Chapter 22: Seat XIIII of Affiliated Chamber of Commerce
Wulian City, the reception room on the fifth floor of the middle tower. The chamber of commerce affiliated to the Xijia branch of the Magicians Association, with fourteen magicians who have decision-making voting rights, gathered here. Except for the chairman who sat at the main seat, the rest of the people sat on both sides of the long table.
Among the fourteen people, the one who serves as the chairman of the branch will also serve as the chairman of the chamber of commerce. At the same time, the owners of the four pagodas, east, west, north, south, will also have seats. In addition, there are five people who belong to the recommended places of the founding family.
Chambers of commerce are not built from scratch. Instead, there are five families—among them there are nobles, there are magic families, and there are business families—because the children of the families belong to the high-level members of the district committee, they unite to form a chamber of commerce, which is subordinate to the district committee.
For the chamber of commerce established with these five families as the backbone, it is difficult to bypass the opinions of the five families in decision-making. Therefore, they took the children of the family who became magicians as members of the decision-making seats to represent the opinions of the family.
If in the contemporary era, there were not enough people in the family to become magicians, they would still have a recommendation quota, which would allow magicians who had good relationships with their families to represent them in the decision-making circle of the chamber of commerce.
Hydra Kunig is a representative of the members of the Kunig family, sitting on one side of the long table.
The remaining four people, in the initial stage of establishment, are the four most advanced armed forces of the contemporary Xijia District Branch. Since it is impossible for this kind of person to be the gold medalist of the Chamber of Commerce without sharing some profits, they also occupy a seat in the decision-making circle and share the profits.
Afterwards, these four positions have been kept, either by the predecessors to recommend successors, or by everyone who recommends strong enough magicians to take the role. Of course, when the Chamber of Commerce encounters troubles in operation and has to be resolved by force, these four people have to play the vanguard. As the inspector, the Great Mage Greenwyn has such a seat. This is also one of the reasons why he was able to promote the forum system to the entire district in a short period of time.
Now they put down the business at hand and came to the fifth floor of the middle tower together, of course for the mall system proposed by Lin. However, the president did not pass on the explanatory documents that came with the system magic stone to everyone. The main reason is that the viewing speed is too slow and the content is too much. So Orange Fruit? Eaton handed it over to his chief student who stood aside.
Under the attention of everyone, he operated the forum terminal connected to the energy pool on the fifth floor of the middle tower. Put the booklet in the magic circle next to the keyboard, and as the pages are turned, the text on the booklet is also recorded to the new article page on the forum.
That's right, although the development of computers in the Lost World is still very primitive in Lin's eyes, the excellence of the input method far exceeds that of Earth. In addition to the most basic keyboard input, there are voice input, handwriting input and scanning input, and the reliability is nearly 100%. Mistakes are made, either by reading the wrong characters myself, or by writing the wrong characters on the paper.
The biggest reason why it is so excellent is that a senior magician who loves sound and light effects created magic words that can be transformed into magic words in mid-air with sound, and mantras or magic circles copied on ordinary paper are also transformed into magic words in the air. Method of magic words.
The original intention was to use this method to complete the complex casting process without relying on the energy pool of the magic tower. But in reality, when casting spells outside, if you are in a state of combat, you have to cast another spell before the completion of one spell. If the opponent is a master of the same level as yourself, the time wasted is enough for the opponent to blast yourself to the ground. ; If the opponent is weaker than oneself, then there is no need to use such a complicated method, and there will be an easier way to kill the opponent.
Therefore, these two magics that have been passed down, called 'Mir Phonetic Art' and 'Mir Magic Word Art', have long occupied the top ten useless magic rankings of the association, and they are the same in all divisions.
It wasn't until Lin designed the alien version of the computer system that he incorporated these two magics into the basic input method. Many old magicians, who are not used to keyboard input, are uncharacteristically admiring the two sets of Mill's magic that have been despised for hundreds of years.
However, this aspect is a plug-in function. If you want to use it, you have to purchase relevant knowledge from the association yourself, and then install it on the browser system according to the instructions. The consequences of copyright infringement are very serious, especially now that the Mir magician is dead enough to play drums, the rights to the magic belong to the association. Violating the interests of the association is no different from courting death.
The ease of input is also a major reason why the forum will be sought after. In addition to the convenience of information exchange around the world, a large amount of text data is digitized by scanning, which speeds up the dissemination of knowledge and reduces costs.
And now, everyone is waiting for the process of digitizing the instruction document. The reason why I didn't do it before, but to do it in front of everyone, is to prove that every word is scanned from the document without any modification.
Chengguo? Eaton's chief student, after scanning a chapter, published the data in the private discussion section of the chamber of commerce's decision-making circle. The rest of the people also stared at their own forum screens, looking at this explanatory document from the Tower of the Great Sage.
Quick reading and quick comprehension have almost become the instinct of every person who has the qualifications of a great magician. With the published chapters, everyone also has a preliminary concept of this mall system. Because in the explanatory document, Lin also made a simple explanation on the reason and idea behind each design. Of course, whether others can understand or not is out of his consideration.
