Chapter 15: The Newspaper Boy
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"
"Three copper coins for a newspaper, three copper coins for a newspaper!"
"Today's big news, the Duchy of Violet has officially established a branch church of the Holy See, and Cardinal Pablo is appointed archbishop of the branch church."
The streets of Shining Gold were covered with cobblestone pavement, and a young man was selling more than ten pieces of parchment newspaper in his hand.
The young man is not big, sixteen years old.
Dressed in civilian linen clothes, with a delicate face and a sweet smile, he was very popular with the ladies and ladies who passed by.
Selling all the way, the young man has already sold more than a dozen newspapers in his hand.
After putting away the money bag, the young man ran quickly and came to the corner of a street.
More than a dozen teenagers were waiting to pick up their freshly written newspapers.
"Come, the new newspaper is out, and you will each receive thirty copies, and come back when they are sold out."
"Now, give me all the money in your hand, and then pay your salary tonight."
"The more you sell, the more you earn!"
The person who delivered the newspaper was a middle-aged man, also dressed in civilian clothes, but on his hands and ankles, he wore leather bands, and the wrists and ankles were loosely tied, and he looked very energetic.
"Okay!"
All the teenagers responded at the same time, and the shout resounded around the small corner.
The middle-aged man handed out the newspapers one by one, and when everyone had finished receiving them and left to go out to sell the newspapers again, a young man stayed.
"Huh? Can I help you? ”
The middle-aged man looked at the young man strangely, and the young man watched the man pack up the cart seriously.
"I came up with a faster way to sell newspapers."
The young man looked up and said.
"Oh? What's the solution? ”
The middle-aged man was surprised, but he was very interested.
"So, so, so...."
The young man attached himself to the middle-aged man's ear and whispered.
"Oops, that's a good idea!!"
"Immediately, call everyone back immediately, we'll do it immediately!"
After the middle-aged man listened to the young man's words, he was shocked and immediately prepared to implement the young man's plan.
"Hey, hey, good!"
Seeing that his plan was accepted by the middle-aged man, the young man smiled, turned around and called out to his companion.
Wait until everyone is called back and informed of the new plan to sell the newspaper.
The crowd dispersed again.
This time, it was no longer everyone who was scattered, but a group of several people, each finding a place with a dense flow of people.
The boy also took a few people to a square where street performers performed circuses.
Seeing the flow of people, the young man nodded and motioned for the other companions to start preparing.
The crowd nodded, scattered, hidden.
After everything was ready, the young man picked up the newspaper in his hand and began to sell.
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"
"Three copper coins for a newspaper, three copper coins for a newspaper!"
"Today's big news, the Duchy of Violet has officially established a branch church of the Holy See, and Cardinal Pablo is appointed archbishop of the branch church."
The young man shouted the same words as before, and nothing changed.
Some of the tourists who were watching the circus around looked at it, some of them passed by, but no one wanted to buy it.
After shouting for about seven or eight minutes, suddenly a wave of teenagers rushed over.
"I want it, I buy it."
"No, sell it to me."
"Three copper coins a copy, I want them all!"
"No, I'll give you five copper coins a copy, and you can sell them all to me!"
…..
The teenagers crowded together, arguing and bidding, this absurd scene immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding tourists, and they began to wait and see.
"Don't worry, don't worry, they all have them, and the one with the highest price will get it!"
Soon, the boy sold out of the newspaper in his hand.
After selling out, the teenagers who took away the newspaper from the boy's hand at a high price actually started selling it in front of the boy.
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"
"Ten copper coins for a newspaper, ten copper coins for a newspaper!"
"Today's big news, the Duchy of Violet has officially established a branch church of the Holy See, and Cardinal Pablo is appointed archbishop of the branch church."
The shouting sound was absurd and abnormal, so that the tourists who saw the scene just now were confused.
"I want, I want!"
Another wave of teenagers rushed in and bought all the newspapers at once.
As soon as they finished buying the newspaper, these young men were selling again.
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"
"Twenty copper coins for a newspaper, twenty copper coins for a newspaper!"
"Today's big news, the Duchy of Violet has officially established a branch church of the Holy See, and Cardinal Pablo is appointed archbishop of the branch church."
This time, the price of the newspaper was higher, even ten more than the previous copper coin.
Just when everyone thought it was over.
The young man who sold newspapers at the beginning had already gone to retrieve dozens of newspapers and sold them again.
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"
"Five copper coins for a newspaper, five copper coins for a newspaper!"
"Today's big news, the Duchy of Violet has officially established a branch church of the Holy See, and Cardinal Pablo is appointed archbishop of the branch church."
The young man was selling, at a price much lower than the ten copper coins and twenty copper coins next to him.
But even then, the price is two copper coins at a premium over the previous three copper coins.
Somehow, the value of the newspaper itself remained the same, and even the original price increased by two copper coins.
But inexplicably, some people began to run to the stall of the young man who sold five copper coins and bought newspapers.
After buying, I deliberately went to the stall of ten copper coins and twenty copper coins next to me to pick and choose, saying that shopping around, or the bargain just now.
After a while, I don't know who heard the news, and suddenly a group of people who specialized in buying newspapers came to this square.
These people don't buy ten copper coins, they don't buy twenty copper coins, they just ask the young man to buy five copper coins.
One harvest is hundreds.
After buying it at once, I didn't care about the boy who sold ten copper coins next to him, and there were twenty copper coins.
Directly on the street, they began to sell newspapers for nine copper coins.
Good guy, back and forth, the young man helped the middle-aged man sell nearly 700 copies of the newspaper.
It also directly drove up the price of newspapers.
At this time, the price of newspapers in the market had gone to nine copper coins a piece.
And the original cost price is only one copper coin.
If you sell three copper coins, you will earn two copper coins.
But now the middle-aged man only sells five copper coins.
Earned two more copper coins out of thin air.
And that's not all.
After this group of people found that the newspaper was selling well, they found a middle-aged man.
After some conversation, the middle-aged man used the sky-high price of ten gold coins to sell the newspaper purchase channel in his hand.
This transaction is over, in and out, and the middle-aged man earns nearly eleven gold coins a day!
It is calculated as the currency exchange rate at which one gold coin can be exchanged for one hundred silver coins, and one silver coin can be exchanged for one hundred copper coins.
The middle-aged man earned 11,000 copper coins this day, that is, 3,667 newspapers that were originally three copper coins, and the cost of one copper coin was deducted.
At this time, it is almost pure earning.
Ignoring the shop that writes the newspaper, how can he communicate with these merchants who have found channels through themselves, before and after the middle-aged man received it, he had already run away with oil on the soles of his feet.
Even with no shadow, there is also a group of young men who are working hard to sell newspapers today.
The young men are gone, and the middle-aged men who sell newspapers are gone.
A group of businessmen who stayed behind, after selling newspapers for a few days, suddenly realized that they and others had been deceived.
The reason for this is the bulletin hall where newspapers are sold, and each newspaper sells only one copper coin.
And the newspaper that he and the others bought before actually cost five copper coins, and anyone can buy and sell newspapers in this bulletin hall.
In other words, there is no need for any channels at all, and newspapers cannot sustain a high price for a long time.
Although the businessmen discovered the scam, they are now investing, and it is difficult to ride the tiger.
In order to further recover the cost, the merchants began to unite and round up the newspapers that were advertised, and bought out the source of the newspapers at once, forming a monopoly.
Because no one cared about monopoly in this magical world, the merchants easily took the resources of the newspaper in their hands.
Since then, the price of every newspaper in Shining Gold Town has risen, no longer one copper coin, not three copper coins, not five copper coins, but nine copper coins.