Demon King, Don’t Run Away Chapter 124: You can become stronger by charging money

Because most of the books have been tampered with or destroyed, the Library of All Things has had to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources to recollect, organize, summarize materials, and compile new books.

The previous library itself was not profitable.

To maintain the operation of the library, we basically rely on donations from the society and part-time wages of library members working outside.

After the war, many chambers of commerce or families, under pressure from their own countries, focused on rebuilding the country and had no spare money to support maintaining neutral libraries.

That was also the time when the library was at its most depressed.

Countless library members are frugal and travel here and there, but the recovery of the library is only the tip of the iceberg. To restore the library, more financial and material resources are needed, otherwise it will be far away.

Gradually, some members couldn't bear it anymore and voluntarily quit the library to make a living on their own.

Not just one person, but a group of people.

The senior management also knew that it was time for reform, and they were racking their brains and doing everything they could to keep the library alive.

Finally, an idea emerged.

The knowledge in the library itself is a huge treasure house. It has been provided to all parties in society almost free of charge, which is why the Library of All Things fell into this state. If this knowledge could be clearly priced, the library's dilemma would no longer exist.

This behavior of monopolizing knowledge has been opposed by many high-level officials. They believe that this behavior is contrary to the original concept of the library. As long as society regains prosperity, libraries will also prosper together. Until then, just continue to operate according to the previous rules.

Unfortunately, time has given those naive executives a loud slap in the face, causing them to fall off their feet and not even have their underpants left.

What makes the library executives even more angry is that those who used to treat the library with a cold shoulder and caused damage to many books actually dared to come back and look up information in the library shamelessly.

Due to lack of manpower, a senior member of the library went to receive the person in person.

And that person thought that the senior executive was just a little guy who acted recklessly and ungratefully in front of him.

Due to the person's identity and the terms of the library, the senior executive could not do anything to him. He could only write with grief and anger, and wrote a novel about everything he experienced at that time.

It was that novel that lit the fuse, and the vigorous reform began.

All members of the Library of All Things took action to classify all knowledge into different levels, and charged fees for access based on the divided levels.

It was also during that reform that most of the current library systems were established.

Of course, while reform solves problems, it will also continue to create new ones. There are many problems that still plague the library's senior management.

In order to solve these problems, new reforms are constantly being carried out.

Listening to Shujing telling the story, Yang Yu finished the parfait in front of him, "In other words, is this the result of countless reforms?"

Shu Jing shook his head, "It will become like this, but they have stepped on the tide of the times. Because knowledge is gradually monopolized, in order to obtain that knowledge, this place has become the most frequented place for countless nobles and chambers of commerce.

If there is a person around the library loudly promoting how good his product is, it will definitely arouse the curiosity of countless wealthy people.

As long as the product is decent, a small opportunity is enough to make people succeed. ”

"So, in order to get this opportunity, countless vendors gathered around the library, so the library followed suit and created the commercial district here?"

As for Yang Yu's inference, Shu Jing gave a positive answer, "There must be some complicated factors, but that's it in a nutshell.

As long as the sponsorship was sufficient, the library allowed various shops to open stores around it. Later, the library even openly sold the land to the highest bidder.

Of course, the library also knows how to keep the flow of water flowing. The enclosed land has a useful life, and they will take a portion of the profits from people doing business every year to maintain the operation of the library. ”

Holy shit, this is such a magical reality.

The Library of All Things can be said to be an example of a salty fish turning around.

It can actually recast its own influence without resorting to external forces, transforming from a bus that everyone can use into a unique spaceship that is admired by the world.

However, Yang Yu doesn’t know whether to call this a kind of stubbornness or a kind of sadness for continuing the library in this way to this day.

After knowing the history of the Library of All Things, Yang Yu finally understood the nature of the library.

Free? Free is impossible to be free, and it is impossible to be free in this life.

I don’t know how to do business, so I can only maintain my life by soliciting sponsorships and collecting tuition fees. Sitting and collecting money feels like I have ascended to heaven. The feeling of being relied on is much better than the feeling of being looked down upon!

Everyone who comes to the library is talented and well-spoken. I like it here very much!

If you smell it carefully, you can still smell the copper smell of capital on the library.

Knowledge was clearly priced, and Yang Yu's intuition told him that the knowledge he needed to find out must be an astronomical figure.

"What is the exam you are talking about? Can you become a member of the library by passing the exam in the library and read all the knowledge in the library?"

"It can be said to be so, but it can be said to be not so." Shu Jing said, "First of all, you can indeed become a member of the library by passing the exam. But there are two types of library members, one is ordinary members, and the other is One is a senior member, also known as a star member. The scope of what they can check is completely different. Even if they are both senior members, the scope of knowledge they can check is also different. ”

"What are the conditions for becoming a star member? Can't you become stronger just by charging money?"

"The conditions and requirements for becoming a star member are very complicated. If you don't want to be involved in the library and really want to be a member of the library, you don't want to know too much. But there is one thing I can tell you, As long as you pay enough, it is indeed possible to become a senior book member."

As he spoke, Shu Jing lowered his eyes,

"Ordinary library members are not completely incapable of reading higher-level books. Every once in a while, ordinary members will have an opportunity to access more advanced knowledge and can browse knowledge that only premium members can browse."

Continuously refining the information in Shu Jing's words, Yang Yu then asked: "Speaking of which, why did you take the library exam?"

Shu Jing showed a wry smile that was inappropriate for her age, "You can understand this as fighting for the right to continue living near the library.

Library members are also human beings and will fall in love with each other, get married and have children. Out of humanitarianism, children born in this group will receive education from the library and become the "second generation of books". When they become adults, they will have five opportunities to take exams.

If they fail all five exams, they will be expelled to live in the library area...

But this also has a time limit. If he or any of his descendants fail to enter the library within a hundred years, they will be expelled completely.

Unfortunately, I am one of those people's descendants. ”