Chapter 215 68. Magic Newspaper
Fast, Soruman Bronzebeard, Mr. Victor, Francois, Leila, Ingrid, Evelyn, Martin, and even Mai Kerr and the bard also temporarily returned to Xingyue Bay.
Anyway, the friends who are still in Xingyue Bay are all sitting around the round table at this time. The last time everyone gathered together so neatly was... the last time.
“But why are you here?” Annan looked at Martin sitting between Fast and Bronzebeard in confusion.
“I saw the boss coming while I was sleeping, so I followed him.”
"Can you tell Aunt Susan for me that I want to have lamb stewed with peas for dinner?"
"Oh."
Martin left happily, Annan looked at the remaining people, He recounted his two ideas that were born in Breeze City: The first one is to let all the residents of Xingyue Bay master the common language of the art.
"It is expected to cost about 2,000 gold coins. It would be better if you can find a way to save some money."
"Why?" Bronzebeard asked everyone's doubts.
Annan said what Olmedo said: workers without knowledge are just workers, but workers with knowledge will have unlimited possibilities-in addition to becoming professionals.
Mr. Victor’s dissatisfaction is clearly visible.
"As long as the school is built, we can achieve similar results in a few months, so why spend so much money." Ingrid's pain was clearly visible.
“Because we are short of time compared to 2,000 gold coins.”
As long as Annan wants to, he will go to Breeze City to attend the banquet, and hold the hands of ladies and ladies at the banquet to pray. A dozen magic stones can be sold, and Bethal City will be like this in a few months. By then, the two magic images have already been spread in other towns, and then the City of Fenghuang, other city-states in other provinces...
Annan couldn't ask all the nobles to give him a gold coin, but he could ask the nobles he saw to give him 100 gold coins.
Michael and the others, who knew how fast Annan was able to attract money, didn't care, but the old orcs who were not familiar with it thought it was a waste. Annan looked out the window while they were quarreling——
As the month entered March, the weather became warmer and warmer. Even standing outside at noon a few days ago would be warm in the sun. The second One day, a cold current crossed over the snow-capped mountains and swept across the north without any hindrance. It turned from near spring to biting winter. The snow on the eaves and streets was nearly half a meter thick.
Xingyue Bay was not affected, but Glacier Port had no time to react. Not only did the ice cleared a few days ago refreeze, but the standing wooden frames were also frozen. If they want to melt, they can only wait for spring or directly. Knock it down and rebuild.
“What was your second thought?”
Annan's attention returned to the room: "Have you discussed it?"
"You are the lord anyway, and you earned all this money." Fast said lazily.
Then Annan talked about the second thing: spreading news.
"Michael, is it difficult to make a painting move?"
"Magic is time-sensitive, and the only way to make the magic effect last is with magic props... "Michael's implication is that all magic items are expensive.
The cheapest one is the Claudia Magic Stone, which costs one gold coin.
If spending 2,000 gold coins to make all the people in the territory proficient in the common language is a trace, this kind of news that looks like news from an alternative tavern is incomprehensible to them.
“What is its use?”
“Promote Xingyue Bay. When many people jointly praise a place as good, then it is good, even if they have never met.”
You look at the magical images of Xingyue Bay, watch the news about Xingyue Bay, and listen to people around you saying that Xingyue Bay is good... you will naturally yearn for it. And when someone asks you if you know Xingyue Bay, you will still say: "Yes, that is a beautiful place, I really want to take a look."
The bard clapped his hands and agreed: "Just like the Principality of Keating, we all say that there is a strong business atmosphere, the twin ministers are lawful and friendly, and the merchants value contracts, allowing countless gold diggers and merchants to try their luck. In fact, they are all liars and devils. Let the trainee devils go there for the test."
"Really?" "False, why are the trainee devils the opponents of those profiteers?"
As a result. "Newspaper", and it is a newspaper for Breeze City, the selection of news is the most critical. The Annan Plan is divided into Breeze and Northland news. From murders to new laws for the city, but the news is just too boring.
Add weather forecast? It happens that they have old Zoron, but the inaccurate forecast will make the "newspaper" questionable.
"We can teach them to blacksmith!"
Bronzebeard suggested, and the bard sarcastically said: "Your ideas are as big as your height."
The tit-for-tat bard and copper Each must contribute a good idea: joke session and knowledge popularization.
The bard told a dwarf joke, and Bronzebeard didn't react much, but Ingrid frowned and said: "This kind of joke will destroy the reputation that Xingyue Bay has worked hard to accumulate."
“But maybe an angry dwarf will come and find that the houses here are built by dwarves, and the largest blacksmith shop belongs to dwarves.”
"Using the cautious nature of the dwarves to lure them here?" Fast remembered something and laughed.
"We are just grudges, not petty."
"It's the same."
Annan adopted this suggestion and joke. Then the elves tell jokes in the second issue, humans in the third issue, orcs in the fourth issue... offending all races means no one is offended.
"These are not worth a silver coin." Michael said.
"So I'm going to only have 5 copper coins, the price of a glass of sweet ale."
"It's too cheap... Are you going to withhold the money from Claudia? Or are you going to let it be shown in the theater like the magic image?"
Hundreds of people reading 'newspaper' in a theater? This seems a bit too weird...
Annan just said: "You are a Breeze City bakery owner and a loyal 'Jack' fan. When you heard that 'Jack' was working on a new After you needed money for something, you took out the ten gold coins that you had saved for a long time. When you opened the door the next day, you found that the outside was crowded with customers who wanted to buy bread. From their conversation, you learned that 'Jack' was in the 'news' 'Your bakery was promoted online..."
This is Annan's idea - to recruit advertisers. He had already thought of the first early adopter, the wine lady.
Evelin raised her hand at this time: "I think it's very interesting, but can this be as popular as the magical image?"
"So I am going to test it in Xingyue Bay first. According to the citizens, "
To prevent being caught first, they still have to hide it from the merchants traveling to Xingyue Bay - but the cost of recording the magic stone prevents them from taking it away.
"There is one last question, what do we call it?"
Francois's question made everyone look at Annan at the same time.
"Magic...newspaper?"
"It's neither magic nor paper." Michael said.
"It will look magical if you add magic, and I am a warlock."
"A warlock who can't even use magic?"
"I am a warlock, why should I Know the hand of the 'Mage'? ”
(End of this chapter)