my age of magic

Chapter 1279 83. Letter

Last summer, the five major mithril mines on the plane of Ahnquilador fell into the hands of the Nacoma.

These five mithril mines are one of the most important mithril ore suppliers in the rune plate industrial area of ​​San Carlos City. The production of low-level blank mithril magic rune plates was stopped for a while, resulting in almost no mithril blank magic rune plates in the magic market of the imperial capital. This situation lasted for several months.

The pure gold magic pattern rune board was designed by Qige and I at that time.

The original reason for the design was that Qige’s magic laboratory produced a lot of choking smoke all day long due to the refining of magic herbs. To solve this problem, Qige and I jointly made an exhaust fan, and then we found that this This kind of magic item has a great market prospect, so I thought of opening a rune board workshop.

At that time, the junior inscription masters in the imperial capital were basically in a state of suspension because they could not buy blank mithril rune tablets.

During that time, the junior inscription masters in the imperial capital could hardly make any money. It was not until the appearance of the fine gold magic pattern rune board that those junior inscription masters found work again, just to meet the production and processing needs of the exhaust fan. , the pure gold magic pattern rune plate produced by the rune plate workshop can only be used to make the 'miniature tornado' magic pattern circle.

The junior inscription masters in the imperial capital complained quite a bit about this. For these junior inscription masters, the 'miniature tornado' rune board is a brand new magic pattern circle, and they need a lot of practice to become proficient.

And at the stage when the 'miniature tornado' rune board was first drawn, many inscribers basically couldn't make much money.

Although a 'miniature tornado' rune board leaves a lot of profit margins for the inscription masters, but the inscription masters need to pay for their own failures, so until later they practiced the 'miniature tornado' magic pattern array proficiently enough After that, they finally reversed the embarrassing situation where they couldn't get a job and couldn't make money.

At that time, the rune plate workshop of Qige and I was the only workshop that could produce pure gold magic pattern rune plates, and we had to deal with a large number of exhaust fan orders at that time, so we never made other types of rune plates. It is the main reason why those junior inscribers in the imperial capital are dissatisfied with me.

So much so that after the inscription masters received the order from the rune plate workshop, they would rather say that the drawing failed and pay compensation according to the selling price, rather than sell the drawn 'miniature tornado' rune plates back to the rune workshop here.

As a result, the imperial capital also gave birth to a group of workshops specializing in the production of exhaust fans, and these exhaust fan workshops quickly occupied the magic market by means of a series of methods. Nick, the manager of the rune plate workshop, was not good at Capturing the business opportunities in the market, they thought it was a good opportunity to expand the scale of the rune plate workshop, and began to increase the production scale of the fine gold magic pattern rune plate.

Nick implemented his idea last fall, giving up the production of exhaust fans and focusing on the production of adamantine magic rune plates.

Until the victory of the war on the plane of Kenda, the news that His Majesty Charles decided to recover the planes of Ahn'Qirad came out, and a large number of mithril mines reappeared in the magic market, and the blank mithril rune boards were freely available due to their lower prices and convenience. The matching of the magic pattern circle quickly made the pure gold magic pattern rune board become unpopular in the magic market.

My rune plate workshop was once in trouble. At that time, under the lobbying of Ivan and Diego, Nick and Brennan took all the craftsmen in the rune plate workshop to Ivan And Diego's newly opened rune board workshop, my rune board workshop was once in a state of closure during that time.

Since the junior inscription masters in the imperial capital at that time were already accustomed to the shape of the base plate of the pure gold magic pattern rune plate, the blank mithril rune plate transported from San Carlos City was very different from it. It is not impossible to redesign the 'miniature tornado' magic pattern circle with the shape of the rune plate, but it will take a lot of energy and money for the inscription masters to get familiar with the new shape of the magic pattern circle.

At that time, exhaust fans were extremely popular in the imperial capital, and the imperial capital needed a large number of 'miniature tornado' rune boards, so the order for the 'miniature tornado' rune boards was easy to receive. Ivan and Diego saw such a business opportunity, so they opened A mithril rune plate workshop engaged in the production of the shape of the pure gold magic pattern rune plate, the entire production line and the rune plate punching mold in the workshop are designed for this purpose.

