was so outstanding was that a certain senior mage who loved sound and light effects had created a way to turn sound into magic words in the air, just like how spells or magic arrays copied on ordinary paper could be turned into magic words in the air.
The original intention was to use this method to complete the complicated spellcasting process without relying on the magic tower's energy pool. But in reality, when casting outside, if he was in a state of battle, he would have to cast another spell before the completion of one spell. If the opponent was a master of the same level as him, the time wasted would be enough for the opponent to kill him. If the opponent was weaker than him, there was no need to use such a complicated method at all. There would be a simpler way to kill the opponent.
Therefore, these two spells that were passed down, called "Mill's Language Writing Spell" and "Mill's Magic Writing Spell," had long been ranked in the top ten useless spells of the Association.
That was until Lin designed a computer system in another world and incorporated these two spells into the basic input method. Many of the older magicians who were not used to typing on the keyboard started to revere the two sets of Mill's Magic that had been despised for hundreds of years.
However, this was a plug-in function. If one wanted to use it, they had to buy the relevant knowledge from the Association and install it into the browser system according to the instructions. The consequences of infringement were very serious, especially now that Mage Mill was so dead that his bones could beat drums. The rights to this spell belonged to the Association. Infringing on the interests of the Association was no different from courting death.
The ease of input was also one of the main reasons why the forum was so popular. In addition to the convenience of information exchange, a large amount of text data could be digitized by scanning, which sped up the dissemination of knowledge and reduced the cost.
Now, everyone was waiting for the digitization of the instruction document. The reason why they did not do it before and wanted to do it in front of everyone was to prove that every word was scanned from the document and had not been modified at all.
The chief student of Orange Eaton also scanned a chapter and published the data in the private discussion section of the decision-making circle of the Chamber of Commerce. The rest of the people stared at their own forum screen and read the instruction document from the Tower of the Great Sage.
Reading and understanding quickly became the instinct of almost every person who had the qualifications to become a Great Mage. With the content of the chapter that was published, everyone had a preliminary understanding of this system. This was because in the instruction document, Lin also made a simple explanation of the reason and the idea behind each design. Of course, whether others could understand or not was not within the scope of his consideration.
Originally, the reception room was silent, except for one or two Great Mages who had bad habits who would knock on the table to make some noise when thinking. Gradually, some people began to discuss with the people around them, and then more and more people participated in the discussion. The reception room became three or four small groups discussing the system.
Generally speaking, everyone agreed to use the Shop System. However, the distribution of orders became the focus of everyone's debate.
The main target of the subsidiary chamber of commerce was the Mages scattered all over the Sijia District. In the form of opening a store, stocking up on goods in each store and then selling them, the cost and turnover rate were huge, and there was no profit to speak of. Besides, opening a store outside the headquarters of the district would inevitably lead to taxes to the local lord, which would lead to additional expenses.
Secondly, the Tower Masters would not deliberately make a trip to a town with a store just to buy some things. If they were lucky, they could pull the goods back; if they were unlucky, they would have to wait for the goods to be delivered. Therefore, the main business model of the Chamber of Commerce was still the manager of the Chamber of Commerce diligently running around, making decisions on orders, and then returning to the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce to dispatch the goods.
Therefore, it was not surprising that a transaction would take up to half a year. Fortunately, the pace of life in the Lost Earth World was slow, and for buying and selling some unconventional special goods, no one would be in a hurry to place an order today and have to receive the goods tomorrow.
In the original face-to-face transaction, the order was held in the hands of the person who came forward, and the pricing power was the same, so commission and profit were generated. However, when the transaction was changed to a virtual platform interface, there would be problems.
Although in the order system, there was a designated business personnel column, letting the system know who the order was to be forwarded to, so that someone could report the price of the order to the customer who made the order.
If there was a manager who set a particularly affordable price, once it spread on the forum, it would inevitably create a few star businesses. The trading volume of the entire Sijia District was only so much, and the pie was so big. If a few people grabbed the majority of the pie, the rest could only pick up some sporadic small profits, which was not to be hated.
But what if there was no business personnel column? Considering that most mages did not care who they bought from, it was possible to fill in the business personnel column randomly. Therefore, if there was no business personnel option, the orders would be concentrated in the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce. But someone still had to make a bid, so it had to be distributed again. It was just that Lin could not decide how to distribute this part.
It was just that there was no business option, which was disadvantageous for some of the managers of the Chamber of Commerce who had loyal customers and were very diligent in running around. Because of the distribution method, the original customers may be assigned to the hands of others for various reasons.
Therefore, both methods had their pros and cons. For the representatives of the families, they had a lot of people, and they had a keener sense of business behavior. Naturally, they would want to operate in the first way, which would make it easier for them to seize more benefits. But for the representatives of the fighting faction and the tower master, if the Chamber of Commerce's headquarters distributed, they might be able to dig out a larger profit margin.
This discussion was not something that could be solved in a short time. Some mages even called their right-hand men and let those who knew more about business to give them ideas.
On the contrary, the president of Orange Eaton listened to the arguments rather calmly and did not intervene. Most of the benefits of the Chamber of Commerce would be subsidized to the district branch, which was through his hands as the president. How much he wanted to keep would depend on his conscience. Therefore, the president did not participate in the actual business part, but mostly served as the internal arbitrator of the Chamber of Commerce.
And while thinking about the pros and cons of the two plans, Orange Eaton suddenly noticed that the two little apprentices from the Tower of the Great Sage were still standing quietly to the side, not daring to move.
He called the two girls and asked, "Your main purpose this time is to take the apprentice assessment, right?"
"Yes, Mr. President."
"Is there a notice?"
The apprentice assessment did not have a fixed time. Instead, those who wanted to participate in the assessment would take the initiative to apply. The Association would then see which mage with the qualification of an inspector would be free to take the assessment assignment. Generally speaking, there would be one every month. The Association would also gather the apprentices who had applied recently and make arrangements according to the time of the inspector mage.
Halloumi and Kaya's apprentice assessment had been requested by the Chamber of Commerce's caravan team as early as last month. After the girl explained, she said, "All that's left is to report to the West Tower and confirm the date."
The division of power and responsibility in Wulian City. The East Tower was in charge of general affairs and the Chamber of Commerce, the West Tower was in charge of the apprentices, the South Tower was in charge of the collection and management of magical knowledge, and the North Tower was in charge of the mages' business, including dispatching work. The matters of inspectors, inspectors, and great mages, as well as those that the other four towers could not handle, were handled by the Middle Tower.
Knowing the girls' arrangements, Orange Eaton nodded and asked again, "Then, will you leave after the assessment?"
"Teacher has instructed us to buy some things from the Chamber of Commerce. But we still have to see how much we can get from the Association before we decide on the items we need. When the things are almost ready, we will return with the caravan team. "
"That's good." Orange Eaton looked at the people who were still arguing and said, "It seems that the discussion here will not come to a conclusion so soon. Perhaps there are some things that need to be discussed with your teacher. As for the payment, I will also instruct someone to calculate and send it to you as soon as possible. When the time comes, I will inform the Chamber of Commerce, and if you want to buy anything, just tell them. But since there is nothing for you to do for the time being, you can go and rest first. I remember that the apprentice assessment is also in the next few days. You can prepare well, don't worry about anything else. "
The two girls obediently bowed at the same time and said, "Yes, thank you, Mr. President."
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