Arcane Lord

Since increasing consumption won't work (it's possible but not the root cause), we can only find a way to increase the number of mages. Otherwise, if Xia Duo doesn't reduce the order quantity, wouldn't it mean that he would lose a lot of income.

There are indeed many high-ranking families behind these large chambers of commerce. Perhaps these high-ranking families are worried that the full opening of magic inheritance will affect their rule, but if it is only opened to the level of ordinary mages, it will not affect it at all.

On the contrary, you can use the reason that it is costly to train new mages and keep the benefits of new mages joining the computing power pool as your own. In this case, wouldn't it mean that the more new mages you train, the more money you will make?

In this case, the income from the connector is nothing. After all, there are only a few designated suppliers of Lingsi Network Research Center, and other high-ranking families must also find ways to get a piece of the pie.

But once the number of mages increases, it is not that easy to reduce it. Arivanda, who almost unified the entire elf world in the past, wanted to strengthen his rule by reducing the number of high mages, but the result was an overturn.

Now that the number of grassroots mages has expanded, it will have a more profound impact on the future. Although it is impossible to directly resist oppression in a short period of time, the seeds of inheritance have spread and will always take root and sprout in the future.

In addition, the essence of the computing power pool is actually a spiritual network, which is not only used to increase computing power and inspiration, but can also be used for communication.

At a critical moment, everything can change in just a moment.

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In addition to the computing power pool connector, Xia Duo also plans to launch more mass-produced magic weapons. On the one hand, this is of course to find a way out for the excess productivity after the industrialization of Daxia. On the other hand, just like the connector, it will stimulate grassroots mages. Growth in quantity.

When others see him making money, they will definitely imitate it, but he doesn't care about other people's imitation, and even teaches them how to improve production efficiency.

But once the production efficiency is improved, the excess productivity has nowhere to vent, and no one can sell the things produced. What should we do?

Then you can only cultivate users yourself!

This brings us back to the previous scene. As the number of grassroots mages continues to rise, there will always be challengers to the existing order. If you want to challenge the existing order, the most effective way is to continue to popularize magic.

In this case, the old forces still have the absolute advantage, but as long as all the flames of change cannot be extinguished at once, in the long run, change will always happen.

And this is only from the perspective of a single country. If it is put from the perspective of the alliance, the main plane or even the realms, the result of the old forces not progressing is that they will be replaced by other external progressive forces.

In this case, rather than being replaced by external forces, it is better to try to make conciliatory progress yourself to consolidate your rule. However, doing so will only accelerate the end of the old forces.

Of course, if there are old forces that can foresee the real future and make up their minds to completely transform, they will have a chance of success, and they will also face counterattacks from the old forces.

Old and new are only relative, not absolute.

If the old forces "would rather give foreigners than domestic slaves," then Xia Duo may have to laugh. His role in the changes in the North may be that of a "foreign". If the old forces in the North are willing to surrender to him unconditionally, , how could he not laugh!

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Three days later, the first batch of 120,000 computing power pool connectors were all distributed, and staff sent by the computing power pool operation department under the Lingsi Network Research Center received a total of more than 40 million gold coins in advance payment for advanced functions.

Of course, compared with the initial cost, this 40 million is somewhat beyond the means.

The largest initial cost was undoubtedly the 150,000 free connectors, of which 30,000 was charged first and then refunded, and the cost was borne by Linsi Network Research Center.

Although the cost of a connector is less than 500 gold coins (special connectors that can protect people's awareness cost 1,000 and sell for 2,000 more, and the basic models are distributed for free), the price to each supplier cannot be calculated based on cost.

The expected price that Xia Duo could accept was 1,000 gold coins per piece, but he couldn't resist the Tia Chamber of Commerce's assists, so the price became 800 gold coins.

Not counting those that are still in production, the Lingsi Network Research Center paid 120 million gold coins for the 150,000 pieces that have been distributed.

In addition, there are the costs of the gateway magic weapon and the translation device. Both of these items were purchased from the Tower of Time. Xia Duo himself also made a lot of money from it, but the cost should still be recorded to the alliance.

The gateway magic weapon is priced at 2,000 gold coins for a set of five. A small network of 50 to 100 people requires one set. For security, there is always a price to pay.

Using 150,000 users as a simple calculation, that means 1,500 to 3,000 sets are needed. Taking 3,000 sets, that is 6 million gold coins, but——

The Gateway Magical Artifact uses ectoplasmic materials, which are actually equivalent to consumables. They need to be replaced with new ones in about a month, so the 6 million gold coins here are actually that much every month, which is 72 million a year.

It’s less than a month now, and the initial investment is 6 million.

Of course, all old magic weapons can be recycled and reused. There are also chambers of commerce and workshops in the Elf World that specialize in recycling old magic weapons, but the prices are definitely not that high. On an annual basis, they can barely earn around 10 million.

But that’s a thing for another day, and there is no income in this area now.

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Then there is the translation device, which costs 10,000 per set. Although the unit price is more expensive, it is rarely used, so this cost can be ignored for the time being.

The last thing is personnel expenses. Lingsi Network Research Center has not yet intercepted the income. This part is paid by the alliance for the time being and is ignored for now.

However, the subsidy for those who have access to the computing power pool cannot be ignored. It is just that it has not been a month yet, so there is no need to calculate it. If we really need to calculate it, it will be at least in the hundreds of millions per month.

In other words, after having received 40 million in advance payment for the advanced functions of the computing power pool, Lingsi Network is still in a deficit of 86 million! (120 million+6 million-40 million)

If there is no more income from now on, at least until the end of June, I am afraid that we will face bankruptcy.

No matter how good the future prospects are, it’s all in vain if you can’t make money now.

We must earn 200 million before the end of June, otherwise the subsidies to those who have access to the computing power pool will not be paid out, and it is difficult to say whether the project will go bankrupt, but its credit will definitely go bankrupt.

With such a huge difference, even if Xia Duo was willing to use his own money to make up for it first, he wouldn't be able to come up with so much money at once.

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Alliance headquarters, Lingsi Network Research Center.

Since the public computing power pool was officially put into operation, Xia Duo's incarnation has almost never left the gateway control hall, always paying attention to the operating status of the computing power pool.

If the subsidy cannot be issued, it can actually be issued in the form of the user's usage time of advanced functions. Although this will also hurt credit, it will not lead to bankruptcy.

But if there is a problem with the operation of the computing power pool, it will really be over.

Although the earlier testing and debugging results were very satisfactory, the total number of users now reaches as many as 150,000, and the peak number of users is 10,000 or 20,000. This is already the total number of users during the previous testing period.

Xia Duo felt that even if he wasn't watching at the scene, he probably wouldn't have the energy to do anything else. (End of chapter)