In a manor south of Carroll City, the big shed that used to be a warehouse is brightly lit.
This is the property of the great merchant Ke De. The shed and the surrounding houses used to be warehouses, used to store fodder for the horse team and temporary turnover goods. However, since the spring of this year, the warehouse has changed its role to the big merchant. Purchased five magical carts and formed a new fleet. The original horse-drawn carts were reduced by 50% at once, and the remaining carts were allocated to the merchants in the countryside. The reduction in carts led to a reduction in the forage required. , the old warehouse was transformed into a new facility workshop and laboratory.
Cod, who was wearing a thin coat and meticulously combed his hair, walked into the shed. The magic spar lamp hanging on the roof of the shed shone brightly, making the room as bright as day. The wide space in the shed was surrounded by chest-high low walls. It is divided into several areas, and the newly purchased simple machine tools are running happily in each area. The sound of metal parts colliding and the buzzing of magic mechanisms are mixed together, and there is a wonderful smell of lubricating grease in the middle. These sounds and smells came straight to the compartment at the end of the aisle.
Several young men in short robes were busy in front of the workbench. When they saw Cod appearing, they turned around and saluted. Cod quickly waved his hands: "You don't need to salute, just do your own thing."
Several young people returned to their previous jobs, and Kord came to the workbench and watched these people busy.
These people are mage apprentices and rune craftsman apprentices and craftsmen who he recruited at a high price are not expensive employees themselves, but they have studied in the academy opened by the government affairs department, and they have also passed the magician certificate. That's enough to double their worth.
It costs a lot of money to hire these people, but the role they play is completely worth the money in the eyes of big businessmen.
On the workbench, a once-complete magic device has been dismantled into a pile of parts. Several rune substrates and a series of control, energy supply, and linkage mechanisms are neatly spread out, and labels are attached to each part. Their functions are marked, and on the side of the workbench, there are also a lot of manuscript paper and scrolls, which are full of dense calculations and records. Ordinary people will probably faint just by looking at them.
"Sir, we have completely disassembled the m-2 general-purpose magic terminal, and figured out the functions of all the rune substrates," a young magician with messy short hair said to Codd, "Now we are using the rune Using logic to calculate the power and interference coefficient of the ice pick substrate, we believe that as long as its projection area is properly adjusted, and a box with better thermal insulation is added, it is completely feasible to manufacture a container that can store food... "
"Very good, very good," Cord nodded repeatedly, "Is there any difficulty?"
Another young man said: "We need a more stable source of magic power. The previous magic net units are all purchased second-hand goods, and some of them have begun to be damaged, which is really unusable."
"Don't worry, I have asked Pal to purchase a new magic net unit, this time it is no longer a second-hand unit, it is brand new."
"That's all right."
The technicians returned to work, while Kord continued to stand by the workbench, watching them busy around a pile of runes, manuscript paper, and formulas.
He can only understand a small part, but this does not affect his immersion in it.
Since the winter, the attempt to promote Carroll's specialty products with "advertising" has been a great success. "Code Family Information" company is his second attempt in this new era.
It also looks like this attempt will be a big success.
The emergence of the magic industry has changed the way of production, and as a successful businessman, Codd has seen more than just a change in the way of production during the promotion of the magic industry. After buying the first magic car, after experiencing the power and efficiency of the magic car, he realized how useful this incredible thing can be. An ordinary person, like him, holds How unimaginable is it that you can control a machine with infinite force by holding those levers
For Codd, the biggest impact of purchasing magic vehicles from the lord was not the strength of those vehicles, but the fact that "magic can really belong to ordinary people" itself.
He opened up his mind, and also saw business opportunities from the price of magic vehicles.
Magic vehicles, magic network communication, large machinery... These things cannot be copied and produced with his ability, but what about smaller ones? What about something simpler
The officials in the government affairs office did not prohibit him from doing this, that is, it could be done.
His method is very simple, even in the eyes of a real magician. He bought a general-purpose magic terminal from a store directly managed by the government affairs department, then dismantled it, and used his extremely limited rune knowledge to According to the basic courses taught in the college textbooks, I patched together the scorching rune group, the energy group and a sunken iron plate, and then put a pot on the iron plate and boiled it for a while. Undercooked vegetable soup.
The vegetable soup was the worst thing he had ever eaten, but he was proud of the clumsy "warming station".
Then, he registered the Kodd FamilyPay company.
He couldn't rely on buying magic terminals from the store and dismantling the parts to produce his own products. He would only lose money if he did so, so he went to all the departments of the government affairs department and bought a rune suppressor that was half scrapped due to overload production ;
Without a technician, he went to school to copy a full set of rune logic and basic mechanics courses, and took the literate young people from the family and the chamber of commerce to study for half a month, and repaired the scrapped machine tool;
He used his prestige and connections, and spent a lot of money to hire a few young people with a magician license. These are the ones in front of him;
He bought a lot of magic devices, magic devices produced by Cecil Machinery Manufacturing Institute and Magic Technology Research Institute, ranging from general magic terminals to agricultural water pumps, machinery, and even expensive magic net communicators. But they were all dismantled into parts;
He built his own "new factory" and built his own "laboratory". He even built a crude small machine tool with the workers, driven by an obsolete piston-type magic energy engine, which can only be used to Drilling holes in the metal plate, but the efficiency is already higher than manual work.
