Since Gülen ascended to the throne, listening to Flandy's advice has done a lot of practical things that everyone praises, so it has left a very good impression in people's hearts.

Many people don't believe this rumor, but there are also many people who believe it, and a lot of more unfavorable content has been added to the rumors, so these people who believe in it have also begun to prepare to evacuate the imperial capital together.

Originally, the prices on the market were gradually rising, but these rumors immediately soared into the sky as if riding on a griffin.

I don't care about the gold coins I have saved for many years, I have to prepare to leave the imperial capital anyway, it is better to exchange them for food, clothes and other actual items, and store them at home, which is called having food in my hands and not panicking in my heart. As soon as His Majesty the Emperor withdraws, he will immediately follow.

Even some people have done even more, feeling that since they are going to evacuate, the house in the imperial capital is useless, so they simply sell it directly, while they can still sell it at a good price.

It is said that rumors stop at the wise, but there are too few wise people, and there are too many people who believe it, so they can't stop at all.

Almost in just three or four days, the price of rice has risen several times, making those who don't believe it at all start to panic.

Gülen, a big businessman who took advantage of the disaster to hoard Juqi, had a way to cure him, but now the people who hoarded food were ordinary civilians, and if a family hoarded less, there were many families who couldn't stand hoarding food, and if it continued like this, the entire imperial capital would be chaotic.

There are no clothes to wear, people can replace them with other things, and now it is summer, and people can't freeze to death at all.

Don't mention water, it's a big deal to go to the river outside the city and pick up water to drink, but people who are not engaged in agriculture want to eat food, how can they afford it at such a high price?

In normal times, the empire always has grain reserves, as long as the granary is opened and the price of grain is stabilized, the turmoil will pass, but now there is a war coming soon, and this war is only a few months at most, no one expected this kind of thing to happen, in order to save the time of mobilizing grain from various provinces, the reserve grain was moved to the battlefield of Dukmahon.

Now, if there is a portal to transfer grain from various provinces, it will take a few days to raise it, and it is not certain how high the price of food will fly in these days.

If people don't eat for a few days, they won't die, but social order will definitely be greatly affected.

This news was soon brought up at the court meeting, and the ministers were worried.

And then to mobilize back the grain that had been mobilized to the battlefield of Dukmahon? This is really no way, what should we do after it is mobilized? And then sell it? But after selling it, the army has no food to eat.

"Urgently transfer some food to the provinces, it doesn't matter if it's less, how much is counted, at least it can be alleviated. ”

Prime Minister Tang En is also a human being, and he can't make food, so he can only put forward such a plan.

"How much gold do you have in the treasury? If not, ask His Majesty Dennis for help, and buy more cattle and sheep to come back, and you can also satisfy your hunger. ”

Agriculture Secretary Aubrey also came up with an idea. During this time, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Viton Empire traded and made a lot of gold coins, so they had the confidence to say such things.

Everyone came up with ideas and found that the problem of food was not particularly difficult to solve.

With the existence of portals, the entire empire has become a large net, which can go to and from various nodes at any time, and can also carry goods back in each node.

"It's just that this rumor must be stopped! It's too bad for His Majesty the Emperor!" said Industry Minister Dean with a frown.

This sentence is very reasonable, and if the rumors are allowed to develop, it will be a heavy blow to the prestige that Gülen has built up with great difficulty.

The portal didn't play a role in this matter, and the ministers present were worried again, and in the end they didn't come up with a good solution.

The main reason is that this rumor was not made up by anyone, but the word of mouth is spreading more and more evil, and there is no way to test which person believes it and which person does not believe it, how can this arrest people?

It wasn't until the discussion got late that no feasible plan was discussed, and when the meeting ended, Tang Enzai said to Gülen: "Your Majesty, ask Flandy when you go back to see if he has any way." ”

"Yes, Flandi must have a way! I'll find him now!" Glenn reacted.

After returning to the Magic Tower and having dinner, Glenn pulls Flandi, who originally wanted to meditate, to the library on the fourth floor.

"Frandy, help me come up with an idea, I've been discussing it for a day today, and I still don't have a clue. Glenn complained to Flandy.

When he was in the palace, he was the emperor, and he had to hold the shelf and maintain the dignity of the emperor, and only when he arrived at Flandri's magic tower could he remove the mask and restore the nature of a young man, don't forget, he was only twenty-two years old.

