The quality of these papers may not be high in the eyes of the magister, but such a novel form of dissemination has directly broken the original closed teaching structure of the Karen Kingdom——"Magic" is written on the back of the publication "All magicians are welcome to submit articles" , and said at the same time... as long as the magician is willing to share his research results, Elson City will provide point rewards, and the points can be exchanged for various magic items such as charging crystals...
Now the magic world of the Karen Kingdom is in turmoil, and countless people are gnashing their teeth and cursing Elson's behavior!
Because the dissemination of magic knowledge at this time is still in the stage of "preserving oneself with a broom", there is not much communication between the various colleges, and the really cutting-edge things are hidden, and it is impossible to form a healthy academic atmosphere. But the emergence of "Magic" broke this pattern with an external force.
Kron and other magisters were extremely hesitant about this, but after they met together and discussed together, they all understood one fact: if the academic atmosphere does not change from closed to open, then the Karen Kingdom and Rahiman's fingertips will be destroyed. The gap will get bigger and bigger.
It is not too late to remedy the situation. Several magisters contributed articles one after another, which even alarmed Charles II... Although the latter expressed dissatisfaction with these weird things, he did not realize what kind of future this kind of knowledge dissemination throughout the country would bring. Change.
Because in the eyes of most people, Elson City's current behavior is simply "doing good" without asking for anything in return.
However, when the nobles discovered that the "newspaper" started charging, they faintly felt that something was wrong.
This kind of paper, which is lighter and better organized than parchment, left a very good impression on them. There are so many places where paper can be used-copying books, passing letters, or anything related to music scores, scripts, or ledgers. Text-like things can be freed from the expensive parchment. But when they tried to buy "paper" in the market, they found that only Parling Trading Company was selling this kind of thing.
This once unknown firm has now expanded into a large-scale sales network, and at the same time, the tentacles of the "Elson Central Intelligence Agency" have spread accordingly.
Some redundant ways of uploading intelligence before were cancelled, and replaced by batches of re-screened and trained intelligence personnel who were responsible for the transmission of information. Unaware of this, the nobles had no choice but to let the "Palling" firm, which had exclusive sales rights, take root in various places because of the increasingly urgent demand for "paper", allowing the sales network that was originally difficult to advance to quickly extend to The hinterland of the kingdom that has never been reached before...
The Palling business houses in each territory have set up a "President", who is in charge of the business owners in the towns below, and the "President" is under the command of the "District Presidents" of the five major regions in the kingdom's southeast, north, west, and central areas. The chief's superior is directly the lord of Elson City. When the lord is away, the guardian Camilla will take care of it.
The "Elson CIA" has a similar structure, independent of any other agency.
A piece of paper is about 100 A3 sheets in size, and the cost of producing it in Elson is only 30 copper coins. However, when shipping and manpower are included, the cost rises to three silver coins on average when transported to the other side of the kingdom. Even so, the low-grade straw paper that was sold for 20 silver coins was quickly sold out, and the short-supply market caused the price of paper to soar to 45 silver coins in just a few days before slowing down—even at such an expensive price, a knife of paper compared to The cost of "parchment" of the same area is also lower by more than 60%.
Therefore, it can be said that the paper mill in Efta is not making paper now, but making gold coins.
This kind of behavior of not forgetting to expand the export when the war is imminent made Charles II feel unreasonable. He angrily reprimanded the nobles in the parliament and asked them to expel the Parling firm immediately-but when he went to the toilet in private, he still let Someone secretly found a dozen knives of toilet paper for the royal family members to comfortably wipe their buttocks...
Even the emperor disliked his body, let alone the nobles below. On the surface, everyone closed the Palling firm, but in fact they directly asked them to change the brand and continue to open, and they turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it—so Charles II’s order became a dead letter. Efta, on the other hand, continued to suck in money like crazy.
The speed of goods transportation in this era is not fast, because most of the circulation of goods is resolved by individual merchants, and when to sell anything depends on whether these merchants are willing or not. But this problem has been completely solved in today's Efta: the "Palling Firm" supported by the cabinet now has a transportation network that is unmatched by other firms in the entire Karen Kingdom combined. The fleet used for transportation adds up to more than 3,000 people, and there are nearly 1,200 transport vehicles constantly driving on the road, and this number is still increasing.
Monopolizing the cross-age trade of "paper" not only brought unimaginable gold coin income to Efta, but also sold more unsalable goods at higher profits to the previous attempts to block trade through the spread of the shop network Kingdom interior.
A regime whose power is highly concentrated in the center, the efficiency in this kind of thing is unimaginable even for the feudal lord king in his lifetime.
As the duke, Sally never imagined that... Efta, who had burned a lot of money to fight wars and almost tightened her belt to spend the new year, could become so profitable in the blink of an eye—the daily transaction volume reported by the Chancellor of the Exchequer made her There was an unreal feeling, but after the excitement and excitement, she was also a little depressed.
Because Sally felt that the gap between herself and Rody was getting bigger and bigger. The little frontier scout who used to be had now become someone she looked up to, which made her feel very complicated. But after the complexity, she realized that she would not be able to catch up with Rody in terms of strength after all, and being able to completely protect the territory as a duke was her only wish now.
It wasn't long before such an idea appeared, but the housekeeper suddenly knocked on the door with a letter: "It's an urgent message from the Prime Minister, and it's specially sent by... um, that big bird called 'Kudduck'."
Sally hurriedly took it, and found that the letter was written in a mess, it should have been written in a hurry, and the content made her frown even more: "The Viper's Cross...you want to take a risk?"
She had already experienced the madness of heretics, but what surprised her even more was the preparation Roddy asked her to do—as a serving priest of the "Rosie Cross", she never thought of doing such a thing...
"A lot of people will die..."
But thinking of the signals sent by the Efta Monastery since Rody's visit, Sally also understood that she had to make this decision.
In his position, seek his own government. If it is just a priest of the Rosary Cross, Sally will definitely not agree to this plan, but as the Duke of "Efta", this is the best solution—when Efta, who has concentrated power, regards the "Rostic Cross" as a hidden danger , Why doesn't the "Rose Cross" treat Efta in this way
So Sally immediately started to write two secret letters after a short thought, and then ran outside herself to let the huge Kodak duck deliver the letters.