My Magic Age

The magic caravan arrived at the alley of the Rune Board Workshop in the seventh block. The alley was lined with magic caravans, leaving only a narrow passage for a magic caravan to pass. The driver parked the magic caravan at the rune At the entrance of the board workshop, Catalina and I got out of the car.

A group of magic shop owners were waiting in front of the gate of the Rune Board Workshop. When they saw Catalina and I, they also walked up to us. Seeing that I was wearing an ordinary Missori magic long-distance running shirt, they thought we were also here to participate in purchasing. The magic shop owner who agreed on a price meeting didn’t care about either of us at all.

A dozen magic shop owners gathered together and chatted among themselves.

Although the other magic shop owners did not participate, some were leaning against the wall and waiting quietly for the pricing meeting to begin, while others were listening around the chatting magic shop owners, and some were anxiously leaning at the door. He looked into the workshop.

The door of the workshop was closed, and there was a notice board hanging on the gray wall at the door. On it, it was written crookedly with a lime pen: The pricing meeting of the magic pattern 'Fire Gathering Technique' rune board will be held at two o'clock in the afternoon. I looked up. The tall clock tower not far from the seventh block was just one o'clock at this time. There were so many magic shop owners waiting here so early. They should all be here for the 'Fire Gathering' rune board.

I walked straight up the steps in front of the workshop door. Catalina stepped forward and patted the closed wooden door of the workshop with her hand.

A moment later, the wooden door of the workshop creaked and a gap opened from the inside. Murray poked his head out and saw Catalina and I standing at the door. He quickly turned sideways to let Catalina and me in. When the magic shop owners reacted, Murray quickly closed the round-arched wooden door made of spliced ​​pine slats.

When Catalina and I walked into the courtyard of the rune board workshop, we discovered that in addition to the piles of thin copper plates, almost all the passages and open spaces in the entire courtyard were filled with copper hot pots. Several workers were moving the copper hot pot in from the back door. Two female workers in the yard quickly put the magic pattern 'Fire Gathering Technique' rune board in the magic sealing box into the copper hot pot.

"Why are you starting to prepare these copper hot pots now?" I asked Murray, looking at the mess in the workshop with almost no place to stay.

Murray wiped the sweat from his forehead and complained to me with a sad face: "The grocery store where I ordered the copper hot pot shells gave my order to someone else without telling me. I took the truck there in the morning. They just informed me that the copper hotpot I ordered would have to wait another half month for delivery. Damn it.”

"Fortunately, I also know that there are several copperware shops in the seventh block that also make this kind of copper hot pot. I collected these copper hotpots from the bronze shop in the seventh block this morning. The specifications are slightly different, and the bases are all the same. It’s a standard, and it’s no problem to install our ‘Fire Gathering’ rune board.”

"It's almost time. We can't keep the magic shop owners waiting outside the workshop and invite them in."

"Okay, I'll open the door right away." Murray agreed, walked to the door and opened the workshop door.

The magic shop owners outside the workshop gate immediately surrounded Murray, and everyone began to complain to Murray: "Murray, what are you doing? You told us to come over in the afternoon, and we came here." , but we were left with the cold wind blowing at the door for a long time.”

A magic shop owner standing in the back was even more resentful and shouted from behind: "That's right, now the magic market is full of copper hot pots with 'Fire Gathering' rune plates. The boat is in a state of flux

The magic shop owners who surrounded Murray in front also said: "Murray, we all know the situation of your rune board workshop. If you have goods, just tell them. If there is no goods, it doesn't matter. It's not necessary. When purchasing a copper hot pot in your rune board workshop, you always have to give everyone an explanation."

"That's right! That's right!" The magic merchants nearby agreed.

The dozen or so magic dealers who had gathered together to talk suddenly became the main force. One of them stopped Murray and said, "The San Carlos City side is no longer just making mithril rune boards. I also started to process some cheap red copper rune boards. It is said that those silver-plated 'Fire Gathering' rune boards were more than three times more expensive than your magic pattern 'Fire Gathering' rune boards. Murray Copper Hot Pot It’s sold cheaply and everyone is willing to buy it.”