Originally, the reception room was quiet and silent, except for one or two great magicians with poor habits who would knock on the table cheaply to make some noise when they were thinking. Gradually, some people started discussing with people around them, and as more people participated in the discussion, the reception room became three or four small groups discussing the mall system.
Generally speaking, everyone agrees to use the mall system. However, the allocation of orders has become the focus of debate.
The main objects served by the affiliated chamber of commerce are the magicians scattered all over the Xijia District. In the form of opening a store, stockpiling goods in various stores and then selling them will cost a lot in terms of cost and turnover rate, and there is no profit at all. Besides, opening a shop in a place other than the headquarters of the division will inevitably have to pay taxes to the local lord, resulting in additional expenses.
Secondly, tower owners will not deliberately go to towns with shops just to buy something. If you are lucky, you can return the spot goods; if you are unlucky, you have to wait for the delivery to your door. Therefore, the main business model of the chamber of commerce is still that the stewards of the chamber of commerce travel to various places frequently, make door-to-door contact to determine orders, and then return to the chamber of commerce to dispatch goods.
Therefore, it is not surprising that it takes time for a transaction to wait for half a year. Fortunately, the pace of life in the Lost World is slow. When it comes to buying and selling some unconventional special products, no one will be in a hurry to place an order today and have to receive the goods tomorrow.
In the original face-to-face transaction mode, the order is held in the hands of the contact person, and the pricing power is also the same, and commissions and profits are generated. But when the transaction is replaced by a virtual platform interface, problems will arise.
Although Lin has a column for designated business personnel in the order system, let the system know to whom the order will be forwarded, so that someone can report the price to the customer who placed the order.
If there is a manager whose pricing is particularly affordable, once it spreads on the forum, it will inevitably create several star businesses. There are only so many transactions in the entire Xijia District, and the pie is so big. If a few people grab most of it, the rest can only pick up some sporadic small profits.
But what if there is no business personnel field? Considering that most magicians don't care who bought it from, it is possible to fill in the field of business personnel randomly. Therefore, if there is no option for business personnel, the orders will be concentrated in the headquarters of the chamber of commerce. But someone still needs to quote, so it must be redistributed. It's just that Lin can't do anything about how to allocate this part.
It's just that there is no business option, which is not good for some chamber of commerce managers who have loyal customers and travel around very frequently. Because of the distribution method, the original customers may be assigned to other people for various reasons.
So both methods have pros and cons. For the representatives of the family faction, they have a large number of people, and they have a keener sense of business behavior, so they naturally hope to operate in the first form, so that it is easier for them to seize more benefits. But for representatives of the fighting faction and the tower owner, if they are assigned by the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, they may still be able to dig a relatively large profit margin.
This discussion will not be resolved in a short while. Some magicians even call in their own right-hand assistants, and let those who know more about business management give them advice.
On the contrary, it was the president, Chengguo? Eaton calmly listened to the debate without getting involved. Most of the benefits of the chamber of commerce will be subsidized into the district branch, that is, through the hands of his president. How much he wants to retain depends on his conscience. Therefore, the position of president did not participate in the actual operation, and mostly served as the internal arbitration duty of the chamber of commerce.
While thinking about the pros and cons of the two options, Chengguo Eaton suddenly noticed that the two young apprentices from the Great Sage's Tower were still standing quietly by the side, not daring to move.
He recruited two girls and asked, "Your main purpose this time is to come for the apprenticeship assessment."
"Yes, my lord."
"Is there any notice?"
Apprentice assessment does not have a fixed time. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is for those who want to participate in the assessment and apply on their own initiative. The association will then see if any magician with inspector qualifications is free to carry out the assessment. Generally speaking, once a month. The association will also gather the apprentices who have recently applied, and make arrangements according to the time of the Inspector Magician.
As early as last month, Hallumi and Kaya had entrusted the chariot and horse team of the chamber of commerce to apply on their behalf. After the girl explained, she said, "The rest is to report to West Tower and confirm the date."
The division of powers and responsibilities of Wulian City. The east tower manages general affairs and chambers of commerce, the west tower manages apprentices, the south tower collects and manages magic knowledge, and the north tower handles the business of magicians, including dispatch work. The Central Tower is in charge of matters concerning the Inspector, Inspector, and Great Magician, as well as other matters that cannot be handled by the other four towers.
Knowing the arrangement of the girls, Cheng Guo? Eaton nodded, and asked again: "Then you leave after the assessment?"
"The teacher has ordered us to buy some things from the chamber of commerce. But it depends on how much remuneration we can get from the association before deciding what items we need. When the things are almost complete, we will return with the transport team. "
"That's good." Chengguo Eaton looked at the people who were still arguing, and said, "It seems that the discussion here will not come to a result so quickly. Maybe there are some things that need to be exchanged with your teacher. And the reward I will also order people to settle the settlement and deliver it to you as soon as possible. Then I will say hello to the chamber of commerce, and tell them what you want to buy. But since there is no business for you for the time being, Just go down and rest first. I remember that the apprenticeship assessment is also a matter of these few days. You should prepare well and don't worry about other things."
The two girls bowed obediently at the same time and said, "Yes, thank you, President."