Later, I poached people from my rune plate workshop, because Nick and the craftsmen were more familiar with these rune plates than anyone else.

In the first two months, Ivan and Diego's rune plate workshop business was very prosperous.

But the good times don't last long. Winter is coming, and the sales of exhaust fans have entered the off-season. All the rune plate workshops have become less prosperous.

After I returned to the imperial capital from the Vashj plane, I bought a group of dwarven slaves in the slave market of the imperial capital, and after I developed the first magic engraving machine in the Xinliu Valley blacksmith workshop, the red copper magic pattern' concentrating fire technique The rune boards appeared in various magic markets in the imperial capital, and Ivan and Diego discovered such a business opportunity, and began to use the profits from the previous few months to build a production line for imitating the 'Fighting Fire' rune boards.

Ivan and Diego want to continue to implement the previous model, making a mithril blank rune plate according to the shape of the red copper magic pattern'concentrating fire' rune plate, and then ask the junior inscriber in the imperial capital to draw a simple 'concentrating fire' rune plate. Operation 'magic circle.

They thought that I set the price of the 'Focus Fire' rune plate and the copper hot pot so low at the beginning, just wanted to use the capital advantage to attack other rune plate workshops and make them give up the production of 'Focus Fire' rune plates , and then monopolize the copper hot pot market in the imperial capital, they and some rune plate workshop bosses tried to produce the 'Fire Gathering' rune plate.

According to the plan of Ivan and Diego, they wanted to use the income from the 'miniature tornado' rune board to make up for the loss of the 'Fire Concentration' rune board, but what they didn't expect was that the 'Fire Concentration' would come from winter to spring. Not only has the price of the rune board not increased, but even the price of the 'miniature tornado' rune board has fallen below the production cost level. Since this spring, their rune board workshop has been losing money.

With the innovation of the magic printing machine manufacturing technology, the manufacturing cost of the rune boards in the magic printing workshop has dropped again. The price of the magic pattern rune plate has been lowered for the second time, which is undoubtedly worse for Ivan and Diego’s rune plate workshop.

If it is just a rune board workshop, it will not affect the lives of Ivan and Diego who are from the upper class nobles.

What really got them into debt crisis was that Prince George and Quentin collected military supplies for the Ahnquila multi-plane war. Prince George's power and status forced some magic herb dealers to sell them magic herbs at a low or low price.

Prince George and Quentin are the implementers of this action plan, and although Ivan and Diego did not directly participate, they pooled money to participate in the shares.

Sometimes a person is unlucky and can get stuck in his teeth after drinking cold water. Obviously, such a thing happened to Ivan and Diego.

Marvin and I sat in the magic caravan, talking almost all the way about Ivan and Diego.

Regarding some of the news in their rune board, some of them were heard from Alia, and some of them were told to me in private by Murray, if Shirley hadn’t talked about the plight of Ivan and Diego , I'm afraid I don't know until now, but they have been being chased for debts recently.

And now their rune board workshop is in crisis. If they still insist on losing money to produce the 'Fire Gathering' and 'Miniature Tornado' rune boards, there is no chance of turning around.

"When you invited me to the Imperial Capital, you originally planned to help you develop the market for the 'Concentrating Fire', 'Miniature Tornado', 'Twilight Illumination' and 'Continuous Frost' in the Imperial Capital?" Marvin casually said to me while sitting in the carriage. asked.

The aroma of tree oil floated in from the window, and the street trees on both sides of the street had slowly pulled out their buds. I said to Marvin, "Yes! I just didn't expect such a thing to happen to Qige's trading house. I had planned to Next, make a batch of 'Water Gathering' rune plates. This is the biggest piece of cake in the rune plate market, but Murray's rune plate workshop is a bit busy right now. The rune plate assemblers The workshop also needs to expand the scale of production."

Marvin leaned on the soft leather sofa and asked me: "You keep occupying the market for junior rune tablets like this, are you really going to drive those junior inscription masters out of the imperial capital, or let them bow their heads and admit their mistakes?"