The magic businessman paused, his tone became slightly more serious, and said to Murray: "But now, those low-end red copper 'Fire Gathering' rune boards are only as good as your magic pattern 'Fire Gathering' rune boards." The rune board is less than 30% more expensive, so what ability does a new type of rune board like yours have to occupy the copper hotpot market?"

Then the magic businessman's voice was like a warm spring breeze, and he whispered to Murray: "I heard Goss, the manager of North Duisburg, saying that you ordered a large number of thin copper plates from them. What is your step? Aren’t you a little too big?”

Murray cleared his throat and said implicitly to the magic dealers around him: "This time we are preparing for the copper hot pot pricing meeting. We also want to agree on a reasonable price with you. We also intend to deal with the issue of sales limits."

"I'm sorry, because there is a bit of chaos in the workshop and I kept everyone waiting..." Murray said with a smile.

After saying that, he turned around and led the magic merchant through the front corridor and into the courtyard of the magic workshop.

The afternoon sun shone in the courtyard, and thousands of copper hot pots filled the entire courtyard, reflecting dazzling light under the sunlight.

The magic merchants looked at the copper hot pots covering the Yong Road in surprise. They all held their breath and looked at the copper hot pots in front of them in surprise.

Murray took these magic businessmen up to the conference room on the second floor. Due to time constraints, the preparations were a bit hasty. The chairs in the conference room were all improvised. The two rows of chairs in the front looked pretty good, and the chairs in the back rows looked good. The chairs were improvised from some wooden boards.

The magic merchants seemed to have been stimulated in the yard, and they didn't come back to their senses until they walked upstairs. They didn't care at all how tattered the benches in the conference room were. They were whispering to each other and talking in the conference room. Sit down.

Probably because he saw the large number of copper hot pots piled up in the courtyard, the magic merchant who seemed a little arrogant before now became a little worried.

You don't need to think about it to know that these worried magic merchants have probably purchased other types of copper hot pots. Now that they see the mountains of copper hot pots in the workshop, they are worried that those slightly higher-priced copper hot pots will suddenly be overstocked. , then it will be a big loss.

Murray stood on the makeshift podium in the conference room. There was a copper hot pot on the table in front of him. He pressed one hand on the cylindrical chimney of the copper hot pot and said to everyone: "Everyone here, may you Everyone knows me, my name is Murray, and I am currently the person in charge of this workshop.”

He glanced secretly towards me. Catalina and I were standing in the corner, like a young magic businessman with a female retinue.

I heard Murray say immediately: "I sincerely thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come and attend the pricing meeting of the 'Fire Gathering' rune board held in our workshop."

There was sparse applause from the audience. It seemed that no one was willing to buy Murray's account based on just a few words.

Murray didn't care, and then said to everyone: "I believe you all saw it in the yard before going upstairs. For this pricing conference, our workshop has prepared a total of four thousand magic pattern 'Fire Gathering Technique' talismans." Wenban."

Although these magic merchants had some intuitive understanding of vision before, when Murray said the specific number, the magic merchants sitting quietly in their seats were still in an uproar. Everyone did not expect that Murray would suddenly Come out with so many copper hot pots.

When Murray saw the reaction of the magic merchants, his brows relaxed a little, and the imperial language became extremely fluent: "As we all know, the magic pattern copper hot pot produced by our rune workshop has three major characteristics: energy saving, stable flame core, and high quality and low price. "

He touched his chin, as if he was a little ashamed of his outspokenness.

But then he said to the magic dealers: "Our magic workshop has been committed to the production and research of low-end magic items. In order to slowly popularize these magic items among the poor, we will make magic rune boards in the process of making them." "We will continue to adjust the price of magic rune boards."

Hearing Murray saying that prices would continue to drop, many magic merchants in the audience couldn't sit still. They began to whisper among themselves, and there was a noise in the conference room.

Murray continued: "However, every time we adjust the price of the magic rune board, we will hold a pricing meeting like today."

The magic merchants in the conference room breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Murray say that every time the price was adjusted, a pricing meeting would be held.

