my age of magic

Chapter 1505 55. The third price reduction

Through the clean glass window, I happened to see Betty walking in from outside the manor holding an account book.

The gatekeeper in the concierge ran out to open the door graciously. She greeted the gatekeeper warmly and walked all the way from the gate to the courtyard steps. The maids and servants she met all saluted her actively. Her face was full of confidence. She smiled and nodded to every servant who greeted her, and occasionally chatted a few words, but her footsteps never stopped.

Betty wore a pair of exquisite riding boots, a pair of sheepskin breeches, a white shirt with lace trim, and a brown sheepskin vest. There were no ornaments around her neck, only a string , with a bunch of copper keys tied to it, and her curly hair was tied into a ponytail, looking simple and capable.

For a year, Betty, who followed Alia, had become a deputy who could stand alone.

Alia was sitting in front of the dresser in a silk pajamas, her fair skin was slightly blush, and she was combing her slightly fluffy golden curly hair with a comb. I was standing by the terrace with a wine glass, leaning on my elbows The marble slab on the window sill, she gave me a half-smile.

"The first batch of leather sent to Haiyinsi City left the airport town on the magic airship 'Haiyinsi' last Monday," she said.

When Aliya said these words, she sat upright on the chair, her slender neck straightened like a noble white swan, and her smile contained the softest things about the women of the Grimm Empire. Reid's leatherworker is a distant relative of yours?"

I took a sip of the golden cider and replied, "Well, when I wandered with an old orc in the caravan, he taught me many things, such as some skills about skinning."

Autumn in El City comes a little earlier than in the imperial capital, and every year when the Harvest Festival is approaching, it is the day for brewing golden cider.

I walked behind Aliya and stared blankly at the woman in the mirror.

"Those are an indelible memory in your childhood?" When she asked me, she raised her head and spread her white lotus-like arms around my neck to ask for a kiss.

"Almost." I tapped her forehead lightly, thinking of the endless New Siakis Mountains in my mind, and sighed softly: "Actually, he is a very good leather maker."

Alia curled her lips and didn't agree with my words. She said to me: "Come on! I have sent someone to understand this Mr. Fred. So far, he is just an ordinary tanner. It's for the blacksmith's workshop to make fire-resistant cowhide aprons, and he doesn't have any experience in making leather armor."

I put the empty wine glass on the table, and the maid next to me held the wine bottle and asked me if I wanted more wine, I smiled and shook my head.

Pressing Aliya's soft lips with his fingertips, he said to her: "When he was in the caravan, he often made leather armor for the guards in the caravan. Although he never made magic leather armor, I believe that with his Craftsmanship is more than up to the job.”

Alicia is a sexy woman, and smart enough, when I say this, she says:
"Oh, you have the final say on this matter!"

I thought that since she asked something about Uncle Fred, she would naturally talk about Sister Singer. After waiting for a while but she didn't mention it, I couldn't help asking her:
"Don't you want to ask something else?"

Her eyes are not the most beautiful, but they are charming enough, especially when squinting, she asked me:
"for example?"

I said, "About Miss Singer?"

She smiled slightly, and asked me: "Singer, His Royal Highness's personal maid? What do you want me to ask you?"

She actually knows Sister Singer's past, maybe because she knows Qige better, I can only laugh and say: "Ha, it's nothing... By the way, have you ever thought about going to an island for vacation?"

She raised her crooked eyebrows, raised her head with great interest and asked, "With you?"

"Of course!" I nodded and said yes.

"Only the two of us?" She asked again, her eyes clearly had a provocative taste.

Well, it tastes like honey.

I smiled, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "If that's what you want!"

"Good!" she said.

When he said this, his eyes widened even more.

……

Through the street trees outside the courtyard wall, one can vaguely see one after another magic caravans driving out of the alley on the street.

