"Hey, boy, when are you going to marry Steele?" Camilla the Great Magician suddenly glanced at Xu Yi and asked.
"puff-"
Xu Yi spit out all the tea he was drinking. After coughing a few times, he looked at the Great Magician Camilla in surprise and said in a voiceless voice: "Your Excellency, the Great Magician, you... what are you talking about?"
Camilla the Great Magician snorted heavily: "What? I asked a question? Since your kid has confirmed his relationship with Steele, shouldn't I ask you when you will get married? Or do you just plan to Playing with Steele and not planning to marry her at all? Let me tell you, kid, any relationship without the purpose of marriage is a hooligan! If you dare to do this to Steele, believe it or not, I will interrupt you in a minute. leg?"
Looking at the angry Archmage Camilla, Xu Yi replied dumbfounded: "Sir, I just confirmed my relationship with Steele. Shouldn't we get to know each other better?" , do you want to think about getting married again?”
"What do you know? The two of you have been together for more than half a year. You work together all day long and stick together when you have nothing to do. Steele even went to your house to stay for several nights. Isn't this enough to understand you?" Camila asked. The magician said coldly. "Boy, don't talk nonsense. I am asking you now as Grandpa Steele. Please answer me honestly!"
Seeing that the great magician Camilla didn't seem to be joking, Xu Yi thought for a moment, put away the helpless look on his face, and said seriously: "Your Excellency, the great magician, Steele is a very outstanding girl in both appearance and personality. , I certainly hope to make her my wife as soon as possible, but I must respect Steele’s wishes, and I will not force her to agree to marry me if she feels it is inappropriate.”
Archmage Camilla frowned: "What? Steele isn't satisfied with you enough?"
Xu Yi smiled bitterly and said: "You can't say that. I can only say that she will definitely not be ready to get married so soon. Just let us get along for a while. When the time is right, we will naturally think of this matter. . But before that, I also hope you don’t put too much pressure on her.”
Archmage Camilla pondered for a long time, sighed, waved her hands and said: "Forget it, it's your young people's own business. I can't care about that much. Okay, kid, let's talk about business. Come on, you Let’s take a look at the trade union journal that arrived today.”
After receiving the internal journal of the Magician's Guild thrown by Archmage Camilla, Xu Yi was stunned when he saw a few big words on the cover.
"Is the study of magic selfish?"
Generally speaking, the cover titles of the Magicians' Guild's internal journals represent the hottest topics in the Magicians' Guild recently, which are usually related to magic research.
However, the title of this issue of the journal seems to be related to magic research, but it also reveals a strong sense of humanistic controversy.
"What's going on?" Xu Yi looked at the great magician Camilla in shock.
"Read it yourself. Oh, by the way. I suggest you read page seven first."
Xu Yi turned to the seventh page and found that the headline on this page was even more shocking.
"Magic research is the private property of magicians and should not be violated lightly!"
Seeing such a hot title, Xu Yi's eyes involuntarily moved to the author's signature, and then he saw a familiar name.
Gordon Esenka
Saw this name. Xu Yi couldn't help but nodded secretly.
If it were the great magician who was said to be the most greedy for money, it wouldn't seem so strange to say this.
If you continue reading, you will find that the content of this article is no weaker than the title.
In the article, the great magician Esenka kept elaborating on the huge harm caused by the sharing of magic research to the magicians themselves, causing magicians to gradually lose the motivation to research new magic, because even if they are researched, they will only be used by other magics in the end. It is easy to learn from the teacher.
"Magicians are also human beings, and humans are profit-seeking animals. If there are not enough profits, why should magicians bother to research new magic?"
The whole article should be said to be well-founded and very convincing, but what surprised Xu Yi was that in the second half of the article, the great magician Aisenka specifically used the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and Xu Yi as examples. .
He praised both Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. He said that the magic machine invented by Xu Yi actually pointed out a new path for magicians, proving that the specific application of magic in life is actually equally important and of great significance.
But if the magical machinery Xu Yi researches is not protected, anyone can copy it at will. Then Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will definitely lose the motivation to research new magic machines.
"Every time there is a dawn, it will die because of the selfless sharing promoted by the union. In the long run, the magicians on the Sainz continent will only stagnate, and the magic level of the entire continent will never improve. Could it be that. At this point, shouldn’t we make changes?”
At the end of the article, the great magician Esenka couldn't help but sound a bit alarmist.
Xu Yike doesn't think that the level of magicians on Sainz continent will never improve.
In the thousands of years before this, although the magicians on the continent of Sainz were not as powerful as they were during the thousands of years of racial wars, the research on magic was still ongoing, and there could be no progress at all.
After reading this article, I looked through other parts of the journal and found that many great magicians had published articles in the journal this time to debate this issue.
"What happened all of a sudden?" Xu Yi closed the journal and asked the great magician Camilla in confusion.
"It's very simple, because the union is preparing to pass a new resolution, which requires magicians affiliated to the union to disclose their research results to the union as long as they make breakthroughs in magic research, and share their research results with all magicians. Let’s work together to promote the growth of magic in Sainz Continent,” the great magician Camilla replied.