Everyone listened attentively as Murray continued: "Now the retail price of our copper hot pot in the magic market of the imperial capital is about one gold coin, but the price in each magic shop is slightly different. Magic The price of similar magic rune plate copper hot pots on the market fluctuates around three gold coins. Even if low-end rune plates also appear on the market, our copper hot pots are still 30% lower than similar products. "

Murray did not whet the appetites of these magic merchants anymore. He stood on the stage and said loudly: "I now announce that the retail price set by the workshop for the copper hot pot is seventy silver coins each."

The magic merchants in the audience looked at Murray in astonishment, as if they had never thought that Murray would drop so much from the original selling price.

For a while, some people were happy and some were worried. Once the copper hot pots from the Rune Board Workshop flooded into the Imperial Capital Magic Market, they would crush all the other workshops that process copper hot pots.

Murray had no time to pay attention to the complicated emotions of the magic merchants in the audience. He then said to the magic merchants in the audience: "Magic shops in the imperial capital must use this selling price as the standard. If we have discovered that someone has adjusted the price indiscriminately, If it disrupts the order of the magic market, then our workshop will cancel your magic shop’s qualification as a seller. Next, let’s discuss the ex-factory price of the copper hot pot, and we will give you ten points of profit margin.”

At this time, a magic businessman in the audience stood up and asked Murray a question: "Murray, I'm worried that once the price drops, there will be a sales boom in the imperial capital. Four thousand copper hot pots are far away." If you can’t meet the demand of the Imperial City market, I want to know if your workshop’s production capacity of magic rune boards can keep up. Will you continue to sell them in limited quantities like this winter?”

Murray thought for a moment before saying, "If the demand for copper hot pots in the magic market is greater than our existing production capacity, our workshop will consider expanding."

He glanced at the young magic merchant and said, "In addition to the copper hot pot, our workshop will also launch a magic item that has been out of production for nearly half a year - an exhaust fan. This exhaust fan is assembled from a metal shell, and the shape is more beautiful and lightweight. These exhaust fans are still in the process of assembly. If anyone wants to make an appointment, you can come to me to pay some advance payment. A week later, these exhaust fans will enter the imperial capital magic market."

A magic merchant stood up from the bench and said to Murray, "Murray, you know, we are more concerned about the price of these exhaust fans."

Murray rubbed his forehead hard and replied, "The price of the exhaust fan will also be 30% lower than that of similar products on the market."

The magic merchant heard the answer, but did not sit down, but continued to ask Murray: "Mr. Murray, everyone As we all know, the prices of exhaust fans in the market have become transparent. I want to know if your workshop can still make a profit by keeping the price of exhaust fans so low. "

Murray stood on the stage and answered without hesitation: "Of course, in the coming days, our workshop will not only sell assembled exhaust fans, but also launch magic pattern-style "miniature tornado" rune plates and "fire gathering" rune plates. In addition, there will be new rune plates and daily magic items. Please pay attention. "

Hearing Murray talking about launching these two most distinctive magic rune plates to the magic market, the reaction of the magic merchants became even stronger. Someone immediately stood up and said to Murray: "Murray, can you reveal the price of the upcoming "fire gathering" rune plate? "

"The price of each piece will not be higher than fifty silver coins. "Murray said.

The entire pricing meeting ended in just one hour. The magic merchants walked out of the conference room, still whispering.

Then the magic merchants began to line up in the yard of the rune plate workshop to buy copper hot pots.

Unexpectedly, in just one afternoon, all four thousand copper hot pots were taken away by this group of magic merchants.

Although four thousand copper hot pots were prepared, four magic merchants still failed to buy them.

The remaining four magic merchants who did not get the goods refused to leave the Rune Plate Workshop. Murray patted his chest and assured them that they could pick up the goods tomorrow morning. These magic merchants had no choice but to pay the deposit and then left the workshop with complaints.

Murray, who was standing at the door, breathed a long sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. As if the last bit of strength in his body had been taken away, he leaned against the door frame weakly, and said to the exhausted workers behind him: "Everyone work harder tonight, and assemble another thousand copper hot pots, and then we can go home!"