Richard was not interested in the girl's proposal, but it had to be said that the girl's proposal was reasonable in White Rock Tower Academy - it met the needs of many auditors in White Rock Tower.
If the auditors want to stay at the White Rock Tower, they must continue to make money, whether it is to maintain their daily lives or to save money to take elective courses at the academy. Moreover, the money earned cannot be less.
You must know that the consumption in White Rock Tower Academy is far from comparable to that of small and remote villages. Even cities like Cuijin City cannot compare with it.
According to the current economic level of the medieval world, a skilled craftsman generally works in a city or a small town, and his salary is about three to five silver coins per month. Some very powerful people may get about ten silver coins. But this is still less than half a gold coin (the ratio of gold and silver coins is generally between 1:20 and 1:40), and only a few gold coins per year.
For a small nobleman, the income from the territory is only a few hundred gold coins a year, and some even cannot make ends meet. If you want to hold a grand banquet and invite other nobles to participate, it takes a long time to prepare, and sometimes you even need to sell your ancestral property - just to make yourself look fat.
The income from the territory of a middle-class noble is only a few hundred gold coins, and it is impossible to maintain a large army for a long time. In addition to the necessary escorts, mercenaries are hired temporarily when something happens. The effect they can achieve depends entirely on the mercenaries. conscience.
As for the great nobles and established nobles, they have vast territories and numerous industries, and their income may reach thousands or even thousands of gold coins. However, the more you earn, the more places you spend money, and you will strictly control the flow to prevent waste. Some great nobles would often abandon their babies, not because they could not afford to raise them, but to reduce the instability of property inheritance.
A country's treasury may earn tens of thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of gold coins in good times, but deficits frequently occur. Of course, at the national level, gold coins are no longer the only criterion for measuring strength. Sometimes, even if the country suffers losses for consecutive years, the country will still develop.
But it has to be said that in the current world similar to the Middle Ages, both civilians and nobles are actually relatively poor. Otherwise, Gro would have been so embarrassed when he threatened to pay out 10,000 gold coins at the auction.
Corresponding to income is expenditure. Generally speaking, if an adult man only cares about food and clothing, he can survive in a town with only about 5 copper coins a day. One month is only 150 copper coins, which is equivalent to one and a half silver coins.
Therefore, the lives of some craftsmen are relatively easy. A person without skills will inevitably have a harder time, but as long as he is willing to work hard, he can survive by earning one gold coin a year.
What about White Rock Tower Academy
You need to earn at least 100 gold coins a year to maintain the most basic life, which is comparable to the annual income of a small noble.
The reason for this is, on the one hand, high prices.
On the other hand, the college has some mandatory fees, such as accommodation fees. If you are assigned a dormitory, no matter how poor the conditions are, or if you move outside, you will still be charged. For example, library book reading fees—even if you don’t read at all, you still have to pay. There are also various costs such as casting material costs, safety costs, etc.
Therefore, even if the auditor drinks cold water and eats black bread every day, he still has to find a way to earn 100 gold coins.
In addition, if the auditors still have any dreams and want to achieve results in magic, then they should take some elective courses, buy some magic materials and magic props, and read precious paid books. The cost for a year is more than a few hundred gold coins or more than a thousand gold coins.
You know, the number charged on the course schedule is not gold coins, but crystal coins.
Crystal coins are the currency circulating in the wizarding world. Because they are made of special crystal stones, they contain energy and are engraved with complex patterns, making them difficult to imitate.
Generally speaking, although gold coins can be exchanged for crystal coins, there are great restrictions. On the other hand, it is easy to exchange crystal coins for gold coins. This is because for gold coins, crystal coins are completely scarce.
The fee figure on the course schedule is the amount of low-level crystal coins. For example, in the "Transformation Structural System·Hard Skin Spell·Intermediate Mastery" course taught by the wizard Lucky, the fee for the auditors is a full 50 low-level crystal coins.
According to the exchange ratio of "1000 gold coins = 100 low-level crystal coins = 10 medium-level crystal coins = 1 high-level crystal coin", which is constantly fluctuating but tends to be stable to a certain extent, 50 low-level crystal coins are equal to 5 medium-level crystal coins. , that is, 0.5 high-grade crystal coins, which can be easily exchanged for more than 500 gold coins. If it is in the black market, it is possible to exchange 7 or 800 gold coins with good luck.
From this point of view, at the Cuijin City auction, the price of just one high-grade crystal coin, which was used as a certificate for exemption from the test, was 7,000 or 8,000 gold coins, which was obviously high. However, considering that the high-level crystal coins have the additional function of entering the White Rock Tower Academy without taking the exam, it is acceptable. As for Gro, it would be a bit foolish to spend tens of thousands of gold coins.
In any case, studying at the White Stone Tower is an extremely expensive act, and for most people, especially auditors, it is completely unaffordable - even nobles with high status, unless the entire family's wealth is emptied. , otherwise you would have to think about how to make money when you get to White Rock Tower Academy.
There are many options for making money, but they can also be classified into one type - selling one's own value: for example, helping wizards clean poisonous and stained spell testing rooms, handling dangerous spell materials for wizards, and helping wizards count some data that they are too lazy to count. etc.
Among students, some transactions of selling one's own value are also very common. After all, the gap between rich and poor exists everywhere - some students are richer, and some students are short of money.
Sometimes, for money, elite students may also provide services to auditors. However, in most cases, auditors are in a low position and will put down their dignity to serve auditors at the same level, or to serve formal students or elite students.
Under this circumstance, the unknown girl in the corridor made a request to Richard for "payment for cleaning the room", which was very reasonable, but Richard was not prepared to accept it.
As Richard was thinking about things, the girl in the corridor looked over, thinking that Richard was hesitating, and directly asked for a price: "You clean for me, and I'll pay you... well, one gold coin!"
Richard said nothing.
"Two gold coins!" The girl increased the price.
Richard still didn't speak.
"Three gold coins! Four gold coins..." The girl continued to increase the price.
After a while, the girl gritted her teeth and shouted: "Ten gold coins! This is almost a low-level crystal coin, it can't be higher! Huh, if it hadn't been for the start of school and many people in this building haven't come back, I can totally do it. I asked people to clean my house at a lower price! You have to agree to it!"
Seeing the girl's extremely tough attitude, Richard couldn't help but shake his head inwardly, realizing that the girl in front of him was obviously the kind of wealthy aristocratic child, maybe a duke's daughter, or maybe a princess.
but…
Richard looked at the girl and said, "Not interested!"
"you!"