"Hehe, what's wrong? What makes you so anxious?"

"You haven't been out for the past few days, and now there are a lot of rumors in the imperial capital, all saying that I am preparing to evacuate the imperial capital, and they are all about to be messed up. Glenn grimaced, thinking of the rumors about herself, and felt a little uncomfortable.

Obviously, he is already very good to civilians, but why do you think of yourself like this?

Flandi really hasn't been out these days, and he's focused on building up his strength, so he doesn't know what's going on.

"That's right!" Gülen told Flandy in detail what the ministers had seen and heard today.

"Haha, it's not easy, is it?" The picture is broadcast all over the world

"Simple?" Gülen was dumbfounded. He never expected Flandi to say this, in his imagination, it should be Flandi who thought about it for a long time before giving him a good idea, but the fact is that Flandi acted too easily.

Rumors are actually public opinion, and in the previous life, Flandi saw too many ways to manipulate public opinion, and there were countless of them, and listening to Gülen's meaning, it shows that it is just a folk rumor, and it is not that someone deliberately opposed Gülen.

Therefore, for this kind of rumor, just publicize it widely, make the information transparent, don't hide it, and directly announce the progress of the matter to the world, and the rumor will be self-defeating.

"Gülen, what do you say is the reason for this rumor?" Flandie is ready to enlighten Gülen step by step.

"Ah, the reason for the formation?" the ministers were discussing how to deal with this rumor all day today, but no one thought about why the rumor appeared.

"yes, you don't know how the rumors came about?" Frankie looked at Gülen with wide eyes.

"Uh...... I really don't know......," Gülen could only honestly admit

"Well, then let me tell you, the reason why the rumors appeared is because people don't know, so they guess!"

Franky told Gülen in the simplest of words.

"Guess?" Gülen was stunned.

"Yes, because of the asymmetry of information, it leads to people's blind guessing, which is also inevitable, I will teach you another word. ”

"What word?" asked Gülen.

"Public opinion!"

"Public opinion?"

"Yes. ”

"What is public opinion?"

"It's what people talk about in public on weekdays, which is called public opinion. ”

"Got it, and then what?"

"Then you have to learn to control public opinion!"

"Control public opinion, what people say can also be controlled?"

"Of course, as long as you have the authority to tell them what you want them to know, and don't let public opinion go astray, this is considered to be controlling public opinion. ”

"How do you control that? Let the sheriffs tell them one by one?"

"Of course, you don't have to go so far, you can just run a newspaper. ”

"What is a newspaper?"

"A newspaper is just a piece of paper, and now there's a printing house, and you can print it with what you want the public to know, and then sell it, so that everybody knows what's going on, and there's no need to guess. ”

"But...... What should I print? How many people are literate?" Gülen felt a little unreliable.

Even if this is the imperial capital, ordinary civilians are illiterate, and a large part of them can read and understand newspapers, and a large part of them are the children of the nobles, and because the children of the nobles have reliable sources and places to ask, they have become the identity of the wise man in "Rumors Stop at the Wise".

"The content is easy to say, there are too many things that can be written, I will help you in the first few issues, and I will talk about it when I teach a group of newspaper operators, as for the common people who don't know how to read, it is not difficult, you can find more bards to read to everyone, so that one will pass ten, ten will pass hundred, and people will understand." ”

"Bard, that's a good idea. ”

Most of the bards were the children of nobles, but they were from a middle-class family, and since then they have become commoners, relying on storytelling to make a living, and they are basically educated and literate.

Originally, they relied on telling those attractive stories or rumors to eat people, and there are only a few stories on this continent that people are tired of hearing them for a long time.

If a newspaper with the latest news arrives in their hands, they wish there was such a good thing.

Of course, it is the imperial capital, so there are the most noble children in the middle of the family, these noble children have not suffered much, although some have chosen to become bards, but they do not travel much, and they chant in the imperial capital every day.

"Hmm...... You simply gather those so-called bards and set up a propaganda department, so that they all become propagandists of the propaganda department, and specialize in promoting to the people what you want to promote, so that public opinion is in your hands. ”

"Wonderful, that's a good move, Flandy, tell me about it, what other good ideas are there?"

Glenn's troubles were gone, and he found that he had done the right thing to ask Flandy for an idea, and in a few words he solved the matter that he and the ministers had been thinking about for a day.