Chancellor's Office.

Old Marcelli had just come out of his study, washed his face and sat down at the table, and began to eat breakfast.

The empire has developed very well over the years, and although there has been a small friction with the Xavier Empire, it has not suffered much.

But only the elder Marcelli, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, knew that the Empire's finances were in jeopardy, as the Empire's finances had been under pressure due to Emperor Coker Rupert's aggressive expansion.

Rupert is very ambitious, and has always wanted to expand the territory of the empire, especially the lack of sufficient access to the sea, and now the shipping is becoming more and more developed, many countries have earned enough gold coins in shipping, but the Silver Sword Empire can not get a piece of the pie, which makes him very unhappy.

As the Empire's Minister of Finance, the elder Marcelli was not very fond of the Emperor now, because he was mostly squeezing expenses on finances and could not give the Emperor enough support for his expansion plans.

However, Rupert also knows that on the imperial side, there is no more suitable person for the time being, and it is much more difficult to open up sources and reduce expenditures, and open sources are much more difficult than throttling.

Old Marcelli had just sat down when he saw his son Jubot hurrying in with something in his hand.

Before old Marcelli could speak, Jubbot went up to his father, handed his things to the table, and said, "Father, I saw that a new issue of the newspaper had come out, and I had bought it for you, and there was a blank piece of paper. ”

"Newspaper?" said old Marcelli, picking up the top paper.

At first glance, he noticed that this newspaper was different from what he had originally seen, and the headlines on the front page were not the original news about blank paper. He carefully looked at the date marked on the newspaper, the time and the number of issues were different, and he counted the time.

[Are they really going to publish an issue in half a month?] Old Marcelli felt a little shaken.

When the first issue of the newspaper was published, he was very surprised, and he has been paying attention to the development of the newspaper, although there are magazines now, but the circulation is irregular, because not enough manuscripts can be received in time, sometimes the manuscripts are too concentrated, and the interval is very short.

When the elder Marcelli first saw the newspaper, he thought of the propaganda function of the newspaper, and if he could master a newspaper, then he would be able to greatly save energy and achieve better results in public opinion and propaganda.

"I know you like newspapers very much, so when I heard about it, I went to buy it for you. Yubot said flatteringly.

Old Marcelli turned his gaze away from the newspaper and glanced at Yubote: "You bought it yourself?"

"Hey, hey—" Yubot smiled, but didn't speak.

It was true that he did not buy this newspaper, he asked the servant to get up early to go to the Valorca Chamber of Commerce to grab it, and when the servant had bought it, he got up and brought it to old Marcelli, otherwise he would not have gotten up by now.

"Father, since you like this newspaper so much, why don't you ask the Valoka Chamber of Commerce for it, the newspaper is of little use in their hands, and there is a blank paper, this thing is also very good, it should be in our own hands. Seeing that his father was not angry, Yubot whispered a suggestion.

Old Marcelli shook off the newspaper, turned it over, and said without raising his head: "I know that you and the Valoka Chamber of Commerce have some festivals, but don't fight this crooked idea, the newspaper is run by Longgen Academy, if you provoke the academy, even Your Majesty will not be able to protect you." ”

Yubotano said: "No... No, how could I have thought of it. ”

Old Marcelli ignored Yubot and said to himself: "It's a blank paper, the first issue said that it would be opened, but I don't know what form it will take, and then you can go and get authorization to set up a workshop specializing in the production of white paper." ”

"I don't want to be like others, what money can I make when I open up, it's boring. Yubot said disdainfully.

Old Marcelli frowned and glanced at Yubot, but did not say anything, he also knew what virtue his son was, and said no more about him.

He was going to observe for a while, and if he could, he hoped that the empire would also have a newspaper and a paper mill, but he didn't have much clue how to print it, but he should have a way to come to the court mage.

Continuing to flip through the newspapers, he suddenly came across a piece of news about the Xavier Empire, which had not rained much in the summer and had a widespread drought in the west of the Xavier Empire. Because of the heat and drought, not only did the western part of the Xavier Empire fail to harvest food, this summer, many civilians died under the effect of famine and heat, and now, there are already signs of plague.

Now the entire empire is making every effort to provide disaster relief, especially to prevent the plague, and even the newspapers are reminding the Xavier Empire that the plague must be well controlled, otherwise it is likely to threaten the entire western part of the empire. And it's not just the plague, because the disaster is so severe that there are even signs of rebellion now.

In addition to disaster relief, the Imperial side not only sent the palace to worship mages, but also transferred a team from the Imperial Knights to lead a team to the disaster-stricken area.

Old Marcelli's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly put away the newspaper, stood up, and said to his son: "Don't pay attention to the Valoka Chamber of Commerce recently, their relationship with the academy is closer than you imagined, and it's not something you can provoke, the Jia Yi who came here last time is said to have a lot to do with the badge of the Mage Association, and his teacher is a purple-robed mage, don't provoke them." ”

After saying that, he didn't even eat breakfast and left in a hurry.

The last time Yubote asked the court mage to take action, he yin Jia Yi, and Jia Yi escaped, and the president of the mage association was also involved, and it was impossible for them not to investigate Jia Yi's background.

Yubot was worried for a long time, and did not see anyone to retaliate, and then slowly jumped up again.

......

Jia Yi and the others returned to the Chamber of Commerce from the factory, and Eunice immediately greeted her, and she said proudly as if complaining: "Jia Yi, the newspaper is selling fast, do you have more? Give it all to me." ”

Jia Yi shook his head and said disdainfully: "Don't think about it, the rest of my newspapers are going to be taken to different places along the way, and you have the most here, is it sold out now?"

"Of course not, there are still some people who don't know very well, but looking at this, it can be sold out in three days at most, three days. ”

This time is actually not fast, if it is a daily newspaper, then this is already unsalable, but this is also the reason why the publicity and market have not been cultivated now. There were no newsboys selling on the streets, and many people did not know that the second issue of the newspaper had already begun to go on sale, and the habit of reading the newspaper every day had not been developed.

Eunice approached Kaichi and asked, "Kaichi, do you still have the first issue of the newspaper, especially the first issue of the first edition of the newspaper, which is handwritten." ”

"Yes. "I remember I had a newspaper in the study, have you moved?"

"No, we have it too, why should you touch your newspaper. March said dismissively.

As soon as the newspaper was published, they got it, faster than everyone else.

"Then I'm still there. ”

Eunice immediately said, "Can you give me this newspaper?"

Jia Yi was a little strange: "What do you want newspapers for? Don't you have them? You sell newspapers." ”

The first edition of the newspaper Valoka is also sold, but there are not many of them, and there are second and even third editions coming later, even if the sales are good, it is impossible for Eunice to sell all the newspapers and keep none of them.

"At that time, the sales were so good, I collected some of the newspapers of our chamber of commerce employees and gave them to my partners, and now the second issue of the newspaper is out, which means that the first issue is out of print, and the collection value has greatly increased. ”

This is a trend that has just been blown, in fact, it is still too popular, but there are already signs of this, especially for the first edition of the newspaper, this edition is a handwritten font, not only rare, typography and fonts are not the same as subsequent reprints, just like the wrong RBM, which is particularly collectible.

But this time Jia Yi couldn't help it, he just had such a newspaper, and he didn't bring it with him at the academy, and he didn't think about collecting some at that time, he was only thinking about sales, and now, if he wants the first edition of the newspaper, he can only go to the thrift market to see if he can buy it.