The Imperial Palace of the Silver Sword Empire, Rupert's study.

Old Marcelli stood in front of his desk and bowed, not a big ceremonial occasion, and imperial officials did not have to kneel.

Although Rupert is a little happy, he is not relaxed at all about government affairs, and spends a lot of time on government affairs every day, which is much more dutiful than his father.

It's just that the more conscientious and powerful the leader, the more hard the employees at the bottom become, and now the old Marcelli is the one who is hard.

He turned to old Marcelli and asked, "Mandel, is there something you have come to ask for?"

Mandel Marcelli stepped forward, unfolded the newspaper in his hand, handed it forward, and said, "This is the latest newspaper, and I think Your Majesty must be interested. ”

"Oh, the newspaper, is it from Longgen Academy?"

"Yes, the newspaper of Longgen Academy is a semi-monthly issue, but the imperial capital is far away from the academy, and it is relatively slow to transport it to the imperial capital, this is the newspaper on the 5th, and it came a little late. ”

Rupert motioned for old Marcelli to bring the newspaper over, and there may be no allusion to the illustrative dagger, so there was no need for a servant to pass it around.

"Is there any interesting news about this? ”

Marcelli Sr. flipped the newspaper to the news of the disaster in the Xavier Empire, and introduced to Rupert: "The Xavier Empire is now suffering from a drought and is in the midst of all-out relief, and there is not much energy to take care of things outside their empire. ”

"Oh?" Rupert immediately watched the news, thinking about the gains and losses.

The Xavier Empire is a big empire, compared with the Silver Sword Empire, it is not bad, and it has a long coastline, it is much richer than the Silver Sword Empire, and the Silver Sword Empire has been able to take advantage of some advantages in recent years, more because the south and the north of the Xavier Empire are somewhat mismatched.

The merchants on the southern coast made a lot of money through sea trade, and there was a deep contradiction with the traditional military nobles in the north, and no one on either side looked down on the other, resulting in the Xavier Empire has been unable to integrate forces, and a lot of energy has been consumed on it.

Now, although the Xavier Empire has suffered a major drought, if the Silver Sword Empire wants to take the opportunity to invade the other party, it will definitely not be pleased, and the Supreme Council will not allow two empires of this size to go to war in an all-out way.

Old Marcelli also didn't have that much heart, and wanted to defeat the old rival of the Xavier Empire through this drought.

He said: "Now that the Xavier Empire is being distracted by the drought, it is a good time for us to intervene in the new shipping route on the Elmod side, as long as we can seize this new shipping route, then the Empire's access to the sea will no longer be a problem, and we will be able to obtain a steady stream of profits." ”

Old Marcelli was also about to be crushed by financial pressures, and in normal times, he was an absolute lord and faction, because a war would require money, and his hair would fall out a few gray hairs.

A golden passage capable of arming several legions.

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The Royal Palace of the Xavier Empire.

Emperor Carl VI Gustav sat on the throne, and the quarrel below gave him some headaches.

Wittels-Bach, Minister of War and Aircraft, said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, those nouveau riche in the south are too much, the empire has suffered a drought, they don't even think about serving the country, but instead hoard a lot of grain and don't want to sell, the disaster relief officials sent by the empire are very passive, if this continues, if you want to ensure disaster relief, you need to increase the cost at least 7 or 8 times on the current basis, and these businessmen have increased the price of grain by at least 20 times." ”

"Has the drought of the Northwest spread to the South so quickly?" Gustav looked at Bach, the tentacles of the Southern merchants were longer than expected.

The treasurer on one side said: "Your Majesty, this is because of the newspaper of the academy, the news of the great drought in the west has been published in the newspaper, as long as you can buy the newspaper, you can know that there is a great drought in the west, and now I am afraid that not only the merchants in the south, but even the surrounding countries know about it." ”

The Minister of Finance also stood up and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, should newspapers be prohibited from leaking information about our country like this? At least the other party's information should be restricted." ”

As soon as the two interjected, the topic was brought to the newspaper again, although the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not a member of the Southern Businessman, but he was very closely connected with each other, so he changed the topic, after all, this time the Southern Businessman did too much.

However, this time, because of the academy newspaper, many of the news that is not too secretive is indeed transmitted faster than the speed of secret agents in various countries, and it is not obvious now, and in the future, reading the newspaper will be a compulsory course for the intelligence department.

......

Jiayi and they helped the Valoka Chamber of Commerce to install the machine tools, as well as the printing press and the plotter, and after the commissioning was completed, and after being able to print and make gears, they began to prepare to leave.

It took a total of eight days to install and debug, and by this time, all the newspapers that had come from Jiayi had been sold out, and even the second issue of the reprint had been shipped and sold out. Jiayi also asked the person who came to deliver the storage box they borrowed to bring it back, this thing can't be placed in the storage bracelet, and it is inconvenient to carry it around.

It's just that the third batch of newspapers has not yet been shipped, and this time is almost the time for the third issue of the newspaper to be published.

Unfortunately, although the Valoka Chamber of Commerce has installed a printing press, it does not currently have the capacity to publish newspapers or books because of the lack of paper.

Although the output of the paper mill at the college has stabilized and reached its maximum capacity, the output is still too far away to supply several countries around the college. And for the sake of profits, the paper mill now ships a large number of plain-grade white paper for retail use, while newsprint is currently only supplied to the college newspaper.

The blank paper brought by Yonis's side has been almost sold out, and only a small part, about a tenth, is left for emergencies.

Because of the lack of cheap paper needed for newspapers, it is not cost-effective to use ordinary paper to run a newspaper, so Eunice plans to choose a book that is not too thick and publish a book to test the water.

Their machines and printing presses are powered by magic stones, and the Valoka Chamber of Commerce has hired mages to maintain these machines, and they all have contracts to keep them in place, so they don't have to worry about leaks.

None of this was their business, and they got on the boat and began to sail down the river towards the city of Wickham in the province of Welfer, where Jiayi had set off to the academy.

This study experience has been a long time, and he has not been home for more than two years, but Jia Yi has already calculated it, and many mages have to travel to increase their knowledge after the holidays, and there are not too many who only go home once after graduation.

It took him about a month when he came to Memphelbo, but it was smooth to go back, and the clipper boat they took didn't take much time, just 7 or 8 days.

They took a special clipper, specially designed for passengers, because there was not much cargo, and sonar was installed, so the speed was much faster than ordinary cargo ships, although the price was also much more expensive.

This time, Jia Yi failed to meet the robbers, and he was still thinking about how to teach them a lesson, but he didn't expect it to be so quiet along the way this time.

If it weren't for this waterway again, Jia Yi would have almost forgotten about the last time he was attacked, and now, he doesn't know who arranged for someone to attack him, and now, he doesn't want to know.

When passing by the red mud stall, Jia Yi deliberately took a closer look, and heard that this place was burned by his teacher, but now the reeds on the mud stall have grown again, and it is not at all obvious that it has been burned by a fire, but it looks more lush and green.

There is a feeling that "wildfires are inexhaustible".

Every time he went to a city, Jiayi would go down and leave some of the newspapers he brought with him for sale, and the more widely the newspaper spread, the greater its influence.

Although not every city has the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, there are Valoka Chambers of Commerce in the major cities along the Bell River, which is a freight artery that facilitates the transportation and sale of products.