RB, 3-2, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

This is the location of the Asahi Shimbun's Tokyo headquarters, and unlike the usual stable and orderly appearance, the atmosphere in the entire editorial office today is a little strange.

The editor-in-chief Takahashi Daido, who usually ridicules whether the rice balls bought by the dispatched employees are soft enough, stared at the manuscript handed over by his editors from early in the morning, and then slapped the table angrily and scolded angrily, "Baga, how can you publish like this?" After that, I repeated the same action for a full hour.

The reason is that although the Asahi Shimbun, which is one of the three major news newspapers of RB, has been sending reporters to the capital of China for a period of time after the three rare earth giants have been blocked, not only has there been no news clues, but even the colleagues who usually contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China have come to inquire at the door, and they have all been replied by the other party: "If there is news recently, I will notify your newspaper directly."

But they didn't expect that this "notice" would be too rude!

It's not Xinhua News Agency, it's not China's People's Daily, at least in the eyes of the editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun, it's a "notice" from a "Mining Area Weekly" that is so small that he's never even heard of it!

Moreover, the "notice" in the form of this special issue was not translated into Japanese at all, as was previously customary, and it was densely packed with Chinese characters!

But I can't lose my temper, because even this news is still the president of Kobe Technology Co., Ltd., who has a very good personal relationship with him, Taro Haneda, made a special call to tell him early in the morning!

Takahashi Daito never figured out how a small "Mining Area Weekly" could dare to contact the world's top ten newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun, through such a way, but when the translator made the content of that special issue into a Japanese version, after reading it, this thought disappeared from his mind!

Because in journalism, there is one of the most important principles, and that is ......

The world is big, and the news is the biggest!

Although it was sent by the little-known "Mining Area Weekly", after reading the above content, Takahashi Datong felt cold all over his hands and feet!

Some time ago, because the stocks of RB's three rare earth giants plummeted, it also triggered the melon-eating sentiment of RB's domestic press.

On the one hand, because these three giants have stable profits all year round, orderly management, and there is usually no news, they were suddenly dug out of the channel for importing rare earth concentrate from China and were truncated for unknown reasons, resulting in the forced termination of the research and development progress of the parent company.

Of course, the three major RB newspapers, including the Asahi Shimbun, will not miss this good opportunity, and they have always adhered to the principle of "real-time and transparency", constantly entering and exiting various clubs, digging out a lot of insiders, and dominating the pages for a week.

But digging and digging, the most critical and the most direct, the reason why the Chinese side led to the truncation of this channel has not been accurately said.

The three newspapers agreed on this point, and they also interviewed officials from the RB Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the answer was ......

"We are also in urgent contact with the Chinese foreign affairs department, but they are different from before, this time their attitude is very indifferent, only a little bit revealed that it is related to a measure of the Ministry of Industry of China."

What kind of measure is this, many editors in every newspaper have stayed up all night and lost a lot of hair, but they haven't come up with a reason.

Because this is a matter involving the relationship between China and RB, and now the two countries are in the honeymoon period, and they can't be made up casually, at this point, I have to say that the RB media still has a little bit of integrity, unlike some Chinese Internet media in the previous life, "the beginning of a picture and the follow-up all rely on the rhythm" rhythm, there is no real evidence, this kind of thing they dare not write nonsense.

So this has led to the three major newspapers looking forward to new news from the Chinese side every day, but unfortunately, no one expected that a "Mining Area Weekly" told you bluntly, I have the answer, but your newspaper has to give money!

Reprint fee, this kind of fee "Asahi Shimbun" has not not paid, but it has never been given to the Chinese media!

You must know that even when China RB established diplomatic relations more than ten years ago, because a lot of exclusive news was mastered by Huaguo newspapers, according to the usual practice at that time, it was necessary to pay for reprinting, but the official media of China also generously said that we do not charge money.

The last time the Asahi Shimbun paid a reprint fee came from an exclusive report about the MD presidential election in the Washington Post, a veteran media outlet of MD, and I had never heard of paying Chinese people for reprinting!

You must know that the profit from advertising expenses for a special issue of "Asahi Shimbun" is not ordinary.

Even for special issues that don't usually attract so much attention, the profit from advertising is usually at least 3 million yen.

This time, when I heard that there was a special issue about the import of rare earth concentrates, Takahashi didn't even think about it, and his first reaction was that the profit from advertising expenses could at least double to 6 million yen!

But a small "Mining Area Weekly" actually opened his mouth and said that he had to take 50% of it in accordance with industry rules before he could agree to authorize the Asahi Shimbun!

Bage Yalu, you also know that the is the rule of the industry?

Don't you know that the reprint fee is charged according to 20%~50% of the profit of the advertising fee, and the maximum can be received 50%?!

As soon as he opened his mouth, he directly asked for the highest price, if it weren't for the high popularity of this news, Lao Tzu wouldn't have eaten your broken newspaper!

But at this moment, Takahashi Chase has no other way except to greet the female relatives of Zhou Shengli, the editor-in-chief of the "Mining Area Weekly", except for the constant "eight ga" and "eight grid tooth road" greetings in his mouth.

Because the other party told him that in addition to the Asahi Shimbun, the other two of the three major RB newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun, had agreed to sign a reprint agreement on the phone, and they had obtained the right to reprint!

In addition, the editor-in-chief of Zhou also revealed on the phone that even the most famous MD newspaper, the New York Times, has agreed to a reprint agreement!

Moreover, the deadline given by the other party is five o'clock this afternoon.

Due to the time difference between Huaguo and RB, five o'clock in Huaguo is actually four o'clock in RB, and it seems that it will only be 30 minutes before the point is reached!

"Yaga! What the hell does this broken newspaper know, and it looks like it can't be poured into it, and it doesn't reveal it at all, how can we pay it 3 million yen with this attitude! ”

Chase Takahashi hammered the table again with his hand!

The female assistant next to her has been so shocked by him for an afternoon, but just now an employee brought back some news, if she doesn't persuade Takahashi's editor-in-chief to agree, I'm afraid that in this big news, "Asahi Shimbun" will fall behind!

So, the female assistant used all her courage and struggled inwardly for five minutes, and finally gritted her teeth and stood in front of Takahashi Daito.

"Mr. Editor-in-Chief, calm down first, over there...... The newspaper office over there in China made another call! ”