"I don't expect those inscription masters to admit any mistakes to me!" I shook my head and said, "I just simply think that some elementary magic items should have entered life long ago, and now may be a good opportunity."

The good opportunity in my mouth refers to the sharp depreciation of the magic spar due to the plane war.

I looked at a few rune boards on the table in the carriage, and said: "These magic items should not just belong to the luxury goods owned by the upper class nobles. The war of planes has caused the price of magic spar fragments to drop again and again. Ordinary noble families probably It can also be used, and what we need to do now is how to change the consumption concepts of the people in the imperial capital."

Marvin looked away, and asked me with a serious face: "I'm going to meet those orcs in Gluding Town this time. Is there anything special you want to tell me?"

"..." I froze for a moment.

Marvin smiled at me, and then said: "Those orc warriors under your command, don't they want to send a letter to the orc tribe?"

"I'll go back and ask them," I said to Marvin.

At present, the magic seal workshop only processes the magic rune plates of 'focus', 'miniature tornado', 'twilight illumination' and 'continuous frost' for the time being, but I still have a lot of ideas, and I still want to have a chance If so, you can also put the 'Frost' rune board and the 'Miniature Tornado' rune board together, so that you can make a cooler that blows cold wind in summer. The summer in the imperial capital is actually quite hot, and this kind of cooler should be very popular. welcome.

In addition, I also want to design a magic stove with two Focus Fire rune plates embedded on the stove. This kind of stove is much more reliable than simply placing a Focus Fire rune plate on the stovetop.

When Ma Wen and I came out of the copperware shop, the owner of the copperware shop personally sent us to the gate of the copperware shop with a smile on his face. His two front teeth were a little yellow, and he always wore a A strong smell of smoke oil.

What made him so kind to us was that Marvin and I had ordered two thousand copper lampshades from his shop this time.

I need the owner of the copperware shop to provide us with [-] pieces of table lamp shades and lamp holders in the shape of morning glory umbrellas every month. For this copperware shop, even if they work at full capacity all day, they may not be able to do it every month. Three hundred lampshades came out.

But this time it was okay, the copperware shop had prepared before we came, and this time it prepared a hundred copper lampshades for us.

"Please rest assured, my lord magicians, I will prepare three hundred copper lampshades before the end of next month." The owner of the copperware shop stood at the door of the shop, facing me and the horse who were about to board the magic caravan. Wen shouted, his voice was loud, as if he wanted to let the whole street hear him, let them know what a huge business he had received for his shop.

Marvin didn't stay in the imperial capital. After the [-] magic table lamps were assembled in the rune plate workshop, he hired a truck to transport these magic table lamps to the airport town. Ying Li and I personally Go to the airport platform and say goodbye to Marvin and Spei.

I watched the magic airship full of goods leave the airport platform. The magic airship let out a dull long cry, then slowly merged into the channel, and slowly left behind a merchant ship.

The next morning, Ying Li and I returned to the imperial capital in a magic caravan.

When I returned to the quiet courtyard, I found that the garden in the courtyard was already colorful. Many flowers and plants that I had never seen before grew from the flower beds, and the low walls of delicate shrubs in the courtyard were also carefully pruned.

After we walked into the quiet courtyard, it was like being in a beautiful garden. Little Ella and two indigenous girls were in the courtyard.

When little Ella saw me, she yelled to me: "Jijia, look at our yard!"

I smiled and said to little Ella: "It's very good! These shrubs and low walls are neatly trimmed, and these flowers are planted beautifully."

Little Ella has grown a lot in one year, almost reaching my ears.

Two Aboriginal girls saluted me, and I rubbed my nose.

The two of them were wearing gauze skirts that girls like to wear in the imperial capital, and they looked pretty good.

At this time, little Ella said to me: "Oh, by the way, Jijia, I received a letter from the rented house. When I went back to the rented house to tidy up the yard the day before yesterday, I found it in the mailbox at the door. Wait for me to Bring it to you!"

"Are you sure it was mailed to me?" I asked her.

As little Ella ran into the house, she said, "That's right, your name is written on the envelope."

(End of this chapter)