"Do you know how hard that is?"

It was as if Ormedo had seen a boy with a stick charging towards the windmill.

"People don't waste precious time on literacy."

"But it will allow them to make more money in the future."

"If you give a civilian a silver coin, or promise him a gold coin this time next year, which one do you think he will choose?"

"One Silver Coin ......"

The reality of the people of the North is as cold as winter.

Unless Annan recruited them to study at a price of 10 copper coins a day, but this again lost the original purpose of using newspapers to make money. Can Annan do this in Starmoon Bay, because those are his people, Breeze City can barely do it, Betal City, Fertility City, and the city-states further away?

When the masses cannot read, the value of newspapers as a tool for propaganda and manipulation of discourse is greatly diminished.

Annan also thought of letting everyone accept a lingua franca proficient -

As a lingua franca master of the First Ring spell, elite mages can cast spells five to fifteen times a day, master mages thirty times, and epic mages can barely satisfy a small town with some effort. But the Epic Mage is either preparing for the Legends or touring the world to explore the ruins.

As for where did you get so many elite mages...... Emptying the Mage Tower will do the trick.

And the lingua franca is proficient in two gold nars at a time, with the relationship between Annan and the Mage Tower and the small profits and quick turnover, it should be able to negotiate at the price of one gold coin per person, and the entire Xingyue Bay "only" costs about 2,000 gold coins,

It is known that the population of Breeze City is about 300,000 people, and the tax revenue is about 80,000 gold coins...... Less than four years of tax revenue will make everyone literate in Breeze.

But there will always be people who are willing to realize the word, so the real reason for Olmedo's attack on Annan is revealed: "It will cause the nobility to have a crisis ......"

"The status of nobility is derived from wealth and knowledge...... And you want to give 'their' knowledge to the 'untouchables' in their eyes? ”

"Neither can the King of the North?"

"How many professions does the King of the North have?"

Annan was dumbfounded when asked, if he had trustworthy and powerful men, he wouldn't have to run around. He thought of Lady Winter, the Flower of the Snowfield, a cousin of the royal family, a prince of the same status, who would respond to his needs in Betal.

But without those forces of her own, Lady Winter would have the title of Flower of the Snowfields and the title of cousin of the royal family.

"Breeze City can't do this, you can only let Starmoon Bay do it. Before Starmoon Bay became a city-state like Breeze City. ”

If the newspaper could move and speak out, it would not have to face pressure from the aristocracy...... It's just that new types of spells need to be studied, and Annan has to find a mage above the master, such as an elven mentor...... Looking for Mr. Swaro?

"Isn't your magic video doing something interesting? Why let them learn? ”

Olmedo's inquiry suddenly reminded Annan why he couldn't skip the newspaper and start with the news?

Isn't the image of the Philosopher's Stone more vivid and interesting than the dry text? Despite the equally frighteningly high prices, Annan has a readily available cheap record of Philosopher's Stones.

Knock Knock Knock –

"Come in."

The captain of the guard returned with the few books left, and Annan came back to his senses, his black eyes shining brightly.

"Got it figured?" Olmedo smiled kindly.

"Well, I'll show you the results in a few days." Annan took the books, "Can I take them?" ”

"These are just copies."

Before heading out, Ormedo called out to Annan: "The Snow Mountain Fortress is open, you should prepare a belated New Year's gift for your fortress friend." ”

"The Frost Giant retreated?"

"The city guards and mercenaries have been cleaning them out for months, and they don't dare to attack us anymore."

"Then help me prepare a box of storybooks, like 'The Adventures of Oakham'."

Annan left the room, and Olmedo got up, walked around the desk, and stood in front of the window. The carriage with the emblem of snowflakes drove out of the square, and the focus of the light blue eyes returned from the distant carriage back to the reflection on the window—

The hat of the child rushing to the windmill is lifted by the wind, revealing Olmedo's childish face.

"Father, I want to be the lord of the city, I want there to be no poor people in Breeze City!"

Young Olmedo burst into his study and shouted to his father, who was standing by the window.

The warbler-tailed bird nested in her pale blonde hair emerged and flew along the open window into the distant garden.

"As long as you can be willing to afford to fail, my child." Augusta turned around and said to her gently, "Like this warbler-tailed bird." If you want to raise it, you have to accept the pain of its death. This is the gift of fate to us, and we call it, the price. ”

"Fate? I don't understand......"

"What we gain, we also lose. I have you, and therefore I have lost your mother. If you want to get Breezy City, what do you have to lose? ”

……

On the way back to Xingyue Bay, Annan opened the books he brought back, and the situation in Grogda, the howler's hometown, was more complicated than expected......

Shortly after the howler left, his tribe was invaded by the nearby human kingdom, the lord and the farmer tried to turn the fat dry swamp into farmland, and the rat people came to grab the share of the human village, resulting in a strange plague outbreak, where vampires spread schistosomias......

The latest news is that two years ago, Grogda had been transformed into a battleground for several ethnic battles. It doesn't matter who wins or who loses, because the orc tribe of Grogda is long gone.

Hopefully, the howler will accept the bad news......

On the seventh day of departure, Annan returned to Xingyue Bay.

Annan first called the howler and handed the books to it: "The current state of Grogdad is ...... in these books"

The howler was silent, as if he already knew the answer.

"What's wrong?"

The howler's saliva splashed on Annan's face: "Why do you think an orc is literate?" ”

Annan thinks the howler is right, opens the portal and kicks it to Breeze, and then it suddenly occurs to him why spend months of literacy and learning instead of direct lingua franca mastery?

If you can solve it with money, why do you have to go step by step?

Annan told the ogre to go to the bard and climb the hill again.

The foundation of the future school had just been built, and the blue dragon's lair had begun to take shape, and Annan touched the dragon scales to unleash a low-level summoning spell to show the blue dragon its future home, such as more space, such as a rock mound for it to gild.

Perhaps it was the Dragonhunter Squad that annoyed the Blue Dragon, destroying the portal. After a gesture of goodwill, Annan opened the portal again and handed over the matter of going to the Mage Tower to find a group of mages to the bard.

"You actually let a bard who is as free as the wind work like a worker!"

"So how far are you from becoming an elite 'bard as free as the wind'?"

"I'll go to the Mage Tower to find Michael right away."

(End of chapter)