Chapter 422 The Red Sun
"The professor said that the college is preparing to publish a college newspaper, so let's take a look at what it is?"
On the street, two magic apprentices were wandering, one of them said to the other.
"I also heard from our professor that it is called a college newspaper, which is similar to a magazine, but it is much cheaper, but I just don't know when it will be sold."
"It's better not to sell it. A magazine is so expensive. Why does the college have to publish it too? I heard that the college had thought about publishing a magazine before, but because no one bought it and the losses were too serious, it stopped. This time the professor of the college asked us to buy it. Isn't it because we rely on the college students to support the magazine? This is a bit...too much..."
"I heard that it is because of paper, the price is much cheaper, so the college remembers to run a magazine, and it is not a forced purchase, it depends on its own wishes."
"That's right, what if the professors who didn't buy the newspapers in the college were angry, then I would be in trouble."
The previous one was still worried and continued to complain: "It was originally expensive to learn magic, and the money to buy materials is almost gone. Now I have to buy a college magazine, which is really..."
As the two of them gradually moved away. In the college, such conversations were almost everywhere. Because the college professors promoted it in advance, most people already knew that the college was going to publish a magazine, but they didn't know the specific name and the content preference was not clear. They just heard that the price would be cheaper because of the blank paper.
Some people are waiting and watching in the academy, and some are complaining. Few people are expecting it, because in their impression, even the cheapest magazines are not less than 3 silver coins. Top magazines like "The Witcher" are sold at more than 1 gold coin. Even if the price is reduced ten times, several silver slots are needed.
However, Loriel is very much looking forward to it. She and Travis work in a paper mill and have a good relationship with Jiayi. She knows more about the inside story of the newspaper. Although the newspaper has not been published yet, she knows a lot about the price, and the cheapest one is more than 10 times.
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Time passed quickly, and when the holiday was about 10 days left, the college’s first issue was finally published.
On the morning of that day, a temporary stall was set up in front of several shops, with folded newspapers placed on it, with beautiful fonts written on it. Only at the beginning of the title, there were two huge lines of titles in a horizontal row - the college half-monthly newspaper. The characters were vigorous and powerful, and very dignified. It was written by the dean of the college. Because the font was too large, the words were too long, and they could not be written down and divided into two lines.
But this name is simple and general. If you don’t pay attention, you will think it was jointly issued by all colleges.
Below this big title, there is a line of small subtitles, which reads the publication of Longgen College and the publication time. On August 20, xxxx, the number of publication periods, the first issue, and the first issue was enclosed in brackets and wrote a first issue number.
It was early morning, and the streets of the college were still deserted and there were not many people. These chambers of commerce had not opened at this time, especially the Scoll Chamber of Commerce. The door opening time was later than that of the other shops. However, today, several chambers of commerce, including the Scoll Chamber of Commerce, opened the door early. Of course, the most conspicuous one was the temporary stall outside, with two words written on it with curtains - newsstands.
Palaiyin is a traveling wizard. He came last year. At that time, the college had just built the bell tower, which opened his eyes. Because of the college's example, many places have begun to build the bell tower.
Palaiyin came here again this year, and was also to visit the bell tower, because his city also wanted to build a small bell tower. He was one of the participants and came to learn from the scriptures.
He woke up very early in the morning, and it is said that the sunrise on the clock tower is very spectacular, so he is ready to visit. Usually, he will never go out so early.
He walked up to the reception. When he passed by the Scoll Chamber of Commerce, he saw the newsstand at the door of the store and stopped strangely. After approaching, there was a gentle apprentice of a wizard in the back of the stall. When he saw that Ba Laiyin approached, he hurriedly greeted him nervously:
"Hello, this is the newly published newspaper of our college. You can take a look. If you want, you can buy one, which is very cheap and only requires 10 copper coins."
This apprentice is a new recruit. No one knows whether this college newspaper has the potential to sell hot. And if you need to get up early, you will launch the newly recruited apprentice.
Not all apprentices can study in the college, and most apprentices cannot become mages in a short period of time after graduation, so there are still many apprentices in the college. It is not easy for an apprentice to find an easy job.
"What is the hospital newspaper?" Palaiyin picked up a newspaper while saying that.
The apprentice did not give an answer because he himself didn't know how to describe it. He did not disturb the other party when he saw that he was reading a newspaper.
The newspapers that were folded by the spreading and folding were three large pieces, each of which was more than 20 inches wide and 15 inches long, folded in a single fold, which was about half the size of white paper sold by Schole.
Before he could read the content carefully, he frowned a little. I'm afraid that even paper money could not be collected at this price. Although he did not queue up to buy the white paper from the Scoll Chamber of Commerce, he knew the price. A stack of 12 ordinary white papers cost 1 silver coin and 2 silver slots. To calculate the price of an ordinary white paper is 100 copper. Even if it is twice the size, these three pieces of paper are worth 150 copper.
Thundering shook his head, couldn't believe that this newspaper was sold so cheaply. Even if the cost was lower than the price, it wouldn't be as low as 10 copper coins.
However, he didn't know that the cost of white paper was much lower than he thought. With the expansion of the scale of the paper mill and the increase in production capacity, the current cost of a piece of ordinary white paper is actually only about 20 copper. The current price of white paper is very high. The college is ready to reduce the price of ordinary white paper to about 30 copper. This price is one percent of the price of parchment paper of the same specification, or even less than less.
The cost of newsprint is even lower, a large piece of paper costs only about 5 copper coins, while the specifications of newspapers are only half as large paper, so the paper cost of a newspaper is only about 7 or 8 copper coins. In addition, printing and selling prices are certain to lose money, but it is not as much as I imagined.
In addition to the title, the first page of the newspaper is about white paper, which is considered a front page headline.
Originally, although everyone knew that Scoll Chamber of Commerce would sell white paper, the specific reason was not clear. This article explained the origin of the white paper, and also mentioned that it was about to be officially released soon, or even publicly made the production method.
"I actually want to publicly authorize the white paper." Palaiyin was shocked and couldn't help but whisper. He already understood the benefits of the white paper, but he didn't expect that the college would be willing to publicly authorize the white paper.
"Do you want to buy it and watch it carefully?" The apprentice asked carefully, fearing that the other party would not buy what he wanted to see after reading it.
Thunder came back to his senses and found that he had been standing here for a long time, and the sun was about to come out. He quickly took out a handful of copper, but did not count the number of copper, and stuffed it into the apprentice's hand.
"I bought this newspaper, so I don't need to find it." After saying that, he hurried towards the bell tower of the college.
The apprentice counted the copper in his hand, looked at the other party's back as he was leaving, and murmured to himself: "You don't have much."
I just splashed it because this handful of copper is not too much, exactly 10 pieces.
Pailaiyin hurried to the bell tower. The sun had not yet come out, but there were many people standing on the tower. There were no good positions. These were people watching the sunrise, but they came much earlier than him - if Pailaiyin didn't stop at the newsstand for too long.
He looked down at the newspaper rolled into a paper tube in his hand. Just as he was about to open it again, he felt a ray of light hitting his eyes.
He squinted his eyes and saw a red sun slowly rising in the distance between the clouds and mountains, fog, like a naughty child in the mountains looking out, reflecting the brilliant red color of Lake Tabernina in front.
Chapter completed!