"The professor said that the college is going to publish a college newspaper, let's take a look, what is it?"

Down the street, two magic apprentices were wandering, one of them speaking to the other.

"I also heard from our professor that it was called a college newspaper, which was similar to a magazine, but it was much cheaper, but I didn't know when it would be sold. ”

"It's better not to sell it, a magazine is so expensive, why should the college publish it, I heard that the college also thought about publishing a magazine before, but because no one bought it, the loss was too serious, so it was closed. This time, the professor of the college asked us to buy it, it can't be because they want to rely on the students of the college to feed the magazine? It's too much..."

"I heard that because of the paper, the price is much cheaper, so the college came up with the idea of running a magazine, and it is not compulsory to buy it, just follow your heart. ”

"That being said, if the professor who didn't buy the newspaper of the academy gets angry, then he will be miserable. ”

The previous one was still a little worried, and continued to complain: "Originally, the cost of learning magic is large, and the money to buy materials is almost gone, and now I have to buy the magazines of the academy, really..."

The two of them gradually walked away, in the academy, such conversations are almost everywhere, because the professors of the academy have publicized in advance, most people already know that the academy is going to publish a magazine, but the specific name is not known, and the content preference is not clear, but I heard that the price will be cheaper because of the blank paper.

There are people in the academy who are watching, some people are complaining, but few people are looking forward to it, because in their impression, even the cheapest magazines are not less than 3 silver coins, and the top magazines such as "The Witcher" are sold for more than 1 gold coin, even if the price is reduced by ten times, it will take several silver slots.

However, Lorel is very much looking forward to it, she and Travis work in a paper mill, and she has a good relationship with Jiayi, and knows more about the inside story of the newspaper, although the newspaper has not yet been published, but she knows a lot about the price, which is more than 10 times cheaper.

......

Time passed quickly, and when there were about 10 days to go on vacation, the inaugural issue of the academy was finally published.

On the morning of this day, a temporary booth was set up in front of several shops very early, on which were placed folded newspapers, which were full of handwriting in Juanxiu's font, except for the place where the title began, two lines of huge titles were written in a few large characters in a horizontal row - the college semi-monthly newspaper, a few words were strong and powerful, very magnanimous, it was the handwriting of the dean of the college, because the font was too large and the words were too long, and one line could not be written and divided into two lines.

It's just that the name is concise and general, and if you don't pay attention to it, you think it's jointly issued by all the colleges.

Underneath this headline, there is a small subheading, which reads Longgen College Publishing, and the date of publication, August 20, xxxx, the number of issues, the first issue, followed by a bracketed issue number.

At this time, it was early in the morning, the streets of the college were still deserted, there were not many people, usually at this time these chambers of commerce have not yet opened, especially the Skoll Chamber of Commerce, the opening time is later than the rest of the shops, but today, several chambers of commerce, including the Skoll Chamber of Commerce, have opened early, of course, the most conspicuous is the temporary stall outside, on which two words are written on the curtain - newsstand.

Splash is a traveling mage, he came here last year, when the academy had just built a clock tower, which opened his eyes, because of the academy's example, now many places have begun to build bell towers.

He came here again this year, also to visit the bell tower, because his city also wanted to build a small clock tower, and he was one of the participants who came to learn from it.

He wakes up early in the morning, and it is said that the sunrise on the clock tower is spectacular, and he is going to visit it, and he would never go out so early in normal times.

He walked on top of the pick-up, and when he passed by the Skoll Chamber of Commerce, he saw the newsstand in front of the store, and stopped a little strangely. After approaching, there was a young mage apprentice behind the stall, and when he saw Splash Lai approaching, he hurriedly greeted him a little nervously:

"Hello, this is the new newspaper of our college, you can take a look, if you wish, you can buy a copy, very cheap, only 10 coppers. ”

This apprentice is newly recruited, and no one knows if this academy newspaper has the potential to sell well, and they need to get up early, so they push this newly recruited apprentice out.

Not all apprentices can go to the academy to study, and most of them can't become mages in the short term after graduation, so there are still a lot of apprentices in the academy, and it is not easy for an apprentice to find an easy job.

"What is the newspaper?" said Splashein, picking up a newspaper.

The apprentice did not give an answer, because he did not know how to describe it, and when he saw Splash reading the newspaper, he did not disturb the other party.

There are three large sheets of this newspaper, each more than 20 inches wide and 15 inches long, folded in half, which is about half the size of the white paper sold by Skoll.

I haven't looked at the content carefully, I frowned a little, this price, I'm afraid I can't even get the paper money back, although he didn't go to the queue to buy the white paper of the Skoll Chamber of Commerce, but the price he knows, a pile of ordinary level white paper 12, the price of 1 silver coin and 2 silver horns, the price of an ordinary white paper is worth 100 copper, even if it is twice the size, then these three pieces of paper are also worth 150 copper.

Splash shook his head, he couldn't believe that this newspaper was sold so cheaply, even if the cost was lower than the selling price, it could not be as low as 10 coppers.

However, he didn't know that the cost of white paper was far lower than he imagined, with the expansion of the scale of the paper mill and the increase in production capacity, the current cost of an ordinary white paper is actually only about 20 copper, and the current price of white paper is at a great premium, and the college has prepared to reduce the price of ordinary grade white paper to about 30 copper, which is one percent of the price of parchment paper of the same specification, or even less than that.

The cost of newsprint is lower, a large sheet is only about 5 coppers, and the newspaper specification is only half of the large paper, so the cost of a newspaper paper is only about 7 or 8 coppers, plus the price of printing and sales, the loss is certain, but not as much as imagined.

In addition to the headline, the first page of the newspaper said that the blank paper is the thing, which is the headline on the front page.

Originally, although everyone knew that the Skoll Chamber of Commerce sold white paper, but the specific reason was not clear, but this article told all the reasons for the white paper, and also said that it was going to be officially released in the near future, and even the production method was disclosed.

"I even want to make a blank sheet of paper authorized. Splash was shocked, and couldn't help but whisper, he already understood the benefits of blank paper, but he didn't expect the academy to be willing to publicly authorize it.

"Do you want to buy it and watch it carefully?" the apprentice on one side asked cautiously, for fear that the other party would stop buying what he wanted to see after reading it.

When he came back to his senses and found that he had been standing here for a long time, the sun was about to come out, so he hurriedly took out a handful of copper, and without counting how many, he stuffed a handful of copper into the hands of the apprentice.

"I bought this newspaper, so I don't have to look for it. With that, he hurried towards the clock tower of the academy.

The apprentice counted the copper in his hand, looked at the other party's distant back, and muttered to himself: "You, it's not much." ”

Just poured this handful of copper, no more, no less, exactly 10 pieces.

Splash rushed to the top of the clock tower, the sun had not yet come out, but there were already many people standing on the tower, and there were no good places left, these were the people who came to see the sunrise, but much earlier than him—if Splash had not stopped in front of the newsstand for too long.

He looked down at the newspaper rolled into a paper tube in his hand, and was about to reopen it when he felt a burst of light shine into his eyes.

He squinted his eyes and saw a red sun slowly emerging in the sea of clouds and mist in the distance, like a naughty child in the mountains looking at it, reflecting the Taberina Lake in front of him a brilliant red.

The red sun is rising, and its path is bright.