This is his "Kode Factory", but it is not the first factory building he built. His first factory building was actually a little further north, next to his mansion, but due to a rune out-of-control accident, the factory building Most of it was burned down, and the nearby residents also panicked, so he had to move the equipment and personnel here.
All of this cost him nearly half of his family’s wealth. The wealth he accumulated since he was in business was poured into these machines and workshops like water. Many people thought he was crazy, because he was dazzled by the dazzling magic web broadcast phantom Brain, so old that you still have to do this kind of risky thing...
But in the end, two thousand sets of his first batch of magic heating tables were sold, and the slightly affluent upper-class citizens couldn't refuse this convenient thing, not only because it was novel and easy to use, but also because it got rid of firewood and smoke. A life is a sign of decency.
These "products" of Codd are actually very simple in principle, just like the original stupid method, he bought a complicated magic device, and then disassembled it to see what simple techniques he could master, or went to Research courses taught in schools for ideas and approaches.
The magic technology at this stage is not that complicated. There are many basic principles that can be understood and controlled by ordinary people, and the civilian field is so blank that any kind of slightly more convenient invention has a huge scope for use. The first thing Kodd has to do is to find the "demand points" for civilian use.
His method is not complicated. It is to study the lives of nobles and extraordinary people, study the convenient and comfortable parts of their lives, and then find ways to realize it in magic technology.
The nobles and superhumans in this world have always lived a comfortable and convenient life, and the level of convenience is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
They have magical lighting, a comfortable environment with artificial temperature and humidity, instant messaging, artificial intelligence servants, and can enjoy any food in any season...
As a big businessman who was born as a commoner and got rich by doing business, Codd not only knows the living conditions of the commoners, but also has seen the lifestyle of the upper class. When he maximizes this advantage, he has found countless business opportunities.
Mages can use magic flames to heat food, and he can create civilian heating tables; mages have kept the spell of perennial spring in the mage tower, and he can use rune substrates and ventilation ducts to create similar effects; nobles If we can eat ice cubes in summer and eat fresh meat forever, then he needs to make a cheap and convenient container that can also make ice cubes and preserve food...
The success of Kede Family Business has also attracted the attention of other people. Now, in Carroll and the surrounding areas, many businessmen have also become active. They are all preparing their own companies, and many acquaintances have come to find Codd seeks experience, and people seem to have finally noticed this should be obvious truth:
Magic brings convenient life, and whoever can bring convenient life can seize business opportunities.
There was a sound of people coming from the gate of the factory building. Kord raised his head and saw his eldest son Paal and several workers pushing a cart in. They carefully guarded the things on the cart and were protected by them. Yes, it was a large box packed with wooden slats and straw rope, and the mark of the Cecil Rune Foundry could be seen on the large box.
The new magic network cell array was bought back to the laboratory level.
Cord hurried up to greet him, and at the same time called the nearby workers to help unload the goods, but the eldest son Pall pulled him aside. This young man who just came back from the city center had a deliberately unfathomable look on his face: " Father, I have news for you..."
Cord glanced at his son: "What news?"
"Duke Cecil already knows about your company and what you're producing, guess what happened?"
Cord suddenly became nervous.
what happened
He seemed to suddenly realize that there was another risk in what he was doing. He realized that what he was touching and copying was the rights and interests of the lord, although he was just tossing some simple "gadgets" in the "small field" that the lord did not take care of. ", but dismantling the magic devices produced by Cecil, making new machines, and hiring magic technicians... is it a taboo
Although the officials of the Government Affairs Office did not stop themselves before, although Cecil's law does not seem to prohibit such acts, although the lord has always said that he must strictly follow the law, but... After all, this involves the lord, the lord himself Will those laws really be obeyed? Would he be annoyed by his audacity
Cord thought about a lot of things for a while, so much so that he forgot that the advertisements he put on the magic net must have been reviewed and approved by Cecil's highest government affairs office, and Pal noticed his father's nervousness. , the young man burst out laughing, and took out a carefully rolled piece of paper from his arms: "Father! A commendation order signed by Duke Cecil himself!! And you are about to be canonized as a knight! !"
Cord froze for a moment, and froze in place for a while.
Two seconds later, he snatched the certificate of commendation from Pal's hand, opened it with trembling hands, and carefully read every word on it.
At the end of the commendation order is the canonization order.
He watched it over and over again, and finally noticed the unbearable smile on Paal's face.
"You bastard, you dare to tease your father!"
"Oh father! Don't forget your chivalry!"