Chapter 891: The Path of the Sage, Fast Money

People can be influenced by their surrounding environment, but they can also create an environment according to their own philosophy; this is exactly what Xia Duo is doing now.

In fact, regardless of himself or anyone else, there is more or less an "ideal kingdom" existence in their hearts, which may or may not align with the social mainstream or historical trends.

But as long as there is an opportunity, who can resist the temptation to change the world according to their own will!

On Earth, the vast majority of human conflicts are for the sake of competing for such an opportunity—the opportunity to interpret the world and transform the world!

Even the battles initiated by primitive humans for survival contained a sense of control—control over resources, control over the lives of friends and foes.

It was only later that science, with its unparalleled reliability, was rapidly recognized by the majority, subsequently erupting with unprecedented potential and giving birth to weapons of mass destruction like nuclear weapons, which then quelled countless conflicts.

Of course, as long as human thought does not cease, conflicts will always exist; it is merely a matter of frequency and intensity.

Some causes of conflict, in Xia Duo's view, are completely illogical and extremely absurd, yet they appear and spread wantonly, making them very difficult to eliminate.

This is actually a difference in worldviews; what you consider correct, others may not necessarily think so, and likewise, what others consider correct, you may not necessarily consider correct.

The thing easiest for people to change is thought, and the thing hardest to change is also thought.

In a sense, the promotion of a philosophy is no less than instilling one's own will into the heads of others; thereafter, as long as the thought exists, the founder of the philosophy is approximately immortal.

Xia Duo has also been influenced more or less by the philosophies of others, a large part of which comes from the Sages of his hometown.

The philosophies of the Sages are thought-provoking, their spirits shining and eternal; even though Xia Duo has come to an alien world, this influence remains unchanged.

In fact, the shaping of Xia Duo's personality involves these thoughts and philosophies of the Sages; if he were to abandon them entirely, would that not be abandoning his own self?

Of course, after Xia Duo's worldview was basically formed and his personality relatively perfected, he would also, based on his own cognition, discard the dross and select the essential from the thoughts of past and even contemporary Sages, thereby making his own worldview more harmonious and his personality more complete.

From this perspective, Xia Duo has actually embarked on the path of the Sage that many successful people in his hometown would pursue.

It is just that compared to the Sages of his hometown whose spirits are immortal, Xia Duo, who has transmigrated to a magic world, is very likely to obtain material immortality.

(Here, "material" refers to objective entities that exist differently from concepts like thought, including the physical body and soul; of course, in the magic world, conceptual existences may also possess some kind of objective entity, similar to the Holy Light faith in WoW.)

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After watching for a while in the Gongzuojian, Xia Duo and Jianaer came to the adjacent Workshop, where there was also a production line for Communication Magic Tools, with a similar number of people as the Gongzuojian, all of whom were the twenty-plus people after adjustments.

Xia Duo only took one look here before retreating, and upon reaching the circular corridor outside, he asked Jianaer: "How long do these Magic Technicians work every day, and is there any room reserved for their personal Spellcasting?"

"There is."

Jianaer glanced at the closed door of the workshop to the side and replied, "The current production plan is three production cycles per day for each workshop, used to balance the energy consumption of personnel at each station; each cycle is about 1 hour."

1 hour per cycle, which means these Magic Technicians only need to work three hours a day; this is truly the dream of countless Earth wage earners!

Fortunately, Xia Duo came in the morning and quite early at that; otherwise, by the time he arrived, these two workshops would have been off work!

After thinking for a moment, Xia Duo asked again: "Then how many Communication Magic Tools can be produced per cycle? Have you kept statistics?"

"3 per cycle, but they might still be in the running-in stage, and the yield rate is very low; almost one-third fail before even reaching the inspection stage."

Speaking of this, a look of helplessness appeared on Jianaer's face; even though the vast majority of influencing factors had been considered, the yield rate still could not be raised, which made him very helpless.

"No need to rush, take it slow," Xia Duo said casually to comfort him.

In fact, he was already very happy with a two-thirds yield rate; one must know that according to this yield rate, each workshop could produce 6 finished Communication Magic Tools per day.

Two workshops could produce 360 per month; if it were left to a High Mage to produce them alone, could they produce that many without eating or sleeping?

Absolutely impossible!

And these 360 Communication Magic Tools, if calculated according to the quoted price to the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce, with a 600 Gold Coin prepayment for each Communication Magic Tool, this is a huge sum of over 200,000 Gold Coins.

So what about the cost?

In fact, the cost of Communication Magic Tools produced by the Tower of Time in this way is only about 300 Gold Coins, and this includes all costs including personnel wages, raw materials, and the depreciation of the Alchemy Array.

This is the advantage of large-scale, standardized mass production.

Based solely on the current yield rate, at least 100,000 Gold Coins in net profit can be obtained in a month; this speed of making money is simply faster than digging for gold mines!

How could Xia Duo not be happy and satisfied!

Even this speed of making money made him a little scared; one must know that in the past, the annual net income of the Savile Territory was only about 50,000 Gold Coins, and that was counting the Tower of Time; if it were not counted, it would be even lower.

Now one month is equivalent to the past two years; this leap-style improvement is indeed a bit large.

Of course, even so, the annual net income is only over 1 million Gold Coins, which is not enough to build a Mage Tower; thinking of this, Xia Duo felt a bit dissatisfied again.

Fortunately, mass-producing Magic Items is not limited to just Communication Magic Tools; the Tower of Time has also completed the mass production designs for the 【Warning Amulet】 and 【Missile Wand】.

It is just that the market for these two types of Magic Items has long been stable; unless one disregards everything and engages in price wars, it is difficult to occupy more market share even with higher production efficiency.

The profits in this area are relatively conservative.

Currently, only the Communication Magic Tool based on 【Magic Net Background Communication】 has a blank market, which is the easiest to fill; as long as the reputation is established, there will be an endless stream of leeks waiting to be harvested in the future.

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However, while production efficiency is increasing, the problem of raw material supply is becoming increasingly prominent, especially Mithril; for this precious metal that can only rely on imports and also has quota restrictions, it is basically unrealistic to want to hoard goods.

This made Xia Duo think of the Mithril Refining Technology he brought back from the Projection Plane; perhaps it is time to let it play a role!