Of course, there was more to it than that, and Kondra's escape made him deeply uneasy. He had been afraid of the comeback of this political enemy of decades. It is said that he is now in the Northwest, and he is out of reach, and so is that Merris.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but clench his fists, and his pinched joints turned a little white.

"Your Majesty, the emissary of Ortunno has arrived. ”

Gerald quickly came to his senses, he had forgotten that it was still the day to meet the messenger.

"Well, bring him in!"

After the defeat, Ortunno's relationship with the Papal States was like glue, perhaps a mutual comfort between the losers.

Imperial capital.

When he heard that Coren was also running a newspaper, Wayne scoffed. It seems that these are not stupid either, and they quickly realized the importance of public opinion. And Boris also quickly paid off the debt for that hapless Viscount Andershan, and even then it is not possible to completely deny the failure of Wayne's last blow.

He succeeded in intimidating the nobles, who also saw the dilemma they would encounter if they didn't pay back the money, and they were still gritting their teeth and squeezing out money to reorganize their armaments. On the other hand, the nobles who took refuge in Wayne were able to continue to live a life of spending and drinking. In contrast, it is estimated that many people have been shaken.

Now that Nolan's biannual Elementary Scholar Exam is over, Wayne looks at the Nolan Times. The numbers are encouraging, with 3,000 people passing the exams this year, and the number of secondary scholars will soon begin. According to the ratio of about 20 to 1, 150 people should pass this year. Higher education scholars should also break through double digits this year, which can be said to be a huge improvement.

At the same time, the financial report for the first quarter was also very objective, and it was not easy to maintain growth when the vast majority of nobles blocked the border and forbade people to go out. If it weren't for the opening up of Situ Yad and seizing the Ortuno market, it is estimated that this quarter will definitely decline. It seems that it is right to be more prepared.

The third-rate armies in their own territory have also been reorganized, have begun to receive regular training, and their equipment has begun to be upgraded. A new generation of rear-loading rifled guns, rear-loading rifled guns have also begun to massively equip the troops. After all, Wayne already has 300,000 troops in his hands, 100,000 in Nolan, and 200,000 in his own territory. According to intelligence reality, the total number of these aristocratic armies is as high as one million.

is still the same sentence, let alone a million, even if it is tens of millions, he is not afraid. When the war reaches a certain scale, it is not the number of people who can solve the problem. The reason why he is afraid is that he has crippled the population and infrastructure. It will take decades to recover. It's not cost-effective. He thought about spending the strength of these people in the imperial capital, and taming these nobles as much as possible through political means, but he really couldn't infiltrate the enemy and rebel.

That's why he has the patience to play these boring methods with these nobles, otherwise why should he play lip service if he can solve it through violence.

Now Cologne's intention is obvious, which is to build a high ground of public opinion like himself. Wayne certainly doesn't have a good way to oppose Ah, but it's okay to be disgusted.

New competitors have emerged, and "Imperial Capital Times", "Imperial Capital Headlines" and "Imperial Capital News" have rarely been external. Every day, the news is either published or the new "Imperial Capital Chaowen" is criticized. Although it has not yet published a newspaper.

The three newspapers seized on a loophole in "Imperial Capital Chaowen" and chased after it, why did none of the newspaper editors belong to the Imperial Academy?

You must know that the people of the imperial capital have a strong xenophobia and arrogance in their hearts. The transcendent status of the imperial capital for a long time makes them think that the imperial capital will always be the best. What's more, Imperial Capital College is a veritable academic center, so it's a little uncomfortable to see Nolan surpass him. Now this new "Imperial Capital Chaowen" is still employing those scholars from poor and remote areas, and they have not been lowered a few levels in the hearts of the people of the imperial capital. The saddest thing is this, a newspaper has not yet been published, and its reputation stinks.

The angry Cologne's eyes widened angrily, and he clearly remembered how these reporters had been talking like a river and reversing black and white. What "Imperial Capital Chaowen" employs third-rate scholars, it should be a third-rate newspaper. This is the private newspaper of the Coren family, a dog in his hand.

Coren slapped the table heavily, these people are too deceitful!

Boris couldn't stop sighing, the newspaper had not even started to encounter this kind of thing, it seems that Coren is having a hard time. But the goal was achieved, that is, there was a newspaper that spoke for itself.

In addition to this, he has to do an important thing, arrest all the merchants who hook up with the nobles. If it can be proved that these people are heinous people, then the people will not care whether the nobles owe these people money and have not paid it back. The money of the wicked does not need to be exchanged in the first place, which is a consensus in this era of backward legal system.

But this matter is not so simple, and the breadth of the involvement behind it is beyond his expectations. Often it is not one or two businessmen who hook up with a nobleman. These merchants form an impenetrable web. Domino effect.

The advantage he had was that he was an aristocrat, a transcendent in status. At the same time, he wanted to know what would happen if he did kill the nobles.

A few days later, the first newspaper was published. Because of the simultaneous efforts of the three newspapers, the reputation of the newspaper spread rapidly. It's just a bad reputation.

The first publication was very attractive.

The Merchant's Affair

It's basically about the injustice of the merchants, saying that they are cunning rats in the granary, specializing in corrupting Rune. Although the whole article, the logic is confusing, and the examples are not correct. But it is still very attractive to the low-class commoners of the imperial capital, and they have never read articles that say that merchants are bad.

The imperial capital is also a city of merchants, and when you see someone scolding you like this, can you still stand it? It is still the first version, which undoubtedly offends many unrelated businessmen.

The next day, the three newspapers fought back. The Imperial Capital News was responsible for picking out loopholes in the articles, the Imperial Capital Times was responsible for explaining the benefits of businessmen, and the Imperial Capital Headlines was responsible for attacking the newspapers. The three have joined forces, and the momentum is extraordinary.

For a while, "Imperial Capital Chaowen" was beaten a little stunned, he was a novice, he didn't know how to control public opinion, and he was attacked by three bigwigs, not to mention how aggrieved.

But behind them is the Earl of Cologne, who can give them direct and effective support, and behind the other three newspapers is Wayne. But Wayne didn't directly manage it, or come forward to explain it. These three newspapers are affiliated with him and so on.

Therefore, "Imperial Capital Chaowen" can quickly find some nobles to support him, and this is also the first time that the nobleman has accepted an official interview with the newspaper. All in all, Rune has been poisoned by merchants for thousands of years.