With the increasing number of magic engraving machines in the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop, the production capacity of the Magic Seal Workshop has also exploded again. This time, the magic rune board received by Murray can probably maintain the production demand of the Rune Workshop for nearly a month. .The next problem I faced was the expansion of the Rune Workshop. In fact, as early as two months ago, Murray proposed to me a plan to expand the Rune Workshop, but I rejected it.

Although His Majesty Charles has no physical problems, I can't compare the development of the Rune Workshop in the imperial capital. After all, after I married Yingli, I would be branded as Prince James and the throne of the Green Empire. The heir, Prince Charles, is not close to Prince James. As we all know, Prince James admires the Prince of Wales more, and there are some conflicts between me and Prince George. No matter the above points, it is enough for me to move the magic workshop. From the imperial capital.

Noah invited me, and both he and Louis hoped that I would develop in the Vashj plane, or go to Ignace City in Palestina Province, where there is a beautiful emerald bay, and Haiyinsi City is also good s Choice.

For me, the North is my hometown. In fact, I prefer to move these workshops to Sloit City.

The knock on the door of "Tuk Tuk Tuk" woke me up from my contemplation.

With the help of a maid, Aliya is tying up a waistband. She tries her best to hold her belly up and straighten her chest, and then exhales the excess air in her chest, trying to make her waist look slimmer. She said calmly: "Come in !"

The bedroom door was pushed open, and Betty stood in the doorway, and she said to Alicia and me, "Master, here comes Murray."

Aliya glanced at me, saw that I nodded in agreement, and said to Betty: "Please wait in the living room for a while."

"Okay, master." After finishing speaking, Betty withdrew.

The maid next to me helped me tidy up the white shirt, fastened the buttons on the cuffs, brought a pair of polished leather boots and squatted in front of me to help me put them on, and checked that there was nothing wrong with my clothes. , I walked down the stairs along the corridor and rushed to the drawing room on the first floor to meet Murray.

Murray was quietly sitting on a chair in the living room drinking a cup of black tea. Seeing me push the door open, he quickly got up to greet me.

His eyes were full of fine red blood, and it seemed that he hadn't slept well in the past few nights. I walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said to him: "I was temporarily delayed by some things, the Rune Workshop How is it going?"

The smile on Murray's face was uglier than crying. The lines on his face were deep, and he showed a wry smile, and said to me: "In the past two days, the gate of the Rune Workshop has almost been stepped on by those magic merchants. Broken, there are never so many merchants picking up goods at the workshop at the same time. I heard that the supply of goods at the workshop is in short supply. There are twice as many merchants waiting at the door to pick up the goods as usual, and each magic merchant purchases as usual It's almost twice as much, and God knows where those magic merchants came from."

He poured bitter water in front of me, it seems that he must have suffered a lot in the past few days.

I asked him, "How is the arrangement at the workshop?"

Murray patted his chest and said to me: "I have already sent people to summon the hired workers, and we must rush to make a batch of copper hot pots and exhaust fans overnight tonight. In fact, those copper hot pots and exhaust fans are very simple to install, and they will definitely be ready tomorrow morning." Return to normal supply."

Then Murray told me something about the promise that Duke Billy Babington made to the rune tablet merchants in the imperial capital. The Babington family began to produce primary blank rune tablet for the inscribers in the imperial capital. .

"Recently, a large number of primary magic rune boards produced in San Carlos City have poured into the imperial capital, and the price of these red copper-plated magic rune boards is also low enough. Tornado inscription masters feel profitable again. Although the price of these handmade magic rune boards is ten silver coins higher than ours, they still have some competitiveness in the rune market. They are also elementary magic rune boards, but some People in the imperial capital recognize the signboard of San Carlos City." When Murray said this, he seemed a little excited, and slammed his hand on the armrest of the chair.

I gently rubbed the space between my eyebrows, and said to Murray: "Then you will come forward this time and inform those magic merchants who have cooperative relations with us that the price of the copper hot pot and the exhaust fan will be reduced by another [-] silver coins."镚儿."