"I wonder... are those people from the Magician's Guild... idiots?" Xu Yi paused, and finally couldn't help but curse. "Let everyone share it for free. It's strange that some people are willing to do it. If this resolution is really passed, it will definitely mean that all magicians will not conduct magic research, and everyone will just wait to pick up what is ready-made."
"If it were before, I would definitely scold you for being too selfish and not understanding dedication. But now..." Camilla, the great magician, showed a wry smile. "I have to admit that sometimes being selfish is not a bad thing. If you share all the research results of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, I am afraid that your Chamber of Commerce will collapse in an instant. And I will not be able to get so much from your Chamber of Commerce. Research funding.”
"So you also oppose this resolution?" Xu Yi asked immediately.
"Yes. Not only am I opposed, but Aisenka is also opposed. In fact, almost the vast majority of the great magicians have clearly expressed their opposition this time." Camilla, the great magician, smiled at Xu Yi and said, "So this resolution It probably won’t pass, and you don’t have to worry about the union forcing you to share your research results.”
"Of course. It's a shame that such a stupid anti-humanity resolution can be passed." Xu Yi chuckled.
"In addition, in response to this resolution, Esenka directly proposed a resolution to the union regarding the exclusive rights to magician research results. Specifically, it is somewhat close to the patent rights you mentioned last time. At present, this The resolution is under discussion, and we don’t know whether it will be passed, but because of the turmoil caused by the previous resolution, there are strong calls for this resolution to be passed.”
Xu Yi's eyes lit up: "This great magician Esenka is really good at seizing opportunities. But why does he want to obtain the patent for magician research so much? And why did he pull me out to make an example? Even our new The Flying Chamber of Commerce didn’t let it go either?”
The great magician Camilla glanced at Xu Yi with a strange expression.
"Boy. After being reminded like this, I suddenly discovered that you are very similar to that guy Isenka. You are more like a businessman than a magician."
# # #
When the Magician's Union's resolution on exclusive rights to magic research was still uncertain whether it would pass, Sevini brought bad news to Xu Yi - the Lampali Kingdom Parliament rejected the proposal for a patent bill.
"Why?" Xu Yi frowned and looked at Sevini. "Passing the patent bill will allow chambers of commerce to apply for patent rights to pay a fixed patent protection fee every year, which will increase revenue for the kingdom's finances. Why will the parliament reject it?"
"It's very simple, because behind the parliament are the major nobles in the kingdom, and under the names of these major nobles, there are major chambers of commerce." Sevigny replied.
"Then I don't understand even more. This patent protection bill targets all chambers of commerce in the kingdom. Don't these chambers of commerce have their own unique technology? Don't they need patent protection?" Xu Yi wondered.
Sevini took a deep look at Xu Yi and sighed softly: "President Xu, if I told you that the rejection of this proposal is because of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, would you believe it?"
Xu Yi looked at Sevigny in astonishment. After staying for a while, he shook his head: "I don't believe it. Our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now just a small chamber of commerce with annual sales of only a few hundred thousand gold coins. As for letting those big shots specifically target us?"
"No, President Xu, you underestimate yourself and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Ever since you signed the order for tens of thousands of small farm magic machines with the Department of Agriculture, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is no longer just a small chamber of commerce. "Sevini said seriously. "I think you should know that some time ago, His Majesty the King had asked our Agriculture Department to announce the cooperation plan with your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Now everyone in the kingdom knows about your chamber of commerce, and also knows that your chamber of commerce is just They developed some magic machinery for farmland and earned millions of gold coins. So now many people are jealous and want to join the magic machinery industry. Do you think that at this time, they will let this patent bill go? To hinder them?"
Xu Yi was stunned, and took a long breath, with a helpless expression.
The Agriculture Department announced the cooperation plan with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which was discussed with him in advance. Xu Yi did not object to this at the time, because it could greatly increase the reputation of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But he never expected that just announcing such a cooperation would immediately attract the attention of the nobles behind so many large chambers of commerce in the Lampali Kingdom.
After the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce becomes a target of attention, of course someone will discover that the magic machinery industry has almost unlimited potential and huge profits.
It’s no surprise that these people want to flood into the industry.
"No wonder President Lanke suddenly took out those drawings. It turns out that the Salanke Chamber of Commerce has had this idea for a long time. I just don't know where other chambers of commerce have developed now?" Xu Yi thought for a while and asked Sevini He said: "In other words, it is already impossible for our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to develop slowly and safely in Bangta City in the future?"
"Yes." Sevigny nodded. "President Xu, I think I must remind you. Compared with those big chambers of commerce, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is still very weak. If you are not careful, you may be swallowed up by them."
Xu Yi nodded, but a sneer with endless mockery appeared on his face.
"Okay, sooner or later we will have to face these competitions. Although it came a little early, since it is here, I will take it well. These guys want to swallow our New Flying Chamber of Commerce like a small fish, but have you ever thought about it? However, this little fish actually swims much faster than them, so they can’t catch up at all?”