Section 68. Magic Newspaper
Fast, Soluman Copperbeard, Mr. Victor, Francois, Rela, Ingrid, Evelyn, Martin, and even Michael and the Bard have returned to Starmoon Bay for the time being.
In short, the friends who are still in Xingyue Bay are all sitting around the round table at this time, and the last time everyone gathered together so neatly was still in ...... Last time.
"But why are you here?" Annan looked at Martin, who was sitting between Fast and Brass Whiskers, suspiciously.
"I fell asleep and saw the boss coming, so I followed."
"Can you help me tell Aunt Susan that I want to have peas stewed with lamb for dinner?"
"Oh."
Martin left happily, and Annan looked at the rest of the people and said the two ideas he had born in Breeze City: the first was to make all the lords of Starmoon Bay proficient in the lingua franca of the arts.
"It should cost about 2,000 gold coins, and it would be better if you could find a way to save some money."
"Why?" Copperbeard asked everyone's doubts.
Annan said what he had said to Olmedo: a worker without knowledge is only a worker, but a worker with knowledge has infinite possibilities β except to become a professional.
Mr. Victor's displeasure is clearly visible.
"As long as the school is built, we can have similar results in a few months, so why spend so much money." Ingrid's pain is clearly visible.
"Because we are more short of time than 2,000 gold coins."
As long as Annan wants to, now he will go to Breeze City to attend the banquet, and at the banquet he will be able to sell a dozen magic stones by holding the hands of the noblewomen and ladies, and in a few months Betal City will become like this, and then the two magical images will have already spread out in other towns, and then Fertility City, other city-states in other provinces......
Annan couldn't get all the nobles to give him a gold coin, but he could get the nobles he saw to give him 100 gold coins.
Michael and the others, who knew Annan's speed of absorbing gold, didn't care, and the old orcs who were not familiar enough thought it was a waste. Amid their quarrel, Annan looked out the windowβ
As the month enters March, the weather gets warmer and warmer, and even standing outside at noon a few days ago will be warm, but the next day, a cold snap over the snow-capped mountains, sweeping through the north without any hindrance, and then turning from near spring to bitter winter, with snow on the eaves and streets nearly half a meter thick.
Xingyue Bay was not affected, but Glacier Harbor didn't have time to react, not to mention the ice that was cleared a few days ago was refrozen, and the wooden frame standing was also frozen, and if you want to melt, you can only wait for spring or directly break it to rebuild.
"What's the second thought?"
Annan's attention returned to the room: "Have you discussed?" β
"Anyway, you're a lord, and you earned all this money." Fast said lazily.
Then Annan talked about the second thing: spreading the news.
"Michael, is it hard to make a painting move?"
"Magic is time-sensitive, and the only way to make magic lasts is to make it last...... Michael's implication is that all magic items are expensive.
The cheapest is the Claudia Philosopher's Stone for one gold coin.
If spending 2,000 gold to make all the lords proficient in the lingua franca was a good thing to follow, the news that looked like an alternative tavern news was incomprehensible to them.
"What is it used for?"
"Promote Xingyue Bay. When many people praise a place as good, it is good, even if they have never met. β
You look at the magical images of Xingyue Bay, watch the news of Xingyue Bay, and listen to the people around you say that Xingyue Bay is good...... Naturally, you'll look forward to it too. And when people ask you if you know about Xingyue Bay, you will say, "Yes, it's a beautiful place, I really want to see it." β
The bard clapped his hands and agreed: "It's like the Duchy of Keating, where we all say that there is a strong commercial atmosphere, where the Twin Ministers are orderly and friendly, and where merchants value contracts, and let countless gold diggers and merchants try their luck, but in fact it is full of liars, and the devil lets the apprentice devil go there for trials." β
"Really?"
"Fake, how can the apprentice devil be the opponent of those profiteers."
As a "newspaper", and a newspaper for the Breezy City, the selection of news is the most important. The Annan plan is divided into news from the Breeze City and the northern region. From homicides to new laws in the city-state, but just the news is too dry.
Add a weather forecast? It just so happened that they had old Zorren, but the inaccurate forecasts would call into question the "newspapers".
"We can teach them to strike iron!"
Copperbeard suggests, being sarcastically sarcastically remarked by the bard, "Your mind is the same as your height." β
The-for-tat bard and the copperbeard each contributed a good idea: a joke session and a science popularization.
The bard told a dwarven joke, and Copperbeard didn't react much, but Ingrid frowned and said, "This kind of joke will ruin the reputation that Starmoon Bay has worked so hard to build." β
"But maybe the angry dwarves will come and find that the houses here are dwarf-made, and the biggest blacksmith shop is dwarf-based."
"Using the dwarves' cautious eye traits to lure them over?" Fast remembered something and let out a laugh.
"We're just holding grudges, not being careful."
"It's pretty much the same."
Annan took the advice and the joke. Then the second issue tells elf jokes, the third issue is human, and the fourth issue is orcs...... Offending all races once means that no one is offended.
"These aren't worth a single silver coin." Michael said.
"So I'm going to pay for 5 copper coins for the price of a glass of sweet ale."
"It's so cheap...... Are you going to withhold the money from Claudia? Or let it be shown in theaters like magic images? β
Hundreds of people reading 'newspapers' in theaters? That seems a little too weird......
Annan just said: "You are a Breeze City bakery owner, and a loyal fan of 'Jack', when you heard that 'Jack' was working on a new thing but needed money, you took out the ten gold nars you had saved for a long time, only to open the door the next day, and found that it was crowded with customers who wanted to buy bread, and from their conversation, you learned that 'Jack' advertised your bakery on the 'news'......"
That's Annan's idea β to recruit advertisers. He's got the first taster in mind, Lady of Wine.
Evelyn raised her hand at this point, "I think it's funny, but can this be as popular as a magical image?" β
"So I'm going to test it in Xingyue Bay first, and adjust it according to the response of the people."
Just in case they get ahead of them, they'll have to keep it from the merchants who travel to and from Starmoon Bay - but the cost of recording the Philosopher's Stone makes it impossible for them to steal it.
"And one last question, what do we call it?"
Francois's question made everyone look at Annan at the same time.
"Magic...... Newspaper? β
"It's not magic, it's not paper." Michael said.
"It would look magical with magic, and I'm a warlock."
"A warlock who can't be a mage?"
"I'm a warlock, why should I be a 'mage'?"
(End of chapter)