When Murray heard me say this, his expression froze.

After a while, he said to me: "Uh,... that is to say, the price of each 'Focus Fire' magic rune board and 'Miniature Tornado' rune board is only [-] silver coins? This price is just right. It is the OEM fee for the elementary inscription masters of the imperial capital. Unless the rune board dealers provide those inscription masters with blank rune boards for free, there is no way for their inscription masters to lower the resale price to thirty pieces. Silver coin, my God! I don’t know if the inscription masters who signed the agreement with the rune tablet merchants will go crazy when they hear the news..."

He didn't ask me if I would lose money, and it seemed that he had a certain amount of confidence in me.

Then he asked again: "...What about the refrigerator?"

I thought about it and said: "The price of the refrigerator will not be lowered for the time being, but those refrigerators may make some design changes in the future. The refrigerators made by the workshop are too rough. This kind of refrigerator can only be sold to fish shops. There is no People will love this kind of big wooden box, we need to put a more refined refrigerator on the market, it should be made into a storage cabinet in the kitchen, I will give you the blueprint for this, and you will find a carpenter, oh, Let’s find a coppersmith. This kind of locker should be made more high-end. The customers we have to deal with are not those fish merchants in the imperial capital, but the noble lords in the imperial capital. After autumn, the refrigerator will enter the off-season , just in time to transform!"

The refrigerator in the Imperial Capital Magic Store looks like a large wooden box in the cellar, very rough, with a thick quilt inside, and four 'Continuous Frost' runes nailed to the walls Some wooden boxes don’t even have a tight lid, which can easily emit cold air, so some people have to spread a layer of quilts on the refrigerator to prevent the cold air from escaping quickly.

When Murray heard me say this, he immediately agreed.

"And how's the lampshade on the magic lamp over there in the copper workshop?" I asked Murray.

Betty brought me a cup of tea and set it in front of me.

Aliya also put on her dress and came downstairs.

When Murray saw Alia, he immediately stood up respectfully, showing a face of respect, and Alia made a gesture of 'Please Murray continue', and he sat down again with some restraint, and said to me: "The first batch of [-] copper figure lamp shades have been prepared."

I made some calculations before saying, "Very good. I'll go to the warehouse the day after tomorrow to get the 'Light Illumination' magic rune plate. The initial price will be set at 25 silver coins. Okay, that's it!"

Hearing my price, Murray was a little bit astonished. He asked me with a puzzled face: "But... but boss, the lampshades of these copper statues are a little higher than the copper chafing dish. Could it be that the price of these table lamps is not high?" Should it be set higher?"

I said: "I want to open the market for these magic table lamps as soon as possible. After all, candles and kerosene lamps on the market are cheap, even whale oil is not too expensive. If we want to open up the situation in the imperial capital, we have to spend After a lot of thought, I will make [-] units to test the water for the time being."

In fact, I have a more daring sales plan for the magic table lamp. This kind of magic product is not a necessity, because there are cheaper candles and oil lamps. No matter what, the magic table lamp has some petty bourgeois sentiment. The imperial capital has the ability to buy table lamps. There are a lot of people, but how to let them understand these magic table lamps is the most important thing.

"Okay, boss, I listen to you." Murray didn't think much about it. In his opinion, magic items are high-end luxury items that can only be used by nobles.

...In this way, in this autumn, the magic market in the imperial capital ushered in the third major price reduction of primary magic rune boards. The price of the board was pushed down again - as long as those junior inscription masters wanted to earn manual fees, then the rune board workshop would be unprofitable or even lose money.

This is also forcing the inscription masters to draw these two magic pattern circles, so it is necessary to reduce the manual cost of engraving the magic pattern circles.

This move immediately caused some inscription masters in the imperial capital to complain...

But I, who was the instigator of the incident, appeared safely in the classroom of the Royal Academy of Magic the next morning.

(End of this chapter)